Survivor 50 B&B Ep 9 Recap w/ Pooya

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[00:01:53] You can stay for free. Hi everybody and welcome to the R-H-A-P B&B for week 9 of Survivor 50. My name is Mike Bloom and I've been saying 9 to everything that went down in this episode. No! Christian, our boy, his game wound up as soiled as his trousers were mere days ago. Who would have thought that would not be the lowest bar that man would hit as that puzzle hit rock bottom at the ocean floor?

[00:02:23] And unfortunately, so did he. He fell on his sword, if you will. And so we are here to break down everything that happened in this big episode. Of course, I am joined by Liana Boraas. Liana, do you see the man in the moon or do you see the rabbit eating soup when you look at the sky? Oh my gosh. Um, I'm still stuck on the fact that Christian shit himself on TV and I forgot about that.

[00:02:50] Like this is maybe the best thing that could have happened to Christian given his situation previously. But I'm excited to get into all of it as we talk through a twist. We definitely saw a twist. All right. Well, let me try to introduce our guest today in the style of our reigning celebrity expert on Survivor episodes past. Uh, you might know him from, uh, traders coverage and 90 day fiance coverage.

[00:03:19] And of course, uh, I know him covering Australian survivor redemption. Give it up for Pooja. Happy to be here. Mike, you better not fake laugh at anything I say today. Okay. I want authentic laughter like that. I want that. Tussle your beanie. Yeah. Well, thank you for having me excited to be here. Sad episode to be here for, but happy to be here with you two all the same. Absolutely. We're happy to have you as well. And listen, even if it is an episode that ends on a downer note, we are here to wallow together.

[00:03:49] But I want to hear from you Pooja about how much wallowing have you been doing over the course of Survivor 50. People have not been checking out the pal, which like, what are you doing with your lives? Are you anchored to the bottom of the ocean like a wayward jigsaw puzzle? Check it out. It is a weekly fixture here on RHAP. But I know that you have been offering some of your thoughts vis-a-vis that podcast over the course of the season. But what have sort of been your cumulative thoughts? And has this week moved the needle one way or the other? I have feelings this season.

[00:04:17] Not that I don't always have feelings generally, but this season I feel challenged by my love of the show. And I'll explain that a little further in that I've always been of the mind of any season of Survivor is good. It's fun no matter what. This season has been extraordinary. I think one thing that immediately stood out to me within the first opening minutes of episode one was, yeah, we've needed a returning season for a while. And this is immediately proven that we need to go back to this well more with new people for sure.

[00:04:48] I think the thing that has been a little bit tough and challenged my feelings is, this is a great cast you've put together. I'll admit that. Let them play. They know what they're doing. We don't need all these bells and whistles for these folks. We really don't. And I think the bells and whistles have made me feel a type of way. Some of them have been like, okay, innovative, fun, cool. Then others, I'm just like, but why though? Why did we need to strip them of their vote here? Like that didn't seem like, again, like we're doing this.

[00:05:17] I don't need that. I feel like, let's look at this episode, for example. I genuinely think Christian was in a bad spot regardless, right? That's my personal. Do I really need his end story to be, and you failed the puzzle, and you got to vote for yourself, and you're going home. I don't need that. I don't need all of that. I feel like your vote is the most important thing you carry in the game. And the fact that some players don't even get to have that on them when they get the tribal is tough for me. It's still a tough pill to swallow.

[00:05:47] And like, I think I've been one of the people that has been more understanding of the journey of the extra bits and bobs we get in the newer era. Not this journey. I think recently, Mike, I've been very much on the opposite side of the tracks where I'm like, no, stop this, please. Like enough is enough. Like how much more until we just decide this is an experiment that we can just put to bed? That's kind of where I'm at. Can I help you with a two-hour serving of Mr. Beast coming up in several days' time?

[00:06:16] You know, I will say I'm happy I'm here for this. I don't know how week 10 would have gone for me. So I'm in the right. I'm exactly where I need to be right now. I can't wait. I'm so excited. So I think for me, right, to think about the bells and the whistles, to me, it's always about obviously watching the players interact, but also I don't mind watching them sort of tackle an obstacle, right?

[00:06:44] To see how a player would approach a unique situation, especially on a returning player season where you've got someone like Christian to see, okay, what's Christian going to come up with when tasked with, you know, whatever, X, Y, Z twist. So I think like what was just extra frustrating, it was two things. One, it was that the reward did not seem to match the punishment, right? So you would want those things, I think, to be relatively equal. At least in my mind, it felt like the extra one, we'll talk about it, but basically those two things were an unequal.

[00:07:14] And then the second part was the lack of agency. And I think that that is, I don't know, maybe more where the frustration comes from, which is like, okay, let's say he does have to vote for himself, right? Like, let's say he knew that going before he had to go read it in front of everybody and then have basically nothing to do, which made the rest of the episode just so boring anyway. Like, even if it was going to be a straight cut and dry vote,

[00:07:40] like, oh man, it just took away any, for me, any of the interest or intrigue because it just felt like, oh man, you're just shooting them all he's down, man. And yeah, sure. It hurts that it's Christian, but I think if it was genuinely anyone in that situation, that sucks. Yeah. So the main question that has been coming out of the discourse the past few days, besides my first question is, how dare you to Jimmy Fallon, is how screwed was Christian by this? You know, they call it Jimmy Fallon's one in the urn. It's more like one in the urn, two in the stink,

[00:08:10] with how much people thought that Christian got effed by this. Well, yeah, do you want to just take this out? Maybe we go back to the writer's room on that one. Kick Mike out. No, this is the style of Survivor 50, right? You throw out the first idea. Maybe you brainstorm it a little bit, but at the end of the day, the first edit's usually going to be the best edit. Yeah, let's do it. I think that the big back and forth, right, is as Pooja mentioned, leaning into this challenge, the tide was certainly turning against Christian, right?

[00:08:38] He had apparently invalidated this alliance that he had sworn with Jonathan and Stephanie to a certain extent so much that they can never trust him again. Obviously, he does the biggest faux pas you could do in front of Ceri, which is pitch one of her allies to Ceri's face, which makes her incredibly incredible. It is really interesting talking with Christian about it. And again, this man is amazingly self-deprecating. It's one of the many things I love about him.

[00:09:06] And he admits he pulled an Aubrey, but for realsies, he straight up forgot. He's like, nope, I just did not remember. We talked about it all the way back in the early days, but there was just too much to keep track of. I think the adage I would use when it comes to this twist is that I feel like all those actions had the door closing on Christian's chances of survival. And this Jimmy Fallon twist slammed it in his face. And it is very specifically, and I posted about this Marriott Times, and I'll continue to talk about it.

[00:09:38] Why does he have to wear this like a scarlet letter? Why must he make a public declaration about this? Every single other one of these cockamamie journeys that you have festooned about over the past nine seasons in Fiji, there has been always a wrinkle that allows for creativity and imagination. Okay, you went to this island. Sucks, you lost your boat. Sucks, you gained this advantage

[00:10:07] that probably isn't going to do anything. But you can go back and tell people whatever you want. It's something that has originated all the way back from, let's talk about Island of the Idols. Let's talk about Ghost Island. Let's go all the way back to like the OG days of Exile Island back before Mike White brought that back in San Juan del Sur, where information asymmetry is a key facet that has kept the economy of survivor thriving for 25 plus years. And essentially, Christian was pickpocketed here.

[00:10:36] It was, hey, you know what? You could try to come up with something. You could bluff that you have an advantage. You could say that you didn't lose your vote. And that could have created a very fun sequence where maybe Christian's like, I know I have to vote for myself. So let me try to tell the right people so I can marshal enough numbers to try to counteract it. What we got instead was Christian basically being wedgied and hoisted up the flagpole, being like, look at this man, publicly shame him. He is an easy target.

[00:11:05] He is not getting off anytime soon. It feels like to me, just like a flagrantly bad decision, not only because of the outcome and less than a little bias from that perspective, but more so for like, oh yeah, I feel like we're leaving money on the table here by not allowing a player to create opportunities for themselves. Rather have that opportunity hoisted upon them. And it's a bad opportunity. Well, especially when you again factor in the idea

[00:11:35] that these are your picks for what should be your marquee season, right? Number 50, we wanted the best of the best. We brought them here, meaning they all know how to play the game, meaning they all probably have thought about many different scenarios and things they would say in this very situation. If I ever was to come back from a journey and I won something, what am I going to say? If I lose my vote, how am I going to cover that up? Now, Lord knows we've seen this happen every season in the new era to know that if you're coming back in this era,

[00:12:04] you're thinking about what to say in this moment. And especially with your returning, I feel like you can, you can just let them do that. I think that the combination of, okay, now he has to do this in front of everybody, which robs him of any opportunity to lie or even, even if he's not good at it, right? Let's talk about, I've played games with Christian. I can tell when he's bad when I'm playing some of these games with him. That's fine. It's still fun to watch him try and like, you know, figure his way out. That's the best, why we play these games is like test ourselves. He doesn't get to test himself there anyway.

[00:12:34] And then also, y'all gave everyone a die at the beginning of the season that in the event that they're in trouble, they get a one in six shot to do something. He can't even play that. He can't, that means nothing now. So that means nothing. All his, all his ops know that means nothing. All his ops know he can only vote for himself. To be fair, Jonathan apparently did not know considering how much he was letting that tumble over his fingers as he was waiting to vote. Yeah, he really thought it was Thanos in that moment. But like, I think other than that, I still feel like

[00:13:03] the minute he announces everyone, Hey, I'm voting myself. I don't know what the rest of you want to do, but this is where my vote's going. Just in case anyone wants to join the Christian train here. I think like, okay, fundamentally, what's the goal of Survivor? The goal is to make good television. Mm-hmm. Right? Okay. I think collectively, all of us, Jeff Probst included, everyone can agree that the goal is to make entertaining television. So let's play out the three different scenarios that you could have. One, you have somebody who's already dead in the water, right?

[00:13:33] Like Christian, let's assume already dead in the water. Okay, great. Easy vote. No problem. Bye Christian. Let's say you have somebody who's super safe. Okay. Super safe comes back. I have to vote for myself. Then it's just a complete non-factor, right? Because it's like, okay, well, here's one vote we can't count on, which maybe if the numbers are close, then okay, it becomes a little bit more dicey. But still, then they're just a non-factor. You go about between your two or three targets who you're going to go for. Okay? So also boring. Then you have the middle option, which is maybe arguably...

[00:14:03] Don't say middle, Liana. Sorry. Oh my God. The middle people, aka the people who are just in the opposite alliance than you, but that's fine. So yeah. So then you have the other option. The other option, which is where maybe there's somebody on the fence, right? Okay. Somebody who, ooh, could be a target. Like, I don't know, maybe in this particular case, let's say, obviously not, Sari would not co-sign this, but let's say like an Aussie or a Rizzo, right? Somebody who didn't end up being in like immediate danger, but could with the addition of an extra vote,

[00:14:32] maybe you start to think about piling votes on them. Even then, that's not that interesting because then you just have that normal debate that happens that the producers do every single episode. Well, it could be Emily. Well, it could be Christian. It could be Emily. It could be Christian. Then you just sort of have that toss up again. Like, I just don't see in what universe does this play out as entertaining and good television? The punishment piece, right? We're not even talking about the reward piece, which I feel like is also equally boring, except for maybe the bank of O thing, which they didn't talk about on the episode,

[00:15:02] but we'll get into. But like, just to focus on like the punishment piece, I just don't see how the punishment is ever an interesting situation. Yeah. I think that is pretty much what us and a lot of people have been fixating on is does the punishment create good television at the end of the day? And I listen, I've certainly seen some scuttlebutt as well of like voting for yourself is not Survivor. And like, I understand that. I do feel like the definition of a Survivor has,

[00:15:31] like wrinkles on our face, become more loosey-goosey over the course of time marching on. We're like, you know, in Survivor, theoretically, if you're voted out, you leave the game. Not the case in a few seasons. Yeah. Some people would even say if you get votes, then you should leave. An idol being introduced certainly goes against that concept of the game. So like, I don't even have as much of a problem with like, oh, you have to vote for yourself. But again, it does feel like handcuffing you a little bit by being like, you have to vote for yourself

[00:16:00] and you have to let everybody know about it. Now, I'm glad you bring up, Liana, the little extra sprinkle that we were denied in this perhaps questionable ice cream sundae that was this reward because a couple people, myself included, were able to spot this upon watching back, Christian reading, essentially the terms and conditions for this entire conceit. And there is a hopeful little package or a paragraph that was not read out on the show. Now, as a reminder, the reward is presented

[00:16:29] to us was that it was essentially an extra vote, not only good for this tribal council, but had to be cast right there. And yes, also worse. I mean, I think it's interesting at least in that it provides like a notable decision where it's like, okay, if Christian really wanted Ozzy out, now he has incentive to go back to camp and be like, push. Okay, even if the votes are going this way, like now my Ozzy vote might go to waste. Like, let me try to make the push here. It's negligible considering that I think

[00:16:59] if he had an extra vote, he still would probably push it to make his extra vote count. I will also say again, a little tangential, another reason why it would have been great for Christian to have the option to divulge this information or not. How great would it be at the top of next episode when people are like, why was there one extra Christian vote? What did Christian vote for? Not knowing the idea that someone could vote for themselves because it's completely unprecedented, but basically, okay, so that was the twist at its bare bones, but we have a little bit of musculature underneath

[00:17:28] that we did not bear witness to in the naked eye. So this is an extra form of paragraphs that I took as a screenshot from when Christian read the full passage so it goes through the entire legalese as to what the one in the earned twist was, but it also adds that's not all. You then have the power at tonight's tribal council to either cast your regular vote if you think you need it or you can choose to secretly keep your vote for use at a future tribal council good till the final seven and because there is already a vote

[00:17:58] in the earned from you, nobody will know. That's what I'm talking about. That line Jimmy Fallon phrase. All right, so thoughts about this. Do you feel like this makes it for lack of a better term worth playing for a little more? I mean, it definitely makes it worth playing for more than what it was before, right? Which I think I think it's just a tough ask to be like you get an extra one but you have to burn it here because then if you get especially again

[00:18:28] with a very big cast of people who are playing for themselves if you go back and you tell your allies we're voting Ozzy and like absolutely not that's not where we're going your vote now has been burned it does not matter I like the added component that you can then bank this vote until final seven that is something that is more actionable because up under this point Mike, you already pointed it out it really seemed like oh, so my advantage is I get to do something just here and then it does not matter so it's mostly you're not even playing for the advantage

[00:18:58] you're playing to not get punished at that point which is a little bit tough yeah, I think it's really difficult I think without being able to discuss with your allies and basically just immediately have to put it in even if yes you do have the ability to bank your vote later it's like is that really just give them an extra vote man like that's basically a better version of that which is weird to say because I feel like extra votes notoriously have not been necessarily that exciting I think like okay,

[00:19:28] what would be maybe an equal punishment or even if Christian did have to vote for himself like what's a lie he could tell like I just I feel like he could say oh, I had to if someone came back to camp who was like I had to cast a vote ahead of time and I actually can't vote I'd be like wow, you got punished yeah, I think that's a very easy thing where it's like okay, reward is an extra vote penalty is you have to cast a vote right now yeah, exactly like it's so funny to think that Christian's reward to me is basically a punishment just a less

[00:19:57] aggrigious punishment yeah, I mean it just goes back to the fact that I just I was just not a fan of this and I think again I you can't look at it without thinking about Christian but even taking Christian out of the equation and just looking at it purely from a twist perspective regardless of who ends up there I think it's still not the best idea that survivors had 100% yeah so yeah so that was kind of like it was difficult because that really just put a weight

[00:20:26] over the entire episode and I do feel like there were so many interesting, exciting, and entertaining things that happened in this episode oh yeah don't get me wrong I really enjoyed the first half of this episode like I'm not walking around being like this is the worst episode of the season much like the weights that were careening off that platform I think it's certainly sunk in the latter portion but two thumbs up in my opinion for the first 45 minutes of this and I did I will admit did kind of like Jeff doing the challenge but only because

[00:20:55] of all the other contestants chastising well that's that's the thing for me that I'm so glad you focus on because I I love this I will say with my full chest that I thought this was so much fun because this to me represents first off more of a like casual discourse that Jeff has with the players now we're not going back to like stars level of things where like he was essentially the substitute teacher and they're like we don't have to listen to you we're more famous than you like there's clearly

[00:21:25] some respect there but I think there is something that is really fun about first off the stakes as much as people love rice are not that high it's not like you're gonna lose your vote if you lose to me like this seemed like a fun call it a side bet call it a side mini game whatever you want to do but I also loved it from a perspective of you know for all of the the armchair quarterbacks sitting at home all the armchair Gary Hoga booms like yeah survivor challenges are tough

[00:21:54] considering that this guy who has his job is watching challenges for 25 plus years he is an incredibly fit man in his 60s I have been to his house he has a notable in-home gym and even he only lasted seven and a half minutes like survivor challenges are incredibly hard to do but like you said Liana the coup de gras was absolutely everyone bantering with Jeff everyone getting their licks in and again I go back to survivor

[00:22:23] 50 being a celebration and I would say you know besides the the fallen worship of Colby on his way out which I thought was beautiful this is one of the most celebratory aspects I've seen on the season maybe since the beginning because it felt like okay this is like a new fun thing that doesn't shake up the game that much but brings Jeff down to our level a little bit and allows the players to be able to step into his khakis and be able to exact a little revenge for 25

[00:22:53] plus years of shit talking yeah and I think that the montage especially of Jeff all of Jeff chastising was just such another celebratory moment to kind of tie it all together because it also provided context for an historical context too of like you know sassy Jeff like I did feel like I was watching a YouTube compilation which is basically what it was wild no this was

[00:23:23] very very very fun you know for for a lot of because you know we've been around this block a few times you know I've heard I was there when fried chicken and waffles happened I was there when Jeff was where were you when fried chicken and waffles happened it's a new Zach Brown song you guys will love it yeah so we were there when that happened and we were like oh what are we doing this was perfect this was the exact level of involvement I want Jeff to have it was a it was a celebration moment I

[00:23:53] think getting to see all these players be not bold enough I mean again they've known him for long enough to give it back to him and like mess with him it was fun I think my personal favorite moment was when Jeff was basically looking looking for Devin's to be the the replacement host and then Rizzo drops and Rizzo's doing it and then when Devin drops he's like finally a professional to take the stage Rizzo with his freaking like knee-high Christian school

[00:24:22] girl look being like all right I got this everybody what's up everyone it's the R-I-Z-H-O-S-T Riz host baby I was like oh good now we have a professional broadcast shade but honestly no that was so it was so fun it was fun to watch Jeff do the Gabler style shout out though as like a weird call back let's Liana let's add him to the brain steel of random survivor players that are not in the season that have been referenced

[00:24:52] yeah yeah exactly um but uh but yeah I think I think especially the like Ozzy was the one who really I think I don't know if we just saw the most from him or he took to it the most he's been waiting for this moment yeah yeah absolutely feel that way and then of course the jungle boy jungle man uh interaction too was just I wonder if I wonder if obviously he said that to us in preseason press but I wonder if he had mentioned that moniker publicly in

[00:25:21] the season up to that point or if this was the first time he's like no jungle man I did want to debut my new name like this not like this not like this um but yeah but the um oh the other funny moment and this is why I just I it's such a joy to just watch these players interact and like exist within this fun framework like when the box drops right so there's this big box right and there and Ozzy thinks it's food right he's like I could smell it uh I

[00:25:51] don't know what he was smelling then I'm worried about his hallucinations that's fine withdrawing from something I think so so the box drops and they're all just confused they're like is someone else coming to play you can see just nobody like really knows how to react until Jeff finally explains he's like and I'm participating and then oh but the box drop was supposed to be this like big moment and it just fell so flat flat like the box that fell

[00:26:20] down um which that was just like that was really enjoyable I'm glad that they included that awkward reaction into that because yeah that was just it was just really it was fun right that was fun survivor I also like that they went to Aubrey at first who like I think it's still to this day confused on how to react to this oh I'm confused on how to react to Aubrey so far in this season because she kind of has like the hold me back

[00:26:49] at it where she's like I'm gonna fight right now you better what you better let me out of and then I'm gonna I'm gonna hit you if you keep going one more episode I'm gonna hit you it's just like nothing so far now maybe this is building to some sort of Operation Italy Eric Black Widow Brigade level master class of a move but it feels like so much preamble so far we haven't even gotten to the meat of the Constitution yeah a lot to be seen uh for me

[00:27:19] because I feel like I'm not seeing it's in this season also been that's been interesting for me in that regard because and maybe it's because we haven't had a returning season in so long I forget how returning seasons can look because truly people used to be stars can just follow the wayside and not in like a disrespectful way just in a your story is not what's being portrayed here but even my I can read the story brain is not making sense of this season which I'm not mad at Mike because to me I feel

[00:27:48] like I've been decently able to by this by week nine tell you who I think could win and like have like a decent shot of being correct I still don't have any clue how we're gonna land this plane so I mean I think it's someone from the polycule would have to be my guess um can we see a Ceres Wizard of Oz final three oh I would I would love that if that's the case if Rizzo plays any more scenes of survivor he's gonna have like 17 day one alliances because that

[00:28:17] man has one of the best success rates as an ally in survivor history seriously I mean poor little wasting away Rizzo there's one shot of where they're at camp in this episode and Rizzo's just like curled up in the fetal position in the hammock and I'm like can somebody feed him he's looking very gaunt well apparently he's been like dying like I talked no wonder talking with Chrissy talking with Christian like they were all saying that Rizzo was just incredibly unwell for the first part of the individual game which is why you know

[00:28:47] listen I don't think he has the arm strength of you know wet linguine but like that's why he's out first that's why he's curled up in the hammock it's like he's not involved in a lot of strategy and yeah as you mentioned Liana it may come down to the fact that he is basically playing two months back to back of survival yeah yes and like there's always that classic picture of Russell Hance like before and after because obviously he played two seasons back to back but the man was chunky like he had some fat to lose

[00:29:17] so by the end yes of course he looks a little haggard but like I agree like yeah but um Spencer right there's that other photo of Spencer after because Spencer was that was so thin and so Rizzo also a very slender guy going into this not a lot to lose and so no wonder his body is shutting down it's like can you feed me please so um yeah get that boy extra rice um even though if you're Emily who might

[00:29:46] let's talk about this yeah this was like one of the few gems in the second part of the episode that I absolutely adored because we got some old school rice drama baby uh as yeah Emily and Sari going back and forth old school versus new school has made rights for 20 years versus didn't know rice if it was standing right in front of her who's making too much Pooja I feel like if Sari Fields tells me this is how we're gonna do

[00:30:16] the rice this is how we're gonna do the rice because I feel like I'm never gonna want to argue with anyone on food stuff because if it goes wrong I don't want it to fall back on me ever and if even if I'm in the right I don't want people to resent me for being right so I would rather just not be involved uh but I am also not Emily Flippen Emily Flippen will always push back on that and will always speak her mind which I do respect because it couldn't be me I would I would die with my opinions

[00:30:46] I'm just realizing is is push back on that like the opposite of back that up not quite you use them in very different context I'm saying if we're using it in the same context you know instead of back that ass up is it push back on that ass okay can you give me a definition sure um I got wedged too far into the back of an elevator push back on that worst song ever

[00:31:16] I don't think that no one can answer out of the club who among us yeah look they're just different ways to insert yourself into a situation it's fine what do you think Liana do you think Emily might have gotten herself into the same hot water that Suri was using to boil nine cups of rice look Emily's gonna Emily Flippen I don't think this is better or worse than basically anything else that she's done I will say that it didn't seem to be a

[00:31:45] reason why she was targeted although these trying to save Christian may have just been the straw that broke the camel's back in this particular situation I love that Emily is just showing up authentically as herself right and like that's a character that I want to see on television I can never criticize Emily Flippen for being entertaining yep but yes it definitely created an awkward social situation with Suri but that's like you know the whole they're starving there's not enough surviving anymore on Survivor like

[00:32:15] here's a good example of that right and how how often have we seen in older seasons don't cook too much rice you got a rash in the rice you threw out the rice you did another rice right like back up that rice back up that rice so push back on that rice so much of the conflict comes from something so simple you didn't need all these bells and whistles you just needed a bunch of hungry people and a bag of rice like that's as simple as it can be

[00:32:44] and I just that to me is so much more interesting I mean for what it's worth I do think Emily is technically correct which is the best kind of correct that like this is an exorbitant amount of rice to make but I feel like there's a couple of corollaries to this you mentioned of course the social ramifications of like do not stick your neck out and mention this to the person who's the most socially connected of anyone in the tribe but there's also just the calendar based perspective of like there are seven days left after this

[00:33:13] yeah eat drink be merry in my opinion there's also 11 people here like are you really going to convince everyone like come on everyone let's rush in like no you're gonna be heavily outvoted here so yeah I think it's practically it made sense ironically enough I think Emily was planning for a 39 day game when this is a 26 day game yeah exactly she's like guys no wait um yeah I think like it just also you haven't eaten for

[00:33:42] so long right you just you just gotta go for it you just gotta let people eat yeah were you like me in the first part of this episode that when Rick sat down with Emily in the hammock and said that his idol was a fake it's like watching a horror movie like don't go in there don't talk to her don't tell her why you did all of this why now why do this and like we know how this story goes you tell Emily flipping yeah you might be telling a lot more people than just Emily

[00:34:10] flipping so yeah not the best call here but I'm always here for a little bit of spilling so I can't complain too much I mean it'll be messy I think I think the one thing that well it could spectacularly backfire but the fact that Christian goes out this episode and in the next time on we see you know Emily and Devin's being like look we're the two social pariahs right or like we're the two on the outs that could go one of two ways it could strengthen their bond together they're gonna fight out of this or

[00:34:40] Emily flipping throws Devin's under the bus which frankly if I were a betting woman which I am not I would not make that side bet uh but if I were I would bet on the ladder there knowing that Emily flipping would probably choose self preservation do you think people will be as pissed at Rick at the beginning of next episode for not playing his idol than they did here for him reaching into the fire and pulling it out I need him so badly

[00:35:07] to say I forgot like I can't even tell you how much I want him to say I please Rick please you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing please please do it and please say it to Aubrey's face first the ultimate callback yeah I forgot that would be a Rick Devin's thing too like it's so tug-in-cheek you're like I where's your tongue I don't know what your tongue is doing it's

[00:35:35] so in his wheelhouse to do come on be so messy be for real all right well wait just to go back to the Devin's thing first and Pui I don't know if you have any thoughts on this but the Joe's impression oh my god the whole situation that was a hit in our house we love that that was phenomenal the funniest Joe's ever been no no we've been talking about this right

[00:36:04] that Joe has sort of been Walter White style taking on the gestures of other people like he made the firehouse metaphor he quoted Mike Tyson and then here he's doing the Jeff impressions he wasn't even there for the Jeff tribal councilor he did impressions he's like all right I've got a good Devin's in my back pocket it was having a fit I just oh my gosh maybe the funniest yeah Joe's ever been but then also to top it off the Joe Devin's

[00:36:33] interaction I'm so happy this is still happening oh they're so uncomfortable but in like such a great way I love it to death I love Joe oh Joe sweet Joe I love it it's it makes me so happy that Joe Hunter who is like one of the sweetest most good hearted men in the world would probably love 750 out of 751 survivor players and this is the one person

[00:37:02] where he just despises Rick Devin to the point where he's in a confessional being like I'm really proud of myself that I did not just verbally slap this man in the face for out of incredulity good for you buddy yeah the awkward hug they had at the end of their conversation and Devin's knows it's all BS like of course he does but it's all it's also such a weird perspective though Pooja because Joe's like why didn't you tell me about this fake idol and Rick's like can we rewind the tape to like yeah six when we were yelling at each

[00:37:32] other down on the beach you really think 10 days later I'm supposed to now disclose to you what I have after you were going to vote for me yeah exactly yeah this has been one of the more fascinating things about learning more about Joe and watching him play is the why would you not tell me this but also I would absolutely judge the hell out of you for telling me that so I was like I'm not going to subtly make that clear like you're not you're going to know I would judge you for that yet you should still tell

[00:38:02] me it's like how do you think that's gonna play out mm-hmm yeah oh um the one other thing that I had this is completely flipping subject so I don't know if there's anything else you guys want to say about that flip it yeah Emily flip it well that was Ozzy's quote about like Emily flipping all over the place I am surprised she's she's Emily has been in what probably like a combined 20 episodes of Survivor at this point that's the first time it's made the air what are

[00:38:31] we doing people talk about playing with house money for real I know I can't imagine that should have been her nickname coming out of the first season but anyway um no I did feel really bad for Chrissy at Tribal Council where they have everybody want like the jury walks in and Chrissy was again such a non-fat like I don't know again what she did she kicked a cameraman or someone or like insulted someone's family I don't know they just really don't like her I get why she's complaining on social media

[00:39:00] because I would be too if I were her yeah for the uninitiated the camera inside instead decided to focus right from where they left off in coach in his all silver ensemble like he's the manager of a banana ball team doing a twirl on the metaphoric catwalk before taking a seat oh yeah yep yep yep yep yep yep yep all right well we shall see who finishes as the silver medalist and who will get the gold when it comes to our preseason predictions on

[00:39:29] Christian Christian don't call me who Bicky Hugh Bicky the the man the myth the roboticist had a lot to play for and a lot to play with coming in so Liana how did that bear out for you was his success a zero or a one yeah well uh it's not so binary Mike um I had Christian making the jury okay I said that Christian enters the game as a known strategic threat but leans into his charm and humor to

[00:39:59] keep his target manageable at the merge he quickly gets to work reconnecting with Mike and pulling in players like Devin's to form a loose cross-tribal voting block against the other alliances you could say the people in the middle by the way um Christian begins systematically taking out other strategic threats spearheading the moves against Genevieve and others while each move makes sense in isolation together they paint a very clear picture that Christian is the one pulling the strings realizing too late

[00:40:29] that he's become the strategic mastermind the tribe comes together to get rid of him the editors once again have a field day with Christian's confessionals and tribal council answers including one where he compares tribe dynamics to a sorting algorithm that leads Jeff to just stare at him blankly saying okay hey he did that in this episode exactly his ally was Devin's and his enemy was himself okay wow for himself that's true

[00:40:57] damn wow he's I wonder how much you have to talk about that in therapy oh my god all right well I also had Christian making the jury sit down folks he and gets your knitting needles here's the long yarn about how Christian did Christian will try to lock in on his free game plan to form his own on-island Starfleet crew with Rick Devins only to find his Captain Kirk is more radioactive than the radiation poisoning that kills Spock spoiler alert as he votes him out of the game he gives him the Vulcan salute in the

[00:41:27] voting booth telling him to live long and prosper luckily he has an in-house number one in waiting with Emily Flippen the two end up getting swapped together on the same tribe voting together at the a number of trouble councils they attend in the pre-merge while Christian will grow increasingly incredulous that some of the unpredictable things Emily says or does she comes through for him when right before merge he convinces her to boot be not booty hitting the merge Christian is reunited with his old pal Mike White while eager to join the old

[00:41:56] school Alliance he's not keen on having him be the writer of this season's story as he'll say in one of his many winning talkie heads there's only one showrunner on Survivor and he's got a blue shirt khakis and a demonstrative amount of Botox so a couple of votes into the individual game Christian will flip joining the new school minded players and getting some revenge eight years in the making one of the early rewards of the pros merge will be some sort of memento from home which makes Christian surprisingly verklempt he opens up to us about the secret he's been harboring

[00:42:26] regarding his newborn child and uses his opportunity and confessional to send a message to his son Michael at the final 10 we get a split tribal twist because there's too many damn people an individual endurance challenge should be Christian speciality and he picks up from where he left off with his filibuster strategy but he ultimately gets outlasted by Ozzy showing this David didn't have the right stones to go up against Goliath with his alliance in the majority in the small group of five Christian talks through a complicated complicated plan of how to blindside

[00:42:54] Rizzo with an idol in pocket but that only winds up sending red flags for Sari who is concerned with his meticulousness and the resume he's building and so she'll flip on him that night proving you can't always beat him with this but you can't always beat him with this true to his efforts to come in and commit narrative warfare Christian will receive the third most confessionals of the season despite the fact he finished in 10th place hope to keep that robot shirt freshly laundered buddy because you're off to Scotland in the next few years his

[00:43:22] ally was Emily and his enemy was Sari yeah that's funny damn damn damn damn that was tough uh first of all can I ask a clarifying question always ultimately what was Christian's placement here 11th very close incredibly close mine was implied that actually I I it was implied that it was 11th what what lines am I reading between right now to show that

[00:43:53] you might be doing some lines if you think that's between the lines here's the thing I thought Liana was about to win but Liana yours was just so safe like very safe his his biggest enemy was himself which was accurate I think his biggest enemy was Jimmy Fallon yeah wasn't meant to be you we'll talk about that in a second I think I think Mike's mention of because like the Sari thing is pretty

[00:44:22] on point it's just the wrong person uh it wasn't Rizzo it was Ozzy so yeah that combined with a 10th place shout I'm not mad at and then also the big a lot of confessionals also a good call um so I'm gonna go with Mike here thank you well let's stay on the Christian boat here as we'll talk about the boat trip that he took so Liana you just alluded to this but uh Christian makes survivor history in more ways than one as I believe he

[00:44:50] becomes the first survivor contestant obviously Jeff probes being the first to show up as a guest on the tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon which is unbelievable because we also need to remind you all this is on a rival network yeah Christian officially crossing the streams here showing up right after he's eliminated on Jimmy Fallon show mm-hmm no it's interesting I mean obviously like it

[00:45:17] in in if you just looked in like a bubble it's like oh yeah no that totally makes sense the crossover event right but then I think with the rival network thing I think that's like what's the most interesting to me although that being said Jimmy Fallon was talking to was it Quentin Brunson uh Quentin Brunson yeah Quentin Brunson who was like yeah so like survivor though so you know I mean clearly he was he's he's allowed to talk about it um it's like a Super Bowl where you're not allowed to

[00:45:46] say the name right yeah so you know it is interesting that um that that could happen but I mean again for like from a Jimmy Fallon and numbers perspective right I mean it makes sense because you're gonna get the survivor fans coming in and checking it out and having some cross-pollination so I think it makes sense from a promotional perspective but yeah that's it's absolutely nuts it also the what Christian said in the episode about what was it I wrote it down uh no more ideas for you this is during when he had to vote for himself during the

[00:46:14] confessional no more ideas for you I look forward to your apology so that was very fun to have that kind of full circle moment all happened within the course of basically 24 hours and I wondered Puyall like oh man why are they letting this show but apparently Jimmy said in his interview that like Jeff had given him the heads up like hey we do have a cut of this episode in which Christian like absolutely like absolutely roasts you alive and Jimmy's like no put it in I love it perfect it's entertaining yeah I mean I think you know we joke about

[00:46:43] these talk show hosts quite a bit um I've definitely had my thoughts on Fallon but I think ultimately they're so used to being joked with messed with roasted that why wouldn't you want that cut on the show um it really he's not gonna make it up he's not gonna mr beast he's not gonna make it appears on the island so this will be the only time he's mentioned might as well have it be in full force not only that now we come back around to the rival network aspect

[00:47:11] of it how juicy is this that you have one of the stars of your season shitting for lack of a better term all over the most prominent late night host of your rival network how many survivor fans yes tuned into Jimmy Fallon to see what Christian had to say but how many more are never going to watch anything he does ever again out of protest like this was a long con is what you're telling me this was planned all along what's that overlap look like though all 12 people

[00:47:41] that fell into that category more than there would never exactly exactly that's that's why they had to take him off the air because he was too brave to not put this type of twist in the game I mean if you haven't seen the interview that Christian does with Jimmy I very much recommend you check it out it's on YouTube it's like six minutes long and all I'm out to do is do you be like Christian I'm so sorry the way was it supposed to be you and Chris like oh well it's it's fine Jimmy yes I I blamed you for the Titanic and the Hindenburg so I once again I'm saying

[00:48:10] editors why are we leaving unedited Christian who bicky material on the cutting room floor for a second season in a row give us this cut people two scenes is now I've been asking I also have one more thing Mr. Fallon now we have certainly listen embroiled the twist whether or not he was involved in it but I will also say Jimmy Fallon this was entertaining and this was unique do not come for my gig sir there is a select few amount of people who can talk to

[00:48:40] these players when they are eliminated and ask them question okay you are you are an ocean I am a puddle of a dweeb of a man and you have the audacity to say I'm gonna do an exit interview with Christian you right here right now I'm scaring all of our hard work that me and the rest of the press corps are doing you scooped me Fallon yes scooped me and look maybe we have stolen your idea for a concept of a

[00:49:09] show that focuses more so on games but we are much smaller potatoes sir you are lays and you are lazy yes so listen and I appreciate the unique aspect but never again sir you are on my hit list okay first of all we have an we have a beef now Mike the B&B has a beef with Jimmy Fallon front and center put it on the thumbnail the B&B that's right exactly

[00:49:36] screw you Jimmy Fallon let's let's do it boo and also I ripped off wait wait don't tell me when we were coming up with the idea for the B&B it wasn't even based on your stupid show anyway so shut up there we go yeah yeah feed the flames I feel uncomfortable with this Liana's giving me big let me Adam energy right now I'm like Aubrey let me I'm just heating up let me Adam all right episode I'm gonna be in control

[00:50:05] because people underestimate me proceeds to do nothing and not even speak at tribal okay well I'm gonna let you have them this episode and by um I mean our game of the week now I will admit this comes from one of our incredible listeners of the B&B who said this to me this is from Mayel and she sent me a very fitting game as we bid adieu to America's

[00:50:31] favorite robot assist it's a game called survivor capture oh the picture I'm using is uh the blinking you miss it moment where Rizzo's voting for Christian and he's trying to do the robot I think or maybe he broke his arm during one of his many mouths he's trying oh he looks so sad so here's how this is going to work if you don't know what capture is or as John Mulaney colloquially refers to it the robot test I'm going to give

[00:51:01] each of you will go back and forth a series of nine images now an assortment of these images are checked off and so you have to figure out essentially what is the thing they have in common so if you were doing a capture to try to access a website the prompt would be check all the you know the players that are blank or that have blank and so you have to fill in that blank the person will get one guess and then I'll give the other person an attempt to steal the answer if they get it

[00:51:28] okay okay perfect I am notoriously bad at these and actually they kind of stress me out because I I hate it when it's like identify all the motorcycles and then there's one where it's like right on the edge and a little bit of the wheel is in the next one and I'm like well technically the motorcycle is in that one but should I check it or not so I'm I'm looking forward to this game stressing me out let's do it all right nothing good like the stressful stuff Leona we'll start with you keep that heart rate high so here is the first one and I apologize profusely for

[00:51:57] those who are listening along to this podcast I will try to put this up at I will say bit.ly slash survivor robot because captcha is a little complicated to spell so you can follow along here so select all the squares with a survivor who blank and your images are describe them for the listeners at home we have Tony Blackos Savannah Louie Rick Devins Angelina Keely sorry fields Rupert Bonham Brian Hyde given the middle finger Jenna and Heidi and Natalie Anderson

[00:52:30] wait wait wait okay wait wait hold on is it about the players it could be about the players okay I'm gonna say that the answer is these are all the things that these have in common are all players on survivor 50 damn it you're off to a good start that is correct okay all right I severely misinterpreted uh the start of this game and I was like okay they're all looking off to the side wait no multiple people are looking off to the side yeah I would say I would say the visual isn't like the visual can help

[00:53:00] sometimes but it's not the end-all be-all it's mostly about like their survivor careers I figured that out now I thought that would have been embarrassing okay great all right off to a rollicking start here Pooja let's see if you can match her select all the squares with a survivor who blank we have Aubrey Bracco the aforementioned Gary Hogan Boom Hawkins we have Shan Smith Fabio from Nicaragua we've got James Clement West Snail Kelly Wentworth Russell Hans Hagrid himself and Andrea Belke this

[00:53:29] isn't fair Liana got a layup one compared to this she showed a lot of anxiety around it I need to quell that listen I can also show anxiety if need be um no that's not it oh I'm annoyed I'm really annoyed right now I'm not gonna lie to you uh they've all had idols the problem is here's

[00:53:57] Russell holding one also so I don't love that you know I hate to say this I genuinely don't know so I'm gonna have to just give up on this one well you give a guess anyway it doesn't hurt you I don't okay uh people who use multiple idols that is incorrect Liana you have a chance to steal okay well that's what I was thinking too so I wanted him to rule something out for me because I don't know either um I'm

[00:54:25] gonna say play uh uh mmm got voted out with idols Liana is correct yes so yeah you were so close I nearly said that too but I just couldn't remember the one that I couldn't remember was um was Wentworth yeah Wentworth and Aubrey both voted out with idols in Edge of Extinction I remember Aubrey's I did not remember Wentworth going out with an idol well because I always think of her play in second chances right so I

[00:54:52] always think of yeah I don't think of yeah yeah yeah okay yeah because everyone else I should have gone with in Edge of Extinction either I mean none of us do all right Liana off to a lead with two but listen the game is still young oh young Rizzo still got time stretch your legs here we go at number three we've got Yao Man Sean Rector Chris Doherty Lydia Morales from Guatemala Ian Rosenberger Lex Vandenberg Terry Beats Chet from

[00:55:22] Survivor Micronesia and Eliza and Jason something about fake idols made fake idols had fake idols that's your guess yes unfortunately that is incorrect Sean Rector does not know what an idol is uh Pooja do you have a guess no this is a hard game and so many were there's only three people that are not do you want to work together on this

[00:55:51] one yes okay talk it out okay so what's interesting is a combination so this is what got me with the why I just guess fake idols off the bat was because the it's an effing stick right like it was very purposefully chosen though like both of them right I will say um this one refers more so to Eliza than Jason oh so it's just Eliza yes so why is Jason there what does that change anything for you

[00:56:20] Liana does it yeah well yeah well no because it could it could imply that it's like yes it's Eliza but it's in this particular moment you know what I mean I just know I just know there's a fan screaming right now because I could have killed this game these two have no idea what's going on because I deal with that every week it's fine you get over it swap screwed is that your final answer Pooja you have any guesses I'll back her on that sure all right the two of you are riding side styles together or should I say

[00:56:49] passenger and driver because uh real fans remember back in the days when survivor offered a car as a reward and these are all people who won the car reward Yao Man Sean Ian Terry and Eliza I have no memory of Eliza winning a car like she went in Vanuatu zero memory of that I barely remember what car we have in our garage let alone that's more of a youth problem yeah no for sure for sure

[00:57:16] all right let's let's really like collaborating is you know in our form that is lost to time so let's try to have you two continue to work in unanimity moving forward Mike said Pooja needs to be carried Liana help him he has no idea what's going on all right next up same we've got where's Davey he's our first square we've got uh Rizzo and Sophie Belaherty we've got Rick and Sophie Clark we've got Sophie Segretti aka yellow Sophie we've got Anna Kadar

[00:57:43] we've got Wilson's the second flopping like a fish we got big Tom's big old butt crack in Africa we've got Don Meehan and we got Blam Stacey Powell uh may I is it just Sophie there there are three Sophie's all squares of the survivor who is Sophie yeah who Sophie and you thought this was impossible look at this well Mike I will argue that this would have been Liana's if we did not add the collaboration thing and I would have crashed out so I'm happy we're a team now

[00:58:12] I mean this does actually feel like one of those captures though right of like click on every square who is Sophie yeah that I could do I could do that one all right next up we've got coach Benjamin Wade Joe Hunter we've got Spencer and Stephen Fishback we've got Colby Donaldson John Cochran Sandra Diaz-Twine JT Thomas Philip Shepard and Sierra Reed from Token Machines wait which one is the

[00:58:39] is it supposed to be Spencer or Stephen or both I will say it is Stephen Stephen okay oh look at him smiling look how happy he looks uh okay so uh men they're all men which would be correct um except Philip I suppose would be excluded from that hashtag not all men hashtag not all men yes um let's see

[00:59:06] losing finalists no because uh Cochran has not been a losing fan I thought I was going that direction initially too neither is JT for the record um correct yes yeah let's see nope they've only played twice so it's not bad he's only played twice yeah I'm you want me to give you a hint yeah a hint would be lovely think about the connection that the top two squares have on this season

[00:59:34] by top two do you mean coach and Joe that's correct loyalty and integrity uh take a little bit more opaque a little bit more abstract nicknames that is correct everyone on this who got a check has received oh my god gave himself a nickname okay Joe received the nickname Stephen of course is the wizard Colby Doninson of course the oakbound warrior Cochran I'm trying to remember who caught what

[01:00:01] Cochran was but Cochran definitely got a nickname JT of course the warrior everybody else left with bupkis well I guess I don't know if this might be false because Sierra was technically like referred to as the dragon but I don't know if that's like an outright nickname from well I guess Brendan was the dragon and she was the dragon's maiden I believe it's what he referred to her as yeah yeah but that yeah I guess that could count I guess it depends on where you draw the line I feel like it's like

[01:00:24] a coach's alliance members that received a nickname yeah yeah all right next up we've got Charlie and Maria we've got our own boy Rob Cesternino we've got Parvati I will say Parvati specifically out of her Eric and Natalie we've got Tyson we've got Corinne Kaplan we've got Vince Sly the truth-seeking coconut vendor from worlds apart John Lovett first boot from Survivor 47 we've got Brandon and Edna from South

[01:00:54] Pacific and we have Jamal from Island of the Idols um I'm focusing it on John right because to me it's like we've got the least amount of content from John right so what did John do in his one episode that has all these people have podcasts all these people have podcasts the only one I'm a little bit lost on is the top right but I'm pretty sure Parvati also had a podcast um or has a podcast so yeah I think that's the one yep I think you nailed it you disparage yourself Pouya but look who is two for two

[01:01:23] right now yeah it's me so yeah so we obviously have Charlie doing on fire the official podcast may rest in peace Rob duh yeah Parvati I think she did dabbles nice girls don't win like the podcast Tyson of course the pod has spoken Corinne now she did you know her own podcast as well as I don't know if you count what she's doing with Brittany Haynes on her Patreon as a podcast don't love it duh everyone else unfortunately left out in the cold though Brandon Hanson a podcast would be um

[01:01:52] a great one episode of a podcast yes exactly that pilot if you will cancel pilot before that plane crashes all right next up ah we have John Johnny Fairplay and during the infamous dead grandma lie we have Andy licking a ball we've got Stephen Fishback in confessional we've got Joe and Eva passionately embracing during an incredibly vulnerable moment we have Sage rolling her eyes hugging

[01:02:22] Shannon like Rick and Joe were in this episode we have coach on exile we have Sierra voting out her mom we have of course a legendary quitter Hannah from survivor 45 and we have Samhar from survivor South Pacific ah she just wanted her vape oh maybe that's what it should have been you have to vote out your mom you can't vote out yourself you're forced to vote out your family member we'll invite one of them here and you have to vote them out yes uh okay so my initial idea is I've got no idea

[01:02:52] so um I'm open to any and all uh possible options um do Stephen and Ozzy have any link in any season no correct that is correct yeah so then that's out the window oh you're thinking like people who played with Ozzy yeah or something of the kind uh but I don't think that's the case

[01:03:16] hmm oh oh yeah is it like a literature thing uh ish like the one does haikus one does poem one does stories like is that what we're going for here I'll go with the ish here lean heavily on it because they all graced us with the poetry reading there we go home during a rainy day of course coaches poems and haikus and Samhar you always remember my man my boo one of the things that uh sent her out of the

[01:03:45] game all right only a few left here but listen horde game you guys are knocking it out of the park at this point next up we've got Jeff Probst I think this is when he was rapping we've got Xander we've got a picture of the final three from Borneo during hands on a heart idol we've got Jerry Mancy

[01:04:07] Zach Brown Vesepria Tauri once again Parvati Shallow Tom Hanks from Castaway with a buff on his arm and a very tight shot on Saul from season 47 an icon is it like okay I'm not this is not an answer for Mike Pouya this is to you okay for like creating is it like yeah side chatter this is side chatter is it like

[01:04:34] people on an island who didn't compete in survivor who are not survivor players yes that's exactly what it has to be um because who weren't castaways so I've not watched I've not watched uh that movie is he is he about to sing in that because then we could go with because like that top left looks like Jeff rapping so yeah I mean there was actually a big sequence in Robert Zemeckis's film where Tom

[01:05:02] Hanks it's pouring down on him he's at his limit he just performed a root canal on himself with like a blunt instrument and he performs singing in the rain to Wilson his beloved volleyball while kicking puddles around it's an absolute delight you know I know what have sufficed Mike uh but but I'll take that yeah I think it's it's people who have not played survivor that is correct not actually a survivor player despite Zach Brown getting confessionals and Jeff Rose competing in a immunity challenge true

[01:05:32] true true true Tom Hanks make it through for three so I'm just saying you could sing well we can add Mr. Beast to the list too after next true super beware advantage all right next up you don't have to super beware this answer select all the squares with the survivor who blank we have Malcolm Freeberg we got Boston Rob about to toss a clue into a volcano we've got Shambo Ozzy's predecessor in the hair department Cass McClellan Grace we have one of the most iconic survivor gifts in recent memory with Corinne

[01:05:59] Maddie and Sugar reacting to Marcus getting voted out in Gabon we have Austin from Survivor Pearl Islands we have Ty Trang with Mark the Chicken we have Billy Garcia declaring his love to Candace from Roro Tribe in Survivor Cook Islands and we have Christian shitting his pants um is it like okay I'm this not again this is a tapuja not to Mike is this like had an altercation with an a bird like an interaction with a bird in some capacity because Shambo had the whole thing

[01:06:28] with the chickens and then Austin with the pelican and then obviously Mark the Chicken with Ty I don't know how to phrase that has anyone else got any bird bird bird I don't think so I don't think there's bird beef there just call that chicken the b&b bird and beef um yeah I don't I don't think so I'm down to run that because I can't think of alternatively what it could be all right answer is birds your answer is birds Omer Zaheer woke up from a deep sleep and sweating on his face with the

[01:06:57] word being mentioned on this podcast and it was a correct premonition had a plot line with a bird first we have Austin and Pelican Pete tied with Mark the Chicken that was an easy giveaway and yeah people forget about Shambo and the dream she had with the chicken also like her storyline of talking with the chickens yes I that's why I love that I love that so much all right final one here you do you two have done incredibly well so you can end on a success or uh and a little bit of a letdown here

[01:07:26] our final category Tiffany Irvin check Karishma Patel check Lauren Ashley Beck check Kenzie Petty check Hugh Burdette check Stephanie LaGrosa Kendrick check Tommy Sheehan check Camilla Kartigaisu check and nothing for Liz Wilcox uh people who got to experience apple bees

[01:07:53] an answer more easy to swallow than a delicious gummy shark bowl that is correct went on an apple bees reward p p l e b e s no om cheeseburger we still have to try it foo ya you you look disgusted every time you see that I hate that thing I don't even know what it looks like in person and I never want to see it oh yeah we brought I brought that into a game I think

[01:08:20] that was the reason I knew it was related to apple bees because it was the om cheeseburger and you were like what is this because you had googled like weird apple bees foods or something like that all right well congratulations to you both listen if anything it's proven that you are the rhap power couple it is your fact that you were able to figure out captchas together identify the robots from the real deal and the two of you are demonstrably the real deal today we did it pooh ya

[01:08:49] I will take that yeah I challenge any other couple to step up and and yeah all right this is a challenge for you now it wouldn't make sense to give this to people after they played the game and know the answers but find a survivor loving couple you know in your life and give this game to them again bit.ly slash survivor robot give them the quiz this is like the newlywed game now yeah this is the true test of compatibility

[01:09:16] yep can you work together to solve the captchas I will say I saw the little snippet like we're in the call right so I see the little snippet underneath of the slideshow you're about to present and I had seen survivor captcha I assumed it was going to be a game based on the scribble that Joe put of Christian's name and I thought you were about to give us like voting uh voting cards of seasons past and we'd have to decipher whose name that is I think that's what we were about to do.

[01:09:42] Unfortunately things are not like as undecipherable you know we've done a category before that was all the way back in the early days of the B&B that was like incorrect vote of voting vote or like Starbucks cup name in terms of misspelling. Wow wordy yeah wordy title. We're still working on titles back then. Who was it that constantly spelled people's names wrong? Uh Ralph from Ralph was a big one Sue Hawk was another big one. Yes we've definitely done the Sue Hawk. Very first vote she cast it was Persona.

[01:10:10] Traitors has made a whole like thing out of this uh it's become a plot line for the traitors now. I'd be remiss to ask you Pooja going back to my prediction here do you think Christian will be on the traitors? Do you want to see Christian on the traitors? Uh the man just went on Fallon. I think Christian will be on our screens in a Scottish castle soon come it's just a matter of how soon.

[01:10:35] Now we saw unfortunately what happened to our lovely Rob Cessarino. Do you feel the anti-gamer bias might come for him as well? I feel like in a room of people who don't know him he'll be very disarming and underestimated which I think would be great. The problem is he was just on television very prominently. So I think that kind of goes away a little bit but I think again when you know we've all had interactions with Christian in person he's so disarming in person you forget that this

[01:11:05] is probably one of the most intelligent people you've ever had the chance of speaking to. So also depends on which season because I would say that coming into next season I don't think I'd be as worried for the quote-unquote gamers as I would as for four and then that means I'll probably be for six maybe even seasons you don't want to be a gamer odd seasons be a gamer. Maybe that's what we're headed for. Odd seasons is okay to be odd. Pendulum swings. Yeah yeah yeah. No I would love I mean you know Christian to me is just is very entertaining.

[01:11:32] I know some people maybe got a little bit over the shtick this season but I think he's just such a fun confessionalist and I personally would be happy to see him back on any reality TV. Well speaking of exchanging one master of shtick for another next week here he comes over the hill. Mr. Beast has arrived. It's a two-hour episode now notably if we want to go into I try to do the Christian math on my end.

[01:11:59] If we want to go into the finale with six people we still have to do one more episode where multiple people go home. It's a two-hour episode. I'd like to hope that they get rid of two people here. If we are truly dedicating an extra 30 minutes of television to Mr. Beast appearing with a briefcase on our screens. There may be a little bit of accusations of losing the plot if we haven't gotten there already.

[01:12:23] Yeah especially coming on the heels of the whole Jimmy Fallon thing right like like I think we're now far enough removed from the Zach Brown of it all that at least like that we've kind of forgotten about. Let me ask you a question who's gonna end up having more confessionals this season Zach Brown or Mr. Beast.

[01:12:40] I don't think because Zach Brown thing was a big experiential thing right the only thing I can think of is and I'm trying to think about okay if we're doing extended runtime could this super beware advantage be like okay so and so you know you got this item come with me to the corner of the jungle for a secret special challenge. And maybe that's where we get a little bit of talking head from but I feel like he's such a public facing figure both in real life as well as here that like I don't think we're getting as intimate with Mr. Beast as we are with Zach Brown to warrant those confessionals.

[01:13:11] Yeah I would imagine that as well and I think going off of the Beast Games collab that happened like it didn't really like it was yeah it was definitely a different energy.

[01:13:19] It was like two leader hosts coming together and like operating in a host capacity whereas Zach Brown clearly felt like almost a loved one like it was like a loved one's visit type energy not like like he was very clearly a guest instead of more of an I don't want to say an equal but like certainly you know Mr. Beast being the host sort of role. So yeah I think it's gonna be interesting to see how it goes.

[01:13:44] I think given the fact that it is two hours I'm very curious to see how the breakup is gonna or what the breakdown of the timing is gonna look like. Breakup. Whether or not I mean who knows. But yeah I'm I'm look I'm intrigued. Yeah. I'm gonna watch. Am I gonna be mad? Who knows? We're gonna have stuff to talk about no matter what. And again even in episodes where we we don't like some stuff that happened there were still again what I thought was a really fun first half of.

[01:14:11] This episode so we're gonna milk every sense of enjoyment we can from this season knowing that you know it'll be the last time we see these people for a while maybe the last returning season we see for a while. So hope you all enjoyed this podcast as we broke down the good and not so good things about this episode. Who are of course as we finish things up I leave things in your capable hands to highlight a charity or cause that is important to you to give to the listeners this week. In the hands of the me. I listen. Mike you said in the stink this episode.

[01:14:40] I don't want to see that reaction from you. In the stink of the fans. Okay. You know some of these twists make me feel that way. Anyway here's the thing. I'm going with a charity that is looking to provide food and mostly focus on feeding America. So that's what we're gonna do here. It's feeding America dot org. And of course Emily Flippen do not speak up about if it's too much food that you're giving. Okay. No food is too small. No food is too big.

[01:15:09] Yeah. She would be out there being like you can't donate that much rice. Shut up Emily. Oh my God. Let them eat the rice. Of course if you have not realized how compatible Pouya and Liana are with their tag team effort on this game. Check out the Pouya and Liana lounge. A weekly check in involving these two. But everything that's going on in their neck of the woods. Pouya anything else you'd like to plug from the podcast sphere? Aside from the lounge I'm talking 90 day. We're about to hit the tell all season. The season just wrapped up.

[01:15:39] Myself and Kirsten talked about the last three episodes on this latest podcast. And so then we'll see where we go from there with the 90 day franchise. All right. Of course check out my chat with Christian. Very fun time. Of course went into his own perspective as to how screwed he felt he was by the twist. His perspective on Emily flipping her gums with spilling his secrets. It's why he ended up telling Sari he was targeting Ozzy. And so on and so forth over on Prey. As well as a myriad of other things we have going on.

[01:16:08] Australian Survivor deep dives are continuing. But of course if you have any games like the great one that Mayel was able to provide. Feel free to reach out to us. RHAPBNB at gmail.com or hashtag RHAPBNB on social media. Special thanks to everyone behind the scenes at RHAP for packaging this podcast for your eyes and ears. And Wolf of America for his fantastic theme song more melodious than the grunts of Jeff Probst as he drops that bucket.

[01:16:34] Liana will be back next week covering this two hour Mr. Beast extravaganza of Survivor 50. Until then everybody we'll check you out at your next day. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.