Intense Interview: Tim and Morgan by Tim and Morgan

March 24, 2006 11:11 PM Permalink

UB: Hello gentlemen!

Tim: Hello!
Morgan: Hola

UB: So, let's jump right in!

Morgan: I'm already in it
Tim: Lets!

UB: How much blogging did you do before Ultimate Blogger started?

Tim: Not much.
Morgan: Well, I've had a livejournal for two years now, but I got totallymorgan.com about a year ago.
Tim: Oh yes, livejournal here too.
Morgan: I think it'd be a lot of fun to start blogging more though. More seriously.

UB: In the future will you still be known as "Tim and Morgan"?

Morgan: It's kind of fun being one person, but Tim and Morgan is kind of what we're all about.
Tim: Being one person has its flaws.
Morgan: We're funny by ourselves. But combined, I don't know, we're a lot funnier because we can like play off each other.
Tim: Morgan and I don't always agree on things, which makes certain projects... unexistent.

UB: How did the cut out films happen?

Morgan: Well, when we first started, we didn't have a video camera. So we were like, "Well lets just try this out."
Morgan: We saw it on the show "Tom Goes to the Mayor" so we thought it might work.
Tim: ... and the narration is just a factor of laziness. They turn out funny, but at the time, we both kinda just [let it] "flow".
Morgan: AKA, a 15 year old attention span.

UB: Let's talk about Ultimate Blogger. Was being 15 a disadvantage?

Morgan: Hardly... I think sometimes
Tim: In some aspects.
Morgan: People don't take us as seriously. But honestly, we're hardly serious.
Tim: About anything.

UB: You had a strategy going in didn't you?

Morgan: Yeah, we were planning on basically teaming up with everyone we could and then destroying all the alliances, from inside them. No one would suspect a thing.
Tim: And also make a bunch of friends, and try to keep them once they found out we turned on them.

UB: Reminds me of what happened on season one!

Tim: Welllll, James and Lyova are role-models of Morgan and I.
Morgan: We are... how you say, heavily in love with James and Lyova. That's why we called our alliance Molotov. There are easter eggs in the post. Molotov was a friend of Stalin
Tim: Tons of easter eggs in all of our posts say "LOVE IS MOLOTOV!"

UB: So you were part of the "Unholy Alliance" in the beginning?

Morgan: Yeah.
Tim: Yes!
Morgan: We first joined with Eric and then Tina and then we started asking everyone.
Tim: Unholy indeed. Everyone!
Morgan: We were like "Hey, we need to get in an alliance," but little did they know we where starting one with everyone.
Tim: By not telling Tina or Eric we had others we were able to say on our post "We only have 1 alliance but are looking for more."

UB: How did the "Align With Everyone" strategy work out?

Morgan: It's worked very well. Some people found out.
Tim: Well obviously pretty well! :)

UB: Won't people feel betrayed?

Morgan: Thom was always suspicious and Brittanie was pissed. But really, it was all about getting the big guys down.
Tim: She had a right to be. They all did.
Morgan: Making a fair chance for the little guys.
Tim: Us! ; )

UB: How do you feel about Alex? You had an alliance with him too?

Tim: Well he was in the Unholy. However, behind the Unholy Alliance was a even un-holier alliance with Thom, Zoe, Mike D, and Alex. Towards the end before Thom went out, Alex told us about the Un-holier alliance and voted against them, eliminating Mike D. and ruining their alliance.

UB: That was a big moment.

Tim: For sure. Every vote has been nerve racking.
Morgan: Mike D even instant messaged me, telling us that if we voted off Alex and if we got immunity and we picked Zoe over him he'd vote for us in the final round. Similar thing with Thom.
Tim: Whoa! I never knew that!!

UB: Everyone wanted to take you to the final two?

Tim: We had to ally with Thom and Zoe, to vote off Alex and Tim. We told Thom we voted both Alex and Tim, but actually voted Thom and Tim. We never wanted to vote Tim out regardless.
Morgan: But to stay in, we had to. We wanted Thom out from the beginning though. That was always the plan.
Tim: Tim, Alex and us all shared a dream of the top 3. Being 'The Mega 3 Dudes!'

UB: You guys being a pair always made it weird to call it the "final five" or "final three".

Tim: Ha Ha! Yeah, I thought that it was going to be either me or morgan sooner or later. "There can only be one Ultimate Blogger"

UB: It seems like you played a really strategic game. Have you watched a lot of reality television?

Tim: No. My mom does though.
Morgan: I HATE IT!

UB: Wow, I'm surprised! Some of the players get really hung up on the idea of playing a "honest" game.

Tim: Yes, they did.
Morgan: The point isn't to be honest, it's to be the ultimate blogger.

UB: Do you think you can play Ultimate Blogger in an honest way and still win?

Morgan: I don't think so.
Tim: No.
Morgan: It hasn't worked for two seasons now.
Tim: Ha Ha.

UB: So now all the people you voted off have to choose between you and Alex. What do you think your chances are?

Morgan: Well, I would hope they understand that the reason we voted them off was in the spirit of the game. They'd probably do it in a second to us. I know Thom was against us, and Zoe... everyone.
Tim: Yeah, I'm still trying to be internet buds with Thom. But he's not budging.
Morgan: It was nothing personal. I know Alex screwed a bunch of people over also, so it's hard to tell right now.
Tim: He did? I thought alex always played it as "fair" as it could be played?
Morgan: The unholy-er alliance.
Tim: True.
Morgan: We where talking about this in the car...
Tim: What car?!
Morgan: ... about how he screwed everyone over just as much as we did. We got sonic, I got a slushie.
Tim: I think Thom did the most "screwing".
Morgan: For sure. We stuck up for some people like Tim. We where supposed to vote against him, like the whole alliance was, but we didn't and he was close to getting voted off.

UB: Have you made internet friends with anyone?

Tim: Yes!
Morgan: Yeah, Tina, Eric, Daniel...
Tim: Daniel and Eric are still tight with the 'Layoof Twins'. Daniel especially.
Morgan: I think Alex is awesome too and when this is over I think it'd be cool if we stayed in touch.
Tim: We have some easter eggs that say "we love waferbaby". I'd like to stay in touch with Zoe, Maari, Lauren...

UB: Daniel helped you guys out once or twice didn't he?

Tim: Oh for sure, Waferbaby has helped us out lots. But the truth is, we wanted him gone the most in the beginning.
Morgan: Ha Ha. Yeah.
Tim: He was one of the best bloggers.
Morgan: Thom said he wanted us off, but we told him we needed in so he offered to let us stay if we voted with them. But we betrayed him.

UB: Do you really believe that you are the Ultimate Blogger? Better than Alex?

Tim: Well, no and yes. Alex is an amazing Blogger...
Morgan: Without sounding really big headed I think we had the funniest content. I think videos gave us an edge that the other players didn't have. [We're the] Ultimate Vloggers maybe.
Tim: Yeah, we'd have to fight Tina for it.
Morgan: I like Tina, but I honestly didn't think her pitch was that funny! It seemed like, "Oh look a break at work, maybe I'll film this."
Tim: I liked it. Short and Sweet
Morgan: No you didn't! I remember you telling me you didn't.
Tim: Lies.
Morgan: Don't lie to the judges Tim!
Tim: All lies.
Morgan: "We want a vote from Tina" -Tim Mahoney
Tim: Grrr...
Morgan: Be right back, I'm getting Girlscout Cookies. Don't believe anything Tim says.

UB: Okay, now let's get personal. Tell us a bit about a typical day for Tim and Morgan...

Morgan: Okay, well I wake up around 7 and I go to A hour which is an early class. So then I have school and after that me and Tim go to our bowling league.

UB: What are your bowling scores like?

Tim: 4 million.
Morgan: A million.
Tim: I'm better.
Morgan: By a bit
Tim: Well, I wake up around 8:30. I get on the computer till 8:50, then go to school. And then I meet up with Morgan at the bowling alley.
Morgan: Once at the bowling alley, we go raving. We like to get down on the dance floor with hot chicks.
Tim: After a typical day of bowling Morgan and I head to a fondue restaurant.
Morgan: No? Raving?
Tim: On Saturdays.

UB: Well, I think that about wraps it up. Any last thing you want to say?

Tim: I love Morgan!
Morgan: That we're sorry we screwed a bunch of people over but it was in the name of the game
Tim: That too.
Morgan: ... and everything is fair in love and war. This was kind of a war, right? And yeah, we really had fun, even if we do get voted off.
Tim: It's been really, really fun, we made some killer contacts!!
Morgan: And you can check Totallymorgan.com and timandmorgan.com for updates on our lives.

By: Tim and Morgan | Challenge 07 | March 24, 2006

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