warning: spoilers head if you haven 39 t seen sunday 39 s episode of survivor: caramoan fans vs. Favorites. john cochran a self professed survivor super fan won the game in his second attempt, as revealed on sunday night 39 s live finale. Was perceived as a weakling in his first time around, but he did a total 180 to win four individual challenges this season and win the $1 million prize in a unanimous vote. He received all of the eight possible votes to take the win over dawn meehan and sherri biethman. after the finale aired sunday on cbs, cochran talked to the hollywood reporter about what he plans to do with the $1 million prize, to what he attributes his transformation and what 39 s next. the hollywood reporter: how do you plan to spend your winnings? john cochran: it 39 s going to be a lot of boring stuff it 39 s going to be invested, probably a down payment on an apartment, and i 39 m thinking of a little impulse purchase.

When i get a new apartment, i 39 ll probably hellip soup it up? soup it out? i don 39 t even know the lingo. I 39 ll probably make it as high tech as possible, a lot of wireless gizmos and stuff. I don 39 t know how often i 39 d use it, but i 39 d like to just ride around on one. thr: you said in the finale, you probably won 39 t become a lawyer and instead have aspirations of becoming a writer.

What kind of writing do you want to pursue? cochran: it 39 s an abstract aspiration at this point. Then i start thinking, am i really that funny, or am i just deluding myself? thr: you wrote a thesis paper on survivor and the jury system. Is this available to read online or anywhere else? cochran: it 39 s not that good is the thing. It 39 s basically survivor for dummies. hellip but it 39 s not that great, and i feel like it 39 s better left a mystery than revealing how lame it is to the world. thr: you won the title of sole survivor by a unanimous vote, which is a pretty amazing feat. cochran: not to toot my own horn, but i won unanimously, and nobody cast a single vote against me the entire game, which is only the second time in survivor history that 39 s happened. On the one hand, you could i 39 m say not a threat nobody bothered voting for me because i 39 m such a loser, but i 39 m kind of a winner now, so maybe they should have voted against me. When did this transformation take place? cochran: watching yourself on survivor is a tough experience.

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You 39 re a little bit more callous and you don 39 t have to worry about your character flaws, and i have an abundance of that. I was able to think about the game in a very focused way instead of worrying, oh my god they think i 39 m some loser. I was probably still a nerd, or loser, but i got along with everybody and it wasn 39 t always dominating my thoughts. thr: was there a point where you felt like you had it in the bag? cochran: dawn and i always talked about the game, that it was like whac a mole.

He 39 s a smart, charming, athletic strategist, so we knocked him down, but then andrea pops up. So we knocked her down, and all of a sudden brenda is someone who 39 s a legitimate threat because she hadn 39 t really crossed anybody. So there was never a moment where i was like, now malcolm 39 s gone, and here 39 s my victory march to the end.

I think when i won immunity, and i knew i was going to be in the end, i thought, i actually played a well rounded game. I thought i answered my questions pretty well, and people seemed receptive to my answers. But this was filmed 10 months ago, and that 39 s a long time for doubt to start creeping in.

I felt pretty confident, but a lot of that confidence kind of diminished as time went on. thr: is there a scenario in which you 39 d ever play again? say they did some sort of all winners edition? cochran: i feel bad saying this but i don 39 t think that i would. I 39 m aware that i lucked out a lot this time, that a lot of stars aligned, the timing was perfect, everything was great. I probably won 39 t have as good of a time, and my last survivor memory 39 s going to be losing and not enjoying myself as much. I kind of would like to end on this note, where everything is going to be perfect me and i 39 m happy. Doesn 39 t it seem better to quit while you 39 re ahead rather than coming back and bungling it? 4.3k views bull andy is a most viewed writer in survivor tv series . But two paragraphs are included at the end of this interview he did with the record at harvard law: update: after winning survivor caramoan, cochran addressed his essay in an interview, saying he won 039 t release it: cochran: it 039 s not even a good essay.