Chase Rice Talks About His "Survivor Nicaragua" Experience.

Chase Rice is a twenty-four year old who competed on the CBS reality show "Survivor Nicaragua" he made it far in the game coming in at second place. That is pretty good for a guy from North Carolina who was a pro race car jack man, and left the exciting Nascar field where he worked for Hendricks Motorsports, and headed to Nicaragua to live with a bunch of strangers and struggle just to eat. I spoke with him and I hope you enjoy reading as Chase Rice talks about his "Survivor Nicaragua" experience.

Describe the Survivor Experience?

It was once in a lifetime. I loved it but at the same time was very tough and I did not enjoy the scheming and backstabbing. That's not how I live my life and even though it's just a game I did not enjoy that part of it. Overall a great experience though.

Would you do it again?

I would not rule it out but for now. I'm perfectly happy living my normal life not being on TV every week.

Would you do anything different?

Yea I would just go on and not try so hard, not think so much. I would just try and have a good time and see where that got me.

You are a pro race car jack man. How was it leaving that and then going to do Survivor?

It was very hard. I worked for Hendricks motorsports, the best race team in the world so it was very hard to walk away from that during the middle of the season. I loved working for them and they are great people over there.

What driver or drivers did you work for?

We were a developmental crew, but mostly we worked during the week with Jimmy Johnson and Jeff Gordon.

How is it now being back in the real world?

That was toughest part; you start to notice things, like at restaurants, food left on the tables. It still bothers me to this day. Because I know what it is like to starve to death. It was definitely a transition. You are very irritable when you come back. You are all the sudden thrown back in the real world and it's a transition. I have transitioned back now and I am doing ok now.

When you first heard you had been accepted to be on Survivor what did you think and do?

I though oh God here we go. It was a cool experience. I was nervous but at the same time I always wanted to so I said ok lets go and do it.

What made you want to do Survivor?

Because it was a once in a lifetime experience, I want to try and get as much out of life as I can while I am here. The opportunity came up and I definitely could not pass it up.

Was it different than you expected?

It was definitely different than I expected it to be. I didn't expect to get as close to people as I did. You're against them and you want to win and you want to beat them, but at the same time you become really good friends with them. It was different and it was harder for me to do the deceiving part. If it was easier for me to lie to peoples face I would have probably been better at the game, but that part wasn't easy for me.

Having to tell someone they aren't going home when they are that wasn't easy for me, that sucks, that part was a lot harder for me then I thought.

What was the worst thing about the whole experience?

The not eating, no food, I have never had to go through that. When you don't eat just walking down to the beach takes all the energy you had. That was probably the worst no food.

What was the best?

Getting out there and realizing what is really important to you. You are out there and you have nothing. It is really easy to figure out what is really important to you. I realized by being out there that family is the most important thing to me and I realized that while I was out there.

Did you learn anything about yourself through the Survivor experience?

That it is a lot harder for me to lie to people than I thought. It is just a game; you are not really lying because it is a game, supposedly, but yet at the same time they all are people to. I thought I was going to be able to go out there and lie and back stab people, but it was really hard for me to do that.

When Jane was going home she asked me and I couldn't tell her no. I told her we are talking about voting you out. That is hard to look someone in the face and tell them that. It is just a tough deal to go out there and deceive people.

What advice can you give to anyone that is going to be on Survivor?

Go out there and be yourself and try to have fun with it.

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