Can you guess what's next?

Of course it's a shot back at camp, where the other survivors are nibbling on corn mush.

"I don't ever want to eat corn again," says young Kim. "Not a corn tortilla, not corn flakes, not corn chowder, not corn in a can, not creamed corn, not corn bread, no corn muffins, no popcorn at the movies. No more corn."

It's the single most memorable speech we've heard her utter in 30 days.

Back at the hotel, Lex and Tom are getting loaded in a downpour. Or at least Tom is getting loaded. He's slugging bourbon straight from the bottle and slurring his words.

Or slurring his rhymes:

"Hey bartender fix me a toddy / Oh Big Tom will love everybody / Oh don't worry about them crocs / Ol' Big Tom's got some stinky socks."

Lex puts Tom to bed with those loving words, "All I ask is that if you gotta puke you get up and do it outside."

They're staying in the same tent, apparently. The title of this episode should be "Two Men and a Commode."

Click, click, burp.

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It isn't even dawn when hotel employees wake Tom and Lex the next morning. Tom's still drunk. "My head wouldnta fit in a warshtub," he says in his charming southern patois.

It's time for the balloon ride. With an English pilot, the two of them lift above the trees.

"I was almost this high last night," says Tom.

They soar over antelopes and hyenas, giraffes in the trees, and all those wildebeests. It's footage right out of National Geographic. The two watch an incredible scene of two lions taking down a wildebeest. Tom and Lex high five.

"My mind has been a pretty little ol' thing and has not been expanded very much," says Tom. "But this whole thing has gave me new life. At 45, I thought I'd done some things and I find out I hadn't done diddly. This just shows me that there's more to life than what's around the corner at the house."

Well, yeah. Especially when what's around the corner is a beaver-eatin' son and a herd of unruly goats.

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The "Survivor" producers don't let us linger on the idea. Lex tells us that he's dreading dropping back into the game.

That's a segue back to camp.

While Lex and Tom are telling the others about the trip, we hear Teresa say that she was listening to them both, but her mind was wandering off to the day's immunity challenge.

Another segue!

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