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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, the very first season of A Lone Australia wrapped

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Speaker 2: up last night. I hosted the reunion that you could

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Speaker 2: watch on SBS on demand.

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Speaker 3: He's on the right bandwagon there.

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Speaker 2: It's also going to be on tonight seven thirty on SBS.

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Speaker 2: One of the most impressive humans you will ever meet

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Speaker 2: in your life is Gina, who won the very first season.

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Speaker 2: I was thrilled when I met her. If you watch

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Speaker 2: the show alone the seasons that have been done in

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Speaker 2: the past overseas, you will know that you will be

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Speaker 2: talking to the medic perhaps when a loved one comes

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Speaker 2: up behind you and surprises you. That's how you know

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Speaker 2: you have lasted the longest in the wilderness. This is

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Speaker 2: what happened to Gina last night after sixty seven days

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Speaker 2: alone in the wild.

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Speaker 1: It's really strange not knowing when this will end. I

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Speaker 1: find myself saying, when I get out of here, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to dot dot dot. So when I get out

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Speaker 1: of here, I'm going to take my friends out to dinner.

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Speaker 1: When I get out of here, I am going to

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Speaker 1: give my mom the biggest hug she's ever had in

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Speaker 1: her life. You know, when I get out of here.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take my niece Amy out camping. They're

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Speaker 1: the kinds of things. It's more that this place is

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Speaker 1: giving me a no why what?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Ho?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: You can I give you a hope? Yes? No?

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Speaker 3: Well and that was that moment.

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Speaker 2: That was Lee, Gina's ex partner, the father of her daughter, Blaize,

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Speaker 2: who tapped her on the shoulder and said, guess what

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Speaker 2: you won? Gina joins us. Now, Hi Gina, Hi Amanda.

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Speaker 3: Gina, you gotta take everyone out for dinner now you said.

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Speaker 1: It, I do, you know what? And I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to do that.

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Speaker 2: What? What a flood of love I've been reading. Even

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Speaker 2: before you won, people were saying, gee, I hope it's Gina,

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Speaker 2: because you were such a character from Left of Field.

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Speaker 2: Other people went into fight nature. You just seem to

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Speaker 2: float on your back and trust it the universe would

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Speaker 2: provide for you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, pretty much like an otter, you know how those

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Speaker 1: little creatures they lie there with their you know, with

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Speaker 1: their paws up on their on their chest and kind

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Speaker 1: of like scruffle their whiskers. That's pretty much what I did.

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Speaker 2: Amazing and it was so incredible what you shared with

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Speaker 2: the audience in the same way that we saw Chris

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Speaker 2: survivor PTSD storm. As you said, your grief storm when

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Speaker 2: it was your daughter's birthday, your daughter passed away at

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Speaker 2: the age of three. You said, it's good for society

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Speaker 2: to see that these things have a beginning and an end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's one of the things that I know

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Speaker 1: from you know, a lifetime of helping people process emotions

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Speaker 1: and definitely going into to feel my own and after

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Speaker 1: losing my daughter when she was three, discovering that we

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Speaker 1: are our Western culture has in my view, very limited

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Speaker 1: ceremonies and rituals for grief that are healthy, and I

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Speaker 1: couldn't find anything to lean on. So I had to

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Speaker 1: figure it out for myself. And what I've figured out

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Speaker 1: was that grief needs to be felt. It asked to

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Speaker 1: be felt, and the more we talk about it, the

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Speaker 1: more we pull it out of the boxes, the more

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Speaker 1: we have an understanding of how to feel it without

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Speaker 1: it breaking it.

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Speaker 2: Mike was the runner up, and we saw Mike. He

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Speaker 2: was like the coote and the road runner trying to

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Speaker 2: catch that the wallaby, the paddy melon and he traps

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Speaker 2: and he had this and he had that. You it

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Speaker 2: was like a bush ballad you went to the loo

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Speaker 2: and fell over one you fell over a wallaby.

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Speaker 1: Well, actually it probably more fell over me. I went

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Speaker 1: out for a pee, and after I go out for

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Speaker 1: a pee, because my body was really uncomfortable, I would

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Speaker 1: sit on a log and talk to the moon for

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Speaker 1: quite a while and just hang there because my bed

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Speaker 1: felt like a bit of rocks and I was sort

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Speaker 1: of putting off going back to Lye in it. And

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Speaker 1: I've been sitting out there for a bit just communing,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, like I felt this presence

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Speaker 1: it came in for the pea or if it just

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Speaker 1: I smelt like a bush fire as well, because I've

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Speaker 1: been sleeping in the plots and coat in the shelter

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Speaker 1: with a fire for so long. I probably it didn't

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Speaker 1: even smell like a human anymore. But whatever it was,

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Speaker 1: this little creature just kind of like glumptly next to me,

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Speaker 1: and it was like my body responded before my mind.

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Speaker 1: I don't really remember. It was like I came. I

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Speaker 1: kind of came to landing on it, and then figured

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Speaker 1: out very quickly that I had to find a way

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Speaker 1: of dispatching it.

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Speaker 3: Wow, and you did it so well, and you're the

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Speaker 3: only person to successfully kill a mass spiel and eat

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Speaker 3: it on the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then but that bit last night when you're just

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Speaker 3: gnawing into the ribs and stuff, I'm going.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so don't do that, honestly, don't do it. It's

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Speaker 1: like survival wisdom is you always cook everything because there

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Speaker 1: are parasites. But it looked so good, and after all

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Speaker 1: of those days have been protein and fat starved, when

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Speaker 1: I was pulling all of the bits of meat off it,

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Speaker 1: I first of all, I was like, oh, I'll just

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Speaker 1: have a little bit, and then once I started, this

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Speaker 1: is actually delicious.

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Speaker 2: That's that how you're going to look in restaurants from

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Speaker 2: now on. Well I pretty.

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Speaker 1: Much probably have looked like that in restaurants for quite

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Speaker 1: a while. It's just that now I've got an excuse.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look out for Gina at Ribs and RUMs. Well,

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Speaker 3: it's so great to meet you, and you were so

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Speaker 3: great on the show. I just really fell in love

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Speaker 3: with you, and I'm sure most of Australia did it.

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Speaker 3: And tonight the reunion of Alone Tonight, I'm glad. Amanda

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Speaker 3: chose to host this and not the reunion of Blow

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Speaker 3: Up the Balloon Show.

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Speaker 2: Gene's going on that mat go on blow Well.

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Speaker 3: Mike could go and blow it because he was swearing

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Speaker 3: like a true he was going off his cracker all

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Speaker 3: the time.

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Speaker 1: I think I dropped a sewer bombs, especially at the end.

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Speaker 2: That was so great when you saw leand just let

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Speaker 2: fly was very austraight in reunion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really weird. It was like I didn't

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Speaker 1: know that he was there. I was so deeply immersed

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Speaker 1: in the wilderness and it felt so much like home

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Speaker 1: that anything out of context almost like it wasn't there.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really have any human interaction apart from the

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Speaker 1: very very very bare minimum when there'd be a medcheck,

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Speaker 1: and so having this human from my world suddenly materialize

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Speaker 1: in this in this world, yeah, it took me a

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Speaker 1: little while to be able to believe he wasn't a hologram.

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Speaker 3: Well, tonight seven point thirty on SBFS, you will see

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Speaker 3: the alone reunion with our very own Amanda, Kella, Gina

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Speaker 3: and the rest of the group.

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Speaker 2: He was one of the big pleasures of my life

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Speaker 2: to hang with you. And here's tomorre.

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Speaker 1: Oh definitely, thank you so much. You looked after so

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Speaker 1: well on that show, all us a little fledgling and yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you for taking care of us and thanks for

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Speaker 1: the chat

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Speaker 3: Gina, thank you very much,