Episode 42.2

Something that I had wondered a bit about was why they hadn’t filmed Survivor 43 and 44 yet. This is not something that they had to do by any means. I was just concerned that due to the pandemic, they should be doing as much filming as they could at once to ensure that future seasons would exist. We’ll have to see over time if there are anymore variants of covid or issues with filming more seasons. I’d hate for them to be filming a season and have to stop for any reason like they did on The Amazing Race. Or we could have an issue where only one season is filmed, but not the other.

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the fifteenth season. As you know, I have already blogged about the season some, but haven’t talked too much about the challenges in them. In fact, I never spend much time describing the challenges like how they work or what’s happening. I often gloss over them. I will be going more in depth into them and spoiler! I’m going to talk some about what I haven’t yet put in this blog. I will post sometime in that season or a different one about why I consider spoilers to be fair game when blogging about an old season. Also, these challenges will obviously have a Chinese theme to them since there’s where the season was set.

 

Dragon Dance (opening challenge from A Chicken’s a Little Bit Smarter): In this challenge, each tribe has to maneuver a heavy Chinese puppet through a maze with the line leader removing obstacles. At the end of the course, the tribes must put their poles in the right place in the ground to win. This could not be done while social distancing.

 

Clear the Deck (reward challenge from I Lost Two Hands and Possibly a Shoulder): In this challenge, the players have to force the other ones off of pontoons into the water to score points. As this is a physical challenge, it clearly could not be done while social distancing.

 

Blade Runner (immunity challenge from I Lost Two Hands and Possibly a Shoulder): In this challenge, the players run one at a time to chop sections of wood to release puzzle discs to take back to the start line. The others would then place the discs on a puzzle pole to drag across the finish line to win. There are ways that this could be done while social distancing.

 

Great Balls of Fire (reward challenge from Ride the Workhorse Till the Tail Falls off): In this challenge, two players would have to use ever longer chop sticks to get a burning metal ball to a wok to ignite fireworks. Once all of them are lighted, the tribe wins. I don’t know if this could be done while social distancing, but it could if it were done one at a time instead of in pairs. This challenge was named after a song of the same name.

 

Warriors’ Duel (immunity challenge from Ride the Workhorse Till the Tail Falls off): In this challenge, the players are dressed in armor where they throw meteor hammers to break vases while trying to stop their opponents from doing the same. The most smashed vases win. It is possible that this could be done while social distancing.

 

Feast Memory (immunity challenge from I’m Not as Dumb as I Look): In this challenge, the contestants are quizzed on the merge feast and event that had happened earlier. The person who doesn’t answer any questions wrong wins. It is unknown what would happen if all of the players get a question wrong during a round. One would assume that they would simply edit that out and act as if that didn’t wind up happening at all. This could easily be done while social distancing.

 

Dragon Rider (immunity challenge from High School Friend Contest): In this challenge, the contestants have to sit on a barrel shaped like a dragon for as long as possible without falling off or touching the structure holding the barrel. I found this challenge to be notoriously easy. It could be done while social distancing, but I don’t want it done again as an endurance challenge where you just sit seems rather dumb in my mind.

 

Drum Roll (reward challenge from Just Don’t Eat the Apple): In this challenge, players work as a team to bounce balls with different sized drums down a course and into a barrel through waist high hurdles. They would have to start over or from the most recent gate if they hit puberty, I mean, dropped the ball. I’m thinking that a true individual version of this could be done while social distancing.

 

Star Struck (immunity challenge from Ready to Bite the Apple): In this challenge, contestants basically just throw stars at a target and attempt to get the highest score by getting closest to the target. This could easily be done while social distancing.

 

Swamp Donkeys (immunity challenge from Going for the Oscar ®): In this challenge, the contestants are attached to a rope and have to go down a swampy course over and under a series of hitching posts. Once they arrive at a set of color coded boxes, they must answer a question and hope that they got the right key. The right key is found by correctly answering a question about Chinese inventions. Once they have opened all three locks, they raise a flag to win the challenge. This could easily be done while social distancing as there is no need to be near another person during this.

 

Great Wall of Zhelin (reward challenge from A Slippery Little Sucker): In this challenge, contestants would have to construct a version of The Great Wall of China by racing down a ladder from the top, race to assemble a puzzle bridge, use a Chinese Yoke to stack puzzle blocks that are then carried to the top of the course up a ladder, and use the puzzle pieces to finish the wall. I’m pretty sure that this could be done while social distancing.

 

У випуску Time від 10-7-2019 була перша стаття про скандал Трамп-Україна у статті під назвою «Я хотів би, щоб ви зробили нам послугу…» — нині сумнозвісні слова, які сказав Трамп. Мені цікаво, наскільки це могло насправді допомогти Байдену зрештою. Справді, на сторінці 23 сказано, що «звинувачення в корупції з боку Байденів [наприклад, Джо, Хантера та, можливо, інших членів родини], які численні незалежні спостерігачі визнали необґрунтованими, український уряд спростував, а [Джо] Байден засуджує як мазок».

 

Я маю на увазі, яким жахливим ти повинен бути, щоб вчинити злочин, а потім відразу сказати, що в тому, що ти це зробив, винен хтось інший? Говоріть про відсутність відповідальності за свої дії. Можна подумати, що республіканці зроблять цей імпічмент кінцем спроби Трампа виграти переобрання. Але все було інакше в 1868 році, коли Ендрю Джонсону було оголошено імпічмент і він став одним із 5 президентів, які втратили реномінацію своєї власної партії, що було раніше первинної системи, про яку ми знаємо сьогодні.

 

У статті вказується на одну з найбільш часто чутих брехень від республіканців і адміністрації Трампа про імпічмент. На сторінці 26 сказано, що Тім Мерто, член адміністрації Трампа, просто відкинув імпічмент як «демократи [хочуть] скасувати... результати виборів 2016 року», що, за його словами, вони завжди хотіли зробити. Але як імпічмент скасував би результати цих чи будь-яких інших виборів, на яких можна було б виграти? Я не розумію, чому люди використовують цю лінію міркувань, коли вона настільки далека від істини. Імпічмент не скасовує результати виборів. Це було б правдою, якщо б Хілларі Клінтон якимось чином не стала президентом замість Майка Пенса.

 

In this post of my Madam Secretary blog, I mention a lot of different things. One is about the cheats in blogs as to when I update it. The history of that started when I wanted to make use of my unused offering envelopes at church when I didn’t use them the next year. It also included more regarding when I wound up putting months on them as in the month of whatever paycheck it was that I was tithing any of. I did this so that it would make sure that I could update my TV blog. But then I had to move it to my Madam Secretary blog as is stated in that post. It moved back to my TV blog then back to my Madam Secretary blog then to my Good Fight blog then my Elementary blog then back to my TV blog before it wound up back in my Madam Secretary blog where it is now.

 

Two other important things to mention is that I would root for Oklahoma in the March Madness tournament and would again if they were in it, which they are not this time around. The other important thing that I mentioned in this post was the Friday shows that I watched at the time. I will get to the ones that I watch now and will for the entirety of Lent as the schedule isn’t set to change for a while. I am seeing just the shows of Charmed, Dynasty, Blue Bloods, and Magnum P.I.

 

https://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/episode-from-3-27-2016.html

 

Movie update: On Friday, I would be leaving for a trip and decided that I didn’t have time for a movie as a result. I didn’t have time for a movie on Saturday or Sunday afternoon as I was still on said trip. I was busy with primetime on Sunday night so I didn’t watch a movie then. On Monday, I had plans that did not involve watching movies at all. On Tuesday, I watched Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. That was replaced by Zorba the Greek.

 

I’m going to get more into March Madness this year and probably will mention it every time that I do this blog for the foreseeable future. There aren’t any results yet known as the games haven’t happened yet, but I will go through them throughout the tournament. Now I will mention the teams of who I am rooting for (the ones that are underlined) and all the other ones as well.

 

First, I’m going to mention who I’m rooting for in terms of teams from last time that also in it this time as well. They are Gonzaga, USC, Michigan State, UCLA, Michigan, Texas Southern, Creighton, Norfolk State, Wisconsin, Perdue, Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Illinois, San Diego State, Rutgers, and Huston.

 

There is another team that I should add as a sort of special exception in to root for. I have a pin for the Texas Longhorns. They are the team from Texas. I could have added them in last year. I think that they are a team worth keeping up with.

 

Other teams that I’m rooting for are Boise State, Memphis, Notre Dame, Cal State Fullerton, Georgia State, Kentucky, Saint Mary’s, Murray State, North Carolina, Duke, Marquette, San Francisco, Indiana, Akron, Saint Peter’s, Seton Hall, Loyola Chicago, TCU, Providence, Wright State, Texas Southern, and Bryant. All of them make sense to me.

 

The other teams in the tournament are Texas Tech, Arkansas, UConn, Alabama, Davidson, Vermont, Montana State, Baylor, Kansas, Miami (FL), Iowa State, Richmond, South Dakota State, Colgate, Iowa, LSU, Colorado State, Auburn, Wyoming, Yale, Jacksonville State, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Arizona, Villanova, Tennessee, UAB, Chattanooga, Longwood, and Delaware.

 

One last thing to note is the first four out. I’m only going to mention them here and underline them in the future should any of them wind up being last minute replacements for the planned teams that are already in the tournament. They are Dayton, Oklahoma, SMU, and Texas A&M.

 

Now ever since they brought back three medically evacuated players for Philippines, I have done some groupings of people who were medically evacuated and haven’t played the game since this happened to them. I don’t want to put people from the same season in this grouping. I was a bit confused as to what had happened with Jackson in regards to his departure from the game. Well it turns out that he was on a medication and not a drug. I’m not sure why he wasn’t honest this earlier. Don’t contestants have to disclose their full medical history? I guess this is a lesson for the future. I thought that this could be like an ejection, but that was not the case at all.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_(medication)

 

Let’s get to the next groupings of medically evacuated players that I’m going to do. The ones that I feel count and are eligible are Bruce from Panama, Gary from Fiji, Joe Dowdle from Tocantins, Mike Borassi from Samoa, Kourtney from One World, Dana from Philippines, Shamar from Caramoan, Erik from Micronesia and Caramoan, Terry from Panama and Cambodia, Neal from Kaoh Rong, Joe DeCampo from Kaoh Rong, Pat from David versus Goliath, and now Jackson from this season.

 

The ways that I would group them are this: Jackson from 42, Kourtney from One World, and Pat from David versus Goliath are group one. Joe DeCampo from Kaoh Rong, Terry from Panama and Cambodia, and Erik from Micronesia and Caramoan are group two. Gary from Fiji and Dana from Philippines are group three. Neal from Kaoh Rong, Bruce from Panama, and Joe Dowdle from Tocantins are group four. Shamar from Caramoan and Mike Borassi from Samoa are group five. Those are how the 13 players are grouped. All of the others have already played again since they were medically evacuated. I hope that some of them do play and are able to since a lot of them are older.

 

I had mentioned Tori from Power Rangers: Ninja Storm in the last post. I can explain more about her in this one by simply posting a link to her fandom page. I plan to share more links relating to that season of Power Rangers in the future for a bit. I’ll be sharing the theme songs.

 

https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Tori_Hanson

 

Here is some good news. I don’t remember if they advertised more relating to casting Survivor as in if they wanted more people for the show or not. What we do know now is that Survivor has been renewed for another season, presumably two.

 

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2022/03/09/cbs-renews-four-popular-unscripted-series-for-the-2022-2023-broadcast-season-978313/20220309cbs03/

 

I feel like it has been a while since I’ve had a Survivor dream. Well, I finally had one again. In this dream, Rupert was talking to Burton about different things. Only Burton was the governor of Arizona, who in reality is Doug Ducey. Rupert talked about why Burton hasn’t played Survivor again. And Burton looked just like Naseer from Survivor 41. Rupert’s campaign for governor was brought up. I think that was about the extent of the dream that I had.

 

There is one last thing that I should mention. I learned recently that I have an uncle in a hospital for a bit after he was injured hiking. I think that he will be okay in the end. I’m only bringing this up in case it winds up affecting this or other blogs of mine. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, people on the tribe Ika were upset over having to vote someone out. Tori is a bit upset that it wasn’t her. Hmm. Maybe she will quit. We’ll see. I hope not. I don’t think that there has been a quitter in a non Edge of Extinction season since Bi. And Sandra from Winners at War was the last person who quit the game. Anyways, I’ve missed a lot of who got confessionals. And I can’t say what happened to some of them since I didn’t know who was talking about what.

 

Marya talked about Maryanne. I might have some issues at times telling them apart based on their names. Maryanne is acting crazy at times to others in the game. Someone didn’t like eating meat. Another person talks about being Muslim. One person said that they are a Christian and another a Jew. Now as for the people that I know about, Drea talks about her amulet advantage and tells the other women about her other advantage of an extra vote. These women immediately want to get her out the moment that she leaves.

 

In the second segment of the show, Omar and Jonathan bond. Omar is the Muslim who was upset over the vote that he made. We learn that Marya is the sister of the first health care worker who died of covid in the United States. She is considered the target by other people. She wants closure more than she wants to win Survivor. I guess that we know who isn’t winning.

 

Mike found the beware idol. He tells two people about it. He loses it for a while, but it is found. Daniel knows about this the most. Mike doesn’t want to say the phrase because then others will know that he has the idol. I have the feeling that Mike is going to fail spectacularly at the game. Daniel tells Chanelle about his plan to make sure that the idol is never activated. You know, these idols would work much better if they didn’t tell others in their tribe about it. That way, only the activators know about it.

 

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. Marya talked about having a crush on Zach. I’d rather have a fanta. The orange tribe just barely loses the challenge. This will lead them to voting out their first member. The green tribe was first and blue second. Jeff, it won’t be the third person voted out of the game, just the second. He means third person eliminated from the game. We see Maryanne talking about how she hasn’t like how things have happened thus far.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, the guys on the orange tribe want to figure out whether or not they are voting out Marya or Maryanne. They want to make sure that neither of them play the shot in the dark. But only one of them could potentially be safe. Marya is suspicious of them. Also, can one give up their shot in the dark? Maryanne looks for an idol since she doesn’t even know if she can vote. It is clear to Lindsey what Maryanne is doing. Omar trusts Maryanne more. He thinks that someone will be getting their dream crushed tonight.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Omar talks about his disappointment with having to vote a family member out. How do they deal with the shot in the dark? I’m pretty sure that there is not an idol in play or we would know if someone lost their vote. Maryanne talks about the shot in the dark, as does everyone really. It seems that Maryanne doesn’t like being single. I have no idea what all that spiel was about. Marya is asked about Maryanne’s openness for love. Marya wants to be put first and considers herself like a mom of the group. Maryanne takes her extra vote that she found here. When asked about an advantage, it is revealed that Marya played hers. She isn’t safe. And she is voted out of the game.

 

On the next Survivor, Mike’s idol is missing and someone crazy seems to happen at the challenge which has never been done before. Is there a medical issue? And why does Jeff only say both tribes when there are three?

 

Total confessional count: Jenny- 1, Tori- 3, Lydia- 2, Maryanne- 5, Marya- 4, Daniel- 3, Mike- 4, Drea- 4, Jonathan- 5, Omar- 7, Rocksroy- 1, Lindsay- 3, Romeo- 2, Hai- 1, Swati- 1, Chanelle- 2.

 

New confessionals this episode: Jonathan- 3, Omar- 4, Rocksroy- 0, Lindsay- 2, Romeo- 0, Hai- 0, Swati- 0, Chanelle- 1, Jenny- 0, Tori- 1, Lydia- 0, Maryanne- 2, Marya- 2, Daniel- 1, Mike- 2, Drea- 1.

 

Well, I know that I messed up some of the confessional count and can only hope that I can get the one guy of Asian descent that talked about being a vegan in this episode in the next one, although I know that I missed all of the others, although it might not have been much missed. As for the numbers, make of them what you will.

 

Planned May blog posts

 

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1: Survivor (maybe)	2: freebie	3: Madam Secretary	4: Survivor (maybe)	5: The Good Fight (maybe)	6: The Good Wife	7: TV
8: CSI: Cyber	9: Elementary	10: The Good Wife	11: Survivor (maybe)	12: freebie	13: Survivor (maybe)	14: TV
15: Survivor (maybe)	16: freebie	17: Survivor (maybe)	18: Survivor (maybe)	19: freebie	20: Survivor (maybe)	21: TV
22: Survivor (maybe)	23: freebie	24: Survivor (maybe)	25: Survivor (maybe)	26: freebie	27: Survivor (maybe)	28: TV
29: Survivor (maybe)	30: freebie	31: Survivor (maybe)	Not May	Not May	Not May	Not May

 

There seems to have been a schedule change on CBS so I’ll wait until they have a replacement for Good Sam until I mention the Wednesday shows that I watch right now. I might cover the first half of that, where I mention the shows largely on before Survivor’s return. They haven’t advertised a show that would be replacing Good Sam. There is also no evidence that Good Sam is still on the air. Still, there is much to learn about what could be going on with this. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.