I join most with individuals who share values of acceptance, and I gravitate in the direction of these individuals, and I in all probability will blindside individuals who do not.
Who’s on that blindside record?
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 be capable of belief you, and so I am gonna must blindside you, or get you out someway, however it’s 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 individuals, it is via sharing tales. Being interested by different individuals, asking questions, after which in search of locations the place the issues that we care about join.
You do not have to inform me who, however I’d be OK in the event you did—what are among the most egregious non-connection moments you have skilled on the island, political or in any other case?
Nicely, 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 assume 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 feel she’s within the room with us proper now. I am sorry to say.
I am telling you, I’m an entire particular person.
You are a holistic particular person.
I do know, however inside a recreation, it is a bubble, and inside that container, who’re your individuals, who’s your tribe, and who’s not? I’ve a really excessive tolerance for individuals and their variations, and I simply assume 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 individuals are on the seaside, and so they’re on the basest model of themselves, I’ve at all times puzzled what comes out after that.
Yeah. I imply, I feel 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 feel you noticed the place individuals stood in these moments. And that is to not say that individuals cannot change as soon as they get extra data, as a result of a few of them did apologize afterward. However, you understand, 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 feel there is a cause why people who find themselves into politics love Survivor.
My whole 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 writer. You might be persevering with and persevering with to place your self out into the world, despite the fact that you’ve been burnt by that so many occasions. Why did you determine that you just have been going to maintain pushing?
I feel 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 feel 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 revel in all there’s to get pleasure from. And I even get pleasure from struggling. And ache is pleasing to me, alongside pleasure and ecstasy and all pleasure. All of it’s type of pleasing.
So like I wrote about in my ebook, that is my kink, like Survivor actuality TV competitors reveals, placing myself on the market, exposing myself in a manner that helps individuals’s improvement and progress and other people’s acceptance of themselves. That is what my life is about. So I am gonna preserve doing it, even when it appears insane.
