-I cannot wait. Next Wednesday --
-Next Wednesday. -Next Wednesday,
I'm freaking out. I'm freak--
You know, I'm the biggest fan of yours.
-I know. -I love you.
-I brought something to prove what a fan you are.
Because you go beyond a fan.
I get these e-mails from Jimmy,
late in the night, 2:30, 3:30 A.M.
-Oh, come on. -And it will say things like,
in the subject, "Two ideas, don't read till the morning.
I'm not sure it's good." Later it'll say,
"One more idea. Hey, hang on.
This last one, forget the first one,"
but this, this one, this is --
Okay, this is an e-mail. This is a real e-mail from 2018.
-Says, subject, "Loving the new season.
Here's two dumb ideas."
And the first one says, "Tribal Bible."
It's some journal. Not the best.
-No, no, yeah, no. Tribal Bible. -Tribal Bible.
-It rhymes. -It rings.
But the next one was called "The Invisibility Box."
And you say, "During tribal, somebody can sit in,
like they're in an outhouse,
and hear everything that's being said,
but nobody can tell they're there."
And so that's 2018.
I go to location.
Tribal's already being built. I'm looking around.
"How can we do this idea?" It doesn't work.
A year later, March 18th, 2019, I send you a photo.
-Yeah. -That's the photo. Yes.
So that is the invisibility box
that we designed the entire tribal around your idea.
[ Laughter ] And we used it on the show.
-Yeah, that's great. -It was super cool.
-Dude, it's the best. They eavesdrop on the thing
and they see who was talking about what.
-We put bamboo so nobody could see in.
-No one ever knew that there was -- that people watching them.
-Yeah, and the best part was,
we have a crew of 400 from all over the world.
And the best part was, I was able to say, "Check it out,
Jimmy Fallon sent us this idea." I'm showing them my phone.
"For real. Jimmy sent this."
It was really cool. -Yeah, see. I love it.
[ Cheers and applause ] It meant the world to me.
Honestly, it meant the world to me that you actually
read those e-mails, 'cause I send you some crazy ideas.
-But thank you for the ideas. -I know.
I hate to bother you because I know -- just --
Honestly, and I really mean this, I'm a student of the show.
And I watch, and I love the casting.
The direction, you guys just -- the games are great.
The whole show is fantastic.
It should win awards every single year.
But you, my friend, are the glue that keeps that show together.
-Aw, thanks. -Without Jeff Probst
that thing does not run.
You know everything. [ Cheers and applause ]
You're like -- you're quick. You're fast. You react.
You know what to do. I'm like, "We trust you."
I trust in you. 'Cause I go -- something happens,
I go, "Jeff." Right. That was -- I talk to the TV.
-It's like the Iowa Caucus.
I mean, how hard is it to do a vote?
I guarantee you if we had done that,
we would have had a result.
You just write some names down.
-Yeah, exactly. -How do you think you would do
on "Survivor"? -No.
-No? You're likeable. You're funny.
You can sing. You do impressions.
-That's not going to get me through "Survivor."
No, I know -- I couldn't do that at all.
I couldn't -- that's why I love the show
and I love the psychology behind the moves.
It's not just a game where you're like,
"Oh, can you walk on this and stand on this the longest?"
It's ten games being played at once.
I love every single bit of every single episode.
Could you do it?
-Uh, no. I couldn't either. -Right?
-No, I think I'd get in trouble cause I'm lippy.
I know I would say something under my breath
that wasn't quite as under my breath as I wanted it to be.
-And that would make someone mad
and then you'd become a target? -Yeah, I think so.
Like, this season we're doing 20 winners.
And when we were thinking about it...
-I'm freaking out about this. -I was looking at them...
-I really am. -...and realizing
it really is -- there really are some qualities
to winning this game, because it is social politics.
It's what we do in life every day,
only you're doing it in a jungle.
You're trying to be nice to people,
but you're conspiring against them.
Trying to stay alive not eating much.
You know, you've got your eyes on this million-dollar prize.
I would desperately fail. -[ Laughs ] Yeah.
Where did you come up with "The tribe has spoken"?
Do you remember coming up with that?
-I remember, yes. Because when "Survivor" started,
Regis was on with "Who Wants to be a Millionaire."
-Yeah. -And he had that line,
"Final answer?"
-[As Regis] "Is that your final answer?"
-Yes. -"Is that your final answer?"
[ Normal voice ] Yeah, of course.
-And so I had this big white board.
And I was like, "You guys, we got to have our Regis line."
And we had all these lame lines, couldn't come up with anything.
We're getting close to having tribal counsel,
I'm talking with Mark Burnett, and I said,
"Mark, I got to have a line when we snuff the torch."
And he goes, [Australian accent] "Oh, I got it.
You say, 'All right, obviously your tribe
don't want you around no more.'" [ Laughter ]
I was like, "Yeah, it doesn't really -- it doesn't really --"
-"We're not even going to write that one down, Mark."
-And he goes, "Well, I don't know what to tell you, Jeff.
The tribe has spoken." And I went,
"Aw, dude, you just said it. The tribe has spoken."
And then we were being interviewed years later
for the Museum...Television History or something.
And the guy asked me and Mark who came up with it.
And Mark goes, "I don't really remember."
And I had that little bird on my shoulder,
"Just take credit, dude. Take it right now."
-"Yeah, you can do this." -"He doesn't know."
-"He doesn't remember. It was me that did it."
-"It was me."
-But it was Mark. -Yes.