If anyone is interested, I transcribed the videos posted on CBS.com of each of the Survivors' interview.
Source: SURVIVOR SHRINE - Meet the Castaways Transcript
Meet Ace
I think I have the capacity to be interesting. I am very amusing, at least to myself, and the people that are at the butt of my joke don't usually find it
funny but it will be going specifically to confession so other than that, I don't know, I am fun, I am interested in other people. I love interactions. I
am physically adept in competition and around camp so I think I will be useful to the extent that they realize, well before they realize that I am manipulating
them. I think everyone will make me into the villain. Everyone will be like oh, you are the arrogant bastard. I think I have a very different upbringing and
background out of the 180 people that have ever been on the show. I just think that I am very different. There's a lot of aspects to me. The dualities are
just incumbent. I realize the detriment, not speak back, because I won't be a supplicant in that respect, but the moment I rile people up to such an extent
that I am intolerable to them, then I am done. So I will keep my mouth shut because I will have to. I do have a rich background I don't deny it, but since
I was 18 years old, I haven't had a penny from my family. So how does that hold against me? Everything I have done in the last 10 years, I have done.
I've worked in restaurants, as a massage therapist, I've worked as a chef, photographer, sales for Cartier, Porsche, everything I did, I earned. I
don't want anyone's hand out. When I win, I will earn it.
Meet Charlie
I am a 29 year old corporate attorney, born and raised in NYC and I am a huge Survivor fan. I've watched all episodes through my 20's. It
is a dream come true to be here. I cannot believe it. I am fun, outgoing and also very driven, very A-type, I also switch from being easy going and relaxed to
very focused and serious at the same time. I have enough to get me through in every category to get through Survivor, but not too much. If people think you are
a power house, you stand out, but if you are a lame duck, then you're out of there. Physically, I run marathons. Mentally, I went to an Ivy League school,
I'm a smart guy. I'm not a rocket scientist. But being almost the best in all the criteria will take me very far. I think you have to be very well
rounded player to win. People have to go in very flexible, if you adapt to the environment, people and to the situations, you will make it far. People say they
don't want to make a best friend out there, this is just a game, but in the last couple of season, the best friends have been sitting side by side. If you
can't be physical, or mental threat, you have to make alliances and friendships in order to get to the end. The people that make the biggest moves catapult
themselves to the end, so that's how you get the biggest rewards, you just can't play under the radar the whole way cause even if you make it all the
way, the jury won't vote for you.
Meet Corinne
My name is Corinne, I am 29 years old, I live in LA but I just moved from upstate New York and I am a pharmaceuticals rep. I am going to be really phony just
like my job because you can't be a bitch because you don't want to get voted off. So I'll have a lot of 1 on 1 with the cameras to tell the world
what I am thinking but I am going to try to keep that to just the camera. I don't want to be off putting to anyone, I am going to try and tame the anger
and the nastiness. My parents are nice and loving people, I was raised in a home where my parents are still married, I have a nice brother who is about to
become a doctor. I have no reason to be nasty but I am very cutthroat. Everything is black and white. I don't participate in any organized religion. I
don't have an inner moral compass, I just kind of do what I feel like doing all the time. Look you want to level the playing field here, there are other
attractive girls so if they start flirting with the guys, I will have to do the same thing. I can't imaging flirting or hooking up with a guy after you
haven't brushed your teeth or showered. I can't even imagine doing it without alcohol involved. Certainly I will play up any angles I have to make any
money, but it is not my goal to find some magical romance, in fact I think it idiotic when people on reality shows find romance.
Meet Crystal
I won an Olympic gold medal in the 2004 Olympic games in the women's 4x4 100 meter relay. Any person that has been an athlete pretty much
their whole life, that is the epitome of being an athlete. The chapter that I don't ever want to reflect on is growing up as a teenager. My mom was never
there, she strayed away, she was on drugs, taking care of my brothers. I'm bringing the 4 Bs, brains, beauty, blazing speed and brawn and my object in this
game is not getting picked off by any means in this. If I have to lie, I will, because I don't have to see these people another day of my life. Ever since
I have been in college, my life has been about time management. You can pretty much succeed if you stay focused, and you're determined and you manage your
time. I'm very organized. Down the road, I think I will let one or two people know but from the get go, they don't need to know from A to B, and they
don't need to know me either. All they need to know is that she is kicking ass, we need to keep her around. I may come across as intimidating at first, but
hopefully they will see me as an asset to the tribe. When we stepped off the plane, I was in awe. I was just like wow, because this is what Africa is, the lush
land, the water. Just really taking in the spiritual aspect. I am going to be the first Olympic champion and Survivor winner.
Meet Dan
I was an athletic kid growing up and the town I'm from is very sports oriented. I wouldn't describe myself as a tough kid but I definitely played
contact sports. Different levels of winning, I can come home if I don't win, and say hey, I'm in Africa. It is the last place I thought I would be a
year ago. I am here to win a million, I am here for my family, it doesn't get better than this right now. I want to take away from this a better
understanding of myself. I know I talk about having this idea with who I am right now. But being in a stressful environment, I hope that it only reinforces my
ability to not only lead, but to be able to blend well and live with those factors and variables and still be the happy healthy person that I am. I am a very
analytical person, that's part of my problem. I have been comparing myself all my life. I am going to say that I am an intelligent person, and I think that
will come out in the game. I think I have a good sense of people, and trying to make everyone around me feeling comfortable and that's selling 101.
Meet Danny
I didn't have a really great upbringing and as a result of that, it made me a very strong person. I only have myself to depend on, it has made me motivated
to take care of myself, I don't want to be in the same position as people in my family. I applied because they sit around and talk about, you can't
make anything happen unless you try. Money can change my life because I have been so long without it, struggling without it, pay check to pay check, I have so
many ideas on what I want to do with my life, but it just takes money. I don't want to try to do anything that will take my stand out too much. I want to
be helpful in every category, but I don't want to be like "Danny is catching too much food, or he's too good at the challenges." But I hope
that doesn't hurt me too much because I am good at something. I have experience with fishing, and being outdoors and being around really hot temperatures.
I feel I can at least provide and that's what might make people want to keep me around and I think, making people laugh too. If you want anything in life,
you just don't get free handouts, if you expect it, you usually get in trouble to get that fast money.
Meet Gillian
I've told thousands and thousands of people that I am going to play Survivor one day. I've applied 15 times, I have sent in applications
every time. I studied the show. I've kept myself fit trying to get on Survivors. I've done everything possible. Obviously it was waiting for Africa
again. I am an American citizen with an African soul, and it was waiting for me to come back so I can win this game in my home continent. I will not let you
down and so many of the older players have not come up to scratch and so I will not let them down, I am so delighted to be here to play. This is the most
amazing game, everything. I am absolutely with being the oldest and I am going to be the oldest winner yet. My life experiences will take me somewhere to do
something good in the game. I am not too keen on being bashed on but I'll manage. It's been great watching Survivor because you have this wonderful
cost of boobs and butts, I will be playing with a bunch of people with magnificent bodies. The whole world is looking, something they have missed, is somebody
that is like them. I am here playing for all the baby boomers and beyond to show that there is somebody with gumption and gut not just the boobs and the butts,
that I am going to get out there, and I am going to get out there and do it for all of them. Believe it, dream it, and go for it.
Meet Jacque
I do medical device sales in Santa Barbara, CA, and it is extremely competitive. I'm working 80 hours per week, non-stop, working until about 10
o'clock at night. The job is male dominated, it's like 80% men. Most of the people in my job are 10 years old, so I have to try to work my butt off to
build up my creditability. Ever since I was a little girl, I have been driven. I've done sports all my life, and I chose an occupation that is competitive
and I thought Survivor would be perfect. So I am a little nervous in that I didn't want to come off as a target or a threat to anybody. So at the beginning
I want to play the nice, quiet, shy card. Usually in situations, I try to be the leader but in this game, I am going to try to lay back so I don't become a
target. I'm from MN, and my favorite time of the year is when I get to go up to the cabin, and be in the lake and be around the wildlife. I love challenges
and rising to the occasion. I unintentionally flirt to every guy I talk to and I don't mean to, but I am in sales and that's kind of my job and I work
with physicians. I don't want a target on my back from the other girls. Even though I might try to flirt with the guys, and manipulate them a little bit, I
don't want that to get back to the rest of the group. Being from MN, I am genuine and I trust a lot of people. In the game, at the end, I am only going to
make alliances with people I know I can keep them With. I am going to be a little standoffish with the people I can't, alright, I don't want to lie too
much in the game, well if a million dollars is on the line, who knows. Friendships are the #1 most important thing to me, so if someone crosses me, I will
cross them back, probably even worst.
Meet Jessica
Sometimes people come up to me and tell me I look like Marilyn Monroe. That has been happening since I was 12 so I used to impersonate her. My
nickname is Sugar, I got it at a 50's diner in San Francisco 10 years ago and I've used it at every 50's diner I have worked at, and I use it as my
pin up handle, and probably half the people know me as Sugar, and the other half know me as Jessica Kiper. I kind of keep them separate and sometimes they mix.
I think I am the comic relief because it's gonna be pretty hilarious to see me try and do some stuff. I'm sure I'll be falling and screaming a lot,
maybe crier. I'm sure I'll be crying through a lot of challenges, and crying through just everything that comes up. I laugh a lot too. I'm not
manic but recently I have been laughing and crying and sometime both at the same time. I have never been anywhere but Canada, but its kind of like a clean New
York. I am excited to be anywhere and Africa is pretty awesome, I am kind of fear for the experience. I've gotten good vibe from people, the older tall
gentleman with the bow tie and draws and the Spanish lady who has kids, I like her a lot. The boys, I like the boys. Flirting and my personality is probably
the best thing I got going for me because flirting is how I have been surviving for the last couple of years. I am kind of excited about starving to death
because I am hoping my ass gets eaten up first by my body. I have no will power when it comes to dieting so I think it will be good to have to starve. I think
I will be alright. I am brutally honest sometimes so I might have to watch my mouth and make sure I don't upset anybody by saying something I don't
really mean too. I'm the mouth of the south, I have to keep my mouth shut. Everything is going to be tough for me. I am going to miss sex, drugs, and rock
and roll a whole lot.
Meet Kelly
The best way to describe myself is I'm independent, I am very ambitious to succeed. I am confident, I am overconfident because my brothers were always
there pushing me around, hassling me, you do this, you do that. And if I want to put a worm on a fishing hook, I would have to do it. I would have to pull my
own weight the whole time, tough girl, strong, never cry. So I may look like this little blonde girl, but my brothers got me to be tough. I also an assistant
buyer and assistant manager at one of the top stores and I'm also one of the top sales people. I am easy into manipulate just by snoozing them a little bit
and giving them my charm. I'm probably going to have to utilize those skills and my ability to analyze people and what they are thinking. I can sometimes
switch over to act a different personality, that's what a sales person does. The reason why I'm probably on this show is my fill for this game. The
risk I took for missing a lot of things back at home, missing my brother's wedding, it kinda shows that I have a lot going for me and just my
overconfidence probably, my strong attitude. The coolest thing about Africa is that I have been dreaming to be here. I've wished so many times to go on a
African Safari on my honeymoon even though I am 22. I can't wait to see the gorillas, the warthog, the puma. Probably my worst personality trait is my
overconfidence, sometimes it's not a good thing. I think my strongest ability in this game, is my strong mind, competiveness, my athleticism. I think these
people think that I'm this blonde girl who doesn't know anything, can't stay in the wilderness, needs to comb my hair, that's not me at all.
I've grown up with boys, I've lived with boys my whole life so I know how the game is and I'm very strong.
Meet Ken
I am a professional gamer and I am the 5 time world champion for Super Smash Brothers Melee and basically the game is about building up percentages and hitting
other players and once they are high enough you can knock them off the screen. It a lot more complicated than that if you do it at a professional level,
there's a lot of mind games, you have to trick your opponents, lots of technical abilities, moving your fingers really fast, a lot of training goes into
it. I've been into gaming all my life. I think that I can tell them that I am good at these puzzles, keep me around and I can do any of these puzzles. My
fellow members of the gaming community, they probably will be very jealous of me for being on a reality TV show, how far I've gotten in playing this game,
to the next level, Survivor is just the next level. They are going to be in awe, their face is going to be priceless. Being out here is great, I've never
been to Africa, whole new experience, I already got like 12 bug bites, it's just the bugs are so attracted to me, they never had fresh gamer blood before.
They are calling all of their friends and telling them to get this, it's rare. I might not look like this, but I actually climbed to the top of Mount.
Fuji. I'm not scared of anything out here. I am just going to enjoy myself. I want to test my ability to live outside in the wild. I am the underdog coming
into this, people are going to underlook me, underestimate, they probably won't realize that I am here, to the point where at the end, they are going to
think, hey, he slipped right through us, we didn't know what hit us, this guy is very dangerous. When I win, I'm going to help my family out. I want to
open a family restaurant, it's been a dream for me and my sister. To have a backbone for my family, to have something that we can rely on. To be strong in
this game, it's just a weakness because they are just huge. How good is their balance, how smart are they, how fast are they, I think I can beat them at
challenges. I don't really care about the money too much. Every competition I've been to, I want the title more than anything, the money just comes
with it. To be the sole Survivor of my favorite TV show is going to be amazing.
Meet Marcus
I wake up every morning, and holy crap I am in Africa. Of all the places I thought I would be right now, this is definitely not one of them. We used to joke
around in medical school is that you learn three things, don't smoke, wear sunscreen and stay away from Africa because every crazy disease you read about
you would find it here. A little bit of me is actually paranoid here but I'm getting used to everything, same grass, same air, same ocean. I am starting to
enjoy it too. Everyone is kind of eyeing each other and sizing one another and I am really looking forward to finding out who these people I'm with are.
I'm definitely single so I am not going to complain if I am the Adam and there is a Eve in this "Last Eden." I would consider it but mostly in
the context that this is a game for a million dollars. Looking back to the previous Survivors, I think there is a combination of things to get people to the
final pair or final three. Usually it is a lot of conniving which I'm not the biggest fan of but I know when you are interacting with people, you have to
do a lot of things to make commitments with people, and certainly my experience with medicine and dealing with families, patients and all the pressures that
are coming in and you are trying to make a marriage of all these expectations. I think that will be a huge asset coming into the game when it comes to deal
with alliance. Being a physically fit person is a benefit because the challenges are exactly that, physical challenges. You have to be in decent shape to
survive 39 days out here. This game will probably bring out a lot of pet peeves I didn't know I had about other people. I guess I would say people who are
opinionated but they don't necessarily have a lot of understanding what their opinion is about. I run into a lot of people that think they know what
doctors do, but they don't. I can see that being really frustrating out here. In some ways, I have considered the actual stress physically and emotionally
is going to be rewarding because it is going to teach me I have depths of energy that I never knew I had before. It's going to teach me to interact with
people in a way that I never understood. And being stressed out and still having interacting with people is incredibly challenging and having to do it for 39
days, I haven't conceived it. So hopefully it will change me for the better.
Meet Matty
I am what they call a foolosopher, my biggest fear is taking myself too seriously. I think the world takes themselves too seriously, expert this, politically
correctness crap. I want people to lighten up and learn to enjoy their life, and not be so wrapped up in crap. They don't stress the most important sense a
human has, a sense of humor. I had a girlfriend from about the time I was 19 to 23 and I really loved this woman. She got fed up with my BS and the excessive
behavior and left me. It was the first time I have ever been dumped. It humbled me. That's when I sobered up a little bit, I stopped going to school and
stopped receiving the money. And life hit me like a ton of bricks like a Mike Tyson hook, it knocked me down. So for the last 10 years, I have been growing up,
I am fully self supporting, I am a personal trainer, I have a girlfriend that loves me I think, I have a dog, I've done a 180. I am a little too honest for
my own good, a lot of times, I annoy the hell out of people because I can't stop running my mouth. That is going to be a little hard, because I want to be
under the radar but with my personality I just can't seem to shut up. I want to remain true to my girl, my last trick is to be like flirt, or to make a
move with a woman, that isn't what I want to do. The thing I least looking forward to is running into snakes, I hate snakes, don't want to deal with
snakes. I think health is wealth. I am all about eating cleaning and working out. It's my life. I am a trainer, I got to live what I preach.
Meet Michelle
I think that me being a boxer and knowing what I know, knowing my abilities and what I can do because I have pushed myself very far in the past, that I think I
will have a bit of an advantage. The best way to describe me is complex. I have a tendency when I feel threatened or attacked is to attack back or defend
myself. I think in this situation I have to learn how to use being attacked or being threatened as a victim and kind of playing that up. I had a bit of a rough
adolescence, my dad got married when I was 11 to a crazy psycho woman, and after we kind of cut all ties when I was about 13, I just became very independent
and I moved out when I was 16 out of my mom's house not because I have a bad relationship, I have a great, healthy relationship with my mom. I was ready to
be on my own and live for myself. Beside the fact that I am a genius, I am very perceptive. I have been noticing a lot of things. There's a girl walking
around with a book, "48 Laws of Power." I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want anybody to know that I am reading that book. Not only
that, but she is running around like exercising everyday. I am in shape, and strong, but I want these people to think that I am weak and that I can be beat.
From seeing from what I am seeing, I think I am a little smarter than some of these people. If I run up against an elephant, I am going to run straight then
swiftly to the left, because they have poor eye sight and I'll disappear so they won't see me. I am actually more scared of getting sh*t on by a hippo
than anything else because I heard they spray diarrhea everywhere, that is my main concern. There's a couple of girls with a lot of, they express
themselves through style it seems like, it will be interesting to see that being taken away and they will be left with their personalities. I'm in Africa
dude, how crazy is that. I haven't even been to the Bahamas. I'm in Africa, how crazy, it's nuts!
Meet Paloma
I love Africa, I've been here before. I haven't been here, I was in Kenya, but I love Africa and I think it is an amazing continent. I am a little
scared playing the game with animals around, this is their territory, this is their home and we're pretty much invading it for a little bit, especially the
hippos and the elephants because they are very territorial. The scenery is amazing, the weather is amazing, it's not too hot, not too cold. The reason I
was chosen for this show is because I am very adventurous, I don't know if brave is too big of a word to, but I think they saw that I am feisty and that I
am able to do this. I am really passionate about this game, and I really want to win so I think they saw that when they interviewed me. I need to separate my
life with the game life. I am a completely different person when I play a game board and when you meet me on the street. It's a huge deal, the stakes are
high, it's like playing Monopoly for a million dollars. People who are dishonest and deceitful, it might even be myself, I'm not going to judge that
that is the person that they are, I am going to firmly believe it is the context of the game and it's not who they are. Just being able to separate the
two: real life and game life. The reason why I want to win the million dollars is to take back to Kenya and build a school for the kids that I taught because
they don't have a school, they just have sticks up. That will help me a lot, because I am very motivated even if it isn't for me, but for those kids
that I love, so it will really help.
Meet Randy
I'm looking forward to it, to be honest this could take place in Central Texas and I would be just as excited. The location is secondary, and yes, Africa
is unbelievable. I am outnumbered here, I am older than most of them, so I have to fit in probably that will be difficult for the average person out here,
there are a lot of 20 something. I hope to get in an alliance with 4 or 5 people and be in the middle, so I am not the biggest target in the alliance, and
I'm not the weakest person either. The best way to describe myself is handsome and charming but that is a croc, I used to be handsome and I used to be
charming. I've had a lot of defining moments in my life. You don't get this old and not have a lot of defining moments. Most of them are bad and I
don't really want to get into them. The biggest positive defining moment a month or so ago was when I found out I was coming here. Doesn't get much
bigger than that.
Meet Robert
I am the cleverest Survivor out of here, very often I say I am not intelligent but I am wicked smart. I can figure stuff out, I can build a house out of
nothing, I am good at solving problems, can I remember five words in a row, or telephone number. I can give you the first three numbers but I am sort of
missing the rest, but I am clever. I am feeling confident because I can be a likeable person, I think I can help the tribe live the good life while we are
there. I am working on my strategy to be the last person standing and I think I got a good 1 in 18 chance of winning. I look around and I think I am the oldest
one around here. I don't think I am a threat because of that. If I was a younger, stronger and athletic man or woman, I would be more nervous. I am more
comfortable and my condition. I am in pretty good shape. I can climb, I can jump. I'm by no means not in my prime. I think being in this game being in your
prime puts you at risk. I think my prime is without a doubt is my cleverness and my ability to deal with people. I can look at people land figure them out.
Meet Susie
I've been really selfish, this is the first time I've been away from my son and husband, 7 weeks, that's extremely a long time. I am getting a
sense of being selfish. I am going to be fairly safe because I am going to be with my tribe, I am going to be with 8 other people, that alone gives me a little
comfort. Now being out in Africa and not knowing what to expect from animals, from what I understand, you see villages, you don't see horses, hippos, they
are there, but I am trying to keep it in perspective, I am not going out to chase them. I am in their element, in their habit, I am going to take the advice
and be careful. I will be very fortunate to see a horse, elephant in the distant. I will be very fortunate to see a silver back gorilla. I'll try not to
panic if in case that happens. In real life, I'm not a very good liar at all, but because in this game you don't know these people very well, the only
thing you know about them is eye contact and I'm staring to feel a slight connection with some of them. They know where I am at, they know this is a game,
and if I have to take a machete and stab it in your back. I don't want to do that. I know I will definitely have to lie and I'm prepared for that. I
love myself. I look back on all the bad stuff in my life, and I tell myself, you know what Susie, you're ok, you're pretty cool, I like myself, it was
a journey to get there, but once I got there, what's not to like about myself. I think one of the best qualities about myself is that I am very giving, and
that is why it is very odd that I am here and feel very selfish, I am neglecting my husband and my son, my brothers and sisters, and all the victims of Iowa
and Wisconsin. I just feel horrible a little bit but then I am, wait a minute, I am here, I deserve this.
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