I join most with individuals who share values of acceptance, and I gravitate in direction of these folks, and I in all probability will blindside individuals who do not.
Who’s on that blindside checklist?
I am gonna win the sport. And in case your worth programs do not jive with mine, we’re not gonna join, we’re not gonna bond. I am not gonna have the ability to belief you, and so I am gonna must blindside you, or get you out in some way, nevertheless it’s most probably gonna be a blindside.
Did this come up in any respect in Australia?
It comes up each single time. Yeah, in each recreation. That is how I join with folks, it is by sharing tales. Being interested by different folks, asking questions, after which on the lookout for locations the place the issues that we care about join.
You do not have to inform me who, however I’d be OK should you did—what are a few of the most egregious non-connection moments you have skilled on the island, political or in any other case?
Effectively, I do not know JT’s politics or Rupert [Boneham]’s, or, any of these guys on Heroes vs. Villains for that matter, like Colby [Donaldson], however I do not suppose that we share the identical politics, and we very clearly didn’t join. And also you noticed how that turned out for these guys. [Laughs.]
OK, the Black Widow remains to be right here. I believe she’s within the room with us proper now. I am sorry to say.
I am telling you, I’m a complete individual.
You are a holistic individual.
I do know, however inside a recreation, it is a bubble, and inside that container, who’re your folks, who’s your tribe, and who’s not? I’ve a really excessive tolerance for folks and their variations, and I simply suppose do you, so long as you’re not hurting another person or taking away another person’s proper to be an individual. But when you are going to come after somebody’s proper to exist as themselves? No, that does not work for me.
When persons are on the seashore, they usually’re on the basest model of themselves, I’ve all the time puzzled what comes out after that.
Yeah. I imply, I believe essentially the most divisive for me was the Micronesia finale and the Heroes vs. Villains finale. That is the place you see the politics play out. That is the place the voting occurs for the winner. I believe you noticed the place folks stood in these moments. And that is to not say that folks cannot change as soon as they get extra info, as a result of a few of them did apologize afterward. However, you already know, a few of them did not, too.
Survivor is a really political recreation. I’ve talked with Jon Lovett on his podcast about this too. I believe there is a motive why people who find themselves into politics love Survivor.
My total life is defined now!
You’re welcome. I validate you.
For my final query, I wish to get again to you as this skilled actuality TV star, content material creator, and creator. You might be persevering with and persevering with to place your self out into the world, although you’ve been burnt by that so many occasions. Why did you resolve that you simply have been going to maintain pushing?
I believe it is as a result of I’m a Scorpio moon. I don’t know! I simply have this deep starvation to really feel. And I am tremendous curious and adventurous. And I actually like placing myself into excessive environments the place I’ve little or no management, and seeing what occurs and the way I adapt, and pushing myself to be resilient. And I believe that that’s what retains me rising and younger. I wish to develop, I wish to study, I wish to develop. I wish to get higher and higher and luxuriate in all there’s to get pleasure from. And I even get pleasure from struggling. And ache is gratifying to me, alongside pleasure and ecstasy and all pleasure. All of it’s type of gratifying.
So like I wrote about in my guide, that is my kink, like Survivor actuality TV competitors exhibits, placing myself on the market, exposing myself in a method that helps folks’s growth and development and folks’s acceptance of themselves. That is what my life is about. So I am gonna hold doing it, even when it appears insane.
