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Secret Scene: Kourtney
Kourtney volunteers to kill a chicken
for her tribe.
 <day 2>
<After various people spot chickens,
Chelsea grabs them>
Kourtney (solo): Chelsea grabbed two
chickens. That's awesome. I draw so much inspiration from
her. It gives me inspiration to do more.
<when the ladies debate over who should
kill the chicken, Kourtney says they should just cut its
head off>
Kourtney (voiceover as Monica and
Kourtney walk off with chicken and machete): The girls
decided they needed a chicken sooner than later. Nobody
wanted to kill it. So I basically just decided, we need to
get this done.
<various people nervously watch
Kourtney, then applaud her after she beheads the
chicken>
Kourtney: I'm shaking.
<Monica encourages and hugs her>
Kourtney (solo): I feel valuable,
providing for my tribe, because I felt like I stepped up
to something not everybody's gonna wanna do.
Monica: Now we gotta pluck him. We
gotta figure out how to get all the guts out.
<later, Monica is in the water, trying
to degut the chicken; Kourtney tries to give a
suggestion>
Kourtney (solo): I'll be pretty
upset if they screw it up, since I had to kill the damn
thing. But that's OK. Instead of voting people off, I'll
just use the handy axe, and that way I won't feel bad
about voting people off. Cannibalism. It's gonna happen.
If somebody gets on my nerves, and I'm thirsty, I'm
hungry, and I hear human flesh is like really sweet. And
we're getting to that point.
<Kourtney watches as Christine says the
chicken isn't done and they should stick it over the
fire>
Not the Standard Soccer Mom
Kourtney is a motorcycle mechanic who
hopes to do well in Survivor for her and her son.
 "I'm a motorcycle mechanic. We work
mostly on vintage Japanese motorcycles. You don't want to
spread yourself too thin or else you're not gonna make any
money. We don't make enough money as it is. Probably one
of my lowest paying jobs, but the most gratifying for me,
for sure."
(cut)
"My job is constant problem-solving.
Even if it's a really simple job, like take these cars and
strip them, you always find something wrong, there's
always an obstacle thrown in your way, especially working
on old bikes, you don't always have the resources
available. So I think coming out here, that will help me
because you really are forced to think outside of what you
normally want to. There is a very rigid and logical basis
of how you have to approach a problem, but you have to
think outside the box with that type of work. Here, I
think you really do. You have to get really creative with
your surroundings. I think that's where I'll be
comfortable, and find my niche, I guess."
(cut)
"People do judge me because of my
tattoos, but if I worried about what people thought of me,
I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning."
(cut)
"I didn't think tattoos would get me a
lot of attention, at first, because when I see people with
tattoos, I don't go up to them and go <puts on 'dumb'
voice>, 'What's that for? What's that?' It's one of
those things you kind of admire from afar. People will
blatantly come up to you and be like, 'Why'd you get
that?' And I'm like, 'Well...'"
(cut)
"Basically, yeah. Most of my tattoos
are kind of, I got them for sad reasons. They marked a
certain point in my life. It's a lot of unwanted
attention. I got them for myself, not for other people. I
guess other people feel like they have to say
something."
(cut)
"I am nervous about the pace things
move in this game. I've watched previous shows, and people
form an immediate alliance. I'm thinking, well, you gotta
feel everybody out. But you have to do everything quick
quick quick. You have to hope the person you kind of hook
up with, if you do, is gonna kinda me as solid as you are,
until they don't need you or you don't need them. I am
intimidated by that. It's gonna be like high school times
a thousand. But it's kind of relieving to know it's a
game."
(cut)
"You can kind of expect certain things
from people, and you can certain things you wouldn't
normally do in real life. It's a game where everyone is
working towards a similar goal, and hopefully no one takes
a lot of things personally. At least I won't. I hope not.
I don't know. Once I'm emaciated, and hungry, and
exhausted, I might be like, 'I CAN'T BELIEVE...'
We'll see."
(cut)
"I'm not the standard soccer mom at
all. Never. Ever."
(cut)
"I'd like to think my kid thinks I'm a
cool mom. He tells me that a lot. It's pretty nice. I
remember the first time he said, 'Mom, I love you.' That
was really sweet. The other day, he told me I was the most
beautifulest mom in town, and even prettier than one of
the girls in his class. I was like, oh, that's so cute.
But yeah, we shoot zombies together, I tell him stories,
we wrestle, we do a lot of fun stuff together. We like to
swim together."
(cut)
"Those are my best memories of my kid.
He's a lot of fun."
(cut)
"I'm doing this for my kid, and for money. I have a
lot of things I'd like to square away in real life, and
this is an opportunity of a lifetime. I'm sure that's so cliché,
but it kind of is. I'm at this point where what do I have
to lose? I'm at a point in my life where I need to change
something. This is not what I was expecting, but when the
opportunity arose, oh God, I would regret not doing it. At
the stake of my reputation, but like I said, I don't care
what anybody thinks. But yeah, I'm out here so I can
square away some financial things for me and some members
of my family. That's what I hope to do. And I want to fly
helicopters. I can do that with this. That's a big
thing."
Kourtney the Day After
Kourtney reflects on her time in the
game the day after she exits Survivor.
"My experience in the game of Survivor
was...different."
(cut)
"It was 3 days. It was hot and sweaty
and chaotic, and I didn't know what was going on half the
time. I just remember really wanting to prove myself, and
I remember being afraid of the challenge, and being
curious about the guys but not wanting to deal with them,
because that seemed premature."
(cut)
"Being in an all-girl tribe was really
intimidating. Girls intimidate me. That was kind of
revisiting my adolescence. It was different. I was kind of
looking at it as something I could dive headfirst into,
because everything I do is ridiculous and I don't think
about it before I do it, I just do it. Coming on Survivor
was one of those things. It's now or never, I'm gonna do
it."
(cut)
"My friends and family, if they watch
the one episode, they're gonna laugh at me for sure. For
sure. They'll probably feel bad I hurt myself, but I think
I'm going to be the brunt of a joke for many moons to
come. But that's OK. I'm willing to take on that
responsibility. I know my Mom's gonna love it, because she
used to call me Grace, because I'm so clumsy. Then I break
my arm..."
(cut)
"The social part of the game was the
hardest for me. Just because immediately - I guess there
were so many unknowns with the social aspect of the game,
and it was so soon, and I knew things were going on, but I
wasn't a part of those things. I had to sort of draw my
own conclusions and read people. One thing that was easy
for me to read situations, non-verbal communication
between people."
(cut)
"But immersing myself in it was
tricky. I was able to, when something seemed a little
difficult for me, I was able to, oh, well I have some
time, I'm gonna bide my time, I'm gonna weave these palm
fronds, I'm gonna do things around camp. To me, the
survival part of it came so easily, because I'm so
fascinated with going back to basics anyway. I've
romanticized going off the grid, and growing my own food,
and slaughtering my own chickens and stuff. I kind of got
to see what that might be like. I liked it."
(cut)
"My best moment on Survivor, aside
from the catastrophe, was...it sounds awful, but when I
killed the chicken, I guess. I'd never done anything like
that before, and I kind of felt like I wanted to take that
burden off Monica. I know she felt like no one else was
gonna do it, so she had to do it. I could see on her face
that she didn't want to do it. I felt kind of brave. I'm
sure it's no big thing, but I'm a city girl, so that's a
big thing for me. I really wanted to know what it's like
to appreciate the meat I'm eating. Going through that,
being such an animal lover that I am, that was my big
moment, probably, I think. The only other thing I did was
weave palm fronds. I tried to help with the shelter, but
it was beyond that; everyone was too chaotic and
disorganized. I feel like my moment to actually contribute
was probably helping provide dinner that night."
(cut)
"I do think I have the mental and
physical capacity to make it to day 39, and I really,
really wanted to see what that would be like. I wanted to
fight hard to get there, but, as fate should have it, it
happened."
(cut)
"I need to get into flight training.
That's one of my major goals. I want to fly helicopters.
When I get home, I'm going to enroll in school, get a
second job, find a good place - I'm looking to buy some
property, and try to move on with my life. This has been
like a really nice vacation."
This Is My Island
Troyzan
feels at home on Survivor and is ready to defeat his
competition.
"My name's Troy Robertson. I'm from Miami, Florida -
actually, south of Miami, by about an hour. I just turned 50
yesterday. I'm a freelance photographer."
(cut)
"I got the name Troyzan because I've always been known
as a jungle guy. I live in a little tropical - it's a
10-acre jungle. I used to work with chimpanzees, and
orangutans, and capuchin monkeys, and I raised a family of
12 marmoset monkeys. It just kind of, my friends started
calling me Troyzan, which is a play on words. The hair, and
the look...they're like, you're like Tarzan, but you're
Troyzan."
(cut)
"I'm a freelance photographer. I've worked with Sports
Illustrated, the swimsuit issue, for the last 5 or 6 years.
It doesn't get any better. We've got this exotic location,
the greatest girls on the planet, supermodels from all over
the world. We have a great crew."
(cut)
"It's what every photographer dreams of, shooting the
Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. You can't beat
it."
(cut)
"I'm totally an athletic person. I've been that way my
whole life. I swim almost every day. Not in the ocean, but I
go to the ocean, and I swim when I can in Miami. I've been a
cyclist, I've raced bicycles. I've constantly, on my
property, 10-acre property, I'm running around like a jungle
guy. I climb trees - we have 200 avocado trees in the grove.
I'm always climbing up them. With the monkeys I used to
chase around, and work with the chimps, it was like wild
man. I have a definite advantage. I feel completely at home
here, I really do. The environment, the humidity, the bugs,
everything."
(cut)
"I'm-I'm-I'm at home. This is my sand."
(cut)
"This is my island. This is my island, people. Just get
out my way. I got, what, 17 people to get rid of? 17 people.
That's it. That's nothing. I've been waiting 4,000 days to
do this. 4,000 days, since the very first episode. The very
first episode I saw, with Richard Hatch running around
naked, and people scrapping for food, and all that. I
frickin' freaked out. I said, 'That's it. This show is mine.
It's created for me.'"
(cut)
"Watching the show over the seasons, I thought, oh,
it's physical, how many fish we can catch, how much food you
can get, who's not gonna starve. I didn't realize how much
of a mental game it was until I actually got here and
started looking at people and realizing how much I was
thinking, even when I'm laying down at night, or looking at
the stars. That's all I'm doing, is calculating - what would
she do? What's she really like? What's he like? What's he
gonna do? Is he looking at me? Is he looking at somebody
else? I see what people are doing when they just react to a
fly that lands on their hand. Are they freaking out? Are
they going like this? (waves his hands around in panic) Are
they just touching their toe in the water a little bit? What
are they doing? I want people who are paranoid, like, 'Oh my
God, it's raining,' or, 'Oh my God, a rat just crawled
across me.' They're gonna freak. If their mind starts to
freak all the time, throughout the day, I can plant seeds in
their head of whatever I want. I can be like, 'Holy Christ,
I saw 8 rats down there, what are we gonna do? Lightning's
gonna hit us. We're gonna die out here. We're gonna die.' If
they quit, hey, they quit. If they come running my way, hey,
all the power to me. I'm Troyzan, baby. (flexes his arms and
laughs) Let's roll. It's gonna be classic."
(cut)
"When I used to watch Survivor, I was like, a million
dollars, gee, that'd be awesome. But I've been striving for
this so long, it's been my quest, to get on Survivor and do
the adventure of a lifetime, and push my body, my mind, my
soul, to the ultimate spirit. It's one of those things where
I wanna win so bad, and the million's just gonna be the
icing on the cake. I don't think about the million. I
haven't been thinking about the million. I just want to win.
I want to be the greatest Survivor of all time. That's all I
think about. When I win, the money will just be like, oh my
God. It's hard not to think about it. Like, Jesus, I'm here,
17 people away from one million dollars."
(cut)
"I carry a million dollar bill around in my wallet.
It's a fake one, but I've carried it for 11 years, saying,
at some point, I'm going to cash this in. I'm going to look
at this as a million dollar bill. It's fake but I'm going to
get the real money. The energy is pulling it in."
I'm a Leader
Matt is
looking to lead his tribe and influence others to vote for
him at the end.
"My name's Matt. I'm 33, I'm from San Francisco,
California. I'm a trial attorney, and I specialize in
personal injury law."
(cut)
"Personal injury attorneys get a bad rap at times, and
I think it's quite unfair, actually. It's a long story, but
basically, there's a big battle between big business and the
insurance companies against trial attorneys. Trial attorneys
typically fund the Democratic Party, and big business funds
the Republican Party. Oftentimes there's a big kind of media
fight, and oftentimes, big business and all their money wins
out, and people think everybody like me is some kind of
ambulance chaser and in it for myself, which is totally
untrue."
(cut)
"I'm not going to tell everybody I'm a lawyer. I don't
want that to work against me in any way. I don't want people
to think I have some big advantage with the jury, or to
persuade people, or have some way with my words, which I do,
and that will be my advantage, but I don't want them to see
that, initially. I think being a lawyer, you're a
problem-solver. That's going to help me out here. I interact
with people, I solve people's problems, including my own. I
think I'm at a pretty big advantage when it comes to
that."
(cut)
"I'm a big Survivor fan, and I've always dreamed about
coming out here on the show. Now that I'm actually here, and
it's about to begin, I'm just anxious to get going. I want
to play an aggressive game, I want to play it as hard as I
can. I want to enjoy it all, experience it all, and whatever
I can do to maximize that, I'm going to do."
(cut)
"By my nature, I'm a leader. I'm a terrible follower or
subordinate, so that's not what I'm going to do. I'm looking
to find somebody that will initially give me their vote and
allow me to control them. That will give me more power in
the game. I'll have two votes instead of one, of course. I
want to slowly but steadily build the dominant alliance in
my tribe in the first few days."
(cut)
"People are going to view me as a physical threat, and
I am going to be athletic in the challenges. That's gonna
help me out of the chute when I'm on a team with people. It
will allow me some time, too, leading into the merge, to
kind of set my hooks, kind of develop those relationships,
work on my alliances. But really, I'm relying on a lot more
than just that. I think there are some people out here who
offer more than athleticism. The strength of my game is
going to be strategic, it's going to be using my social
savvy and charisma to manipulate the game, manipulate the
group, to make it what I want it to be."
(cut)
"I have some experience in the outdoors. I've camped,
and backpacked, and whitewater rafted. I was a Boy Scout
when I grew up. That being said, I'm a white-collar guy. I'm
a lawyer. I live in the big city. I oftentimes don't get out
to promote places like this. It doesn't intimidate me in any
way, and I think I'm just as capable as most of these people
in terms of getting around out here."
(cut)
"My biggest weakness is probably my reluctance to
follow. Out here, in a big game like this, there's a lot
going on socially. If I'm constantly pushing myself to the
front, constantly trying to have my way, people are gonna
want to get rid of me. I'm either gonna annoy them, or I'm
gonna threaten 'em. Either way, they're gonna want to get
rid of me. I'm gonna have to do my best to pick my times to
when I want to step to the front, pick my times to when I'm
loud, and other times, I just need to back off. If I'm
unable to do that, that could be my doom."
(cut)
"Of course I wanna win a million dollars. Who doesn't
want to put a million dollars in their bank account? I
recently opened my law firm. Of course having a million
dollars would go a long way to having security in that
regard. But more than anything, I want to win. That's not to
say I don't care about the money. Of course I care about the
money. But I want to win. When I'm out here playing, I'm
playing to win, I'm not playing to win a million dollars. I
don't sit around and think, 'It's for a million, it's for a
million.' That's not my attitude at all. I recognize it's at
the end of the rainbow if I get there, but I'm here to win,
I'm here to compete, I'm here to play a competitive
game."
(cut)
"My biggest concern going in is when we hit the merge,
and this game turns individual, that I'm gonna be a target.
That's why I'm trying to create some us vs them attitude
going into the merge. Whether that be my tribe, whether that
be my alliance vs someone else's. I can't ever allow the
people around me to view it solely as an individual game,
because if that's the case, I'm gone. My goal is gonna be to
let us get them, whoever that might be, and then work on
them, buying me more time on the island."
(cut)
"I think the #1 thing I'm gonna rely on out here is my
charisma, and my ability to interact with people, to have
people want to be with me, want to work with me, play with
me. I think ultimately at the end of the day, that's what's
going to get me the farthest."
People Underestimate Me
Leif knows
that people usually underestimate him and he plans on using
this to his advantage.
"My name is Leif Manson. I'm 27 years old. I was
originally born in Santa Fe, New Mexico."
(cut)
"What I do for a living is a phlebotomist, a vampire.
They basically draw blood all day, every day. They really
have to overcome a lot of people's fears. Some people these
days are just terrified of needles, and with that, that will
really help me in this game, because reading people, that's
what this game is all about - reading people. When people
walk in my front door, I can tell right away if they're
gonna be passing out on me, or if they're gonna make it
through it."
(cut)
"A lot of people with the terminology when it comes to
little people, or midget, or dwarf. Medically, I am a dwarf,
because I have proportionate limbs, but midgets have smaller
limbs. People nowadays really should have more of an open
mind. Living so closed-minded, nobody lets anything in. You
don't learn anything, you won't learn something new. That's
what I'm all about - learning something new everyday."
(cut)
"I am so super 100% excited to be here. I can't believe
I've made it this far."
(cut)
"Just thinking about how many people I had to go
through to get to this point and just have 18 people left in
front of me, it's an unbelievable, out of this world
feeling. There's so much energy I get from that."
(cut)
"What I get a lot from people's impressions is they
underestimate me a lot, in some senses. That's where in the
game, I feel like people will underestimate me, and they'll
be sorry. (laughs)"
(cut)
"My strategy in this game is mostly to adapt, because
it is a game. That's what I've had to do all my life,
adapting and figuring out people and what makes them work,
how to get in that niche of getting my numbers strong and
making sure they are all on my side, and getting all the way
to the end."
(cut)
"Also, the girls, the girls, I know, just being
married, they definitely can confide in married guys and
open up. They think little people are cute, like stuffed
animals, (mock female voice) 'Oh, he's so cute.' With the
guys, it's definitely gonna be tougher, when it comes to
playing the game, with being my size, but I'll definitely
shock and awe them."
(cut)
"I do have a daughter. She just turned 2 about a month
ago. She also has hypochondroplasia, like myself, which was,
to be very thankful for us, because I have never had any
health issues growing up."
(cut)
"From day 1, since my daughter was born, she has slept
8-9 hours a night. She's been a real...blessed.
Blessed."
(cut)
"I know some of my weaknesses or Achilles' Heel are
definitely memorization. I'm definitely not a memorization
type of guy, so that will definitely trip me up. Anything
that has to do with puzzles, or any kind of physical
challenges, I am so ready, so prepared."
Group of Five Strategy
Chelsea reveals her strategy to win the game.
 "My
name is Chelsea. I'm 26, and I'm a medical sales rep in
Charleston."
(cut)
"I think with the guys, they'll find comfort that
I'm not here to flirt with them and mess with their heads. I
have a serious boyfriend back home. Hopefully I can be one
of the guys like I am back home. Hopefully I don't come off
as intimidating to them. I kinda want to be like one of
them, instead of a flirt."
(cut)
"My family and I, we go on a trip every year to go
spear fishing. I'm hoping that helps a lot. Hopefully people
will want to keep me around if I keep them fed. I do hunt,
so hopefully being in the woods and stuff I'll be able to
catch some wild game. Stuff like that's gonna help a lot. As
far as being in a sales position, I have 7 years of sales
experience, and it seems like all it is is selling yourself,
so if people like you and trust you, they're gonna buy what
you have. As far as the game, having that sales experience
and getting to know people and how to talk to them and what
they like to hear to get them to be on your side, that's
gonna help a lot too."
(cut)
"I do like to hunt. I'm actually a member of a
hunting club back home. It surprises people when they come
to my house and I have a 10-point buck over my bed. I have a
duck and a fox and all kinds of crazy dead animals around my
house. I think that surprises people a lot. But yeah, I've
been hunting since I was young. On our horses, we go quail
hunting. It's not like I'm going to be out here with a gun,
so I don't know how much that's going to help out here, but
I think being in the woods and stuff, and being comfortable
with being outdoors, I think that's gonna help."
(cut)
"I think I'm very athletic. I feel like I'm in the
best shape I've ever been in. I like to lift weights a lot,
and I'm good at golf. I played golf in college, which also
surprises people. Rode competitive horseback riding most of
my life, was state champion of that. The things I know I'm
good at, I just give it 110% until I'm the best. I think my
athletic side will show here."
(cut)
"My strategy for Survivor is I think 5 is the number
to have. If I can start out at the very beginning having a
group of five, and if I can talk them in saying 110% trust
is what we need, and if we can get those 5 to get the rest
of our tribe off, and by that time it will be the merge, and
hopefully those 5 can take off the new tribe that comes in.
If we can make it to the final 5, I think it's every man for
himself. Hopefully the individual challenges I can knock
out. But we'll see how it goes."
(cut)
"I'm here to win the money. There's so much I could
use it for. I'm also here to win. I'm here for the
adventure. I think there's so many life lessons to learn
when you're out of your comfort zone and live off the land,
be very resourceful. I think it's something you'll learn and
be able to use forever. I'm here for both reasons, but I'm
not gonna lie, that million dollars is gonna be on my mind
the whole time."
(cut)
"I think what's gonna help me from my past is just
growing up being a hard worker. The way I was brought up is
you work for everything you had. I've had a job ever since I
was 13. Not complaining, and getting the job done, you see
the fruits of your labor. I think growing up, not having
things handed to me, is gonna help out a lot out here."
(cut)
"What would make me lose this game would probably be
my feistiness. Sometimes there's stuff that gets to me that
I want to just say what's on my mind. I have to tone that
down a little bit. My redneck side can come out like that,
and I have a mouth on me like a sailor, and I don't wanna
rub people the wrong way."
(cut)
"People that irritate me are people that complain
all the time, they want you to pity them for some reason, or
just complainers in general. I'm out here to have fun. I
don't want this to be a miserable 39 days. I want to get to
know these people, hopefully end up with lifelong friends at
the end of the day, and hopefully win it. But I think if
there's someone complaining it's gonna really, really bug
me."
Huge Fan of the Game
Kim plans on using her people, athletic and outdoors
kills to help her succeed in this game she loves.
 "I
own two bridesmaid dress boutiques. One is in San Antonio,
and one is in Austin, Texas. I do it with my very best
friend and have been for almost two years. I think it's
helped me, because I have to work with really difficult
people at times, but every once in a while we do have
mothers or brides who are really tough. I think I've learned
to be cool, to calm down and to be able to calm people down.
I'm hoping that will help me in some way, in this whole -
and just working with women. Sometimes throughout my life,
women have told me I'm intimidating, so just helping people,
trying to make them comfortable, I think that will help me
in the game."
(cut)
"I think being 5'10'' and being a woman, sometimes
girls are intimidated by me. I'm fairly athletic. I'm not
that athletic, I try really hard, but I do think sometimes
with girls it's immediate. They seem put off. I try to seem
really goofy and weird and hopefully kind of be myself and
not carry myself like I think I'm something. Hopefully that
puts them at ease."
(cut)
"I did great in the outdoors. It's been 4 or 5 years
but I used to be a backpacking guide and whitewater rafting
guide in Colorado. It's been some time, and I've gotten used
to being comfortable, but I'm excited to go back outside and
get back in touch with that. I love living simply. I know
it's uncomfortable and I know this is going to be an
umpteenth degree to anything I've faced before, but I've
been in some tough scenarios before. I've been really cold,
and really hungry, and all of that. I'm hoping I can tap
back into that. I think I can go to a mentally tough place.
Even growing up, playing athletics, and being a part of a
team - my dad's a football coach and I've played sports my
whole life - I think I know how to go there and grin and
bear it. More than maybe most girls."
(cut)
"My dad being a Texas football coach had a huge
impact on me. I played sports all growing up, got lots of
pep talks, lots of win the day mentalities that are stuck in
my mind. I think that's made me tough in a way...he taught
me to compete. When I said mentally tough, I don't just mean
challenges. I just think I know how to go to a mentally
tough place I don't think a lot of girls know how to
go."
(cut)
"I just recently got divorced, so this is perfect
timing. I'm so excited to be out here. I feel really free.
I'm thankful every day of my life I'm not doing that
marriage. I know we both are."
(cut)
"Having come out of a marriage, doing life with
someone else, working really hard on my businesses, this is
so exciting to be out here and be doing it for me and I'm
thrilled. This is an incredible adventure to just be here
and not have to worry about anything, and take a break, and
do something for me. Exciting."
(cut)
"I'm a huge fan of the game. I have been watching it
for years, sitting in front of the television, screaming at
it. I'm passionate about the game, I love the game. I really
can't believe I'm here. I'm pinching myself. This is so
surreal. I loved the Chronicles of Narnia growing up, I was
hoping Narnia was real and I could go there. I feel like
I've arrived. I'm so excited. I can't imagine being here and
not being a fan of the game. I feel like it gives me a huge
advantage having watched almost every season. I at least
know some things to look out for. Don't come across like
you're trying too hard, and don't come across too bossy when
you're building the shelter, the men don't like that. That
gives me at least a little bit of an advantage."
(cut)
"I'm hoping to win the game because I engage people
well, and they trust me. It's going to be genuine, and it's
still a game, and I'm gonna play the game, but I genuinely
enjoy connecting with people and learning about people. I'm
interested. I think I'll make really great connections. I
know I'll have to screw some of those people over, and
hopefully they'll get over it, but I do think my social
skills and being pretty perceptive will get me pretty
far."
(cut)
"I think if I were to get voted out - I've thought a
lot about this - I think potentially I could be too trusting
and I get invested in people and there's a chance I could
really connect with someone and really trust that and they
might in the end, weigh their losses - not that they
wouldn't care about me - and cut that string. I also think a
weakness..."
(cut)
"Is maybe being too social, and too competitive.
Again, I want to come out full force but I'm a little
nervous I will come across as a presence."
(cut)
"I'm hoping doing well at the challenges and being
good socially in the game will keep me around long enough to
develop enough relationships that could potentially take me
far. I don't think I'll be one of the first people to go.
I'd be really surprised."
Not a Stereotypical Asian
Christina is ready to use her varied interests and
experiences to help her win the game.
 "I'm
an executive recruiter. I do placements for entry-level to
experienced to executives for multi-level media, sales,
marketing, PR. How it applies to the game - I talk to people
all the time. My job is to screen people and see whether
they're a good fit or not. Sometimes I have candidates who
say oh, they really want to be in sales, because they wanna
make a lot of money. Deep down inside, I know they're not.
What I do really well is I ask questions, to have them to
come up for their own answers, that they're not a good fit,
and maybe they should do something else. That's what I'm
going to do in the game. I guess it may be seen as
manipulating, but I don't want someone who's not the right
fit and (?) the tribe."
(cut)
"Even though I'm very strict when it comes to
business, and very serious about it - I'm very good at what
I do - I'm very lighthearted, and fun, and silly, with my
friends. They kind of see my as a goofball, but that kind of
comes to my advantage, because I'm not too much of a threat
to people. I'm a guy's girl, so all the guys like me, and
I'm a girl's girl, because they don't see me as a threat,
like, 'Oh, this girl's trying to sneak this guy from me.' I
don't do that at all."
(cut)
"I also am a freelance journalist too. I write about
travel and food - my passion is food. Already I'm thinking
about alternative, what can we do to make our food
interesting, so we're not limited to certain things. How do
you make salt from the sea water, for the coconut. Do that.
Make the fish a little more interesting, put a little of
papaya mix to it. I don't know. We can make it a lot more
interesting instead of just having the rice there. I think
that's probably gonna bring some value to the tribe, like,
whoa, this girl knows how to cook, even though we have
absolutely nothing. (laughs)"
(cut)
"I'm not a stereotypical Asian girl. I'm not. I
think that's what a lot of people are gonna see. I did have
a strict mother growing up. I did learn how to play the
piano, but I quit, because I didn't like my teacher. I did
play the violin in middle school, just to suffice my
mother's happiness, but I gave up. You know, I'm going to do
the hell what I want, she's just going to have to accept me
for who I am. The other side of me started coming out.
Freshman year in high school, I started doing pole-vaulting,
which is like unheard of. Like, who is this girl, and why
aren't you concentrating on your academics. I became this
social butterfly girl and started ASB, Associated Student
Body Council, and was like, you know what, this is who I am.
I'm a very social person. I love people. I'm a risk-taker. I
like to go all balls out and charge."
(cut)
"When I'm not in the office I go out all the time.
In LA, I'm usually at the Santa Monica Stairs, I do Runyon
Canyon."
(cut)
"I go to (?). I try to do everything outdoors as
much as possible. I grew up doing action sports, surf,
skate, snowboard. I love the outdoors. Being out here is
like a vacation for me. This is awesome."
(cut)
"I've always admired the show. I've always loved the
obstacle courses, that gets to play the game. The childlike
in me wants to play the game. I'm 28 and I still like going
to Disneyland and Six Flags. It's fun. Why not? The upside
is I can win a lot of money. Anything I can see is this is a
once in a lifetime opportunity and I can say I get to
experience this."
(cut)
"I'm a flirt. I'm a natural flirt. I can't help it.
I flirt with everyone. I think that's my way to exude my
charms a little bit. I may even flirt with the girls a
little bit, just to make them feel comfortable. That's kind
of like my personality, try to make everyone feel
comfortable, but yeah, I'll definitely flirt."
(cut)
"Me flirting is me being totally strategic in the
game. It's how I make everyone feel comfortable so they can
trust me. It's my charm. They're going to feel comfortable
talking to me. I'm very good at listening to people, and
that's one way to have someone become very vulnerable, to
listen to them, and have them talk. I think that's what's
going to come to my advantage here in the game."
Nice Guys Don't Always Win
Jay admits that he may have to be cutthroat to win this
game.
 "I'm
Jay Byars. I'm 24 years young. I'm from Gaffney, South
Carolina, and I'm a model."
(cut)
"Sometimes modeling is harder than it looks. You have
to stay in shape, obviously. You can't just go around eating
anything you want. You have to take the role they give you
sometimes. Yes and no. It is an easy job, but it's fun."
(cut)
"My tribemates probably are judging me. I don't think
they'd be saying, 'Hey, look at this pretty boy,' they're
probably looking at me and saying, 'This guy looks like he
works out. I hope he'll be an asset to my team.' As far as my
modeling, I'm not going to tell them I'm a model. I'm gonna
tell 'em that I've been landscaping for the past 8 years. I
actually did to that prior to modeling, so I'm familiar with
that job. That's what I'm gonna stick with."
(cut)
"I'm not gonna tell 'em I'm a model because I don't
want 'em to think I'm some punk who can't pull my weight
around camp, is used to being waited on, or something, and has
it his way. If I tell 'em I'm a landscaper, they'll think I'm
a little more rough around the edges, which I am."
(cut)
"I'm definitely athletic. I love going mountain
biking, rock climbing. Always doing something outside. Always
playing basketball, racing motocross. That's definitely gonna
come out, gonna show who I am, really. I think it'll surprise
'em."
(cut)
"I think my athletic lifestyle and being an outdoors
type of person will definitely come into effect and will
definitely help me in this game."
(cut)
"The part of this game that concerns me the most is
definitely the outwitting. There's always so many factors. You
don't know who to trust, really, you don't know when to trust
'em, you don't know when to get rid of 'em. That's definitely
my biggest concern. I got some strategies in mind, but again,
you've just gotta be flexible going into this game."
(cut)
"I think this game too often overlooks getting the
strongest people out first, getting the most strategic people
out first. My strategy is to figure out how to do that without
myself being a target. Obviously, alliances. I'm gonna try to
make a girl alliance, so I can be in with the females as well
as the males. Obviously the weak people, they get out first; I
mean, in my case, if I hang onto a few weak people and make
friends and align with them, that's just more votes for me, to
keep me around. That's what I'm gonna try to do."
(cut)
"That's just who I am. I'm a nice guy. But, at the
same time, out here, you gotta cutthroat, you gotta not be
afraid to take risks. You definitely have to be strategic.
Nice guys don't always win, so that's definitely gonna be my
dilemma out here."
(cut)
"You look at the guys and the girls out here; I think
looks will play a factor in a few alliances. There's a few
pretty girls out here, but at the same time, my mentality is I
do not wanna be smitten with any girls out here, I do not want
to be caught up in a love story. I know that will come back
and bite me in the end."
(cut)
"I'm gonna use my looks as much as possible, what
little I have. These girls are gonna run around batting their
eyelashes, expecting people to go their way. I'm gonna do the
exact same thing. Young women, old women, whatever. I'm out to
stay for as long as possible, by whatever means."
(cut)
"Rock climbing is a total body workout. You have to
think about how you're moving, what's your next move.
Motocross, you can't get a more extreme sport. You have to
train your butt off for it. I believe it's a mental thing - if
you're racing for 2 hours, it takes extreme endurance on your
physical part as well as mentally, to stay alert the whole
time. All those activities are possibly going to affect my
game."
(cut)
"People look at motocross and say, 'Aw, that's not a
sport.' In reality, those guys train harder than any athletes
in the world, and it takes a lot of muscle and endurance to
throw around a 200 pound bike for, whether it be a 20-minute
moto or a 3-hour endurance race."
(cut)
"As a model, you have to take direction from a
photographer. You go in and you have to become whatever they
want you to be. You can kind of act. Those skills will play
into this game. If I think a person wants to hear something or
see me be a certain way, I can kind of take on that role, or
let them perceive me as what they want to do. Even the
modeling will play into this game."
(cut)
"This game is huge, the mental part. The mentality
that I'm gonna win, from day one. These people are playing for
second place. Any time you lose that mentality, I think you've
lost, if you didn't come to the game thinking you're gonna
win. I think I'm a strong-willed person. I don't back down
from a challenge. I never give up, never give in. That type of
mindset, throughout the game, every day in every specific area
- that's what's going to make me win."
(cut)
"I'd be afraid I'd blow it if I just did something
stupid like really did get caught up in a girl-guy
relationship. I'd just put a big target on my back. Maybe I
was naive to it. Maybe just opening your mouth at the wrong
time, because normally I try to speak my mind. Anything can
happen in this game.. Whether you think you're playing a
perfect game, you can get blindsided out of nowhere. You just
really never know."
I'm Here To Win
Monica is a successful and devoted mother and wife
who is set on winning Survivor.
 "I'm
Monica Culpepper, I'm from Tampa, Florida, I'm 41 years
old. I've been married for 20 years. My husband and I met
in college, kind of love at first sight, and have been
married 20 years. He played football for an All-American
in Florida, and Southeastern Conference Hall of Fame. I
was homecoming queen in 1991, president of my sorority. We
have 3 kids now. A 14 year old son named Rex, a 12 year
old son named Judge, and a 10 year old daughter named
Honor."
(cut)
"My husband's name is Brad Culpepper, and he
played pro football for 9 years in the NFL. He was drafted
by the Minnesota Vikings and played there for 2 years.
Then he went to Tampa Bay and played there for 6 years,
and to Chicago for 1 year. Had a wonderful 9 year career.
It was all (I can't understand this part), and a great
time."
(cut)
"You know, there's a big misconception that NFL
wives are these spoiled women that have everything and
just sit around and do nothing. But actually, your
husband's out there on Sunday and you're surrounded by
armchair quarterbacks, you're surrounded by people who
have all the answers, you're surrounded by fans that boo
and don't like you. Right away, you get a really thick
skin."
(cut)
"NFL defensive lineman don't marry soft chicks.
They just don't. I may look pretty on the outside, but I'm
tough."
(cut)
"We're really devoted to our children. You only
get one chance at being a good parent. There are a lot of
days I think it would be so much easier to get up and go
to work and let someone else deal with it. But every
single thing matters to Brad and I. It matters that when
they answer the phone they say, 'Culpepper residence,
Honor speaking, how may I help you?' It matters to me that
they shake people's hand and look them in the eye and have
confidence. It matters to me that their homework was done
because they understood what was happening. Any nanny, any
babysitter could say, 'Get your homework done!' but it
matters to me that they understood the process to learn.
It matters to me that they win Tropicana Speech, and
science fair, and Battle of the Books, and they're on the
Math Bowl team. You only get one shot, and this is a
really competitive world. It matters to me that they like
music, that Monday through Friday, the TV never comes on,
there's no video games, there's none of that. It would be
a lot easier to say, 'Oh gosh, watch TV, I gotta go cook
dinner, I gotta pay bills.' Or, 'Oh my gosh, the air
conditioning just broke, we just had a hurricane, there's
a flood in the house.' But that's not the way we roll.
It's all about no TV, no computer games. On the weekend,
you got free reign. We push our kids, we work 'em hard.
But Brad, this is his second career, practicing law. His
philosophy is, if it's not making me money, my kids
better, or helping my teammate Monica, then I'm not
interested. He really does come home at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon to see if there's a lot of projects, if there's
anything I can do to help. Maybe the boys wanna work out.
Does anybody wanna play horse. Maybe someone just needs
Dad hug. We pride ourselves on that. I really feel like as
parents you want to do the best you can do. You don't want
to look back and say, I wish I would have done such and
such. I feel like in my house we're raising tomorrow's
All-American future Presidents. We're trying."
(cut)
"I think I'm gonna take a page out of Tina
Wesson's plan. It's been a while since anybody's done it.
My plan was to come in and find the alpha male, kinda try
to find Brad, basically. Coax his ego, tell him how good
he is at everything, be his mom, be his right arm. My
thought for that is I'm going to bridge the generation
gap. I am old on this show. I'm 41. I may not look like
it, and I'm in as just as good of shape as the women, if
not better, but I need to bridge that generation gap and
not be in the old people, because a lot of times they do
get rid of the old people. But in challenges, I won't be
dragging. Secondly, by merging, making an alliance with
that alpha male, I'm kind of getting rid of that boy/girl
thing. If the boys all say get rid of the girls and the
girls all say get rid of the boys, I'm hopefully trying to
help that. I'm also not afraid of taking a page out of
Sandra's book. As long as it's not me, I'll put down
whoever you want. I think I'm gonna make that first
alliance with that male and then see about alliances with
some other females."
(cut)
"I'm willing to do what it takes because I didn't
leave the love of my life and my three kids for this long
to lose. I'm here to win. I so so so have this daydream
here about chasing my husband through stadiums all over
the country, cheering my heart out for him, and for once,
having him come to the Survivor stage with stars in his
eyes and cheer for me, yell and scream my name. I will do
whatever it takes to get to that. That loved one's visit
is monumental to me."
I've Done My Homework
Jonas has studied past seasons of Survivor to avoid
the mistakes that others have made.
 "My
name is Jonas Otsuji, I am 37, and I'm born and raised in
Hawaii."
(cut)
"I am a sushi chef."
(cut)
"So I've got a wife and three kids, and yeah,
their ages are 8, 5, and 4. Two girls, one boy."
(cut)
"I think I'm going to be good at this game because
I'm calmly aggressive, and that's the type of people that
win this game. I think the overly aggressive people, they
come out looking like they wanna kick ass. Those guys -
and they're super-buff - they always get voted out because
they're threatening. I on the other hand am just a sushi
chef. How bad-ass can a sushi chef be?"
(cut)
"I think that sort of calm, laid-back, but inside
I am intense, and I'll do whatever it takes to win.
Whatever I need to do to get business done. That's why
I'll win."
(cut)
"People are always surprised by me. I think it's
because, I guess it's the way I talk. That's the one thing
I get all the time. 'Oh, you talk like you don't worry
about anything, like you don't care about anything.' I'm
glad people perceive me that way, especially in this game,
but if they could get inside my head they'd know I was
scheming and thinking about all kinds of tactics to take
them down. (laughs)."
(cut)
"Taking chances for me, I don't know another way.
My wife calls me a wild man. She calls my ideas
cockamamie. She's like, what are you doing? My uncle said
it best - I'm the gas and she's the brakes. I've always
been that way. That's just how I am. I gotta go big or it
kills me inside. If I don't take chances it eats me
alive."
(cut)
"I have done my homework on this game. I've
watched every single episode, like most people, some of
'em twice. I've watched all the jury speeches. I know the
game inside and out."
(cut)
"I have sort of a general idea of what I'm going
to do, but I understand at the same time that the people
who usually do the best don't have any strategy. They know
if A happens, I'm going to do B, but when, and with who, I
have no idea, so my style is no style, meaning my style is
what's appropriate at the moment. I'm a chameleon. I'm
whatever I need to be to get my objectives done."
(cut)
"I grew up in Hawaii so I know how to spear fish.
I was on the high school swim team, so I can swim really
fast. I ran track. I did it all. That's what I love about
being the sushi chef, because they're like, I can kick the
guy's ass, he's the sushi man. That's the great part about
it, because I'm so much more than that. I purposely didn't
come into the game all ripped and buff, with my shirt off,
because that's not how I want people to perceive me. I
want people to perceive me as the non-threat, sushi guy,
let's keep him around because he makes sushi all day. That
kind of thing. I like that."
(cut)
"About 3 years ago I filed for bankruptcy. I was a
real estate investor, I had 10 properties. I was high on
the hog. I had $230,000 cash in the bank. I was going to
be the next (?). I was going to be rich bad. You know the
story, man. Everything collapsed. I lost everything. It
was brutal. I not only lost the money and the property, I
lost the respect from my wife, and that killed me."
(cut)
"So that's what's fueling me here, you know what
I'm saying? It's not just the money. It is the money, but
it's my respect I'm trying to earn back. It's saying to my
wife, you know what, I appreciate your realism, but you
were wrong. I am, my crazy ideas are not crazy. My ideas
are big ideas, yes, but they're realistic. If I had to say
the reason behind the million, it would be that. Coming
home and going to that reunion show and getting that check
and not even saying anything. Letting the money speak for
itself and say, I told you. I told you I was right the
whole time."
(cut)
"That's why I'm here."
There's No Stopping Me
Michael knows how to work others to get what he
wants and he wants to win Survivor.
 "My
name's Michael."
(cut)
"I'm a huge fan of the show. I've watched the show
for just about every season it's aired. The only show my
mom and I have watched together, the only show I actually
watched whole seasons of. It took a lot of work to get
here, but I'm here to prove I can handle it."
(cut)
"This is my third time applying. I tried and tried
and tried, and this last time I finally got on."
(cut)
"My biggest asset is that I can work with anybody.
I've told people before, my job, I work with drug dealers
to millionaires. That's my demographic. I can get along
with anybody. I can tell stories, get 'em to laugh, and
everybody trusts me. I think just with the array of people
out here, getting a good read on people, I know where
they're coming from. I can work with anybody."
(cut)
"My strategy coming into this - right off the bat
I need to make alliances with the women. That's huge. I
think if they got their head right, they would just vote
off the guys right away. If they just got together and
said, 'Let's vote out the guys,' the guys would have no
shot. That would be their greatest tool. My greatest tool
is I can flirt with the old ones and the young ones, just
to get on the girls' side right away. The guys, I can
handle that, but the girls, you have to win their
hearts."
(cut)
"My brother, when I was 16, he was 15. It was
summertime and he was out camping in the woods with his
friends. One of the guys stole a gun, and they were
playing, and it just went off. It took about a week before
he passed away. He was shot in the head. It was a huge
family moment, and it brought us together. Not the best
circumstances, but kind of showed me who I am and I became
a leader in my family, over my dad and my mom. They didn't
have the mindset to control the way things were gonna go.
I kind of took the reigns and led the family."
(cut)
"Yeah, losing my brother - it changed me...you
can't say that's for the better, because that's a huge
moment in your life, but it made me realize I can do
anything I want to do. If I want something bad enough,
I'll get it. This show, if I want to win, I'll get it.
He's out here with me during the game with me, hopefully
keeping me out of trouble."
(cut)
"I'm definitely single right now."
(cut)
"I will take it as it comes. I'm not opposed to
letting anything happen out here. If I have to work one of
the ladies to get farther in the game, I'll do that. I
don't want to hurt any feelings, but that's life."
(cut)
"My family, we grew up camping. We were always out
there, rain or shine. We were out there as a family,
camping. We started tents - that's not much, I can make a
tent. I can make one out of leaves and sticks. I'm not
opposed to getting bit my mosquitoes. I'm OK with getting
sunburnt and not eating for a while. I'm really excited to
challenge myself with the extreme of no food."
(cut)
"My biggest thing is the lack of sleep. I like to
get my sleep. 7 hours a night. I can't sleep when there's
noise. If somebody's snoring, I am not gonna be happy. I
can't stand when people eat, the noises they make, stinky
people. Those are my big three."
(cut)
"I don't think there's too many challenges I'm
gonna have. I know I'm a worker, I like to stay busy. I'm
capable of catching food, that's not a problem. I just
need to keep my mouth shut. When I get irritated, I run my
mouth, and that's the biggest thing I have to do, just zip
it. Don't put a target on your back right away, let
everybody else do that. Let everybody else mouth their
angers and all that. I have to keep my mouth shut."
(cut)
"Being a physical threat - I think there are few
people here that are more of a physical threat than me.
That's what I like to see. I'm a physical threat on the
outside, but I have a good personality, I'm witty and
funny, and that's gonna buy myself a lot of time and a lot
of points with everybody."
(cut)
"I'm gonna win the million dollars because I can
work well with anybody. I can feel what's going on. If I
feel the tides are turning in my direction, I will plant
lies in their head. I have a way with getting what I want.
If I need something, I will make it happen. There's no
stopping me."
I'm a Super Fan
Colton is a ready to use his extensive knowledge of
Survivor to make it to the end.
 "I'm
Colton. I'm 20 years old and...I'm originally from
Monroeville, Alabama, which is the home of To Kill a
Mockingbird, Harper Lee, but now I'm in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
I'm actually fixing to transfer to Auburn, for veterinary
school; I'm gonna be a vet."
(cut)
"I'm a huge fan of Survivor. I've watched the show
since I was 9 years old. I remember Richard winning, when I
was 9. I hated him. When I really fell in love with the show
was when I was 10, when Elisabeth, she was Filarski then,
was on the show, and I was in love with her. Ever since
then, I know every person that has ever played, first and
last names. But not only that, I know why they got voted off
when they did. I know who voted for them. The people who
won, I know why they won."
(cut)
"I live with my boyfriend. We've been together for a
year and half. He's in law school."
(cut)
"I've been out since I was 12. I came out when I was
in sixth grade. In school, everyone was just kind of
like...it was kind of like I was the new pet. Everyone was
like, 'Oh, we have a gay kid? That's cool.' When I
graduated, I had some moms coming up to me, literally
crying, like, 'When you came out in sixth grade, I was
really worried about you being in Little Joe-Billy's class,
but you totally changed my perception of what it is to be
gay and what gay people are like. That's what I'm hoping to
do on the show. It's like I'm representing two groups out
here. I'm representing the gay community, who's gonna disown
me when they find out I'm Republican, but I'm also
representing the superfan, who want to be on this show, live
to get on this show. I am a superfan, so I'm representing
both of those groups. I hope I do them proud. (laughs)"
(cut)
"I'm Southern Baptist. I've grown up Southern
Baptist. My boyfriend and I are both out in church. Everyone
knows, everyone just kind of embraces us and loves us and
treats us like everyone else, a normal couple. Out here, you
have to kind of leave that at home. I'm not going to go just
hogwild and streak down the beach or kill someone, but as
far as having morals and stuff, there's only so much you can
do in this game that's moral. You're gonna have to lie,
you're gonna have to cheat, you're gonna have to steal to
get to the top. If you look at the past people who've won
this game, very seldom have there been people who played a
strict honest game and own. If I have to lie, I'm gonna lie.
I'm not saying I want to, but I will."
(cut)
"I know I have what it takes to win. I'm not the
type of person to sign up for something if I don't think I'm
going to win. I have that competitive drive where I don't
care if it's a board game or a potato sack race. If I don't
think I'm gonna win, I'm not gonna play. I'm definitely
coming out here knowing I'm gonna win."
(cut)
"My strength is definitely my social skills. I'm the
type of person, I know how to get people on my side. I know
how to play the adorable card with the girls. Girls love me,
especially hot girls, and there's plenty of those. As far as
guys, the guys aren't gonna see me as a threat. If you look
at Survivor on a scale, during the beginning, you get rid of
the weak people. When it comes to the merge, you cut off the
strong. I'm going to be sitting there on this little
pedestal, right in the middle, because I'm not weak, but I'm
definitely not the Fabio of my season. I think I've got
it."
(cut)
"My Achilles' Heel in my game will be if I get to a
certain point, and everyone I've aligned myself with is
gone, my alliance is picked off one by one, and I'm the last
one there, and I don't like these people, that's going to be
hard for me. I'm not the type of person - if I don't like
you, I'm not going to make an effort. In the beginning of
the game, it will be different, because I will be not
starving, I won't be as miserable as I will be towards the
end. Towards the end, if I'm the last one standing, if I'm
like Colleen from Borneo, the last Pagong, if I'm the last
one standing, that's going to be hard for me."
(cut)
"I'm on Survivor because 1, I'm a huge fan. I've
wanted this for so long. The first time I applied, I applied
illegally, because I was only 18, and you have to be 19 in
Alabama. The second time I applied, it was legal, and I got
on the show. I'm super-excited to be here. Secondly, I love
to push myself. I want to see how far can I go. I know I'm
gonna win, but I feel like I've never pushed myself to this
extent before. Third, just because obviously the million
dollars. Who doesn't want a million dollars? I'm getting
ready to go to vet school - that's not cheap."
My Plan
Monica reveals her plans on sharing her husband's
background with her tribe mates.
"My plan, 100%, is I'm going to tell people I am a
physical therapist, which is the truth - I don't work - and
if they ask if I'm married, I'll say yes, I'm married, and
my husband is a lawyer. I will hold very close to the cuff
that my husband played the NFL, because I think the minute
people think you're established, you're out. Even Jimmy
Johnson tried to play that card. Hey look, I'm here to help
you the whole way, they're never gonna give me the million
dollars, I don't need it, I'm a superfan. It didn't work.
Right away, Marty said, we gotta get rid of him, people have
stars in their eyes, get rid of him. Taj George, she did
tell, she did say, 'I'm Eddie's wife,' and she got fourth
place. If I need to use it, I will, but in the beginning,
again, I think you've just gotta get out there and see
what's happening."
(cut)
"More than anything, for me, I think it's about
setting an example. I want to feel like I can show the young
girls hey, you can be married and have teenagers and still
look fabulous, and have abs, and be in good shape. To the
women that are 40 - hey, we can do it. Like Eleanor
Roosevelt says, "If I can give women any advice, it
would be, do something that scares you every single day. It
will keep you young." I think of that every day. My
kids say, 'Snowboard, Mom.' 'Wakeboard, Mom.' Whatever it
is. 'Go on Survivor, Mom!' I'm willing to try that
adventure, for 40-year old women, to say, 'Hey, get in
shape, try this.' And to the older women and men that are
watching the show, 'Hey babe, get a little more like her.'
To me, it's so much about having fun, a personal growth
experience, truly. I've made this 9th round NFL longshot
into an NFL superstud. I've made these kids into these sweet
little creatures that are so accomplished and are never
gonna be in our house. It's my time. How busy am I? What do
I have? I'm willing to see."
(cut)
"My whole life has been about Brad and the kids.
This opportunity came along and they all 4 have jumped in
100% and said, 'Mom, you've gotta do it. It's always been
about us and now it's your time.' Brad said to me, 'You're
special. Go out there and let some people see it. I
sometimes feel bad I've smothered you and put you in this
role, but it's your turn.' He grew up on an island in the
Gulf of Mexico called Dog Island, where there aren't grocery
stores, there aren't restaurants. You can only get there by
boat. You do the stingray shuffle. There's no point in
building a dock because it will be blown away in the next
storm or hurricane. Everything I've learned about the
outdoors in the last 20 years we've been together, he taught
me. He's an Eagle Scout, my boys are on their way to being
Eagle Scouts. He's a tad hair like Tarzan, and he sure
wasn't going to go let Jane do this until she was ready.
Something really special we did before I came was, we went
to an island with no matches, and very little food, and
three kids, and lived. We caught fish. Of course I grew up
with him teaching me to do those things, but we fished, and
got the fish, and cut down palm fronds, and made little
sticks and roasted them on the fire, and I made fire with
glasses and magnifying glasses and magnesium bar, and the
bottoms of Coke cans. Making my tender bundle, laughing with
the kids, 'Everybody get the lint out of their pockets, get
the lint out of your belly buttons, it's really flammable!'
Making fires. Digging stingrays and throwing castnets. He
put me through his Survivor. When I reflect and I see it,
it's really been a whole family experience for everybody.
The kids have learned so much. My daughter especially. She's
not a boy, so she's not in the Boy Scouts, although she'd
like to be, but it's been a whole family commitment. The
real Survivor in my house hasn't been me, for doing this,
it's my guy. He's home with 3 kids, 3 football teams, 4
basketball teams, 4 baseball teams, gymnastics, piano
lessons, Scouts, for a long period of time with no mama. I
laughed. He said, 'Come on babe, it's your turn to go make
the million. I know you can talk the talk and walk the walk.
The kids know you can talk the talk, but show 'em you can
walk the walk.' So that's why I'm here."
My Strength Is My Weakness
Sabrina is worried that her social skills could both
help and hurt her in the game.
 "My
name is Sabrina Thompson. Most people call me Sab. I'm 33.
I live in Brooklyn, New York. By day, I'm a high school
teacher in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
I'm also a jewelry designer."
(cut)
"Being a teacher in Brownsville, which is probably
one of the roughest parts of Brooklyn, is insane. I
literally jump off the train, I'm dodging pit bulls, I'm
stepping over syringes, Cripps on the side, Bloods on the
side. I hold my breath until I make it through the school
doors. The school has its pros and cons. The kids are
really good at heart, it's just the environment is
absolutely crazy. You gotta take off the makeup, put the
hair in a ponytail, and you go in on a mission."
(cut)
"Ever since I was this tall, at the age of 6, I
started off running track. Not leisurely, but real
professional, blaze around the track. (?) was my coach. We
traveled around the country. I absolutely loved it. From 6
to 21, all the way to college, I ran track. I was able to
get 51 full track and field scholarship offers from
Division 1 schools. It was great, it was wonderful.
However, the college experience is much different than the
high school experience. It is work. For people who think
college athletics isn't work, it's hard work. Thinking
back on those moments where you're just vomiting, bending
over, you think your lungs are about to be detached from
your body, those moments prepare you for a larger than
life moment like this, where you know it will be hard
physically, mentally, emotionally. If all that prepared me
for this, then so be it, it's worth the show at a million
dollars."
(cut)
"My strength is also a weakness. I'm a great
socializer. I'm the person who gets everybody together and
says, 'OK, do this.' It's gonna be an authentic stroking
of their ego, to win their loyalty, and then that's when
you go in for the kill. Also, you have to know when to
pull it back, because sometimes I talk too much and get
too opinionated. Then you don't want to rub people the
wrong way. But what you see is what you get with me, so
for me to master the art of lying and being cunning,
that's going to be the most difficult thing for me. But
when money's on the line, you gotta do what you gotta
do."
(cut)
"Three and a half weeks ago, I found out I was
going to be on the cast of Survivor. However, about two
weeks prior to that, I got a letter from our mayor of New
York City, and education chancellor saying that due to
budget cuts, X amounts of teachers and police officers are
going to be laid off. I'm just like, of all the
professions, cops and teachers, really? I didn't stress
out, but I was like, 'Lord, what am I going to do?' And 2
weeks later, I get an e-mail from Survivor, out of the
blue. That was really wild. It couldn't be better where I
literally have the summers off anyhow. This might be a
very, very long summer. If I can end it with a check for a
million dollars, it might be a dream come true."
(cut)
"It's outwit, outplay, outlast. My thing is it's
not a spring - that's what I have to keep reminding myself
- it's a marathon. I'm going to take it day by day, get to
know everyone. People like to feel validated. Once you
feel like you're kind of close to them, you gain their
trust. For me, the socializing part is going to be my #1
thing. #2 is you really have to kick ass during
challenges, show why you should stay on this tribe. Once
you get to the merge, it's a whole different
ballgame."
(cut)
"One thing only a few people know is that I am a
total germophobe. I wasn't always like this, but when I
moved to New York 10 years - and I love, love, love New
York, but it has it's cons, too. I do not touch subway
poles. I don't do it. I prefer not to shake people's hands
because you don't know what people have done with it. I'm
one where if I'm in a bathroom with you and you're a total
stranger, and I see you walk out without washing your
hands, I'm like, 'Miss, you're really gonna walk out
without washing your hands?' I'm one of those people. Hate
me or love me, it may save me from getting massive
hepatitis . So, yeah. Drinking behind people. God knows if
there's a challenge where I have to drink behind somebody,
I'll just have to suck it up. I'll never let them know I'm
a germophobe. Just drinking behind somebody, that's gonna
kill me. But yeah, I'll be OK, it's mind over matter. It's
only for 39 days."
(cut)
"I'm here to win, and I'm not gonna quit. I'm not
a quitter."
I'm Not Going to Tell Them
Nina doesn't plan on telling the others that she is
a retired police officer.
 "My
name is Nina Acosta, and I am an executive
secretary."
(cut)
"I used to be a Los Angeles police officer, for
about 12 years."
(cut)
"I liked teamwork, I liked camaraderie, I liked
hanging out with the guys. I wanted to be their buddy. I
wanted to be their partner. I wanted to watch their backs.
It was the perfect fit for me. It was the best job I ever
had. It was absolutely kick-ass. Every day was different.
It wasn't like a desk job, like what I have now. You go to
work, you go out and arrest some bad guys, thrown 'em in
jail, do like this <smack hands together>, and the
next day, you start all over. New day, new challenge, new
adventure. When you had a good partner, it was a blast.
I'm not kidding. Best job ever."
(cut)
"My life now is awesome. It's more than I could
have ever dreamed."
(cut)
"My kids are great. My stepkids are the best.
Joel's the best day."
(cut)
"My life's really different now. I'm all about my
family. I get home and cook with my husband, have a glass
of wine, look at the yard. But I sure miss it. When I got
the call, I was shocked. I was like, OK, I can channel all
that, I can channel that tough chick again. Bring it back.
Thank goodness I kept myself in reasonable shape."
(cut)
"I'm not gonna tell people I was a police officer.
I think people have a bad taste in their mouth for cops.
And I get that. I don't think I'll do that. I think I'll
try to make some alliance I can keep for a while, and I
think, as I start the game, I think there are some folks
here who don't know what they're in for. I really don't. I
think that the people who win, or at least historically -
and I've watched a lot of the seasons - they come from a
team that survived the longest until the merge. They had
the numbers. I think I'm gonna push that. Let's get rid of
the weak, because that's only gonna make it worse as the
challenges go on. Without being too obstinate about it,
I'm going to try to encourage people that person A may be
really nice, and I like 'em too, but the longer it goes
on, we keep losing challenges because someone is dragging
us back. I think that's important. I think I have to
really get my head around the fact that you're gonna have
to somebody. You're gonna have to. You can't like
everybody. You can't convince people you're everybody's
friend, because after the first Tribal Council, that's
gonna be old story. I think you have to constantly be in
the game too. If you really wanna win it's gonna be
exhausting."
(cut)
"I wanna win the game, I wanna get in the game.
It's gonna be a kick in the ass. I have nothing to lose. I
can't believe I'm here. I really can't."
(cut)
"I didn't think it would be in the cards.
Somebody...it's like my friend said. The heavens opened
up. Just go for it."
Adventurer & Romantic
Tarzan reveals his background and how it will help him
in the game.
 "My
real name is Gregory Lantz - LAN TZ - Smith."
(cut)
"I'm a plastic surgeon in Texas. The reality is I
fancy myself an adventurer and romantic, and in my youth I
tried to inspire concupiscence in the cognition of every
female I've met until I met my wife, who then enured me in
an ether of matrimonial beatitude, in which I've been
encased for 30 years."
(cut)
"She was it. She does everything with me. She goes
to the jungle, she scuba dives, we've abseiled into the
Waitomo Caves. Many, many adventures. We've been with the
gorillas off the slopes of Mount Visoki, near Diane Fossey's
encampment. She's even wrestled, actually, with a juvenile
orangutans of Sepalot, Borneo. She's done everything with
me. For the last 30 years, truly, I've been truly enamored
and happy with her, not attracted in the least to any other
female than her, since I've met her."
(cut)
"I've watched Survivor for 11 years, and I've always
been fascinated by it, and also the psycho-social aspects of
it, because I'm interested in anthropology and primatology."
(cut)
"Then, a couple of years ago, I had the urge to sign
up. Someone said, 'Smith, you can sign up for this.' I
didn't believe it - by the way, I was working 90 hours a
week, that's why it was impossible. I've slowed up. I wanted
so much to be a part of it. That's the thing that made me -
I view this as a very adventuresome, romantic aspect of a
person's life."
(cut)
"I developed cancer. I had cutaneous lymphomatosis.
I'm in Houston, the biggest medical center in the
world."
(cut)
"Lo and behold, the docs I met weren't so nice as
me. I'm a fellow doctor, and they told me I was gonna die in
6 months. That was 8 years ago. (laughs) At first, I spent a
couple hundred thousand bucks trying to figure out what to
do about this disease, this illness, and meanwhile, I'm
gonna die in 6 months. I love my wife, and I had a hell of a
practice, a prolific practice, in Houston, one of the
hardest places on Earth to be a doctor and compete,
especially in plastic surgery. I thought, if I die, I don't
want to leave her strapped like the other women who have
been married to doctors. When your business is that
prolific, you don't know who's screwin' ya. I trusted
people, but not enough to let her be screwed. I thought if I
quit, all the bad stuff would be revealed, and I could help
her through it before I died. So I quit."
(cut)
"And lo and behold, after some radiation and stuff,
I'm cancer free."
(cut)
"The way I plan to stay in this game is to let
people know I care about them and I respect them, and seek
knowledge from them. People love nothing more than to tell
about themselves, if allowed, and remember what they say. If
I don't, people will think I don't care. That will be my
initial approach, which I believe will reveal the most about
them, and which I will incorporate into my memory, and
hopefully help me in a sense not only help myself, but in so
knowing them, help them. I believe in the human heart if you
help somebody, they can't help but want you to stay with
them. I believe that that's true, I believe that's
evolutionary. Psychological evolution. If I convey that
sense I believe I'll stay here longer, although I may just
be voted out right off the bat, for all I know, although I
hope not. I'd like to last as long as I can, go to the
end."
(cut)
"My Achilles' Heel is, to the depth of my soul, I'm
a leader, I'm a captain, I want to help people. It's real
hart not to interject when I believe they're being hurt, or
led astray. Unfortunately, if you do that, you're sort of
being the boss. The amazing thing is even when you try to
protect people, they resent it."
(cut)
"I'm very excited. I'm very hopeful. I'm very dreamy
about what may happen. All the potential creativity
involved. All the excitement of learning about the
personalities. Hopefully I won't be an idiot at the
challenges. It's an adventure, romantic, chimerical. I can't
wait to do it, actually."
EW Deleted Scene
<night 1, after dark>
Monica (?): OK, girls, is Cashmere single or not?
Christina: I call him Clark Gable (a few seem confused),
cause he looks like Superman!
Sabrina: That's Clark Kent.
Monica: What about Adonis?
Kat: He's the hottest guy I've ever seen. Everyone thinks
he's so hot.
Monica: How old is he?
Kat: We don't know. No one's talked to him enough.
<they laugh about Kim being "old" at 28>
Chelsea (solo): For the first night, I'm pretty impressed
with our tribe. I'm having fun, and I think everybody else
is. <the women go to rinse off> I'm so glad it's girls
vs guys, and we don't have to worry about who's looking, or
what we look like.
<someone, I think Sabrina, jokes about peeing in the
water, and Alicia says to hold it>
<Man's camp>
Tarzan: You know what, I wouldn't be opposed to going
over and seeing what they've got so far.
Michael: They're too hardcore. I'm like, knock it off,
guys.
Bill: It's swim time. Underwear, bikinis.
Michael: Liar.
Bill: I'm serious. Go look.
Michael: I want to.
Bill: I know. This is why I didn't want to tell you. It's
heartbreaking. I don't want to go over there.
Bill (solo): Welcome to Survivor high school. We're at
the stage where we're treating the girls like they've got
cooties. If guys see you hanging out with girls, you have
cooties too, and that could cost you in the long run.
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