Mary Zheng Post-Season Interview | Survivor 48
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Survivor Know-It-All, Rob Cesternino
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for a Survivor 48 post-season interview. Get a look behind the Survivor scenes and catch a fresh perspective from the castaways themselves. Today, Mike Bloom is joined by Mary Zheng to discuss her time in Fiji! Learn more about her strategic choices, alliances, relationships and much much more!
Survivor 48’s Mary Zheng joins Mike Bloom for a candid post-season interview, diving deep into her tumultuous journey from Vula tribe outcast to shot-in-the-dark survivor. Mike and Mary explore the strategic missteps, emotional challenges, and pivotal moments that defined her game.
The conversation kicks off with Mary reflecting on her early days on Vula, where she found herself on the wrong side of the numbers. She shares insights into her failed attempts to target Sai and her growing isolation within the tribe. As the interview progresses, Mary opens up about her alliance with David, the shocking blindside that followed, and her struggle to find footing in the merged tribe’s social dynamics.
Mike and Mary discuss:
– Mary’s shot-in-the-dark play and the chaotic tribal council that ensued
– The emotional toll of feeling ostracized in the late game
– Mary’s decision to vote for Eva at Final Tribal Council
– Watching the season back with her parents and their reactions
As Mary reflects on her Survivor experience, she grapples with the question: How might her game have changed if she had formed stronger social connections early on?
Topics by timestamp:
00:00 Intros
09:41 Navigating Early Tribal Dynamics
19:37 Shot in the Dark Success
29:29 Building New Alliances Post-Merge
39:25 Feeling Isolated in the Game
49:14 Mary’s Final Tribal Council Vote
59:09 Parents’ Reactions to Mary’s Game
1:01:51 Mary’s Music and Social Media
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:09.6 | Mike Bloom here back with another Survivor 48 postseason interview. |
| 0:15.6 | Today, we are talking about the sole survivor of Vula, the woman who went out in green, but she was far from |
| 0:23.4 | green in attending tribal council. We are talking with the one, the only Mary Jung. |
| 0:29.7 | Mary was such a great conversation to have. Obviously, she has been through a lot, many ups, |
| 0:39.1 | many, many downs. |
| 0:44.6 | And I am always appreciative of how open she is about the many emotions she experienced over her time on a season 48. |
| 0:47.1 | Mary also recently put out an EP called 17. |
| 0:51.6 | So feel free to check that out. |
| 0:53.2 | She plugs it at the very end of the interview. But for the |
| 0:56.6 | music maker, she is. She largely was a solo act, you know, from those early days of losing |
| 1:02.6 | those tight allies through, you know, that desperation play of the shot in the dark, that hit |
| 1:07.4 | in that epic and chaotic tribal council through the isolation she felt towards the |
| 1:12.4 | tail end of the game where she finally went out in seventh place. Mary gets into it all. |
| 1:18.4 | So just a few things as pre-usual before we get into this chat. We are incredibly grateful to |
| 1:24.7 | CBS as always for giving us the ability to have the chance to talk with these contestants after the season. |
| 1:30.8 | We are, however, limited to one hour of a conversation with Mary. |
| 1:36.0 | So that means that a lot of topics that we've already gone into through Exip Press, through chat with myself and Rob and others, those are largely left off the table. |
| 1:44.8 | If you want to hear things like, you know, everything with the coconut etiquette and how she felt on her way out and |
| 1:51.7 | David standing up as her torch was snuffed, that is all talked about in our exit press. |
| 1:57.9 | So feel free to get into that. This is an opportunity to get into some stuff that she didn't have the opportunity to discuss |
| 2:03.2 | just a couple of months ago. |
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