Rick Devens

I got home.

And they said, hey, Devins, we're not putting you on season 37.

But we think you have a real good shot at 38.

And that ended up being the one that I went out on the first time.

Absolutely, some people said that.

They said, why would you want to leave this and go starve anyway?

And I said, well, it's a very certain kind of mental illness.

But yeah, there's a lot of people, especially even now working at the university, that say, you're not wearing anything with Middle Georgia State on it, right?

We don't need it.

No, but I'm going to be good.

It's okay.

I'm not going to be one of the bad ones.

And luckily, it's all been very positive.

So I did get that advice from quite a few people, but you got to do what you got to do.

I think the thing that really shocked me is when you're around camp...

They have camera people and boom mic people and, you know, tripod people around all the time.

But a fairly small group, as small as it can be, while they can still follow any two of you around camp at any time.

So they never miss any strategy talk.

But when you go to a challenge...

It is a wall of people, production people, hundreds of them, drones flying around, scuba divers under the water if there's any water involved, and there's little kids running around.