I join most with individuals who share values of acceptance, and I gravitate in the direction of these individuals, and I most likely will blindside individuals who do not.
Who’s on that blindside record?
I am gonna win the sport. And in case your worth methods 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 should blindside you, or get you out by some means, however it’s most definitely 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 by sharing tales. Being interested by different individuals, asking questions, after which searching for locations the place the issues that we care about join.
You do not have to inform me who, however I might be OK if you happen to did—what are a number of the most egregious non-connection moments you’ve got 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 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 continues 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 a complete individual.
You are a holistic individual.
I do know, however within a recreation, it is a bubble, and within 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 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 seaside, they usually’re on the basest model of themselves, I’ve at all times questioned what comes out after that.
Yeah. I imply, I feel probably 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 folks cannot change as soon as they get extra info, as a result of a few of them did apologize afterward. However, you realize, 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 motive 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’re 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 determine that you just had 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 luxuriate in all there’s to take pleasure in. And I even take pleasure in struggling. And ache is pleasant to me, alongside pleasure and ecstasy and all pleasure. All of it’s form of pleasant.
So like I wrote about in my e-book, that is my kink, like Survivor actuality TV competitors reveals, placing myself on the market, exposing myself in a manner that helps individuals’s growth and progress and folks’s acceptance of themselves. That is what my life is about. So I am gonna maintain doing it, even when it appears insane.