Exclusive: Pod 9 Talks About His Solitary 3.0 'Vacation'

With Pod 9 exiting Solitary 3.0 its time to get the real story behind his stay. Pod 9, whose real name is J Scott, pushed the red button after crawling through several penalty rounds. Before he left J talked to the cameras about how his life was changed due to Solitary, but what else does he have to say about his stay on the show? Below is our full interview and we thank J for taking the time to answer our questions!

Were you a fan of Solitary before entering the game and how did you get involved in the casting process?

I had never watched an episode actually. It's not news, gossip, cartoons, or violence..... I was broke and looking for gigs on craigslist and I saw this.... The week before I was in the pooling audience for Deal or no Deal hoping to get picked for that too....Apparently mohawks work for Val and not for Howie.

The game started off much different then any other season, with two people starting in a pod. What were your thoughts on your initial pod mate and what did you think that meant for the rest of the game?

I was afraid we were in there together for the long run..... I'm a total pig and it would have been just horrible for her. Jenn is lucky she got away from me when she did... She played for Nina Hagen (I'm a fan) and is a hot surfer..... It would have been the "j gets shot down for sex show". Do you smell a spin off? I sure do.... I bet she's down. Or maybe we can put me in one of those "I love" shows on vh1... It'd be a trip to watch models compete for my ugly ass.

You ended up being in the face off to stay in the game during the first round. The challenge seemed to take forever to find the random locks, did you think you would do so well?

Oh yeah.... I have a photographic memory... Jenn couldn't remember the combos... I just had to find out which one it was.... This became really helpful when Val would throw 2 or 3 combos at us at once...... Only one would work..... Also I can lift about 400 pounds give or take depending on my drinking and meat eating...... So even with my chains being heavier it would be no contest... I told everyone there's only one thing a tank can't do....... drive fast.

The challenges seemed like no problem for you early on. Were you surprised how well you did and do you feel the others saw you as a threat? Were your reactions to the "joy" of the tasks just for show or did you really love having all that torture done to you?

Torture????? Solitary was a fuckin' vacation... Outside the no booze and the "elvis bars" I loved every second of it. I only wish Val would have left me alone more..... She's constantly talking to you and asking questions trying to get a soundbite.... From what they used of me... I could have had more privacy. The bike was hardish.... especially because I slipped off it... If you watch certain points right there its just me holding myself up almost all arms...... and seriously that 4 ich octogon.... The clips that everyone has made such a deal over were cake..... I burn myself with cigarettes for fun, I eat glass, breathe fire, and have cinder blocks sledge hammered on my chest...... I let people staple dollar bills to me after gigs..... a couple clips??? Thats funny too... I took them off one at a time and placed them back on the dummy. So no... my giggling was in fact ...me giggling. A threat.... I think most of them saw me as a fat joke until the wheelchair.... I loved how people...#5... said that was an ego blow.... and then I ate her.

Your number one enemy in the game seemed to be Pod 5. Although you two never actually met during the game, what was your basis of giving her the handicaps? Also after watching the show, are the others the same way you perceived them while being in the pod?

Pod 5 pissed me off by throwing me off the weight challenge.... I should have assumed the producers would of coarse give the 300 pound dude...(actually I'm only 275) the midgets clothes.... Although you must admit my moose knuckle was impressive.... They show Andrew breaking the blocks.... I broke 4 of mine on accident but started screaming during that game...which is still the dumbest thing I've ever played..... I also was starting to feel picked on during that game.... During the bike Val called me fat and asked if I ever exercised.... then the wait game.... everyone else got 2 "gimmies" some 3.... they knew themselves and the "bouncer".... So I was like if I'm on here to be the fat funny guy I'll simply kill you all... I said I'd break the horse in half and breakout of the pod.... Val said "Breaking the materials is not advisable".... so I tried to keep cool.

Everyone on the show is exactly what I thought they were...... yep...pretty much exactly. Excluding Rob's somewhat eerie knowledge of the show.

As you get your instructions from "Val" does it start to grow on you that Val is real and not just a voice behind a mirror? The idea of just communicating with a computerized voice is very interesting, what does the idea of Val add to the game? Does it make you more insane or calm you down as you are able to talk to "something"?

It would help if the voices of Val practiced and got a solid character out... I had some dude who liked calling me fat... and I'm pretty sure he is this little bald man most likely upset that I have all this thick glorious hair and choose to cut it into a mohawk. Then there was some chick who flirts with you and makes you feel nice,.... but she kept trying to get me to say I had a traumatic childhood.... which I really didn't... I was trauma.... not the other way around... ha ha ha.... I did however like the flirty Val, because no one in real life flirts with me...

We never really see how long you go without eating, bathing or sleeping on the show due to the editing. Give us a rough estimate of how long you would go between meals, showering and being able to sleep.

I made some poor choices and I only got to eat one thing that wasn't an elvis bar... these protein banana things... they are awful..... but you get one... maybe every 12 hours after the first 2 days of nothing.... they don't tell you the time so any of this is a guess but I think I followed time pretty closely....we slept regularly after the first 2 days and we didn't shower at all... we took whore's baths with wet naps after we woke up or after a messy game....... Yeah I smelled so bad the people who let me out wouldn't come in my pod.......

There is some talk about the "anti pod" on the show but they never show what you guys do in there. Is it just a confessional or is there more to this mystery part of your pods?

Its a 3 foot by 4 foot waiting room with a mirror for while they dress the pods... they played music, everyone asked for 3 songs to play most people's choices were very obvious from their descriptions.....mine were all dark angry songs and one talking heads song......) and you sat there.....

On the treatment that took you out of the game you continued doing penalty rounds, although there seemed to be little hope that you could finish them. What made you keep going and wait so long to push the red button?

I was hoping someone would think I quit and push the button.... I don't quit. I would have kept doing those laps until they dragged me out... which is essentially what they did........ It should have been to the pain... not timed... anything timed is a race...... but I couldn't win this game....

And lastly, as you exited the game you expressed gratitude for Solitary in turning your life around. After leaving the show how has your life changed and are you glad you took part in the show?

I like how Solitary made me look like a good guy... they seem to throughout the whole tv show... which is why I wonder why they were so snappy in the pod...but it was fun so eh....

My exact words on being removed from the race were: "No money means I don't have to listen to you anymore" and I threw the chalk.... Maybe if you look its on the board I wrote it down...... I hear they don't show that and make me seem like a changed soul and all... I haven't seen the episode yet... in reality I was a bit more bitter about it.... it proved everything I though would happen on the show.... I'd give the underdogs and the freaks and the outcast something to cheer for for half a season and then they'd have a race and leave.

What I wasn't thinking about was the Juggalette army of friends I have built on my facebook page..... Hot, mean, chicks who like clowns. I recently had a small role in the Insane Clown Posse's new film as well.... yay!

And on from there I am heading to Arizona to play the killer, called the Cutter, in a new horror franchise. Pretty cool eh?.....

I don't think I did a very good job on the show.... I thought if I came off as teddy bearish maybe the races would be over with the rocks.... but that makes me a little boring....at the same time a lot of people think I'm a badass on the computer... so maybe me trying to be kindly is most people's bad boy.... I do write horror shows that get activist all up in arms in Chicago...To be cliche ....the world isn't ready for me .. ..I'm really not a very nice person. I'm fun at parties and at work I come prepared and on time....sober even.......but all I really want to do, to quote my pod song by the Dwarves is "Fuck, eat, and fuck you up".