DARE The PEA 3 | (Survivor Edition!)

Pea celebrates hitting 10,000 subscribers in under two months with a Survivor-themed dare episode, completing viewer-submitted physical challenges in the outdoors. She swims, builds a complete bamboo-and-coconut-leaf shelter from local materials, and starts a fire with a flint — all while pitching herself as an audition to Jeff Probst. The episode showcases real Filipino survival skills passed down from her family and ends with a scripted comedy sketch imagining Pea at Survivor's Tribal Council.

What's Covered ​

• Challenge 1: Swimming (submitted by Asmir M)

  • Pea swims to prove "your average Filipina" can handle the water
  • Quick and straightforward completion

• Challenge 2: Build a survival shelter using local materials (submitted by Mike Gervais)

  • Roofing — coconut leaf weaving
    • Climbs a coconut tree to get coconut leaves
    • Demonstrates the full weaving technique: count four leaves in, fold, leave a gap at the fifth and sixth, then weave over-under-over-under, repeating to the end
    • Tucks the ends tightly so water can't get in
    • Notes that coconut trees are called "the tree of life" in the Philippines because every part is usable — meat, lumber, fruit, leaves
    • Learned this technique from her grandmother at age 7; used to do it during typhoons ("when Alice quit") because it's a free roofing material
    • Weaves a dozen coconut-leaf panels total
  • Frame — bamboo harvesting and construction
    • Finds a bamboo cluster and selects the biggest pieces
    • Cuts four bamboo posts to matching height, digs four corner holes for the foundation
    • Uses wild vine found nearby as cordage to tie bamboo together — same material her dad used when building houses made of bamboo
  • Flooring — split bamboo
    • Demonstrates how to split bamboo lengthwise using a machete and a wedge, then splits the halves into thin strips
    • Weaves the strips together (over-under pattern) and ties them tightly
    • Elevates the floor off the ground on a cross-piece "so at night you don't get bitten by a snake"
    • Credits her dad for teaching her this skill: "if I'm going to be stranded on an island then I think I'll just be fine"
  • Roofing assembly
    • Piles the woven coconut-leaf panels on top of the frame and ties them down
    • Adds side panels to block wind
    • Completed shelter fits approximately 3 Filipinas
    • Pea sleeps in the shelter overnight: "I can't wait to sleep here tonight and watch the starry night"

• Challenge 3: Build a fire (submitted by Dan Blackburn)

  • Gathers materials: dry coconut husks, twigs (tests dryness by snapping them), and dried leaves
  • Criticizes Survivor contestants for never gathering enough fuel to sustain their fires
  • Explains her fire-building strategy: after igniting, build a pyramid structure with twigs so airflow comes from underneath and goes upward to sustain the flame
  • Starts the fire using a flint, just like on Survivor — gets sparks and successfully lights it
  • Also finds a "hidden immunity idol" while foraging (a fun Survivor reference)

• Comedy sketch: Pea at Tribal Council with Jeff Probst

  • Pea claims she "outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted everybody" and demands her million-dollar check
  • Says she "kneecapped Boston Rob" (claims it was an accident) and gave James and Parvati a "mysterious stomach bug" from fish she cooked ("well maybe that was my fault")
  • Lists the five players who annoyed her most: Don (cried all the time), Rupert (snores), Russell (kept burning everyone's clothes), Tarzan (always running around naked), and Coach (whose armpits and "other body parts" started to stink after the third day)
  • Describes the remaining players as "jovial and gregarious," then when Probst says he needs a dictionary: "it's not my fault if your vocabulary sucks"
  • Probst tries to "read the votes" and vote her out despite her being the last one standing; she threatens to sue

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