Episode 40.12

If you follow other blogs of mine, you’ll know that from 2015 onward, there was a cheat that I put in one of the blogs that could give it an update without anything special having to happen. That blog was my TV blog. The cheat would be with unused tithes from the previous year causing the blog to be updated on that date the next year. At one point, I had to move those updates to my Madam Secretary blog before I put them back in the TV blog before returning yet again to the Madam Secretary blog where they are right now. I also started putting the month of the check that I was giving away on the envelopes most of the time, although there are times when I can’t use the month and have to leave it blank. There have also been times when I couldn’t use a cheat as it conflicted with this blog that you are reading now.

Things are getting quite confusing since there is no church that I can go to and a lot of unused envelopes as a result. There might be times when I’ll have to give away all that is in one envelope or at least part of it. You might wonder how this will affect blogs including possibly this one in the end. Well, all I can say is that I might go with back-up times to publish blogs more in the future and that’s if there’s even a show to blog about in the present. I have my doubts that they will air a new season this fall like they always have and it might not just be delayed like the third season was. Basically, we’ll see what all this blog and others might do because of these changes and I hope that it won’t be a problem.

Fire token count: Sarah- 2, Kim- 3, Denise- 3, Tony- 2, Nick- 2, Jeremy- 1, Ben- 0, Michele- 0; Natalie- 6, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0, Sophie- 0; Sarah- coin flip safety advantage, Tony- regular idol.

In the first segment of the show, Sarah is outraged over Tony’s move. Jeremy thinks that Ben is acting too childish over the vote. Tony reveals that he has an idol. Ben isn’t sure that he can trust Tony and wants to make sure that Jeremy is voted out. Tony was pooped on by a bird. Well, get off twitter and then you can avoid the angry fans. Tony is going on another undercover operation. He is doing a spy nest by hiding in a tree. Sarah knows that he is doing this. She thinks that he could get himself voted out due to what is going on. Kim wants to get rid of Tony and tries to rally the other players against him. She wants to leave a light on. Isn’t that a song? Michele thinks that she should take out Tony.

In the second segment of the show, we return to the edge of extinction. The new task will give six of them two fire tokens each. They have to take 20 coconuts from the back of the island to their camp, one at a time. And they have to do it before sundown. Some do better than others. Rob cracks his elbow. Natalie does this first. Sophie gets a close second. Yul comes in third. Tyson and Parvati come in fourth and fifth. Danni suffers a set back and Wendell gets sixth place. Rob keeps going even after he is out of getting any fire tokens. Back with the main game, there is more fighting with the other players.

Nick wants to join a new group of people so he joins Denise and Michele in an alliance. He wants to get rid of Jeremy, Tony, and Sarah. The players are convinced that Sophie’s idol is going back into play. For once, it isn’t in a hole in a tree, or, at least, it isn’t in the one that they check. Ben finds the idol and unsuccessfully tries to hide it from Tony who is right next to him. Ben wonders what route to go on or who to side with.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. Both a woman and man will win the immunity challenge. Come on, really? Is that something that they can randomly do? Jeremy is out of the challenge first and Ben disqualifies himself. Sarah drops out next. Is this really the toughest version of this that they’ve done? Wasn’t there a variant of this with both hands above them? Nick wants to give a fire token to Tony in exchange for winning the challenge, but Tony refuses. When Jeff offers food, Kim, Michele, and Nick (for one of Tony’s fire tokens) drops out of the challenge, leaving Tony and Denise with the wins of the challenge. Tony brags about his win.

In the fourth segment of the show, Kim talks about how they can’t get rid of Tony now. But they are going with the other plan of trying to get rid of Jeremy. Michele isn’t sure what to do. Ben reveals that he was the target at some point. Tony isn’t sure that he can trust Nick anymore. Kim is dangerous and she might be the target for some people now. Tony tries to tell Ben that Nick can’t be trusted and he wants to make sure that Kim is voted out next. Michele talks about her 50/50 coin advantage. I thought that Sarah had it. How long have I been wrong about it? Michele talks to Jeremy about maybe giving the advantage away to potentially help him. There is more scrambling than with eggs right now. Jeremy takes the advantage knowing that it might be worthless in the end. Friendly fire could happen.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Denise talks about the bad family therapy that she witnessed after the vote. Would she know about it? She’s a sex therapist, right? I wonder how being a therapist makes her feel.

Michele talks about the decision while Tony and others have a secret conversation to the side. All of this whispering is quite common now. Nick admits that he got a fire token for this. There is a tribe of crazy, paranoid players this season. Jeff offers a sports like commentary while this is going on. What is with all of this going on? Will this always be part of the show now? And is it a good thing? Jeff thinks that there is nothing that can be said tonight.

Denise is sure that she is ready to vote. Did Jeremy flip the coin? I think that he did, but I couldn’t tell if he did and the results are unknown right now. When would he have done that exactly? Tony wants to play his idol for Sarah, but she refuses this offer. I could tell what happened with Jeremy, but I think that he didn’t get the results he wanted. Or maybe he didn’t play his advantage at all. Kim is voted out. She gives each of her three fire tokens to the three women left in the game.

On the next Survivor, we get a two hour episode all at once, Natalie is doing something, Sarah and Tony might both be in danger, and there are more confusing things going on as well. It is hard to make sense of the promos as much anymore, but at least they are still there.

Total confessional count: Denise- 11, Tony- 30, Nick- 12, Jeremy- 22, Ben- 22, Michele- 16, Sarah- 18, Kim- 13; Natalie- 13, Amber- 15, Danni- 12, Ethan- 12, Rob- 23, Parvati- 16, Yul- 13, Wendell- 10, Adam- 26, Tyson- 18, Sophie- 17. New confessionals this episode: Tony- 6, Nick- 1, Jeremy- 2, Ben- 4, Michele- 2, Sarah- 2, Kim- 2, Denise- 1; Natalie- 1, Amber- 1, Danni- 3, Ethan- 2, Rob- 4, Parvati- 1, Yul- 1, Wendell- 1, Adam- 1, Tyson- 2, Sophie- 1.

Fire token count: Jeremy- 1, Ben- 0, Michele- 1, Sarah- 3, Denise- 6, Tony- 3, Nick- 3; Natalie- 8, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 6, Yul- 2, Wendell- 2, Adam- 0, Tyson- 2, Sophie- 2, Kim- 0; Tony- regular idol, Jeremy- maybe still the coin flip advantage?

I can’t keep track of some of these advantages and think that some of the confessional count is bloated since they kept switching between more than one person’s confessional at once, giving them a higher count than they might have otherwise. Tony now has the highest count with thirty confessionals. Denise is the lowest with eleven. Everyone in this episode had a new confessional, even those on the edge of extinction. I might have the number wrong for some of them, at least on the edge. It is hard to tell if there are any misleading numbers in terms of confessionals, but it might become clearer later or all be misleading on purpose. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.