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The cuter girls--me, Jenna and Shawna--went away from the older girls because we are younger and cuter and we have better bodies...
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Jennifer Lyon
1972 - 2010
Survivor Palau
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VOTEDOFF.TV
transcribed by seftor
September 26, 2003
Q: Were you shocked when you were voted out instead of Osten even though he basically gave up and asked to be voted out?
Ryan S: I wasn't really shocked that they weren't going to vote out Osten. They respected him greatly and he was one of their guys and there was no way they were going to part with him.
Q: I was curious to know whether you got paid anything for being on the show, or is it just the winner that gets the money?
Ryan S: I believe there's no guarantee that we get any money. The only guarantee is that the first place winner gets a million dollars. But I do believe there is some financial compensation for our time away from home.
Q: Ryan, what happened to you during the RC - you couldn't catch your breath - but the others had a hard time too - was it harder than it looked?
Ryan S: That's a good point. The others had a really hard time with the challenge as well. What happened with me was a problem with the mask. As soon as I jumped in it flew off and I lost my momentum and had to make up for that. Once I got out there, I had to put the mask back on and dive down, but water went right into the mask and I couldn't see, so I had to take off the mask and then dive down and I couldn't see. It was really difficult to see underwater without the mask. So, it took me a few times to find the goblet and I got really, really tired and just didn't have the energy to get down and open the chest.
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Q: Ryan, where did you get the swimming masks? Did the producers provide the tribes with them, or did you get them at the village?
Ryan S: Oh, we were provided with the mask and I wish I would have known to hold onto it when I dove in.
Q: Did anyone on the tribe really annoy you?
Ryan S: Andrew annoyed me because he seemed to never have given me a chance. He seemed to dislike me before the game even stareted and those just aren't good terms for the beginning of a quality friendship. When we were on the boat, Andrew asked me to hold the money for him while he undressed and I was hoping he'd appreciate my hospitality as everyone else jumped off the boat and left the life ring. When he handed me the money, I asked him if he wanted me to toss it down and he got really angry with me and started cussing at me. In hindsight, it was probably a pretty stupid idea, but he didn't have to address the problem in such a manner, having never met me before.
Q: Ryan, does Darrah talk? We've not heard one word from her.
Ryan S: *laughs* She didn't like talking to me. She kept very low, under the radar, and just followed along. She seemed king of like a nice girl, but she never seemed interested in holding a conversation with me.
Q: Ryan, who, in your opinion, is the most attractive person from the Morgan tribe? Who from the Drake tribe? Any crushes?
Ryan S: From Morgan, Nicole, and Michelle from Drake. And Survivor is not the place for crushes.
Q: Ryan, did you feel left out when three of the guys dropped their shorts during the IC?
Ryan S: *laughs* No, I didn't feel left out. It was something they had decided to do on their own and I felt left out from their group, but not because of the naked party.
Q: Ryan, why didn't you take your shorts off when the other guys did?
Ryan S: *laughs* I probably should have, then I would have become the new leader of that tribe! Strategic error.
Q: How much nudity was going on with the girls? (There has already been way too much nudity shown with the guys.)
Ryan S: *laughs* I actually didn't see any nudity, but I wasn't really looking to see any either. But, too bad that I had to see boys naked instead of girls.
Q: Ryan, why wouldn't you and Lillian tell anyone where the water well was? Nicole mentioned you all wouldn't.
Ryan S: I offered several times to take people to the water well. No one seemed that interested, but I do believe that Andrew made it up once, and Darrah and Tijuana made it up also once. But, it's not a fun place to be. There's mosquitos everywhere and you gotta carry the water all the way back down the hill. So, I kind of took this job on myself, along with Lil, so that the others wouldn't have to. I think it went by a little underappreciated.
Q: It took your group forever to open that clue. What was the problem?
Ryan S: I think it was mostly Ryan O. just couldn't get the string off and he probably started to panic and couldn't concentrate. It's a real heartbreaker whenever it's my neck that's on the line.
Q: Ryan, sooooo sad you are gone. I don't think they portrayed you fairly, and I think Andrew was rude to call you a Limp Noodle. What's your best memory from the experience.
Ryan S: I would say the very beginning. Right when I found out about the twist (getting tossed off the boat). I was so excited to be a part of that.
Q: Ryan, why didn't you tell Andrew off on the boat about the money?
Ryan S: It's not in my nature to tell anybody off. It's in my nature to try and create friends even if they don't seem to want to be friends with me. Unfortunately, I don't think he ever opened up to me.
Q: Ryand, are you at least glad that you were not the first voted out?
Ryan S: *laughs* Yeah, I guess there's always that ... but I wasn't looking for anything other than first place.
Q: Ryan, where are the microphones? On most reality shows, you see each person wearing a mic somewhere, but I've never seen them on Survivor.
Ryan S: I think they have their own gusy who operate boom mics. They're standing around us all the time. They're really, really hard workers.
Q: Ryan, sorry to see you go. Tell me, what was it like to see Sandra come over to your camp and take the tarp?
Ryan S: *laughs* It was extremely disappointing. We had enough problems on our own without Sandra coming over, being rude, and then taking our tarp. Taking that item probably hurt us the most.
Q: Ryan, where was your water jug Sandra wanted to take?
Ryan S: This mythical water jug never existed. We told her that everything was laying out, but she didn't take our word for it.
Q: Ryan, if you had won the RC, what item would you have taken from the Drake tribe?
Ryan S: I hadn't even thought about it. We were just trying to get a win.
Q: Without the tarp, how did you sleep and night and what did you guys eat? There wasn't too much eating going on, unlike the other tribe.
Ryan S: Yeah, sleeping wasn't good with or without the tarp and actually, the guys did a *really* good job of rebuilding the roof. We ate some rice and some beans that we got from the village ... and some unsuspecting crabs that were walking by as well as the coconuts. Certainly not as good as the fish that Drake were eating!
Q: Ryan, how did you get picked to swim first?
Ryan S: We were kind of disorganized before that, and I think we had a bunch of different plans, and somehow I ended up going first, which would have been a good thing had I kept the mask on, but it ended up just backfiring completely.
Q: Ryan, after seeing how well supplied the Drake tribe was, do you feel they had an advantage in the village with the Spanish speaking Sandra negotiating for supplies?
Ryan S: Absolutely, no doubt about it. Communication is key in that kind of a situation. We just didn't know how much the money we had was worth, and we just didn't know what we could get with it.
Q: Did you ever notice the shoes were missing?
Ryan S: I think it was some female high hells that got stolen. I certainly didn't notice, and I don't think the girls did either.
Q: How long do you think your alliance with Lil would have lasted?
Ryan S: Alliances are all dependent on the dynamics of the tribe. If others didn't want us to be a part of their alliance, then it was not going to last very long, and that's the nature of the game.
Q: Ryan, I think they made a mistake voting you out! You were enthusiastic and wanted to be there! Was Osten really as depressed as they made him look?
Ryan S: Physically, he was a wreck and just miserable. He had no clothes and it got cold at night. He couldn't sleep and he wasn't getting the calorie intake that he was used to getting. This just wasn't his kind of game. He's a really nice guy, but he's just not a Survivor.
Q: Which previous season of Survivor was your favorite and why?
Ryan S: Probably the second one (the Outback). That was the first season that I saw all the way through, so it's kind of the season that hooked me.
Q: Ryan, do you think going into the game with your personal physique (being rather skinny) was a detriment since it is a known fact that all Survivors who last a while lose considerable weight?
Ryan S: We've had winners on Survivor that have been really thin to start out with. I don't think that's an issue. I think what did happen was my tribe underestimated my ability based purely on superficial motives.
Q: Ryan, did you try to gain weight and beef up before you went on the show?
Ryan S: I have a very adaptive body, but one thing it doesn't do well is lose or gain weight. I have a very efficient metabolism. Trying to bulk up would have been futile.
Q: Ryan, two people who we have not seen on tv much are Darrah and Ryan O. What can you tell us about each of them?
Ryan S: Ryan O. seems to be a very hard worker, but at times, can be a little bit arrogant as he never really wanted to talk to me, especially about voting. Darrah's a very nice person, but she's a complete follower. She offered basically no opinions of her own and just let the winds shift her wherever they wanted her to go.
Q: Did Lil want to lead the tribe? I think she could have straightened them out!
Ryan S: I think Lil's kind of unfamiliar with the game, so she was reluctant to take the leadership role. However, I think she would have done the finest job of anybody out there, and it was a disappointing loss that Andrew was our leader instead of Lil.
Q: Ryan, do you feel that you may have been set up by being the first sent out on the water challenge?
Ryan S: I don't think I was set up and actually that was the perfect opportunity for me to prove my worth. I just got viciously unlucky and that's just life. Normally, I would have come out in that challenge very well, but it just didn't happen that day.
Q: Ryan, other than Osten, who would you have liked to see off instead of you?
Ryan S: I thought since the first vote that Tijuana should have been the one to go. She was not an efficient swimmer, she didn't conduct herself very well in the town, and I felt she probably had the least to offer in the physical challenges.
Q: Are there any interesting stories that happened there that the producers didn't show on TV?
Ryan S: There's a pretty funny story of Nicole choppin' off this chicken's head. I don't believe she'd ever done it before and she looked kind of like a vicious psycho carrying this chicken in one hand and a machete in the other. But she appeared to know exactly what she was doing, and it was preeetty funny! *laughs*
Q: Is Lil really a bit loony tunes, or does she just seem that way since she doesn't seem to 'click' with the rest of the tribe either?
Ryan S: Lil's got some craziness in her personality, but that's one of her best qualities, 'cuz she's just so fun. Lil is just so Lil and you gotta love her.
Q: If you could describe each of your Morgan tribemates in one word, what would it be?
Ryan S: Delusional.
Q: What did Sandra say that was rude? They didn't really show it on TV.
Ryan S: *laughs* We told her very specifically and very earnestly that we had laid out all of our items in front of camp for her to take. She spent from thirty minutes to an hour walking around our island trying to find "hidden" stuff. Even after we assured her the limited resources we were able to acquire were already on display. We wanted to get on with our lives, not wait around for her.
Q: Ryan, what did you think of the producers making everyone run around in their underwear instead of letting them take bathing suits?
Ryan S: The producers didn't make anybody run around in anything. We all had clothes on and we could have bought clothes in the town. The decision to run around in underwear is truly up to the individual.
Q: Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, you got hosed. Did you try to ally with anyone other than Lil out there?
Ryan S: Everyone blindly followed Andrew with any and every decision. Even with all the failures, chaos, and confusion in our tribe, they infallably followed his every word. I did, at one point, ask Tijuana if she and Darrah would be interested in voting off Osten since he wanted to leave. It would have given the girls a majority in the tribe, but she thought she was doing what was "best" for the tribe.
Q: Ryan, why did you want to be on Survivor?
Ryan S: I am a fierce competitor and this is the game of all games. Pitting man versus man. I've always been into competition and strategy games. I'm extremely athletic and great with interpersonal relationships. I always thought this game was speaking directly to me.
Q: Hindsight is 20-20, but do you think it's better to go into the game and try to make alliances right away, or better to hold back and wait and see who is going to be stronger?
Ryan S: At first I thought it was best to hold back and see how the dynamics of the tribe played out. Unfortunately, I got dealt a rotten deck of cards and I became the person that everyone wanted out, and by that time, it was just too late. A lot of this game is circumstantial and luck, and I just didn't have it on my side this time around.
Q: Whose behavior shocked you the most?
Ryan S: I would have to say probably Osten wanting to quit on day six. I can understand his reasoning, but I wouldn't think he'd be that quick to throw in the towel.
Q: After a while, does Tijuana's voice get annoying?
Ryan S: Tijuana can be very patronizing and that itself can be annoying. Her voice is just an unpleasant byproduct.
Q: Do you think you could get along with your tribemates in another work situation?
Ryan S: I think I can get along with anybody. It's really just up to the other person if they want to get along with me. I'm very forgiving, very easygoing, and easy to get along with.
Q: Was anyone other than Osten thinking about jumping Sandra when she was pillaging?
Ryan S: We were *all* equally perturbed. I'm sure we were all wishing the worst on her ... together. It was probably one of the few times our tribe was all on the same page.
Q: What do you think you gained from this whole experience?
Ryan S: The assurance that you can make your dreams come true. I didn't think I'd have a chance to get an interview, let alone selected. It's been a real eye opener.
Q: Ryan, what advice would you have for those of us who want to audition for Survivor?
Ryan S: Never give up, always be yourself, and just hope for the best.
Q: What would you like to say to your tribemates after last night's vote and what did they lose by voting you off?
Ryan S: I think my tribe had a very distorted view on what I had to offer, especially in the realm of physical strength. I'm not the strongest person in the tribe but I'm extremely athletic. They never got to see that side of me and I do believe that it's a big loss.
Q: Ryan, they called ya skinny, seems like they are tarnishing yer image, what did you think of yer nickname?
Ryan S: Actually, I don't like the nickname 'cuz Andrew was the only one that called me that to my face and you know what kind of relationship we had. I thought it was very interesting that others chose to use the nickname during TC even though they'd never previously referred to me as that.
Q: Ryan, was Morgan specifically told they couldn't hide any of their valuables when Sandra came to raid your camp?
Ryan S: Absolutely. That's the rule.
Q: Ryan, what do you think you could or should have done to stay longer?
Ryan S: I would have tried to make my physical strengths more aware to the tribe. I don't think anyone knew my athletic background and I didn't realize they viewed me as such a liability. I would have been nothing but a strength, but I think I never got that point across. I've played sports my whole life, ever since I was five. I'm very good at basketball and soccer, I play competitive volleyball every summer, and I run a mile under six minutes, but I was discriminated against because I don't bench press 300 lbs. I should have made them aware of all this information earlier.
Q: Will you go back to being a clerk, or are you looking for other opportunities?
Ryan S: Working at a grocery store is a job that I have so I can explore opportunities. It's nothing I want to make a career of. I've gone back to the grocery store so that I can continue to explore other areas. My passion and love is music. I've wanted to do music for a living ever since high school and I'll probably push full force ahead with that.
Ryan S: You guys have been awesome, thank you so much! Keep it real! Word.
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