Latest / Making The Merge - Survivor Podcast / Blind Drafting the Survivor 51 Cast
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- 0:03Speaker 1: This is Making the Merge.
- 0:31Speaker 2: All I want to do is win a million hearts.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Welcome to Making the Merge Patreon Open Era Season 51.
- 0:38Speaker 3: The whales are here.
- 0:41Speaker 1: The whales are here. What does that mean? We'll find out.
- 0:44Speaker 4: We'll find out. Now, they, for the first time ever,
- 0:48Speaker 4: announced the cast via a video. Welcome to 2026, Survivor.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Very cool. It's the open era. Yeah, I think they
- 0:58Speaker 1: took direct influence from how they did the Big Brother
- 1:02Speaker 1: cast for this last season. It went very well. And
- 1:06Speaker 1: apparently doing it on the morning show wasn't pushing the limit.
- 1:12Speaker 4: Yeah, just pulling the names out of the voting urn
- 1:15Speaker 4: didn't quite get the excitement that they wanted it to.
- 1:20Speaker 4: So evidently, Petey, you couldn't wait. You went ahead and
- 1:24Speaker 4: watched this?
- 1:25Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:26Speaker 3: I didn't know that we were going to be watching
- 1:28Speaker 3: it on the stream. I thought we were just going
- 1:29Speaker 3: to be talking about it, and so I pulled it
- 1:32Speaker 3: up and watched the whole thing.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Oh, good on you. Well, this will be a second time.
- 1:35Speaker 1: That means that, Chase, you and I can.
- 1:38Speaker 6: Blind.
- 1:39Speaker 1: React. React. And we can do our own little blind draft.
- 1:46Speaker 3: Do we have anybody in here?
- 1:48Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Is anybody in the chat?
- 1:50Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got about eight or nine people in here.
- 1:52Speaker 1: We've got Hannah Berry, General Jacob C., Tara. The usual
- 1:57Speaker 1: suspects are here. I imagine a lot more people will
- 1:59Speaker 1: be watching on the Patreon after the stream is over
- 2:02Speaker 1: because we did not announce this. Misa is here, like
- 2:08Speaker 1: the dude from Star Wars.
- 2:10Speaker 3: Wow.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Well, look at you with your Star Wars terminology. Samantha Bee.
- 2:16Speaker 4: So we'll watch this. We'll pause it. We'll discuss the players. Chase,
- 2:20Speaker 4: maybe we can. I mean, PD, since you know who's coming,
- 2:23Speaker 4: I don't know if it's fair, but I'm going to
- 2:24Speaker 4: go ahead and draft the players that I want.
- 2:26Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't intently listening.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Okay. All right.
- 2:30Speaker 3: Also, mic down for one second. I'm going to get
- 2:33Speaker 3: a juice box.
- 2:36Speaker 1: This is too intense. You need a juice box. Guys,
- 2:39Speaker 1: I've got Liz B in the background here. She is
- 2:42Speaker 1: taking detailed notes for me. All I saw was a hand. Yeah.
- 2:49Speaker 1: She's taking detailed notes for me because I'm taking this
- 2:51Speaker 1: draft very seriously. Absolutely. This is... So you're.
- 2:56Speaker 3: Outsourcing the work to your wife?
- 2:59Speaker 5: Yep.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Like every great businessman.
- 3:01Speaker 4: In Chase's defense, it can't go worse doing it this way.
- 3:08Speaker 4: So might as well try something new, you know?
- 3:10Speaker 3: I mean, it worked for Jonathan.
- 3:14Speaker 1: It worked for John.
- 3:15Speaker 3: He brought his wife on. He won the next season.
- 3:18Speaker 1: I do have a plan for the draft when we draft,
- 3:21Speaker 1: which is coming up soon, guys. I can't believe we
- 3:24Speaker 1: already got the cast announcement. I imagine we're going to
- 3:26Speaker 1: be getting the Mike Bloom interviews any day now. Oh,
- 3:30Speaker 1: my gosh.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a plan, too, which is identify the
- 3:33Speaker 3: best players and then win the draft.
- 3:37Speaker 8: Right.
- 3:37Speaker 1: That's all there is to it. That's all there is
- 3:39Speaker 1: to it. It's as simple as that.
- 3:40Speaker 4: I mean, the Parade article already went out.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Is that Bloom?
- 3:48Speaker 3: Mikey B does work for Parade, so it could be him.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Usually it is Mikey B.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Meet the Survivor. Yeah, Mikey B. It's all out there.
- 3:57Speaker 1: There we go. So the interview? The interviews are out?
- 4:00Speaker 3: So we just don't have the video ones? It's the
- 4:02Speaker 3: written ones?
- 4:02Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you can't see a thing on my phone.
- 4:05Speaker 1: That was so stupid. We'll get serious when Gold Derby
- 4:09Speaker 1: drops their announcement. Yeah, once Gold Derby gets in there. Okay,
- 4:12Speaker 1: are we ready to dive in? Yeah, let's do it.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Survivors ready.
- 4:18Speaker 1: It's time to vote. The tribe has spoken.
- 4:26Speaker 8: Welcome to the Survivor 51 Tribal Council. I love this
- 4:30Speaker 8: Tribal Council, and I love the story behind it. This
- 4:34Speaker 8: is a village where whales are revered because thousands of
- 4:38Speaker 8: years ago.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Whales are revered.
- 4:42Speaker 3: Because for thousands of years, something.
- 4:47Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
- 4:48Speaker 9: In our telling, they were the savers. And that is
- 4:51Speaker 9: the theme of this whole season.
- 4:52Speaker 1: You're going to see it on all the challenges.
- 4:54Speaker 3: You're going to see it on the players' ass.
- 4:55Speaker 10: Okay, pause.
- 4:57Speaker 3: The whales were revered because they were the saviors. And
- 5:01Speaker 3: they saved them from what? And who did they save?
- 5:06Speaker 1: Oh, man. Wait. So the first theme of the open
- 5:10Speaker 1: era is whales?
- 5:12Speaker 3: It's just whales. Yeah, I love it. Because they're our saviors.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I like that he said they're revered because... Well, in
- 5:22Speaker 1: our version of it.
- 5:23Speaker 4: Like, he knows that this is not, for everybody else,
- 5:27Speaker 4: no respect for the whales.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Is that a whale skeleton, by the way? Yes, I
- 5:33Speaker 1: believe so. Hey, do you think that they ethically sourced that?
- 5:37Speaker 1: Or do you think they just found a whale, beached
- 5:39Speaker 1: it up, and were like, hey, what if we just
- 5:40Speaker 1: did whales this season? Everyone in the chat is saying
- 5:44Speaker 1: that the whales were the saviors of the war. That
- 5:47Speaker 1: might have happened a couple of tribals ago.
- 5:50Speaker 3: It is Igadeza. Is that?
- 5:53Speaker 1: Igadeza. Is that what that? Igadeza loves whales. The whales
- 5:59Speaker 1: showed up during the war, and they rode them into battle.
- 6:01Speaker 1: It was awesome. Could have been a war.
- 6:03Speaker 3: So now we have confirmation that a war did, in fact, happen.
- 6:06Speaker 6: Absolutely.
- 6:08Speaker 1: And the whales are the saviors. Whales are the saviors.
- 6:10Speaker 1: All right, Jeff, take it away.
- 6:12Speaker 9: Whales everywhere.
- 6:15Speaker 8: Tribal Council typically takes about eight weeks to build. We
- 6:19Speaker 8: have a massive construction team out here. It is very
- 6:22Speaker 8: fun to come by and see it start on the
- 6:24Speaker 8: ground and then get bigger and bigger and bigger. One
- 6:26Speaker 8: of the things we really try to pull off with
- 6:29Speaker 8: Tribal is that it feels real. When you're here, it
- 6:33Speaker 8: feels like there's a village living here. When you're sitting
- 6:36Speaker 8: on one of these chairs like this and you're talking
- 6:39Speaker 8: to me over there, you kind of feel like people
- 6:41Speaker 8: are here. That's the idea.
- 6:43Speaker 3: Because they are. Because they are. Okay, so he means that, like,
- 6:49Speaker 3: outside of everybody in the game, it feels like there
- 6:53Speaker 3: are more people who live there and were saved by
- 6:58Speaker 3: the whales.
- 6:59Speaker 1: When you're sitting in that chair, it's as if people
- 7:02Speaker 1: are there. And whales. And whales. Dude, Jeff is, you
- 7:09Speaker 1: can tell that he takes so much pride in not
- 7:11Speaker 1: having a script and not having an earpiece. And because
- 7:14Speaker 1: of that, we get these moments where he's just speaking.
- 7:17Speaker 1: It's like, what's the classic thing we talked about last
- 7:19Speaker 1: season where it's like, what I love about Survivor is
- 7:22Speaker 1: that it's Survivor.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Yeah. I love this. I'm a big fan of the whales.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Let's get whimsical.
- 7:30Speaker 4: Every time I think I might be ready for Jeff
- 7:32Speaker 4: to move on, I see a video like this, and
- 7:34Speaker 4: I'm like, never leave, brother.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Never leave. I will say. This is sick. The video
- 7:39Speaker 1: so far is really cool. We're getting to learn, okay,
- 7:41Speaker 1: eight weeks to build this tribal council. We're getting to
- 7:43Speaker 1: see the whale carcasses. This is really cool.
- 7:46Speaker 3: And we've done about eight minutes on the first minute,
- 7:48Speaker 3: so buckle up, guys. This is going to be the.
- 7:50Speaker 1: First four-hour episode. Jonathan's in the chat. He said, speaking
- 7:55Speaker 1: of whales, hey, Chase. What the heck? Join the live, Jonathan.
- 8:01Speaker 3: Or get your wife joined.
- 8:03Speaker 4: Jonathan loses a little bit of weight, and then he
- 8:05Speaker 4: just started. He starts throwing accusations around.
- 8:08Speaker 1: I still weigh 150 pounds less than him. Unbelievable. Okay,
- 8:13Speaker 1: here's Jeff.
- 8:15Speaker 9: So that you forget that we built this.
- 8:18Speaker 8: There's a couple of very cool places at every tribal
- 8:20Speaker 8: that you got to see, starting with the voting.
- 8:23Speaker 1: I'll take you over there. So it's a tour. This
- 8:26Speaker 1: is so cool. It's not just an announcement.
- 8:28Speaker 9: It's really where tribal turns right here at the voting confessional.
- 8:32Speaker 8: And with every season, These votes get more and more
- 8:35Speaker 8: complex as players really are indecisive a lot of times.
- 8:39Speaker 8: But what's waiting for you when you come up here
- 8:41Speaker 8: is you have a parchment, you have a pen, you have.
- 8:46Speaker 9: The urn, you put your vote in, and sometimes people
- 8:49Speaker 9: want the shot in the dark.
- 8:51Speaker 8: What's interesting about this, we designed this that it only
- 8:53Speaker 8: fits the shot in the dark die. And the idea
- 8:56Speaker 8: is to remind you that once you drop it in,
- 8:59Speaker 8: there's no getting it back. That means you don't vote,
- 9:01Speaker 8: and instead you reach in here grab a scroll and
- 9:04Speaker 8: you got.
- 9:04Speaker 9: A one in six chance of being safe. I love
- 9:06Speaker 9: it up here.
- 9:07Speaker 8: And we put it far enough away now where players
- 9:10Speaker 8: can actually sit up here and contemplate what they want
- 9:12Speaker 8: to do.
- 9:13Speaker 9: And the players that are still in the game can't
- 9:15Speaker 9: hear them. They can talk pretty freely.
- 9:17Speaker 1: I'm going to do some 51 seasons to figure that out.
- 9:20Speaker 4: Hey guys, let me, what if we actually let it
- 9:25Speaker 4: to where they can talk?
- 9:27Speaker 3: I like the whispering.
- 9:29Speaker 1: I like The Whispering 2. I like The Whispering 2,
- 9:31Speaker 1: but I do like the idea that maybe they're setting
- 9:33Speaker 1: this up in an effort to show us some more
- 9:36Speaker 1: trash-talking at tribal. Maybe. I think that people will still
- 9:41Speaker 1: instinctively whisper.
- 9:43Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 9:44Speaker 1: I think you have to.
- 9:46Speaker 3: Maybe they.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Go ahead.
- 9:48Speaker 4: I was just going to say, watching this and looking
- 9:52Speaker 4: at the pen, what people will be.
- 9:54Speaker 1: Able to watch soon is our... live show that we
- 9:58Speaker 1: did back in July. at Rainbow Fest.
- 10:01Speaker 4: That's the one thing that we didn't really figure out
- 10:04Speaker 4: was the marker. Like we just used a large Sharpie.
- 10:08Speaker 4: And I think next time we got to get one
- 10:11Speaker 4: of these.
- 10:11Speaker 1: We got to get the whale tooth pen. We got
- 10:13Speaker 1: to get a.
- 10:13Speaker 3: Whale tooth pen. You can buy those on CBS shop.
- 10:16Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to get one of those.
- 10:17Speaker 3: I don't know if you can buy a whale one,
- 10:19Speaker 3: but you can buy them.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Okay. We got some comments in the chat saying that
- 10:23Speaker 1: this season's going to be fun because there's not going
- 10:26Speaker 1: to be a looming Mr. Beast.
- 10:28Speaker 3: That's very true.
- 10:30Speaker 1: No celebrity. As far as we know, Mr. Beast just
- 10:34Speaker 1: lives there now. He's a part of every season.
- 10:38Speaker 4: We're just lucky to have him. It's almost like people
- 10:41Speaker 4: live there. It's like people are there. Only when you
- 10:45Speaker 4: sit down, though.
- 10:46Speaker 9: I've wanted to do At various times throughout my 26 year.
- 10:49Speaker 11: History, I understand.
- 10:52Speaker 3: I'm not new. I get it.
- 10:54Speaker 9: And I don't even take it personally. I'm going to
- 10:57Speaker 9: vote myself out. It is definitely time for me to go.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Jeff, you can't. That's a good way.
- 11:03Speaker 3: I don't like him saying that.
- 11:05Speaker 1: Yeah, it's time for me to go.
- 11:07Speaker 3: He's just doing a fun. He's just doing a bit.
- 11:10Speaker 3: He's just doing a bit.
- 11:11Speaker 4: Jeff needs to know him voting himself off the island
- 11:14Speaker 4: and saying it's time for me to go.
- 11:15Speaker 1: People are going to read into that. Hey, does this
- 11:18Speaker 1: mean that he's announcing his retirement? Anything goes in the
- 11:21Speaker 1: open era.
- 11:22Speaker 12: Mr.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Beast has taken over season 52.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Hey, genuinely, look me in the eye, I'll kill myself.
- 11:31Speaker 3: We might not do this show anymore if that was real.
- 11:34Speaker 1: If Mr. Beast takes over as the host of Survivor,
- 11:36Speaker 1: I will be stopping watching.
- 11:38Speaker 3: We would become a Big Brother podcast.
- 11:40Speaker 1: We would become Drop Your Buffs. We would be a
- 11:42Speaker 1: survivor hate.
- 11:44Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:45Speaker 1: Who's that in the background? Bran, there's someone behind you.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Is that the ghost of Survivor's past? Yeah. I didn't notice.
- 11:53Speaker 1: That's Jeff Probst. He's back here. Where's... There he is.
- 11:58Speaker 1: What's up, Dan?
- 11:59Speaker 7: Dan.
- 11:59Speaker 3: Ask Dan if he got my text.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Dan did get your text.
- 12:03Speaker 3: Okay.
- 12:04Speaker 1: He responded. Right away?
- 12:06Speaker 3: My phone's dead.
- 12:10Speaker 4: His phone's dead, so he didn't get it. All right,
- 12:14Speaker 4: here's Jeff.
- 12:16Speaker 9: But first, I've got to show you the snuffer.
- 12:17Speaker 1: Let's go. The what? The snuffer. The torch snuffer. Oh,
- 12:22Speaker 1: I thought you said snow.
- 12:24Speaker 9: Part of tribal is the snuffer.
- 12:27Speaker 8: These are works of art, and if you could ever
- 12:30Speaker 8: feel one in person, they are heavy. Everything any player
- 12:33Speaker 8: touches in the show is handmade by our artisans.
- 12:36Speaker 13: But this is the one thing.
- 12:38Speaker 9: The art department lets me take home every year. I
- 12:41Speaker 9: treasure them.
- 12:42Speaker 8: I have everyone from every season, except for season one,
- 12:45Speaker 8: which we gave to the Smithsonian.
- 12:47Speaker 13: What I really like about.
- 12:48Speaker 8: Them is the power it gives me to end this
- 12:50Speaker 8: tribal council tour by saying, it's been really nice having
- 12:53Speaker 8: you here and.
- 12:55Speaker 9: It is time for you to go.
- 13:01Speaker 1: That's how you do it on Survivor.
- 13:02Speaker 8: For the first time ever, our entire history, every advance,
- 13:07Speaker 8: every idol, every twist we've ever done, 50 seasons of
- 13:12Speaker 8: Survivor is in play.
- 13:15Speaker 4: You know how we've explicitly said in the past that
- 13:20Speaker 4: anything goes on Survivor?
- 13:22Speaker 1: Well, this time we mean it.
- 13:25Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 13:25Speaker 3: Now, before it was just anything. Now it's anything and everything.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Anything and everything. I don't know if it's because I
- 13:34Speaker 1: recently watched Ghost Island, the season Ghost Island. This feels
- 13:39Speaker 1: like the same gimmick. The whole thing for Ghost Island,
- 13:43Speaker 1: the whole thing with Ghost Island was that they brought
- 13:46Speaker 1: back a bunch of advantages and stuff from the ghost
- 13:50Speaker 1: of Survivor Pass. And so I'm curious if that is
- 13:55Speaker 1: going to be similar. I mean, I don't know. I
- 13:57Speaker 1: don't know. All right, here, let's meet the people.
- 14:01Speaker 9: Let's meet the castaways taking on the game.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Aliyah.
- 14:06Speaker 14: I'm Aliyah.
- 14:07Speaker 1: I'm 25.
- 14:08Speaker 13: I grew up in Jersey.
- 14:09Speaker 15: Since I moved to Rhode Island, I was left When
- 14:12Speaker 15: it comes to cooking, I've done a lot. And I've
- 14:13Speaker 15: always fallen into that creative path. I love putting an
- 14:16Speaker 15: idea on a plate and just watching people enjoy that.
- 14:19Speaker 15: I'm a bold, independent woman who was raised by bold,
- 14:21Speaker 15: independent women. I'm not here to find myself. I'm here
- 14:23Speaker 15: to win the title and come back with something that
- 14:26Speaker 15: my family can be proud of. I know I have
- 14:29Speaker 15: what it takes to win, to go after the opportunities
- 14:32Speaker 15: I want in life, and to show even my family
- 14:34Speaker 15: that there.
- 14:35Speaker 13: Is no age limit on that.
- 14:36Speaker 9: You can really do whatever you want, whenever you want.
- 14:38Speaker 15: I got into Survivor because I've always been in a
- 14:40Speaker 15: competition reality. Let me give this show a try. And
- 14:43Speaker 15: it was Kageyama. Casting was phenomenal. Drama was impeccable. Gameplay
- 14:48Speaker 15: was up there.
- 14:50Speaker 13: And I mean, that just like, it had me. It's
- 14:52Speaker 13: not like other reality shows.
- 14:53Speaker 15: Every day, normal people I can run into the grocery
- 14:55Speaker 15: store are out here playing Survivor, battling the elements. It's
- 15:02Speaker 15: just me with this obsession. I'm used to working with
- 15:05Speaker 15: a lot of big egos. The big thing about Survivor
- 15:07Speaker 15: is almost boosting those egos up. You kind of have
- 15:10Speaker 15: to keep your cards close until you suss out who
- 15:12Speaker 15: you can trust, who you cannot trust. Working in the
- 15:15Speaker 15: kitchen is a lot about social politics because it's not
- 15:17Speaker 15: a one person show. You can be the best cook
- 15:20Speaker 15: in the kitchen, but Every dog has its day. You
- 15:22Speaker 15: need to have someone to have your back at all times.
- 15:25Speaker 15: And out here, it's the same way. Building loyalty and
- 15:28Speaker 15: leading with kindness, especially in the beginning. Getting people to
- 15:32Speaker 15: really trust you and know that, hey, I'm not telling
- 15:34Speaker 15: anyone anything.
- 15:35Speaker 16: I don't know what's coming.
- 15:37Speaker 15: For me in Survivor 51. I'm ready to get my
- 15:39Speaker 15: feet wet. I'm ready to see who's on my starting tribe.
- 15:41Speaker 15: I'm adaptable in my real life. I've had 15 freaking jobs.
- 15:45Speaker 15: I move like this. Anyone who's not here to win
- 15:47Speaker 15: is crazy. You're going to leave your family.
- 15:49Speaker 13: You're going to leave your job.
- 15:51Speaker 15: You're going to leave all you have at home to
- 15:53Speaker 15: come out here to Fiji and not win?
- 15:56Speaker 13: No, and that won't be me.
- 15:58Speaker 3: Wow.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Wow.
- 15:59Speaker 17: Wow.
- 15:59Speaker 3: I like to blame.
- 16:02Speaker 1: She's strong. Reminiscent of an old Survivor player.
- 16:07Speaker 18: Who?
- 16:08Speaker 1: No, like, just an old era Survivor player.
- 16:11Speaker 3: Just the attitude. I love the, I'm not here to
- 16:14Speaker 3: find myself, I'm here to win.
- 16:17Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like that a lot. I also like
- 16:19Speaker 1: how she was like, I'm not here to make friends.
- 16:21Speaker 1: I hope she lives up to that. We, of course,
- 16:24Speaker 1: every season hear someone be like, I'm not here to
- 16:26Speaker 1: make friends, I'm here to win a million dollars. Wanting
- 16:28Speaker 1: to be like an old era player. And then, of course,
- 16:31Speaker 1: the second they touch the beach, it doesn't work out
- 16:33Speaker 1: that way. A lot of hype to live up to here, though.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I think she could be a battle for first overall
- 16:38Speaker 1: draft pick.
- 16:40Speaker 4: I wrestle with wanting to draft her because I don't
- 16:45Speaker 4: know if she'll be able to not be like this. Yeah, well,
- 16:49Speaker 4: be this like big personality, leadership type thing. You know
- 16:53Speaker 4: how early on you kind of want to. not be
- 16:56Speaker 4: telling people what to do and kind of stay out
- 16:58Speaker 4: of the way. She seems like she has such a
- 17:01Speaker 4: big personality. I don't know if she's going to be
- 17:02Speaker 4: able to do that. And she seems like she's going
- 17:05Speaker 4: to be a physical threat.
- 17:07Speaker 1: I don't know. Out of the gate, I don't know
- 17:10Speaker 1: if I'm going to draft her. It just depends on
- 17:12Speaker 1: how the open air is going to go, dude.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Would you draft the lead from the bear? Because I
- 17:18Speaker 3: think that's the kind of energy she has.
- 17:20Speaker 6: Right.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Yes, chef. How long until someone says yes, chef? Yes, chef.
- 17:26Speaker 1: You know, it could play to her advantage, Bran. I mean,
- 17:30Speaker 1: it's no longer the new era where the Joes of
- 17:32Speaker 1: the world were able to survive longer. But maybe the
- 17:37Speaker 1: open era where anything goes, maybe we'll return to strong players.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Do you want a drafter? You want a drafter? I mean,
- 17:44Speaker 1: I've only seen one contestant so far, but so far
- 17:48Speaker 1: I'm really liking the contestant. For this mock draft, take her.
- 17:51Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:53Speaker 1: How many total players do we have?
- 17:55Speaker 3: Wait, so does that mean at the end of all these,
- 17:58Speaker 3: we just choose?
- 18:00Speaker 1: We're going to blind rank them. Blind rank them one through,
- 18:04Speaker 1: is it 18 or 16? What did we say?
- 18:09Speaker 3: I think it's 18.
- 18:12Speaker 1: It's 18. 6, 12, 18, yeah. I'll blind rank her
- 18:17Speaker 1: as number three right now. Wow. Oh, I should take
- 18:23Speaker 1: down a piece of paper and write this down. Oh,
- 18:25Speaker 1: so are we all doing blind rankings?
- 18:27Speaker 3: I might need to pull up my notes on my computer.
- 18:31Speaker 1: What was her name?
- 18:31Speaker 3: Because my phone's dead.
- 18:33Speaker 6: Aaliyah.
- 18:33Speaker 3: Aaliyah with two A's. Double A, Arne Anderson.
- 18:37Speaker 1: Bye, buddy. One, two, three.
- 18:45Speaker 3: I'm going to blind rank her at number five.
- 18:47Speaker 19: Okay.
- 18:50Speaker 1: You said three, Chase?
- 18:53Speaker 3: Well, is it.
- 18:55Speaker 3: I was about to say, is it blind ranking if
- 18:57Speaker 3: we just saw her?
- 19:00Speaker 1: Basically, blind ranking means we don't get to change it. Yeah,
- 19:03Speaker 1: and we don't allow anybody else. I like that. Okay,
- 19:07Speaker 1: so Chase, you're putting her... What was her name again? Aaliyah? Aaliyah.
- 19:12Speaker 3: With two A's.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Aaliyah.
- 19:15Speaker 3: She's going to give someone a spine buster.
- 19:17Speaker 1: And then you put her at five PD?
- 19:22Speaker 3: I'm going ten.
- 19:24Speaker 1: I'm going 10. Okay. Dude, there's 21. Whoa, there's 21 castings.
- 19:31Speaker 3: Oh, there's 21?
- 19:33Speaker 1: They've done it differently this year.
- 19:34Speaker 20: 21?
- 19:36Speaker 3: So that means we have to draft after the first episode,
- 19:38Speaker 3: assuming there's not a double elimination, and then we each get... Yeah,
- 19:42Speaker 3: we'll have to figure out the math later.
- 19:44Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll figure that out. I'm not good at math.
- 19:46Speaker 1: uh chase okay on to alexis yes okay here we go.
- 19:56Speaker 13: I'm Alexis.
- 19:57Speaker 7: I'm 34. I'm from Atlanta. I'm a criminal defense attorney,
- 20:00Speaker 7: and I'm ready to win Survivor. I came here to win,
- 20:03Speaker 7: and that's what I'm going to do.
- 20:04Speaker 1: She said she was a lawyer?
- 20:06Speaker 3: She's a criminal defense attorney. Isn't that the same thing
- 20:09Speaker 3: Kyle was?
- 20:11Speaker 1: Oh, do you think? Well, let's bet on it right now.
- 20:14Speaker 4: Is she going to lie about her occupation?
- 20:18Speaker 1: Oh, definitely. I bet she brings it up in here.
- 20:21Speaker 1: I'm not going to let them know I'm an attorney.
- 20:25Speaker 3: Did Kyle bring it up? I don't think he did.
- 20:28Speaker 1: He kept it a secret, and then he revealed it
- 20:30Speaker 1: to Joe when he talked about going to jail, I think.
- 20:33Speaker 21: Yeah.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Okay. All right, Alexis, take it away.
- 20:37Speaker 7: People should know that I have been sober for 10 years.
- 20:40Speaker 7: Back home, I have my husband and my daughter, who
- 20:43Speaker 7: is 14 months old. I am in a period of
- 20:46Speaker 7: my life where all I care about is my family
- 20:49Speaker 7: and our future.
- 20:51Speaker 1: I don't know if her clients feel great about that.
- 20:54Speaker 7: Butterfly and maybe at times a chameleon. I do believe
- 20:58Speaker 7: people have greatness in them and shouldn't really be judged
- 21:01Speaker 7: by their worst moments. Now, on Survivor, if I can
- 21:05Speaker 7: exploit someone's.
- 21:06Speaker 2: Worst moment, I might do it. It is what it is.
- 21:10Speaker 7: I am not going to talk about what I do
- 21:12Speaker 7: for a living.
- 21:13Speaker 2: I'm too scared.
- 21:14Speaker 7: I'm going to say that I'm a care coordinator at
- 21:17Speaker 7: a treatment center. I did do that job, so I'm
- 21:20Speaker 7: just going to run with them. I never watched Survivor
- 21:22Speaker 7: in my life until COVID. And I was like, How
- 21:26Speaker 7: is this real?
- 21:27Speaker 2: This is crazy.
- 21:28Speaker 7: Then we watched Cook Island, and I was just like, God,
- 21:34Speaker 7: this is everything I ever wanted and more.
- 21:36Speaker 3: So the race won her over.
- 21:39Speaker 4: Do you think she took the Survivor time machine?
- 21:43Speaker 3: Maybe.
- 21:43Speaker 1: That's how she found Cook Island. Yeah, that's how she
- 21:45Speaker 1: did it. Before we jump back into her, a lot
- 21:49Speaker 1: of people are speculating that because there is a 21
- 21:51Speaker 1: players list, We could be seeing the return of either
- 21:54Speaker 1: Redemption Island or Exile Island or something, and that's why
- 21:57Speaker 1: there's an odd number.
- 22:00Speaker 3: Interesting. Yeah, we haven't had an odd number.
- 22:03Speaker 1: It could be like the season where someone got voted
- 22:06Speaker 1: out immediately off the beach because they didn't get drafted.
- 22:09Speaker 1: Two teams of ten, one person doesn't get drafted, gets
- 22:12Speaker 1: sent home.
- 22:12Speaker 3: I don't think they're ever going to do that again.
- 22:14Speaker 3: That was so mean.
- 22:15Speaker 1: That's so brutal.
- 22:17Speaker 3: It's the open air run.
- 22:19Speaker 4: I could see it where early on, on the beach,
- 22:22Speaker 4: vote for somebody and they go straight to Redemption Island.
- 22:26Speaker 3: Or like, what was the season with Eddie George's wife?
- 22:33Speaker 18: Yeah.
- 22:35Speaker 3: Where they did the, it was the fake, like, oh,
- 22:37Speaker 3: this person didn't get chosen, they go home.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Fake out, yeah.
- 22:40Speaker 12: Yeah.
- 22:41Speaker 4: They're going home, but they actually end up going to
- 22:44Speaker 4: the island first.
- 22:45Speaker 1: And they get to like look for.
- 22:48Speaker 4: an idol or something and then decide how that, yeah,
- 22:51Speaker 4: I like that.
- 22:52Speaker 1: That's fun. Okay. Sorry, Alexis.
- 22:54Speaker 7: There are who have been recovery from addiction. There have
- 22:58Speaker 7: been lawyers and moms. There have been really strategic women
- 23:03Speaker 7: who are cunning and manipulative and savage, but you've not
- 23:07Speaker 7: seen one person who is all of those things. And
- 23:10Speaker 7: that is me, ladies and gentlemen, buckle up. I feel
- 23:13Speaker 7: like I have no idea what to expect with season 51.
- 23:16Speaker 7: I'm kind of terrified. This is a new turn in
- 23:19Speaker 7: the book of Survivor. Nothing is off the table. Nothing's
- 23:22Speaker 7: off limits.
- 23:23Speaker 4: So they told him that. They must have told him
- 23:26Speaker 4: that at Ponderosa. Open era, folks.
- 23:29Speaker 1: Or do you think they heard her say it and
- 23:31Speaker 1: they were like, let's take that. Alexis, that's good!
- 23:35Speaker 3: Because the last thing that... If you don't.
- 23:38Speaker 4: Win the million dollars, Alexis, do you want to take
- 23:40Speaker 4: a job writing for the show, coming up with ideas?
- 23:43Speaker 1: That's good.
- 23:45Speaker 3: They didn't see the 51 trailer because the last thing
- 23:49Speaker 3: they could have seen was Savannah winning, right?
- 23:53Speaker 1: I believe so. Had to have been. Had to have been, yeah.
- 23:56Speaker 2: So surreal.
- 23:58Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right. What was her name again? Alexis.
- 24:04Speaker 1: I really like Alexis.
- 24:07Speaker 4: I think that she is going to be good working
- 24:11Speaker 4: with people, but also probably hopefully able to argue her case,
- 24:17Speaker 4: if you will, but knowing the best way to do that.
- 24:19Speaker 1: I'm going to throw her at six.
- 24:26Speaker 10: Chase?
- 24:28Speaker 1: P.D.
- 24:30Speaker 3: I'm going to put her.
- 24:31Speaker 1: Chase, is Liz Beef telling you how to draft? No,
- 24:35Speaker 1: she reminded me of something that she just said in
- 24:39Speaker 1: this interview that I think is going to put her
- 24:43Speaker 1: farther down on my list. She goes, I'm going to
- 24:45Speaker 1: be manipulative like an addict.
- 24:50Speaker 3: But she also said about using information against people, she said,
- 24:56Speaker 3: I might do that. I don't like the hesitancy.
- 25:01Speaker 1: I'm going to put her down at 15.
- 25:02Speaker 3: 15's a little low. I think I'm going to put
- 25:05Speaker 3: Alexis at 10.
- 25:07Speaker 1: Okay. I will say, this next one is Anna. That's
- 25:11Speaker 1: three A names. Do it that way you will, folks.
- 25:14Speaker 1: Do it that way you will. All right, Anna.
- 25:19Speaker 22: I'm Anna.
- 25:20Speaker 2: I'm from Toronto, Canada.
- 25:23Speaker 1: Canada!
- 25:24Speaker 4: I'm 34.
- 25:24Speaker 9: I'm 34 years old.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Oh, I love Anna.
- 25:28Speaker 21: I'm Anna.
- 25:30Speaker 20: I am from Toronto, Canada, and I'm a voice actor.
- 25:32Speaker 20: That means that I go into a booth and I
- 25:35Speaker 20: perform voices, and I've done it for a lot of
- 25:37Speaker 20: different cartoons. Survivor is an opportunity number one, but it's
- 25:41Speaker 20: very important to my family, too. We started watching Robin
- 25:44Speaker 20: Ambrose season.
- 25:45Speaker 13: Yeah, I was nine.
- 25:47Speaker 20: Me, my mom, and my sister watched Survivor religiously, and
- 25:51Speaker 20: it kind of took us away from her illness and
- 25:53Speaker 20: brought us back to normalcy. So I lost my mom
- 25:58Speaker 20: in 2020. She fought cancer for 18 years. My mom's
- 26:02Speaker 20: a warrior, so I definitely... Look to her for guidance.
- 26:07Speaker 7: She's my North Star.
- 26:09Speaker 20: My draw to Survivor is the game, baby.
- 26:11Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 26:13Speaker 20: I just want to get out there.
- 26:14Speaker 23: I want to trick people.
- 26:16Speaker 7: I want to be manipulative.
- 26:17Speaker 20: I mean, where else am I going to get the
- 26:20Speaker 20: opportunity to lie and get away with it and it
- 26:22Speaker 20: be okay?
- 26:23Speaker 7: For me, the most important thing is to win.
- 26:25Speaker 20: I want to be sole Survivor. I'm going to win
- 26:27Speaker 20: Survivor because I'm not afraid to take risks. I'm going
- 26:29Speaker 20: to play a little deviously, and no one's going to
- 26:31Speaker 20: see it coming because I'm cutesy. Season 50 of Survivor
- 26:35Speaker 20: has really changed things up. Going forward, we're going to
- 26:38Speaker 20: see a lot more twists. Well, I think there'll be
- 26:41Speaker 20: more tribal swaps, and I can see the game really
- 26:44Speaker 20: allowing for the players to make more moves. I think
- 26:48Speaker 20: we're going to be jolted right from the jump. Fans
- 26:50Speaker 20: definitely need to know that I am a player and
- 26:53Speaker 20: a gamer, and I'm here to win.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa. Anna's a baller. Really quick. I like her.
- 27:03Speaker 4: Anna, 109 episodes of Strawberry Shortcake as Strawberry Shortcake.
- 27:08Speaker 1: What? Among a ton of other stuff.
- 27:11Speaker 4: She also did 104 episodes of My Little Pony.
- 27:15Speaker 5: What?
- 27:16Speaker 3: Anna number one. I don't need to wait.
- 27:19Speaker 1: You're going Anna number one?
- 27:20Speaker 3: Anna number one. Because she didn't know how old she was.
- 27:23Speaker 3: She had to think about it.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Because we still have a lot of players left and
- 27:29Speaker 1: this is a blind ranking, I'm going to put her
- 27:32Speaker 1: at number four. I'm going to save those top two spots.
- 27:36Speaker 1: But what I'm really loving so far is we have
- 27:39Speaker 1: three players that are coming in and they're like, yeah,
- 27:41Speaker 1: I'll be manipulative and cutthroat. I think that they might
- 27:45Speaker 1: have really, the casting for this season might be a
- 27:48Speaker 1: lot different than what we've been used to.
- 27:50Speaker 3: Now, I do want to point out, we say every
- 27:52Speaker 3: single season, before the season starts, oh my gosh, they
- 27:56Speaker 3: nailed this cast. We say it without fail every single time.
- 28:01Speaker 4: But there's also a difference between being.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Manipulative and being a villain.
- 28:07Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 28:08Speaker 1: I'm not getting villain from Anna. No, I think she
- 28:11Speaker 1: could be Seri. She could be open era Seri. Wow,
- 28:14Speaker 1: calling it now?
- 28:16Speaker 3: That's a crazy thing to say after like a 30-minute blurb.
- 28:19Speaker 1: I'm getting 30 minutes.
- 28:21Speaker 3: I mean, 30 seconds. 30 seconds. One minute, whatever it was. Hey,
- 28:24Speaker 3: shut up. You hate Jorn. I hate you. How about that?
- 28:29Speaker 1: All right, Petey, you said one. Chase, you said four?
- 28:33Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Wow. What about you, Brandon? I do really like her.
- 28:39Speaker 1: I think I might go four as well, Chase.
- 28:42Speaker 5: Nice.
- 28:43Speaker 1: Okay.
- 28:43Speaker 3: All right.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Brady. Are we getting our first boy, or is it Brady?
- 28:48Speaker 7: It's Tom.
- 28:48Speaker 5: Tom.
- 28:49Speaker 1: It's Tom?
- 28:50Speaker 4: Do you know how Rick Devins goes by Devins on
- 28:54Speaker 4: Big Brother?
- 28:55Speaker 1: Tom Brady goes just by Brady. He's just Brady now. Okay,
- 28:57Speaker 1: here we go.
- 29:01Speaker 13: My name is Brady Booker. I'm 27 years old. I'm
- 29:04Speaker 13: from LaSalle, Illinois. I pro-wrestle for all elite wrestling.
- 29:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 29:08Speaker 17: Hunting, fishing, hiking, camping. I remember when I was seven
- 29:11Speaker 17: years old, I shot my first deer. I ate the
- 29:14Speaker 17: heart and liver. I drank the blood and I put
- 29:16Speaker 17: it on my face and I got to drive the
- 29:17Speaker 17: truck for the first time.
- 29:18Speaker 13: I come from a big family.
- 29:20Speaker 1: He's a psychopath.
- 29:22Speaker 3: He's a pro wrestler who drank blood. Gangrel.
- 29:27Speaker 4: The dad's shirt is blurred, but it makes it look
- 29:31Speaker 4: like he's got boobs, which is great.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Look at that. You see that? See that right there?
- 29:34Speaker 1: You see what I'm talking about? Hey Chase, you see
- 29:37Speaker 1: what I'm talking about?
- 29:38Speaker 3: That's not where my mind went.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see what you're talking about. I'm
- 29:42Speaker 1: looking up. I didn't. In his Instagram bio, he has
- 29:46Speaker 1: former WWE superstar. PD, was he in NXT?
- 29:50Speaker 3: Dude, I've never seen this guy in my life.
- 29:52Speaker 1: I've never seen this guy either. Is he currently in AEW? Yeah,
- 29:56Speaker 1: he's currently in AEW.
- 29:57Speaker 3: So maybe he's, like, in Ring of Honor.
- 30:00Speaker 1: Or, like, developmental. Trained by Billy Gunn, so that means
- 30:04Speaker 1: he's probably an ass man. Probably. Yeah, I'm an ass man.
- 30:11Speaker 17: Older brother, two sisters in the middle, and then me
- 30:14Speaker 17: at the end. Growing up, I was a huge fan
- 30:16Speaker 17: of Survivor. My mom loved it. She was always trying
- 30:18Speaker 17: to get on the show. It was something that the
- 30:19Speaker 17: family could do together. We would order pizza. We'd put
- 30:21Speaker 17: blankets on the floor, sit in the living room, and
- 30:23Speaker 17: we'd all watch it. Everyone looks at me and probably thinks, big, dumb.
- 30:27Speaker 12: Oh.
- 30:47Speaker 17: One thing that I know all the other competitors can't
- 30:49Speaker 17: stand with me is the effort and the enthusiasm that
- 30:51Speaker 17: I'm going.
- 30:51Speaker 13: To bring this game. I'm not going to say no
- 30:53Speaker 13: to playing games with anybody.
- 30:54Speaker 17: I'm open to working with everybody, but I really do
- 30:56Speaker 17: believe that maybe those secret alliances with the exact opposite
- 30:59Speaker 17: Brodies are kind of what's going to push me further.
- 31:02Speaker 4: Yeah, someone watched the Kyle Camilla season and said, oh, yeah,
- 31:06Speaker 4: I'm going to do that.
- 31:07Speaker 1: I like how he has a catchphrase, Brodies. Brody.
- 31:11Speaker 4: Brody, yeah. I think we're going to see a lot
- 31:15Speaker 4: of secret alliances.
- 31:17Speaker 1: On this season. Because this is off the heels of Kyle.
- 31:20Speaker 3: Right.
- 31:20Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:21Speaker 13: 51 after 50.
- 31:22Speaker 17: Because you just had all these star-studded all-stars come out.
- 31:25Speaker 17: Rick Devins making an idol, pulling it out at Tribal.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Hold on.
- 31:28Speaker 3: Hold on.
- 31:30Speaker 1: They saw 50.
- 31:31Speaker 3: They saw it.
- 31:31Speaker 1: They saw 50.
- 31:32Speaker 3: That's why they know about the open era.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Maybe they saw 50. Okay.
- 31:36Speaker 12: All right.
- 31:37Speaker 3: How does that work?
- 31:39Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they saw some of it. Okay.
- 31:42Speaker 3: So they saw like half. When did the Devins....
- 31:46Speaker 1: That aisle play, that happened later. Survivor Season 51 was
- 31:51Speaker 1: filmed from April 18th to May 13th. Okay, so they
- 31:55Speaker 1: saw a good chunk of it, right? Yeah, and they
- 31:58Speaker 1: filmed Season 52 back-to-back. Yeah.
- 32:02Speaker 4: How does that work with the tribal sets? Do they
- 32:06Speaker 4: use it for two seasons, or do they have a
- 32:07Speaker 4: whole other thing?
- 32:08Speaker 1: I imagine while they're building one, they've got another one
- 32:11Speaker 1: being built on a different part of the island. They
- 32:13Speaker 1: switch beaches. Each season. They're not the same beach every season.
- 32:18Speaker 1: That's right.
- 32:20Speaker 17: Play Survivor the same way I've played my life, Brody.
- 32:22Speaker 17: As hard as I possibly can and as best as
- 32:24Speaker 17: I possibly can.
- 32:26Speaker 1: All right, Brody. Oh, man. I struggle with Brody there.
- 32:30Speaker 1: A lot of people in our Patreon chat are saying,
- 32:34Speaker 1: do not draft. He's number 21 out of 21. They
- 32:38Speaker 1: do not seem to like him off the rip.
- 32:39Speaker 6: Guys.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Guys. I'm not going to be turning my back on
- 32:43Speaker 1: a pro wrestler. He's got a gimmick. He's got a
- 32:45Speaker 1: fun catchphrase. I think that he's going to be able
- 32:48Speaker 1: to be like a... What's a good comparison here? One
- 32:54Speaker 1: of those guys, he's goofy, he talks a lot. He's good. Well,
- 32:58Speaker 1: I meant in Survivor.
- 33:00Speaker 3: Yeah, in Survivor, John Morrison.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Also works. I think that he'll be able to talk
- 33:04Speaker 1: a lot. He'll be goofy. He'll do really well in challenges.
- 33:08Speaker 1: And they're going to keep him a lot longer than
- 33:09Speaker 1: most people would think. Now, will he win the game?
- 33:12Speaker 1: I don't think so, but I am going to put
- 33:13Speaker 1: him at a nice number eight spot for me.
- 33:16Speaker 3: Wow. In the top ten. Interesting. I love pro wrestling,
- 33:21Speaker 3: but aligning myself with a pro wrestler might be dicey.
- 33:25Speaker 3: They're not good people most of the time. I hope
- 33:28Speaker 3: this guy's a good guy, but in his little thing,
- 33:30Speaker 3: he's talking about how he's got deer blood all over
- 33:32Speaker 3: his face. I'm not sure what to think about that,
- 33:37Speaker 3: but he will be in phenomenal shape. Wrestling shape is
- 33:41Speaker 3: different than anything. So he's going to do good at challenges.
- 33:45Speaker 3: That's a guarantee. So he's going to be a big
- 33:47Speaker 3: threat for that reason.
- 33:48Speaker 1: Petey, do you think that the CTE is going to
- 33:50Speaker 1: counteract the pre-law knowledge?
- 33:54Speaker 3: I think he's young enough that it hasn't really kicked
- 33:56Speaker 3: in yet.
- 33:57Speaker 1: Good, good. So where are you putting him, Petey?
- 34:02Speaker 3: I'm going to have him lower. I'm going to put
- 34:03Speaker 3: him at 17.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Whoa, that's what I put down, too.
- 34:06Speaker 3: Really?
- 34:07Speaker 1: I put 17.
- 34:08Speaker 4: I think that people will like him early on, but
- 34:12Speaker 4: he'll be one of those early threats, especially with challenges,
- 34:16Speaker 4: that'll just make him kind of an easy target.
- 34:18Speaker 3: And a big personality. He's not going to be able.
- 34:20Speaker 1: To turn that off.
- 34:22Speaker 4: Yeah, and people are going to want to get him
- 34:23Speaker 4: out because of how often he says Brody.
- 34:25Speaker 1: It's like, we've got to get Brady Brody out of here.
- 34:28Speaker 3: Yeah, being Brady and calling everyone Brody, it's kind of confusing.
- 34:31Speaker 1: That's a bold move. All right, Carter, take it away.
- 34:38Speaker 1: My name is Carter.
- 34:39Speaker 12: I'm 24 years old from Rock Rapids, Iowa. I'm a
- 34:42Speaker 12: farmer at heart. You're about to get the rundown on
- 34:45Speaker 12: the dumbest kid of all time.
- 34:47Speaker 1: I farm.
- 34:48Speaker 12: I run a snow cone truck. It's all about the kids.
- 34:50Speaker 12: I've got a moving company with one of my best friends.
- 34:53Speaker 12: We started off moving locally. Now we're moving the world.
- 34:56Speaker 12: I do a lot of photography. I do a lot
- 34:57Speaker 12: of videography. I love to stay busy. I love getting
- 35:00Speaker 12: my hands dirty. And that's why I think Survivor is
- 35:03Speaker 12: going to be awesome. Survivor has been in my DNA
- 35:06Speaker 12: since I was a little kid. My mom is probably
- 35:08Speaker 12: the hugest Survivor fan of all time. We'd come home
- 35:12Speaker 12: from Wednesday night church, watch a show. It was about
- 35:14Speaker 12: a year ago. I was sitting on the couch eating
- 35:17Speaker 12: cheesy puffs and Survivor was on and Jeff said, all right,
- 35:20Speaker 12: if you want to be on Survivor, You got to apply.
- 35:24Speaker 12: I kind of licked my fingers off and said, I
- 35:26Speaker 12: think I can do that. The next day, I feel
- 35:28Speaker 12: like I'm perfect.
- 35:29Speaker 13: Here we are. We're in Fiji, baby.
- 35:31Speaker 12: I think being from Iowa, I was taught at an
- 35:33Speaker 12: early age to just be a good guy. I feel
- 35:35Speaker 12: like I can read people pretty well. If people underestimate
- 35:38Speaker 12: me in this game, that'd be the best thing that
- 35:40Speaker 12: could happen. You don't want to be the target. That's
- 35:43Speaker 12: the name of the game. You got to keep your
- 35:44Speaker 12: name off the parchment for as long as you can.
- 35:47Speaker 12: To be the guy or support system that people can
- 35:49Speaker 12: lean on and trust out here is going to be
- 35:51Speaker 12: crucial for my game. You know, make something happen out
- 35:53Speaker 12: of nothing. We're out here for a million dollars. This
- 35:56Speaker 12: is season 51. It's a whole new can of worms.
- 35:59Speaker 12: Survivor's always changing. So we just had a pinnacle season,
- 36:03Speaker 12: season 50. Survivor 51, in my opinion, is going to
- 36:06Speaker 12: be the most crazy, changing game of all time.
- 36:09Speaker 1: Cover the face. Wow.
- 36:11Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa.
- 36:12Speaker 1: What's his name again?
- 36:13Speaker 3: Carter.
- 36:15Speaker 1: Guys, I'll say it. I got Carter one. No, number one.
- 36:20Speaker 1: I'm doing it.
- 36:22Speaker 4: I've got Carter one. I think Carter's got good energy
- 36:25Speaker 4: about him. He seems dumb enough to where people won't
- 36:29Speaker 4: take him seriously, and I think he's one of those
- 36:32Speaker 4: guys that will go far and then kind of ride
- 36:36Speaker 4: someone's coattails for a bit.
- 36:39Speaker 1: I like Carter. I like Carter a lot. Call me crazy.
- 36:42Speaker 1: I'm going number one for Carter. No, I'm going number two.
- 36:45Speaker 4: Can I do that?
- 36:46Speaker 1: Can I do that? Yeah, that feels better. Yeah, you
- 36:48Speaker 1: could do that. All right, I unlock that. What do
- 36:49Speaker 1: you feel about Carter?
- 36:51Speaker 3: Carter, like if you would just pause that and I
- 36:53Speaker 3: didn't hear him speak, I would be like, oh, he's
- 36:56Speaker 3: one of the NASA nerds. He's another Carson. He just
- 36:59Speaker 3: has that look to him that when he opened his mouth,
- 37:03Speaker 3: everything changed. And it's like, whoa, what's Carter about? Then
- 37:06Speaker 3: he really won me over with the licking the cheese dust.
- 37:12Speaker 3: off of his fingers and then applying for Survivor. Carter's fun.
- 37:18Speaker 3: Give me Carter at number three.
- 37:22Speaker 5: Woo!
- 37:22Speaker 1: Welcome, Carter. Carter, I think the comp here is, this
- 37:27Speaker 1: is the open era JT. Yeah, great, great Paul Chase.
- 37:32Speaker 1: What they're looking for here, but I actually think... While
- 37:36Speaker 1: he is obviously very charismatic, funny, aw shucks. Someone in
- 37:40Speaker 1: our Patreon chat said he's going to accidentally say shucks unironically.
- 37:44Speaker 1: I do think that there is the potential to where
- 37:47Speaker 1: we see this man have an unsuspecting villain arc. We
- 37:51Speaker 1: can see this guy be an honor and loyalty type
- 37:54Speaker 1: of guy. I'm going to hedge my bets here. And say,
- 37:58Speaker 1: because we're only five in of 21. I'm going to
- 38:02Speaker 1: put him down at 13. I'm going to try to
- 38:04Speaker 1: fill the middle of my card a little bit. Very good.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Very good.
- 38:08Speaker 3: It's funny saying, like, you know, he might be a villain.
- 38:12Speaker 3: He might be honorable and loyal.
- 38:14Speaker 1: Only in Survivor. Well, you know what I mean.
- 38:16Speaker 3: In Survivor.
- 38:18Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 38:18Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 38:19Speaker 3: I was having to explain one of our. one of
- 38:23Speaker 3: the people at Bramble Fest was talking about getting into
- 38:26Speaker 3: Survivor recently and being like, wait, honor and integrity? I
- 38:29Speaker 3: thought these were good things. Why does everybody hate this?
- 38:32Speaker 1: Because it's hypocritical. Hypocritical honor and integrity. All right, Christian,
- 38:38Speaker 1: no H. Let's see what he's got.
- 38:43Speaker 23: My name is Christian Chavez. I'm 25 years old and
- 38:46Speaker 23: I'm from Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 38:47Speaker 13: I do HR. Sounds very free.
- 38:50Speaker 23: Terminating somebody is pretty hard. It's creating a good enough
- 38:54Speaker 23: relationship with someone that you can terminate them and still
- 38:57Speaker 23: be their friend.
- 38:57Speaker 1: That's a wooden bow tie.
- 39:01Speaker 23: I fully expect to be known as the loudest laugh
- 39:05Speaker 23: this driver's ever had. But I wouldn't be surprised if
- 39:07Speaker 23: they could hear me on another island. I started college
- 39:12Speaker 23: at 15 and a half and I graduated super early.
- 39:15Speaker 23: My dad passed away a few years ago and he
- 39:17Speaker 23: ingrained in us so deeply.
- 39:20Speaker 3: You say 15 and a half, like what are you, five?
- 39:22Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 39:23Speaker 3: Only children do the halves.
- 39:26Speaker 1: And he said he graduated super early so I think
- 39:29Speaker 1: he was graduated college by 18.
- 39:32Speaker 24: Wow.
- 39:33Speaker 4: I don't think we have that laugh from what's-his-name from a.
- 39:37Speaker 1: Couple seasons ago.
- 39:38Speaker 4: Jeremiah's laugh isn't here anymore, but he's giving me Jeremiah vibes.
- 39:43Speaker 1: Jacob C. in the chat said he was 144 months old.
- 39:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 39:49Speaker 3: Have you seen the interview with the little girl who
- 39:51Speaker 3: plays hockey? She's like, I'm six and a half. She
- 39:53Speaker 3: can say that because she's not 10 years old yet.
- 39:58Speaker 3: When you're an adult, you can't be bringing up the halves.
- 40:01Speaker 1: Let's see.
- 40:02Speaker 3: How old are you? I'm 26 and three quarters.
- 40:06Speaker 4: Nice.
- 40:06Speaker 1: That's what I thought. Absolutely.
- 40:09Speaker 23: Your own internal drive is so important. Whatever that is,
- 40:12Speaker 23: go 100% into it. My spiritual connection with him is
- 40:16Speaker 23: crazy out here. I love competition. So anything competition based,
- 40:22Speaker 23: I've always been fascinated in. If I'm not winning, I'm
- 40:25Speaker 23: going to make sure somebody else loses. I can definitely
- 40:27Speaker 23: be a heartless bitch for sure. I want people to
- 40:31Speaker 23: see me as their little brother. I want to give
- 40:33Speaker 23: up little brother energy because you don't want to get
- 40:35Speaker 23: rid of your adorable little brother. 51, in my opinion,
- 40:39Speaker 23: is a brand new slate. We can literally do anything.
- 40:42Speaker 23: If people think that they're expecting exactly what's going to happen,
- 40:44Speaker 23: they're wrong. Being in the unknown is exhilarating.
- 40:48Speaker 2: I'm ready to go.
- 40:49Speaker 23: I think it's a great day.
- 40:51Speaker 4: This commitment to trying to, like, gaslight us into thinking
- 40:55Speaker 4: that past seasons of.
- 40:57Speaker 1: Survivor, we knew what was going to happen is wild
- 41:00Speaker 1: to me. It's truly insane. But anyway, I.
- 41:04Speaker 4: Don't know about Christian. Only because he does give off
- 41:09Speaker 4: little brother energy.
- 41:10Speaker 1: I don't disagree with that. But he also has... a
- 41:13Speaker 1: bit of a like grating voice. Uh, can I say that?
- 41:18Speaker 1: Am I allowed to say that?
- 41:20Speaker 4: Has anybody ever won that has like a very unique voice?
- 41:27Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about that. I think it,
- 41:30Speaker 1: I think it might like drive people a little nuts.
- 41:32Speaker 1: Is that mean? It's kind of mean. I'm sorry.
- 41:35Speaker 3: I think there have been some unique speakers who have
- 41:37Speaker 3: won Survivor.
- 41:38Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 41:39Speaker 1: Uh, Gabler. Sure.
- 41:41Speaker 3: Gabler, Marianne.
- 41:43Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. What I will say is I think a
- 41:47Speaker 1: lot of people in the chat are making comps to
- 41:50Speaker 1: small boy Jason, Jeremiah with the evil laugh. Someone even
- 41:55Speaker 1: says Yam Yam. Wow. I think that, like Jeremiah, who was,
- 42:03Speaker 1: I think, deserving to stay way longer, I think this
- 42:07Speaker 1: guy might be one of the first few boots, actually.
- 42:10Speaker 1: So I'm going to put Christian down.
- 42:11Speaker 3: What do you mean? Keep going, sorry.
- 42:14Speaker 1: Jeremiah deserved to be in the game longer is what
- 42:17Speaker 1: I was trying to say, but he went home first.
- 42:20Speaker 1: So I'm going to say that the same fate happens
- 42:22Speaker 1: to Christian, even though I do like him. I'm going
- 42:24Speaker 1: to say 19. 19.
- 42:27Speaker 3: I just wanted to bring up how Jeremiah was your
- 42:29Speaker 3: first overall pick.
- 42:32Speaker 22: Oh, I know.
- 42:34Speaker 1: He's learning from his mistakes. No, I typically draft the
- 42:37Speaker 1: first overall pick and then they go home first.
- 42:41Speaker 3: Shout out to Jenna. You did that back-to-back seasons. That's crazy.
- 42:46Speaker 1: I did, yeah.
- 42:47Speaker 3: I didn't even think about that until now.
- 42:49Speaker 1: I'll go 18. I'll go 18 for Christian. I agree
- 42:52Speaker 1: with Chase.
- 42:54Speaker 3: I need to know, is he Mormon or is he gay?
- 42:57Speaker 3: Because if he's gay, he's higher on my list. If
- 43:00Speaker 3: he's Mormon, he's lower.
- 43:01Speaker 18: 21.
- 43:01Speaker 1: What if it's a both and? Yeah, you could be both.
- 43:06Speaker 1: You could be both. What is more important to you?
- 43:10Speaker 1: Is it more important that he's gay or is it
- 43:12Speaker 1: more important that he's not Mormon?
- 43:15Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure we have Mormon listeners, so shout out.
- 43:18Speaker 3: You know, I just feel like in the game of Survivor. No,
- 43:24Speaker 3: I got to. It's the open era. And Making the
- 43:27Speaker 3: Merge is open to gays and Mormons.
- 43:30Speaker 1: You're right.
- 43:32Speaker 3: So I'm going to put him at 16. One spot
- 43:34Speaker 3: above Brady.
- 43:35Speaker 1: All right.
- 43:37Speaker 13: Interesting.
- 43:38Speaker 1: You're putting him over Brady. Fascinating. That is fascinating.
- 43:41Speaker 3: All right.
- 43:42Speaker 1: Kilby. Kill, kill, kill, kill. We'll have to do that
- 43:46Speaker 1: as a sound drop. Kilby the Survivor Star. Yeah.
- 43:52Speaker 19: I'm Kilby, I'm 30 years old, and I am the
- 43:57Speaker 19: designer of Doodle Goose Games. I believe that I have
- 44:00Speaker 19: achieved my dream job. When I was like six years old,
- 44:04Speaker 19: I would tell people I want to be a dragon
- 44:05Speaker 19: or a game maker. And that's what I'm doing right now.
- 44:08Speaker 19: I grew up with a teen mom. I worked full
- 44:13Speaker 19: time all throughout high school and university to help pay
- 44:16Speaker 19: the bills.
- 44:16Speaker 9: I am a hustler through and through.
- 44:19Speaker 1: I always had a hard time fitting in.
- 44:21Speaker 19: And Survivor presented these larger-than-life characters that were not afraid
- 44:24Speaker 19: of being who they were, even if that meant people
- 44:27Speaker 19: hated them. I love that you have to stand out
- 44:30Speaker 19: or you're cooked. Fans need to know that I am
- 44:33Speaker 19: one of the biggest Survivor dorks to ever be on
- 44:36Speaker 19: this beach. I met my girlfriend through an internet Survivor game.
- 44:40Speaker 19: I go to the conventions. I travel all around. I'm
- 44:42Speaker 19: like Survivor Socrates. a lot of survivor challenges end in
- 44:46Speaker 19: a puzzle it's a great equalizer i'm the level of
- 44:49Speaker 19: good at puzzles that people are gonna be like he's
- 44:51Speaker 19: kind of a freak maybe he's smarter than he seems
- 44:54Speaker 19: i might even have to downplay that a little bit
- 44:57Speaker 19: having seen survivor 50 they have empirical evidence now that
- 45:01Speaker 19: the fans like twins so i am expecting survivor to
- 45:04Speaker 19: throw some crazy stuff at us i'm the type of
- 45:07Speaker 19: player who's not just gonna think outside the box i'm
- 45:09Speaker 19: gonna smash it Fasten it into a weapon and shank
- 45:12Speaker 19: my enemies with it.
- 45:15Speaker 3: What's his name?
- 45:16Speaker 1: Kilby. That's Kilby.
- 45:18Speaker 3: I'm putting Kilby 21.
- 45:20Speaker 1: Wow.
- 45:21Speaker 3: Dead last.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Dead last.
- 45:24Speaker 3: Calling yourself Survivor Socrates. You play the games like a nerd.
- 45:27Speaker 3: You go to conventions. No, dude. Dead last.
- 45:30Speaker 16: Wow.
- 45:31Speaker 5: Wow.
- 45:32Speaker 1: Kilby, the obvious comp that they're trying to do here
- 45:35Speaker 1: is Christian, right? Dude, Kilby's awesome. He obviously knows the game.
- 45:41Speaker 1: He's a super fan, and he goes to the conventions.
- 45:43Speaker 1: That's even more of a super, super fan. He's not
- 45:47Speaker 1: afraid to backstab people and stab his enemies. I think
- 45:50Speaker 1: that he could actually go really far, dude. I'm going
- 45:52Speaker 1: to put him in the number 11 spot. Kilby. I
- 45:55Speaker 1: like that.
- 45:57Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to be voted out first.
- 46:01Speaker 4: I got him at 13.
- 46:03Speaker 1: I'm going 13 for Kilby.
- 46:04Speaker 3: I don't know that he'll be voted out first, but
- 46:06Speaker 3: this is like, My initial reaction to whether I want
- 46:11Speaker 3: to draft them.
- 46:13Speaker 4: It's your draft board that you have in the general
- 46:16Speaker 4: manager's office.
- 46:17Speaker 1: This is who I'm shooting for. And I've got Brad
- 46:20Speaker 1: Pitt doing moneyball shit back here, and that's beef. Right.
- 46:25Speaker 1: Is beef telling you what to do? Maybe. All right,
- 46:28Speaker 1: very good.
- 46:28Speaker 3: I need to hire a woman for my draft. I'll
- 46:30Speaker 3: get on that.
- 46:32Speaker 1: All right, this is... Sorry, go ahead. I was going
- 46:36Speaker 1: to introduce Devin, not Devins. Yes, different. All right, let's
- 46:40Speaker 1: see what Devin's about.
- 46:41Speaker 16: Hi, my name is Devin Way.
- 46:46Speaker 2: I am 33 years old, and I'm from Lufkin, Texas.
- 46:49Speaker 1: I am an actor. I will absolutely be keeping that
- 46:52Speaker 1: a secret.
- 46:52Speaker 16: And I feel like I already have a lot of
- 46:53Speaker 16: bullseyes on my back.
- 46:54Speaker 1: I'm charming.
- 46:55Speaker 5: I'm charismatic.
- 46:56Speaker 4: I'm tall.
- 46:57Speaker 3: I'm big.
- 46:57Speaker 1: I'm handsome.
- 46:58Speaker 16: Or some would say, you know, like there's all these
- 47:01Speaker 16: things going against me.
- 47:02Speaker 2: I think if you don't know me, if you zoomed.
- 47:04Speaker 16: Out and you looked at my life, you'd be like,
- 47:06Speaker 16: Devin went through so many hard things. He was a
- 47:09Speaker 16: biracial kid raised by hillbillies who were drug addicted.
- 47:13Speaker 1: And my grandma was in a biker gang.
- 47:15Speaker 13: A lot of people fear being put in a box.
- 47:17Speaker 16: I fear putting myself in a So if you can
- 47:19Speaker 16: own yourself and own your game, every season of Survivor
- 47:23Speaker 16: that I've watched, when you get to the end, the
- 47:24Speaker 16: jury wants to know more than anything. Did you own
- 47:27Speaker 16: your game? Did you own the choices that you made?
- 47:29Speaker 16: And for me, like, not being careful is about, I
- 47:32Speaker 16: might get to do this just this one time. So
- 47:35Speaker 16: why would I come out here and not do it?
- 47:37Speaker 16: I'm not aquatic at all. I hate the beach dirt.
- 47:40Speaker 2: I don't sleep outside professionally.
- 47:42Speaker 16: I've never really built anything. I don't particularly like coconuts, but...
- 47:47Speaker 16: I really love people and I really love games and
- 47:52Speaker 16: I can pin anything on its head to make it positive.
- 47:54Speaker 16: And if the elements don't kill me, then nothing will.
- 47:57Speaker 16: If Joe and Devin's had a baby, that is what
- 48:02Speaker 16: you're looking at. I'm out there and I'm talking strategy.
- 48:05Speaker 2: I want to be a man of my words. Say
- 48:06Speaker 2: what I'm going to do. Do what I say.
- 48:08Speaker 16: People know that I'm reliable. I wonder if there's a
- 48:11Speaker 16: way to get to the end of this game. having
- 48:13Speaker 16: not lied, having not backstabbed, but having played a super
- 48:17Speaker 16: strategic game. What I've learned from season 50 is to
- 48:20Speaker 16: go slow to go fast. And I think moving forward
- 48:23Speaker 16: in Survivor, what I would like.
- 48:25Speaker 13: To see is people make different choices.
- 48:28Speaker 16: Is there anything creative that we can do as a
- 48:31Speaker 16: player to play in new ways?
- 48:34Speaker 2: This strategy might set me up in flames. I'll go
- 48:36Speaker 2: out up, you know, in a blaze, but at least
- 48:39Speaker 2: I've played.
- 48:39Speaker 16: Whether I'm here for a day or I'm at the
- 48:41Speaker 16: very end, I'm just going to give it my all.
- 48:46Speaker 4: He did the worst thing you could do for Team Brand,
- 48:49Speaker 4: which is mention Joe. I don't want that comp at all.
- 48:53Speaker 1: Go ahead.
- 48:54Speaker 3: It's not just he said Joe. He said, you know
- 48:57Speaker 3: the guys who had a giant feud? If they had
- 48:59Speaker 3: a baby, that's me. I feel like that's different than
- 49:02Speaker 3: saying I'm Joe.
- 49:04Speaker 1: I think he's confused on what he wants to be
- 49:06Speaker 1: because at one point he's saying he wants to do
- 49:08Speaker 1: these crazy things that's never been done before. But then
- 49:10Speaker 1: he also wants to play an honor and integrity game.
- 49:13Speaker 3: Well, he didn't say that. He said I want to
- 49:15Speaker 3: get to the end without lying or cheating.
- 49:20Speaker 1: I say something, I'm going to do it.
- 49:24Speaker 3: I guess I sound bad during that part.
- 49:27Speaker 1: I'm going 21 for Devin. I am as well. Whoa!
- 49:33Speaker 1: We're in lockstep over here.
- 49:36Speaker 3: I guess I'll go 20. I already did. He killed
- 49:39Speaker 3: me at 21.
- 49:40Speaker 1: Tough, tough break for Devin there. That is cumulatively. His
- 49:45Speaker 1: grandma's in a biker gang, though. That's pretty sick. Yeah,
- 49:48Speaker 1: that is sick.
- 49:49Speaker 3: I think he comes across as likable. That's kind of
- 49:52Speaker 3: important in this game.
- 49:54Speaker 1: He comes across humble.
- 49:58Speaker 4: Devin is the lowest player averaged out for us so far.
- 50:03Speaker 3: Lowest ADP at the moment.
- 50:05Speaker 1: If you will. I think that he will remain that way.
- 50:10Speaker 2: All right.
- 50:11Speaker 7: Eric.
- 50:14Speaker 17: I'm Eric.
- 50:15Speaker 5: I'm 34 years old. I'm a licensed clinician and I'm
- 50:18Speaker 5: from Lincoln, Rhode Island. I do individual mental health counseling
- 50:21Speaker 5: for people. I grew up primarily Italian American. It was me,
- 50:25Speaker 5: my mom, my dad, and my two sisters.
- 50:27Speaker 1: It was kind of tough at times.
- 50:28Speaker 5: You know, my dad is a traditional Italian American male.
- 50:32Speaker 2: He takes himself very seriously.
- 50:34Speaker 9: Whenever I would make a mistake.
- 50:35Speaker 1: I will meet with people that aren't, but I don't
- 50:38Speaker 1: like it. Primarily. Yeah, what was up with primarily Italian-American?
- 50:44Speaker 1: What else was it? I don't know.
- 50:45Speaker 5: Primarily.
- 50:46Speaker 1: Primarily.
- 50:48Speaker 2: It was met with anger.
- 50:49Speaker 5: This is the ultimate game of lying and deceit. And
- 50:51Speaker 5: I'm someone with abandonment and rejection wounds. I'm throwing myself
- 50:55Speaker 5: in with the sharks. I remember being eight years old
- 50:58Speaker 5: or so when Survivor first aired. And I just remember
- 51:00Speaker 5: being enthralled with seeing normal human beings, everyday people being
- 51:05Speaker 5: stars on a TV show. And then fast forward, and
- 51:09Speaker 5: it's the pandemic. So I put back on Pearl Island's. Man,
- 51:13Speaker 5: oh man, have I missed this. My intentions are good overall.
- 51:17Speaker 5: I want to make friends with these people. However, if
- 51:20Speaker 5: any of them cross me, that's when the fangs are
- 51:21Speaker 5: going to come out. That's when I'm going to bite
- 51:23Speaker 5: their neck, suck their blood, toss them in the ocean,
- 51:25Speaker 5: and sustain. So to be a great therapist is to
- 51:28Speaker 5: be able to build a rapport in a quick amount
- 51:30Speaker 5: of time.
- 51:31Speaker 1: That was some fucking whiplash.
- 51:32Speaker 13: That is a skill that's... I'm.
- 51:35Speaker 1: Going to suck your blood as a therapist.
- 51:40Speaker 3: Also, I... I have, like, bad abandonment issues. This is
- 51:45Speaker 3: the worst game for you.
- 51:46Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 51:47Speaker 19: Yeah.
- 51:48Speaker 1: I was going to talk about it. Let's let him
- 51:49Speaker 1: finish up. He's aware of it.
- 51:51Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 51:52Speaker 2: I want them to feel that I am aiding them
- 51:53Speaker 2: in their game.
- 51:54Speaker 5: That way they won't be suspect of the truth, which
- 51:57Speaker 5: is me, that I'm the star of the show, that
- 51:58Speaker 5: they're going to help my game.
- 51:59Speaker 2: Because at the end of the day, it's going to
- 52:01Speaker 2: be about me.
- 52:03Speaker 5: Heading into Survivor 51, which I'm going to be calling
- 52:05Speaker 5: 50 Fun, you don't know what to expect. I'm ready
- 52:09Speaker 5: for Jeff to throw everything in the kitchen sink at us.
- 52:12Speaker 1: 50 Fun. Jelly Roll? Jelly Roll?
- 52:19Speaker 4: So here's my concern. Like, clearly, he says it, abandonment issues, right?
- 52:25Speaker 4: He also obviously has done the work. Now he is
- 52:28Speaker 4: a therapist, and that's all well and good. How does
- 52:30Speaker 4: that play out when you're sleep-deprived, when you're hungry on
- 52:35Speaker 4: day 13, day 14, and you haven't had anything to eat,
- 52:38Speaker 4: and someone backstabs you?
- 52:39Speaker 1: That's my concern with Eric.
- 52:42Speaker 4: And so for that, I think he's going to end
- 52:44Speaker 4: up blowing up his own game of About halfway through,
- 52:48Speaker 4: I'm putting him at number 12.
- 52:49Speaker 3: It's higher than I'd have him. I'm putting him at
- 52:52Speaker 3: 19 because I hear the abandonment thing. I mean, it
- 52:56Speaker 3: didn't sound like it was resolved the way that he
- 52:58Speaker 3: said it. And Survivor is not very good for that
- 53:02Speaker 3: sort of thing. So I'm going to put him at 19.
- 53:03Speaker 5: Eric.
- 53:07Speaker 1: In the Patreon chat, I believe it has been mentioned,
- 53:10Speaker 1: this might be one of our Wild and Will, one
- 53:14Speaker 1: of our patrons. I believe this is his friend. He
- 53:17Speaker 1: knows this guy. All right, very cool.
- 53:19Speaker 3: Okay, fine. I'll bump him up to 18.
- 53:23Speaker 1: Okay, you want to do that?
- 53:25Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 53:25Speaker 1: So because of that, and I'm going to bump him
- 53:30Speaker 1: up a little bit, but he seems to be a vampire,
- 53:33Speaker 1: and those don't do well in the sun traditionally. I'm
- 53:36Speaker 1: going 17. Okay.
- 53:40Speaker 7: All right.
- 53:41Speaker 1: I have one higher than you guys.
- 53:43Speaker 3: So we've done less than half of the cast, and
- 53:46Speaker 3: we're about an hour deep. Are we going to go
- 53:48Speaker 3: through this whole thing?
- 53:50Speaker 1: Yeah, let's power through. All right. Yeah, go quick.
- 53:57Speaker 10: Hi, I'm Jelly, like peanut butter and jelly. I am
- 53:59Speaker 10: 29 years old, a sociology professor originally from Garland, Texas,
- 54:05Speaker 10: but now living in Bloomington, Indiana. My friends and family
- 54:08Speaker 10: would describe me as curious, talkative, spontaneous, and fun. Survivor
- 54:14Speaker 10: was a weekly routine with me and my mom and
- 54:16Speaker 10: my grandma. They are Survivor's fans.
- 54:20Speaker 1: We would laugh like, you would never do that.
- 54:22Speaker 2: I'm not outdoorsy. I don't like fish.
- 54:24Speaker 10: And I believed that for a long time, but I
- 54:26Speaker 10: also never thought that I would be a professor teaching
- 54:29Speaker 10: students who are only a couple years younger than me.
- 54:31Speaker 10: I never thought I would have that type of impact
- 54:33Speaker 10: in the world. Never say never. I introduced Survivor into
- 54:37Speaker 10: my class. I love the fact that Survivor was always
- 54:41Speaker 10: a sociology experiment. When you throw random people into a
- 54:44Speaker 10: tribe with no resources, without knowing each other, there's automatically
- 54:48Speaker 10: a hierarchy that takes place.
- 54:49Speaker 13: There are people who lead and there are people who
- 54:51Speaker 13: are following.
- 54:52Speaker 10: Those are family dynamics that I not only teach students
- 54:56Speaker 10: how to observe, how to pinpoint, but I also am
- 54:59Speaker 10: trained in learning. how they form, what role I should
- 55:04Speaker 10: take in the family. That will get me to the millions.
- 55:06Speaker 10: What I'm expecting from 51 is them to go back
- 55:10Speaker 10: to the survivor roots a little bit. Maybe not the
- 55:13Speaker 10: same as we've seen before with Reign, Judy Braun, Healers, Hustlers,
- 55:17Speaker 10: but I wouldn't be surprised if they brought back some
- 55:19Speaker 10: of those theme elements.
- 55:21Speaker 2: Survivors.
- 55:22Speaker 13: Anything I know.
- 55:24Speaker 10: To exist is the biggest challenge one can put themselves through.
- 55:28Speaker 2: I want the challenge.
- 55:29Speaker 13: I want to be humbled.
- 55:31Speaker 10: I want to be confronted with like my biggest weaknesses
- 55:34Speaker 10: so I can grow from them.
- 55:36Speaker 13: I just know that I'll leave here a completely different
- 55:39Speaker 13: person for the better. I can't believe I'm here.
- 55:42Speaker 10: This feels so surreal. For the last month or so,
- 55:45Speaker 10: Survivor is ready. It's like natural now.
- 55:50Speaker 4: Um, that she'd reminded me of the fact that this
- 55:52Speaker 4: is supposed to be a three, uh, tribe season going
- 55:56Speaker 4: back to that.
- 55:57Speaker 1: So 21 is seven on each tribe. So we probably
- 56:00Speaker 1: won't see.
- 56:01Speaker 4: Someone go home right away or go to a religion island,
- 56:04Speaker 4: but something to think about.
- 56:05Speaker 1: I love jelly.
- 56:06Speaker 4: I think jelly is a star. I think jelly has
- 56:08Speaker 4: got really great energy about her. I think she's got
- 56:10Speaker 4: winter energy about her. Um, like kind of reminds me
- 56:15Speaker 4: of a D that like lights up the room, uh, is,
- 56:19Speaker 4: has really good leadership qualities. I think also is just
- 56:22Speaker 4: really good with people. I'm, I'm, I'm going, I'm going
- 56:24Speaker 4: number one jelly.
- 56:26Speaker 1: Whoa.
- 56:26Speaker 3: Number one. I like jelly a lot. But Jelly, she
- 56:33Speaker 3: feels like the kind of person that I would take
- 56:35Speaker 3: first and get really upset when she goes home in
- 56:37Speaker 3: the second episode. Sure.
- 56:39Speaker 1: 100%.
- 56:42Speaker 3: But I do think that there's a world where Jelly
- 56:45Speaker 3: rolls over the competition. I'm going to put Jelly at
- 56:48Speaker 3: number three.
- 56:50Speaker 1: Okay.
- 56:50Speaker 4: Great.
- 56:51Speaker 5: Oh, wait.
- 56:51Speaker 3: I already put.
- 56:52Speaker 1: Carter at three.
- 56:52Speaker 3: Jelly number two.
- 56:53Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 56:54Speaker 1: I just realized that.
- 56:55Speaker 3: Jelly two.
- 56:55Speaker 5: Okay.
- 56:57Speaker 1: Jelly, obviously very intelligent. You said D. I'm getting kind
- 57:00Speaker 1: of Angelina vibes. I think that she could provide some,
- 57:04Speaker 1: while being intelligent, some ditzy moments or some interesting social...
- 57:09Speaker 1: Can I have your jacket?
- 57:10Speaker 3: Angelina's a psycho. She doesn't seem like a psychopath.
- 57:14Speaker 1: We don't know yet. We haven't got to see her
- 57:15Speaker 1: too much. I'm doing Jelly 7.
- 57:17Speaker 3: Okay.
- 57:17Speaker 5: Okay.
- 57:20Speaker 1: All right, I like that. All right, Jenna, she's back.
- 57:24Speaker 1: Back-to-back seasons.
- 57:26Speaker 3: Yeah, take her, Chase.
- 57:28Speaker 1: I'm Jenna.
- 57:29Speaker 20: I'm a wedding photographer and I'm from Toledo, Ohio. I
- 57:32Speaker 20: think the fans need to know this is my destiny.
- 57:35Speaker 20: All of the wedding photography contracts I've sent out for
- 57:38Speaker 20: the last five years, I have included a survivor's log.
- 57:41Speaker 9: Like it literally says, I have every intention to photograph
- 57:43Speaker 9: your wedding.
- 57:44Speaker 20: But if I achieve my lifelong dream of going on
- 57:46Speaker 20: the show Survivor, like I'm not going to be there.
- 57:48Speaker 1: That's awesome.
- 57:48Speaker 20: My friends and family would describe me as energetic, empathetic, and...
- 57:54Speaker 20: Here I am in a game where you have to
- 57:56Speaker 20: literally prioritize yourself in order to win. And all of
- 58:00Speaker 20: my family before coming out here was just like, you
- 58:03Speaker 20: cannot think about killing anyone else's dream. You have to
- 58:05Speaker 20: be thinking about your dream. I think you have to
- 58:08Speaker 20: recognize that everyone came out here to play the game.
- 58:11Speaker 20: And I love games. The love of Survivor is baked
- 58:13Speaker 20: so deeply into me. I started watching Survivor when I
- 58:17Speaker 20: was like a little girl. My family always watched it.
- 58:20Speaker 20: I would make up my own immunity challenges watching the
- 58:23Speaker 20: players and watching them go through this journey and root
- 58:25Speaker 20: for them and see their moments of transformation. I feel
- 58:28Speaker 20: like the finale episode is like literally Christmas to me.
- 58:31Speaker 9: I think I'll be.
- 58:32Speaker 20: Good at connecting with people and I think They might
- 58:36Speaker 20: underestimate me as a cutie little artist, adorable girl. I
- 58:40Speaker 20: hope they do because I have been preparing for this
- 58:44Speaker 20: like it's my destiny. I am playing this game for me,
- 58:47Speaker 20: the version that has dreamed of this.
- 58:49Speaker 14: And I just want to say, fam, we made it.
- 58:51Speaker 20: My fears about season 51 are that it's a whole
- 58:55Speaker 20: new era of Survivor. I feel like there's going to
- 58:58Speaker 20: be so much going our way that we can't possibly predict.
- 59:02Speaker 13: We'll plan for it.
- 59:03Speaker 9: You should just prepare to be amazed.
- 59:06Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about that cutie little art. Let's
- 59:09Speaker 1: talk about that. cutie little artist, adorable girl.
- 59:13Speaker 3: What about Jonathan Wright's wife, Kristen?
- 59:16Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Whoa.
- 59:18Speaker 10: That's crazy.
- 59:22Speaker 3: I really like the clause in her, whatever, her email
- 59:28Speaker 3: that she sends out to everybody. Because that reminded me
- 59:31Speaker 3: of when I was 16 and I went to get
- 59:33Speaker 3: a job at Papa John's. And in the interview, they
- 59:36Speaker 3: asked me, are you willing to work the Super Bowl?
- 59:39Speaker 3: And I said, the Steelers have a really good roster
- 59:41Speaker 3: this year. And they said, well, you'll have to do it.
- 59:49Speaker 3: And I said, oh, okay. But in my head, I
- 59:51Speaker 3: was like, if we make the divisional round, I put
- 59:54Speaker 3: my two weeks notice in.
- 59:55Speaker 1: 100%. 100%.
- 59:59Speaker 3: I like her for that reason. I'm going to put
- 1:00:00Speaker 3: her number 15.
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Okay. I was expecting higher. Actually, you know what?
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: Nine.
- 1:00:06Speaker 6: Okay.
- 1:00:06Speaker 3: I'm going to put her nine. Nine.
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: Wow.
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: Big jump up.
- 1:00:08Speaker 4: I've got her coming in at eight. I think she's
- 1:00:10Speaker 4: going to be solid. I could see her going pretty far.
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: Jenna seems really solid. I'm going to put her at 12.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: All right. All right, Kristen Wright. Let's see. Hi, I'm Kristen.
- 1:00:24Speaker 25: I am 49 years old. I'm from Santa Barbara, California,
- 1:00:28Speaker 25: and I am a crisis consultant. I'm going to crisis
- 1:00:30Speaker 25: because I am so cool, calm, and collective. Stuff can
- 1:00:34Speaker 25: be going really wild all around me, but I'm in
- 1:00:37Speaker 25: the center of whatever is going on with my feet
- 1:00:39Speaker 25: planted right under me, and I'm triaging.
- 1:00:41Speaker 13: Fix this, fix that. My last name actually means one
- 1:00:44Speaker 13: who fixed it.
- 1:00:45Speaker 25: My friends and family would describe me as agitating.
- 1:00:48Speaker 13: Maybe, I don't know.
- 1:00:49Speaker 25: Also, I love Navy. My friends and family really love it.
- 1:00:53Speaker 25: I grew up a queer kid in Idaho in the 90s.
- 1:00:55Speaker 25: Went to law school because I wanted to serve my community.
- 1:00:58Speaker 25: Found out that wasn't the way I was going to serve.
- 1:01:00Speaker 25: Got into nonprofits. I've been working for the LGBTQ community
- 1:01:04Speaker 25: for 25 years.
- 1:01:05Speaker 13: The same amount of.
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: What did that say? IQ 125 superior? Did they add that?
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: Or did she superimpose that on the footage that she
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: sent them? Yeah, was that like B-roll and they couldn't
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: take it off? IQ 125 superior. That's hilarious. Do it
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: that way, you will, folks.
- 1:01:23Speaker 13: Time that I've been applying for Survivor. Coincidence?
- 1:01:26Speaker 25: I think not. My motivation to come out and play Survivor,
- 1:01:29Speaker 25: it has been a calling for a really long time
- 1:01:31Speaker 25: since I saw that first episode. It reached into my
- 1:01:35Speaker 25: chest and grabbed me and was like.
- 1:01:36Speaker 13: You got to play this game!
- 1:01:38Speaker 25: Actually, every time I saw someone like me on Survivor, Amy, Scout...
- 1:01:43Speaker 25: Those were important characters to me because there were not
- 1:01:46Speaker 25: a lot of places that I saw myself reflected. What
- 1:01:48Speaker 25: has kept me coming back over and over is a
- 1:01:51Speaker 25: combination of how you're going to do against the elements,
- 1:01:54Speaker 25: how you're going to do against other people, and how
- 1:01:55Speaker 25: you're going to do against yourself. And I am going
- 1:01:58Speaker 25: to show up with everything I possibly can to have.
- 1:02:02Speaker 13: The most fun.
- 1:02:03Speaker 25: When I am miserable in that shelter at night and
- 1:02:05Speaker 25: it is cold and wet, mark my words, I will
- 1:02:07Speaker 25: be laughing because I am in Fiji playing Mother Survivor.
- 1:02:12Speaker 25: I have a ton of thoughts about season 51. I'm
- 1:02:13Speaker 25: especially excited to be here for this moment, for this season.
- 1:02:17Speaker 25: This adventure of a lifetime. It is this journey of
- 1:02:21Speaker 25: self exploration. It is a social experiment.
- 1:02:25Speaker 13: It is a community.
- 1:02:26Speaker 25: I've heard at times it's even a monster. For some
- 1:02:31Speaker 25: of us out here, it is a new found passion.
- 1:02:35Speaker 25: For others of us, it is a decades long obsession.
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: Fascinating this could be a coach.
- 1:02:48Speaker 3: I don't think so coach i don't think coach i
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: think kristin has maybe the best occupation you could have
- 1:02:56Speaker 3: for going on survivor being a crisis counselor.
- 1:02:59Speaker 24: Is that what she said that's right uh survivor is
- 1:03:03Speaker 24: just one big crisis so i'm gonna put uh kristin
- 1:03:06Speaker 24: at number five i mean i already have someone at
- 1:03:08Speaker 24: five six kristin at six.
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: I do really like Kristen. Yeah, I think I might.
- 1:03:17Speaker 7: Put her three.
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: I really like Kristen. I think she could go far.
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: I think she's awesome, but I am getting coach vibes.
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: I'm going to do 10. Wow. Okay.
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: Coach vibes is interesting.
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: We'll see. That is interesting.
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: I don't know if I got that.
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: I just think very confident. Seems very intelligent, but I
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: think she could get out.
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: There and she could.
- 1:03:45Speaker 4: That's why you're missing the superior part.
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: I think she could get out there and put her
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: foot in her mouth a lot, potentially.
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: So you think 125 inferior?
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: I just think that saying that you have a superior
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: IQ of 125 is a very coach thing to do. Yeah,
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: let me talk. I got 125 superior, if you don't mind.
- 1:04:06Speaker 3: Could you imagine Coach as a crisis counselor? He'd be like, hey,
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: let me give you a haiku for your mental breakdown.
- 1:04:16Speaker 4: I'm reminded of what the ancient Chinese warriors would say
- 1:04:20Speaker 4: in a situation like this. All right, we've got, I believe,
- 1:04:23Speaker 4: nine left. Chase, you're the only one that has not
- 1:04:26Speaker 4: filled out their one or two.
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been saving the top ten. You think the
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: best is yet to come.
- 1:04:32Speaker 3: Wait, so you have to make all of these people
- 1:04:34Speaker 3: your top ten?
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: Yeah. Not necessarily.
- 1:04:37Speaker 4: You have one, two, five, six, nine left in your
- 1:04:41Speaker 4: top ten, Chase.
- 1:04:42Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: All right, let's see what happens.
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: Lewis.
- 1:04:47Speaker 13: What's the story, lads?
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: My name is Lewis.
- 1:04:49Speaker 26: I am 28 years old and I'm an Irish farmer
- 1:04:52Speaker 26: living in Puerto Rico.
- 1:04:54Speaker 13: Everyone loves a cheeky Irish person. We have great craft.
- 1:04:58Speaker 13: We have the best banter.
- 1:05:00Speaker 26: I married my beautiful Puerto Rican wife and we're living
- 1:05:03Speaker 26: on a tiny little school bus.
- 1:05:05Speaker 13: Together on our farm. I've always craved adventure. I didn't
- 1:05:09Speaker 13: speak a lick of Spanish.
- 1:05:10Speaker 26: I didn't know how to farm. I've never been in
- 1:05:12Speaker 26: a hot climate before. That is a bit of the
- 1:05:14Speaker 26: spark of life. The uncertainty, the not knowing what's coming next,
- 1:05:19Speaker 26: and that is more or less Survivor in a nutshell.
- 1:05:22Speaker 26: My friends and family would describe me as chaotic, mischievous, cheeky,
- 1:05:27Speaker 26: but great crack. I emigrated a couple of years ago,
- 1:05:31Speaker 26: and the first show I saw was Survivor 44. That
- 1:05:34Speaker 26: was Carolyn and Jam Jam's season. And from the second
- 1:05:37Speaker 26: I did, I was.
- 1:05:39Speaker 2: I'm a lunatic.
- 1:05:41Speaker 13: I crave just chaos. This is a once in a
- 1:05:44Speaker 13: lifetime opportunity. I don't want to waste this.
- 1:05:47Speaker 26: I've heard time and time again, lay low at the
- 1:05:50Speaker 26: start of the game, be quiet, don't.
- 1:05:52Speaker 13: Talk too much. And I'm wondering how.
- 1:05:54Speaker 26: Well I could take that advice because sometimes I do
- 1:05:57Speaker 26: like to push a button or two. Sometimes I like
- 1:06:00Speaker 26: to get in on the bit of drama that's going on.
- 1:06:03Speaker 26: The way I see it, season 51... This is an
- 1:06:06Speaker 26: evolutionary point of Survivor.
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: There's no rules.
- 1:06:09Speaker 13: There's no concrete thing set in stone. I could bullshit
- 1:06:12Speaker 13: a million things, and no one's going to know any better.
- 1:06:16Speaker 13: They're going to melt when they hear my accent. Just
- 1:06:19Speaker 13: bring a bit of that charm, PG. Bob's your uncle.
- 1:06:22Speaker 13: Mary's your auntie.
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: Wow. How about that?
- 1:06:26Speaker 4: Hey, you thought the people were mad about Bad Bunny
- 1:06:29Speaker 4: and the Super Bowl. Wait until the Irish Puerto Rican
- 1:06:33Speaker 4: wins Survivor.
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: I love that. Hey, Lewis is what I've been waiting for.
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: Number two, baby.
- 1:06:41Speaker 5: Wow.
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: But here's the thing. He reminds me of a Christian
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: where it's like, you're perfect. You're too perfect.
- 1:06:48Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: Nope. This is a new Survivor legend in the make,
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: and Lewis, I might draft him number one. So he's
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: number two on my list just in case someone crazy
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: pops up. I really like Lewis. I agree.
- 1:06:59Speaker 4: I think he might be a little too likable to
- 1:07:02Speaker 4: win the whole season.
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: He's going to be one of those.
- 1:07:05Speaker 4: Guys that makes it to the top six, top five,
- 1:07:09Speaker 4: and they go, we can't let him make it to finals.
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: So we've got to get him out now. So I'm
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: throwing him in at number five.
- 1:07:18Speaker 3: Because of me thinking that he's too perfect, I would
- 1:07:22Speaker 3: be tempted to put him pretty low, like I had
- 1:07:24Speaker 3: Christian on my season 50 rankings. I had Christian pretty low.
- 1:07:29Speaker 3: But there's one thing that he did, which is bring
- 1:07:32Speaker 3: up Carolyn and and jam and he excluded Carson. And
- 1:07:37Speaker 3: so that makes me like him. I'm going to put
- 1:07:39Speaker 3: him at 11.
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: All right. Very nice.
- 1:07:42Speaker 3: Very good.
- 1:07:43Speaker 4: I like that your camera zoomed out and zoomed in
- 1:07:45Speaker 4: while you're making that point. It was very, uh, Lenia.
- 1:07:51Speaker 13: My name is Linnea.
- 1:07:52Speaker 2: I'm five.
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: I'm from New Jersey.
- 1:07:55Speaker 22: I own a lingerie and adult toy business with my brother.
- 1:07:59Speaker 22: I am outgoing, social, goofy, really not afraid to be weird.
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: With your brother? What the hell? With your brother? It's business.
- 1:08:08Speaker 22: Stop doing that.
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: The Lannister Family Adult Store.
- 1:08:12Speaker 22: And I'm super logical. My mom's a scientist. I grew
- 1:08:16Speaker 22: up being ingrained with the scientific method. I do not
- 1:08:19Speaker 22: live in the la-la land of like astrology. I work
- 1:08:22Speaker 22: in sales. I sell intimate things to uncomfortable and nervous people.
- 1:08:28Speaker 22: I'm proud of how many women come in and they're like,
- 1:08:30Speaker 22: this is the first time I've been in a store
- 1:08:31Speaker 22: like this. There's books and lingerie. It's not just like sailing.
- 1:08:34Speaker 22: It's a whole different vibe. It's been a problem in
- 1:08:36Speaker 22: my personal life, for sure. My parents are not huge fans.
- 1:08:41Speaker 22: They've hit it from everyone they possibly know.
- 1:08:44Speaker 13: Well, now it's on TV.
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: Shut up.
- 1:08:49Speaker 22: Survivor has been my family's show since I was a kid.
- 1:08:53Speaker 13: I grew up with two brothers.
- 1:08:55Speaker 22: There's been discussion of who would last the longest.
- 1:08:58Speaker 13: We all were advocating for ourselves, and my mom was.
- 1:09:00Speaker 9: Like, everyone will do great in their own way.
- 1:09:02Speaker 22: Being yourself on the show is important because you're truly
- 1:09:05Speaker 22: bare bones out there.
- 1:09:07Speaker 13: We're in the jungle.
- 1:09:08Speaker 22: You can't really hide your emotions.
- 1:09:09Speaker 13: You're not eating.
- 1:09:10Speaker 22: You're not sleeping. I can't pretend to be someone else
- 1:09:12Speaker 22: that I'm not. My older brother thinks I need to lock.
- 1:09:14Speaker 9: Onto the guys because I'm flirty.
- 1:09:17Speaker 13: And he's really worried I'm going to get injured.
- 1:09:18Speaker 22: I go really hard in sports, and so I need
- 1:09:20Speaker 22: to chill a little bit. I just dislocated my hand
- 1:09:23Speaker 22: six months ago, broke my fingers in rugby. Other than that,
- 1:09:27Speaker 22: he thinks I'm gonna do great. I'm here because I
- 1:09:29Speaker 22: say yes to things even when I'm scared. I say
- 1:09:31Speaker 22: yes to things that are a big challenge or that
- 1:09:32Speaker 22: will make me super uncomfortable. 51 is gonna be interesting.
- 1:09:36Speaker 22: I don't know what they're gonna throw at us, and
- 1:09:37Speaker 22: I'm excited about it. Me being logical is taking into
- 1:09:40Speaker 22: account all of these uncontrollable, irrational, kooky players, some of
- 1:09:45Speaker 22: which like astrology.
- 1:09:47Speaker 9: I am feeling so excited.
- 1:09:49Speaker 13: I'm tired of waiting.
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. I'm ready for it to start.
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: Man, hates astrology. We get it. I like Linnea a lot.
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: I used to be dismissive of astrology, but I love
- 1:10:03Speaker 3: Mary too much. Mary's super into astrology, so I have
- 1:10:07Speaker 3: to be accepting of it just because of how much
- 1:10:10Speaker 3: I love Mary. But I do like Linnea a lot.
- 1:10:13Speaker 3: She feels like a dangerous woman.
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: Yeah, Linnea, the queen of sex toys and snowboards, number
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: five for me. Yeah, I kind of.
- 1:10:23Speaker 4: kicking myself a little bit having my top six filled
- 1:10:25Speaker 4: already so i gotta put out seven but i uh
- 1:10:29Speaker 4: yeah i feel good about her she seems like she
- 1:10:31Speaker 4: could go strong but also um i hate her parents
- 1:10:34Speaker 4: you got two kids that own a store together and
- 1:10:37Speaker 4: you don't tell anyone about it forget you guys get
- 1:10:40Speaker 4: over yourselves.
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: Be proud of your kids and what they're doing two
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: of your kids.
- 1:10:45Speaker 4: Are working together they're entrepreneurs they own a business together
- 1:10:48Speaker 4: and you don't tell anyone about it forget you.
- 1:10:53Speaker 3: If it was just one kid doing it, do you
- 1:10:55Speaker 3: think they'd tell people about it? Do you think it's
- 1:10:57Speaker 3: the added element of my two kids?
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: It's two out of our three kids. Yeah. Petey, you
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: said you really like her. What number are you going?
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: I'm going to go– I only have one more spot
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: in my top five, so I'm going to put her seven.
- 1:11:13Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: I knew we were going to have some big hitters
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: at the end here. All right, Maggie.
- 1:11:18Speaker 8: Maggie.
- 1:11:21Speaker 14: My name is Maggie and I'm 40. I am from
- 1:11:25Speaker 14: West Virginia and I'm a farmer. I wanted to be
- 1:11:27Speaker 14: a farmer for a while.
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: How do farmers this season?
- 1:11:33Speaker 14: I am a jack of all trades. I'm athletic. I
- 1:11:36Speaker 14: also have a therapy degree, so I know how to
- 1:11:38Speaker 14: like work people. And I'm also a teacher. I started
- 1:11:41Speaker 14: homeschooling during COVID.
- 1:11:42Speaker 4: It's awesome.
- 1:11:43Speaker 14: They're excelling and we really appreciate our time together. I
- 1:11:46Speaker 14: hope I'm their favorite player of the season.
- 1:11:49Speaker 13: We'll see.
- 1:11:50Speaker 14: I've been watching literally since I was 15. And then
- 1:11:52Speaker 14: even like when I went through postpartum depression, it was
- 1:11:54Speaker 14: like Survivor was on. It just looked like they were
- 1:11:56Speaker 14: taking on the world. And I'm so excited to be
- 1:12:00Speaker 14: able to do that. My husband apprehends it. He thinks
- 1:12:03Speaker 14: I'm a little crazy, but I am.
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: He knows that.
- 1:12:06Speaker 14: Like my parents literally told him when he asked to
- 1:12:08Speaker 14: marry me, like, are you sure?
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: She's a lot.
- 1:12:13Speaker 14: I'm a lifetime hunter and fisher on my license. I'm
- 1:12:16Speaker 14: hoping to maybe catch a shark, catch some fish. I
- 1:12:19Speaker 14: hope to even make fire without flint. I have a
- 1:12:21Speaker 14: lot of goals.
- 1:12:23Speaker 2: I can't wait to see Jeff on the beach.
- 1:12:25Speaker 14: Oh, it's going to be so fun.
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 1:12:28Speaker 14: It's going to be so surreal. And I hope that
- 1:12:30Speaker 14: Jeff wants to compete in challenges again because that was awesome.
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: Who made this challenge? This is barbaric.
- 1:12:37Speaker 14: Survivor 51, so be crazy. I think it's going to
- 1:12:40Speaker 14: just be absolutely nuts. 100% blindside. And I'm here for
- 1:12:45Speaker 14: all of it. I don't really register fear. I think
- 1:12:48Speaker 14: fear is only as large as you make it. I
- 1:12:51Speaker 14: asked my husband, Dave, would you pray for me when
- 1:12:54Speaker 14: I go on Survivor? And he said, I'm going to
- 1:12:56Speaker 14: pray for them.
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: That's a pretty baller line to end on.
- 1:13:01Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fun actually.
- 1:13:02Speaker 5: Guys.
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of people from the country.
- 1:13:04Speaker 20: Farmers.
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of people from the city. Is
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: this a theme season?
- 1:13:08Speaker 3: I think you're onto something.
- 1:13:11Speaker 4: Like, farmers or southern or something could be a really fun.
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: City folk versus country folk?
- 1:13:19Speaker 3: Farm versus 125 IQ versus something.
- 1:13:23Speaker 4: How do you do the three tribes, though?
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: Do we know for certain that it's three tribes? We don't.
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: I think it's pretty much... I've.
- 1:13:34Speaker 3: Seen rumors that we're going to have two tribes. Okay.
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: It's open era. Anything's up in the air. Country versus
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: city is really fun.
- 1:13:43Speaker 18: Yeah.
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: Jacob C. in the chat said they're finally doing Republican
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: versus Democrat. Trad wife versus, I don't know. I'm just
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: going to throw her at 15 and call it a day.
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: I'm going to put her in 14, so I'm in
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: the same realm.
- 1:14:03Speaker 3: Put her at 12.
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: I'm Mike Kennedy.
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: I'm 32 years old.
- 1:14:06Speaker 11: I'm the assistant director of baseball operations for New York City.
- 1:14:09Speaker 11: I advise our general manager on players to trade for,
- 1:14:12Speaker 11: players to find.
- 1:14:13Speaker 3: This is who I texted Dan about.
- 1:14:16Speaker 11: Ultimately, my job is to make recommendations to help win
- 1:14:18Speaker 11: the World Series. My parents had these really difficult childhoods.
- 1:14:22Speaker 11: When they finally had a little bit of means, they
- 1:14:24Speaker 11: really deposited it into my life. I have been watching
- 1:14:27Speaker 11: and playing Survivor since I was eight years old. We
- 1:14:30Speaker 11: would make up challenges. We would take turns being Jeff.
- 1:14:32Speaker 11: We would vote each other out. I am someone who
- 1:14:36Speaker 11: shoots for these seemingly impossible to reach targets. I got
- 1:14:39Speaker 11: into Princeton. I got my dream job. I married my
- 1:14:41Speaker 11: high school sweetheart, my high school crush. And it took
- 1:14:44Speaker 11: a lot of hard work. It took a ton of
- 1:14:46Speaker 11: effort to get there. My mom used to always say,
- 1:14:49Speaker 11: everybody has something to offer. You're not necessarily going to
- 1:14:51Speaker 11: have an alliance of all one type of person. To
- 1:14:54Speaker 11: the extent possible, I would love to have Alliance members
- 1:14:56Speaker 11: that actually bring me the info and we can work
- 1:14:59Speaker 11: on it together. Great players. They are not simply social players.
- 1:15:03Speaker 11: They are not simply physical players. They have every tool
- 1:15:07Speaker 11: in the toolkit. My expectations for 51 are through the roof.
- 1:15:10Speaker 11: I know that Jeff is gonna throw some weird stuff
- 1:15:12Speaker 11: at us. I know that it's gonna be interesting.
- 1:15:14Speaker 2: I'm on my toes.
- 1:15:15Speaker 11: I'm ready for what Jeff has in store.
- 1:15:17Speaker 9: Unfortunately for you, I am on my game today. I
- 1:15:20Speaker 9: don't do anything for second place.
- 1:15:22Speaker 11: I'm here to win the game.
- 1:15:23Speaker 1: Period.
- 1:15:24Speaker 13: Full stop.
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: Mike gives me douche energy.
- 1:15:33Speaker 3: He gives me going home early energy.
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:15:38Speaker 3: And also, fuck the Yankees.
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: Sorry, Dan. The people in the chat are saying, you know,
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: he's talking a lot about his struggles, but he's never
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: personally struggled. He works hard, but he hasn't had to
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: actually struggle.
- 1:15:49Speaker 3: He works for the fucking Yankees.
- 1:15:51Speaker 27: Yeah.
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: I'm going to put him... What's his name? Mike?
- 1:15:55Speaker 13: Mike.
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: I'm going to put Mike at 20.
- 1:15:57Speaker 3: Putting Mike at 19, because I already have 20 and
- 1:16:02Speaker 3: 21 taken.
- 1:16:03Speaker 1: There you go.
- 1:16:04Speaker 4: So that means Devin is our lowest, followed by Mike,
- 1:16:09Speaker 4: by average.
- 1:16:10Speaker 3: But this could change. We're going to do the preseason extravaganza.
- 1:16:13Speaker 3: We're going to dig into these people more. Our opinions
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: could evolve a lot.
- 1:16:17Speaker 4: We're going to dig deep. We're going to dig deeper
- 1:16:20Speaker 4: into these players. We're going to get to sit with
- 1:16:22Speaker 4: these players for longer.
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: So none of this is binding.
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: We haven't even heard from Mike Bloom yet.
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: We have not.
- 1:16:29Speaker 2: That's true.
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: We have not. That's true. All right, Ori.
- 1:16:34Speaker 5: What's up, guys?
- 1:16:35Speaker 3: My name is Ori.
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: I'm 27.
- 1:16:36Speaker 27: I'm from Spring Valley, New York. I'm a model and
- 1:16:38Speaker 27: a fitness coach. I'm a pretty big dude, man.
- 1:16:41Speaker 5: 6'3.
- 1:16:41Speaker 27: 2.30, 2.35 on a good day, depending on how good
- 1:16:45Speaker 27: I eat, and I like to eat.
- 1:16:46Speaker 13: I'm a book smart, I'm a speed smart, and I'm
- 1:16:48Speaker 13: a former pro athlete.
- 1:16:48Speaker 27: So it's one of those things where like, I.
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: Am made for survival.
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: Friends and family can describe me as consistent.
- 1:16:53Speaker 27: Never too high, never too low, and they can always
- 1:16:56Speaker 27: expect me to be the person that's looking at half full.
- 1:16:59Speaker 13: Growing up, I was pretty athletic. Played a lot of sports.
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: Went to Division I.
- 1:17:03Speaker 13: I hold an NCAA record.
- 1:17:04Speaker 27: Before Travis Hunter and these other guys, I was like
- 1:17:06Speaker 27: the only player in this century to score a touchdown
- 1:17:08Speaker 27: on offense and defense in the same game. Football's been
- 1:17:11Speaker 27: really good to me. I still miss it a little bit.
- 1:17:13Speaker 27: The competitive fire, get gritty. Being out here in the
- 1:17:16Speaker 27: mud and the sand, it feels like old times. To
- 1:17:19Speaker 27: be on TV, I'm not playing for the experience. I'm
- 1:17:21Speaker 27: not playing to make friends. I'm playing to win a
- 1:17:23Speaker 27: million dollars and change my family's life. My goal has
- 1:17:25Speaker 27: always been to take care of my mom. She's been
- 1:17:27Speaker 27: there for me at all times. She's always been my protector.
- 1:17:29Speaker 27: So this million dollars will retire my mom. It would
- 1:17:32Speaker 27: mean accomplishing a life goal to take care and repay
- 1:17:34Speaker 27: the woman that's done everything for me. I'm a type
- 1:17:37Speaker 27: A person. I'm going to nod my eyes and cross
- 1:17:39Speaker 27: my T's. A lot of my success was from doing
- 1:17:41Speaker 27: the dirty work. I've seen so many seasons right now
- 1:17:43Speaker 27: that I could probably name all the Survivor seasons 1
- 1:17:46Speaker 27: through 40, backwards, forwards, because.
- 1:17:48Speaker 13: I've been doing my homework. I want to play with
- 1:17:50Speaker 13: women because, again, as a student of the game, six
- 1:17:52Speaker 13: of the last eight, nine.
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: Winners were women.
- 1:17:56Speaker 27: If it was going to be for a model, it.
- 1:17:57Speaker 13: Has to be. It's coming off the back of 50,
- 1:17:59Speaker 13: but a bunch of legends, if the past is any indicator,
- 1:18:02Speaker 13: Survivor's only been getting stronger.
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: Faster, harder.
- 1:18:05Speaker 13: Rock the guns. I'm getting ready to walk out that tunnel.
- 1:18:07Speaker 13: It's building up. It's building up. It's the calm before
- 1:18:09Speaker 13: the storm.
- 1:18:10Speaker 27: I can definitely feel the heat. You can hear the waves,
- 1:18:12Speaker 27: but I can feel it. I'm ready to step off
- 1:18:14Speaker 27: that beach and attack. Controlled aggression. Controlled moves. Controlled smarts.
- 1:18:18Speaker 27: Controlled competitiveness.
- 1:18:19Speaker 13: I'm in game mode.
- 1:18:20Speaker 4: I'm locked in.
- 1:18:21Speaker 20: Woo!
- 1:18:22Speaker 7: Ori!
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: I like Ori. Ori reminds me of a lot of
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: people I grew up with. I feel like I know
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: a lot of people like Ori. At first, I was thinking....
- 1:18:33Speaker 11: Right, right.
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that happened all the time growing up.
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: I was at first thinking, because I don't have that
- 1:18:39Speaker 1: many spaces open, I was thinking either 16 or 18.
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: But then, he knows game, dude. When he started talking
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: about Survivor, I was like, he actually really knows what
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: Survivor is. he's talking about i'm putting him at the
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: number nine spot.
- 1:18:54Speaker 3: Yeah i also have women are better.
- 1:18:56Speaker 4: Yeah yeah i also have yeah i got him at
- 1:19:00Speaker 4: nine for that reason actually like i think he's like
- 1:19:04Speaker 4: a survivor fanboy, but doesn't give off that energy. And
- 1:19:09Speaker 4: that's like, it's like Jondre. If Jondre, potentially, if Jondre
- 1:19:15Speaker 4: was also good at gameplay, how far could he go?
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: What could he do?
- 1:19:19Speaker 4: I think Ori is going to give us our best
- 1:19:22Speaker 4: chance at looking at that. I'm going to put him
- 1:19:23Speaker 4: at my highest spot that I have available, which is nine,
- 1:19:26Speaker 4: but I could see him going further.
- 1:19:28Speaker 1: Yeah, same here.
- 1:19:29Speaker 3: I'm going to put him at my highest spot too,
- 1:19:31Speaker 3: which is four.
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: Very good. All right.
- 1:19:35Speaker 4: We're all high on Ori. It's time for the pits.
- 1:19:38Speaker 4: I mean, Pat's double T Pat.
- 1:19:44Speaker 16: I am Pat.
- 1:19:44Speaker 21: I'm 33 years old. I am a Navy attorney and
- 1:19:47Speaker 21: I live.
- 1:19:47Speaker 10: In Washington, D.C.
- 1:19:49Speaker 1: A Navy attorney. That's like the show Jag. Like Jag.
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: Pat's Jag. Yeah, she's like NCIS.
- 1:19:57Speaker 21: I prosecuted the Navy's most serious crimes. I am pretty nerdy.
- 1:20:01Speaker 21: I grew up homeschooled.
- 1:20:03Speaker 10: I am the first.
- 1:20:03Speaker 21: Woman in our family to go into the military. I'm
- 1:20:06Speaker 21: proud of my husband and my dad and my brother.
- 1:20:08Speaker 13: My whole family.
- 1:20:10Speaker 3: When she said I'm the first woman in my family,
- 1:20:12Speaker 3: I was going to say, there's no way that's possible.
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: That's great. Congratulations, Pat. That's incredible.
- 1:20:23Speaker 18: Oh, man.
- 1:20:23Speaker 25: For the service.
- 1:20:24Speaker 21: I've seen the things that my family members have gone through,
- 1:20:28Speaker 21: especially my husband. He's deploying six months out of the year.
- 1:20:32Speaker 21: I'm here on Survivor because I want to challenge myself.
- 1:20:34Speaker 9: I'm not a super fan.
- 1:20:36Speaker 21: I haven't been watching since the beginning. And frankly, I
- 1:20:39Speaker 21: watched a season during the pandemic, was like, I have
- 1:20:42Speaker 21: to be on this, and applied five years later. It
- 1:20:45Speaker 21: is so easy to be underestimated in the courtroom. Not
- 1:20:49Speaker 21: just the fact that I'm a woman, not just the
- 1:20:51Speaker 21: fact that I'm blonde, but also my personality. I'll be
- 1:20:53Speaker 21: friends with you right until we hit the courtroom. It's
- 1:20:56Speaker 21: the same thing in Survivor. So when I'm in an alliance,
- 1:20:59Speaker 21: I want them to feel that closeness with me. But
- 1:21:03Speaker 21: I'm ready to go to war with any of these people.
- 1:21:05Speaker 25: I've moved a lot.
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: I've had a lot of friends.
- 1:21:07Speaker 9: I'll find new ones.
- 1:21:09Speaker 21: I've had challenges in the past that I had fun with.
- 1:21:12Speaker 9: When I went to boot camp in the Navy.
- 1:21:14Speaker 25: I loved it.
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: I had a blast. You were tired. You were exhausted.
- 1:21:19Speaker 9: You were hungry. So I hope Survivor is as fun
- 1:21:22Speaker 9: as boot camp is what I'm saying.
- 1:21:24Speaker 21: I think season 51 has to set a precedent.
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: I mean, we have to be exciting.
- 1:21:29Speaker 13: Season 50 was amazing.
- 1:21:31Speaker 21: It was so fun to watch. So I want us
- 1:21:33Speaker 21: to match that energy. I am ready for things to
- 1:21:37Speaker 21: get shook up.
- 1:21:40Speaker 4: You know what I like about Pats is that Pats
- 1:21:43Speaker 4: is not a super fan, which is something I feel
- 1:21:44Speaker 4: like we've been asking for for a while. Let's get
- 1:21:47Speaker 4: back to players that actually know the game and see
- 1:21:50Speaker 4: how that shakes it up. And so the fact that
- 1:21:53Speaker 4: she's not coming in with a bunch of preconceived plans
- 1:21:56Speaker 4: and notions and also is clearly a very.
- 1:21:59Speaker 1: Strong woman, I like her a lot.
- 1:22:02Speaker 4: Once again, putting her at my highest spot, which is
- 1:22:05Speaker 4: 11 now.
- 1:22:08Speaker 1: So I've got two spots in the top ten open here.
- 1:22:10Speaker 1: I've got one and six. Yeah, how about that? And
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: at first I was like maybe one. I do like
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: that she's not a super fan, but I think what
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: is going to come back to bite her is that
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: they seem to be pushing pretty heavy that in the
- 1:22:23Speaker 1: open era former twists and stuff are going to be
- 1:22:26Speaker 1: showing up. And she's not going to have the same
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: knowledge that a lot of the players on that beach
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: are going to have. All it's going to take is
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: them to leave her out of some information that they
- 1:22:35Speaker 1: feel like everyone already knows, and then she could be
- 1:22:38Speaker 1: in trouble from a twist. I'm going number six.
- 1:22:41Speaker 3: Or it helps her because she doesn't have the past,
- 1:22:45Speaker 3: you know, the things people have done in the past. Yeah,
- 1:22:48Speaker 3: she doesn't have that in her head to trip her up, potentially.
- 1:22:52Speaker 3: I am just very impressed with the fact that she's
- 1:22:55Speaker 3: the first woman in her family, and I'm going to
- 1:22:58Speaker 3: put her at number eight.
- 1:23:00Speaker 1: Nice. That means we have three left. Yeah. PD, you
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: have 13, 14, and 15. Yeah. Right in a row.
- 1:23:11Speaker 3: I just have to put these people in the middle.
- 1:23:15Speaker 1: I got 14, 16, 19.
- 1:23:16Speaker 4: Chase, you have your number one spot still available, and
- 1:23:20Speaker 4: then two stinkers with 16 and 18. One of these
- 1:23:24Speaker 4: next three you believe are going to win Survivor 51.
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: Let's see if it's Rob. It's Boston Rob.
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: My name is Rob.
- 1:23:32Speaker 28: I'm 40 years old from Cumberland, Rhode Island, working in
- 1:23:36Speaker 28: Logan Airport with the airlines.
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: It is craziness.
- 1:23:39Speaker 2: Three kids, a beautiful.
- 1:23:41Speaker 28: Wife I met on a cruise just as a solo guy,
- 1:23:43Speaker 28: and I'm ready to kill it.
- 1:23:45Speaker 13: That's crazy.
- 1:23:50Speaker 3: Just as a solo guy.
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: Just a solo guy.
- 1:23:52Speaker 4: You know, this guy's giving not so much Boston Rob,
- 1:23:56Speaker 4: but giving a little Tony.
- 1:23:57Speaker 1: He's giving a little bald guy Tony.
- 1:23:59Speaker 28: I'm ready to rip the $ 1 million out of everyone's
- 1:24:02Speaker 28: hands and take it back to my kids.
- 1:24:04Speaker 2: My friends and family would describe me as this funny, outgoing...
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: I'm more adventurous guy. I'm kind of like a lasagna.
- 1:24:10Speaker 28: Like you're going to look at me and think I'm
- 1:24:11Speaker 28: like this, this sports jock guy, but there's so many
- 1:24:14Speaker 28: different layers to me.
- 1:24:15Speaker 3: I am a loving side of my kids.
- 1:24:17Speaker 5: Layers.
- 1:24:17Speaker 2: Karen extremely competitive.
- 1:24:19Speaker 1: He has like the Tony shoulder tattoo.
- 1:24:23Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:24:24Speaker 1: That's crazy.
- 1:24:26Speaker 2: I play my kids in board games. I just kicked
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: their ass. My wife's like, no bullshit. When I was younger,
- 1:24:33Speaker 2: I wanted to be on Survivor.
- 1:24:35Speaker 3: This guy rolls.
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: I would have been horrible.
- 1:24:37Speaker 28: I would have been this cocky young kid thinking I
- 1:24:39Speaker 28: could win every challenge and then run people over.
- 1:24:42Speaker 2: But as a 40-year-old now, I understand that you.
- 1:24:44Speaker 28: Want people to like you. You want people to trust you,
- 1:24:47Speaker 28: even though at the end of the day, you might backstab.
- 1:24:49Speaker 28: One day I was watching Survivor with my six-year-old and
- 1:24:52Speaker 28: he told me, you know, dad, you can't do that.
- 1:24:54Speaker 28: As a 40-year-old and with a 24-year-old mind frame, you know,
- 1:24:57Speaker 28: I'm still thinking I'm this.
- 1:24:58Speaker 2: Jacked young guy that I could do anything. I'm like,
- 1:25:00Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to put in for Survivor. I'm
- 1:25:02Speaker 2: going to see what I got.
- 1:25:03Speaker 28: My secret weapon out here would be the gift of gab.
- 1:25:06Speaker 28: I would love to have friends for life from this experience.
- 1:25:09Speaker 28: You know, I'd love to have a bromance. If you
- 1:25:10Speaker 28: can have a solid relationship with anybody, even if you
- 1:25:12Speaker 28: betray them and stick a knife in their back, you
- 1:25:14Speaker 28: could still win them over.
- 1:25:16Speaker 2: I think season 51, you can't get ready for it.
- 1:25:18Speaker 2: I think a lot of people should be worried. I
- 1:25:20Speaker 2: think a lot of people should be scared. 50 has
- 1:25:22Speaker 2: set the.
- 1:25:23Speaker 28: Bar, and this is like a new era now. Are
- 1:25:25Speaker 28: there going to be more loopholes? Are there going to
- 1:25:26Speaker 28: be more idols? Listen, that's what I'm here for. I'm
- 1:25:29Speaker 28: here for the chaos, baby. I think a lot of people,
- 1:25:31Speaker 28: this is a vacation for them.
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: This is just an experience. I mean, for me, this
- 1:25:34Speaker 2: is a business trip. I'm coming to win.
- 1:25:37Speaker 1: That's pretty baller. Is that your number one pick? No.
- 1:25:41Speaker 3: Chase, I think you immediately dismissed him. based off his appearance,
- 1:25:45Speaker 3: and then he proceeded to say some of the funniest
- 1:25:47Speaker 3: things in this entire video.
- 1:25:49Speaker 1: I didn't dismiss him. I just said he's not my
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: number one, and he's still not my number one, but
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: I might root for him heavily in the game.
- 1:25:56Speaker 18: Man.
- 1:25:57Speaker 3: He was motivated to do this by his six-year-old saying,
- 1:26:01Speaker 3: you can't. He's like, hey, fuck you, buddy. I'm going
- 1:26:04Speaker 3: to be the one survivor.
- 1:26:05Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I love Rob. I think he's hilarious.
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: He's not my number one pick. He's going to go
- 1:26:10Speaker 1: number 16. Okay.
- 1:26:12Speaker 4: I also have him at 16, but I'd love to
- 1:26:14Speaker 4: see him go far.
- 1:26:16Speaker 3: Okay. I don't have many spots left, but I'm going
- 1:26:18Speaker 3: to put him at my highest one. I'm going to
- 1:26:21Speaker 3: put him at 13 because, look, in a couple months,
- 1:26:24Speaker 3: I'm going to Charlie XCX as a solo guy. Maybe
- 1:26:27Speaker 3: I'll meet my wife.
- 1:26:30Speaker 6: Right.
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: And then you can beat your future kids in board games.
- 1:26:35Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:26:36Speaker 3: Like Cardale. Who is the Ohio State quarterback who went
- 1:26:40Speaker 3: to the hospital and beat a kid like 130 in Madden?
- 1:26:44Speaker 18: Oh, my gosh.
- 1:26:46Speaker 3: Cardale Jones.
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: She might be my number one. Sharonda.
- 1:26:54Speaker 23: I'm Sharonda.
- 1:26:54Speaker 18: I'm from Pompano Beach, Florida, currently living in Kentucky. I'm
- 1:26:57Speaker 18: 34 years old and I'm a resident physician in OBGYN.
- 1:27:01Speaker 18: Weirdly to say, growing up with three sisters, you kind
- 1:27:05Speaker 18: of get lost because my family has a big personality.
- 1:27:08Speaker 18: I had to really grow into myself and really figure
- 1:27:11Speaker 18: out who I was once my sisters graduated because I
- 1:27:13Speaker 18: was always leaning on them. And I never really had
- 1:27:15Speaker 18: my own personality until I got to college and then
- 1:27:18Speaker 18: everything changed. At first I told myself I was coming
- 1:27:21Speaker 18: on Survivor because of the little black boys and girls.
- 1:27:25Speaker 18: And then I really started thinking my family, everything that
- 1:27:28Speaker 18: we'd been through, my grandparents, and just showing them like
- 1:27:31Speaker 18: what they've instilled in me. And then I kind of start,
- 1:27:33Speaker 18: I stopped. I had to reflect because everything that I've
- 1:27:35Speaker 18: done in my life has been for somebody else. I
- 1:27:37Speaker 18: moved to Haiti to help other people. I became a
- 1:27:40Speaker 18: doctor to help other people like I've always done that.
- 1:27:42Speaker 18: And I think now I just need to stop and
- 1:27:45Speaker 18: I need to do something for myself. I've been going
- 1:27:47Speaker 18: through the motions for so long that I need something new.
- 1:27:50Speaker 18: And I think Survivor really puts you in those places
- 1:27:53Speaker 18: where you cannot hide. Me always hiding behind, whether it's
- 1:27:57Speaker 18: my profession, my husband, my family.
- 1:27:59Speaker 13: I think that's going to go away and I'm going
- 1:28:01Speaker 13: to really see who I am.
- 1:28:02Speaker 18: And I'm excited about it because I think it's going
- 1:28:05Speaker 18: to be an amazing person on the other end. Empathy
- 1:28:07Speaker 18: is going to be the biggest thing that I need
- 1:28:09Speaker 18: to watch in this game. I might have... someone that
- 1:28:12Speaker 18: I'm with the whole time. And if I think you're
- 1:28:15Speaker 18: playing a better game than me, I'm not keeping you
- 1:28:17Speaker 18: even though you're my number one.
- 1:28:18Speaker 13: I'm going to just cut the.
- 1:28:20Speaker 18: Head out of the snake and keep rolling. Am I
- 1:28:22Speaker 18: ready for it? Do I know what's going on? No,
- 1:28:24Speaker 18: but am I going to get ready for it? I am.
- 1:28:26Speaker 18: I've survived my entire life and now it's time for
- 1:28:29Speaker 18: me to thrive.
- 1:28:30Speaker 13: I think I have that tenacity, but.
- 1:28:32Speaker 18: Also the street smart and the book smart to be
- 1:28:36Speaker 18: the sole survivor.
- 1:28:40Speaker 4: Wow uh i do like her i for like she
- 1:28:45Speaker 4: is seems great i would say she's the first one
- 1:28:48Speaker 4: that doesn't like excite Like, I don't.
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: Like, she's just... She's nice.
- 1:28:54Speaker 3: But that might be a good thing.
- 1:28:56Speaker 7: I know.
- 1:28:57Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. She doesn't seem to be extroverted.
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: I will say she's obviously intelligent. She seems emotionally intelligent.
- 1:29:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: Which could really do wonders for her. This is going
- 1:29:08Speaker 1: to be hard because I either have to put her
- 1:29:10Speaker 1: at number one or number 18. And, you know, this
- 1:29:15Speaker 1: is a good contender for number one. You know, we
- 1:29:18Speaker 1: don't know what Theon... The Anand is going to be like?
- 1:29:21Speaker 3: Tian? I think it might just be T. I'm not sure.
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: We'll find out. She'll say it.
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: I'm going to put her number one because I feel
- 1:29:31Speaker 1: good about her. All right. And I don't want to
- 1:29:35Speaker 1: put her at the very bottom if she's a good pick.
- 1:29:38Speaker 1: The chase move is to let number one just happen. Okay,
- 1:29:42Speaker 1: you're right. You're right. We'll go 18. We'll go 18.
- 1:29:45Speaker 1: There you go.
- 1:29:46Speaker 3: I'm going to put– I have two spots. I have
- 1:29:48Speaker 3: 14 and 15. And, you know, I like her vibe.
- 1:29:52Speaker 3: I'm going to put her at 14.
- 1:29:54Speaker 22: All right.
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: I got her at 14 as well. That means that
- 1:29:56Speaker 1: my number one, Tian. That's exactly right. All right. Let's
- 1:30:06Speaker 1: find out about it.
- 1:30:09Speaker 6: My name's Tanon. I'm 24 years old and I'm a student.
- 1:30:12Speaker 13: I can be freaking weird.
- 1:30:14Speaker 6: But I'm the same kind of weird to every single
- 1:30:16Speaker 6: person I know.
- 1:30:17Speaker 13: Like I love talking about farts.
- 1:30:19Speaker 6: I think farts are funny. My parents farts when I
- 1:30:22Speaker 6: was young.
- 1:30:22Speaker 13: I love the game.
- 1:30:24Speaker 9: My dad loves the game. Survivor is my dream.
- 1:30:26Speaker 6: It's my once in a lifetime. I know I can
- 1:30:28Speaker 6: do this game and I'm going to have a lot
- 1:30:30Speaker 6: of fun doing it as well.
- 1:30:31Speaker 9: I've applied ever since I was eligible.
- 1:30:33Speaker 6: Being small and having a big smile on my face
- 1:30:36Speaker 6: helped people open up to me. How I navigate through
- 1:30:39Speaker 6: life is just making genuine connections. Coming right out here,
- 1:30:42Speaker 6: I am so intimidated.
- 1:30:44Speaker 13: The books are big back home. Right here, the guys
- 1:30:46Speaker 13: are big.
- 1:30:46Speaker 2: I'm like, what the heck?
- 1:30:48Speaker 6: There's so many big guys out here and I'm like...
- 1:30:50Speaker 6: I just went into my own corner and started doing
- 1:30:52Speaker 6: some squats in my own bush. I've been working on this.
- 1:30:56Speaker 6: I think being nice will make this game a lot
- 1:30:58Speaker 6: harder for me. People doubt that I am able to
- 1:31:01Speaker 6: do this, stab someone in the back.
- 1:31:03Speaker 25: It's going to hurt a lot.
- 1:31:03Speaker 6: I'm going to feel that knife going in as well.
- 1:31:06Speaker 6: I am a very competitive person to where sometimes it
- 1:31:09Speaker 6: kicks me in the booty a little bit. Because I take.
- 1:31:11Speaker 2: Things so personally.
- 1:31:13Speaker 9: I hate losing.
- 1:31:15Speaker 3: She's saying a bunch of things that aren't good.
- 1:31:17Speaker 6: The most cutthroat game possible. Journaling every day. I will
- 1:31:21Speaker 6: be the sole survivor. I will be the sole survivor.
- 1:31:23Speaker 6: I will have friends. I'm trying to garner all that
- 1:31:25Speaker 6: courage to just believe in myself. You don't know what
- 1:31:28Speaker 6: around you is going to disappear one day. And so
- 1:31:30Speaker 6: I want to enjoy my life to the fullest. And
- 1:31:32Speaker 6: so big reason of Survivor is just YOLO.
- 1:31:34Speaker 2: Why not?
- 1:31:35Speaker 6: I'm excited for all those random twists and turns and stuff.
- 1:31:39Speaker 6: Something specific about season 51, I feel like makes it
- 1:31:42Speaker 6: even more uncertain because you're writing off season 50 and
- 1:31:44Speaker 6: there's like tensions high. All eyes are on Survivor right now.
- 1:31:48Speaker 9: It's like, what's next?
- 1:31:51Speaker 1: That's it.
- 1:31:52Speaker 3: That's how the video ends.
- 1:31:53Speaker 1: That's how the video ends.
- 1:31:54Speaker 3: Her holding a big watermelon.
- 1:31:57Speaker 4: Guys, I think we're getting a boat challenge.
- 1:32:01Speaker 6: We are.
- 1:32:02Speaker 3: We're getting a marooning with a real boat.
- 1:32:05Speaker 1: Another thing that's very telling to me is Tanan, right? Tanan, yeah. Tanan, yeah.
- 1:32:14Speaker 1: She's my number one. I wish I would have done
- 1:32:17Speaker 1: what I was going to do before you guys influenced
- 1:32:19Speaker 1: me to do the opposite. It wasn't hard to influence, though. Well,
- 1:32:22Speaker 1: you know me. I'm all about the show. The amount
- 1:32:27Speaker 1: of times that they included one of the players saying
- 1:32:32Speaker 1: that this season is going to be filled with twists
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: and turns, that it's going to be chaotic coming off
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: of 50, I think is them telling us that time
- 1:32:40Speaker 1: to get ready for a crazy season.
- 1:32:43Speaker 4: I really like Tanan. I think I regret. Where did
- 1:32:47Speaker 4: she end up on my list?
- 1:32:48Speaker 3: I have her at 15. I feel like 15 is good.
- 1:32:51Speaker 4: Yeah, I got her at 19. I kind of regret it.
- 1:32:54Speaker 4: I think that she could be sneaky. I think that
- 1:32:56Speaker 4: she could be a sneaky riser and end up going
- 1:32:59Speaker 4: relatively far.
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: But she said some things that don't sound good. Like
- 1:33:05Speaker 3: she's going to feel the knife going in. She doesn't
- 1:33:07Speaker 3: know if she's going to be able to betray people
- 1:33:09Speaker 3: like that. She doesn't want to hear the threat.
- 1:33:13Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 1:33:13Speaker 4: I don't think, I think that just, that just means
- 1:33:16Speaker 4: that you are going to be a little bit more
- 1:33:20Speaker 4: patient with your blind sides because you want to sit
- 1:33:22Speaker 4: with a little bit longer, which I don't necessarily think
- 1:33:24Speaker 4: is a bad thing. I think everybody's really excited to
- 1:33:29Speaker 4: blindside people. And I could see potentially taking a step
- 1:33:33Speaker 4: back as being a win. I don't know.
- 1:33:35Speaker 1: We'll see.
- 1:33:36Speaker 4: We'll see what, we'll see what little to non does. Hmm.
- 1:33:40Speaker 3: I look for sociopaths.
- 1:33:42Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that.
- 1:33:43Speaker 4: The guy who's a vampire, he's got to put the
- 1:33:46Speaker 4: deer blood all over his body or whatever.
- 1:33:49Speaker 1: Was that Eric?
- 1:33:50Speaker 3: I had him blow. That was Brady. I had him
- 1:33:52Speaker 3: at 17.
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: That's right. This was so much fun. I love this.
- 1:33:57Speaker 4: I can't wait to see how our boards change over time.
- 1:34:02Speaker 1: But this was a blast. I'm so happy Survivor did
- 1:34:04Speaker 1: this because this was awesome. Yeah, this was a ton
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: of fun. Guys, get ready. This is it. This is
- 1:34:10Speaker 1: the start. This is the kickoff.
- 1:34:12Speaker 3: And next week we come back with our live show.
- 1:34:15Speaker 4: Yep.
- 1:34:16Speaker 1: That's right. Our live show. From Bramblefest. A lot of
- 1:34:19Speaker 1: fun stuff. A lot of fun stuff planned for this season.
- 1:34:22Speaker 1: Big changes. That's all I'm going to say. Maybe video.
- 1:34:26Speaker 3: Big changes. Like the last frame.
- 1:34:30Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:34:31Speaker 3: Big.
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 1:34:35Speaker 5: Cool.
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