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HE'S THRUSTING AGAIN | S47 Episode 9 · Making The Merge - Survivor Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to making The Merge the greatest Survivor podcast
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: to not have a theme song through the first nine
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  Speaker 1: weeks of their run.
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  Speaker 2: We keep thinking about it, we keep coming close to
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  Speaker 2: a theme song, and what can I say, it's just
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  Speaker 2: still in the oven baking potentially.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have concepts of a plan, that is for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Some would say we've mostly you have enacted part of
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  Speaker 2: a plan to get us a theme song. That is uh,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just say unexpected.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and who knows that if it'll happen or not,
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  Speaker 1: it may fall We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: It may fall through. P D. I'm glad we're here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad we're both here.
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  Speaker 1: P D.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to just very quickly mention the fact
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  Speaker 2: that TikTok's blowing up. Man. It's yeah, it's soaring for
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  Speaker 2: us right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a great time. I feel like, uh, who knows,
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  Speaker 1: this show might be dead in the water without TikTok
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  Speaker 1: clips of it.
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  Speaker 2: When Rome went home great rhyme by the way, When
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  Speaker 2: Rome went home, I thought our podcast might be over
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  Speaker 2: because we were not going to have any TikTok clips. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think, what do you know? Sweet sweet Kyle came through.
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  Speaker 1: And Andy Cay Andy the thrusting really really took us
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  Speaker 1: places on TikTok. Yeah, and we'll be getting to some
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  Speaker 1: more of that later. But I guess that's a good
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  Speaker 1: place to Let's let's get into the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: So we had we started the episode with the last
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  Speaker 1: two Goddess in the aftermath of Andy just you know,
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  Speaker 1: turning on them, which.
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  Speaker 2: Again he was stoked about. You could see it written
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  Speaker 2: all over his face. He's giddy every time that he's
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  Speaker 2: been able to just backstab somebody. He's so heavy.
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  Speaker 1: His first confessional in this one, he said, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: certified flipper.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's right. He did say that he's got that
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  Speaker 2: like he gets like a glimmer in his eye when
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  Speaker 2: he backstabs him or whatever, like he just even in
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  Speaker 2: the flashbacks they showed at the beginning of this week's episode,
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  Speaker 2: I looked at Kristen and I said, he's got he's
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  Speaker 2: got like a hunger. Now it's it's like he can't
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  Speaker 2: get enough of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that that could end up biting him, but
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  Speaker 1: I think so who knows either that or he's Darth
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  Speaker 1: jar j R. And he will be Supreme Chancellor by
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  Speaker 1: the end of this.
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  Speaker 2: We keep saying that things are going to bite him
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  Speaker 2: in the butt, and yet he is still here. He's
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  Speaker 2: still not gone. Like it's it is frustrating. We're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way he's going to survive this, and then
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  Speaker 2: he just it's like a cockroach, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You know what happens when you throw a grenade at
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  Speaker 1: jar Jar binks jar Jar is gonna blow up your tank. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we learned in the Battle of Naboo.
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  Speaker 1: I believe.
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  Speaker 2: We're deep baby. By the way, this is no longer
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  Speaker 2: making the merge. This is now a Star Wars fan cast.
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  Speaker 2: We're taking it's completely flipped for us.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're diving deep into the clone Wars. Okay, not really,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's talk about survivors. So it was the last
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  Speaker 1: two god Us consoling each other. They were talking about
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  Speaker 1: how they still want to look out for each other
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  Speaker 1: and they can't obviously work together, but they still care
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  Speaker 1: about each other. And then Sam says he can't even
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  Speaker 1: look at Andy anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which, by the way, it's like Sam's had it
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  Speaker 2: out for Andy the whole time, and then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden he's just like, oh, I can't even I
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  Speaker 2: can't even look at Andy anymore, Like he's like they've
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  Speaker 2: been best friends. Meanwhile he is here, We're like dragging
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  Speaker 2: Andy along and saying the meanest stuff behind his back exactly,
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  Speaker 2: and now he's the one with hurt feelings. He had
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  Speaker 2: it coming for him.
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  Speaker 1: So then we get some more Andy and some more Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: Is The beginning of this episode is very heavy on
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  Speaker 1: Andy and Rachel, So I mean, are they telling us something?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe those two make it far.
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  Speaker 2: I am starting to pay more attention to the edit,
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  Speaker 2: and I do feel like Rachel is kind of ramping
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  Speaker 2: up out of nowhere more into this edit, and it's
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  Speaker 2: making me question whether or not she could be more
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  Speaker 2: important in this game than we originally thought. She would
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  Speaker 2: be a great comeback story when you know, Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: especially if she's the last gotta, which she probably will be.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's fair. They're more likely to go for
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  Speaker 1: Sam than Rachel. If she could run the table, that
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  Speaker 1: would be a great winner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I know that y'all talked about
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  Speaker 2: this last week. But there's also like she's super smart.
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  Speaker 2: For example, that shot in the dark move where she
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  Speaker 2: used the shot in the dark to gauge whether she
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  Speaker 2: felt safe or not to not reveal her idol. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that was one of those moments where I was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I just she's playing really well and she's I underestimated her.
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  Speaker 2: I believe Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think I did too, because that shot in the
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  Speaker 1: dark thing, that was a move that nobody had ever
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  Speaker 1: thought of before. Yeah, like anybody could have done that
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  Speaker 1: the past, however, many seasons, but she was the first
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  Speaker 1: one to think of it.
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  Speaker 2: I was confused when it was happening. I know that
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  Speaker 2: that was kind of where Chase was landing too, but
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  Speaker 2: he's stupid and I should have seen it coming, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but it was. It was one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: as it was happening, I'm looking at Kristen and we're
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  Speaker 2: both just like, why is she doing this? Why wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: she just play her idol if she feels not safe?
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  Speaker 2: And then I think we were talking about it on
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  Speaker 2: the uh Jeff Probes like brought it up or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, I say all of that because it is
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  Speaker 2: a little Rachel and Andy had I think that I
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  Speaker 2: think she might go far.
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  Speaker 1: So after you know, we got Andy talking about how
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  Speaker 1: he's a certified flipper, Andy and Rachel were talking to
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  Speaker 1: each other about how they want to work with each
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  Speaker 1: other and it just hasn't happened for various reasons, and
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  Speaker 1: Rachel said that they had been ping ponging, and then
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  Speaker 1: there's this montage of Andy being annoying. He's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's why y'all didn't work together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like she was acting like like they were just
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  Speaker 2: at odds with the universe at this point as to
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  Speaker 2: why they had never worked together, when it really was, like, Rachel,
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  Speaker 2: I think you just hated him for the first fifty
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  Speaker 2: percent of this show, like no one, no one wanted
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  Speaker 2: to work with Andy except Jevieve apparently, now like that's
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  Speaker 2: my word, that's the whole different thing.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't It kind of feel like Rachel is the new
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  Speaker 1: Genevieve h.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit, don't you dare?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry Canadian listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Don't don't even try to compare someone else to my Genevieve,
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  Speaker 2: because you're right, she's she is going to go to
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  Speaker 2: the end. Okay I say that, but I will This
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  Speaker 2: episode makes me a little scared for her because things
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  Speaker 2: are starting to get out of her controlled somewhat, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to We'll just just continue on with
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  Speaker 2: the narrative. We'll get there, we'll talk about it all right.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I'm sorry Canadians and Jonathan for comparing
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  Speaker 1: Genevieve to anybody. Yeah, Genevieve is her own special Survivor player. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Vulnerable individual and very special. So you know that's that's
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  Speaker 2: how I feel. But continue, PD, please walk us through
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  Speaker 2: this narrative.
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  Speaker 1: So we get to the challenge, and the challenge is
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  Speaker 1: broken up into pairs of two. Yep, We've got Soulentini,
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  Speaker 1: Sue and Genevieve, Andy and Sam, Caroline and Rachel, and
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: then Gabe and Kyle.
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  Speaker 2: Gabe and Kyle Man. I saw that duo and I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 2: there we go. There's our winners.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought the same thing was like there's the
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  Speaker 1: dream team. Like nobody's beating these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know they kind of they vibed with
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  Speaker 2: each other, Like I feel like Gabe and Kyle would
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  Speaker 2: be friends externally from Survivor. I'm making a lot of
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  Speaker 2: like assumptions this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, parasocial Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what's happening to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's going on. You're going to create your own
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  Speaker 1: separate survivorship podcast where you're like talking about all the couples.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, guys, if you want to keep up with
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  Speaker 2: my Survivor fan fiction, you can go follow. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's I don't know. Maybe I'm I'm getting out of hand.
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  Speaker 2: But they got along well and they moved quick through
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  Speaker 2: this challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it brings us to the Kyle quote of the week.
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  Speaker 1: It Jeff asked them about picking each other and Kyle said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think everyone just kind of jived. Gabe
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  Speaker 1: and I locked eyes and I asked him to be
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  Speaker 1: mine and he said, yes, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Kyle's amazing. I'm so glad that Kyle is my draft
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  Speaker 2: pick and I've never lost faith in him. But he
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  Speaker 2: has shown his personality more and more every week, to
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  Speaker 2: the point where now he has a segment in the show.
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  Speaker 2: We dropped the Jeff the line of the week, and
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  Speaker 2: now we've got, you know, a completely different persons quote
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  Speaker 2: of the week simply based off of their personality shining through.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel good about my Kyle pick.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that coming at all. I thought Kyle
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  Speaker 1: would be gone by now.
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  Speaker 2: You know I did too, I'll be honest, I really
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  Speaker 2: did think he was gonna be gone. Y'all made fun
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  Speaker 2: of me when I picked Kyle. I know I've brought
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  Speaker 2: this up before, but y'all have also made fun of
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  Speaker 2: me for for picking Tennevie, and then you'll made fun
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  Speaker 2: of you for picking Kyle, and yeah, both of which
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  Speaker 2: are still here and the people you didn't make fun
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  Speaker 2: of me for are gone. So yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I said on that draft show, then
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into our teams and everything later, but I
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  Speaker 1: said on that show, we're gonna say a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff that age is horribly Yeah, and that's been true.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I can't remember most of what
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  Speaker 2: I say. Age is horribly, so I probably have just
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  Speaker 2: blanked it all out. But yeah, so continue, Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about this this challenge that was ahead of the crew.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle, you know, he found the person who was meant
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  Speaker 1: to be with and they said yes, and then we
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  Speaker 1: get to the challenge and there was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: moving parts to this. They had to dig through sand
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  Speaker 1: and then they had to dig a bag out of
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  Speaker 1: the sand, and then they had to build a staircase puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: and then they had to get up the staircase and
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  Speaker 1: then go across a balance beam and after you do
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  Speaker 1: all that, that's when the challenge really starts. But we
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  Speaker 1: need to talk about a very pivotal moment early on
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like we can breeze through most of it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's it's crucial that we bring up the
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  Speaker 1: moment where Sam and Andy they're trying to dig.
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  Speaker 2: This You're bringing this up because I was like, how
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  Speaker 2: am I going to go back? Because I was like, pet,
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  Speaker 2: he's gone too far, He's missed my favorite moment of
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: the episode. I'm gonna have to pull him back.
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  Speaker 1: No, say it right, yep, I'm circling back. So they
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  Speaker 1: Sam and Andy they're digging through the sand trying to
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  Speaker 1: get this bag out, and then they tear the handle
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  Speaker 1: off of it and they're like, Jeff, Jeff, what do
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  Speaker 1: we do? And Jeff's like, that's on you all. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the Jeff quote of the week.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't even say Jeff, what do we do? They
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: were like Jeff, hey, Jeff, Jeff like like it was, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we need to stop the challenge, and he just immediately
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  Speaker 2: assesses it and he's like, that's on you all. And
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  Speaker 2: they never mentioned it again. They just keep on moving.
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  Speaker 2: And I also about this duo that this happens too.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, it's Andy again, I mean, just the
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  Speaker 2: misfortune that falls upon this man. But why are Sam
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  Speaker 2: and Andy together? Because it wasn't It wasn't Sam saying
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: that he was just so heartbroken by Andy, like in
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the episode, like what what happened to
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  Speaker 2: put them together?
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  Speaker 1: For the good point he said, he's like, I can't
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  Speaker 1: even look at him. And then he's like, you know what, Andy,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be my partner. It was Sam
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  Speaker 1: who initiated it, So yeah, I don't understand that. But
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  Speaker 1: to the most important part and the most important part
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  Speaker 1: of this episode, they're trying to get this bag that
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  Speaker 1: they broke the what was it? They broke the rope
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  Speaker 1: off of and they couldn't pull it out.
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  Speaker 2: Then it ripped a whole part of the bag off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they ripped the bag and it made it
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  Speaker 1: most impossible for them to get it out of there.
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  Speaker 1: And then Andy resorts to his favorite move, which is
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  Speaker 1: violently thrusting. He does think in all caps, its like
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  Speaker 1: he's thrusting again.
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  Speaker 2: Which is something I never thought that I would be
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  Speaker 2: happy to receive from you in a text message. But
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  Speaker 2: I do exactly what you meant. This week, I was
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  Speaker 2: watching it with my dad. I looked at him.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, he's doing it again. Why, like, why
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  Speaker 1: is nobody else in the history of Survivor I don't
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  Speaker 1: think is how was Scott's reaction to this?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, how did Scott react to the thrust?
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  Speaker 1: But he was just laughing at him, Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking, like, this is just it's never happened. There's
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  Speaker 1: never been a Survivor player where we were like you know,
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  Speaker 1: and those challenges that kept thrusting their hips in a
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  Speaker 1: weird way.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like it's his most efficient muscle group, and
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  Speaker 2: he's like, anytime something intense starts happening, Andy fires up
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  Speaker 2: the loins and just starts going to to get the
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  Speaker 2: extra work done for the challenge. And both times it
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  Speaker 2: has not worked for him. So maybe less hip would
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: be than less thrusting. So we did see Sue take
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  Speaker 2: a forty five year old tumble from the balance beam
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  Speaker 2: to injure her forty five year old hips because she
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: was going pretty slow across a balance beam that was
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: over a net. And then at that point she panics
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  Speaker 2: and leaps and takes a pretty good little little hit
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  Speaker 2: on the hip, and I do wonder how that's going
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  Speaker 2: to affect Sue and her health. But I did want
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: to bring that up.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little concerned about that, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to have any effect on her.
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  Speaker 2: Raser, she's a healthy old gal, you know, that's what
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: that's the ill, So you can't say healthy old gal.
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  Speaker 1: She is a healthy forty five year old challenge beast
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  Speaker 1: Gal's right.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot about that. I misspoke. I didn't mean to
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  Speaker 2: disrespect her. Kyle and Gabe were very quick across that
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  Speaker 2: balance beam. Uh they I mean they were they were
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  Speaker 2: flying because it took them a moment on the stairs
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  Speaker 2: and they were behind, and then they both bolted across that.
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  Speaker 2: So I was impressed by the balance skills on that team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it took Sue a while to get across before
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: she just yieaeded herself. It's another thing the kids say,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: she yiaated herself. And then it was Genevieve, who is
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: moving like a turtle yep, and just buried them.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: That was that was a situation. Where as I saw Genevieve,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: I almost called her gwy Avive. As I saw Genevieve
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  Speaker 2: struggling right there, I thought, hmm, this could affect her
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  Speaker 2: legacy for the worst, you know. But anyway, so they
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  Speaker 2: finish Shoup that and then it's the final four of
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: that challenge. Well, first of all, we didn't talk about
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: the stakes of people losing votes. We have to we
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  Speaker 2: have to discuss this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's true. The it was the first the
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  Speaker 1: first two groups they were out lost their vote also
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  Speaker 1: was Caroline, Andy, Sam and Rachel.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, which is Jeff's just taking people's votes recently.
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  Speaker 1: Or so we thought. I thought that he was wiping
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  Speaker 1: out four votes and I was like, that's gonna be
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: a nightmare for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I thought too, But it was. It was
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  Speaker 2: a twist to it later, but they for the moment
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  Speaker 2: lost their their four votes. They're gone. So then at
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  Speaker 2: that point it is am I missing a part of
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: the challenge? Or do they they? They? The four people
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  Speaker 2: went straight.
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  Speaker 1: To after that it was the balance Yeah, the balance
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  Speaker 1: being Wait, note that the balance beam is what Sue
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: almost ate it across. What do you call that thing?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know, the torture chamber.
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  Speaker 2: It looks it's like I'm watching that, and I'm like,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm watching a crime happen because they
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: basically have to They're between two walls and there's barely
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: little ledges for their feet to sit sideways on, and
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: then classic survivor style, the longer that they're up there,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: then they have to step down to a much smaller
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: beam and then to a smaller little beam. And it looked.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: It was uh, it look bad, It looked terrible, but
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: it was Saul, Teeny, Gabe and Kyle, Yeah, were the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: final four.
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  Speaker 2: They gave Teeny a little montage of just how in
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: pain she was fighting through it.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's about all the screen time Teeny has gotten.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that being in pain and then not getting
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: her way.
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  Speaker 2: Not getting her way and ruining plans. That's the Teeny.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Way of it ends up being Gabe and Kyle as
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the final two. And I thought for sure even before
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: we got to this point, I was like, Kyle's got
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: this all the way. Kyle's gonna win four in a row,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and then Gabe does it somehow.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I have a theory that Kyle gave up on purpose.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: M I feel like, why get yourself all the way
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: to that point to just give up because Kyle is
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: in pain too.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But see, there's two ways you can take this. If
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I was Kyle, there would be inside of me there
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: are two wolves at that point. There's the wolf that's saying, Jonathan,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you have to you have to win this because there's
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: a target on your back from how many you've won already,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: so you need to keep winning them so that they
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: don't have the option to vote you out. Then there
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: would be the other wolf saying, hey, you need to
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: lose this challenge because maybe you'll seem like less of
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: a threat and not get voted for. I don't know
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: which way I would play in the moment, but part
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: of me would probably lean towards losing the challenge on purpose.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: So hmm, I thought, I think the opposite. I think
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Wolf one is correct in that scenario, because I think
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: he should have been thinking that way even though it
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: didn't come to pass. Yeah, I feel like they should
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: have gotten him out because he just barely lost the immunity.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: He just he was just this Shakespeare a few for us.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: To be talking about a reality television show on CBS
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and you to drop the phrase did not come to pass.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Hmmm. Maybe I'm trying to be like Jeff with my
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Shakespeare in the Park.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Oh that was good, but I don't know. It's it
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: is difficult to say which way to lean on that,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: So you think you would lean towards I need to
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: just keep winning these.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I think the other people should have gotten
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: them out for losing, even though they went a different direction.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: But that, again is.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Just this is a conversation you and I had a
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: little bit already, which is whenever you see an obvious
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: choice in Survivor, people are so obsessed now with the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: just blind siding situations that even when the choice is
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: kind of obvious in front of them, everybody's trying to
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: make a move of some sort. So for us to
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: look at this and say, okay, Kyle is clearly winning
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: the most challenges and going crazy with it, he should
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: be voted out, Well, everybody else has these other motives
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: where they're like, actually, I would like to get someone
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: out and kind of like get a survi ever bucket
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: list going for myself. So it's it never winds up
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: being as simple as they say, unless it's rome on
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: like round three.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I was about to say that before we get into
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: what happened next on the episode. One thing that Jeff
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: said was that that episode where Rome went home, he said,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: we told that whole like the whole episode was through
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the eyes of Rome until we get to the end,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and then you see it through the perspective of everybody else.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And that's why it was made so obvious to all
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of us, like at the very end.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean he says that, as if it
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: wasn't just the most obvious thing happening. Like he says that,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: like they manufactured a Christopher Nolan level plot, and the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: reality is everyone was just fed up with the guy.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: They're like, can we just sit hope, there's no other
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: conversations happening, get.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: About stop disrespecting Jeff. I think he is. He's the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: next Christopher Nolan of our time on CBS doing a
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: reality TV show. I think he is.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: This is this is our Interstellar. That's what I keep
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: saying to all of you. Yeah, this is our Interstellar. Meanwhile,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the shows that follow it, like The Amazing Race and
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: things like that, those are more of like our tenant,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: where you might like it or you might not, depending
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: on if you understand it. You know.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, as far as I stand on that I
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: don't acknowledge those other shows. To me, Survivor is the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: only reality show that exists, right, you.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Don't even acknowledge Elsbeth and all of the ads that
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: we get for that show.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is another aside. I feel like we should
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: spend a wheel, and it's the wheel of CBS shows
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: that we get shown ads for all year, and like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: whoever gets you know, Elsbeth, you gotta an episode of
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Elsbeth and then come on the pot and recap it
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: for us in like five minutes.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I'm begging that I get just like Wheel of Fortune
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: or Jeopardy.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: That's like, well, I think the choices would have to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: be Chicago Fire, Oh no, Elsbeth the equalizer and.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Ghosts the equalizer as in what used to be Denzel
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Washington and is now Queen Latifa.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, and casty choice. Kathy Bates, what is her show, Mattock?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: It was Andy Griffith back in the day, but now
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: it's it's Kathy Baits and apparently it's a killer show,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: so maybe I should watch it. But CBS is getting
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: in my head with these ads. Let's continue with Survivor
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: before we dive too far. Into Elsabeth and.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Gabe wins and he does a little dance.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: The first thing I thought was nobody else on the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: podcast is going to know what this dance is, because
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: y'all are nerds.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Hmmm, do I know what this dance is? Well, I
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: know it's not the Orange Justice from Fortnite, So no,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: it was not the Floss either, So I know those
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: two dance moves.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: It was around a long time before those.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Is it. It's not the electric Slide, is it? That's
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: that would be. It's not the macarena. It's nothing I've
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: seen at a wedding anytime recently.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You're not even remotely in the ballpark.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: What dance is it?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It is the raven the Baltimore Ravens linebacker ray Lewis.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: He would come back this dance pre game. You do, Actually,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I have seen this.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I just in this moment where all of a sudden,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I was like, wait a second, I know that I've
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: seen a football player do this before. So I couldn't
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: have told you who it is. But as soon as
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: you started saying, I was like, I've seen yeah.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: He That particular line backer terrorized my team for about
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: twenty years and so you.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Saw that dance and you cried a little bit.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just a little bit. But you know, good for Gabe.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: How do you feel that he's a he's on your team?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, Gabe's on my team, and as long as he's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: gonna win for me, it's okay that he's a Ravens fans,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It's totally fine. I'm willing to look past that if
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: he can win challenges and go farther in the game.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: You you just switched sides as fast as Kyle switched
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: from being vegan, like it is. You moved quick to
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: just excusing things. So I don't know.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: It's because it's we're in different worlds. If Gabe came
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: over and watched a football game with me, I'd be like, Hey,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: we're not on the same team, buddy, yoh we have
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: we have different interests here. But as far as Survivor
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I picked him, I would be rude about it. But
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: on Survivor, I picked him, and he's on my team
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and he's my star quarterback right now out Okay, he's
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: my my Patrick Mahomes.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: So you're telling me you don't think Andy is gonna win.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying if I was filling out my depth chart.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Andy or Sue. They're not number one.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Oh dude, I forgot about Sue already was on the team.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, you just saw man erased her from my
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: brain for a moment.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: But disrespect.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm over here with Kyle and Genevieve. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: feel like I feel good with that. But okay, So
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Gabe wins. He does his little his little dance, his
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: little Baltimore Ravens dance. Then the others who lost their
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: vote are sent on a journey. So we had Caroline,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: we had Andy, we had Sam, and we had I'm
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: missing someone who am I missing?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It was Caroline, Sam, Andy, Rachel Rachel.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they end up in a cave where there's
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: these little these little cards, right, these little stackable, uh
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: rectangle blocks, and they essentially have to build a card
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: tower one by one going around the circle, and whoever
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: makes it fall loses their vote permanently for the night,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: and the others gain it back. So that was like
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: a real scare where we thought four people were losing
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: their vote and potentially not getting it back, and then
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden we get to this this little
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: bat cave and it's like, actually only one of y'all
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: is losing it, but it's this weirdly intense Jenga game.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say survivor Jenga.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I think it was great. I really enjoyed that twist.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. Every little piece felt so high risk,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and I felt like Caroline was trying to like put
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: it on badly so that she messed it up for Rachel.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Oh my word, she was. She was putting the like
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: right on the edge because they were stacking in little
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: triangles like balanced on each other's like on the edge,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: and she would just barely leave any space for the
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: next person. And it was it was really intense, but
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: ultimately Caroline made it tumble.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: She did. And I could not believe that Andy got
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: through a challenge without looking stupid at one point and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: he got his vote back. I texted y'all immediately and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I said, Andy's not in no way whatever they have
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to do, he is not coming back with a vote.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I don't care what it is. But he proved me wrong.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: He had to have a one in three, like it
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: was a one in four, you know, chance of losing
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: a vote in order to not lose it. If it
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: had been any worse, he would have lost that vote.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: If there was one other person losing a vote, it
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: would have been him. But it's just not the way
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: the tower fell, is what we say.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: If there was a betting site for Survivor, I would
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: have been like, put one thousand dollars on Andy not
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: getting his vote back right now. That's the easiest money ever.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: But you know what, you don't bet on the easy
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: money and Survivor because Kyle didn't win that challenge and
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Andy somehow got his vote back. But we haven't mentioned
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the little reward dinner.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I moved too quickly.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was the first thing we saw before the journey.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Actually was Sol teeny these podcasts.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I just jumped an entire portion of the episode. It's
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: over for me. Yeah, you're fired, Jonathan.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: He's kidding. We still have like twenty more minutes probably,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: but so Sol teeny, Gabe and Kyle are enjoying some
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: food together, and then Teeny says, all we're hearing from
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Gabe right now is pleasureful, pleasureful moaning. And Saul is
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a burp machine. Yep, I feel like the burps were
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: so overwhelming. Then I would be talking about the burps too.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: It because they's come across impolite, is what I'll say.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: They were exaggerated, and and Saul even said he said,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I'd rather have a cool cartoon burp than a weak
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: ass burp.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: It was excessive. It makes you wonder if the producers
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: are just behind the camera, like give us one more,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: like you got one more in there, like throw one more.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe I thought it was a sound effect at first.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: That's how exaggerated it sounded. I was like, Wow, they're
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: really doing solid, dirty like that. And then when it
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: happened like five more with a.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Road podcast or button triggering, the burps sounds as they're filming,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: That's how cartoonish it sounded.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: It was very cartoony. Now, Kristin and I were watching
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: while also trying to put Lizzie to sleep, and we're
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: just hearing the faintest burps, but then also looking at
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: the subtitles that we have on because we have the
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: volume so low that it's just like, you know, insert
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: sentence and then it just had in parentheses belches. So yeah,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: that was our experience of it.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Saul, I think that we get to the strategy portion.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: And this is where the episode just starts to get
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: really real chaotic, yes, complete chaos, because it starts with
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Genevieve and Andy yep, and they're like, all right. Genevieve's like,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: would would you consider doing Saul? And then Andy's like,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you know, I had actually thought about Saul like two
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: votes from now, but you know we can, Yeah, we
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: could do Saul. Just let me know who's on board.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I was rolling my eyes so hard on behalf of
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: my own player. I'm like, out of everybody that you're
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: telling right now, Genevieve, why do you keep gravitating to Andy?
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Like we you know he's a time bomb. You know
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: he's unpredictable. You also know that he loves you. I mean,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: in his own words, he said, Genevieve is feeling froggy
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he stole a Kyle quote of the week.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he took it and said Genevie's feeling froggy right now.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: And I'm okay with that. But then he's like, I
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: don't know if I'm okay with that. Andy's too much
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: of a wild card to work with. He's too unstated.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Or he's the hottest free agent in the game, and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Genevieve is like, that is who I want to work with.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe she saw him let his hair down last episode
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: and was like, I've got to work with him. That's
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: what it was.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she said, he's all that's Andy was like, so
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: let me know if you have everybody on board, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: then Genevieve should have just been like, Okay, Andy, we've
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: got everyone on board. She didn't really have to go
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: actually get everyone, but she did. Actually she went and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: tried to connect with Rachel. Yeah, and she's like, don't
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: tell Sam, and Rachel immediately tells Sam.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: That's where Genevieve's making me nervous, because she she got
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: really sloppy, and I was getting concerned watching it because
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: it was just like, Okay, first of all, you told
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Andy the craziest wild card in the game right now,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: and then proceeded to just tell everybody that you like,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: he's too trusting, Like, I don't know it fell.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I think she needed Rachel, but the risk of Rachel
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: telling Sam was real, and then that's exactly what happened.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And then Sam was so down bad that he's just like,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: all right, let's just throw grenade into this.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he legit said I'm gonna blow this game up
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: and proceeded to just tell Saul like pulled him aside
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: and was like, you listen to me right now, Saul.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: The conversation we're having right now is the most important
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: one you'll have in the game. He said that, and
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: then he was like, you're going it's you tonight. It's
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: you tonight, Saul, And it felt very dramatic, And then
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: saw talks with Teeny. How did how did Teeny end
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: up going to Genevieve?
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Saul goes to Teeny. Yeah, because it's just three
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: lavos left, it's Genevieve, Teeny and and Saul.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: So Saul goes to Teeny first, and then Teeny goes
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: to Genevieve and she's like, Genevieve, you're trying to get Saul.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: And Genevieve's like what, that's crazy?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Ten It made it all the way full circle and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: now it's but Saul was scrambling too. He started going
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a little crazy, and I started to feel bad for him.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I got flashbacks to him getting bullied by Rome, where
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, Saul's the nicest guy yep,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to see this happen to him.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: But for some I don't understand Genevieve's insistence on it
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: being him.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: I don't really either, because to me, I'm watching it
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: and like, Saul is a nice guy, but I don't
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: know that he's a at you know, like, yeah, he's
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: he's a little laid back to be like a heavy
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: hitter or like just the best player in the game
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: right now. Like to me, the people that I would
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: be looking at would be Sam potentially. I would also
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: be thinking to get Andy out, and Teeny is a
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: little too friendly with everybody.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: She's a little too kinsy for me.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little too kinsy is a good way of
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: putting it, like just too likable, very comforting, easy to
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: get along with for everybody.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: And I don't that's exactly how Kinsy won man.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: See, Teeny's making me nervous. Teeny's making me nervous too,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: So I would be focused on those three before I
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: would look at Saul and be like, oh, yeah, send
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: him home, you know yeah.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: And I guess Genevieve like by doing this, she's like, well,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I am turning on Teeny because she even said that
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: She's like, I think the bridge is burned with teeny
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: after this, and she's right, because I mean, all right,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: let's just go to tribal now.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: So the first of all, they started throwing Sue's name
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: out there too, by.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: The way, Oh yes, yeah, that's that's important too, because
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: that's what that's Saul's plan.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Saul starts throwing Sue out there, saying we need to
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: get rid of Sue because that will make them lose
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: power or whatever. And so at that point, not Kyle, Yeah,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: not Kyle. Kyle's name didn't even get thrown out.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Dude, it did a little bit, because I remember at
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: tribal if we just want to jump there, yeah, they were.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: They kept telling like Sam, like wait, I thought we
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: were voting Kyle like that as the fake plan that
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: they were going with. So they were throwing out Kyle
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: as the backup or as the decoy towards the very
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: end for some reason. So it was like Sue, Kyle
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: or Soul is what we were led to believe before
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the vote.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: So tribal, though, was Tribal was immediately like whispers everywhere.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Like I hated it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: It was. It was tense the entire time, like they
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: sat down and it was like nothing prompted it, but
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: they just had not settled what they were doing as
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: a whole, So the conversations just just kept going immediately
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: like there's interviews happening, Jeff is talking to people, and
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: while he's doing that, you've just seen Sam whispering and
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Andy being like what what's going on? And Sue looking
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: terrified the whole time. Like, Yeah, it was tense and
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: it was fast paced, but not fast paced enough.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt like it took forever. Yeah, And the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: other part was that I would be trying to listen
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: to the answer that somebody was giving and then they
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: would start whispering, and that'd be like, I have no
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: idea what was even asked anymore.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very distracting, like he would ask an
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: important question and then they would immediately clip the camera
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: away from the person that was asked and start showing
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: like Rachel being like.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Are we sure?
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Are we sure?
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Is it still?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Is it still? Is it? I thought? You said, Kyle,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Like I said, Yeah, it was just it was very
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: uh chaotic, and it just gets to a certain point
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: with those where you're like we just need to vote,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: like get nobody, this is not even accomplishing anything, like
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: we just need to get everybody to write a name down.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking that, like, can we just vote already? Yeah,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: It's about like five or seven minutes into this. I
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: was like, let's just get on with it now.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Before they read the votes, Who did you think was
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: going home?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I thought it was Saul, but I was nervous about
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the whole scramble that it happened. But I'm pretty sure
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: it was Saul.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: I thought it was going to be Sue because I
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: felt like I just was seeing her name said so much,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: but I couldn't keep up with who was just saying
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: that to say it? And the next thing you know,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: they're like, let's vote, let's do it, And so I
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: thought Sue was going home. I was pretty surprised. I
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: would love to be a fly on the wall when
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Chase sees Soul go home.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Oh man, I would love to as well. I wish
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: so badly that we could have his thoughts by now,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: so that we could at least read whatever all caps
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: message that he would have sent. But I'm telling you guys, like,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: don't contact Chase and let him know just in case
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: he hasn't seen the episode by the time this comes out,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: it's a busy week for him, but his crash out
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: is going to be legendary. So thoughts and prayers for
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Chase's mental well being this week, because I mean, Soul
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: was his ticket, but he's got a good shot with Rachel.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: His last player left, Saul. He felt like I feel
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: like Chase was very emotionally tied to Saul.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Saul was his cue this season, like that was that
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: was his He just he bonded with this player. And
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: the thing is too that I understand why because Saul
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: is so likable and you watch him suffer for the
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: entire first part of the season. So for to end
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: like this, you're just like rest in peace, you know,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: like this is just it's a rough it's rough to
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: see him, but he's on the journey so he gets
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: to kind of live that other side of it. So
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I'm happy for him in that way.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, if I don't want to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: make myself do work, so I probably won't do it.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: But there should be sad music under this part. We
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: should be talking over some like sad piano music. Who knows,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: maybe I will feel like doing it, but Saul, I
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: just want to say thank you for the entertainment value,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: just for being a cool dude when on Survivors sometimes
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: there aren't enough cool dudes, and he was like the
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: ultimate cool Survivor dude.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: He was, and he's the kind of guy that you
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: could just chill out with on the beach, hang out with,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: and he would just all around be easy to have
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: around the camp. And now they have Andy still. Yeah
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: somehow oh man, well dang, we saw him go home.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: We have not experienced the Chase Bridges fall out yet
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: that it will be coming, but we feel good. We've
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: got our players still and uh, I do enjoy a
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: good Chase Bridges breakdown.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's let's talk about the draft real quick.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: In the lead right now, it's me and Kristin. Kristin
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: has Caroline Teeney and Sam and then I ate out
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: her because it's a good It looks like a real
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: good team right about now. But I have the wild
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: card team. I have Gabe, Sue and Andy and then Jonathan.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: What do you want to say about my awesome squad PD.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: I don't wanna. I don't want to sound like a
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: bummer right now, but I do want to say I don't.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: I don't foresee another Jodi Newell Survivor Championship ring after
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: this season.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: For you, I don't know. I have the numbers on
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: my side right now. Me and Kristen both do its
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: another battle at the moment at least, I don't know,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: oh I but.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, and so I have still Kyle and Genevieve, two
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: stellar players, but some might say they're too good, which
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: makes me concerned. I might have two alphas that are
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: gonna have a problem.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And this is like this episode, this was Genevieve's big move.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: It was it was her second big move. Yeah, in
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: two events, which she's a little too much. My team
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: is winning too much for me to feel comfortable.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: And then we have Chase and he has Rachel, Yes,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: which is like like I said earlier, it's a great
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: last person that they left with, but no one wants
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: to be left with their last person. On the ninth
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: episode of the show.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: He could be in for another season where he's out
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: before the finale.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: And that's been the last three yep or no, this
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: is number four. So it was the last two times, yeah.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Because he had you last time. But that's where we're at.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: That's where the numbers are and I feel good about it.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: But I almost called you Chase. I'm sorry, don't take
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: that as an insult. PD. We have we have mail
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: to catch up on real quick. Yeah, you know, we
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: have letters from loved ones people if you wanna, If
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: you want to email us, send us tree mail, letters
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: from loved ones, whatever you want to call it. You
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: can email us at making the Mergepod at gmail dot com.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: This is actually a follow up. By the way, we
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: had a review that stated that each of us were
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: very similar to several different characters from Survivor. We had
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Philip Q and uh, who else was it? Andy? So yeah,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: there was a lot of comparison going on and we
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: felt that we needed some clarification, and so Oliver has
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: sent us some clarification via email instead of Apple review,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: which is fantastic and I've got that for us here.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: So he said, Hey, letter from a loved one here,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: coming to clarify who is who from my review. I'll
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: take the route and pick Andy for PD as he
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: picked him for the draft. Dang, tough, bad day to
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: be p D Philip. I'll go Chase, just like how
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Chase is riding the high from his YouTube money, so
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: did Philip in his second season being close with Boston Rod.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I also Philip would make a bet that leaves him
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: getting a tattoo of a mortal enemy Francesca like Chase
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: with Bondu and leaving Jonathan to be Q. Heck, yeah,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: I got the good deal of this one. I think
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Jonathan would come up with a J skirt. And for
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: some reason, I think if it's just Andy and C
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: it can be a reasonable, non chaotic podcast, and maybe
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: because that's how Andy expected it to be. Also, question
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: for the pod who decided to turn the Draft into
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: a podcast? Thank you to who did? Always a good listen.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: That's a great question. I like that question. The Draft
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: was your idea correct PD? Before Yeah, before Kristin and
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: I hopped on board.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love gambling, and I was like, how do
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I scratch that itch with Survivor? And yes, And then
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: I tried to hook Chase into watching and it worked.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: And then once I found out about you and Kristin
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: like being interested, I was like, hey, Chase, let's add
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: two more people and it's about to get crazy.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And we did it for a year. We did
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: two seasons or one season of just doi. Oh yeah.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: And then Chase and I, because we both have done
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: YouTube stuff, we were like, oh, we should do a
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: video documenting this. Then at that point we turned it
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: into one like one video that went on my channel,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: and then we thought this might be better as a podcast.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: And I think you were the one who pitched the podcast, right.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was like, you know, it would just
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: be fun to look back on No one's gonna listen
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: to it, but it'd be fun just to look back
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: on our draft or like what we thought about certain stuff, and.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just like we were already talking about it,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: so we figured we would just talk about it on
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: a recording. But PD, you were driving the ship into
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: the podcast world for sure on this end of things
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: and coming up with the draft. So I would say
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: you're our Jeff Probst.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Is what I I guess. So I'll take that exactly.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: That's how you do it on That's how you do
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: it on Making the Merge.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, dang, but uh awesome. If people want to ask
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: a question, I think you can leave comments on Spotify
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: now too. You can comment on the YouTube channel. Email
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: us Making the Mergepod at gmail dot com. All that
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: good stuff. We read it all and we have a
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: great time.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Yep. And you know, unlike some other Survivor podcasts, we're
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: not just criticizing the show because to us, the show
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: is a vehicle for us to be winners over our friends.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: So we're less caught up in, you know, complaining about
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: every little thing. We just want to you know, win Survivor.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: That's true. I just I just want to be a winner.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: That's all I want from this. I haven't gotten it yet,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: but when I do get it, it'll be a sweet
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: victory for me.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: And sweet Victor. Yeah, we love Survivor, we love talking
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: about it, so it's naturally and we all make content already,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: so it made sense for us to do this. But
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: at the time it kind of didn't make sense because
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: it's like, there's a million of these. But hey, it
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: turns out we're awesome and people like our clips.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Well, and that was we said early on when we
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: realized we were accidentally becoming successful. We were like, wait
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: a second, we've all run multiple, multiple channels of content
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: and creation that it only makes sense that we've now
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: assembled some like think group where we have almost unintentionally
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: become good at this.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, and I'll say almost. I'll agree with the almost
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: because there's definitely some things like not having a theme song. Yeah,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: that's still around that part of it. Yeah all right,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: so yeah, look, theme songs on the way. Thanks everybody
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: for sticking with us. This has been making the merge.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: I've been PD, I've been Jonathan this whole time.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: So and sorry for you now I can't do sorry
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: for you. I'm gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: find a Jeff quote and put it here.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Great graduation, Yeah,