We Review Your Fan-Made Survivor Advantages

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[00:01:56] And we picked the best 30 that I'm going to talk about with the people that I trust the most in this world. Two of my great friends, survivor experts. We'll start with, you heard from him last week in Toronto. It's Omer Zahir. Omer, how are you? I'm doing great. How do you feel leaving our country and going back to yours? Nobody wanted to leave. I talked to a lot of people that night. We said, what if we all just stay? It's a great place to stay. Come to the good side. And not for anything, you're familiar with this brand of water. Aska? I still have Aska.

[00:02:26] You know, let me be honest. I hate that brand. Why? Why do you hate this brand? Because it's killing the environment, Brandon Donlan. Oh, oh, oh. Well, I'll put it down. You know who's always putting it down? It's my great friend. I see Zach. Zach Brown is here. Yes, I am. I'm going to play a song for you guys real quick, if that's all right. We got a I got two more of these.

[00:02:55] If that's all right. We might get copyright strike. All right. Can I let me play one more for you guys? Do you guys want to hear one more? One more. Do one more. This one's called Homegrown. Sure. All right. I think you could do two seconds. I'm so glad to be here. I'm so glad I can officially say that I have had the best appearance of any of the celebrities on Survivor 50. Yeah.

[00:03:23] You're the only one who didn't mess anything up. You came in, you did your thing and you left. That's true. And you know, you guys hated it so much then. But looking at it now, not that bad. Not that bad. But you know what? Ten toes down. I still stand by the statement. Had I been there, heard the thing was country music, I'm throwing the challenge. I don't want anything to do with that. But if you could pick somebody to be the celebrity that wasn't Zac Brown, who would you have chosen?

[00:03:52] I don't know if I have a musical artist that is big enough. And not to sound like elitist. Not to sound like I want, you know, an indie band. Nobody said it has to be a musical artist. I would pick like Kiefer Sutherland. You know, get me out. You know? I would choose Jacob Derwin. Oh yeah, good. That's actually really good. That's a survivor fan that I, you know, we could have performed for us. No, he does a lot of trivia.

[00:04:19] I think, honestly, if they had Jacob Derwin, Trashy Annie, Ben Katzman, Chase Rice, all come out together and like do a concert. Equal level playing field. That's how you know this isn't for the fans, because that's what they want. That's what everybody wants. Baylor, yeah. Oh my God, Baylor. And we love Baylor.

[00:04:42] We have here 30 suggestions from you all, the listeners, that we're going to go through one by one. We'll talk about what works, what doesn't work, what have you. But for the people that are watching live, you can vote right now for your favorite advantages that we have to offer. And I'm going to throw the link right now in the chat. Shout out to our friends at Straw Poll who are not sponsoring this. In fact, I paid $8, so there will be no ads on this page. But you can go right now and vote as we're talking about them. And then in the end, I'll tell you.

[00:05:12] Oh my God. We're so live. We're so live. So we have to be careful what we say. Also, is this the Dirty 30? Do you remember that, Brandon? Oh, I was high. Listen, I was sat for that. I was underage for some of that. Oh, okay. Awkward. I was not by much. 17. 17. We've got 30 great ideas. And the winner, the idea that gets first place, I will track them down. I will send you a T-shirt from the Rob is a Podcast store. Not worn. Oh, wow.

[00:05:43] Oh my God. Wait, I should have submitted my ideas then. I didn't realize that I could get awarded for this. But you, Zach, said earlier that you have ideas. I do. I do. I also have ideas. And I would love to hear those. Well, I guess I'll throw my ideas out there. Should I just throw? I have three of them. Should I throw my three out as like a little hors d'oeuvre? Should we go one and one? Like, I have three as well. Oh, great. Then go back and forth. All right. I'll read mine out first. All right.

[00:06:12] Number one is, I called it the Captain Phillips hostage advantage. Inspired by one of the best movies of all time. It's basically because I thought the Tide Destinies was cool. So it was, what if the Tide Destinies twist was an advantage? So before an immunity challenge, you may choose one player to tie your destiny to for the remainder of the episode. This means that if either of you win immunity, you're both safe.

[00:06:41] If you, either of you play an idol, you're both safe. Or if either of you are voted out, you're both eliminated. So do you choose, do you choose an ally? To save two people at once with one idol? Or do you choose an enemy to basically force them to keep you around for another round? I think that I actually really like this. And I think you have to choose an enemy. Especially if the numbers are close. Like, the thing is, Christian and Jonathan being paired together on opposite alliances

[00:07:11] was the best thing for both of them. Absolutely. Absolutely. I love that. And I love the name. There's no better name for that than the Captain Phillips advantage. Well, he, and remember, this isn't Tom Hanks. Like, this is a real person, you know? Sure. He's done a lot of these movies where he's in a predicament. He does, he does Sully. I guess it's just those two. So, uh... Okay. Yeah.

[00:07:37] My first one is the Raise the White Flag Who from Roro Tribe Advantage, where you have one flag on each tribal beach that is there from the beginning of the game. You read the note. If you're ever in trouble, you could be the one person to raise this flag, and that allows you to mutiny to another tribe, it may be random if there's three where you go to, or maybe you get to two, we can workshop that.

[00:08:05] But there's only one flag per tribe. You must raise the flag before the immunity challenge. So, if you ever feel like you're in a lot of trouble, you can switch. And then do you switch, or do you just get put on a new tribe? Yeah. And there's only one per tribe, so it can't be overdone. Sure. I like it. We're doing great. So far, these are great ideas.

[00:08:35] I think that I've always liked the idea of being able to, like, mutiny yourself. Mm-hmm. I think that you should also be able to kick someone else out of their tribe at the same time. Ooh. Like, to do a full swap. Okay. And do you find this thing, or this is available for any tribe at any time? It's like the birdcage on season 44. You get there, they're like, what is this flag? And then there's a note saying, if any of you want to ever leave your tribe and go

[00:09:02] to a new one, you have to be the first one to raise this flag, but you must decide before the immunity challenge so you can't come back and be like, we lost. I'm going to raise the flag. You have to commit. I love it. What I would have given to have gone for that flag. Me too. I would have done it. I would have done it at the first challenge. I would have been like, ah, let's re-roll. Okay, what's your second one? That's not a terrible idea, Levi. You clearly hate Raro.

[00:09:33] My second one is the Bruno Mars gambler idol. So to start, this works as a regular idol that can only be used on yourself. However, there's a twist. The idol is shaped as a coin. And if you win a coin flip, you get to save another player of your choice. You can do as many coin flips as you want. But the moment you lose one, everyone loses immunity. You're all in danger. Okay, Beast Games.

[00:10:03] But you know what? Gambling does have rippling effects on the whole family. It's everybody that you love is affected by it. Everybody gets punished. Yeah, exactly. I like it. Okay, I have the Jojo Siwa switcheroo advantage where you may be on the winning team, but then you decide after the immunity challenge, well, this is actually not a full mutiny.

[00:10:28] I just think the winning tribe should choose somebody to go to the losing tribe and they get to vote at that tribal council. Yeah, absolutely. Like a pre-murge twist. When that happened on my first tribal council, it was the only time that it happened, obviously. I thought we were doing that the whole season. I can't believe they scrapped it. I don't know what – and I wonder if it was the plan to do that the whole season.

[00:10:50] And for context, if you're listening and don't recall, Kendra shows up from the winning tribe onto my first tribal council where Hannah Rose leaves us. And I thought that would have been there the whole time. And I wonder if it was planned to be and then they just didn't do it. Who knows? And what's your final one, Zachary? My final one is the Gracie Abrams Nepo vote. If you win the loved one's visit, your loved one doesn't just join for lunch.

[00:11:20] They stay for the remainder of the episode. They compete in immunity. They come back to camp and participate in this scramble. And they get a vote at tribal council. Okay. So basically the dream situation is you get a Hanson there like Brandon's uncle. Or Stephanie Werthmerger. Or Stephanie Werthmerger. Imagine if I was on 50 and Corey came out. And Jared too. That would, you know, that's what we're playing for. Iconic. I like it.

[00:11:49] A great TV moment can be had from that, which is what all of these should strive for. If you don't have the great TV moment, then what are we doing? My final one is the Erica Kirk advantage. No, I'm kidding. Right. My final one is my idea of what Mr. B should actually do. The Jimmy Donaldson advantage. Or the Memorial Alavia advantage.

[00:12:13] Where he comes out with his dumb briefcase and says, hey, does anybody want to leave the game for $250,000 dues? And then you can leave the game for $250,000. Oh, I hate it. Yeah. You hate that? I think that's so interesting. I love it. Why do you hate it? Who's going to leave? Who doesn't want it that much, you know? I don't even, but I don't blame them. Like $250,000. That's why I think Beast Games is stupid. Like that is so much more money.

[00:12:43] Like, especially like what? You got five days left of Survivor. Like a one in 10 chance of winning a million dollars. I would leave. Yeah. That's so interesting that you would leave. And then maybe your alliance is screwed. Maybe it's not. I guess so. But I don't think that's Survivor. That's Beast Games. Keep that. Keep it. Mr. Beast has nothing to do with Survivor. Okay. Ever. Ever. For another 46 hours. I do like that. Big Brother UK used to do that all the time.

[00:13:12] And it wasn't $250,000. But it was maybe $50,000. And it came out of the prize pot. I do like that. And the guy took it. Okay. No, that's fucked up. You can't take away their part of the million. The milli. That's crazy. I like it. But we've got 30 more to riff on. And for those who are listening live, go to straw poll.com slash RHAP dash advantage and vote.

[00:13:40] And we'll reveal which one has the most votes at the end of this. This is like American Idol. I feel like Ryan Seacrest. So let's start with number one. We've got the Abraham Lincoln shot in the dark enhancer. Your shot in the dark is guaranteed safe, but nobody else knows. So it's an immunity idol. Yeah. Pretty much. How is that not just an idol that you just look? You don't look like impressive that you got. You saved yourself. You just look lucky that you saved yourself.

[00:14:09] Agreed. It is pretty much finding an idol in the form of the shot in the dark. Is it better if it's not guaranteed safe, but now one in three? No. One in two? I think it's then you pick. I think. Okay. The shot in the dark. How do you enhance it? People are shot in the dark haters. I think it's great. I think that it makes people have to blindside. But how do we modify it? Because the one in six is, you know, hit once or twice in an epic fashion.

[00:14:36] But I think that you after you take when Zach takes the scroll out, they shouldn't replace it for the next person. They have better odds or you can actually trade and barter things so that you can play more than one at a tribal council. If you get six shot in the dark, that's an immunity idol. What's wrong with that? Yeah. Yeah. Why is anybody doing that? It's you know, I can give you the actual answer, by the way, why they won't let you. You give up your right to you give up your vote. And if you can't give up two votes, so that's why you can't play more than one shot in the

[00:15:05] dark at a time. But I've always thought that was stupid. That's stupid. But everybody else can ostensibly give up their right to vote for you. I don't think they should have to give it up for them. I think they should just, if you have the social capital to take three shot in the darks, that's so interesting. And that's more interesting than what's something we've seen in the last few seasons. Why not? I see a comment. What does this have to do with Abe Lincoln? I assume it's because he was shot in the dark. I believe that is the pun. It was a theater. I mean, it was dimly lit. Certainly.

[00:15:35] I don't know if it was totally dark. Did you guys know that Benjamin Franklin was not a president? I did know that. Yeah. Did you know that? I did not know that. No. Sure. Okay. Sure. All right. Next. Next. We've got the Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'll be back. Idol. It's played in secret. If the player is voted out, they go to exile and return at the start of the next tribal with immunity.

[00:16:04] So it's Australian Survivor. Yeah. It's just Australian Survivor. Right. That is Australian Survivor. The thing is, there's too many people on the show that they can't afford an on a limb. But if they were going to do it, I like it. Yeah. I like it better than like the Ziggy Super Idol, you know, that they had an Australian Survivor. I think that it's one of those things where it really has to be like truly earned. Like there needs to be a whole thing devoted to getting this. That's like a multi-step like.

[00:16:34] You combine it with the Tyra Banks advantage. You have to shave your head for it. Yeah. Oh, wow. You got to get dental work done. Yeah. Pull those teeth. Pull those teeth. Take those teeth out. Sure. For some, it would be easier than others. What was the Ziggy Idol? I forget what the Ziggy Idol did. It was an Immunity Idol nullifier. Oh, yeah. Oh. The reason I said Ziggy was she had to go on a whole journey just to get it where she was like voted out, but like voted to get an advantage. And it was a whole big process to get that.

[00:17:03] And it was like they called it the Super Idol. I think that like for something like this, it can't just be like hidden under a sit-out bench, you know? Sure. You have to earn it. I like that you have to earn it. And I also like, even if you don't go to exile and return the next day, even if you just get voted out and they do the whole charade and then Jeff says we're voting again, we do another vote and then you come back in the morning. I think that's something. Yeah. Mel Hooker says, what about, is this the Britney Spears advantage, the shaving? I don't think so.

[00:17:31] I think that the Britney Spears advantage is if like, Brandon, you and I are in the same tribe and you control my vote and everything that I own. And then to break free of that, I have to shave my head. I think the Britney Spears advantage is instead of doing a fire making challenge, you both take the knives and do a dance off. Or the snakes. You get Jake Latimer doing the Britney Spears advantage. So many ways to go here. OK.

[00:18:00] I thought a million dollar secret earlier, like million dollar secret. Is that anything? Oh, yeah. No, a million dollar secret isn't. It's not big enough of a show. So we can't do it direct. And it's a 49 reference. I mean, are we really talking about the 49? The pre-merge of 49? Like, come on. We got nothing to talk about. That show's great. I'm the biggest million dollar secret head. Me too. It's been so good this season. No cap.

[00:18:27] How about the Barry Bonds intentional walk advantage? You pick a player and remove them from tribal council before the votes. It cannot be yourself. It's safety without power, but to somebody else. I think you should be able to transfer safety without power in general. So I like this. I like it so much. I think this is a great idea. I like this. Is it before the vote or after? This is before. It's got to be before the vote. Before the vote. We want to see the reactions of people.

[00:18:57] We want to see the scramble. They did this in Australian Survivor 4. Luke had this power and used it on. It was like Baden or someone, or maybe he used it on PETA. Yes, he'd use it on Baden, I believe. Yeah. Yeah. And it was really cool. I think that this is a great advantage. Barry Bonds. I think Barry Bonds is a little bit of an old reference. When I think of Barry Bonds, I think of steroids. Sure. I don't know enough baseball to know.

[00:19:27] Did he intentionally walk a lot? I guess he must have. Probably. Well, it's the other team that probably would walk him. You know what I mean? Because they don't want him to bat and hit a home run. You guys don't know baseball. Are you pretending? But you don't know. And I just don't. I'm not even pretending. I don't know. I don't know baseball. Okay. Yeah. I don't know anything. Yeah. I didn't know they already did that. But that's it. Listen, the Barry Bonds intentional walk advantage. Shout out to Luke.

[00:19:57] All right. In the chat. How about number four? This is, and we want to keep it as its whole name. The Billy Garcia and Candace Cody love at first sight duo idol. It's a great name. Rolls off the top. I love it already. I don't need to hear anything. Two idols on different beaches. The Billy Idol holder cannot vote for the person with the Candace Idol. And vice versa. The Billy Idol. I like it. I love it.

[00:20:27] Why not? I love you. What's the bad part of it? Well, they, I will say they did this in Survivor Prussia. And. What about Survivor Siam? In Survivor Prussia season four. I remember Dominic and Dominic. Yeah. Got this. And it actually works out really well. The question I have is. So do you, do they know?

[00:20:53] Like, is it like, do I know as the owner of Billy Idol that Omar has found the Candace Idol? And what does the Candace Idol do? Well, I think it's both idols. It's the same idol. Oh, I wonder. And this idol would be like, you have to vote for the vote. Like, am I like, do my votes for, do my votes for Candace not, like, just not count? And I feel like mechanically this gets a little weird.

[00:21:19] Because Jeff is reading the vote and says, oh, but this doesn't count because, or am I fully blocked from voting for that person? Yeah, I don't think, I think in these rules, I don't think you can even write their name down. I think they would make you re-vote. Like, I don't think it's, they don't. And I don't like that. I think that, I don't like the production. And then what does the John Tobey Idol do then? It is. Ooh. It's a twist. It's like, it's a Billy Idol blocker. We have something. That's really, really good. I like it. I guess I understand the hesitancy.

[00:21:49] You don't want to prevent anybody from doing anything hard. Like, you don't want to hard prevent that from happening. But I like the idea. Is it the traders where it's like, if you wear, oh, I'm sorry. Right. Like, Lisa Rinna had to wear the brooch to indicate that she was, or put something with the brooch. At the merge feast, perhaps, the Billy Idol holder and the Candace Idol holder have to signal to each other that they have. Like, even if you just wear, like, a bracelet, it's something. You know what I mean? Like, it's, you know, I don't know.

[00:22:18] I do like the idea in general of two idols coming together and finding some, like, a greater power. Like, I think they should have brought that back from Korong. I think that was pretty good. However, I do think that you guys are poo-pooing the Billy and Candace Idol. And I just wanted to let the person that wrote it know that we love you. We love you. We all love you. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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[00:25:35] Anytime. Book today on the Vrbo app. If you know, you Vrbo. Terms apply. See Vrbo.com slash trust for details. How about the Uno reverse advantage? You choose a player and if they vote for you that night, their vote is reversed and counts against them instead. I hate it. Survivor Uganda. Yeah. Okay. And who played it? It was...

[00:26:05] Actually, his name was also Omer. So that's interesting. Interesting. Who would you do a Uno reverse, though? Here's what I don't like. Who would I have done it? In the moment, probably Dre actually had an advantage. Anyways, here's why I don't like this. It's the same issue I had with the last one. How do you reverse a vote? Like when Jeff is reading it, do they say, but the Uno... Because you don't know whose vote is whose when he's reading it.

[00:26:34] So he pulls it out and is like, by the way, this one that says Omer actually counts as Zach. It's a little messy to me. I think it was edited out of Survivor Thailand when they voted Bye Bye Denver Diva. But I agree. This is not good. There's something Uno that we can do, but I don't know if this is the Uno thing that we did. I feel like knowledge is power is basically like Uno reverse. That's true. Yeah, I see that. Yeah. All right. How about...

[00:27:03] And this was, according to the poster of this advantage, this was bluffed in South Africa Season 7, which is the seer advantage. After the votes are cast, but before they're read, ask one player who they voted for, and they must truthfully answer. Is that anything? I don't... What does it do other than outs them for the next round if they're not?

[00:27:33] Going home. Yeah, it's only usable if you have an idol. I think it's also the... I think you could modify this a bit. If you... The truth teller... Whatever. What's the advantage called again? The seer. I think you have to say, okay, before the votes are cast, Brandon Donlan, who are you voting for? And then you say it, and then you have to go vote for that person, and then we still can vote. But I think if it's already been done, who cares? It's only if you have an idol.

[00:28:01] Like, that's the only purpose, and I don't think it makes an idol play more exciting. You know? Why? Tell me why that is. Why does it only make sense if you have an idol? Because after the votes have already been cast, but before they're read, the only way to affect anything at that point is to play an idol. So the only possibility for it to impact anything would be to have an idol. That's true. And then it'd be better...

[00:28:23] It's a better episode if that person is either voted out with their idol, or if they just played the idol themselves and, like, you know... But don't you think it would be interesting if they revealed it before they even voted? Because then you could change what you're voting. I think we'll probably get to a suggestion that has that, because I've seen that talked about a lot. I still don't think it's that exciting, honestly. The, like, you have to announce your vote. You know, I think I know who submitted that, and it is on this list, and it's Albert from South Pacific. Oh!

[00:28:53] Albert said that. Speaking of guys who know about Barry Bonds... Say that again? He actually submitted that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh! I believe so. It's further down the list. I remember the name of it, because it made me chuckle. But it did make the list. How about... This is the downgrading amulet.

[00:29:15] It starts as an idol, and then it downgrades to an extra vote, and then a block of vote, as the holders are eliminated. It must be kept secret among all three holders to retain any power. No, I don't like this. Does this mean that there's three active immunity idols off the rep? That could all be used at once, hypothetically. I don't like this at all. Well, first of all, yeah. Is it one combined, or is it three separate ones? Big question.

[00:29:44] I think it's three. You're forcing people to then work together, which is kind of like... I don't know. The thing that was interesting about the amulet advantage is you could use that to work together, or you could use that to target each other. This really only incentivizes people to work together, but in a way that's not that predictable. Let's say you have a newbie season, and you're on three different tribes, and then all of a sudden, and Brandon and Zach are looking out for each other over all possible rationale.

[00:30:13] I feel like that's stupid. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah, another issue with this idol is that it literally has too many idols in the game, because you can't have any other idols. If you already have three, and let's say you have three tribes... Well, they had to take some survivor 44, Zach. Did they at once? Well, yeah, but they were time-living idols. They expired, right? They expired, yeah. What would this idol be named? The downgrading amulet. Yeah, I guess you don't want to call it the Sierra Easton.

[00:30:43] The Megan Trainor advantage. She's downgrading from stadiums to... She's also gotten so skinny, so there's kind of a double entendre. Is there a difference between Megan Trainor and Megan Thee Stallion? No, they're the same person. Megan Thee Stallion is her nickname, but Megan Trainor is her full name. Stage name, sure. Got you. Sure. And they're both married to the kid from Spy Kids.

[00:31:13] That's what I know. They're both married to Daryl Sabera. Yeah. I thought the kid from Spy Kids was Malcolm in the Middle, though. That's Aging Cody Banks, which is a similar film, but a different one. A movie I like a lot, I'll be honest. Very good. How about the shared stakes advantage? Like shared like a spinner? It's a share stakes. It's funny.

[00:31:40] When we got voted out of Survivor 45, Hannah Rose and I were telling everybody that came back that Drew was related to share for some reason. I don't think I've ever said that publicly, but that is something that made us laugh for days and days. And everybody was like, really? And we said, no, not really. But this is the shared with a D stakes advantage and not stakes that you eat. Stakes. It's won by a tribe and activated at their next tribal council.

[00:32:07] The player with the most votes is eliminated as normal. The player with the second highest number of votes receives an immunity idol to use at a future tribal council. This creates a dangerous incentive. You take enough votes to earn power, but not enough to go home. Oh, so it is known. Okay. I mean, I guess maybe, but are we really fun? The thing I don't like about this is we're fundamentally changing what the game is, which is to not get any votes. Yeah.

[00:32:36] I don't like it for a different reason. Which is? Theoretically, the person who gets the second most votes in a given tribal is usually in the majority alliance. So I feel like this just helps the majority, right? Because the minority is going to get the most votes. And then whoever they put their votes on is going to. Like, I think that the issue with this one is you're not going to get like the real fun.

[00:33:01] Like, oh, this person risked it and they're rewarded, right? Like you're just going to get. Unless they're splitting the votes for idols. But if you know that's in play, you would never split the votes on this round. That's true. That's true. That's true. And it would be public. It's interesting. With a tweak, I think this is good. I just don't know what the tweak is. What's the tweak? Oh. Is the tweak that it's secret? Is it one person?

[00:33:30] Maybe one person knows. But then we're basically playing Block on the Clock Tower or Goose Goose Deck. Which? So far, people like that. There was an idea that got submitted that literally it called out. And I'll read it. It is not on the list. But it was a Mario Party reference. It was Bowser's Revolution, which is all advantages are collected and randomly distributed. That is not on the list.

[00:33:56] But like my biggest complaint with New Era Survivor is that it's too akin to Mario Party. And that is just making it Mario Party. We're explicitly like this is now Mario Party. We don't want that. I think that the fix for this could be to have the top two vote getters compete in like a fire making challenge. And the loser goes home and the winner gets an advantage. So then there's a real high risk.

[00:34:25] Like people might be more willing to put themselves in. But there's also like the minority. You can save yourself and the minority can still come back from it, you know. Like there's a chance for it not to go into the majority's hands. I mean, it's not good. It's not a good idea. It's not good. I hate any tweet. That's what also people were saying. Oh, instead of, you know, the blood moon they should have done where the top three vote getters get voted out.

[00:34:51] But I hate that because then everybody loves the underdogs to supersede that. But any mechanic in which somebody who doesn't get the majority of the votes could go home, I think is done. I'm at the point now. Sorry, Brandon. No, no, no. I'm at the point now where I rate every advantage as is it better or worse than the hourglass? And if it's better than the hourglass. Well, they're always better than the hourglass. I know, but like the hourglass actually made it on the show. So. Can you tell us your reaction when you heard about the hourglass? Oh, yeah.

[00:35:21] Real quick. Like Lydia was explaining the hourglass to me and I was like, I was like, this girl got so messed up from this show. She is delusional. And to be fair, she did a very like confusing explanation of it. But I was like, this is she's definitely not explaining this right. Like this is not correct. And then when I finally I talked to the producers there, I was like, so what really happened with there? And she was like, well, you already heard it. I was like, they're going to hate this. Like I was like, genuinely, this is the worst idea you've ever had.

[00:35:51] And the specific producer I was talking to was like, well, it wasn't my idea. So I'm surprised they even did it after season 40. Like they knew that the reaction was bad from the players after 41, but they kept it. It wasn't as bad for us. But, you know, that's like something that these people that you're reading the Google Doc from could have come up with. Yeah. All of the ideas we've heard have been better than that.

[00:36:16] Well, I will read one of my favorites that is on this list that I've been saying for years. And it's the Dwayne the Rock Johnson rock idol, which is a really big rock that works as an immunity idol. But you must discreetly sneak it into tribal council for it to work. I love it. I love it. It's like the candle, but bigger. It's the candle, but bigger. Sign me up for the rock idol. I think this is funny. How would you do it? How would you get that?

[00:36:46] Like, how big is the rock we're talking? Like, is it? Sure. It's we're talking like a this size rock, like something that would be conspicuous. I think it has to be protruding from the back. Like, it has to be it. You can't fully disguise it. You just have to kind of be. It has to weigh you down a little bit. It's like you draw or paint on it when you get the merge stuff. And you like, I'm like, this is my mom. She's with me here. But then she's really an idol.

[00:37:15] Like, that is how you get away with it. Yeah. Like a Wilson. Yes. Like Wilson. And that's what we should call it. Not the Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Yes. It's Wilson. I like it. I've always said, make the idols either comically big or comically small. I think that's it's funnier. Make it easy to lose the idol. If it's like a little bee. I like it. Yeah, I think it's going to be fun. I like this. And you know what? I think the idol phrases are silly.

[00:37:44] And I think we may be skewed. We overcorrected with too much silly. This is silly, but I like it. Okay. But on the scale of Francesca's rock. That she was supposed to eat. To the big boulder. Like, where are we? Like the Matthew rock? Like the rock he fell off of? No, no, no. The boulder that you push. The boulder that you push. I think. I don't know. The size of. Like the size of a cake? Yeah. I was going like a headstone. Maybe. It's lighter than a headstone. But it's.

[00:38:14] It seems. I was thinking like a bowling ball. That was my kind of. Yeah. And like that heavy too. So that like. It's like weird. Could it be the rock? You know. Magic eight ball advantage. That would be kind of fun. And then. Somebody said it back. Yeah. Whether it's an idol or not depends on what the giant magic eight ball says. That would be fun. Let's. And we're. We're breaking. This is what that idol. That. That idea was from. Actually, there was a couple. But I'll read one. Is it's secret knowledge is power.

[00:38:44] It tells you if a certain chosen player holds an advantage or an idol. Is the Rob. Cessarino magic eight ball advantage. Did not make the list. But we love you. We see you and we love you. Honorable mention. Honorable mention. Also honorable mention. Somebody that I recognize from Twitter and all the kind things they say about me. Evil Stefano. His idea was the Benson Boone advantage. From Evil Stefano that says. Two hot male survivors must make out. In order to stay safe from tribal.

[00:39:14] That was an idea that we got. That's so sexist. Because that is another advantage to help keep men in the game. The fact that there's no more. I thought the new era. There's no more hot men on the show. That's true. Evil Stefano has said that. He said that an awful lot. So I don't know. That's the trick. That's the twist is I'll make out. And it's like, sorry, you weren't hot enough. Yeah. Evil Stefano has to fly. Who decides who's hot and who's not?

[00:39:44] Is it like. I think here. Sure. It's in that Michael Horn says it's in the hands of the fans. Yeah. Right. They leak. Yeah. Reality TV fan posts the headshots and you just go into their quote tweets and it's the ratio. Oh. Evil Stefano. We love you. We see you and we love you. How about this is the Reichenbach's revenge advantage.

[00:40:11] The immunity challenge winner gives necklace to another player while secretly maintaining their own immunity that round. This is transferable. So you would win this on like a journey. And the twist is if you win immunity, you can give it to somebody and still have immunity. I think we're in the phase of like lying to the contestants again. And I don't like love that. Yeah.

[00:40:37] And I think that like the act of giving an immunity necklace is so foreign from Survivor at this point that if someone were to do it, people would immediately think that there was something up. Now, maybe this is like a weird, fun one to bluff. And I think that there is merit to that, to like do this if you're just really just trying to play for the second chance versus playing to win. I don't like it as a twist, but I think there is that I'd love to see someone bluff this for no reason.

[00:41:05] I like the concept of Reichenbach's revenge, though. Like, what can we do with that? You know, I could build a whole season around it. Yeah, that might be maybe 52. I don't even think it's anybody versus Eric. I think it's Eric's back. We're doing Reichenbach's revenge. Here's Eric and 19 people. A fan to favorite the ghost. And I like that. This is the Probstian slip advantage.

[00:41:35] Oh. You give yourself a nickname. And if Jeff calls you by that nickname at any point during his challenge or tribal, you get an immunity idol. I love it. But it would never work because he's part of production. But I love it. I think it's a joke. Why would Jeff ever call you a nickname that he wasn't already calling you? Like, how would you ask for it?

[00:42:02] Yeah, I guess maybe it's in the rules of this fake thing that you can't ask. But if I just showed up to an immunity challenge and I said I was Diesel, like my nickname is Diesel. But you know what? It doesn't work every time because Zach asked him to call him Squirtenburger. And he said no. Did I? Did I, Omar? Yeah. Yeah. You know what? It was. I honestly know why they cut that. It was very inappropriate right after Jackson had been eliminated. Like, I think I should have chosen a better time.

[00:42:33] Um, but yeah, that was, that was a, I'm glad they edited that out. That was a miss on me. How soon was it? Was it right after? It was. He asked me how the game changes now. And I was like, well, the game changes a lot, Jeff. And then I, I, I, it was a planned bit, you know, I didn't choose the right moment. You thought it sounded great. Yeah. And it does sound great. I don't want to take away from, it sounds so great. Um, how about. I'm sorry.

[00:43:03] This is, you know, take your time off. I really like, I'm trying to move on for time. I really liked that. Okay. Let's go. I'm going to think about that in bed later. Um, how about the Meg Ryan? You've got mail advantage. One of my favorite movies of all time. We're in a, we're in a sweatshirt. You've got mail adjacent. Secretly correspond with someone on another tribe. One note to them. One reply back. Put this on survivor tomorrow. It's best. I agree.

[00:43:33] This was on all stars and I quite liked it. Yeah. I like this better on an all-star season. Yeah. They didn't put it in the episode. The all-stars. That's a deleted scene. But it was a deleted scene. I like it a lot. I mean, like, what would I write? I'd be like, um, hey, hey, Chanel. It's me, Zach. If we get to the merge together, let's work together. Smiley face. Like, I feel like on a new player season, I really don't think we're going to get all that much from it.

[00:44:03] Can we post swap on a new newbie season or returning player season? Mm-hmm. Returning player season. There's something interesting there. Hey, Chanel. It's Squirt. Let's work together. Yeah. Come merge. I like it. I think that's so fun. Even in a new person season. I'm talking to production. I'm like, so has Chanel written her letter back yet? Has Chanel.

[00:44:33] Like, it's been two cycles. She's actually filed a restraining order. Yeah, she won't look over at me at the mat. Weird. How about, and this is something I can see them putting in from when I grabbed it earlier. Wait, can I add one more thing to the You Got Mail? Yeah. Can I write that message and then sign it? Sincerely, Omer. Because there, there is something there.

[00:45:03] There is something there. I love it. Would they allow that? I like it. Would they allow that? You could write whatever you want on it. It's up to the person to authenticate it. Parvati got a letter that had whatever the fuck the JT wanted to write in it. So why not? I'm back. I'm back on this one. I like this idea now. I love it. What about the Winona Ryder shoplifting idol? You could do something with that. When did she shop? That was recent, right? No, that was old. No. I might be before you were. Was I live?

[00:45:34] Winona Ryder shoplifting? How about, this is the hot potato idol. This idol must change ownership at least once every round to stay active. Oh, I like that a lot. But then people are just going to use it. No? Say that again? I think you just use it then. So it doesn't keep jumping. They're going to use it, but that's going to cause drama because it might be my idol and then I hand it to someone else and they use it and now I'm pissed. So there is something there. Oh, because it could be back and forth thing?

[00:46:03] Like I give it to Zach, he gives it back to me? I think so. Okay. Yeah. No, then I like it because then, yes, you're right. If I use it when I took it from you, you'd be pissed. But then it's the breaks. You need it to happen. But there must be a consequence with hot potato. If you're holding the potato at the wrong time, you're fucked. So does it eventually turn into vote for yourself or something like that? No. But that is, I agree with the first part of that, which is hot potato does have a con.

[00:46:32] But there's no ending of the game hot potato. Yeah. And if you have the idol and you don't transfer ownership by tribal council, the idol is now dead. That would be the punishment. Yeah. I feel like it should be more than that because then you could just. My Michael Horn in the chat says, what about the hot guy potato idol that can only change hands between the hot guys? As a hot guy, I think I'm down for this. Who are you passing to?

[00:47:02] I'm passing it to Rox Rai. Sure. Oh, that. We couldn't have had that on our season. But Colby Q and Kyle on that one drive. And Rizzo. And Rizzo. I'm not going to shade my guy. But yeah, those three could have passed that one. I see the fan cams. I see what people are saying about Rizzo.

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[00:48:55] How about the fish sacrifice idol? Activated by sacrificing a large enough fish. Favoring fishing players or forcing reliance on physical players. Do we like this? Shout out Jonathan. Thanks for submitting. I think this is so crazy of an idea. That I almost wanted to be in the show. Is you have to publicly sacrifice a fish? That's horrible.

[00:49:27] I like the idea of going to the altar with your fish. And Jeff decides if it's big enough or not. Yeah, I do like that too. Is it alive when you bring it up to the altar? No. Must be dead. Let's be humane about it. You have to- I've already killed that. Okay. Yeah. That's interesting. What about a sea cucumber? Who can find the biggest sea cucumber? There's- That deserves an idol. Have you seen it? That sounds interesting. They're everywhere.

[00:49:58] And they're huge. That's a fun journey challenge, I think. Yeah. Actually, instead of looking through all those coconuts, you have to find the sea cucumber with the phoenix on it. That would be great. Right. Well, that's not even- Even without the phoenix. They can't plan for that, right? You just go in the ocean and find your sea cucumber. I like it. And actually, sea cucumbers evert their stomach, so maybe it's hidden inside and you have to get it to puke up its stomach and then find it. Sure. Sure. Sure. And I didn't know that until now.

[00:50:28] How about the bounty advantage? Place a public bounty on a player. If someone votes them out, then someone wins an extra vote or steal a vote. Oh, you know what? I love this idea because I thought, wait, this was my idea that I didn't publish anywhere, to be fair. Back in the day with Exile Island, like you had a thing you had to do, and if you didn't, you have to vote for yourself or you'd lose your vote. I like it. Put a bounty on somebody, I'm all for a bounty.

[00:50:57] Yeah, I think this is, I always think about, is this better for the minority or the majority? And I feel like this is the kind of thing where it's like, if someone in the majority gets this, they just put it on someone in the minority, easiest vote ever, and now they just have beyond the numbers. No, but what if you randomly have to pick somebody from a bag? If you accept this advantage, you have to get this person voted out, and if you don't, something bad happens to you, and if you do, then you win something.

[00:51:26] So it's only the one player, but this has a public bounty. So like, you're trying to get everyone. I like this better if it's the one player has a specific bounty for the episode, but I don't like it if everyone knows, hey, if you vote for Sari this episode, you, and also like the other thing you got to think about this advantage is, is think like, what would happen if it happened to Sari? And if this happened to Sari, this would literally be considered the most unfair advantage of all time.

[00:51:56] Right? Yeah, it's true. Yeah. I'm picturing a big wheel that you spin on the journey, and maybe Sari's just not on the wheel. We want you to do this to one of your eight people. Yeah. It's a magnetic wheel that's predetermined to stop on Danielle DiLorenzo. Oh. My dear friend. Yeah, she was great. How about the escape advantage? You can swap to the other tribe when played.

[00:52:22] I don't know if this is escape adjacent, but you swap to the other tribe when played. Imagine, this person included a testimonial, which I appreciate. Imagine if this was played when you were going to be the vote that night. You get to go to the other tribe. This was my advantage from earlier in the episode, and it's worse because you can escape tribal right before when you should have to make a decision before the challenge. Yeah, I mean, I like this. I think that this is like one of the gimme ones that is just. I like it.

[00:52:52] I think it's fun. I think more mutinies. I think it should be called the Edward Snowden refugee advantage where you get to. Or not. What's it called? Where he. Right. He was like a refugee to to Russia. We don't know. Over under how many Survivor 50 people know and could tell you specifically what happened to Edward Snowden. I don't even know who that is. Oh, I would say probably about half.

[00:53:22] Half's good. Half a little hot. Charlie, Christian, Mike, Angelina. Yeah. Camilla, Genevieve. Emily knows. Emily. I feel like I feel like some of the older people would know, too. Sure. Coach would pretend to know. Coach knows Edward Snowden. Yeah. He knows him personally. Yeah. This is the shout out to Jessica Frey. I do remember that this is yours.

[00:53:50] The young Sheldon string theory advantage. Before the immunity challenge, players must declare compete for immunity and forfeit your vote or skip the challenge and keep your vote. Only the people that skip the challenge get to vote. I like this. It's a better version of the do or die. Do or die. Yeah, I agree. It's better. It's better than do or die. Definitely. But you know they'll never do this because they really love people that compete in challenges.

[00:54:20] What happens if everybody chooses not to vote? Then it's a big wheel. No, they draw rocks. They draw rocks. That is true. They draw rocks. Right. There is the issue of you might get to an episode where there's literally one person voting, but I think the majority of people would choose to not compete. That's the archaicuric advantage. Sure. Sure. Two times her name has been dropped. Omer's Canadian. He doesn't have to worry about getting tracked down.

[00:54:51] I do. All right. Next advantage. How about this is the reinforcement advantage. Select one cast away from another tribe to attend your tribal. They can vote and play advantages but cannot be voted out. I love it. I love it. Do it all the time. From another tribe, right? Like this is pre-merge? This is pre-merge. Yeah, we love that. And I think that actually that twist of somebody from the winning tribe voting on the losing

[00:55:16] tribe is so good for a returning player season because then you can get interactions with people that you weren't going to get. I agree with that. I think it needs to be like an earned advantage. It can't just be something that's found in the forest because otherwise I think this one would feel a little too riggy. More of people having to choose between contributing to their tribe challenge win and going off in the middle of a challenge to find an advantage or an immunity idol. More of that. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:55:46] It's interesting to me when they do stuff that really works and they stop doing it and they keep doing the things that don't work that well. Yeah, but even when they did it though, they weren't – Kelly Wentworth is not holding her tribe back by secretly taking the thing. We want like you have to fill this whole bin with coconuts, but instead of filling the bin with coconuts, you go look for the idol or take up an advantage. Yeah. I like it.

[00:56:15] We've got 10 more. All right. How about the sneak peek advantage? You see all the votes before they're read. This can be used to decide whether to play an idol or deceptively flush an idol out. I don't hate it. This is after the votes are cast before they are read. I don't hate it. But I don't – You get to go into a secret little room. I don't think it's iconic though. Unless they cancel tribal council, then I think it's interesting.

[00:56:44] Like that Australian Survivor episode where they had a medevac of the poker lady and then they voted and then the host was like, you can either go back to camp and I won't read these votes or we're going to vote another person out. But if they don't vote someone out, then I think it would be super interesting if somebody had control over what those votes were or knowledge of what those votes were. Yeah.

[00:57:05] The reason I don't like this is I don't think this actually makes for a good TV product at all because I imagine someone goes, uses advantage, they come back, they play an idol on themselves. There's no surprise. You're sitting there being like, oh, I guess they must have gotten the most votes. Yeah. Or they come back and they don't play an idol on themselves. You're like, oh, I guess they didn't get the most votes. Like you just – you know. Or they don't have an idol so there's nothing they can do. They just know before everybody else. Yeah, yeah. I think that this doesn't really do anything.

[00:57:32] I mean, not for anything, there's not any dialogue that would happen as you're looking at the votes. And I think that hurts it also because you're not – Well, you can always talk to yourself. People do that all the time. Now, what could make this interesting, by the way, is you can go in and maybe you get to like rip one vote up. So it's like a vote block after the fact. You get to like – But if it's a landslide, who cares? That's a thing, you know. But it has – it's a vote block with the advantage of still getting to see what the votes are. So there is kind of –

[00:58:01] Actually, now that I think of it though, there is a rule in Survivor that's like you literally – I thought about what if a tribal council, I'm safe? What if I just vote for myself to like throw chaos and see who did it? But in Survivor rules, it says you cannot vote for yourself. But do you think that the Christian thing breaks the dam and people can do it now or no? No, no. This was a one-time thing. And I don't think they'll ever do it again. I think it was one time. They lost one of their stars.

[00:58:26] How about – now this is similar to what we've already heard with the tribe swap advantage. Play at any point pre-merge to either randomly swap tribes or switch somebody from each tribe. Wait, say that again? Play – you can play this at any point during the pre-merge to either randomly swap tribes or switch one person from each tribe. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we agree on this one. Love it. We love it. Love it. How about – You skipped, by the way, the safety without a say, which says – Oh, I did.

[00:58:56] Say Hughley. Yeah. Who we love. Yeah. It says normal idol with the caveat you have no vote for the person you play it on. You have to vote for the person you play it on. Giving up your vote agency for this immunity. Yeah, I don't really like that. No. I don't see why. It's not that helpful. Yeah, it's not that exciting either. To have to vote for it? Did you have to vote for that person? Yeah, I don't know. Interesting. And we love say. Say, if you're listening, we love you. The say Hughley. This is –

[00:59:26] Safety without say. How about – And this is not an advantage or an idol. This is just a game mechanic. This is the luck pit. At each team challenge, there's a 10 by 10 area of sand where any player at any time can leave the challenge and dig to find advantages. Yeah. This could be a clue to an idol or an extra vote. Yeah, we agree. I would put one advantage.

[00:59:53] Yeah, I wouldn't have like hundreds of advantages buried in there. But like maybe one idol I think could be cool. Yeah. You know, and the challenges are all at different places on the couple islands that they are. So are they transporting the sandbox? They need to just do it at one challenge and have it be – because the thing is, it's not good in most of the challenges where you have to all be part of it. They really need it for something where, you know, you have to transport 100 bags across the sand because then by taking yourself out of it, you're actively hurting your team. Yeah.

[01:00:22] And not to be that guy again, but I think Australian Survivor did that. Yes. Really? Right. Where it was something like – there were like hundreds of coconuts that were on the shore. And you could like stop working on the challenge or like stop helping on tight knots or whatever to go search through the coconuts. And it was good, but it wasn't crazy. It was interesting. Yeah, Miles. Yeah. I saw that clip. I didn't watch that season, but I saw the clip.

[01:00:50] How about the challenge sit-out advantage? At the start of an individual immunity challenge, you can force one player of your choosing to sit out. I hate that, but it made me think of a better idea. I hate it because the only people who need to win immunity are people in the minority. So this would only affect players who really need it and it would just be such a bummer.

[01:01:15] It would never help really anyone who's already in the minority to like – like if you made Jonathan sit out because you're like, oh, Jonathan's going to win the challenge. But he's in the majority. You'd be like, okay, who cares? And if he was in the minority, it would suck. That being said, I think it would be cool during the tribal stage if you could choose somebody from the other tribe you got an advantage to sit out of a set challenge. Agreed. Agreed.

[01:01:40] I also like the Kevin O'Leary royalty one where for every challenge you sit out, you get a royalty of an extra vote. Oh, that's interesting. That would be crazy. Mr. Wonderful. Mr. Wonderful. This is the Albert from South Pacific advantage. It's the Penn and Teller reveal advantage.

[01:02:02] One player at Tribal Council must cast and reveal their vote in front of everyone before the other players begin the voting process. This I like. I like it a lot. What does it really change? I think if it's a blind side, then if your vote's crucial, you have to kind of reveal it or you need to like bluff and vote the way everybody thinks you're gonna. Yeah. But I do like it. Okay. Or if you're really testing someone's loyalty.

[01:02:30] My worry would be that it would encourage safe gameplay. But I guess in the world where for that one time where people don't know this exists, it could be kind of cool. Yeah. To put someone in a really tough spot. Yeah. Obviously, they would have to do it in secret because if I was like, Omer, I'm forcing you to vote right now and reveal your vote. You'd be like, all right, screw you. I'm just gonna vote against you then because you don't trust me and you would justify it that way. You would need to have this be played in secret. Yeah, I do like it. I think it's a I think it's the best.

[01:03:00] You play it on somebody and then in the voting booth, they get a note that says you must bring this back and show everybody. Oh, so they don't know. I don't like that. I don't like that. I'm like the Simon Cowell. No, because the reason I don't like that is because then the discussion, the discussion is all wrong. The discussion has already happened and now the votes have already started and now it's kind of like.

[01:03:29] And if they're the fifth or sixth person, then people have already cast their votes. Not really anything you can do at that point. Yeah, that's fair. I do like the idea of Simon Cowell being like, I don't like this singer, but you did remind me of a better singer. That's somewhere else. I think that's a good move. Is that what he said to William Hung? He said much meaner things to William Hung, who is very cheap on Cameo. I did look at that the other day for a club conduct. Yeah, he's like $40. He could have been here.

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[01:04:30] This is the why can't we be friends idol. Like the song, why can't we be friends? Must be played on someone else. If you're the target, you hand it to someone else and convince them to play it on you. No, what are we doing? What? What? So, I guess in this scenario, if I know that I'm in danger, I give... It's like the reverse Billie Eilish boomerang one because you can't use it on any of this. I don't think anything that restricts who you play the idol on is good.

[01:05:00] Sure, sure, sure. A little complicated. The groveling, I think, is hard. I would give you Omar the idol and then beg you to play it on me. Which is interesting. I guess Angelina and Natalie, that would have been a great thing to see, I suppose. Sometimes it works. Yeah, but then... Yeah, somebody's got to have a good alliance that is going to just do it for you. Right, that's why I don't think it's that exciting. I see that. This is the Missy Elliot.

[01:05:27] Put your thang down, flip it, and reverse it challenge. Or advantage, excuse me. I got too carried away by the song. After all the votes are revealed, you nullify the entire tribal and call for a re-vote. All the idols and advantages return to their holders. No. Yeah, how does this... I guess the idea is, a lot of these, this is just a different version of the see-the-votes-already advantage,

[01:05:55] where it only actually helps you if you have an idol already. Yeah. Like, yes, then you don't have to worry about playing your idol, because you could play this first, but it's kind of useless on its own, because if you get voted out after you play it, they're just going to vote you out again. And it's actually easier to vote you out the second time, unless you have an idol, but then, you know... Yeah. If you need an idol... Yeah. It's like the super idol. You know, we thought that was stupid for a reason. Mm-hmm. If you're getting voted out and you play this,

[01:06:24] you're still going to get voted out in 30 minutes. Right. You're not going to... Nothing is going to... But you know what they really should do, is bring that... Combine the idols back into a super idol. That is so interesting. Yeah. From 32, yeah. That was great. One of those things that worked really well, and we didn't do it again. This is the Kamikaze advantage. You can't play Niemudi, but neither can two others. Jeff won't reveal it. He just announces the three people that can't compete.

[01:06:54] Nope, don't like it. Same reason as the other cutting someone from Niemudi challenge one. Yeah. That's a good point. Kamikaze, a great alliance name. You'd think that would be an alliance name at some point. Eminem's Kamikaze. Sure. Sure. I think, you know, Kamikaze would be like, you have to vote for yourself, but then two other people have to as well. But we don't need to get into that. Although I do like that.

[01:07:22] I'm going to turn my lights on real quick, but you can explain it. This is, Omer, the guess the immunity winner advantage. They already did this. Before seeing the challenge, you can pick who wins. They did this, right? They did this. Cody did this. Mm-hmm. I was so confused when, when this was on the sheet that was reviewed by somebody else. I was like, I think I have a faint memory of them doing this. They did this. And you know what? It wasn't interesting. I don't mind it though. Who did Cody pick?

[01:07:52] This is, yeah. Owen, right? Oh, and this was last gasp? And Owen won. Yeah, it was last gasp. Because that's why like three or four people were immune at that challenge. Right. Let's call it the Cody, whatever his last name was. Asenbacher. L-I-V-I-N? Asenbacher, yeah. L-I-V-I-N advantage. Guess the immunity winner. Doing this, maybe you don't get immunity, but like a vote or something. Like, I don't know.

[01:08:20] Like, you can get an extra vote or something. Whatever. It's so funny. If you submitted that, great news. They did it. Maybe you haven't seen the season. Yes, Jessica Afraid. Choose your champion. That's what it was called. And they did this with Lauren Ashley Beck as well. They did do it with Lauren Ashley Beck. Man. And I'm not going to say who put these together. When I find you. And then didn't Nora, didn't Nora like refuse to do that challenge? She refused to. No, she played.

[01:08:49] I remember there was one where you had to like choose a caller. Someone to be the caller of a challenge. Oh, that was a different. That was a different thing. That was a different thing, yeah. Island of Idols had so many good ideas that they'll just never revisit. Sure. Yeah. And our final advantage. This is the sunset advantage. And it immediately ends the strategy round and sends the tribe to tribal council early. They are limiting time to strategize. They do do that. That's, you know, they dunk on everybody else.

[01:09:19] It's not on the show. Yeah. I didn't like, I don't like this. Yeah. It's hard logistically to think how it would work. You just have to put us on lockdown for hours and that'll be so cool. Right. This one wouldn't work logistically. Or we're doing tribal council at 3 p.m. Yeah. I think that's interesting. So. Stacey Stillman. But it's like, this is one that like doesn't encourage fun things to happen. Like they're literally gonna be like, all right, episode's over.

[01:09:48] It's the episode over. I think there should be an advantage where you guarantee yourself at least five confessionals. Like, it's kind of like a reward steal, you know? Yeah. You know what else I would like? I would really love, uh, this is not a twist, but this is a challenge idea. Like, it's like the reverse auction where you, you have to, the immunity challenge is like to win immunity. You have to like give up X, Y, and Z. And how many days are you willing to go without rice for

[01:10:18] or whatever? Like, that's like a big brother challenge, but I think it'd be fun. Yeah. Yeah. I'm surprised they haven't done that. Cause that's a, that is a good idea. I think. How many votes would you wager? One of those. Um, I like it. We have reached the end of our tour. I have the results in front of me. All right. Um, I'm going to read the top three. I have not scrolled up yet. I wanted to look at what had the least amount of votes. And with two votes out of 1074 votes,

[01:10:47] the fish sacrifice idol. Oh, that was better than like three other ideas. I like the fish sacrifice. You got robbed fish sacrifice. I am upset to see the luck pit, the sandbox. I'm so low at 30 votes, but I will read the top three. Okay. Yeah. Number three. Wait, can I, can we guess? I think it's going to be the rock advantage. I think it's going to be the, um, mutiny, the mutiny, but there were a couple that were mutinies. I think they're going to kind of cancel each other out.

[01:11:17] I think the letter one. I liked, I kind of like the hot potato advantage too. That was kind of cool. Yeah. Well, the hot potato is number three. Oh, you really grew on me. And I'll, I'll tell you right now, we didn't love the top two. Oh, okay. Number two with 71 votes, the uno reverse advantage.

[01:11:46] Choose a player. If they vote for you that night, their vote is reversed and counts against them. It's so stupid. It's stupid. I'm sorry forever. Congrats on winning, but it just doesn't even win. Mechanically. It just doesn't make sense. Like how is Jeff going to do this? He's going to be like, Oh, this vote says Omer, but Oh, I guess you flip it. And it actually says the other person. But really, I'm good. Yeah. Okay. Nevermind. I'm in. We're in on the uno,

[01:12:16] but that didn't even win. That was second place. Okay. I will contact you winner to get your t-shirt. Um, for the shared stakes advantage. You is one by a tribe. The player with the most votes is eliminated as normal to play with the second highest number of votes receives a hidden immunity. I don't know. We hated that one. We was that. We hated that one. I hate that. I still hate it. Just like American Idol. Sometimes the person or the thing you think was going to win.

[01:12:44] This is like what Fantasia won or when Jennifer Hudson was eliminated. That's what it's like. Yes. I haven't, I haven't liked what the fans have voted on all season. So why not add one to the list? Congrats though. It is cool. It is interesting. And for a different game, I think it could be fun. And also it's, it's new era survivor. Like who even cares? Sure. Sure. Zach, what do you have going on that you want people to check out? Oh, uh, nothing much. I got some new music coming out. Um,

[01:13:15] but yeah, I just live in the life. Over. How about yourself? Just living the life in my new apartment. It's a shitty apartment. Like, uh, like, uh, Courtney's, you know, no, it's not a show. Everybody, I heard everybody that went there loved it. Everybody thought it was great. But you know what? Um, Gabby and Franny slept in my bedroom while I sat on the couch and they left the window open. And when I came back, there was a squirrel inside.

[01:13:46] No, I feel like you would like that. No, I don't want to squirrel destroy my house. I was afraid a squirrel would be inside when I got home, but thankfully there was none. Oh, okay. Oh, so it was a lot. Yeah. Did Gabby and Franny really stay at your place or was that just made up? They did. And they left the window open. And one of the two, I won't reveal who was exiting my vehicle and slammed the door into the car beside me, leaving a paint stain on it.

[01:14:17] It was not good, but they had alcohol swabs to get it off. Okay. And if you're listening still one hour and seven minutes in comment, who you think between Gabby and Franny slammed the car door into the, Omer's car neighbor and left a paint. Yeah. Use hashtag team Gabby. If you think Gabby slammed the door and hashtag team Franny. Gabby is spelled with a Y and Franny is spelled with an I E.

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