Here's the transcript from the Early Show this morning:
Showing scenes with Andrew from the show, Julie Chen is interviewing.
Andrew: Ouch!
ES: We're sitting here watching these clips, watching you call these people misfits, and you're cringing. What did you do wrong in this game to be sitting here right now?
A: Great question.
ES: Where do we begin, you're thinking.
A: Yeah, there are so many things. Where did I go wrong? I trusted Lil. There's so much more you don't see. I was the only one in my tribe arguing to keep Lil the first go-around, day nine. I didn't want to vote her out. My tribemates came to me and said, "She's got to go." And I'm not stupid so I sided with my tribemates and voted her out.
ES: Why did you want to keep her?
A: Great work ethic, she did a lot around the camp. She was inspirational. She was the oldest person out there and I had great respect for her.
ES: As we're watching at home, you definitely appeared to be the leader of your tribe, so it's kind of hard for us to believe that you couldn't swing the others to vote otherwise. Or was it just a numbers game, that you had to go with the majority, you didn't have a choice?
A: That's exactly right. I was the leader, but it was also clearly a democracy. Critical decisions--it was always put up to a vote and I had one vote. I did my best to sway everyone to keep Lil, they said no, we needed stronger people in the challenges. Clearly the most demanding physically Survivor to date, and we thought, well, maybe we should have stronger people in the challenges because goodness knows what was coming up.
ES: Was Lil the swing vote last night that did you in?
A: Yeah, Lil was the swing vote last night. We had five Morgans going after Little Jon and five Drakes coming after me. There's so much more you didn't see. Couple minutes before we get on the boat, Lil jumped ship. What you didn't see is that myself and two Morgans had an alliance with Rupert and two Drakes. It seemed like a solid alliance, and then a couple minutes before we get on the boat to go to tribal council, it fell apart because Lil decided to jump ship and go with the Drakes.
ES: Did that merge catch you off-guard?
A: Totally.
ES: Did that contribute to your demise as well? Because, how well do you really know members of the Drake tribe to try to start swinging their votes, and it's kind of like...
A: Definite disadvantage. I wish I would have had a couple of days with the Drakes to work some magic, try to get some more alliances, relationships. You don't know the Drakes that well, haven't had a lot of contact with them. One thing I just wanted to clear up that's been driving me nuts. Before tribal council day 9, I came up to Lil, gave her a big hug, big kiss on the cheek, I said, "Lil, we love you. I'm so sorry about tonight. It's not personal. It's strategy." She said, "Andrew, it's okay, I understand." And she's admitted this in her interviews, so she says I didn't tell her that she's going, that's not true. And she actually set aside a bunch of firewood before she went to tribal council and pointed it out to me and said, "Andrew, I know I'm not coming back, here's the firewood to start up the fire when you get back." She was a nice lady, that's the kind of things that she would do so she did know that she was going.
Now they're taking callers.
Caller: Rupert is clearly the leader of his tribe by supplying them with ten to fifteen pounds of fish a day, helping his tribe win team immunity, being the strongest on his team and his tribe. I was wondering, you being portrayed as the leader of your tribe, what have you done to help them?
A: Yeah--another thing you don't see is that every day we're spending hours gathering Panamanian mussels and oysters. There wasn't many fish in our lagoon. Rupert was with us for two days, he got four fish. Two days on his island he's getting 30 fish. There's just not a lot of fish in our lagoon, so we scoured the coral heads and got all the oysters and mussels we could get and we'd supplement that with our rice so that's what we were doing.
Caller: Which one of the Outkast tribe members were you hoping to come back to join your tribe and why?
A: At that point I would've loved to have Burton. I really didn't think a merge was coming, I would've loved to have Burton for his strength and clearly he's a good strategist in the challenges. So I was hoping for anybody other than a Morgan because I had crosshairs on my forehead from day one being the perceived leader. And it would be tough to get over the fact that the three Outkasts from Morgan were not happy with me, thinking that I masterminded them being voted out.
Then he gets a call from his cousin to say congratulations and that's the end.
Disboards tribe's Fantasy league ranks (This week/last week): 
