Latest / Making The Merge - Survivor Podcast / BOLD PREDICTIONS FOR SEASON 51
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm a really good stacker.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Like, if you have a pantry, and let's say your
- 0:05Speaker 2: spices are all out of order.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Call me.
- 0:08Speaker 1: This is Making the Merge. We can very well win
- 0:13Speaker 1: this thing. I'm a dog person now.
- 0:16Speaker 2: I'm making the Merge, baby.
- 0:17Speaker 4: If your dog was sick, I'd say, I'm coming over.
- 0:21Speaker 3: You know, I'd crack open a coconut and eat it
- 0:23Speaker 3: and cheer for.
- 0:26Speaker 1: You.
- 0:26Speaker 2: You're either a survivor or not.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Welcome to Making the Merge.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Guys, this is a special episode.
- 0:36Speaker 1: The season 51 premiere is tonight.
- 0:38Speaker 5: It's happening.
- 0:38Speaker 1: We made it.
- 1:00Speaker 2: I typed in.
- 1:02Speaker 5: Okay, so I meant to type in Twas the Night
- 1:05Speaker 5: Before Christmas, and then I was going to change it
- 1:08Speaker 5: to Survivor stuff, because you know how it's Tuesday, and
- 1:11Speaker 5: tomorrow is Survivor? We're going to put this out tomorrow,
- 1:14Speaker 5: but I just wanted to do a little thing, but
- 1:16Speaker 5: I accidentally just typed in Twas the Night Before Survivor,
- 1:20Speaker 5: and the Google AI wrote one. Oh.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Oh, no.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Does Google AI just generate stuff based off?
- 1:28Speaker 1: My understanding was that it was just going to give
- 1:30Speaker 1: you search results based off of.
- 1:33Speaker 2: That's what I thought. It generated a poem. Here's what
- 1:35Speaker 2: it said.
- 1:36Speaker 1: It generated a poem? Yes.
- 1:39Speaker 2: I'll read it.
- 1:40Speaker 5: Twas the night before Survivor, when all through the camp,
- 1:44Speaker 5: not a creature was stirring, not even a cramp.
- 1:47Speaker 2: God.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Ant.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Ant was right there.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:51Speaker 1: What the fuck?
- 1:53Speaker 2: The buffs were all hung by the shelter with care
- 1:56Speaker 2: in hopes that Jeff Probst would soon be there. That's okay.
- 2:00Speaker 2: That one got me.
- 2:01Speaker 1: That one got me.
- 2:02Speaker 2: The castaways were all nestled... This is long, by the way.
- 2:05Speaker 2: The castaways....
- 2:07Speaker 5: No, I'm going to finish it. The castaways were nestled
- 2:10Speaker 5: all snug in their dirt while visions of pizza bypassed
- 2:14Speaker 5: all their hurt.
- 2:15Speaker 2: And Natalie... And Natalie.
- 2:18Speaker 5: In her jacket and I in my buff had settled
- 2:21Speaker 5: our brains for a game that is tough.
- 2:23Speaker 2: So Natalie's here.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Of all the people that we could have called out.
- 2:27Speaker 1: In Survivor history. We get Natalie in her jacket.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we're almost halfway through. Actually, that reminds me. Okay,
- 2:33Speaker 2: all right, you finish, and then I have to tell
- 2:34Speaker 2: you something really important.
- 2:36Speaker 5: When out on the beach there arose such a clatter,
- 2:39Speaker 5: I sprang from the bamboo to see what was the matter.
- 2:43Speaker 5: Away to the tree mail, I flew like a flash,
- 2:45Speaker 5: tore open the note, expecting a clash. The moon on
- 2:49Speaker 5: the breast of the new-fallen rain gave... Whoa.
- 2:54Speaker 1: Hey, breast is in the original book, by the way, Chase.
- 2:57Speaker 1: It's not.
- 2:58Speaker 5: Really? It's not.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:59Speaker 2: I knew you'd have it memorized. I... Listen, you know me. Midday...
- 3:04Speaker 2: It's because it's.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Christmas, not because it's breast, okay? All you freaks out there.
- 3:08Speaker 2: Okay, new-fallen... Then it... Okay, but... This thing is getting
- 3:13Speaker 2: off the rails.
- 3:14Speaker 5: But what to my wondering eyes should appear but a
- 3:17Speaker 5: sleek speedboat and a host we hold dear. With a
- 3:20Speaker 5: dimpled old driver so lively and quick, I knew in
- 3:22Speaker 5: that moment it must be St. Nick.
- 3:24Speaker 2: No, wait.
- 3:25Speaker 5: It's Jeff Probst in his blue button down, ready to
- 3:29Speaker 5: vote someone right out of town.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Jeff doesn't vote.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Jeff doesn't vote.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Um.
- 3:33Speaker 5: Now Tony, now Parvati, now Boston Rob and Sandra, on Seri,
- 3:37Speaker 5: on Cochran, on Tyson and Amanda, to the top of
- 3:40Speaker 5: the challenge, to the top of the wall, now dash away,
- 3:42Speaker 5: dash away, dash away all. He sprang to his boat
- 3:45Speaker 5: to give his crew a whistle, and away they all
- 3:49Speaker 5: flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard
- 3:52Speaker 5: him exclaim, as he drove out of sight, fire represents
- 3:55Speaker 5: your life, and the tribe has spoken tonight.
- 3:59Speaker 2: The ending really kind of pulled it all together.
- 4:01Speaker 1: All right.
- 4:02Speaker 5: Okay.
- 4:02Speaker 2: The rapid fire names was pretty baller. I'm not going
- 4:05Speaker 2: to lie.
- 4:05Speaker 1: That's good. Speaking of Amanda Kimmel, a lot of people
- 4:09Speaker 1: online are saying that our favorite sex store owner reminds
- 4:15Speaker 1: them a lot of Amanda Kimmel, like a young Amanda.
- 4:17Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
- 4:19Speaker 2: That's awesome.
- 4:20Speaker 1: What are we doing here today, Chase? Never mind. So today,
- 4:24Speaker 1: we have.
- 4:25Speaker 2: So Jeff went on a crazy press run this week,
- 4:28Speaker 2: and it all seemed to come out yesterday. And so
- 4:31Speaker 2: we all were very excitedly watching all of this stuff,
- 4:33Speaker 2: as I'm sure everybody listening was. And today, we're just
- 4:35Speaker 2: going to play a few of our favorite moments, and
- 4:37Speaker 2: then each of us is going to make a prediction
- 4:39Speaker 2: of something that's going to happen in the premiere. But first,
- 4:41Speaker 2: I need to tell you guys what happened in my
- 4:43Speaker 2: dream last night. I'm so excited about Survivor that last
- 4:47Speaker 2: night I dreamt that I was... on a returning season
- 4:51Speaker 2: of survivor. So I dreamt that I was on my
- 4:54Speaker 2: second season playing on survivor and I was playing with
- 4:58Speaker 2: Angelina and I was with Angelina and I was telling
- 5:02Speaker 2: her about how I got evicted the first time I played.
- 5:05Speaker 3: Okay.
- 5:06Speaker 2: And then she was like, dang, that's really rough. And
- 5:09Speaker 2: I was like, we don't say evicted here.
- 5:12Speaker 1: That's right.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Oh, that's big brother. Sorry. Sorry. I'm in big brother,
- 5:15Speaker 2: big brother mode. But, uh, I was telling her about
- 5:18Speaker 2: it and then I was like, look, I don't want
- 5:20Speaker 2: to win this season. I want you to win this season.
- 5:22Speaker 2: And then I woke up.
- 5:24Speaker 1: I love that even in your dreams, you're so cocky
- 5:27Speaker 1: that you would think that you'd be invited back for
- 5:29Speaker 1: a second season. Dream itself doesn't even have to experience
- 5:35Speaker 1: the first one to know that that's how good I did.
- 5:37Speaker 1: I'm back, baby.
- 5:38Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I didn't win in my dream.
- 5:41Speaker 2: So my dream was humble enough to know that I
- 5:42Speaker 2: didn't win either times.
- 5:44Speaker 1: But you are entertaining enough to get an invite back.
- 5:48Speaker 2: Come on, dude. You really think if I went on Survivor,
- 5:50Speaker 2: they would not ask me back?
- 5:52Speaker 1: No, you're right. You're right.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Depends on how your game went.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Don't insult me like that. You'd be doing TikTok dances
- 5:57Speaker 1: of Jeff Probst, Rizzo style.
- 5:59Speaker 2: Rizzo would wish he was me.
- 6:01Speaker 1: That's right.
- 6:03Speaker 2: But I am very excited to talk about what we
- 6:04Speaker 2: got going on. PD, do you want to start with
- 6:07Speaker 2: what you found? What I found?
- 6:11Speaker 1: What did you find in your research? Your bold prediction. Yeah.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Can you throw his picture up?
- 6:18Speaker 1: Sure, I can throw it. Who are we looking at here? Kilby.
- 6:24Speaker 1: Your bold prediction is Kilby.
- 6:27Speaker 5: My bold prediction is Kilby, and that's it. No, I
- 6:31Speaker 5: want to start by saying I'm sorry to this man,
- 6:33Speaker 5: but watching the previews, I just kept getting the feeling
- 6:38Speaker 5: that he's the first boot, and I don't know why.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Kind of a Brandon Nolan.
- 6:42Speaker 2: But I think it's him. Is that his name? Brandon Nolan,
- 6:45Speaker 2: is that the name?
- 6:46Speaker 3: Donovan.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Yeah, who got so freaked out because he's such a
- 6:50Speaker 1: big fan of the show.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Yeah, that he just panicked immediately, which I think we
- 6:54Speaker 2: can all relate to.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:56Speaker 5: It's just every time they show him, he looks so excited,
- 6:59Speaker 5: and he's like, oh, it's going to be chaos.
- 7:01Speaker 2: I'm going to create chaos. I'm like, I think the
- 7:03Speaker 2: chaos is going to send you home first. Did you
- 7:06Speaker 2: manage to see what he says to Rob? Because Rob
- 7:11Speaker 2: from Rob Has a Podcast managed to talk to all
- 7:13Speaker 2: of them in a little short burst at the Survivor
- 7:16Speaker 2: 15 premiere.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Red carpet style, yeah. Which I will say, how impressive
- 7:21Speaker 1: is it that all of those people know what happens, right?
- 7:26Speaker 1: And it has not leaked. It has not leaked, but
- 7:30Speaker 1: Rob asks them.
- 7:30Speaker 5: Well, it probably has, but we just don't seek that out.
- 7:33Speaker 1: That's true. I'm sure the prediction models have got the leaks.
- 7:38Speaker 1: But anyway... Yeah, but Kalshi. Kalshi. But anyway.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Don't look at this stuff.
- 7:43Speaker 1: They all... Rob asks all of them, why are you
- 7:47Speaker 1: going to win? And they all answer it... Knowing that
- 7:52Speaker 1: they didn't win. Except one. Yeah, it was weird. Pretty impressive, though,
- 7:56Speaker 1: that they're able to do that. Just sell themselves while
- 8:01Speaker 1: they're going to be the ones to win, even though
- 8:03Speaker 1: they know that they didn't win.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Because one of them was the first boot, and then
- 8:08Speaker 2: they had to cut a promo saying that they were
- 8:10Speaker 2: going to win it all, and they know that that's
- 8:11Speaker 2: going to look embarrassing in hindsight.
- 8:14Speaker 1: I will say, to address Petey's bold prediction that Kilby's
- 8:17Speaker 1: going to be the first boot, I disagree. And here
- 8:21Speaker 1: is why I disagree. I listened to Jeff's interview that
- 8:25Speaker 1: Rob did with him at that event. It's like a
- 8:27Speaker 1: 30-minute thing. And Jeff says something, and I think it's
- 8:30Speaker 1: a little... little slip up by Mr. Jeffrey Probst.
- 8:35Speaker 2: What'd he say?
- 8:36Speaker 1: He's talking about something like how you gotta, you're gonna
- 8:42Speaker 1: bother people or you just gotta be you or whatever.
- 8:45Speaker 1: And he says, like Kilby, Kilby does this thing all
- 8:49Speaker 1: season with his fingers.
- 8:51Speaker 2: Damn it. There goes my bold prediction.
- 8:54Speaker 1: PD's already wrong. But knowing Jeff, he's probably, he's a freak.
- 8:58Speaker 1: He probably said like, Jeff said all season to throw
- 9:01Speaker 1: you off.
- 9:02Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- 9:03Speaker 1: He is a freak. He says Kilby all season, which
- 9:07Speaker 1: makes me think that Kilby goes far, but I don't know.
- 9:10Speaker 2: What if Kilby wins? Then I have to retire.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Who has Kilby? Who drafted?
- 9:17Speaker 2: Bran, did you draft Kilby?
- 9:19Speaker 1: Gosh, I'll look real quick. I'll pull it up. I
- 9:22Speaker 1: like your bold prediction should be that he's either first
- 9:25Speaker 1: boot or winner.
- 9:26Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 9:26Speaker 1: How about that?
- 9:27Speaker 5: Okay.
- 9:27Speaker 2: Bran, you have Kilby.
- 9:28Speaker 1: I have Kilby. I thought I did.
- 9:30Speaker 2: If you're not, last, you're first. That's my prediction for COVID.
- 9:33Speaker 1: A reminder, really quick, while we're talking about this, a
- 9:35Speaker 1: great time to join the Patreon, where you're going to
- 9:37Speaker 1: be able to lock in with one of us. And also,
- 9:41Speaker 1: they are having the opportunity right now to vote on
- 9:44Speaker 1: trades in the first two episodes, I believe. And it's
- 9:47Speaker 1: looking like trades are on the table.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a poll over on Patreon to see
- 9:53Speaker 2: what the.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Fans, in the hands of the fans. In the hands
- 9:58Speaker 1: of the little mergers.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Not only are we going to be able to make
- 10:01Speaker 2: trades for just the, wait, what is it, the first
- 10:04Speaker 2: two weeks, right? The first two episodes?
- 10:05Speaker 1: I think that's right, yeah. Yeah.
- 10:07Speaker 2: But here's the thing. We can trade one player for
- 10:11Speaker 2: multiple players. Okay, so it's not just a one for one. Yeah,
- 10:14Speaker 2: you could do a three for one, a two for one,
- 10:16Speaker 2: a five for one. Some person can be so confident
- 10:18Speaker 2: that Ori is going to win that they trade all
- 10:21Speaker 2: of their other players and ride it out with just
- 10:23Speaker 2: one player.
- 10:24Speaker 1: In the spirit of Survivor, this is maximum chaos. Anything goes.
- 10:32Speaker 2: It's the open era. Speaking of maximum chaos.
- 10:35Speaker 5: Does anybody want to make a trade proposal before we
- 10:38Speaker 5: even watch Survivor?
- 10:40Speaker 3: Nope.
- 10:40Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
- 10:41Speaker 1: No, I don't want to, but I do appreciate you asking.
- 10:45Speaker 1: A reminder really quickly, my team is Jelly, Carter, Kristen, Jenna, Kilby, Eric,
- 10:52Speaker 1: and Rob. A really strong crew. We'll find out tonight.
- 10:57Speaker 2: How do you know?
- 10:58Speaker 1: I feel really good about it. I feel really good
- 11:00Speaker 1: about it.
- 11:01Speaker 5: Pissing me off seeing our fans being like, Bran has
- 11:04Speaker 5: the best team. Nobody knows.
- 11:05Speaker 1: How do we know? Nobody knows a thing.
- 11:07Speaker 2: We will find out tonight just how strong that is.
- 11:09Speaker 2: I think it's because of Jelly. People seem to really
- 11:12Speaker 2: be behind Jelly this season. And we haven't even seen
- 11:15Speaker 2: the first episode. Chase's team is Ori, Lewis, Pat, Brady, Alexis, Mike,
- 11:22Speaker 2: and Maggie.
- 11:24Speaker 1: Maggie. And PD has Anna, Linnea... T-Anne, is that right? Tanon.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Tanon.
- 11:32Speaker 1: I'll get it by the end of the season. Devin, Sharonda, Aliyah,
- 11:37Speaker 1: and Christian. And I'll say this, Sharonda is, to me,
- 11:42Speaker 1: just being online, like the most polarizing of the survivors
- 11:48Speaker 1: this season. Like, a lot of people are like, Sharonda's
- 11:52Speaker 1: winning this. And a lot of people, kind of like us,
- 11:55Speaker 1: we're kind of like, she seems kind of boring and like, Like,
- 11:58Speaker 1: she's not going to give us a lot. So I'm
- 12:00Speaker 1: really interested to see what we get out of Sharonda
- 12:03Speaker 1: tonight in particular, you know?
- 12:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so pumped. I mean, let me read before
- 12:11Speaker 2: I give you my bold prediction for the premiere. Someone
- 12:14Speaker 2: on Twitter named at slightly bitter.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Nice.
- 12:19Speaker 2: They were at the Survivor 51 premiere, and they gave
- 12:21Speaker 2: spoiler-free takeaways.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Okay.
- 12:25Speaker 2: It's a very different feel from the new era, so
- 12:28Speaker 2: that's exciting. Not that I disliked the new era, but
- 12:31Speaker 2: I am so excited that we're, and this is something
- 12:34Speaker 2: that I think, Bran, you found in one of the
- 12:36Speaker 2: Jeff interviews from yesterday. He said that the new era
- 12:41Speaker 2: was very formulaic. You kind of knew what was going
- 12:43Speaker 2: to happen every season, even though there was twists and turns.
- 12:46Speaker 1: But the twists were building on the twists from the
- 12:50Speaker 1: season before, basically. It was constantly building on itself. So
- 12:54Speaker 1: players basically knew what they were in for, for the
- 12:57Speaker 1: most part.
- 12:59Speaker 2: Yeah, but he says open era, anything goes. It's going
- 13:01Speaker 2: to be chaos. And apparently it's going to come true
- 13:06Speaker 2: from this premiere because it says there's slight tweaks on
- 13:09Speaker 2: old ideas that worked really well. People are finally unafraid
- 13:13Speaker 2: to be mean. And that they really like the whole
- 13:17Speaker 2: cast overall.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Getting some villains. We've been asking for villains. Chase every
- 13:21Speaker 1: season goes, villains are back. And then They aren't, and
- 13:25Speaker 1: so we might get it. I'm an optimist. This is
- 13:28Speaker 1: what Jeff said in a TV Line interview. He said,
- 13:30Speaker 1: in the premiere alone, there are seven different things.
- 13:35Speaker 2: Several. Several and seven. You combined them.
- 13:39Speaker 1: I know. That's really something. A real Jelinski, am I right?
- 13:43Speaker 1: A real Jelinski situation. There are seven different things from
- 13:47Speaker 1: six different seasons, plus three new things.
- 13:52Speaker 2: A lot of numbers there. That's nine things. Nine things
- 13:55Speaker 2: in the premiere.
- 13:56Speaker 1: That's ten things.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Ten things.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Whoa. Man, we are not.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Beating the dumb allegations anytime soon.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Anyway, very excited about that.
- 14:04Speaker 2: That's a lot of things, okay? Okay, let me go
- 14:06Speaker 2: next for my bold prediction, okay?
- 14:07Speaker 1: Let's go. Here's my clip that I'm basing this off of.
- 14:11Speaker 1: This is from the very first promo that we got
- 14:17Speaker 1: during the season 50 season. finale. If you recall, there's
- 14:20Speaker 1: the big 51 promo video and there's something in it
- 14:24Speaker 1: that I want to touch on.
- 14:25Speaker 4: Along with dangerous new elements never seen before. Okay.
- 14:33Speaker 1: That's it.
- 14:34Speaker 3: Whoa.
- 14:34Speaker 5: Right.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Okay.
- 14:35Speaker 5: Whoa.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Two things happen there, right? Jeff is saying dangerous elements
- 14:41Speaker 1: never before seen, right? Cut to a helicopter landing on
- 14:47Speaker 1: the beach. So helicopters and survivor, we haven't seen a
- 14:54Speaker 1: helicopter in a while, but helicopter and survivor means one
- 14:57Speaker 1: of a few different things. One could be a medevac.
- 15:01Speaker 1: They've medevaced people in a helicopter before.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Typically a boat though.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Typically, typically a boat, especially since moving to Fiji. I
- 15:08Speaker 1: think it's been exclusively boats. Yeah.
- 15:10Speaker 3: Hmm.
- 15:11Speaker 1: It could... Helicopters have been used in the past for
- 15:14Speaker 1: those dumb challenges where you have to make a thing
- 15:19Speaker 1: on the beach, like a smoke thing.
- 15:22Speaker 2: Like an SOS.
- 15:22Speaker 1: Yeah, like an SOS, and then someone flies over and
- 15:27Speaker 1: judges it. Really bad challenge.
- 15:29Speaker 2: Jack Brown will do the.
- 15:31Speaker 1: We haven't seen that in a while.
- 15:32Speaker 2: But this helicopter is landing, right?
- 15:35Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 15:36Speaker 1: So it makes me think of the other thing that
- 15:38Speaker 1: we've seen a helicopter used for in the past since
- 15:40Speaker 1: everything is up for grabs again, and that is destination rewards.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
- 15:48Speaker 1: That's awesome.
- 15:49Speaker 2: But would it be a surprise to them?
- 15:50Speaker 1: That's the thing, PD. What Jeff says is surprise, like
- 15:56Speaker 1: dangerous elements, he basically says. Let me replay it one
- 15:59Speaker 1: more time.
- 16:07Speaker 2: They're getting kidnapped. That's the danger. It could just be
- 16:11Speaker 2: the TV editing.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Right. So what I was trying to figure out is
- 16:16Speaker 1: are those two things related? Jeff saying dangerous and then
- 16:22Speaker 1: us seeing helicopter. So one of the things I thought through,
- 16:26Speaker 1: like what would be a dangerous element that would involve
- 16:30Speaker 1: a helicopter?
- 16:31Speaker 2: You have to jump out of the helicopter.
- 16:34Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 16:34Speaker 2: Total Drama Island style.
- 16:37Speaker 1: I don't think that they're going to do anything truly
- 16:40Speaker 1: dangerous involving a helicopter, right? So that is why my
- 16:44Speaker 1: bold prediction, and we're constantly being told, open era, everything's
- 16:50Speaker 1: back on the table. I am saying during this season,
- 16:54Speaker 1: we will see a destination reward.
- 16:57Speaker 2: I think that's a really great prediction.
- 16:59Speaker 1: An old school destination reward, season 51. That is my
- 17:03Speaker 1: bold prediction.
- 17:04Speaker 2: I'd love that. I think that's great. I think that's
- 17:06Speaker 2: a really great prediction. My prediction, I'm going to go
- 17:11Speaker 2: more specific to the premiere.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Okay.
- 17:17Speaker 2: Because as you guys know, and if you didn't watch
- 17:20Speaker 2: the draft episode or the preseason extravaganza, you might know,
- 17:23Speaker 2: or you might not know, I'm enlightened.
- 17:27Speaker 3: God.
- 17:27Speaker 5: Yeah, and famously, every enlightened person repeats that they're enlightened constantly.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 17:34Speaker 2: It's a part of the Enlightenment. I looked up the
- 17:38Speaker 2: day that they started filming season 51.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Okay.
- 17:43Speaker 2: And on that day, I checked the cosmic transits of
- 17:48Speaker 2: what was happening in astrology that day.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Hey, James, what are you talking about? What are you
- 17:53Speaker 1: getting on about?
- 17:54Speaker 2: The cosmic transits? Is that what they call it? Like
- 17:56Speaker 2: the streets of the sky?
- 17:57Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:58Speaker 2: Yep, the cosmic transits. And did you guys know that
- 18:01Speaker 2: the moon was in Taurus on that day? Do you
- 18:04Speaker 2: know what that means? Because it's very interesting. Well, I
- 18:08Speaker 2: don't know what... Sorry, keep going. It creates a collective
- 18:12Speaker 2: craving for stability, predictability, and comfort.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Which is the opposite of what we've been promised in
- 18:21Speaker 1: the open era. Exactly.
- 18:22Speaker 2: It favors practical routines, home-based care, and financial mindfulness rather
- 18:29Speaker 2: than impulsive risks.
- 18:31Speaker 1: Dude, I just found out that my moon is constantly
- 18:34Speaker 1: in Taurus. That's crazy. Really?
- 18:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I just.
- 18:37Speaker 1: Always want routine and I want to be home.
- 18:41Speaker 2: So based on the moon being in Taurus, I think
- 18:44Speaker 2: that the premiere is going to be a big shock
- 18:46Speaker 2: to all these players because all these players are going
- 18:49Speaker 2: to be wanting the new era format.
- 18:52Speaker 1: And they're going to get really thrown... Your bold prediction
- 18:55Speaker 1: is that the players are going to be surprised?
- 18:57Speaker 5: I'm not.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Hey, let me finish. I'm not done yet.
- 19:01Speaker 1: Stop talking about moons, Chase.
- 19:03Speaker 5: Are you saying that the Survivor is not energetically aligned
- 19:06Speaker 5: with the stars?
- 19:07Speaker 2: Hold on. Because Mercury was in Aries, and it was
- 19:11Speaker 2: aligned with Pluto in Aquarius.
- 19:14Speaker 1: No, there's no way all that's true. It is true.
- 19:18Speaker 2: I'm not making this up.
- 19:19Speaker 1: It means that sharpened minds. What does literally any of
- 19:21Speaker 1: that mean, Chase?
- 19:22Speaker 5: Hold on.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Hold on, Brad.
- 19:24Speaker 3: Sharpened minds brought intense direct communication.
- 19:29Speaker 1: Like Elvis?
- 19:30Speaker 2: Oh, that's suspicious minds.
- 19:34Speaker 3: This aspect acted like a cosmic reality check. Reality check,
- 19:40Speaker 3: reality TV show check, reality money, million dollar prize. I
- 19:45Speaker 3: think in the premiere, they are going to announce that
- 19:48Speaker 3: the prize money is more than a million dollars once
- 19:51Speaker 3: again whoa.
- 19:52Speaker 5: I don't understand how you got from point a to
- 19:57Speaker 5: point um what.
- 19:59Speaker 2: That's because you're not enlightened That's because you don't know
- 20:02Speaker 2: the cosmic transits.
- 20:04Speaker 1: Now, there is one more thing. Can you connect it
- 20:06Speaker 1: really quick? I'm sorry. I know this is all BS,
- 20:10Speaker 1: and I don't know why I care. But the moon
- 20:14Speaker 1: is in Taurus. Yes. And it's aligned with Mercury?
- 20:21Speaker 2: No, Mercury is in Aries, and it's aligned with Pluto
- 20:24Speaker 2: in Aquarius.
- 20:24Speaker 1: What do you mean when you say Mercury is in Aries?
- 20:29Speaker 2: That's a very good question, Bram. And then Aquarius. What's Aquarius?
- 20:37Speaker 2: I think that's a nightclub. It's a zodiac sign.
- 20:39Speaker 1: All of these are zodiac signs, right?
- 20:42Speaker 3: Yes.
- 20:42Speaker 2: That's a Latin nightclub, Berea. So the astrology, the constellations
- 20:49Speaker 2: are aligned with the planets. In fact, and this is
- 20:52Speaker 2: the biggest revelation of all, so I'm really glad that
- 20:55Speaker 2: you guys are on board with this.
- 20:56Speaker 1: There is a connection with Jupiter. I don't know what
- 20:58Speaker 1: gave you that.
- 20:59Speaker 2: There is a connection with Jupiter. The Taurus moon's harmonious
- 21:03Speaker 2: tie with Jupiter, which is in Cancer, offers emotional support,
- 21:07Speaker 2: making it a favorable day for nurturing close relationships and
- 21:12Speaker 2: managing home matters without overextending. I think that someone on
- 21:16Speaker 2: the first episode of season 51, the premiere, is going
- 21:20Speaker 2: to get Jeff landing in a helicopter, running out and saying, hey,
- 21:25Speaker 2: there's an issue at home. You need to leave the
- 21:28Speaker 2: beach today. We are going to get a situation like Jake.
- 21:32Speaker 1: Getting bit by the snake. Is that what you think
- 21:33Speaker 1: the helicopter is?
- 21:35Speaker 2: That is.
- 21:36Speaker 1: And it's not just what I think.
- 21:37Speaker 2: It's what Jupiter thinks, Bran.
- 21:39Speaker 5: Jeff has never entered via helicopter to give someone bad news.
- 21:43Speaker 2: It's always via boat. But that's what it's exciting and different.
- 21:49Speaker 2: So we're going to give you your awful news. It's
- 21:54Speaker 2: such a bad emergency. Not that I'm wishing that on anyone,
- 21:58Speaker 2: but they've got to helicopter them out immediately. There's no
- 22:00Speaker 2: time for that.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Hey, so-and-so's mom died. How do we deliver the news?
- 22:04Speaker 1: We could do boats like we normally do, or we
- 22:07Speaker 1: could make it fun.
- 22:08Speaker 2: Yeah, we spiced it up a little bit. I think
- 22:11Speaker 2: they went with the latter.
- 22:13Speaker 1: Outside of Moon and Mercury and Pluto and Venus and
- 22:18Speaker 1: all of that, do you have anything, any supporting content
- 22:24Speaker 1: or anything that has been said that would make you
- 22:26Speaker 1: believe this?
- 22:27Speaker 2: Are you asking if I have clips from... I'm asking
- 22:30Speaker 2: if you have clips. Okay, yeah, I do, but they
- 22:32Speaker 2: have nothing to do with anything. Let's watch this video
- 22:35Speaker 2: of Jeff being a freak.
- 22:38Speaker 4: Thinking about you this morning, Gail, this is the analogy.
- 22:41Speaker 4: You're wearing this beautiful blue dress today because it's of
- 22:43Speaker 4: the moment.
- 22:44Speaker 1: And the shoes.
- 22:45Speaker 4: And tomorrow you'll probably have something similar of the moment.
- 22:49Speaker 4: But imagine if instead you had a giant treasure chest
- 22:52Speaker 4: of everything you have ever worn in your entire career.
- 22:55Speaker 4: And tomorrow we pull out something from 1987. And that's,
- 22:58Speaker 4: that's the idea is it could be literally anything from
- 23:01Speaker 4: 25 years and 50 seasons at any given time for
- 23:04Speaker 4: any given reason without anyone.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Oh my God. That's what made it permanent. And where
- 23:08Speaker 1: did this idea come from? Desperation. At least he's honest. Desperation.
- 23:16Speaker 2: Nate Burleson is great.
- 23:17Speaker 1: I would have loved for Gail to be like 1987.
- 23:19Speaker 1: How old do you think I am? He did call
- 23:21Speaker 1: her old. I know. That's great.
- 23:25Speaker 2: She had those rumors with Oprah back in 87. What
- 23:26Speaker 2: were the rumors with Oprah? That they were like a couple,
- 23:31Speaker 2: I think.
- 23:32Speaker 1: That they were doing it.
- 23:34Speaker 2: Well put, Petey. You're welcome. Then, in the same interview,
- 23:39Speaker 2: Jeff does that weird thing that he does sometimes where
- 23:42Speaker 2: I think he just starts talking without thinking, and he's like,
- 23:46Speaker 2: I'll figure it out on the way. You know, the
- 23:48Speaker 2: classic moments. You mean the thing he does all the time? Yeah,
- 23:50Speaker 2: you know, the classic moment like, oh, your dog is sick?
- 23:52Speaker 1: I'm coming over.
- 23:54Speaker 2: Well, he does this again with Petey's boy, Nate.
- 23:57Speaker 4: I'm constantly thinking, I'm only thinking, really, about Survivor. Even
- 24:02Speaker 4: looking at Nate, I'm like, he always pulls out my text.
- 24:05Speaker 4: Somehow in my head, I'm like, how do I get
- 24:07Speaker 4: that into Survivor?
- 24:10Speaker 2: You missed it talking. Because of my text about Aaron Rodgers.
- 24:14Speaker 5: Did you see the play where Aaron Rodgers got folded
- 24:17Speaker 5: in half and they fumbled the ball 40 yards backwards?
- 24:21Speaker 2: I could not stop laughing. Okay, we're going to watch
- 24:24Speaker 2: this again now.
- 24:25Speaker 4: I'm constantly thinking, I'm only thinking, really, about Survivor. Even
- 24:29Speaker 4: looking at Nate, I'm like, he always pulls off the
- 24:31Speaker 4: tennis shoe. Somehow in my head, I'm like, how do
- 24:34Speaker 4: I get that into Survivor?
- 24:35Speaker 1: What is it that he's doing? What is it he's bringing?
- 24:38Speaker 2: How do we get Nate's tennis shoes in Survivor? How
- 24:41Speaker 2: do we get that in there?
- 24:45Speaker 1: I think they already wear shoes pretty regularly. So maybe
- 24:51Speaker 1: we go Survivor, no shoes. No shoes allowed.
- 24:55Speaker 2: See how it affects.
- 24:56Speaker 5: Two tribes, one with shoes, one with no shoes. So
- 25:00Speaker 5: I did listen to that interview. I also listened to
- 25:03Speaker 5: the one with Kelly. Kelly Ripa, right?
- 25:06Speaker 2: Kelly Ripa, yeah. I like Ripa better.
- 25:10Speaker 1: Her husband of Riverdale fame. No, Strahan's gone. Who is
- 25:18Speaker 1: her husband? Veronica's dad in Riverdale.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Hiram Lodge. Bald white man.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Mark Consuelos. She does not do the show with a
- 25:30Speaker 1: bald white man.
- 25:31Speaker 5: Not Consuelos. I guess I wasn't looking that closely. Anyway,
- 25:35Speaker 5: I was listening though.
- 25:36Speaker 1: This is how Petey finds out that Regis is dead.
- 25:38Speaker 1: He's like, what? What?
- 25:42Speaker 2: What is Mark's last name?
- 25:45Speaker 1: Consuelos, I think, is right.
- 25:47Speaker 3: Really?
- 25:50Speaker 2: Kelly and Mark.
- 25:51Speaker 5: Anyway, what Jeff said on that show was that he
- 25:55Speaker 5: word for word copied his intro from the first season.
- 25:59Speaker 2: He did, and that was really exciting to hear. And apparently...
- 26:02Speaker 2: I have another prediction based off that.
- 26:04Speaker 1: Something to look out for while you're watching tonight is
- 26:08Speaker 1: the apparently editing cut in, while people are throwing stuff
- 26:12Speaker 1: off of the boats, they cut in shots from season one.
- 26:17Speaker 1: That's awesome. That mirror the stuff throwing, which I think
- 26:20Speaker 1: is pretty cool. But yeah, apparently it's the same little
- 26:22Speaker 1: speech from season one.
- 26:24Speaker 5: So my bold prediction is that the winner of this season...
- 26:28Speaker 5: will at some point get naked and then evade taxes
- 26:33Speaker 5: after they get paid.
- 26:34Speaker 1: Dude, I honestly thought about a similar prediction of having
- 26:39Speaker 1: the winner be naked at some point, but I literally
- 26:43Speaker 1: don't think they're allowed to anymore.
- 26:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they're allowed to anymore either, but
- 26:48Speaker 2: that would make it even more exciting. Yeah, make it
- 26:51Speaker 2: look like an accident.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
- 26:55Speaker 2: Oh, no, I dove into the water.
- 26:56Speaker 4: Uh-oh.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Yeah, a shark took my top.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Yeah. Chase, did you say you had another one?
- 27:03Speaker 3: No.
- 27:03Speaker 2: Oh, I did have another prediction. I predict that the
- 27:06Speaker 2: speech that Jeff gives in the premiere is going to
- 27:08Speaker 2: be the exact same speech he did in the first season.
- 27:13Speaker 1: I think it's been confirmed.
- 27:14Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he said it. I'm feeling good about
- 27:15Speaker 2: that one, yeah. Yeah, I'm feeling good about that one.
- 27:19Speaker 1: My last big prediction is that he's going to call
- 27:23Speaker 1: it the open era.
- 27:26Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, 100%. That's a solid one. We're doing legit
- 27:29Speaker 2: predictions right now. I do want to say I think
- 27:32Speaker 2: that the first boot is going to be someone that
- 27:34Speaker 2: we don't expect, potentially one of our first draft picks. Interesting.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Can we really quickly just say, like, how do you
- 27:43Speaker 1: think the tribes are going to be split up?
- 27:48Speaker 2: Schoolyard pick. You think it's going to be schoolyard pick?
- 27:51Speaker 2: Schoolyard pick. I think that's one of the six things
- 27:53Speaker 2: from a former season.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Schoolyard pick to pick the tribes, the person who's not
- 27:58Speaker 1: picked goes to exile. Exile island.
- 28:01Speaker 2: And then whoever gets eliminated, the person on exile will
- 28:04Speaker 2: join that tribe. So we're still even at 10-10.
- 28:09Speaker 1: I like that. Because if you notice... I'm almost 99%
- 28:12Speaker 1: sure that's... If you notice the clips that we've seen
- 28:15Speaker 1: from the boat, they're not wearing colors of any sort.
- 28:19Speaker 4: Right.
- 28:20Speaker 3: Right? Right.
- 28:21Speaker 1: So clearly they didn't give them any sort of, it's
- 28:23Speaker 1: just like wear whatever you want to that tells your story.
- 28:26Speaker 1: And so it kind of leads me to think that
- 28:30Speaker 1: maybe you might be right.
- 28:33Speaker 2: Would that be crazy?
- 28:34Speaker 1: Yes.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Would that be crazy for me to be right?
- 28:37Speaker 5: Yes. It would be because one of my other bold
- 28:39Speaker 5: predictions is that by the end of the season, I
- 28:41Speaker 5: will be more enlightened than Chase.
- 28:43Speaker 2: And I can already kind of feel it.
- 28:45Speaker 5: Like when I was hearing him talk about his prediction
- 28:48Speaker 5: with the stars and everything, I think I... understood better
- 28:52Speaker 5: than he did the energetic effect that all the astrological
- 28:58Speaker 5: stuff is going to have on this season. Because he
- 29:00Speaker 5: was saying that the stars, it's all about order and predictability,
- 29:04Speaker 5: while Jeff is down here on Earth trying to throw
- 29:06Speaker 5: away all of that. So I think it's going to
- 29:08Speaker 5: be maximum chaos because Jeff is in direct conflict with
- 29:12Speaker 5: the stars.
- 29:14Speaker 1: Fantastic.
- 29:15Speaker 2: That's very interesting, but you're not enlightened, you're dampened. So
- 29:17Speaker 2: I don't know if we can really trust anything that
- 29:19Speaker 2: you're saying. But I appreciate you supporting my endeavors and
- 29:23Speaker 2: my enlightenment.
- 29:24Speaker 1: My final bold prediction.
- 29:25Speaker 2: Did you see my name on the riverside?
- 29:27Speaker 1: Yeah, what is that? Read it out loud.
- 29:30Speaker 2: Enlightened.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Enlightened, yeah. Really cool.
- 29:35Speaker 2: I'm going to get that tattooed across my neck. Dude,
- 29:37Speaker 2: that's sick, bro.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Final bold prediction. we're going to be back tomorrow recapping
- 29:43Speaker 1: the first episode of Survivor 51. I can't wait for it, boys.
- 29:47Speaker 2: And if you're on Patreon, we'll be back tonight.
- 29:49Speaker 1: That's true. Come hang out with us.
- 29:51Speaker 2: So, quick reminder of everything that we do over on
- 29:54Speaker 2: the Patreon during the season. On Wednesday nights during the
- 29:58Speaker 2: episode East Coast Time, we are live chatting during the episode.
- 30:03Speaker 2: We've got a really fun community over there. It's a
- 30:05Speaker 2: lot of fun. Then, directly after the episode, we go
- 30:08Speaker 2: live on Patreon for Fresh From Tribal. That's just kind
- 30:10Speaker 2: of a goofy show where we give our takes right
- 30:13Speaker 2: after the episode ends. It's usually not super fun. I
- 30:17Speaker 2: won't say enlightened because everything I do is enlightened. But
- 30:19Speaker 2: it's not super professional. It's something for the patrons. And then.
- 30:24Speaker 1: It's a stream.
- 30:24Speaker 3: The regular.
- 30:26Speaker 2: The regular episode comes out Thursdays, usually pretty late on Thursdays,
- 30:31Speaker 2: if not early Friday. And then, very excited to announce
- 30:35Speaker 2: that this season, after a bit of a hiatus last season,
- 30:38Speaker 2: The Sanctuary is back. We will be doing Sanctuary episodes.
- 30:42Speaker 2: That means two episodes a week on the main feeds,
- 30:44Speaker 2: plus the Patreon livestream. We're very excited for this season.
- 30:49Speaker 1: It's going to be great. Can't wait for it. And guys,
- 30:51Speaker 1: I'm just happy to talk about Survivor with my friends.
- 30:54Speaker 1: I'm very excited.
- 30:55Speaker 2: Me too, man.
- 30:56Speaker 5: Me too.
- 30:56Speaker 2: It's the open era of making the merge. It's going
- 30:58Speaker 2: to be better than ever.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Anything goes. Anything from the past few seasons of making
- 31:03Speaker 1: the merge is on the table.
- 31:06Speaker 3: Right.
- 31:06Speaker 2: That's right.
- 31:07Speaker 1: And another very exciting thing. Except for Jonathan. Jonathan is out. Right, right.
- 31:12Speaker 1: He's not on the table. He's gone. He's not here.
- 31:15Speaker 2: I want to start a rumor that Jonathan was forced
- 31:18Speaker 2: to quit. because I wanted him fired. That's the rumor
- 31:22Speaker 2: I'm going to start spreading. And so I gave him
- 31:24Speaker 2: an option where it's like, look, we can either fire
- 31:26Speaker 2: you publicly or you can quit on your own accord.
- 31:29Speaker 5: It's nice for you to give a rumor that's like
- 31:31Speaker 5: rooted in some reality.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Right, because that's exactly what happened, PD. Thank you for
- 31:36Speaker 2: sticking with me on this. Hey, chasebridges.store if you want
- 31:38Speaker 2: the brand new Making the Merch, Making the Merch merch,
- 31:41Speaker 2: our brand new logo. Three different color variants on three
- 31:44Speaker 2: different types of shirts. It's pretty fun. That's right.
- 31:46Speaker 1: And buffs are coming at some point, right?
- 31:49Speaker 2: At some point, yeah, that's the goal.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Buffs are coming.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Have we even said our team names at any point
- 31:54Speaker 2: in our preseason? Do we want to do new team names,
- 31:56Speaker 2: or are we rocking with the same team names?
- 31:59Speaker 1: I like mine. I like Brands Blindsiders.
- 32:01Speaker 2: I like mine, too.
- 32:02Speaker 1: Brands Blindsiders.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Brands Blindsiders?
- 32:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to find my jersey.
- 32:07Speaker 2: I don't know where it is. PD, you're PD's Journeys. Yep,
- 32:12Speaker 2: the PD and J's. Oh, I like that. I like
- 32:16Speaker 2: that a lot, actually. And then mine is Chase's Fake Idols.
- 32:19Speaker 2: Another bold prediction. We're going to get at least one
- 32:21Speaker 2: fake idol play this season.
- 32:23Speaker 1: I love that. I love that idea. All right, we'll
- 32:25Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with some more Making the Merge. Enjoy
- 32:28Speaker 1: the premiere tonight.
- 32:28Speaker 3: Bye. Bye.
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- 32:37Speaker 2: Thanks for listening or don't listen. It's really up to
- 32:41Speaker 2: you at this point.
- 32:42Speaker 1: It's at the end of the show.
- 32:44Speaker 3: I mean.
- 32:44Speaker 1: You're listening to me.
- 32:45Speaker 3: Hi.
- 32:46Speaker 2: But here they come.
- 32:47Speaker 1: I promise they're coming.
- 32:48Speaker 5: Yep.
- 32:49Speaker 2: Here they are. Happy day.