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A
Hey, everybody, what's going on? Rob Cisterno. And we have such a exciting interview here today. Taryn, how are you doing?
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C
Doing great. Very excited.
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A
Well, we're very excited because we have here with us today a real treat. The first lady of the big brother house is here with us. The lady wife of the current hoh wife of America's dad. Maybe this makes her America's mom. It's Becca Devins, America's mom.
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B
How are you? This? I'm good.
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A
Talking with T bird. Shirt.
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B
Yes, I've got my shirt on.
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A
Yes. Becca, everybody I'm sure wants to know how are you doing?
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B
I'm doing so good. I'm glad you asked because I feel like a lot of people are worried about me right now and I need, like, I don't know how to say this and not sound like I don't care, but like, yeah, I don't. I'm good. I'm really good. I don't, I don't really, I mean, I care, I'm having fun, but like, whatever Rick does is totally entertaining to me, you know, and I'm enjoying it.
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A
Becca, as a outside observer, getting to watch you now in the social media spotlight a little bit over these last couple of weeks. You know, to me, you and Rick as a couple, you seem like you make sense. It seems like that you and Rick have a similar sense of humor and similar sensibility. And there's some couples where it's like, I, I don't get it, but I feel like from watching you a little bit on the outside, like you and Rick makes sense.
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B
Yeah, 100%. Like I, I last. Okay. The first time he was on Survivor, I was on social media and I was like, oh, this is great. And I was like, oh, this is bad. And then I learned that people are crazy. And then the second time I didn't get on at all because Rick would tell me things like, if there was something funny or interesting, he'd send it to me and I would enjoy reading it. And he specifically told me not to get on Twitter and I did, but. Or whatever it's called now. But this time there's no one to tell me what's going on. So I, I, I've been jumping in and enjoying every second of it.
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A
Listen, do you say there's nobody here to tell you what's going on? What is Taryn for?
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B
I've listened to Taryn, believe me, I've listened to Taryn. I don't know how he's doing all that because I'm trying to watch live feeds also. And I don't know how he gets all this information together. That really impressive that he has to be exhausted.
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A
I'm just grateful that Taryn isn't telling my wife what I' doing all day. Not that there's anything she knew, but she is like, she does not as understanding as you are. She's like, whoa, what did that joke mean?
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C
You don't know about our daily calls? I didn't know about that.
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B
She's writing it all down.
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A
Yeah, yeah.
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C
No, I'm so interested, Becca, in that. Like, you know, not a lot of people have this experience of, of being a family member of somebody who was on Survivor and Big Brother. Like, you experience what it's like to sort of like, you know, I assume, you know, Rick goes away for like a month or so for Survivor. He comes back and then you get time to, like, process it, think, talk about it, whatever. Then you watch the show together. But now he's like, he's gone. And you're able to watch him, right? I've seen people's reactions to him live. Can't talk to him. How, how is, how different has that been for you?
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B
This, this has been so much better. Now let me say this. If, if this were the first show Rick were ever on, I would, there would be a problem. I would not be doing great. I would because I, you know, you love your husband, you think he's the best, and when anybody thinks anything he does is not right, you're like, what's wrong with this person? But because I have already gone through this with Survivor, it is so much better. I, I'm not wondering. The thing I was worried about is I was going to be anxious, like, watching live things. But then I quickly discovered through you that I can get spoiled on everything before it happens, which is very similar to Survivor where I'm not stressed out because I know what's gonna happen even if I don't know how it happens. So actually this has been so much fun, like so much more fun than, than when he's gone on Survivor and I just have no idea what's going on, especially with kids. Like the kids of course aren't looking at all the live stuff and, and they don't know all the things but they're watching the episodes with us and somebody's trying to call me and enjoying it.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Oh my gosh.
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A
Well, sorry, Becca. We saw last week when it was Juju's birthday and everybody got the same. We saw your, your reaction to, to that. How are the kids handling. Dad is on Big Brother and we get to watch what he's doing.
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B
Oh my God. Telling the kids. Like, first of all, Rick thought I wasn't going to let him go because I've told him I would never let him go. And like he brought it up and I was like, I just knew that he should do it. Like I told, he actually told me when I was talking to him, I like got in like my Gollum position and got really excited and he was like, oh my God, you look like Aubrey, you are tripping me out right now because I like like maniacal. I was like, yes, you have to do this. And of course he's like, what about the kids? And I'm like, ah, they'll be fine. So then we tell the kids they're not fun. They're not fun. They're really, really not happy about it. I feel so bad for Rick because the last time he saw us we had dropped him off at the airport and I both kids are just sobbing and I'm like tearing up because they're upset and we're like, but as soon as he got on TV and they could see what he's doing, both of them are like a thousand times better. I think it's the same as me like watching it and you know, he gives us little shout outs and things does make it a lot better for sure.
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C
How are you, how are you feeling so far about his performance in the game? Like is, is anything surprising to you getting to watch him play in more real time about like how he approaches games like this?
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B
No, it really isn't. I did. When I heard he won hoh, I was super surprised because I was like, he's in a good spot. I really thought he would try not to win hoh. And then when I saw oh, he didn't try to, not with hoh, I was like, okay. Because I think I Mean, he really. A lot of people think he's just going to go, but he really does want to win. But also, he's Rick and he wants to have fun doing it. So I think if he hadn't gotten hoh, he'd still be kind of chilling. Like, I think when he got there, he was like, oh, I'm here. I have to do something with this. I can't be boring and, like, just put easy targets up. I need to do something because that's what I do. Like, that's why people like to watch him. It's because he does stuff, you know?
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A
Yeah. Becca, is he like that in real life, too? Because I think that, you know, as somebody who, you know, has done reality tv, I think that there's parts of me. Okay, well, I wouldn't necessarily do that in my. In my personal life the exact same way. But do you find him to be, like, as mischievous and, you know, a little chaotic in real life?
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B
No. Like, he's fun and funny and like, we. We do crazy things around the house with the kids. But no, like, he's normal at work, normal relationships with colleagues. Like, he's. This is definitely, like, a safe place for him to just go crazy. The other thing that people don't know about Rick, if you don't know him, which I think is normal for most people, is he is very outgoing and so am I. But both of us need our alone time. Like, not even together, like, separate. Like, I went. I'm an only child. Like, I like to be alone.
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C
I.
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B
He likes to be alone. I'm in his man room right now where he likes to be alone. And I. I am a little concerned, like, he's gonna have fun with his shenanigans, but I am concerned because he really needs that recharge time. And he just. I mean, I guess while he's hoh, he kind of gets it, but he's not gonna get that even on Survivor. He could go, like, you know, go to the bathroom in the ocean by himself, you know, and, like, he can't even go to the bathroom right now without someone in the bathroom making out on a couch. So, like, I don't know. I don't know how long that's going to last before that drives him a little insane.
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C
Yeah, Yeah. I. How do you feel about, like, the other cast members? Is anyone standing out to you? Especially, like, with their relationship with Rick?
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B
First of all, when I saw D. When I saw D come into the volcano land and Rick see her, like, my heart was so full Like I was so excited. She's the only person that I'm like 100%. Obviously at some point, like if they make it far, she'd have to turn on them, which is understandable. But I'm so glad he has a person. I love Drew. I'm worried for Drew. I knew Rick would connect with Drew. I thought Rick would connect with Jason. When I saw Jason's intro video, he just seems so sweet. And even when Jason was like in the room talking to Rick in the hoh room, I was like, oh, Jason's really good because I'm buying everything he's saying. Even though I know he's going to look at the camera and say, you know, I hate Rick Devins or whatever. So I was surprised with them. Yeah, I don't think there's anyone. Yeah, I think Drew's the one that I really think Rick absolutely adores and I'm going to hate it when, when Angela and D, like if that, when that eventually splits up, I don't know what's gonna happen with that.
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A
You know, we've wondered just how much Big Brother Rick has seen. It does seem like he's seen some of it over the years. Could you give us like his background with the show a little bit more?
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B
When we were dating, we've been married for 14 years and when we were dating we watched Big Brother. When we. I feel like as soon as we had a baby it was like we haven't watched Big Brother since we had our 12 year old son. Because, you know, it's a lot. There's a lot of episodes to keep up with. Yeah, I'm sure you do. I need to. So we are, both of us are familiar with it as far as back then, like back then the blockbuster didn't exist. Now when he found out he was going, he watched. I don't one of the more recent seasons, I didn't watch it with, with them. But he did know who Angela was going in. So I do think he. But he didn't have long like. But I do think he did a little research on the current status of Big Brother.
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C
Now something we've talked about with, with Rick in regards to you mentioned like D might turn on him eventually. We've talked about how like he's never really been in that position where toward the end of the game he needs to start making cuts because he's always kind of been on the outs. So how do you feel about that? Do you think that he's got that in him? Like is he going to be thinking about that.
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B
I definitely think he's going to be thinking about it. But you're right, he's not used to it. One thing I'm a little worried about with him is he is so used to being on the bottom that he can do crazy things. Yeah. And it doesn't matter if it hurts other people's feelings because they're not on his side and he's the underdog. So, like, like the other day when they wouldn't let Rome in the room, I was like, oh, I didn't like that. And I, I, I'm sure he also didn't like that, actually, but I was like, oh, Rick's not used to being in the room with everyone. Like, he doesn't know what to do with this. He's used to being down here, so. But I'm sure he's thought of, like, I know all he's doing is sitting up there and thinking about different scenarios, for sure. I hope he still trusts Drew. I just. I don't know. And Angela. I don't know Angela at all. I didn't watch any of her previous season, but I heard, you know, that she was kind of a wild card, so I'm so curious how that's, how that's gonna go.
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A
Yeah. Becca, it's such an interesting spot for you as the loved one of somebody who's playing in the house. Have the loved ones of any of the other cast members been reaching out to you? Are you engaged in with anybody else from the cast? Family?
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B
Kind of. Brendan was really nice. I think that's when I started. That's when I posted my thing on Twitter that was like, it's okay. I'm okay. Brendan reached out and gave me his number and Rachel's number and Barrett's mom. Yeah, she's really nice. So, yeah, some, Some people have reached out and said, or someone. Oh, Angela's daughter. Yeah, Angela's daughter, maybe. Yeah, I, I got a lot of people reaching out, but. But also, like, it was so nice of them, but I really, like, I really am good. I think it's like, I, I have such a unique perspective. Like, I've been through real things. Like, I've had horrible things happen in my life, and, I mean, as have most people. And I'm 40, and I can look at this and go, whatever happens, Rick's on Big Brother. That's so cool. And like, whatever. Like, you can say your weird things, whatever. I don't. I just enjoy it. I really, I really do. I've enjoyed this a Lot more than I thought I was going to, just as a viewer in general, for sure.
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C
Yeah. I think. I think probably, like, the most pushback I've seen so far, of course, is the decision to veto lyric instead of right. Melody, what are your thoughts on. On that call he made?
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B
I feel like I'm not good enough at this stuff to know, like, when everybody is like, oh, God. I was like, what? Like who? I don't understand why not? I don't get it. I do think, and that's something you've said, Taran, is the fact that she was able to talk all these people into it separate from each other. Like, I do think she has to have some sort of vibe that we can't, like, pick up on on tv. Because I really did feel like Rick. Rick trust that, at least for next week, that she and Rome, if he makes it, would keep her safe. And I think they might like for next week if that were to happen. So maybe he's reading vibes better than we're reading vibes. I don't know. But also, I don't know. I don't know enough about the game, which is another reason where I'm like, okay, I do. I do think Rick really likes Rome.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And I think he's really worried about hurting his feelings. I think he was like, oh, I'm gonna do something crazy. And then he did it. And I think he was like, oh. Because I do think he looks at these people as a bunch of brizzos. Like, smart, young, different generation. But also he wants to, like. He doesn't want to hurt any of them because he does know how these games can mess with your head.
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A
Yeah. I think that that was after a conversation that he had, and correct me if I'm wrong on this tarot. I think it was after he talked to Rome that Rome left the room, and he's like, ah. He's like, you know, I'm their dad. I'm their dad. And I think he. He carries that.
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B
Yeah, I think so, too. He. He. He's trying to play the game, but it is a. I mean, they are real people. And when you're a vet or whatever you call icon. An icon, you. You do understand you. If you're a family member or if you have been on a reality show, those are the only people that really understand how it can mess you up mentally so badly. Even if you do well, it can mess you up. And so I think Rick knows that, and Rick does, I think, want to protect them a little from. From that 100. I. When all this is over 100, there's not a single person on the cast that I think Rick would not answer the phone if they called and, like, talk them through some. Some stuff, you know?
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C
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And I think. I think we saw that too, with. With the. I guess we'll see it on the episode tonight. The. More of the fallout of the nomination ceremony. But you definitely. Because he talked about it afterward. Like, you know, I was. I was like, dropping a bomb, like, game wise. And then a whole bunch of other stuff got unloaded that he was, like, not prepared for. And. And I think that, like, it makes sense too, because I feel like on Survivor, not only the accelerated pace, but also just like the environment you're in, you do have, like, grudges. You get into fights and stuff. But like, on Big Brother, there's just so much more time to sit in it and for it to feel more personal.
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B
Right.
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C
Like, you. You're not so hungry that you eventually just, like, don't care anymore. Like, you're just like, you're still really going at it. And so I think that that was a little bit of a. Like a. Whoa, hold on.
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B
Right? You've fired someone and then you have to continue working with them for a couple of weeks. Like, it's. It's awkward. Especially when you're a person who. Who doesn't want people to not like you. Like, that's hard.
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A
Yeah. Becca, you know, there. Rick has this reputation of being a showman, and it's really comes out on Survivor and certainly here on Big Brother. I know he used to be on the news. Are there any other facets of his life where this showman comes out?
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B
I mean, you know, he was a theater kid in high school, and he also in college made a lot of move, like short films and movies. He. 100%. If he could start all over, I think he would love to be a filmmaker. Like, if he had been kind of brave enough to go that route and follow his dream, I think he'd be making movies right now, and I think he would have been successful at it.
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A
Well, on that note, now, it was reported recently that Rick had the opportunity to appear in the upcoming Superman sequel, and he had to give that up to go on Big Brother. How big of a decision was that?
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B
Yeah, I mean, he wanted to go so badly, so badly, but, like, you're not going to not go on Big Brother for that. Because for one thing, he knows James Gunn's a fan of Big Brother. Yes, he's Like, James Gunn will understand. He watches Big Brother. But only. Not only that. Like, he. He timed it where he could go because they came to film here in Macon, where I live, where we live, which I wasn't supposed to talk about this, but James Gunn posted it, so I'm like, okay, right. Which is why, you know, of course, we couldn't take any pictures or tell anybody what happened or anything. But they were coming to film to Macon. And when I met James Gunn, I was like, listen, Rick would fly anywhere in the world to meet you. Like, after this, whatever you're doing, he will come to you.
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C
Yeah.
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B
So he'll get to meet him one day.
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A
He'll make more movies.
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B
Yeah, right. Surely. Surely he will.
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C
He's got the shout outs down in the diary room as well.
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B
Right. That was smart. That's. That's strategy right there. I was impressed. He didn't tell me he was gonna do that. I was like, good job, babe. You need to. Who else can we shout out that we can meet one day? That'd be cool.
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C
Another thing I'm curious about, obviously Rick was good at the challenges on Survivor. We've already now seen him win two competitions on Big Brother. Is he just, like. Is he just, like, naturally talented at some of these, like, carnival games at the puzzles? Is it something that he does often? Do you think that, like, based on your knowledge of. Your general knowledge of Big Brother competitions, do you think that it's, like, something that will continue to be in his skill set moving forward?
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B
Yeah, I do. I think he's. He's a jack of all trades. He definitely, like, I. He. He hasn't this in a while because they tore down their basketball court. But, like, he was playing pickup basketball every Saturday for years. He likes to play sports. He likes to juggle. Like, he went through. He goes through a lot of phases. He doesn't. Like, he did disc golf for a long time. He did golf for a long time. Like, little. Just a lot of little things that add up that. That make him randomly good at things. I think the only thing he's not good at, like, you know, standing somewhere and. And balancing for two hours, like, these people with all their. Their muscles.
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A
But good news, they don't really do that on this show.
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B
Yeah, that's awesome. And he's certainly good at, like, like, knowing weird things. He. He definitely. If there's any Big Brother history from a long time ago, I'm sure he could remember that. If there's. There's one of those, you know, ask the question. Things. But no, he's good. He's good.
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A
Becca.
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B
Sorry, I'm distracted by my cat.
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A
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B
Oh, we met at a bar. I. I actually had just come home from a very, like, several month trip to Europe, and my friend Megan, Shout out Megan, had gotten a job at this bar In Macon called BJ's. And Rick was a. What did he do then? He was the weekend sports anchor at wgxa, which is funny. They're actually coming here today to do a story on us, which is hilarious. And we met and we played pool and I cheated. And all his friends were like, oh, my God, she cheated. Rick's gonna freak out because he doesn't like it when people che. And he was so cool about it, and they were like, oh, damn. Like, they must. He must really like this girl. And then we played 20 questions and he was like, if I win, you have to kiss me. And I know. And he was. Y'. All. He was so smooth. Like, oh, my God. So smooth and cute and just confident, which people don't like, but I like very much. And we played 20 questions, and I was trying to guess his favorite movie, and I think I guessed Forrest Gump, and it was Shawshank Redemption. So I, like, kissed him and ran out of the bar. And then we went on a date shortly after that, actually, I think our first meeting was we took our dogs. We met our at the dog park with our dogs.
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A
Nice. Yeah.
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B
There's his history.
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A
Yeah. But, like, when I hear him talk about you and your story, it really does sound like that, you know, you two got together and have really just been partners and built a whole life together.
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B
Yeah, for sure. I like. It is so funny, y'. All. We were so broke. Like, I. He. Oh, my gosh. I don't even know how much he got paid. It was nothing.
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A
He.
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B
His apartment was awful. He couldn't afford.
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A
He.
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B
It was. It was bad. Like, when his car broke down, he got an electric scooter to ride to work. Like, it was. It was not great. And. And, yeah, it's like slowly. We just, you know, I think that's normal for young couples. You start off with no money. And. I know. I remember we got married on our honeymoon. He was like, tell me what your debt is. And I was like, what? He was like, what is it? And he, like, wrote it down. He's like, we're gonna take care of that. And he did. He's so. I'll say that Rick Devins is a goofball, but, like, since we've Been married. Like, I don't pay any bills. I mean, I make money. I have a job. But, like, he's. He's good with our retirement. He, like, takes care of bills. He. I. He has different schedules as to what streaming platform will have on different months.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Like, and lets me know when I should watch what. And really takes care of us in a. In a. In that dad way that I don't think people would expect from him because he's such a goofball, but he's a very responsible goofball. And I definitely credit him. I mean, I'm frugal, but I credit him for us being in the position that we're in right now, which is very happy and comfortable and insecure with fun, awesome kids who are just so different from each other and so unique. They're so uniquely both of us. Like, they're just such a hybrid, each of them. Rick and Jack are all about movies. He has a list of movies that he wants to watch with Jack, like, before Jack leaves our house one day, and he writes down what they've watched and which is in itself just really. It's really sweet. You know, it's just random little things like that. And, like, him and Juju, I used to read her story every night, and one day she was like, I'm tired of stories. I want to. Can we do pretend stories? And I was like, what does that mean? And she was like, well, we just get our stuffed animals and we make the story. And I was like, sure, that sounds great. And somehow that ended up being her and Rick's thing. And even now, like, 15 minutes every night of Juju's life, they do pretend stories, and they just, like, play pretend with their little stuffed animals. He. He's. He really is. You know, he's just a really good. He's a really good dad, and I feel like he's being a good dad to these little kids in the big brother house, too.
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C
Yeah, for sure. I. Something I'm curious about because, you know, obviously you share his last name. People call him Devin's. Is that. Is that weird? I mean, obviously you must have been used to it from survivors, so maybe you had to, like, adjust to it on Survivor first. But, like, is it weird that people just call him Devins?
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B
No, I love it. Like, I. I almost feel like at home he's Rick and, like, his stage name is Devin.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You know what I mean? Like, that's his reality. His reality name. My boss, I used to work with another Becca at work, and so she started. She's a huge Survivor fan, so she started calling me Devin to distinguish the two. And I love it. I love it.
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A
You know, I feel like. And maybe I'm misremembering this because I feel like I always refer to him as Rick and in Survivor, the Edge of Extinction, I feel like that if he was, if anything, Rick Devins all the time and I feel like it was a Survivor 50 invention that he's only Devins now.
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B
Yeah, there was a lot of Rick Devins in. In 38, for sure. Yeah. Because when he introduced himself to people, he said Rick, he didn't say I'm. Or maybe Rick Devins. He didn't say I'm. Devin's. Like, that happened. I think Jeff called him Devins and
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A
that's kind of the last name treatment.
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B
Right. When he called him Devin's. Rick's. Like, well, that's. Yes, that's my name. Everybody please call me that. But no, I like, I like it. I feel like it kind of separates. Separates the two for sure.
- [31:15]
C
Yeah, it was, it was interesting hearing him talk about being have not on Big Brother, like how he was saying that it in some ways it was harder to be a have not because he can see the food in front of him and he can't eat it versus Survivor is like this. Is that something. I can't imagine that he was like prepped for that going in. But how, how did he handle the, the, the physical torture of Survivor coming back?
- [31:50]
B
He never, he never complained about that part. I truly think that he, like we talked about that first season when everybody else was struggling towards then and he was just kicking butt. Like he was the only one that showed up with body fat on and like he had fat to run through, which really, like made him kind of ahead of everybody else because they're like losing their muscle.
- [32:13]
A
He said he was going to enter the game. He's going to be the Kool Aid man entering at the edge of extinction.
- [32:20]
B
Right, Right. For sure. He tried. He didn't get that far, but he tried. But no, the only thing I was worried about with the have not because he's like, I don't, I don't think that particularly bothered him that much. But the sleeping, like, I think it's actually probably better for his back to sleep in the dirt than to sleep on that hard recta or triangle thing he's been sleeping on. So the only thing about the have not that I was like, oh, was the sleeping. And you could see it. Like I was telling his parents, I Was like, his face looks like it's, like, melting. Like, he looks so tired. And then this next week in the hoh, he looks exhausted, too, but I was like. But now everybody's talking to him and he's trying to make plans. So I'm hoping next week, like, the perfect person gets HOH and it's smooth sailing for that week. That would be great. And then he could. He could rest. But, yeah, there's no. No way to know. There's no way to know. He could be totally screwed next week. I don't know.
- [33:23]
A
Becca, is there anything that's happened on in the Big Brother house with Rick that you feel like that people are not quite understanding what. What he's trying to do, that you have had, like, a certain insight into that you. You know what he's doing, and people maybe have it twisted.
- [33:42]
B
I don't know. I definitely think he. He is doing whatever he's told on purpose so that it won't come back on him and so that whatever he does will fall back on the people that are telling him what to do. I also think he wants people to know how loyal he is because that is, like, Rick will do crazy things, but if you're his person, like, he will be loyal to you to his detriment. Like, if it got to the end, I really don't know if he could cut d. I really don't. Yeah, the other thing. Oh, I know the other thing that, that I was just. Oh, I wanted to fix so badly, and there. There's nothing I could do. But then nothing came of it was that very first time he walked in when Taylor was upset that he didn't introduce himself to her. And I wanted so badly to be like, I don't know what he said, but I know Rick, and I know he did. He wasn't, like, ignoring you on purpose. But then nothing ever came came of that. Like, it seemed like everything's cool now. So I'm like, did they just, like, make that look more dramatic than it was or. Or what? Because I, I, that. That. That really bothered me just because I know Rick, like, and I know he wouldn't ever intentionally, like, not want to meet someone. But as far as this game, I, I really do think he's like. I think he's doing a great job of listening to every single person and taking it all in. And I, I, again, I'm not a professional at this game, so I don't know. I don't know. I, I was surprised he went after Rome. I really was Just because. Seemed like they had a cool thing going. So I don't. I don't really know what I'm talking about here, to be honest.
- [35:25]
C
Yeah, well, you did. You mentioned, like, May. Will he bring D to the end? That is a question that I've been thinking, too. Not even just, like, the. The general cuts, but, like, if he had the choice between bringing somebody like D to the final two or somebody, he thought, like, I can definitely beat this person.
- [35:43]
B
Right.
- [35:43]
C
He the kind of guy that would bring D. Do you know?
- [35:47]
B
I don't know. I. I know. Like, we talked. We talked a lot about when Chris Underwood kind of did that to Rick and how. I mean, that just tore him apart. But of course, we can step back and look and go, well, that was the smart move. Like, that's what he should have done, you know? And so I do. I do think Rick would be able to step back and. And figure out what the. Once he get, if he got to that point, and figure out what the best move for us would be, especially because I think D is a player that would respect that, like, if that's what he did. But. But I don't know. I mean, already, he's. He's. I just. I don't know what's going on in his. In his head. I really don't. I know that he did all the crazy stuff because he doesn't want to be so safe and boring on an hoh that them asking him to come was meaningless, you know?
- [36:46]
A
Yeah. Well, Becca, we are so glad that you answered our invitation to come here. And this was not meaningless. This was so fun, and it's so great to hear from you, and, you know, hopefully we have a long summer together and we can chat again much later down the road, too.
- [37:09]
B
Yeah, fingers crossed. I hope so. That'd be great.
- [37:12]
A
Anything you want to tell people?
- [37:16]
B
Thank you. Thank you to all the people who care. And please don't worry about the people who get mad. They're there. There's something wrong with them. It's not. There's nothing we can do for them except for, you know, just feel bad for them and say funny things, and it's fine. Life's life is bigger. Life is bigger than Big brother. Big brother's cool, but. But it's not life, y'. All. It's not life. That's all.
- [37:40]
A
All right, Becca, thank you so much. Taryn and I will be back with much more Big Brother here on Robinson Podcast. Take care.
- [37:49]
C
Have a good one. Bye.
- [38:00]
A
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