Burton Roberts, the 31 year old Marketing Executive became the first tribe member voted out of the Drake tribe last night with a 5 - 2 vote. Burton talked with Julie Chen on the Early Show this morning about his experience, Rupert and how he felt about Jon. SurvivorUpdates is pleased to bring you the transcript and vidcaps of his interview.
10/10/03 Early Show Transcript - by Lexie
Julie Chen - After going undefeated 3 times in a row on Survivor- Pearl Islands, some members of the Drake tribe decided to throw an immunity challenge in order to get rid of some "excess baggage." Unfortunately for marketing executive Burton Roberts, it ended up being him -
Video of Burton talking to Rupert saying - At some point, we should lose. We can do it, but we have to get rid of Christa or Trish and we have to do it soon - Can you do that?
Rupert replying - To keep us strong together yeah, heck yeah I can.
The video of Rupert talking - he says - when Burt came to see me and says we're going to get rid of Drake- some of our Drakes - I wanted to smack him and say - Traitor. If this was a pirate culture he'd already be dead.
Video of Jeff and Burton at TC - Jeff saying - Burton - the tribe has spoken.
Julie- Burton Roberts - Good Morning
Burton - Hello - How are you?
Julie - The question is how are you? Your idea of throwing the towel in - not so good
Burton- right - for the record - literally I think the entire tribe wanted to do it obviously people wanted to for different reasons but everybody had talked about it on different occasions. So, it wasn't me. It was portrayed that way, but it wasn't only my idea.
Julie- Ok...Last night at Tribal Council - did you have any clue that you were being targeted?
Burton- I knew Jon was a swing vote- and I knew it was between Christa and me- I knew one of us were going to be going home but I was hoping - just hoping - that Jon didn't vote me off.
Julie- Why did you know it was between you and Christa? Why was there a mark on your back and why was there a mark on her back?
Burton- Mark on Christa's back - because she was causing problems internally in the camp with Shawn, with me and Michelle. Mark on my back - because I was a threat- and later on in the game I would be seen as a threat and everyone had told me that , so I was doing what I had to do to ....
Laughs...
Julie- Too good of a player you were? Do you feel betrayed? Because your - It looked like you and Michelle were clearly were shoulder to shoulder-
Burton - Right
Julie - I thought Shawn was also in your alliance and he voted you out.
Burton - right- and after watching the show last night and after seeing Jon saying that Shawn and he were in an alliance - my guess is that at the end, Jon said to Shawn - hey we're voting Burton off- Jump over to our alliance now to keep going in the game and anyone would have done that - no questions asked.
Julie- You know ... Jon did not come across as the most likeable guy last night
Burton - right
Julie - What is he really like? - Because he is the self - proclaimed puppet master. He was loaded the entire episode and just like laughing his head off and just a little bit over -confident.
Burton - Jon made me laugh. I thought he was a hilarious person.He really rubbed people the wrong way though, personally I didn't care - I thought he was entertaining. He was drawing a lot of heat and a good person to be around because had we of gone later in the game, he would have been getting heat not me. So, he was a distraction for me and he was entertaining. He made the days funny. So....
Julie- AND... He orchestrated your demise.
Burton - He did. He's a good player. He played the game well and it's a strategic game so I gotta have respect for that.
Julie- Let's talk about Rupert.
Burton ( kinda laughs) says Rupert !!
Julie - Why do you laugh? Because he had some ...... You know what? He had some words about you - we have a clip. Let's hear what he had to say.
Burton - OK
Clip of Burton pointing to the whole in Rupert's skirt - Rupert saying it's like high school- saying Burton was being a idiot laughing at him - saying "pretty boy jock ass idiot always have to pick on me"
back to Burton and Julie
Julie - Ouch
Burton - it sounds like he's back in high school if you ask me - I don't know - some insecurities coming out ?? I mean we're out there playing a game - You got to try to have fun and we're all joking around as friends. I was not trying to pick on him, hurt his feelings I don't know - he took it the wrong way.
Julie - You were jealous he had a nicer skirt than you did?
Burton - laughs - that's right I didn't have a skirt
Julie - exactly that is why you were jealous - he had a skirt and you didn't.
Burton - Exactly.
Julie - we have some callers on the line - our first caller is Julie from Penn. Julie - what is your question for Burton ?
Julie- My question for Burton is in your opinion - how did Rupert interact with the whole tribe compared to how we saw it on TV now that the game is over?
Burton - that's a great question - Rupert actually didn't interact that much. No one really knew what he was doing. He would fish for 4-5 hours a day and it was great because he would bring in food, I would also go out but only go out for an hour or two. but, he really was ... he really stayed pretty much to himself so no one really knew what was going on and that's one reason I approached him. I didn't know if he talked to anyone in the alliance.So, Rupert was himself pretty much to himself a lot in the end.
Julie - Thank you Julie - Our next caller is Lori from Oregon.
Lori - Hi Burton - So excited to talk to you this morning.
Burton - good to hear you
Lori - You were one of the nicest guys that Survivor ever has had.
Burton - Thank you
Lori- My question is - was Jon really as confident about the game as it seemed? Or do you think that was his strategy?
Burton - You know I think Jon was walking on egg shells a lot of the game but hewas rubbing people the wrong way - but he did know the game well and he was a good strategic player and obviously he could lie well. So, I mean maybe he was really confident, but in everyone's opinion, I'm sure it was on the game. He was pretty much always on egg shells and that was why he was kinda scrambling and lying, But he was a great strategic player, so you know I give him credit for that.
Julie - Thank you Lori. Out next caller is Shirley from Orlando Florida, Go ahead Shirley
Shirley - Hi Burton - This is Shirley (last name) from Orlando, Florida - - I'm sorry they booted you off. If given a chance would you do survivor all over again?
Burton- without a question. It was an amazing experience. A great game. One of the most difficult games you can ever imagine. If you were to play it again with the same group of people, every single thing would be different so I would do it in a heartbeat.
Julie - But would you have played it the same way? Because it looked like the kiss of death for you was when you had the late night talk with Rupert.
Burton -See, that talk - by the way - lasted about an hour. and It was us going back and forth giving a little bit of information here and getting a little bit more and going on and on. It wasn't me just going up to Rupert and saying - Hey let's throw this challenge. It had all been talked about. Would I have done it again? Yes. I was swinging from fences, I was going to strike out or hit a home run. I wasn't going to sit there and go along with the ride.
Julie - Burton Roberts - Thank you so much
Burton - Thank you.
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