Survivor Live Internet Talk Show with Candice Woodcock
Episode 11 Survivor: Cook Islands  Cast-Off 
Segment 3 Transcript

(Transcript by SurvivorFever.net 12.01.06)

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JM = Jenna Morasca  DR = Dalton Ross  Candice = Candice Woodcock

DR:  It's insanity what's been going on in the last few weeks.  I love it.

JM:  What's interesting is that there's so many other options strategy wise that you could throw out there.  For the last couple of people there's option A, option B, option C.  So it makes it interesting to play out the scenarios. 

DR:  What I love about the mutiny thing, Jonathan and Candice basically made the season.  All the things you're seeing and all this drama is all because of when she stepped off that mat.  Love it. 

JM:  I know.

DR:  Time for Minus Ten.  We're going to give you ten categories, give me your answer in 10 words or less.

DR:  Number 10, Adam

Candice:  You would come out with that first.  friend, loyal in the game, and only friends

DR:  Number 9, mutiny

Candice:   strategy, crazy, changed the game

DR:  Number 8, getting faded

Candice:    I love Nate.  He is awesome

DR:  Number 7, Exile Island

Candice:    my summer home

DR:  Number 6, your favorite video game, Super Mario Brothers 2

Candice:  yeah, the princess, she like flies, awesome

DR:  Number 5, Jonathan

Candice:    sneaky, strategic, provider and good friend

DR:  Number 4, The Goonies

Candice:    great movie, a classic

DR:  Number 3, PDAs

Candice:    embarrassing on TV

DR:  Number 2, the jury, how does it feel to be on the jury?

Candice:    it feels good, not far enough

DR:  Number 1, Ethan Zohn

Candice:    I think he's great.  I love his charity, Grass Roots.

Caller: Candice, what did you think of your Raro tribemates after you mutinied to them?

Candice:  The mood in Raro was much different from the mood in Aitu.  In Aitu we got up every morning and people started doing work. 

JM:  A little yoga?

Candice:  That was in Raro.

JM:  Was it?

DR:  Yeah cause you got Parvati.

Candice:  And in Raro there was a lot more laughing and joking and just kind of like a younger feel.  On Aitu it was made up of a lot of people who were thinking, strategizing and really into that part of the game.  Whereas Raro, that was like their part time job.

JM:  They were having more fun, basically.

Candice:  Yeah but it's pretty fun to have a million dollars, I'm sure. 

DR:  You called Adam simple.  Were they just not thinking about the game?

Candice:  They were thinking about the game and they were strategizing.  To be honest, I didn't spend that much time at Raro.  I was on Exile Island, so I really didn't get to know a lot of the people who were voted off before me. 

DR:  That's sort of why I asked also is because before you got there their voting order didn't really seem to be based on strategy.  It was more like, this person is a little bossy or we want to have a good time and this person is kind of bumming me out. 

JM:  Maybe they just got a little comfortable with the fact that they would go into the merge with the majority and they just rested on that. 

Candice: I don't want to sound like I'm trashing Raro at all, great people.

DR:  But you can.

JM:  Definitely can.

Candice:  No, they're great but it was just a totally different feel. 

JM:  Jonathan has said that a couple of times, too.

Caller:  I'd really like to see everybody leave Jonathan alone.  He's playing a game.  He's doing okay.  He's got family and friends.  I think everybody oughta just let him go. 

JM:  Everybody actually has family and friends on the show but it is our job to make opinions based on what we see on the show.  Out of the show, there's a lot of people I like where on the show I really dislike.  But we'd have nothing else to talk about. 

DR:  What I talk about with Jonathan is, I always say he's doing nothing wrong.  You can backstab all you want.

JM:  He's just a little abrasive.

DR:  I'll critique whether I think something is a good strategy move or not.  I don't think the mutiny was a good move for him. But obviously he's still there so he's alright.

JM:  He's been a major factor in a lot of the water cooler talk on the show.  We would have, especially now that you're gone, nothing to talk about.

DR:  And on a season like this with Jonathan as a very controversial character, you love to have those in Survivor.  You love your Jonathans, you love your Shanes, you love your Johnny Fairplays.  And they're all very different.  Very different players.  They're big personalities, they put themselves out there.

Caller:  I'm a huge Survivor fan and I've watched a long time.  I started out as a huge fan of yours Candice.  I thought that you were so well educated and you handled yourself with dignity and grace and determination.  I just was rooting for you so much. But I was so disappointed and shattered when you did the tirade against Jonathan.  I thought you stepped over a line, attacking him on television, saying, "I don't like you and these people don't like you."  That was too much.  Does any part of you look back on that and feel any kind of regret? It doesn't seem like it was a strategy move.  It seems like it was kind of cruel.

DR:  How much was personal and how much was strategy?

Candice:  You know what, I was hurt that Jonathan turned his back but it was a game and in the moment you feel hurt and I knew that hurt my chances in the game.  I knew that I was going down and I wanted to deflect some attention away from the people that were voting for me.  I wanted to do it anyway I could.  I didn't make those things up.  All those people did say they didn't like Jonathan.  I thought we should just bring it out in the open.  If I have nothing to lose, if I'm going to get voted out.  Let's just let Jonathan know what everybody else is saying.  Yul kind of misrepresented what he said.  I wanted people to know that as well.  I never wanted to go out and be ugly to anyone or to hurt anyone's feelings.  I do feel bad about that but it's a game and that was my last ditch attempt. 

JM:  I'm sure he got over it. 

DR:  It's not the first time we've seen somebody do this as a strategic move.  We saw Rob in the All Stars, Boston Rob do this between Rupert and Big Tom.  Sort of cause a whole ruckus between them. 

JM:  I also did it a little bit to Rob Cesternino.  Maybe you can change people's minds.  That small bit of doubt can turn into a big gap. 

DR:  And your emotions get so amplified when you're out there.

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DR:  Wow, Probst, nice one liner there.

JM:  Probst had to get the last little dig in there.

DR:  Is it just me or did Nate get more facetime this episode than Sundra?

JM:  Or Ozzy?  I hope he's like that every time because I love when the jury gets all fired up.

DR:  I did get a little concerned because it looked like he wanted to get in on that kiss with you and Adam.  He looked very excited, didn't he?  You love a good jury expression.

JM:  I love a drop down drag out jury where people are just like, let's do it.   We didn't even touch on the fact that Yul told everyone he has the idol. 

DR:  At that point you guys pretty much knew.

Candice:  Yeah, Jonathan told us when we came back from Tribal. 

Caller:  I got a quick comment about Jonathan.  The way he worked that auction last night.  I don't know if he came in with that plan but not only getting all the best food for himself but also causing Ozzy and Parvati to pay max value for their rewards, he was brilliant. 

DR:  For all future Survivors, always bid on the first item.  The first item will always be good.

Caller <followup>  Also what Jeff Probst said was the most shocking moment he had witnessed in the game and I think is a great testament to the season is that this hasn't even been asked an hour into the show...but what do you think about the whole Billy situation.  When he apologizes on the live reunion show to you for proclaiming his love to you, to the whole nation, and then asks you out, what are you going to say?

DR:  What do you think of the whole Billy Garcia thing.  He says he's still going to ask you out.

Candice:  I think it was like he said.  At the heat of the moment things get crazy out there and I think he's a nice guy.  He called and told me it's going to be on this episode and about it and we talked and I didn't want anybody to get their feelings hurt or get the wrong impression or anything like that.  That was not my intention with that. 

JM:  Respectfully decline the date. 

DR:  This has been an awesome show.

JM:  So what are you going to do now?

Candice:  I'm in a grad program at Georgetown, physiology and biophysics which kind of mirrors the first year of medical school.  Hopefully I'll go to medical school next year. 

DR:  Let's check out a promo for next week's Survivor.

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JM:  Alright, enough.

DR:  What do you mean enough?  Enough of what?

JM:  I get really nervous when people start saying that they are pulling the strings.  That's usually when the fall happens. 

DR:  The one big mistake I thought Yul made, telling Becky, "I need to be careful about who I need votes from."  Hello, what if he's in the Final Two next to her?  Not a smart move by the puppet master.  I think he snapped a string on that one.  Candice we had a great time having you here.  Great show.  It was awesome. 

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