We Know The Traitors

Traitors US S4 Week 5 Interview w/ Banished Player

14 min
Feb 10, 20262 months ago
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Summary

Rob Sestranino interviews Candace Dillard Bassett following her banishment from Traders US Season 4 Week 5. They discuss her suspicions about Rob R.'s potential collusion with Colton, her strategic decisions as a Traitor, and her upcoming music releases.

Insights
  • Player suspicion of non-verbal communication and potential collusion between Traitors can persist post-elimination and drive reunion confrontations
  • Transparency about game strategy (openly discussing murder targets) can paradoxically increase suspicion rather than build trust among players
  • Contestants leverage exit interviews to plant seeds for reunion investigations and frame narratives about other players' gameplay
Trends
Reality TV exit interviews used as strategic narrative-building opportunities for post-show confrontationsContestant cross-promotion of entertainment projects (music, tours) during game-related media appearancesAudience engagement strategy of multi-platform content (YouTube, recap shows, feedback shows) around single episode releases
Topics
Traitor-Faithful dynamics and alliance detectionNon-verbal communication and hidden signals in competitive gameplayStrategic elimination decisions and regret analysisReunion confrontation preparation and investigation planningEntertainment industry cross-promotion during reality TV appearances
People
Rob R.
Traitor player suspected by Candace of colluding with Colton through non-verbal signals and suspicious willingness to...
Colton
Faithful player murdered by Candace; subject of suspicion regarding potential collusion signals with Traitor Rob R.
Steven
Castle resident present during Candace's confrontation with Rob R. in the library scene
Kristen
Potential recruitment target that Candace wished had been recruited by the Traitors instead of murdered
Lisa
Previous exit interview guest who shared similar suspicions about Rob potentially giving hints to Colton
Rachel Riley
Host of upcoming Feedback Show episode scheduled for Thursday following this interview
Tamar Braxton
Collaborator with Candace on upcoming tour dates to promote her new music
Quotes
"is his bath water that good because everybody is drinking it"
Rob Sestranino
"Colton's mouth is a danger to society in the castle not in the world y'all need to let colton live in the world"
Candace Dillard Bassett
"it's not me if i'm not arguing with someone. It was cinema. It was an incredible moment back and forth."
Candace Dillard Bassett
"if only the traders didn't kill me that's that's my song that's my jam"
Rob Sestranino
Full Transcript
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Ready, set, Ford. hey everybody what's going on rob sestranino i'm back for an exit interview for the traders and it's like a week in a row we're talking to a trader here on the exit interview my old buddy from back at the castle we're talking with candace dillard bassett we and i are going to talk to her in just a moment and of course we are so excited for everything traders right now you can watch the exit interview on our youtube channel and then also be sure to join us once again for another recap of this episode coming up on thursday night plus we've got a feedback show coming up with rachel riley later on on thursday so be on the lookout for that i see that we have candace on the line let's go ahead and patch her in all right we are so thrilled to be here with such a legend of so many things including now the traders the great candace dillard bassett candace how are you rob oh my darling it's so good to see you so good to see you but i see you everywhere You are doing so many things. I even saw you at the Super Bowl leading, of all things, a conga line, which was very triggering, Candice, I have to say. I'm so sorry. I'll have to send you a warning every time a conga line ensues because I know it just bristles you, and I hate to do that to you. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. But I do, I want to give you your flowers that you were so fun to watch both in person and on the show all season. And it was a real treat. I'd love to know from you, how frustrating was it? Not only in the castle when you were there, that nobody was willing to look at Rob R. And I still call him Rob R. Yes. But after you left, that they still said, you know, the only thing she gave us was to look at Rob. And he's such a sweet man. You know, she's giving us nothing. I my flabbers are gasted truly I just I all but you know served him up as much as i could within the confines of the game because the trick the rules are the traders can just openly reveal one another so i did as much as i could on my way out and i'm just i don't understand it's like is his bath water that good because everybody is drinking it it's very interesting he seems to be having a lot of allies can is so the night before in the turret he basically says peace offering whoever you want you can kill yeah was that a red flag at any point for you did that seem a little weird that he was so open to just let you have it your way burger king style i guess yes yes well hi puya nice to see you um yes it was it it almost didn't even didn't even play like the he when i said um uh colton when i said colton's name he was like okay okay and um i really my one regret i and i said this on um the traders podcast is that i really wanted to recruit and i wish i'd pushed charter to recruit and recruit Kristen. And Rob wasn't really feeling that. So I was like, when I went into the, to the turret in my mind, I said, okay, if I, if we can't recruit, I'm definitely going to have to murder Colton. If I can get one of those, I feel like I can advance, I can advance, you know, trying to save my salvage, my, my life here. um but i think regardless of the suspicion around rob's just quick quickness with obliging colton colton still had to die because he was just his mouth is a danger to society in the castle not in the world y'all need to let colton live in the world okay but in the castle the society of the castle was in peril with colton so he had to go so yeah now i've heard you say in some of your interviews and lisa said it the same to us last week about how we think that maybe rob might have been giving hints to colton what do you think rob was saying to colton I don't know but what I do know is this when we get to this reunion the questions will be asked because and even watching the that horrific mountain challenge rob you you dodged a bullet i was happy i was dead for that one i had no fomo oh my god that was some explicative explicative okay um so watching even watching that i was triggered so remember during the dagger ceremony there was a lot of like non-verbal stuff happening with colton and rob i don't know if you caught that um and that just affirmed what was already sort of going on in my mind just feeling like there's there's some mutiny afoot here um and it needs to be explored further. So I will be investigating at the reunion. So I hope you will join me. Yes. I will be very excited to have a front row seat for that. Yeah. And I will watch it from afar. Now, one other question I do have for you, Candace, is that we do see this, I'm going to go out and call it iconic moment between you and Rob in the library where you realize you set me up this murder. this was all a setup and then you went ahead and called him a snake what was the energy like in that room because I do feel like Rob seems to be acting very low-key in that moment but there's you know when people act low-key sometimes there is a lot more energy behind it than what they are giving you so can you run us through how you felt in that moment well first of all again I love my faithfuls but they need to go to faithful school because y'all just you missed i tell them not y'all okay not you not you rob no you you if robin i we all would have been dead if rob was still okay yeah i i don't include you in this but you know the the gaggle of faithfuls whom i love dearly y'all just how how do you miss this okay so there was the moment where we're sitting there i'm sitting there with steven and rob and i really never did a lot of conversing in the castle on purpose so i'm sitting there talking to steven rob walks in and says hey can i talk to candace hello red flag like that since when that off alarm bells i would have ran out of there so fast and told tell the others tell the the british are coming i would have been screaming because what do you mean no one does that That was not something that we did Like can we have a private conversation Because that suspicious as hell. So that was number one. And then when we sat down, I had already kind of run through my, in my mind, like what he did. I knew what he did. I knew I was probably going to leave that night. And so I needed to make sure that he knew, okay, if I'm going out, I've done my due diligence on your ass and you are going to reap what you have sown here. So it was, I didn't realize at the moment that it was going to become this moment, but it's not me if I'm not arguing with someone. It was cinema. It was an incredible moment back and forth. I know in addition to everything else you have going on that you have a new single that just came out. Could you tell us about If Only? Yes, thank you. My new single If Only is out now on all streaming platforms. The video will be out in a couple of days on YouTube and Vivo. And this is just a the next stop toward the album. So I will be doing a couple of tour dates with Tamar Braxton. I'm also celebrating the five-year anniversary of Deep Space. And we'll be doing like a Deep Space anniversary concert at some point over the summer. And I'm just, I'm working toward giving you all another album. And I'm just really happy about the direction of my new music, the writing, the production, everything about it is an elevation. And I'm really proud of it. Yeah, well, Candice, congratulations on everything. You know, I'm a fan. The song is a banger. because it speaks it speaks to me because i say if only the traders didn't kill me that's that's my song that's my jam it applies it's applicable in all all facets of words all right can't wait to see you soon okay yes take care candace bye everybody there you have it candace dillard bassett luckily i know i am her number one rob on the traders and i do not worry about losing my position there so very excited to see candace and rob and all the fireworks at the Traders Reunion coming up pretty soon. So be on the lookout for that. Thank you so much for joining us. Check out the Feedback Show with Rachel Riley, and we'll talk to you soon. Take care. Bye.