The ousted player also reveals what really happened on the Journey.
There were several reasons to watch theSurvivor 46season premiere.
There he was on the puzzles for both the challenges.
David Jelinsky on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
There he was taking on the Sweat task.
There he was on on the Journey.
There he was as the star of the seasons first Tribal Council.
David Jelinsky, Kenzie Veurink, Bhanu Gopal, Tiffany Ervin, Q Burdette, and Jess Chong on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
Unfortunately for Jelinsky, none of those things went particularly well.
The David Jelinsky experience begins now.
DAVID JELINSKY:Several means seven.
Tiffany Ervin, Jess Chong, David Jelinsky, Q Burdette, and Bhanu Gopal on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
And I stand by that, man.
We got to start a petition.
I’ve seen a little bit in my DMs.
The cast of ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
This is not a new thing in the world, I’m just bringing light to it.
So I’m speaking for the people and we’re making a change.
You couldn’t put your shirt around those holes.
So it was hard, and it was meant to be difficult, as you said.
I was tearing up my feet as we were going.
I didn’t wear my shoes, and production didn’t say that I could not wear my shoes.
That was just a Jelinksy thought.
The most accurate representation of it was probablyFishbachinSecond Chance.
My feet were messed up.
I have scars on them, even today.
I couldn’t wear shoes for a month.
I couldn’t even stand.
Now this is what I’ll say: Q got me.
That’s good gameplay.
So what did he say?
How did he bring it up?
I actually went back to grab my shoes.
I was gone for about five minutes, put my socks and shoes on.
What do you think?
And if I’m being honest with you, Dalton, we were going back and forth.
I was outpacing him by a mile at first.
He’s a football player, I’m a basketball player, I have endurance.
What do you think?
And I’m like, Bro, yeah, I don’t think we’re going to do this.
Let’s conserve our energy for the challenge and move from there.
We’ll get our flint and pot, and machete after that."
And I was confident that we would win our challenge, especially looking at Siga.
Siga has nobody above 5-11 maybe.
But you’re able to’t assume inSurvivor.
Q told me before the gamethat the one person he wanted to work with out of everybody was you!
Then you end up on the same tribe.
Yeah, no, he definitely was.
Q didn’t like that I had a mind of my own.
And so when those don’t align, obviously you kind of become at odds at one another.
Let’s talk about the Journey.
That was actually shown afterwards, after I revealed I had the skull card.
She goes, What color was the pen on the voting card parchment?
I knew the color.
The color was blue.
And that kind of shifted the dynamic from the beginning and I had the upper hand.
Wow, that’s interesting.
So you were more worried about Tevin than Maria and what he might do and say?
And I think that’s because Tevin was really the person that I was battling against in that moment.
What was going through your mind at that point?
What was going through my mind?
Man, that’s a great question.
Everybody says they black out, but honestly, I’m a guy with a lot of thoughts.
I got a lot of thoughts in my mind.
So I was thinking of things to say to Jeff.
You just got voted out unanimously without even voting.
So I was hurt, I was definitely hurt, I was blindsided.
And another thing is my friends and family all said I was going to be the first boot.
So that came in my mind.
My girlfriend, she told me that I was going to be the first boot.
It cant have been easy.
No, it hasn’t been easy, but I honestly feel like I’m doing pretty good.
There genuinely has never been a first boot like you.
And that kind of made everything easier.
And apparently this will not be the last time that you hear several in the show.
It was even joked about that the merge tribe name was going to be Jelinksy.
So I really feel I’m really at peace with it.
Listen, you put yourself in the line of fire every single time.
You attacked every single thing.
You put yourself on the puzzle for both challenges, you did Sweat, you did the Journey.
And as a viewer and as a producer, that’s exactly what everybody wants to see.
But were you surprised whenProbst came at youa little bit at Tribal Council there?
I actuallywassurprised by that because I knew what happened with Q in my perspective.
I wasn’t the one that quit, Q brought it up to me.
And I didn’t fold until late in the Journey.
How was that first night at Ponderosa when you were by yourself trying to run everything through your mind?
I was looking for idols every single night.
I didn’t sleep.
And I didn’t know Tiff found the Beware Advantage until literally last night.
I thought she found that on day four when I got voted out.
So that was a surprise to me.
But I was looking heavily every single day from day one.
I pulled aGame ChangersTony.
As soon as I hit the beach.
I told them, Okay, I’m going to go look for the idol.
I said that openly.
I didn’t give a damn.
That’s just kind of how I operate.
I’m a risk taker.
I know I folded in the journey, but that’s a huge risk.
Who tells your tribe, Yeah, I’m going to go look for an idol right now?"
So I guess to answer the question in the entirety, it was lonely.
And I genuinely feel like a lot of the elements got the best of me out there.
That’s kind of where my mind was at.
Do you think youll get that invite?
Theyve done it before withFrancesca.
