Thursday, July 6, 2023

Episode 44.3

While it seems way too late to remind you right now, since you already know this, I might as well point out that Survivor was renewed for at least a season 45 and probably a season 46. We’ll see when I get these published as I need to be caught up on this blog first before I can post on any new seasons, which could take a good, long while, since I only post one post of any blog on any day and am not good at getting caught up even when I started trying (as evident by yesterday’s lack of a post here).

 

Now I want to post about the one time challenges from the forty-second season next, but there are none so I will have to end with the onetime challenges from the forty-third season. Since all of 44 has now aired by the time you see this, then I was a bit worried that anything that could have been one time isn’t included since it might have also appeared during this season as well. But there is something that I can cover before probably never covering these challenges again. I’ll get to what will replace it the moment that I’m done with this section.

 

Brain Stew (immunity challenge from Show No Mercy): In this challenge, tribes would have to push sandbags off different tables while looking for a hidden key. Using the key to unlock the net, they will crawl under it with four bags containing puzzle pieces. The pieces would first be used to form a square before it is taken apart and carried to the top of a tower. The same pieces would then be used to form a triangle. It could be done while social distancing if done as an individual challenge.

 

There are two things to note before I continue. The less important one will be covered first. I have decided that for reasons that I will explain in my Elsbeth blog (which doesn’t yet exist), I may give up different fandoms for an extended period of time. That would include the Survivor fandom, without which, I wouldn’t be able to give you a lot of the information I include in this blog like that on challenges or hidden immunity idols. This could affect this blog so I thought that I would let you know.

 

Meanwhile, in case you are wondering more about what I will post in this blog now that I’m done with posting about all of the onetime challenges before this current season, I will start at the first season and post about all of the easy votes that I feel have happened over the seasons since I just don’t believe the contestants this season when they say that there is no such thing as an easy vote.

 

Both Charlotte Alter and Lissandra Villa did an article called “Welcome to the coronavirus campaign” that was featured on page 6 of the 3-30-2020 issue of Time. It affected the Democratic primary, largely being the reason that Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race, giving the primary victory, and then the election, to Biden. It point out that the shutdown orders have been “a blow to Trump, whose signature rallies have been both a show of strength and a source of voter data.” It also points out that “There are real health risks for both the candidates and the voters [since] the virus has proved particularly dangerous for older people.” Indeed, Trump would later get it, which I’ll probably get to later.

 

I will be including a link to one of my sister’s TikToks throughout the rest of this season’s posts and I do promise not to be so superficial as to only share her videos with me in it. I’m hoping that I will only do this with stuff that existed when these episodes aired this season. Anyways, I had done a video about what I was giving up for Lent this year. Note that it should say Jay Exci and not JRT, although now I will have to see if there really is a JRT YouTube channel. Also, while I didn’t want to tell her this so she wouldn’t know I was still doing them, I also gave up non-English status updates on facebook, something I last did in November. Most of these channels I still haven’t returned to by the time you are seeing this. It makes me wonder if it is too easy to give these up.

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@nicoleboeder90/video/7212075497985953067

 

The next video that I’m sharing from The Hunchback of Notre Dame is God Help the Outcasts, which is a popular song for some, although I never understand why some songs get more love than others, not that I hate this or any of the songs from this movie because I don’t.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEEpavnk7Uw

 

You might be expecting me to do updates in regards to March Madness ever since I first put those updates in this blog back in 2021 while also doing that again in 2022. Well, those updates will be in my blog on CSI: Vegas this season, but I do plan to return and do those again here in season 46, should that season exist. I plan to switch back and forth between which of these two blogs will have the updates on that in the future, regardless of if that show doesn’t air during the tournament like CSI: Vegas is. The only change in that would be if a show that I blog about that isn’t this one airs on Sundays, I will post it there before moving it back here. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, the purple tribe gets back from tribal council. Carson is glad that he pulled off a blindside. Sarah talks about how she goes forward. Carolyn is glad that she didn’t have to play her idol. Things seem to be going well on Kane’s tribe. Danny finds the idol on his tribe and leaves the useless trinket as if it were the real idol as it were real. Matt Blankinship finds this and Danny sees it so he outs this in front of Josh. This means that Frannie and Josh think that Matt has the real idol.

 

People are worried about the potential pairing of Frannie and Matt Blankinship who promise to go out on a road trip later. I hope that they haven’t done it yet. There are four people on this tribe who might gather against these two. Jaime eats an earthworm and then finds the replacement idol. But it is not the real idol as Matthew Grinstead-Mayle had found that and put a fake in its place. I don’t know what else there is to say about that so I will skip what all I missed while I was distracted by HEY, LOOK AT THAT GARBAGE CAN!

 

In the next segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. Claire decides not to compete in the challenge again and is outed by Jeff as one who is constantly doing that. The orange tribe has issues since Matthew Grinstead-Mayle is still competing with a bad shoulder. They could have sat him out of the challenge. But it doesn’t matter as the orange tribe wins immunity with the potential solution right there for the others to snoop on. The green tribe loses. Matt Blankinship wants to stay in the game since he lost his vote and wants to play his idol, not knowing that it isn’t real.

 

In the next segment of the show, the tribe gets back to their camp. Danny thinks that they should target Claire, but tell her that the target is Matt Blankinship. Josh thinks that either Matt or Frannie should be the one voted out. Frannie wants to keep Claire around so she has the potential numbers. They have to get Heidi in with their numbers. There are potential names brought up going into the vote.

 

In the next segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Some are in awe at tribal council. Claire says that people have been playing the game. The people talk about who they want to get rid of and they are not sure who to get rid of. Claire has sat out of all of the immunity challenges so far. She thinks that she was making a good decision. Wasn’t she choosing to sit out instead of letting the others sit her out? Claire talks about tribe strength.

 

Is she on the chopping block because of this? I thought that it was Chopin, the composer, which isn’t a synonym to chopping. It will be the last day for someone. Many find tribal council too cool. You mean like Senor Cardgage? Claire played her shot in the dark. While she isn’t safe, she was right to play it as she is voted out.

 

On the next Survivor, people need to be aware of their surroundings, something could change the game, someone put an x there, and there will be a secret scene of this next episode in Lingo, but I’m not sure that I care enough to watch that show yet, although I might see it in the future.

 

Total confessional count: Claire- 4, Jaime- 3, Sarah- 4, Carolyn- 8, Josh- 3, Yam Yam- 6, Matt Blankinship- 5, Brandon- 7, Kane- 4, Carson- 8, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle- 5, Lauren- 5, Heidi- 2, Frannie- 6, Danny- 6. New confessionals this episode: Danny- 3, Claire- 2, Jaime- 0, Sarah- 1, Carolyn- 1, Josh- 2, Yam Yam- 0, Matt Blankinship- 1, Brandon- 1, Kane- 1, Carson- 1, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle- 0, Lauren- 0, Heidi- 2, Frannie- 1.

 

And that’s about it for this post as there isn’t too much else to say. Sorry that this wasn’t published yesterday. I ran out of energy. I have to juggle a lot of menial things in addition to my full time job. But I hope to have this blog caught up at some point and it sure helps that I had these at least partially written or else I might have no chance of getting it done when I actually put the time into it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Episode 44.2

With yet another unfortunate contestant becoming the next person medically evacuated from Survivor, I’m now posting my next set up groupings of medically evacuated players to return. This would be like the opening twist of Philippines. I don’t include those who have already played again since being pulled. The people that I pick from currently are Bruce Kanegai (Panama), Gary (Fiji), Joe Dowdle (Tocantins), Mike Borassi (Samoa), Kourtney (One World), Dana (Philippines), Shamar (Caramoan), Erik (Micronesia and Caramoan), Terry (Panama and Cambodia), Neal (Kaoh Rong), Joe DeCampo (Kaoh Rong), Pat (David versus Goliath), Jackson (42), and Bruce Perreault (44).

 

How would I group them? Remember, they are groups of three outside of if two or four are left, in which case, they would just be groups of two. Let’s get to the groupings. Group one is Jackson, Bruce Perreault, and Pat. Group two is Gary, Kourtney, and Mike Borassi. Group three is Terry, Erik, and Joe DeCampo. Group four is Bruce Kanegai, Joe Dowdle, and Neal. Group five is Shamar and Dana. Since Jeff revealed on his podcast that I’ll talk a bit about more later that he offered Bruce Perreault a chance to play the game again, then we just might see him on the show once more.

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the forty-first season. It is possible and very likely that they just don’t care much about doing challenges just once anymore, but it is hard to say for sure. While that might mean that they’ll never introduce anything new that might potentially work, then at least we know that we will consistently have what should be really good challenges.

 

Beach Front Bay Bash (reward challenge from Truth Kamikaze): In this challenge, the players are divided into teams of three. One of them has to climb up a net that they will then jump off before going down and releasing a set of buoys, one of which has to be retrieved by them. The rest of them then have to get the rest of the buoys. The buoys must then be thrown into a basket. It could be done while social distancing, although, if it aired, I don’t remember if it was. It was the first season filmed after the pandemic had started so it could have done more social distancing. It didn’t have to, though, since it was in the bubble of theirs.

 

With so much to potentially talk about from the 2-17-2020 issue of Time relating to the pandemic, it only makes sense to talk about the xenophobia related to it. It mentions on page 44 that places and groups of people “facing novel pathogens have often engaged in the scapegoating of marginalized populations, especially when the infective source can be linked to a distant place and the disease associated with racially distant ‘foreign’ peoples,” with the writer of this article, Sonia Shah, pointing out that “we don’t apply this same nomenclature when an epidemic originates closer to home,” such as with HIV or MRSA. Indeed, the WHO has changed the policy on pandemics’ names (a potential future blog post in one of my political blogs, or past depending on how old this is) to ensure that they aren’t named after locations again, possibly even changing the past name of the 1918 pandemic.

 

More of the problem pointed out to this racism problem relates to “right-wing [news sources and] populist leaders [that] have long singled out foreigners as vectors of crime, terrorism, and disease, as if they alone posed such threats.” Indeed, you often never hear about the problems that white people cause from Faux, I mean, Fox News. The writer of this article points out that these people “are now using the same inflammatory language to depict the coronavirus outbreak that they employ to describe migrants.” The article in question is called “The Pandemic of Xenophobia.” Numerous hate crimes happened because of the pandemic.

 

Since I had mentioned it in the previous post (that and everything that you’ll see mentioned now) then I might as well get to publishing The Broom Dance. It is an interesting thing to share. That is me in the video as my sister tries to get me to figure out what the trick is. Can you figure it out? You have until the season finale to guess how to do The Broom Dance when I’ll post the answer.

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@nicoleboeder90/video/7166260749415943470

 

Another thing that I have mentioned was a phrase that is also a song: Topsy turvy from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I’ll start with this and work my way through all of the songs after it from that movie and its sequel in addition to things similar to it as well. Yay!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuVeky5U3Ak

 

The last thing that I have mentioned in the previous post was something from the double rainbow YouTube video. I hope that you enjoy this because if you haven’t seen this by now, you are surely missing out on something great.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

 

I was able to watch this show live and I saw most of this show live throughout the season only putting the premiere and another episode on tape. Things went rather crazy throughout a lot of time and I didn’t quite care about updating most of my blogs during this time. Still, I plan to cover this at some point in time and can only hope that it happens sooner rather than later. By now, I know different. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle revealed that he wasted his shot in the dark so that he wouldn’t have to vote. He felt that things went well for him. Hopefully relationships can be repaired on this tribe. Kane thinks about his disadvantage now. Meanwhile, Matt Blankinship bonds more with Frannie since he got out of a relationship and reveals that he lost two rounds of votes instead of just one. They notice a walking stick. One of the women on this tribe is leery of the whole thing. The purple tribe talks about the cage as they look for the key to it. Carolyn finds a snake in the tree. Kane looks for another idol and his tribe knows it. He finds a crab. Danny finds the idol.

 

In the second segment of the show, we return to what Carolyn was doing. She finds the key and like Danny, doesn’t want to tell anyone. Danny gets the idol and the worthless coin. Later, it seems as if the cage is normal to people. I hope that he left the worthless coin with the idol note so they think that it is an idol. Meanwhile, Carolyn is not so coy as she leaves the empty cage open. She returns it, but not well as the other four members of the tribe notice that it has been messed with. Carson thinks that it could be one of them. He can tell that it isn’t Yam Yam or Sarah, but thinks that it could be Helen. Meanwhile, Yam Yam thinks that Sarah has it and Helen thinks that Sarah has it. They talk to Carolyn about it and she can’t tell if they know that she has it or just know that it is gone. This is brilliant.

 

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. Again, they are putting all of the challenge on just one person at the end. I’m okay with there being an equalizer, I just want it to involve the whole tribe potentially. Do they want there to be a fall guy all the time? You’d think that after the One World premiere, they’d know not to have one of those. The orange tribe comes in first. The green tribe comes in second, making the purple tribe the losers. Carolyn is worried that she’s a target.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, Carson talks about having practiced a lot of Survivor puzzles since they are often repeated. He thinks that it isn’t smart to do what Matthew Grinstead-Mayle did and tell everyone that he practiced them. I have the feeling that this could affect things as by some accounts, they stopped doing Fallen Comrades because of the notes that Vecepia took throughout the season. Meanwhile, we can’t tell who is doing what. We have to remember that one of them doesn’t have a vote as I’m already confused as to who is who and might have mentioned the wrong names during the last episode of the show. The vote appears to be between Lauren and Carolyn.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council with Yam Yam talking about what was going on. The tribe has to be strong now to do better post merge. They are wondering about tribe strength. Carson talked about how he seems young to people. Carolyn is emotional about things. She wonders if people are good or not without her. Carolyn talks about the strange chess board that is there at tribal council. Does it mean anything or is it just a red herring? Carolyn doesn’t play her idol. Helen is voted out this time around. Does this make her the first contestant to visit tribal council and never vote? Or am I confused about who didn’t vote? It was Sarah who didn’t vote.

 

On the next Survivor, people aren’t sure what was going on, an idol clue might be eaten if it wasn’t chips instead, and there is not much else that I can get from the promo yet at this point in time. It seems that Carson was once again convinced that there is no such thing as an easy tribal council. And like how people talking about who found an idol got me to put that in my blog posts, then I’m going to talk about that pretty soon starting in this season’s posts until I work my way up to the present.

 

Total confessional count: Matthew Grinstead-Mayle- 5, Lauren- 5, Heidi- 0, Helen- 4, Frannie- 5, Danny- 3, Claire- 2, Jaime- 3, Sarah- 3, Carolyn- 7, Josh- 1, Yam Yam- 6, Matt Blankinship- 4, Brandon- 6, Kane- 3, Carson- 7.

 

New confessionals this episode: Lauren- 1, Heidi- 0, Helen- 2, Frannie- 1, Danny- 2, Claire- 0, Jaime- 0, Sarah- 0, Carolyn- 5, Josh- 0, Yam Yam- 2, Matt Blankinship- 1, Brandon- 1, Kane- 2, Carson- 3, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle- 1.

 

There are two things that I want to note as I continue these blog posts that I’ve very late and getting published. One is that there will be a lack of schedule posted since even I won’t know for sure what all might happen. This leads to the second thing: it is also unknown when past season blog posts will appear again. Just know that you won’t see any until I’m caught up on all of this season first. Only once all of the posts on season 44 are published will you see posts on old seasons again. I have three now that should be written in their entirety so we’ll see about that. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Survivor 44 Premiere

I know that it is weird not seeing schedules of potential blog posts or even knowing why I went on hiatus with certain blogs twice to close together. As I seek to update you some on what can be done with some of my blogs, at least know that the post explaining the first hiatus is up at ready to read. You will see me share the one on the second hiatus as soon as I make it.

 

http://adamdeckercsicyber.blogspot.com/2023/01/tech-explaining-blogging-hiatus.html

 

Here’s a paragraph worth posting in both my blog on Survivor and CSI: Vegas. Since I have to drastically scale back the amount of blogging that I am able to do, there are only four blogs that can be updated right now. I won’t know when I will be back to normal with blogs or how long that will take. An optimistic prediction would be April. The absolute latest is July. While there are new episodes of these two shows airing, I am trying my best to at least record them for later if not seeing them live even as the blog posts on them are delayed. I do not know when blogs will be updated, but do know that you won’t see a blog on a show when a new episode of it has aired and I haven’t gotten caught up to the episodes before it yet. I am also keeping my blogs on The Good Fight and Fadam Secretary updated during this time as well.

 

https://fadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the fortieth season. It turns out that there is at least one, even though I’m not sure that it even aired. I’m going to talk about it as I have to finish off all of the onetime challenges that have happened before this season before going to something else. I should point out that I already know what will replace this since a lot of this season’s posts are written out of order.

 

No title (reward challenge from This is Extortion): In this challenge, the teams are shackled together and must crawl under a maze. How is that possible? I don’t know. I’d have to see the challenge again. The teams then have to use a slingshot at the end to knock all of their targets down. You can tell that this was before the pandemic as it is set up in a way that it couldn’t be done while social distancing. I don’t think that this aired, which is why I’m not familiar with it. And that’s the only one time challenge from this whole season.

 

I will be sharing a paragraph in Wingdings in each post of this season. I picked it as I wanted to write about stuff relating to the covid pandemic and felt at the time when I started that picking a foreign language shouldn’t be done. Now while some of this might also be covered in Greek in the future, I might as well get to this now and in every post of this season.

 

Since Im not going to post about anything coronavirus related in a foreign language, this is your warning that I will be doing this in Windings instead of anything else related to it. Im sure that Time has done a lot of great articles about it already so I am planning to talk about it. I mean, it is one of the biggest news stories of today and to not talk about what Time said about it would be doing it a disservice. I do not know how much more I will still write in Chinese. I dont blame China for the pandemic even though it started there. I mean, if Hillary Clinton were in charge, wouldnt conservatives be blaming her instead of China? I doubt there would be as many people dead if she were in charge.

 

There are not that many things that I can say at this point in time so I will just talk about the Wednesday shows that I watched during Survivor’s hiatus. They were Tough as Nails on CBS, Home Economics on ABC, The Flash on the CW, Kung Fu on the CW, and Chicago PD on NBC. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, we start with Carolyn having to be coached through her opening confessional. Carson is introduced as a super fan. I know that I am a fan, but I’m not that crazy. I find it hard to keep track of all of the confessionals and don’t want to talk much as I want to keep track of them. Anyways, Jeff introduces the contestants to the game. Yam Yam says that he wants to see it all and says that they are family. As usual, the tribes have to give birth to the game with a reward challenge right off the back. In the first time that they started the sweat or savvy tasks to punish those that don’t come in first, the second place tribe gets to pick one of them while the third place tribe gets what is left. Isn’t something bad going to happen to one of them?

 

Bruce seems to be the one who is having issues at first. At least Jeff knows that something might be up. At one point, Bruce goes down. I don’t think that he will be pulled, but we’ll see. Maybe this is a sign that people named Bruce are going to have issues at the game. Is this only the second Bruce? It turns out that he’s okay. After this issue, the challenge is back on. If the ring gets stuck, why don’t they climb the pole? Are they not allowed to go up there? Carolyn does terrible at the purple tribe and she, I guess, is not allowed to switch out? What’s up with that? The green tribe comes in first, the orange tribe comes in second, and the purple tribe loses.

 

In the second segment of the show, the green tribe arrives at their beach as Matt is stoked like a steam engine perhaps? The tribe introduces themselves to each other. A cage in the daylight has three people seeing it. The game is live and public. What does a bag in a locked caged mean? On the orange tribe, they decide to do sweat, giving the other tribe savvy. Two people start doing that task. The purple tribe is given savvy is a result and have to count the rings in a sphere.

 

The four people who aren’t doing the challenge on the purple tribe find the cage in the jungle. Maybe it’s a double rainbow. WHAT DOES IT MEAN!? The tribe is able to solve the puzzle. Meanwhile, the others struggle to deal with the coconuts. The other people find the cage. Brandon worked in the NFL. I’d have to look up which team. I might root for that team if it isn’t in the ranking already. He and Matthew Grinstead-Mayle are just barely able to complete the “challenge” in time.

 

In the third segment of the show, Yam Yam helps make a fire. He says that if you are trying, you are not failing. This makes way more sense than Yoda’s terrible advice of not trying. Also, is anyone getting John Cochran vibes from Carson? Frannie and Matt Blankinship seem to bond romantically. At night, it seems that Bruce is having more issues again. It is his head this time. He is getting pulled from the game. And that explains why it seems that only five people were competing at the immunity challenge. Is this going to become a recurring spring season thing? I’m not yet convinced that this is the only evacuation of the season. But we’ll see and I’ve heard no rumors yet.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, Matthew Grinstread-Mayle is focused on some. Also, who made him Matthew and the other one Matt? The infamous rock fall happens next. A medic treats him, but I am guessing that he is okay as he is talking about it now instead of someone else talking about it. It is like knowing the outcome of a Dateline mystery by knowing who they aren’t talking to. His arm is put in a swing so he is lucky that he can sit out of the challenge, even though he doesn’t know he can yet.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, Carson wants to start a threesome with Helen and Sarah. Wow. This guy who has never been in a relationship easily found a threesome with two women. Carolyn seems kind of crazy in a way. It then gets to the time for the summit. They draw sticks for it on two tribes and get rocks on the other. Lauren rigs it so that she gets the right rock and can go. Others left alone try to find the key to the cage. But what if only the people on the summit can get it?

 

Brandon finds something, but thinks that Maddy knows. She does so in the pretense of being honest, he tells her about this. It was him being caught, but at least he was smart enough to know it. Maddy wants to keep it a secret, but Brandon doesn’t want to work with her. Stupid player. Stupid, stupid player. Brandon finds both the idol and a useless, orange dummy idol. But everyone on the tribe (minus the person who is at the summit) knows about both and he made a mistake and knows it. He should have trusted Maddy with the secret. Why not do that? He could have left her with the dummy idol and no one would have known but them.

 

In the sixth segment of the show, we get to the summit. Who all is on the summit? I kind of missed that. Sarah is one of them, Lauren is the other, and some guy is the third. Sarah loses one vote and then gets the inheritance advantage. She can get any idols or advantages played at a tribal council. The guy loses two votes. Lauren gets a bank your vote advantage where she is able to not vote and then get an extra vote at the next tribal council. No one is entirely honest about this to their tribe. Everyone said that they just lost one vote with not one of them saying that they either lost another vote or that they got an advantage. That is when we get to the next break.

 

In the seventh segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge where everyone learns that Bruce was pulled from the game. The immunity idols are a shield or a sword. I guess that they destroyed the powers of a mystic. But wasn’t one something they were supposed to pick? Also, are they just going to ignore the fact that Matthew Grinstead-Mayle is injured and not even talk about it? Maybe they just don’t want to talk about the elephant in the room. Jeff mentions a heavy chest. Maybe it is implants? Also, the person that I couldn’t identify for sure as having gone on the summit is Matt Blankinship. He is now the caller in the challenge.

 

I’ve never seen a sliding puzzle that big before. But I guess that they wanted to make sure that the whole tribe had to do it. Well, it was supposed to be the whole tribe. Meanwhile, the two sit outs gain some intel on each other about the summit. Did they show you that they lost their vote? Brandon gets exhausted and has to cool down out of the challenge for a while leaving his tribe a member short for the rest of the challenge. The green tribe comes in first. The purple tribe comes in second with the orange tribe not able to recover with Brandon’s exhaustion. He ponders whether or not to play his idol. Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

 

In the eighth segment of the show, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle, who is not in a cast anymore and I did not notice this somehow, reveals that Lauren may not have lost her vote. Brandon is still the target to many people. Maybe they are a bunch of conservatives if they are thinking, “Let’s go Brandon.” (I knew that I would have to reference that terrible phrase at some point.) Wait, can chickens really live with their heads cut off? I know that a cockroach can. But a chicken? What’s the meaning of that expression? Oh, wait. No one reading this can tell me since I turned off comments.

 

Okay, I can do the broom dance, I mean, now I really don’t know how injured Matthew Grinstead-Mayle is because of how I can’t tell whether or not he’s in a cast at times. It is too subtle. He seems to be in a scheming mode most of the time, but isn’t yet a target.

 

In the ninth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Jaime is asked about the vibe and she says that she is getting a choking feeling. Jeff says that he’s never seen an easy vote. I have the feeling that I could go through a lot of them based on the notes that I have so far (they aren’t complete yet and I am only working on the voting part at this time, albeit just occasionally) and mention all of the easy votes that have happened throughout Survivor’s history. It could replace the trivia that I do on one time challenges in new seasons since I will obviously get caught up to the current season.

 

I’m going to be glad that I’m likely recording all of this season as this means that I can rewind or pause things when I go on a tangent like that while the tribal council is ongoing and can just see things instead of missing out. Brandon talks about how to navigate where the snake is going. Jaime is told that they have to trust others. Brandon has an idol that everyone knows about. It is his and not the tribe’s. He wanted to build the trust since they didn’t know it was an idol or a target on his back. Maddy thinks that the tribe will be the same tribe, just stronger. There are weak links.

 

Before the vote is going to happen, Jaime says that she is playing her shot in the dark. Brandon says that it is interesting to think that her vote doesn’t even matter. Lauren decides to blank her vote. For the first time ever, Jaime is safe from the shot in the dark. Matthew Grinstead-Mayle, who also played his shot in the dark, isn’t safe. Brandon played his idol and only one vote is then counted as a result, Brandon’s for Maddy. I guess that we are now saying Let’s go Maddy. He was right to play his idol.

 

On the next Survivor, there is an angel and devil at war with each other, Carolyn is crazy in different ways in the game, I guess that more of the one showmance is budding, and that’s about all that I can tell about that. Maddy mentions in her exit confessional that things went topsy turvey for her.

 

Total confessional count: Yam Yam- 4, Matt Blankinship- 3, Brandon- 5, Kane- 1, Carson- 4, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle- 4, Lauren- 4, Heidi- 0, Helen- 2, Frannie- 4, Danny- 1, Bruce- 1, Maddy- 2, Claire- 2, Jaime- 3, Sarah- 3, Carolyn- 2, Josh- 1.

 

Due to all that is going on in my life and the fact that I want to make sure that I have this show recorded, I will likely be putting most episodes this season, if not all of them after the first one, on my laptop for later. I know that this will be weird and I will not be sure as a result when I will be able to either see them or post about the episode, but hopefully you can bear with me as my blogs will hopefully return to normal at some point in time.

 

I may be on facebook a whole lot less during this time as I try to avoid it when I haven’t seen the newest episode so hopefully I don’t miss a lot of facebook time, but I don’t think that it will matter much and I’m honestly kind of mad with facebook right now to the point of never getting on it on Fridays again so the less time I spend on it the better. But that’s the topic of another blog for some other time. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Episode 43 Finale

I have decided that I am not blogging about Ponderosa again with new seasons, but might watch some of what’s available. They are doing something different as something else is available instead of that anyways. It has premerge people as well, which is interesting since we normally don’t see that. Maybe that is where we come up with the idea of cutting them all from what is effectively the new reunion show. This behind the snuff thing is like a consolation prize of sorts.

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the thirty-ninth season. With not many more of these to cover, since we are already into the 44th season by the time you are seeing this, there will be another thing that I plan to cover there that you will see later inspired by what was said then.

 

Rung O Star (only challenge from YOLO, Let’s Play!): In this challenge, all members of each tribe would swim to the ocean floor to release a ladder, use it to get bags full of balls, use these balls to get targets on a board, and win if all targets have been reached. I do not think that this challenge could be done while social distancing.

 

Beam me up (only challenge from Honesty Would be Chill): In this challenge, the players must swim to a net to get a key then get to a teeter-totter. The players must get across it and one of them get a bag on each side. The key gets them to the rest of the puzzle pieces in a crate. The players have to solve a fish puzzle at the end. I think that an individual version of this or even a relay race of this could be done while social distancing.

 

No title (reward challenge from Just go for it): In this challenge, contestants would climb up a net tower, untie bags with materials, take these bags through an obstacle course, and use what was in these bags to knock down a pyramid of blocks. It could be done while social distancing.

 

اجازه دهید فقط مقدمه این را بگویم که از آنجایی که از مقالات مختلف شماره 2 و 9 نوامبر تایم از سال 2020 چیزهای زیادی برای گفتن وجود داشت که در مورد عقب نشینی دموکراتیک صحبت می کرد، ممکن است از این زبان برای آن استفاده کنم. که برای آن کار می کند به طور معمول قبلا استفاده شده است، بنابراین هر زمان که نیاز داشته باشم دوباره این کار را انجام خواهم داد. با نقل قول از «Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy» و عنوان مقاله که از صفحه 50 شروع می شود، می گوید: «هراس نشوید». در این بیانیه آمده است که «رسانه‌های محافظه‌کار، جمهوری‌خواهان، و حتی وزارت دادگستری، که همگی در چهار سال گذشته هنجارهای ترامپ را زیر پا گذاشته‌اند، از او حمایت می‌کنند.» این طعنه آمیز است زیرا جمهوری خواهان اکنون دموکرات ها را متهم به سلاح کردن وزارت دادگستری می کنند. در مورد طنز، این مقاله بیان می‌کند که «اعتراف کردن یا ندادن ترامپ تأثیر چندانی بر قطعنامه انتخابات ندارد» اگر او شکست را پذیرفت، ممکن بود چیزی قابل توجه در مورد 1-6-2021 وجود نداشته باشد. اما به نقص چالش‌های حقوقی او اشاره می‌کند و می‌گوید: «این چیزهایی که ترامپ می‌گوید... اینها استدلال‌های قانونی نیستند».

 

If there were just the one hiatus that I had to do, then I would have still had this published later than the end of the Christmas season. I’m still sharing some of the last of the Christmas songs that I want to share even if it is now the Easter season as I’m writing this and you are hopefully seeing this. The first one that I’m sharing is Christmas Pipes by Celtic Woman.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDc_d_OSmNU

 

Next, I’m sharing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Home for Christmas version) by Celtic Woman. This was a song that first appeared in the Christmas movie Meet Me in St. Louis, which I’m unsure if I have shared before in the old posts on this season from earlier. This version obviously came later.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31kJwZfnKJE

 

Continuing on with more Celtic Woman Christmas songs, the next one to share is Winter Wonderland (Home for Christmas version). That is the start of their concert called Home for Christmas. I plan to share more songs from that later. I’ll get to that soon, I hope.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzOG99GEmoM

 

Jack’s Obsession is the current last song that I’m sharing for now from The Nightmare before Christmas until the next time I get to these songs again. He is obsessed with the idea of Christmas and has to figure out how to do it himself.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5JBw2UapgY

 

While I know that Christmas is long over by the time that you are finally seeing this, I do plan to get back to these songs, always to be seen in segments whenever it is Christmas provided that nothing winds up happening in my life that makes me not want to blog about things immediately again. There will be a lot from Celtic Woman concerts, movies, and Christmas specials that are planned.

 

A lot of things could have gone differently in life for me and you would have seen this post sooner as I was able to watch this episode live. I didn’t know when it would be posted, but had no way of knowing at the time that it would be after the season 44 finale by the time that you finally saw it. I can’t promise that this sort of thing won’t happen again as I wouldn’t have even done the first hiatus under normal circumstances and thus knew nothing about a second one, especially so quickly. I can only hope that it won’t be for a while. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, we go back to the previous tribal council as I’m on a TV with video descriptive service that I don’t know how to turn off without the old remote of mine. We learn that Cody gave back Jesse’s idol before tribal council. So he didn’t have to vote his own idol out. That’s sad because that would have been an even more epic move. It’s sad for Cody that he trusted Jesse. But I think that Jesse has the best chance of winning. Maybe Owen could, but I have the feeling that he will come in second. We then get to the delayed intro of the final five and how they could all win.

 

After exploring the island, they get the treemail of the last advantage of the game. I do like the fact that this is always done at a new place that they don’t have the time to investigate beforehand. I guess they learned after Natalie on Winners at War that they can’t learn this place. Owen just barely misses out on getting the advantage with Karla getting it. No one else gets the clue in time. I am more and more convinced that Owen is either coming in second or getting voted out. It is like Aubry in Kaoh Rong, except that I have not heard of people convinced that someone will win. But I did snooze the only Survivor group that I’m part of so I could get on facebook and not get spoiled potentially to what might have happened. Karla’s advantage, of course, is an advantage in the challenge.

 

In the second segment of the show, the people gather for the challenge. My laptop has been slow lately for reasons I don’t understand (it doesn’t have too much stuff on it and isn’t that old a laptop), but I am still planning to restart this laptop during this challenge. Karla’s advantage is that she won’t have to take as many puzzle pieces over. Now let’s hope that I’m not gone too long.

 

Okay. I’m back. Did you miss me? Anyways, Owen tried his best to catch up in the challenge by doing a whole lot of letters at once. He was able to figure out the word and win immunity in the end. He decides to bring Cassidy with him on the reward.

 

In the third segment of the show, we get to the sanctuary. What’s up with them? They seem to have been a recurring theme on the new Survivor. Also, why does the voice over person say what can be clearly heard? The double speaking is annoying. Cassidy wants to vote out Karla while Owen wants to vote out Jesse. Voting out Jesse would be a good idea, but they don’t know about his idol. What does the bird eating the fish mean? I swear that for those who care, deciphering the animal imagery in the show can be like trying to figure out Easter eggs in the MCU. (Speaking of which, are there any theories as to what the 3 numbers at the end of the Loki season 1 finale mean?)

 

Jesse is worried about how things will go and says that he doesn’t want to go out in fire. Well, I think that we know what’s going to happen now. Gabler was whining about not being picked for the reward. Gabler thinks that he can win if things go his way. This is where I miss having time to read other Survivor blogs so I would know how other people feel about him. Owen wants to figure out what to do so he will avoid being a zero vote finalist. Is that more foreshadowing? Karla says that she would not want to vote for Cassidy if she (Karla) was on the jury. Karla seems full of herself. Jesse wants to vote out Cassidy. He needs to figure out how to use his idol. This could be one of the greatest final five tribal councils. I mean, I doubt they would ever top Erik’s elimination in Micronesia. But this could be up there.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. People are convinced that whoever sits in the middle are who the focus is at tribal council. Are they told where to sit or just sit randomly? You’d think that it would be the first one, but it can seem like the second at times. Karla says that Jesse is a threat. Jesse takes out his idol. Jeannie is shocked to learn about this as she didn’t know before. I guess that I don’t need to see the Ponderosa then since this contains the moment that I want to. I haven’t seen a face like that since Eliza Owens last played Survivor. She remains the best person on the show in terms of facial expressions.

 

I’ve never seen two people just walk away and have huddles with each other. This isn’t the only one that has had side conversations like that. It just hasn’t happened like that before. It is hard to tell for sure some of what is going on. Once the votes are cast, Jesse plays the idol on himself. Did someone start to vote for someone other than Jesse? It sure looks like it as they changed it a la Hayden in Blood versus Water before they put the final name down. Karla is voted out. If someone cancels out a vote with an idol, could you still get a perfect game?

 

In the fifth segment of the show, we go straight to the final immunity challenge and technically the penultimate challenge of the game. Is this going to be a recurring thing among today’s finales? We are not going to get any of the talk between the final immunity challenge and tribal council before it? It is Cassidy who wins the challenge with Owen just missing out on it again. I swear, I am not having high hopes for Owen winning.

 

In the sixth segment of the show, Owen already starts to practice fire with him not wanting to give up. He thinks that he could beat Jesse at the fire making. Jesse thinks that Cassidy should face him at the fire making challenge. Cassidy doesn’t want to give up immunity. Gabler seems weak. Owen wants to do this and Cassidy doesn’t want the winner to have a boost on their résumé. She thinks that Gabler wouldn’t be helped by winning the challenge, but is unsure if he can win at all.

 

In the seventh segment of the show, we are at the next tribal council. Both Cassidy and Owen have won a lot of the challenges. Cassidy didn’t want to give up immunity as she feels that doing that is only for people who maybe feel that they haven’t earned their way in the final three. And, suddenly, it makes sense as to why Chris did that in Edge of Extinction. Owen is brought to the final three and Gabler is the one facing Jesse. I’m not as sure about Gabler winning the challenge, but he might based on what has been said thus far. I’ve still been convinced since earlier that Gabler ain’t winning. Is this how he loses? All I know is that we got another commercial break right before it.

 

In the eighth segment of the show, we get to the fire making challenge. Gabler does well with Jesse not getting very far in this. I knew that Jesse was going to lose the fire making tie breaker. Didn’t I call that earlier? They need to stop making some of this obvious. Speaking of obvious, what isn’t as clear to me now is whether or not Cassidy or Owen will win. I’m thinking that it might be Cassidy? But we’ll see. Maybe Owen can turn things around. After all, Charlie Brown is the main character and the person that we are rooting for. But will someone once again take the football from him? Cassidy needed Jesse out of the game to maybe win.

 

In the ninth segment of the show, the final three talk about their game play. A boat full of food comes there. Various jury members talk about things, but I can’t remember who all is on the jury even. Why do they expect us to know who everyone is without showing their names? Maybe I’m just dumb.

 

Total confessional count: Owen- 38, Jesse- 33, Cassidy- 23, Karla- 26, Gabler- 31. New confessionals this episode: Cassidy- 11, Karla- 5, Gabler- 8, Owen- 11, Jesse- 8. Jury confessionals: Ryan- 1, Jeanine- 2, Cody- 2, James- 2, Jesse- 2, Karla- 1, Noelle- 1, Dwight- 2, Sami- 1.

 

In the tenth segment of the show, Jesse starts with his statement. Noelle then starts the group with Gabler saying that he was in all of the groups and never got a vote against him. Cassidy says that she always knew where the votes were going. Owen talks about how he had to work his way to get to where he was in the end. Owen mentioned how he used his steal a vote advantage by doing his ruse. Jeanine does finally confess that she looked through Gabler’s bag. Now I don’t have to try to look that up later. Gabler said that he had to go underwater like an alligator or alli-Gabler.

 

When asked about what her best move before the merge was, Cassidy gives an answer that I miss. And to think, I could have recorded this. I can’t even keep track of some of this as it seems rapid fire in a way. Gabler likes to say that he didn’t get a vote a lot. Was he a silent killer? It wasn’t his intention to be a target ever. But that can happen without it being an intention. I doubt that Matt meant to be the target in Redemption Island. I mean, Wyatt Nash.

 

Noelle mentions to the others that she is a paraolympian. She likes that Cassidy won as much as she did. Did she tie the record previously only held by men? I think that I missed that if she did. Owen explains how he did his win at the final five despite losing the advantage. He also makes amends with James. Gabler explains his clumsy move of openly saying that he might play the shot in the dark. Many of them go into things that they might have done wrong. Owen can’t even think of just one for sure.

 

Jesse talks about how he worked in learning political science and voting behavior. Gabler mentions his and Cassidy says that her was the Ryan vote. They only took out Ryan since James was on the jury so she didn’t know that she wasn’t actually in control. Owen admits that he was never really in control of the vote. Jeff thinks that they were held accountable.

 

In the eleventh segment of the show, we get to the votes being cast. Did no one vote for Owen? That’s sad if that’s true. I really hope that they go back to reunion shows at some point. Well, provided they can actually do them right for a change. They haven’t really cared about them since before Caramoan. And somehow despite everything, Gabler wins the challenge. What was up with his edit? Anyways, we get the after show after the break.

 

In the twelfth segment of the show, Gabler talks about his win. He is now the second oldest winner. It was an open tribal council with his checking most of the boxes on the jury’s to do list. He says that he will be giving the entire million away to a veteran charity. That’s a noble gesture. Dwight talks about how he likes the fact that Gabler is doing this. Jeff asks if Gabler is rich. He isn’t. He keeps saying we when he means me. I hate it when people do that. Never include others in your own decision. I don’t think that he’s forcing the others too, right?

 

In the thirteenth segment of the show, Cassidy talks about her game and liking it. She has become her own inspiration. Owen says that he is glad that he didn’t get jury votes because so many of what he calls great players didn’t get jury votes like Stephen Fishbach in Tocantins. Why do people like Stephen anyways? I’ve never understood that. And zero votes in a final two is just terrible. No one else in a final two can even claim that.

 

Back to the episode, Jeanine talks about everything. We see that Cody almost lost his beware advantage for the first time. Jesse explains how he got the two idols. He even made a move where he showed that his friendship was bigger than voting out his friend. Sami says why people should apply for Survivor. Why do they keep promoting casting for this show? Are people not applying?

 

In the fourteenth segment of the show, we get to Jeff talking to Noelle. Born is the king of Israel. Many people were egging her on to be on the show. People cheered her on even when they were trying to win instead of her. Karla talks about being a character this season. She was strong and proved herself.

 

In the fifteenth segment of the show, Jeff talks about controlling emotions. James says that he was very vulnerable out there. Owen fails a lot at Survivor. The group says that he didn’t fail. Losing is different than failing. Jesse is talked to again. He is another one of those people who were close to winning, but didn’t in the end. He gives an emotional speech about his time in the game and what all he has done so far in life and Survivor. Cody gives the final words of the season.

 

We then get a look at the next season. There is a random person with only one arm? Did he make a mistake in the game? He seems like he had both arms? One of the players is a Seahawk player. And there is a medical event that will maybe bond people. Jeff promises that it will be an entertaining season in the end. Isn’t he contractionally obligated to say that? And it is a punishing season so there might be one or more medical evacuations.

 

Points at live after show: Morriah- 0, Justine- 0, Nneka- 0, Lindsay- 0, Geo- 0, Elie- 0, Dwight- 1, Jeanine- 2, James- 1, Ryan- 0, Noelle- 1, Sami- 2, Cody- 2, Karla- 2, Jesse- 3, Owen- 2, Cassidy- 1, Gabler- 3.

 

There are some things that I’m wanting to talk about before I get much further in this post. I know that when Spencer and Tasha first played in Cagayan, they did fairly good in the game. But Spencer and Tasha both played a terrible game their second time. I’m mentioning that due to them being mentioned in the finale. I was also surprised with Gabler winning as I just didn’t catch the signs of it. Another thing that is worth noting is that I was getting possibly annoyed with how Gabler was phrasing something with a YouTube video by me coming up about it later called “It’s You. It’s Me. It’s Not We.”

 

Now when it comes to the end of the season awards, I can honestly say that I had to look up what had happened on Wikipedia since this season wasn’t as fresh in my mind anymore. But I can still say some of what has gone on.

 

Starting with the three dumbest moves of the season, I will give the bronze to Cody’s blunders. I will give the silver to Dwight’s paranoia since it got him voted out. And the gold goes to Owen’s poor final tribal council performance and otherwise putting himself down too much.

 

I believe that the best breakout character of the season is Jesse and the most memorable moment of the season is Karla & Owen’s joint challenge win. Meanwhile, when it comes to ranking the season, I rank it as 24 out of 43 seasons.

 

Now I had even wanted to post the next season’s premiere before this post at one point in time, but that did not happen as I didn’t want to go out of order with some of what is covered in these posts. Thus, it did not happen. As I want to do a possible update about updates all I can really say is that I can hope that I can do my new rule of posting one post for each blog for every day starting on the previous Sunday. I hope that I can get caught up, but have no idea. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Hiatus

In case you were wondering what’s happened with this blog, I just haven’t had the time for some things and am also having to adult more than I ever have before. I can’t get back in the grove of this or other blogs yet. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to go on hiatus again so soon after the previous one had just happened. I have three different episodes of three different seasons that are partly written with a recap done but the rest not yet done. Still, I knew that a hiatus could happen again which I why I wrote this all purpose post for this blog.

 

http://adamdeckercsicyber.blogspot.com/2022/12/tech-when-i-take-break-from-blogging.html

 

It feels dumb to go back on hiatus again so quickly, having done only one post on the last season and still not having the season finale written and published. I don’t know yet if I will be back on time with the new episodes of the new season. I probably won’t. I also don’t know yet if I will be watching the show live or recording it for later. It is up against the final season of The Flash and I might want to record it and be better off that way in the end.

 

Things were terrible with getting caught up on this blog as I couldn’t even return when I wanted to and I have no idea when or if I’ll have time for things. I don’t know just how bad it will be if I do record this for later and blog about it later as I won’t know when I can see that. Here I was hoping that the upcoming season might be the first one ever where not one of the posts were delayed even just a mere day from when the episode aired. Now that wouldn’t have happened anyways given my loyalty to the blog I have on CSI: Vegas.

 

Once again, an explanation will come later as to why my blogs are on hiatus. I don’t want to get behind in my blogs, but it is better if I don’t do them or focus on them at all. It’s hard to trend the line. We’ll see just how long I’m gone this time around.

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Episode 43.12

Well, it’s going to be a bit hard keeping track of why all this blog was delayed as I never had to put a blog on a show on hiatus during an ongoing season before. But I need to get to the last two episodes of the previous season and wonder that since it has been since April that a post of this blog has not been missed or delayed then I sure wonder what all can still happen. There are other habits of mine that can delay this blog like reading magazines to the side and I even want to stay caught up on those to an extent which is why the previous episode was delayed.

 

Of course, I missed the deadline with staying caught up on that, wondered if I still cared about deadlines with that, and ultimately decided that with all that was going on in life, I can extend deadlines a bit, but still want to get caught up. I’m not sure if this makes any sense to anyone. Well, I am autistic after all. What I say makes complete sense to absolutely no one else at times.

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the thirty-eighth season. I still have a lot to do before I bring back this blog by finishing this post and the next one. So let’s not get to too much dilly dally as I write the needed three lines of this paragraph and get to the next one.

 

In Through the out Door (second immunity challenge from It’s Like the Worst Cocktail Party Ever): In this challenge, each tribe must climb a ladder, get a bag through a bamboo frame, get the bag free and untied to get a monkey’s fist, get that fist through a hoop to release a gate, and then solve a slide puzzle. It is possible that an individual version of this challenge could be done while social distancing.

 

Planks a Lot (reward challenge from I’m the Puppet Master): In this challenge, players have to swim out in pairs to get planks in a crow’s nest that is taken back to shore and used to solve a plank puzzle. An individual version of this challenge could be done while social distancing.

 

Odyssey 6 (first immunity challenge of I See the Million Dollars): In this challenge, players must navigate through rope obstacles, get over platforms, get a bag of numbers crossing a balance beam, use those numbers to solve a lock, and complete a vertical puzzle. This could be done while social distancing.

 

شماره نشریه تایم از 19 اکتبر 2020 در صفحه 16 در یکی از خبرهای خود یک تار جالب داشت. به سادگی ذکر شد، "تگزاس مکان های خروج غایب را محدود می کند." من حتی تا انتخابات 2020 نمی‌دانستم که ریختن صندوق‌ها موضوعی است. من شخصاً نامه ام را در برگه رأی مستقیماً به دادگاه می برم زیرا نزدیک محل زندگی من است. من اکنون آن را برای رای دادن از طریق پست در هر انتخابات عمومی تنظیم کرده ام. اما در مورد مشکل، «گرگ ابوت، فرماندار جمهوری‌خواه تگزاس، دستوری صادر کرد که بخش‌ها را فقط به یک محل رها کردن رأی‌های غایب محدود کرد». چگونه این یک مشکل است؟ شهرستان‌های روستایی که جمعیت بسیار کمتری دارند و تمایل دارند به جمهوری‌خواهان رای دهند، به اندازه شهرستان‌های بزرگ‌تری که تمایل دارند به دموکرات‌ها رأی دهند، تحت تأثیر منفی این موضوع قرار نخواهند گرفت. به علاوه، پیدا کردن صندوق رای چقدر آسان است؟

 

Continuing on with songs from A Christmas Celebration, I’m now sharing The Wexford Carol by Celtic Woman. I quite like this song and how it covers everything in rhyme. I wonder why this isn’t a more well known song at times.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvi8DAGUu5I

 

Having shared the fiddle solo version of In the Bleak Midwinter, I might as well cover the song version of it from Home for Christmas that Celtic Woman did. This was a bonus song not included in the concert for some reason or another.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6h5r0J4rG0

 

Since I shared one of the Thomas the Tank Engine Christmas songs, I will now share their other one called Winter Wonderland, which is not to be confused with the other song of that same name which is more well known and will be covered later, in next week’s potential post.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opndJ0aFQVM

 

The next song that I’m sharing from The Nightmare Before Christmas is the Town Meeting Song. In it, Jack explains Christmas to the citizens of Halloween town. It makes you wonder if town meetings would be more interesting if people did songs for groups there like this.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6QZUcRJw-A

 

The next football team update will sadly not be one of the last. I need to figure out who is the best of the three teams between the Jets, Giants, and Seahawks. You see, despite being named New York in both of their names, both the Jets and Giants play their games in New Jersey. The Seahawks play in the state of Washington. The only other team that could have gotten in here was one that played in Virginia. But the Washington [D.C.] Commanders play in Maryland. I’m not sure that I need to remind you why these states are important in ranking the football teams, but if you read my posts in this blog relating to March Madness, then you would know.

 

I’m not going to bother with reminding you about this as, well, it isn’t too important and all you really need to know is that three teams start with the next ranking and their seasons from 2021 onward are how they are ranked. The Jets beat the Giants. The Seahawks beat the Giants. The Jets and Seahawks won’t play each other until January 1st. With the Giants already the lowest of these teams, I will have to wait until this game is played to see which team will be the highest. Then I’ll get to the last of the current rankings of the NFL teams until something changes. I will put the rest of the updates in my CSI: Vegas blog instead of this one. It may already be up by the time this one’s up due to the hiatus of this blog that wound up happening.

 

I am pretty sure that of my three lists that I have going right now, only two things have Christmas episodes that will be the next holiday related thing on them to watch. I’m not entirely sure, but this could be the case. Both of them are NCIS. One is NCIS season 9. The other is NCIS season 10. I’ll have to check the other ones later. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, the tribe talks about Sami’s blunder and why everyone voted for him. Owen still wants to drive a wedge between the remaining women so he tells Cassidy that Jesse said that Karla wanted to vote out Cassidy. Karla puts on crocodile tears to put on this show that Cassidy should not believe such a terrible thing. Karla then wants Jesse to bail her out, but he instead throws her under the bus when Cassidy asks him about it. We then get to the next challenge. In the very close challenge, it is the blue team of Owen, Karla, and Cody who wins.

 

In the second segment of the show, we get to the people on the reward. Karla says that she doesn’t have an idol to the other two players, a lie. They aren’t sure what to believe as they feel that she should have played it by now. The others still want to vote out Karla. The people back at camp think that Karla should be voted out. And they are convinced of her having an idol.

 

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. Should I ever talk more about the challenges? Oh, wait. You can’t tell me as I got rid of comments. Karla mentions having a hand injury on possibly both of her hands. Karla keeps getting hurt. Cassidy wins the challenge after a fumble. Karla talks about having an idol even as she lost her challenge.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, Gabler thinks that it is likely that he might be voted out as he doesn’t have an idol or shot in the dark. Many think that they will be save and convince others not to target them since they have idols. It is hard to tell for sure who might be going home due to the rule where people talk about blindsides and get blindsided. Cody wants to target Karla. Jesse wants to be more brutal and target Cody. Jesse wants to play his idol and spook Karla into playing hers. He tells a lot of people about this and Jesse has to surrender one of his idols to Cody to go along with the plan. There are a lot of things that could happen and go wrong. I’ve no idea what will happen.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Man, I’m tired. At least I can ensure that I’m going to do better in the finale post. Karla had her challenge failure. Half the tribe wants to play their idols. Jeff mentions that these potential idol plays could be bluffs. Cody says that he won’t be one of the people getting voted out tonight. Owen isn’t counting himself out yet. Cody is certain that he’s going to stick around after the vote. Why Cody didn’t show his idol before the vote is beyond me.

 

We then get to the moment of truth: idol play. Jesse plays his idol for Owen. Karla plays one for herself. No one else plays an idol. The votes are read and Cody gets voted out with an idol? Man. This season is about hard choices if you have to get rid of your own idol by voting out the person who has it. As usual, the tribe has to be taken to a new beach for the finale. Finale beach. Also, how do you explain this to the person who was voted out and has to leave? He has to make like a tree and get out of here and it’s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.

 

On the next Survivor, something happens of some sort or another as I can’t really tell a damn thing from that promo as television doesn’t like to tell us what’s going to happen next for some reason. Ugh. I even complained about that in my TV blog.

 

Total confessional count: Gabler- 23, Owen- 27, Jesse- 25, Cody- 24, Cassidy- 12, Karla- 21. New confessionals this episode: Jesse- 4, Cody- 2, Cassidy- 1, Karla- 3, Gabler- 2, Owen- 3.

 

Planned February blog posts

 

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Not February

Not February

Not February

1: Survivor (maybe)

2: CSI: Vegas (maybe)

3: Madam Secretary

4: CSI: Cyber

5: TV

6: Elementary

7: The Good Wife (maybe)

8: Survivor (maybe)

9: CSI: Vegas (maybe)

10: Madam Secretary (maybe)

11: CSI: Cyber (maybe)

12: TV

13: The Good Fight

14: Survivor

15: Fadam Secretary (maybe)

16: CSI: Vegas (maybe)

17: Madam Secretary (maybe)

18: CSI: Cyber (maybe)

19: TV

20: The Good Wife (maybe)

21: freebie

22: Survivor (maybe)

23: CSI: Vegas (maybe)

24: Madam Secretary (maybe)

25: CSI: Cyber (maybe)

26: TV

27: The Good Wife (maybe)

28: freebie

Not February

Not February

Not February

Not February

 

It is a bit hard for me to explain the Fadam Secretary blog of mine, but it is basically a way of filling in posts that won’t be able to be done. Thanks to the hiatus, that blog is up now, but I won’t talk about it until the new season of this show starts. I have had a lot of time to write these blog posts during the hiatus so, of course, I had done a lot of that with my spare time, ha ha. I wish that was the case. I also don’t know if the schedule will be close to accurate in the end. There’s a lot of uncertainty still as I bring these blogs back. Speaking of which, the post on the season finale will appear on the 15th of February at the very latest. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.