Survivor Live Internet Talk Show with James "Rocky" Reid
Episode 7 Survivor: Fiji  Cast-Off 
Segment 1 Transcript

Dalton:  Rocky's in the house.  What's going on?

Rocky:  What's going on?

JM:  On his sixth cup of coffee.

DR:  He's had six cups of joe, he's working on about 45 minutes of sleep.

JM:  We've been having a very good time with him in the green room. 

DR:  We were talking last week how we couldn't wait til you were in.  Little did we know it would be so soon.  I guess, sort of take me through.  It is sort of the question people have.  We see you on TV.  You're this crazy, larger than life character.  Emotions can get amplified when you're losing, not eating, not sleeping.  I guess the question is, how much of that is the real Rocky that you're going to see outside the game and how much of it was you going bonkers out of your mind or was it a combination of the two?

Rocky:  Definitely a combination.  I just, I'm outspoken as it is but then like you said, you add in all the starvation and the dehydration and not hanging around with people that you like too much and then you just blow up more than you normally would. 

JM:  Why do you think you guys kept losing?  Do you think that there was a communication thing?  You were so close sometimes.

Rocky:  We just never found the niche.  We'd be so close, leading, and then something came up.  You know what I mean.  It's crazy. 

JM:  It's really frustrating.  I'm praying for like a merge or something.  It's really going to be so boring watching them win. 

DR:  We've spoken about the haves/havesnots thing that we're not crazy about.  I guess where you really saw it come into play was that memory challenge.  It comes up to you and not eating, not sleeping, you're just like...and we saw it with Yau-Man, too. 

Rocky:  And he's a genius.  In my own defense, he's a genius and he couldn't do it.  The sun and nothing, your brain is blank all day. 

DR:  So you guys were losing every week.  You were going to TC every week except for the one where they decided to go themselves.  You were sort of in control and knew what was going on.  Last night you felt like you weren't in control.  Did you know you were going?  Did you think it was about 50/50?

Rocky:  I kinda smelt it coming up but I think I just lied to myself.  I basically just convinced myself that it's not going to be me.  No one's lying to me, basically just to get through the day.  That's why I looked so shocked when I got voted off.  I'm a good liar, especially to myself.  So that's what happened. 

DR:  We thought one of the problems last night was at the reward challenge. 

JM:  I thought maybe it was a little bit of editing. 

DR:  Let's take a look at the clip and then we'll have Rocky talk about what was going on with downing the hot dogs. 

<video clip of Rocky taunting Ravu members after they overindulged in food>

DR:  We hear them...

JM:  Edgardo was laughing. 

DR:  Is that the reaction you were getting when you said it?

Rocky:  Yeah, of course.  Everyone was like, "Oh, that's wicked funny. Ha ha ha."  Nobody steps up and says, "Cut it out."  I even told 'em, I said, "You know what?  I'm a little crazy, I got food in my system for the first time in three weeks.  I'm fired up.  If it's too much let me know." 

JM:  And nobody said anything?

Rocky:  No.

JM:  Dreamz is laughing. 

Caller:   Hey Rocky, I just wanted to thank you for providing a very interesting season.  I just got into Survivor last season and it was very predictable.  I do want to know what mistake you think you made?

Rocky:  Thank you very much.  I'm glad I could make the show more entertaining for you.  The mistake I made was, I don't know.  I just, I didn't see it coming, the whole getting kicked off the show thing.  Maybe if I edited (?) it the way I voted people off, because that's basically what happened, maybe I could have set it up for the future.  I don't know what I would do if I could change it or anything like that. 

DR:  If you had been doing everything right don't you think they were going to get rid of you anyway just because they wanted to keep their alliance from Moto together?

Rocky:  I was done either way.  They got Mookie over because they felt they could control him a little bit more.  At the same time, now Mookie's there all by himself.  So it's a numbers game. 

JM:  People have mixed feelings about Mookie.  

Rocky:  He's definitely shady.  He's playing to win. 

JM:  Like you say, the numbers were stacked against you either way. 

DR:  Mookie said he wasn't going to write your name down.  Did he give you any clue that you were going?

Rocky:  No, he lied to my face.  We were sitting over there and I go, "Hey buddy, I'm a little bit nervous.  I know who's going now but I'm a little nervous about what's going to happen after."  He goes, "I don't know, we'll figure it out.  We'll work on it." 

JM:  Do you think maybe he didn't think you were going to make it on the jury so he can lie to you?  It's a little early.  We've seen an early jury before but this one is early.  They think they can be rude because it doesn't matter.

Rocky:  I do.  I do matter. 

JM:  I think that's not the first person he's done that to. 

Rocky:  Yeah, he's done it.  We've done it.  We manipulate people.  Whatever, it was bound to happen.  I was bound to get kicked off sooner or later. 

Caller:  Rocky, I see that you're dressing better now.  Early on you made some alliances but they seemed to be throwaway and you appeared to be more of a here and now individual without too much thought towards down the road.  What is your response to that? 

Rocky:  I made alliances in the beginning.  When Jessica got voted out and Erica basically didn't do anything to save her or even attempt to do it, I kinda snapped into the game and sink or swim.  I fought for myself.  When Erica's name got thrown up, she was one of the strongest players on the team.  I had all faith in me, Jess and Erica going far but once she flipped and they didn't try to save her, I gave up.  

JM:  You didn't actually write their names down?

Rocky:  I wrote Erica's name down.  Not Jessica.

DR:  It's that hard thing where you have to make an alliance immediately but you know nothing about anyone. 

JM:  The first couple of days are tough.  It's kind of like hit or miss.  You could get a good alliance that could take you all the way to the end even if you do nothing or do a lot.  If you get a bad one you're in trouble even if you do a lot.  There's a lot of luck involved in this game. 

DR:  Look how differently everything could have been if you had just been on that haves tribe. 

Rocky:  If if I flipped that 9 over like I was supposed to. [episode 5 immunity challenge]

Caller:  Rocky, in retrospect, do you wish you had made amends with Anthony and tried to get him in an alliance with you, Mookie and Dreamz?

Rocky:  Retrospect is a very big word, thank you very much.  It would have made sense to get together with Anthony just for the whole numbers thing but I don't think it would have worked out in the long run.  I don't think it would have changed how I got voted out. 

JM:  Talk a little about Anthony.  We didn't get into that yet.  You picked on him a little bit it looked like. 

Rocky:  Looks like it, yeah.  Looks like it.  Here's the thing.  I tried with the kid.  I tried.  I held back.  I coulda blew up more than you saw me blow up.  It's tough.

JM:  What was it about him that just rubbed you the wrong way?

DR:  It definitely went past constructive criticism.

Rocky:  It was the buildup and then at TC I got to take the gloves off and go crazy. 

JM:  Did you know he was going home and that's why you thought you could...

Rocky:  Yeah, that's why I could do it.  I gave him everything I had

JM:  Did his personality just clash with yours?

Rocky:  Yeah, we just, we don't have anything in common.  I'm sure he's a good kid.  But under those conditions, under those dire straits, and then I have to deal with this person who, like I'm not saying that I did anything great at the challenges.  Clearly we didn't win.   For some reason every time we were this close, maybe four times, like that whole balance beam thing in the water the kid fell off like six times. 

JM:  What we don't understand is if you lose over and over and you have one person that you feel you can blame, that will drive you crazy and you'll eventually snap on them. 

DR:  What was a surprise to a lot of us was Jeff Probst's role in that. 

JM:  He kind of dug in a little bit on Anthony, too.

DR:  I thought he was going to sort of take you to task and call you out, maybe.  What we saw on TV didn't work that way.   Tells us about Jeff in the mix.

Rocky:  To be honest with you, I know it sounded like I just digged into him but at the same time me and Anthony were about 10 years ago very similar people.  I got picked on in high school, got beat up and all that stuff, very similar to his story.  We took two totally different paths to becoming who we are.  So I was just trying to explain that to him and maybe he's happy with his life and the way it is.  If it was me, maybe I'd want to just change.  Maybe he's happy with where he is and how he's living. 

DR:  I think these bitches heed to hug it out. 

JM:  I'm hoping for some kind of fight. 

Rocky:  You don't want a hug you want a brawl. 

JM:  Oiled down and half naked, baby.

Rocky's Time Capsule:  Hey James, this is your boy, James.  It's going to be a long 39 days, brother.  Sit tight, do your thing, try to keep your mouth shut from time to time because we all know you've got a huge mouth.  Relax, take it easy, just do your thing.  I'm sure you'll do a great job.  Make us proud, huh.  Talk to you soon, buddy. 

JM:  You looked bigger there, too.  But I know a lot of people before they go on the show they gain weight, they beef up.  It's good to see the before and after.

DR:  Not heeding his own advice.

JM:  You forget the cameras are there and you let your guard down a little bit. 

Rocky:  You get comfortable.  It just flows out of your mouth. 

DR:  Tell us about some of the situations where you maybe did bite your tongue. 

Rocky:  The whole lip gloss thing with Rita, love her death, think she's a great kid, I wanted to wake up and just start screaming.  Tell them to go down to the rock and talk about fashion and mascara, whatever you call it, nail polish.  Tell them just to go and do it somewhere else.  If I did that then I might lose their vote or they might not vote the way I asked them to. 

DR:  Rocky, thank your lucky stars that Jenna Morasca was not on your tribe. 

JM:  I didn't talk about lip gloss but I did talk about food a lot. 

Caller:  Rocky, have you watched any of the previous seasons?  Seems like in the previous seasons there's a precedent that people with such an aggressive attitude are fairly first to go.  It seemed like your attempts to motivate people were counterproductive and your downfall.  Did you ever think about toning it down a couple of notches? 

Rocky:  That's a great question.  To be honest with you, that is toned down.  That's toned down.

JM:  And you didn't watch a whole lot before you went on.

Rocky:  I watched some episodes.  I watched a couple seasons, 13 and 12.  I think maybe even season 4. 

JM:  Wow.

Rocky:  Yeah it was a little mix, a little buffet of Survivor.  But that was toned down, man. 

DR:  For historical accuracy here let's note that Boston Rob basically made it to the finals. 

JM:  He won Survivor: All Stars even though he didn't have the votes.

DR:  He basically won it.

JM:  And Shane Powers made it far.   I think Tom and Terry were aggressive outward strong players.  You just never know.  It all depends on who you end up with. 

DR:  Terry and Tom are much more diplomatic.

JM:  It just depends on who you're with, who can handle it.

DR:  We're going to take a quick break.

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