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Welcome back. It is a long way from the Australian Outback to our L.A.

soundstage, where our castaways are tonight surrounded by an audience of

family, friends, and fans.

Let's welcome individually, starting with our two finalists, Tina Wesson,

Colby Donaldson, then the jurors, with whom we are all familiar, the Outback's

resident chef, Keith Fahmy, the ever-so-sweet Elizabeth Velarsky, her

buddy, Roger Bingham, the youngest castaway, 22-year-old Amber Burkett,

Harvard Law student Nick Brown, the controversial...

Jerry Manthe, and the Oso buff, Felicia Callaway.

And reuniting with their former tribe mates for the first time since their

days in the Outback, cheerleader Jeff Varner,

burn victim Michael Scoopin, vegetarian Kimmy Kappenberg, the seven-footer

Mitchell Olsen, Maryland Mad Dog Hershey, Captain Cal Gleason, and the

first to go, Deb Eaton.

Good evening, everybody.

Good evening.

Well, Ms. Wesson, what do you got to say for yourself?

Oh, I just never believed it. Oh, come on. I never believed it.

Never once. I never even thought about the voting process, who might be voting

for who. How could you go these months without thinking about it even one time?

Whenever Kobe and I came back to camp that night after Keith was gone, we felt

like we had won because this is what we wanted to do whenever we joined with

each other in the Alliance. This is what we wanted to do. We wanted to make it to

the last two.

And that was winning for me. Yeah, but we're talking about a difference of

considerable jack between winning and being runner-up. It was not about the

money. Yeah, not about the money.

But it was counted.

If this game had been for free, I would have done it. If there was no prize at

all for free, I would have gone and played this game.

Why'd you do it, Colby?

I mean, why'd you do it? You know, it was a pretty magnanimous gesture.

Oh, why did I choose Tina?

Oh.

Well, I thought you were asking something else.

Well, there are a lot of reasons.

And I've thought about this and tried to come up with something intelligent to

say because I knew I'd be asked this question.

You know, and Tina's right.

And it gets said so many times that I was so driven to win and, you know,

I was so focused. And I was. I was very intense with what I wanted to do.

The game changes for everyone and it did change for me and when Tina and I

Started becoming close and it really started when when we Voted Mitchell off

instead of Keith. That's when we decided to play our game and we did we took this

thing on in to the end and and that night was a victory for us when we got

to go back together and You know the thing is even though When I chose

Tina to go with me into the end

thus making it much more competitive on the final vote.

I've been able to sleep every night since then. I haven't lost one night of

sleep worrying about whether or not I would win because she deserved it, and

that's the beauty of this game.

It doesn't matter how many challenges I won or how many beans and stew I ate all

the time. It doesn't matter because it comes down to the game itself, and

there's a whole lot. There's so many factors involved, and people can't

understand that. I don't expect them to. Keith, how shocked were you when he said

bye to you?

Instead of Tatina.

You know, the last five days of the game were fairly enlightening for me just

from a life standpoint. And I really felt that this game really wasn't about

money. I gained a lot more out of it. I told my two very special people in my

life, Josh and Alicia, my kids, and, of course, Becaccia, my fiancee now, that I

was just going to do the best I could do.

Do the best I could do. And that's all I planned on doing, the best I could do. I

told my mom that. Do the best I could do with the game. But here's a guy sitting

next to you who basically gave up.

$900,000 because he didn't want you to have it.

Well, you know, call Colby a fool, then.

No, you know what? I think that, and I agree with Colby, too. You know, I'll be

honest with you. If I would have probably picked Tina to be in it with

the end with me, if I had won that immunity challenge, I would have

probably voted Colby out, knowing that Tina realistically would have beaten me.

I think Tina, the game changes dramatically.

When we had that flood, the time that flood hit... The game was off. This was

now about survival, living conditions, who you can cohabitate with, and just

the, and being able to build relationships.

And for me, it was, Tina just really deserved it. But you weren't

uncomfortable. I mean, we were listening to some of the things they were talking

about. They said, Keith didn't earn the right. We dragged him along.

He didn't deserve the spot.

We put up with it. We used him. I mean, come on. Trust me.

Colby can play the game mentally better than anybody.

That stuff hurt.

But I think that in the scope of the game, in the scope of the game, when it

comes down to the last three, when a decision like that is made, it's huge.

And you've got to really have some very valuable, good decisions. Tina got four

votes. Jerry, Keith, we can assume.

Who are the other two?

Alicia and Elizabeth?

Is that right?

Why do you Elizabeth?

Yeah, why team because I think Tina just put it all together Everybody said what

was exactly the truth that she had a strategy coming into this She played it

until the very very end and she didn't win any challenges not one you hold it

again So be that he not at all But she had to be doing something right to make

it that far and being the final two and that's strategy and it wasn't about

winning challenges It was about strategizing and that's what this is all

about and I think she deserved it. Let's look

I said when I voted, this was the most difficult vote that I had to make

because the two people sitting there, I had just developed such a respect and

love for in the outback as people.

And I knew Colby's potential is outstanding. And

I also knew that Tina had decided

prior.

to all the voting that, you know, what she was going to do with the money.

I just really took heart, too. I really did. And as we all know, I'm an

emotional person. Yes, you are.

Guess how I voted.

By my heart. We're looking at the Colby voting block right behind you there with

Roger, Amber, and Nick. Why Colby, guys?

Well, at least for me, I mean, if you make it to the final two, it's not...

easy to say who deserved it more and who played the game better. I mean, they did

it differently to get to the final two.

But for me, I just voted for the person who I thought, outside of the context of

the game, who really tried to get to know me.

And at that point in the game, Colby and I had conversated about a number of

things, and I just felt we were related.

Didn't help that he said you'd have been the one sitting there if he wasn't.

Well, I mean, the question played a part of it, but it didn't quite answer it.

Amber, Roger, what about it? Why Colby?

It was a hard decision with Elizabeth. I was going back and forth the whole

entire day. And up until the last minute before, even after I asked my question,

they both gave great answers. You know, the Harley and then the charity, you

know.

Audrey, what about you?

But I'm sorry.

Go ahead. I just, I don't know, I just went with my gut. And I just thought

Colby had, I mean, he had played so awesome.

and won all those challenges. I mean, he won every single immunity besides two, I

think. And I just think that's incredible.

For me, it was a very, very hard vote. And even after I voted for Kobe, which

has been several weeks now, I think, oh, I should have voted for Tina. And then I

think, no, I was right. And I switched back and forth. And I was glad to see it

come down to a four to three vote tonight, because that says a lot about

both of those individuals sitting there tonight.

Colby, is there something wrong with a game? I know Mark Burnett's sitting out

here. He's upset at me for asking this. But is there something wrong with a game

that you dominate so thoroughly and don't win?

No, absolutely not. He's 30 years younger than me. That's why. Me too.

Don't worry about it.

You and I are the same age, so let's not do this. And a lot of it, I mean, I was

very fortunate.

I mean, let's put things into perspective.

If Mike's accident hadn't happened, I wouldn't be sitting in the top two.

That's for sure.

You know, there are a lot of...

A lot of very fortunate instances.

And there's one final thing that we should share for the first time tonight

that nobody knows, which is two weeks before this got started, you weren't

going. That's right.

You weren't on this, were you? No, sir, I was not. I was not picked for the

original show.

You were in reserve.

I was an alternate.

And I was so disappointed, I got to tell you.

And my husband kept saying, honey, they're going to call you back.

And I'm like, they're not going to call me back, honey. They already made their

decision. Three days that went on, and they called me back on Monday.

How good is that?

How good is that?

Hey, sit tight. We're going to come back in just a moment because, as all our

castaways can readily attest, their time in Australia truly was about survival of

the most basic sort. When we come back, we'll talk about the hunger and the

hardships they all endured in the outback. We're back afterwards.

One of the most important survival tips that I can give you is that you must be

agile enough to get up in the tree canopies, just like the koala bears, to

get that precious fruit.

It

worked.

There you go. It worked. It got you on board.

But you said they were cheesy.

You may remember.

You're right.

You're right. I did. But you know what? The other little secret we should tell

is this guy was supposed to be part of the first one and didn't quite make it,

and so they put him on the second one. You were supposed to go ahead to Edward

Pritchard, weren't you? I was.

And actually, I'm glad that I had an opportunity to do the Australian

Outback. The bond I've made with these individuals is lifelong.

It's memorable, and it'll be forever. It's great.

We're going to talk friends and enemies in our next segment. I want to try to

talk, if I could, hunger and hardships.

for a little while because it was tough out there, at least it appeared to us as

we were watching it. Nobody suffered a greater hardship, perhaps, than the

gentleman in the back row. Michael, first of all, show us your hands.

Not bad.

Not bad.

I think any of us who saw this will not soon forget it.

But you said in a funny kind of way it was something good that happened to you.

How come?

Your motivations for going on the show are so much different at the beginning.

And like people have been talking about, you know, what happens just, it

transcends money or prizes or anything. And the spiritual

growth and the family growth, I mean, my kids and my wife and my mom and just

everybody, it's just, it's the greatest experience. And what happened to me

was...

A million bucks couldn't buy it.

I believe it was Colby who said that the environment and the elements were

the dominant factors in this competition.

Would any of you quibble with that?

No. Not at all. Not at all. Was the tube able to translate how tough it was out

there, Jeff? No.

Well, I can't speak for how it was after I left.

And it seemed to get a lot harder after I left. I mean, for us, we were

fortunate at Kucha to be kicking Ogakor's butt.

So we had lots of food.

Can we explain what the names for the tribes were when you were out there?

Kucha is a kangaroo and Ogakor... No, no, no, no, no. What did you call them?

Oh, you mean in the dressing room? Yeah.

Ogaboring.

Hey, Jeff, the game's over, man. The game's over, Jeff.

Still drawing the line.

How bad was the hunger? Nick?

You know, I never ever felt hungry after day one.

But you're just weak.

You get up to do anything and you're weak and you get dizzy. And the day I

got kicked off, I stood up and just got dizzy and couldn't do anything. And that

never really translates on the television.

They weren't as hungry as we were. We weren't as hungry as that. That's the

issue. Kucha never experienced hunger the way that Ogakor had to.

And they didn't experience it, for the people that stayed to the end, until

after I left, at that point when there was a cup of rice left.

And I watched Elizabeth start going through the same things that we had gone

through at the beginning of the game. I watched Nick experience it.

I thought it was kind of funny.

Sweet justice.

Cruella de Vil had nothing on you, darling.

Yes, Mad Dog.

Brian, after a couple days, my stomach was shrinking.

I was losing weight, feeling good. If only I could have stayed

there for a couple more weeks, I'd be wearing a thong.

Mitchell, Mitchell, correct me if I'm wrong, but you were among a few people

here who kind of thought that when the cameras were off, the crew would feed

you, right?

Right, right. I mean, you really thought they'd flip you an apple or a banana? At

least that, right? Especially for me. Look at me. I'm 7 feet tall. I weigh

like a buck ten.

So I think it definitely hit me faster than it hit anybody else. And I know

that that was probably the reason of my exit.

Roger, was that the worst part of it?

Oh, yes, sir. We went one stretch out there for about 34 hours without

anything to eat. And then when we did eat, it was like a third of a cup of

rice. And I remember Thanksgiving Day, Nick had been keeping a calendar, and

all we had to eat Thanksgiving Day was some macadamia nuts. So that'll be a

Thanksgiving I'll never forget.

Boredom was a part of it.

Lack of companionship, shall we say, was another part of it. Kimmy, I had heard a

rumor.

Had heard a rumor you just you can confirm or deny that you were gonna do a

birthday suit bash I said I was going to in survivor tradition, you

know go out and Go in my birthday suit on my birthday and you guys voted me out

four days too soon. Thanks a lot

TMI, Jeff.

You know, you're the one who had asked ahead of time, I heard, if somebody has

sex out there, are you going to tape it? How did you hear this? I asked around.

Nobody did. Nobody even tried. How come?

Well, I mean, I don't... You know, everybody says, who had sex with whom?

Where's the romance?

But to me, I mean, for the life of me, I cannot imagine...

Anybody in that environment being romantically attracted to anybody you're

not eating rest of us are looking at this and saying this is the Baywatch

bunch Be out there with people that are not bathing are not brushing their teeth

are getting on your arms Sleeping in dirt. There's nothing sexy about After

24

hours, and we have some cute women in this game, and I might try and after 24

hours, they're nasty

I was nasty, too. You better add that. Three pairs of underwear.

Three pairs of underwear. You're all nasty.

Go ahead, Mad Dog.

Brian, as you know, I am a retired cop.

So from day one, I designated myself as the prophylactic police.

There were 12 condoms in that first aid kit when I got there, and by God, there

were 12 when I left.

The rest of us are sitting at home and we're watching these lovely young

ladies, which reminds me, which reminds me, Amber, Elizabeth, having watched the

first one and seeing all the attention that Colleen and Jenna got for those

bikinis, what was the deal with those bathing suits?

Strategy. What are you talking about?

That's my line. Strategy or modesty? No, I was just thinking, you know... The

phone, yeah.

I'm going to do challenges in these bathing suits and swimming in these

bathing suits. I didn't want my top falling down anywhere.

And also, you know, you had to go with the shorts.

She had the same idea. You needed the shorts.

You feel a little more comfortable. And I thought bright in case something

drastic would happen. Someone could definitely find me in the pink.

All right. We'll let it go with that. Hey, look, as I promised, we'll talk

friends and enemies.

when we come back in just a little bit. But before we do, Colby, special treat

for you.

Some folks in your hometown of Dallas are celebrating with a huge party

tonight. Here's a live look at how some of the Lone Star State are saluting

their star survivor.

We're back after this.

can survive seven weeks in a dumpster you can do seven weeks in the air pack

standing on your head you

know

we know the answer to who was that mystery woman but let's take a look at

the monitors who is this mystery woman

Back to fight and wait now, aren't you?

Yes, I am, Brian.

Hey, look, Keith alluded to it earlier. There's some relationships here that

have been formed that are going to last for a long time.

A lot of you wanted to be a part of this reunion. But, Deb, you had some

hesitations, didn't you?

You weren't sure you wanted to be a part of this reunion.

How come?

I knew I didn't want to be a part of it.

How come?

Well, I guess nobody really got a chance to know me.

And then I got home, and the press pretty much tore me apart.

It hasn't been fun.

Would you do it again?

No way.

Bad trade? Three days in the outback for your life being exposed? Bad trade. Bad

trade. But...

You can't look back. I mean, it's a done deal. You just got to move forward. It's

just... I guess the hard part is I'm a strong, very strong, independent person,

care about people a lot, and seem to have lost

my belief in myself.

You know, but I will get it back.

You already got it back.

Captain Kell, what about you?

I saw where you said you will never, accent on the never, forgive Jerry for

what she did. Why not?

Isn't life a little too short for that?

I have forgiven Jerry.

I have.

But I don't like her.

Well,

she'll never get a Christmas card from me.

I guess it's your turn, Jerry.

Well, I mean, I don't ever expect in my life to have everyone like me, but...

There's a good bet.

We're going to have breakfast again.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

No, I really don't. And I, you know, the things that happen out there are so

separate from our lives now. And I think for some people, maybe it's easier.

to tell the difference.

And, you know, I feel bad, Kel, I do, that

you harbor resentment and hatred towards me.

But, you know, Jerry, this is the first time you've ever spoken to me.

This is the first time.

That's what today's for, for me. I hope that that's kind of what's been for

everyone the same way.

I've been talking to a lot of people.

Like I've said, I've forgiven you.

You're just not going to get a Christmas card from me.

Let's move on. Alicia, you sent a Christmas card to Kimmy?

Come on now. We had the head bob and the finger point and everything else.

You sent a Christmas card? I'm famous for that finger wave. Well, you know,

there's a couple of people who saw it.

We'll refresh everyone's memory. Roll the tape, Al.

It's a good thing just to break it up.

But you are the sexy one about the chickens, not me.

So do not yell at me about the chickens.

You can get as emotionally attached as you want.

Because the only reason you have to get it is because we care about your

feelings.

But don't yell at me, sweetheart. Don't wave your finger at my face.

You want me to say it in your face?

I'm saying it to your face right now.

I'm tired of you. You can shake it.

In this corner.

Well, wait a second now. She called you.

Why didn't you call her back?

Because out of everything that's happened to me in this game, on this

show, with all of these people, that's the one really negative thing.

And at that time and what I was doing at that point, I was not ready to confront

that. I didn't want to confront the negative thing. I was having too much

fun with all the positive things.

And so I didn't call her back.

It's all good.

Kimmy and I, like Kel said, she's not going to get a Christmas card from me.

We're never going to be, like, best buddies. I mean, we wouldn't have got

along no matter where we were. But you know what?

These 16 people are so incredibly amazing. And for me to not hold close to

my heart everything that I've been through, including... Gotta love you,

Kimmy. Getting that whole episode with Kimmy, I mean...

I can't walk away with this harboring ill feelings toward anybody or anything.

We like that.

Amber, you said that you were good at hiding the fact that you got annoyed

easily. Why'd you hide it?

Because I didn't want to make it obvious to anybody because then they might hold

a grudge against me and vote me out earlier, you know?

Why would you want to show somebody that you're annoyed with them? You want them

to think that you like them.

Jerry would say that's just being honest.

Yep. And that's, for me, that's what I found to be...

The way to keep my sanity in that situation was to express it and get it

out. And I guess I just, I expected it as well for other people to do the same

to me. If somebody was irritated with me, I would have been perfectly fine

with them bringing it up in my face, getting it out on the table. Jerry, you

saw what happened, didn't you?

We tried that.

Roger went the opposite route. Roger, I believe I read that you said you went in

there attempting to...

Not be mean, but be straightforward and couldn't bring yourself to do it.

Well, I think I was pretty straightforward. I went in there with

the intentions of trying to play the game. And that's the reason I've got a

lot of respect for these two people that were in the finals here tonight.

They were able to do something that I wasn't able to do, and that is actually

play the game. And I don't know that that's really such a bad thing in the

long run. And I was satisfied with the place that I finished.

When I got off the plane, first thing I told my wife, I said, I didn't do

anything out there that I was ashamed of.

That's nice to hear. And Keith, I can't let... All right, we'll take a break.

When we come back, we're going to consider how the Outback changed

everyone and the life lessons learned. But first, we take a look at what's

happening tonight in Miami.

And in college, I even got on a bull or two.

Way to

go,

cowboy.

That wasn't your first rodeo, I take it? No. No? No, sir.

Look, I've been asking a lot of questions, but some of the good folks

who are sitting out here have some, and so we'll ask this gentleman to voice our

first question from the audience. Yes, sir.

This is for Roger. How did you get the nerve to jump off that cliff into that

water?

That was a good move. Well, I definitely was not going to let my other tribe

members down, and for me personally, that was probably the hardest thing that

I've ever had to do in my lifetime.

I can't swim.

The other thing was you didn't see, but we actually pushed it.

Yes, we have another question over here. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, my question is for

Elizabeth. As a fellow Rhode Islander, there's some pretty scary and amazing

wildlife out there. What was your most memorable or maybe scariest encounter?

Oh, gosh.

I guess my most scary encounter every day kind of happened at night when you'd

have to use the latrine.

I'm not going to play tough. I was scared to death. Because you know what

it is? It's your imagination out there that gets you. Because you know they

are. You see them during the day. You see a snake. You see a croc. You see

everything out there.

And when it's your time to be alone with the dark, that's when I got scared.

Because every noise, you're like, you think the worst.

I guess that would be it in my most honest moment.

Brian, I would escort her to the bathroom every night. I would, like,

Alicia would go with us, and I'd pinch him on the leg at the bottom and, like,

scare them.

He was the worst.

The worst.

Did you hear that?

And, Brian, my most scariest encounter has got to be Jerry.

You know, you know, I'm not going to belabor the hygiene thing, but can I get

a count? How many toothbrushes were out there?

So what did we do brush our teeth with sand or just don't

You kind of get your shirt and your shirt. Yeah, you wipe off the plaque.

The plaque wipes. Nice. The daily plaque wipes. Nice.

The nice pine trees. This is why people are nasty. And a good blade, so it cut

pine. Although, wait a minute. This is why there's no. Nick, wait a minute. Can

we get back to the nasty thing for a second? Nick wants to say Elizabeth and

I were so nasty, but Nick kissed me right on the lips. Yes, he did. Hello,

did you know?

It's a long story to that, but yeah.

Can you say it in less than 30 seconds?

Right after the first time we brushed our teeth.

Alicia was like, I'm so clean, I'm so fresh, who wants to kiss me? I said, and

Labanon was like, hello.

Jerry, why didn't you try that?

We didn't have a toothbrush.

We were doing the plaque wipe. I would have kissed him anyway.

Not for like a try-in.

We thought something was wrong with you. You said...

There was no distractions out there. How could you say there's no distractions to

these ladies sitting here?

No, it was distracting. Okay.

Early on more so than later in the game. Oh.

No, I mean, just because I finally just determined it was time to get focused.

Got you.

I'm not going to pursue it. Yes,

ma'am.

First of all, on behalf of Reebok, congratulations, Tina.

My question is for Michael. Michael, when you hunted and killed the boar, why

did you put the blood around your eyes?

Yeah, Michael.

Why? Psycho. Tell us all. We want to know why you did that. It is on the

actual tape, but when I said it, everyone forgot about it once I did

that. But I didn't want to tell the other tribe that even catching a boar

was possible. They kept saying, we've got to tell the other tribe. We've got

to get the advantage.

And I kept saying no, but I got outvoted six to one.

So I said, fine, if we're going to tell him, this is how we should go to the

next challenge. And I put the blood on my face as kind of a joke, saying

instead of wearing the war paint that we sometimes wore, we would go to the next

challenge wearing the pig's blood, and that would be the way we'd tell him.

Yeah, I was going to do that. It was just meant to be a joke for Kimmy.

He's a little naughty. Yeah.

Let me, Deb has already said she wouldn't do it again.

Mitchell, what about you?

I mean, weren't you overmatched? Is that fair to say? I wouldn't do... I can put

myself back in those shoes, and I can realize how much I suffered. I could

never go through it again. Honestly, for me, every day I kept thinking, when,

when am I going to be leaving, you know? And as I made that final walk to tribal

council, I had no idea I was leaving, and it was a huge shock to me, but a

welcome one at that point.

Sure. Yeah, and I'd also like to say that afterwards, I was able to travel

with Deb.

And I really got to know the Deb that nobody else did and found that she's a

wonderful and amazing woman.

Definitely.

As Mad Dog has so often

reminded us, this was a G-A-M-E, after all.

But as some of you have noted, it's pretty life-changing, too.

Keith, you...

I've already gone through the change of life.

Forgive us if we don't pursue that, all right?

Keith, you talked about it being a cleansing experience.

Cleansed of what? How so?

Well, first, I have to say that Jerry and I are in counseling.

We're working out those issues.

You know, I'm now 41 years old, and I'm divorced.

have two wonderful children and I've had failures and I've had successes and

stuff. And the last few days for me really enabled me to just reflect.

I mean, how many times in your life do you really have an opportunity to sit

and do nothing but think with no sounds, no one to talk to you or nothing? And

those last few days is very, a lot of solitude, especially me. I went up top

this big hill and just hung out up there and watched the eagles fly.

It was a big deal for me. It gave me an opportunity to say I'm sorry for a lot

of things to myself and say, let's do some things better. So for me, the game

kind of stopped at that point.

I was on to a whole new game, all about life.

We're going to take a break right here and come back and do some more business.

We'll also let you in on the secret of the next survivor when the reunion

continues, but also a quick hand for our live band over here with David Hudson

and the Didgeridoo.

Thank you.

Hey, look, the mud is barely dry on the shoes of these castaways. In fact, I'm

not sure the sweat is. But plans are already underway for the next survivor

challenge coming this fall.

And if you thought snakes and crocs were intimidating, wait to see what's waiting

for the next 16 survivors deep in the heart of Africa.

Jeff Probst has a preview.

It is the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of humanity.

This is Africa.

And soon 16 strangers will embark on the greatest adventure of their lives.

They will voluntarily be stranded in this land of stunning beauty, incredible

vistas, and breathtaking scenery.

But don't be fooled. It is also a land of inherent dangers, filled with exotic

and deadly animals.

But it is not impossible to thrive out here.

The Maasai have survived for centuries by simply learning to adapt to their

environment. By becoming one with the land, they have learned to live in one

of the most hostile settings on Earth.

How will these 16 new survivors fare in this dangerous wilderness? And more

importantly, how will they survive each other?

The continent may have changed, but the game is still the same.

Outwit, outplay, outlast, until only one remains and emerges as the sole

survivor.

That African adventure begins this fall. And your advice to those people going to

Africa, Colby, would be?

Expect the absolute worst.

Honestly, yeah.

You're going to be really shocked if you don't.

It's not funny. Good advice.

Let me ask a question. We've now gone about 53 minutes into this program, and

we haven't made any comparisons between your group and the prior group.

Intentionally. But one thing did strike me. The first group had a series of

philosophical discussions.

about religion, about children out of wedlock, about sexual orientation, about

family, a variety of subjects.

Your group never did.

At least we never saw it. We didn't see it.

There was just so much other stuff going around.

No,

I can honestly say as well, we had discussions, but they weren't for the

sake of having them either. Like when we had them, they just happened.

And if they were caught, they were caught. And if they weren't, they

weren't. Spirited discussions?

Yes. Cujo had a two-hour spirited discussion on farting my first night.

We did.

I don't think we can say that. I think we have to say bilabial fricative on

television.

Thank you. Yeah, this one's worse.

Hey, Brian, you focused a lot on a lot of the negative and fighting

relationships that went on, but some of the relationships that were formed as a

result of the show, I mean, I never knew Keith Fahmy from Detroit, and I never

even met him out in the Outback, and I never met Tina out there, and those are

two of the best friends that I have from the show. It's just the bond that we

create as a part of the show. I mean, there's a couple isolated fights that

went on, but I mean, everybody. And we know Roger and Elizabeth.

Everybody here. Look at these two. Jeff and Alicia. They're inseparable.

Virtually inseparable.

Kell and Jerry.

And Tina, you were going to tell me, you told me during the commercial, you had a

quick story to tell about Mr. Verner back here. Yes, I do. I started out

really thinking he was a player. You know, he was this sweet guy who brought

this coloring book to give to charity, and he was this really compassionate

guy. I later found out the night that we voted him off at tribal council, he

suspected he was going to go.

Well, we had caught... 13 fish that day. We were all going to get a fish of our

very own. We had the fish. We did not get a chance to cook them. So we put

them on a stringer in the water. We came back that night starving, going to eat

our fish. They were gone. And we said, the crocs or the alligators have eaten

our fish.

Jeff, we love you.

You dog,

you.

Hey, look, as we head to commercial break, what did you do on your vacation?

Show us, Mad Dog.

Show us what you learned. Get it.

Break it on down, Mom.

Yeah.

We're going to take a break right here, but as we head to commercial, Elizabeth,

here's something you'll want to see. Take a look at what's happening tonight

in your hometown of Boston, where this big survivor party is underway,

celebrating the achievement of one of Boston's own.

Basically, for quite some time now,

All I can think about in the car is being a survivor, and there are a couple

of things that I think decisions can be made on.

Not potholes.

We've only got about 30 seconds left.

Tina, you had the first word. You get the last one.

Just answer us one thing.

We saw the sweet motherly Tina out there, and we saw the one who was

described by someone in this crowd as ruthless.

Which is the real Tina?

In the middle.

Little of both.

Got to have a good balance in life.

And that's what got you the million?

A lot of luck.

A lot of luck got a million.

Congratulations. Thank you so much.

Tonight was the first time in a long time that these 16 survivors have all

been together, but it won't be the last. They'll be joining me tomorrow on The

Early Show, where, among other things, we'll present Tina with her million

-dollar check for becoming the one survivor who managed to outwit, outplay,

and outlast in the Outback.

Exactly why the actions of all these people have captivated so many remains a

point of debate, a mystery perhaps better left to psychologists.

We only know they've played a game amid the worst of elements with millions

watching and millions judging their character.

that they've emerged with as much dignity as they have is no small feat.

On behalf of these 16 now familiar people, thank you very much for being a

part of this reunion.

In every way, the tribe has spoken.

I'm Bryant Gumbel. Good night.