Jonathon on how his injury occurred:

"How it happened, I’m not quite sure. I ran into some stick or something during that challenge. I looked down when my part of the challenge was over and found a hole in my leg. I honestly could not tell you how it happened."

Jonathan on his relationship with Cirie:

"My relationship with Cirie at this point I think is fine. She and I kind of made up because neither one of us anticipated or looked to getting as personal or emotional as we did. That happened, from my point of view, because she was behaving in a very irrational way and moving from what I thought was a very logical alliance of five to a pretty illogical alliance of four with her as the fifth person in. She saw that she was the fifth person into our alliance, which was also true, but there was no question that the five of us could’ve gone quite far together. So I was very upset and then she was deflecting away from what was really going on, which was a secret alliance that she had with Yau-Man that she felt had been betrayed by him and that’s why she wanted to get rid of him. So whenever I was calling her out on why she was doing this, she couldn’t be honest with me because she felt that I was the reason Yau-Man betrayed her, because he was in more of an alliance with me. So when I’m like, ‘Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?’, she felt that I should know why she was doing it. She didn’t quite understand why the hell I kept badgering her and find out why she was behaving this way and so it got kind of ugly."

Jonathan on his feelings during the switch:

"I was thrilled because I saw that we had the smarter tribe, the more organized tribe, and we did. Certainly we won the first three or four challenges as that newly aligned Iriei tribe. I was thrilled with the way it was working out and saw a tremendous amount of daylight ahead of me."

Chet and his description of the challenge with Joel the previous week:

"It was so fast. Truthfully, it wasn’t as bad physically as it looked. The first time we went through I asked Joel, ‘Would you please say, over, under, through?’ And I would follow him, which he did, and we did well. The second time through was a tie-breaker and Joel had it in his mind to win is all that matters and all that he would tell me is to c’mon. At that point I just felt like I was tied to a Mack truck and drug through the forest, which very easily could’ve lost the challenge for us that way."

Chet on the downfalls of the original Malakal tribe:

"I was on that tribe and I didn’t know what the hell was going on. They never bothered to find out anything about any one of us, what our abilities were, what our negativities were, they just decided right away who was going to go and they were so caught up in the Survivor. And in their minds, Survivor was only who’s getting voted out, not who’s going to live and stay on. You know, we won the flint in the first day but we never had fire because they wore the flint down to the point where there was no flint left. We still didn’t have a fire. It took them four days to build a floor for a shelter, they didn’t realize that a floor doesn’t keep you dry, a floor goes underneath you. So Tracy, Kathy and I build the shelter, which they turned it into [and] we were isolating ourselves from the tribe. They would sometimes hide the machete so people couldn’t use it. Certain people were like the machete police. I mean if they didn’t see it in their vision all of the time, they were wondering who has the machete? The water, either Tracy, Kathy, or I would go get it together or separately because we just needed to get away from that group at times."

Chet on who he’s rooting for now that he's gone:

"I’m either rooting for Tracy or Kathy."

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