Survivor Live Internet Talk Show with Aras Baskauskas and Danielle DiLorenzo
Segment 2 Transcript

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Probst's Thoughts (Danielle):  When I first met Danielle in casting she really came across as tough, competitive, kind of bossy, I'll give you everything.  She had this really just fun energetic personality.  When we first got out there I really didn't know what to expect from Danielle.  To me she seemed to kind of go inward a little bit.  As the game began I started to wonder, where was the real Danielle?  Was Danielle playing us in the casting room or is she now playing them? Not letting them see the true competitor that is out there.  I've always said that if a woman who has a sports background or a competition background gets deep into the show, they can be dangerous because suddenly they pull their guns out and you weren't expecting it.  That's what I wondered about Danielle as this thing started heating up.

DR:  That was Jeff Probst talking about Danielle. He recorded the tape after the game finished but before it started airing.

Danielle:  I have a strong personality and I've watched other seasons and I've seen people that come out too strong in the beginning.  They get off, they don't make it.  Like Stephenie.  If people see you as a threat they're going to get rid of you right away.  My strategy was to just sit back and fly under the radar and just kind of go with the flow.  I think it worked out to my advantage.  I know I was a little quiet but I was just trying to play the game.  I was totally depleted and weak and sorry I didn't have the strongest personality.

Aras:  I thought you did good, Danielle. 

Danielle:  I'm proud of myself.

<clip of final immunity challenge>

DR:  A few interesting things about that clip. First of all you were not even trying to stand up til it gets toward the end.

Danielle:  They weren't up yet so I didn't have to take my hands off the pad.  Why am I going to do that if I didn't have to?  Save my energy.

DR:  Aras is doing a soft count over here on the 10 seconds.  He has a legitimate point. 

JM:  That was a long 10 seconds. 

DR:  He got at least five extra seconds.  So what happens, you fall in, Terry stays up, he wins, you go home, you see it on television. He's got five extra seconds.  Lawsuit, right?

JM:  I think whether he had five seconds the guy was going off.

Aras:  Look at how steady Danielle is, though.  She's a statue up there.

Caller:  What do you think was your hardest and easiest challenge to participate in even though you two didn't win that many?

Aras:  I think the hardest challenge was the rope holding.  It's never fun to have to sit with all that pain.  I just got back from Exile Island and I was exhausted.  And I know I'm going up against Deitz, too, who just had steak.  Deitz without steak is pretty tough to go up to.  I think the easiest challenge was probably the one I won just because I won it.  But I just want to point out that Danielle and I did win a bunch of challenges in the team game.  And while people do call this an individual game, I think all the way up to the three it's really a team game.  Especially the way that I played it and Danielle as well.  If you don't have a team with you you're not going to get there. 

JM:  You can't get to the final two by yourself. 

Aras:  I'd like to consider those ICs we won just before the merge as important. 

Danielle:  The hardest for me was the one where we had to hold onto that pole where we're hanging from our feet and our legs. 

Aras:  Shane had asked is there going to be food.  Jeff said there would be no food.  I was like, alright, see you guys later.

Danielle:  The easiest one I would have to say is...

JM:  Where you ate.

Danielle:  Oh yeah! But the water one with me, Terry and Courtney.  That was just so easy for me.  The balancing one came second hand for me, too.

DR:  I think it comes down to the [final] Tribal Council, too.  If you go in there and you say you played the game as hard as you could but then you ate.  It's harder to make that argument when you ate a burger.  I think he [Terry] realized that. 

Caller:  You locked in with Shane and Courtney really early.  What do you think would have been your optimal four alliance.  Any four out of the sixteen?

Aras:  I'm going to go with Shane and Courtney.  There's not a move I would take back.  It would have been great if Cirie was in that one with us just because she was such a sweetheart.  Everything worked out, that's really a selfish perspective.

Danielle:  I'll have to agree with that, too.  I can sit here and say, I should have done this but how do I know if I had done that I would have even made it to the two.

Aras:  We had a pretty cool final four too.  You've got Terry Deitz who is just amazing.  And Cirie Fields who is so memorable. 

JM:  Very different.  Very different games. 

Danielle:  One from each group at the beginning which is pretty cool.

Caller:  How crazy did you think Shane was?  Did you think he used it for his strategy?

DR:  He was asked.  He said no.  He was definitely going bonkers.

Aras:  I think that Shane definitely isn't crazy.  He's got his own things going on.

JM:  High strung.

Aras:  He lost it a little bit because there was no food.  I don't think he realized that he had gone over the edge.  For me, voting off Shane at the five wasn't a problem because of how much he had scared me when he said he was going to change the game up.  Then Cirie tells me he wants me out at the five.  It's an easy call to align with Danielle and Cirie after that. 

JM:  After all the outbursts there was no way he was winning any of the jury votes at the end and that's really what it's all about. 

Danielle:  And he was just too verbal about his strategy.  He told everybody what he was doing, what he was thinking.  In the game of Survivor you're really not supposed to share with the world what your next move is.

JM:  Even the closing comments to you two were a little inappropriate. 

DR:  The magic number was 4.  You nailed the magic number.  Because he had told you earlier, that's my favorite number.  You look at him, you say 4, it is 4.  And he doesn't give you the vote anyway. 

Danielle:  I think regardless if Aras, he hit the number on the dot, he was going to vote for me regardless.  I think that he was just upset that Aras and Cirie broke the alliance with him.

DR:  You knew you were gonna get a comment.  This guy's walking up there and you know he's going to unload.  Did anything really...the homeless, you're living with your dad...

Aras:  That's pretty accurate.  I don't mind that.  I do live with my dad.  You can twist it anyway you want.  I have a home.  You know what did kind of bothers me with Shane is that he's acting as if he played the game with integrity when I was up on the hill with Shane before the final six, Shane goes, "Next is Danielle. But we're going to tell Danielle we're voting Courtney."  I said, "Well I'm not going to tell Danielle that."   He goes, "Aras you have to lie to win this game."  I look at him and I said, "Shane you have to lie to win this game."  Then he comes to Tribal Council and he says, "I played this with integrity."

JM:  A lot of people, when they hear anybody in the final two mention integrity, they go, "Ohhhhhh."  Because integrity in Survivor is not integrity in real life. 

Aras:  I feel comfortable with the way I played the game.  Every move I made I feel like I can at least justify it. 

JM:  You have to sometimes stab people in the back.  That's just how it is on Survivor.  It's not a bad thing.

Danielle:  And you should expect it.  When it happens, look at it as a nice move and they outplayed you, not as personally.

Aras:  It was definitely hard for Danielle, too, to not come back to Shane with a comment.  Even after the Final Tribal Council had wrapped I remember seeing Shane on the docks where we were getting on the boats...

Danielle:  And then he says that I didn't open up to him.  I never got to know him.  Look what happens when you open up to him.  He totally ripped on him in the finale. 

JM:  Final Tribal Council is over, we go back with the jury.  Explain what it's like because for me, I needed some time.  Because I just got railed by all my friends.  All this stuff just happened and all of a sudden you're thrown back with the group. 

Aras:  It was like getting thrown to the lions.  I don't even want to talk about who was upset with what, that's behind the scenes.  There were people who were upset, people who felt a little bit cheated, people who were acting catty.  There were some people who were being really sweet and kind.  When you're on an island for 39 days and all you're thinking about is food and you come back to these well fed...

JM:  Angry jury members. 

Aras:  There were some people that weren't angry.  Some people were really classy back there.  Most people were, actually.  It's just a little jarring.  You don't have a chance to decompress or to think about the game. 

Danielle:  If you had one or two people that you trusted and had your back, they would tell you what was going on.  That was key. 

DR:  I thought you guys did not get a rough treatment at Tribal Council.  We've seen some pretty rough ones. 

JM:  What do you think has been a bad one?

DR:  I think All Stars. 

Aras:  I think Katie.

JM:  All Stars was brutal.  Everyone hates each other, still.

DR:  We'll be back after this break.

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