Unfortunately, all I have from that interview is a transcript; my recording software took a dump during the call from an undisclosed location. Honestly, after reading it; Cheaper than Dirt has a far better interview with Ashley. However, we did have a couple of good moments in the Gun Nuts Interview, which are posted here for you.
Gun Nuts: So what happened between you and Jaime in the most recent episode?
Ashley: I haven’t seen anything past episode 5, I don’t have access to videos where I am, so bear that in mind. I’m not scared to say what I think or feel, I’m a team player and a well reserved person. That comes from my military background. I don’t tolerate people being vague or shady about their military background, and Jamie did that mulitple times during our stay.Gun Nuts: How did you feel about Blue Team’s voting during the various elimination processes?
Ashley: The bottom line for a guy like me is what happened, happened. I can’t go back and change it. As far as a strategy and a team concept, I feel that our voting was skewed multiple times.Gun Nuts: What are you thoughts on the drama that went down in the house after Jaime won the immunity challenge?
Ashley: I knew it was impending, we all knew it was. That’s why everyone in the group was saying ‘all we have to do is have one person win this other than Jamie’. It’s all part of the game, you can either play by their rules and deal with it, or quit. When there’s six people left and you’re that close to 100,000 you gotta do what you’re gonna do.Gun Nuts: Any thoughts on how everyone said “we should vote performance based” until the last episode you were on?
Ashley:All the performance based stuff went out the window when the two guys who were dead last tried to save their skins. I think it’s ironic that everyone’s already forgotten about the hypocritical side of the people it’s performance based and no one has mentioned that it should have been Chris and Gunny because they finished dead last.
I wish I had used better recording software, however Ashley’s answers both here and in the Cheaper than Dirt interview really shed some light on what happened behind the scenes in the Top Shot house.
I don’t like the choice to still use voting after the teams merged. I understand it added an element of drama that the producers were probably trying to generate so it was probably successful in their mind but the best part of last season was watching people drop like flies once they got the green team and it was based entirely on skill at that point.
I also loved that on the last episode I believe when they had to make up their shots JJ I think did the classy thing and rather than make it an impossible shot it make it something reasonable so everyone had a chance.
After reading the article on Cheaper than Dirt he has some nerve calling out Jamie.He is NOT a special forces operator .He is a air traffic controller attached to a Special ops team, that is not the same thing.He does not even know what BUD/S is.
BenC,
You should do some research. Ashley is an Air Force Combat Controller which in fact makes him a special forces operator. Air Traffic Control is just 4 months out of over 2 years of initial training a CCT guy does. Do you think that other special forces like seals, green berets, or recon units would just take a regular air traffic controller with them on a mission without having the proper training? Make sure you know what you are talking about before you post comments.
Wow BenC, talk about being totally ignorant. AF CCT guys like Ashley are embedded with Operators from every branch (Army SF, Delta Force, SEAL Teams, etc) and are some of the most highly trained individuals the military has to offer. They go to some of the same schools (HALO, HAHO, Ranger School, Combat Diver, etc) as these guys as well… CCT are the guys that call in Close Air Support and fight along side with the operators they are attached to. Do some research before you vomit up your ignorant drivel.
The popularity contest really does not make it Top Shot. Survivor works (I guess, I really don’t watch it) because no one is an expert, so filler is personal psychodrama. I started to watch Top Shot because it always great to watch skill, during the Olympics I watch a whole bunch of stuff I usually would be quite bored because there is something about the beauty and artistry of seeing someone at the top of their game.
The gimmick of Top Shot is the drama of a competent marksman pushed out their comfort zone. George overcoming disdain for the challenged made for great TV, not his schoolboy pettiness towards Jamie. Anyways the best shooter may not be known for Joe should have out instead of Jay, then Chris or Brian instead of Ashley and Brian again instead of Jamie … if this weren’t drama queens with guns.
Caleb touted on Gun Nuts radio how upstanding the behavior of the shooting community, flush that argument down the toilet, the way the last few shows have been. I’ll watch next week, ONLY because there one show left, but I fear that Top Shot have “jumped the shark” if this is the path the producers take the show.
At least Ashley and George know for sure that they have no integrity.
The way these losers ganged up on the ones they didn’t like, even when they just got smoked by them in the actual shooting, was so lame.
It’s sad to see the low level of maturity and integrity in guys who supposedly have so much pride in representing their respective services. These guys are pathetic. Maybe they should skip the big show they make of praying together – it makes the hypocrisy all the more laughable.
I am totally baffelled that someone would get all pissed off because Jaime won’t say what’s his job. What a childish reaction.
Shady? In Jamie’s interview he said that NO ONE pressed for details about his job. Also, in the story George relayed to everyone else that Jamie had told him about a mission in Afghanistan, no one sought to verify the story; they just made their assumptions and said that Jamie was shady and a liar, which is interesting because Ashley could have sworn Jamie said he has been to Iraq when George and Jamie confirmed that the story took place in Afghanistan. He’s just trying to justify his reasons for not shaking Jamie’s hand- not good reason at all