Survivor Live Internet Talk Show with Parvati Shallow
Episode 13 Survivor: Cook Islands  Cast-Off 
Segment 2 Transcript

DR:  Parvati, how's the finger?

Parvati:  The finger is good.  There's a tiny little scar and I sometimes get these little twinges of pain.  But it's good, it's all healed up.  I was so scared that I was going to lose my fingernail. 

JM:  You got to see Ado, who I love.  He's a trip.  Sometimes people on the show are in a lot of pain and he's so funny that he kind of makes you forget about it. 

Caller:  I want to know what challenge that you competed in, which one was the hardest?

Parvati:  The reward challenge that we had to do for the peanut butter when we were swimming back and forth.  Rebecca was on my team and she collapsed.  So I had to pick up the slack, me and Adam both did.  I had to swim three times and then you had to climb up this huge staircase and then jump off and bat something.  When we didn't win that was probably one of the lowest points for me. 

DR:  We were talking about during the break, this season.  And you mentioned that a lot of people thought that it wasn't so good.  You were catching some flack and obviously the mutiny happened to change everything around.  It made it a great season but what is also interesting is it turned your tribe into the bad guys.

Parvati:  Which was really strange for us because we had been the underdogs the whole time.  We'd been losing every single challenge.  So to all of a sudden be the bad guys after we already had to endure all of that defeat. It sucked. 

DR:  And due to nothing you did.  It was Candice and Jonathan.

Parvati:  We had no say as to whether they stepped off the mat or not.  They just wanted to come over because Candice, you know, liked me and Adam and wanted to get back over to the fun side. 

JM:  What were your thoughts about the mutiny when it happened right away?

Parvati:  I either wanted everyone to step off the mat so that we could just merge and get it over with or don't do it.  Wait it out.  There's going to be a merge in a couple of days anyway, don't do it because it's going to screw up the game.  There's going to be people that are pissed off and then people who are thinking, "okay now it's going to fuel our fire."  It fueled Aitu's fire.  That's why we lost so much, because they were so fierce and determined to win now.  

DR:  It turned into 8/4 but they had 4 good competitors.  You guys had to sit people out.

JM:  And Yul had the idol.  Not to mention, you guys stayed kind of like the mean kids even when you were still losing which is weird.  They weren't even winning anything but people were like, "I'm so glad they're getting their butts kicked."

Parvati:  Why was that?

DR:  Because you always root for the underdog.

Parvati:  Why were we the mean kids?

DR:  Because you had an 8 to 4 advantage.  

Caller:  You had like three opportunities to take out Jonathan instead you took out Jenny, Brad and Rebecca.  Out of those three which one would you most liked to have kept and what effect do you think that would have had on the game?

Parvati: I would have kept Jenny.  That really sucked, that whole situation where we had to vote off Jenny because we got the bottle and the message said we had to vote someone else out.  No one got a chance to talk about it.  If we would have kept Jenny I strongly believe that she would have remained loyal to Raro and she wouldn't have flipped like Jonathan did.  I think we would have had a fighting chance.  I loved Jenny to death, too.  She was like my little partner. 

JM:  I wanted to know how that came about because Jonathan got the second amount of votes on the first vote.  You'd think everyone would say, "let's just vote for Jonathan since he got votes the first time" but then all of a sudden it changed to Jenny.  How did you guys know that or did you have like a signal?

Parvati:  We didn't have any signal.  It was simply because Jonathan had our alliance from me, Adam and Candice.

DR:  Team whitey. 

Parvati:  And Jonathan, as soon as he mutinied, made it his goal to come up to everyone individually and be like, "trust me, you can trust me. We're going to stick this thing out."  Jonathan is very, very manipulative in a way that it doesn't make you feel like you're being manipulated. 

Caller (Madeleine from Malibu):  Hi, Jennaconda.  Parvati, I'm really confused by you because you received a really, really bad edit and because of this there's a lot of people on the message boards that really dislike you.  You were portrayed as someone who is very lazy and bitter and somewhat of a sleazy contestant.  Do you think you received a fair edit or do you think...or is that exactly how you are?

Parvati:  Ouch. 

DR:  This is a question that everyone is always asked about the edit. 

Parvati:  That's a legitimate question.  I did get edited as being lazy.  I think it was completely unmerited.  Jonathan was the only one who was walking around calling us lazy.  Jonathan was a workhorse.  He got up with the sun and went fishing every day.  Every second of every day he was active doing something.  But he wasn't there before we were all together in the tribe.  I was the hunter.  I was the one who would go out and get all the trochis, all the shellfish, the crabs, the clams.  Adam and I would go out.  Nate would get octopus.  As a tribe everyone pitched in and worked hard.  So I don't think we should have gotten the lazy edit at all.  The editors have to create a storyline and yeah we were the bad guys as soon as the mutiny happened.  Us being edited as a lazy tribe makes people dislike us more and makes people root for the Aitu tribe.

DR:  What about Ozzy and Yul and those other people seem to be saying the same thing.  They were saying, "Let's not even feed these guys.  They're not even doing anything.  Let's hide the food."

Parvati:  I think that was spurred on by Jonathan.  Jonathan and Ozzy were the ones who were providing food for everyone.  Yul never went out fishing.  Sundra, Becky never went in the water.  Singling one person and saying "we're not feeding you because you're lazy" is ridiculous.  Jonathan really wanted to win their favor, too.  And the Aitu Four were very intelligent how they played the game because they made decisions as a group.  So none of us could single one of them out on the jury and be like, "Oh, it was Yul's decision to not share the fish."  They made a decision as a group and they stuck with it.  That was their strategy, it was good. 

DR:  Whether you were working or not, I don't know.  But you were working it in the hot tub.  Let's check out the reward from Survivor last night.

<Video Clip>

Parvati:  See, why am I being portrayed by everyone...

JM:  Why are Yul and Ozzy so close to everyone when they're naked?

DR:  When the great Cook Islands Humpback Whale reared his ugly head Yul couldn't get away fast enough.

JM:  First of all, you said that Yul wasn't drinking.  But Ozzy looked a little tanked. 

Parvati:  Ozzy and I were carrying around a bottle of champagne.  We were imbibing. 

DR:  Getting back to the point that the caller made about the flirting thing...you use whatever you can use in this game.  Ozzy is great at the challenges.  Yul's very smart.  If the guys are stupid enough to fall for that like in your season or whatever, why wouldn't you do it?

Parvati:  I don't understand why we're villains if we're flirty.  It's just an innocent flirtation. 

JM:  It's another form of playing.  If Jonathan chose to mutiny and flip tribes why is that not so bad as someone flirting.  You're still trying to get to the same common goal which is to win.  Sometimes it's just easier for younger people, younger women, to use that.  It works.  It really does work a lot of the time. 

Caller:  Parvati I think you played a great game and that previous caller was a little bit not too cool there.  What did you think when they thought you were a more serious threat than Adam?

Parvati:  Actually, I was kind of flattered by that.  I think they were right because as soon as the challenges got down to the wire...

DR:  I think Jeff Probst was a stronger threat than Adam.

Parvati:  He is not the most agile guy.  He did win the math challenge.  So you can't really say that he's that dumb.  But I kind of took it as a compliment.  If you have to go out of the game, go out being voted out as a threat. 

JM:  And at least you tried and maybe planted a seed with Ozzy.  Maybe that will help.

Parvati:  I hope so.  I'm still pulling for my little old Adam.

JM:  I don't think Adam has a prayer to be honest with you.

DR:  No.  He doesn't have a prayer.  He never makes it to the final three.

Caller: (Bob from Alabama)  Parvati you did a great job.  My question is about your dad and winning the challenge last night.  This is Uncle Bob in Gulf Shores. 

Parvati:  I could tell the voice!

DR:  Talk about having your dad on the show.

Parvati:  The lowest point was earlier that day when I chopped off my finger.  I saw my dad come out at that challenge and I was an emotional wreck.  You get hurt and you need your parents.  He was great, the perfect partner.  And I'm a daddy's girl, too.  We vibed on each other.  And he had to chose the people that came, I was freaking out.  "Oh my God, pick George."   He's very intuitive.  And they got to spend the night with us in our camp.  You didn't see that part.  They stayed in our shelter.  My dad loved every second of it. 

<Probst's Thoughts>

Jeff Probst:  Parvati, okay, you said it: "I will use my sexuality as a way to get further in this game."  First of all, can I just say, did I say your name right?  Cause the entire show she tells me, "You're not saying my name right."   Well, I'm trying.  Parvati, I think, too, was a little underestimated from the intelligence side.  I think people see her and think, "cute girl, I'll dismiss her."  Mistake. 

JM:  I blame Jeff for everyone mispronouncing your name.

Parvati:  I love Jeff, though.  I thought he was an incredible host. 

JM:  Sometimes he really steps in.  Last night I felt like he really stepped in pointing out the thing with Yul and things like that.

DR:  Controversial move.  That's his job to do if he sees something but it turned into a big, big issue. 

Parvati:  Oh, he would definitely call people out.  No one could get away with anything. 

JM:  It was so obvious.  He [Yul] came and sat the hat right down. [Yul bringing Jonathan's hat to Tribal Council and placing it in the jurors section] 

Caller:  Was there ever a thought, even though everybody knew Yul had the Immunity Idol, to vote for him anyway to force him to use it?

Parvati:  We worked that angle as hard as we could.  They never showed it in the editing but we tried to get all of them to switch.  I approached Sundra immediately as soon as we found out that Yul had the idol.  I approached Sundra and said, "Sundra, you're kind of the weakest link here. You're probably the next to go."  We tried.  They weren't falling for it. 

JM:  It seems like Sundra is the one doing the least amount of strategizing and work in that four.  Is that accurate from what we see.  

DR:  She's a worker, though.  

JM:  We see Becky and Yul and Yul and Ozzy but not a lot of her.  Is that just editing?

Parvati:  Sundra was a part of the Yul/Becky alliance.  So she felt comfortable.  She didn't have to make any decisions.  She flew way under the radar.  No one would ever bring her name up. 

JM:  Also called riding coattails.

DR:  It wasn't necessarily riding coattails because what she did was, when you look when they were back at Aitu, she was on the way out, she was on the outs there.   She just kept her mouth shut and let other people do things to let themselves get taken out.  That wasn't necessarily riding coattails.  That was just being smart and playing under the radar. 

JM:  No perhaps.

DR:  Let's take a quick break. 

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