I realize now that when I
mentioned Cagayan again, I forget to mention where I have it ranked among the
other seasons. Well, it is 14 out of 40. Now as for a previous season that I
have not yet mentioned the ranking of, I have One World ranked as 8 out of 40
seasons. Also, since another death happened which was or will be talked about
in a different post, I’ll post my ranking of South Pacific. That season ranks
as 37 out of 40 seasons.
It was weird doing posts of
this blog on Wednesday like it normally is instead of Thursdays during the time
of Advent. I move the posts to Thursdays due to being at church when Survivor
would be on in the normal time of years. But you might be wondering what
Thursday shows I was watching around the time of Advent back in 2020. I was
watching the CBS shows of Young Sheldon, B Positive, and Star Trek: Discovery.
I was watching the ABC shows of Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19. I would watch
the NBC show of Law and Order: SVU if the network came in more often where I
live. I was not watching any show on the CW or FOX at the time. I was watching
The Outpost then, but that moved to Sundays so I changed when I watch it as a
result. I kept normal posts on Wednesdays instead of Thursdays during Lent as
well since there was nothing new to blog about. I’ll get more to Lent later.
Let’s get to the idols from
Island of the Idols part 5. The last lesson has Tommy first solving the clue,
but being limited in what he can see. Because of that, he had Dean help trying
to find the idol. Because of this, Dean found the last idol in the game that he
never needed.
Now in this old post on a
Madam Secretary blog post, you will noticed that I was talking about recording
The Big Bang Theory season 5 episodes on tape. I only put those from the third
disc on it since that is the one that my player had issues with for some
reason. I also talk about blogs affecting other blogs, which still happens. I
also mention lost Doctor Who episodes some. They should recreate them.
http://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/episode-from-3-6-2016.html
How many lawyers does it take
to change a light bulb? That answer is redacted.
Continuing with Survivor
challenges, I’m now going to talk about the challenges from Survivor fandom
that start with B. I almost had an issue with this or another post with a link,
but that turned out to just be the dumb new way that internet explorer has
links set up. Does it want to wind up like the web browser of Mosaic? It could.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Balancing_Point
In this challenge, contestants
have to balance coins on a sword. As this is an individual challenge, then it
could be done while social distancing. I have the feeling that a lot of the
social distancing challenges would be watching people stand around and not
going much of anything.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Ballin%27_A_Jack
In this challenge, contestants
have to stand on one leg while balancing a ball above their hands. What is it
with all of these challenges that include at least one ball? I think that it
has become quite the joke or obsession with challenge producers. What did it
first appear? I might have to get Screen Junkies to do an honest trailer on
this show so they call talk about Jeff Probst’s ball fetish. Anyways, as for
this challenge, it could be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Barrel_Bridge
In this challenge, contestants
have to cross from one end of the beach to another using barrels, planks, and
ropes without ever touching the ground. Since it relates to people being close
to each other, I would say that this challenge could probably not be done while
social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Barrel_of_Monkeys
This challenge is also known
as In the barrel. In it, contestants have to roll another one in a barrel to
get items, cross the finish line, and in at least two versions of the
challenge, had to roll balls at the end. This challenge could probably not be
done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Basket_Brawl
In this challenge, contestants
have to fight for control of a ball in a water based environment and score
baskets. All the physical contact means that this definitely could not be done
while social distancing as any challenge like that is out.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Better_Homes_and_Island_Living
This challenge is also known
as Build a better bathroom. In it, contestants get supplies from Home Depot and
have to build a shelter or bathroom that is better than the other tribe’s or
tribes’ project is. I would think that this challenge could probably not be
done while social distancing. It is worth noting that only one other challenge
that I know of uses an outside party to judge it like this one does.
It is also unknown if this
challenge could be done without a link to Home Depot, although there are
probably other places that would want to promote Survivor. Home Depot was one
of the sponsors to drop the show after the Cook Islands controversy. All of the
sponsors that were lost during that time either denied that it had anything to
do with that or had no comment as to why they did that. It is worth noting that
some of them dropped during that time entirely by coincidence as the timing of
when that company did that would have been too early for it to be related to
the controversy.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Beyond_the_Wheel
In this challenge, contestants
are in either a boat or the water as they have to get keys to release puzzle
pieces and then solve said puzzle. This challenge is named after a song of the
same name. I do not think that this challenge could be done while social
distancing unless they make it more of a relay race, in which case it could,
actually, be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Blind_Leading_the_Blind
This challenge is also known
as Tiki towers, palanquin slalom, flip out, blind cube crisis, four on the
flour, love is blind, blind build, blind rage, money roll, seers and doers,
smoko, family ties, ow pairs, hallin’ oat, collar blind, blind faith, and Sir
Duke. That’s a lot of names. In it, contestants would work through a caller to
find items and gather them. This challenge could not be done while social
distancing and is one of the more dangerous ones. In fact, this might be the
most dangerous challenge on the show that does not involve any physical contact
whatsoever that hasn’t yet lead to an evacuation, but has lead to some injuries
such as the badass Kelly from Worlds Apart who took a hit, took the treatment,
and then just kept on playing the challenge. It reminds me of the musician who
broke his leg during a concert and still wanted to perform the rest of the show
after being treated.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Lagoon_Bustle
In this challenge, contestants
have to go through a bunch of water obstacles and then complete tasks, typically
like solving a puzzle. I’m not sure how this challenge could be done while
social distancing, but like a previous one, if it could be turned into a relay
race, then it would be just fine.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Plate_Special
This challenge is also known
as Pot shots, sands of time, and signal fire. In it, contestants must break
opponent’s plates or objects before their own are broken. There is a trivia
like version of this that’s simplified in some ways that I’ll get to later
called touchy subjects. This challenge could be done while social distancing
and honestly might need more exposure on the show.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Boats,_Brains_%26_Brawn
This challenge is also known
as Rove, rove, rove your boat and Kenny log-ins. In it, contestants collect
items to solve a puzzle. I feel like that’s the gist of a lot of team
challenges. But at least there are a whole bunch of different ways to do that.
This challenge could not be done while social distancing unless you change it
into a relay race. How much of that could be done with boats is unknown or
unlikely as that tends to involve multiple people at once and thus couldn’t be
made into a relay race.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Bone_to_Pick
In this challenge, contestants
have to make a hook, get puzzle pieces, and complete a hook puzzle, all with one
hand tied behind their back. The name comes from the type of puzzle that is
done. I think that this challenge could be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Boulder_Smash
This challenge is also known
as Chinese checkers and bog roll. In it, contestants have to roll a boulder
across a line instead of the other tribe. This challenge could not be done
while social distancing as none of the physical contact challenges can be.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Bow_Diddley
This challenge is also known
as Hard to handle and bo diddley. In it, contestants must balance on a beam
while balancing a ball where they have to move to smaller planks and things get
harder as a result. This challenge could be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Box_Your_Mind
This challenge is also known
as R.A.M., marine memory, river rats, bai bai, propellerheads, shut your trap,
and running the numbers. In it, contestants must memorize items and then put
them in order to replicate them which could win them the challenge or score a
point for themselves or their tribe. I’d say that versions of this could be
made that could do this while social distancing. In fact, I’m unsure of any of
this could not be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Braille_Maze
This challenge is also known
as Fiji Braille maze, blind maze, and going blind. In it, contestants must do
things blindfolded while trying to solve a maze. The challenge could not be
done while social distancing unless each contestant had their own maze. There
is a link to another maze challenge on Survivor that is mentioned in another
post, be it currently available or will be in the future.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Broken_China
This challenge is also known
as Offer it up. In it, contestants have to make a stack of dishes that they
hold on a pile, but can’t drop out or they will lose the challenge. This
challenge like a lot of individual ones could be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Buggin%27_Out
This challenge is perhaps
known by the most names, as it is also called tucker’d out, safari supper,
Marquesan menu, Thai menu, Amazon menu, Survivor smoothie, Survivor
smorgasbord, cool hand balut; u pick, I chews; Samoa smoothies, Caramoan
catering, pesky palate, Cambodian catering, and Fijian feast. This is known
best at the gross food eating challenge. In it, contestants have to eat native
food that is considered gross. While this challenge could be done while social
distancing, it would seem like a waste of food and resources in the end. They
could still do it, though, if they have to do something like that in the end.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Build_It_Up,_Break_It_Down
In this challenge, contestants
have to build a barricade on their own side before breaking it down on another.
This has only been a tribal challenge thus far. I think that this challenge
could not be done while social distancing, but I have no idea what all would
work for that or not.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Butch_Cassidy
This challenge is also known
by a much better name: free fallin’. I think that some of the names of some of
the challenges were changed once fandom was put under a new format, much like
both blogger and facebook. Anyways, in this challenge, contestants must jump
from a certain point and then reassemble before doing another task. It is
infamous for possibly causing Kourtney’s evacuation in One World. While possible
variants of this could be done while social distancing as it could easily be
turned into a relay race, I think that it is too risky to ever use again. We’ll
see if producers feel the same way or not.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/By_Any_Means_Necessary
This challenge is also known
as battle dig, beach bash, and water slaughter. In it, contestants have to use
whatever methods they have possible (or, you know, any means necessary) in
order to get an object and use it to get a point for their team. With it being
yet another physical challenge, it could not be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/By_the_Numbers
In this challenge, contestants
have to cross a beam one at a time until all members were across, but they can only
touch one person at a time. Basically, the people have to switch even though
others are in the way. Since the challenge involves physical contact, despite
it being minimal, it can’t be done while social distancing. It is still an
interesting one to see regardless.
TV shows I watch on DVD
update: I finished watching Dollhouse season 1 on DVD. While I could put the
second season in its place, I won’t until next year has started where it will
probably get to cut ahead to the front of the lists that I have. It won’t be on
the second list as that currently has a d choice on it. It was replaced by
Power Rangers season 1, volume 2 from the other list that I have. Meanwhile,
season 2 of Flashpoint is now done being watched and it was replaced by season
3 of Flashpoint.
At the start of 2021, the main
list of six choices are Charmed season 6, Flashpoint season 3, Matlock season
1, Power Rangers season 1 volume 2, Survivor: Gabon, and recorded shows on
tape. It seems like this (Survivor: Gabon) is the most likely choice to be
removed from the list next, so I might as well do a segue into the next note
about this.
Basically, on Amazon Prime
Day, before I started doing Christmas shopping, I had to buy presents for those
who had birthdays in November so I bought myself Blood versus Water to blog
about again in order to get free shipping. I wanted to get All-Stars, but that
didn’t wind up happening just yet. It was not available or something like that
when I went for it. Maybe I’ll get that in the future. Or maybe I’ll get
something else. Or maybe I’ll be busy blogging about other seasons of the show
instead. I do not yet know what day of the week I’ll be blogging about that,
but I had to guess that it would more than likely be on Sundays the way things
are going right now, replacing this season’s posts.
Since I’ve done enough YouTube
videos to cover a new playlist (I have no idea just how many have to be used
for the bare minimum in a playlist, so I make sure that at least five will
work), I’ve been working on the theme that is outside of other themes. If you
want to see the miscellaneous videos that I do on my YouTube channel, here’s a
link to that playlist. I’ve been doing some of these on Saturdays to make up
for what I should have been doing in my Moonlight review videos instead. It has
not covered every Saturday instead like I would have wanted to.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO8vECGH5CX_x4dVEdE2m5d_PjgOsWdOE
It was on Friday, March 19,
2021 that I rolled the episode in question and was able to watch it. I saw on
the disc that the reunion show is a separate episode so I will do a separate
post on that in the future as in not in this post. Let’s get to the episode.
We begin with a recap of
important events in regards to this finale: Ken and Crystal were calling the
shots, having gotten ahead of Kota after the second tribe swap, Randy was
blindsided by a fake idol, and there are different paths to a win. They talk
after tribal council about the vote with Sugar believing that she saved Matty
which she didn’t really as he got only minority votes. Ken feels that Bob is
not a man of his word anymore. Bob felt that Ken was trying to add insult to
injury by making it seem like Bob was not a man of his word.
Ken tells Sugar that Bob
should be the next one voted out. They all put on war paint and other things as
they get to the immunity challenge at hand. There is a lot to the challenge at
hand. In the end, it is Bob who wins the challenge, having now won five
challenges in a row. Susie doesn’t like this.
After the challenge, Ken is
certain that Susie is going to get voted out now to the point of not wanting to
do anything. Matty wants to wait until the end so that Susie doesn’t scramble.
But she is suspicious since she doesn’t know what is going on. Too much of this
seems too obvious, plus I already know what will happen as I’ve already seen
this episode. As always, Sugar wants to do something else and thinks that Ken
could be a good vote instead. She thinks that Bob and Matty will vote with her.
Next is tribal council. Jeff
starts with Bob. Bob thinks that there is a target on his back and that is why
he fights hard to win challenges. Bob tied a consecutive win reward. Ken lives
a different life. Susie thinks that some of what she does with a relatively floater
game isn’t doing that well. Ken brings up the deal again and Bob brings up the
fact that Ken was likely to blindside him. Ken admits that people might end up
voting for Bob and says that’s what the deal is. Ken thinks that he is
safe while admitting that he feels that Bob should still live up to his end of
the deal. When the votes are cast, Ken votes for Susie while the rest of the
tribe, Susie, Bob, Sugar, and Matty, all vote out Ken.
Getting quickly to some
trivia, Ozzy in Cook Islands won 5 challenges in a row and Kelly in Borneo did
this as well. I do not remember offhand who might have done this in future
seasons beyond Gabon and am not checking my notes about it just now that are
incomplete now anyways. I’m hoping that I can get them caught up to Winners and
War, but won’t go past that even when Survivor 41 is done airing at this point
in time.
Ken was a questionable player
at times in terms of how good or bad he was at the game. He was once my
favorite to win when I first watched this season, but I no longer liked him by
the end. He made a lot of terrible mistakes and was a fool to think that
someone would give up immunity considering what had just happened to Erik the
previous season. I still might like to see him play again. I’d imagine that he
would have about a 56% chance of returning to a future season.
Back at camp, Susie is now
super nervous. Susie wants to win the challenge. She wants to vote out Bob if
that happens. She thinks that she will be voted out if she doesn’t win. They
get treemail of the people who were voted out before them. Matty is honored to
be a part of this game. They talk about all of the people and how they did in
the game. There isn’t much of a point of summarizing all of this.
We get to the final immunity challenge
where someone will either have to build a house of cards ten feet tall or have
the highest one after 30 minutes have past. Susie ultimately wins and becomes
one of the least deserving final immunity winners in the show’s history. Sugar
now regrets not getting rid of her the previous time and Sugar considers voting
against Bob.
Susie is glad that she gets to
be in the final three, being shocked about what happened. Susie wonders if she
thinks that Bob would win. She had considered voting Sugar off. But she didn’t
seem to put it that well. Sugar wants to put it up to fate to give Bob a chance
and put it up to fate. Despite promising to never write Matty’s name down, she
likes Bob like a father figure. Could she chose between her father and her
brother? That’s what she feels the choice is like. Bob prepares for tribal
council by making fire since Sugar told him about the planned tie. He is glad
for this opportunity.
We then get to tribal council.
Susie is glad that she won as she wouldn’t be safe otherwise. Bob talks about
being in danger at this tribal council. Matty makes it clear that he wants to
vote for Bob. Bob says that he would have to vote against Sugar thinks that she
would lose to both of them. All of them are quite emotional about the decisions
at hand and what to do.
The votes are cast and it is
how people think that it would be. Sugar and Bob vote for Matty. Susie and
Matty vote for Bob. This forces a tie. They then have to go to a fire making
challenge. The first person to win the challenge stays in the game while the
other joins the jury. Despite struggling at some point in time, Bob wins the
challenge, which eliminates Matty from the game since Matty never did
that well at the challenge at hand.
Matty is one of my favorite
players from this season. I wouldn’t think that anything other than what some
people involved with the shows would do to prevent him from playing Survivor
again. I give him about a 67% chance of playing Survivor again.
Susie is glad to still be in
the game and having made it to day 39. She never thought that she would have
made it that far. Sugar talks about the jury and how she had a hand in putting
everyone but Marcus on the jury. Not only that, she has successfully voted out
every person she voted for. Bob burns down the shelter at hand, even though
you’d think that it would be fun to keep around for potential future people
that might come around there.
We hear from the jury before
the final tribal council. I like this better as part of the game than an online
exclusive, although maybe I should just listen to those videos sometime. I just
don’t because I don’t have as much time and I also have only watched the
Ponderosa videos at times. I don’t even always watch the Ponderosa videos, but
that is probably going to change in future seasons.
Total confessional count:
Matty- 34, Susie- 18, Ken- 34, Bob- 27, Sugar- 37. New confessionals this
episode: Bob- 3, Sugar- 5, Matty- 1, Susie- 7, Ken- 2.
Next is the final tribal
council. Susie starts with her opening statement. She wants to show what it is
like to try. She thinks that she was up against a whole lot of people. Bob
talks about how he played with his heart and personality. He admits that he didn’t
outplay or outwitted, but he did outlast. Sugar is last and talks about how she
had to lie and did a lot about how she played on her own a lot, but also found
the idol and did a lot of other things too.
Charlie is up first and talks
about how the two women were ranked worst in their tribes right before the
first tribe swap. Susie says that she always knew that she would be
underestimated, but is always doing the best that she can. Sugar seems to
dismiss a vote. Charlie talks about him spooning with Bob and Bob says that
Charlie is a wonderful person. Crystal is up next and tells Susie that she rode
coattails. Bob then says that he was riding Sugar’s coattails. Crystal then
asks why Sugar voted her out. Sugar admits that she should have kept Crystal around.
Ken talks to Susie with Susie
saying that she deserves his vote. Ken asks why Sugar backstabbed him and she
admits that she made a mistake. Ken asks why Bob didn’t live up to his deal.
Bob thought that Ken would stab him in the back and Ken doesn’t want to hear
that. Corrine talks next. She asks Susie if she would have her vocal cords
removed. Susie denies this vote by declining the offer. Bob is told that he is
one dimensional. Corrine then tells off Sugar saying that she ain’t nothing but
a hound dog, crying all the time. But I don’t know why Sugar’s dead father has
to be brought into this.
Marcus talks about how people
could have made different life choices if they did some things different.
Marcus then asks if Sugar would have given any money in honor of her dead
father. He wants to know when Bob was responsible for making his own decision.
Bob felt that he didn’t need to be. Randy then goes up next. He goes off on
Susie and asks why she felt the way she did. Sugar dismisses the fact that he
went to the jury, calling him a jerk. Randy goes off on Bob and Bob admits that
he could have done the fake idol better.
Matty then asks Susie why the
others are less deserving of the money than he. She says that Sugar is a jerk
and that Bob was mean after he was in danger at the final four. Sugar is told
to reveal something that she did that was evil. He then asks Bob why the women
deserve the money more and he says that they don’t. Here, the final tribal
council ends with the votes being cast.
Ultimately, there is something
interesting with the final tribal council vote that I’ll get more into later.
We see only two votes then with Randy telling them all off. Matty, Ken, and
Crystal vote for Susie. Randy, Charlie, Marcus, and Corrine all vote for Bob,
making him the winner. Here, this part of the episode ends and we’ll get to the
reunion show later.
Sugar is liked by some people
like my sister, but I don’t care for her. Despite her relatively mean ways, she
was cast as a hero for the twentieth season: Heroes versus Villains. She was
the first one out of the game and suffered a mental crisis that forced her into
getting medically evacuated from the premerge boots part of the game. I’d put
her chances of returning to the game at 15%.
Susie is someone that I’m even
more surprised that people like and I can find it just a bit appalling that she
came within one vote of winning the game. But she wasn’t that great a player to
me. All that she did prove was that others underestimated her. Which isn’t too
bad, but wasn’t that much. I’d say that her chances of returning to the game
are around 30%.
Bob might be unique among the
winners as he might be the only person to win who did not vote out a single
jury member who voted for him to win. I’m pretty sure that every other winner
in the game got at least one person who they voted out to vote for them to win
the game. I’d have to check my notes from all the other seasons and put them in
this blog in different sections to see how they work. He did not appear to be
asked back for the landmark all winners season. Since he is the oldest winner,
I’d have to put his chances of returning to the game at around 40%.
As I get to the planned April
blog posts, know that the cheat that I’m using the updates a blog of mine based
on unused offering envelops is going to change during the month of April. That is
because I have to update the random Elementary blogs on specific dates in
specific years and April 26th just happens to be the next time that
it will show up. Hence, where the cheat will be will change during that month
and will stay there until a month without the cheat applies.
Planned April blog posts
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1: The Good Fight
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2: The Good Wife
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3: TV
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4: CSI: Cyber (maybe)
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5: The Good Fight
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6: Madam Secretary
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7: Survivor (maybe)
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8: Elementary
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9: The Good Fight
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10: The Good Fight
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11: The Good Wife (maybe)
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12: The Good Fight
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13: Madam Secretary
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14: Survivor (maybe)
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15: freebie
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16: Survivor (maybe)
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17: TV
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18: Survivor (maybe)
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19: The Good Fight
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20: Madam Secretary
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21: Survivor (maybe)
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23: Survivor (maybe)
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24: TV
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25: Survivor (maybe)
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26: Elementary
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27: Madam Secretary
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28: Survivor (maybe)
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29: freebie
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30: Survivor (maybe)
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Well, there’s not much else to
say about this season’s episode. The reunion post will be the next one that you
see on Sundays in this blog. I’ll then explain another blog change then. In
fact, there will be a lot in the next post to look forward to. What is it? Well,
you’ll have to find out. To be continued…
