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[00:02:30] Co-wrong episode 13. Co-effing wrong. And we are revisiting a tough night for Joe Del Campo. And now, a guy who's never backed up. It's Chappelle. Chappell, how are you? I'm good. I try to remain regular. Yeah, you know, for lack of a better word there. But no, I'm ready. I'm ready to talk. Maybe I'm a little backed up. I'm excited to talk about this episode. Yeah, okay.

[00:03:00] A lot to unpack here. And I'm struggling myself now as I was 10 years ago when I was doing the Know-It-Alls. And it's hard just to not go into all bathroom humor. Yeah, but I think now that I've watched it again, I can respect how painful it looked like this whole situation was. You know, Joe is putting on a good face. I think Michelle says it more than one time. I think it's more painful than he's letting on. Yeah.

[00:03:29] There's multiple times where he's doubled over. I think we catch him mid-aqua dump at one point too, where he's just like sitting in the water. He's sitting in the water. Yeah. But like, why is he sitting in the water, Rob? You know? I don't know. How often do we get a solo shot? It's a very non-tanned rear end at any point in this episode. Well, I wasn't looking for it, but it's hard to miss as well with it being so white. And so, yeah, I was like, Joe looks like he's in pain.

[00:03:55] I think if they didn't want to medevac him, I think he probably would have tapped somebody on the shoulder and be like, just take me out. Yeah. They do say that the formula for comedy is tragedy plus time. And I do feel it has been 10 years. So it was maybe more insensitive in the moment to talk about this in jest. But I think Joe's doing great. I think Survivor... Aubrey's won a season of Survivor. If not now, then when? Yeah, I mean, that's good for her. Yeah. I think Survivor really ages the other way around.

[00:04:25] I think in the moment, a lot of shit is so funny on Survivor. And then years later, you're like, huh, that was crazy that we felt that way. This time, I don't really feel like we're being insensitive laughing at Joe and his bowels. I think he was trying to make light of it in the moment as well. You know, I think he said, can you make my boo-boo go away? I don't really think he was talking about like, you know, a cut when he said that. So, yeah, there's some comedy laced in there. But this really is a Survivor tragedy, right?

[00:04:52] We lose Joe and everybody's sad about it. I rarely at this point in the game would you find somebody getting medevaced and everybody be like, dang, this sucks. I mean, Aubrey is sad probably for a number of reasons. But everybody else just seems genuinely upset because Joe just seemed like a very nice guy. Yeah. And it's hard because it's just so much of the episode where we... It happens at an inopportune time where we don't even get the immunity challenge in this episode. So we don't even know who would have been immune.

[00:05:21] We get the reward challenge and then we get the reward and then we get a lot of talking about what's going on after. Yeah. And, you know, I think Aubrey did... She recently responded, you know, to people commenting on her win. I think Boston Rob was the one who kind of prompted this comment where she was talking about how a lot of her win in Survivor 50 was luck.

[00:05:45] Well, I think with Survivor you have to take the good and the bad, not to reference too much your conversation with Lisa Welchel. But, you know, you got good luck and you got bad luck sometimes. We saw Aubrey run into a lot of bad luck this season. And so it doesn't really bother me when someone like Aubrey runs into a lot of good luck in Survivor 50. Because there were so many things that had to happen exactly like this for Aubrey to be in this situation and for Joe to be getting out of the game. When we look at the immunity challenge, very simple challenge. Run, go get the beanbags, toss the beanbags.

[00:06:14] If you land them all in the little spots, you win the challenge. It's very simple. It's not that strenuous. There's a little bit of a run. It's very hot. You can tell. But everybody runs out of their beanbags. Every single person runs out of them except for Joe. And he gets... He sinks these last two, these final two beanbags on his last two throws. We don't even know what would have happened had he missed one. Do they start over? Yeah. So it was a weirdly constructed challenge.

[00:06:44] I think that this might be the last time they did this challenge. Yeah. You had to go into the woods and go into the forest and then pull down your beanbag bag, like a bag full of beanbags, and then come back. And then you got to throw. And you had basically like three bags of ammo. Mm-hmm. But then once you were out, instead of going and go to go pick... I don't know if they were worried like that you would throw them and people would hit you. For whatever reason, you couldn't go pick up the ones you already threw.

[00:07:12] You had to wait for everybody to go into the jungle and be done with their bags. And so Michelle, Aubrey, Sydney, and Ty are all done. And they're sitting there. And it's like, well, okay, Joe's still got one more bag to go. And they're all just like milling about, like waiting for... It was like the least exciting thing going on. And then Joe comes back and he has...

[00:07:40] Basically, he needs two more and he misses on the first three shots. And as you said, he has two bags left and he hits the furthest one and he hits the other one and he wins it. And if Sydney wins the challenge, none of this happens. Joe might not be there. If anybody else wins the challenge, there's a good chance Joe is not there. So that's the weirdest part about it is that Joe had so many times he could have lost. They all have thrown.

[00:08:10] Everybody has thrown the maximum amount of chances. This is the only scenario where Joe Del Campo wins this challenge is exactly the way it happens. There's no way he edges out Ty in the last second. We've seen it. He's so slow in all the challenges. Right. And this one is the one where if he... Like, had he just missed, he might have survived to make it to the final tribal council.

[00:08:32] It's crazy that him winning this challenge is the death blow in his game because he will go to that reward challenge with Sydney and with Aubrey and eat until he can't eat no more. You know, he's gonna talk about how you really eat meat like that. And he's down there eating beef kebabs and chicken kebabs until he just ran out of space. So, yeah, it's wild that one little thing changes here and Joe Del Campo makes it to the finale. Yeah. It's wild.

[00:09:02] It really is. It's crazy. He wins the reward. He's not even competitive in so many of these challenges and this is the one that he wins. I think if Aubrey wins, she does bring him anyway. But I don't think that he goes if Sydney or Michelle or Ty wins. I'm not even... I don't even know if... I don't even know if Aubrey brings him. So, think about it like this.

[00:09:25] If I'm Aubrey and I want to leave somebody back at camp, who's the least likely person for me to worry about coming up against me? It's Joe. Leave Joe there? He wouldn't even take it too personally probably. Because again, he don't really even eat meat like that. So, you say, Joe, I know you don't like meat. You know, Jeff made sure to highlight that the reward was beef and it was chicken and it was cheesecake. You know, it's like, Joe, I didn't think you really wanted any of that.

[00:09:53] You know, you go back and hold the fort down for me while I take these people. You know, leave Joe with Michelle. You're fine. Leave Joe with Ty. You're fine. Joe with Sydney. You're fine. He could have got left behind. The only thing is, I don't know if he had been on any rewards and so that it might just be like one of these things where it's his turn. Joe, I know you haven't eaten. You haven't been on any of these rewards. So, it's possible he could have gone then. But it is just one of these things where just one thing changes and it changes the whole outcome of the season. Yeah.

[00:10:24] Joe wins the challenge. He picks Aubrey, of course. And Aubrey immediately tells him, pick Sydney. You know, because she thinks leaving Ty and Michelle back at camp is perfect. They've been together since the beginning of the game and they seemingly are not on the same page. After last night, tribal council is clear that they probably won't create any type of bond that will be able to overtake. Because we know Ty has an idol, right? So, we don't need Ty working with Michelle to pull off some blind side on Aubrey. So, it's the perfect person to leave behind.

[00:10:54] But it would be nice to leave Joe behind, you know, especially for his own health. It's just, who could have foresaw something like this happening? Yep. And so, they go on the reward and Joe is really hyping up Aubrey. He's like, wow, you know, Aubrey is really the person to beat. No, we're all just passengers. It's really Aubrey's game. She's the only threat here. And he's not trying to do anything strategically.

[00:11:21] I think he's just, that's how he looks at the game board. And Sydney is just like, yep, you're right. You're right, Mr. Joe. Absolutely. And she's like trying to mind her own business. I think that Aubrey clocks like, you know what? Actually, now that I think of it, it's a bad idea to go to the end with Sydney. Right. And it's crazy that again, Sydney, it doesn't seem like Sydney is doing anything to put this highlight on her. It's Joe talking up Aubrey.

[00:11:50] Aubrey's listening to Joe being like, I'm such a big threat. I'm such a big threat that Sydney wants to go to the end with me. Like she hears you saying this and she wants to go to the end with me. That doesn't make sense. Now, what we get from Sydney is that, yeah, Sydney does not mind going to the end with Aubrey. Sydney looks like she's just all tapped in to go to the final three and she wants to speak her case. That might be hubris on her part or maybe just she hasn't watched a lot of the show and so she doesn't really know how tough that can be. Maybe she's broken down the votes and thought like, all right, if I get there with Joe and Aubrey,

[00:12:18] maybe in her mind she is going to win, but she doesn't really see an issue with this. It's Aubrey who's like, yeah, maybe I should go to the end with Ty. You know, Ty's really pissing people off. We were talking on the last time, maybe does Aubrey want to go to the end with Joe and Sydney? And I don't know if she toyed with that, but she's 100% in this episode. I want to go to the end with Joe and Ty. And I think that Ty started off very likable, but I think these last couple of Tribal Council performances

[00:12:47] really have made it clear Ty is a jury goat at this point. Nobody likes Ty. When Ty gets back from Tribal Council, he is very confused because he's like, all right, I was clearly left out of this vote. I'm the only one who voted for Michelle, but I don't understand why y'all just didn't tell me. Why didn't you just let me know? Aubrey's like, well, you weren't taking the most diplomatic approach and people felt like they weren't being heard from you. She's hitting him with the therapy speech.

[00:13:15] And he goes, I get all of that, but you still could have told me that you weren't coming with me. It's very simple. And Aubrey's like, well, you know, but she's trying to hem and haw like, well, Ty, you were being unreasonable. He's like, do you think I was being unreasonable? Because if you had just said, we're not voting you with you, do you think I waste my advantage on Michelle at that point? And Aubrey's gaslighting him. She really is like, no, I mean, you really love us no choice. It's kind of your fault that this happened.

[00:13:42] Aubrey tells us in confessional, no, I need you to take control away from Ty. And I'm so happy that we're doing this watch like this, because I don't remember Co-Rong well enough to know that that's what Aubrey was getting at. But last episode, I definitely thought that must be what it is, right? Ty's can't be making the decisions and having the advantages and having the idol. You got to take something from him. And so she did this as a way to, like, you know, defang him a little bit. And he's just confused because she won't admit it. And he hasn't picked up that that's what she's trying to do.

[00:14:10] Yeah. And he's really hurt. He said that she he feels like she pulled a fast one on him. And she did. She did. Yeah, she did. She did. But he trusts her and she's the one he trusts the most in the game. You know, these are the type of allies that we've seen in Survivor history that you don't want them on the jury because they have taken things way too personally. You know, just like the little blind sides are getting to him. I don't know if Aubrey could even trust Ty to vote for her. Like, don't get me wrong. She will win him back over in this episode.

[00:14:40] But if Ty had gone home last night, I don't know if he's coming in immediately after thinking like, OK, Aubrey played a great game. I should vote for her. I think he's too emotionally invested in their connection right now. So he ends up spending a lot of time with Michelle in this episode as everybody else is on the reward challenge and they're going to talk and they have a heart to heart. And he says that his guard was up with Michelle. She's a beautiful girl.

[00:15:08] And ultimately, though, they get back on the same page. Look at Michelle. Yeah. Well, Michelle's open for business. She's like, my door has always been open, Ty. But he's kind of like, I don't really know what it is about you that we never really clicked. You know, we talked about how the beauty tribe was kind of picking up Ty. Like the girls in the beauty tribe were trying to pick up Ty as a fourth. But we never see a one on one relationship between Michelle and Ty. Right. We get Ty and Julia at points. We get we definitely get Ty and Anna.

[00:15:37] Rarely do we see the two of them mesh. And so of all the people in the beauty tribe for Ty to fall out with, this one makes a lot of sense. But Michelle is still like, I'm still willing to talk to you. Ty's just like, this is not how he's been playing the game. Like the people he has the most chemistry with is the people he wants to work with. That's how he ended up working with Scott and Jason until they pissed him off. And then he flips over to Aubrey. And now she has his heart. Michelle is trying desperately to get much like to get Ty to be willing to work with him. And he's a little burned right now.

[00:16:07] He is upset with Aubrey. And so if you're going to get him to flip this the time to do so. And it does feel like Michelle makes some progress with Ty. She's getting a massage from Ty. He's saying like, hey, we could work together. Let's do this. I have my idol. Who should we vote for? I do think, though, that when Aubrey comes back from reward, I think that Aubrey fixes it. She pieces him up so quick. She's so good. This is this way. You know, the episode 10, Aubrey masterstroke fine.

[00:16:37] But this is really, really good work from Aubrey because she tells Ty exactly what she needs to tell him to get him back on the same page. She's also believes it. Right. Like she's gone from being like, OK, Ty needs to go to no, Ty, you're my goat. And so she said, I got Joe. That's an extra vote. And now I got you. And it's me and you to the end. We're each other's best chance of making it to the end because these other people think you're a threat. I no longer think you're a threat. I think you're the person that I want to sit by because it'll make me happy.

[00:17:06] And I don't think she's wrong about that. I think she'll be happy to sit next to Ty and she thinks she can beat him. And for him, he was able to kind of exhale and release some of the animosity he had toward her because he was plotting on her downfall. But you could tell it was just it's taking a toll on him. The emotional toll that Survivor takes on Ty, he talks about how this is the hardest thing he's ever had to do. This man will go and do this again in less than a year. He's going to do it again right after the season airs, basically. With Aubrey.

[00:17:34] And Aubrey is armed with she has like the Ty cheat code. Yeah, she knows. She knows exactly what she she got him the first time and she was like, oh, I speak Ty. And since she's fluent in Ty, she goes and she speaks to him in his language. And he's like, oh, OK, cool. I get it. And so this time around, she gets him again and Ty is completely back on board. So it looks like there's really nothing the duo of Michelle and Sydney can do because Aubrey, Joe and Ty are locked in.

[00:18:02] So we're armed with the knowledge of we know what will happen in these next couple of votes. What would have happened if Joe made it through? Well, this is either the exit for Sydney or Michelle. I think. I think Michelle goes here. Aubrey is closer to Sydney. That's basically that's that's the best way I can put it. I don't really understand. Like, you know, they both have to go.

[00:18:32] I think she would rather keep Sydney around because there's a non zero chance that Sydney will pick her over Ty. You know, and she can count on that. She can probably count on Sydney just taking her to the end if she wins or like allow, you know, her and Joe getting to the end with Sydney versus her. You know, we know Sydney kind of has Ty as her final three. I mean, has Aubrey in her final three. So I think this I think this is the end of Michelle if Joe doesn't go. Well, barring an immunity challenge win. Yeah, that's what I was going to say about the immunity challenges.

[00:19:01] Do you think that maybe if Sydney doesn't win immunity that they're looking at her as Sydney has already won at least one individual immunity? She was right there to the end on another one. And. I wonder if there's a worry, is Sydney heating up and are we more concerned that Michelle will win some immunity challenges here down the stretch, but is there maybe more of a concern that Sydney is that immunity threat?

[00:19:31] If Sydney goes on, if you look at Sydney and think from Aubrey's perspective, I guess that because that's the person I guess I have to look at it from Joe's perspective. We'll never know what Joe would like to do because they don't ever tell us. We just know he wants to be there with Aubrey. But from Aubrey's perspective, maybe she thinks, OK, Sydney winning isn't awful because Sydney still likes her in our final three. I don't know where Michelle stands. I don't know if Aubrey knows where Michelle stands at this point. Does Michelle want Aubrey in her final three? Mm hmm. Does Michelle want Aubrey in her final three?

[00:20:02] Like, is Michelle good with Sydney and Ty? Yeah. Yeah. I think Michelle's like, I just need to get there. But I think she's thinking Sydney and Ty would be her final three. It would be wild for Michelle to want Joe out. She doesn't really have a relationship with him. I mean, they seem like they lived together long enough to have some type of relationship. But I mean, Joe's not going to vote for you if you don't have a relationship. You might as well sit next to him. Yeah. Well, I think Michelle's just trying to get to the end.

[00:20:29] I don't think she's super, you know, concerned with who she's going to sit next to because she was willing to. Well, I guess that she did get rid of Julia instead of Jason. I was gonna say that she voted out Jason, but the alternative was her get voted out. So she was open to voting out Jason. So, yeah. But I think she's just in a position where she can't really be too picky about who she goes to the end with. Right.

[00:20:56] Well, the reason I asked is because if I'm Aubrey, that's what I want to determine. Right. Like I got to vote out the person who's more likely to keep me around. And although it's probably harder to beat Sydney, if you think like, oh, she's won a couple challenges, X, Y, Z. Does she want you in the game at the end? I feel like Michelle does not, at least based on what we saw, you know, her and Ty cook up that plan to get Aubrey out. Did they ever explicitly say that they were going to get Aubrey out or did they just say they were going to work together? I think they said they're going to work together. I don't think that they looked at it.

[00:21:24] They did say that could Michelle and Ty do something together? They could sway Sydney. And Ty says that Aubrey would never see that coming. So I guess there is a world where if Aubrey doesn't fix this, she could go out at the final five. Oh, yeah. I think Aubrey's gone if she loses Ty here. I think there's nothing. What can she do to say? Well, obviously, there's this immunity challenge that we don't even get to see. It would be cool if we saw the immunity challenge, Rob, because then we could probably like ascertain who you thought might win it.

[00:21:51] I wonder if when we get to the challenges, because they didn't, you know, like throw away challenges. I think like the challenge to kick off a juror, I'm not sure necessarily what challenge that would have been. So we're going to get a challenge in the next episode. I wonder if that would have been the final five challenge. It's hard to tell. Okay, well, I'm pretty sure Michelle wins that. Because there's still three.

[00:22:21] I think there's going to be three challenges in the finale. Yeah. So maybe there's maybe Michelle wins because I think she's about to win all three. Right. So maybe Michelle wins out at this point. She wins that. So I think, yeah, I think I think Sydney's going here. Probably if Joe doesn't go home, there's probably an alternate timeline where Sydney's gone. But then that still leaves the juggernaut of Aubrey, Joe and Ty up against Michelle. And then, you know, we find ourselves in the same position.

[00:22:49] Michelle's going to win all the way to the end or at least close enough to where she can she can get to the jury. And that's going to be a death sentence for everybody. Yeah. So there's going to be a reward challenge at the start of the next episode. And Aubrey is going to win the reward challenge on day 36. Okay. Oh. Okay. Yeah. So, which is, I think, weird that we start a finale with a reward challenge.

[00:23:19] So maybe that might have been the immunity challenge. Hey, I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine. I think what I think what we're looking at here, though, is that the show lets us know that Aubrey got Ty back on her side. So I think for the most part, like, again, barring any disaster or something like that, Aubrey, Ty and Joe, they got three votes. The other side has two. Yeah. You know, they both can't be immune.

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[00:26:28] I was trying to make sense of it, honestly. Because it looks like Jeff is like, hey, this is because you're old. You're old. You're 71. So this is a 71-year-old problem. 71 and getting it done. Yeah, you're getting it done. But not all the way. There are some things that he can't get done. And it's this thing specifically. Joe seems to be taking a more medical approach to the way he's talking about this. He's like, yeah, I can feel my kidneys.

[00:26:58] And then maybe he's talking about it. But Jeff keeps going, but you're old. There's nothing you could have done differently except not be old. And he's like, well, I could have just not ate my body weight and meat. And Jeff's like, yeah, but you're older. You know, you're an old guy. You know, and people are going to be inspired by you. And Joe's like, yeah, but I just really wish I could use the restroom. You know what I'm saying? So I think Jeff was trying to make this a bigger moment. And Joe was just kind of like, I just want to use the restroom. I'm in a lot of pain.

[00:27:28] Could we not do the, you know, contextualizing right now? I'm really, I'm not in the mood for it. Right, right. And they're like, hey, do you want to get medication and stay? Joe's like, no, I don't. I don't want to stay here in pain. And they said, well, if he stays, it could end in kidney failure. And Joe and Jeff, again, is like, dang, if you weren't 71, this wouldn't happen. It's like, you don't know that.

[00:27:53] There was one thing that happened that I thought was a little weird was that Jeff comes to the beach. It's nighttime. nighttime. And Jeff asks the first thing, he comes in with Dr. Joe. And he asked Dr. Joe, all right, is it visible? Could we pick up his shirt? And like a snake that's like eating a person. Could we see a large abscess in his stomach where all the meat was?

[00:28:20] And apparently you could because he lifted his shirt up and Jeff's like, yep, there it is. There's, yeah, she's a beauty. All right, man, this man is dying. Stop. This man is, he is not happy. He's ready to go. And he hurts. And you can see it. It looks like it's painful. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And yeah, Joe claims that he ate three feet of steak kebabs. Not smart. Not smart. I do like that it was Sidney on the reward with him because Sidney's like,

[00:28:50] I'm a bodybuilder. I know nutrition. And I can tell you right now that Joe is eating too much. And they even like, even if that's a confessional that's done after the fact, like let's say she does that confessional after she knows he's gone or whatever. Fine. But we also get her back at camp where they say, oh, tell us about the reward. And he's like, I must have ate eight of those kebabs. Like I was just tearing them up. How many did you eat, Sidney? I had one. Yeah. It's like, oh, oh, oh, Joe. Joe, this is not good.

[00:29:19] And Sidney's like, nah, I had good sense. I knew better than to just let my stomach get big in my head. It was an overnight reward. There was no rush. There was a spa. There was a bath. There was chicken. There was beef. There was cheesecake. We saw so little of what they talked about at the reward. Also, Joe came back. He's like, oh, my God, we took a bath in a big wooden tub. I was like, well, we wouldn't know. Not that I'm looking to see his pasty white ass again.

[00:29:48] But Rob, we used to get that. We've seen plenty of pasty asses on Survivor in the past. Big bathtubs. Think way back to Parvati on Cook Islands with Yule and Ozzy. They had an overnight spa day. We've seen so many people have overnight spas. And we see them shower. We get to see them the next morning where they're all coming together, solidifying alliances. We spent the entire time with Ty and Michelle having a Thai massage. Yeah. We don't show any of it. Nope.

[00:30:17] It was just kind of like they yada yada that for real. Yeah. So I didn't listen to the exit interview with Joe. Did he have to go to the hospital? What do you think? So I tried to listen to it, but I was like multitasking. And so what I did catch was him talking about how apparently he knew Rudy in real life. Yeah. I didn't know that. I think they're both from the same area. I think they're both like from Virginia Beach. Yeah.

[00:30:44] He was talking about how they were hanging out at some point and all this other stuff. Like that was really cool where he's like, yeah, you got to keep living. And so, yeah, it was an interesting conversation. I told him that go easy, go easy on the rewards. Rudy invented those survivor latrine. Yeah. Yeah. Rudy, I think, would only eat dark meat chicken. I don't know. I'm sure he was a big steak guy. Oh, yeah.

[00:31:13] No, it was the beef that did Joe in for sure. He was talking about it. That's from dining with Rudy. Yeah. He did not want white meat. Gotcha. Yeah. No, he should have given Joe the heads up. I mean, I don't know. I'm pretty sure Rudy was laughing. Joe's experience. I can't see a world where he was like, yeah, that makes sense. I think that Rudy probably saw him and was like, what's wrong with you? Why did you do that? Yeah.

[00:31:43] Yeah. Did you not want to win? You know, it's kind of bookends for Aubrey here in the post-merge where for the second time this season, she's lost her closest ally. I do think that the Neil medivac does help her on that night. And then ultimately, this is the one that does ultimately doom her in the game. The medivac giveth and it taketh away. Yeah. You know, that's probably true. You know, and I'm sure that there's other situations in Survivor history where, you know,

[00:32:11] someone is saved by the medivac, but then later on, it will come back to haunt them, you know? And this is definitely that occasion because she could have been gone. Yeah. Right? We don't know 100%, but she could have been gone. She lived to fight another day. But at some point, like you said, final destination, it came back around to get her. You know what? And I don't think anybody's talked about this too much, but in terms of the medivac and it all coming around, Survivor 50, Kyle blows out his Achilles.

[00:32:41] They put him in the boat and he says, hey, somebody on this beach win this game. Okay? That she lived by the medivac again. He blessed her. And he wasn't even talking to her. He was talking about anybody but Aubrey. He's not talking to her. Somebody on this beach, not you. But she heard it. She heard it. She said like, what? I'll take it. Yeah. She's not going to be too picky. She'll take whatever encouragement she can get. Yeah. So that was good.

[00:33:09] Anything else from this episode? I really enjoy Aubrey watching Joe leave because you can tell that her brain is just like, not again, not again, not like this. You know, she's watching her meal ticket walk out the door. She talks about Joe the way Boston Rob talks about Phillip Shepard. You know, like, no, this is my second vote. This is my extra piece. I need this in order to win the game. And he's just like, yeah, my stomach hurts.

[00:33:38] She's like, well, can you suck it up? Like, I know she's just like praying. Like, I wish this man could just go take a dump. Please let him pee. Let the man pee. And nothing, nothing. So it's like, although they're all in a situation where they would hate to see Joe go, there's a tiny part of each of them that's praying on his downfall. Right. Because he's one less person. Right. Michelle's like, yeah, this is great for me. One more spot. And again, there's that luck thing again, you know.

[00:34:07] Michelle ends up catching a lucky break here right when she needed it. Yeah. It is funny when Joe is on the reward. The way that he's talking about the food. He says at one point, he's like, Joe, Joe's all beef. Joe's all beef. The camera people could not have known the gold they had. Yeah. They had no clue that he was giving them so much. And then when they had to go back and edit it, they're like, damn, did he know?

[00:34:37] Did he know this? Do y'all know he gave us this? It's exactly what we need. When people go out, we got to have supporting evidence about why. And there's no misunderstanding here about why Joe Del Campo lost. Yeah. It was almost like that he stopped eating meat and then it was like for a reason that he was like he gave it up. And then he fell off the wagon. I think he can't handle it.

[00:35:05] Well, when you become a man of a certain age, you have dietary restrictions. I think that, you know, you start to grow up and you're like, hey, there are certain things I can't eat anymore. And if you are married or have loved ones close to you, they will hold you accountable for this. They will say, hey, don't eat that. It's going to make your gout act up or something like that. Right. You got high blood pressure. You have high cholesterol, you know. And Joe's probably been getting that speech for about a while now, but he's free. He made it to the final five. He said, YOLO, why not? Let me have a little beef. But like you said, it's a gateway drug.

[00:35:35] That one kebab just led him downhill. I mean, it just he lost control. He couldn't stop. He got beef and chicken wasted. And then the hangover was not worth the journey. And I know a little something about hangovers. So I could tell you I would have won it out. Is there anything from the finale that you're going into, especially looking for? I don't. Besides Neil getting voted out of the jury.

[00:36:04] No, because that is so like I think that I really want to see that. I think that is my highlight of the finale already. I can already see like I can already feel myself getting to that mode because I think that we were not kind enough to that episode in the real time. It's so cartoonishly weird that I think it needs to be ranked higher amongst the crazy things people have said on like jury speeches and stuff like that. Like it needs to be higher. So I'm definitely looking for that. I'm looking to see the Michelle challenge wins.

[00:36:31] Of course, we know we have a Judy kick, you know, coming soon. And, you know, paying homage to Caleb, I guess. He's a cowboy, yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah, I want to see the final tribal council, right? I want to see like if all things considered, these people came in open minded and Michelle just wowed them. Or if they had already decided they weren't going to vote for Aubrey and she was just fighting a losing battle here.

[00:36:55] I'm interested to watch Aubrey's speech also here at the final tribal council and see how it holds up to the speech we just watched her give in Survivor 50. And, yeah, like if the jurors, you know, how many points were there to have been won? Right. If any. Right. And then with Michelle, I want to see the same thing. Like as a person who has leaned into their social game, does she know that?

[00:37:19] You know, is she going to get at the end and say, yeah, the reason why y'all didn't vote me out is because I'm social and I and I'm likable and y'all like to keep me around. There were moments where you could have got me out. You should have got me out instead of Jason. You should have got me out. But you let Joe eat all that beef. You know, there are multiple times where if I wasn't so damn adorable, you I wouldn't be sitting here. And I think she needs to lean into that and I'll be very impressed. Yeah. I want to see why is Sydney annoyed with Aubrey ultimately. And then also we have a live reunion show also.

[00:37:50] In my mind, there is no indication that Sydney is annoyed with Aubrey. She just votes completely irrationally. And I really I might be misremembering this, but in my mind, I did not know why Sydney voted for Michelle until she did her interview with you. Until I heard her say the words to you, I had no clue why that lady did not vote for Aubrey. And so I'm very excited to see if there's some breadcrumbs that maybe she won't. Yeah. OK. All right.

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