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Brian Corridan and Margaret Bobonich: Early Show Interviews

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puddin:
As posted on survivorfever


Two Tribal Councils, Two "Survivor" Castoffs   
Transcript of Video Interview by SurvivorFever.net Tampa Bay's 10 - 10.28.05

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On night 15 after an explosive Tribal Council, Margaret Bobonich the 43-year-old Nurse Practitioner from Chargon, Ohio, was voted out of the tribe in a 6-1 decision. In the most heated Tribal Council to date, Judd unleashed his fury on Margaret after she claimed he was a bad sport.

After Judd's tirade, Margaret was finally able to give her final words. "Best wishes to my Nakum tribe I think a lot of the tension will be gone now, but I think they will have a lot of trouble with Judd."

At the night's second Tribal Council where Rafe from Nakum cast a secret ballot to save one person from the vote, the Yaxha tribe ousted Brian Corridan, the 22-year-old Ivy League Student from New York, New York. Blindsided by the decisive 5-1 vote, Brian was sent packing instead of Amy, who had re-sprained her ankle earlier in the day. Still shocked, Brian gave his final words. "Well, I did everything I could. I did not see that coming."

Both Margaret & Brian talked to "Life Around the Bay" anchor Dave Wirth about their experiences.

Transcript:

Dave Wirth:  Margaret, is Judd going to be on your Christmas card list this year?

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Margaret:  No, I didn't invite him to my Christmas party.

Dave:  I've been watching Survivor a little while, I don't know if I've seen this much animosity between two players.  Was it as nasty as it seemed on TV?

Margaret:  It was actually worse, I believe.  Judd's physically aggressive nature, almost to the point where he was volatile, was scary.  I don't ever recall seeing any Survivor series have anything like that in it.  So, yes it was tough, it was scary.

Dave:  At the time was it unpleasant for you?  It must have been difficult to handle.

Margaret:  I went into Tribal Council knowing there was a good chance I was going to get voted off.  I tried to keep the basic premise that I was going to keep my integrity.  I was not going to let Judd take my integrity from me.   Regardless of how fearsome and aggressive he would be, I decided that I would be honest and true to who I was.   I didn't exactly anticipate his physical aggressiveness.

Dave:  Why do you think your tribe mates sided with Judd rather than you?

Margaret:  When you live in camp with someone like Judd, and Judd will simmer and then he explodes.  You never know who he's going to go off with.  Most of the time it was me.  With me gone, Judd was gonna probably target somebody else.  It wasn't just Judd alone.  Judd was very much empowered by Stephenie.  So anybody who were to vote with me or against Judd would have had the wrath of Judd and Stephenie.

Dave:  Brian, on the other hand, I think you even admitted that the vote on your tribe came as a little bit of a surprise.  Why do you think your tribe mates went after you?

Brian:  After Amy did such a great job in the boulder challenge, with a broken ankle she pulled through with the win.  You couldn't target someone who comes across as a hero like that.  And I think in terms of physical strength and brute force, compared to Bobby Jon and Brandon, I was not as big.  I think for the tribe's sake, in terms of physical brute force, I was the next to go.

Dave:  How was that Reward Challenge, pushing that big ball?

Brian: It was hard, it was a 500 pound ball and you have Judd on the other side, who is another 250.  So you're pushing 750 pounds of just sheer mass.  It's just futile.

Dave: I'm gonna ask both of you about this, maybe it's just me, but ever since they split the two tribes, it's been confusing to me.  Was it confusing for you guys?

Brian:  Well you live with them, so.

Margaret:  It wasn't confusing to me at all because my whole alliance was on the other team.

Brian:  Mine, too.  I should say.

Margaret:  I lost my alliance so it wasn't confusing a bit.

Dave:  How about the physical conditions on Guatemala?  I heard everybody complaining about the mosquitoes.

Margaret:  The mosquitoes were horrible.  You literally couldn't go into the jungle and go to the bathroom without swatting yourself the entire time.  We started to get rain, of course it was the rainy season but, we didn't' get rain for 10 days and then the skies opened up up on us.  I was very, very tired, not only from the dysentery but I'm staying up all night with the fire.  I was wiped.

Brian:  I was like a kid in a candy store down in Guatemala.  I've wanted to be on Survivor for so long that the whole time I was down there I was kind of on an adrenalin rush the entire time.  I looked a little bit hyper.  I was okay with the conditions just because I was so pumped.

Dave: Margaret and Brian, thank you very much.

Texan:
thanks puddin

RudyRules:
Wow, Brian had me fooled.  I thot he was gay until now!

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