Survivor Live Internet Talk Show with Adam Gentry
Episode 14 Survivor: Cook Islands  Cast-Offs 
Segment 1 Transcript

DR:  It was a great show, a wrap up to a good season.

JM:  Boring reunion show.

DR:  You had three really likeable people in the final three that were respected for how they played.  I believe we have Adam online.  Are you there?

Adam:  Yes I am Dalton.

JM:  What about me?

Adam:  Jenna, how are you doing?  You really gave me hell, Jenna.

JM:  Awwww, that's not true.

Adam:  Oh, come on now. 

DR:  Adam, I noticed something last night when I was watching, you sort of were portrayed this season as a very laidback, goofy, always sort of a smile on his face.  Candice even used the term "simple" when she was the show.  I don't know how you feel about that.  But then I went back and looked and I saw you did extremely well in the puzzle portion of that crazy challenge...

JM:  And the math challenge.

DR:  ...even overtaking Yul.  You did a great job in that other challenge that you won immunity.  We also saw a puzzle challenge early on where Raro, you, Jenny and Rebecca beat Aitu.  So you did very, very well in the intelligence puzzle challenges.

Adam:  I have a question for you Dalton.  What does smiling a lot have to do with not having to do puzzles?

DR:  You know what I'm saying.  You were portrayed as this goofy guy.  So who is the real Adam is what we're asking.

Adam:  Well I don't know.  I am a laidback guy and I guess I do smile a lot and I guess I am goofy so I guess you're right on target there.  I just like to have a good time and try to be happy. 

DR:  Let's talk about the big thing, the thing that Jeff Probst brought up last night about the vote.  We saw you on the show telling Yul, "if you get rid of Jonathan first I'll give you my vote."  Now I don't have any problem in the show of using any sort of tactic that you can to stay in the game.  I guess my question is, don't you feel maybe Adam that there should be some sort of separation of church and state here in terms of what goes on when you play the game and how you judge someone when you actually cast your vote?

Adam:  I voted for Yul because he did vote out Jonathan ahead of me and I thought he was the ringleader and had a lot of say in what went on with those four.  They're both deserving of winning the million dollars.  I would have voted Ozzy if Yul didn't do that for me.

DR:  Really?????

Adam:  But I had to keep my word, man.  I told Yul I would do that and ummm so I did it. 

JM:  Do you think that Yul was the better player?  If you would have so easily switched your vote to Ozzy? 

Adam:  It's a toss up with those two.  They're both deserving.  Obviously Ozzy is much better at the competitions and the challenges and Yul is better at strategy.  I just wanted to keep my word and give Yul the nod.  So that's what I did.  I thought after Jonathan was voted out, Ozzy kept winning the challenges so at that point when it was time to cast the vote I would have voted Ozzy if I didn't make that promise to Yul. 

JM:  Parvati didn't keep her word.  She voted for Ozzy.

Adam:  Yeah but Parvati didn't have a lot to do with that.  That was more of me.  I told Yul that I would try to persuade Parvati to vote for Yul but it was really just me talking to Yul and not as much Parvati talking to Yul.

JM:  Do you think Parvati voted for Ozzy because she got to see the great Cook Islands humpback whale?

Adam:  I think that had a lot to do with it. 

Caller:  Hey Adam I love your smile.  I kept hearing the Aitu tribe saying, "We got where we are because we worked together as a team."  They made decisions as a team and obviously competed in the challenges as a team.  Ozzy of course was a huge help but together they won those challenges.  They didn't win them just because of Ozzy.  What do you think your team...did they lack the teamwork or what could your team have done better to maybe win more of the challenges?

Adam:  You're right, all four of them had to compete.  It wasn't just Ozzy but Ozzy was by far the best competitor out of all twenty of us.  He did carry a lot of the weight for them.  But I think we may have gotten over confident.  That was our flaw.  As long as we had the numbers we just kind of weren't too worried about it.  I think their backs were against the wall and they fought.  I tip my hat to them.  I think that's why they pulled through.

DR:  Yeah, Adam because you're a sports guy.  You never want to face a desperate team. 

Adam:  Correct, correct.

DR:  A team that's against the ropes and once that mutiny happened they were so against the ropes.  I think you just said it, you guys maybe didn't sense that urgency. 

Adam:  I think that had a lot to do with it, yes. 

DR:  One other question I want to bring to you.  A very interesting thing you tried to do on your way out which was forcing the use of that Hidden Immunity Idol.  Ozzy and Sundra wouldn't go along with it.  Did that surprise you that they didn't?

Adam:  Not really.  I didn't really have too many options at that point.  It was just me against them four. 

DR:  Because if Ozzy does that he probably wins the million dollars.  If he forces Yul to use it and Yul does not win the next challenge they can vote him off.  Ozzy is going to win a million dollars. 

Adam:  Ozzy's mentality out there was just to win challenges. 

JM:  Yeah but he also threw the one challenge.  Everyone is saying that he is such a competitor but he is throwing a challenge.

Adam:  When it got down to the individual challenges that's what he was all about.  He didn't want to hear anything.  He didn't want to talk about anything.  He just wanted to win the challenges.

JM:  Maybe if he would have paid more attention to the strategy part he would have won the million dollars.

Adam:  Maybe so.  But they were loyal to each other.  Their backs were against the wall.  It was those four against us eight and they just didn't want to do anything against each other.  You saw when they split the vote with Becky and Sundra.  They handled everything in that manner. 

JM:  Did it seem to you like Becky and Sundra were almost playing for second place?

Adam:  Exactly.  That's what they were doing.  They're great people.  I like both of them but yeah, you're right, they were just playing for second.

JM:  You're there to win, not just play for second. 

Adam:  Well, what could they have done?

JM:  They could have forced...just turned on them like everyone else.

Adam:  But they would have never won.  They wouldn't have gotten the vote no matter what.  Ozzy or Yul was gonna win it.  Or maybe me if I would have won the challenges but it wasn't going to be Becky or Sundra.

Caller:  Adam, looking back, what do you think was your biggest mistake?

Adam: Voting off Jenny.  I wish we would have let Jonathan go.  We kept Jonathan around too long and that was my mistake.  I didn't think there was anyway that Jonathan would have gone back.  I thought that Jonathan thought he had a better chance with our tribe.  I thought that he thought that there was no way he'd get better than fifth place going to the other four because he knew they were so tight and loyal. He had already left them once.  I didn't think he'd ever switch back over.  If we would have voted Jonathan out and kept Jenny, I think if Yul would have approached Jenny like he did to Jonathan about the idol and flopping, I think Jenny would have come back to us and talked to us about it. 

DR:  Well Adam, thanks a lot.  I'm sorry we didn't get to have you on in person for longer.  But hey, congratulations, the last member of Raro to be standing.  Fifth place, well played. 

JM:  Good job.  Good for you.

Adam:  Thank you very much.

DR:  Back after a quick break with Sundra.

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