Billy’s Exit Interview On Friday’s “The Early Show”, Harry Smith interviewed Billy Garcia to get his take on things after being voted off Survivor. Billy shows up in, I kid you not, the same black T-Shirt, black pants, and black bandana that he schlepped around in on the island. (Honestly, he may have a closet full of them, and they could be all cleaned and pressed… but it looked like he had just come back from Tribal Council). Harry asked him about the challenge, and if he knew that they were planning to throw it just to vote him off. Billy said he had a suspicion that they might, but that honestly he couldn’t believe that a tribe would truly do that on purpose, so just figured he was being paranoid. He said he didn’t know for sure until the challenge started, and then it became clear they were doing it on purpose. Then Harry questioned him on his strategy, since the reasons his tribe gave for voting him off was that he was lazy and wasn’t playing hard enough. And this is where Billy describes his clever strategy, “The opposite is true. It wasn’t that I wasn’t playing hard enough, but that NOT working hard was part of my play.” (yeah… you may have to read that over a few time to try and make sense of it) He went on to say, “They were spending so much energy unnecessarily I thought, they didn’t have to work every second of every minute of every day.” He continued, explaining that he wanted to use his energy later… wait until they were all spent and then he would do something then. Well clearly, his tribe was happy to let him sit back and conserve his energy permanently… because they booted his non-working, heavy metal butt back to base camp to spend the remainder of the time fishing with Sekou. Harry then brought up the little romantic interaction that occurred between him and Candice after the challenge, and asked Billy to explain a little more about that. Billy kind of blushed, and looked down… and then went on to give what I thought was at least a somewhat reasonable explanation. He compared it to staving for food, and then if someone threw you a couple crumbs, it would seem like the best meal in the world. Billy said he was starving for affection, feeling isolated from the members of his tribe. “So when she threw me some affection, it was like the best affection I ever had.” Well Billy, you might have just kept that to yourself, as opposed to sharing it with a national audience. But at least you’re not scared about being honest with your feelings. Billy none too subtly mentioned that he is still practicing his music, and you can learn more about his band by visiting their website at www.forsakken.com. If you’d like to see Billy’s entire interview, you can find it at CBS News Video.