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"Alone" Season 10 WInner Alan Tenta Joins Preston · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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Five minutes past the hour. It is the third hour of the Morning Show
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with Preston Scott Show five seventy nine. Great to be with you. We
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appreciate you joining us, whether it's on terrestrial radio or iHeartRadio all throughout the
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country around the world. And that is Jared running the program and I am
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so I'm like such a kid right now. Joining me on the show is
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season ten winner of Alone, Alan ten to Alan, Welcome to the show.
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How are you, sir? Well, I'm pretty good, but you
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know what, I live in mountain times, so it's six o'clock in the
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morning right now, so homely been awake for both five minutes, so I'm
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a little sleepy dude. I will take what I get and I'm grateful that
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you are willing to wake up early for us. Does it kind of stir
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something that you know that the new season is going to start being shown to
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people across the country and around the world today, I mean, does this
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evoke a lot of memories? Absolutely? Yeah, Like I was talking about
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that with my wife yesterday. It's uh, it stirs up a whole new
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string of emotions because almost exactly a year ago, while it was June eighth
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for me last year, you know, and you wait a long time because
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it's filmed so far in advanced and you have to you wait, you know,
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almost an entire year before it's actually aired. And Yeah, there's just
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that weird feeling of excitement and because you have no idea what the edit is.
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You don't know what they did, You don't know what story they're going
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to tell because we filmed, you remember, we filmed eight hours a day
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and uh, and they take you know, we have no idea what footage
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they're going to take from that eight hours or what story they're going to weave
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for you, you know what I mean, Like it's all legit, but
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they can definitely take certain aspects of your of your experience out there and kind
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of you know, knit story to suit whatever kind of goal they had in
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mind for you. So a little bit nerve wracking, Alan, I could
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like dominate your day because I would. I would pay money to sit and
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just talk with you about this whole experience, because I've been fascinated with his
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show since it started. But I'm going to break it up into three parts.
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Tell me about your decision, what, what what caused you to say?
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I want to try out for this. Well, it was mostly the
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people around me. I'm an outdoor education teacher at the high school in my
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local town here in British Columbia, Canada, and I teach outdoor education to
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a group of kids. And every Friday, we used to do carving skills.
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We were working on a walking stick and they implement all the bushcraft garving
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skills onto that walking stick and they can take it home at the end of
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the year. And while we were watching sorry, while we were carving a
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stick, I used to put on old episodes of A Loan on Fridays so
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they can, you know, watch old episodes while we're doing a little carving.
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It's just a good relaxing Friday activity. And the kids started saying,
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mister Genta, you should apply to that show. We do a lot of
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these things, you know, we do shelter building, fire starting, a
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lot of things that they are doing on the show. And eventually I just
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h and my sister in law actually sent me the application email. It's just
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like to do a casting call once year. It was actually on Facebook that
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you sent it to me, and I just sent this a little blurb of
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an email. It was literally four or five sentences, and that led to
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a larger application, and then that led to an interview and casting videos and
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just and the whole process of the application went for probably four months. So
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I just kept on moving on to the next step. Somehow. When you
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got word you were selected, What was your reaction, What was your wife's
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reaction, your family? Well, I was driving at the time, was
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I remember exactly it was. I was on the Cocaalla Highway going to Vancouver
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and I got a phone call and the call displace said New York, and
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I knew right away that this was whether this was a yes or no.
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I pulled over and obviously it was a yes. And just pure excitement because
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there's so much waiting during the application process, Like you do one thing,
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and a new wait another two weeks before hear you do another thing, you
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wait another two weeks. So even though it was kind of it was fun
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and exciting, it was stressful waiting and knowing because there's so much preparation that
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it goes into it right. But I know it was pure elation. I
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was very excited. I wasn't nervous yet. I was just more Wow,
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this is the end of the process. How exciting. I can't wait to
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start my preparation. Alan ten to with us he won Season ten of a
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Loon. I mentioned earlier in the program that when my wife, my wife
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and I watch it every year, we kind of narrow it down right away
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when we see the ten who we think is kind of made up to be
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a finalist and make it to the end. Alan was one of our picks.
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I'm very proud to say that I did him early on. We've got
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more to talk about the ten items. I gotta get to that next on
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the Morning Show with Preston Scott, The Morning Shoe with Preston Scott, they're
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gonna get a I'm just reach which knock knock? Who's Nash? On w
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FLA eleven past the hour, continuing our discussion with Alan tent To season ten
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alone Tonight, season eleven debuts. How's that for timing nine o'clock Eastern,
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eight o'clock Central on the History Channel. I will be I can't I can't
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wait for the new season. All right, the ten items, everybody gets
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the same basic kit in terms of cameras, batteries, emergency gear. Right,
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yeah, and then the ten item list take me through without going through
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the whole thing. How did you decide what ten items were gonna be chosen
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based on your experience? Allen? What what was the criteria? Well?
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I knew that my two passions and things that I'm the best at a are
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bowl hunting and fishing, so obviously I was going to take my archery equipment,
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so along. It's got to be a traditional boat, either a long
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bow or a recurve. I shoot a long boat, and you're allowed to
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take nine arrows and that that counts as one item. And you're allowed three
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hundred yards of monofilamon fishing line with twenty five just bare hooks, and you
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have to make your own lures and whatnot out of those. So I knew
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those two were coming with me hands down, and I brought an axe because
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you know, I had a saw. But the only really reason I brought
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an axe was in case I made it to freeze up, i'd be able
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to chop through the ice to ice fish because I remember a previous season a
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character named with me. I don't know if you remember her. She didn't
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bring an axe, and I had seen in my mind of her trying to
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break through the ice with her saw and she just couldn't do it to ice
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fish. So I said, Man, I've got to bring an act for
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that very reason. Obviously, I brought a sleeping bag, a pot for
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cooking I brought. I brought a Leavenmin multi toool. There was a knife
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employers on there. I really wanted the multi tool because making snares and making
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krishing lures with my with my snare wire, I really wanted to be able
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to cut the wire easily with my players. Alan, Hell, how important
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you've mentioned a previous season watching what other contestants did. Had you watched all
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of the previous seasons and how much did that influence your choices? Well?
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I watched most of the seasons. There's a couple that I still haven't seen
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yet, but I'd say I've may have only missed one season just not making
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the same mistakes that some previous contestants made. And the big one for me
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was, I mean, how often have you have we seen past contestants build
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massive cabins, put all their energy into building the shelter, and then tapping
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out shortly after the build a shelter because they exhausted themselves and didn't put food
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procurement as their number one goal. That was one thing. And just some
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of the old players that had such a positive attitude, and I saw how
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that was so important not to let your mind go to those dark places.
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And yeah, so I kind of my brother directed me towards a little bit
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of meditation, just just very basic meditation to to help keep a positive mind
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frame, because when your mind starts going dark, you start convincing yourself with
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reasons you should hit that button. Because you got to remember, you've got
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a button on your hip, on a little on what's called the yellow brick.
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It's going to be with you all the time, with a go home
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button all the time. So if your mind isn't positive, it's it would
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be really hard to resist hitting that button, you know, because it's there
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all the time, and when it starts getting late in the game and you're
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and you're hungry and you're cold, and it's really easy to convince your to
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hit that button. Of the list of items that you were allowed to bring
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that you chose what one proved to be the most important, well, it
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would have to be the fishing equipment, because without the fish, I wouldn't
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have been able to sustain myself because I caught well, I think I caught
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roughly, as an estimation, probably over one hundred pounds of fish. Wow.
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With that fishing line so and the fish out there were big, so
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it didn't take very many to catch one hundred pounds, because the average size
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is probably between three to six pounds each fish I caught, I think it's
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one about eight pounds. All intent to with us, we got one more
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segment to go, kind enough to carve out some time. The season premiere
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of Alone on the History Channel is to night, nine o'clock eastern eight o'clock
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Central on the History Channel. And one more segment with all intent is the
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season ten winner next year in the morning show tell me fla on your phone
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with the ar radio app and on hundreds of devices like Alexa, Google Home,
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Xbox and Sonos soon Yesheart Radio station Alone the season premiere tonight, season
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eleven, nine o'clock eastern eight o'clock Central on the History Channel. Season ten
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Winner, how about this, Kirby. Shout out to you Kirby for helping
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make this happen. I appreciate you so very much. Alan ten to the
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season ten winner with me this morning, kind enough to wake up real early
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in British Columbia to join us this Morning Live, Alan. Was there a
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moment you talked about, you've got that button on your hip at the entire
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time you're out There was there one moment when it could have gone either way
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that you managed to push through that you can share. Uh, Yeah,
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there was one moment. I don't remember zas to what day was, Probably
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around day fifty. It got extremely cold. I mean, we don't know
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how cold it is, We have no way of knowing. But I woke
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up in the middle of the night and I was shivering uncontrollably in my sleeping
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bag and my teepee. And but at that point I'd probably lost seventy pounds
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and I had just no way of staying warm, and I was shivering.
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The inside of my sleeping bag felt like the inside of the freezer I put
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down. I put on all my clothes and cleaning my winter jackets, squeezed
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in my sleeping bag, and I shivered through the night. And there was
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a point where I was actually worried about my life that one moment, because
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I was so cold. And there was like three or four hours so morning
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when it was till it would warm up, and I thought it was getting
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hypothermic. And even if I did tap out of that moment, they wouldn't
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have been able to come and get me until morning. So I pushed through
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and I solved that problem. They didn't show it, but I had to
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heat up hot rocks every night and throughout the night to make it through the
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last sixteen days or so. And I had a hot rock on my feet
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like these are bowling ball sized rocks get up from my fire. I got
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one of my feet, one between my legs, and one on my chest.
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And every three hours i'd wake up, light another fire, heat the
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rocks again, and put them back in my sleeping bag. And that's how
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I made it through the nights for the last sixteen days. You mentioned weight
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loss give the before in the after. So I went in at two fifty
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nine and I came out at one point eighty one. So that's seventy eight
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pounds if my mouth is right. When you realize that you'd won, because
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you have no clue when or if anybody's tapped out, you just you don't
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know. You can kind of guess, well, we've got some people gone
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by now. But when that reveal happens. Describe that moment. Well,
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they lied to you. They told me we were having a medical check.
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I hadn't had one in about three weeks, so I knew that I was
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I needed to have the MET check soon. And the helicopter I heard the
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helicopter lad and the MET team came up and there you know, that took
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my blood pressure. I mean, and there was a blizzard. If you
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watched it the last episode, it's a snowstorm and they're asking me a questions.
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And the producers are really good asking you a questions that they know are
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going to be emotional, make you emotional. It was my I won on
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November nineteenth. It was my dad's birthday on November eighteenth, and he passed
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away in twenty thirteen, so he'd asked me a whole bunch of questions.
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Got me all emotional. And right after that, I was talking about doritos,
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how I was having all my food Fanca season, and then all of
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a sudden, my wife tapped me on the shoulder. She'd be waiting on
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the beach the whole time, and told me I'd won. And man,
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what an incredible moment When my wife and I still watched that scene. We
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still get very emotional. It's pretty powerful. And then there are all of
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the students that you have taught. Tell me the aftermath with those kids,
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Oh, they were, they were pretty excited. Unfortunately, it's summer holidays.
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When I won, right, it was right, except and there is
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no school, so everything kind of died down because it wasn't for you know,
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quite quite a few weeks, three weeks or so until I saw the
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students, so they had all got a chance to kind of get over the
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excited. You know, I'd seen most of them in town and whatnot previously.
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But no, they were pretty excited. They were pretty excited. It
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would have been better if the school was actually going on and I like showed
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up to class the next day. They all knew I was on the show,
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but they obviously no one knew how I did until it ended on August
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seventeenth last year. Over the years, we've seen some shows where they bring
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people that came close back together. If they ever offered you an opportunity to
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do this again, would you absolutely yes, as long as it's soon,
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because you know, I'm no spring chicken. I'm not getting any younger I'm
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already the oldest personet to ever win at fifty two, so you know it's
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going to happen pretty quick. You know, things aren't getting My knees aren't
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getting any better. If you did it again and it were in a cold
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environment again, what would you do differently? If anything, I'd build a
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smaller shelter so it'd warm up more easily. And I'd buy a much better
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sleeping bag. Yeah, I'd get a minus sixty rated instead of a minus
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forty. My sleeping bag was my weakest item. It didn't keep me warm
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very well. The nights were a real struggle. Alan, proud of you,
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brother, as just someone that admired the grit and the determination and the
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skills required to make it through it. Man, it's a delight to have
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you on the program. I count this a high mark for me, and
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I've done about eight thousand interviews on this show. Yeah, it's really cool
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to have you on the program, and I wish you nothing but the best.
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Hey, I appreciate it. Thank you very much, sir, Thank
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you. Alan tent To with Us Season ten, Winner of a Loon Season
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eleven debuts tonight on the History Channel nine. O'clock Eastern, eight o'clock Central,
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and yes, I will be talking about it twenty seven minutes past the
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hour in the Morning Show with Preston Scott