Hey everybody what's going on Rob Cestrino back here with another survivor 44 postseason interview and here we are back with somebody who I'm sure you're thrilled to hear from.

He is the moment my pillow guy. It's Carson Garrett Carson. How are you Rob? I am so excited to be talking to you.

I am a huge fan of RHAP. Listen to so much survivor academy before I went on the show. I literally had an MP, right? I thought it helped a lot.

I literally had an MP3 player with recordings of the episodes that I wanted to listen to while being at Honduras for the game.

I'm so excited to be talking to you.

Well, I'm thrilled to be talking to you to Carson and so I'm really excited that we got the chance to do this and so would love to hear all about your experience.

But this last month I'm sure this whole experience has to have been such a whirlwind for you.

Yeah, oh my gosh, I mean I just thought about that other day like how much has happened in the last year and I'm like I'm still in all like there's been so much going on.

I have all these new friends and I'm like I'm even like my like my job has changed like oh my gosh, it's been so insane how how much has gone through so yeah, I'm I'm still shot.

I know that we're here to talk about your survivor experience and we don't have all the time in the world. What was your life like pre survivor?

Yeah, I feel like I mean that's like a completely different person. I mean I was so studious. I never took any breaks like pretty much every single day seven days a week.

I was working on school projects research and so to bend about so much time to survivor and prepping for it.

It was so it was life changing like in so many different ways and I really had to adapt. I mean I was not used to spending so much time thinking about something else other than school and and work and like and even my career.

And so to take make that huge transition has been really it was really tough and it's still kind of is to get back to find that happy medium in that sense.

So so much has been documented about your prep for survivor and what you did before you went out there. How did you decide because I knew you did so much but how did you prioritize what you were going to work on before you went out there.

Yeah, I mean I remember when I got into the casting process my cousin told me he said you know Carson you're not even kind of close to getting on the show yet.

This is just when I applied but like you should go ahead and start preparing and at first I was like and so but when I got the call it was a okay I need to start getting ready for this.

Even if I don't get on and I know the odds for against me but like I felt in my heart I knew that I really knew that I was going to be on it.

I don't know why I had that feeling and I'm usually not someone who puts a lot of confidence in things that are have a low probability of happening.

But it was really like following my gut in that sense and I know a lot of people are like oh do you leave with your gut or your your mind for me it's a mixture and so that was one of the instances where I'm like I'm fully you know embracing it all.

And I went into like the January but like about four months of her filming fully ready to prepare for the show.

And so I remember I started with a reddit host of like of how to prepare and I remember PG law on there writing some stuff and I started from there she was and and I remember seeing something from Cass read this book called how to win friends and influence people.

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