Joel on whether he has any regrets voting Mikey B off:

“Oh, not at all. I probably have one regret in the entire time that I was there, and it didn't have anything to do with any vote that I ever made. My biggest regret was when they shuffled the tribes, that I didn't go right over, immediately, to Tracy and Chet and say "Hey, the two of you, Erik and I, will agree to never vote for each other. Ever! We'll maintain "fans vs. favorites". The four of us will never vote for each other. Then ideally, it would be the four of us that would go to the merge. If we win challenges, great. If we lose challenges, so what? There are three chickens over there. two of them are laying eggs. We've got a net. We can fish. Who cares? We've got a cave. If we win nothing else. Eliminate four or five people, or whatever it is, then that's what we'll do. Worst case scenario, if that had worked, there would have been a four-four tie at the vote last night.”

“But it didn't even cross my mind. I think I just let my emotions and my disgust with Chet's game play get the best of me and that's the wrong way to play the game.”

His feelings after the teams switched up:

“I was probably the most uncomfortable ever in the game at that point. Up until that point, I felt like I was playing the game as logically as I could. I think there are a lot of people who don't agree with some of the votes. Some fans who disagree with how I chose to vote, but it's a numbers game. It's a numbers game and it's a votes game. The most logical way, based on the numbers, was the way that I was trying to play. I never forced anyone to vote the way that I wanted them to. I just proposed ideas and they could agree or disagree and ultimately vote what ever way they wanted.”

“I never showed to Tribal Council without everything packed, because regardless of what they told me at camp, that night could be my night. When I got onto that new tribe, I was very, very uncomfortable and my emotions took over. I stopped making logical decisions and started making emotional decisions and that's when I went home.”

Joel on the two very different camps:

“Our original camp was the epitome of Survivor. There was coral all over the ground. Our trails were ridiculous. You could not walk bare foot anywhere without cutting your foot, which then would never heal. You're wearing wet socks and wet shoes all of the time, which then leads to trench foot. Nonstop. We had very little flat land anywhere that wasn't infested with bugs, where we could sleep on the ground or have any kind of decent shelter.”

“Then you get over to the Malakal tribe, when we shuffled the tribes, and we get over to our new island and they got a great shelter, a big open area. It's the difference between living in a studio apartment and a five bedroom house on three acres. You're just, ‘Okay. This is significantly nicer’. You could walk around barefoot. Their sand was soft. They had a front beach and a back beach. They had plenty of coconuts and trees. They had the cave. Yeah, I wanted to stay there.”

What Joel learned about himself during his time on the show:

“For me, I think what I learned are things that other people have told me a lot of times. I do allow my emotions to get the best of me sometimes. I always knew I was a very vocal person. I always knew that I was a very opinionated person. I always knew that I was a very competitive person. I don't think I realized how many facial expressions I make, but they show a lot of those too. Aside from that was that a big part of me wanting to be on Survivor was to see how I would fare out in those elements, physically and socially, and I was pleased with myself and with what I did. I really feel that mistake that I made, I probably would have made more mistakes if I was out there longer, but in the time that I was there, the mistake that I made was how I played it after that shuffle.”

Joel on the choice between bringing boxers or briefs to the island:

“Boxers, but make sure they're clean!”

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