Survivor Live Internet Talk Show with Cirie Fields and Terry Dietz

Segment 1 Transcript

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Segment 1

DR:  Let's start it out with Terry and Cirie.  What's up guys?  Welcome, number 3 and number 4.

JM:  Two of the more popular contestants ever.

DR:  I'd say the most, judging by reactions that I was getting from people and obviously in the house last night.

JM:  Lots of cheers.

DR:  Lotta fans, huh?  Let's talk about the big finale and what we saw.  You and Aras had this huge rivalry, Terry.  You sort of mend fences a little bit.   Tell me what that process was like?

Terry:   First of all, last night was a blast.  It was so much fun.  The rivalry between Aras and I, a normal competitive rivalry at first.  Then it got a little personal after the family visit thing.  There were some things said and some misunderstandings.  In the long run, America likes a fight and America likes a makeup.  We were both man enough to sit back and listen to what each other had to say.  We didn't have this problem until that point.  We both came to an understanding.  He's a great guy.  A really good competitor.  You can't make a mistake against the guy.  What Danielle was saying in the final episode, she was kind of narrating, it wasn't like that at all.  We really came to a meeting there and it was good.

DR:  Cirie, obviously you guys had some moments with the whole torch dropping thing and stuff.  When did that get cleared up?  Obviously you guys have mended some fences.

Cirie:   We have.  In the game emotions are high.  I kinda felt like Terry was a little bit upset when we got rid of Shane.  Stress levels were high and we had our little thing but then we talked.  And it's all in the game.  I think Terry is great now.

Terry:  She's a beautiful lady.

JM:  Everyone was getting on everyone's nerves.

Terry:  Exactly and I should have kept my mouth shut.  Just picked up the torch and whatever.  It didn't happen.  It just came out.  It's funny because the first time I saw the Casaya members talking about it was in the tape and they go, "He's just mad because we voted off Shane."   You know what, she was spot on.  And I was and it got out of hand.  That was a bummer.  It was almost like a family fight.  Then we cleared it up.

DR:  Last night we had the Finale and then the Reunion and then the GMC Back Exile Yukon after party and all this stuff.  It's funny because of the final four, you two seem to be having the best time out there.  Aras felt some relief and Danielle...it's very hard to come in second, you're that close.  You guys look like you were just having a great time.

Cirie:  I was having a blast.

JM:  Also kind of the way you came out.  You [Cirie] didn't really get voted out, you lost the fire challenge fair and square.  And you [Terry] knew you were a competitor and were supposed to get voted out the entire time.  You lasted as long as you could and it was your time to go.  It's not so bad to go out in the game the way you guys went out.

Cirie:  Right, I was content.

DR:  Let's take a look at that fire challenge.  Cirie had that fire going, we thought she was good.

<video of fire challenge>

DR:  I've never found the fire making challenge to be exciting at all.   We saw Bobby Jon and Stephenie.   This one was really tense.   If you could hear people in the audience watching it.  Your fire was up, everybody was cheering, Danielle's was up, her fans were cheering.   It was crazy.  Were you sneaking a peek over at hers while you were doing yours?

Cirie:  I was because I had only made fire one other time.  I could hear Jeff.  Jeff kind of makes me crazy.  I'm not good under pressure and Jeff's saying, "Danielle's fire is getting bigger. Cirie needs to hurry up."  So I want to see what she's doing.  Why is her fire bigger than mine.  And you know, hey, I tried, couldn't get it.

DR:  I think it was a very admirable effort.

Caller:  First I want to say that the two most deserving people to win Survivor are sitting on there right now.

Cirie:  Awww, thank you.

Terry:  Alright!

Caller:  Cirie, you almost had no chance from the very beginning.  You played the game so well but at the beginning did you think for just one moment that you would ever make it that far?

Cirie:  Oh, no.  Before I even got to the island I thought maybe I'd last about six days.  And at one point, once Tina went home, I was kind of hoping they would vote me out.  It was just too miserable.  I hadn't been there that long.  I hadn't gotten the desire to want to stay yet.  So I was hoping, Shane said I was next, I'm just waiting.  Then after being there for like 15 days then I didn't want to go.  I could never anticipate staying there for as long as I did.

Caller:  Terry did you honestly believe Danielle was going to take you to the final two after she had betrayed you so many times?

Terry:  If one of us had won the I-4 Challenge, if I had won it, I would have given her the hidden immunity idol and we would have been kind of indebted to one another at that point.  And yeah, I think she would have taken me.  She had given me her word and I believed it. What happened was, near the end, I knew we had a little pact on Exile Island but then she also had a pact with Aras.  Both of those seemed to me to have went away, from watching the tape.  She went off and she made her own decision.  At that point it just came down to who she thought she had the better chance of winning.  Personally, I think she made the right decision. 

JM:  She said to you that if you would have given her the idol she would have taken you.  Maybe that played a little bit in her decision.

Terry:  I didn't vote off anybody that was on the jury.

JM:  Also, Aras was kind of threatening her.

Terry:  It's one of the the things about this whole Casaya thing.  They had this tight relationship. It was this brother/sister thing where he could get in her face and say how disappointed he was.  I, on the other hand, did not have that type of relationship where they wouldn't let me in there.  So I didn't have that relationship.  So I had to use a different approach.  I could just piss her off and she'd be spiteful, "I'm not taking you."  I used the like, more mature type approach.  People on the jury would not have animosity towards their old Casayamate.  That type of maturity thing, not because I'm older.

DR:  Once she takes out the pen and paper and starts jotting down votes, that's going to make her decision.

Caller:  Congrats for making the top four.  Cirie, they seemed to find you the mother of that whole tribe.  If you had been voted out early do you think that tribe would have literally gone all to pieces.  And, Terry, if La Mina had stayed whole through the entire thing, would you be like considered the father of the tribe if you had merged with more La Mina than Casaya. 

Cirie:  I don't know.  I think they would have been great without me.

DR:  You were staying out of the way for awhile.  You had to let them act dysfunctional so you could get in there.

Cirie:  I don't know if they would have stayed together if I wasn't there because they hated each other.  I was somewhat like a mediator.  When Aras would tell me things about Courtney I would...especially one time he got really angry at Courtney. I kind of told him, just take a walk. 

Terry:  The whole leadership role on the La Mina tribe when I first got there...they were calling me Poppa La Mina and Poppy and all this stuff.  I personally wanted to direct a lot of that leadership stuff towards Dan the astronaut.  And then for me to kind of do what Aras did, kind of take a role in the challenges.   I didn't necessarily want to step up and become a leader.  It kind of ended up that way.  At the merge I probably still would have tried to keep Dan up there as the leader and elder in the tribe.

DR:  I imagine the hardest part of the game for you was getting rid of Dan.

Terry:  That was bad.  That was extremely difficult. 

Caller:  Congratulations for an entertaining season.  My dad was rooting for you because he was class of '79 and you guys went to the same flight school.  My question is, what was not shown on TV that really contributed to Aras winning the game?

Cirie:  I think a lot of what Aras did for other people out there wasn't shown.  At one point we hadn't had fire for like 3 or 4 days.  We didn't have any water.  Aras came to me and Melinda and said, "Guys, we can get water off these leaves.  We can lick these leaves."  He did that type of stuff all the time.  He would get these cactus plant things and cut them up like watermelons and like basically force you to eat them.  He took care of everybody.  I don't think he did it for jury votes.  I think he did it because he cares about people.  And that's why he's a millionaire right now.

Terry:  I think from the I-9 challenge in one of the things that was brought up that I saw that you didn't see so much of was, Aras became the target of the hidden immunity idol.  Anytime we could get somebody to flop, he was going.  It was no longer Shane.  We realized who we needed to get rid of from the Casaya side.  There was a lot of under...backyard deals or back room deals going on.  Cirie instigating a lot of them to my detriment.  And I loved watching her play it.  Sometimes you didn't see that stuff because he continued to get saved or the alliance we were trying to make to get somebody to flop would go away.  Aras was saved and not enough people recognized that but he was under stress at every Immunity Challenge.  He would voice that sometimes.  But he was the guy we were going for.  They came through somehow and messed up the alliances that we were trying to make and it worked. 

DR:  You saw that look of satisfaction on his face at each tribal council when asked "is anyone using the hidden immunity?"   We've got to take a a quick break. 

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