And not just out of the game, but out of the jury.
(Also verify to check out ourexit interview with Soda Thompson.)
TIM SPICER:Yo!
Tim Spicer of ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
First time I pooped was at the airport going home.
I didn’t poop out there.
Something might go right up there.
Tim Spicer on ‘Survivor 46’.CBS
But nah, I wasn’t eating enough to pass anything, honestly.
You looked pretty devastated by the vote.
How surprised were you and what was going through your mind as you saw you name coming up?
Tim Spicer on ‘Survivor 46’.CBS
I was utterly surprised, I was shocked, I was hurt.
I remember just having to take a moment after he snuffed my torch.
CBS
What happened on your walk out of Tribal Council?
Tim Spicer on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
You stopped there for a minute and looked like you needed to collect yourself.
And honestly, bro, I was sad.
You don’t expect it.
Hunter McKnight, Q Burdette, and Tim Spicer on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
You go in thinking it’s one way and it comes out the other way and it’s you.
I think when I came out, I was raging completely.
I mean, it is some relief you are going home.
Moriah Gaynor, Tim Spicer, Maria Gonzalez, Charlie Davis, Jem Hussain-Adams, and Ben Katzman on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
We were like 14, 15 days in, plus getting there to Fiji is a long haul.
So everything leveled out.
You couldn’t really be too mad or hung up on it.
You had to move on from it.
And I think by time I actually watched it, it felt worse than it looked.
What do you mean by that?
It’s a blindside.
I had to sit with it for a minute.
That was 10 months ago, so what has it been like since you got back?
That’s a good question.
When it got deleted, we were like three episodes in.
I think it’s important to be home.
And then last but not least, taking them with me, bringing the family with you.
And that’s been amazing too.
They get to be a part of my life when I am on the road.
Alright, let’s talk some game.
So let’s start with the +1 alliance.
I think when we went to the journey, Quintavius proposes the +1 alliance with Hunter and I.
And I was hesitant because I don’t know these guys.
So I threw a person out there that I did trust,notmy number one.
That wasn’t the question.
It was who do you trust the most?
That was totally a sign.
It was like, Hey, I know some names, they’re going to look out for names.
And I didn’t like counting six out in a group of 13.
I didn’t feel like Ben was a threat.
It wasn’t a threat to me, so I wasn’t voting out Ben.
Hunter had beat every tribe single handedly like, this guy was artificial intelligence.
That was the only way I thought the vote should go.
That’s how you get people out.
What was it like learning that she didnt quite see you in a game sense as you saw her?
I thought it was odd.
I thought it was totally odd.
I wasn’t too moved by it because the question was: Who do you trust the most?
It was a strength question.
Who’s the strongest out of this?
Seeing that she had another number one didn’t really bother me.
Siga boys rule, so I wasn’t really thrown off by it.
If I was your number three, you wouldn’t have went with Tim’s plants.
At the end of the day, it was Tim’s game.
You alluded to this a little bit earlier that you weren’t having a lot of confessionals early on.
What was it like seeing yourself a lot lighter in the edit early on?
I think I emerged when I needed to.
I think you said it.
You hit the nail on the head.
You said 18 stories to tell.
When I got cast for aSurvivor, I was like, Wow, I must be pretty impressive.
And then you see all these people and you’re like, These people are characters!
So it didn’t really bother me.
I trusted what producers, what Jeff, what CBS and theSurvivorteam were doing, and it was fine.
But I was out there competing.
I was out there, How do we win as a tribe to get to the merge?
But it was fine.
I thought it was cool when they started showing Tim.
One, I made fire day two at night.
I needed some fire, so I made fire at night two.
Two, we found a lot of food at the Siga Beach.
I shook a tree and we got some papaya down.
Coconut, I wasn’t a fan of.
Me being from Arlington, Virginia, everybody had seafood around and we would do crabs.
And then three, the merge episode, I think they downplayed how chaotic that was.
They did a good job in their 90 minutes, but it was a lot happening on that day.
Quintavius and I got into it a lot.
People were scrambling, and I just wasn’t saying yes to anything.
I’m not a yes man.
That was something that wasn’t shown, just how crazy that merge feast was.
