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TVGuide.ca: Hey Randy, how are you?
Randy Bailey: I am doing good.

TVG: That's good. So how many of these interviews have you had to do now?
RB: More than I can count, which is good because it makes me good 'n' mean for the later interviews. I did radio interviews all morning - we must have done 20 spots and we just got back this afternoon, you're my second.

TVG: Lucky me! As a purist of the game, do you think Survivor is going downhill?
RB: A hundred million people around the world watch it, so I don't think it's going downhill. Yeah, I wish it was Borneo, or Australia, or the first Africa where the dominating tribe wiped out the weak tribe and you fought it out at the end. If that had of been the case I would have been final four for sure. But they're looking for fun, new twists to keep people interested. They've found a few, and what it does is put people like Sugar, Susie, Crystal and Kenny beating players like Ace, Marcus and Jackie.

TVG: Seems like America's definition of winners right there, huh?
RB: Well, yeah … I don't know what America wants to watch, but if I was sitting on the couch I would have liked to seen … me, go to the end.

TVG: The thing is, at least you're honest with people, right?
RB: Yeah, if you've paid attention, I never told one lie to anybody in the whole game. As snarky as my comments are, I think most of them are pretty accurate.

TVG: And pretty funny.
RB: Yeah, I think I'm pretty funny sometimes!

TVG: I couldn't believe Sugar took that cookie from you, just to give it to Matty.
RB: Sugar's a three-year-old and knowing her, it doesn't surprise me. The last episode was my boot episode, but I was thrilled they finally showed America what a skank this girl is.

TVG: Do you have any other words to describe her?
RB: I'm not familiar with Canadian radio rules or whatever, but I'm guessing most of the words that I'd have would be illegal in Canada like they are in America.

TVG: What do you think of Crystal, being a former Olympian and all - a role model for kids, getting up there and giving the finger and yelling and cursing?
RB: And laughing at every single player when they get booted, not to mention incapable of winning any challenges. What you didn't see is she would give herself 30 seconds of silence before each meal as she prayed to her God, and then twenty minutes later flip me off in the voting booth. But that's Crystal. She has to live with Crystal, I don't.

TVG: Did you find it hard constricting yourself around these people who clearly got under your skin?
RB: The first 10 days it was actually kind of fun. I kept my honesty to confessionals when I was by myself, and then I'd come back to camp and I'd smile and sing "Kum Ba Yah" and tell Crystal how great she is.

And then as my confidence grew on the new Kota tribe and we were winning every challenge, I let too much of the real me out of the bag. I liked winning, I'd love when Crystal would cry at challenges and we were in such control I didn't see a need to be concerned about her feelings because quite frankly I wasn't.

TVG: Everybody knows Sugar has the immunity idol, so WHY is nobody voting her out?
RB: It's weird, Survivor 101 tells you when you know somebody has the idol, you flush it out. They let G.C. quit, not even worrying about the idol. Take the idol out and then let him quit, CBS has to cut one episode, so what? This game is for a million dollars. We didn't think she had it because no one was trying to vote her out, and then I guess they just kind of forgot.

TVG: Plus you didn't know she had a map leading her to the location of the hidden idol.
RB: Yeah, Dan didn't have a map. He looked a little silly looking in the lake and stuff, and then next time Sugar had an arrow on the map saying here's the idol, just about. They portray her like she's some sort of genius and Dan an idiot. That's just not the case.

TVG: Were you disappointed in any of the editing you got?
RB: Not really disappointed in the editing I got, but in the editing Sugar, Susie and Bob have gotten. Mostly Sugar, she's being shown as America's sweetheart and nothing could be further from the truth.

TVG: And I've been told Susie doesn't shut up.
RB: Yeah, Susie's a nice enough woman, but she does not shut up. She narrates her entire life - if she decides to scratch an itch on her elbow, she's describing it as she does it. And I'm not kidding, I wish I was! I thought I was in The Twilight Zone or something.

TVG: You also mentioned Bob, what's his untold story?
RB: He's like Susie - a nice guy, but he tells these stories, and he tells them three times a day. Then the very next day he forgets he told you the day before and it's unbelievable. Bob, we know you have a lovely wife named Peg and you live in Maine, we just don't want to hear about it for 38 days.

TVG: Was it great near the end to finally get to speak your mind about everybody?
RB: It was so refreshing! On that last day when I lost it, when they blur my mouth and I'm yelling at Susie (you can imagine what I'm saying, I won't repeat it), we were just sitting there and out of a blue she decided to bring up the cookie incident, which was hours and hours before. She was just like, 'You know, I just didn't think you were real sincere when you were handing out cookies.' And I just lost it. It felt gooood.

TVG: Fantastic. Well, Randy thank you for your time, do you have anything else to add?
RB: Enjoyed it. It's good talking to people from Canada. They know the game and they don't ask stupid questions. Much better than some of the other places where there's a language barrier. So thank you for learning English for me.