Fraud Busting: Holly Hoffman Survivor Season 21 Full Interview with Traci Brown

Want to know about how Holly Hoffman detected deception on Season 21 of Survivor? Watch the video! Here's a little excerpt of her conversation with Fraud-Busting Body Language Expert Traci Brown.

Traci Brown: Oh, wow. Okay. Let’s talk a little bit about what actually goes on because what I’m most interested in here, what I think people listening are most interested in, is that when you pit people against each other, but then have them work together, you have a real interesting dynamic of needing to learn to detect lies. It’s really a game. You have alliances that kind of pop up. Some of them pop up really early and others are later. Some people think they’re in control, but they’re really not. You stack that on top of probably a lot of low blood sugar and a lot of what’s really similar to what we have right now, a lot of I think, let’s call it desperation because there is a million dollar prize.
Holly Hoffman: Yes.
Traci Brown: At the end. Tell me a little bit about the story on how did you pick who to align with. What was it like when some of these alliances melted down and could you see that coming?
Holly Hoffman: Oh yes. You could definitely see that coming. I want to back up just a little bit.
Traci Brown: Okay.
Holly Hoffman: And go back to the casting call.
Traci Brown: Okay.
Holly Hoffman: What they do at the casting call is you have to take a lot of tests: Personality tests, IQ tests, and so forth, and what they do is they evaluate those tests. You also have to do some interviews with counselors, and they read your body language. They read your personality. Then they pick all these different personalities from all walks of life. They throw you in the middle of a jungle. The elements are horrible. It rained 17 nights in a row. We slept in the rain.
Traci Brown: Yea, the cold. Oh!
Holly Hoffman: It’s freezing. The sleep deprivation, the starvation. We all know what happens when we don’t get enough sleep and we’re hungry. We know you have a tendency to get angry or short tempered. Right.
Traci Brown: I’m the worst. My husband carries food around for me.
Holly Hoffman: Hysterical. Just think about in the real world, in the workplace. There are all these people from different walks of life, different personalities, and you have to be a team. But in Survivor, you have to be a team. You have to work together. But you also have to work against each other. It is a big mind game because you have to be strategic and you have to look at people and think: Who can I really trust and who can’t I trust? For me, that was really hard because my personality is: I want to have everybody get a long and nobody fight and everybody just . . . I’m the mom that wants all the kids to get along and I want all the junior high girls not to fight. Let’s just all get along. That was really hard for me. What I did is before I went, I would go places and I would try to read people’s body language.
Traci Brown: Oh, you would.
Holly Hoffman: Yes. I would sit in the mall or I would sit at park, and I would watch their body language and I would watch their facial expressions, and I would watch how they react with other people. It is amazing. If you ever want to do this, sit in a mall and you can tell when a husband and wife come out of a store and they don’t agree on a purchase by how they’re interacting. Or you can tell if there’s two people that are just dating and they’re smiling at each other, or you can tell if a mom is angry at her child or if she and her child are having a wonderful day. It is amazing how you can tell what kind of a day a person is having or their personality by their body language or by their facial expressions.
Traci Brown: Absolutely. I agree. I am fascinated consistently when I go out of the house, when I can go out of the house.
Holly Hoffman: I know! Isn’t it amazing though? You don’t even need to talk to these people or hear what they’re saying. You see it within their body language and their facial expressions. I did that. I would sit places and I would try to evaluate what kind of a day is that person having or what kind of person is that.
Traci Brown: Oh, I love that. That’s what I’ll tell people to do when they want to know if a politician is lying or not. Because you get sucked into what they’re saying. I’m like, great, you want to know, watch the debate with the volume off. It’ll tell.
Holly Hoffman: You can completely tell.
Traci Brown: Yes.
Holly Hoffman: So for me, I made the alliance with two people immediately into the game. The main reason I did it is because they were at my casting call.
Traci Brown: Oooh.

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