Would
Dave have done anything differently a second time? Find out his
answer and more as he reveals all the day after being voted out of
the game.
Video:
Transcript by James Barber:
"When
my torch got snuffed, when my life was put out from the tribe, there
was no relief. There was a bit of regret that I couldn't pursue and
persist in the game, because the only thing pulling me down in the
game were the nicks and cuts on my hands and feet. I felt great every
day, no matter how hard I worked, no matter how dehydrated I was, how
much I wanted some food with flavor. None of that mattered, that's
all just tertiary, that was superficial. I enjoyed myself to no end
in out the field. Given a second opportunity, I would do it in a
nanosecond (snaps fingers). I had a blast. The only regret I have is
that I'm not out there longer."
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"My ability to finesse difficult people is definitely a nurtured aspect of my personality than a natural aspect. I do have foot and mouth disease. Only through having that foot pulled out of my mouth, usually by the knee first is how I learned to bite my tongue, keep at the longevity of timeframes of certain people. The shorter the timeframe the easier to deal with a total jackass. At the same time, the amount of intensity you're in someone's face like the duration of a tribe life can wear someone down in ways I wasn't anticipating. I learned a lot this time around in tribe life."
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"My tribe more than likely missed my unwavering productivity and my lack of bitching about the inequity of productivity. I work, I'm a workhorse, I like to work, it makes me feel good, I sleep better at night when I work hard. It was a very big exercise for me to bite my tongue and not illuminate the inequity of work at camp. Even though they said I was speaking fairly condescendingly to them, I think that was a grossly overinterpreted thing due to the amount of effort I put in. I don't think it was quite acknowledged."
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"What's with kids these days? I don't have a flipping idea. I come from an old guard in a sense, being the product of two ex-Marines and coming from the South. In terms of etiquette and respect and integrity. 'Do it once, do it right, or go to your room, Mr. Cruser' is what I was brought up with. I think perhaps all those values are lost in this new generation of young kids."
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"If there was a long-term hamstringing factor that affected me the most, it probably was my inability to pull back and just lounge. I would get up every morning and wash the deck of the boat of the mud, and the stairs so it would be safe for my tribe, and I would wash the pots and pans. There's a Buddhist phrase, 'Doing the dishes just to do the dishes,' and for me that was pulling back. Just doing the dishes and swabbing the deck. It's very difficult for me to sit down and do nothing. Just because I can and I enjoyed it probably made my tribe feel very uncomfortable, because their work ethic was very different from mine. That may have been the long-term ostracizing factor that affected me more than any particular blow-up with Ashley or Sherea. I could have been highly intimidating and guilt-providing for the other people in my tribe simply because they probably felt they weren't doing nearly as much as I did. What they didn't realize was I did it because I could, no strings attached. I could have bitched a lot more about the lack of efforts from the rest of my tribe, but that would have been bad for morale. If I can do it, why not let me do it, and appreciate that fact, although that's my perspective, not theirs, and that might have been my downfall."
(cut)
"If I had to summarize my Survivor experience, there's a phrase, 'Burning twice as bright but half as long.' I wish I was still in the game cause I have got limitless efforts, creativity, energy to give this game. At the same time I provided more in the time I was there and was so happy to be involved in a new place, in nature, collecting food, making camp happen, getting to know people, doing the challenges for better or worse. I just want more of it. I dig it."
(cut)
"My ability to finesse difficult people is definitely a nurtured aspect of my personality than a natural aspect. I do have foot and mouth disease. Only through having that foot pulled out of my mouth, usually by the knee first is how I learned to bite my tongue, keep at the longevity of timeframes of certain people. The shorter the timeframe the easier to deal with a total jackass. At the same time, the amount of intensity you're in someone's face like the duration of a tribe life can wear someone down in ways I wasn't anticipating. I learned a lot this time around in tribe life."
(cut)
"My tribe more than likely missed my unwavering productivity and my lack of bitching about the inequity of productivity. I work, I'm a workhorse, I like to work, it makes me feel good, I sleep better at night when I work hard. It was a very big exercise for me to bite my tongue and not illuminate the inequity of work at camp. Even though they said I was speaking fairly condescendingly to them, I think that was a grossly overinterpreted thing due to the amount of effort I put in. I don't think it was quite acknowledged."
(cut)
"What's with kids these days? I don't have a flipping idea. I come from an old guard in a sense, being the product of two ex-Marines and coming from the South. In terms of etiquette and respect and integrity. 'Do it once, do it right, or go to your room, Mr. Cruser' is what I was brought up with. I think perhaps all those values are lost in this new generation of young kids."
(cut)
"If there was a long-term hamstringing factor that affected me the most, it probably was my inability to pull back and just lounge. I would get up every morning and wash the deck of the boat of the mud, and the stairs so it would be safe for my tribe, and I would wash the pots and pans. There's a Buddhist phrase, 'Doing the dishes just to do the dishes,' and for me that was pulling back. Just doing the dishes and swabbing the deck. It's very difficult for me to sit down and do nothing. Just because I can and I enjoyed it probably made my tribe feel very uncomfortable, because their work ethic was very different from mine. That may have been the long-term ostracizing factor that affected me more than any particular blow-up with Ashley or Sherea. I could have been highly intimidating and guilt-providing for the other people in my tribe simply because they probably felt they weren't doing nearly as much as I did. What they didn't realize was I did it because I could, no strings attached. I could have bitched a lot more about the lack of efforts from the rest of my tribe, but that would have been bad for morale. If I can do it, why not let me do it, and appreciate that fact, although that's my perspective, not theirs, and that might have been my downfall."
(cut)
"If I had to summarize my Survivor experience, there's a phrase, 'Burning twice as bright but half as long.' I wish I was still in the game cause I have got limitless efforts, creativity, energy to give this game. At the same time I provided more in the time I was there and was so happy to be involved in a new place, in nature, collecting food, making camp happen, getting to know people, doing the challenges for better or worse. I just want more of it. I dig it."
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