I got to talk to the winner of BB10 & found out some things I didn't know about his gameplay.

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MF:  Hey Dan.  Congratulations.

DAN:  Congratulations on what?

MF:  On winning.

DAN:  Winning what?

MF:  Ha Ha.  I need to know would you have kept Keeshond over Jerry? 

DAN:  Yes.  Had I been HoH, yes.  Or had I had the PoV, yes.  Did I want to win that PoV?  No.  Here's the thing, when I got back from the trip w/ Michelle I knew, Michelle told me that I couldn't beat Jerry & I couldn't beat Memphis so that left one option.  I had to take Keeshond cuz I would have beat her so I would have done that definitely.    When I got back from the trip I planted 2 lies to Memphis.  I said Jerry had been in a Pow camp & he's been faking these endurance competitions & he started acting up about the neck injury & I started saying that was fake as well cuz I wanted Memphis vote out Jerry & keep Keeshond cuz not only did I think I could beat her in the end, but I thought if she won the final HoH she would keep me as well.

MF:  What did you mean in your final HoH blog that you have another trick up your sleeve?

DAN:  That was the Platinum Power of Veto.  I actually put that in my final Jury speech & I heard it didn't make the cut though.  But I definitely would have showed it to the jurors & I had a little speech behind it as well.

MF:  That was going to be my next questions, what was the deal w/ the fake PoV?  Was that just for fun or did you intend to use it?

DAN:  If you ever see a glass case w/ a red button, hit only in case of emergency, that's what this fake veto was.  If I was up on the block & I knew the votes were against me I was gonna use it the last second pre-veto meeting & make up some BS story about the power of it.  Did I think it would work?  I don't know.  I knew I didn't want to go out w/o a fight & I wanted to do something that had never been done before.  So I thought it might have given me a fighting chance if my back was against the wall.  Luckily I never had to use a piece of plastic wrapped in tinfoil to save my chances at a half a million dollars.

MF:  I don't think you do but I have to ask, fo you have any hard feelings against Memphis or Keesha for making deals behind your back for Final 2?

DAN:  Oh no, w/o a doubt.  The one thing I didn't do in this game is take anything personally whether it was game moves or personal comments towards me.  The one thing I prided myself on was controlling my emotions & I tried not taking anything personal cuz it is a game.

MF:  So on that, Jerry's "Judas" comment.  Did that bother you at all?

DAN:  No not at all.  It's like water rolling off my back.  Anytime anyone took a shot at my personally I kind of laughed it off.  & here's the thing I looked at, any time 2 people got into a fight in that house, 1 of those people went home.  I did not want to be one of those people so I didn't get into any of those meaningless fights.

MF:  What is your main reason for aligning w/ Memphis & thinking you can go to the end w/ him?  What did you see there?

DAN:  Definitely.  When the chance came about to save Memphis I wanted to try to get something for nothing.  Basically giving Memphis a vote I wanted to try to get something from out of it.  I liked Memphis.  We got along.  I thought he was a pretty cool headed guy & could do well in the game.  & w/ that I had a reason behind that to start an alliance.  To start the Renegades I was voting for him to stay when in actuality I was probably the swing vote, Where America was the swing vote & controlling it.  I thought if I could get something for my vote for Memphis, I took a shot & it turned into a great friendship & 1 heckuva alliance.

MF:  If you were NOT America's Player, would you still have voted Jessie out?

DAN:  At that point yes.  I felt Jessie was a recluse.  I felt he was too close to Michelle.  I would always be on the outside looking in.  Not to mention the fact that I got a long a lot better w/ Memphis & Keeshond than I did w/ Michelle & Jessie.  Keeshond & Memphis were a lot like myself.  They didn't get into a lot of fights.  The reason you saw Keeshond get into fights is cuz she was attacked a lot & she defended herself.  We were all very laid back & we enjoyed each other's company & the fact that I thought I could trust them as much as you can trust someone in this game.

MF:  Do you think Memphis would have turned on you if he knew about you going to the beach w/ Michelle?

DAN:  I don't know.  I didn't want to find that out for myself & that's why I didn't tell him.  I don't know.  I don't think he would have but I thought he would be a little bit more weary of me cuz he thought by taking her on that trip that I had her vote locked up.

MF:  Why did you BD Michelle if Ollie was the one you were breaking the deal w/?

DAN:  A couple reasons.  #1 Michelle but so much into this game.  She put her heart, her soul into it & I know if she got to the endurance challenge or the Final 3 challenge she would stay up there till she died.  I knew I couldn't beat her in that.  & also April made a huge mistake.  She made a personal decision to try to get rid of Jessie when everyone else in the alliance basically wanted to get rid of Memphis.  I did not want to make that same mistake.  I knew that Keeshond & Renny wanted to get rid of Michelle more than Ollie cuz Renny liked Ollie.  So I could risk a personal vendetta against Ollie I had & risk Keeshond & Renny in the process.  It was not worth it to me.  I could put someone up but I couldn't vote them out myself.  So I knew if I put Michelle up I could get her out & deal w/ Ollie later cuz in my opinion Michelle was a much better competitor than Ollie in competitions.  Lucky for me we made the right decision as an alliance.

MF:  Did you have any intention of ever keeping your deal w/ Ollie or were you just telling him whatever you needed to & then just set him up by doing the 2/3 of the deal?

DAN:  Exactly.  When I am hanging on that vine I had maybe 5 minutes left in me.  I knew I had to win that one.  So I was thinking whatever I could to get him down & that was probably the worst deal ever made in BB history.  Who would win the HoH key & not use any of the power & transfer the power to someone?  That's unheard of.  For him to believe that, here's the thing.  1 thing I thought in this house, I don't think a lot of these HGs watched a lot of the other seasons cuz how many times in BB did you see someone take a deal in an endurance challenge & it backfired?  It's happened time & time again.

MF:  I have to comment on your Roulette.  I understand why you did it but I just thought it was a little nastier than it had to be.  It almost seemed to me like basically trying to make Michelle & Ollie look even dumber.  Why exactly did you do that?  You just wanted to set everybody off & take all notice off of you?

DAN:  You know what Jacalynn?  I really can't disagree w/ you on this.  It did go overboard.  It went a little further than I expected.  When I did it I wanted to get some people to speak up that hadn't & also it was a little present to Brian.  I wanted to put Ollie on the hotspot & put him out there a little bit.  Did it go overboard?  Yes.  But he took a shot at one of my bestfriends & had a hand at getting rid of Brian & I didn't want to make this personal & I tried to keep it out of revenge & I did push it a little far.  At the same time in this house I was trying to make an exciting, entertaining show.  I didn't want it to be the normal Pov meeting that you see someone gets up there & you know exactly what is going to happen.  I wanted to mix it up a little bit & it definitely went too far & I will be the 1^st person to admit that.

MF:  After you talked to the jury & got their questions, whose question or comments comments surprised you the most?

DAN:  1 of the questions that didn't surprise me but the answer surprised me was when Renny asked Memphis what he did for her in the game & he was stumped.  If Memphis had prepared better for that question he danced around it & BSd her & if there is one thing you can't do, it's BS Renny.  But he did & Renny saw through it & she wasn't having any of it.

MF:  Whose votes did you think you had after that?

DAN:  Going into this, right before the vote I said to Memphis I think it is a 50/50 chance.  I thought I had Keeshond & Renny & thought Memphis had Libra & Jerry so I thought the vote was going to come down to Ollie, April & Michelle.  I thought it would be 4-3 either way.  In no way in my wildest dreams did I think it would be unanimous.  It was unbelievable & totally overwhelming.

MF:  I wasn't sure if April, Ollie & Michelle would take things personally so what are your thoughts on them that they were able to look at your gameplay & not vote personally?

DAN:  That was my major goal of my speech.  If I could do one thing that is to do like I did in this game.  Try to put your emotions aside.  Try to mask your emotions & look at the game for what it is.  Who made the strongest plays?  Who played this game hard?  & if I could get them to put their emotions aside a little bit I knew I had a chance to win.  If they kept their emotions in it I had no shot.  So that's how every answer I had I directed around gameplay & not emotions.

MF:  What is the deal w/ never washing your shorts?  Were you trying to be Dr Will?

DAN:  [Laughs]  They say the highest form of flattery is imitation but here's the thing.  The shorts were awesome.  I wore them all the time.  I probably spent 1000 hours in the pool so I figure why waste water & soap when the chlorine does just as good a job.  I'm a biology teacher.  I know there is no bacteria living in my shorts being in the chlorine all that time so why waste the soap & water?

MF:  It just reminded me.  They even looked like Will's shorts.  I don't know if you were online during that season but there was even a website called willshorts.com. 

DAN:  Oh really?

MF:  Yeah.  So the shorts thing, I caught on to that right away & said is that just him emulating Dr Will w/ these shorts?

DAN:  No, that's interesting.  But you know what?  If a very astute BB fan like yourself Jacalynn look back even closer you may find some more things that may be surprising to you so let's leave it at that.

MF:  I saw a few but am sure there are ones I didn't catch.

DAN:  [Laughs]  No definitely that's the season I studied the most.  That's the season I kind of fell in love w/ BB.  I think I was 15 or 16 at the time.  It's a real inspiration & to say I didn't model my game of Will & Boogie that would be a lie.  That's where I started my game & I tried to build it from there. 

MF:  There's definite similarities in there cuz what all did you throw?  Did you basically throw everything until you started winning? 

DAN:  Yeah I threw everything up until the Braveyard.  I didn't want to win the Braveyard but when I saw Renny's terrible guess at the length of the Boa Constrictor I knew I had to play.  I was actually mad at her cuz that move really forced me to play earlier than I wanted to but that's the thing.  Once you win 1 competition you can't go back to laying on the side of the road acting dead like a possum.  It just won't work.  So once I won that 1^st one I knew I had to go guns blazing & try to win from there on out.  Let me clear up the fact, being a football coach it's hard as a competitor to throw competitions.  I wanted to win everything but for the sake if winning the game I couldn't.  When I threw competitions I tried to find humor in it & find fun in it & make it entertaining cuz I was really at times devastated that I had to give up some competitions like that. 

MF:  Is there anything you regret?

DAN:  You know Jackie, regrets, I have a few but then again too few to mention.

MF:  [Laughs]  That's a good one.

DAN:  But you know Jackie if I can ever do anything for MediaFiends.com look me up on myspace, send me an email, do whatever.

MF:  [Laughs] You are already my friend.

DAN:  Awesome.  I would love to be able to help you guys out in any way I can.

MF:  Sounds good.  I'll take you up on that.

DAN:  Thanks Jackie

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