What does Kyle make of Sue now after seeing her nationally televised disdain for him?
And have the two patched things up off the island?
Tell me about that and what that was like to hear from everyone that your time was up.
Kyle Ostwald on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
They don’t want you there.
Good move on your end.
That was far from true.
Kyle Ostwald on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
I spent a lot of time talking.
I tipped that island upside down looking for idols.
So it was like there was really no even second plea to get out of it.
Kyle Ostwald on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
It was like I painted the target on my back.
I was proud to wear it.
Kudos to a great group of people that got me before I got it.
Kyle Ostwald and Sue Smey on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
What is it like getting enveloped in the warm embrace ofJeff Probstafter getting your torch snuffed?
Yeah, that’s something that means a lot to me.
It was the end of a journey and a pursuit to venture to gain financial freedom for my family.
Kyle Ostwald and Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor 47’.CBS
Where I come from, there’s not a lot to be proud of.
We heard you say on the show that you wanted to make your family proud.
What has your family’s reaction been to the show?
Kyle Ostwald on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
It’s very positive.
I’ve received a lot of very positive attention.
And what more could you ask for at this point?
Jeff Probst and Kyle Ostwald on ‘Survivor 47’.Robert Voets/CBS
Everyone was so scared to go up against you at the end.
How do you think you would have done with the jury vote had you made it there?
Oh dude, I would’ve tore it up.
I would’ve let ‘em have it.
There’s no way.
So kudos to them because I was not going to let it go down easy.
So I was a huge physical threat.
I played with a lot of heart.
I was very vulnerable.
I was very open.
The one person whose vote you probably wouldn’t have gotten at the end is Sue.
That is what it is.
We have a great cast.
Everybody on the cast is wonderful and everybody is triggered in life by different things.
And some people choose to fixate on some of those things.
How are you and Sue now?
I’ll put this wide open for you.
Because in the game you have such a big goal in mind.
And so you’re going to be tempted in this game of deceit, manipulation and just drive.
And so now that we’re in the outside world, things have calmed down a little different.
And so this is time for us to give an open opportunity to show me who you are again.
And hopefully there’s just good relationships for a continuous future.
Do you know what hes talking about?
Yeah, I know what he’s talking about.
I said that on television, they just chose not to show you.
I was not scared of anything that I said.
I don’t regret anything that I said.
So what happened was basically Rome gave you a Mad Lib for you to fill in the blanks.
He kept you entertained.
There’s no importance to it.
You’ve already heard the things that came out.
What, Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
I want you to look at a definition of that right now in the dictionary.
What’s it going to say?
I’ll let you fill in those blanks like a Mad Lib.
So is that what he was referring to?
That’s my best guess, man.
Is that something you continued to wrestle with, even after you got back home?
It’s been tough.
And so you have to do some things onSurvivor.
Like I said in the show, what happens onSurvivorstays onSurvivorfor the most part.
I continued my vegetarian lifestyle after.
And the difficult part was the fact that I’ve gone so long without doing it.
Like seven, eight years.
We’re not talking about a couple of days without a cigarette.
This is the end of those years worth of effort."
If it’s not for you, then great.
But for me, it’s quite tough.
But I did it for all the right reasons, I believe.
But like I said, I did it for the right reasons.
Once I got back home, I continued the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle, quite a healthy lifestyle.
I do not eat meat, I do not eat chicken wings, anything like that.
That’s a good way to put it.
That’s a selfish act for an idea that I was trying to stay true to.
I ate meat for more years than I have not.
Whats something that happened out there that did not make it to TV that you wish we had seen?
The editors did a good job at catching a lot of who I was and what I was doing.
But I was a big camp guy.
I love survival stuff.
I spent so many years in the traveling van life and going so far back into the wilderness.
And that’s the way that I like it.
Should we do that?
What do you think about this?
Let’s work in tandem to get us to the end.
I don’t know if there’s a spot on that island that I didn’t look.
Would you play again?
I would absolutely do it again.
When I left the game, I was questionable of it.
I honestly was, because it was hard for me.
I haven’t left Cheboygan in 11 years.
I’m 11 hours away from my own country.
It starts to wear on you.
So it’s like the odds still feel so stacked against you.
As soon as they call, I would be on the plane.
I would be gone.
I wouldn’t even pack a bag because I know I wouldn’t need it.
What would you do differently?
I don’t think I would do anything differently.
Like I said, when I enteredSurvivor, I put my foot on the gas.
My foot wasn’t going to leave the floor until I saw God or a checkered flag.
That was a fall down.
That was the end of my journey.
But it was a false fail because I stood right back up.
We had nothing but thinkers, players, and very smart individuals.
And I think that’s going to put ripples into my family’s future.
That’s going to go on forever.
