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Welcome to Alone, the reunion special.

I'm your host, Kevin Burkhart. Season two of Alone has people talking.

Tonight, we're going to give you more of what you love.

Oh my God, I'm alone.

We scoured the internet to find the ten most talked about moments and we're

about to reveal them with the people who know them the best. Say hello to the

cast of season two of Alone. They dealt with weather and bears and hunger.

While we count down through the biggest moments of the season, we will also be

bringing you never-before-seen footage from these folks right here. And later

on, you'll get a sneak peek at Season 3 taking place in a brand-new location.

But first, let's take a look at what the cast of Season 2 had to go through

before they got here today.

Mama bear just stood up on her hind legs. Not good.

And this must be from a bear. And a good-sized one, too.

So, pretty sure that's a cougar.

Or some kind of animal with sharp fangs.

There's a bear outside.

Get out of here!

Check this out.

It's a very large pile of bear poo.

One, two, three.

Four. That's still steaming.

Five. Six.

And I thought I was going to be alone out here.

Any reason for me to worry?

Well, the smart guy would take that seriously.

I'm not really sure how I would have felt if I were there. Actually, I

probably would have ran really fast.

And so with that experience with the Bears, let's start with you, Desmond.

Getting into this, military guys. So obviously you have a background in being

out there in elements. How did that prepare you for this?

To be honest with you, the military background I thought would prepare me a

lot more than it did, and it didn't help at all.

Vastly different from anything I've ever experienced before in my life.

Let's take a look at your experience at moment number 10.

There's a rescue boat right there coming to get me. The situation is just crazy.

I don't feel safe.

I'm a little scared right now.

I feel like I bit off more than I can chew.

That's what happened. I was up off in here, and I had a bear scat all over

there, so I moved out of there.

Look, look, look.

Bear scat.

Definitely a bear presence here.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I'm a little concerned right now. Feeling a

little anxious right now.

The fear factor, the unknown, it's just overwhelming.

Everywhere I go, I'm starting to see more and more signs of bears.

Oh.

This is fresh.

This is fresh bear scat.

I mean, this is probably...

20 to 30 minutes old. I'm not sure. Maybe an hour.

I got to get out of here.

Y'all can have this. I ain't made for bears.

I ain't made for them. I'm good.

So I guess I'm officially tapping.

Good.

I don't know. You were talking a lot of bear smack when we got to meet you on

the show the first time, man.

This is kind of their way to get back at you, I think. Of course. I did talk a

lot of smack. That's just, you know, my upbringing. You got to have confidence

in anything that you do in life. So showing confidence, you know. What

happened? Take us through it. I was out there. I was out there a couple hours

and started looking around for a shelter. I had an area I was going to

build a shelter. Every place I went had bear scat everywhere.

So I was gathering firewood for a fire.

And I was cutting it on the side. And a bear came out the woods and bluff

charged me.

I mean, I went all the way back to the edge of where the water was. So I didn't

stand there and walk. I took off running to the edge of the water and tried to

signal for help as soon as I could. I mean, I was terrified, to be honest with

you. The biggest question is why didn't you tape it?

How come we didn't see that?

I was pretty much focused on trying to get past that first day.

So a lot of the stuff, I didn't tape a lot of it. I don't know if you read the

fine print in the contract, but if you get eaten by a bear, that has to be on

film. Really?

That's the whole point of the show, Desmond.

Well, I'm sorry to disappoint.

I'm sorry to disappoint.

No, but seriously, do you have any regrets? I think you're being pretty

open and honest with us. Do you have any regrets about how it went? I wish I

would have had more time to experience situations like that or being around

bears to prepare me for it more.

I wouldn't have had a problem staying out there. It was just...

That animal presence, I've never dealt with that. I've been in the battlefield.

I've did all of that.

I've never had a problem under pressure. But having a large animal charge you

like that was just... Something I couldn't prepare for, you know, and, you

know, to be honest with you, I was scared.

I think that's fair. We had a lot of reaction to social media. So let's go

from one tweet from a person named Jason Sellers. He said, I quote, Desmond was

only there for like seven minutes before he tapped out. I've taken longer naps.

How do you respond to Jason Sellers saying that? Well, you know, Jason,

thank you for watching the show.

I mean, what can you say?

What can you say about that? You know, I'm glad he watched the show. Keep

tuning in.

You know, don't bother me one bit. People are going to say things positive

and negative, you know, but if anybody's ever been charged by a bear, they know

the feeling. You all had experiences, right, Tracy?

Oh, yes. Here's Tracy's face-to-face encounter with her bears at moment

number nine.

Hey, hey, hey.

Twig snapping.

It's like a whining and a huffing and a really deep huffing noise.

Sniffing right here at the back of my head.

I didn't do that, though. I did not light off my flare.

Get the hell out of here. I see you.

Get out of here.

Go on, get.

Oh, man.

That is a cub.

When I saw the little bear, it was just this feeling of, Remorse hit me.

You know, I hate to do it, but I'm going to tap.

All right, so there's a lot there. Take me through your range of emotions.

You hear the snapping of twigs, and then you hear the breathing right beside your

head. And I mean deep breathing, even deeper than Desmond.

The dynamic changes.

And my first thought was, is scare him off with my voice.

I tried that. That didn't work. Went to the boat horn. That didn't work.

Went to the flare.

And at that point with the flare, it's visual. I had no choice. And I really

felt the animal was bent on predation.

And when I went out, I was locked eyes to eyes with the mother for about two

minutes before the cub presented himself.

Did you think in those moments when you're staring her down?

Did you think you were going to be attacked? I thought it was it.

The end of my mystery.

Right there.

Wow. It was done. How did you stay calm? How did you keep it together in that

moment? I didn't understand that animal's motivation until I saw that

cub. And all it was was a mother trying to protect her baby.

And that's when I understood.

And for me, it just broke my heart.

Added everything up and decided it was probably my best interest to go ahead

and tap at that time. The situation happened.

It happened the only way that it could that I could have walked away from it.

Because a mother and a cub is the most dangerous situation that you can be in.

And, you know, I'm thankful to be alive from it. Wow.

Well, we've seen two of the most talked about moments from season two, and we're

only getting started. We have a lot more coming up, including a sneak peek of

season three, Mary-Kate's trip to the hospital after cutting her hand.

and this little gem from Tracy.

Yes, good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

We'd like to thank you for watching Quartino News.

Now we're going to turn the show over to our station weather person who is out in

the field at this moment, Tracy Wilson.

It's pouring down rain, and it's going to continue to rain until it stops.

Back to you, Bob.

I've made the decision to leave all my camera equipment behind and venture

into the woods to live the rest of my days with the bear.

I hope that... I really wanted to keep

going. Sorry.

Yeah.

Day 31, and the crazy has already set in.

Welcome back to the Alone Reunion Special. I'm Kevin Burkhardt. We are

counting down the 10 most talked about moments of Season 2 with the cast.

Plus, giving a sneak peek of Season 3, which is happening in South America. But

first... We wanted to spend a little time with Mike and Justin talking about

how they kept from going crazy all the days of being alone. And it seemed like

you guys had to be active here. You guys were busy making up stuff to do, right?

That was the theme? Yeah, I don't think Mike accomplished not going crazy,

but... Mike, it was really unbelievable, some of the stuff you built. And it had

people talking, obviously.

Here are a few of your many achievements.

Mike, take a look at moment number eight.

My mind needs to stay busy.

I've got plans for my shelter.

You know, I want to build the drying rack over the fire.

Now I'm going to build an elevated platform for my kitchen fire.

I love these little kinds of projects.

They give me something to do to keep my mind occupied so I can make it for the

long haul.

It's a one burner.

That's all I need, though.

All right, I'll finish, and I'm ready to wash up.

I built a hands-free, foot-operated, gravity-flow water

faucet. You know, the projects keep me busy throughout the day, and so time

just flies by because of that.

And so I'll need to keep thinking of projects in order to maintain that

feeling out here.

I have achieved modernity here.

I just need Barbara.

I don't know how you thought of some of this stuff. I mean, the dice football

game was one of my personal favorites. Did you think about this before? How did

you come up with all this stuff?

Half of it, it just came out there to me to do these things.

The other half, I kind of had it in mind. And we've only seen on TV about

half of the things that I've done, you know, out there.

So it really was all about building, staying busy, keeping my mind occupied.

Missing Barbara was huge. You know, there's just no way around that. And

once I got to the end of my project list and I didn't think I wanted to build

anything else, time to go home. Yeah, purpose. Interesting, right? And I think

that goes to kind of what we saw in the piece with you in that building the gym,

having something to do. You're not going to wake up and lift weights, get a

workout, and just kill some time, right?

Yeah, I mean, it's a big, you know, like Mike was saying about the mental aspect

of it. And I think we did completely opposite, you know, different things,

but for the same reason. So just having stuff that kind of mentally equals

regular life for you, you know, is huge. It worked. And that wasn't the only

interesting thing with it. Well, there's a lot of things. But, you know, you're a

veteran. You're working hard to create support for veterans that are struggling

to find their way after they leave the service.

And you applied your cause to improving your situation out there by having

something to focus on. Here's what you did, Justin. I got everybody talking.

Moment number seven.

Today is day 22.

Today is all about doing something for the 22 veterans a day that commit

suicide.

So I'm going to climb this damn mountain.

to serve as some sort of inspiration for the veterans that are out there that are

struggling. One wrong move here, and I'm done.

If I can summit this mountain, maybe it will let other veterans know that it can

get better.

I've officially gained as much elevation as I

can on this mountain.

I don't get too excited about much, but it's pretty awesome.

If any of you guys out there that are

struggling to make that climb,

you know what I mean.

You can do it. You can.

You can.

That was real.

You're a veteran yourself, so you know, okay? So tell me about your cause. Did

you think about this going in, or when you were on the island, is that

something that struck you that, hey, I'm going to do this?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I didn't think about the mountain climb until I think

it was probably about day 12.

I didn't go into it. I didn't know that I was going to have a mountain behind

me. But I think the biggest thing was it was symbolic of the struggles that a

lot of guys and girls go through every single day.

When you're serving in the military, you have a purpose that's bigger than

yourself. You can mentally connect and say, I'm serving something that's bigger

than me. And then when the music's over, you don't have that anymore. And if you

don't find it somewhere else, a lot of people, they struggle with that sense of

just lack of purpose.

If I could on the actual physicality and the toughness of the hike, that did not

look easy.

I mean, it was super easy. I just walked up there. I was like, done.

Cool. While filming it, by the way. Yeah, while filming. And, you know, it

was only day 22, so I was well rested, well fed.

No, it absolutely was a pain in the ass. It's not about breaking an ankle or, you

know, something like that anymore. If I fall, I'm done.

Well, listen, as someone who watched it, it was awesome. And, hey, Justin, thanks

again.

Even more to show you, though, coming up. Stick around because we have never

before seen footage of Mary Kate at the hospital after her devastating hand

injury. And a sneak peek of season three.

Damn it.

Well, my mood was better until I freaking started doing this. God.

Bless America, you son of a bitch.

There.

She's cut now.

I love it. Welcome back. We have reunited the cast of season two of

Alone, and we are counting down your ten most talked about moments. We have more

never-before-seen footage, a sneak peek of season three, and we're going to talk

to Larry about his time on the island. That will be fun.

But before we talk to Larry, you may have noticed we have one person missing

from the cast.

Randy couldn't be here today, but the sixth most talked about moment is one of

Randy's, and I think you'll all remember this one. Here is now moment number six.

Good morning.

Another beautiful day here in British Columbia.

I'm going to walk down and I'm going to check my trap.

Hi.

A little mouse.

My first bit of meat in 14 days.

All right, well, let's cook up our mousy mouse here.

You don't need to spend too much time skinning him or anything. You just sort

of peel the things tear off.

I'm super excited to eat this right now.

You just peel open the stomach to take out the gut.

But I leave in like the heart, the liver.

I'll just throw them directly on the coals there.

Just let them cook.

A little leg.

That's the only bit that's left.

Just the teeth.

Teeth are just too hard.

Actually, no, they're fine.

All gone.

Even the teeth, Randy? I don't know about that one. I mean, Nicole, did you

not eat a slug? Am I remembering that correctly? I ate quite a few slugs,

actually. You just cook them over the coals until the slime falls off, and

actually they're pretty good once you've got them. The head's okay.

Actually, the head tastes fine. A little salt would be nice. The head tastes

fine.

Larry, you also ate a mouse like Randy, but you took the hunt to a whole

different level.

And everybody was talking about it, as a matter of fact, as we take a look at

moment number five.

If I can't get protein, I'm not going to be out here for that long.

I got to start catching some fish, man.

Some mice would be good.

So I think I'm going to set up some mousetraps.

God, I hate mice.

Whenever you find one, there's at least one more.

So I need to take care of them.

So this is my first successful setting of a Paiute deadfall.

Man, I'm excited about this. I hope this works.

Ha!

My Paiute deadfall has sprung.

The mouse got away.

It's like me against him now, and now it's personal.

And there we have it.

I hope I crush this little sucker's head tonight.

Oh, my God. I am so stoked.

I finally, finally, finally caught that effing mouse.

Just about ready to go in bed, and I heard kaboom.

I came out.

Frickin' mouse is under the rock.

Boom. He frickin' takes off.

He went into this hole, and it just barely got his tail. And then I took my

knife and cut his little frickin' throat.

And he's right there.

Well, you did catch that sucker.

Well, I tried to make a pact with this mouse.

I mean, that sucker crossed the line first. And I hold a grudge, in case you

hadn't noticed.

And it was him or me, and the odds were stacked in my favor.

So as far as your mood swings, on a serious note, what was the base of it?

Was it just frustration?

Was it being alone? Was it hunger?

Why the mood swings that we saw from you more so than anybody else?

Because I think, a part of it I think was that I really truly felt alone. Even

when I turned on the camera, I guess I knew that there was going to be a TV

show made about it, but I just...

opened up to the camera you know I just pretend like it wasn't there really or

you know the only thing I really thought about it was oh I want to make sure I

get this angle or I want to make sure the camera's correct or whatever I

didn't really think to self-edit like I probably should have and and I mean I'm

I'm kind of like that anyway I mean if I go out into the woods and I you know

trip and fall I'm gonna cuss and I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna be like you

freaking bush you know and then I'll I'll move on you know it's not a big

deal right after that um the other spectrum of my mood swings

I think that it was primarily calorie-driven, lack of food.

I would be sad during the day, and I'd be like, man, this place sucks.

This place is horrible. I'm hungry.

You know, just, God, would one of these guys tap out eventually, you know? I

mean, it just sucked.

And then I'd eat.

And I'd be like, wow, do you hear that bird chirping? That's beautiful.

This place is awesome.

And then about two hours later, I'm like hungry again.

But it was directly calorie driven. And then also looking back on it.

Both of my areas were semi-north facing, so I didn't get a lot of sunlight.

And I think that the lack of vitamin D definitely was playing on me as well. As

we go through the show, it's obvious that this has left a permanent mark on

all of you, right? Well, you kind of take it to the next level when that

permanent mark, because you actually have now a permanent mark from your

experience on the island. You got a tattoo.

Yes, I did. And it is an unbelievable tattoo. We're going to show it to you.

Tell me about this, the decision that goes into it and every detail of this

tattoo. It's big.

Well, I had a lot of time to think in my shelter, and I've got a few tattoos

anyway, and I've been wanting another one. But I never really had something

that absolutely meant a ton to me that I wanted to make into a tattoo, you know.

And I was just sitting in my shelter. I don't remember if it was night or when

it was, and I just thought.

It would be really cool if I could get a map of the island and then just

different items to go around it that meant a lot to me while I was out there.

And so it gave me something to think about, and I just totally thought about

every detail that would go into that.

The mouse is pretty big on the tattoo, by the way.

It was a big part of being out there.

A big part of being out there. And you got them when it was all still there.

Thank you. It's great stuff.

Coming up, we've got the number one most talked about moment from season two, and

later, a special sneak peek at season three, currently recording in Patagonia.

I'm going to go check my gill net.

I'm guessing it'll be empty.

Holy crap.

Oh my gosh, it's big.

This is just too big.

Cutting the head off really is the best idea.

I don't want to keep it from misery.

Let me show you this mortgage board I've got going. I've got salmon in the pan.

This fish that I have now, I can keep just for a few days and just keep eating

off it.

It's another good day.

I'm going to go check my gill net.

Looks like we got something.

Oh, and it is alive and kicking.

Need to cut its backbone is the name of the thing.

Voila. Better than your best restaurant.

That's dinner, lunch, breakfast.

Hi, sweetheart.

Woo!

We're going to let you go today, okay?

I know many people think I'm weird to set the fish free, but...

You know, I could use a new one tomorrow, but today I'm still eating on

the fish I caught the other day.

You're good.

I got you. You are feisty. I'm glad.

Oh, look at him swim away.

Welcome back to the Alone reunion

special as we are counting down.

The 10 most talked about moments from season two and revealing the best never

before seen footage along the way. As we say hello to Jose and Nicole on the hot

seat. Good to see you guys.

Good to see you too.

It looked like you were living pretty large out there, Nicole.

Everyone was talking about your luck being on the salmon run. So obviously

you had a lot of fish. You were right. The gill net was placed perfectly.

You're an expert on medicinal plants.

And so you had that going in your back pocket. What did you think going in?

What were you thinking about your diet and what you were going to do? to need

to eat. My strategy going in was, you know, passive food is great, right?

It's really easy to get, you know, things that you forage off the ground or

things that you forage in the forest. And I ended up eating over 25 species,

different species of food out there. In addition, I also had a number of plants

that I used for medicinal purposes.

So I probably used about 30 some odd species out there. And so that salmon is

just a small part of my overall diet.

But it was huge and there were a lot of them. And Larry's angry about it.

Social media, not just your friends messing with you here, but social media

here. We got this from Christine McNally tweeting, quote, the salmon might need

to borrow Nicole's cell phone to tap out.

Did you think any of the others out there were having the same luck as you?

I mean, you were even letting fish go. And that's a good question. Did you stop

to think if they were having the same luck? Did you stop to think if they were

having the same issues? I assumed everyone was doing the same as I was. I

really did. I mean, I know there's a great skill base here, right? No

question. And, of course, I didn't know what everyone had at their particular

site, but they did try to cite things where everyone had different.

different things at their site so that they try to make it fair in some way.

So the fact that I hit a salmon run was, you know, great blessing for me.

And I didn't know that other people didn't have that. We didn't know what

everyone else was doing. Right.

Jose, the whole time, all we did was watch your venture and how much you

wanted the salmon. And that's what got people talking.

Here it is now, moment number three.

I have to maximize what the sea has. The number one way to maximize it is having

a boat.

Down you go.

That's the last thing I need.

Right now I feel pretty weak. I'm like an old, old man.

Oh, I'm sorry, Shauna.

I'm sorry.

I tried.

Bummed out watching that, man.

Basically, what made me decide it was that I had my insulated boots on,

and I decided I could just not dry these things in any reasonable amount of time.

It would have taken me, who knows, like two weeks to dry them. That was a bit

much. I don't take a long time to make decisions. I just go.

That's it. So it's out, out.

But I was really bummed out, of course. On the spot, I decided that I had to go.

Right. So, okay, you made a quick decision. We know that.

But then after the decision was made, how crushing is that that you've done

all this and you were in pretty good position.

If that boat doesn't tip, you're maybe still there.

You know, the problem was hypothermia. But really what kept me going there was

my wife.

I decided that I really wanted to try to go as far as I could for her, win if

possible. And I really was really basically bummed out for her because I

wanted a change of lifestyle for her.

her to stop working and for us to go full-time living in the bush just

homesteading hunting fishing and gardening and that would uh that would

have made it possible you guys are there's something else i'll tell you

well we know now after talking to you the danger is certainly real on alone

when we come back we're going to sit down with mary kate talk to her about

her injury from the axe the second most talked about moment in all of season two

It's difficult because I know I could last a lot longer had it not been for

the accident.

I don't see any hand parts anywhere.

No blood either.

Put that on.

I should have been cutting and killing with it on there.

Probably would have had a little better luck.

Welcome back to the Alone Reunion Special. We are counting down the 10

most talked about moments on social media from Season 2 of Alone.

What we just saw there was Mary Kate returning to her camp after a trip to

the hospital, which we will show you in a moment. Welcome to the hot seat. Thank

you. Your emotions as you went back.

I really just wanted to see what was left undone and what I could have done

better or what I did accomplish after the fact.

after being away for a couple days. So it was good to go back. It was really

good. I was happy they let me. Did it give you any kind of closure?

It gave me lots of closure. Yeah, it did. We should take a look at what

exactly got you out of the competition and got everybody talking as we take a

look at moment number two.

Day seven.

Does it literally take everyone else as long to start a fire?

Is it just me?

It must be just me. It's got to be.

Keep reliving it.

I can't lift my thumb. I can't lift my thumb. I can't lift my thumb.

Is

it

only me that every time you watch it, you have some little bit of hope that

this time it's going to go different?

Can you spill your pee? That's what we do.

They don't be pissed.

Oh, man, that was nasty.

That was a nasty cut. First things first. How did you keep recording?

You're in pain. You have this huge gash. How did you keep filming it? I had two

cameras rolling.

And when the accident happened, they're...

There wasn't any pain.

So initially I was, well, scared.

You know, like, what the heck did I just do?

So then the next step for me was to obviously hit the button and get some

help. So take the camera with me. I knew I was going to be down at the beach for

probably a while until they got to me. How long were you there waiting?

An eternity, it felt like. Oh, my goodness. I was frustrated.

But initially I thought, well, they come in on the boat.

You can take a look.

You're done.

Goodbye. See you later.

But that wasn't really... Did you ask? Did you ask that, hey, is there any way

that I could stay once they got there? No, it was almost immediate. Dan looked

at it, and he's like, get on the boat.

And it was quick. They immediately just whisked me away. You didn't even have

time to think about it once they got there. They made the decision for you.

It was serious enough.

Yep, right away.

Did you realize that the cut was as bad as it was because...

Ox on Twitter says, come on Mary Kay, you had a fully equipped medical kit. At

least give it a day or two before pushing the button.

There's a couple things here, you know. It's not just like I cut my hand.

I couldn't, my thumb wasn't working, which means obviously that something's

wrong. So, yes, I could have feel dressed myself, I'm sure, if I had a

sliver or didn't, you know.

sever the tendon in my hand. Yeah, you had to go to the emergency room. This

was no joke. You had to get this taken care of. And this is Mary Kate at the

emergency room.

Let's take a look.

Stupidest thing. And no better.

I'm curious to see that, though. I had it on video.

I had both cameras running.

I'm curious to see how I cut that wood.

If I came down with the axe or if the axe slipped off.

Day seven!

That's my camp number two.

Day seven, site seven.

Probably going to give me seven stitches, too.

Wonderful.

I don't see a mark on the bone, so I think you just bounced off it. I think

you went through a muscle.

That's full of blood.

Devastating, really. To get this far and to get everything prepped and ready to

go. And then just being stupid.

I'm extremely frustrated.

I feel A, stupid.

B, frustrated.

And C, extremely stupid.

Well, that was just your initial trip to kind of patch it back together. How

serious was the actual injury? I snapped this tendon.

But you can't see it on the screen. So I snapped this tendon and it went...

Wow. So they had to go fishing for it.

And... That was pretty exciting. I mean, how is it now? It doesn't go up and

down, so I can't go like this.

But I can touch on my... Wow.

And my grip's a little bit weak.

Yeah. Other than that... You could use it, at least.

I could use it.

Did you think it would be something like this that would take you out? Of all the

things that you thought of, I'm sure, going into this, did you think it could

be something like this? No.

I didn't know. You know, I... But that is...

What upsets me most about it all is because I really wanted to know what my

breaking point was going to be.

And I never got to figure that out. Never got the chance.

We're obviously glad that you are okay.

When we come back, we'll see the number one most talked about moment of season

two, and we'll give you a sneak peek of season three.

Welcome back to the Alone Reunion Special.

We've been counting down the 10 most talked about moments of the season, and

shortly, we'll be giving you a sneak peek of Season 3. But before we get to

that, I'm with the winner of Season 2 of Alone, Dave. Dave, congratulations.

I mean, wow.

I mean, what does it feel like? You did it, and you outlasted all these amazing

people. It's just a surreal moment for me.

I had been holding myself in this thing, thinking, okay, I've just got to stay

one more day. Just keep going, keep going, keep going.

And then all of a sudden to have someone just come and just take me out of that

suddenly and just say, no, you're done.

You don't have to do that anymore.

And all the things I've been anticipating just suddenly just out of

it. What a moment. And here it is. You, the fans, said it. The number one most

talked about moment from this season of Alone.

They were heading into day 70, and I feel like I could keep going.

And somebody said to me right before I left, boy, 50 hasn't slowed you down at

all. And I'm like, yeah, baby.

I did this for you guys. You know that, right?

We're ready to go home.

Yes, we get to ride in a helicopter.

Seriously. The emotion of that moment is just amazing.

It's indescribable.

I don't know how to describe the emotion of that moment.

When I turned around and saw Aaron standing there and everything just all

of a sudden, all that tension, all that difficulty, all that, it just went away.

I loved my time on the island.

I can't say that enough.

But at the same time, that moment was like waking up from a bad dream.

You know, it was a hard dream.

A really cool, intense, hard dream.

And all of a sudden waking up and realizing, wow, I get to go back to, I

get to see my kids again.

If you were forced to stay there longer, how much longer could you have gone?

I knew I was coming into a bad tide cycle where it was going to be hard to

fish. And I was living at this point exclusively by fishing.

Psychologically, I knew that Christmas was going to be a huge barrier. I did

not even want to think about Christmas.

Thanksgiving I wrote off. I knew, okay, I'm out here for Thanksgiving. I'm going

to miss that big feast and everything and miss my kids. And when I would think

about Christmas, I would just say, okay, I'm not going to live that pain a month

from now in this right now, which is really kind of okay.

Two weeks without even batting an eye. Day 80, no problem.

Christmas was going to be a barrier for me. That was going to be interesting.

Yeah. You know, you guys are all amazing and all have different experiences here.

Dave's story and watching him come out on top, what are your thoughts? What are

you thinking right now as we've all shared all of your stories and gotten

pretty personal here?

Well-deserved.

Yeah. Well-deserved. It's not a feeling of a competition amongst us here. It's

more family, if you will.

So whoever would have won, I think we would have, you know, wished them well.

And, you know, he's a great man, has a great family. He's going to do good

things with it. So well-deserved.

I was really hoping that David would win because from the very beginning he says,

if I win, I'm going to take care of all of you.

I got you all here, right? I got you all together.

That was part of our deal.

Remember we said whoever wins this thing, we got to get everybody together,

right? Remember that? Remember Justin talked about that. You're all here. This

is it.

And as someone who watched it all unfold, it was pretty cool to watch.

Dave, congrats on the win. Just amazing. And the entire cast, you guys were all

outstanding. Congrats on everything.

I mean, what you did was incredible.

I loved watching you. I know that. I know everyone at home loved watching the

adventures of this season of Alone.

So well done. And season three being shot as we speak, and we'll be bringing

that to you soon. But in the meantime, as promised, here's a sneak peek of

season three.

Thanks for watching, everyone.

Look at these rib bones. Maybe I'm sitting in a damn Puma kill zone.

You willing to die out here?

This is much more about the mental than it is about the physical.

One minute, one hour, one day at a time. Now I don't know where I am. It's a

nightmare. Patagonia ripped it out of me. It ripped it out of me quickly as

well. This is not Patagonia!

Whoa,

that's a big cat.

Is he circling me? There you go.