1 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,200 This program is live captioned by Red Bee Media. 2 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,760 Good evening and welcome to the Alone Australia Season Two Reunion. 3 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,360 I'm Hamish Blake, 4 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,960 and I'm here tonight to see if I can survive a whole hour in a TV studio 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,400 with only minimal snacks. 6 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,960 (LAUGHS) 7 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,240 And I can only bring 10 essential people. 8 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,720 I thought on behalf of all of us that have loved the show 9 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:42,320 and have a lot of questions, 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,080 I would bring the participants from Alone Australia Season Two. 11 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,120 Tonight, we're going to be talking with them about their time 12 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:49,960 on the land and comparing their strategies. 13 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,240 And we've also got lots of never-before-seen footage 14 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:53,240 and some massive revelations. 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:54,320 They got 10 deer! 16 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,160 No, they didn't. 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:55,400 (LAUGHS) 18 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,600 Tonight, we're going to get the good stuff. 19 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:58,640 All trout, no eels. 20 00:00:58,640 --> 00:00:59,840 (LAUGHS) 21 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:01,800 I am genuinely a superfan of Alone. 22 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,200 I'm thrilled to be here. 23 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,080 They have just watched the final episode. 24 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:06,760 They've just finished watching it together. 25 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,920 Tonight, we finally get the chance to compare their experiences. 26 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,160 I can't wait to hear what they think 27 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,320 and how they feel about the final result. 28 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaking of the final result, 29 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,880 let's start with a massive round of applause. 30 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:20,680 Krzysztof, congratulations, mate. 31 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,360 (APPLAUSE) 32 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:23,800 Thanks. 33 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,880 Well, done. 34 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,640 Mate, it was probably the most unorthodox way to win. 35 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,320 What's it like watching it back? 36 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:31,840 Uh, definitely a unique experience. 37 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,440 I was not expecting it. 38 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,320 I thought I was gonna be medically pulled and that was it. 39 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,720 It was...weird, surreal. 40 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:41,480 It was...weird, surreal. 41 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,520 It still hasn't sunk in. 42 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,800 From where I sat, I thought probably one of the standout features 43 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:48,560 of your experience was your positivity. 44 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:56,080 And your positive mindset. 45 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:00,400 And we do have a little bit of a, little bit of a clip to watch 46 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,320 for how that went throughout the series. 47 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:02,600 (SING-SONG) 48 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,920 Another beautiful day in paradise! 49 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,440 (SINGING TO THE TUNE OF 'I'M ON MY WAY' BY THE PROCLAIMERS) 50 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:15,600 # We're on our way to launch another boat and hopefully 51 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,040 # Catch lots of fish and lots of fish 52 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:18,280 Wow. 53 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,800 Anyone, if they ever get the chance come out here and check out 54 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:22,640 this unknown location. 55 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:23,560 It's stunningly beautiful. 56 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:23,800 Mmm-mmm-mmm! 57 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:24,840 Overall, life is good. 58 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,560 (SINGING) 59 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,920 # I'm making mountain so-oup 60 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:31,880 Nothing special, but it's better than nothing. 61 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:32,960 Who's the camera love? 62 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,720 The camera loves you! 63 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,520 There's snow on them mountains right there. 64 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,400 This place is just so cool, seriously! 65 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:46,160 This is Krzysztof and I am officially... 66 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:47,400 ..ordering a pizza. 67 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,200 And you thought I was gonna tap. 68 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:51,760 Not happening. 69 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:55,440 Mate, was that your strategy going in? 70 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,800 To go, "I will always try and veer positively"? 71 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,760 I don't think that was a strategy. 72 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,160 I think that's just me. 73 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:01,680 Yeah, right. 74 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,360 The other thing that you talked about on the show 75 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,160 was your neurodiversity. 76 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,680 And it resonated with viewers. 77 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,360 Was it something that you're really glad you talked about? 78 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,720 Yeah, I was a little big afraid and a little bit apprehensive 79 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,400 about what the reaction would be. 80 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,120 But now that I've spoken about it, I feel really good. 81 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,080 The feedback that I've gotten from people 82 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,720 has just been nothing but support. 83 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,480 There's people that have reached out that are friends going, 84 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:30,120 "Yep, me too. 85 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,800 "I'm grateful that there's someone out there talking about it." 86 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:33,800 Yeah, it's been nice. 87 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:35,520 I think it's an awesome thing. 88 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,240 What is it that happens when you're out there by yourself for so long 89 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,800 that makes you want to face those things and want to open up 90 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,800 and then share them with the camera? 91 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,400 It is interesting in conversation because... 92 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,800 In the survival field they talk about you know, 93 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:50,240 the three minutes without air. 94 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,160 You know, the three hours without shelter. 95 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:53,160 Three days without water. 96 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,720 But they go into, obviously, three weeks without food and then they go 97 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,080 into three months without companionship. 98 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,600 And when you're out there alone for the period of time that some 99 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,600 of these guys spent there, you're looking to talk to somebody. 100 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,640 And you're looking to express the things that you really feel 101 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,200 like you need to talk about. 102 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,080 And you might sit there in silence for half an hour around a campfire, 103 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,600 and then something will come up. 104 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,000 And I think that's sort of what gets captured. 105 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,440 The fire can often bring out honesty and openness 106 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:21,800 that a person possibly can't. 107 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:22,280 Yeah. 108 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,200 When we're in real life, we've got yeah we've got things... 109 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:26,040 To distract us. 110 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:26,320 Yeah. 111 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:26,640 Mmm. 112 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:26,880 Beautiful. 113 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,680 Suzan, we can only have one winner. 114 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,080 What was your reaction when you, because you're only fresh off seeing 115 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:33,160 the exactly the placing. 116 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:34,480 You've just seen the episode. 117 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,480 What was your reaction? 118 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,320 it's pretty difficult, 119 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,560 because there's, you know, one day between. 120 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,560 I was really pleased to see Krzysztof... 121 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,840 ..there at the end. 122 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:49,960 Yeah, yeah, that made me happy. 123 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,160 Thank you. 124 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:53,160 Mmm. 125 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,000 Um, it made me sort of second guess did I make the right decision 126 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,800 but then you know I've got to go back and remember that on minimal 127 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,760 exertion I'm getting this really big heavy heart rate and something 128 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,120 was just not right there. 129 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,760 And I really made the call 130 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,400 because my body was saying, "I need something. 131 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,600 because my body was saying, "I need something." 132 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,160 And it needed nutrition. 133 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:14,600 Yeah, we could tell, yeah. 134 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,200 Yeah, it really, it really played out because twelve hours 135 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,720 after I left I was in the emergency department. 136 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:20,520 Were you really? 137 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,640 Of a big hospital with a drip in my arm and my heart being monitored. 138 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,280 So, I made the right call. 139 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:26,560 You... 140 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:27,560 At the right time. 141 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:28,880 You obviously, yeah, you made... 142 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,040 Absolutely the right call. 143 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,400 And like so many people on the show, we saw you, your mind was so strong 144 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,720 going right up to that point where your bod was just like, 145 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,320 "Hey, I've been eating weeds for"... 146 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:39,840 "63 days. 147 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:41,240 "Could you please feed me?" 148 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:41,440 Exactly. 149 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,680 There was still one other person in contention 150 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:53,400 in that final episode. 151 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,040 Our Swedish model/mountain man/ hunter/provider/man mountain, 152 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:55,720 Andreas. 153 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,360 You mentioned in the last episode, 154 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,840 when, I remember on the beach they came to get you and said, 155 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,240 "Are you proud of yourself?" 156 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:03,560 And you're like, "Not yet." 157 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:04,680 Are you proud yet? 158 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:05,800 Not really, I think. 159 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:06,080 Really? 160 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,920 I think, I think, no I think if you're a If you're a competitive 161 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,440 person and you have a certain goal in mind and if you don't 162 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:14,200 fulfil that goal. 163 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,520 I think I did OK. 164 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:20,680 And, that, that's about it. 165 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,680 Like, I think there's things I could have done different, probably. 166 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,080 Um, a couple of things. 167 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:25,280 Interesting. 168 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:27,520 What would you do different? What are they? 169 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:29,080 Oh, just minor things, I think. 170 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,760 I think I would be - if I knew what I know now 171 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,840 I would probably be a bit more passive. 172 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:37,840 The only vegetable matter I really ate were the mamaku fronds... 173 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:38,160 Mm-hmm. 174 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,400 And that would be a good forty-five-minute walk to get them. 175 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:51,760 This is the hard thing I think for viewers to understand 176 00:06:51,760 --> 00:07:01,040 because to understand how long an 1.5-hour round trip is every day, 177 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,720 that's an 1.5-hour episode - not a very exciting one. 178 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,880 But, that's the really diff - difficult thing for us to understand 179 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,920 at home just how much effort is being put into stuff. 180 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,640 Does anyone else feel like they spent too much energy, 181 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,200 I mean aside from deer which we'll get to later in the show. 182 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,960 But too much energy foraging for such a small return? 183 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:19,200 Yep. 184 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:19,880 Yeah. 185 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:20,840 Yeah? 186 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:21,200 Yep. 187 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,480 Is that universal feel? 188 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,600 Is that universal feel? 189 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:24,920 Even, even like for fire. 190 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:26,840 Like it's not just foraging for food. 191 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,200 But it could be foraging for wood, materials, bedding. 192 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,160 Yep The things you think you need. 193 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,480 And you just - and you get fixated on them as well. 194 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,720 And so, all of a sudden you've realised you've just spent three 195 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,080 days fluffing up your bed. 196 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,200 It's like - really? 197 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,640 But that makes you more comfortable and it puts 198 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:43,880 you in a good mindset. 199 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:44,840 It did but... 200 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,360 Or firewood, you've got three weeks of firewood ready to go but you've 201 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:49,960 just passed out asleep, you know? 202 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:50,360 It's like... 203 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,000 So, it seems like, I mean that, it's a game of constant trade-offs. 204 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:54,240 Mmm. 205 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,000 Like it sounds like minute to minute you're just always 206 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:57,800 evaluating the trade-off. 207 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,000 Would that be a fair thing to say? 208 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:00,360 Yep. 209 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:00,520 Absolutely. 210 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,360 I mean, Andreas like you know, it's so easy for us on the couch 211 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:05,440 to watch the episodes. 212 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,480 It's obviously so much different when you're out there and you're 213 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,680 just always making the best decision that you can in the moment. 214 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,360 You dragged in some big fish. 215 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,600 To borrow a term that you were very fond of, some stonkers. 216 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:16,880 Yeah. 217 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,240 Oh, look at that stonker! 218 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,920 Can you give us the dictionary definition of a stonker? 219 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:21,520 No idea. 220 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,120 I don't actually even know - 221 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,840 I don't actually know where I picked up the word. 222 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:26,600 It's a feeling. 223 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:27,440 It's a feeling! 224 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:31,800 And it was, it was, my first thought when I heard it was I can't remember 225 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,800 saying it and where, where did I pick up that word? 226 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,320 Um, I think it was quite fitting - like I like it, but... 227 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,920 Well, I mean, it, it's probably the raw emotion of catching a fish. 228 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,640 And there weren't that many fish caught in the series. 229 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,520 I mean Tamika you were another person like your sound effects 230 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:49,000 when you caught a fish. 231 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:49,440 I know! 232 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:50,040 I know! 233 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:50,920 It was like... 234 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:51,080 (GRUNTS) 235 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:51,720 (LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY) 236 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,000 You can't fake that stuff! 237 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:53,880 I know! 238 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,600 How did you feel watching it back? 239 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,120 But not really... 240 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:01,640 No. 241 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:02,200 I mean... 242 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:03,200 It's a feeling! 243 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,280 That was the most joyous moment out there! 244 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:06,400 Was that first fish. 245 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,000 It's, it's, you can't stop it. 246 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,920 Oh mate, we all felt it. 247 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,440 We were like - 248 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,480 this is the most primal noise a human has ever made! 249 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,160 Sheer relief and or it comes out as stonkers! 250 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,600 We all know like hindsight is twenty-twenty and it's, 251 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,760 I'm front and centre with this. 252 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,240 It's very easy to sit at home and go, 253 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,120 "Oh, what about this? What about that?". 254 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,000 "Oh, what about this? What about that?" 255 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,800 But is there any, are there any big ones where people would have done 256 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,080 something differently given their, given their chance again? 257 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:38,880 Not tap out? 258 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:42,720 Maybe not think too much about, because I found what I did was think 259 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,080 too much about all the things I couldn't do. 260 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:45,400 Interesting. 261 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:46,720 Like, you can't have eel. 262 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,120 You can't cut you know, 263 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,240 a tree that's this big or this small. 264 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:50,520 Yep. 265 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:51,360 Or take this. 266 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,560 You start to get caught up in that. 267 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:56,480 And then you kind of think, "Well, what can I do?" 268 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,480 It's interesting, it comes back to that positivity thing doesn't it? 269 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:00,320 Yeah, it does. 270 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,600 Of what, like - you're thinking of the, what can you do 271 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,040 or the things that are out of your control. 272 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:06,320 Yeah. 273 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,120 And I think yeah, I just kind of got really caught up in that. 274 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,880 Alright, in a similar vein if we sort of said, 275 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:18,480 "Alright, we've got the bus ready to go and you can all go back in 276 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,400 "tomorrow, hands up who'd go back in." 277 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:20,920 Same place? 278 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,840 Wow, OK, so we've got, we've got eight... 279 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:25,640 Yeses, one no and one conditional. 280 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:26,760 Conditional, yeah, definitely conditional. 281 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,640 So... 282 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,360 So, you're saying that you wouldn't want your location again? 283 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:32,200 What's the condition? 284 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:32,680 Absolutely not. 285 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:34,080 Had enough of that beach? 286 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,200 Yeah, never going to see it ever again. 287 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:37,600 Are you sure about that? 288 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:38,120 Yeah, 100%. 289 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:38,920 Ah, well look. 290 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,920 That was the sort of the people towards the very end. 291 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,720 From those final people to the very first to go on just night two, 292 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,120 in episode two, we had our first medical extraction. 293 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,080 And it was very scary to watch. 294 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:51,480 Mike, let's just remind everyone. 295 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,480 I'm sure you probably don't want to go through this again 296 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,080 but let's remind everyone how full-on 297 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,400 that night was for you. 298 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:57,960 (LABOURED BREATHING) 299 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:58,800 Are you there? 300 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,080 I've got these pains in my chest. 301 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,280 How are you going? 302 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:07,360 Man, I'm scared actually. 303 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,840 Yep, yeah I could tell on the phone. 304 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,920 So, I'll just check your blood pressure there. 305 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,120 In the, it would just come really intensely. 306 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,160 How old are you? 307 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:23,360 Sixty. 308 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,280 It would be a pretty scary experience. 309 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:54,240 You did the right thing, Mike, to call us. 310 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:55,520 MIKE: I've got three kids. 311 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,640 Yep. 312 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:00,880 I thought I was going to die. 313 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,480 I really thought I was going to die. 314 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,280 And it's not my time. 315 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,000 It's not my time to die. 316 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,760 Mike, you're laughing and crying watching it back. 317 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,640 Yeah. 318 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,760 It's still obviously very, very real and raw. 319 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,200 Have your kids seen that? 320 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:35,840 Ah, yeah, they have, yeah. 321 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:37,280 family saw that? 322 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,440 Well, they said they're so proud that I did the right thing. 323 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:40,760 Totally. 324 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,000 I did, I did do what I did on the night, yeah. 325 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,200 Yeah And we're so proud of you too. 326 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,320 You went and got checked out in hospital. 327 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,040 What was, what was the problem? 328 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,960 The problem was that I, like a lot of us here, 329 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:54,880 we'd sort of fattened up for Christmas. 330 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:55,160 (LAUGHS) 331 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,960 We'd tried to put a little bit more weight on prior to going out. 332 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,520 Well, fat mainly as a, as a source of food down the track. 333 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:04,920 And in that process, I put on 13 kilos. 334 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:06,320 And my metabolism reacted adversely. 335 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:07,120 Mmm. 336 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,640 And the pain I actually had was simply reflux. 337 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:11,240 Right. 338 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:12,280 Yeah. 339 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,200 But you'd obviously never had that before. 340 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:14,760 No, no. 341 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,680 Not like that and uh, and the sequence of events sort 342 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:24,720 of transpired over nearly two hours. 343 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,720 The pain came, it dissipated, it came back 45 minutes later. 344 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:28,520 I sat upright. 345 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,960 And on the third occasion, it became quite intense. 346 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,480 And that's when I started thinking, 347 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,880 "Wow, could this be something more?" 348 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,400 If this is a heart attack, I might not see my kids again. 349 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,840 The fourth time it happened, 350 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,040 it was so intense and I just shot bolt upright clenching my chest 351 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,560 and went, "No, I can't. 352 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:53,880 "I've got to ring up and say I'm having these terrible pains 353 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:54,720 "in my chest." 354 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:55,800 Mate, good on you. 355 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,120 You did the right thing. 356 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,920 You were out there with a sat phone and GPS for that exact reason. 357 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:01,240 Yeah. 358 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,640 It's interesting to see how far you can go. 359 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,360 But not at any cost and you know, well done. 360 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,080 Look everyone's Alone experience is really different as we're hearing 361 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,560 but something that is very important for every single person um no matter 362 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:15,320 how long or short their stay is, everyone is shelter. 363 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,920 how long or short their stay is, everyone's shelter. 364 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,800 We want to have a quick look here at all of this season's shelters. 365 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,960 I'll show you my building style. 366 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:29,800 Oh, you, you walk around and you, you pick up a bit of wood. 367 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,400 You look for a hole. 368 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,640 And you put it in. 369 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:41,640 So that's the first natural building course I'll be conducting. 370 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,240 Alright, some great shelters. 371 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,680 Rick, um, there was some online querying I think as to the... 372 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,400 (LAUGHS) 373 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,000 ..the sturdiness of your shelter? 374 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,680 I believe there was someone who went so deep - 375 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,560 there were people going like, "Is this the most... 376 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,240 "..solid shelter we've ever seen here?" 377 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,160 But was that part of your plan? 378 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,040 It certainly was, to a fair degree. 379 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,960 There were probably three main reason I kept mine quite simplistic. 380 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,520 And one of them is definitely the light level. 381 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,280 Where my shelter was back in there, it was dark. 382 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,720 I'd have to put a headlamp on to get batteries for the camera, 383 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:50,560 whatever it was. 384 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:52,680 I couldn't find a sunnier position within proximity 385 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:54,120 so sunlight was a factor. 386 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:54,680 Yeah, right. 387 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,360 So, letting a lot of natural light in was important? 388 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:58,480 Absolutely. One I underestimated. 389 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,600 The lack of sunlight was something that hit pretty heavy. 390 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:06,960 The other one was being able to lie down if I was to hear 391 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,240 an animal, a deer or a possum moving around, 392 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,480 I would like to be able to just roll left and right 393 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,080 and see potentially what it was. 394 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:16,480 Yeah. That makes total sense. 395 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,920 I also, driftwood um, to, to make anything structural 396 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,120 around me, driftwood cove as I called it. 397 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,960 It was about four hundred metres away and there was a massive big log 398 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,720 that you would need to climb over to bring it back. 399 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,640 And I didn't want to waste that energy bringing it all the way back 400 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,680 so whilst I could have put a bit more around it, 401 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,280 it predominantly kept me pretty dry. 402 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,960 All in all, I wouldn't change it a great deal. 403 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,200 Tamika, on the other end of the spectrum 404 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,400 of not wanting to use too much driftwood, 405 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,160 you might have used all the driftwood in New Zealand. 406 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,240 I think I did. 407 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,600 It was, it was an absolute work of art. 408 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,840 ..It was a work of art your shelter. 409 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,040 Someone tweeted, "Tamika shelter looks so good it could be put up 410 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,600 "for rent for at least $600 a week if it was in Sydney." 411 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:00,040 It probably would have, yeah. 412 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,960 Um, did you, did you get very attached to your home? 413 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,040 "Attached" is one word. 414 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:05,120 "Obsessed" might be another... 415 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:06,240 Yeah, right, so but... 416 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,160 It became a bit of a focus. 417 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:08,680 That's good. 418 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,880 It was kind of like my daily meditation. 419 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,120 "Oh, that bit of wood there. That will go home with me." 420 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,840 I, it was something to do 421 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,400 I, it was something to do 422 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,800 apart from being everything that a shelter should be. 423 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,440 I probably could have saved a bit of energy. 424 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,560 But that's interesting, though, that it became - 425 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,800 like everyone needed stuff to pass the time. 426 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:27,880 And that became yours. 427 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:28,680 That was mine. 428 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:29,800 That became your project. 429 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:36,440 Yeah. 430 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,320 Alright, this may not work but who, 431 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,880 who here if you couldn't have your shelter, who's 432 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:41,840 would you have chosen? 433 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,000 Alright, so Andreas, you can't have your shelter, 434 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:45,480 who's shelter are you picking? 435 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,400 In my location or a different location? 436 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,400 Ah, in your location. 437 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:49,000 Mmm, Krzysztof's. 438 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,600 He had a really good shelter. 439 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,520 I liked his insulation of the walls. 440 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:53,800 Is that a common answer? 441 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,000 I'm seeing a lot of nodding for Krzysztof's. 442 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:57,160 Tamika's is good, fireplace. 443 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:58,480 You, Jack, would go Tamika's? 444 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:00,440 Yeah, yeah. 445 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:01,560 Anyone else? 446 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,800 Any other options apart from Tamika and Krzysztof's? 447 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:04,600 I, I'd go... 448 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,960 I liked Rick's. 449 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,120 Rick's or Jack's, yeah. 450 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:12,520 Yeah, I like the minimal. 451 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,480 Well, I mean amazing shelters but there is so much more 452 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:19,240 to talk about. 453 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:20,880 We've got some incredible bushcraft stuff 454 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,480 that we want to get to. 455 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,000 Some of the stuff that didn't make it to the show, we'll discuss. 456 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,720 And I also really want to talk to you guys about the biggest foe. 457 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,440 It wasn't weather, it wasn't hunger. 458 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,160 Give everyone at home a little bit of a hint. 459 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:35,080 "Get off me!" 460 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:35,640 It's cryptic. 461 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:36,840 But we will talk about that next. 462 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,400 Welcome back to the Alone Australia Season Two Reunion. 463 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,120 Here in the genuine wild. 464 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:58,360 Now, no matter which version of Alone you do in the world, 465 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:06,200 it is a tough, tough competition. 466 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,160 But, whereas on the US version there's say like a one-in-1,000 467 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,440 chance a bear might bite you, for our participants in New Zealand 468 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,640 this year there was a one hundred percent chance that a thousand 469 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,320 sandflies would bite you per minute. 470 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,200 Everyone, look at the monitor I just want to see if this triggers you. 471 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:21,680 Does this...? 472 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:22,000 (LAUGHTER) 473 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,320 Does that take you back? 474 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:25,480 Even - even Rick's, Rick's got it going. 475 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:26,600 Ricks got it going. 476 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:27,880 Alright, we'll take it off. 477 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,040 We'll take it off. 478 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,280 Just because even, I'm getting annoyed by that and I wasn't there. 479 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:35,200 Imagine the worst time. 480 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,000 You've been attacked by mozzies and times it by like twenty. 481 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,800 That's what these sandflies are like. 482 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,600 They're just relentless. 483 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,600 (GROANS) 484 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,320 Learning to deal with them is an experience in itself. 485 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,240 Like they are ferocious, shitty, I think I hate them more 486 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,480 than I hate mosquitos. 487 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,520 Midges, these sandflies. 488 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,720 Oh, it's a challenge keeping it together. 489 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:08,320 I think they'd get even the most hardened Buddhist monk to crack. 490 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,680 Where did they come from? 491 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,840 What do they eat when I'm not here? 492 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,520 Ahh! 493 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,920 The god of the forest had a daughter - 494 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,480 she was the goddess of death. 495 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,080 And she sent the Namu Namu, the sandflies, to this land and this 496 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:32,360 lake to protect it from people. 497 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:37,520 Yeah, that was a pretty good job. 498 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,640 I think. 499 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,000 (SIGHS) 500 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,240 (SIGHS) 501 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,720 Oh, alright, I'm gonna try and show you the sandfly bites on me. 502 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:46,960 Ow. 503 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:51,080 I think I've got a couple of hundred bites on me now. 504 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,400 I've got them on my hands as well. 505 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,720 Nasty. 506 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,920 Even as you're doing that, you can see sandflies on the camera 507 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,680 and at home I'm watching going, "Don't, don't do it. 508 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:05,560 "Don't show us." 509 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,160 Like, "Don't take more clothes off." 510 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:08,480 And now, you run hot. 511 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,000 And so were sleeping with minimal clothing on. 512 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:12,400 Hot-blooded South American, so... 513 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:12,920 That's it. 514 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,720 Not the best thing to be around that many sandflies. 515 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,240 No, and some mornings I wake up and, um, yeah, they'd bit me 516 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,680 in some unmentionable places. 517 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,080 Do you still - like is there still scarring? 518 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,160 Either physical or mental? 519 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,280 No, no. No scarring. 520 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,280 And they only got me when I was making my bed. 521 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:30,600 Wow. 522 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:39,560 All those bites were from one moment? 523 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,240 Oh, not all of them, but the majority were, yeah, 524 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:43,360 because I was distracted. 525 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:46,040 I was focused on making my bed and they just, 526 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,400 because I wasn't moving around. 527 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,400 When you move around a lot then they're not on you. 528 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,440 When you move around a lot then they're not on you. 529 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,920 Oh, cool so you just have to stay moving for a hundred days. 530 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:57,440 That's right. 531 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,480 I'm seeing a lot of nodding here, a lot of flashbacks. 532 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,160 Did anyone anticipate that something so tiny would have such 533 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:03,960 an outsized effect? 534 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,880 Um, no nothing prepared me for that. 535 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,400 I had a bit of a thing with sandflies. 536 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,800 My parents live in sandfly country so, the fireplace. 537 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,760 I literally was like I'm going to smoke these bastards out. 538 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:14,040 Good. 539 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:14,640 So, yeah. 540 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,000 It just shows though, it doesn't matter the size 541 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:17,840 of the enemy. 542 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:18,160 No. 543 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,480 They, they consume so much of our energy to, to make sure 544 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,880 that we didn't get put out by those things. 545 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,200 It was amazing to watch... 546 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:25,520 Yeah. 547 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,240 Because it was like no one could withstand the relentlessness. 548 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:29,000 ..of the flies. 549 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,040 It didn't matter if you yelled at them, it didn't matter 550 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,280 if you were angry, it didn't matter if you were in smoke. 551 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,360 They just kept coming. 552 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:40,480 I was covered up all in my eyeballs and they just quite simply stung me 553 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:41,280 on my eyeballs. 554 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:41,600 (LAUGHTER) 555 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,480 So, the sandflies, big issue for everybody, 556 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,000 but for one of our participants there was an issue that would not 557 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,840 have occurred to most of the people here myself included until I saw it 558 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,360 play out, let's take a look. 559 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,280 I've been bleeding for almost thirty days and as a woman 560 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,680 in the bush, that's hardcore. 561 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:58,800 That has exhausted me. 562 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,280 There's been a lot of self-care. 563 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,280 That's every few hours. 564 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:13,160 (SIGHS) 565 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:13,960 Oh, my God. 566 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000 I'm washing myself, I'm sore, I'm bloody you know it's just 567 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:17,720 so freaking annoying. 568 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,480 I had to do laundry out here for God's sake. 569 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,200 A little hard for us women out here at times. 570 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:28,560 You've just got to take that extra care. 571 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:35,200 Silly as that might look, you've gotta keep your health in check. 572 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,320 Oooh, it's chilly on the nether regions. 573 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:46,760 Ah, acceptance of the body and its limitations. 574 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:55,520 Sorry, my family. Sorry. 575 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,960 I think, ah, well it's so real and it was obviously so exhausting 576 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,600 for you out there. 577 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,360 Now seeing that footage that has not been seen before... 578 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,080 Oh, thank God. 579 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,240 Is that going to? 580 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,560 Yeah, this is on TV. 581 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:06,840 Woo! 582 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,200 Was there a part of you that remembers filming that and then 583 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,880 you saw the episode and you were like, "OK, great." 584 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,200 I'm like, "They'll cut that." 585 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,640 That didn't make it in... 586 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,440 "They'll cut that." 587 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,040 But it must have been exhausting. 588 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,200 What impact did it have physically and psychologically? 589 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,640 Both equal, I think. 590 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,520 I've come from warm climates as well. 591 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,240 So that um continued coverage in moist environments was tenfold 592 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,200 and so hence the drying because I... 593 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,480 Of course, there's no towels. 594 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:31,400 ..I was sore. 595 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:31,560 Yeah. 596 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,920 You know and um, as a woman when you're bleeding out there, 597 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:41,480 yeah, OK, you expect it in life. 598 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,680 We've come to know what that feeling's like. 599 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,680 And you do it for maybe seven days, ten if you're hardcore and do it. 600 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,320 And you're, to go that long? 601 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,640 I was just hating it and hating myself and I'm like "What?" 602 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,080 And it took me a long time to just settle down and go, 603 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,240 "This is my journey and I can either tap out and whinge my whole life 604 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,400 "or I can just get on with it." 605 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,000 So, yeah - it was annoying, to be honest, yeah. 606 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,240 I know even from my household, 607 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,120 but also from the viewership at large, 608 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:13,840 people really, really connected with what you were going through. 609 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:14,160 Mmm. 610 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,200 You can see some of the tweets here. 611 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,480 One of the questions though was like - 612 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,400 what are the actual rules on, on... 613 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:20,680 Mmm. 614 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,600 ..Items that you are allowed to take. 615 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,600 And I'm interested too. 616 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,680 What are the rules? 617 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,520 You can have a chat with the doctor before you go on the show 618 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,960 about what sort of methods you want to practise 619 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,040 while you're out there. 620 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,720 And I, too, received a lot of messages about - 621 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,960 why didn't I just go on the pill? 622 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,800 But I haven't been on the pill for like 30 years and I don't 623 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,120 want to change my body just for that purpose, 624 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:47,000 so I chose just to choose my natural patterns of pads or free bleeding. 625 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,680 But out there, it's cold, and when blood comes out, 626 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:50,840 it's really freaking cold. 627 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:51,960 So, it was pads. 628 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,160 And when I ran out of pads or I couldn't get up 629 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,680 through the night, I had a hanging in my shelter that was different 630 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,400 coarses, coarses of moss, so it was like grade one, 631 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,320 two and three for whatever I needed. 632 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:03,640 (LAUGHS) 633 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:03,880 So... 634 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:04,200 Wow. 635 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,120 And it was really soothing in comparison to the cotton pads. 636 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,840 Is that something you researched beforehand or you improvised it? 637 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:17,880 No, I founded that on Alone, I was like, because I was wiping 638 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,920 other areas I was like, "Well, that actually feels pretty nice." 639 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:21,400 My god. 640 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,360 I'll just whack that there as well. 641 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:23,920 Critical effort. 642 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,080 I just love that you talked about it. 643 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,600 Yeah And that you used the word blood rather than all the other... 644 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,400 It's an everyday thing and I think it just doesn't, 645 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,960 yeah it's just not normalised enough. 646 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,080 In our society so... 647 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,400 I agree with that too. 648 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,440 Yeah, agree with that. 649 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:38,320 Beautifully done Tamika. 650 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:39,040 Thank you mate. 651 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,080 Alright, it's time to talk about one of everyone's favourite things. 652 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:42,400 Bushcraft. 653 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,320 Right now, we're in for a treat. 654 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,200 There is a bunch of stuff that didn't make the episodes. 655 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,680 never-before-seen macgyver-level bushcraft. Please enjoy. 656 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,800 I've sort of set myself, sort of some goals of some things 657 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,520 that I was to achieve during the um, the course of the day. 658 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,120 They're really good little morale boosters. 659 00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:01,960 I've got a concept of what I want to build. 660 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,280 Two posts coming in from the front and meeting at the back. 661 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,040 And then you have two coming up from the side meeting at the top. 662 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:10,400 And the back against there. 663 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,200 That's the plan. 664 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,200 I've started stripping some flax because I want to make 665 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,800 like a bulbous canister with a little lid for the fish 666 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,640 fillets once they're dry. 667 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,000 I'm just going to half a look if I can turn a reed into a bit 668 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,400 of a needle. 669 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:31,800 Oh, yeah. 670 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,440 And then I can just poke that through and we're away. 671 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,960 So, I'm a bit paranoid about spilling my soup in the fire 672 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:45,160 so I'm just going to make up a quick swivel for holding the pot. 673 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,600 Which will sit like this on a stick and then you can just sort of swing 674 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,520 it out and in over the fire. 675 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:56,400 There we go. 676 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:58,840 Woo. 677 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:03,080 What I want to do is tie this onto a hook and make a lure. 678 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,600 This is prickly stuff but it's really bendy now my hope is that 679 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,240 it's bendy and strong enough that I can make a perfect hoop. 680 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:17,080 And then I've got a perfect fish net shape. 681 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:23,000 Step one, step two, net making. 682 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,400 I'm whittling basically like a little - a little tool that 683 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,800 makes tying a net easier. 684 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,240 So, you basically use this. 685 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,760 You wind up all your thread and you use that as a needle 686 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,000 as you weave. 687 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,600 Tying a net if you've never tied a net. 688 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,040 It's a very simple sheet bend knot. 689 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,920 Once you get started, it's really simple. 690 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,320 It's just repetitive. 691 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,200 (SIGHS) 692 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:00,880 There you go. 693 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,440 You won't find that in the Ikea Christmas catalogue 694 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,840 I can tell you. 695 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:14,440 Duh-duh...! 696 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:15,800 There's the finished product. 697 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,800 I'm pretty happy with it. 698 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,720 And that should work. 699 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,760 I hope it works anyways, so let's test it. 700 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,680 Ooh, it's starting to look like a fishing net. 701 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,880 Actually, quite good. 702 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,000 Hopefully it will hold a fish. 703 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,520 So good. 704 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:42,920 So many awesome things built. 705 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,120 Well done, well done team. 706 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,160 Leanne, loved seeing you use the pompom as a fishing lure. 707 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,760 Was that the plan going in? 708 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,160 Were you like, "Oh, I could repurpose this pompom?" 709 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,320 The pompom, it kept getting caught on branches and things. 710 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:05,880 Whenever you go for a walk, my beanie would fall off 711 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,880 and I, like I love that beanie. 712 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,600 But I thought "That's gotta go, the pompoms gotta go". 713 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,160 It's your time, pompom, it's time... 714 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:13,600 And I can use it! 715 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,240 It's time for the greater good. 716 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,920 You know, if you can't get any worms or anything, 717 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,560 yeah just repurpose what you have. 718 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,720 Krzysztof, you made quite a lot of rope. 719 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,280 It was very impressive to watch. 720 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,560 Did you do anything with the rope though? 721 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:26,040 Did you? 722 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,360 Oh yeah, I think you can even see in some of the shots on my shelter 723 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,040 there's lashings that are done with all the rope that I was making. 724 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,120 Have you made any ropes since the show? 725 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,000 Have not had the opportunity as yet. 726 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,440 You can now buy rope. 727 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:39,640 Huzzah! 728 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,360 Well, speaking of ingenuity - Rick, can we talk boots? 729 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,480 Yes, let's talk boots. 730 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,720 OK, look, one of the big storylines from the series this year 731 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:47,760 was Rick's broken boots. 732 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,840 I think it's one of the things that I love so much about this show, 733 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,920 where you're like if someone said, "You'll be so deeply invested 734 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,040 "in like 10 minutes of watching a man 735 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:02,280 "essentially be a cobbler in the bush..." 736 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,880 I'd say, "I don't think that sounds 737 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,480 "like a TV show." 738 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,120 But on this it really is. 739 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,800 Like, why didn't you get new boots before the show? 740 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,520 Those boots like have done Kokoda's, they've done South Coast 741 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:14,320 track of Tassie. 742 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,160 But once they're so worn in ah, it's like I've got an option here. 743 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,600 I go and buy another pair of four-hundred-dollar boots 744 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,080 with not a lot of time to wear them in, or I get 745 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:25,000 them professionally resoled. 746 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,680 So, I'd been, I had that done six months before. 747 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,600 Yep Um, I'd certainly checked all the seams and beeswax into... 748 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:30,920 ..them. 749 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:32,040 Double-checked before I left. 750 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,200 And I was one hundred percent confident that they would hold up. 751 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,960 Oh, there was no doubt, we could just clearly see 752 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,680 that it was just horrible luck. 753 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:40,440 That's right, yeah. 754 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,880 And did the hose, did the melted hose work? 755 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:43,960 It did surprisingly well. 756 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,120 It did surprisingly well. 757 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,200 Mixed in with the - with the charcoal. 758 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,120 Not necessarily waterproof but they held together 759 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,720 and they were comfortable to wear. 760 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,680 Well, Rick, we have something for you. 761 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,600 On behalf of everyone watching I'm going to do something that 762 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,800 I know a lot of people would have loved to have seen happen in situ. 763 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,320 Just using a bit of my bush skills here I'm going to forage. 764 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:04,920 Oh, my God - what's this? 765 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:05,720 Here you go! 766 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,760 Wish, wish we could have done it for you out there. 767 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:09,200 Thank you. 768 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,960 I know, yeah, that, that's awesome. 769 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:11,480 Super appreciative. 770 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,800 Alright, it's time for another break so in the spirit of Alone 771 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,400 and to honour the participants here, 772 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:16,680 see if you can go the entire ad break without eating anything, 773 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,000 Welcome back. 774 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,120 You're watching the Alone Australia Season Two reunion, 775 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,800 where we are finding out exactly what it was like 776 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,520 to be a participant on Alone. 777 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,440 It's time to talk about the one thing that nobody here 778 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,680 had any control over - it's the weather. 779 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,040 Let's see what our participants had to deal with. 780 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,520 Whatever the storm's got to do, bring it. 781 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,520 The wind is shaking everything around. 782 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:25,440 Oh, my God! 783 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,920 There you go - look at that! 784 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,120 It's raining ice. 785 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,320 I'm not sure if I was dreaming but I think there was 786 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,760 a little earth tremor. 787 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,880 It wasn't big but it was enough. 788 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:58,280 I felt almost um, almost a little bit seasick? 789 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,800 It's something like 150-200 earthquakes, 790 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,720 significant earthquakes, in New Zealand every year. 791 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:09,240 And the ground definitely shook, just before. 792 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,960 I just want this storm over. 793 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:23,520 Right, first things first. 794 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,960 Tamika and Suzan, you guys were talking about earthquakes. 795 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:41,040 Fun fact, we've talked to the seismologists. 796 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,760 While everyone was out there filming, there were 156 earthquakes 797 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:44,680 in the area. 798 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,400 All minor, but you guys did feel the ground shake. 799 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,360 There were two significant tremors and, and did anyone else feel 800 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,600 the ground shake while they were out there? 801 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:52,920 Yeah. 802 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,160 Chase, you could feel it? 803 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,520 And ah, there was a rock slide across from where I was. 804 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:58,600 I was, I was... 805 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,400 On the, I was by the lake. 806 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,480 And then across over on the other mountain it came down 807 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,720 and I was right in front of me I was like "Oh!". 808 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,960 and I was right in front of me I was like "Oh!" 809 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:10,800 Oh, that's yeah... 810 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,520 That's gotta be a difficult thing to watch when you're. 811 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,000 I mean you have the tarp to protect you but apart from that. 812 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:17,240 (LAUGHTER) 813 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:20,360 I mean, you knew it was going to be wet obviously. 814 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,720 Like, there, you know that the weather is going 815 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:23,840 to play a factor. 816 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,080 But, a show of hands, for who was it more of surprise 817 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,760 than even what you were expecting? 818 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,680 I didn't think it would be as, quite, I don't know. 819 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,560 In the early days it was quite humid some days? 820 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,320 Humid and cold? 821 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,040 I know that sounds weird, but I've never experienced that. 822 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,280 I think of humid and I think like Darwin and the Tropics. 823 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:42,600 So wet air, but freezing. 824 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:43,440 Like freezing, yeah. 825 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,160 I think it's the fact that just nothing will dry. 826 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,720 The idea of washing your clothes. 827 00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:49,440 I can only imagine Tamika - 828 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,600 you were needing to wash more than most. 829 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,640 But it's like, I would prefer to have it probably dirty 830 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,680 and on than be washed and wet and not really being able to use it. 831 00:35:58,720 --> 00:35:58,960 Yes. 832 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,040 So, the dampness was? 833 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,520 Yeah it just, it would still be as wet two three days later 834 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:04,360 in most cases. 835 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,200 I think I washed my undies once because of that and then put them 836 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,440 in my sleeping bag and they dried out over like five days 837 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:12,560 in my sleeping bag. 838 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:13,120 Five days? 839 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:13,320 Yeah. 840 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,240 Of body heat is what it took? 841 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:15,560 Yeah. 842 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,560 I think my sleeping bag was reserved for mosses and things 843 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:19,400 for tinder, but... 844 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:19,640 (LAUGHS) 845 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,880 Yeah it was full of tinder and stuff for keeping that dry. 846 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:23,720 Yeah, me too. 847 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:27,520 So, is that, and this just me, you know again as a city boy, 848 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,440 is that a trick? A common trick? 849 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:29,960 Yeah, absolutely. 850 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:30,960 Probably common for everybody. 851 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,440 I had a giant pillow... 852 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,880 A pillow of tinder that I just crammed full. 853 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,160 Every night, I made sure it was full and that was my pillow and my warmth 854 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,080 dried that for the fires to come. 855 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:42,200 Yes, so that's really. 856 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,720 That's the only heating you've got I suppose is just your body heat. 857 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:46,040 Mmm. 858 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,120 In your sleeping bag... 859 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,480 Um, Krzysztof, did the weather ever get you down? 860 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:50,120 Not really. 861 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,040 Like, I love the sound of rain on, on your roof. 862 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,480 It actually helps me sleep. 863 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,840 I prefer some sort of grey noise or something. 864 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,360 And there was a few times towards the end 865 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,200 where I was really struggling to sleep. 866 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,720 And I would have like a patch of rain, 867 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:05,840 like I feel like, "Thank god it's raining. 868 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,720 "I can actually get some sleep tonight." 869 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:08,040 Wow. 870 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,560 And then the rain would stop and I would wake up and say, 871 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:12,960 "OK, here we are again." 872 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:13,800 Wow. It's interesting. 873 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,800 It comes back to that idea of just, you know, you can turn what perhaps 874 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,520 what other people are not loving, 875 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,920 which is the rain, into something that you're enjoying. 876 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:22,200 Mmm. 877 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,760 And so, something that I think might have been tougher than you know 878 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,360 perhaps a few people were expecting 879 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,040 was just the sheer loneliness of being alone, missing home. 880 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,880 It was a big deal for everyone, but here is a little unseen moment 881 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,840 from Tamika that I think captures how everyone would have felt 882 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,520 at some point. 883 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:39,640 I miss the girls. 884 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,440 I miss girl. 885 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,240 I miss Bill. 886 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:46,080 I miss them, I love them. 887 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,560 But at the moment, I'm just jealous of them. 888 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,920 Imagine sitting by the shore, Having an evening fish, 889 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,280 drinking my Pina Colada. 890 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,360 No, I don't drink Pina Coladas. 891 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:02,120 Drinking a chai. 892 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:02,920 oh, my god! 893 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,320 There you go. 894 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:14,200 Ooh! 895 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,640 (TEARILY) Why would you cry over chai? 896 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,640 Oh, the ritual. 897 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:23,480 OK, so I miss my kids. 898 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,560 Bill doesn't drink chai but the girls do. 899 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,800 Oh, so it's not the chai I miss. 900 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,240 It's the connection you miss. 901 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:33,440 (QUIET LAUGH) 902 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,680 Tamika, that was actually on Day 3. 903 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:45,280 I know! 904 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,200 God help me! 905 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,720 You know, it's amazing that again you were dealing 906 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:50,520 with that obviously... 907 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:51,320 The whole time. 908 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:57,160 Yeah, just one little thing opens up to bigger realisations. 909 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,560 And you just think, "Oh, it's not the chai." 910 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,680 And then all of a sudden your mind go deeper and it just bubbles out. 911 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:05,280 Well, it does for me, so. 912 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,600 How often during the day is your mind being pulled back home? 913 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,760 Is it always a constant spectre that's there? 914 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:11,320 Food is. 915 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:11,840 Food is. 916 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:12,120 Food. 917 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:12,440 Food. 918 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,080 Food is, food is the memory. 919 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:14,800 Food is overwhelming. 920 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:15,080 Pizza. 921 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:15,640 Mmm. 922 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:20,960 Cheesy sandwiches. 923 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:21,720 Vegemite. 924 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:23,880 I think just those insignificant little exchanges throughout 925 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:24,880 the day as well. 926 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,440 Like you mentioned getting a Chai and the ritual 927 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,320 or going for a cup of coffee. 928 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,200 You're not necessarily sitting down to chat 929 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:32,280 with someone but even... 930 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,560 ..the cashier saying to you, "Morning, what can I get for you?" 931 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,560 That simple human interaction that you get - you really - 932 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:39,880 I really notice those, anyway. 933 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,360 Leanne, you know, missing home was a huge part of it for you. 934 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,120 Did you expect it going in? 935 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,640 I mean I know everyone expects to be lonely but were you expecting 936 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,880 to feel it the way that you did? 937 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:51,760 No. 938 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,560 I thought I'd go out like - when you're with family all the time 939 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,280 you, and you're a mum you kind of want a break because you never 940 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:00,200 get a break. 941 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,320 And there's always somebody wanting something from you. 942 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,480 And I thought that would be my thing for me. 943 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,480 Um and I - I'd love it. 944 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,480 And I wouldn't think about home so much and you know. 945 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:12,760 But it was my daughter. 946 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,200 Like, she was only three. 947 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:14,480 Yeah. 948 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:15,760 Like what are you doing? 949 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,120 Like, do you really need to be here doing this right now? 950 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,360 Worth pointing out that you did double the time on the show 951 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:23,760 that your partner Rob spent... 952 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,360 So that is a huge win! 953 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,080 For you - have you made that known to him? 954 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,000 (LAUGHTER) 955 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,680 Yeah, you know, we have a little laugh about it, of course. 956 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:40,640 Do you say to him, 957 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,960 "You don't really know what it's like to be on Alone"? 958 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,680 "I was out there for twice as long as you!" 959 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:47,200 Yeah, exactly! 960 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,400 I mean, there was actually almost a three-week gap between the fifth 961 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,960 person to go home and the sixth. 962 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,920 So, like quite distinctly two halves. I mean, I'd say Suzan, 963 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,840 what was it for you that mentally 964 00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,520 was able to get you there? 965 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:00,840 Because you had zero protein. 966 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:01,360 That's right. 967 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,440 For the whole time! 968 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:02,760 Yeah. 969 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,360 I did a lot of foraging. 970 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:05,000 I'm post-menopausal. 971 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,280 I put on 15 kilos. 972 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:07,080 I conserved energy. 973 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,280 I minimised my energy expenditure wherever I could. 974 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,600 That was my main strategy. 975 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,520 You know, not having a fire. 976 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,440 Only having a fire once a week 977 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,520 so I didn't have to collect the wood. 978 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,680 You only had a fire once a week? 979 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:23,880 That's right, yeah. 980 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,600 So, my shelter was my clothing and my sleeping bag. 981 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:27,920 And that kept me warm. 982 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:28,800 Going into hibernation, 983 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,920 going to bed at five o'clock at night. 984 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,120 Getting up at ten o'clock in the morning. 985 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:33,400 Wow. 986 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,800 Spending hours in my mind in my sleeping bag. 987 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:36,520 Constructing a story. 988 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,840 Like, not using my hands to entertain myself, 989 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,480 but my mind to entertain myself. 990 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,680 And then, you know, I felt John there. 991 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:46,200 He was palpable, like he was thinking to me every hour of every 992 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:47,720 day and I could feel him. 993 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:49,720 It was a lot of things - 994 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:51,560 the main thing was probably the psychology. 995 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,560 the main thing was probably the psychology. 996 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,640 I mean, it's a huge credit to you. 997 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,360 Like it's one thing to say, 998 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,720 "I'm going to hibernate my way through two months." 999 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:00,080 Mmm. 1000 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,320 As a human being - a species not known for its hibernation. 1001 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,720 But it's another thing to be able to mentally 1002 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:06,520 do it - 1003 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:07,640 pretty phenomenal to watch. 1004 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:08,240 Thank you. 1005 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:10,640 Chase, you had also, you had a huge pull. 1006 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,560 It was unknown to the, the show. 1007 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,960 And, and you made that clear. 1008 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:20,400 You were like "Ah, I, haven't talked about this but 1009 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,520 "this is what's going on in my life," 1010 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:23,920 that your partner was pregnant. 1011 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,960 We actually do have a little look at your final hours 1012 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,240 here as you grapple with that in the wild. 1013 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,040 I've got a bit of a confession. 1014 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,880 Right before I got on this show, right before I got on the show. 1015 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,760 I found out I was going to be a father for the first time. 1016 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,760 Day One when I got out here, she was eight weeks. 1017 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:49,760 Like, nine and a half weeks tomorrow and a couple days after you can find 1018 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:50,880 out whether it's a boy or a girl. 1019 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,720 They're all big moments, that I'm not there for. 1020 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:58,720 I would be absolutely kidding myself if that wasn't wreaking havoc 1021 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,520 on my mind. 1022 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,440 This whole time. 1023 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:06,200 Home's calling. 1024 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,040 It's a hard call to ignore. 1025 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,440 It was a surprise to me, obviously, 1026 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:30,400 before going on the show finding out right before we left. 1027 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,280 And things started changing, I suppose, internally 1028 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,200 And things started changing, I suppose, internally 1029 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:35,800 before I really realised. 1030 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,640 And going out there I thought to myself like I was really trying to 1031 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,240 enjoy myself to justify staying there. 1032 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:45,360 Um, because I knew how much um, how much um pain was going on at 1033 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:46,680 home being sick every day. 1034 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:47,000 Mmm. 1035 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,400 So, I was alone but she was also alone. 1036 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,640 We have a picture of your child here, this is what was, 1037 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,640 this is what was pulling you home. 1038 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,040 I understand that baby doesn't look like that anymore? 1039 00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:58,160 How's everything? Happy, healthy? 1040 00:43:58,200 --> 00:43:58,720 Fat. 1041 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:00,360 Great, great, loving it. 1042 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:05,120 Yeah, absolutely loving it. 1043 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:11,320 Have there ever been moments when you look back and go, 1044 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,520 "OK, now I would have done it differently"? 1045 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:14,640 Or zero, zero regrets? 1046 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,840 Um, nah I'm very happy with the way that it all went. 1047 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:19,280 Um, no regrets at all. 1048 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:20,520 I mean, I'll be honest, 1049 00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,880 I've got two kids that are like older, they're 10 and 6, 1050 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,320 and as a dad myself I was watching going... 1051 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:26,800 (BREATHES IN) 1052 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:27,920 "I don't know, mate. 1053 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,920 "I don't know if you'll ever get two months off again!" 1054 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,040 I'd stay freaking longer! 1055 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,520 This is not the kind of thing you can do when they're two! 1056 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,960 But, I mean, very, very different circumstance for yourself 1057 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,080 as you're sitting there. 1058 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,200 And um, I'm glad. 1059 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,600 I'm glad that as you went home it felt... 1060 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,160 It felt like the right thing. 1061 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:45,320 Well done, mate. Beautiful. 1062 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,280 Alright, after the break please stick around because it is time 1063 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:49,440 to finally talk hunting. 1064 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,040 Um or more precisely - stalking. 1065 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,040 We've also got some unseen footage from after Krzysztof was announced 1066 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,280 as the winner and we do have a bit of a surprise 1067 00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:57,960 for you Krzysztof as well. 1068 00:44:58,680 --> 00:44:59,120 So, we'll see you right after this. 1069 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:12,440 Welcome back. 1070 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,080 You are watching the Alone Australia Season Two Reunion. 1071 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,800 And not everyone would know this, 1072 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,800 but as well as being incredible survivalists, 1073 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,960 the people here tonight are also incredible musicians. 1074 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,520 Please enjoy. 1075 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,960 (SINGING TO THE TUNE OF 'LOUIE LOUIE' BY THE BEACH BOYS) 1076 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,400 # Bring-bring-brink brink-brink-brink 1077 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:35,280 # Brink-brink... 1078 00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:36,280 (SINGING) 1079 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,000 # I wanna be in the land of Vegemite sandwiches 1080 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,720 # I wanna be in the land of vegemite sandwiches 1081 00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:43,600 # Gimme the land of Vegemite sandwiches 1082 00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,560 # And let me eat a Vegemite sandwich! 1083 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,760 (SINGING TO THE TUNE OF 'ACHY BREAKY HEART' BY BILLY RAY CYRUS) 1084 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,160 # 'Cause if you break my heart, my k-k-k-k-heart 1085 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:53,880 # It's really good for indigestion 1086 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,520 # A little bit is good 1087 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,680 # Too much is bad 1088 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:02,200 # Too much will give you really bad shits. # 1089 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,680 (SINGING TO THE TUNE OF 'AM I EVER GONNA SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN?' 1090 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:07,440 BY THE ANGELS) 1091 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:11,280 # So I stake it out to my bush latrine at 7am to pee 1092 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,560 # And in came a squadron of these little flies you see 1093 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,000 # Do I ever want to see Namu again? 1094 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,560 # Do I ever want to see Namu again? # 1095 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,960 (LAUGHTER) 1096 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:32,120 # Happiness is a ripe eggplant, fresh basil and a good dog 1097 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:35,920 Great lyrics. 1098 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:37,240 (LAUGHS) 1099 00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:40,320 Really, I mean eggplant and fresh basil and a good dog. 1100 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:41,120 That's powerful stuff. 1101 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:41,640 Yeah, yeah. 1102 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:42,760 Like, that's an album. 1103 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,440 That was an old mantra from when I lived alone 1104 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,880 and built my house and things were pretty tough. 1105 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,600 So, it was just that framing of - you know... 1106 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:51,160 Love it. 1107 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:51,360 Yeah. 1108 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,000 Love it. 1109 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,000 Did anyone have trouble going back then into the real world? 1110 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,520 Was it too much too soon for anyone? 1111 00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,040 My head was definitely still there for weeks later. 1112 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,880 Waking up in the middle of the night trying to justify that you're not 1113 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:08,280 in under your shelter and you've got your wife lying next 1114 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,280 to you and you're just like, "Rick, you're not there anymore." 1115 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:12,920 But that was weeks and weeks. 1116 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:13,240 Wow. 1117 00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:13,520 Yeah. 1118 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:14,040 Yeah, wow. 1119 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,320 Getting in, into the airport. 1120 00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:16,440 The airport was strange? 1121 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:17,880 All the people around me. 1122 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:19,160 All the people around me. 1123 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,400 Oof, that was a bit of overload, yeah. 1124 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,520 It must have been strange just to look at like a candy bar and go, 1125 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,120 "I can't believe you're right there." 1126 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,360 Like I can, I can just have you. 1127 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:29,440 Yeah. 1128 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,240 Or clicking on an electric jug... 1129 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:31,640 (CLICK SOUND) 1130 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:32,200 Oh, yeah. 1131 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,880 It seems that that's one of the rewards of going on the show. 1132 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,440 Is to have everything taken away, 1133 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,680 that it just when it comes back and feels like an amazing... 1134 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,680 Or to realise that you don't need that stuff as well. 1135 00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:44,200 Yeah, right? 1136 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,920 And that you might choose to live even more simply. 1137 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:47,200 Mmm. 1138 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,040 Is there something... 1139 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,640 Like that happened for you, Tamika? 1140 00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:50,520 For sure, yep. 1141 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,960 So, I'm not even living in a home anymore. 1142 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,760 I'm just in my truck and I'm just realising I need so much less 1143 00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,760 than what I thought I did to be happy, so yeah. 1144 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,360 Chase, some solid nods from you? 1145 00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,080 Yeah, well I'm trying to move out of the city. 1146 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,840 Yeah get, downsize a lot of that sort of life. 1147 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,840 You know, to something a bit more simpler and um for the kids as well. 1148 00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:11,160 Totally. 1149 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,160 Um, well before we completely put a full stop on it, 1150 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,400 there is something that um that I know everyone was fascinated by. 1151 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:18,800 The elephant in the room. 1152 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,200 Or should I say the deer in the room? 1153 00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:23,440 Or should I say the lack of deer? 1154 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:23,640 (LAUGHS) 1155 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:24,440 In the room. 1156 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,400 I mean, in New Zealand, they're regarded as an invasive species. 1157 00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,960 But in real life, they were an evasive species... 1158 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,680 ..because they were extremely hard to find. 1159 00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:37,640 If you can see the monitors, is this about what you were hoping? 1160 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,720 Oh, you wish! 1161 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:42,400 That - that happened. 1162 00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:43,640 That happened? 1163 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:44,720 Right at the start. 1164 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,520 Like, I had a deer trip over my guy rope of my first shelter. 1165 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:49,600 You saw the deer? 1166 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,040 On my first night, I could hear it coming. 1167 00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,520 On my first night, I could hear it coming. 1168 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,840 I was in my sleeping bag, my bow and arrows right there. 1169 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,040 But, in New Zealand, laws are you can't use a projectile weapon 1170 00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:01,840 at night time. 1171 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,800 So, I couldn't even get out there. 1172 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,960 And then the third night it happened again. 1173 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,880 And then after that they were onto there's a homosapien here, 1174 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,520 let's get out of here, 1175 00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,520 let's get out of here lets disappear up into the hills. 1176 00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:15,320 And you could... 1177 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:16,360 And they were gone. 1178 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,120 You could hear them reading the hunting rules laughing going... 1179 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:19,960 They were going... 1180 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,480 I don't want to rub it in, but there were so many "nearly"s. 1181 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:24,280 But there was. 1182 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,720 That's why they call it hunting and not catching. 1183 00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:27,200 That's it. 1184 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,520 It was a lot, a lot of stalking. 1185 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:30,400 I mean there were, there were a lot of close calls. 1186 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:34,600 That looks like a deer track to me. 1187 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:35,480 Ooh! 1188 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,440 Oh, look at that, he's right there... 1189 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:38,040 (DEER CALL) 1190 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:44,560 (CALLS BACK) 1191 00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,800 Can you give us the call? 1192 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:48,320 (LAUGHS) 1193 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,840 Come on, I really want to hear it again. 1194 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:51,640 It was really... 1195 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:52,120 (DEER CALL) 1196 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,640 It just sounds like a bark, it's um yeah it's a weird noise. 1197 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,760 I just kind of heard you know gravel movement and he was on the beach. 1198 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:04,120 And I think he'd seen me before I saw him and he kind of took off 1199 00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,760 back up into the - into the thick of it. 1200 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,920 And um, yeah as he was running away he, he sort of made that noise. 1201 00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,160 He called back as he was running away? 1202 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:17,160 He did it when he was going away and then that's why I did it. 1203 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:18,560 And then he called back. 1204 00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:20,600 So, it was like a, "See ya later"? 1205 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:21,800 Yeah, kind of, yeah... 1206 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,640 Um, so yeah it was frustrating but it's um, yeah that was the only 1207 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,520 time I saw him or heard him. 1208 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,040 One of the things that I mean, this might be true for everyone, 1209 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,240 but certainly for the footage that made the show, like the unluckiness, 1210 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:35,960 the close calls that you had. made the show, like the unluckiness, 1211 00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,880 It was breaking my heart watching it. 1212 00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,280 The bounce of the lid of the mouse trap. 1213 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:41,400 I mean, brutal. 1214 00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:43,400 Hold on. 1215 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:47,640 She's a mouse! 1216 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:51,040 Oh, that is just freaking awful. 1217 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,080 (SIGHS) 1218 00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,120 I probably could have made the trap better. 1219 00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,920 Ah, I probably could have made a locking mechanism 1220 00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:01,040 or something like that. 1221 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,400 A mouse can probably squeeze through a five-mill gap. 1222 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,640 Yeah Like, they're the size of their skull. 1223 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,240 That's what they can crawl through. 1224 00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:10,560 So, it's a little bit angled because I hoped that the weight 1225 00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,120 of the lid would stop it. 1226 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:13,520 But, but, you know like... 1227 00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:14,840 Oh, getting it out too. 1228 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,720 It could be very tricky if it was in there, trying to get it 1229 00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:19,840 out without it going. 1230 00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,560 I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I would have just shaken it 1231 00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:23,360 until it died. 1232 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:23,560 Yeah. 1233 00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:23,880 Yeah. 1234 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,080 A bit morbid, a bit brutal, but, yeah... 1235 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,960 Yeah, well, that was the plan, right? 1236 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,720 And if you win, you get a mouse, which is a very small prize, 1237 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:32,600 so totally understand. 1238 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,720 I do want to talk about the eels. 1239 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:38,280 Twice as many eels hooked than actual fish. Ah, I think it's a 1240 00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:43,160 Twice as many eels hooked than actual fish. 1241 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,040 Ah, I think it's a big eel. 1242 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:46,960 Silly bugger. 1243 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:48,880 It's a shame we can't eat them. 1244 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,120 That's a lot of food right there. 1245 00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,160 I mean fish caught, thirteen. Eels released, twenty-seven. It must have 1246 00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,960 been so frustrating. Krzysztof, I mean I think in the series you had a 1247 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,080 couple in a row. 1248 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,760 Is it hard to remain positive when that keeps happening? 1249 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,800 I got a little bit frustrated, but catching something is better 1250 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:07,360 than not catching anything at all. 1251 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,600 And it's something that changes the day up a little bit so... 1252 00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:12,840 Excitement, to meet an eel for a while! 1253 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:13,120 Absolutely. 1254 00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:13,960 It helps you... 1255 00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:18,240 And if I, if I get my hook back at the end of it, even better. 1256 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:21,680 Alright, before we wrap up tonight let's go back to the episode that 1257 00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:23,480 we've all just seen, the finale. 1258 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,400 As soon as Susan had tapped, Erin your partner was contacted 1259 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,600 but the medical team pulled you out immediately, 1260 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,280 they couldn't wait for Erin to arrive before extracting you. 1261 00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,320 Krzysztof, was she disappointed not the be able to get there? 1262 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,760 Because I understand that she was in the middle 1263 00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,480 of something also important, because she has her own life. 1264 00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,440 She was, yeah she was incredibly disappointed that she couldn't be 1265 00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,000 there, but after I found out where she was, if she would have 1266 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,920 rocked up I would have been a little bit pissed off. 1267 00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:49,800 Where was she? 1268 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:50,960 What was she doing? 1269 00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:52,560 So, she's studying um, Astro space. 1270 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:56,080 And at the time she was doing a planning project for a return 1271 00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:57,160 sample mission to Mars. 1272 00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,400 So not only was it like a world first that there wasn't 1273 00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:01,480 a loved one there. 1274 00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,840 Could have almost been a world first that when the loved one 1275 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:06,440 was contacted they went "I'm busy". 1276 00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:06,680 (LAUGHTER) 1277 00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,360 "Tell him to stay another week." 1278 00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:10,720 Yeah, um, yeah tell him congrats I'll catch up 1279 00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:11,520 with him when... 1280 00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:12,640 OK, that's pretty awesome. 1281 00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,960 Krzysztof we saw the moment that um, that you guys were reunited. 1282 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:16,800 And stuff, so... 1283 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:17,240 Oh fuck! 1284 00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:17,280 Aww! 1285 00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:23,240 And I apologise for the profanity. 1286 00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:24,640 No, I thought it was... 1287 00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:25,640 I thought it was... 1288 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,640 I thought it was exactly what you should say when suddenly 1289 00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,560 your girlfriend is there next to you. 1290 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,760 But, what we didn't see was that Krzysztof you had the opportunity 1291 00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,520 to then take Erin back to where you'd been living 1292 00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:37,600 for those sixty-four days. 1293 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,000 And that's also pretty special, 1294 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,400 that's never happened before on any of the Alones, 1295 00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:46,560 where you can actually go back fed, 1296 00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:50,520 slightly recovered, and see it with fresh eyes, 1297 00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,800 not the eyes of someone that's in shock. 1298 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:54,400 So, let's take a little look. 1299 00:53:55,240 --> 00:53:56,920 Oh, the water is so clear! 1300 00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:57,640 Yeah, it is! 1301 00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,320 This is gorgeous, but also terrifying. 1302 00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:00,520 I couldn't... 1303 00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,920 (LAUGHS) 1304 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,440 Thank you, baby. 1305 00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:16,160 Welcome to my land. 1306 00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:17,000 Oh, my gosh! 1307 00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:18,440 This is my spinning wheel! 1308 00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,640 Oh my gosh! 1309 00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,560 And I would sort of sit over here all the time. 1310 00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,680 Yeah, and then it was just literally you tie a little piece on and then 1311 00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,600 This looks so beautiful. 1312 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,400 I've built this little sculpture. 1313 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:41,040 This is so cool! 1314 00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:47,680 This one's me and this one's you. 1315 00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,640 I love it! 1316 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:51,720 Fort Kick Ass! 1317 00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:54,240 Come inside Fort Kick Ass. 1318 00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:56,640 This is the bed I built. 1319 00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:58,800 This is pretty good! 1320 00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:00,440 Yeah, it's solid. 1321 00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,040 This was the stuff that I was using to make rope. 1322 00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,480 Wow! 1323 00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:06,400 Pull on it. 1324 00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,880 Gee, that is awesome. 1325 00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:09,600 So, yeah babe. 1326 00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,320 That's me, home sweet home for the past sixty-four days. 1327 00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:13,360 What do you think? 1328 00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,040 This is amazing, baby, well done. 1329 00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:16,560 I'm so proud of you. 1330 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,400 (APPLAUSE) 1331 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,680 Mate, congratulations. 1332 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:27,600 I am interested to know, 1333 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:32,120 what did Erin think of the statue that you built of her, 1334 00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,040 and what was the thinking behind that? 1335 00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:37,560 So, I was having a day where I was feeling a little bit 1336 00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:41,160 lonely and homesick and I thought I need something to just you know, 1337 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:45,600 similar to the, to your ox as well. 1338 00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:50,760 I decided to build this sculpture and it was, 1339 00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:54,280 "This one's going to be Erin and this one's going to be me". 1340 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:58,360 And I put Erin up a little bit higher because I see her as my 1341 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,600 queen. She's just absolutely amazing, I look up to her, she's my 1342 00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,400 world. And even though we're not together at the moment, 1343 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,200 I know that we will be soon. 1344 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:09,240 Well, congratulations again, mate, for making it all the way. 1345 00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:12,480 As a little bit of a treat, the show has organised something. 1346 00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,680 Now we won't tell Customs we did this... 1347 00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,680 ..because you're not really meant to bring wood back from overseas. 1348 00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:20,320 But, one second, we have got... 1349 00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:21,600 You've got the Fort. 1350 00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:25,240 You've got your Fort Kickass sign. 1351 00:56:25,240 --> 00:56:25,760 That's awesome. 1352 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:26,640 There you go. 1353 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,480 Thanks! 1354 00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:32,400 (APPLAUSE) 1355 00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:36,280 I love, I mean, not too many other shows where it's not a giant cheque, 1356 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,040 it's a piece of wood. 1357 00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:39,520 (LAUGHTER) 1358 00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:40,920 And it makes him happy. 1359 00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:42,960 Oh, it's better than a giant cheque. 1360 00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:43,760 Thanks. 1361 00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,360 Total pleasure. 1362 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,800 How awesome. 1363 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,560 Um, just kidding, you know obviously if Customs is watching, 1364 00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:52,880 we fumigated it etcetera, etcetera. 1365 00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:56,800 Um, but well-done, well-done mate. 1366 00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,840 And well done to everyone - like thank you, on behalf 1367 00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:03,160 of the viewers, I'm sure people sitting at home and watching this 1368 00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:06,360 online and you know, I get to be their voice as someone 1369 00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:07,760 that loved watching the series. 1370 00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,680 Thanks to everyone for the way you put yourselves out there. 1371 00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:13,200 How honest it was, the way you conducted yourself. 1372 00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,120 It was awesome, thank you for being a part of it. 1373 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,160 That is the end of Alone Australia Season Two: The Reunion. 1374 00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:20,760 It has been a massive pleasure. 1375 00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:22,400 Have a great one. Thanks, everybody. 1376 00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:23,800 Captions by Red Bee Media. 1377 00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:24,480 (c) SBS Australia 2024