“Man, look, we don’t have to go to ‘Shark Tank’.”
Q Burdettemade a BIG MISTAKE onSurvivor 46,but it had nothing to do with hide-and-seek.
But Q carried on, until he got too close toMaria Shrime Gonzalez.
Q Burdette on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
Why didnt Q play his idol?
Why did he ultimately not go through with his plan to quit the game?
How come he refused to let anyone give up their Applebees spot for Liz at the reward?
Q Burdette on ‘Survivor 46’.CBS
And why wasnt he more successful in challenges?
We asked the inventor of the Q Skirt all that and more.
Q BURDETTE:Oh my God, man.
Hunter McKnight, Q Burdette, and Tim Spicer on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
How surprised were you when you kept seeing your name come up?
You said that you knew you could beat anyone at fire.
Do you think that played into the calculation to get you out?
Q Burdette of ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
And I just came, boom, boom, boom, boom.
But I don’t think that was the reason.
And it ran out for me.
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It ran out oneveryonewith an idol this season.
It was all love.
Of course, some of ‘em cheering for you, some of ‘em not.
Q Burdette on ‘Survivor 46’.cbs
Now it’s time to become human again.
And man, when I got there, it was all love.
And they didn’t even know I had an idol!
I had to tell em Man, I had the dang idol in my pocket!
I should have played the dang thing!
How do you think you do with the jury if you make it to the final three?
But as far as a voting standpoint, everything went my way for 17 days in the game.
I was in control.
There was no question about it.
17 days straight, who was the man who was calling the shots?
Thats where things shifted.
But then around day 21, I started to regain that power again.
I started to run around and do some of those things I was doing before day 18.
And if you take Q out of the equation for some of these votes, there’s no blindside.
These people actually playing these items, including Q.
You were in control, and you’re an alpha whos ready to lead and ready to coach.
And my take was, that’s why you were ready to tap out.
Yeah, so it was never a thing of, Oh man, Q wants to quit.
You guys probably didn’t see this, but Liz was crying.
This is before the Applebee’s stuff, by the way.
That bothered me on a personal level because I’m one of 17 kids.
I have four sisters.
All of my sisters are Liz’s size.
I went and told Hunter.
That was part of it.
I’m willing to take the heat, I can deal with it.
I’m man enough to say I screwed up.
And if they don’t do it now, that’s on them.
But my thinking was: Well, crap.
So I was like: Dang, bro, I screwed up.
And he’s about to go home.
Tevin’s dream was to be out there and win the money.
Most of everybody out there, I would say 17 of them was there to win the money.
I was there to win a title.
The money is fine, but it’s not going to make a difference to me.
I was like: I’m going to attempt to save Tevin.
If they don’t do it, I can’t do it.
Now, a lot of people need to understand: I’m a alpha guy.
I’m a person that can make a decision and I can say deuces.
It wasn’t a trying to quit thing.
It was a Q had a human moment in the game.
He did something that he felt responsible for.
Were you surprised then that everyone was so angry at you after that?
I was really still the person that was like the glue to everything that they had going on.
Now they’re thinking, Wait, he’s part of this plan for tomorrow.
He’s part of this.
He’s just going to walk out and leave?
That was the feeling.
At that moment, me and Tiff were still locked in solid from her standpoint.
She knew nothing about anything, about even me telling folks about her idol.
Then she finds that out at that Tribal.
Right, because then everyone was like, We can deal with him whenever we want.
Okay, let’s talk about Applebee’s Gate.
Man, that’s true.
So again, I’m an alpha guy.
So in that moment, I want the reward.
Everybody’s hungry, they’re crying.
I mean, I’m sure everybody wants to cry.
So I didn’t let them give up their spot.
You’re not just giving it to someone.
That’s not how this works.
So that was my thinking.
It was nothing really against Liz.
And then, secondly, it was just one of those things of she just voted for me.
I calculated how many votes could be on me and how many votes wouldn’t be on me.
If he played his idol, I was going home.
You told me you wouldn’t.
I did not write yours down the night you went home.
Maybe I could have gotten his vote on from a Mississippi boy being loyal.
So that’s just how that went.
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Finally, when are we going to see you onShark Tankwith the Q Skirt?
We don’t need theShark Tankmoney.
We just need folks here locally.
And I got banks that are ready to jump on this thing like crazy.
So we’re in production right now.
We have the first prototype coming.
I want to test them all out before I start to put ‘em on shelves.
But we’re working, I mean, we had to buy a lot of ‘em.
I got a company out in China.
I met with another local guy who knew a guy from big places that he watchedSurvivor.
So it’s going to be crazy.
