Benjamin 'Coach' Wade

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Insider odcinek 5 - 2 filmiki:

Unbelievable

Coach is tickled that his tribe won the challenge and reward.

"Here's the deal. Challenge today - unbelievable. Racing back and forth, I had my nose filled with barbecue sauce. I had <makes> one, two, three, four pieces in my mouth, halfway down my throat, resisting the urge to gag, running over, and still, through suffocation, yelling 'Go team!' spit it out, and pumping the team up the whole time. I was yellin' at 'em, tellin' em to not quit and keep going the whole time. It was unbelievable. To the victors go the spoils. We have enough pork to feed an army. It's unbelievable. Fat. There's probably some saliva on there. That's one of the things I said in the beginning. 'Guys, your salivary glands are going to be on overload. I want you to spit out everything in your mouth and then get a little bit of spit at the last minute, and do it. This has got everything in there. My dad said saliva - best solvent known to man. It's clean. <takes> It's unbelievable. You take the last two times I've played Survivor, roll 'em up into a nice, neat package - the 14 days here, Survivor 23: Redemption Island, I'll take this time over those last experiences. Survivor: South Pacific, I would take, you take the last two times I've played Survivor, what is that now, 60-something days, roll those up into a nice, neat package, Survivor: South Pacific, baby, I'll take this any day over those two! This is unbelievable. Best thing about today's challenge is <pretends he's driving a car> Move over please. <horn> We're back in the driver's seat, baby! We own it now. We gotta have two more, two in a row. That makes three total, two in a row. If you go into the merge numbers up, as long as we mind our p's and q's, not get too ahead of ourselves, not get too overconfident, not too much Dragon Slayer stuff going on - maybe a little bit right now <does> BUT, we can own this game, man. That's the best thing about today. Pork, y'know, whatever, but going back on top, 7-6 in numbers, critical."

Idol Options

Coach feels he has three choices for using his hidden immunity idol.

"The main alliance - and we kept on saying it's an alliance of five, but in my mind it's an alliance of six. We'll start with the alliance of five. We've got myself, Sophie, Albert, Brandon, and Rick. The sixth is like my right-hand man out here, like my assistant coach. Those are the six people in the alliance. The Strong Six, I like to call them."

(cut)

"The people that know about the immunity idol are myself, Sophie, and Albert."

(cut)

"It's something I struggle with because I like to have all the cards on the table. We agreed that if anybody found the clue, he'd share it with everybody. The problem kind of started when Albert found the clue. He found the second clue that had two clues on it. He comes up to me and says, I'm only going to share this right now with you and Soph. The reason being that Brandon is a loose cannon, and he might tell anybody. He might just say one day, hey, we've got the idol, it's hanging on the tree, take it if you feel unprotected at Tribal tonight. Who knows. Albert kind of like started this secrecy within the alliance, which I don't like, but I don't want to betray my loyalty to Albert, who told me in complete confidence. Albert couldn't find the idol."

(cut)

"I said, I'm going to take it on myself to look for it. I went to look for it, couldn't find it, knelt down and prayed, and lo and behold, there's the idol. And so, it was pretty cool. It puts me in a really good position. It is my idol, that I want to use for the alliance, first and foremost. I hope not to use it at all, and I'll tell you why; I've been thinking about it a lot. If we go through this game and we don't need to use it, normally I would just play it at 5. But if I played it at 5, just in case, I think it would be foolish of me. Let's say, possibly, Rick and Brandon are sitting on the jury at that point in time. Even if they're not, they're at Redemption, they're gonna find out about it, because everybody's gonna talk on the jury. That would blow my trust. That would not blow my cover, but that could be something Brandon would feel truly betrayed about. I know he's going to feel betrayed at some point in time, but that's months down the line, and I think I can patch that up. I want to patch it up, I want to know Brandon. He's gonna be one of those friends I think I'll come out friends for life. But it can't be known at the final Tribal. I think I'm going to keep that hidden immunity idol and not play it. My second choice would be to play it as a tribe and even the numbers and just tell everybody, look, we found it, and it's out on the table. My last choice would be to play the idol once I'm only by myself.

ciriefan

Insider odcinek 7 - 2 filmiki:

Proud of Edna

Coach reveals how Edna surprised them all in the challenge.

"I'm so proud of Edna for the way she performed yesterday in the challenge. She's always said to me, all along, 'Coach, I'll surprise you.' In a game like this, what you want is a type A, dominant male, leader. Somebody to say, 'Put me in, Coach. I want this job.' Edna's not that type of personality, so she's been overlooked the whole time. And I've sung her praises, at times. She's always said, 'Coach, I will show you wrong. I just might surprise you, Coach.' And she surprised me yesterday. For her to be such a big part of winning yesterday, that's gotta be a great feeling for her. She's been overlooked in all the challenges, and she performed beautifully yesterday. She did surprise all of us. Then for her to go with us, it's a big difference. When you win a challenge, and you know you helped win that challenge, that's probably one of the best feelings out here on Survivor. When you win a challenge, and you didn't help, because you sat out, it's kind of like awesome, but you don't feel like you did anything. When you hit the home run that wins the World Series, that's the most beautiful feeling in the world. We knew Albert was gonna perform. We knew Sophie was gonna perform. We knew Brandon was gonna perform. Edna outperformed everybody in the fact that our expectations were here (puts hand to about his middle) and she more than exceeded them (puts other hand near his head). It must be a beautiful feeling for her, and I just want to say it again - I'm so proud of Edna."

Most Joyous Moment

Coach explains how special it was for his tribe to win the challenge

"I needed to get the immunity idol out in the open. I wanted to do it for 2 reasons - #1 is that enough is enough. The charade has gone on for too far. My first instincts were to just tell everybody; I should have done that, but Albert was paranoid about Brandon - rightfully so. Anyway, I had to bring it out yesterday. Go to treemail and we got treemail; it's like a double whammy. I wanted the tribe to be unified, that was another reason for bringing out the idol. We were down in the dumps. We got treemail, I needed to get the idol, I ran down and got the idol. It was kind of cool, because at the moment, with treemail, it wasn't just like 20 questions about the idol, how it was found, where it was found, when it was found. It was more, awesome, we got the idol, guys, and also, this is a challenge we have to win."

(cut)

"As we went into this challenge, with our backs against the wall, thinking and hoping the merge was coming any day now, trying to have that little bit of advantage. I said yesterday, to the six of us, guys, for one of the six of us, that could have very well been a million dollar challenge. That could have been the challenge that puts us ahead at the merge, if we merge. The feeling of pure jubilation and joy at the end of that challenge, when we knew we were one number ahead of them, that we knew we could very well have a small foothold of control over the next step of this game. The movie, great...totally secondary. The absolute joy we felt in that moment of triumph was absolutely euphoric. One of the best moments I've ever felt for myself on Survivor. Absolutely one of the best moments. One of the, if not THE most joyous moments that I've had here, in 75 days."

ciriefan

Insider odcinek 8 - 2 filmiki:

Eyes Wide Open

Coach is skeptical about Ozzy's story of how he was voted out of Savaii.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4B-vRPLmCw&list=SL&feature=sh_e_se

"I'm walking into Redemption, I look up, and I see Ozzy's missing from the other tribe. The first thing I was thinking was they wanted to get a big player out of the game. That's cool. But Ozzy's great at challenges. Then when he orchestrated the whole story, 'Oh, they blindsided me,' Cochran looking shame-faced, I kinda smelled a little bit. I smelled a ruse. Maybe they were so desperate that they sent him there. They wanted him to win Redemption, come back to them, but look as if he wants to join us."

(cut)

"The story is that Ozzy got blindsided by an idol. They must have vote for Cochran, thinking he was the weak link; Cochran played the idol. Possibly a couple of people knew Cochran had the idol, and they were in on it. That idol being played sent Ozzy to Redemption Island. That's the story."

(cut)

"I don't have enough information right now to buy it or discard it. I've got my eyes wide open right now."

(cut)

"I watched their reactions. Some of them looked happy when he won; some of 'em looked sad. I'm just studying right there. I'm looking and soaking in what's going on. Ozzy and Cochran are on opposite sides of the mat. I'm getting two different kinds of vibes. I want to make sure there's a rat, if I smell a rat. It doesn't change our gameplan, with the 6. Doesn't change how I'm gonna approach Ozzy - I will give him nothing. I will give him no information. And really, tell him that it's in his best interests to not tie the vote up. That's the stupid thing. If he wants to play games with us, we'll find out after the first vote. In this situation, the first vote is the most critical. I'm looking around at the mat, I can't find any clues yet. There's two idols in the game. If one was played last night at Tribal Council, there should be another clue coming into the game. If there's not a clue anywhere around the table - and I will turn that place upside down and I'm watching everybody like a hawk before I'm done with that feast - then I have to assume it's a ruse. Either way, I give them nothing and I take from them everything."

Taking the Power Back

Coach reveals that if Cochran is a man of his word, then the bullies will be beaten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjwzEbQCHw&list=SL&feature=sh_e_se

"At the moment, Upolu, numbers-wise, odds-wise, we're down. We got kicked in the teeth today at the challenge. It hurt. Numbers-wise, odds-wise, we're down. But that's OK, because you know what, the former Upolu tribe, which is still the Upolu tribe, has a secret double agent that's playing back and forth. Hopefully Cochran's telling us the truth. I think he is - he's got very everything to lose and very little to gain. I just finished talking to Cochran and I feel confident about things, I feel like he's given us the right intel, and I think we're gonna send the right person home tonight. We'll have a family chat right now and Tribal Council is gonna be the most smashing one of the season."

(cut)

"I have done everything in my power to ensure the Upolu tribe stays together tonight. Flushing the idol from the other side, and I feel pretty comfortable that Cochran's gonna do the right thing. He's tired of getting kicked around. It's every person's dream that's had a bully in their life. They get bullied, they get kicked around, sand in their face. They wait and they hope for that chance to strike back. This is Cochran's day. It's not my day. Yes, I talked to him. Yes, I got him to come over to our side. You know what? It's Cochran's day today. It's Cochran's night tonight .It's Cochran's Tribal Council tonight. I hope he owns it, because it's gonna be a great day, for everybody that's been bullied to sit up there and say, 'We're taking the power back.'"

ciriefan

Insider odcinek 9 - 2 filmiki:

Old Dogs, New Tricks

Coach reveals how he is having fun playing Survivor this time around.

(day 22)

(Coach does his martial arts)

Coach (voiceover throughout his routine): It's actually kind of nice to play this game. I really haven't played this game before. I've done my thing, I've come out here for my reasons, but I've never actually strategically played the game. But you know what? It's kind of fun. I like thinking about this game every day, strategies, this person, that person. I've never done that. I really like it. It proves you can teach an old dog new tricks, cause I'm getting up there - I'm gonna be 40. I'm still learning, and I hope I continue to learn all the way to day 39 in this game.

Cochran Effect

Coach is encouraged by Cochran's evolution in the game.

"Cochran's a stud. He's breaking out with all kinds of stuff. We see this late bloomer starting to come into bloom. I knew when I took him under my wing that Cochran is going to have his life changed by this game. We are seeing him every day stand up for himself more, we are seeing him walk differently."

(cut)

"He's loving every minute of it. We are continuing to see him evolve. Today he said it would probably be the biggest thumbs down to Jim, because Jim hates Cochran, if Cochran strutted around with my jacket at Tribal Council. So Cochran puts on my jacket, walks into camp, starts doing some breakdancing moves, which were actually pretty good. He's continuing to come out of his shell. Now he's putting on Cowboy's cowboy hat, and you gotta admit it, Cochran looks like a bad-ass, he really does. The jacket's covering up his scrawny frame, and the cowboy is covering up some of his cowlicks. Cochran right now, we are seeing the Cochran Effect. He is coming into full bloom."

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Insider odcinek 10 - 2 filmiki:

Albert Worries Me

Coach worries that Albert may be going against the alliance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z_py8zrr7o

"Albert worries me. He's gonna worry me probably every day he remains in the game, if he continues to be panicky about situations. If he's already recruited the two Savaii members, and switched two other people in our camp, I won't know it until it's too late. Maybe I'm the target, maybe Brandon's the target. Whatever it is, it doesn't really smell right. It has me worried."

(cut)

"We started this game, I was very close with Albert, very close with Brandon. Brandon was very much a loose cannon, so we kind of backed off emotionally a little bit from Brandon. I don't think Albert's jealous of me, although he could be. I think Albert's jealous of the fact that he sees me already winning this game. He sees votes already going my way."

(cut)

"Some days I think he's jealous and other days I think he's just trying to play the game too hard."

(cut)

"At this point I'd hate to do anything prematurely. I'd hate to go anywhere in this game except to go to the final five with the five people we talked about on day one. That would be nothing short of amazing. I'd hate to cut Albert any sooner. But as I've said many times, this is Coach's last stand. I'm not coming out here again. And nothing, and nobody, is gonna keep me from that final 3."

Willing Disciple

Coach is thrilled by Cochran's interest in Coach Chi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkxWxiLMdbU

"Cochran is a willing disciple when it comes to Coach Chi. I've done it with a lot of people. Debbie was the first, and she was kind of a free spirit, so she was, like, cool. The entire tribe did it with me - except for Russell - the last time, and that was cool, although you always have doubters. It was Brandon this season. Cochran seeks it. Cochran seeks the inner peace. Cochran wants to be molded. Cochran sees this as a time to be coached in many ways. That's all I've ever asked for, in life, and in this game, and it's just eluded me in Survivor for 82 days. But to do Coach Chi with Cochran, that was fantastic. In fact, it went way beyond that. At the end of the session, I just sat down with him, meditation style, and began pouring myself into him. I'll give you an analogy - every soccer season, I line up 20 players, and I say, the first day, I'll be coaching all of you equally. By the end of the season, I'll probably only be coaching five of you, and two or three I will be pouring out every single scrap of knowledge about life and soccer that I possess. Not everyone wants to be coached. I get that. Not everyone out here wants to be coached, until this season, where it seems that people are more open and willing to listen to me. But when you find that one person that is open, that is what teachers, and coaches, and maestros, hope for, and pray for, that you have one person that will actually get it. One person that will actually take those lessons and apply them in life. Cochran is that one individual."

ciriefan

Insider odcinek 11 - 2 filmiki:

Wisdom of the Phoenix

Coach discusses his history in Survivor and his hopes for the future.

"I started this journey on Survivor 3 years ago. I wanted to change the game. I came in impossibly arrogant, taking myself very seriously, creating mythical characters along the way. I nicknamed myself Dragonslayer. The journey was up and down. I had euphoric times and I had devastating ones. I got voted off, felt like a fool, I lost my job, and a million other things happened to me. All I wanted to do was have one more chance to come back for redemption. So I came back on Heroes and Villains, and I solely sought redemption. The game got to me. Real life got to me. Everything swirled around in this cloudy mass of insanity that when it broke on my shoulders, it broke me, and everyone saw it. I wept. I didn't just cry or get emotional, I wept, because this game broke me. I felt like I became the dragon in that second time. I wasn't really playing the game. I was so deluded with finding redemption that I didn't play the game, I didn't listen to any of my senses, and I made way too early of an exit. Now for the third and final chapter of my journey on Survivor. I'm not coming back. This is my third and final time playing this game. As I prepared for this game, I agonized over how I would play it. I've been humbled by this game. I'm not so cocky and sure of myself, and certainly I'm not arrogant anymore. I wanted to come in and lead by example. I wanted to come in and lead by love and compassion. I wanted to help the people who were on the bottom feel good about themselves. I wanted to empower to weak and sharpen the strong. I wanted to be humble but not weak. I wanted to be a leader but not over the top. I wanted to be confident but not arrogant. In this journey, the analogy, you go back to the ancient Chinese, and the dragon is very prevalent in their society. The dragon and the phoenix. The dragon is actually the feminine side. It has wisdom, yes, but ultimately that dragon perishes and turns into the phoenix. What the Chinese call the phoenix is Fenghuang. The story goes that the dragon came into the fire, and through that fire, resurrecting from the ashes, came this beautiful phoenix. Most characters all over the world, most mythology all over the world, is either masculine or feminine, but the phoenix embodies both. It is not ying, it is not yang, it is both, at the same time. As the phoenix rose up from the ashes, balanced in wisdom, power, grace. I feel like that is me. I feel like I am the phoenix on this journey. The dragonslayer has been put to rest. The weakness of the dragon that came out only seeking redemption has gone by the wayside. Out of those two journeys on both Survivors, it has molded and shaped me into this man you see now. Not always sure of himself, not always saying I'm the best at everything, but embodying the phoenix that came from abject destruction and being humbled mightily by this game, and seeing that this third and final time was my chance to finally get it right, or forever get it wrong. I grasped onto that idea that I would be strong, that I would help people. I wanted to meet them on their journeys. That's where the wisdom comes in, and the grace. Where you look at people, and you don't judge them. That was my biggest mistake the first time out here. I'm going to take my journey, and I want everybody to follow me, because this game should change your life. And guess what it did? It pissed everybody off. Everybody said, 'We don't want a coach out here. We sure as heck don't want a dragonslayer. You can just go take your journey by yourself, because none of us are going to follow you.' This time around, I've vowed to myself with that wisdom and grace of the phoenix, that I would meet people along the way, wherever they were, and accept them for who they were, to not judge them, and say, 'Your journey is worthless out here.' Everybody's out here for a different reason. All 18 people that started this game came out here with a single idea in mind of what this game was going to do for them. A lot of people, mid-journey, things have changed. Other people, I have met where they were at. I have been rewarded more than I could possibly imagine. I was able to lead my tribe to the merge. I was able to help Brandon in the middle of Tribal Council. I was able to keep Albert in check. I was able to rise up Sophie, who was a nothing at the beginning, nobody paid attention to her. I said, 'Sophie, you are a valuable part of this tribe.' And Edna, who nobody liked. I said, 'Edna, you are valuable to this tribe.' And then to the merge, Cochran. 'Cochran, you are going to become a man, and you are going to embody everything I wanted to do in this game, and you are going to have the journey of a lifetime, and we're going to walk side-by-side, step by step. We will change you and your character, Cochran, together.' The most beautiful thing about this time around, as the phoenix soars over this game and looks back at the last 30 days, and sees that I've not done everything right, but I've also not done everything wrong. I've tried my hardest, I've given my heart and soul to this game that I love with all my heart, I've tried my hardest to see people and the attributes they can bring to this game. I've tried to use wisdom and discernment. I've tried to rise above everyone in this game. As I look to the phoenix, who is ultimately the ultimate victor in Chinese lore and legend - the phoenix is above everything - I see myself going from destruction to absolute victory. I see myself at the threshold of the end of this game with 9 days left, rising above everybody, rising above all the misery I had to go through, rising above all the insults and the sheer rudeness of people calling me every name in the book. I feel like I've been vindicated. I feel like I've embodied the redemption of Redemption Island. I want to see this third and final chapter have a happy ending. I want to rise above everybody, and on that last day standing, to have truly risen from the ashes and become the ultimate victor in this game."

Co-Chi & Cochran

Coach is amazed by the effect of Co-Chi on Cochran

"This morning before the challenge, I said, 'Hey Cochran, one way you can stay in the game is if you win immunity.' I wanted to do one last session with Co-Chi with him. It is truly amazing when I look in Cochran's eyes, before we do the Co-Chi and after. It's night and day. His eyes are clear and shining and bright after we're done. He looks like he has resolve. It's beautiful to watch the transformation, just in those 30 minutes. I wanted to do it this morning, so I took him out, just talked to him for a little bit, reassured him. We went through a monster session - it was actually the longest session of Co-Chi we'd ever done. I actually do think it helped him in today's challenge. I told him, I said, 'I'm proud of you', when we were getting a massage. He got 2 beanbags on the stands. So did I. So did a lot of people. I think he's usually the last person in the challenges. He's usually the stepping stone for everybody. But I thought he did good today, I thought he was focused. Maybe that's just me. Maybe it's the teacher wanting the student to really excel. I think these lessons are going to have a lifelong impact on Cochran."

ciriefan

Insider odcinek 12 - 3 filmiki:

Coach Has Learned

Coach's brother explains how Survivor has changed Coach.

"Coach has been on three times. First time, I was out of the country when he had the loved one come by, so I couldn't do it. Second time, he didn't make it far enough. Third time, I thought, is there any way he might make it far enough for me to actually see him. I can't believe I'm actually in Samoa, getting to hug him and see him and hang out with him. It's amazing."

(cut)

"I think Coach has learned something from Survivor. He's been out there and tried to play confident and almost a little bit arrogant, and it didn't work. Now he's trying to learn how to be humble in life, and I think it's served him a lot better now. Of course, he's gone so deep into this game, obviously it's served him well. To learn humility, and to learn that in a social game like Survivor, and to be around these people and learn more about yourself, is a big thing."

(cut)

"Everybody in the world could turn against Coach, and I would be the last man standing. I've seen this guy from the time they brought him home - he's younger, so he's my little brother - from the time they brought him home, I was right there by his side. That will never change. It doesn't matter what happens. I will always be loyal to my brother."

(cut)

"I hope Coach does it, because he's sacrificed a lot in life to be able to do this game. At this point, he almost deserves to make it all the way. He's worked hard, and he's done it with integrity. He really has been loyal, and always had integrity. A guy who plays a game like that deserves it more than somebody that just lies and cheats their way through it. I hope Coach does it, I really do, because I think he deserves it."

I Won Immunity

Coach is pleased that he won the immunity challenge.

"It was a pretty cool challenge today, a lot of thinking. It was a little bit like checkers, trying to carve out the most amount of real estate, and I won immunity. It was cool, you know."

(cut)

"I knew after the first move I was going to win, because I went here (moves hand one way), and Rick went there (moves other hand in opposite direction). Everybody else had encroached into somebody's space. I knew I'd won after the first move."

(cut)

"I don't win that many immunity challenges, and it's gonna be good, because I don't wanna look like a loser at the end of this thing. Most importantly, the jury. They don't know how you win immunity. You never know what's gonna be on the jury's mind. The jury might think, 'Hey, this cat's not won any immunity whatsoever. We're not gonna give him a vote; we don't care who he is.' I think it was good on many levels that I won immunity tonight. You know what I was thinking? I won immunity at 6, so I'm guaranteed to be here. I've got a hidden immunity idol in my pocket - that means I'll be here at 5. That's pretty good standing. But we're not gonna stop there. I'm going all the way to the top, baby. But for right now, it's very comforting to know I will be in the game for sure 2 more phases. Gives me some breathing room."

Math in my Blood

Coach explains how his math background helped him in the puzzle challenge.

"Today, when I saw the challenge...look, my dad - mathematician of the century. My brother teaches advanced calculus and differential equations. I got a little bit of math blood in me. It might not be as strong as those guys - they're geniuses, I'm just kind of a scrap-adder. But I do write music, so I do have some mathematical lines in me. I've taken 2 years of calculus at the university level. When I saw that puzzle today, I thought, do you want to win, or do you just want to keep Edna from going home? Guess what? If I win the challenge, that keeps Edna from winning immunity. I went out there to play today, and I went out there to win. I did not play just to keep somebody else from winning immunity. It worked to my advantage. Like I said earlier, I knew from the first step - Edna goes this way (hand goes one direction), I go this way (hand goes other direction), as long as I can cut off all the angles and get to the top, I've got Pythagorean's Theorem by 10. Probably about 10 triangles I could have made there after everybody had been checkmated.

ciriefan

Insider odcinek 13 - 3 filmiki:

Outsiders Not Welcome

Coach makes it clear that only Upolu members are welcome in camp

(Coach painting on a tree, Upolu in black letters with blue around the black)

"We've basically eradicated the Savaii members from this camp. Ozzy might come back, but still, I figured I would paint a little Upolu symbol here, so that everybody would know this was our camp and outsiders are not welcome."

(cut)

"If Ozzy comes back, he will see the warning signs that this is Upolu territory and not his little band of misfits, liars, and contortionists, contortioning the truth that is. In fact, anybody remaining in this camp that wants to tell lies will furthermore be eradicated. That is the truth."

One by One

Coach is ready to use his Survivor experience to eliminate his competition.

(day 33; Coach is sitting under a tree as Rick and Brandon are groggy near the fire)

Rick: Day 33.

(fist bumps Brandon)

Brandon: 6 more days left.

Rick: Now it's time to go hard.

Brandon: Now every immunity challenge counts.

Rick: You ain't a'kiddin, sport.

(Coach walks Albert walk by)
Coach (solo): As the group finally starts to scramble, which we haven't had to do since that first Tribal Council, I think now more than ever the experience as a returning player sets me apart from the group. I've endured many scars from those battles. I can really look at these people and think to myself, 'I'm OK with this,' but eventually, they will all come to roost under my wing, and I will snatch them up and gobble them one by one.

(Coach in the hammock, smiling/smirking slightly at Rick and Brandon sitting near him)

Complete Meltdown

Coach discusses his tribe's meltdown at camp.

"Come back to camp after the challenge, and hey, it's final 5. You can expect nothing less than a complete meltdown and explosion at camp, especially when you've had people who have been lying. Here's the recipe for an explosion at camp: People who have been lying for a while, people who mistrust each other, that's a pretty good volatile action, but then you add a bully to the mix, like Brandon, who is gonna try to force people to tell the absolute truth to other people, it's a recipe for disaster."

(cut)

"On top of that, let's pile on a million dollars, add a bit more fuel to the flame, TNT baby, dynamite. Here's the thing. When you get into a situation like this...I think that I've handled myself today fairly well, because..."

(cut)

"The best thing to do is, you've got something that smells that death, you've got something that looks like death. You've got the sinking ship. You distant yourself as far as possible from that rotting corpse. That's what I'm doing. I'm over here. They're arguing. Albert's gonna try to walk with me, talk with me- I got nothing for you, man. Like I said, that's the corpse."

(cut)

"Good news is, I'm staying out of it. Coach Wade lives to see another day. The phoenix continues to soar over the land of Survivor. I will not get drawn into petty arguments, I will not fall to the lying tongue. I see the true path."

ciriefan

Wywiad z Coach'em:

R: After the way you were shown on your first two times on Survivor, did you feel you needed redemption? And do you feel you received it this season?

Coach: Being the grandiose guy I am… (referring to a statement Sophie had just made about him when she didn’t realize he was on the conference call line, but then he also laughed it off)… the thing is I played three times and all three times I played differently. I feel blessed to experience it all.

The first time I wanted to be the biggest character. If Sophie thinks I was grandiose now, she would’ve hated me then. The second time I wanted people to see the sensitive side. I like to do things big. This time I said I’m going to actually play the game.

Do I think I needed redemption? Survivor does not identify me. You saw Russell there that clinging to that identity. It’s a great experience, a great chapter, but I’m cool with who I am. I feel like playing redeemed me in the eyes of the audience and I connected like I never have before. I’m good with everything.

R: If you hold true to your religious beliefs, how could you make a mockery of praying to find the idol when you already had it, essentially meaning the whole thing was a sham?

Coach: Go back and watch that episode because you weren’t listening! [See, I told you he was on edge!] I prayed for a victory in the challenge – Brandon brought up the idol. I never prayed for the idol.

R: But weren’t you suggesting it?

Coach: I never prayed for it. When we found the idol, I told [Albert and Sophie] every day we need to tell people. When I saw Brandon walking around like Russell, I was glad we didn’t. We shared it – I don’t feel bad. I made mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes.

I think the prayer thing escalated – like I said yesterday [at the reunion]. I pray every day. The only difference is this time people wanted to pray in public. Brandon wanted to pray. It seems like we’re praying every single day but nobody made a mockery of it.

R: You are a religious man in life, but how much did you use religion in the game as opposed to going along with what you actually believe? For example, Edna told me that the tribe used religion to basically control Brandon. How do you respond to that?

Coach: The big difference in my game is that in the past I said this experience stripped you of the shackles of life; this will change your life for the better. that just pissed everybody off. This time, you got 18 people are out there for diff reasons and I wanted to be compassionate and figure why they wanted to be out there. With Brandon, he was there for his own agenda, partially to clear the Hantz name, partially to figure out who he was. Did I talk to him about the thing that connected us? Absolutely. Did I use that against him? No, but it was common ground. I did use his word against him. I made sure he promised us things we could count on. He was a loose cannon but he wasn’t going to compromise who he was.

Question: Did the jury vote surprise you?

Coach: Any fighter will tell you they go into the final round hoping to win and expecting to win. I thought it was going to be close – maybe five to four. It was tough but you look at the questions. If you had sequestered them and they weren’t allowed to talk, you get a different outcome. You look at Dawn’s question, she didn’t ask Albert and me a question, obviously how are we going to get her vote? I thought it was going to be closer but I had a feeling in my gut that Sophie won. I was disappointed but at the same time I was happy Sophie won.

Question: Was there anybody whose vote you expected but you didn’t get?

Coach: I think the three of us thought we were going to win. That was the beauty of our alliance. (Sophie jumps in to say: Exactly.) It wasn’t me, Cochran, and Edna. We all thought we had a legitimate shot to win.

It was interesting going in there. I wish it would have been more fair in terms of people not already making up their minds. I was surprised at Ozzy’s vote. I had to overcome more than anybody. I came in as a character who didn’t add any value except as TV. I think I overcame a lot and as a returning player, I would have voted for Ozzy even if I didn’t like him, but he’s a whiny little bitch. He’s going to be waiter ten years from now, I don’t think Sophie, Albert or I will be that. [Another example of him being rather on edge!]

Question: Sophie and Albert said they carried you not the other way around. What do you think of that?

Coach: I think it’s great. Everybody at that time is going to say things like that. Did Albert think he was in control of the game? Yeah. Did I? Yeah. Did Sophie? Absolutely. We all carried each other. It was good times, bad times. it was a mutually benefiting alliance. We all helped each other. All three of us helped each other.

Question: A situation that bothered people was you saying God made the decision to vote off Brandon. Was that the truth?

Coach: The jury, I think they didn’t want to hear anything. I tried to talk about the times I did make a mistake which was pretty few and far between. I entered into contracts with people and they broke those contracts and I felt I could get out of those. Ozzy lied to me so there was no chance in hell I was going to let him get to the end with us.

I told Brandon to his face, if you give up immunity, you’re going home. I prayed and said I want to do the right thing. It was sincere. I’m at peace with it. I’m a pastor and I don’t think I did anything subversive or hypocritical in my walk with God.

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