season 12 episode 2 insider videos

transcripted by James Barber

Casaya Votes Melinda Out 

Cirie (votes Shane): I could never vote for Melinda, sorry.

Shane (votes Melinda): I cannot wait to get to know you, you seem like a wonderful woman.

Melinda (votes Shane): Shane, you made me promise you twice today that I would vote for you, and I don't go back on a promise.

Bobby (votes Melinda): Wish we could have won everything and kept everybody here, kept them intact. You know where this vote's coming from. Somebody has to go, you know how "Survivor" works. Hope to catch up with you on the outside.

Danielle (votes Melinda): Good luck, I was outnumbered, you know how I feel about this.

Aras (votes Melinda): Melinda, we're just gambling on athleticism right now, not because you are a bad person.

Courtney (votes Melinda): I'm sorry Melinda, you're a beautifil spirit, I wish you the best in life. I love your anecdotes, OK? (I think that's what it sounded like she said?)

MELINDA'S FINAL WORDS 

"Yeah, we talked earlier today about the fact that it's not over until the fat lady sings. I'm the singer on the island.Well, yeah I think I just sang, apparently.

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First of all - Cirie, you're my girl. We will definitely be lifelong friends. As far as everything that happened tonight, I just found myself on the tribe that's like, 'Hey man, yo, dude, whatsup, this is rockin!' and that's just not me. It won't ever be me, nor do I think I want it to be me. So that's what happened. Now I'm gonna go eat something and drink water.

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I learned I'm a lot tougher than I actually thought I was. I mean it's awful out here. When I said it was Panamian hell, I was not kidding. This is the worst thing I've ever been through in my entire life. But I made it. 6 days, but I made it!

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I'm taking away from the experience a lot of bug bites, a bruised foot, about 10 blisters on my feet, my mouth is falling apart because I haven't had water, and I guess a little bit more knowing who I am. I mean, I got along with those people who were my new tribemates, but they are not somebody - not all of them - most of them are not somebody I would choose to hang out with in my normal life. And I think that's fine, and I'm not sorry for it at all.

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I'm very proud of myself. I think just making it here is huge, honestly. And I've done things - I ate a fish! A raw fish! Me. I licked leaves this morning. Who would've ever thought? So yes, I'm very proud of myself. I wish I could've made it longer, but it was out of my control.

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I think Casaya is going to go down like a ship filled with lead, very quickly. They want to say they're one big (uses cartoonish voice) 'happy family', and they're not. I mean they're all already plotting against each other already, and some of them know it. So whatever.

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I wasn't ready to leave. I will admit it's been hard, and the first couple of days I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, what have I gotten myself into?' But the longer I stayed the longer I wanted to stay. No, I wasn't ready to leave, and I think I made that quite clear to them.

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I'm not disappointed in myself that I didn't learn how to make fire before we got out here. The first couple of days the women, the (uses finger quotes) older women who people seem to underestimate, we had fire in ten minutes. Once we got back with the new tribe, I never touched the fire again, because they wouldn't let me. They are like - they're the ones that hacked it to death; the flint was fine when they got there. They got themselves into that situation, and I'll tell you another thing too - they won't make fire tonight. There's no way in the dark they'll be able to find all that stuff and get it together. And if they do make fire, they won't keep it.

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I didn't really mind being on the older women tribe, because I actually think age is a very - this is all about life lessons and reasoning and all of that kind of stuff so I actually think it's a benefit. However, let's remind ourselves that Bob was on the younger men tribe - we're the same age. Just wanted to point that out.

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I would just like to say good luck to Cirie, because oh my God, I honestly can't imagine going back to that camp at all. I didn't want to be voted out, of course, but Lord have mercy, how many times - I swear to God if that one girl [Courtney] says, 'like', one more time I could strangle her. She did it like 100 times here tonight. It begins to get comical, when you use, 'Yeah like this like man uh-huh like...' Hello! Stop it! Just stop saying that word. And the whole, 'Hey dude babe what's up.' Whatever. Can we get some normal people out here? So I just want to wish Cirie good luck, because I know...(cuts off)

Scene: LIKE, I MEAN, YO, WHATUP? 

(Transcribed by James Barber@SurvivorFever.net)
Clip Description: Melinda treats us to a mini tour of her tribemates, and to hear her tell it, they are quite the motley crew. 

MELINDA (solo): My new tribemates, most of them are not somebody I would choose to hang out with in my normal life. (shot of Aras doing yoga exercises on the beach) Well, you've got Danielle, Courtney and Aras, who are young. You've got Bobby, who was on the younger tribe even though he's my age. And then you have Shane, who's older but doesn't really act like he's older. We are completely different people.

(group tries to start a fire)

SHANE: Who's the (bleep) that said it could start to rain? Cause that's (bleeped) up.

MELINDA (solo): Their language is just horrible. It's lifestyle and attitudes in that type of a situation. It was an invasion, I think. A definite invasion. (laughs) 

Melinda, the Day After….. 

(Transcribed by Mollysgrama@SurvivorSucks)
Clip Description: Having had a night to rest, Melinda reflects on her time in Panama and tells us why she thinks her tribemates voted her off. Would she change anything?

Melinda: When it was just the girls, we got along very well. I think that we are family oriented individuals. Even though we were different people, we had a lot of the same values, I think. And then once the tribes merged, they were younger, and even though some of them weren’t younger, I think that they were just in a different place in their lives than a lot of us were. There were a lot of them from California. A lot of them from LA. And most of them were just the 'Yo dude.' 'Hey, what's goin' down’ 'Rockin.' That's just not me. I’m just not that type of person. So that’s the way they were most of the time. And I just didn’t really fit in with them.

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I actually had a really good time the day I was voted off. Cirie & I went out and we sat on the rocks and let the ocean come in and hit us. It was a really sunny day that day and it was very pleasant. At the time, we thought that Shane was quitting and going home so we weren't really very concerned about that and it was a really pretty day - a pretty time.

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No , I'm not surprised at all. I've always thought Cirie was very capable. I thought that she & I were both capable when we were still out there, even though they told us that, basically, it was going to be one of us that was going home. And whoever it wasn't, was going to be the next one. So, I never question her capability of the woman.

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I wouldn't do anything different from the way out to play. If I could change one thing, it would be that I would be on the other tribe once they merged I wouldn't be on the one I was on. Because, when I say I didn't fit in, I think I'm good at meshing with people socially, but they were just the type of people I didn’t want to mesh with. Um, their language is horrible and I'm just not gonna start talking that way and I think I'm not that type of person merely to fit in with people on national TV. I'm just not gonna do it. So, if I could change one thing, it would be to be on the other tribe. But I can't change that. That's out of my control. So, as part as what I did, no, I wouldn't change anything.

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I'm not really sure how they perceive me, they said they've perceived me as hardwork. I think they knew that Cirie and I were hardworkers considering they think they can be very impressed with our camp and our shelter and she and I were the ones that basically build the shelter I mean, um, we're obviously all happy to be help with from Tina and Ruth-Marie we're all do it together. I think that they're always working and they were constantly telling us to sit down, because they were sitting down. And I think they perceived me as not as strong as the other two girls and I think they took that nearly the visual aspect um and I think Nail probably was to stay Cirie out there a bit longer and they maybe rethink the whole process. Because I think it's been obvious, just, from the people of said, I think she's had that her hand and some of the challenges recently her strength has and so I thinking maybe that they're young minds all they're rethink of thewhole process of who that two weakest ones will be. 

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I don't think that's possible, because I was very talkative and actually go well with Danielle. She actually fought to keep me, she didn't think I should be voted off. Um, there's noway I could inegrate myself into Courtney, Shane and Aras' world. Um, they're on a big energy and love and it's just too different frequency. If I had done that, it would, to me, it would looked extremely fake which I don't think that's positive thing and you know, I certainly don't do it on national TV. So, I mean, I was fake enough, when I'm acted like, you know, very cared about them and try to be nasty and try acted I cared about what they thought about me. That's me faking up. I was ?.

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I knew I ... (cuts off)

She knew she would be able to handle it, but when she got out there it was so much harder. 39 days doesn’t seem like as much when you’re a home on the couch. She could handle being wet, or hungry, or dirty, or cold, or tired, just not all at the same time. She couldn’t get used to being wet all the time. She surprised herself.

People are going to be surprised at her. Especially the challenge where she dove into mud, and then, hello, leaves, so she had mud and leaves all over her. Just kill me now. People know that it’s hard, but it’s impossible to convey how difficult it is.

Her perspective on life will not change. She’s tougher than she thought. Because people told her they were going to vote her off and she didn’t want her to. Blah blah blah.

She was just glad Tribal Council was over, it was an hour and a half long and she just wanted to go get some water and let the others bicker. She’d do it again. She won before the game even began because she got onto the show. People back home only see the entertainer side of her. Just because you’re girly doesn’t mean you’re not tough.