02x02 - Hillstrand's Heroes

[bunniefuu]

[casey] oh, nice mahi mahi.
Look at that.

[josh] oh, yeah.

This dude's getting tired.

Ready?

*bleep*

[casey] damn it.

[josh] I think it's time
to just wrap it up.

We're going to tally this...
This poundage we got
back at home base.

[casey] I'm over it.

[josh] our first trial order
for vegas is due
in four days.

Even with jeff, casey
and I fishing really hard,

we have a lot left to catch

and we still need
to figure out transport to get
it there fast and fresh.

Time is becoming
the enemy here.

We need some fish.
We got a couple days left.

The trial order's
gonna be due.

[casey] it's gonna be close.

[phone ringing]

hey, johnny.
What's going on, buddy?

[johnny] I was just
checking in to see
how fishing went today.

It was okay.

We got a couple
of mahis and an ono.

Okay.

What?

Oh my god, dude, that's john.

[johnny] yeah, baby.

Heard you guys
might be hiring.

[josh] for you?
Better believe it.

[josh] my dad was
captain phil harris.

For you, buddy.

A legend in the bering sea.

[phil] I'm a sweetheart.

You can't get better than me.

I'm just a smiling
*bleep* jack.

[josh] and he left me
with the name.

[phil] boom!

[josh] one year after finding
the old man's charts
from hawaii,

I'm on a mission
to make his dream my reality.

[jeff] looks like
your dad experimented

with the most productive
fishing depths
around the entire island.

[josh] trying to keep
our business alive
in the middle of a pandemic.

Everything keeps pointing
to vegas.

Now, we've got
our foot in the door
of a brand new market.

This is the culinary mecca
of the world.

-[josh] oh, man.
-[casey] got it.

[josh] but nothing good
ever came easy.

[man] they're right there.

[shot]

we've throw floaters out here.

[josh] we've got
four days left to prove
that we can deliver.

[johnny] wow. Yeah!

[josh] and a harris
always delivers.

[laughs]

[casey]
what are you doing here?

Heard you guys
might be hiring.

[josh] for you?
Better believe it.

It's got crab on top.

It's half tuckered.
It's a big pot.

[josh]
I've never been happier
to see johnny hillstrand.

Best friend of my old man,
like a second dad to me.

He's a living legend.

[johnny] god bless america.

Yeah. Right, baby!

[josh]
and when we needed him...

[johnny] well, how much money
are you talking about?

[josh] he ponied up $100,000
to help us buy the new boat.

When our first one...

You know, let's not talk
about our first one.

[casey] it's on fire!

Harris. Harris!

Nice boat.

It's almost cornelia blue.

[josh] I know. Right?

Can't expect me to write
a check like that

and not come
check you guys out.

Now that I'm a part owner,
business partner.

It's really hard for me
to stay away from the action.

I miss the guys.
I miss josh.

You know, the whole
world's changed cause
of this covid *bleep*

I, uh, I haven't wore a pair
of pants for four months.

How's fishing going this time?

[josh] fishing's been...
It's been going.

You know? A fish at a time.

Come over to the house,
we'll talk about it.

[johnny] all right.

[josh]
so we went down to vegas,

met up with a couple
different people down there.

Big buyers.

You know, one of them wants
a test run immediately.

Wants test samples
sent out to vegas.

If we land this account,
this will be the holy grail
for us of holy grails.

Johnny couldn't have shown
up at a better time.

With all these restaurants
and hotels closed
due to covid,

we follow my dad's notebooks
all the way down to vegas

and ended up getting
a 1,000 lbs. Order of fish.

But there's a lot
that's gotta get figured out.

I'm looking
at this side of the chart,

which... There's a lot of
fishermen who fish this side.

What's the deal
with over here?

My old man's got a bunch
of marks in the koa shallows

on the west side
of the island.

It has the mahi we need,
but it's huge.

We're gonna have to cover
a lot of territory
to make this work.

What we could do
is divide and conquer.

I mean, just like
the old man used to fish
with john and stuff,

they'd go check out
different areas

and whoever found, you know,
the school and get on it.

These guys are like my family.

I mean, him and I
are back and forth.

You know, we're all trying
to beat each other,

but the reality of it is

one guy will step up
to the plate

and help everybody.

[josh] my dad would work
with guys all the time
to get things done.

He partnered with sig,
he partnered with john.

Plenty of fisherman
to help accomplish our goals.

If one of us gets on them,
we gotta call our boys
in and get on it.

[josh] divide and conquer
must be the plan.

But our biggest problem
right now is,

dude, I've been just
pounding on my phone
for the last half hour.

I can't find
the right flight schedule
to get it out of here.

Since covid-19
reduced the exports
on the big island,

there's been a huge reduction
in cargo flights.

That means transporting
large quantities
of anything isn't easy.

[johnny]
you guys get the fish,
I'll get a plane.

If there's one on the island,
I'll get it.

-Or steal one if we have to.
-[josh] oh, my god.

You're going the
time bandit way.

[johnny]
I'll find it if it's there.

I'll fly that *bleep* myself.

[laughs]

[casey]
I wouldn't put it past him.

[jeff] mahalo ke akua
for this beautiful day.

[casey] jump on, buddy.

[josh] while johnny hunts
for a plane,

we're going to go to
the shallows to check out
some of my dad's hotspots.

Just need a little
harris luck.

Is that good luck?

Our spot is the koa.

Koa means good,
strong wind.

It's a good spot.

To fill a big order.

Look how steep that ledge is
on the sonar.

That's actual ledge.

If there's any kind of life
here, hopefully there's
a predator here hunting it.

Something boiled over there.

Coming into
a nice bird cloud.

[jeff] you know, that's
good signs of life
when you're seeing birds

and you're seeing small fish
feeding on the surface.

That's a really good indicator
that there's big fish
in the area.

[casey] where's this
koa start, jeff?

What depth
should we aim for?

[jeff] probably stay on,
like, the 60.



-[casey] okay.
-[jeff] you guys
got enough bait?

-[casey] yeah.
-[jeff] good.

[speaking hawaiian]

all right.

Come here, old buddy.

[shushing]

see? We got ourselves
a swimmer.

Jeff's gonna take the south,
we're gonna take the north.

But together
we're gonna cover
as much ground as possible.

Go get them, little buddy.

I want you to do your best.

The sample order is
a tough one, you know?

We gotta prove ourselves,
so... You know.

It's a little bit
of pressure.

[phil] the first time
that I went out on a boat,

talked the captain
into taking me.

I was 17 years old,
taking me for free.

[josh] it was the same thing
as my old man started
as a greenhorn.

Crab fishing
in the bering sea.

[phil] it was blowing 100.

I'm literally in the bait box
on my knees puking

and I got herring all over me
and I just said enough,
this is crazy.

[josh] it was tough for him,
but he didn't quit.

[phil]
one day a guy got hurt,
so I went from being a nobody

to full share and made
$130,000 in the next month.

[josh]
his multi-million-dollar
operation all started

because he demanded
the best from himself.

And he always saw it through.

That's just
what we're going to do here.

[buzzing]

it's marking fish, so...
We just need one to bite.

Just need one to bite.

[buzzing]

[casey] we're on.

[josh] yeah.

[jeff] here we go.

Jeff's on.

Turn hard left.

[hawaiian music]

[jeff]
it looks like mahi mahi.
I don't wanna lose that...

I can see that thing
dancing from here.

[jeff] it looks super good.

[casey] oh, he's got it.

[jeff] this thing's
almost six feet.

We're off
to a super good start.

[casey] that's a big fish.

[phone ringing]

[casey] yo', barry!

[barry] yo', what's up, guys?
What's happening?

[casey] just putting fish
in the box, brother.

[josh] barry dakake is
the head chef for barry
steakhouse in vegas.

He's our first client
in this new market.

[barry speaking]

is that possible?

[casey hesitant] okay.

[barry] please tell me yes.

[barry speaking]

is that possible?

[casey hesitant] okay.

[barry]
please tell me yes.

This is vegas, baby.

Things are last minute
around here and we need
what we need.

All right.

[barry]
counting on you, guys.
Counting on you.

[casey] all right,
thanks, buddy.

[josh] oh, man. Well...

Well, that's the first time
we've been salesman.

Usually we're just fishermen.
Now we may have
oversold ourselves.

Oh, *bleep*

you know how to catch
gray snapper?

Dude, I don't even know
what snapper even looks like.

[casey] man, I'm calling jeff.

[josh] sweet.

[phone ringing]

[jeff] we're on.

Let me get him up
a little bit.

I see the size of him.
He's not a monster, but--

[phone ringing]

[woman] recording to
an automatic voice message.

[jeff]
we're doing mahi mahis.

We're putting in
a big order now, man.

[phone ringing]

[jeff] hey.

-[casey] yo', jeff.
-[josh] what's going on, jeff?

[jeff] what's happening?

Barry just called from vegas.
He wants 100 lbs. Of uku,

that gray snapper.

And he wants everything
a day earlier.

[jeff] okay.

I mean, that's a lot.

Maybe next time
before you guys make promises

and not know if we've got
the fish here, maybe you guys
can check with me first.

Snapper are
very common in hawaii.

Most chefs know
what they are.

But just because
they're closer to shore,

it doesn't mean that
they're easy to catch.

I think we have enough
for today.

Let's take and turn it in
and you know, we got
our work cut out for us.

[josh] yeah, all right.
See you at the dock, buddy.

[johnny] so we need to find
aloha air cargo.

You know where that is, right?

Yeah, it's right up
the road here.

About five minutes.

[johnny]
my job is to get an airplane

and I don't know
how many people
on the island here.

So jeff silva set me up
with his good friend, nainoa.

So how long have you been
working for josh?

[laughs]

is that what josh says?
I'm working for him?

And he doesn't seem to know
much more than I do
at this point.

No.

No, he don't pay enough
for me to work for him.

[laughs]

no. I've known josh forever

and I've known his dad
even longer

and I told his dad,
you know, in the hospital
I'd watch his kids.

So...

-That's amazing.
-[johnny] yeah, so that's
what brought me here.

Because of covid, commercial
flights have been cut back
almost to nothing.

So I figured our best shot
is trying a cargo plane
heading to the mainland.

Gotta be room on there.

There we go.
Aloha air cargo.

Aloha.

[man] hey, how are you doing?
How can I help you, folks?

[johnny] we got a bunch
of fish we're trying
to get to vegas.

I wonder if you can help us.

Yeah, we can try to help you
but probably not for a month.

The economy
is just slow right now.

Las vegas routes
have kinda like stopped.

Okay. Do you know of anybody
that might be able
to help us out?

Right now, as far as I know,
the only place you can try

is down the road,
maybe mokulele.

-[johnny] hi.
-[nainoa] hi, how are you?

[johnny]
we have a bunch of fish.

We're trying to get
to las vegas.

I spent $100,000 on a boat,

I got on a plane during covid
and fly 2,500 miles.

We're not gonna fail.

Great, do you have flights?

Oh, December?
No, December won't work.

I'm gonna find a plane,
even if I have to call
every airline on this island.

Okay, never mind.

Okay, I got you, thanks.

Well, how many carry-on bags
can I bring?
Can I pay for extra?

Yeah, things are crazy
in the world right now.

Thanks anyways.
Stay safe.

Very frustrating
at this point.

Ayayayay.

Got our asses handed
to us today so far.

We have 24 hours less
to deliver than we thought,

and a whole new species
to catch.

We can't have any bad days.

[casey] we're marking them.
Just haven't got them.

Things can always change
in the blink of an eye, so...

[rod getting yanked]

[casey] dude!

Yeah!

[jeff] josh is hooked up.

Oh, my god.

[josh] whatever it is,
it's big.

Yeah!

[josh] oh, wow.
It's still pulling out.

Keep cranking.
Get as much of that line
back as you can.

[josh] it's still pulling out.
You want to drive up there?

Got it, buddy.

I see josh bumping.
So he's hooked
to something big.

Well, I'm thinking
it's an ahi.

[josh] he's coming towards us.
Coming towards us.

[casey] keep doing your thing.
He's tired,
he's tired as hell.

Oh, man.

Well I think he's, I think
he's hooked up to the buoy.

[casey] crank it, buddy.
Keep cranking.

You can hear the tension
on the line.

And it's pissed.

[jeff] josh looks good.
The rod's bent.

He's doing everything right,

there's just the wrong thing
swimming on the other end
of it.

[josh] come on, baby.

[grunts]

[casey] it's towing us
in a circle, dude.

[josh] oh, man.

I think we caught
the buoy, dude.

*bleep*

you gotta be kidding me.

This is rough.

[jeff]
you're doing good, josh.

You're doing good.
Keep pressure on it.

[josh] *bleep* off.

[laughs]

you're an *bleep*

cut it.

Good bye.

*bleep* that buoy.

I'm gonna get a cigarette.

That's my partners.

[johnny]
I'm in a lot of trouble.

I wish I was out fishing.

I don't know anybody
with a private plane.

Or anybody that knows anybody
with a private plane.

So...

Pretty much the whole group,
we're all screwed.

We'll figure this out.

[phone ringing]

hey.

[casey] johnny, how's that
airplane coming?
You got one yet?

[johnny] uh... We'll figure
something out here.

[casey] do I need to worry?

I got this, dude.
Don't worry, I'm going
to get it done.

I'll get it done.

I don't want to tell him
"we're *bleep*"

so, we are, but I said,
"I got this. Don't worry".

But we don't have this.

[josh]
we're bringing a little flavor
from alaska down to hawaii.

*bleep*'s about to get real.

[shot]

[casey] this could be big.

Wow. Beautiful snapper.

This is *bleep* up, man.

[casey] nice fish.

All right, casey.

Good job.

The good news is,
we got the ahi and the mahi
parts for our order.

The bad news is we got
to catch a whole bunch

of gray snapper
in less than 48 hours.

And we still have
to find a plane.

[jeff]
this is a female, obviously.

You can fry this up
and it's actually really good.

[josh] and what's this?

[jeff] yeah, this is the sack.

[casey] you know, the little
orange dots sometimes
on sushi roll?

Try a little.

-[josh] you gonna eat some?
-I wouldn't eat it.

[josh] no.

[coughs]

[sounds of disgust]

[jeff] oh, my gosh.

That actually *bleep* me
a little bit, dude.

Like, don't do that again.

Bottom line, we need a way
to catch more fish faster.

I always wanted to try it.
Sometimes you have to try it.

[jeff]
yeah, no, no, I get it.

It's *bleep* stupid,
but I get it.

He'll eat anything, folks.

Literally anything.

We gotta get back out there
tomorrow and go fishing again.

That's all there is to it.

My idea is try to get
more lines in the water.

We throw floaters out here,
basically what it is,

it's kinda like
a hand line system.

We put baits on them.

It's kinda like
what you guys do in alaska,
you guys set your pots.

[casey] right.

[jeff] and you guys drop bags
on them so you guys can keep
track of them.

The only difference with these
ones is they're not attached
to an electric reel,

you're not attached a rod
when the floats go down.

You gotta chase
the floats down,

you gotta grab them and
you gotta hand line them up.

[josh] cool.
Let's do it.

-All right.
-All right, teach us, sensei.

[jeff] I will.

So we got our diver bag.

We got our trailer bag
and this right here
is going to be your bait.

So this will actually
be our hook.

Right?

So what do you guys think
about giving this a trial?

You guys wanna practice
throwing a couple of times?

Just gonna throw this thing
around the driveway or what?

[jeff] we'll get in
the truck like it's the boat

and we'll do it like
we're moving and you guys
gotta actually throw it

'cause we're not gonna be
throwing the line
like, stationary, right?

We get in the truck
and throw the line?

[jeff] yeah.

When you're throwing
out floaters,
accuracy is everything.

We'll just try to do
a smooth throw.

Hopefully, you can get it
through here, or at least
get it close.

-[casey] okay. I'm game.
-[jeff] all right.

We're trying to keep the bags
at a specific depth,

away from the props
and away from other fishermen.

Every time you toss,
you gotta be on the money.

-[casey] 100 bucks?
-[josh] 100 bucks.

[casey] gentlemen's bet.

[josh] let's do this.

*bleep* first try.

That's right.

Well I got it, but casey's
gotta get it now.

That's good.

Ok, fish are jumping,
you guys ready?

[casey] line's clear.

Oh.

That was close.

[jeff]
that's why we're practicing.

[josh] we ain't stopping
till both of us get it.

[casey]
all right, fine. Go.

Ha! So close.

You got it, dude.
You got it.

[laughs]

I'm doing it.

[josh] I guess we're
gonna be here all night.

*bleep*

hey, I'm kinda getting
low on gas.

[laughs]

can you be a bit smoother
this time, too?

[jeff] yeah,
I'll hold it steady.

[casey] *bleep* you.
Do not dump me out
of this thing.

I swear to *bleep*

[laughing] what is that?

Okay.

That was close.

[all laughing]

you want to just walk it up
there and stick it in there?

[jeff] casey,
try it underhand this time.

-[casey] underhand?
-[jeff] yeah, underhand.
Like a softball pitch.

-You know what I mean?
-[casey] yeah, okay.

-Okay?
-[casey] yeah.

-Bingo!
-Finally got it.

Casey mcmanus
never misses his target.

Never more than
eight times in a row.

That was fun.

[casey] for some of us.
I mean, not me.

[laughs]

one thing we figured out,
casey, you're driving
the boat.

Josh, you're throwing.

-Touché.
-[jeff] all good?

-All right, man.
-[casey] yep.

[johnny] we're way
the hell out here.

Well I told josh and casey
I will find a plane.

And who are these guys again?

Ranchers.

They all live
off the land up here.

[johnny] you gotta think that
we could move some fish
with their flying cows.

Nainoa's got a connection
with some ranchers and
they move a ton of livestock.

The have a private plane and
they fly it to the mainland.

At this point,
we're out of ideas.

We got nothing except
these guys up north.

So, here we go.

[nainoa] stay right here.
I'll be right back.

Okay.

Yeah, these guys
are badass guys.

They live off the land, man.

They're off
the grid out here.

That dude, he's got dogs.

I would never come out here
without nainoa.

Oh yeah, the gates opened.

So, he says he doesn't know,

but we're gonna go meet
his dad up the road
who might know.

He's in the middle
of a hog hunt right now.

[johnny]
they got g*ns, they got dogs.

I'm liking these guys already.

Jump on in.

[grunt]

this dog...

Look at the size
of the nuts on this dog.

[laughs]

we finally get up there
and there is this guy.

Not smiling,
not looking very happy.

With an old worn out vietnam
jacket and a machete
about three-feet long.

Nice place you got here.

I'm going, "okay."

"okay."

-johnathan.
-Wally.

[johnny] wally?
Nice to meet you, wally.

Quite the ride to get here.

[laughing] yeah.

*bleep*
you're *bleep* crazy.

But look at this.

Yeah, it's like
the garden of eden here.

This is paradise.

-So, you're pig hunting?
-Yeah.

Ranchers like these,
they spend a lot of money

trying to get rid
of these pigs.

They're a nuisance species,
they destroy crops,
they destroy soil.

They destroy the land.

I figured if I help this
guy out, maybe it'll grease
the wheels a little bit.

Can you sh**t?

[johnny] yeah.

What do I need to do?

[wally] you gonna be
right here.

We'll bring the dogs out,
and flush them out
through here.

Hopefully.

He's gonna sh**t that way.

*bleep*

I gotta be honest,
I didn't know
he was gonna hand me the g*n.

I thought he was gonna have me
hold the dogs or something.

I don't argue with guys
that got a machete
and access to a private plane.

I'm out in the jungle
with a g*n, all of a sudden.

This is *bleep* up, man.

[barking]

[oinks]

[johnny] I'm out
in the jungle with a g*n,
all of a sudden.

Waiting for a pig.

I came here to fish.

I told josh and casey
I'd find a plane to fly
our fish to the mainland.

I finally find a lead
on a guy with a private jet,

next thing I know,
I'm in the middle
of deer hunter.

This is *bleep* up, man.

[barking]

[whispering] dogs.

They're searching right now.

[whispering]
I can't sh**t that way.

I'm only supposed
to sh**t that way,

so what if I see a pig
come this way?

I have to go like this.

All I had to do was find
a damn number for an airplane.

Now I gotta sh**t piglet.

-[pig squealing]
-something right there.

That one got away.

I'm supposed to sh**t there.

What the *bleep*
did I get myself into?

[josh] we're bringing
a little old flavor of alaska
down to hawaii.

If we had buoys involved
I'd feel a lot more at home
doing this.

We're headed back
to the koa shallows where
my old man loved to fish.

We're hunting gray snapper
and we've got
to get it all today.

What type of knot
am I putting in these?

Bowline.

-Okay.
-[casey] make sure
it's good and tight.

So this is
pretty much the spot.

There's a big ledge out here.

See how the island
slopes down?

It kinda plateaus.

So we want to try and stay
on this ledge.

A lot of bait fish are gonna
come on in here to feed.

If we can use
this float system together,

we can keep putting the floats
and the baits up in the spot,
let it drift along the ledge.

I'm pretty sure
we can get some bites.

Sounds good. We've got
three of them ready to go.

[jeff]
all right, let's go set some.

I let josh set first,
based on what we saw
when we were practicing.

*bleep*

I totally would too.

We're hoping to fulfill
our snapper order today.

That's our goal,
main objective today.

So we gotta make it happen,
captain. I know.

Nice job man, I think
you hit the spot.

[jeff]
throwing your floaters,

you know,
it's a good system.

We spaced ours about


and we just gotta
watch them now.

Snappers can be
in various depths.

These floaters will give us
multiple lines in the water,

so we'll be able to figure out
where they're at very fast.

Now we just wait.
It's like crab fishing.

Oh.

We just got a pretty big hit
on that buoy right over here.

[casey] yep, yep, yep.
It's bobbing.

-We got a fish on there, dude.
-All right. Hey.

Now walk to it.
It is all you, big dog.

All right, here we go.

Let's do this, buddy.

[casey] hold that.

-Holy *bleep*
-[josh] I know.

[casey] it's gonna be big.

[jeff]
they might be hooked up.

I can see them running
to the back of the boat.

Hope they get it.

[grunts]

wow.

-[josh] wow.
-Did you lose it?
Or is it swimming towards us?

[josh] I don't know.
You're pulling on it.

[casey] it's light.

[josh] not on there, is it?

[casey] look at that.

Burned end.
You know what that means?

-[josh] yeah.
-[casey] your knot
came undone.

What kind of knot
you put on there?

A bowline.

It look something like that?

Yeah, maybe.

I'm not saying josh doesn't
know how to tie a knot,

but I'm saying whatever knot
he tied on that one failed.

[jeff]
there's no second chances,
so we gotta catch our fish.

We gotta get this order done.

[casey] where's our floaters?

I'm ready for whatever
comes out.

Oh, *bleep*
our floater just went down!

Oh, right over here? Yeah.
Floater's down, right there.

It's a good fish, josh.

There we go.

Oh, oh,
something's splashing there.

Something big.

[casey] oh, no.

I just got stung by a bee!

What? Oh, dude.
There's the stinger,
right there.

[casey] what? That hurts.

Can you maybe reach in there
and shut that light off?

They seem to like the light.

Why do you do this to me
right out of the gate?

[casey] what? I--
dude, I already took
the bad hit, okay?

Be careful.

[josh] ah, damn it!

*bleep*

*bleep* the light.
It's on.

Change of plan. I'm gonna
sink the boat and drown
the son of a b*tch.

[laughs]

[josh]
that's what I'm talking about.

Sorry, mr. Bee.

[casey] oh. Oh,
something's splashing there.

Something big.

[josh] I see it.
Something huge out there.

We have just two days left
to get this order fulfilled.

Casey and I are using floaters
to get as many lines
in the water as possible.

Just like the bering sea.

You got some weight
on that puppy?

-[casey]
a little weight on it.
-Little weight?

Oh yeah.
We got a little something.

Oh.

It's a snapper.

It's got
some big teeth, dude.

-[casey] hell yeah.
-All right.

Cool.
We got something.

Well, first blood.

Look at all this just ahead.

[josh] oh, yeah.

-Yeah! It worked!
-It worked!

[josh] let's do this, buddy.

[casey] yeah, another one?

[josh] all right, dude.

There we go.

Floater's down.

You can see that front buoy,
popping up and down,
popping up and down.

I don't know
if it's a big one.

That's what we want. Uku.

Our local gray snapper
out here.

Can go anywhere
from 30 to 35 dollars a lbs.

[josh] yeah!

That old harris luck.

Catching that first snapper
just opened the flood gate.

Floater buoys just
started jumping and we're up
to our ears in uku.

[casey] woo!

I never caught
that species before.
All right, dude.

I don't think there's any way
jeff can match us today.

[jeff] all right.

Oh, it's a big uku.

Holy *bleep*
I'm gaffing this thing, dude.

That's *bleep* crazy.

Uku, big one.

Beautiful gray snapper.

This made my day.

That's a monster, dude.

He's gotta be at least


That's a personal best,
honestly.

That's the biggest uku
I've ever caught.

Straight up.

Casey and josh got their fish.

We're gonna do what guys do.
We're gonna compare sizes.

I wanna see
your snapper, jeff.

-[casey] ours are
about that size.
-[josh] yeah.

[casey] mine's bigger.

[jeff] all right.

I thought
I had you guys beat.

-What about this one, though?
-[josh] holy *bleep*

okay, yeah.
Of course you do.

Oh, that *bleep*

[casey] I knew
you were messing with us.

You think vegas
will like that?

Yeah.

I think, um--
I think they're gonna be
super stoked.

For sure.

[whispering] I'm here
on john patrol.
This is john patrol.

I've been sitting
in the hot jungle for over
two hours to sh**t a pig.

So a rancher might hook us up
with an airplane.

I'm too old for this *bleep*

I'm telling you right now.

[whispering] anytime a pig's
gonna come running out.

[barking]

[whispering] I can hear them.

[pig snort]

[barking]

[pig squealing]

[whispering] I hear something.
Right there.

I hear something right there.

[pig squealing]

big one?

-[man] big one is coming now.
-All right.

-[man] the dogs
are chasing him.
-All right.

[man] he's gonna come out
right here.

He's coming out right here.

[shot]

I got it.

I think I got him.
Yeah, I got him.

-All right, john.
-[johnny] thank you.

That was a hell of a pig.

You got one.

Thanks god for this pig.

It's gonna feed
a lot of people. Thank you.

The thing about hunting,
you gotta know the exact
right moment to strike.

I heard you might know a place
where somebody can fly us
some product out.

-[man] what are you
flying out?
-[johnny] fish.

-I swear to god.
-[man] you got it.

[josh] casey, jeff and I
all worked together,
and we got what we needed.

And johnny helped us
get it all to sin city.

[sigh]

[casey] boy.

Why am I always the one
doing all the work?

[josh] our first sample
is coming into vegas.

We'll see
what everybody thinks.

-Hopefully, we'll make a hit.
-[casey] let's go!

[josh]
last year we started chasing
my old man's dream

and I don't know
how far it's gonna take us.

-Hey, chef.
-[barry] yo'.

[josh] this is a sampler.
We've got a bunch more coming.

You got a little sample
in there?

[josh] take a little peek.

Do what you want
to do with it.

But the longer
I'm on this journey,

the more it's not just
my dad's dream.

It's becoming my own.

[barry]
put a little lemon on there,
put a little salt.

I gotta tell you guys...

I'm in 100%, all right?

I love it. I love it.

[josh] my first sample order
is now delivered

and it's time for us
to move some serious weight.

Love you, old man.
I hope we're
making you proud.

[casey] big day, man.
Hilo or bust.

When in doubt, check it out.

[casey] we have to tow
a 16,000 lbs. Boat and trailer

over the biggest mountain
in the state.

[jeff] there we go.
It's on!

[johnny] oops, sorry.

Just got hit in the face
by a mahi mahi.

[josh] just lost a tooth.

That's *bleep* up, dude.

I feel like dying.

How much room we got,
josh? Oh my god.

[laughing]

[johnny] all the way
in the bucket.

That's where my house
used to be.

In that 2018 lava flow
it took out this whole
community.

[josh] we're hitting the max
for the weather, dude.