RHAP: We Know Survivor - Kaôh F***ing Rong Rewatch Ep 6

Episode Date: June 19, 2026

Kaôh F***ing Rong Rewatch Ep 6 Survivor: Kaôh F***ing Rong is back and Rob Cesternino and Chappell are diving into episode 6 of Survivor: Kaôh R?ng—where strategy goes sideways, trust gets tested, and a vote at Tribal Council makes reality TV history. This week, it all comes down to Dr. Peter’s game: can he scramble out of the Brains alliance hot seat, or does his flip-flopping seal his fate? Aubry Bracco faces her biggest test yet, making a last-second, pen-scratching decision that could change her game. Rob and Chappell break down the drama-packed dynamics on the Gondol tribe, where a supposed numbers advantage gets exposed as wishful thinking. The discussion highlights how Peter tries conspicuously (and clumsily) to flip, only to get caught in his own web of strategy and social misreads. Aubry’s decision to cross out Julia’s name for Peter at Tribal becomes Survivor legend, and the hosts dig into the rare possibility of a pre-merge rock draw, noting how the show doesn’t mention the tie-breaker at all. Meanwhile, on the other tribe, Michele quietly shows her social chops, and Debbie continues to steal scenes. Key moments and must-listen insights include: – Aubry’s history-making, crossed-out Tribal Council vote and what drives her sudden change of heart – Dr. Peter’s disastrous attempt to go rogue and how his blunt honesty and lack of subtlety cost him – Joe Del Campo’s tough-love approach: interrogating Peter, risking both their games, and never quite letting go of the plan – Julia’s slick social game after Exile Island—returning to improved positioning while flying under the radar – The ongoing Kao?h Ro?ng infection mystery, with some wild (and hilarious) speculation about Dr. Peter’s medical care This episode leaves big questions about Aubry’s future, the strength of the Brains, and what really mattered most at that crucial Tribal. How will the merge shake things up with numbers so even and trust so fragile? Tune in to Survivor: Kaôh F***ing Rong for every twist, fumble, and crossed-out vote from episode 6! Chapters: 0:00 Survivor: Kaôh R?ng Episode 6 Recap Begins 1:11 Aubry, Joe, and Peter’s Strategy Dilemma 2:55 Brains Tribe Faces Potential Tie 4:46 Peter’s Missed Flip Opportunity 6:07 Joe and Peter’s Dramatic Confrontation 8:04 Aubry Crosses Out Julia’s Name 9:43 Aubry’s First Major Survivor Moment 12:11 Tribal Council Plans and Tie Break Rules 16:26 Dr. Peter: Villain or Victim? 18:00 Peter’s Alleged Role in Tribe Infections 26:18 Julia Returns, Gains Tribe Power 30:04 Basketball and Stacking Block Challenges 36:00 Debbie Flirts, Nick and Michele Strategize 39:39 Michele Proves Her Social Game 44:14 Episode Title “Play or Go Home” Explained To order Rob’s book, The Tribe and I Have Spoken, visit www.robhasabook.com Never miss a minute of RHAP’s extensive Survivor coverage! LISTEN: Subscribe to the Survivor podcast feed WATCH:  Watch and subscribe to the podcast on YouTube SUPPORT:  Become a RHAP Patron for bonus content, access to Facebook and Discord groups plus more great perks!

Hey, everybody, what's going on? Rob, Susicrin, and we are back, and we are here for more Survivor. Co. Effing, wrong. And tonight we're talking about episode number six, a huge episode in the overall arc of one, Aubrey Brocko. And I can't wait to get into it here with Chappelle. Chappelle, how are you? I'm good.

Every time we come here to talk about Co-wrong, I'm very good. Rob, the episodes have started to drop on. YouTube and the people are now, like, we're finally getting the feedback, you know, for the people who aren't paying attention. We've been recording these a little early. And so I didn't know how people were going to take the Co-Rong rewatch. But it seems like people are enjoying it. And I'm enjoying seeing people enjoy it. Yeah. It's been a great response so far. And we're so excited everybody is having fun. And we're closing out the premurge here tonight, talking about this big episode where a lot of strategy going on here in this last episode. before we get to our merge. And it all hinges on Dr. Peter. Which is wild. I'm very confused about what's going on here on this. Is it Gondole tribe?

So, yeah, you have to explain it to me like I'm five years old. If I can. Yeah, I'm very confused because Peter here is obviously trying to flip something that he should be doing. You know, he's at the bottom of his brains alliance and they will vote him out. I mean, they do vote him out in this episode. So it's not a bad move. But I think he's so overt about it that they catch on and they just like, you know, just cut bait.

But the fact of this was an unsuccessful flip on his part is just fascinating to me. This should have been so easy. I just, how did he fumble this? How did they fumble this? Yeah. Well, it seems like that they didn't have a great plan also. But it doesn't really seem like that that was a huge part of Aubrey's decision, at least not in the text of what we saw in the episode.

that if for anybody needs a refresher. So we have Julia Sokolowski who came in for Anna Kate to this new tribe alongside there's Scott Pollard and there's Thai. But there's also three people from the original Brains tribe in Peter and Joe and Aubrey. And so for Aubrey, she's like, hey, we've got three. We're going to dictate what's going on here. And I'm not sure if they thought maybe that we'd pull in Julia or what, but that they felt like, we have three. We're good. but three into six is not necessarily a sure thing

and that they just felt very good about, okay, if we stick together, we got this and they're ultimately going to go into a plan where I guess they think that they have the three brains sticking together, but it's going to be a tie. Right. Is it, because the show doesn't,

like you said, the text does not address it. This is a season where we had a tie vote, the very first vote, so I know they can address it. But this time around, they're making it seems like the brains have the numbers because they are all from the same brain tribe. But like you said, it's three versus three. It's three brains versus three non brains. And if this is the new era, these brains are cooked.

You know, they're going to come in and the two other sides are going to link up together and try to eat the bigger side here. And so you would just imagine that, okay, at the very least, they're tied. And then Peter Bagginsstoss has been at the bottom of that alliance. So naturally, he should flip, go with them. they take out the brains. He's the last surviving brain, get to the merge. It's a new game for him. I don't know why the show

doesn't even address that at best the brains are proposing a tie vote. I don't understand what they're doing. I would imagine that they had some assurance, maybe Scott Pollard they thought was going to vote with them, and the plan was, hey, we're just ganging up on the beauties and we're taking out now Julia, or they thought maybe Ty was going to vote with them.

Yeah, but how? You know, like we don't ever see, like we don't see a relationship between Aubrey. Matter of fact, they kind of won Aubrey out. You know, so we don't see a relationship between Aubrey and Ty at this point, or Aubrey and Scott, you know, Aubrey and Julia, we don't really see that. And so the fact that the brains are walking around with two and a half brains

and being like, yeah, so we're going to dictate how this is going. And the other tribe, well, the other three people just kind of seemingly taking it, it's very, it's very fascinating to watch. Also fascinating to watch. Peter Bagginsoss, you could, if you was going to flip, you could have to flip last round. Like, you didn't have to wait for this. Yeah, that would have been the move, I think, when you had the advantage to be able to do that and go with Anna and Ty and Scott and vote out Joe or Aubrey last time.

Yeah, I mean, I guess he doesn't, like, I guess if you bought out Joe or Aubrey last time, Anna Kate comes back. And then they can just vote you out. So I guess that's a worse position because Anna Kate will... But Joe's still there. Or Aubrey is still there. I mean, yeah, but it's either you or them. And Peter doesn't have the best social game.

So I think if there's a coin toss, I think he loses most times. I mean, he beat Liz Markham in the coin toss, but I think that came down the tribe strength. I think at this point nobody cares about tribe strength. They know these tribes are temporary at best. So I just don't know how he ended up in this spot where the obvious choice is to flip. He does flip. Like, he essentially flips. Joe scolds him for flipping, so then he unflips because, damn, I got caught flipping. And now he has somehow voted out. It's like they killed the

hostage, but he didn't even, he wasn't even really a hostage. He was free. He was free to go. I just don't understand how he ended up diving back in front of the bullet. The whole episode is crazy. And I want to go through it in greater detail, but we have a scenario where earlier in the episode, Joe wants nothing to do with Peter. That's it. Peter is gone. And Aubrey talks sense into Joe. He's a Joe, we need him.

We need him. We have to keep him around. And then ultimately, Joe and Peter get into a big confrontation. Would love to talk that through. And then eventually they come around that they make amends. And then Aubrey is like, fine. I'll vote out Peter. Let's do it.

Joe's like, we can't change the plan. that's it. We got to, we got worried, listen, you can't just change that late in the game. Stick to the plan. Is it bad that I'm Team Joe in this conversation? Now look, the first half, what Joe is doing is insane, right? You know Peter's going around throwing your name out

and your tactic, your social game says, I should go confront him and scold him because that will definitely stop him from flipping. Somehow it does stop him from flipping. But it shouldn't. It shouldn't. If you come and tell me, like, I heard you were saying my name behind my back. What's going on? I'm like, no, what are you talking about? Blah, blah, blah. And immediately, I am writing your name now no matter what, because you're on to me. So, Joe, question mark, question mark, what are you doing? But then they lose a challenge and Joe realizes, oh, that's why that was dumb. We need him. We don't have the numbers. There's only two of us. We're not in control. Let me go make amends. He does it successfully, which is more power to him, but only for Aubrey to hear. her name come up and be like, well, that's over with. You know, like, it was all fun and games where he wanted you out, Joe.

But Julia and Scott said he wants me out, and we don't play like that. And so, yeah, Peter ends up back in the crosshairs. And it looked like the show at least presented, like Scott goes to Peter and's like, hey, here's your chance. Let's go make a thing. And he's like, no, I think we're just going to vote out, Julia, this time. We don't really have to. We ain't got to get into that.

No worries. He's back to his old Peter back and stuff. nonsense. Yeah. And then the thing that is probably the most famous thing about this episode is that we see Aubrey go up and Aubrey votes for Julia. And then when we see Jeff turn over the last vote, the Julia has been crossed out and the name is just Pete. First time this has ever happened, right? I believe so. I believe so. This was the first time. Has it happened since. I feel like it's happens. Did baby Andy write down somebody's name and cross it out? I don't know what I feel is like a baby Andy thing. Yeah, I'm sure the comments are going to be

pouring in. I think that we're definitely going to get some, the updated times that this has happened. It was not redacted. It was not scribbled out. It was that Aubrey did not like rip the Julia part out and then just hand in a card that It's Peter. You know, I bet. Because it looked like Aubrey took forever back there. I bet she wrote it down and then she called one of the producers that were like, hey, hey, I need a new paper. And they were like, no, ma'am.

No, we don't do that. I don't know where you thought you were, but we're not doing that. This is tough. Yeah, she really didn't have a choice because even as she just flipped it over and like scribbled it out and flipped it over, Jeff would have still showed that. He would have still been like. Yeah. Peter, you're the next person voted out,

but he would have made sure you saw that somebody else was written down. There was nothing she could do once she took the toothpaste out of the tube, she wasn't putting it back in. It's a great dramatic moment. It ends up being really the first true time that Aubrey is like really square in the center of the drama.

She has the panic attack in episode one. That's kind of what she's probably known for to this point. But this is the first, true big moment for her on Survivor. Yeah, you know it's bad because Joe is the ones who's telling her, like, hey, is this neurotic stuff you got going on? Like, I get it. You're anxious, but like, get it together.

Come on. Get like, focus. She's like, yeah, yeah, you're right. But in her mind, she's in there about to write Julia's name down, knowing that it's going to a tie at best. She does not have the numbers. I don't know why she's writing Julia's name down in the first place. She knows she doesn't have the number.

Who does she think is voting with her? Because in my mind, if you vote for Julia and they vote for Peter, it's going to tie, and Peter is going to be safe, and Julia is going to be safe. So your targets, you won't even get them out. You're going to get the people that you are allegedly working with on the chopping block. This entire plan is flowed, and I'm really shocked that Aubrey is, like, she evolves into such a good survivor player, I think. But I think right now, I really is not a great survivor player. I think to this episode was probably her low point for me.

It is hot, you know, hard to think clearly in terms of what's going on and that she's hearing her name. She ultimately makes the right decision. It just like she arrives at the right decision about like two minutes too late. Right. And it's just it doesn't. And there is a better decision. You know, the better decision is, hey, guys, why don't we go?

and try to win one of those people over to our side, but we never see that. And so because that's not an option, it's do we ride or die for Peter who's going to throw us under the bus, or do we just vote him out because we don't like him and he's going to throw us under the bus?

Like, it's not that hard. Like, I just don't understand how she got in her head about this so much. And maybe it's because Joe is kind of putting his foot down, like, we don't change the vote right now. You know, like we're not doing that. Because she doesn't let him in on it. She flips without him.

And I think from this moment on, they will be a lockstep. But if I'm Joe, I'm looking at her totally crazy. You could at least tell me that you weren't going to come with the plan. Like, I know you didn't want to, but at least tell me I'm going to be out on the island here. I don't think that Joe isn't on the Debbie vote. I think that there's going to be a point where they end up diverting later on in the game. But it's a weird tribal council, too, where we're talking about everybody's feelings and gut feelings, and eventually,

what ends up happening that Scott Pollard ends up calling out, like, hey, all right, it's the original plan? I think that maybe, maybe Scott and the crew were like, let's just vote for Peter and just, like, kind of just, you know, eat him, you know, and just be done with it. And I think there was another part of them that was, like, wanted Aubrey out. I think Aubrey was the original target, but they were like, there's no way.

Like, Peter's not coming with us, right? I think once they realized that Peter had already like, all right, he's solid with the brains. Joe's, we're never going to get Joe. So we have to stick to this and just go to Ty and see what happens. Scott and Ty both have idols, question mark. Jason has the other idol. Jason has the idol. Ty having an idol here makes this very interesting to me because in my mind, I know that

Ty doesn't want to go home with an idol in his pocket. You know, that's kind of his thing. But I think this is as good a time as ever to play one. You know, like if you're potentially got to go to rocks, you know, being immune right now wouldn't be crazy. I don't think Ty is thinking it through like that with all due respect to Ty. Because just to talk through the tie break scenario here, so they're putting three votes on Peter and three votes on Julia. They'll be safe. And then it's rare to have the pre-merge rock draw.

I do think that somebody would flip before we went to rocks, right? I think Aubrey flips before we go to rocks. Aubrey and Joe flip on Peter before they go to rocks. Peter is dead. Peter is dead. That's why I don't understand the point of this. You're going to flip on him anyway. Why did you write Julia's name down?

Maybe they thought the other, like Scott and Ty would flip on Julia first, which is actually crazy. Do we think Joe Del Campo knows the tie break rules? I think Aubrey would have told him even if he didn't know the rules I think Aubrey's like all right all right Joe here's what happens if we time because again the show does not address

that this is a tie the entire time they never once say we could go to rocks or what are we going to do if it ties or do you think we can get somebody to flip it never comes up

in the narrative at all such a weird production choice for them to not even frame it like that yeah but I have to assume Aubrey at least said out loud so we don't have the votes

to it. Like, we don't have the phone. Like, we're three, right? What are we going to do? What are we going to do if everybody just does the right thing here? Then what? Yeah. It's such a great reveal, ultimately, when Jeff holds up the card, and it's Julia crossed out,

and then Pete. We never heard him referred to as Pete, right? I think someone had called him Pete before, but, yeah, this was the fall of Pete of Bagginsstoss, and I really enjoyed him as a survivor character this time around. Yeah. I didn't realize what we had in the moment. Chappelle, he's good. Was Dr. Peter a villain?

Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. But he wasn't the villain, right? Because you got Scott and Jason there are like on that other level, you know. But Peter is a villain. He would be perfectly, like, if he goes further in the game, there's no way he doesn't get just like some dastardly at it. I could see him losing in Final Tribal Council because everybody hates him. you know, kind of Albert adjacent, you know, where it's like, use car salesman kind of like squirmie.

Like he's not going to, he's self-interested, but he's also a little cowardice as well. Like, you know, he's like, I'm going to flip. And then you catch him. He's like, oh, damn, you got me. You know, and that's kind of his vibe. He's like, he doesn't go full rat, but you can tell he wants to so bad. And so, yeah, I think we were robbed of a bag and star. kind of return to survivor, that would have been fun.

He seems like not able to go through with any type of deceit. It seems like that it falls apart before he's able to pull off any of these plans. Like he seems like he wants to. And then he doesn't end up going through ultimately with turning on people. I don't want to call this man arrogant because the people on the show do enough. But I do think that there's a level of confidence that he has where he just feels like he can tell the truth. There have been so many episodes that we've talked about so far where Peter has just opened his mouth

and told everybody what was going on. Including this one. Including this one. He's sitting there talking to Scott. Scott said, hey, you should come with us. And he goes, no, we're voting out Julia. Why not lie? Peter, why not just say, yes, Scott.

That's what I'm doing. I'm with you. But to sit on, he's on the hammock. Oh, you know, kind of hidden the, what was it, the Christy? You know, I don't know. Do I go with this side? Hamick is deadly. I got to think about what's good for me. You know what I mean? And he's just like, what? You have no power here. You have no power. Peter has no power. At best, he could get saved in a tie. It's crazy to me that he does not end up in the numbers here.

He was great. He was great. Bring him back. So good. Okay. But let me ask you something. I was going through some of the comments on one of the recent episodes. And let me ask you this. Because I had never heard this theory before. And I want to let you know if there's any merit. And I'm going to say allegedly, allegedly, before I'm even going to read this. Okay. Okay. So there was a commenter who posted on episode three's recap. And we were talking about what was going on with all of the infections. What was happening here?

Well, why did everybody get so sick? And we were talking about Dr. Peter was there. He was there and he was like the on-field medic. And this person in the comment said, Peter handled it by spreading infection through the cast, squeezing wounds and lancing blisters without even washing his hands. And I just started to think about all of the people that end up with these infections. And I do think that the one common denominator that they do have in common,

When we think about, like, who are the people that ended up having these bad infections? And we think about, oh, we saw Joe. And then we know that Neil and his finger. And then Aubrey has an infection. And then Ty also has, and Liz also had this very bad infection. Oh, wow. Peter himself, I think, even had to have surgery. I listened to the exit interview.

And I was like, hmm, is there one person that all these people interacted with who may have received medical attention from how dare you it's impossible I mean it is possible comma but I'm still looking at Survivor production crazy

because I think as a medical professional you have to do no harm and I think that the production people they have their own doctor on hand and he's watching Peter Sprint is he was not trying to harm people but when you just look at the path of the people

he came because you know who didn't have infection connections. Nick, Michelle, Kyle Jason, Sydney. She never, she never. Hey man, maybe there was something on that beach. I don't know. Maybe. It's, I mean, but the part where without washing your hands, I mean, it's very valid because there is no soap. You know, like you're just on an island, you know, lancing things without any type of, you know, sterilization is already kind of. All right, Neil, come here. Let me see that. Yeah, cut, let me see that knee.

Yeah, pass me the fish hook. Pass me the fish hook. I think I can do a little something here. Like, yeah, look, I'm not going to question his credentials, but I think on an island, I think things are slightly different. Now, where was he when everybody was passing out? I don't think he played a big role in that. Yeah, where was that?

In my mind, Peter should be, like, we should have got a shot of Peter, like, sprinting towards Sydney and, like, diving over, you know, like, pour water. Even Debbie, I think Joe had to take care of her. Joe was taking care of Debbie and Jason was taking care of Siddi. Peter, Peter might have been playing a long game. He might have been like, look, let him die. I mean, you know, figuratively, figuratively speaking, you know. Yeah.

But he himself had to go have surgery after the season was over. Yeah, I already went straight to the hospital afterwards or something like that. It was pretty bad. But, I mean, what was it about Co-Rong specifically that had everybody, getting infections if it's not Peter, right? Like, they act like this is some like anomaly specific to

Co-Rong, but is there a part of the elements that make it specific to go wrong? I don't think so. I think that there was some sort of specific infection that I don't know how it ultimately ended up getting there if the contestants brought it in or somebody from the crew brought it in, but they

don't have this in Cambodia, which is films in the same place the next season. Right. Exactly. I'm like, they're back to back. And so I don't know if they go to a different beach because they're like, oh, that beach was infecty. Or do they just like stay at the current beach and they got rid of the infected people? Maybe the people were infected. I want to talk about this confrontation that Joe has with Peter because it was so great. And weird. You know, you see Aubrey's like, we need him. We need him. Don't say anything to him. and Joe's like,

I got to check him. I got to test him. I got to test him. Because if he, I got to interrogate him. I'm an FBI guy. I'm going to go interrogate him. And he goes up to Peter. And he said, hey.

Literally. Did you say Joe's got to go? He's like, what? Yes or no? Don't you lie to me. If you lie to me, I swear to God. And I'm thinking, well, Joe, if he tells you the truth, and if he lies to you, what's the difference in consequence? Like, if he tells you the truth, you're not like, oh, well, bring it in. At least you're honest, right?

You're still like, hey, you're trying to vote me out. And if he lies to you, then, I mean, which he should lie to you. I mean, he should definitely lie to you in this moment. But like, are you going to then be like, I can't trust that guy that was just called out by that. Like, regardless, you kind of got him in a lose, lose situation here. Like, he's got to lie and then just hope that you believe. him, I guess. I mean, this is bad on Peter because why did you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar like this? But this is also really bad on Joe. You know the answer to your question.

Why do you need to scratch this? It's so bad. You know exactly what's going on. You can keep Peter around as long as you want or you can vote him out, but you don't have to go and let him know that you're on to him. That's crazy. Yeah. Do you think that he said to Aubrey right before this, all right, good cop, bad cop, you're good cop. Let's go.

And I'm like, no, I'm not going. No. That sounds like Aubrey Like you do that You do that Let me know how it goes I think there's a moment When they're

Right after they lose the challenge Where Aubrey goes Yeah so Peter was supposed to do something That didn't go great So you know We're with him now It's just like

She could tell Aubrey's kind of like I'm over it She's been over Peter for a while She's over it But Joe Del Campo was trying to get a yes or no answer out of Peter

and he wouldn't give it to him. And Joe said, if he's dancing, that means he's lying. You're right. And I was like, oh, okay. You know,

like, what got the Joe's spin-off? What is Joe Del Campo? Like, he needs to be on TV. I need to find him on like, the true crime network or something like that.

Because he was good. Like, like, well, because I understand why he was cast on the show. You know, there's a lot of times where we get the,

the elder statesmen of the cast. We're like, have they ever seen Survivor? Do they care about this show? Like, how did they get on? For Joe, Joe's good in confessional, you know, he's kind of electric when he's having these confrontations with people. Nope, bring back more Joe. Yeah.

The one thing I remember about him from his personal life is that he has, I'm not sure if he has multiple or just one, little Yorkies. He has like little tiny dogs. He looks kind of like a Yorkie just by the face. I'm looking, first of all, he played Survivor at 71 years old. Yeah. Which is wild. He's got to be the top five or six Survivor players like his age-wise, right? I think that Rudy is the only other 70-year-old.

Yeah, this is crazy. Like, they cast Joe like it was normal. And not to say that, like, you know, there's anything wrong with casting Joe, but put a 71-year-old on this season that is riddled with infection and heat exhaustion and stuff. They're trying to kill us, man. I mean, he did get medically evacuated. It's not his fault.

Like, it's not his fault. The man is 70 years old. Like, damn, you couldn't put this man in Fiji? How did we, how did you, how did you, how did you, why did you choose? Why did you choose? Yeah, he would have won the season by the end. 26 days and no rewards. Like, that's perfect for Joe.

Yeah, like, I'm very impressed by him because at 71, listen, he's doing way more than, your boy could never, okay? But at the same time, Of all the tribes and all the seasons to put him on. At 71, Corong is just a wild place to be stranded on an island. Julia Sokolowski comes back from Exile Island. She just comes back and does a really good job. So I was listening to the podcast from this night,

and it was backwards where Stephen Fishback wasn't there that night. Josh Wiggler was feeling inside. I don't know who got the fishy. But I do suspect, I wonder if it was Julia Sokolowski. Hmm. What did she really do? She came back and she was good. She was, she helped win over Scott and Ty.

They needed her. They honestly really didn't need her. She ID Aubrey. She said Aubrey, she's a big player. She's the one to watch. And she was right. She was right. She was right.

I don't think she could have got the, I don't know if she did enough to get the, the fish. I mean, she got two votes. She almost, she was never going home. Even if she got three votes, she still wasn't going home. But so yeah, maybe that is good on her, right? Like having to spend a day away from the entire tribe, but then still coming back and gratiating herself and then winning the day to where, you know, the brains acted like they had the numbers advantage. But now Julia and crew really do have the numbers advantage. You know, she went from being on exile all alone to being in the dominant alliance here on this. tribe and really just because Peter played himself into a corner. And so yeah, I think if anybody

has to get credit, it's definitely her. Yeah. So she came back and she was doing a good job. And one of her biggest episodes so far, breakout at night for Julius Sokolowski. Still, not much to speak of. But yeah, a big night for her, especially being able to survive this. I think probably the underrated story here is that like, or the untold story here is that she and Ty are probably still good. So when she comes back from exile, like her entire a two-sum at that point. And then they just got Jason as a three. There's just, it's just really weird to me. The reason why I don't want to give it to her as far as the fishy is, if it's my business to give the fishy out is that she fumbled from 10 years ago. Right. She fumbled Peter Bagginsostas.

To me, that's the question here. Like, I get it. He goes and that's, but that's bad for her. He wanted to work with her. He came to her as like his number one ally. I did listen to his ex-opress. And he basically said, like, anytime I tried to get something going, they would just go back and snitch on me anyway. But I don't think. that's the order of operations. Like, I think Peter is downplaying the amount of scheming he was doing and how weird he was making himself look to where they had no choice but to throw him under the bus.

I just think that in an ideal situation, she gets Peter to come with her and Ty and Scott. She at least at that point she has Ty and Peter as kind of like number ones on the tribe. Scott's kind of like a tangential number two or Ty's number one like add on. And then you take out Aubrey so she's a big three. right here, or you take out Joe because he's next to Aubrey. You know, so she got the fishy, I think it's by inches. I knew my guy fishback. As we were talking about this, I'm like, he gave the fishies, Scott Pollard.

And Sam Moore has the receipts because on March 23rd, 2016, Stephen used to publish the fishy in his article when he was writing. And he says, Scott Pollard deserves the. Fishy. He says, Scott wins the fishy for staying situationally aware.

Some players withdraw a tribal under the glare of the torches and Jeff Prope's dimples. But Scott Pollard battle-hearted after his weeks on the Braun Tribe performed perfectly and master-minded Peter's exit.

Stephen Fishback is a wordsmith. He should write a book. He should write a book. I don't know if anybody knew back in Korong days if Stephen Fishback would one day write a book, but I think you have to give this fishy article, you know, it's kind of like, you know,

these are seeds of what would one day be escape. Yep, one day. And that's why Scott Pollard wins the fishy. If you're savvy like Scott and know how to shift the emotional dynamics of the game, you can have an outsized impact. Scott Pollard also was a big part of the reward challenge also, a real epic three-point shooting contest between Scott Pollard and Nick Meyerano, the Mayo Jar.

This is the second time we've done Brains versus Braun v. Beauty with a basketball player who gets to do a basketball challenge. I remember Cliff Robinson on one knee shooting the ball, you know, trying to, you know, and of course obviously winning that challenge. Yeah, so that's a thing that we do here on Brandt Beauty versus Braun season, I guess. I thought both these challenges were very O.P. for Scott Pollard, between the basketball shooting challenge. And the Be Tall Challenge?

Yeah, this might have been the introduction of that challenge. And they still do this one into the new era. I think they just did it as recently as Survivor 49, where at the end you have to stack the blocks up at the end. This does seem to favor a tall. I mean, I thought obviously Scott Pollard's going to win this challenge. There was no question in my mind that they had this. And then I realized Nick Mayerano is not a short.

He's just not a tall like Scott. You know, Scott's about six, seven, if I had to guess. But exactly. But Nick, Nick's probably like six four, six three, something like that. He says all he said he played basketball in college or something like that. So the height differential is not as bad as it could be. But yeah, this is definitely ideal, you know. I mean, the only other person I think they could have even matched up with these two guys is Darnell and he's long gone.

I guess that's why they cast all three of them for this season, right? because you kind of had to balance the height. Cliff Robinson was far and away the tallest person on his season by a ton, and there was nobody even close. This time around, yeah, I think it's not as bad if Darnell and Nick are still around to play basketball with Scott Pollard later on. I misspoke. I said this was the first time they ever did this challenge.

They actually did it in Samoa was the first time they did it, and this was the second time. It was pre-merged in Samoa. I feel like the other Liz was there. Yeah. Liz Kim was there. Yeah. See, yeah, look, I remember Survivor Samoa, kind of.

Every time we have a Liz. Not Liz Wilcox. We didn't do it before. So, yeah, so then they didn't do it at all in the new era, and they brought it out into Survivor 49. Yeah, I don't remember this challenge in Survivor 49 at all. But here, yeah, this was pretty cool. The stacking of the tall stuff,

because you got to see, you know, the little odd couple, that we've created with now Ty and Scott, you know. It used to be Ty and Caleb, but, you know, now we see that, oh, you could just throw Ty up on Scott's shoulders and he can stand up there. We saw him climb the trees with Scott, just kind of hoisted him on up. And so I thought they had this, but no, Nick and Debbie, they all pulled it off. Yeah, so there was some drama in the immunity. We were talking about the reward challenge was where Scott Pollard and Peter were

shooting the basketballs. But in the immunity challenge, they had to stack the blocks at the end. And that was also a very close challenge. And at one point, Jeff was like, these blocks are heavy in their heart. And I'm like, yeah, right, Jeff. Okay, sure. But then one did fall on Joe Del Campo's head and was bleeding.

They finished the challenge. Jeff's like, Joe's bleeding in his head. I was like, okay, concussion protocol should have probably, you know, should have probably stopped down here. They finished the challenge and Jeff's like, Joe, go see the medic after this. I think it would have been fine to pause the challenge and check on Joe. This man, again, 71 years old. You just knocked him upside the head with a brick.

71. What 71, Jeff, if you don't like these people, just say that. I am nowhere near, thank God, 71. at this point of my life. And if you hit me with one of them blocks, I'm done. That's it. Send me home. Hopefully they made the blocks not as heavy in the future.

Yeah. Savannah has been knocked upside the head. Savannah, go see medical after this. Or just take a look now. Just stop right now. You just met a vact Caleb like yesterday. Don't you want to make sure this doesn't happen all the time? Yeah.

There was a strategy issue with how to stack the block. it seems like it was Peter's idea and if you didn't watch the episode there were a bunch of like bigger cubes and then smaller cubes and you need to stack them up really really high and so I guess Peter's idea was okay let's stack the big cubes

and then on the smaller cubes we'll just lift them up in the air and then put other ones underneath it and it almost worked it could cost Joe Del Campo and then and Joe was

still like, okay, I don't think we got to vote out Peter. Like, even Joe with a concussion. He's got amnesia, okay? He forgot what the plan was. But he was right. He was right. You should not. He was right. Joe the Kim was like, where am I? Peter's like, I'm your best friend. We've been allies since the beginning of the game. We're number one. Debbie, Debbie, is that you? You know?

That's unfortunate. Speaking of Debbie, let's talk about what's going on over on the other tribe because there's some interesting stuff there and of course more hits from Debbie the episode starts off with Debbie talking about Nick and Debbie's playing a little bit of the flirt card yeah he's got the body of a Greek god or a face of a chiseled jawline or whatever she's saying and then she could model she should know I she modeled for tons of years you know I was like I'm is Nick a model at this current time like when he goes on the show I'm not sure if Nick is ever a model.

He was just like attractive random guy. Yeah, yeah. He, I don't know if he ever did any modeling. That's interesting because I feel like in the first Brains, Beauty and Braun, like the beauties were models, right? Like, L.J. That other guy. Jeremiah, certainly. Jeremiah was my model for sure.

And Nick's like, yeah, I just. I'm pretty. So, you know. And they were like, yeah, he is. You ain't got to be a model to be a beauty. And he's willing to flirt with Debbie. Yeah, I don't think he has any shame. This is a good episode for Nick.

Yeah, I love this for him. Kind of his breakout. Yeah, because Nick's rise is because he's doing good commentary on everybody else, right? Like, Nick is kind of like the narrator of where he sees other people. And it's through the Nick lens. So it's, you know, extremely biased for sure. but also laced with a little bit of arrogance. So he's like, yeah, I think Debbie has a crush on me.

She could be playing me, but she probably could not do that. And then also we see Nick interacting with Michelle making this the Michelle breakout episode as well. Yep. And Michelle breakout as well and kind of dunking on Nick. Yeah. Speaking of Nick getting losing in basketball. Yeah, he gets dunked on by Michelle here because in, and we see Michelle interact with Debbie for the first time,

which is fun. I don't really remember any interactions between Debbie and Michelle from this season. But Debbie says gives the same spiel to Michelle that she says to Sydney. And she's like, oh, I like you. I want a woman to win this game. And Michelle's like, oh, she's quirky. I like her. And she goes to Nick.

And she's, hey, I had a good talk with, with Debbie. And so let's, they don't like Jason. and that the mayo jar ends up telling Michelle about the plan when she says like, hey, so we're going to vote out Jason. And Nick says, that was going to be so good. Nick says, I'm not doing that. He said, no. No, no.

No. And he basically tells Michelle like, hey, I got this. We're not going with your plan. Yeah, he needs to make the decisions for Michelle because she doesn't know what she's doing here And so all he has to do is make sure she doesn't screw this up So that they can go far in the game As long as he has as long as Michelle is there

He's got somebody he needs to babysit Because Michelle's not a good survivor player from Nick's eyes Right? He's in control of this tribe And in control of their alliance of two And we get in this episode We get the original Bro, I know And then also talking about Nick

When she says that Nick Thinks I'm just like this helpless person Who doesn't know what they're doing out here She gives us also I don't need to be carried bro I don't need to be carried bro People just had a bad read on Michelle They thought she was like a little

A little puppy suckling on the teat They thought she was She needed to be carried But she doesn't need to be carried bro A big episode for Michelle You know she kind of falters in the challenge a little bit. But this is one of the few times.

You know, we always talk about how Survivor says like, oh, or the show kind of like has a struggle with depicting people's social game. But this episode was the Michelle social game. It was, I messed up in the challenge. Let me go see if I can make friends. And we see her working with Debbie. We see her lying to Nick. You know, look at people with bad social games.

Jodal Keppo cannot do this. Yeah. Peter Baganstas cannot do this. They can't fake it. Michelle can fake it. Yeah. You're right. She literally says, like, okay, I need to work on my social.

game now after I made the mistake in the challenge and that in the reward, was it the reward challenge that Michelle gets up to, it's actually interesting like it's Michelle versus Aubrey to start the challenge and go and like dive down and pull out the buoys and

Michelle struggles with getting the thing open and they fall behind in the challenge and then it's like neck and neck with Nick and Scott shooting the basketballs but Michelle comes back and we start to see Michelle trying to highlight the social game here.

Yeah, the show finally gave it to us. You know, what a player should do if they're not excelling in the challenges, if they're not providing around camp, there's, you know, there are other aspects of this game. Maybe the strategy, like, we haven't got to see a lot of strategy from Michelle because she hasn't had to vote anybody out. And so it's like, this is her claim to fame, her social game. Yeah, and credit to Michelle, because she does not then,

tell Nick off like we've seen Alicia do earlier in the season. Like we see Joe do in this episode to go up to Peter and say, hey, listen, buddy. Yeah. She can get loud too, what the F? She just won't because she's smart

and she doesn't want to like get voted out. You know, it's like, if you were questioning Michelle is a good survivor player, look at this episode. Look at how she reacts when she thinks her back is up against the wall. She doesn't immediately go, I mean, there is a one moment where Debbie thought she was going to go drown herself in the ocean. But aside from that, Michelle, Michelle did what needed to be done. I'm sorry, she did. Now, I thought it was a little overblown for her to be so beat up about this being about, because it's a reward challenge, right? It's not like they lost immunity. Oh, thus you need to go. This was chicken salad. Yeah, was it, I thought it was just tuna salad. Was there chicken salad also? Oh, was it tuna salad? Dear God, that's even worse. I was like this might be the worst survivor reward of all time of tuna that the Survivor Wiki calls it a Survivor picnic complete with breads, fruits, cold cuts, and beverages. But the one thing that they were really highlighting was the tuna.

Mind you, the last challenge was for salt and pepper. Rob, you cannot tell me that tuna is a worst challenge reward than salt and pepper. Tuna could use some salt and pepper Tuna could use some salt and pepper But you know what salt and pepper could use some damn tuna You know like what am I gonna lick it off my hand I don't want this Yeah ask Dr. Allison

How does it go when you get some of the The mayo jar out in the sun For the long Yeah They don't care about them And Survivor Coral Is it because Cambodia was about to film And so they were just kind of like

keeping one eye on them. They weren't really worried about them. They were worried about the vote. Trying to think of at what point were they filming this. Were they actually working out who was going to be in the second chance vote? Unclear.

Well, once Liz Markham gets on the season, that puts Stephen on the ballot for sure. So I know they at least were talking about it. But yeah, I just don't think they had their eye on them too much. It's like they were babysitting the kids, but the football game was on. And they were really concerned with the football game and the kids are in the back getting concussed.

and infect it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, for there to be so many medevacs around this season, I think we have to question it. We have to question the amount of care that they did not put into these people because they may or may not have been negotiating contracts

with Ryman Bledso and Chaos Cass. Mm-hmm. Yeah. They had only one eye on the ball, unfortunately. Mm-hmm. All right. Chappelle, this episode is called Play or Go Home. Who said the title, play or go home? I don't know.

Do you remember? I did not remember, and I see it on the wiki. I don't remember hearing it. Who said it? The Mayo Jar. Oh, okay. I can kind of, all right, I can see that. I mean, he really was taking a strategic, like, he was at the strategic forefront of his tribe,

even though they didn't have to vote anybody out. But it did look like he was trying to bond with Debbie. He was trying to keep Michelle in line as if she needed to be carried, bro. So there is some stuff going on there. Yeah, he was like the social center of the tribe this time around. So yeah, big episode on the mail jar. Yeah, because it does seem like that

Debbie and Neil were not going to vibe with Sidney and Jason. That seems to be the underreported story. So even though Michelle could be the target as Nick is saying, it seems like that that maybe Nick is a little bit more of the swing

because he's willing to throw Michelle under the bus. Right. Nick's willing to throw Michelle under the bus. And then Sidney's probably should be willing to throw Jason under the bus.

I don't think she knows she needs to at this point. Yeah, but I don't know. Yeah, but it's time, right? Like, it's time. Because if Debbie wants him out, Sydney and Debbie kind of have a decent relationship,

you know, when Debbie's joking about Michelle drowning herself in the ocean, Sydney's like, oh, Debbie, you're crazy. So, you know, maybe if she go, if they do lose the challenge, they go to Sydney. I don't think she puts up that much of a fight to keep Jason around. It's kind of weird with these two swap tribes. I feel like that we spend about 70% of these last two episodes on,

and this tribe goes to tribal council both times, so I guess that tracks. But we really don't spend as much on the dynamics of whatever is going on on the other tribe. No, no. We just kind of like highlight them. And that's another reason why Michelle is so underedited because she's not losing. So there's nothing to talk about.

She has nothing to tribal council. Yeah. You know, she's the winner. But if you do, I mean, anytime you cut to her, it's going to be like, well, why are we talking about Michelle? If she's not in danger and she's not losing, then why does she matter? In this episode, she actually did because she lost that reward challenge. where she thinks she lost that reward challenge for them

because she didn't dive down. But had that not happened, what content would we got from Michelle in this episode? Just like, I'm making friends with everybody. You know, it wouldn't have given you anything. I don't think Niels had a confessional since the swap. I think that maybe we heard from Jason one time when he talked to Nick.

So we really have not spent on it. And if we go to anything, we got to go to Debbie. We got to see what Debbie is just to say. You got to go to Debbie. Debbie is, she's a coach. archetype where it's like yeah there's stuff going on but coach is right there and so I I think that's that's the thing but the crazy thing about Neil is that he's about to go home yeah like he's next on the chopping block here and they completely just did not highlight him at all

these last what two almost three episodes this is no Neil yeah all right well we'll see Neil next episode when unfortunately things are going to just hit a boiling point. Maybe he's just his infection was really holding him back. I really need to watch this because I'm going to be looking

for the moment he could have gave that idol to Aubrey. Yeah. The whole time. It's so bad. Any point. I know I said this was the low point for Aubrey. But next episode is pretty low too. You know, losing her number one ally

while he goes home with an idol that she could definitely, she could definitely use that. And she knows he has it and he knows that she knows that he has it and he's just kind of like, bye. So the fact that she's able to pull herself up from her bootstraps at this point,

I mean, these two episodes in a row, to come back from this and to one day be the winner of Survivor 50, it's very commendable. Although, Chappelle, I feel like that we did not see that much Neil and Aubrey interaction. Like maybe we really get it,

hit over the head with it in the next episode. But I feel like that we, other than like, okay, Liz and Peter are a pair, Joe and Debbie are a pair, and Neil and Aubrey are a pair. I don't think that we saw much of their relationship. Yeah, if he got Medevac in this episode,

I'm not expecting him to give the idol to Aubrey. But I think in the next episode, when they merge, I think that's where he tells her about the idol. They start plotting and scheming together. They end up at the bottom together. It's going to be one of them. Yeah.

You know, I think that's when it makes sense. I just, I remember not hating Neil. And so I'm really excited to see the next episode because one, eventually, I will think he's the funniest character on this cast. But the next episode, I think, is where that starts. Yeah. All right. Anything else from episode six?

Just a note. This is back when people used to call people cancers. I still think that's weird. You know, it's like, Peter's. cancer on this tribe. Like, yeah, we don't have to do that. I don't know why. It's been done multiple times this season.

This season, right, this season. People are dying. I think Neil said it the first time. Neil said it. Joe sang it. I'm just like, stop saying that. It's just not, it's not nice. But aside from that, no, this was, this was, again, another fun episode.

I know he said it's a big episode for a lot of people, but we really did get rid of so many pre-merged camera hogs, you know, like, like, Jennifer Lanzet. made that entire second episode about her. Caleb was getting so much screen time. Alicia was getting so much screen time. Anna Kate was the voice of the beauty girls, you know, before she got loaded out. Peter Bagginsostas even.

Another big character. Now we're left with the endgame people, and they all had like little bits of coming out. You know, Neil had a, I mean, not Neil, Nick had a big one. Debbie's always a big character. Scott, Jason, have been throughout. But then, yeah, the Aubrey, Michelle,

they've now kind of start to rise in the ranks a little bit. So this last group, the merge group here, I think it's a solid cast. I can see them all coming back and playing again. Do you think that this was the best episode of the season so far? No. No. I think the premiere is really good. Because I think we came in, we watched the premiere.

We came in like, this was good, you know? So I think the premiere is probably the best for me, this one. Really? Is it the Aubrey thing? Because to me, I can't let go the fact that they went into this, knowing it was a tie and nobody said anything about it. I just feel like that the vote to me, I feel like that there is,

this was like important. And like it really shapes the game with all the respect to Darnell. Like I just feel like that that vote was still like, what, what? Yeah. What about the second episode with Jennifer Lanzetti? Is it too, is it too colored by the Alicia bullying?

No, I just don't remember what else was going on in the episode. Is Alicia getting bullied? Yeah. Alicia getting bullied. The brains, you know, being too smart for their own good. You know, that was kind of fun. This was a good episode.

I don't give you that. I just thought this was really, I thought that both the challenges were interesting. I thought that the stuff with Peter and Joe was really fun. Very fun. There was like some like things were changing back and forth. You couldn't believe what was happening with the. vote and then Aubrey has the cross-off vote. So I think that this one to me has the most stuff. I also want to issue an apology to Debbie officially. One of my Instagram friends and also

listener of this podcast, I'm sure, the Jimmy G. He said, well, he sent me a video and it's a real from Aubrey, Rob, T-bird, and Debbie talking and a pen. Apparently, Debbie might have called Aubrey, you know, for us after Survivor 50. They seemed like they were on good terms. That wasn't my takeaway from. I watched that clip also. And Aubrey seemed a little, like, shocked that there was a message from Debbie. And I thought that what Debbie's talking with Tepard message that she called in for was kind of like,

was not super personal. No, it almost felt like a cameo. She said, you know, you know in the show, mind you, this is like, what, a couple years ago? When was this talking T. Bird? So, like, you know. This was like two years ago. Right. So two years ago, Debbie called in and was like, hey, Aubrey, you remember that time Peter made fun of me for having a lot of cats?

Aubrey's like, no, I haven't seen that season unless I was like, well, get this, I got a lot of parents. Thanks. Yeah. And it's interesting, in the exit interview with Peter, I asked Peter back in 2016. So did you find out, did Debbie have 30 cats or 40 cats? He's like, no, get this. She has turtles. So I don't know.

She switched it up. Yeah. You know, these people are wild. Well, this is a wildcast. I think now that we've kind of talked it through, we've got to the merge at this point, I'm ready to put the whole wrong cast up against some other cast to see like this is this might be one of the better cast of all time. It's pretty strong.

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