Surviving the Early Show: Edgardo’s Interview
Surviving the Early Show: Edgardo’s Interview by David Bloomberg -- 04/20/2007 After being voted off Survivor Thursday night, it’s time for Edgardo to appear on The Early Show. Substitute host Tracy Smith handles the interview duties – does she do a better job than the usual hosts? Read on to find out. Edgardo was voted off of Survivor: Fiji Thursday night, so it’s time for him to appear on The Early Show on Friday morning. This week, Tracy Smith, who normally cohosts the weekend version of the show, is subbing. Maybe she will be able to come up with some decent questions. But I doubt it. Smith introduces the segment by saying Mookie tried to save Alex, but “a disloyal Dreamz” blew it for them. We are shown some of the debate after Dreamz told his other alliance about the immunity idol switch and then Stacy convinced them to go after neither Mookie nor Alex, but Edgardo instead. After Edgardo’s torch is snuffed once again, he’s in the studio. What did he think of Dreamz? Edgardo says he knew from the beginning that Dreamz was kind of a rat in the game who would switch over to whoever could cover him. He expected him, which is why they played the idol, because he was going to be a rat. I presume Edgardo means they knew Dreamz was going to be a rat at some point, not then and there. Edgardo says he could tell that people were writing a long name when voting at Tribal Council, so he had a feeling it was him instead of Alex. He tried to get Alex to give him the idol, but… Smith does the usual host thing of cutting off the Survivor contestant before they can finish their statement. Nice job. She talks about how he had said he could tell he was in trouble because people weren’t looking at him. Edgardo agrees, saying they’re afraid to look in your eyes. When he noticed that, he thought it might be him. But she says he must have been totally shocked, it came out of the blue. He agrees, he was expecting them to target Alex. In the reward challenge, people said he had a sense of entitlement and thought he was running the game. He thinks people hated that about him, as well as that he graduated from Harvard, etc. People saw him as a threat. Smith says it was an interesting challenge, because we found out a lot about how people felt about others. Yes, Tracy, that’s why they do this challenge often on Survivor! The question she focuses most on, though, is who smelled the worst – Dreamz. Edgardo says yes, he smelled terrible. She also says they found out nobody likes Stacy, and Stacy was the one who came up with the plan to get rid of him! Edgardo says yes, that was upsetting. He and Alex defended her until the end and she backstabbed them. Smith asks what he thinks of her, and Edgardo says he’s not allowed to say that on TV! On that note, they go to the secret scene where Mookie doesn’t do what Edgardo wanted either. The scene shows Edgardo asking Alex about his conversation with Mookie regarding the immunity idol. Alex relates that he told Mookie they need to rotate possession of the idol – they found it together, so if Mookie won’t do that, it means Mookie doesn’t trust him. If that’s the case, how can he trust Mookie? Edgardo says he’ll go steal the idol! I don’t know if that’s allowed, and indeed Alex says he can’t do that. But he says Mookie is shady, and because of that, he doesn’t trust anybody. Back in the studio, Smith asks Edgardo if anybody should really trust anybody in this game. Edgardo says you can’t trust anybody but you have to have a little faith in somebody. The game is like poker, a little trust and a little strategy. Smith says Edgardo really played it as a team player, does he regret that? No, not at all. He was being a team player, but when he decided to include Mookie, it wasn’t the right move. He was a little gossip queen and he was telling “everybody” about the immunity idol. Oh, come on, just one person. Dreamz was the one who told everybody. With a few seconds left, Smith notes that one of the questions in the reward challenge asked who he would trust with his life. Would he trust any of them with his life? “No, I don’t think I would trust anybody.” When a million dollars is on the line, don’t trust anybody.
Surviving the Early Show: Edgardo’s Interview by David Bloomberg -- 04/20/2007 After being voted off Survivor Thursday night, it’s time for Edgardo to appear on The Early Show. Substitute host Tracy Smith handles the interview duties – does she do a better job than the usual hosts? Read on to find out. Edgardo was voted off of Survivor: Fiji Thursday night, so it’s time for him to appear on The Early Show on Friday morning. This week, Tracy Smith, who normally cohosts the weekend version of the show, is subbing. Maybe she will be able to come up with some decent questions. But I doubt it. Smith introduces the segment by saying Mookie tried to save Alex, but “a disloyal Dreamz” blew it for them. We are shown some of the debate after Dreamz told his other alliance about the immunity idol switch and then Stacy convinced them to go after neither Mookie nor Alex, but Edgardo instead. After Edgardo’s torch is snuffed once again, he’s in the studio. What did he think of Dreamz? Edgardo says he knew from the beginning that Dreamz was kind of a rat in the game who would switch over to whoever could cover him. He expected him, which is why they played the idol, because he was going to be a rat. I presume Edgardo means they knew Dreamz was going to be a rat at some point, not then and there. Edgardo says he could tell that people were writing a long name when voting at Tribal Council, so he had a feeling it was him instead of Alex. He tried to get Alex to give him the idol, but… Smith does the usual host thing of cutting off the Survivor contestant before they can finish their statement. Nice job. She talks about how he had said he could tell he was in trouble because people weren’t looking at him. Edgardo agrees, saying they’re afraid to look in your eyes. When he noticed that, he thought it might be him. But she says he must have been totally shocked, it came out of the blue. He agrees, he was expecting them to target Alex. In the reward challenge, people said he had a sense of entitlement and thought he was running the game. He thinks people hated that about him, as well as that he graduated from Harvard, etc. People saw him as a threat. Smith says it was an interesting challenge, because we found out a lot about how people felt about others. Yes, Tracy, that’s why they do this challenge often on Survivor! The question she focuses most on, though, is who smelled the worst – Dreamz. Edgardo says yes, he smelled terrible. She also says they found out nobody likes Stacy, and Stacy was the one who came up with the plan to get rid of him! Edgardo says yes, that was upsetting. He and Alex defended her until the end and she backstabbed them. Smith asks what he thinks of her, and Edgardo says he’s not allowed to say that on TV! On that note, they go to the secret scene where Mookie doesn’t do what Edgardo wanted either. The scene shows Edgardo asking Alex about his conversation with Mookie regarding the immunity idol. Alex relates that he told Mookie they need to rotate possession of the idol – they found it together, so if Mookie won’t do that, it means Mookie doesn’t trust him. If that’s the case, how can he trust Mookie? Edgardo says he’ll go steal the idol! I don’t know if that’s allowed, and indeed Alex says he can’t do that. But he says Mookie is shady, and because of that, he doesn’t trust anybody. Back in the studio, Smith asks Edgardo if anybody should really trust anybody in this game. Edgardo says you can’t trust anybody but you have to have a little faith in somebody. The game is like poker, a little trust and a little strategy. Smith says Edgardo really played it as a team player, does he regret that? No, not at all. He was being a team player, but when he decided to include Mookie, it wasn’t the right move. He was a little gossip queen and he was telling “everybody” about the immunity idol. Oh, come on, just one person. Dreamz was the one who told everybody. With a few seconds left, Smith notes that one of the questions in the reward challenge asked who he would trust with his life. Would he trust any of them with his life? “No, I don’t think I would trust anybody.” When a million dollars is on the line, don’t trust anybody.