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The first thing Rafa Castaño did when he got up after winning the Pasapalabra jackpot and knowing that he did not have to go back to study or go to record was to unconsciously take his mobile and open the application with which for 197 programs he has been preparing to become the winner of the largest jackpot in the history of Pasapalabra.

"I had been doing it for so long that the first thing I did when I got up was to pick up the application and start writing," he confesses. Does participating in Pasapalabra absorb so much? "All my time, the free, the dead was to study..."

Although Rafa Castano's victory last night in Pasapalabra was broadcast last night, the reality is that the program was recorded three weeks ago. enough time to assimilate what at the time of television (and economic) glory was impossible to assume. This is acknowledged in the probably eleventh interview he has granted in the last few hours. He's tired, he hasn't eaten, and he still has a string of journalists eager to ask him the same thing. But he endures, he is aware of what it means to win, and the way he has done it, Pasapalabra.

Have you already assumed to have taken 2,272,000 euros? I'm starting to take it on now because now I'm realizing how it's affecting my life. The day after filming I sat down to watch a series, which I have not done in the last year because the only thing I did in my free time was study. The other day at home I lay down on the couch and started reading. That is, they are things that until now I did not allow myself to do. The money, I'll be assuming it.How much time did you spend studying? Really in the last months it is not that I dedicated much, but the last weeks I did because I began to see that there were many possibilities. So I spent eight hours studying until my head told me I couldn't take it anymore. My life orbited around this objective. For example, the books I read were essay books that could provide concrete concepts for El Rosco. Everyone who knows me sent me words to practice. I was unable to even sit down and play with the game console because I had a constant feeling that I had a goal, that I had to take advantage of it and that I could not be irresponsible.

When Rafa Castaño was called to tell him that he had been selected to participate in Pasapalabra he worked in the Caótica bookstore, in Seville, and had begun to study some oppositions, not because he was passionate about them, nor because it was his vocation but "because I had to take out and earn the beans". He left everything. He became only a member of the bookstore, where he has been investing part of the money he was earning in Pasapalabra, and changed the oppositions for the "beans" for "the oppositions of Pasapalabra".

"I've always been a guy who has really liked learning, reading, watching movies and I've spent a whole year without being able to afford that. It's not that I didn't do anything, but I did have a responsibility to make good use of the opportunity that was being given to me. It has been a great sacrifice, a very big sacrifice," he confesses.

How was it the first day you no longer had to record, that you no longer had to study? I had a great feeling of emptiness, but that's a very small problem. I mean, it's someone privileged's problem. When the cameras and spotlights have gone out, what did Orestes tell you and what did you say to him? A little what we had already said in front of the spotlight. I told him that I felt for him from the heart and that I also from the heart wished that at some point he would come back and take him away. That this is so, that it was the rule, that only one could take it, but that he was not entirely happy for him also deserved it. I mean, it's a for him, but he was also happy for me. We have both been very elegant in victory and defeat, and a lot.Have you felt that burden that you always had to carry defeats with elegance? It's how we both are. It's not that we tried hard because we knew people were watching us. We are two people who are educated enough to be like that and to recognize that we must not deny either joy or sorrow for the other. And the responsibility that so many people have seen you and that you have come to so many people? I want to think that we have been a reference for all of them, but not a cultural reference because Pasapalabra is not a culture contest, it is not Saber y Ganar. Here we have demonstrated above all perseverance. Of course, perseverance does not lead you to success either, because Orestes deserved the same as me and has not achieved it.

Both he and Orestes made it clear many times that they were not going to share the prize, that the one who took it for him was. However, last night Roberto Leal in the anthill assured that this did not mean that the winner invited the other to a trip or a good meal. Rafa does not, Rafa wants to let his friend rest and the time will come to go up to Burgos or go down to Seville: "I want to leave him alone because it has to be a complicated moment for him. But we'll have a beer because I'm very fond of him."

When they give you the money, what will be the first thing you do, plug holes? I didn't think about it much during the contest, but once I won it was clear that I thought about what I could do. Pasapalabra has not yet given me the money, but I am clear that you have to be careful. It's a lot of money and you don't have to go crazy. What is clear to me is that I do not want to change my way of being or way of living. And also that I want to move that money because I'm old enough and old enough to be able to do it. That's why I've been reading economics books to know what steps to take and take them well. So you stop studying for Pasapalabra and put you to study to have what you do with the money. I realized when I started going on TV and making money that I had no idea about money. I didn't know what an interest rate was, not the Euribor, not inflation. So I started reading a lot. It comes from before, but now I have to think about it more seriously. With the M... Minkowski? (Laughs) On the one hand I had studied it. It is one of the thousands of questions that are included in the Lrousse. And, then, I love science videos, science communication and, precisely, he is the creator of four-dimensional geometry. One of the scientists who allowed Albert Einstein to formulate his theory of relativity. I knew it very clearly. And the Visigothic king, Egica, was clear because he knew that with his reign there was a change of century. But it's a lottery.Now what? The bookstore? The opposition? Now I'm going to give myself some time off. I believe that my future is neither in returning to the bookstore, because I am too well known to do my job well, nor in returning to study the opposition. What money will allow me is that if I want to study, I will study what I want, and if I want to work for something that is because I want to do it, because I am convinced and not because I have to do it out of obligation. For now, I will be calm.

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