Survivor Live Internet Talk Show with Nathan Gonzales
Episode 10 Survivor: Cook Islands  Cast-Off 
Segment 3 Transcript

JM = Jenna Morasca     DR = Dalton Ross    Nate = Nathan Gonzales

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

DR:  Number 10, Jonathan Penner

Nate:  whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack and extra whack

DR:  Number 9, the Survivor booze cruise

Nate:  fun, faded, full, gluttonous, enjoyable and awesome, it was cool

DR:  Number 8, you're a Giants fan, how do you feel about your boy Eli Manning?

Nate:  disappointing, disappointing, whack...

DR:  Number 7, paddling

Nate:  hard, unity, unison, rough, whack

DR:  Number 6, Parvati

Nate:  sweet, cute, loveable, boxer, princess, my home girl

DR:  Number 5, mutiny

Nate:  death, virus, whack, snap, karma

DR:  Number 4, nancy boy

Nate:  That got me in some trouble with my boy so I'm gonna have to say that was a whack comment.  My boy took it the wrong way.  Love you, Brad.

DR:  Number 3, Harry Smith

Nate:  yes, very cool

DR:  Number 2, Manihiki

Nate:  heart, we had straight heart because it was rough in the beginning

DR:  Number 1, Jenna Morasca's footwear

Nate:  That's gonna get a straight snapper.

JM:  Give me the definition of snap.

Nate:  It depends on the time.  It could be good but it can also be in a bad way.

JM:  How funny was it, though, the facial expressions of you guys when you opened up that bottle and thought, it's a merge, we're gonna eat and then they're like, ohhhhh.

Nate:  That's not cool.  We knew it was something not good.  If there was a merge they would have given it to the winning tribe.  We knew it was a bottle of funk.

JM:  We do love the merge feast. 

Caller:  What is it about the idol that makes other players stupid? Everyone else fears it and won't vote for the person.  Fearing the idol doesn't help Jonathan, it helps Yul.

Nate:  Exactly.  The idol is like a shotgun.  It's like a loaded nine.  When you put it to someone's head they don't think right because they fear that if the person that has the idol knows that you have it and if you betray them then they're going to come after you.

DR:  For Jonathan is it better to be on the side of someone who has it or is it better to get that idol played?

JM:  Do you think that it's fair and necessary?  I feel like these people with these idols are getting a free pass.  After one hour of digging they have something that takes them into the final two.  I don't know how I feel about that. 

Nate:  It's not fair. 

DR:  I think it's fair.

Nate:  If we all got one day or one time to go.  If we all go to Exile Island and we all get like six hours to dig it's fair.  Some people never got the opportunity to go.

DR:  Yul was SENT there. 

Nate:  People like Ozzy and I we never got to go to Exile Island.  The winning tribe got to pick Yul to go. 

JM:  I just don't think that an hours worth of digging should justify someone being able to make it to the final two.  I don't think that's what Survivor is about. 

DR:  It doesn't put the person in the final two.  Terry Dietz was not in the final two.  Gary Hogeboom was not in the final two. 

JM:  And the people that are finding it aren't the most exciting people.  It's not like they would stand out without the idol is what I'm saying. 

DR:  You don't think Yul would stand out in this game?

JM:  I don't think personality wise he would stand out.  Challenge wise I do.

DR:  I disagree.

JM:  Personality wise I think he'd be under the radar.

Nate:  I'm with you both.  I think he would stand out because he's strong and his strategy is amazing.  He thinks great and he knows numbers.  This is a numbers game, too.  He always can calculate numbers and possibilities and outcomes.  But would he have been that great without that idol?  I would still be there.

JM:  It's a great factor in the show.  It makes it exciting.

Nate:  This isn't a fair game.

JM:  It's completely unfair.  Ozzy has been feeding his tribe the whole time and at that second of a drop they'll cut him up.  Is that fair?  If you want to argue about fairness, this is not the game.  Anything can happen. 

DR:  It wouldn't be fair to not get this clip in.  It's the seasonal booze activity.

<video clip>

DR:  Is Adam trying to take a drive on the three-way freeway?  What is going on there?

JM:  A Survivor friend I was watching with last night mentioned that he might be the first guy to actually hook up with two girls in one show.

DR:  Unbelievable. 

JM:  She's going for the bait, though, too. 

DR:  That's her game.  She's a flirter.  And we had a puker.  I always love a Survivor puker.   We see it all pinned on your guys, the Raros.  Were the Aitu people not getting a little sauced there or what? 

Nate:  Becky, Sundra and Ozzy were.  But they're good and we're the psychos, remember?

Caller:  I wanted to ask Nate if he tried to cultivate Jonathan's loyalty and vote.  Did he go fishing with him or do other stuff to make Jonathan feel really safe?

Nate:  Yes I did.  You didn't see it but umm I definitely did.  There was times we'd sit at the fire at the end of the night and just talk.  That's why I think I said that he's actually a good person.  I was trying to just warm up to him.  He talked about his kids.  We kind of had a little bit of a bond.  You saw me say that he's a cool guy but I still don't think it was right to keep him over my original tribe like Jenny who had gone through so much with me.  I tried to let him see my warm side as opposed to the wall I was trying to put up and the fact that I thought he was just bad news.  At first he thought it was someone else who voted against him at that tribal when Jenny was out.  He thought I was actually going with him. 

DR:  One thing we didn't get to talk about was you pulling a Denzel on Brad back before you let him go.  We had a lot of discussion about that when it happened.  Was this necessary?  Was this over the top?  What was your thought process when you went and did that?  You approached him.

Nate:  Definitely portrayed like a bad boy because Brad and I were cool.  But I think it was smart for us to not say anything.  It's the kind of game, the person that's going, you just don't let them know.  You don't want them to try to do anything or say anything.  To keep him in the dark and to play him, yeah, it maybe wasn't so nice.  I wasn't nice Nate.  But I needed to play him because he had to know something was going on. 

DR:  I didn't have a problem with it because you never know what's going to happen right before you go especially if you think he's not going to be on the jury.  If you think he's going to be on the jury then maybe you hold back a little bit. 

JM:  It's also puzzling to me the way people go to TC and they say, "I don't think anyone's made a decision yet."   If you haven't heard a decision on your way to TC, you're the one. 

Caller:  When Brad and Stephannie got voted out it was because directly or indirectly, they had said something.  She wanted mashed potatoes.  I noticed that Nate was the one who kind of played that up.  I was wondering if there was strategy behind that?  Like maybe get the vote away from you?

DR:  We talked about that while both of them were here.  The way you would sort of take comments and run with them.

Nate:  Stephannie straight up tapped out.  Stephannie's head was not in the game like when she started on Hiki and I saw the difference.  Honestly, I love her, my girl, but she shouldn't have played and been in the game further than J.P.  So, I wasn't running with a comment.  She said enough things to me to make me think she wasn't in the game.  I could read in her heart, she was not mentally in the game.  We had a rough start in Hiki.  We were last to get fire and water so we were all really weak.  I knew it kind of took a toll on her.  I had told the girls that if they get rid of J.P. she has to go next because no one else has put themselves out there like that.  It's just how it has to go.  I loved her but she wasn't playing for the team at that point.  We really needed to keep as many strong players as we could.  And with Brad, his comments, I think Brad shot himself in the foot.  Just a lot of things he was doing and his questions and his actions were making us not trust him.  After seeing what happened with Yul and the idol I do not regret getting rid of him.  I love the guy but I wish I could have kept my faith in him.  It wasn't just me.  It was a group consensus that Brad's gotta go.

DR:  And he said as much that he probably would have flipped to Yul and Becky. 

JM:  So Nate, can you tell us a little more about what you're going to do now?

Nate:  EZTHeI is a group I started.  It means Ebony to the Ivory.  I'd like to kind of follow in my brother's footsteps.  You'll be seeing me on the Daily 10 I'm thinking this Thursday. 

DR:  Let's check out the promo for this Thursday.

<promo video>

JM:  I think it's appalling that the other tribe is eating without the tribe.  I used to sneak food but never blatantly in front of the others. 

Nate:  If I was there that would have not happened.  I would have knocked them all out.  

JM:  Maybe they're starting to act a little bit like brats.

DR:  It's a clip though.  We'll have to see it in context.   Thank you so much Nate for being here. 

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