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We Need to Regroup

David gives his ideas of how to solve the problems in his Zapatera tribe.

"I think it's obvious there's a definite problem with the tribe, and I think it all spiralled from the Russell debacle. Getting rid of him was good and bad. It did unfortunately stop our momentum, but at the same time, it got rid of a festering sore in the camp that made daily life very uncomfortable. We now have to regroup and figure out how to put the differences aside and win."

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"How to get that through to everybody..."

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"That's gonna be my obstacle. At the same point in time, I may be chronically overthinking thing, and I may be in a lot better position than I think, mainly from the standpoint that nobody views me as a physical threat; at least the guys don't. I'm happy to have that problem because when it comes down to it the challenges after the merge aren't a brute force challenge. It's an endurance challenge, something you would never practice challenge, like balancing things, or balancing yourself. I'm not gonna say I'm a shoe-in to win anything but I have as good a chance as anybody in that kind of stuff."

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"There's always the assumption there's gonna be a merge. It happens in various stages. I've kind of gone through and done the numbers, and theoretically, there might not be a merge, just based on the days and the people and the breakdown of things. The need to just win is regardless of whether there's a merge or not. If there is a merge, we wanna go in with numbers, obviously, then winning is strangely less important because you can chip away at the others. If you don't have the numbers, you're the ones getting chipped away, though."

We're Getting It Done

Rob is pleased with his tribe's ability to put differences aside and come together to win challenges.

"Challenge felt good to win. Felt good to win two  in a row. Felt good to dominate them this time. I definitely realize that strength-wise, they may be stronger than us, but athletic ability, I think we got them. Grant and I alone scored I think every single point for our team. That was good."

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"We're getting it done. I'm always trying to promote team unity. Trying to get our tribe to get it done. Whatever it takes. That's always on my mind here in Survivor. Whatever it takes, get it done. I think even though we have differences, with Kristina gone, there's a little less animosity. All the negative energy is focused solely on Phillip. I try to promote that as much as possible too. Take any negative energy away from myself. In that respect, we've got our one punching bag and everybody else is doing fine."

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"The reward was great. I really should know better; after being on Survivor 4 times now I should know to take it easy and not to try to stuff myself, but I think I ate about 50 clams in two and a half minutes. We made ourselves sick. We've been out here two and a half weeks without food. It felt good."

Sarita Complains

Mike is getting tired of hearing Sarita complain around camp.

"Sarita should be concerned for a couple of reasons. I really like Sarita, for the record, I think she's a great gal. I have absolute trust in her. That's her saving grace. We can really trust Sarita and her vote. I don't think she's ever gonna flip on us. But she's been pretty weak in the challenges; she hasn't shown up much. She's a little complainatory, if that's a word. She likes to whine and complain a lot."

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"I can see her demeanor is starting to take a toll on individuals in the tribe. That combined with she hasn't been too strong at challenges is a couple of bullets against her. The one thing she's got going for her is she's seemingly very loyal."

We Need More Protein

Phillip explains why his tribe should eat more protein and do more around camp.

"I don't want bodies to wither away. That will reduce our numbers for our tribe. We're already down men to women, and everybody got excited about donuts and muffins, and they've eaten them, and they haven't gone crabbing since. For two days running now, almost two and a half days, we haven't gone crabbing. They don't need to. 'Oh, I need energy.' Scoop of sugar. 'Have a little honey.' That's not gonna get it done. It's a nice complement, but you need protein. That's what I've gotta try to get the tribe to do. We're all grown-ups here. I'm not here to parent anybody. But at the end of the day, the record will be clear that I felt that part of our strategy should have been to maintain our bodies, get protein every day, look for the natural resources that can help us, as I did. I did find the tamarind tree - I've eaten some today. I eat some every single day since I've found it. Go shake the tamarind tree, eat some tamarind. It's got B-6, B-12, all the essential vitamins in it. In addition to the activity itself renews you. You're doing your part in taking care of yourself. To see people just not do that, and expect to win challenges, when we're already down 4-2..."

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"It's (?) sometimes to restrain that which I know from life experience. When I put it out there, it's taken the wrong way. Some people here use this, frankly, view this as, I call it a beauty pageant. Relaxation. They sleep half the day, and when they're up, they're on the beach. They do very little in terms of gathering wood and sustaining the fire all day long. They do very little in gathering food, even if you point and say, 'That's a tamarind tree.' 'So?' 'There's crabs over there.' 'So?' They come and they stand and they watch others. I don't want to sound like I'm...all I'm saying is, if you're a tribe and you're playing as a unit, you need to be doing things as a unit to sustain your body, your mind, so you can compete in challenges. If you're not eating protein, or very little of it over 14 days, you're eating yourself. The only way you can counter that is a balance, from somewhere, somehow."

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"We need to be getting more protein. We have abundance of water. The only time you restrict protein is when you don't have a water supply, because it takes more water to process in the body than it does carbohydrates. We have an abundance of water. We have a well. We should try to get protein to maintain our <touches chest> mass. That's why bodybuilders drink protein drinks and eat protein bars."

Low on Energy

Steve explains why he and his tribe are struggling.

"We're all very low on energy right now. We've been subsiding on rice. We need some meat. We're really hoping for a challenge today because we feel confident there'll be food involved with most of the rewards from here on out. We're hoping for something today but man oh man, I'm worn out. I'm collecting wood while the other guys are fixing the roof."

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"Relationships, you always kind of get a rosy picture, probably rosier than it really is. In reality, we're all very tight. Stephanie has to let her guard down, or is playing the game, or is getting guidance from David or something, but she came over and apologize to me and offered an olive branch. She's got a long ways to go, she blew it from the beginning and then gave her a second chance and blew that one also. I do appreciate her making that effort and I'll play that game with her and let her think I'm completely on her side. I'm on her side a bit, I always have been, but I better watch her. Sarita's kind of a weak link in the group, she tends to get under quite a few of our skins, but she's a solid vote. We're trying to make a happy family, all 7 of us right now, and try to act like we love each other, stay away from disagreements and collectively come up with decisions and live to fight the next challenge and win and not have to worry about any divisiveness between the tribe."

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"I think one of the reasons we're low on energy is lack of sleep."

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"I haven't had more than an hour of sleep, in consecutive order, in quite a few days. You catch a nap whenever you can. We're all worn out. That's a big part of it too. A nap would revitalize us all. If I lay down now in the shade, the flies get me, so it's tough. Besides the food, we need shelter too. Getting the shelter solid is paramount. We're just kinda putzing along, moving at an easy pace with the day off. You could set a cloclk by it. Beautiful during the day and rainstorms every night. We've gotta get those things secured. Hopefully we'll get that under control and get a better sleep tonight."

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"You want everybody just working together and trying to keep a positive attitude. We're all in a tough environment. None of us are used to this. Keep a positive attitude, we're working together, same goal, win a challenge and maybe get out of here and get treated someplace with some Nicaraguan food and a little bit of relaxation, then come back here to a dry shelter that's got a new roof on it."

We're on a Roll

Grant is proud that his tribe crushed Zapatera at the Immunity/Reward

"We went in calm, cool, and collected, and just literally - I'm telling you, there's not much of a team collaboration with that group, there's not much of a team cohesiveness. You could feel it. We've got 'em on one leg right now; the numbers are even. I think all we've gotta do is just keep pushing and pushing and they're gonna fall right over. It's not as strong connection with them over there. It's a bunch of individual voices trying to outperform one another, and you could feel it. After we won..."

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"You could almost feel a wind being taken out of their sails. I think we can definitely capitalize on it moving forward. To go into this merge with numbers would be huge."

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"The challenge was definitely a strong point of mine. I love the fact that I'm still just known as a yoga teacher. (laughs) That's still the consensus of everybody. It makes it a lot more fun to do challenges like that, knowing that people just think you're a yoga teacher."

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"In reality, I have experience playing professional football. (laughs) There's another guy I learned, Steve, he played for the Dallas Cowboys for a while, and I know he's older, but he's nowhere near as effective in these challenges as I thought he was gonna be, from a physical standpoint or a great moving standpoint."

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"I'm excited. That was such a pump-up. Standing there on the mat knowing we all came together for that, not just me, everybody came together to make that possible, you could feel this spirit. We've shuffled some coal into this steam engine, and we're moving. You can feel it. You can feel it. I hope we have a challenge tomorrow, to keep it rolling, and have them down as a tribe. 6-5, then 6-4, and then 6-3, whenever the merge comes. I really feel like we're on a roll with this, and it's just keeping everybody on board with it. It's definitely a momentum-builder, and I honestly feel like they're standing on one leg. There's not one voice, just individual voices, and that will always come crumbling down. Always."

Yummy Reward

Andrea provides details of the reward Ometepe won.

"The reward was really wonderful. We got to go up on this mountain, and there was this big Jesus statue that was overlooking the whole countryside. It was really beautiful. There was also a gratuitous amount of food we all got to eat, and unfortunately I ate too fast, and felt sick afterwards. But at least I didn't throw up or anything and I felt better afterwards."

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"We had a lot of seafood. Crab's tails, and fish, and bread. My favorite part was the chocolate chip cookies, they were melting under the sun and would just melt in your mouth. Then there was iced tea, and potato chips. What else...salsa and guacamole. Just yummy."

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"There is definitely a reward in not going to Tribal Council. The main thing is we win immunity, but then adding a piece on top of that seems too good to be true."

The Challenge Was Pathetic

Stephanie is upset over Zapatera's poor performance at the Immunity/Reward Challenge.

"The challenge was freaking pathetic. I can't verbalize to my tribe what was missing, but I think really, the want of getting those balls. Rob was everywhere, because he knew the ball wasn't going to come directly to him. I don't think my tribe had that same urge, you know? Then Grant wanted the ball more than Mike did. Mike was going after Grant but in the end Grant wanted it more. Even the little girls were beating up on Ralph and Julie, who I thought were gonna do way better. Then Ralph's like, 'I see the ball coming after me and I was running towards it.' I was like, then run after it. Run whatever direction you see the ball. We try to go directly to you guys, then when you guys don't make the effort to make 125 steps before the other people, I don't know what else to do."

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"I'm frustrated and I'm like, holy crap, I'm going to Redemption Island. I've gotta try to figure it out. Run to the ball. Run where it's going. There we go, there's another advantage too, of having Survivor alumni on your team. He knew strategy, what's the best to do. Even if it's little advice, like, you're going to have to hustle for these balls. Just don't wait for it. You go and interject. That's what they were doing. Even if that was the piece of advice Rob gave to them, I'm pretty sure Russell could've given us that advice as well. Or something else. We had to go into it like we had no strategy whatsoever.

Phillip Had an Explosion

Grant provides details on Phillip's recent meltdown in camp.

"Phillip had what we'd call an explosion yesterday. An internal explosion of emotion, fire, passion. Unfortunately he took it all out on the girls."

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"I had really a chance to jump in it, but I thought, eh, let's let this thing play out, it's not my place to jump in here."

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"I think absolutely he's frustrated. I'm frustrated out here sometimes, but you've gotta swallow it. You don't erupt like that. If you watch anything about Survivor you have to know you can't just go on and explode and expect everything to be OK. I don't understand the thinking of it and how you can let a 19-year old, 21-year old, and 25-year old get under your skin enough, at the age of 52, to just explode like that. Explode and literally start attacking and walking towards people while they're walking away, and wanting to just feed the fire, feed the fire, feed the fire. I don't understand it."

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"Phillip, he has a point. If he asks the group to get firewood, I'll go and get it, because I know we need it for the night, and I know I don't sleep at night so I'll use it, so I might as well get some. I think the girls just got used to us guys - and Andrea, I think Andrea does a good job of it - they got used to us guys - they got used to us guys doing it. They wouldn't know how to start a fire. If they woke up in the morning and poof, all of us were gone except those two, I'd give 'em about three or four days. I think they'd eventually get it, maybe, maybe. It's day 15 and Natalie still doesn't know how to make a fire. Or Ashley. It's hard for me to grasp. You come to this, everybody wants to win. Yet halfway through you see all the things that people have done wrong. Yet here you are, day 15, falling right in the trap of, you might be viewed as not useful in your tribe. It's a problem. If I was them I'd be thinking of ways that I can become useful. Whether that be even small things like picking up wood. They do make the bed and things like that. I guess that's the beauty of the game. There will always be people who fall into these categories. People that explode. People that work. People that don't work. People that don't socialize. There's all these things. I think Rob is a good example of encompassing all those sorts of things. He's played this game enough to where you just sit back and observe and watch him, he's a good person to pick up on. I've definitely learned a lot watching him. I'm playing the game I wanted to play originally, and I'm lucky enough to have slipped in a spot where I feel at this point comfortable enough in my alliance with him to know I myself can be in a hot seat, or him as well. He's the only one I trust truly out here."

I Hate Going to Tribal

Ralph is disappointed at going to Tribal Council once again and hopes they vote out the right person.

"Well we lost our game, our challenge today, and we gotta go to Tribal Council."

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"They run Mike to death. Shootin' 'em low, wouldn't aim, like they didn't know how to aim. They said they could do good. I took their word on it. i knew I could catch good but never could get close enough."

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"I hate going to Tribal Council because it's bad news. We have to vote one off our team; no matter who we vote off, it'll shorten us down. Now we'll be 6 and 6. Our challenges could be even harder. We'll just have to work as a team and keep going."

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"Tonight at Tribal Council we're voting someone off, and I hope it's the right choice to make our team stronger. That's a gamble we've gotta take. I hope it's the right one. I just vote one time, so it's the whole tribe to make the right decision."

Happier on Redemption Island

Krista finds Redemption Island much more peaceful than the Zapatera camp.

"I actually feel kind of refreshed at the moment. New atmosphere. A different sleep, I felt. I did a lot of thinking last night, replaying how the last 13 days went and how last night turned out. Realized I gotta put all that behind me and I've got some things to do for the next day or two, and hopefully that's gonna be my focus, just to continue doing that for the rest of the time here."

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"Matt's got an awesome shelter. That's the most dry I've stayed in a downpour like that. There's something zen about being here with just myself at the moment, and someone like Matt, is really cool, to be here as well. It's actually very pretty here. Not as much terrain as the last camp, but you know what, I could make this home."

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"I feel happier here than in the game. When you feel surrounded by bad company, it rubs off. I'm a pretty positive person, so if I feel happier here, and it shows, you can tell there was some bad energy moving around there."

Crab Hunt

Zapatera heads to the jungle to hunt crabs.

<day 14; Julie, Ralph, Mike, and David>

Julie: Let's go crab.

Mike (solo): Part of the Survivor experience is to explore, to experience the adventure. We went out on a crab journey and it ended up being a voyage upstream, really great to be out here with like-minded that want to go around and go forage for food and go root around in the jungle together. It really passes the time well, and if you can be successful and come back with some food in the stomach, it really makes the experience better.

<they find a crab in the mud and beat it with a stick>

Julie (solo): We're having a crab party tonight. They're making us work for 'em today but it's gonna be worth it. I'm actually having a lot of fun. Yeah, I don't want my girls to see this and think it's OK for them to play in the mud, but it's actually fun. It's going to be funner eating them, though.

<Ralph gets another crab>

Julie (solo): I absolutely love going on the adventures with the guys. Hunting, crabbing, and fishing is as much fun as eating what we catch, and it's great bonding with these guys. We have a lot of fun playing in the mud and laughing and seeing new sights. It's part of the whole adventure.

<they put another few crabs in the bag and marvel at what they caught>

EW Deleted Scene

<Ometepe, day 15>

Rob (to Ashley): I have an idea. Let's do this. <hammering onto a tree> Hold it right here.

Rob (solo): I love building anything. That's in my blood. That's in my past. I've worked with my hands my whole life. I grew up working in construction. So I made a shelf. The thing is you have a lot of downtime here on Survivor. If you don't do something to make use of that time, pretty much everybody sits around and people start getting on each other's nerves. So I decided to keep myself busy.

Ashley: The shelves are so cute.

<they put various items on the shelves>

Grant: Nice. And it's gonna catch rainwater.

Rob: We got things going pretty good over here at Ometepe.