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I feel like I was tricked by women the way every guy in the world has been tricked by a woman, only mine was aired on TV.

a] When the Malakal and Airai were picking new tribe mates (day 12) you were picked by Amanda. I am just wondering if Ozzy and Joel had any input in her decision since she or Ozzy didn't really know very well at that point?

Yeah, Joel said to Oz,"Erik is a strong guy, we need him" and Oz told Amanda to pick me.

Also, its a little suspicious to me that you guys picked Ami over Parvati. Clearly, Ozzy and Amanda had a better relationship with Parvati -- why not pick her? It felt like at that points the couples wanted to stay together. Correct me if I am reading too much into this.

I picked Ami on my own, I don't think Amanda said anything to me about it and I knew I liked Ami from her season.

b] Did you know about the couple's alliance? Or how close Parvati/Jame/Ozzy/Amanda were? When did you realize?

I had no idea about the couples alliance, I realized right away that Oz and Amanda were a thing because they hung on eachother every night. I had no idea Parv and James were in on it until the merge when Amanda said to me,"You can be sixth in our alliance,.. behind Cirie and the two couples." I was like, FUCK SIXTH behind Cirie. Luckily that alliance imploded when Parv voted out Oz and I had a chance to make it a few places further, as well as Natalie.

c] When you guys re-merged as Dabu (your.shinning.moment.by.far <3) what was the dynamic? Could you tell Alexis/Natalie were close to Parvati?

I knew the girls were all very close, but I knew there were breaks in the alliances somewhere. Certain girls hated other girls, but I was in the dark as to what the girl's alliance rankings were. It is very apparent to see after editing; Parv on top with Alexis and Natalie on one side, and Cirie and Amanda on the other. When I got voted out I thought I had found the dissenters in the girls alliance; possibly Natalie and Cirie were the ones who didn't like Parv and Amanda as an alliance. I was way off, the girls never told me anything about how their alliances were so I had to kind of guess what the hell they were doing.

d] If Ozzy hadn't been blindsided what was your deal with him? Were you guys going to go final 5 with the couples and then duke it out?

Oz said on the Yap trip that me, him, and Amanda had a good shot at the final 3 by controlling the individual immunities and hidden immunity idols between ourselves. Obviously THAT plan went to hell.

e] When Ozzy was blindsided Amanda/James were livid with Parvati. At that point I really wished you had asked to team up with them. With Amanda as your inside on the girl's alliance and Jason as a potential number you guys could've gone far. So I guess my question is, was there any point in time when you thought of having a side alliance with Amanda/James?

Yeah, but the paranoia got to me. Amanda and I talked after Oz was out, and she suddenly was very sketchy. I was afraid she went to the girls alliance, and anything I told her would look like I was starting to turn threatening. I wanted as much attention on the other guys, so I just avoided strategizing in hopes they'd focus on James or Jason. James confused me too, he started to talk to me more after the Oz thing, but I still felt like he didn't trust me or care for playing the game for that matter. I didn't trust nor like Jason, and I wanted him gone before me, and I answered earlier that James despised Jason.