The ousted player is relieved he didn’t get dunked on for trying to play a fake.
Kane Fritzler thought he was in control onSurvivor 44.
But he wasn’t.
Kane Fritzler on ‘Survivor 44’.Robert Voets/CBS
He thought he was in possession of an immunity idol.
But he wasn’t.
Why was Kane so fooled by the Tika trio?
Kane Fritzler on ‘Survivor 44’.Robert Voets/CBS
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How frustrating is it to go out there and not take home the wing-wangs?
KANE FRITZLER:That’s a strong leading question.
Kane Fritzler and Carson Garrett on ‘Survivor 44’.Robert Voets/CBS
I was keen for the wing-wangs.
So it was a little frustrating for sure, but that’s how it boils down.
That was our first live Tribal, and it was not by accident.
Kane Fritzler on ‘Survivor 44’.Robert Voets/CBS
[Laughs] It was a very chaotic day on the beach.
There were lots of different things percolating.
Like Frannie’s proposed hit on the Tikas I heard that as well.
So I heard that the Sokas were maybe going for Tika.
We knew that the Sokas were maybe coming for Ratu.
We thought we had the Tikas pointed at Soka, so on and so forth.
So there were a lot of different plans that were going around.
Honestly, that was probably the night where I felt the worst about what plan was real.
There was a lot of plan talk at Tribal Council.
I distinctly remember everyone just like, “What is the plan?
What is the plan?
What is the plan?”
What was your level of trust that the Tika folks were on your side?
I thought that Ratu would never flip on me.
I really had Lauren and Jaime locked in, and I had a very good strategic relationship with Carson.
Obviously, he also had a very good strategic relationship with other players as well.
I felt good that we had the Tikas pointed at them.
Some votes went all over the place.
So, I trusted that Tika was pointed at Soka.
You thought you were holding a real immunity idol in your pocket.
You told Jaime you would play it for her if she wanted.
Did you ever consider playing it for yourself?
But we weren’t sure about where it was heading, right?
So there’s a lot of different information going.
I think four names total actually hit parchment.
Let’s get through this vote."
That’s sort of how it boiled down.
But that’s not really how I looked at that idol.
That seems to be a theme this season.
When and how did you learn that the idol Jaime had given you was fake?
And everyone was like, “No way!”
Everyone at that point in the game thought it was real.
Usually, people can kind of get a sniff of it.
On Jaime’s idol, there was not a sniff that it was fake.
Every rumor percolating was that this was authenticated.
It was like Probst himself handed it to her.
So it was really interesting.
So you also found Brandon’s fake idol, which he hid at the merge.
I almost set a record going out of the game with two fake idols in my possession.
I don’t think anyone’s ever done that before, but thankfully I’d seen Brandon’s before.
Me and Danny specifically would just bring back firewood on firewood on firewood because we would look for idols.
We’d bring back firewood all the time.
There was this little cubby, I found it, and I did my full celebration.
It was an important piece in the game, too.
That was a time that was very chaotic.
There’s nothing to this.
It was insult to injury, honestly.
But I was good at finding fake idols for whatever that’s worth.
[Laughs] I don’t know if that’s a good skill to have.
Youtold me before the seasonthat you wanted to"break down the stigma about sitting out for food."
I thought,Are there other things we can barter with?
To me, it was risk assessment and I wasn’t exactly known for my balance out there.
It was risk assessment, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not a strategic decision.
I didn’t want to be the first one to go up.
I wanted my position to be meaningful.
I wanted to wait on it.
I had intention of sealing the deal.
I didn’t want to set the table.
Did you get too comfortable at the merge?
Yeah, it was truly the bang-bang double deal.
I was sitting there the night of, and I was like,I know this is bad.
It was a guilty pleasure thing where I was like,I know this is wrong.
It felt so good to be that cocky.
But yeah, I think we got comfortable.
The thing is, from my perspective, we had a legit majority alliance.
I remember just being like,Well, what do you want me to do?
Everyone I talk to says that the vote’s going the way that I think it is.
I have no reason to disrupt this vote based on my game.
Who was your ride or die out there?
I put everything through Jaime.
She was basically my last check.
I would go in with Jaime and I’d be like, “Does this make sense?”
And she’d usually call me out if it didn’t or if it did.
We had a named alliance, we had all the works.
What was the name of your alliance?
She was playing a good social game.
It sort of changed as I went through the season.
I was very close with Maddy.
Never heard of that person.
There was a sixth member of our tribe?"
So I tried to cover that up, and then I started getting strategically close with Matthew.
I could see that we were sort of seeing the game similarly.
And then he obviously had to leave because of his shoulder.
I was like the curse of Fiji.
We went from an extremely disruptive first vote to kumbaya.
We were living life there.
Those bonds were very strong.
Finally, how manyD&Dgames have you been invited to since the season started airing?
A few here and there for sure.
I got my tables running, so I have no shortage ofD&Din my life.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
