#clint-ricci

 right, sorry, I just got to send a voice message because I'm driving and I'm not trying to continue typing. But, Clint, I understand you have zero reason to trust me or anything that I'm saying. But all I'm telling you is that I told you immediately after the vote that there is no world in which my next move is to try and vote you out or gather votes to get a split plan against you. because if I were to simply just gather a majority to walk down this entire trio that I just, you know, took a shot against, all that's going to happen is I'm just going to get taken out next. I mean, it makes absolutely no sense for me to continue to want to go for you, but I get why you're thinking that way because I broke your trust. You know, I've explained to you why I had to do that and I hope that you genuinely understand that it was Andrew who was being extremely paranoid and, you know, made me think all of these things that clearly you guys didn't even agree with Andrew on, so I don't know why he was doing that in the first place. But you got to think about who's pitching you this plan. And I'm telling you, honestly, that the same people are coming right back to me and saying that we should be voting you out instead. I have zero intention of doing that. I'm not the one who came up with this plan, despite them telling you that it was me who came up with it. It's not the case. You're saying that I haven't talked to you about the vote this entire time, but it's because I sent you the very last message that said, hey, you know, I understand if you don't trust me, you don't want to work with me. That's totally your prerogative. You never responded to it. And that's why I reached out to you this morning so that we could actually chat about the vote and not just go into it thinking we're going against each other. But I'm not going to double text you if you're like not responding to me and pissed off. It's just, I'm not, I'm not going to chase, you know, your forgiveness of me

. Cause I understand that what I did broke your trust and that is what it is. But I'm trying to tell you that this is not what I'm trying to do moving forwards. I'm not coming for you. I also am just not going to do this back and forth beef because again, the shot wasn't against you. It was against Andrew. It is what it is. If you want to take me out for it, that's fine.

 think you're assuming that I'm a lot more emotional than I really am. I was emotional a few days ago when I was feeling the immediate effects of the betrayal. But now I'm just thinking, okay, what makes the most sense to me? What makes the most sense is I'm going to trust the people that are coming to me with information. And the reason I didn't reply is because I didn't really know what to say to that. It wasn't because I was still angry at you. I mean, I'm a little upset that you're talking down to me as if I'm some moron who can't even, you know, put two and two together. I believe you that you're not trying to get rid of me tonight. That's why I'm not voting for you either. That was never my intention today. I mean, I wanted to. It was a part of me. But, you know, the fact is, numbers aren't really there. Nobody really wants to get rid of you, Ricky. Not today, at least. And so I'm not going to do that. But, you know, nobody's coming to me with a plan to get rid of you. I don't know what the hell is going on. And to be honest, I don't trust nobody. Not even the people that you think I'm like that I'm trusting. I don't only people I trust right now are Sammy and Jack. That's about it. I don't even trust Ryan. I don't trust Jim. I don't trust, you know, I don't trust Marissa. I don't trust. I don't trust Theo. I don't trust Fuggles. I don't trust Boyd. I don't trust anybody. But yeah, I mean, who do you think is trying to make a move right now? I mean, and my question is, if they're really double crossing me, why would you get why would you even consider what they're saying? Why not just get rid of me like they're telling you?

 right. I just want to say, first of all, just like on a personal level, I'm not like talking down to you or think that you're a moron or anything like that. And if that is how I come across, I'm genuinely I'm sorry for that, because, you know, it's just a game. I'm not trying to get like personal or anything. It's just the things that are being told to me make it so evident that we're being pitted against each other that I just I mean, if you're not getting the same information, I can totally understand why that's not the same headspace that you're in. But, you know, again, moral of the story, I'm not trying to like talk down to you or, you know, talk like you're an idiot. So apologies if you thought that was where I was going with this. And I mean, you know, I've obviously heard that Fuggles is the other name that's been getting thrown around like in this sort of plan. And I can I can reasonably deduce that if you're not voting for me, that's probably who you would be voting for instead. and I mean you listed off the names of the people who are coming to you and telling you about this plan so I'm sure you know you know of course who it is and the people that you didn't name are you know probably the ones who are feeling a bit better with me and don't want to turn this around on me but I not coming for you I mean I think that it would be really foolish of me to come for you because you know whether or not the shot was just against Andrew the perception is that I just took this massive shot against you Jack Sam's, which, you know, I did not want that to be the case at all. Again, it was purely off the basis of what Andrew was telling me, which I now know is not even something that you guys agreed with in the first place. But if I were to just, you know, say, oh, yeah, fuck this, like Clint's coming for me let's just take him out it doesn't do me any good because the perception is that we're on complete opposite sides of each other and I get that you know yo

 don't like me and that we're probably not going to be able to work together again and that really just only helps that perception that's going on if I were to take you out or I mean similarly if you were to take me out we just become the obvious big targets left in the game because of what we just did I mean I I think that whether we like it or not, the split that has happened here has made it so that me and you are really in the limelight here. And, you know, I have no interest in coming after you for that reason. But also because just I mean, on a simple human level, I do owe you one because of that last vote. I can try to explain as much as I want that it was a move against Andrew and not against you. But, you know, if you don't want to believe that, I don't blame you at all because there's really no reason for you to. but that's what I'm telling you and I know I'm telling you the truth when I say that

 appreciate your apology. I do tend to be a little emotional, so I don't blame you for, you know, kind of coming at this a certain way. That said, I just, I don't know. I can't, I guess it makes sense what you're saying, that it doesn't make sense to get rid of me. But I don't know. I don't even feel like I'm playing this game well enough to be this big target that you kind of paint me out to be. Not to everybody else, but in this conversation, you're saying like me and you were on kind of an even level in terms of how people perceive us. And I just don't, I don't see that, that, that, that being the case at all. You know, I kind of just, I shot myself in the foot. I reacted like a, like, like a fool to everything that happened. I went off on people. I was kind of a, I was a menace. And so, you know, I don't know, but let me put it this way. I think given what you're telling me, we're probably both going to survive this vote. I ain't against working with you. It's just going to, you know, it's going to take a lot of rebuilding a trust and I don't know. I feel like I want to Ricky, cause I I've always liked you. I mean, I, I respect, I put my whole, I put my faith in your hands and my, you know, what am I trying to say? Yeah. I put my faith in your hands and you slapped it. And yeah, obviously that hurts, but you know, I did it for a reason. That was cause I really liked you and I respected you and it was awesome competing with you cause we were dominating those challenges together. But you know, I, If we're both surviving this vote, which looks like we very well may, then, you know, let's pick up the pieces from there. But the truth is, I don't really know what I'm supposed to do after this vote because I feel like a dead man walking, to be honest with you. I feel like if I survive this vote, it's a miracle. And if I survive the next one, it's an even bigger one. And at that point, I don't even know.

 you.

, I mean, of course, and even if we're not, you know, even if we're not able to work together in the future, which, you know, look, ultimately, I would like to, because again, I never wanted you to feel like I was coming after you with that Andrew vote. But of course, I understand, you know, why that would 100% feel like it's the way so I get that I got build back that trust with you. in terms of like the perception in this game I mean I really think that just the simple fact that it now seems like we're on such two opposite sides and like we're the you know we're the big statues that are supposed to be swinging at each other since we're kind of the the big names that were on the opposite sides of those votes I think that even if you think that you were like emotional and lashing out like to other people that can kind of just seem like you taking a stand in the game and like knowing exactly what you want to do. So I, I mean, I think that people, honestly, they, they like you more and they trust you more because of that, because you're honest with what you're feeling. And like, that makes you a very strong player just because of how you play the game And you know I I know I didn for the last round so that something against me but that kind of just why that why I think the perception is where it at where we you know on opposite sides of each other and doing what is happening right now I trying to think of what else I was going to say I mean I think that I can say for a hundred percent, you're not going home. I mean, I, I think that my read on things is pretty accurate in terms of where people are telling me that their votes are going to go. I don't think that you're going to get a single vote this round, to be honest. And if I'm wrong about that, then I'm probably just going home instead. So we'll see. But look, I mean, I hope that we can take this through to next round. You can see that I'm telling you the truth. And I mean, I've been telling Jack and Sam's

 the same thing as well. Like, I was never writing down any of your guys' names this round. Someone else is pushing that information around to try and make it seem like we're against each other. But that's never where my vote was going to go. So, I mean, hopefully you trust that. And hopefully after this vote, you're going to see that, you know, I'm not voting for you and I got no intentions of doing so. And we'll see where we can go from there. Even if we can't work together again. I mean, I just want you to know that I'm being honest with you right now about where my head is at and what I'm thinking is going on in this game. But then again, I don't even know if I'm right about what's going on in this game.

, man. I think we'll just have to see how this vote goes. My vote's on Fuggs purely because, like I told you, that's kind of what I've been told to do. I'm not going to vote people that I trust. So if someone came up to me and said, you got to vote Jack out, you got to vote Sammy out, I'm not going to do that. I don't even care if that gets me sent home. But, you know, folks, I like the guy a lot and I wanted to work with him, but I just I don't really have much of a choice. But anyway, neither here nor there. You know, I hope we both survive this vote, to be honest, because I do. I do want to work with you again, man. I think we just got to wait until this vote shakes out before we talk more, because I don't know if there's anything else we have left to say. But I do appreciate you coming and talking to me a lot.