“Survivor 48” is within the historical past books.
Wednesday evening’s wild tribal council noticed Mary Zheng save herself with the Shot within the Darkish, main to 2 tie votes between Justin Pioppi and Sai Hughley. The drama culminated with Hughley convincing Cedrek McFadden to maintain her over Pioppi, who grew to become the third individual eradicated from the season.
In his unique interview with The Publish, the 30-year-old pizzeria supervisor revealed a stunning reality about his remaining tribal council.
“Apparently this was the longest tribal council in the history of ‘Survivor,’ which blows my mind,” Pioppi mentioned. “We were there for probably like 4 or 5 hours. You know you’re in for a late night when there’s a commercial break in tribal council. So we definitely kept everyone up past their bedtime.”
Pioppi defined that almost all of his argument to McFadden to maintain him “got cut” from the ultimate edit as a result of the episode was so action-packed.
“I don’t envy the job of the editors or the producers. It’s a very, very difficult task to get so much content in a small amount of time,” he mentioned.
“But I think that my argument stuck with Cedrek,” Pioppi continued. “I was speaking very logically. I was very levelheaded. I didn’t want to get emotional or anything. I wanted to talk to him as my friend and as somebody who he can confide in. And I think that my arguments suck because 90 to 95 percent of the tribal council, he was still voting with me. He was voting against Sai.”
Pioppi went on, “And even when Jeff [Probst] revealed that I did lose my vote, something that I never thought in a million years would come out, it did come out. And Cedrek still wanted to keep me in the game. I think that goes to not only my social game, but also what I brought up at tribal council. I’m like, listen, you can vote me out, Cedrek, but think about what’s best for you and your game. It’s best if we navigate this together and figure out and work out the kinks. As long as we are still a cohesive unit working together as we have for the first week of this game, we can still go pretty far.”
However McFadden in the end sided with Hughley — and Pioppi doesn’t blame the surgeon for his resolution.
“There was a lot of factors going on and Cedrek was in a very, very, very difficult spot,” Pioppi mentioned. “It’s not a spot that I envy at all. I just think he made the best choice for him going forward, considering all factors that were at stake.”
Pioppi additionally acknowledged that the journey that price him his vote, which angered many viewers on social media, is par for the course within the new period of “Survivor.”
“This isn’t Survivor 41 or 42. This is not our first time seeing it,” he mentioned. “It’s well ingrained in this new era of gameplay. We as players, we know the rules of the game. We kind of signed up for it, knowing that we may lose our vote. We may have to go on a journey. We may be forced to participate in the challenge at said journey.”
“Survivor 48” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
