Rick Devens

And also just that if you distract me with an adventure and with something fun, I can get through anything.

If there's no fun or adventure, I can be miserable out there.

But just the little dangling of this game, I can starve.

You know, I lost 31 pounds the first time, 24 pounds the second time.

You know, sleep deprived, all that stuff, because you just have this fun thing you're holding on to, this adventure.

It's really bizarre because, yeah, first of all, the show is filmed on a lot of different islands in Fiji.

So like every tribe is on their own island and the production has their own base camp island.

But it is weird.

I remember on my first season, there was this thing called the Edge of Extinction.

And when you leave the game, you go there and you're just deserted there.

You're not even a part of the game.

You're in the middle of nowhere and it's to make you feel forgotten.

And one day we're out there just suffering, sitting in the sun.

And the nicest yacht you've ever seen drives by.

It's probably like a mile offshore.

But we're just sitting there looking at each other going, somebody's having breakfast in a mimosa right now on that yacht.

And we're over here trying to peel out the non-rotten parts of a coconut so that we have something to put in our faces.

It is strange and it is bizarre.

Yeah.

But that's kind of, it gives you comfort to know that if something goes horribly wrong, if one of your classmates goes crazy with a machete, they'll get to you and help you.