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When I talked to Joe last week, he said he knew there had been a shift in voting and that he would be going home. Did you think you were leaving?
Earlier on, in the afternoon on Wednesday when I was campaigning, I felt very strong about staying in the house. But later on that night, after going through a number of other people, I noticed that people who I thought the votes were gonna be there from were acting quite mysterious. Their body language wasn't coming off the way it would if they were really gonna side with me. By the morning on Thursday, I kinda had a feeling that it was gonna be me. So I was prepared.

How much time did you spend on your speech? It was well done.
I came up with it an hour before the actual ceremony. I didn't want to trip over any words, and I wanted to have a direction to go in on the live show. I think it went fairly well and came out the way I wanted it to.

What did you think of Kail's ''Let me stay so we can build the bonds we've started to grow'' speech? It sounded a little…weird to someone watching the show.
It certainly came off weird, and I don't think anyone really bought it. I think the only reason she stayed around is because they can sort of use her to their advantage now for the next week or two, and they got out a stronger player.

So you do think you had more game than her?
She kinda dealt her cards too fast and was rash in her decision, and kinda put us in the position that we got in — being the reason I'm sitting here now talking to you on the phone. My gameplay wasn't exactly working out to my advantage, but I think it was working out a little more than Kail's.

You were almost HOH last week instead of Dick. Who would you have nominated?
I would've nominated Dick and Daniele for the second week in a row. [Laughs] They were basically a vote for each other. If one or the other was on the block, it would automatically be a vote for that person to stay. It was just a good strategy to take away that vote.

Were you at all intimidated by Dick? What are your thoughts on his game?
For one, he didn't intimidate me. I came into the game knowing it's a game. It's not real life. So all the threats in the world, the intimidations he tried to throw at me, were just knocked down because what's the worst that's gonna happen: I get voted out of the game. Big deal. Life goes on. That's just the way I took it. It wasn't hard for me to leave. But with his gameplay with other people, I think it's poor on his behalf that he has to cut down their character and stoop to that level. He's just hot-tempered. There may be a reason why the relationship with him and Daniele is so bad and why they haven't talked in so long and she's embarrassed to maybe be around him. I mean, I could completely see that. But his actions speak for themselves, and people can make their own judgment on that.