PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously onTough As Nails...
SARAH: Coming down!
Things heated up in the team competition...
Now we're cooking with fire!
-...as Savage Crew... -Relax.
...and Dirty Hands put the hammer down
in the Heat and Beat.
Savage Crew came up short...
If you're not comfortable, tell somebody.
...allowing Dirty Hands to tie up
-the overall team score. -[cheering, whooping]
Dirty Hands is here. Come and get us.
In the individual competition...
Now my heart starts beating.
...everyone raced to save themselves.
Lia and Sarah...
My biggest fear is drowning.
...failed to stay afloat,
sinking them into overtime.
-[cheering, clamoring] -With everything on the line...
KELSY: Everything you've got!
...Lia narrowly hooked a win...
-Lia gets the win! -[Cheering]
...forcing Sarah to punch out.
Tonight...
Welcome to Irwindale Speedway!
...with teams tied at two wins each...
TIM [over comm]: Two, one...
-[work whistle blows] -Go. Go, go, go!
...who will race ahead...
-[shouting] -...in the team competition?
TIM [over comm]: Jack the car up, jack the car up.
KEOGHAN: And the pressure continues to mount...
LIA: Pop, pop. Pop.
...for theTough As Nails title.
Uh-oh.
Oh, my God, dude.
This is Tough As Nails.
♪
♪ I'm tough as nails.♪
KALIMBA: Team challenge day!
ALL: Team challenge day! Team challenge day!
-KALIMBA: You guys ready? -TAK: I am more confident
in our team challenge to win
-than I am in the individual challenge. -Me, too.
-Yep, absolutely. -TAK: So, you know,
I-I feel like, us together, we are the heavy hitter.
-QUINCEY: Oh, yeah. -LIA: Oh, yeah.
We're a force to be reckoned with now.
And props.
The score is two-two.
The fact that it's neck and neck, it gives Dirty Hands
an adrenaline rush to-to keep us
driving for more.
This whole team competition so far,
we've been catching up.
-Let's get ahead today. -Ahead. Yeah, for sure.
Let's make them work for it.
KELSY: Savage Crew, we never want to lose.
We are always wanting to win.
Especially what happened to Sarah the last overtime.
SARAH: I love having the support of my teammates,
especially because I had to clock out.
I kind of get that military camaraderie
being here, and I've missed that.
-KELSY: Savage Crew! -Got to stay hungry,
stay humble, stay focused.
We got to work for this. Dig deep.
♪
LIA: All right, Dirty Hands, get her done.
KALIMBA: Let's go. Let's go.
JEROME: Yessah.
LIA: Oh, there's Phil.
Phil!
Welcome to Irwindale Speedway.
-LIA: Yeah! -KELSY: Yeah!
You hear that?
[engine revving]
♪
[cheering, whooping]
ALFIE: I'm getting goose bumps.
I can feel it. I can feel it.
[Keoghan whoops, claps]
What do you think, guys? You ready for this?
[cheering, whooping]
KELSY: I am stoked.
I grew up with the Farmer City Raceway.
Shout-out to the Farmer City Raceway.
-[race cars passing] -As a little kid,
every Friday night you'd hear the races,
and it makes me feel kind of at home.
KEOGHAN: Good morning, everybody!
-[clapping] -[overlapping salutations]
KEOGHAN: I want to introduce you to Tim Huddleston.
-[whoops] -KELSY: Hello!
KEOGHAN: He is the crew chief!
You will be listening to him today.
When you think of NASCAR, you think maybe,
"Oh, it's all about the drivers."
But what I will tell you is that
it's the people behind the scenes
that really make the difference in NASCAR.
Pit crew!
KEOGHAN: The best teams come from all walks of life.
Farmers, mechanics, people who work with their hands.
There's even a former pro surfer
who's one of the best wheelmen in NASCAR.
-Yeah! -[chuckling]
TIM: No race car driver in the world is gonna win
without a winning pit crew.
Drivers make tenths, crews make seconds.
Every second is 100 yards.
That's hard to make up on the track.
So, here's today's job.
Each team will be doing three full pit stops.
A professional team, Tim,
how long would it take them to do that?
About 18 seconds, four tires and gas.
[chuckles]: 18 seconds.
KEOGHAN: That's a pro time.
Good time for you guys would be about a minute.
The key is to get the fastest time.
You get three shots at it.
The team with the fastest pit stop
after three attempts wins the challenge.
We're basically gonna have four positions.
You're gonna have two tire carriers.
-[whirring] -You're gonna have two tire changers.
Those are going to be fast, nimble, quick.
You're gonna need a jackman.
That jackman, or jackperson, is going to need to be able
to use their weight,
and you've got to have a mechanical advantage on it.
The last position is gonna be the gas man or woman.
That person is going to need to have size,
because you are gonna be holding about 80 pounds of fuel.
You have got to stick that right in the end of that car.
So those are the four positions,
and they're pretty key to have each position
in the right hands.
ELIZABETH: I was on a motorcycle race team,
and so I helped with the pit crew.
And I know what that entails,
so I'm definitely not nervous at all.
KEOGHAN: Team score stands at two apiece,
so you want to do everything you possibly can for this next win.
The winning team today is gonna get
today's team Badge of Honor,
plus $12,000.
Remember, the first team to get five Badges of Honor
is gonna get that cash bonus prize of $60,000.
JEROME: Oh, yeah.
We've got professional drivers Andy and Trevor
behind the wheel.
All right, everybody over the wall. Let's get to work.
LIA: It's our team challenge.
-Who wants to be crew boss? -I'll take it.
Being a mechanic, so I got 100% trust in you.
We want to make the process flow.
So, going in today, Jerome's role is to be my gas man.
Christine and Tak, their job is changing the tire,
putting the tire on,
because they got experience with working with tools.
Lia and Kalimba,
they are my tire handlers.
They're both very, very strong.
And my job is the jackman,
because I work with jacks all the time at my job.
ELIZABETH: I-I feel really confident leading this.
Just because I've got experience on a pit crew.
-Let's do it. -HANGER: I agree.
So, everybody-everybody kind of already knows
-what they need to do? -OTHERS: Yep.
ELIZABETH: Mike is on the fuel because he's the tallest.
Alfie and Kelsy on the impacts
because they both have experience, uh,
working mechanics.
Hanger's on the jack because he is fast.
And I know that strength is not gonna be an issue
for Sarah or I,
and so we're on the tires.
KELSY: Does anyone else have sweaty ass?
MIKE: Hell yeah, I got a sweaty ass.
SARAH: We all have sweaty ass.
♪
Andy, Trevor, start your engines!
[engines start, rev]
And...
[engines revving]
[work whistle blows]
Remember, you get three shots at completing a full pit stop.
The team with the fastest time wins.
ALFIE: Last team competition is behind us,
and we're here to take care of business today.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands, you'll be working with crew chief Tim.
Savage Crew, you'll be led by Will.
Godspeed, everybody.
Let's go, baby!
Dirty Hands feels really confident about today.
Overall, our team is really strong,
so it's just gonna come down to doing it right the first time.
Second over, and then third over.
-Got it? -Got it.
TIM: Dirty Hands, we got this.
KEOGHAN: Stand by, everybody!
Listen to your crew chief.
TIM: We are three, two, one...
Go! Go, go, go!
KEOGHAN: And the clock is ticking.
QUINCEY: Tim gave us the go.
-[whirring] -I'm thinking, jack the car up,
so my tire changers can get to
taking the tires off quick as they can.
KEOGHAN: Look at Quincey jacking up that car.
Hanger on the other side for Savage Crew.
MIKE: I'm the fuel man today in this challenge.
This is a lot different than putting diesel in your truck.
You have to have force on it and be stable at the same time.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands, looking good on their first pit stop.
KALIMBA: Tak and I are a team.
Tak's gonna get down.
He's gonna start with the lug nuts.
He's gonna pull that tire off.
I'm gonna line my tire up.
And then he's gonna push it on
-and screw the lug nuts on. -[whirring]
HANGER: Go, go, go, go, go!
KEOGHAN: Both teams frantically working
on the right side of their car.
But Savage Crew, switching sides just ahead of Dirty Hands.
Quincey waiting to see if the tire's on
before he lets the car down.
-Dirty Hands right behind Savage Crew. -KALIMBA: Doing it now.
KEOGHAN: Hanger's got the car up.
Savage Crew, back left-hand tire coming off.
WILL: Doing good, doing good.
Get that last one.
-Dirty Hands, very close. -[whirring]
LIA: We have a little trouble, uh, Christine and I,
lining up the-the holes in the rim
w-with the lugs,
and it's killing time.
CHRISTINE: I go to change my second tire,
get it on there, get all the bolts tightened down,
and one nut was just not going on.
-Drop! -WILL: Go, go, go, go, go!
KEOGHAN: And Savage Crew with the fastest pit stop time
-so far. -[cheering, whooping]
KEOGHAN: Whew, that was close!
Savage Crew with the fastest time on the first pit stop.
Dirty Hands, a few seconds behind.
WILL: Great job, that was awesome.
Were we done before them, or no?
Oh, you-- we had it won until the...
until this one jammed us.
-That's my bad. -TIM: We had it won.
So, you going in square?
CHRISTINE: One nut was just not going on.
It was just operator error.
I stripped multiple studs.
We got two more chances to get it right.
We'll be a'ight, we'll be a'ight.
TIM: All right, everybody, in position here.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew with the fastest time so far.
But you get three shots at it.
Dirty Hands, let's see what you can do.
Laser focused.
WILL: They're gonna be coming at this next one
with everything they got.
Okay, we got this.
And they are coming in.
TIM: Three, two, one.
Go! Go, go, go, go!
QUINCEY: I take one step,
and-- bam!-- I hit the ground.
[chuckles]: I roll with the jack.
KEOGHAN: Woah! And Quincey goes down.
[whirring]
He's over the other side.
He got delayed slightly,
but two big pumps and he has the car up.
Lot of wasted fuel there from Jerome.
We'll be cleaning that up.
Hanger on the other side has the car up.
Dirty Hands' air gun disconnected from the air hose,
losing valuable seconds.
WILL: Go, go, go, go, go!
My role is the tire carrier.
As a cement mason, I lift 80-pound bags of cement.
60-pound tire, I feel like, is kind of a light work for me.
[whirring]
KELSY: Why is mine so slow?
HANGER: Kelsy's pulling the lug nuts off.
She starts having a difficult time.
You got it. Take your time, take your time.
KELSY: All I was doing was trying to focus
and make sure that those bolts didn't get cockeyed.
WILL [over comm]: All right, drop it.
ELIZABETH: Drop!
KEOGHAN: Once again, Savage Crew switching sides
ahead of Dirty Hands.
LIA: Damn it.
KEOGHAN: And Dirty Hands finally done! Playing catch-up again.
Take them off, take them off, take them off!
Get that jack in!
TIM: Jack the car up a little more.
Jack the car up. Jack the car up.
-Jack the car up! -[overlapping yelling]
JEROME: Up, up, up!
QUINCEY: I didn't get the car up high enough,
so Christine and Lia couldn't get their tire off.
It was rubbing the ground.
Can they catch up?
-Quincey, with a couple of pumps. -[grunts]
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew putting on a second one.
Second round, everything kind of just fell apart.
Oh, and they're delayed over here at Dirty Hands.
CHRISTINE: When I pulled the tire off, it striped to, like,
multiple studs on the wheel.
-HANGER: Go. Go, go! -WILL: Go. Clear, clear, clear,
clear, clear, clear!
[cheering, whooping]
Go, go, go, go, go!
KEOGHAN: And Savage Crew get the second one again.
WILL [over comm]: Two for two.
KEOGHAN: Oh, it's slow from Dirty Hands.
[whoops] Savage Crew get the fastest time again.
-[cheering] -$12,000 on the line
for about a minute's work, not bad.
Remember, it's the fastest time after three attempts
that counts.
Dirty Hands, you still have a shot.
Yeah, baby! That's what I'm talking about!
-Hey! Hey! Hey! -[cheering]
One more time.
-KELSY: One more! -One more time.
Calm it down. One more time.
I'm kind of nervous that we're celebrating
because we're doing so well,
and it's kind of boosting our ego,
and we need to be hungry and stay humble.
Stay focused. It's the last one.
Make it count.
Yeah, I got it. I got it.
CHRISTINE: Dealing with the-the,
you know, the stripped threads and stuff,
it's just a setback.
We were good the first time.
It's just that one little nut, slowed us up.
At this point, we have one pit stop left,
and we're kind of a mess.
I mean, do you think we should switch, or no?
I think if we can get the jack higher
and just be patient and get that thing on straight.
-Like this... -We're not switching this third time.
Let's do it. All right. We got it.
[over comm]: Dirty Hands is ready to go.
They are over there trying really hard.
-QUINCEY: We got one more shot at it. -LIA: Okay.
Everything-everything got to go perfect.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands is starting fresh.
Nothing matters at this point
except the fastest time.
Savage Crew, you have set the fastest time.
You got to make sure they don't catch up
-and get the fastest time. -KELSY: We got it, Phil! We got it!
TIM [over comm]: We got this. If we slow down, we'll go fast.
KEOGHAN: One minute to win $12,000.
One more shot.
TIM: Three, two, one, go.
QUINCEY: Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
KEOGHAN: All right, teams, this is your third
and final pit stop.
TIM [over comm]: Savage Crew's ready.
ELIZABETH: We've already beat Dirty Hands out of the pits
two times in a row. We just got to do it one more time.
KEOGHAN: Nothing matters at this point except for the fastest time.
Coming in for the final stop. Let's do it.
CHRISTINE: The second round, I was struggling.
I couldn't even get my wheel off.
I stripped multiple studs,
so I just need to slow down
and make this one count 'cause this is our last chance
KEOGHAN: Only a few seconds' work, and you could win $12,000.
Stand by. They're coming in.
TIM [over comm]: Three, two, one. Go!
KEOGHAN: Time on.
QUINCEY: Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
[whirring]
KEOGHAN: Great move from Savage Crew.
First to get the jack.
Quincey up with two.
Three pumps. There he goes.
TIM: That's good. That's good.
HANGER: Take your time, take your time.
WILL: Get it off there. Get it off there.
There you go. Last one.
ALFIE: The first tire on the passenger side,
when I went to the last lug,
I pulled back real fast, and I ripped off the gun.
-[whirring] -TIM: Get it off there. Just pull it off.
So I finally just grabbed the thing,
yank it, and sure enough it comes out.
TIM: Clear, clear, clear, clear. Go, go, go.
KEOGHAN: For the third time in a row,
Savage Crew, the first to switch sides on their car.
[whirring]
TAK: Kalimba brings the tire and I push it on.
Every lug nut falls off.
-[Tak grunts] -[whirring]
Hey, fix this!
So I'm yelling, "Hey, Kalimba, help me.
I need to get these lug nuts on."
Fix it for me!
Fast!
KEOGHAN: Christine, working ahead.
Her team hasn't switched sides,
and she's already taking off the lug nuts.
[whirring]
KALIMBA: Tak was still not over there,
so I was like screw it. I'm gonna help him out, too.
I took all of his nuts off of his side.
TIM [over comm]: You got it. We're still in it. We're still in it.
-Need it quick. -KALIMBA: Hey, hey, hey.
Wait, everything is off already.
KEOGHAN: Here comes Quincey over the top.
-Get the car up. -LIA: Jerry took the lug nuts off.
Amazingly Dirty Hands still in with a shot,
after some quick thinking from Christine.
Dirty Hands, not giving in.
JEROME: Let's go!
KEOGHAN: It's all gonna come down to this last finish.
Dirty Hands still with a chance.
Waiting for the jack to go down!
And the jack goes down!
-[tires screeching] -And...
Dirty hands exit the pits just in front of Savage Crew.
[whoops] Christine!
-Yes! -That's right.
QUINCEY: Our car pulls out first.
We don't know if we got the fastest time yet,
but we know we've done everything right
and we left before Savage Crew.
I was not letting those... those freaking nuts get me, man.
Y'all, that's why we don't celebrate too soon.
-We were faster that first time. -That first time for sure.
♪
-You want to hear some times? -OTHERS: Yeah!
Savage Crew, you took it out the first time,
you managed to do the complete change
in one minute and 20 seconds.
-KELSY: Yeah. Nice job. -Dirty Hands,
you got a little stuck with one minute and 30 seconds.
Then we went up for a second run.
Savage Crew, you increased your speed
with a blistering time of one minute and 18 seconds.
-LIA: All right. -JEROME: Whoa.
Dirty Hands, you kind of struggled,
but you got the job done in one minute and 52 seconds.
The pressure was on.
The time to beat was one minute and 18 seconds,
set by Savage Crew.
And the win today goes to...
♪
Dirty Hands, you're the winners today.
Yeah. What?!
With a time of one minute and 11 seconds.
-Congratulations. -Thank you. -What was it?
One minute, what?
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
TAK: We're finally up.
We've never been in the lead ever
this whole team competition.
I knew you guys could do it.
We're not letting off that gas.
We got to keep on going.
ALFIE: All of a Sudden, the tables have turned.
They take the lead. They're three-two now.
Now we have to walk away and reevaluate ourselves,
what we did and what we're gonna do moving forward.
It means a lot for us to be
the ones that they have to catch up to now.
Quincey, this was your first time being a crew boss,
and I'm very pleased to, uh,
present today's Badge of Honor to our car chief.
-Congratulations. And... -Thank you.
$12,000 for you and your team.
-That's what we're here for. -LIA: All right. All right, Quincey.
-Yeah. -We did it, guys.
We are going to be transitioning tomorrow
into the individual competition.
If you win, you will be driving one of those cars
-around the track at breakneck speed. -OTHERS: Whoa.
But as you know, before the sun sets tomorrow,
one more of you will be punching out
of the individual competition.
How about a big round of applause
for Will and Tim and his team coming out today.
-KELSY: Thanks, Will. -[overlapping chatter]
Get some rest 'cause you're gonna need it.
MIKE: They got lucky on the last one.
If we're being real about it, we got cocky.
We knew we had 'em the first two.
That second one, we started celebrating.
I kept telling y'all, "Let's stay focused. Let's stay calm."
You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm still proud of y'all,
and I hope y'all don't hate me for-for saying that, but...
-No, no. no, no, no, no. -I'm just calling it like I see it.
I'm tired of it being seconds, man.
I didn't come here to lose, like, I really didn't.
Thank you, Sarah, for saying what you said.
-You know? -HANGER: Absolutely.
And-and that's what we need to learn from this.
We need to learn patience,
and we need to remember what we learned.
Savage Crew.
ALL: Savage Crew!
HANGER: Bring it in and burn it down, boy!
[cheering, whooping]
[engine revving]
[whooping]
LIA: Where's the champagne?!
♪
All right, I took one overtime.
It's somebody else's turn, all right, I'm just saying.
I don't want to go in overtime.
I don't want to ever go into overtime.
Nobody wants to go into overtime.
Me being here is great for, you know, my-my hometown.
It's a very, very small, tight-knit community.
Lamar, South Carolina is a country town.
We consider Lamar our own little piece of heaven,
our own little piece of American city.
People look at me as a positive figure
in the hometown,
so if I could be here and be successful,
it'd inspire young kids
to follow their dreams and pursue 'em.
Like all towns, you know, we-we have, you know,
some-some negative stuff that's going on there.
Some shootings, you know.
We lost a lot of people to-to the pandemic.
Me being here could bring the camaraderie back up.
Part of my motivations for winning Tough As Nails
is for Lamar.
You know, my senior year in high school,
you know, they supported me
during the lowest point of my life.
So, this Tough As Nails competition is my redemption.
I just want to be able to, you know,
give them that glimpse of hope that,
you know, I'm just like you.
LIA: I love that.
HANGER: I just want to say,
going to the individual competition,
-stay focused. -Yep.
And I know you guys are gonna do good.
ELIZABETH: Today's individual day,
so we got to switch from team mentality.
And my goal today is to just be a machine.
ALFIE: Here it is, boys.
Showtime.
♪
LIA: Look at that mountain of tires.
-Hi, Phil! -Hey, Phil!
Hanger, Kalimba and Sarah,
since you've already punched out,
you'll be on top of the toolbox.
Everybody else, line up in front of me.
Another individual competition.
[grunts, laughs]
Elizabeth, do I detect some makeup?
-LIA: Whoa. -KEOGHAN: Oh.
Is there, uh, some significance?
Yeah, I mean, this is individual,
so I really felt like I needed to feel a change.
I do think that the makeup kind of helps me
get my game face on, doing something physically
to help me shift from that team to the individual.
Elizabeth is one tough sister.
She gonna be really tough to beat.
Have a look at the machines around you here.
Everybody recognize what these are?
-KELSY: Yeah. -QUINCEY: Yeah.
Tire-changing machines, Phil.
I was pretty sure a diesel mechanic
-might have seen one before. -[Quincey laughs]
Anybody else got experience with changing tires?
My father worked for Bridgestone Tires when I was growing up.
I'd go work with him just to be around them.
Tak, have you changed a tire before?
I changed my bicycle tire.
-[laughter] -KEOGHAN: That counts.
All right, so here's what's gonna happen.
When that work whistle blows,
you'll be running to this pile of 600 tires.
You're gonna try to find four matching tires.
The numbers corresponding
to the numbers that you see on your workstations.
-Holy crow. -Once you find those four matching tires,
bring those tires here,
get those tires on the rim as fast as you can.
Use this bar to push the feed over the rim.
The bead is what seals it to the rim.
You're gonna be working with tubeless tires.
And then you need to put air in your tire.
35 psi in that tire and you're listening for two pops.
Two pops are the beads sealing themselves against the rim.
[pops twice]
And you got to do that four times.
Onay, thank you.
The first of you to get all four tires mounted
is gonna get today's win. And what does that mean?
-QUINCEY: Get to drive a race car. -Race car driving!
Do not be the last two to finish this job.
-Why is that? -Overtime. -Overtime.
-LIA: It's overtime time. -One more of you will be punching out,
and you're gonna lose your shot at the Tough As Nailstitle,
$200,000
and an all-new 2022 Ford Super Duty.
-Everybody ready to get the job done? -OTHERS: Yeah!
To your workstations. Let's do this.
QUINCEY: I'm a mechanic, so I just got to make sure
that I use my knowledge
and use it to my advantage to win.
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
♪
[work whistle blows]
-KALIMBA: Let's go! -HANGER: Let's go!
Let's go, let's go.
♪
As we get to the tires, it's a mess.
-Walk around in here? -I'm trying to move tires around
and look for my numbers,
but it's like a needle in a haystack.
LIA: What number you looking for, brother?
-TAK: 47. -I don't want to go into overtime,
so I got to figure this thing out quick.
QUINCEY: Oh, that's messed up.
♪
Just like the lotto. Come on, 75.
KEOGHAN: Everyone looking for a set of four matching tires.
They all have the same numbers on them.
Got to get all four tires back to their workstation
before they mount them.
The first to finish gets to race around the track
NASCAR style.
The last two to finish will be facing off in overtime.
Nobody wants overtime.
♪
Come on, numbers.
Are there any here?
I start digging in the entire pile, throwing tires.
Anybody see a 75?
And I can't find the 75 to save my life.
This could be the challenge right here.
Finding your damn tires, yeah?
Everybody's having a hard time,
so we just told everybody, "Yell out your guys' numbers,
if I come across them, I'm gonna get you guys' numbers."
Okay, I got 31. What is you?
-75. -Did you see that?
Jerome is calling out his competitors' tire numbers.
-75. -I love you.
♪
-Lia with her first two tires. -Wow. -Go, Lia.
-KEOGHAN: Tak's got two tires. -HANGER: Let's go, Tak.
When I am competing, I just focus on what I'm doing.
-Let's go, Mike! -Mike carrying all four tires
-at one time. -SARAH: Yeah! -KALIMBA: Yeah.
Alfie with all four of his tires.
I really don't care what my teammates are doing.
Quincey with four tires running into his station.
Elizabeth yet to come back.
I just put all my energy in one area.
HANGER: Come on, Elizabeth!
Let's go, everybody! Let's go!
Lia's already hard at work on her first tire.
-[air hissing] -Quincey's hard at work on his.
[grunts]
Nobody has mounted a tire yet.
[straining]
Come on, Christine.
[air hisses]
The proper way of using a mounting machine is that
you attach the air hose
so that it fills the inside of the tire...
Pop, pop. There goes the weasel.
...and then creates the pressure to pop it in place.
KALMIBA and SARAH: Alfie!
-Alfie with one up on the rack. -HANGER: Let's go, Alfie!
Elizabeth trying to get that first bead on.
Tak and Jerome side by side, working on that first tire.
Come on, go, go, go.
I've done almost every trade there is.
I've done roofing, electrical, general contracting.
-But, uh... -Uh-oh.
[clattering]
I'm not doing this real good.
-No. Oh, no. -[air hisses]
Nope. Stop.
As that implement's swinging around,
I'm like, "Go, go, go."
Go, go, go, go, go, go. Go, go, go, go, go.
Go, go, go, go, go, go.
-You got it. -In my mind,
I'm just like, "Stay the course."
-[air hissing] -Fill up, fill up.
-This is something I can do. -Pop, pop.
KEOGHAN: Jerome, Tak and Alfie with one tire mounted up
on their rack.
Elizabeth, she gets her first tire mounted.
-[air hissing] -Kelsy's still struggling to get the first one on.
I am putting my arms around that tire,
trying to compress
as much as I can, and it will not give.
I just couldn't get the air in the tire.
-[hissing] -KEOGHAN: Christine,
she gets her first tire mounted.
-Let's go, Mike! -[hissing]
I've changed the tire on my son's bicycle,
but I've never done this.
KEOGHAN: And second tire mounted for Alfie.
People have two done.
-[popping] -KEOGHAN: We hear tires popping all over the place.
Seems like they're flying through it, and I'm just like,
"Mike, you're gonna be at the bottom-bottom."
Lineman Mike is struggling.
MIKE: I can't give up.
Being a lineman, I know how to keep a cool level head,
because my work is so hazardous.
You know, a split second, I could be dead.
But I have to clear my mind and focus on
what needs to be done.
At the end of the day, I want to go home to my family.
-Mike has his first tire done. -We love you, Mike!
Christine, struggling with that second tire.
-Come on. -I'm trying to do it as fast as I can,
but I keep screwing up.
Oh, my God, dude.
I'm starting to panic a little bit
'cause I do not want to be in overtime again.
KEOGHAN: Kelsy, now with the second tire.
Do not give up on her.
-Jerome is smooth. -JEROME: Once I got that first tire on
I was in a major zone.
♪
Look how smooth he is, man.
If you did 'em the same every time,
you gonna get 'em right.
KEOGHAN: Oh, he is having fun.
Like he's out in the surf in Hawaii right now.
-He's hanging loose. -[Kalimba laughs]
Yeah!
Jerome with three tires mounted, working on that fourth tire.
He wants to drive that race car today.
But Tak and Lia are mounting their fourth tire, too.
Go, go, go, go, go. Come on.
Mike working on his third tire.
Jerome, sliding his top bead inside the rim.
-This is gonna be close. -Here we go, here we go.
-Keep going, baby. Keep going. -Go, go, go, go, go, go.
KEOGHAN: Jerome, working on his fourth tire.
This'll be for the win.
Jerome with the win! [whoops]
Yeah!
Everybody else, keep going. You know what happens.
The last two to finish are going into overtime.
And Lia with four tires, second place finish.
Yeah, let's go, Lia!
KALIMBA: Lia is a force to be reckoned with.
I think Lia lives up to the name Jill-of-all-trades.
She actually walks the walk.
-KEOGHAN: Closely followed by Mike. -[yells]
He's an animal, man.
He's come from behind to take third place.
I just had a moment where I just dropped to my knees
because that $200,000 is getting closer for me.
Here's the fourth tire for Tak.
-[cheering] -Fourth place.
And Alfie gets the job done.
Only four left, two of you going into overtime.
Who's it gonna be?
Let's go, Quincey!
I'm a mechanic and people drive on the stuff that I work on.
So I-I take pride in doing my work with quality.
I wanted to be first
'cause I-I wanted to drive the car around,
but that's not the important thing.
The important thing is that I get the tire mounted correctly.
There's four of us left. I got to get finished now,
'cause I don't want to be in the bottom two.
Number four for Quincey.
Now there are only three left
fighting to stay out of overtime.
Christine, Kelsy and Elizabeth, let your tools do the work.
This is the part I don't like.
This job is about finesse, not strength.
[grunting]
CHRISTINE: It's getting down to the final minutes.
A lot of people are finished with their four tires.
I'm just, like, messing up over and over again.
Oh, my God.
I told myself put a muzzle on all the negativity.
-Come on. -I'm not gonna give up until I get the job done.
KEOGHAN: And now there are only three left.
Christine, Kelsy, and Elizabeth.
All working on their final tire,
fighting to stay out of overtime.
The first of you to finish is safe.
HANGER: Come on, Elizabeth!
Here I am, on my last tire, and it gets stuck.
I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth, still fighting that bead.
After a bunch of beating and working...
-There we go, -...I finally get it off.
Now I've got to get this tire done.
KELSY: As a crop duster,
you have to know what you're doing, and you got to know fast.
When we're coming up to a power line, a tree, a house,
we only have seconds to fix anything,
so I knew that I had to buckle down,
and I had to get the job done.
KEOGHAN: Desperate times right now.
Christine struggling and firing.
Elizabeth still fighting, will not give up.
-[pops] -And...
Elizabeth gets it done.
LIA: Yeah, Elizabeth!
-Christine and Kelsy yet to finish. -[air hissing]
CHRISTINE: Kelsy and I have both been to overtime once so far,
and we both triumphed and made it through.
So, going into today,
I feel a little more confident.
It's all right.
-LIA: Good job. -MIKE: Keep your head up.
-KELSY: Yeah, absolutely. -Way to stick with it.
KELSY: The more people punch out, this competition's gonna get
a lot more competitive.
I'm proud to be halfway, standing here,
and...
I don't want to punch out.
Whew.
Incredible challenge today.
Nobody was smoother than Jerome.
-Give the man a round of applause. -HANGER: Yeah!
And guess what, we're gonna see you
-going around the track 'cause you are a winner today. -[cheering]
You'll be doing a lap of victory.
Well, I'm gonna be driving with NASCAR tonight.
[laughs] Under the lights.
So, now we go into overtime.
By the end of the day, one of you will be punching out.
-Kelsy, you've been here before. -Yep.
Pressure don't scare me, and I'm gonna keep my head high.
Christine, what about you?
-I'm used to it, and we're gonna be OG. -OG OT.
Yeah!
-Are you ready for overtime? -OTHERS: Yeah.
-It'll be a challenge, but it'll be fun. -Okay.
♪
Bro, I had a hard time on my last one.
Bro, I was trying every angle, like...
Yeah, exactly, you know, I was struggling.
I was like, I've never really used a machine ever like this
before in my life, and it got to me.
And I was like, "You know what, Mike?
-You've overcome so much in your life." -JEROME: Yeah, yeah.
Everybody has doubted you before.
Um...
and I got to work a lot harder.
I've had various jobs doubt me,
thinking that I-I'm not able to do the work.
People make assumptions right away.
Guy with a bunch of tattoos.
Maybe he's, you know, been-been to prison,
or he's a bad guy or something.
I don't look the same as everybody that lives,
you know, around me, and you have some people
that accept me and some people that don't.
Sometimes I go to work, I feel like,
-you know, it's a little pressure on me. -MIKE: Yeah.
But I use that pressure and turn it into fuel because
ultimately the battle we fight every day is with ourselves.
-Yeah. -Tell you one thing,
[chuckles]: I would never doubt you guys.
-[laughter] -QUINCEY: No, absolutely not.
Everybody is-is so competitive.
The girls are... [scoffs] unreal.
They scare me.
-I'm not gonna lie. -[chuckles]: Yeah.
-QUINCEY: For real. -They're good at everything.
-So, Jerome, well, h-how... -Yeah?
How you gonna drive this thing around here?
-I don't fit. -You got to drive.
-Let's go look at it. Let's see. -Yeah, let's go over there.
You better get a look and feel.
Let me see how you're gonna climb and jump in this thing.
'Cause you know you got to climb through the window.
-Uh-huh. -[laughter]
-Oh, man. -Well, you're gonna get a chance of a lifetime, Jerome.
♪
CHRISTINE: Going into overtime,
I do get a little antsy, a little nervous.
Like... [groans]
When I get inside my head,
I say negative things to myself and it never helps.
So, today I think...
...being positive and believing in myself
-is definitely gonna help me out. -LIA: All right, Christine!
Kelsy, yeah!
KELSY: Christine is a beast, but my dad taught me,
"Don't let anything scare you."
I don't ever come into anything with fear.
The confidence that my dad gave me before he passed away,
I think that's what keeps me going.
I'm already excited.
-You're excited? -Oh, yeah.
You have any idea what you might be doing?
-Yeah. -Yeah, I'm changing some lights.
-Is that right? -CHRISTINE: Yeah.
-OTHERS: Oh... -How'd you figure that out?
-Saw the light bulb, Phil. -Oh, 'cause you had a light bulb moment.
And I use those every day.
OTHERS: Oh...
Kelsy, you intimidated at all to know
that Christine has worked with these cranes before?
I learn things fast, so we'll figure it out.
So, neither one of you scared of heights, I take it.
-No. -Being an ironworker
or being a pilot, if you were scared of heights
that would be kind of detrimental to your job.
Yeah, you'd-you'd be a ground guy.
-KEOGHAN: Yeah. -[laughs]
So there are nine towers here
with 330 lights.
Your job today is to switch out one light bulb.
When that work whistle blows,
you will be using one of these zoom booms,
go up 110 feet,
that's 11 stories,
get to your blown light bulb.
When the light bulbs are blown, they look like this.
Replace the old one with a new one.
-LIA: Shiny new. -Brand-new, shiny and new.
Each one of the light bulbs
is inside a covered guard like this.
There are these four clips that you need to undo.
That'll open it up, get the old light bulb out,
put the new one in.
First back to the ground,
stays in contention for the Tough AS Nailstitle.
You finish last, you'll be punching out.
Today's job is a tall order.
HANGER: "A tall order."
Uh-huh.
But I know that you are a couple of bright sparks.
-Oh, God. -[laughter]
KEOGHAN: If you finish last,
it's lights out in the individual competition.
[others groaning]
-That was go good. -That was reaching a little bit, Phil.
All right, we'll cut that one out.
[laughter]
Are you ready for this overtime?
-Let's do it. -Yes.
♪
KELSY: I've never operated a boom before,
but just because I don't know how to do something
doesn't mean I can't figure it out right there.
Start your engines.
[engines start]
[engines idling]
This is to stay in the individual competition.
[work whistle blows]
LIA: Yeah!
-KALIMBA: Uh-oh. -LIA: Uh-oh.
KALIMBA: She's off to a fast start.
KEOGHAN: Off to a flying start.
CHRISTINE: We have to operate the zoom boom lift
up to the point where the bad light is.
Undo these clips on all the sides,
exchange the bad light bulb for a good light bulb,
and then make your way back down.
HANGER: Uh-oh.
-Uh-oh. Uh-oh. -LIA: Let's go!
-You got this. -She's got it. She's got it.
I know that I have to get up there as fast as possible,
but as soon as I touched those buttons,
I realized this is slow.
Like... whoa, is this moving?
[beeping]
♪
[sighs]
KEOGHAN: Beautiful night sky.
-Aw, man, what a backdrop. -Beautiful.
ALFIE: Loving it, loving it.
♪
LIA: Christine's got the stance and everything.
-She's going out and up at the same time. -ALFIE: Yeah.
CHRISTINE: Being an ironworker,
my job entails being high in the sky.
The highest I've been is 250 feet in the air.
[chuckles]: I'm used to this.
Come on, Kelsy.
Extend!
ALFIE: Christine's experience
is starting to show right here, right now.
She's not only booming up,
she's telescoping out at the same time.
MIKE: You got it, Kelsy.
KELSY: The first time I was ever flying in a helicopter by myself,
it was the most exciting thing.
ALFIE: Now she's telescoping out.
-She's gonna have to extend a lot. -Yeah.
I was determined enough to learn that,
"Hey, I can do anything."
You put your mind to it and you can do it.
LIA: Go, Christine!
Yeah!
You're almost there!
Kelsy's actually catching up a little bit.
There she go.
I was really impressed with Kelsy
because she didn't have a strong start
in the beginning of the challenge,
but she managed to pick up
and pretty much catch up with Christine.
CHRISTINE: As soon as I got up to the light,
I looked over my shoulder and saw Kelsy right behind me.
KEOGHAN: Kelsy getting there.
LIA: Almost there, yeah!
KEOGHAN: She's moving quickly now.
-Let's go! -OTHERS: Oh...
[cheering in distance]
KEOGHAN: She is flying.
-Oh, my goodness. -[cheering, whooping]
LIA: It's a race!
♪
LIA: Doing good, Christine!
MIKE: You got it, Kelsy.
KEOGHAN: Everything on the line for Christine and Kelsy.
The first to change their light bulb and get
down to the ground safely
will stay in contention for the Tough As Nailstitle.
Me and Christine are both at the lights.
It's anyone's game,
and I'm thinking, "Don't stop. Don't give up."
Christine reaching in to grab her light bulb,
and she's got it out already.
Kelsy struggling to get those clips off.
QUINCEY: She's screwing it in.
KELSY: I cannot get that light housing off.
I'm doing everything I can,
and I just cannot get it to budge.
♪
QUINCEY: You got it, Kelsy! Come on, you got it!
-Let's go, Kelsy! -Keep your head, Kelsy! Keep your head!
SARAH: Come on, Kelsy.
-KEOGHAN: Christine is coming down already. -[beeping]
KELSY: I know that I'm behind,
but as a crop duster, I have to stay cool
and calm and collected under pressure at all times.
SARAH: Don't quit, Kelsy! Don't quit!
♪
-You got it. -Good job, Kels!
Being an ironworker in a male-dominated area,
I feel like I have to
not only prove myself but just work ten times harder.
LIA: Go, Christine! Go!
CHRISTINE: But winning today proved to me
that I don't have to be so hard on myself all the time.
Because I am my own worst enemy,
and overcoming that today was just amazing.
Okay, just come down, Kelsy.
Okay.
-Congratulations. -Thank you.
You have survived this overtime.
That means you are still in contention
to win the Tough As Nailstitle,
$200,000 and all-new Ford Super Duty.
You've survived two overtimes now.
OTHERS: Yeah.
I think I could definitely win this whole thing.
I want to be the first woman to winTough As Nails.
So everybody better bring their A game.
-Good job, Kelsy! -LIA: Yeah! Kelsy!
Love the smile!
KELSY: I'm proud of myself for how far I came,
and what I've learned is, just because it's new
doesn't mean you can't do it.
All you have to do is
think about it and then act upon it.
Don't let anything scare you.
You know what I love about you is you never give up.
-Thank you. Thank you. -Never give up.
-Right, teammates? -That's right, that's right.
-Good job. You did amazing. -Thank you.
KEOGHAN: You were up against some tough competition.
-Christine, it was her wheelhouse today. -I know.
-You're an awesome competitor. -Thank you.
We have your back. Savage Crew, we...
we want to win this for you now.
Keep your head up regardless of the outcome.
-LIA: That's right. Look at those... -I still got a line.
[cheers and laughter]
KEOGHAN: Kelsy, I'm very sorry to tell you,
you do need to punch out of the individual competition.
♪
KELSY: If my dad was here, he'd be so proud of me.
Deep down, he's always right there, pushing me.
I can hear him.
I'm just honored to represent crop dusters
and to show the world that
just because you had someone tell you no in life,
you just keep going.
[clapping]
♪
And I'm gonna do that with my team.
Christine, since you got the job done,
I think we should turn the lights on.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-'Cause you know why? -OTHERS: Ooh...
'Cause it is Friday Night Lights time.
KELSY: Yeah!
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Yeah, there you go.
Suit that man up.
-[laughter] -[applause]
KALIMBA: For the homeys.
-QUINCEY: Do it for Dirty Hands. -Push the button in the middle.
[engine starts]
-[cheering, whooping] -[engine revving]
TIM [over comm]: Go ahead.
[cheering, whooping]
♪
QUINCEY: Jerome deserved it today.
He's smooth with everything he do.
You could tell that's a man with experience.
I don't see Jerome ever going into overtime.
TIM [over comm]: Nice and smooth here.
Gas, gas, gas, gas.
-[Jerome yelling] -[cheering, whooping]
[laughter]
♪
Jerome!
We got to go home!
LIA: I don't even think he heard us.
KELSY: We got to go home!
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-Next time onTough As Nails... -[work whistle blows]
It is hard to balance in this mud.
[grunts]
-SARAH: I need help. -Holy cow.
Whoa.
-Turn them off! -Dirty Hands, stay on the first pipe.
Got to shut it off!
KEOGHAN: The first time this season we've had two members
of the same team going up against each other in overtime.