Episode 40.4

It is finally time for the shameless plug of the day! That’s when I promote myself in a work that you may or may not have seen before. I was once in a Survivor podcast called Survivor Showdown for one of their episodes. We talked about a whole lot of things as I tried to get the most points. One of what we had talked about was who the most likable Survivor was. One of the other people on the podcast mentioned that he thought Ethan Zohn was the most likable. If you want to watch for yourself, see what happens here. I marked around where this start of the podcast was. Also see if you can figure out whether or not being lovable is better than likable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1P6L5Wab18 (starts at around 15:00)

Whenever people think about standoffs, people might think of this tune here called The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. You have probably heard it before, even if you didn’t know the name of it. Enjoy it here and you’ll understand why it might reveal why no one left to strategize at first in the last episode since there was a standoff going on at the time.

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

I can only hope that I can accurately keep track of who has what in terms of fire tokens and other of the advantages in the game. I’ll always start with a reminder of the fire token count going into the episode and then what changed after it. If there are any errors, then let me know. I’m not sure how I feel about the whole fire token twist yet. It seems like it could be interesting, but it could also run into introducing what accounts to legal bribes in the show. Granted, there is no guarantee that they get the advantage if they give their fire token away, but there could still be issues with the whole twist.

Fire token count: Nick- 1, Tyson- 1, Sophie- 1, Jeremy- 1, Sandra- 0, Ben- 1, Michele- 1 Wendell- 1, Adam- 1, Yul- 1, Sarah- 0, Rob- 2, Parvati- 2, Kim- 1, Denise- 2, Tony- 1; Natalie- 3, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0; Sandra- idol good for two more tribal councils, Jeremy- safety without power, Sarah- steal a vote advantage, Denise- regular idol, I think

In the first segment of the show, we see the Sele camp after the tribal council. Adam blew the vote, but why was Ethan voted out? Adam wants to make an apology tour. At least he knows that he did wrong. Ben doesn’t think that they should give them much rope since one could be hanged with it. Meanwhile, on the other tribe, Yul is feeling happy and thinks that his alliance is doing good and in control. There are people on this tribe that can see the Edge of Extinction.

On the Edge of Extinction, they learn that if they want a fire token, they have to take 20 pieces of logs, one at a time, before sundown up from where they are until down to a new place. Natalie seems to do the best at this. Danni compares the grueling ordeal to childbirth, but points out that you get more after childbirth and not just one measly fire token. Can everyone get a fire token or just the first one who gets the job done? Ethan isn’t okay doing the sort of challenge. A doctor or someone visits him when he is just four trips away. He needs rests, but seems able to finish it. People get emotional completing the task at hand. They feel like they have a bound now as they all finish successfully.

In the second segment of the show, Rob talks to Michele about the age difference between them and how she shouldn’t take her win negatively because if you win, you win. Adam is working hard since he wants to prove himself to his tribe. Parvati wants to avenge Ethan. Who even voted Ethan out?

Parvati and Rob are generally annoyed by Adam. What did I do? Oh, wait, a different Adam. Jeremy isn’t sure that he can keep Adam around. Tyson wonders what to do on his tribe potentially going forward. Sandra doesn’t trust Tyson and is okay with anyone going home “as long as it ain’t me.” When will people think that maybe it should be her?

In the third segment of the show, we get to the challenge of the game. The winning tribe gets chickens and immunity. Parvati wants to call the sit out bench the Sandra bench since Sandra is always sitting out of the challenges. Sandra doesn’t mind this label. Why not call it the Abbi bench? Remember her? The blue tribe continues to do poorly in the challenges. But will they do poorly? For some reason, it seems that only Adam is going after the keys. Why can’t someone else try for it? He is getting worn out. Rob is doing the puzzle again despite constantly failing at it in previous challenges. I somehow knew going into this that the blue tribe probably wouldn’t lose. They pull a great come from behind win despite doing quite terribly at first. Adam mentions his late mother after his success at the challenge.

In the fourth segment of the show, Tyson wants to get rid of Nick since Nick blew the puzzle. Tyson also wants to get rid of the unconnected players such as Sophie who he couldn’t remember at first. It does seem too easy in a way and they will certainly show more than one possibility most of the time.

Nick and others want to vote out Tyson since they feel that he’s too big for his britches. But Tyson is a shield and needs to stay in the game. They want to keep Tyson and Sandra might be the swing vote. Sandra doesn’t trust Tyson, finding him to be dangerous. Which is better, revenge or the money? Sandra thinks that it is the money that is better.

In the fifth segment of the show, Tony says that the state of the tribe has things not being clear cut. Yul isn’t sure where the math lies for this vote since they don’t keep going to tribal council. Some say that they will stick with each other after potential tribe swaps. Jeff points out that Sandra likes to make it so that anyone outside of her is a target.

Tyson says that being someone else’s idol isn’t a good thing since they might want to get rid of their idol in order to make a huge move for others. Sandra says that she does not get star struck. Nick says that he has a crush on Parvati even though they haven’t met yet. Nick is worried that it could be him. Everyone has a plan going into the vote. Tyson is voted out. He gives his fire token to Nick. What? Why?

On the next Survivor, the tribe switch happens and Rob isn’t sure of what will happen. Are they going to three tribes? Some woman, maybe Michele, gets stuck on an island with her ex-boyfriend or maybe some other weird thing happens. Tyson arrives at the Edge of Extinction and is amazed at all of the fire wood that they have there.

Total confessional count: Sandra- 7, Ben- 8, Michele- 4, Wendell- 3, Adam- 12, Yul- 7, Sarah- 6, Rob- 9, Parvati- 7, Kim- 2, Denise- 4, Tony- 7, Nick- 2, Tyson- 8, Sophie- 6, Jeremy- 7; Natalie- 8, Amber- 11, Danni- 7, Ethan- 8.

New confessionals this episode: Jeremy-2, Sandra- 1, Ben- 1, Michele- 0, Wendell- 1, Adam- 3, Yul- 1, Sarah- 2, Rob- 1, Parvati- 1, Kim- 0, Denise- 0, Tony- 0, Nick- 1, Tyson- 3, Sophie- 1; Natalie- 2, Amber- 4, Danni- 2, Ethan- 3.

Fire token count: Adam- 1, Yul- 1, Sarah- 0, Rob- 2, Parvati- 2, Kim- 1, Denise- 2, Tony- 1, Nick- 2, Sophie- 1, Jeremy- 1, Sandra- 0, Ben- 1, Michele- 1, Wendell- 1; Natalie- 4, Amber- 1, Danni- 1, Ethan- 1, Tyson- 0; Sandra- idol good for one more tribal council, Jeremy- safety without power, Sarah- steal a vote advantage, Denise- regular idol

Adam has the most confessionals in the game right now with Amber as the most of those living on the Edge of Extinction. Nick and Kim tie for the least with two a piece. Meanwhile, Michele, Kim, Denise, and Tony all had no new confessionals this episode, although I might have missed one that Tony had. Amber was the highest this episode with Tyson and Adam tying for highest of those in the game. There’s not much else to say so I will let you go now. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.