In a season based on cursed relics from seasons past, it had actually been quite a while since there had even been any mention of these artefacts. Before this latest episode, the spooky vault that is Ghost Island had only doled out one item – The Legacy Advantage (which is currently in Domenick’s possession). If there was a lull in idols and advantages however, Wednesday’s “Survivor” episode titled “Gotta Risk it For the Biscuit” on Global, made up for it.

After being exiled on Ghost Island, Kellyn risked her next vote and got the biscuit (The Steal-a-Vote Advantage), Wendell unearthed ​what is considered the most cursed idol ever (the immunity necklace Erik gave up to Natalie in Micronesia before being promptly voted out) and Michael, who was perilously at the bottom of the cursed Mololo tribe, found the most iconic fake idol in “Survivor” history (The F***ing Stick).

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Before the immunity challenge, frustrated, desperate and sick of losing, Malolo burned the tribe banner. They seemingly reversed their curse – and sent Naviti to Tribal.

“My biggest test has been trying to not be a complete d*ck.” This would be one of Bradley Kleihege​’s final confessionals, and according to his tribe mates, he failed that test.

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We spoke to the self-proclaimed villain after his ousting:

How much of a blindside was that?

It was pretty close to a complete blindside. When we came back to camp after the challenge I had a bit of a funny feeling. The energy was definitely a little funky around camp, so I thought something might be up, but I couldn’t get any concrete proof that really made me know that something was up, so I had to weigh whether or not I was going to try to flip tribal upside down to get the vote off of me or not do anything. My biggest concern was because I wasn’t really sure that something was actually happening, I didn’t want to flip tribal upside-down to try to get the vote off of me, if the vote wasn’t actually on me. I figured that there was a fear that if I did that at tribal it would end up getting me voted off.

So that’s why you saw me talking of how everyone was getting along and everything was going swimmingly. I was just trying the narrative that I thought would be safe if they weren’t going to flip on me. And then, of course, they ended up actually flipping.

What would you say your ultimate downfall was?

I think I never recovered from voting Brendan and Stephanie out and having run Malolo. It’s tricky – that put a huge target on my back and I think it was hard to recover. Dom was a little bit skeptical about me and Kellyn and I think that just didn’t help anything. But I don’t happen to think it’s my social game. I’ve talked with Dom – Dom would back me up on this. It wasn’t that I was being annoying that got me sent home in this instance. Dom is a good enough player to understand that if there was nothing more to me than what you saw on the TV last night and I was just being annoying, he would’ve taken me to the end because I would not have gotten any votes and that obviously, wasn’t the case.

There were a bunch of idols and advantages being found this episode. How hard were you idol-hunting out there?

I was looking for an idol every day, for probably several hours. It was something we were all doing, all the time. It’s such a huge bummer being such a big fan of the show and to have gone on and to not have gotten to find an idol, it was a bummer. But it was something I was constantly trying to find.

How much did the hunger and elements affect your mood and rationale?

What’s interesting is, I wasn’t really hungry out there. We talked about food all the time, all day long. I would’ve loved to have had a lot of food but in terms of feeling really hungry, that wasn’t what it was like. It was just as if you fatigued a lot of the time and just moved a little bit slower, and were just tired.

How that affected it? I don’t really know. You look at the scene when we’re cooking the steaks after the reward and it looks like were all sorts of hangry, I’m trying to get people to get moving. There was more to that dynamic, people were taking a really long time. Like we were getting flies and bugs all over our steaks. And production said at one point, ‘Hey guys, you might want to get on cooking the steaks.’ So it wasn’t like it was this out-of-the-blue, ‘Oh my God let’s go, I’ve got to eat right this second!’ It was more like, ‘Why are we going to fill up our water right now? Why are we taking so long? Let’s get this going.’ I think there was a method to pretty much all of my madness.

What was the biggest impact you made on the season? How did you influence the direction of the game?

I think my biggest impact/strategy game-wise was definitely what I did at Malolo with Kellyn, where we ran such a tight ship with the original Navitis and we kept our other three alliance member doing whatever we wanted and were able to vote out Brendan and Stephanie, and she went on to vote out James. I think that we did shape that.

We did a good job squashing the other tribe. And I think, entertainment-wise on the show, I wanted to go in being the non-malicious or non-bullying villain that people loved to root against. I think I accomplished that. I went in it with the intent to make this season as interesting as it could be and to make it as fun to watch as it could be. And I think I was pretty successful on that.

How good do you think your read was on the dynamics of everyone’s social game out there?

Fairly good. I think there’s a learning curve to that. I think what is tough is, I can sit here and talk about how people’s social games were, and just like my game isn’t exactly what it appeared on TV, nobody’s game is. It’s hard to match up the nuance view I have of people’s games based on what you’re seeing on TV because we’re all just being edited into characters to a degree. While I was out there, I think I did a pretty good job. I think people like to think that I have no self-awareness and that’s definitely not the case.

How true to real-life Bradley was your character that was depicted on the show?

There were definitely elements of the real me, that were on that TV screen. In the game, it was a highly exaggerated version of myself. While I was out there, I was self-aware that I was being ridiculous, most of the time. What’s hard to convey across a TV screen is what’s easier to convey in real like is when I know that I’m being facetious or being sarcastic or just that I’m not being serious with what I’m saying. So if I can deliver it to everyone else in a room, ‘I’m super fantastic, I think I’m awesome,’ and everyone in that room will know I’m 100 per cent joking and I’m saying it to be funny. But when you watch some of these confessionals or my interactions with people, it doesn’t come across as a joke to everyone.

So I think that’s the trickiest part or the biggest departure. I think on TV I look fairly arrogant and pretty not self-aware and in real life, I’m actually quite self-aware and I definitely am a lot more toned down than I was on the show. But that lines up with what I wanted to do going into it. I wanted to make the season as good and exciting as possible and that, for me, was playing a really cool character. Exaggerating myself.

Right before the game started you told us, “If I’m playing to get asked back to Heroes vs. Villains 2, I don’t want anything to do with the hero tribe.” Fast forward two years to Heroes vs. Villains 2. You’re on the Villains tribe. Who are you with and how would you change up your strategy?

Oh my goodness, this is a fantastic question! I’d probably be with Domenick, I think he’s kind of a villain and I’d still be open to working with him in a different season. Some of these people have played enough times that it seems kind of unlikely, but I love Courtney Yates. I love Sandra. I love Tyson. I appreciate people like that because they take the same approach I did, that I never wanted to be malicious and I never wanted to bully anybody. In a way, I wanted to be this fun-loving, over-the-top villain while not being a truly horrible person. So those would be the people I’d most like to play with. I think Joe from last season is pretty similar to that, where it’s not personal, it’s like, when I got to Ponderosa, after I was voted out, I was like ‘You know shoot, I had a good run. And we all got along, and now we’re the best of friends.’ In the game we could have been at odds with each other, and once out it’s not personal. So those would be the kinds of people I’d want to play with on the Villains tribe. People that are just there to have fun and to revel in being villains and to school the heroes, because I’m positive we would. And then at the end of the day, when it’s all said and done, we can share some beers and have a good laugh about it all.

How likely do you think it is that you’ll get the call to go back and play again?

I guess we’ll keep going with the ‘overconfident, cocky Bradley’ and say that I’m gonna play again.

Now that you’ve played, fill in the blank: You shouldn’t come on “Survivor” if you can’t _______.

Swim. You wouldn’t believe how many people from our season were terrible swimmers.

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