Kistler had daily visits from his girlfriend, Sue, who is now his wife, on almost every one of the 261 days he was up there — save for the day it snowed two feet, causing road closures. MacKay pressed the flesh of anyone willing to come by and played pranks on the other contestants, like when he hid under his bed as a ruse to make it look like he had given up. Dalton took daily, on-air calls from Jon DeBella, who was at WMMR at the time, thanks to an 'MMR T-shirt he had worn the day the contest started.