Enjoy this exerpt from an interview with Bobby...
Reality TV World: After doing well in the first mission with the waterfall, you seemed to have some major problems running up and down the beach during the next mission. Did you anticipate it would be so difficult and if so, why didn't you volunteer for one of the missions other less-physical aspects?
Bobby: Well it wasn't really our choice to pick who was doing what. It was Nicole's job to assign the roles to everyone. I really didn't have a choice, she just put me in the scavenger role. I just had to man up and do it.
But what you don't see is when we do the missions and stuff, we keep long hours. We're out there into all hours of the night doing these missions and you get little sleep and you're already stressed from being in the game and missing family -- and there's so many other added elements that viewers just don't get to see by sitting on the couch and watching it. You're exhausted mentally, physically emotionally -- everyone out there.
Running up and down the beach in jeans and being exhausted after sleeping outside. I might have gotten two hours of sleep that night on that cot after being out in that waterfall mission. So I was just out of it. My whole body was just in a funk. As you can see, I suffered from it a little.
Reality TV World: You also boasted about your previous experience as a soccer player prior to that mission, but once again seemed to have a hard time with the physicality of it. What went wrong there? Was it some sort of strategy?
Bobby: These kids that we played, they practiced with each other every single day. We don't practice and half the people on our team didn't know what soccer was. I mean, they knew what it was, but they were like, "What's a throw in? What do I do? Why am I kicking the ball over here?" They didn't understand the positions and everything.
So I was like Ali, myself and Alex will be up front because we know the most about it. We'll just try to wiz real quick by the kids and score an easy goal and hike our way to the mountain. I went full force from the start and kind of burned myself out right away trying to make up for the rest of the team and trying to do well.
I actually injured myself from it. I wasn't just sore, I was legitimately injured from that soccer mission.
Reality TV World: Is that injury what forced you to ride in the wheelbarrow during the next mission?
Bobby: Yeah. What happened is I woke-up the day of that mission -- it was the pig mission -- and I woke-up that day and I was thinking, "There's no way I'm going to be able to do this." I could barely get out of bed -- I could barely even walk! -- and I was like, "How the heck am I going to make it through the day?"
Reality TV World: Where was the injury? Was it your knee? Ankle?
Bobby: It was my thighs. Imagine every 10 steps just having like 100 charlie horses. It was like unending pain. It just wouldn't stop and it wouldn't go away.
When we got to the wheelbarrow mission, I'm like, "Oh god." So I started trying to walk it off and it was a sharp, shooting pain. I knew it was hurting me -- not from a player standpoint -- but I didn't want to be so obvious. I didn't want people thinking I was the mole, but knowing that was happening, I was like, "No one's going to think I'm the mole now." It was ruining my chances. It took a lot of suspicion off me by performing so awfully because of my injury. That kind of hurt me too.
Reality TV World: So did Craig and Kristen -- your partners for the pig mission -- know the extent of your injury? Who's idea was it for you to ride in the wheelbarrow?
Bobby: Everyone knew I was injured I think. It wasn't even my idea to get in the wheelbarrow -- I think Craig or Kristen suggested it. I was like, "Are you sure?" I felt bad, at one point I was telling Kristen, "I promise you, I'll give you a massage -- a full-body massage when we get back to the hotel. I'll take care of you, I feel so bad." I really did feel bad. I tried to walk, but they were like, "No, just get in. We'll save time doing this."
Afterwards, I was actually getting a rub down in an ambulance with my thighs and legs by the medics because I was really injured. I was really hurt.
Reality TV World: Just to backup for a second, what was your group going to do if they had actually managed to find some pigs to put in the wheelbarrow? Would you have been able to walk then?
Bobby: The thing was at this point, we had a huge late start getting into town. Everybody else had already pretty much gone through the town's main street and cleared everything out. So we're wasting time pretty much stopping at the stores they already stopped at not knowing they had already taken all the pigs from that store. So that was just frustrating. At one point we knew there was no hope for us, there was nothing we could do. We just tried to keep looking, but we knew all along we weren't going to find anything.
Reality TV World: After doing well in the first mission with the waterfall, you seemed to have some major problems running up and down the beach during the next mission. Did you anticipate it would be so difficult and if so, why didn't you volunteer for one of the missions other less-physical aspects?
Bobby: Well it wasn't really our choice to pick who was doing what. It was Nicole's job to assign the roles to everyone. I really didn't have a choice, she just put me in the scavenger role. I just had to man up and do it.
But what you don't see is when we do the missions and stuff, we keep long hours. We're out there into all hours of the night doing these missions and you get little sleep and you're already stressed from being in the game and missing family -- and there's so many other added elements that viewers just don't get to see by sitting on the couch and watching it. You're exhausted mentally, physically emotionally -- everyone out there.
Running up and down the beach in jeans and being exhausted after sleeping outside. I might have gotten two hours of sleep that night on that cot after being out in that waterfall mission. So I was just out of it. My whole body was just in a funk. As you can see, I suffered from it a little.
Reality TV World: You also boasted about your previous experience as a soccer player prior to that mission, but once again seemed to have a hard time with the physicality of it. What went wrong there? Was it some sort of strategy?
Bobby: These kids that we played, they practiced with each other every single day. We don't practice and half the people on our team didn't know what soccer was. I mean, they knew what it was, but they were like, "What's a throw in? What do I do? Why am I kicking the ball over here?" They didn't understand the positions and everything.
So I was like Ali, myself and Alex will be up front because we know the most about it. We'll just try to wiz real quick by the kids and score an easy goal and hike our way to the mountain. I went full force from the start and kind of burned myself out right away trying to make up for the rest of the team and trying to do well.
I actually injured myself from it. I wasn't just sore, I was legitimately injured from that soccer mission.
Reality TV World: Is that injury what forced you to ride in the wheelbarrow during the next mission?
Bobby: Yeah. What happened is I woke-up the day of that mission -- it was the pig mission -- and I woke-up that day and I was thinking, "There's no way I'm going to be able to do this." I could barely get out of bed -- I could barely even walk! -- and I was like, "How the heck am I going to make it through the day?"
Reality TV World: Where was the injury? Was it your knee? Ankle?
Bobby: It was my thighs. Imagine every 10 steps just having like 100 charlie horses. It was like unending pain. It just wouldn't stop and it wouldn't go away.
When we got to the wheelbarrow mission, I'm like, "Oh god." So I started trying to walk it off and it was a sharp, shooting pain. I knew it was hurting me -- not from a player standpoint -- but I didn't want to be so obvious. I didn't want people thinking I was the mole, but knowing that was happening, I was like, "No one's going to think I'm the mole now." It was ruining my chances. It took a lot of suspicion off me by performing so awfully because of my injury. That kind of hurt me too.
Reality TV World: So did Craig and Kristen -- your partners for the pig mission -- know the extent of your injury? Who's idea was it for you to ride in the wheelbarrow?
Bobby: Everyone knew I was injured I think. It wasn't even my idea to get in the wheelbarrow -- I think Craig or Kristen suggested it. I was like, "Are you sure?" I felt bad, at one point I was telling Kristen, "I promise you, I'll give you a massage -- a full-body massage when we get back to the hotel. I'll take care of you, I feel so bad." I really did feel bad. I tried to walk, but they were like, "No, just get in. We'll save time doing this."
Afterwards, I was actually getting a rub down in an ambulance with my thighs and legs by the medics because I was really injured. I was really hurt.
Reality TV World: Just to backup for a second, what was your group going to do if they had actually managed to find some pigs to put in the wheelbarrow? Would you have been able to walk then?
Bobby: The thing was at this point, we had a huge late start getting into town. Everybody else had already pretty much gone through the town's main street and cleared everything out. So we're wasting time pretty much stopping at the stores they already stopped at not knowing they had already taken all the pigs from that store. So that was just frustrating. At one point we knew there was no hope for us, there was nothing we could do. We just tried to keep looking, but we knew all along we weren't going to find anything.
