RHAP: We Know Survivor - Survivor 50 B&B Ep 8 Recap w/ Izzy Gleicher

Episode Date: April 19, 2026

Survivor 50 B&B Ep 8 Recap w/ Izzy Gleicher Mike Bloom, Liana Boraas and guest Izzy Gleger bring the chaos and comedy of the RHAP B&B back for week eight. With the unforgettable “double duo��� twist taking center stage, Mike, Liana and Izzy break down one of the most dramatic and game-shifting Tribal Councils of the season, where two players leave together, shaking the power structure and leaving everyone scrambling. The episode gets personal as Ozzy, Emily, Rizo, and especially Cirie navigate fresh alliances, fake idols, and surprise betrayals, all while Survivor’s legendary “Fields family” grows even more complicated. The discussion opens with a critical look at the season’s twists and the impact of big personalities like Coach and Chrissy. Mike, Liana, and Izzy break down how rapid-fire decisions, like instant pairings for immunity, lead to riskier gameplay, fewer chances to strategize, and more unpredictable outcomes. They highlight Cirie’s triumphant struggle on Exile and the show’s growing tendency to mirror the mechanics of Big Brother, raising questions about how time pressure and unexpected twists force players into conservative or bold moves. The fake idol antics of Rick Devens, the targeting of “middle people,” and the dynamic voting blocks all take the spotlight as the hosts dissect which alliances are real and which are smoke and mirrors. Key moments include: – Cirie’s emotional perseverance during the coconut challenge on Exile – The “double duo” twist forcing players to vote out pairs – Rick Devens’ fake idol play and its ripple effect on trust and live Tribal scrambling – Calls for classic Survivor gameplay with fewer advantages and idols, echoing fan frustration – The collapse of the Coach and Chrissy alliance, the “honor and integrity” debate, and the shifting definition of “the middle” With power newly up for grabs and alliances constantly in flux, Survivor 50’s merge episode sets the stage for even bigger moves and blindsides. Will the so-called “middle people” keep steering the game, or is a new threat about to emerge from the chaos? 0:00 Survivor 50 B&B Week Eight Begins 4:36 Coach Voted Out: Cast Reactions 10:36 Cirie, Rizo, Ozzy Control Vote 20:00 Chrissy, Devens, Aubry: Duo Twist 27:00 Cirie Finds Coconut on Exile 33:04 Joe’s Vote Drama for Coach 38:49 Devens Crafts the Fake Idol 41:42 Stephanie, Christian Question Idol Validity 49:08 Cirie’s Emotional Exile Moment 54:01 Rizo Maneuvers, Cirie’s Influence Grows 1:14:08 Chrissy and Coach Exit Predictions Tune in to find out which Survivor legends rise and who gets dragon-slayed in the wake of the season’s wildest Tribal yet! Check out Peace Corps: https://peacecorps.gov/serve To pre-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!

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gone, but in quite the dramatic fashion as Survivor has emerged in the era of double duos. And so, of course, I would not be able to do any of this podcast, little on talk about this episode, without the partner in our own double duo. Leanna, we love alliteration. So how can we not love this name? I mean, of course, the B&B, the double duo, double the trouble, whatever it is. The only thing that I would ask, Mike,

is that can I be the baby? There's no good answer to this, honestly. Whatever option is being chosen, even if I just put my head on the desk, that's probably the most palatable answer to that question. I just Rick Devin's being like, I'm the baby. Got a little. Yeah, exactly.

I don't know why. I really sent me over the edge, but very excited to talk about this episode. Yes. And I am thrilled to be bringing in in what I would say is perhaps Surrey Field's finest installment here on Survivor 50. An outright member of the Fields family who has been watching her family grow over the course of eight weeks, considering all the on-island marriages, Cerea's marshalling at this point. It was the one, the only from Big Brother 25 and most recently Amazing Race, 38. Izzy Glicker.

Hello, hello, hello. Yeah, I mean, for better or worse, the Fields family just keeps growing. Has Rizzo been invited to the family group chat? Yeah. Yes. TVD. TVD. Oh, TVD.

Okay. Listen, we don't do a group chat. Everybody hates a group chat. I hate a group chat. I hate a group chat. I just, I'm excited to see the family tree at the end of all of that. Like I really want to know how everyone's related. So that's really what I'm going to be looking for.

But, you know, we'll see how the rest of the season goes. Maybe there's going to be some divorces, some more marriages, more members. Had me shook, you know? I mean, here we are. That's got to be a gag. You have so many stepfathers now, is he? Like, I never thought I would be so unlucky. Is a group chat like a live tribal council where just people are talking and conversations

are flowing endlessly and you're like, do I insert myself in this? conversation, do I not? Where are we right now? Oh yeah, the lurkers? I'm a lurker. I shouldn't say that. All the people in the group chat. The lurker in the family. I read everything, you know? All right. Well, Izzy,

I got to get your thoughts on this season so far. I think some people were calling this the best episode of this season. Look, 50 has had some on and off stuff, perhaps the past few weeks. People are like, we are firmly on right now. how on are you to this season so far? Yeah, I think, you know,

I feel like I've had a lot of versions of hearing about this season. So watching it, I had certain expectations. And I don't know, you know, I'm maybe on the side of being a little disappointed with this season. I think this is my hot, I'm going to start with my hot take that you have to add the, you know, comma and next part of it is that I just think like cis white men have like lost their they have ruined it for everyone. All the good ones because they are good ones. I love me at Devons. I love me a Christian. But you know what? That's just the burden that the good ones have to bear is that no more like straight white dudes should play survivor. I think like the bad ones have

fully ruined it. And it's like you just got to like, you know, I, you know, there's a lot of burdens that I got a bear. So that's the good ones. That's just you got to understand. And that's for a while. We just need a break. I need a break. You know,

coach leaving was amazing. All the people that are like, that was dumb because they'll be a target. No, no, no. That beach must have been awful. That man has a chokehold with no power.

It's like, how is that possible? You know, that he equal part. He's like Darth Vader. He chokes from afar. It's so wild. Anyway,

so I was thrilled to see coach go. I need Jonathan off my screen. I can't. So I, you know, it's a little too much of that for me this season. The twists are a little, I wish we had, I wish the first merge tribal was just an OG tribal. I wish it was just Big Brother. I wish we had, because now we've had two tribal. Do not put Surrey on the same beach with 16 people like she did when she had to enter a house of fixing other people?

Listen, that wasn't the problem. No, but I think wouldn't it be so interesting? Like the more and more I can't help but compare Big Brother and Survivor, like Survivor. like Survivor is so controlled actually because the numbers are always so small. It's really hard. Look at Survivor, AU, right?

I'm not caught up on this season, but the reason like pre-merge is always so exciting is because like it's basically like merge. And that's like really exciting. There's like a lot of room for others to maneuver. There's like a lot more variations. And like everyone wants to see this entire cast be with this entire cast. You know?

So I feel like, Anyway, I just wish, like, we've had now two merge, you know, votes, merge eliminations, you know, three technically, but like two tribals. And it hasn't yet just been like a merge vote, you know? And I'm disappointed. I guess D's would have been the most merge-like, right? I mean, I guess apart from the immunity thing, right, of not everyone can compete for individual immunity, because you have the group stage first.

So I suppose, yeah. They're still making them swap, right? Like they're still making them compete as tribes And then not everybody Could have won immunity for the first one Do that twist like a couple Tribal anyway anyway So that's killing me

It's like chock full of Yeah as a fan I've been thinking about this too as a fan We get to be pissed at the twists Like we get to be mad But I loved what Aubrey said I know I'm always jump around But I love what Aubrey said at tribal this time

About Rick being the baby yes Yeah And then it will be. But like that basically as a player, you can't judge the twist. You just have to play with it, you know? So, but I'm just disappointed that they don't get some. I voted for no idols, no nothing. I voted for OG nothing.

Put these people on a beach and let them go. That's what I vote. Same. That's what I voted for as well. So when, 63%. I was going to say, when Jeff keeps referencing this 63%, I'm like, uh, me and the 30. percent are it's just hanging out with the no-adles.

Again, when we're living perhaps in an era of politics where someone's like, I won this thing by majority, and therefore I have a mandate that everything I do will be universally well received. Again, there are percentages for a reason. I do want to stick on one of your points, though, Izzy, because I have been mulling this over a little bit through 49, but especially through 50. Are we in sort of like the big brotherification era of Survivor?

I mean, at points, like, I've seen Rizzo outright call them comps instead of challenges. I believe the term floater was even in vote in this last. Yes, yes. You know, I have heard some discourse, of course, with, you know, everything going on with the blood moon. And as you mentioned, the only half the group could compete for immunity. And now, of course, the double duos here, like, it does feel a little more expect, the unexpected than we have experienced, at least for the past few seasons. Do you feel like we're starting to get into a little bit of two sides of the same? coin territory?

I mean, yes. You know, I mean, like, ultimately, like, deep, deep down, these games are not different, you know, like, so that's, like, but I do think that there's not enough time for these twists to really, I don't have impact. I think on, that's Billy.

Billy has a game. Hi, Billy. Billie Irish? No. You would never have done that boomer. There would have been, I have no for the boomer. That cat would net, if the cat wants to live in my house,

You will not do that boomerang idol. Never would have screwed Genevieve that way. Listen, yeah, yeah. I want to joke about that all the time. Okay, but I think that like on Survivor, there's not enough time. And so I think actually the more twists you throw in in something more conservative the players get.

And on Big Brother, there's times, there's time to get bored. There's time for your mind to wander. There's time for like all of the possible, like, you know, I don't know, reactions to the twist to like settle in and people like, it's fun to see, well, for me, it's fun to see what could be, but on Survivor, there's like not enough time to really go through it.

And so I think people, I think it makes them a little scare. Of course, I would be terrified. You know what I mean? So I think it's like leading ultimately to some more conservative gameplay in some in some ways, you know. That's actually, that's a really good point to think about how, how, basically how,

the timing impacts players response to a twist, right? Because even in this episode, if you think about the, oh, okay, we have to pair up, they have to pair up basically immediately, right? There's no time to like stop, think, contemplate, okay, what do we think these pairs are going to be? Do we think it's just going to be running immunity? Do we think that there could be anything else involved in the situation? You have to immediately decide, yes, I want to go to exile. Yes, I want to be the odd man out instead of having the time to really think about it. And like, you know, so would players' decisions be different if they had more time to contemplate it? And the same thing goes with the vote, right?

Where they have to make decisions so quickly. So having that extra mollification time, you know, does that ultimately change the reaction to some of these twists and to how players would approach their gameplay? Yeah. I, for what it's worth, it does seem like, because we got a little bit more of a straightforward vote last time. And I don't know of necessarily this honor integrity, old school alliance, Zoom alliance, whatever you want to call them, like had a strangled hold of the game going into this episode.

But it does seem like this twist did flip things on its head a little bit. You know, if it was a straightforward individual vote like the last one was, I don't think coach would be going. I mean, considering that some of the people, including Tiffany, who has by far the biggest acts to crime with coach is like, coach is pathetic. I want to keep coach in the game. The weird thing is, you know, I think maybe the popular eyes to subscribe to is like,

oh my God, Chrissy screwed over by another last minute twist because she was paired up with coach. Yeah. You could argue that maybe coach got sort of dragged out of the game by being paired with Chrissy. Now, granted, a lot of that is because they were sort of represented as the figurehead of this alliance. But I think that's what makes this episode so exciting because as Christian says, this was a bit

of the heart of the Death Star, that if you feel like there is this majority alliance of seven that I think could have done. a bit more of a straightforward vote, then taking two of them out here, yes, I agree definitely, and usually like the less time you give someone, people to strategize the more there, just more recalcitrant and cars close to chess.

And like, listen, I don't know what's happening tomorrow, so let me just make the easy move tonight. Yeah. And it didn't seem like it was necessarily the easy move going into the day as it was coming out of the day where everyone basically except for two people voted for coaching Chrissy. Yeah, I mean, I thought, yeah, I think it's interesting. maybe this could open up a little bit of a discussion about the floater situation.

Because I'm curious what you two think. I wrote this down so I could see it. Because I'm like, am I crazy? Because like, we all know that like perception is reality, right? And I think like maybe what no one is saying is that like I think we've like maybe found, I don't know, the beauty in Ceres game right now on this season. Because in what world is Emily Aubrey Devin's and Christian a group of four the middle who are floating.

Like it is... And also in the middle of what? There's like one very fixed slice of bread and then one very thin slice of bread that's like basically Tiffany. Oh, what's crazy is like when coach Jonathan, Chrissy, Steph, and Joe talk about the middle.

They think that Surin Ozzie, which then default means Rizzo, is on their side. So the other side of the beach is Emily, Aubrey, Devin, and Christian. With Tiffany technically, visibly being a floater because she doesn't have a home.

But that means that Surrey Rizzo and Ozzie are the middle because they are absolutely with Emily, Aubrey, Devin, and Christian in larger numbers. You know what I mean? Like, they're actually aligned with both. I mean, they were the ones that determined who went home in this episode. 100%. And I think they have been.

I think they will continue to be, right? Like, anyway, I just think it's interesting because even them, whether they know it or not, like, they even use the language of like the Aubrey Christian than being floaters if you will, which is just so funny because where, anyway, where does the big, where does the cloth think the other side is?

Where does the cloth think the washcloth is? Like, where do they think it? Where is it? Anyway. The middle seems to just, the middle almost like doesn't even have the positional meaning anymore. Right. Like the middle people now just seems to refer to that group and everybody is calling them the middle people, even though it actually has nothing to do with their positioning.

Right. as you mentioned and Mike you too, right? Like, who is the other side? So middle can't exist. So yeah, it's so funny. And I mean, this started what last week also. And now this language has just continued with using the middle people, despite there being like no opposition.

Yeah, is it like coded language more so for like the strategists, right? Like I think back to David Kinney in 48, right? Who's basically like, we need to get out the gamers. we need to get out the puzzle people. It's time for people like us to be able to actually make their way into the end game here. And I wonder if it's that similar type of mentality of, okay, these people aren't like playing the middle in terms of actual factions, but they are types of people that you would expect to be in the middle of a typical survivor season. They have middle person qualities.

Yeah, or like flippers, right? Like people who could go in the middle between different groups, I guess. I don't know. I read all of that language like being so negative. coded, not from you, Leanna, but like from the culture of it because it's like, how do you think you're supposed to maneuver? Like, what are you doing here? And also, yeah, just to rag on coach a little bit more. Like, what honor and integrity bullshit? You literally are telling CBS they should sue you for on every podcast talking about notes you put in people's bags about Rizzo's got to be first

and pregame alliances. It's like, what honor and integrity? You're mad that everyone else showed up and was like, okay, I'm going to be present with my surroundings and with this game. But he was honest with it. It's like killing me. They're like the biggest liars on the beach, you know? Like they're the biggest hypocrites, the biggest phonies. It's just like, anyway. So what you're saying is you are not penning a flute solo to the music that coach created in the hammock before they went to trial.

I'm so mad they gave him the like ego boost of like putting that whole composed little clip with his fuck-ass song. I'm so mad at this. Like, but here's the thing, though, it's funny because if, okay, like, I'm just going to imagine, if I'm coach watching this, I'm like, yeah, I got that. Yeah, you are. But everybody else is clowning on this man. So, you know, it's all about the interpretation, I suppose. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. No, I, I mean, I'm obsessed with it. It is because, I mean, the fact that, like, it's this medieval kind of little like, oh, I love being the dragon slayer. And the fact that. As you mentioned Leanna, yeah, luckily no Iambic pentamid or anything. It's like he could do whatever amount of syllables he wants to. But then I think as you mentioned, Leanna, perhaps more of the clowning on portion is when they cut the music off.

But he's like, I couldn't find a rhyme to that. Listen, lyric writing is hard. And so, but I do love the fact that this man apparently actually did spend about like five hours in the hammock sitting there making up songs and poems in possibly the last day of survivor he will ever play in his life. Chrissy put him in time out. She put him in time out. Which is so funny because Chrissy's like, I don't want, like, I'm so upset that people think I'm momming them.

I don't mean to. Coach, you are grounded, okay? No hikus. You can't have your friend Jonathan come over. Okay? You don't deserve that. No shenanigans. Chrissy's revenge for coach telling her.

Yeah. Be quiet without actually even using words. At least she was straight up and was like, you're being fucking annoying as hell. The two of them have been basically passing the ball back and forth. Like, you're too talking. No, you're too talking. No, you're too extra. No, you're too extra.

It's like maybe people just don't like what you're saying. Maybe we're just actually missing the point entirely. Like, not about quantity, you know? Yeah. Anyway, anyway. All right. So let's get into this twist. Let's get into the double duos,

which I am so obsessed with how, I will say there's a lot of benefits to talk about with this twist, but I am obsessed with how horrifically named this is. Just first and foremost, this is one of the three worst names I've ever heard for a twist. And that includes a medallion of power on top of it because it is so amazingly redundant. Hmm. What was it out? The double double?

It's one double. Sorry. Like I get like it. Like it's a, I guess it's a technically like it's a double boot and you're playing in duos. But as you mentioned, Izzy, it's essentially saying two two. Two two. Double duo. Leanna, you mentioned it before.

Double trouble is right there. It is a layup. Ironically enough as you're probably going for a double double. Yeah. You know what? I didn't even think, look, maybe this is on me for not paying enough attention, but I was like, yeah, double duo,

who cares, whatever, blood mooned up. I don't know. To me, I'm like, okay, what's the mechanic? Just tell me what the mechanic is. I know. I need a name, too. I don't even need a name. Yeah, exactly.

Maybe that's also like the big brotherification of Survivor a little bit too, right? Like the twists need a name. Alliance's need names. Oh my God. Wait. Wait. When the exile island becomes the nether, then I think we've gone full big brother. When Cary gets sucked up.

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Let's get our thoughts on this double duo twist, though, because it is a massive one. Now, I don't know if it's like the most game-changing one in Survivor history, as Jeff has said. But for the first time in the show's history, we have had two people eliminated at once in tandem at a tribal council. Is he, whether it be, you know, born out of the results or not, what do you think of it? Yeah, no, I mean, I think, I think this is an interesting twist, actually. I mean, I think I, you know, not to reveal too much of what I would do, but like, I think there is basically never a scenario in any of these games where they ask you to pair up and it makes sense to pair up with an ally. Like, it just does not make sense. And so I think like honestly going into it, whether or not people were thinking about any of the four of them, I think the obvious choices to vote out and they did it to themselves were Aubrey and Devons and Chrissy and Co.

because Aubrey and Devons are very much on. It's not the middle. It is the other side. And Chrissy and coach are this cloth bullshit. And so, like, obviously, Christian and Jonathan are probably the safest on the beach. You know, like, maybe I was thinking Emily and, funny enough, Chrissy brought up Emily and Rizzo.

I think they were the other ones that would have been, like, on the fence because I think they're closer in, like, where their allies are connected, you know, to connect them more. you know so I think it was just like yeah I I think that's an interesting part of it I think if it was totally if no allies were together I think it would have been a super super interesting yeah you know I wish there was like a little production interference and they didn't have to do it themselves and they just like made it that way you know yeah I know it's a little bit of concessions right then it's a real big proxy role of like okay who can I lose that will affect my game the least you know and then I think there's a lot of back and forth as to, I also love the idea that duos can vote separately as well because then it doesn't involve a stalemate that would obviously happen between like a Christian and a Jonathan. Leanna, what did you think about it?

Yeah, I mean, look, I liked it as well. And so you've got 24 people. You've got to get rid of you got to have doubles. You got to have triples. Right. There's just there's going to be multiple people eliminated per episode. So I would much rather have this than have another split tribal or, you know, again, like kind of the same thing that we've been seeing before.

So I'm happy that they mixed it up a little bit. I do think that I wish they had had a little bit more time to decide the payers for that exact reason to have like some maybe a little bit more strategy because it was basically like they read the note and then all of a sudden they had to, you know, go ahead and pair up. I don't know how much time was it was in between there. Maybe they did have some discussion. We just didn't see that. Although I am happy that they actually did include that bit.

We got to see them picking, you know, picking their, uh, their team. mates. But yeah, I mean, I absolutely agree, Izzy with you that it's, it's always advantageous. Like Christian talked about it, the benefit of him being paired with Jonathan, where, you know, he's like, look, I'm not going to catch strays. Obviously, no one in my alliance is going to vote me out. This is absolutely the best place to be. So if everyone had been mismatched a little bit more, I think that the discussion and the almost negotiations of who are we each willing to lose would have been really, really fun. So it was kind of unfortunate that they basically immediately were able to narrow it down. But I'm still happy that they tried it and I think it was a fun twist.

Yeah, it's funny because I think production thinks that like you make them do it on the fly, you get the most interesting chaotic thing. But I think it goes back to that. They go, they mostly do the safest thing, you know, because it's just like you don't have time. Even the idiots have time to mull it over and maybe they're going to make a worse choice than if they were if they follow their instincts. You know what I mean? So anyway, I just like, yeah, I just valued that part of it or something. Yeah, I'm still chewing over my thoughts on this one, Because so I have seen this twist be utilized in Survivor South Africa, and I did not like it whatsoever. Because without going into too many spoilers about the season, basically, at the point they did it, it was the camp was basically divided like six versus four.

And then they happened, they did random division, which I think is much, much worse. I'm so happy that they let people pick their partners, even if they didn't necessarily know what the task entailed. And then it actually wound it up being that all the six in the majority were paired up and all four in the minority were paired up. and all four in the minority were paired up and when one pair of the minority, one immunity, guess who ended up going? I think that there's something about this idea of like you kind of being

being some sort of like casual damage. Like collateral damage. Exactly. This idea that you weren't necessarily going to go home that round but because of the person you are paired up with you were sort of taken out as a result.

There's still something about that that doesn't exactly feel very survivory to me, but I cannot deny whatsoever that this brought really interesting television because now there were a couple of options that were presented and as much fun as it would have been to have one of every clinical alliance in each pairing. It does create this interesting dynamic where it did seem like, okay, we have two people in a pair from this side and two people in a pair from this side and then it comes down to our, ironically enough, not a duo,

a trio of Ceres, Wizard of Oz to be like, okay, which direction do we go? I also feel like what probably didn't help this particular situation is that the advent of, okay, if you use an idol, both of you are safe. And considering we had Joe and Tiffany with immunity, we have Ozzie and Stephanie with a public idol. You have Rizzo and Emily with a public idol.

There's only a few options that are left. But regardless, I do think that it was executed really well And I do think these players, and maybe this is why this is also a twist that you bring in for returning players instead of new players. Like this does feel like something that people could enjoy and be able to like think about from a next level perspective, albeit over the course of a short and time period, then if you threw it out to newbies, they would just be, I think, completely scuttled and then maybe just go with like the easy bottom line. Okay, well, it's Aubrey and Rick. No matter what, I don't care about the idol.

We're getting rid of them. Well, and I mean, we've seen this. we've seen people pair up. They literally reference it when they're talking about, wait, how did you guys do it, Joe, on your season when they had to pair up? So it's not like pairing up for an immunity challenge is inherently a unique thing in Survivor, US. I think it's just that added layer of then, you know, being voted out as a pair and an idol being played together as a pair is where that extra twist comes into play. So, you know, it's entirely possible.

There's, like, how would you even think about that, right? You think the twist is the person getting exiled, right? And I think that's why you had so many people, well, I guess at least four step up and volunteer to be sent there. And we get Rick even talking in Confessional about, hey, this is going to be advantageous, actually, you know. And Surrey, oh, sweet, Sarri. That's one thing to be like, I just wanted to make it easy for you guys. That's so genuine. Like, she's like, I'm not doing like that tank my game.

That someone is so pissed that I like, you know, I'm going to be so bad at this, you know? Like that was so legit. Like, I loved it. Poor thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. I mean, I think it's interesting, like, I mean, I love that Stefan. I'm trying to think of the other ones, but I feel like Stephanie is the one that this didn't happen to. Like, so far it's been pretty consistent that if you go to exile in some way, shape, or form, you're safe from the vote, right?

Like, I guess Stephanie didn't go to exile. She just went on a journey. Yeah. Like, like the only incarnations of exile, quote unquote, we've seen were Ozzie and Q spending the night, Ozzie and Rizzo spending the night, and now, Surrey being safe from the boat. Right, and they were all safe all those times, right? Q and Ozzy were... No, they missed out on being there on day one. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I think, yeah, exile is maybe in some ways always a good thing to go to, even though it sucks, you know? It is interesting that that Surrey had to do like a task while Rizzo and Ozzie basically had to do buffets. Isn't that interesting?

There's no... Whatever. There's no... There's no... ...reign bias here or anything. I think if you are looking at it from, oh, the odd man out on exile is safe, right? Like that's been the logic and the premurge with, you know, with, with, with Ozzo over there. So.

But I guess, you know, she did have to do something. Like she wouldn't have been safe. I mean, she would have been safe because of the pairs thing. And it is interesting. You know, obviously we are being colored by a very specific edit. But like, think about the world where Sarid doesn't find that coconut in time and spends the night on exile. Ozzie literally says like, boy, I'm glad. jury here because I was going to vote out Aubrey and Rick.

Bless his heart, you know. Yeah, no, I think that was, I mean, I think she knew. Listen, she knows who she's playing with, right? She is the most intuitive person. She knows she does not pick her. I think that's something that people don't talk about enough. Like, she picks her allies, you know, like she knows who she's playing with every game, you know? So she knows what she needs to do to make them their best.

You know, I'm using. It does. My family language I'm using, you know, like, she. And so, like, I think she, you could hear that I was like, God damn it, I'm going to have to do this. Like, I'm going to have to. Yes. Think over every.

Oh, my God. She's like, okay. No. Let's go. You know. It's so true. And it was so fun. The series of events of basically, Sri being like, I have to get my ass back to camp.

Rizzo and Ozzie being like, yeah, that's what Surrey would want. Yeah. that's what we're sure you would want. Surrey coming back being like absolutely not. That is not what I want. Those three moments are just like, that's a story. You know,

like that's a comic in three panels. I love it. No, it reminds me of like, again, maybe it's just that this family unit or polychial, whatever they set up on the island. But it's sort of like,

you know, Ozzy's like, I'm going to make Christmas dinner. And then like the roast is burn coming out of the oven. And Siri is like, don't worry. I've ordered take.

I was like, oh my God, thank God you're here. I do not know what we would have eaten if you weren't here. Well, And it's interesting because I actually think like, like, I think that Rizzo, if Surrey hadn't, or I think if Sari hadn't told Rizzo that Chrissy was saying his name and Emily's name,

I think we've seen very like even playing field conversations between Sari and Rizzo, right? Like she really respects his opinion. And like, I think like they really. Which is incredible on all ends. Because I know that Rizzo has probably treated these people as normal individuals, but there has to be at least. I mean, you experienced this too, Izzy. Like, there's at least one iota that never leaves your body of like,

am I Surreyfield's closest ally right now? Yeah, I mean, like, you know, but what's crazy is like, I think when she chooses you and you know that she's chosen you, you know it's real, actually. Like there- Chosen one. Yeah, like, I don't know. You know, you could tell that it's like she's not playing me, you know?

And so, like, yeah. And even though that's the vibe she gives off to anyone, there's, you know, yeah, she gives off. an energy for sure. She's reading energies and she's giving it off. And I think Rizzo knows that like they're equal here, you know? And like, but I think Rizzo was taking

advantage of the fact that Sari wasn't there with Ozzy. Because I think it benefited. I think Rizzo was going to try to take the chance to get rid of Aubrey and Devin's because that would put him in more of a power position within the trio. Yeah, because remember he has this

four horseman thing. Like he has a high relationship with coach. Yeah. Yeah. You know, he wants to like, what's his fucking name? Boston, Rob and Jane. What's his name? What's his name? Never mind. What are you talking?

Crazy guy's name? The Francescoa. Philip. Oh, Philip. You know? Yeah. Like, it's that, right? Like, coach could be Rizzo's Philip.

You know? Like the kind of delusional king, right? So I don't know. I think, like, yeah, I think Rizzo would have tried to pitch Aubrey and Devin's to Ceree just to see if he could still get. that happening even though, of course, that was never going to happen. Right, because if you look at it from Surrey's perspective, I mean, we

sort of forget about this, but first, there is, remember this foursome that formed on Sela all the way back in the beginning of Surrey and Christian and Rick and Emily? They're still there. The real thing that I found out only a few days ago that I realized is Sela, the Orange Tribe, went to tribal council in

episodes one and two. They were the only tribe to go to tribal council in the first week of the game, and they have not lost anyone since. Okay. And six, The six who are left make up the majority of the final 11. Yeah, I mean, I was thinking about this. I saw a clip, you know, I don't know what podcast it was from, but Rob C was talking about this with someone.

And he was saying that he was like, can you believe disaster tribe is still there? But it's actually like a disaster tribe pre-merge only means that they can't win a comp. That is nothing to do with playing Survivor. Like that tribe was stacked with good survivor players all in different ways. But like, you're going to tell me that those six you wouldn't put your money on in some way. on any season that they were on. You know what I mean? Like I think it actually like,

once we take those stupid fucking comps out of there, challenges out of there, you know, those are good survivor players. I think it makes total sense that they're still there, you know? And I think losing tribes are in powerful positions come to merge. So,

yeah, I mean, we see that frequently where whenever there's the remaining members of a disaster tribe, they typically do pretty well. So, yeah, so I think that that's definitely a component of it.

I also do want to go back just to Rizzo for a hot sack because it was very interesting that he, I don't know if it was damage control or just trying to prevent things, but he was like, we got to tell Joe, like recognizing that Joe at least needs to be told about this and still trying to, like he's like, okay, fine. If I have to lose coach,

I still need to maintain this relationship with Joe. Although Joe's behavior was so weird in this episode because he was basically like, I'm never writing down coaches at tribal. I'm never writing down coach's name out of principle. And then there was the one vote, not for, you know, I mean, Chrissy cast her vote and then there was the one vote for Devons and Aubrey, but

it wasn't him. It was Jonathan. I was absolutely shocked. Do you want to hear the story behind that? Yes. Yes. So apparently, Joe really wanted this to be taken literally, that he promised coach he would never write his name down. So the first time he voted,

he just wrote down Chrissy. And then he got prompted by production to go back into the voting booth. And actually, if you look at the vote, maybe I'll try to pull a screenshot of it. I don't believe he actually wrote Coach's full name. I'm pretty sure he wrote C-O-A-H. He did not write the word coach.

So he is trying to get through with the most Samantha Semantics method. So it's like, I do not write your name down. I wrote down COA. It's like so embarrassing. You know what I mean? It's just like so embarrassing. Yeah, that's like that's like Mormon soaking in my mind. I'm like, that doesn't count.

Yeah, like, Orthodox people doing it through the sheet of like, what are you doing here? Yeah, exactly. Okay, I got to, I got to try to pull this up. Let me see if I can find a screenshot while we're chatting because that's nuts to me. Well, and I think Joe, like, do you think Joe really? Here you go, Leanne, by the way. There it is.

Oh, perfect. Yes, thank you. There's no other seat. It's like, calm. Calm. But you could also see now how it's a bit of a parenthetical, right? It's like, oh, I don't have enough room here. It's the old John Malini bit about writing the birthday banner of like,

oh, God, okay, coach on the bottom, maybe so small that he can't even recognize it. It's horrible. It's so embarrassing. I can't stand. But yeah, it's like, I thought it was interesting how Joe, when finally, when Rizzo, Ceree, Tiff was there, I can't remember if Ozzie was there, but had that conversation. Oh, yeah, on the beach.

And he was like, in his usual, like, no. we can't do that. You know, like, in this, like, insane, like, welcome back crazy eyes. Like, I guess we are hitting us with Big Brother. Like, but it was just like, in what power do you think you have any business talking to any of these people with that tone? Right?

Like, with that authoritative tone, you know that no one's been listening to you. Have you been saying anything? It's crazy. That's wild. Right? That's delusional. Well, not to mention that, Joe, again, like, we forget about the CELA time period, but, like, he does not like Rick Devons.

Like they bring it up video this episode. Like remember the two of them like had an actual blow up on the beach that was apparently even worse in person? Like Joe has every reason. Like I think it's fine if he writes down

Aubrey and Rick's name. I think he could have his kickneyed it too here and be like yeah, I know I'm in the minority, but like he's not angering Aubrey I don't think in the process. Even if he does, he's like,

Devons, I'm gunning for you. I don't think that's moving the needle. I can imagine these guys have really let bygones be bygones since they separated at the swap. I mean, I mean, definitely not Joe. You know what I mean?

Like, yeah, I think that's crazy. Aubrey is like the most self-aware player on the beach, I think. You know what I mean? Like, she would absolutely. Only after she does something that she shouldn't have done. Like self-aware in hindsight, I would say. I don't know. Well, yeah, but like she's also not going to read the situation and be weird about that.

She's going to be like, obviously, you were voting for us. You know, that's what I mean. Yeah. Not everyone needs that, like, one-v-one type of thing. right like I expect you know votes on my season I was like it's crazy like we would all expect you to vote the other way it's fine I really don't care you don't care you know so yeah well and I think we it was really interesting to see with how Tiffany responded to people who voted for her so for example her reaction to Ozzie especially I thought was really interesting because she was basically like look

this person tell is telling me that they voted for me which she interprets as they care enough to want to work with me. And I think Ozzy does a really good job in terms of repairing that relationship. I think Joe similarly has a good job repairing that relationship. So I think that there's a universe where if he votes for Tiffany and Devin's, he can go to Aubrey and be like, hey, look, man, it's nothing against you specifically. Like, I just hate Devin's. And that's no secret. We had a big blowout fight. Everybody's sorry. I hate your baby. I hate your baby. You're fine. But F you baby. So I think that That's absolutely just such a viable option to go with. And I think it also helps to maintain, even whether this is or is not Joe, right?

Whether it is or is not his strategy, I think the perception of someone who's a straight shooter is so important to try to cultivate. The perception of a straight shooter. So Joe, like, just do it. It's fine because then people are going to be like, okay, yeah, Joe just like follows his word. He's not unpredictable because the unpredictable people, aka the middle people, those are the, scary people, right? So just be the straight shooter or being perceived as the straight shooter. I think that that's such a solid strategy, especially for somebody like Joe. I want to talk about Rick here a little bit

because there was a lot to do with him towards the tail end of this episode. First off, I will say that the Rick and Aubrey dynamic, I mean, first, lots of Edge of Extinction references being made in this episode, an outright war dog named. Ward dog named. I mean, I'm not trying to list on chat, BCC. I want to do a Brant Steele maybe at the end of this season of everyone who has been mentioned in abstentia in survivor history of like Liz Wilcox, Sophie Balearity, Gabby Pascuzzi, war dogs on that list now. But the spare moments we get of them are kind of ridiculous. We have the baby comment. But if you remember, like there's this moment where it's Chrissy and Audrey and Rick

and Chrissy's talking to Rick and Chrissy's like, oh my God, I just have to like keep my partner calm from not, you know, laying their shenanigans drag me down. Rick's like, yeah, I know that. And then the camera swings around in Aubrey's there. They have the biggest like King of Queen's, Carrie and Doug Hephernan, sitcom, husband-wife thing of like,

oh, Jeff, you think the coconut's bad. You should try Aubrey's cooking and just expecting a laugh track to sound in the background. My bitch wife. Yeah, it's that, it's that meme. No, they're really interesting. But also, I mean, I don't know how much

a joke this is from Devin's right so that chrisie that moment with chrisie is like emblazoned in my mind because Aubrey doesn't really react in the ha ha kind of way um so that was very interesting but also remember devons was more than willing to vote at Aubrey when they split up for the blood moon so you know it's not like i think he feels a super strong loyalty to her i think maybe through these sort of series of events he eventually does but you know he's more than willing to let her go. Well, yeah, I just like, I don't know. I will always feel for Aubrey, like, she is always fighting. She's basically like a corollary to the Fields family at this point. Yeah, I love Aubrey. Family friend. I just like, I don't know. She's just like so. Yeah, I mean,

she said it in this episode. She was like, I am constantly like underestimated and also because people like, yeah, I think it's interesting because she's underestimated, but also feared, right? Like, people are like nervous about Aubrey. I don't really understand why. I think she's like a straight shooter also. Well, yes. We certainly in the premiere. Yeah.

Like, what's the, why is that different than all of the other? Like, why does she get targeted so heavily for being like that when so many other people

are let off the hook for that behavior? Like, I think we can't, we always blame an Aubrey, but it's like what, she's obviously a good survivor player. She makes it, I mean,

I'm amazed that she's still in it this season, right? Like, she always seems to consistently make it super far into the game. So I don't know. Let off Aubrey. Leave her. Let her be. Let her be. Let her feel. Let her react.

We need to get into what happened with this fake idol because the pure irony and for lack of better term, poetic flow that this entire sequence of events has had is incredible. So let's just sort of like paint an entire picture of the Rick and Aubrey dynamic this season or so they believe the dynamic to be. Aubrey gets an idol in her bag that she thinks is from Rick Devons. And she says, okay, you and me are now officially locked in. Thank you for giving me this idol.

I'm going to play it now. This episode, she's like, I'm like, God, I really wish I had the idol that you gave me. And Rick's like, don't worry, here's an idol that I completely pulled out of my ass and fabricated two weeks ago. go and have planted here. And the best thing was he convinced her it was real.

Up to that point. I don't know if he's ever going to tell her it's not. I think right now, you are just so in too deep that you have to just keep digging in the hopes that eventually you strike oil. Because he then sits back down and he spins

what I thought was like such a brilliant spur of the moment lie. I'm like, oh no, I can't use it this time because I have to leave tribal council. That's how it activates. Like it's such a a brilliant thing to come up with some sort of excuse. Certainly it's better than, oh, I forgot. So at least that there's a baseline there. But it's just the incredible thing now of where Aubrey's like,

oh my God, Rick, you're my protector once more. You found an idol and gave it to me. And then you found another idol. Neither one of those things are true. Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's like I, that lie was the best part of him revealing it. I mean, I'm sure, I thought I read someone. that like Emily Flippin turned to Rizzo

and was like, it's fake. That couldn't be. Yeah, I mean, coach just said it. There was fake. Obviously, yeah. It was like, he's not showing it. It's fake. Yeah.

Yeah, I just like, I just think, yeah, I mean, he was like too excited to grab it. He didn't even look for it. He couldn't even pretend to dig. He was like, doink, here it is. Like, Devin's, he was so excited. It was crazy. Anyway, yeah, I don't know. Like, they all should have owed them out right then.

Right then and there. I know. Well, the funniest part for me about this whole. thing was so Stephanie obviously is questioning whether or not this is real and she goes to Christian and just goes, you, you ask him to show it and he Christian's like, I don't want any part of it.

He knows it's fake. Yeah, if you need to rewatch this episode, which you should watch the tribal council specifically for the Christian reactions because I think he's simultaneously trying to act shocked in another reference to an iconic Big Brother gift, but also simultaneously squeeing on the inside being like, oh my God,

this is actually working. My skin knees weren't for nothing. He fainted for that bit, you know? Yeah. He really did. Committed. Fully committed. I mean,

it is interesting, though, because, you know, I have heard at least in talking with Chrissy and coach just scrapping reports as to whether or not this did move the needle. Chrissy seemed to be under the belief that she was like, we had the votes going in.

Remember, Stephanie had a vote steal as well. And so it's like, we have the numbers, but then Rick pulls us out and it spreads enough doubt to flip people over. But I feel like coach expresses this. And I kind of feel this way as well. well that as we mentioned, no matter what, it is going to be Aubrey, Rick, Christian, Emily,

and then assumingly, Ozzie Rizzo-Saree voting for Chrissy and Coach, no matter what. If anything this fake, I might have like spooked Stephanie and Joe into voting on the other side, but I don't really know, and which again, maybe questions the legitimacy of doing this, but I understand Rick wanting to do it. Like, this is the first time his name's been really thrown out. and it's a wild set of circumstances. He does not want to be collateral damage, quote unquote, guarantee his safety here.

But I don't know necessarily as much as it caused a live tribal council if this changed the plan for the majority of people going in. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think majority is the key word there, right? Because you see Jonathan, who is the one person who sticks with his vote of Devens and Aubrey, basically go over to who does he talk to, Ozzie maybe? and he goes, yeah.

He's so, what are we going to do? Like, it wasn't even a like any kind of proposition. It was just like, we're between a rock and a hard place.

Tell me what to do. It was that reaction. I didn't know. I'll say then turn to seret. Yeah. So, right, yeah,

exactly. So, you know, I mean, it was, it was sort of interesting to see it play out. To have it be such a landslide vote

does take a little bit of the excitement out of it, but certainly to see scramble is always exciting. Yeah, I mean, like, I feel like Rick is often doing things for the flare first, and then the strategy catches up afterwards, you know what I mean? 100%. You know, like now it's going to look ridiculous if he brings it up or tries to do it,

but he's got the target on his, you know, like, but now everyone knows. See, and that's the thing, too, I think, you know, I guess the question is, this will probably put a bad fear protecting him. I mean, what's interesting, though, because on the one hand, yes, now people are like he has an idol need to go after him, but Aubrey brings up a really good point this episode, which is like, why is me having an idol, or I think it was last episode,

why is me having an idol more dangerous than Rizzo and Ozzie having an idol? So I think it's all confirmation bias, right? It's like, if we feel you're not dangerous, then it's okay for you to have an idol because I still am okay with you being in the game. I don't know how vehemently the, you know, rag tag group that coach and Chrissy

have just left. like will be laser focused on Rick Devons. This could be a reason for people, supposedly if these middle people are as Liberty gibbets, as are suggested, like maybe they then flip on Rick. But I don't know. I do see the value again and just like, you know,

grab it now, ask questions later, or just continue to be entirely enigmatic about it and make them as many details as you can because I think the second you say like, oh, don't worry, it's a fake to anybody, then everybody's. going to know. This is the chattiest beach of surviving. A long time. Like, yeah,

that information is getting out. I mean, Rick has to keep it for himself, you know. Yeah. I mean, and Christian, but Christian's not going to say anything. I don't know. Is Christian going to flip on Devons? Like, are they trying to Wendell and Dom it? Like, what are they, what's the goal here? You know, I'm curious. I'm honestly really curious to see that. We haven't gotten a lot of them, like, what they're currently think. We got so much of, like, how they were thinking of the dynamics of the

of the game and like where they wanted to go and now we haven't gotten we haven't caught back up with them and I'm curious actually to hear what yeah what they're thinking now right it's been so interesting Leanna like the editing of this season because Christian

I would say like was the star of the pre-merge I mean he went to tribal in every episode yeah we have had him basically relegated to being a background player he literally said he was as much at tribal council which is just again, you don't necessarily expect that from like a season long survival right. And the other side of this is obviously Tiffany, who becomes like a major character

now of the past few episodes once she starts going to tribal council. Well, I think it's interesting also to look at the confessionals that Christian is getting, is that, um, comic relief maybe is not the right word, but we get the, you know, Jonathan plucks me, uh, says fee, FIFO Fum, the giant plucks me and I go along. Right there, there's still those fun confessionals, but to, Izzy's point. They're not about, oh, here's my position within the game. Here's who I want to work with. Here are my allies. Like, this is where I'm trying to go, where I'm trying to move. It's about surrey gallivanting on exile, you know, and we do see some of that.

I do think she'd call it galivating. Remember what he, well, that's a Christian use. You know, and we do get some of it with him talking about the benefit of being paired with Jonathan as we had talked about. So, you know, there is some of it there, but there's not that long-term strategy or sort of that overarching plan that we see from Christian, but I do remember from David versus Goliath that his edit also similarly kind of got a little bit more quiet as we got to the merge. And I don't know if that's due to like lack of food because, you know, when you need a lot of energy to run your brain, Christian's got a big old brain, okay? He requires a lot of glucose to get those neurons firing.

He's a data center. He needs all to drink up a water. Exactly. Exactly. Yes. And the locals are currently boycotting. So I think it could be also a situation like that. But there's certainly been sort of the, I would say that this season, I don't want to say necessarily more so than most, but it's really done a lot of main characters, secondary characters, and those have shifted over the course of the season, but

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Your lady, serie, here. I mean, it was a big moment for her. And, you know, we talked about this a little bit last week. How I think they luck out in bringing some of these old school legends onto a journey or onto exile to be able to show the entire time lapse. Couldn't necessarily do that with someone like Rizzo, right? Of like, hey, this is what I did two weeks ago? But what were your takes on that entire sequence we got, you know,

Sarin talking about how Survivor still allows her to be able to surprise herself in so many ways, even 20 years later? Yeah, I mean, like, Ceree's amazing. Like when she's back at home, like she is a normal as person going to work every day, you know, being a grandmother, you know, and like living just like a very day to day normal, busy family focused life, you know? And so I think, yeah, like these adventures are like, you know, test her. And I think she loves that, right? Like she's not one that's afraid in her regular life also of being tested. Like she became a nurse out of necessity. you know and to care for her family and um yeah she's an incredibly strong person that like the world has told you're not strong you know which like i think that's something that we related um to each other on you know just feeling like the world is telling us no and we're like but why but why not me you know and so i think this was like hard i think she you know the way she remembers

it is just like this was the most difficult thing it was so hot it felt Harder than the balance beans? You know, yeah, it's different. This was grueling. I think this was like incredible grueling for her, you know, and there's a lot of pressure. I think she feels a lot of pressure on this season, you know? So, and a lot of pressure where like every vote really, really, really matters to her, you know, because even though they haven't talked about it on the beach, I think she will never stop

being the biggest target of the season. I mean, how could she not be, you know, especially because people forget about it, right? So then when you remember, it's like, oh, shit, now she's super powerful, you know? So I don't know. I'm proud of her, right? She keeps showing up. To me, I'd rather see someone that maybe you think shouldn't be able to do a thing, persevere and do the thing way more than Jonathan in his nipple just like walking a tree.

Singular nipple. I just don't give a shit. I don't care. You know what I mean? Like, I don't care. Like, that doesn't make me impressed at all, you know? So, yeah, yeah, I know. I know she was thinking about her granddaughter, her grandson,

but like I think her granddaughter a lot on that beach, you know, and just being like, I am a model for so many people and like really motivating for her. So yeah, I know that she's like, all I hate watching myself cry and shit like that. But like, I don't know. It was beautiful. I think we all always feel something when we watch her like accomplish something. And so I'm really happy. Yeah, I'm happy she got that experience even though, of course, she's mad.

as hell about it and like I'm happy that it wanted sorry because everyone's right for yeah exactly and I'm like happy that people continue to see that like no matter how big of like a queen or a mother or like you know how big she is that she is just deep just always a real person that is like always going to show you why she loves this you know that's like beautiful no coach can't so many people can't say that you know what I mean it's like coach is a big ass buffoon I don't why we're obsessed with him being a legend. You know, it's like, he's just a buffoon. Like, so anyway, I, I don't know.

I'm happy about it. He is, is he not a legend like financial analyst Chris Varela? I was like, Emily Flippin? Okay, is that actually a real person? Because I did try to Google it and I could not find anybody under that name. I thought I just spelled it wrong. No, he's, um, he, I mean, he certainly has like spoken at seminars. He is like, I don't know how notable of a financial...

How do you spell his name then? Z-A-R-E-L-A. V-A-R-E-L-A. Chris? Chris Vorella. Chris Vorella. Bearded man. No.

Does he have a big beard? I believe he does, yes. Okay, because there's someone named Chris Vorella on Instagram, but he only has a thousand followers. Coach might be one of them. Coach was talking about. Maybe it's even a hipster side of coach being like, there's this, There's this little guy you don't know about him, you know, I got him on vinyl. His name is Chris Verilla.

Or he got like, you know, obviously coach is raking it in with the cameos and now charging for nicknames. Like it's possible that this guy paid him an exorbitant sum to be like, can you get me, can you name drop me on the show? And coach's like, yeah, listen, I'm, you give me the price and I'll do it. I mean, he's the integrity guy. He's absolutely doing that. He's like the Tom personality-wise.

the Tom Sandoval of Survivor. I could see it, honestly. I can see that in comparison, yeah. Don't you think? Yeah. Him and coach also, right? Tyson. Tyson. Yeah, both friends of Tyson.

Yeah, that's the whole. We could talk about House of Villains. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, all I could hear was when he was. I mean, yeah. Or like, think about when coach was conducting himself in the hammock. It's like Tom singing backwards into the doll. Exactly.

There's a trumpet. They both play trumpet. Oh. y'all. It's there. Did you stumble on something? I'm saying. I'm standing of all of Survivor.

I can get into reality TV conspiracy theories. I can get hip to that. I love it. I started one right now. Leanna, any thoughts about our trip to exile in this episode? I love that Surrey took the coconut back with her. I do not think production prompted her to do it.

I'm very sure this was a Surrey choice. Good though, right? Because again, we talk. Oh, crack it up. Do you think it there was actually like, I don't know. Pardon me. There's some in there.

Brought some back. These are the good ones. I brought the good ones. No, I mean, look, we, so we've, we talked about this with Stephanie, with other people who have gone on journeys. What do you say, right? How do you explain the situation?

People aren't going to believe you. So I think having that physical coconut probably was incredibly helpful to validate the story that, I mean, there's no way she could have made that, right? That's not a fake coconut. The Rick Devons hit at Tribal Council. So it helps to validate the story, which makes, her believable and then it all kind of makes sense. And then she doesn't have an extra target on top of her already, you know, threat level from

that journey in exile specifically. That is a great idea. Like, can we take mementos from the journey to prove ourselves? I mean, this is more of a, you know, airbud, Esther's not a rule against it. But could you do like, no, on the journey, I had to hold up a stone as long as possible. Look, I broke my toe. Would I be lying to you? Would I be showing you a broken toe if that wasn't one?

what I had to do. You break your toe? Would you break your toe? You do a lot of things to get ahead in the game. It's 127 hours. You need to break your toe to get up a trap. I'm just imagining like what Stephanie would have brought back, like a bucket, I guess, from the...

Like a piece of rope. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What would she bring back? I mean, like, Street did get lucky in the sense that, like, she didn't even have to lie about it. She was like, yeah, now I get to vote tonight. So everything's the same. You know, and like even, I mean,

we didn't see anyone question it, but like she got lucky in the sense that like, that could have been, it could have been like you get to now keep your vote and this coconut is an idol, right? Which then would be more complicated of a thing to. That actually would have been very flat. It would have been fun the more.

I think because we haven't had any idols hidden in the post merge. Granted it hasn't really felt like a post-emerge, but all we've had are the Billy Ilish freaking Boomerang Idels. We have not seen Sarah nor hide of any other type of idol this season. Yeah. Yeah.

You're so right. I'm just like it's chalk full of twists, but we don't even have just like a tribe hidden immunity idol. Well, I also, I like the idea of, you know, I mean, I guess, what's the most recent one I could think of? China, I guess, with the placard.

Like some kind of big, honkin idol that you got a oh maybe the ghost island immunity neck like erics immunity neckliss yeah which is like i love the idea of seri having to just like carry this massive coconut everyone's like why do you keep that coconut you know it really reminds me of my perseverance and what I'm like sorry that thing stinks seven days and you get rid of it like no no way it's too much well she did say it was her best her best ally

out there. So I was not surprised, again, even if she wasn't prompted to take it back with her, just to be like, he's a new member of our tribe. This is our Merck the chicken. That's right. All right. Well, we shall see and talk about who was clucked in this very episode and plucked from the tribe, much like a chicken feather. Let's talk about the duo taken out in the double duo twist. It is time for our preseason predictions, and we've got two of them this week. So what do you think, Leanna? Should we go in the order they oddly went in in terms of who was snuffed when or should we go in reverse order? Yeah, let's just go on the order

in which they were snuffed, I suppose. Poor Chrissy. I'm sorry. You just like, it's so hard for women. I just like, can we just like, it's like what the fuck? Like you couldn't even, I don't know. It's crazy. Like, I don't want to be like a broken record about it. I'm let Leanna talk about Chrissy. But I just like, I just like agree with everything so much of the fans are saying about how, how unequal this season has been. And that the like the vibe of Survivor has been coming. You know what I mean?

Like I just, I think it's really disappointing. And I think like I love that Jeff thinks that like, like I love that everyone that works on Survivor, it's a family, blah, blah, blah. yada yada, yada. I don't really care about family. You know, like, it's fine. Like, whatever. But it's like, it's like, this is like, you know,

it's something like where it feels like when you're too close to it, you stop having perspective. Can't see the jungle for the trees. And like, I'll let everyone look it up themselves, but I saw a picture of like the episode editing room team. And I think everyone should look at that room and think about why the edit looks the way the edit consistently looks. Well, I mean, Chrissy's, yeah, the final words also.

Yeah, yeah. Like with Coach getting basically a monologue and Chrissy getting, I don't know, 0.2 seconds. Yeah, which is weird because she told me that she did like a very similar thing to coach. So she said like, thank you. This was such an honor. Play hard. And they're like, no, we don't need this. This will be on the DVD bonus.

Coach, you made the cinematic cut, my friend. Mm-hmm. And it's just trash. He says nothing. It's like all just words with no. actual quality of content. Though we did get Rizzo declaring that Coach changed his life

and Emily showing this more so maybe just I don't know, changed her prescription with how hard she was rolling her eyes. Which as she should. And the thing is and if it was flipped and Emily Flip and said that to coach, she wouldn't get away with it.

Rizzo gets away with a lot. You know, Rizzo's a smart player but Rizzo gets a lot away with a lot. You know? minutes earlier, he walks over to Rick being like, I know you just like threw a firework in the middle of this, but I got to say like big fan. That was a really cool moment.

It's like, what are we doing right now? You dog. You dog with your six idols. You like, okay, Rizzo, this is cute. This is that you can tell that again. He said that he's more of a girl's guy. That he's like, good on you, buddy. Wow, six, you real dog.

You, woof, woof. I will say the Rizzo moment where he goes, Girl by, when Chris, He's going to vote him, like, wants to target him. That was a really great girl. I enjoyed that. Okay, so let's circle back to Chrissy. So I...

That would be a piece of corporate language that Chrissy would use, by the way. I know, yeah. Anyway, I did not hit my Q2 goals at all. This is going to be rough. All right. So just bear with me. I had Chrissy making the finale. Okay.

I said, Chrissy enters the game, ready to play hard, quickly linking up with coach and Jonathan to form a tight, loyal pre-merge alliance. The group isn't taken very seriously due to coach's shenanigans, and they're able to slide deep into the merge. However, recognizing the danger of the men teaming up late, Chrissy makes the first move flipping with Stephanie and Surrey to take out coach at final six. The move works, but exposes Chrissy as a decision maker raising her threat level at exactly the wrong time. At final four, where Chrissy is sent to firemaking against Stephanie,

where her survival legacy comes full circle. And a cruel twist of fate, Chrissy loses at fire, the same mechanic that some say once cost her the win and is taken out just short a final tribal. Y'all do fan fiction on this shit. This is great. Be prepared, Izzy, be prepared.

Oh, no. Her allies coach and Jonathan enemy firemaking slash Jeff ropes, which that one I think holds true. our enemy definitely is production in Jeff Rose. 100%. And Democrats. I mean, uh, well that too.

Leona, listen, you may have been incredibly off the map, but at least we are occupying the same quadrant of said map. I had Chrissy making the finale. Reentering the crack den of Survivor 50, Chrissy hits the pipe a little too hard

coming out, looking to immediately show she can have a social game. She overcompensate. in the first couple days, earning Sarki confessionals from her cast members. Don't worry, though, much like her original season, Chrissy will only spend a small amount of time on the outside, and she'll find a way in through an alarmingly similar demo, as Charlie connects with her and decides to include her in his growing web of allies. At one point, after biffing a pre-merge challenge pretty hard,

we'll get a sequence of Chrissy really sitting in her loss at camp, and will be treated to an emotional confessional where she talks through her previous cancer scare and what she's learned about being proactive in the midst of experiencing a massive low. At the swap, Charlie is taken away from Chrissy, but she finds a new safe haven in Rick Devons, as two of the biggest should have won contenders in the 30s, bowed to take each other to the end so that one of them will remedy what was promised in the 2010s. When the merge hits, Chrissy reconnects with Charlie and to a lesser extent coach, the Cs say see ya to the vast

majority of their competition, with the pair serving as a key fulcrum in the topsy-turvy nature of this individual game. However, that strategy gives Charlie too many 46 flashbacks. Fearing the dangers of letting a mama bear into the house, he vows his porridge won't get eaten again and decides to gun for her. When coach informs Chrissy, she gets enraged, immediately turning the rest of the tribe against her number one ally. Chrissy makes it all the way to the final four,

where she has a good shot to yet again win in final immunity and sit at the end. But it's Joe who bests her in the end as he chooses to pick her and coach against each other. The survivor gods may be many things, cruel, arbitrary, but they also have a good sense of humor. And so Chrissy Hoff Beck goes out in Final Four Firemaking thanks to a guy named Ben. Her ally was Charlie then coach

and her enemy was Charlie than Joe. That's so funny. It's just her. I think you and I are so rude. We're so cruel. We were like, you know, Well, what's funny? Oh, man.

Oh, that's interesting. Okay, so wait. And coach also. Okay, all right. All right. Izzy, we're going to put the conductor baton a la coach in your hands right now. You get to pick between us who had the better read on Chrissy's game. Good luck.

Oh, God. I don't know. I was. I was going to say flip a coin, man. Manly. I don't know. Just because it was like I was experiencing it for the first time. gotta go Leanna.

Like, I just was like what's happening. And now I remind a little bit of like when the sequel just basically repeats the piece of the original movie. I was like, you know, like you had too much Charlie in yours. I'm sorry. I just had to go with Leanna. Yeah, if it could send a back a script revision. Too much Charlie in this one.

No, no. Only note too much Charlie. Well, Mike, now I got to hear your coach. Yeah, you got to go first for coach. Would you like to? Not the crack of the knuckles. you're feeling confident. Give me that final three, baby.

And I quote, gather my children and let me regale you with the unlikely yet epic story of how Benjamin Coach Wade won Survivor 50. No way. I don't even think you're allowed to.

I've been on record about this, baby. I was talking this from the pre-season when I was out there. Coach enters the game with an incredible cue rating, including from the man himself from the rest of his cast. His old school Patriots are happy to be working alongside a familiar face, while the new era contestants are still pinching themselves weeks in

that they're actually playing alongside the Dragon Slayer. So Coach is able to coast on vibes and reputation during the first part of the game. We'll get segments around him providing nicknames and telling stories as for usual, but at long last, his bits will find a welcome audience. But all that sparkle is not to dull any of Coach's shiny gamesmanship. We see he creates quick and meaningful connections with Charlie, Chrissy, Jonathan and Camilla. At the swap, Coach winds up sharing a shelter yet again with Ozzy.

Outnumbered by a new era majority, the two of them will let bygones be bygones all these years later, chatteling their combined strengths to make sure the South Pacific cast sports a third winner. Coach misses one of his kids' birthdays during the season, which will cause him to have a surprising emotional breakdown at camp. We'll then be treated to a sequence where he then informs us what has changed with him since the show and why his family is now his true North Star in this game.

And yes, he'll use the mention of North Star to go onto an extended monologue about the constellation sailors used when circumnavigating the globe in the 1400s. While coach meets a number of new people at the merge, he yet again drafts off of his good preseason impression like a hawk rising through thermals, shout out animorphs. He immediately grabs hands with the man whose balls he formerly grabbed in Colby. Together, they decide to form an alliance among the old schoolers,

as well as old school-minded like Joe and Jonathan. Unfortunately, it's a case of the best laid plans of mice and little men. A new coalition forms among the new schoolers and strategists, calling his close allies. But like the best samurai of your, Coach will learn to walk on his hands rather than put his foot in his mouth. Perceived as less of a threat than his allies, he lays low while banking on relationships he previously made

with Surrey, Ozzie, Chrissy, and Charlie. Towards the end of the game, Joe and Coach will start. swear their loyalty to one another, the two will force a tie between coach and Chrissy at the final four, who he had been working tightly with the past couple rounds. Coach will ironically win the firemaking showdown and of course do a couple of textbook power poses upon his victory. Sitting in the final three,

coach is having major deja vu. But much like Boston Rob between All-Stars and Redemption Island, he knows what he has to do to not repeat the same outcome. dropping the guise of epic poetry and myriad quotes, he talks about the flexibility he showcased, his ability to escape danger like an Amazonian tribe eating his asshole. He does dip into a bit of the typical, however, with his closing message,

quote, for over 15 years, I have been known as the Dragon Slayer, but I stand in front of all my venerated players today to tell you that Coach Ben Wade this season has become the dragon. As a result of bringing the quote unquote fire to final tribal council, coach improbably ends up winning. Coach will also be the person who fakes the most enthusiasm for Mr. Beast appearance. He'll get brought into a Mr. Beast video of we've strained this one man

on exile island for 30 days. His ally was Chrissy and Joe and his enemy was the edit. You know what? That's actually, he did get that that. It wasn't Mr. Beast, but it was Zach Brown. I feel like coach was giving the most unenthusiastic, trying to pretend like he cares about Zach Brown. Coach knows what he needs to do to get camera time. And that includes glazing any sort of celebrity or reward that's brought in front of him.

Okay. Before I read my prediction, I do need to mention one quote from this episode that I just keep laughing at. It's when Ozzy is talking to Tiffany. And he's talking about serving up coach on a platter. And he goes, Ozzy says, and then we can dragon slay that ass. Yeah,

yeah. And I don't, it's just amazing. I have no comments on that. Just no, it's perfect. Okay. So coach.

I also had coach making the finale. I said coach enters the game, just being coach. So naturally, no one takes him that seriously, which allows him to slide by as a non-threat despite being coach. He forms.

a tight pre-merge alliance with Chrissy and Jonathan, giving out nicknames while doing Tai Chi on the beach. Come merge, the biggest strategic players take shots at each other, allowing coach and his alliance to slip by to the finale. However, at final six, Chrissy begins to worry about the men linking up and decides to not take any chances. She bands together with Stephanie and Surrey to flip the script, leaving coach as a casualty of his own hero's journey. coach gives us at least three different misattributed quotes over his time on this season. His allies, Chrissy and Jonathan, and his enemy also Chrissy. Which, you know. So yeah, that was my prediction.

That is so funny, Mike, that I thought, well, I don't know what I thought was going to happen, but I was like, man, I'm so far off. I'm feeling way better. You never can ever think that you're far off because you just don't know what the other side's providing. It's playing a game of battleship. And there's a lot of white pegs on my board right now. This is crazy.

All right. So, yeah, I'll go ahead and take that second point. Thank you very much. You know what? I'm giving it to you. You can't pay. Oh, come on. I wrote the I wrote the Iliad, okay?

I really did. The ADHD, I was like, I don't even know what he's saying anymore. And I wrote it on ADHD as well. So yeah, very much stream of consciousness and truth of thoughts winning out here. That's so funny. That's a wild ride, actually. Oh, my gosh.

All right. Fabulous. Okay, so the game, let me get set up real quick for the game that we're going to play today. So this is a game that I am calling Who's that meme? Mike, if you can please.

Thank you very much. Okay. So this game, the way that this works, is I was struck by some of the facial expressions that the contestants were making during this episode. So I am going to describe a scenario that happened in the episode and show you four memes. And you have to guess which meme matches the scenario as closely as possible. Okay, I was a little confused by this meme initially because I thought you put Jeff in as the third person in the jealous girlfriend meme. I was like, that person is not supposed to be happy as Jeff is exulting in the rain right now. I will tell you, I was making this literally right before this.

I had to work today. So I was like, behind. And I was Googling, I needed like a cover picture. And I was like, Survivor meme first photo in. I don't even think I read it. So here we are. But the meme is, yeah, the. jealous girlfriend meme, but Jeff is, I guess, the jealous girlfriend, but he's like,

real happy about it because it's for more idols. Anyway, whatever. Check out the video. I'm not, I'm not like, I'm dating himself. I think this makes sense, Mike. Okay, thank you. Yes, there we go. Also, there's Jeff Probes and then also the middle guy is Jeff Probs. I'm saying Jeff is in a relationship with himself. Yeah, I think the fans, if you were to go to the original meme format, I think we would be here as the fans. Yeah. Okay. So let's

let's move on to our first situation. Okay. So Mike, this is for you. So your situation that you have to describe is Chrissy's reaction to the double the duo or whatever the hell it was called

twist. Okay? So this is Chrissy finding out about how the twist is going to work and this is her reaction. So there are four memes here. The first is I show speed, sort of gasping, covering his mouth in gasp.

The fourth is Surprise Pikachu. The, uh, or yeah, B, surprised Pikachu. C is the animated or drawn Captain Kirk. Animated Captain Kirk. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Um, and then the last is, I can't remember where this is from.

Some like America is like Brin's Got Talent or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's, yeah, it's that, uh, Ginger Kid with a very, very wide open, shocked face. Trouty mouth, yeah. Exactly. Yes. Yeah, Puy was like telling me the names and I didn't remember all the names of the memes. So you'll have to bear with me here.

So, Mike, of these, which is most like Chrissy's reaction to finding out about the twist? It's so interesting because I feel like we're dealing with some double duos right here. And then I feel like A and C are kind of related to one another. They're both hand over mouth. It's just one versus two. And then B and D are both just no hands involved, wide open shock. I feel like, okay, I don't remember. Chrissy's reaction in the episode, but I do remember

Chrissy's reaction when she a very iconic confessional where she reads the note in Heroes Heelers, Hustlers that reveals Final Four Firemaking and she reads the note right on and she goes so I feel like I feel like it's going to be either

A or C. I don't know why did she do two hands. It would feel apropos. So I'm going to go with C for Captain Kirk because she argues she was done in by the Captain Kirk of the season and Rick Devons playing that fake idol. Okay.

Now granted, this is my interpretation, but I think that Chrissy looks most like surprise Pikachu. Oh, okay. Yeah, I see it. It's also the yellow. The yellow, I think also kind of no other facial expression going on with it, just a open mouth type reaction. So, Mike, unfortunately, that's not a point for you.

That's identical, Leon. That's identical. Sorry, I'm sure. You have an eye for meme faces. That's spot on. Yes, yes. All right. Well, so Izzy, let's move on to you for the next question.

Now, this scenario is your favorite person of all time, coach, who is having a conversation with Tiffany, where he's near the air. Yes. Yes. It's me. It's absolutely. D, this is one of my favorite moments of the episode. We didn't even talk about that, but that was insane. He didn't even figure out what he was going to say to her.

Yep. That's how little. It's just a natural follow-up question. And it's also the second time in three weeks is happening. Remember, there's a whole thing with D right during the blood room where he's like, by the way, Emily's been throwing your name out. And she's like, really? Who'd you hear that from?

And he's like, oh. I did not realize there would be follow-up questions. What an idiot. It's D. Which, yes, okay, so first of all, I will reveal the answer, but yes, your options were sort of like confused Shrek, a little Picard question, a weird, confused baby, and the buffering meme. And yes, it was, again, basically identical, like even the same nose shape. It's identical in the wheels turning and he's like, well, I didn't think she would ask me a follow-up question. I have prepared all answers to all possible questions.

Except for that one. Not me, not me, not me. I wasn't. And she's like, okay, bitch, who? But then who? He didn't even think of who we wanted to pin it on. Anyways, but then who?

So, yeah, I mean, and all, okay, again, this was edited, right? But it felt like it lasted so long. Oh, no. Coach admitted to me that it lasted that long. Like, he fully was like, yep, I had no idea what I was doing. It's crazy. I love it. Okay.

let's move on to our next question Mike this is for you okay so coach is in the hammock he's been relegated to the hammock uh and he is not allowed to leave he's in timeout and he's doing his hykoo thing and he's doing it sort of silently to himself and he has this reaction to getting his haiku oh yeah just so okay just because i i know the answer but describe them okay yes so you're your four options are a the second part of the Drake meme where instead of the rejection he's like yeah and then the second part is the um the like thinking tapping the head meme uh see salt bay or the success kid doing the fist celebration well initially i would pick Drake because i'm pretty sure he conducted that song in a minor uh but no it is it is the success fist kid as he's conducted

actually negotiating a haiku that does actually work. He secretly fistpumps himself. That is correct. Immediate, yes. This whole segment was just so ridiculous to me of coach. Just entertaining himself, I guess, maybe is a better thing. Entertaining the camera crew. He's not like this at home.

I was going to say, do you think there was one specific camera who also had to babysit coach? They're like, all right, you're on coach duty. for the day. They draw rocks at the beginning of the day. And it's like, fuck, I keep getting stuck with fucking coach. Everyone throwing your shot in the dark. Absolutely. Okay.

So we are all tied up one to one. Izzy, we're going back to you. And we're moving on to the tribal council. Obviously, when Devons pulls out the idol, several reactions from the crowd, these are the reactions that I think best represent, one financial analyst, Emily Flipin. Your options are, A, the disgusted kid meme, it's a little girl, little blonde girl with the two buck teeth, just, ugh, reaction. Your, the other options are the Barbie disgusted face, a gym, classic Jim Halpert, hmm face, as well as the, I don't even know how to describe the last one, but it's like so iconic.

It's the three-tiered, if anyone else has a description, the like white guy is just like, it's a, It's a literal double take. It's like, yeah, exactly, exactly. Oh, man, I mean, I want to say this is between A and B. Like, I don't think she looked like, like, yeah, I want to say it's between A and B. I just, because I think it's fucking hilarious, I'm voting for A. Okay, all right. So you did narrow it down to the two options.

It went B, didn't you? It was B. I think it's pretty close. I think there could be a debate there, but I don't know, to me it's giving the disgusted barb. Can I say low-key, Emily was one of my favorite foils to coach throughout the short amount of time they had together. I feel like she was one of the best go-to people for all of his shenanigans. Again, through to its final moments when versus like,

I love you, coach. Lexi loves style. And Emily's like, okay, can we move on here? Yeah. She's so iconic. Like what a love. So over it. Not having it. Oh, this is great.

You nailed it. This is absolutely. Okay. Mike, we're going back to you. Same situation. But this time, it's Joe's reaction to Devin's pulling out the idol. So your four options are the Robert Downey Jr., Tony Stark, sort of eye roll meme. Another Jim Halpert smirk.

The, like, Sponge. I think he's wearing a SpongeBob shirt. That's how I remember it, the like disappointed SpongeBob kid on Picture Day. And we're running back surprised Pikachu. Okay. So I'm between C&D right now. I don't think Joe rolls his eyes. I also don't think he'd like delightfully smirk at this like Jim Halpert.

I think either he'd be like, yep, of course he freaking does in the form of the unimpressed Spondruck or he would be shocked. I think he's shocked Pikachu. If I remember correctly, I do think he bought this hook line and sinker. think we're going to be two for two in shock to you this episode. Okay. So I will show you. Joe's reaction.

It is, I think, the most like the SpongeBob kid. He's kind of got that. Hmm. I think he looks. I think he's looking over at Jonathan, maybe most likely, just like, this guy. Wait, can he also,

mini buffer snuff here. Can me look at what's going on with the buff? I'm very confused. Wait, what do you? Oh, because he's like, he's like somehow. his duo hangar. Exactly.

How did he wrap it around there? I don't know. I have no idea. He might have just folded it and like stuck it to his head. That's kind of what it looks like. I hear it loose. Yeah, because look over here. It's kind of like gaffing over on the left hand side.

It's not like a cold compress pack. Like it's a headache for having to play survivor. I also did love though the Roarshack test because they had to wear the like colored ribbons to know who's in which pair of the rest of the day to like, It's a real barometeress. Like who, who wears it, how? Rizzo had a tie going on. Joe has this where he still wants to show.

He's on Survivor 50. He's got that brand loyalty at the end of the day. Oh, yeah. He's getting that deal. Yeah, with the logo facing out. Like, that's his approach. Okay, Izzy, we're going back to you. Now, this is, I suppose also, so it's also a tribal council.

This is Aubrey's reaction, not her sort of initial reaction, kind of the like second reaction to finding out that devons has an idol and is going to save them at this tribal council so you have a michael scott reaction sort of a almost tearing up type reaction you have the second part of the spider man i guess uh reaction where happy crying you've got michael jordan just sort of crying crying no reaction and then um i don't know what the last one is from but I've seen it online before. Hand in front of mouth, crying reaction. The hand open gif, if I can describe it. So, Izzy, what do you think most matches Aubrey's reaction? I don't think Aubrey had the hand to mouth. So I think I'm eliminating D right off the bat.

Go to coach. I think there was, I mean, I love the Michael Scott looking up. Like I do remember like that last image of her looking up at Devons felt very like, you know, of this moment. I can't remember if she's smiling. So I think Michael Jordan is also out. I think that's not the look. There's like a little disappointment in his eyes in this one, you know? I think it's between A and B.

I'm going to have to go A. I hope it's A. I don't know. Well, you hope and you shall receive. Yes. Oh, it was A. And look at Aubrey's ribbon styles. Isn't that fun?

She definitely did that for her. I like that. That's very cute. Yeah, there was another. So Izzy, with that point, you are the winner of this game. Congratulations. Thank y'all. Winning something.

There's, there was another. So there's another Aubrey moment. Actually, let me, let me pull it up. So it's, yeah. So here, okay. So this is, so this is the. Aubrey moment here. Let me let me put it up here.

Okay, so here's, here's the Aubrey. And basically Pooia and I were having a debate about which, which, which meme looks the most like. Okay. Yeah. I think so because I look at the other ones. She's not grumpy cat. She's far from it.

And I don't think she, I don't think she's the Keenan, like, incredulous look. I actually think maybe, I might say the Hugh Lorry might be the best one. It's like that's a lot. You know, it's like, he looks raised. So that's, so, okay, that's so funny because we're tied to, too. So Mike and I were both on the Hugh Laurie one, but Izzy, you and Pooia, both, he immediately, he was like, no, it's Kevin James. Like, immediately.

Mug there a little bit. Yeah. It's just like a hint of, I'm getting away with it, you know? Yeah. Anyway, so since I couldn't come to, we couldn't come to a consensus, I left this one. This was going to be the tiebreaker. I love that. But anyway, so congratulations.

on winning. You nailed it. We love it. Oh my goodness. You know your memes. All right. I don't know any memes. Like I'm so not on the end.

Now you know. You get the fringe benefit as well. Now you get not only a glorious win, but you get to find out all about these cool memes that you can talk to with Gen Zs across the nation. I hope my blooms Madison, delusional Madison, is proud of me. She's the meme queen.

Shout that out. Well, speaking of shout out. as we're wanting to do with when it comes to Big Brother alumni. Of course, at the end of every episode here on the B&B, we give an opportunity to our guest to shout out a charity or cause that is important to them so that the people out there do not need to be like Surrey and Hunt and Peck across the wide beach of the internet

to find where they can spend their hard-earned money. So what would you like to spotlight this week? Yeah, I'm still super supporting PCRF, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. So you can check them out. and my big brother, pal, Joseph Abden, also works very closely with them, and it's a great organization to support. 100%.

Izzy, this was such a fun time. I mean, it makes sense for the Dragon Slayer that you brought the fire. I knew that you absolutely would. And thank you so much for talking through such a really fun episode. I don't know where we go from here considering that, again, if there was this quote-unquote majority going into the episode, two of them just got taken out. So we shall truly see if they become the middle people,

but really middle people is a relative term. No, but yeah, it was great to spell your de facto relatives here on the island as well. And thank you as always for coming on and being yourself. We adore every single thing about you. And this time is no different. Thanks for having me. I love talking about Survivor. This one, of course, feels close to home.

So keep rooting for fields to do well. well people want to check out what this field might be doing on social media how can they do so how can people follow you um i don't know come to blueski that's what i call her but at flute dyke um that's where i'm mostly talking reality tv and trolling and all that good stuff well you post more more memes now that you know about them yeah i'm gonna try i believe in you believe in you yeah it's all about the effort that's exactly it's all about the effort at the end of the day you'll crack open that one coconut that you'll find it. It's just the perfect meme. Blaining. All right. Well, all you need to do is also check out what's going on with the pal. What's going on on an Australian Survivor over at Parade.

We are doing a lot of stuff around Survivor. As we get into basically like the final month of the season, we're actually about a month away right now from the ending of this. And we still have 11 people left, but we also only have 11 people left. We have less than half the cast is left here. And so I'm incredibly intrigued to see what happens from here. You know, I'm hoping we get a little bit more of a pure round. I'm not sure because there seems to be a special announcement happening.

And Jeff also seems to be competing in the challenge, which is going to be really, really weird at it of itself. But regardless, the weird it is, the more fun Leon and I are going to have next week getting to break it all down. Absolutely. All right. Well, thanks to everyone behind the scenes at RHAP for packaging this podcast for your eyes and your ears. and of course, we'll from America for his fan-tastic theme song that can outkick anything that coach would compose on the hammock.

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