Rizo Velovic

So I think I had the advantage that A, these people had no idea how I played.

Yep.

And B, I was already so dialed in game mode.

You know what I mean?

There's some people like Coach or Jenna or Chrissy who haven't played in like 7, 10, 20 years that they have to get to the groove of these things where I literally am seeing the same camera crew, the same beaches.

Jeff Probst, who I've seen longer than I saw my own mother at that period.

So like I'm I'm kind of like used to everything.

I'm used to the time change.

I'm used to the environment.

So I had that big advantage going into it.

And I think what I needed to do, which I did so well, was I just needed to survive the first one or two votes.

Right.

Once I got past the first two votes for people were like, I don't know who this kid is.

They were going to really like me.

And you see that with Colby.

You see that with three.

So I got very lucky that they gave me a chance and it helped me go deep.

Yeah, you know, I wouldn't say she was pissed, but she was definitely going through it because, you know, I knew I was going to be on Survivor.

I didn't officially know until like a month before we went out for 49.

But during the casting process, it's a very long process, like eight to 10 months.