As seasonedSurvivorplayers (and winners) Boston Rob Mariano and Sandra Diaz-Twine are used to scheming and strategizing 24-7.
Without any backstabbing, how did they occupy themselves?
And what was it like living on an island with someone you werent trying to vote out?
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(Its only a matter of time before Coconut Drop makes it as an officialSurvivorchallenge.)
We knew from the outset that we werent competing, there was no shot of us to win.
We bring different things to the table, we have different strategies, we dont always agree on everything.
So sometimes the contestants would get two different pieces of advice or wisdom.
SANDRA DIAZ-TWINE: It wasnt weird.
I didnt even prepare.
I usually dont prepare anyway, but this was even better.
I dont have to worry about anything.
It was so easy.
I told Jeff, If you ever need anybody to come do this again, you call me.
Even though it was pretty well-defined that that wasnt happening.
But we had a lot of laughs, we talked about our family.
We knew we had to do a good job hosting this segment.
I didnt want it to be just a garbage gimmick.
And whether it helped them or hurt them, they learned a lesson, thats for sure.
SANDRA:Never once did we fight or argue.
Rob gave me my space.
I gave him his space.
He never woke me up.
I didnt wake him up.
He let me do my thing.
I let him do his walks.
He likes to walk on the beach back and forth, and it wasnt a big beach.
The length was very small.
Whenever he went on his walks every day to clear his mind, I let him do his thing.
He let me do my girl thing.
We never once got into an altercation of any sort.
I never went to sleep pissed off at him.
Wed laugh, wed giggle, wed sing songs together, and it was really a nice experience.
We really got along, no baloney.
BOSTON ROB:Yeah, we did good.
Ive always liked Sandra, Ive never had any problems with her.
Were the same age, the same generation, the same mindset.
Obviously 24/7 with somebody for a month and a half, you have to give each other your space.
We didnt always agree.
I definitely had a lot of laughs.
It was a lot of downtime.
Theres always a lot of downtime onSurvivor.
I think we handled it well, though.
I would make her go in the ocean and catch fish with me.
We played games, wed make up games on the beach and play games, the two of us.
One was called Coconut Drop.
Coconut Drop is pretty simple.
Its basically like cornhole with a coconut and a target, and theres a three-point tiering system.
And you have to sing the song if you score a point.
If you dont sing the song, you dont get the points.
She hated singing the song.
And Im not singing it for you now either.
SANDRA:I didnt like playing Coconut Drop that much.
But I remember singing Plane Day.
With like 25 days left we started.
So every day we counted down.
But I hated Coconut Drop.
I actually wanted to always Hermit Crab.
So we made a couple of bets.
And I was like, Okay.
So I was counting, like, One 1,000, two 1,000, three 1,000….
He said he caught a cramp, but I won.
So we left the island square.
So Rob found this machete and hit it.
And it was poisonous.
So after that, we just kept running into these snakes.
Who was freaking out more about the snakes?SANDRA:Him.
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