01x02 - Getting Fishy

[bunniefuu]

[buzzing]

[vibrant music playing]

[Jo Koy] Welcome, welders.
You're just in time.

Stephanie, David and I are about to throw
ourselves an all-American barbecue.

But we're missing one thing.

-Grill.
-Grill, maybe?

You can't have a barbecue
without a barbecue.

Today, you're going to be
building barbecue grills.

[Rae] Yes, I live in Texas.
Yes, we are known for our barbecues.

But your girl
does not make barbecue pits. So...

This should be interesting.

[Jo Koy] Okay, welders, here's the deal.

The barbecue you're making
has to be in the shape of a food

that you would cook on a grill.

Like meats, poultry, veggies. You get it.

You need to use at least two pieces
of scrap metal from this junk pile

to make a one-of-a-kind barbecue
complete with utensils.

We also want you to come up
with an inventive way to vent the smoke

from your barbecue
to create that holy smoke wow factor.

And one last thing,

this grill has to be fully functional.

That means you have
to be able to light it up and cook on it.

[Stephanie] Thinking outside the box

on how you're gonna make the smoke
come out of your grill

is going to add to the overall piece.

And do not forget
to put some details into those utensils.

Always remember both sides.

It's about doing
that beautiful piece of art,

and it has to have function.

So it has to be a piece of art
that is actually working.

It's actually doing a job.

[Jo Koy] You will have ten hours.

Ten hours, that's it.
[chuckles] I'm sorry!

But here's the cool thing. For this build,
you get to be paired up into teams of two.

Ivan.

You impressed the judges last time,
so you get yourself an advantage.

You've earned the power
to pick every single team.

So which two welders do you
want to pair up for the first team?

I think that Rae and Tom
would make an amazing team.

[Tom] When I'm at home,
I have nobody helping me.

I'm not one to have employees.

I don't even like people
in my shop when I'm working.

We're gonna have to make it work.
I don't know.

Who else do you want to pair up?

Well, two welders that I picked:
Frank and Leah.

That leaves Lou.

So you two are pairing up
to make this barbecue together.

Yeah. And I put Luis on my team
because he's a very skilled fabricator.

Someone who can help me get my best out.
I can hopefully help him get his out too.

Ivan, so Lou is gonna be the cue
in your barbecue.

[laughing]

I love how you had to qualify that one.

[Lou] I'm excited because
I'm gonna be able to lean on a partner.

because I really am at a loss
how to do a barbecue.

[buzzing]

Welders, your ten hours starts now.

[upbeat music playing]

[clattering]

-You good? All right, let's go.
-Yeah.

[Jo Koy] Stephanie, David,

for this challenge, we've asked
our welders to create a barbecue grill.

It must be in the shape
of a food they would grill,

utilize two pieces of scrap metal,
create a smoke component,

build utensils,
and the grill must function.

They'll have ten hours
to complete this build.

How's this challenge different from the
first challenge you gave these welders?

This is a little different, Jo.

They're being challenged out of
using all these unconventional materials,

-and creating something unique.
-Yeah.

But at the same time, it has to work, Jo.
It has to work.

[Stephanie] If you divide them up,
and divide and conquer,

they don't have ten hours.
They have twenty hours.

Yes. She's a numbers person.

Okay, so.

Give me your idea,
and we'll figure out the compromise.

I'm thinking hamburger.
The bun and the cheese come up.

That's where the grill would be.

I think everybody's gonna think hamburger.

My idea would be, maybe do a lobster tail.

Mmm. I don't eat meat, so perfect.

A shock and awe type thing.
I think it'd be cool.

[Tom] Rae and I are creating a barbecue
grill that looks like a lobster tail.

It's gonna have detailed features
like lobster claws as the feet.

The vent for the air is gonna
have a lobster claw cut out in it.

The top has a stainless steel shell.

The smoke feature will be the smoke coming
out of the gaps

between the back of the shell,

to give it a really cool illusion.

We'll start with picking a size
for the grill.

-[Rae] Okay.
-Everything I do, I always do templates.

You know how many times I, like, recut?
Oh, man.

Tom and I, we're very, very different.

[Tom] One, two,
that'd make four and a half.

[Rae] His precision with that kind
of stuff to line up was amazing.

Me, I'm just like... Like, we got it!

That's the middle, definitely.
Russian roulette with art.

And so, we'll see what happens.

-What we could do is use...
-The keg.

[Tom] The kegs for the skin.

[Rae] And since the lines are there,
I can cut it directly down the middle.

-I know you can cut super straight lines.
-Yeah.

[Jo Koy] Lou's not using
the computer on this one.

-No.
-No. No.

-You know what?
-What?

-I think it's gonna be a hard one for him.
-Why?

[David] I love the outcome
of all that technology.

-But now he doesn't have that computer.
-Yeah.

If he was gonna be able
to do all this old-school kind of stuff.

[Jo Koy] Okay.

-All right, Lou.
-All right, man.

So what I'm thinking is, we make a trout.

-Okay.
-Trout is something people grill.

-We could make it look good.
-Yeah. I like fish, man.

[Ivan] We're gonna be building a trout.

I have it so the lid opens up.

The grill itself
will be like the bones of the fish.

It can have the back fin
slide out and be a spatula.

Gills open and close,
and that will let the smoke come out.

What if we did this with sheet metal,

and then, that way
we're doing like a mirrored image?

So we cut out one,
we cut the other one exactly the same.

-And then we can just, each piece...
-Okay.

I think that's suited for what you do,
shaping and getting it rounded.

So then for the smoke,
you grab that fin and pull it down,

it makes the gills pop open
and the smoke comes out.

-It's a vent. You can open or close it.
-[Lou] Okay.

So, for this challenge,
I'm not gonna have a computer.

I'm not gonna have
access to any machinery.

So I'm really gonna have
to bring my A game

and show the judges
I can use my hands to do stuff.

I'm gonna go start laying these out
so I get all these proportions correct.

[Ivan] Yeah.

This competition is gonna take a lot
of fabrication skills.

And it's gonna set the artists apart
from the true fabricators in here.

Those of them who are coming here
with just an art background,

they might not take the tape measurer out
as much as they should for this build.

[Frank] I wanna do a fish
'cause I'm a fish guy.

[Leah] I'm from a fishing village,
so I think that works well together.

[Frank] You wanna go
with something funky like this?

[Leah] Powder coated.

-What are we gonna do for the grill?
-The fish is the grill.

No, the fish is on the grill.

No, no. The fish is...
The fish isthe grill.

You have to make a grill
in the shape of a food.

No, you don't.
You have to have food on the grill.

-No, no, I think you're misunderstanding.
-No, I think you are. [chuckles]

You've got a grill,
and you got what's on the grill.

I don't think that's how it is.

No.

Frank and I realized that we both have

vastly different interpretations
of what this challenge is supposed to be.

I'm telling you, we have to make the grill
in the shape of the food. That's my...

We make a grill that looks like a fish,
and a fish in the grill?

-Wait a second.
-Fish in a fish. Perfect.

Yeah. I... I... [chuckles]

The communication is completely lost.

[Frank] I love th...
I love this. This is perfect.

-You know, we could...
-Hold on a second. Hold on a second.

-I want to do a banana leaf-wrapped fish.
-Right.

So what if I sort of make this

'cause it's already kind of the shape
of a banana leaf wrapped together?

Yeah.

And then there's a fish inside of it
when you open it up.

Oh, I... I love it.

-Yeah. Okay, compromise.
-[Frank] Perfect.

All right, so, look, look...

I want to make a grill
in the shape of a banana leaf pouch

that would go around a fish
if you were putting it on the grill.

Frank is going to build a fish
that will sit on top of the grill itself.

And the tail is going to be
a spatula that pulls out.

[Frank] I'm thinking we divide
and conquer. You do the grill.

And I do the fish that goes in the grill.

[Leah] That's a lot of fabrication.

So, let me go over and lay out a fish
about two-foot, see what it looks like.

Our concept was pretty interesting,
but I'm concerned at the very beginning,

considering Frank
wants the focus on the fish.

I only have ten hours to turn this
into a food shape by myself,

and that's not a lot of time. [chuckles]

-Jo! What's up? What's going on?
-My guy!

Man, let me tell you something real quick.

I've been walking around,
and it's a little fishy.

It's a little fishy.

I just don't know why you didn't
pick, like, chicken or maybe a duck?

Uh, why fish?

I think it's because of
where some of the people are from,

that are in this competition, they're from
areas where they like to fish a lot.

I feel like Ivan
catches fish with his mouth.

I think he's half human, half bear.

Dunks his head and comes up with a fish.

[growls]

[buzzing]

[Tom] What I'll do is cut a template out.

We'll lay them out there
so you can cut five out.

So, I'm making templates
to make the grill box

as a structure of the entire grill,
and everything will get built off of that.

And hand them to Rae so she can
plasma cut them out of eighth inch plate.

I put my skills to use
and free-hand plasma cut the entire thing.

So, cutting the box,
that's the most important part

just because
the grill itself has got to function.

[Tom] Then I will TIG weld them together

while she's actually gonna be
cutting out the skins out of a beer keg

that'll go on the outer, the top parts
of the grill when we get finished.

[clinking]

[buzzing]

[Rae] Alright, we got four!

I use kegs all the time at home

because there's so many
beautiful curves and ribs,

so they always look
super clean and... and precise.

-That's the flat side here, right?
-Yep.

We'll tack it up
with the shell on top of this.

But we have, look.

-Does it still got some rock to it?
-Look.

A slight gap right here.

All right.

[Tom] Smoke's gonna come out of that.

[sighs] Man, why is everything gonna
just go to sh*t? Should get easier, right?

I don't know.

[Ivan] What I'm doing here is, using this
throatless shear or Beverly shear,

whichever you wanna call it,
to cut out the skin.

You know, I've got
a two-dimensional piece.

Obviously, have to turn it
into a three-dimensional piece.

But there's the start of a fish, anyway.

[chuckles]

[Lou] I'm gonna handle all of the fins,
and stylization of the fins.

And make really generic templates
to kind of give me a guide.

And then I went ahead
and plasma cut all of the fins.

So, after I do a rough cut
of the fins out of eighth inch,

go ahead and smooth them out
with a flap wheel on the 4-inch grinder.

I've got them laid out
according to how the fish is laid out.

And I'm gonna start
welding some rod on here.

Um, and try to get these
to be less flat pieces of metal.

[whirring]

[Lou] Leave that one alone
for a minute 'cause it is raging hot.

Kinda like my girlfriend. Oh!

[Ivan] A wise man said, "The only way
to get something done is start doing it."

I don't really have
the usual shaping tools

to do what I need to do,
so it's gonna be quite a big challenge.

Especially because I'm trying
to get that nice fabrication look.

I'm just gonna be using
a beater bag and a teardrop mallet.

It will be rough-looking,
but that's kind of the point.

-[Lou] The hammered finish...
-I'm not gonna smooth it out. Leave it.

Being a fish, I figured
leaving some hammer marks in there

and let the texture
be part of the sculpture.

-I don't think it's too bad. Huh?
-From a distance?

When people smash
sheet metal with a hammer

for hours on end,
it usually looks like crap.

[Lou] Hold it up, let me see it from...

I have to put faith in Ivan's abilities,

to make sure he can
get us all the way through this.

-[David] My man Ivan.
-Hey, how are you doing?

-Tell us what you're working on.
-[Ivan] Like a salmon grill.

-Like smoked salmon. So...
-[Stephanie] Okay.

[Ivan] Building out a body right now.

Is that the actual grill?

-[Ivan] It will be, yeah.
-Really?

[Ivan] Basically, it will be
widened out a little from the bottom.

-Stand the...
-[Stephanie] Wait a second.

I'm not understanding.

Is the fish on its side,
or is it standing vertical?

[Ivan] No, it's not on its side.
It's gonna be vertical.

Ivan, you know, you're two burly guys.
You're quick. You're tough.

-Why such a small piece, man?
-[Ivan] I come from Michigan.

The land of the Great Lakes.
Smoked white fish is what we do.

So, I thought it should be
the right size for what it's made for...

It's for a very, very small
barbecue party, just one fish.

It's very nerve-wracking
because if we lose, and this is my idea...

For whatever reason,
if we go home because of me,

yeah, I would hate that.

[Leah] I only have ten hours to turn

this trunk into a banana leaf pouch.

That's not really enough time
for me to do the work that I do

in an impressive way.

And so I'm gonna focus on small pieces.

So, the first thing I start working on

is the string that ultimately
gonna tie this piece together

and become the handle.

I take annealed wire,
and I put it into the vice on one side,

and put the other end
into the chuck of the drill.

And I very carefully twist it
so that it looks like two pieces of twine.

And then,
I'm forming that around the piece,

very carefully so that I can
actually go in and cut where it is,

and it will still be seamless
that we can open up the top of our grill.

-Hey, Leah. Good.
-[Leah] How you guys doing?

[Stephanie] What is this, an old grill?

So basically, the plan
is to turn this into a banana leaf pouch.

Frank is building the fish for the grill
inside, and there will be a spatula

that comes out,
that's the fin of the tail.

[whirring]

Can we see the designs, please?

Um... we didn't really draw
the banana leaf part out.

So, uh, yeah,
Frank is working on the fish, and, uh...

I'm having trouble envisioning it.

Are you guys familiar with, like,
the idea of grilling a piece of fish

wrapped in banana leaf?

-Yes.
-Totally.

So, this is going to be

basically a package,
and then there's going to be twine.

I wanted it to look like a strip
of banana leaf with twine compressing it.

Alright so I'm a little concerned
about a couple of things.

One, the shape of this

doesn't strike me as,
you know, that pouch form.

Um, it looks like
you'll have to add a lot onto either end.

I don't know. I'm trying to maintain
the integrity of this as a structure.

Because I want it to read as a grill,
but also to look like a banana leaf pouch.

-Leah, Leah, you are such an artist.
-Yeah.

[David] We're just hoping

that those artistic skills move over
into the functional art world.

[Stephanie]
What are you thinking about that?

-She's so artsy.
-Yeah.

All that...
all that creative energy that she has

it might get in the way

of what she wants to make.

[Stephanie] Yeah.

I'm starting to think that
maybe I'm too obscure of a thinker

to compete in this way. I don't know.

I don't know.

[Frank] I'm hammering
because I love to hammer.

It's interesting how
he's using that piece of wood

to help give that piece of metal texture.

[Jo Koy] Yeah.

[Stephanie]
He wants the impact of that hammer

to actually stay in that piece of metal.

-So he needs something with more cushion.
-[Jo Koy] Got it.

Maybe he doesn't know that heating
the material will help soften the material

to gain that shape better.

-Okay, that makes sense.
-And it'd save him a ton of time.

I've got the two halves of the fish

and I'll need to

put a rod in between
to give it a little more width.

Quite a bit of welding to do
'cause I have to go all the way around.

And then the tail is a flipper.

So it's a lot of welding on this piece.

[upbeat music playing]

[Rae] We're doing the top now?

[Tom] Yeah, let's start getting
those five pieces prepped.

[Rae] I'm gonna cut it
straight down and curve.

-[Tom] Yeah.
-[Rae] We don't have a lot of time.

So I'm going to attempt to cut
all of this by hand and hope it lines up.

We've finished the basics of the barbecue,
now we're working on the skin.

Everything has to be built
like shingles on your house.

You gotta start here,
and everything stacks up to here.

Right now, I'm working
on templates for the tail fins.

She's cutting one side off,
and then we'll center them all.

Who knows how long
this stuff actually takes to make?

But then she shows up.
Everything is great. [chuckles]

-Oh!
-f*cking butt!

-You're not supposed to...
-Butt! f*cking butt! Butt!

We're gonna do it!

[Tom] Can you see the magic right there?

You take these and obviously
make sure you mirror them.

Rae and I as a team is actually
surprisingly working out pretty good

'cause she is a hard worker.

She is awesome with a plasma.

Everything that she cuts out is perfect,
and it helps me weld.

We're working together very good.
We're always staying busy.

Hold that right there. Don't move.

[buzzing]

[Tom] It looks good.
We're on a lobster roll right now.

Oh yeah.

[sizzling]

-[Tom] Oh yeah! It looks good.
-[Rae] Okay. We're good.

[Jo Koy] You know
what I love the most about welders?

When they wear the helmet, they do this
to close it. [imitates closing sound]

[laughing]

[imitates closing sound]

[Stephanie and David laugh]

[imitates whirring]

Exactly.

Why can't I get a welding helmet?

-I want one.
-Are you serious?

Why wouldn't I want a helmet?

Ya!

[whirring]

-[Ivan] How's that look?
-[Lou] Yeah, that's good.

I'm working
on our rib cage slash grill surface.

The idea is, after I bend this,

that rib cage will fit
into what Ivan is creating.

The grill is a little wider than I wanted,
but I'm gonna go with it.

Want to make sure I'm not screwing us.

-[Ivan] It's not gonna close.
-[Lou] Well, no, no.

I still gotta curl all these in.
I mean here where the break's at.

I get that, but that's what I mean.
If you have to shove it in there

so it's bending that out,
our lid might not close 'cause just now.

Oh, no, see, even just from doing that,
it won't close right now.

It got bent.

Just having a hard time
getting our lid to fit.

I got it to fit just right.

And Lou's grill,
that we're making to look like the bones,

it didn't fit quite right.

So, it bent everything out of shape,
so now I'm having to just

try and get it back.

Fitting of the lid seemed to be
a really important issue for Stephanie.

So the level of fabrication
definitely needs to be high.

[whirring]

Just had a genius idea.

-[Rae] What?
-Acetylene torch.

-Yeah. Oh...
-Just go lightly and put color to it.

[Rae] Great idea.

Feel pretty good
that we're gonna get stuff done on time.

We're working together very good.
We're always staying busy,

but there's some things
that has to get done.

-Does this one go...
-Yeah, I'm gonna go up that way.

[Tom] We put, like,
a half-inch little border

of the heat in the sheet metal
to give it color around it.

Every detail matters.

It looks good, though.
It helps accent it even more.

[Frank] I'm just giving it color.

Like it's cooking.

You can get different colors, you know.

That's all I'm doing, is trying
to make it look like it's cooking up.

There you got a whole different look.

[chuckling]

I'll pick it up, put it over there,
hook the smoke machine up.

Make sure it works.

[Jo Koy] All righty, guys.
We're approaching the final moments.

If they don't get
the smoker in there... done?

-Yeah.
-That's a huge component of this piece.

Adding the smoke element here
is where utilitarian art

and sculpture must come together.

-[Tom] Is there smoke now?
-[Rae] No, want me to turn it on?

Smoke will hopefully come out. [chuckles]

I mean, that's some type of engineering.
You've gotta know

the engineering of smoking in a grill.

-[Stephanie] Yeah.
-Go for it.

Why isn't it working?

[Lou] Hold on, let me look at it.

We turned the smoke on,

smoke billowed out of
every little crack it could find.

Come on, it's not the time
for it to quit on us.

On these pieces,
the smoke has got to escape somehow.

[Frank] Woah, fishing.

[Stephanie]
So if they have any creases or seams

on the top side,
that weren't fully welded

or closed together,
the smoke's gonna seep out there,

and it's never gonna escape.

I got an idea. Let's drill a hole in that.

-We can spin it.
-[Lou] Sounds good.

Ivan and I decided

to make a plug
that directed the smoke left and right.

And I hope this works out
because this fish can't swim.

[Jo Koy] Thirty minutes left, you guys!
The clock is ticking, hurry up!

[Ivan] This is gonna be tight.

You get to that moment like,
"Okay, I'm done."

I'll take it to the
very last second, Frank.

I got all that one.

It looks so clean.

[Jo Koy] Five!

Four!

Three!

Two! Done!

Let's go! Step away.
Put your tools down. We're done, you guys!

No! You picked me up! [chuckles]

[clapping]

We made it!

[Jo Koy] Welders,

over the past ten hours, your teams
had to create a custom barbecue.

It had to represent the food you grilled,

custom tools,

and a smoke effect that makes you say,

"Holy smokes,
I want that grill in my backyard."

It's time to find out how you all did.
Thomas, Rae, let's start with you.

Well, we had to come up with a concept
that we're both happy with.

I wanted to do a lobster roll.

It has a removable top.
You could put charcoal on it.

It's got the air vent in it
to control the air.

My mind is very straight lines,
math, numbers, and stuff like that.

It's a little bit different than this one.

So, with my free hand,
I wanted to go with the keg.

That's where the really pretty lines
in the tail came into play.

-[David] Okay.
-[Stephanie] Great texture in the shell.

The cool thing is the utensils.
This one is a two-in-one.

It's a stabber,
and it also is a knife to cut.

Of course, the spatula.

-Are we ready to see this thing smoke?
-Yes.

-Come on.
-Here we go.

[hissing]

[Stephanie] Very cool.

What's the reason behind
getting it going through the shell?

Just thought it was a cool feature.
A lobster doesn't have header pipes.

It's cool to feature the separation
in the shell.

-We can k*ll the smoke. [chuckles]
-Yeah, yeah.

-[David] Very good job.
-[Jo Koy] Rae, Thomas, nice work.

Leah, Frank?
Tell us about your barbecue.

[David] New school, old school?

What's going on?

[Leah] So, Frank wanted to do a fish.

He felt that the fish...
He wanted it to be on the inside.

I wanted the barbecue to have
a food-like shape on the outside.

We decided to do both.

Inside the banana leaf wrapper...

-[Stephanie] Oh, wow.
-[Leah] ...is Franks's fish.

[Frank] I just used one eighth steel.

-[David] Okay.
-We heard.

-[David] We did hear.
-[Frank] I had to beat it out.

Why doesn't this come off?

[Frank] Because I didn't want it to.

Oh. Would you be able to serve
your friends on this, at a party?

-It's the concept.
-The concept?

-It's the concept.
-[David] Okay. All right.

I grabbed it,
and right away I noticed some movement.

[Frank] This is a spatula.

[Stephanie] Oh, so your utensil
is hidden inside the fish.

[David] I knew it had to be something,

-that you did on purpose.
-Just a spatula.

-Figured I might as well.
-[Leah] Just a spatula.

Talk about each other's work,
who did what.

Frank built the fish and the spatula,

and I took care of
the barbecue shape externally.

[Stephanie] Okay. So what exactly
did you do to this piece?

'Cause it looks pretty close
to how it came out of the scrap pile.

Um, it was green, so I thought
maybe I wanted to sort of

keep that paint in tact.

And I think the twine action
was a lot of work for me.

All right.

[Stephanie]
Let's see if this thing actually smokes.

[hissing]

Oh wow! Look at that!

-It does, it works!
-[David] It does work.

All right, thank you.

-Thank you.
-Appreciate it.

[Jo Koy] Leah, Frank, good job.

Ivan, Lou?

Well, I'm a Michigan man,

so fish is something that...
We've got the Great Lakes. It makes sense.

Now, tell us about your design.
Who did what?

[Ivan] I started banging out the body as
quick as I could using thin sheet metal.

And Lou jumped onto these fins.

[Lou] I wanted to make sure I was able

to show you guys I had more talent
than just sitting behind a computer.

I thought we bit off a little too much,
but I was responsible for the fin design.

I wanted to have that dimension
and just have diversity

of mark again. That's important for me.

What's going on in the inside?

[Ivan] Her is the grill portion
of the sculpture.

[David] All right.

-It's the backbone, right?
-[Ivan] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You open it and there's his bones.

Yeah, I'm a little a**l about things,
and that to me looks sloppy.

One thing I'm noticing
is missing here is the tools.

Where are your utensils for this piece?

Sure. So we have this
dorsal fin down here that slides out.

-[Stephanie] Oh wow!
-[Lou] That's the spatula.

-[Stephanie] That is wicked. I love it!
-[Lou] There's the spatula there.

The moment of truth.
Let's see this thing in action with smoke.

-Sure.
-All right.

For our smoke release feature,

it's actually a valve so you can take
the heat up and down.

-Pull the fin down, and gills open up.
-[Stephanie] Oh wow.

That's pretty clever.
All right, I like it.

Well, thank you, great job.

[Jo Koy] Welders, thank you so much.

I think all three teams
are barbecue masters,

but unfortunately
we have to go to the judges.

Let's see what the judges
have to say about your barbecues.

We'll start with Ivan and Lou.

The grill,
actual grill portion, was very tiny.

It doesn't function,
but it had some really awesome details,

like the fish bone grate
for actually grilling the meat.

And it also had that really
rad spatula feature coming out the fin.

Ivan and Lou...

You guys are safe.
You can head back to your piece.

Rae and Thomas,

Leah and Frank,
this means one team is at the bottom.

And one is at the top.

Let's see what they say.

One of these teams created

a barbecue that we'll be fighting over
for our own backyards.

I love the tools,
and the smoke effect was next-level.

The barbecue that I'm talking about...

belongs to...

Rae and Thomas.

Congratulations.

[Rae] I'm super proud of what we ex*cuted.

We came together as a team,
and we nailed it.

Leah and Frank, unfortunately
your barbecue grill came up short.

The banana leaf feature
was lacking something.

We just weren't able
to grasp that concept.

It wasn't until we opened up the lid
to see the fish inside

that we understood
you guys were barbecuing fish.

Really, and the smoke feature
did lack that wow factor for us.

Well, I think this... this competi...
this challenge was particularly difficult

because we had sort of
divergent points of view

about what the challenge actually was.

And I had to sort of figure out
how to adapt to that situation.

And you know, unfortunately ten hours
wasn't really a lot of time

to execute the way
that I would've liked.

[David]
Although this was a team challenge,

only one of you will be leaving.

Um...

I'm not ready to go home.
I'm ready to duke it out until the end.

The welder that is going
to be leaving the competition...

Is Leah.

You just being here makes you a winner,
and I think the other welders can agree.

Yeah. Love you, guys.

Leah, unfortunately I have to say this.

Please gather your things. You have to go.

-Thank you.
-Take care, Leah.

-Good luck, you guys.
-Thanks.

[Leah] I'm just glad that I came here and

had the experience that I had
because it's been a lot of fun.

I really feel inspired by the artists
that I was able to compete with here.

They're all really incredible,
talented people with different approaches.

And I think that will
definitely rub off on me.

Welders, your next build
is gonna make your head spin.

Now go, get out of here.
Go back to the workshop.

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