Survivor 50 is here! Every week, Parade's Mike Bloom will bring you interviews with the castaway most recently voted off the island.After doing a lot of work on his body, Jonathan Young came into Survivor 50 ready to build a body of work. Known for perhaps being the best provider and challenge performer of the new era, the Season 42 star knew he could easily steer into the curve, his opponents thinking they'd know what they'd get out of him. But, like many of the fish he has caught during his Survivor career, something much deadlier was lurking underneath the surface. Jonathan put in the work between seasons to dimensionalize his skills, from strategic and social tactics to practicing fire. And it paid off for him swimmingly, as he directed votes, got revenge, avoided being targeted, and even defeated his previous rival in the Final Four Firemaking. But unfortunately, the protege of Boston Rob Mariano was fated to have the same outcome as his mentor: Finishing in second place on his second season.Jonathan started the game with the familiar beats that made him a standout player in the first place, catching fish and leading his tribe in challenges. But even on solid land, he wanted to play fluid, looking to still be his genuine self, while opening his game up to more to exaggeration and deception. Unfortunately for Jonathan, he got a heavy dose of that doled his way in his first vote of the season. Thinking he was locked in with his fellow new-school players to get out Rizo Velovic, he was left in the dark when Dee Valladares and Kamilla Karthigesu decided to Ruin the Friendship and boot Charlie Davis. Surprisingly, it was the first time Jonathan had been blindsided in his Survivor career. And he would make sure it would be the last.
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Fortunately, the tribes merged the very next day. Jonathan was standing tall once more (though that tends to be his default, given his giant-like stature), working with old school and old school-minded players like Coach Wade, Chrissy Hofbeck, Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick and Joe Hunter. And he made good on his newly claimed power immediately, steering the first two votes towards the two people who turned on him. The cycle soon after repeated itself; Coach and Chrissy got taken out in the "Double Duos" twist, but Jonathan got his revenge the next vote on Christian Hubicki.
Despite dealing with a game vascilating as much as the tide, Jonathan had his gaze fixed on one particular big fish: Ozzy Lusth. A challenge threat with a public idol was too threatening to keep in the game much longer, and so he kick-started a plan to shake Ozzy loose like a coconut from a tree. Unfortunately, he chose to bring Aubry Bracco and Rick Devens in on the plan, who proceeded to immediately blow it all up at Tribal Council, leading to not only Ozzy being spared, but Stephenie getting booted in one of the wildest nights in Survivor history. While down, Jonathan was certainly not out, especially when his next challenge win came with a "Power Broker" Advantage that allowed him to attend both Tribal Councils that night. He spent the afternoon putting in the steps (and the work) to jump in on two big votes. And yes, that includes finally getting rid of Ozzy, as he and the other men were able to keep him in the dark enough not to use his idol. From there, Jonathan was able to coast on safety, his eyes set on getting rid of any of the biggest threats to the potential of him winning. But he was quite literally put in the line of fire on Day 25, when Aubry Bracco not only won a clutch Immunity Challenge, but put him and Rizo Velovic into fire. After going out at this same stage last time, all of Jonathan's preparation was represented in this moment, as he quickly finished off the "RizGod." With friends on the jury and a solid game to speak to, Jonathan felt he had a very good shot at the two-million-dollar prize. But, like a jar of uncooked rice, the jury got their licks in. While Jonathan got votes from three of his allies, it was ultimately not enough, giving him a palpable reaction at the live reunion.The day after the finale, Jonathan talks with Parade about his incredibly mixed emotions following the finale, which jury member he believed helped turn the jury against him, and which other juror admitted they should have voted for him.Related: Read our Survivor 50 pre-game interview with Jonathan Young
Jonathan, how are you doing right now? I can't imagine what's going through your head at this moment.Hey, Mr. Mike. I'm doing good. That's a lie. I'm not doing great. I've been up since three this morning, just trying to go over it all in my head to figure out where I went wrong and where I should have zigged and where I should have zagged.I mean, just looking at you at the live reunion, it seemed like you were quite emotional in the immediate aftermath of the winner reveal. Which jury votes surprised you the most?I mean, I truly believed I played the best game. That's the truth. And I was disappointed in Devens. I thought I didn't know much about Christian and Emily, and I know they've played with them. But I played a lot with Devens. We had a rivalry, and I thought he respected that more. So I was disappointed. I don't know yet what to take from all this, but I'm sure God will show me something.It's interesting you say that. Because I feel the rivalry with Joe was the much bigger one highlighted. But you had one with Rick as well?Yeah. Me and Devens, just him telling all my plans that we were trying to get Ozzy out, and then following him around with the idol. We played closely, but just not together, I guess. So I expected more, so that maybe that's on me. I shouldn't expect more.Walk me through your thoughts on final Tribal Council. Did your expectations on whether you'd win the game change over the course of the evening?You want to know the truth? I knew as soon as the ball dropped out of Joe's hand that I had lost the game. I knew I lost $2 million as soon as Joe dropped that ball. Because, for some reason, I've just never been good at Simmotion. Which is crazy to me, because I've always fidgeted with thrown and juggled. But just as soon as that ball dropped, I knew it was pretty much over, and that I was going to get second. Because I knew what was going on, if you noticed, mostly the whole time. Except the Charlie vote; that one threw me pretty for a loop.Of course, a major part of your gamewas the fact that you were able to bring in more social and strategic aspects, all under the expectation that you would be a provider and challenge beast. Considering all the prep you put it, did changing your game come easier or harder than you expected?I started changing right when I got home from Season 42 and when I watched it for the first time. And being around Mr. Rob helped me a lot, because he would critique me. Mr. Rob's not exactly a shy guy, so if he saw something that I need to work on, he would tell me. And that's what you need is a mentor, a brother, a friend like that that'll help you and not be shy to tell you when you're wrong or when you mess up. And I'm proud to say that I've changed my game. Most people, they say it and they don't do it, but I did change my game completely. And maybe I should have made it more known at the end, how I changed my game, but I don't know. We'll have to figure out for the third time. I don't know exactly what to learn from this, but I promise you, I'll learn something. I promise.Well, let's get into some of these relationships that you were able to build out there.You and Coach clearly clicked from Day 1, and were number one allies up until his boot. Talk to me about working with the Dragon Slayer.Coach was a breath of fresh air every time I saw him with the jury. I felt like he helped me a little bit to keep fighting because I had a feeling that I had his vote, and I did. And that was always a good reminder, because Coach is going to play like Coach, and what you see is what you get a lot of times with Coach, and I like that. I like that Coach is going to be my friend, hopefully for the rest of my life.What about Joe? The two of you seemed to be in lockstep once your other allies were eliminated. What was your dynamic like?Joe, I don't think he could help but be a good guy. He can't help it. If he lies, it's kind of written on his face. Because when you have somebody truly genuine, it's hard for them to lie and be a bad guy. So, Joe, I could count on, if he ever lied to me, I'd be able to tell. And I knew that if he ever tried to vote me out, it'd be very hard for people to convince him to vote me out. So Joe was somebody that I knew well, and I wanted to keep next to me the whole game.We saw a few times that you and Cirie would work together, and she told me last week you had a working relationship. Talk to me about that.I knew that I couldn't trust Miss Cirie. She told me that, "Oh, I got you if I make it to the end. I got you if I make it to the jury." But that's so not what happened. Miss Cirie basically rallied the troops when she got back to Ponderosa. Snd that's part of the reason I think I lost. Do you think she just has the influence in the game like she did, where she's got four people asking her, "Hey, how do we vote?" You don't think they're doing that at Ponderosa? And is by happenstance that the people that surrounded her and asked her, "Well, how do we vote?" are the same people that didn't vote for me in the finale? I'm just curious. That's at least that's what I see. I know the game doesn't end once you hit Ponderosa, because people talk about it all the time. It doesn't stop till the finale is out. So that's what I think happened.Let's talk about this Ozzy vote, a move you had been putting in the works for a while. Talk to me about how you were able to contribute to arguably the biggest move of the season.Ozzy told me at the premiere that he was bitter, and that's part of the reason that he voted for Aubry. He's like, "Yeah, going back, I should have voted for you." And that's not a great thing to hear, that's not a great thing to hear at all. But I think that I knew that him going into Tribal, he had his person picked, and if you have your person picked, you want to help them win. So, if you go back and watch the finale, it was pretty obvious that he was wanting Aubrey to take the move of him going out, because he did spill the beans. No disrespect to Aubrey, though she played it perfectly with, "Hey, Ozzy just told me every single move, and we need to get him out." I was really shocked that Ozzy did that. That really shocked me.Finally, you were able to turn tragedy into triumph in the finale, making it through Final 4 firemaking after falling short last time. I'm curious, if you had gone down in flames again, who would you have voted for out of Aubry, Joe and Rizo?That's a hard one. I wouldn't vote for Rizo, because I think that Rizo is, at that point, pretty one-dimensional. As far as the camp life, he doesn't have much of that going on. But I'd have to consider Joe. Because I feel like he's made the Final Three, he didn't get any votes or credit for making it to the Final Three. I think he deserves more credit than he got, I do. And I think that when you know somebody's down, don't kick them. That's a huge thing that I saw in the finale. I saw my buddy down, and he was getting kicked by some of the questions. I don't like people being put down like that.
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