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S49 Mergy Award Winners · Making The Merge - Survivor Podcast

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Mergi Awards. We made nominations, you voted.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: You can see the results, but hopefully you're here to
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: listen to us announce the results. Anyways, Brand, how are
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: you feeling. It's a it's a wonderful time of the year.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: I'm feeling great. My birthday is tomorrow, the tenth. WHOA
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: exactly what this is?
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  Speaker 3: This?
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  Speaker 2: This might even come out on my birthday. Probably the
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  Speaker 2: best birthday present I could have.
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  Speaker 4: We should give you a special Mergy Award for it
• 0:29
  Speaker 4: being your birthday.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I said that. I said it was a
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: wonderful time of the year because I knew tomorrow was
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Brand's birthday.
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  Speaker 4: Heck, and Chases, I got that.
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  Speaker 1: What you're here, Chase? Yeah, what did you think?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I thought you said Chase has a birthday this year too.
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  Speaker 1: We're off to a hot start of the Mergy Awards, guys.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most special Mergy Awards that we've ever done,
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  Speaker 1: and you're about to find out. Why. What category would
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  Speaker 1: you guys like to discuss first? Chase, I'll let you decide.
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  Speaker 4: I said.
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  Speaker 5: We jump in with the Gone Too Soon Award, The
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  Speaker 5: Gone Too Soon Award, nominees are Jeremiah shin In, Jake,
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  Speaker 5: and Nicole.
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  Speaker 1: And the winner was the Canadian Shoe Bandit Hulk.
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  Speaker 3: Jake not surprised by this win.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like one of those ones that you don't
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  Speaker 2: get this every season, but occasionally there's one that seems
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  Speaker 2: like it's going to be a clear favorite to win
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  Speaker 2: an award, and Jake, the way that he went out
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  Speaker 2: was just begging for him to win this award. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a no brainer, makes sense, and I
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  Speaker 2: bet we will see him again one day.
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  Speaker 4: I bet so, unless the rumors are true and he's
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  Speaker 4: in trouble. But you know what, we'll talk about. There's
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  Speaker 4: nothing that I can There's nothing that I can say
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: about Jake winning this award that Jake couldn't say better himself.
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: And that's what makes this such a special show. For
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: the first time ever, we got some acceptance speeches. So
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: let's hear from Jake.
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  Speaker 6: Yah, what's up making the merge fans. This is your boy,
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  Speaker 6: the Shoe Bandit from season forty nine. Jake Latimer, I
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  Speaker 6: just want to thank you for voting for me to
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  Speaker 6: get the Gone Too Soon Award.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah it did. It did suck. To go that that early.
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  Speaker 7: But once again, I have nothing bad to say about
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  Speaker 7: production of the way they handle it. They did what
• 2:38
  Speaker 7: they thought was necessary in that situation, and I got
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  Speaker 7: home to see the birth of my child. So I
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  Speaker 7: mean it all worked out. Did I want to win
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  Speaker 7: a million bucks? Absolutely, but super happy who did win?
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  Speaker 7: And yeah, I can't wait to see you guys in
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  Speaker 7: the future. All right, once again, thanks guys, love you,
• 2:55
  Speaker 7: Happy New.
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  Speaker 2: Year, loves us, love you. How about that audio quality
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  Speaker 2: from Jake? He sounds better than all of us today.
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  Speaker 1: Jake, thank you and we love you too, and happy
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  Speaker 1: New Year and all that.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to a very important award, and
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  Speaker 1: it's very important to brand the Villain Award this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true. Well, I I listened to the show.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't on the nomination episode, but well my voice was,
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  Speaker 2: but I wasn't there to be able to I don't
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  Speaker 2: know rebut some of the robuts that was thrown my
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: way about who I nominated for the Villain Award. I
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: did nominate Savannah and Chase. You were very emphact that she.
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  Speaker 4: Was not a villain because I'm a feminist, gonna I
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  Speaker 4: was gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Say I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that she's a villain, but if you
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  Speaker 2: spend any time online in the Survivor spaces, Reddit's, Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: She's a villain.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why she was nominated as well as well
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  Speaker 2: as Jake Shannon Christina. The winner of the villain Award.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna do it for the delay is Surveyana.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, insane, you're dead on the money. Brand, we may
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  Speaker 4: be feminists, and we do not objectify women. We want
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  Speaker 4: to make that extremely clear. We talked about it ad nauseum.
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  Speaker 4: But the people online they're not as good as us
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  Speaker 4: man and they hate women and they hate when women
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  Speaker 4: play strong games of survivor.
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  Speaker 3: Strong women who play strong games. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: I believe what Brand said because we talked about this
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  Speaker 4: in private, because Brand was defending his nomination and he said, look,
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  Speaker 4: if Parv is a villain, Savannah's a villain, And you
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: know what, You're absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 1: I've come back around to she is a villain because
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  Speaker 1: on this season there's nobody else lunging at somebody's keys
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  Speaker 1: or trying to murder a chicken with joy in their eyes.
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  Speaker 1: So guys, you might not believe this. But for the
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  Speaker 1: first time ever on making the merge, we're gonna hear
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  Speaker 1: from the winner and they're gonna address you guys directly.
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  Speaker 3: Is she allowed to do this.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know, but she did it.
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  Speaker 4: She can do whatever she wants, brother, because she's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be the first ever two time back to back winner.
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  Speaker 2: Those I don't say it if you don't mean it, brother, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I messaged her and I was like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you're allowed to do this because of season fifty,
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  Speaker 1: but like Baldy sent one and she's like, wait, how
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  Speaker 1: long was Baldy's Okay, I got you, and then she
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  Speaker 1: said it.
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  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh. Making the merge and fans, thank you
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  Speaker 8: guys so much for voting for me at Savannah as
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  Speaker 8: the biggest villain of season forty nine. I am so
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  Speaker 8: humbled to have received this this high honor. I want
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  Speaker 8: to thank my inspirations. I would say Poverty and Johnny
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  Speaker 8: Fairplay were like two of my favorite people to watch,
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  Speaker 8: uh when I was just a kid watching Survivors, so
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  Speaker 8: huge thank you to them. Also, thank you to my
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  Speaker 8: cast in particular like MC and Christina and you know,
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  Speaker 8: Sage two for helping me really step into this villainous
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  Speaker 8: role of trying to steal advantages and asking people straight
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  Speaker 8: up who they're voting for, and just letting me be
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  Speaker 8: the mean girl of this season. I had so much
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  Speaker 8: fun doing it, and I hope to reclaim that award
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  Speaker 8: and many more for Survivor fifty. Love you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, she's the best.
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  Speaker 1: Dude.
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  Speaker 3: Why she mentioned I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't get so she's incredible. She is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, I just want folks too, remembers,
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  Speaker 2: and by folks, I mean you guys that she's mine
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  Speaker 2: first round.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, women aren't property. Yeah, let's get that
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  Speaker 4: extremely clear.
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  Speaker 3: She is mine. In the draft, I get, I get
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  Speaker 3: first dip.
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  Speaker 4: In the first round. If you so choose, you can
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  Speaker 4: take your returning player, which I believe you just have
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  Speaker 4: the one, right Savannah. You have another player returning. No,
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  Speaker 4: that's cool, you get. We cannot pick Savannah until your turn.
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  Speaker 4: So if you draft first in the order and you
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: decide to draft you know, Ozzy or something, then Savannah
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  Speaker 4: is on the table for everyone else in round one.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I I And but it's a really
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to it, obviously, we're gonna have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fifty conversations. But yeah, it is a tough one
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  Speaker 2: to know what to do with because if you're returning
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: back to back seasons, you're gonna have a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a bigger target than somebody who's on forty eight or
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  Speaker 2: forty seven, because, hey, we want you to.
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  Speaker 3: Come back right away. Clearly you have some gameplay. Clearly
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  Speaker 3: we want to get you out.
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  Speaker 4: So plus, you're hungry and you're tired because you just
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: got off the eye.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. I don't know if I'm gonna u.
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  Speaker 2: Drafter, to be honest with you, I haven't decided yet,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just good to know that I can if
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  Speaker 2: I want to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would take Savannah over washed up Ozzie.
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  Speaker 4: You know, hey, do not ever ever speak ill of
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  Speaker 4: Ozzie's name on this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how he does in the challenges. We'll know
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  Speaker 2: pretty early on. I think in fifty if he's washed up.
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  Speaker 4: Or not, I'll quit.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: He's on Crutch, se've seen real.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, wait wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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  Speaker 1: He was on crush. Yeah, he was Bryce and Wynn.
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  Speaker 1: We're parading him around the United States, and it looked
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  Speaker 1: like he was injured.
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  Speaker 4: Does that mean that he's gonna get medivacked from season fifty?
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  Speaker 4: Potentially it could.
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  Speaker 1: He could have gotten home from the flight and slipped
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  Speaker 1: on a banana peel. We don't know.
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  Speaker 4: No, dude, this changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't change anything. He could have gotten injured
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  Speaker 1: in the United States post game.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, man, you believe in fairy tales. What are
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  Speaker 4: you talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he sustained some kind of injury before
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  Speaker 1: season forty nine was airing, But that doesn't mean he
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  Speaker 1: got hurt on fifty.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine a world where Ozzie gets met of
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  Speaker 2: act like there's yeah, he would have to be on
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  Speaker 2: the verge of death, like Ozzy's not just gonna give up.
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  Speaker 1: You're acting like I just spoiled changed. If it was
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  Speaker 1: some kind of spoiler, Bryce and Wynn wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 1: parading him around the United States as they were.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have changed everything everything for me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just go to the next well switching gears. Well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: one more thing about Savannah. I love how even in
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  Speaker 1: her Mergy Award accepted speech, she's a savage. I love
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  Speaker 1: her all right, I'll read through the next nominees. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'll go with the Game Changer Award, and the
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  Speaker 1: numinees for the Game Changer were Rizzo's bluffing Nate at
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  Speaker 1: the Journey, the Secret Play an offense, and creating the
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  Speaker 1: dynamic trio, and that was Rizzo and Savannah bringing in Baldy.
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  Speaker 1: And the winner, with just under half of the vote,
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  Speaker 1: goes to Rizzo's bluffing. Yeah, so what did you think
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  Speaker 1: of that?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of torn on this, I'm kind of torn on it,
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  Speaker 2: Like I I still don't know how much of an
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  Speaker 2: impact his bluffing actually had on the game itself. It
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: was obviously great for us the viewers. It was fun,
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  Speaker 2: but but I, you know, it's just an interesting thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's an interesting thing that I don't Every time he bluffed,
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  Speaker 2: we were.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it was cool, but why do you do it?
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  Speaker 3: And so it's like, I don't know what, Jase?
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: Do you are you convinced that it had long lasting
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: change effect to the.
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  Speaker 4: Gay I personally think that it's it was great moves.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was great, But sadly we'll never know
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: because he lost a fire, so we won't get to
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  Speaker 4: see like I think ideally we would have seen the
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: jury ask him some questions, be like, hey, that we
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: didn't like that, and then if he's still would.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: Have been a game changer award for the wrong reason exactly.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: That's the reason why it cast him the game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think that there's no doubt that the
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: reason he got as far as he did was because
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: of those moves and those flashy tribal plays.
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  Speaker 1: And it benefited Savannah people knowing that it could at
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: any time be given to her.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: And you might have thought, oh, Rizzo didn't send a speech,
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Well you'd be wrong, because Rizzo won a second award
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: technically that was the making the Merge Running Bit award,
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  Speaker 1: and because he sounded like Mario, you know, I put
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: in all the Mario sounds and the Mario sounds one
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: bit of the season by seven percent over Detective Sagrittinity.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: Oh the plan thought came in third place. There. It's
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: a tough break for Jonathan and Chase.
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  Speaker 4: There was a ton of comments that were saying that
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: chomping at the bit to talk about the Juwan sauce
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: should have should have won. But there you can only
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  Speaker 4: do up to four on the poll on Instagram, so
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: that one you had to comment for.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I do love the idea of a running
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: bit being Jonathan just not knowing how to talk.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's the bit is that he said a weird.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: Thing to talk about that Jawan sauce. Uh yeah. So
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: there was a loud there was a vocal Juwan Sauce
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  Speaker 1: minority in the comments, But the winner was the Mario
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  Speaker 1: Reis God sounds. We have a speech from Riz.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: Guys, I don't think we can do this. This is
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: an NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up, Bran, I'm playing it again.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's your boy, the man, the myth, the legend
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  Speaker 9: or I zg O d Ariz God Baby. And I
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  Speaker 9: just came here to say how honored I am to
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  Speaker 9: have won two awards from the Making the Merge Award show,
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  Speaker 9: those being the best move of the season with my
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  Speaker 9: idle bluffing and the best bit of the year with
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  Speaker 9: that yohoo. And I just gotta say I am so honored.
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  Speaker 9: Love the Making the Merge fans, love Making the Merge period.
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  Speaker 9: The Riz God thought being on season forty nine and
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  Speaker 9: now being on season fifty was absolute cinema. But even
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  Speaker 9: though I might have not won the million dollars or
• 13:42
  Speaker 9: maybe the million hearts. These two awards are crucial for
• 13:46
  Speaker 9: the risk God's ego. Thank you guys so much, and
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  Speaker 9: hopefully the Riz Good can win some things on season fifty.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys.
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  Speaker 4: Also incredible, all so incredible.
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  Speaker 5: Dude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I honestly I can't believe.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe he and Savannah did it. I'll be
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: honest with you. I thought they would be like, hey,
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: we'd love to, but we are just under like, uh,
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: we've got tape over our mouths, we're not allowed to talk,
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: and so I've just I can't pay.
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: Everything goes out the window when one of the players
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: drops a manifesto on Instagram. Dude, hey, and let me
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: say something. I want to defend Rizzo real quick. To Rizzo.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: You can tell in this acceptance speech. People have been
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: saying that he's, you know, a little arrogant or cocky
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: or full of himself, and it is so apparent to
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: me that he is inspired by pro wrestling. Pro wrestling.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: He's cutting promos. Even when he was on the island,
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: he was he was cutting promos, and I don't think
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: people that don't know anything about pro wrestling understand like
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: he's playing a character right now, That's why he keeps
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: calling himself risk god. That's why you know, he says
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: that these awards are important for his ego even though
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: he didn't win the million dollars or a million hards
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  Speaker 4: like he's playing it up. He's cutting promos and I
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: think he's incredible.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's awesome too. Also, I wasn't expecting
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: them to say yes to this either, But when when
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Baldy does it, apparently all the other dominoes fall. So
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: all you need is to spoiler alert, Baldy's gonna give
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: a speech. But all you need is Baldy, and then
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: everybody else is just like, yeah, well yeah.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: But Baldi. Baldy has nothing to lose.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Baldi is not on fifty come on, guys.
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. She's just such a influential person.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah she is.
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  Speaker 3: She is.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is is Baldy apparently doesn't have any
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: problem talking. No, not at all.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: What was I gonna say? Yeah, in season forty seven,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: we wanted to talk to Saul in the off season
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  Speaker 1: and CBS is just like nope, But you know what, this.
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  Speaker 3: This year, we love CBS.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: We yeah, we love CBS. We appreciate CBS, but I
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: got the two people returning for fifty to do bits.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Take that, CBS. Maybe I'll edit that up.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: No, I keep it in.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: They're not listening, all right, Sure, Chase, tell me about
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the Baby Come Back Award. Who who's nominated for that?
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Well, you know PD. The nominees for the Baby Come
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Back Award are Baldi, Juwan, Jake, and Jeremiah. And who
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: won and the winner is with fifty of the vote,
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  Speaker 4: Sophie Baldy.
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  Speaker 1: Great job by Baldi. I want her to come back.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Savannah in the comments in all caps said we need Baldy,
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  Speaker 1: so she agrees.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Baldi, I think a fan favorite for us, the audience.
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  Speaker 4: But also it seems like her castmates love her very
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: much except for one boy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, most most of them for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about big mistake. The big mistake nominations
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: were MC playing her idol when she didn't need to,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Matt telling Savannah he worked in finance, Sophie b not
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  Speaker 1: stealing Rizzo's idol, and everybody not voting out Savannah when
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: she lost immunity, and the winner was once again Baldy
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: not stealing it from riz highest percentage seventy.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that Matt saying he was a finance bro
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: got any votes whatsoever is the most shocking.
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  Speaker 3: Part of this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's three percent of like five hundred and thirty?
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I think it's one vote.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I think, I don't know for sure.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was the obvious decision for the voters there,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: it was. It was the move that would have won
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: her the game, and it was unfortunate. Should have listened
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: to grandma.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Should have listened to Grandma. That's back to back wins
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: for Baldi. Surely she's not going to win another one.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I mean, who knows. She might sweep the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: rest of them, and then she would be up there
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: with Andy as a four time winner. Andy holds the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: record true awards.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: What an incredible player Andy would But.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Let's find out brand who are the nominees for the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: making the Merge MVP?
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Thanks thank you so much for asking.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: And obviously this is the MVP of the show, not
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: necessary of this show, not necessarily the MVP of the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Survivor season.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: But we have Baldy, Riz God and Shan and.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Fair Weather the winner with thirty nine percent of the vote,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: so not an absolute.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Runaway favorite, but the winner, nonetheless is whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: This is crazy. It's Baldy.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Why didn't me right now?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Why that's nuts Baldy a three time Mergy Award winner,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: putting her in second place behind Andy.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I will say it does.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: It's suspicious.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: It makes you wonder if there was some pregaming going
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: on before.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Maybe she was trying to.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Throwing Baldy under the bus. It's been done enough this week.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: No, no, bald I would never throw Baldy under the bus.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I think she's an incredible player. I think she deserves
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: the MVP Award. I think she definitely deserves the Baby
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: come Back Award. I want to come back and play.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: You know, she also deserved the Big Mistake Award because
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: of not playing her, but that's that's kind of a
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: negative award. But I love Baldy and.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: And I think this is the correct winner for MVP
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: as well. I think she gave us so much to
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: talk about from the very beginning of the season where
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: she was on the losing tribe time and time again.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Like we talked about.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Baldi, I think more than anybody else or on the season,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and so clearly she absolutely should have won this award.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And her her voice, her personality so infectious. Her sweater
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: was so comfortable. Baldy just all around my favorite player
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: from season forty nine.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Hey, explain you bought the sweater?
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: What do you now? I don't have to explain anything.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Let's hear from Baldy.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Her sweater was so comfortable, dude?
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: What is up making the Merge podcast listeners?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: What are you gonna say?
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Brand I was gonna keep going with it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Just play that, Okay, okay, let's play it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: What is up making the Merge podcast listeners and hosts?
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: It's Sophie b from season forty nine of Survivor aka
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: Baldy Sofi or Blue Sophie or with the title that
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: I like to refer myself as the runner up of
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: season forty nine of Survivor. And I just want to say,
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: first of all, thank you guys for all the love
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: and support throughout the season. I love you guys. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: would listen here and there, and I love this podcast.
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: I think for season fifty this will be my podcast.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: But I just want to say I am so honored
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: to receive two awards from you guys. Number one MVP.
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: Maybe come back. You guys want to see me come back. Well,
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: I feel like there is business that I need to
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: get down to if I come back. I think my
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: type of game is one that would probably do pretty
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: well because I think I was loyal to a fault
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: and that's what people will have in the back of
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: their mind if they see me again, so you know.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: And I wouldn't be loyal to a fault if I
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: came back, and I probably would prepare more physically. But
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: either way, I'm so honored to get this award, even
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: if I don't come back, because that means the world
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: to me. I also got the award for the Biggest
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: Mistake for not taking rizils idol, which I get. Obviously
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: there's context I can provide that can explain why I
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: did it, But overall, do.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I regret it?
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: Of course, of course I didn't win. Think if you
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: don't win, it'd be stupid to not have regrets because
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: obviously there was something you did wrong. But I just
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: want to say again, thank you guys for the love
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: and support, thank you for the award and for voting
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: for me. I'm excited to be more part of your community.
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: When season fifty comes around, But yeah, sending you all
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: my love and happy New year.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Dang, dude, dude. First of all, let me just say
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: the fact that they were so nice in these voice
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: memos is so what a cool thing. The next thing
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: I want to say is I hYP purbolate a lot.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Is that a word?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: You speak hyperbolically?
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, that too. I do both. And I think
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I can say that this cast has been one of
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: my favorite casts in a long time, maybe since forty six.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And would you say Baldy is your favorite player of
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the New era? Yes, the answer to that question is
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: always yes. At least Chase is.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Consistent, Yeah, consistently hyperbolic.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: That was awesome to hear from Baldi. Baldy sent the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: longest speech in a minute and thirty and she said
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: that she can't wait to be.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Part of Well when you win three awards.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that this podcast is going to be her
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: podcast for season fifty. How awesome is that to hear me?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see if we'll see if Baldy is as
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: hyperbolic as Chases.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: It's define my podcast. I love this show.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna listen every week.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: We never hear from her again.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Hey, we might try to have her on in person.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Who knows. Maybe the stars will align, maybe we can
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: do it. Next up, I want to get to the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: quote of the season. Let's start with Jake, She's giving
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: birth to my kid while I'm out here. And then
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Rizzo please use my nickname when you snuff my torch
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Rizzo again, ri E g O D Risk God baby.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And then Christina name one family member or partner from
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: each person on the jury. And with the most votes
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: of all of them, Christina got forty six percent out
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of nine hundred and twenty eight votes.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the most voted on EMERGYE of the season.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, and Christina almost took half of it. Let's
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: hear from catnus right now.
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: Thank you so much to making the merge for the nomination,
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: and to all the Survivor fans for voting. My final
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: tribal question is quote of the season. I actually thought
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: the question would be edited out, so it is surreal
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: that the moment not only was shown, but it's considered
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: a top final tribal Council moment in the New Era.
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: Special shout out to the Fallen Comrades Challenge in season
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: one for the inspiration and of course my favorite in
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: season friend of me, Savannah Girl. Thank you for being
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: a great sport truly. Thank you guys for the love,
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: the laughs, and for keeping this moment alive. And to
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: anyone who thinks they could come up with a better
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: quote for our season, I'd like you to try.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Jay Christina, There's so much there, Like why did she
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: think that this question would we vote edited out?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I have no idea why it would have.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know either. Maybe she just was so used
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: to because by the time we got to the final tribal.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Maybe she just saw so much of her stuff be
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: edited out of the show. She was like, they're not
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: gonna give me that big moment, but she deserved that
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: big moment. Thank you so much for my mind's kind
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: of blown. The PD managed to get all of me
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: except speeches.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Great work.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: A couple of days ago. It's just like, I wonder
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: if Baldy would say yes to this. I mean, it
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem like she's in any kind of hot water
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: right now, so I should ask. And then uh, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: then she sent it pretty quick, and then I was like, Okay,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: now I'm gonna get everybody to do it. Yes, shout
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: out to everybody, and and Cateness especially. I don't know
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: if she knows that we call her Cateness, but thanks
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: for that brand because that was a fun subplot.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: You wait, you're telling me that we got a we
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: got an exception speech from everybody who won an award.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So let's get to the last one, because
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: this is the most hilarious part of the whole thing.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I managed to get everybody, and there's some people included.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: There's some people included in everybody that are beefing. So
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: let's get to the funniest award. And you know, it
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: is fitting that this is the funniest and the person
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: who won one, so the funniest castaway nominees. I'm having
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: trouble finding why can't I okay, Shannon? That was the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: first nominee, second nominee Sage, third nominee Christina, and lastly
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Juwan And out of six hundred votes, sixty went to Sage,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and believe it or not, congratulations, I've gotten acceptance speech
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: from Sage. It's by far the shortest, but I sent
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: her a message just like, no way she's gonna respond
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to this. And then last night I'll get into the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: backstory of like when I found out later let's just
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: hear from Sage.
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: Damn, what's crazy is I wasn't even trying to be funny,
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: So that's cool, but appreciate it, like to thank the Academy,
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: my family, all the above. No, thanks for real, super sweet,
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: appreciate it and uh thanks.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah dude, that was awesome. You know what I love
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: about Stage's accepted speech is she did not have to
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: do it. She could have just said no or ignored it,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: but she chose to do it, which is awesome, and
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: then proceeded to just be like, hey, thanks guys, I
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: wasn't even trying to be funny.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think it's important.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Like she obviously didn't listen to the nominations episode, but
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: in that I talked about how specifically Sage was so
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: funny with like her facial expressions when someone would say something, right,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and so it's not like, uh oh, we were like
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: laughing at Sage all season.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: She was even trying to be funny.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: The way like her facial like her responses when someone
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: would say something and she would make a face behind
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: their back, is.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Like objectively very funny. And so I.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Hope that she she understands. The funniness that she brings
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: is just it's so effortless.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: She's so funny and.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Continues to be very funny.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, and also we on the pocket, we all became
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: big fans of Sage throughout the season. We did, So
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: there's a lot, there's a lot of negativity going on
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: A little bit.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I just wanted to make it clear that we don't
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: take signs. We sit in the pocket and we watch,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: we observe.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we do. But I think I think
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Sage she exemplified why she won this award with her
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: twenty second exit came last night at like eleven thirty
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: twelve or maybe a little bit.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: It's so funny. I saw that was the only one
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I listened to ahead of time because I wanted them
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: to all to be surprised. But when it popped up
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: on my phone that Sage responded, I just I listened
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: to it, and then I texted PD and I said,
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: you got Sage, And then.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I said, you're joking. And so here's the context I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was about to get into. I had just run two
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and a half miles and Chase sent me the Sage
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: thing as I'm like walking back, and then I said,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you're joking, Like, there's no way she actually did it,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you know, given the circumstances and everything going on around
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Sage right now. And he's like, check the DMS. So
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I did, and I was like, I just wrapped up
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a two mile run. I think I'm gonna do two more.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: That's how big of a deal it is to me that, Like,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Sage just responded, and then Chase said, I think you
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: should do eight, And then I was like, can I
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: do eight? So I ran eight miles just to see
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: if I could do it because Chase said that, So
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: thank you, Sage.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Let me let me read the text that happened. H
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: m hmm, you got Sage, incredible, you're joking. Check the DMS.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I literally just finished a two mile run. I might
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: do another two do eight. At this point, this has
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: become the biggest episode we've ever done. And it all
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: started because I was like, I don't care if Baldy's
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: in hot water. I'm gonna ask for this, so should
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: we Was that the last award?
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Did I skip anything? I think that was everything regarding
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: about the song award?
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, that one.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: We don't have an acceptance speech for should we call
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Jonathan spoiler? Jonathan wins, But but the question is which
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Jonathan song is it? So we've got many Riz from Chase,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: m Season Angel, another great song, and then we got
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the two Jonathan songs, Roll from a Dice and Nipple
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Pierced Guy, and the winner with thirty six percent of
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the vote, Nipple Pierced Guy.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's hard to beat that one. Man.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It's hard to beat Jonathan, a guy who is an
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: incredible musician.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Chase, You and I we split the vote twenty percent each.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: If we combine our songs.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: We would have Wanne Rack, high Bred Dude, Yeah, I, Hillary, I,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Bernie Sanders, and Hilly Clinton, Hillary Clinton to the Thing,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Hillary Clinton, Hilly See because my personal favorite song for
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: the season was M Season Angel, and I would have
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: been happy to see that win. But I think I
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: took too many votes away from you with my Riz.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: God did no, I loved I loved Minie Riz. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: do think that the voters got this right. Nipple Pierce Guy.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: It was expertly done. It's a very hard song to sing,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: a harder song to write a parody of. That's why
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: only like weird al has done it, and so I
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: thought he did a wonderful job with a really tough song.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: So I I think Jonathan should have with those I
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: was gonna play.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna play the voicemamo that Jonathan just
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: sent me. But I don't think I can because it
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: includes personal information.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: In that case, Hey, Siri called Jonathan. Yeah, I wouldn't.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't. I wouldn't have something serious going on. They're
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: sending you Instagram reels and.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Little's doing our show. He's got a little bit of
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: what big going on?
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if you're if you're saying that, I have
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to believe you because normally I think you would be
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: very pro harassed Jonathan, so must be serious.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Right, and we should we should. Let's probably edit this
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: out too.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Okay. I just got a call from Jonathan Wright. Jonathan,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: would you give an acceptance speech for winning the Making
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: the Merged Grammy Award?
• 33:14
  Speaker 13: Whoa uh the Nano Award?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: You mean.
• 33:19
  Speaker 13: Wow? I am so honored. I feel so uh. I
• 33:26
  Speaker 13: feel so uns surprised.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 33:29
  Speaker 13: That's just the main thing I want people to understand
• 33:32
  Speaker 13: is I feel unsurprised and honored and thankful. And I
• 33:37
  Speaker 13: also feel like people finally understand me after this season,
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: and I feel like they understand my artist try.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I like to think of myself not.
• 33:47
  Speaker 13: So much as a musician, but a storyteller, you know.
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: I think when I tell stories through songs, it speaks
• 33:55
  Speaker 13: to people like the people of olden years.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: That's what I like to think of myself as it's
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: a storyteller.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: That's what I mainly want to come across this.
• 34:04
  Speaker 13: So I'll continue telling stories and I'll continue writing the
• 34:09
  Speaker 13: songs that inspire people. Thank you to my mom.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: And that's it, all right. I have a great day, Jordan.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great and uh and we're basically off for
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: like a month, right. We'll be back in a month
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: for the pre pre show extravaganza
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Probably about this time next month, probably goodbye,