The time has come for the return of “Talking with T-Bird.” Each episode, Rob Cesternino (@robcesternino) and Survivor: Africa‘s Teresa “T-Bird” Cooper (@tbirdcooper) will catch up with a former Survivor player and talk about anything and take listener questions. In the fifty-fourth episode of “Talking with T-Bird,” Rob and T-Bird’s guest is 4th place finisher on Survivor: China, Denise Martin.

Denise Martin, the lunch lady from Massachusetts, was thrilled and awed to be in a Chinese temple at the beginning of her Survivor journey. She never lost that awe as she continued through the game, thoroughly appreciative of where she was lucky enough to be. Placed on the Fei Long tribe, Denise made friends and wasn’t considered a threat. A lot of Denise’s game ended up being influenced by food – making allies or enemies based on picks for reward challenges, her inability to swallow the balut to help her team win a challenge, twice. Her alliances and friendships were able to get her to the final four, where she lost the final immunity challenge and was voted out 3-1. As highlighted in Survivor: China, Denise has a passion for karate. She is a second degree black belt in American Kenpo Karate and owns a karate school, and has one hell of a story about kicking Jeff Probst’s ass.

You can check out Denise’s statistics on the Survivor Wiki from their Survivor career here: Denise Martin’s Survivor Wiki Profile.

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