Episode 43.6

With it being October this month, that should mean time for some Halloween related things in my life. But with me stuck trying to watch a lot of movies now and no shows waiting to see their Halloween episodes for me this year, know that two of the things that I’m watching now, Invader Zim and 8 Simple Rules, have Halloween episodes I was hoping that I could get to this month, but this will probably not be the case this late into the month, especially with this as the last October post of this blog to be done on the last Wednesday of the month unless something strange or bad happens. I will be putting other stuff relating to Halloween in this post to make up for that.

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the thirty-third season of the show. We are now getting to the season of Millenials versus Gen x which is one of the more important seasons to me right now. While I do plan to get more past seasons of the show like that at some point, I won’t be buying anything for myself again this whole year that’s a gift like that.

 

Got to Choose (opening challenge from May the Best Generation Win)- In this challenge, contestants would have to race under an obstacle to get a war club. They then have to go through a rope tunnel, but can use a shortcut here. Players must then walk across a beam, but can also do a second shortcut as well. The tribes will then have to get a crate to the finish. A puzzle would then have to be solved which would have more pieces if more shortcuts were used. The first tribe to solve the puzzle wins. I think that a potential individual version of this could be done while social distancing. It is named after a Kiss song of the same name.

 

Rusty Gates (second immunity challenge from Million Dollar Gamble): In this challenge, contestants would have to maneuver a handle through a maze while behind a cage door. They then use the handle to unlock the door. After this, they have to complete a slide puzzle to win the challenge. This could easily be done while social distancing.

 

Pinball Wizard (second immunity challenge from Slayed the Survivor Dragon): It seems that the editors of Survivor fandom have dropped the ball on this one as none of the editors of this site mention what this challenge is like or how it is done. Hmm. This makes me wonder how to address this challenge now. I think that I will wait and see if I can find this online and might address it alone instead of doing a section like this in next week’s post. It is named after a song by The Who of the same name.

 

Draw the Line (penultimate immunity challenge from I’m Going for a Million Bucks): In this challenge, the players must move a buoy through the water, transport puzzle pieces across a teeter totter, and use the pieces to solve a word puzzle. This could be done while social distancing.

 

Прошло некоторое время, прежде чем мы узнали, насколько Митч МакКоннелл выиграл от России, о чем говорилось в выпуске Time от 26 августа 2019 года. Кто знает, как давно были эти связи? Это могло быть намного дольше, чем 2016 год, когда он сказал, что обвинит демократов в попытке создать впечатление, будто они хотят, чтобы Трамп проиграл, указав на существование этого. Статья, о которой идет речь, просто начинается на странице 42, что является ответом на жизнь, вселенную и все такое. В статье говорится о шаге, который сделал Крейг Бушар, который «[он] знал… может быть спорным, если не прямо незаконным», для работы с Кремлем и Олегом Дерипаской. Это действительно связано с Митчем, который, как указывается в статье на странице 47, был известен «своим отказом вынести на голосование закон о безопасности выборов». Трудно вникнуть в суть всей статьи, обозначенной во введении как «Кремль в Кентукки», поэтому было приятно включить информацию в этот блог.

 

As promised, it is time for me to get to all of the Halloween stuff in this post. I plan to do something like this every October through all of the posts then. Now there are two things that I often do every time it is Halloween. Both relate to the Homestar Runner website. One of them is doing The House that Gave Sucky Treats. I’ll get to the other one in future years.

 

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/the-house-that-gave-sucky-treats

 

Now that I’ve shared some of the songs thus far from The Nightmare Before Christmas, I might as well get to the poem itself as it shows up in this YouTube video. It was this poem that lead to the movie that was made later, with this as the basis/inspiration.

 

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

 

Speaking of poems, I might as well get to The Raven poem, perhaps the best known poem, best known Halloween poem, and only known narrative poem. If you want to enjoy it, click this link. You probably know the gist of it offhand.

 

https://poets.org/poem/raven

 

Continuing on with the football teams that I root for, I might as well get to the next highest and why. The playoffs are always an interesting time for me. While I mentioned that I root against the Falcons, the year they took the Rams out of the playoffs, they were beaten by that year’s eventually Super Bowl champion, the Philadelphia Eagles. Thus, they are team number 14 for me. I could do a t-shirt of the entire rankings of NFL teams if I ever got a complete list. I doubt that I will, though. How could I rank certain teams anyways? I’ll get to the unranked teams only at the very end.

 

Before I get to the show, I am a bit curious into some of how these twists will keep working. I have the feeling that if I were on top of my game and were actually playing Survivor, if someone came up to me and asked for any random trinkets of mine, I’d ask them point blank, “Do you need this in order to get an idol or advantage?” If the answer is no, they’re probably lying to me. Thus, I’m wondering how the summit, beware advantages, and twists like that will keep working season after season. I don’t think that I will speculate much or at all over how this will work. I’ll have to see what will happen. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, it is time for the merge. There isn’t much set up for that. Cody thinks that the niceness isn’t real. Jeanine has somehow dreamed about this since she was a little girl. That is a weird thing to dream about. Noelle knows something is up as there is not a merge feast or new buffs yet. I guess no one was duped ever since the first fake merge where the tribes never got a new buff and were only told later that they weren’t merged at all. Owen, who has no advantage, tries to keep track of who all has what and he knows a lot of them, but not all. He knows the no votes. Elie learns that Cody has an idol because of the beads. She tells this to another woman.

 

We get to the challenge and we learn that it is a sort of merge that, once again, they have to earn their way into. But no one can take this away from the winning tribe this time. There will be an odd one out. Maybe they will do videos about Sooubway? I’ll explain more in the next post. This person gets to bet on which team they will support. We get to the draw for teams about to be revealed.

 

In the second segment of the show, Noelle is the one who is out. I can’t keep track of who is on what team as they go through that too quickly. Noelle bets on the blue team. The color blue has been more successful lately than it used to be. I mean, Ulong and Matsing were both blue. But now it does much better. Should I do a post on the colors of tribes? I’m not sure if I care that much or know much about it in the end. I could gather more info if I had time to read other Survivor blogs.

 

Karla gets injured in the challenge with a bleeding hand. Are they going to treat that? Do they have to wait until after this is over? Also, do they have to solve the puzzle in reverse? I can’t tell. The blue team pulls a come from behind win which gives them the win. Sami talks about how someone’s dream is going to die. Also, Jeff talks about taking new applicants for Survivor. Does that mean what I think it does? I can’t be too sure as they wanted to cast more people for The Hustler, but cancelled that show in the end. But at least we know that they are interested.

 

In the third segment of the show, the losers talk about being in mergeatory. They want to get revenge on the people who helped the other tribe. They want to vote out Cody. James doesn’t trust Cassidy. Does anyone trust anyone in Survivor? Not trusting others are a similar theme. The players that won the feast have a bit of an alliance. Gabler throws Elie under the bus in front of everyone. Gabler isn’t that smart a player.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, we learn that Cody’s name was thrown out and Elie learns about the fact that Gabler told people that she looks through his bag. She confronts him about it and says that she didn’t do it. She has to do damage control. Now I’m forgetting who did that. I’ll have to check. Elie told Gabler that Jeanine had an idol. She learns about this when she tells him. When will people learn to keep secrets on this season? I’m shocked that they have yet to use something like that as a twist. Or maybe they just like the regular twists that they know will be blabbed. Elie is still a target by others. They all want to vote for James.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Gabler says that things blow up with Ryan basically agreeing with him. Chaos has broken out. Jeanine mentions that everyone has to talk about what’s going on. Elie says that her name was brought up. Gabler is asked about how one might play an idol. His idol is only good for this tribal council. Is it not getting played? That would seem unlikely, but it could happen. One has to make sure that they make the right move. I couldn’t gather anything from that tribal council. It wasn’t crazy at all. I’m confused. Anyways, after the votes are cast and not one person plays anything, Elie is the person who is voted out.

 

On the next Survivor, Noelle might be in power, there is a power at the shelter, and Gabler has come up to the surface. What else can I say? There ain’t no disguising the truth. Anyone know what song I am referencing? I recommend looking it up sometime.

 

Total confessional count: Owen- 13, Noelle- 7, Sami- 9, Jesse- 13, Ryan- 6, Dwight- 9, Elie- 12, Jeanine- 8, Cody- 15, Cassidy- 5, Karla- 11, Gabler- 11, James- 9.

 

New confessionals this episode: Jeanine- 3, Cody- 2, Cassidy- 1, Karla- 1, Gabler- 1, James- 2, Owen- 2, Noelle- 1, Sami- 0, Jesse- 1, Ryan- 1, Dwight- 0, Elie- 3.

 

Now I have no idea who here follows other blogs of mine or not. But sometimes I have to juggle things around a whole lot. Thus, I’m posting a revised schedule with a note about how it might not stick. I do want to see a Survivor episode on Friday and probably will. That would change the newer schedule that is planned that you are now seeing. If that does happen, you won’t know the schedule since I won’t be able to post it before next month starts. This schedule, specifically the Friday part of it, is only going to happen if I don’t see Survivor on Friday. Otherwise, things will change and be different.

 

Planned November blog posts (revised potential)

 

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

 

I really don’t want Friday posts to be done with, even if that will help with this blog. I do want to keep at least one day of the week where I can do old seasons of this blog open. All I know is that if my TV blog is posted on Friday, then it will phase out Fridays and I can’t do anything there at all. That is why I want there to be something for other blogs that wouldn’t otherwise have a set day of the week to post things on. I doubt this makes sense to anyone else. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 43.5

I’ve decided that in the near future, I will be sharing some updates on the covid pandemic in Fiji since that is where they film Survivor and it relates to this show, of course. I’ve heard that some people have had issues getting to Fiji and thus they were upset that Survivor got to film instead of people who had more of a reason to get there. That might be worth covering more of here.

 

Next, I was wanting to do the one time challenges from the thirty-first season, but there are none to cover. Thus, I’m going to go with the one time challenges from the thirty-second season. This actually even things out a bit since they flipped the filming and the airing of those seasons potentially because that way we wouldn’t question what happened to Mark the chicken who was eaten in Cambodia by some accounts. Of course, the main reason was actually all the hype for Cambodia making it make more sense for it to go out of order and maintain a regular filming schedule.

 

Dig it (reward challenge from Signed, Sealed, and Delivered): In this challenge, the tribes would have to dig under a log before making their way to a sand pit and digging up three bags of balls. Once all of the tribes have balls, they had to be rolled into a series of targets. It could be done while social distancing. But it is remembered for three different contestants passing out and one of them having to be medically evacuated in the end. Thus, it might not be likely to appear again as a result even though I don’t blame the design of the challenge for this.

 

Baba buoys (reward challenge from Play or Go Home): In this challenge, contestants would swim down to release buoys, get them on a rack, and then shoot the buoys in a basket. If this were individual, this could potentially be done while social distancing. But since this involves swimming, it might not work that way at all.

 

Knot Your Fault (reward challenge from It’s Psychological Warfare): In this challenge, teams must work together to untangle ropes tied to contestants. They must then open a box containing sandbags. Once they use all of these sandbags to knock over wooden blocks on a platform, they win reward. I do not think that this challenge could be done while social distancing.

 

5x5 (reward challenge from With me or Not with me): In this challenge, contestants must race into the jungle, climb a ladder to get sandbags, and launch them into a series of targets. They would have to get a sandbag on five targets in order to win. This is known for a design flaw which allowed one player to get an advantage that ultimately got him pulled from the game. Basically, if they ran out of sandbags, they couldn’t do anything unless everyone ran out of sandbags or someone still in the challenge won. A better done version of this challenge could be done while social distancing.

 

Об отчете Мюллера говорилось на страницах 21 и 22 номера Time от 11 марта 2019 года. Автор этой статьи объясняет «почти невозможную и определенно нелогичную планку для преодоления Мюллером», которая была «отчасти из-за Трампа». успешный крестовый поход по дезинформации». Но в статье указывается, что «расследование Мюллера уже прошло успешно». Это связано с тем, что «Мюллер обвинил 34 человека и три компании в совершении тяжких преступлений». Автор отмечает, что с администрацией Трампа происходят и другие скандалы, «такие как преступления, связанные с финансированием избирательной кампании, подробно обсуждаемые Коэном в судебных документах», или вопиющий факт, что «Трамп на наших глазах воспрепятствовал правосудию, начиная с увольнения затем директора ФБР Джеймса Коми за общественное давление, которое он оказал на [генерального прокурора, имени которого я не помню], чтобы он ушел в отставку после самоотвода, среди прочих примеров».

 

There was a song that Huey Lewis and the News did called Hip to be Square. It is one of the more well known songs that I’m familiar with, although I should look for a parody that I think that Sesame Street did at one point that they kept using to promote that show on the commercial free PBS network.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5YkmjalDg

 

The other song worth covering from the last post is Soul to Squeeze. I hope that you like this song as well. There isn’t much of a reason to share this other than it being mentioned in the last post as a name of a challenge and I like the song well enough.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcN12uVHeQ

 

Before I get to the next highest football team that I root for, it makes sense in my rankings to reveal what the lowest four teams are for me. The lowest one is one that I always root against no matter what. The next lowest, I root for only when they play the team below it. The lowest team for me is the New England Patriots that I often perform to call The Fucking Patriots. They are the second worst group that uses the term patriots, the other being covered in one of my political blog posts.

 

The second lowest team for me is Da Bears, The Chicago Bears, that is. I’ve never liked Chicago that much so I don’t root for their teams. The third lowest team for me is the Arizona Cardinals. They are just not a group that I currently see myself rooting for now or possibly ever. Maybe I will at some point in the future, but it is easier for me to root against them than for.

 

Now there was once a playoff season that the Rams had that might have been their first under Sean McVay and thus their first winning season in over a decade (I believe), their first of what has become only been winning seasons for them thus far (current season pending). And while there were stumbles that they had with this season, such as losing half of their home games, they did make the playoffs. But they lost to the Atlanta Falcons in those playoffs which makes the Falcons the fourth lowest team.

 

I am hoping that I can try to improve the timing of updates in this blog so that they aren’t so late or not even there at all. I don’t want disasters like the recent post that was on Tuesday when it could have and should have been there on time. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, the tribe that voted out Lindsay returns with the other person who got two votes wondering what happened and the person admitting who the vote is from. The next day, the yellow tribe has Elie and Jeanine looking for an idol and Jeanine finding it. They don’t want to tell Owen, but who should walk in on them at that time and notice this but Owen. He learns the secret and Jeanine gets all of the beads quite easily with everyone but Gabler knowing this at first. But Gabler is told about what is going on by Sami with Gabler dumbfounded by this.

 

In the second segment of the show, we get to the reward and immunity challenge in the game. This seems very early to do and get this done. The blue tribe has, to quote Jay Exci, an EPIC FAILURE! They lose. Geo, Jeanine, and Jessie go on a journey. It turns out that Ryan had thrown the challenge on purpose in order to vote out Cassidy. And as we all know from this sort of thing, throwing a challenge to vote out a player never ever backfires. (That’s sarcasm.)

 

In the third segment of the show, while Cassidy is told that she was the target, she is told instead that Geo might be the best vote. But it could be Ryan that really could be voted out. Cassidy thinks that he is full of BS since he didn’t think that he is going about this the right way and being too obvious since she knows the truth. He thinks that he’s a great mastermind, but he could be voted out next.

 

Meanwhile, at the summit, the three people have to row to the sand spit with Geo lying and saying that he is not in power. Jeanine doesn’t buy his story. In the end, all three of them risk the vote. This means that two of them will lose their vote while only one will get an advantage.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, Jesse is revealed to have lost his vote which he reveals to his whole tribe. Meanwhile, Jeanine appears at her tribe with her tribe asleep. She wakes them and reveals to them that she lost her vote as if she hadn’t opened this before. Geo reveals to Karla that he has the knowledge is power advantage. He hasn’t seen it be used successfully because it hasn’t been used in any successful way yet. Karla mentions his advantage and says that they should vote Geo. But Cassidy still wants to vote out Ryan. James is unsure of what to do.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Cassidy feels momentum. Ryan is told that he had dropped the ball. He is still trying to play the perfect victim here. Cassidy says that she wouldn’t have done the same thing. Karla wants things to be easy. She wants to be ready with the knives. Geo wants to vote in the right direction. James is told that Geo said what happened on the journey. I have to say that journey just doesn’t stop believing. Geo ironically points out that one doesn’t know who all is telling the truth. Karla seems thrown off guard by this question. Ryan wants the truth revealed about him and wants to kill with kindness. Cassidy thinks that a vote can be more unified. Nobody plays any idols or advantages. It is Geo who gets voted out with an unused advantage.

 

On the next Survivor, there is a merge going on, it seems, but there is a final twist of some sort. What else could be going on? I guess that we won’t know for sure or see whether or not there is another of these weirdish fake merge like things.

 

Total confessional count: Elie- 9, Jeanine- 5, Cody- 13, Geo- 7, Cassidy- 4, Karla- 10, Gabler- 10, James- 7, Owen- 11, Noelle- 6, Sami- 9, Jesse- 12, Ryan- 5, Dwight- 9.

 

New confessionals this episode: James- 1, Owen- 1, Noelle- 0, Sami- 3, Jesse- 4, Ryan- 3, Dwight- 0, Elie- 1, Jeanine- 3, Cody- 0, Geo- 3, Cassidy- 1, Karla- 3, Gabler- 1.

 

And there isn’t much else to talk about as I wrap up this post here. I have so much to do and so little time. I need more sleep than I’m getting and sometimes (and often) sleep more than I should. But I think that I’m doing a good job getting things done at times and hopefully won’t be as rushed as I was going into the weekend like I was last week or having to do as many posts at once as I did then ever again. So enjoy this post that isn’t too late. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 43.4

I might at some point want to find the mission link to what Nneka was doing, if I can find it. Since she won’t be able to talk at the reunion show because there won’t be a reunion show because they now do a live after show that doesn’t include the premerge boots because fuck them, I’ll have to see if she talks about it on Rob Has a Podcast or somewhere else. I’m sure it would be on fandom if people bothered to update the page on either the third episode of this season or her own page.

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the thirtieth season. There weren’t that many things that I can point out only that even in one time challenges, puzzles are always a feature and used a lot. And we would see part of one of them later, even though it wasn’t used again.

 

Ladder Daze (opening challenge from It’s Survivor Warfare): In this challenge, players would have to get to a crate after an obstacle and use one of two methods to get a ladder. They would then have to use this ladder to get up, across, and down a platform before going through more obstacles. They then must choose one of three puzzles to solve. The first tribe to solve their puzzle wins. I think that if this were done individually, it could be done while social distancing.

 

Anchorman (reward challenge from Keep it Real): In this challenge, the castaways must cross a balance beam while collecting puzzle pieces, get a bag off the beam, get another bag, and then complete the anchor puzzle if they make the final round.

 

Hip to be Square (immunity challenge from Keep it Real): In this challenge, contestants basically just have to move a puzzle piece through different slide puzzle mazes before using that piece to complete a different slide puzzle. It could easily be done while social distancing. The name of the challenge is from a song by Huey Lewis and the News.

 

Soul to Squeeze (immunity challenge from Bring the Popcorn): In this challenge, contestants must use tongs to get a ball across teeter-totters. They have to do this six times for all six balls. I believe that this could be done while social distancing. This challenge is named after a Red Hot Chili Peppers song.

 

В выпуске Time от 28 января 2019 года была статья на 10-й странице под названием «Как Уильям Барр может определить судьбу Трампа». Они упоминают, что Барр может оказаться «в центре беспрецедентного испытания Конституции и американской демократии». У Барра много проблем, например тот факт, что «он считает, что действующему президенту нельзя предъявить обвинения». Другая проблема с Барром заключается в том, что он «будет контролировать, какую часть доказательств Мюллера увидит Конгресс». Трудно представить себе, сколько хорошего принес Барр, поскольку он, вероятно, продлил срок пребывания Трампа в Белом доме.

 

The next song to share from The Nightmare Before Christmas is Jack’s Lament. It is the last in this set of Halloween songs for now. I will be covering a lot of the Christmas songs from it later and then get back to their other Halloween songs later.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1HX80u5x4

 

I am glad that I did some research into these challenges because while learning about the challenges, I learned about the song Man in the Box song by Alice in Chains. While I already knew about this song that could have also been called generic rock song, I had no idea what the name is. It Smells Like Teen Spirit. Sorry. That’s the name of another generic rock song you know without knowing you know you know it, you know?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAqZb52sgpU

 

I’m also unsure how I feel about the song Long Road to Ruin. It seems more upbeat than it should. But I might look at the lyrics of it sometime to see if it fits the theme of either doom and gloom or good riddance that I often like to use when certain politicians leave office (latter) or take office (former)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=308KpFZ4cT8

 

And I’m skipping telling you about the football rankings again just to finish this post. I’ve got a long weekend ahead of me and four posts to write, complete, and, in three cases, schedule to update. At least I can hopefully get it all done soon. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, Cody talks about being left out of the vote. Meanwhile, on the yellow tribe, Gabler is getting on people’s nerves and that includes his own alliance. We quickly get to the next reward challenge. The winning tribe gets to take one item from one of the other tribes. The red tribe wins for once. They were tired of losing, as Amber famously said in the second season. They decide to trade the reward of this episode and challenge for one of another past reward. We don’t yet know who will be going and which tribe will be raided.

 

In the second segment of the show, the red tribe talks about who will raid, which tribe to raid, and what they will take. Both the yellow and blue tribes are unsure who will be the victim of the raiding. The yellow tribe things that they have more to steal from and should be stolen from. Cody goes to the blue tribe since they have more numbers. He said that he wants their machete, but this is a ruse in order to see what they will barter for, being able to manipulate them. He takes food from then and their fishing gear as well. And here I was thinking that they could only take one thing. I guess that since production didn’t stop this, it was allowed.

 

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. The red tribe comes in first and then helps the yellow tribe comes in second. It’s kind of like Settlers of Katan. Regardless of if you can win or not, you can help whoever else you want to. I’ve done that if I knew I couldn’t win by helping another person win, particularly if I’m hurting whoever prevented me from making progress in the game. Lindsay on the blue tribe is upset by this. She is looking ahead now to revenge.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, a lot of stuff happens in the lead up to tribal council and I miss a whole lot of it since I was busy getting food ready for supper that I had not started yet and I couldn’t pay attention to the show that well even as it was on in the background.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. James said that he provides for the tribe, but he does exaggerate his abilities some. When today happened, everyone broke out into groups with some breaking off and talking more some than others. Geo seems to want to play Sandra’s famous as long as it ain’t me strategy to his advantage. Lindsay thinks that she was fact checking her conversations too much. Geo wants to keep his people calm. But things can get messy no matter what. People kept talking about the vote even as the sunsets and they didn’t get to finish. But they didn’t have to go to tribal council right away, did they? That’s not what happened during the Palau finale, after all. Maybe they changed that so it wouldn’t happen again. Anyways, Lindsay is voted out.

 

On the next Survivor, there is another summit, Owen seems to have a powerful advantage, and I can’t quite make sense of everything due to how they edit these promos now. Why do they do that? I don’t quite get it.

 

Total confessional count: Gabler- 9, James- 6, Owen- 10, Noelle- 6, Sami- 6, Jesse- 8, Ryan- 2, Dwight- 9, Elie- 8, Jeanine- 2, Cody- 13, Geo- 4, Lindsay- 5, Cassidy- 3, Karla- 7.

 

New confessionals this episode: Jeanine- 0, Cody- 3, Geo- 1, Lindsay- 2, Cassidy- 1, Karla- 1, Gabler- 1, James- 2, Owen- 0, Noelle- 1, Sami- 1, Jesse- 2, Ryan- 0, Dwight- 1, Elie- 1.

 

Before I end this post, you may have noticed that it has been a while since I’ve mentioned anything about the confessional count other than simply saying what the numbers are. I’ve decided that I no longer care or will again do things like that as it seems like a waste of time and was mean to contestants even. You can check the numbers against each other and do your own guess as to why they are this way versus another way. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 43.3

While I have no way yet of knowing if this will happen or not, it is possible that telephone polls to my house could potentially affect this blog. I like doing them and will abandon shows that I watch in order to tell them what I want to. This could mean delaying this blog and, possibly, my one on CSI: Vegas as well. It would all depend on when they call.

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the twenty-ninth season. I did notice something about them which makes me glad that it wasn’t a Redemption Island season in the end. They did a lot of brand new challenges that were used in what would wind up being hero duels this season.

 

Man in the Box (reward challenge/hero duel from Suck it up and Survive): In this challenge, the players have to untangle rope to get two rings. The first ring will be used to retrieve a platform and bring it back. The second ring out of the box will get a second platform across the finish line to win. It could be done while social distancing. The name of the challenge references an Alice in Chains song.

 

Parallel Universe (reward challenge/hero duel from Method to This Madness): In this challenge, each player must get a ball past obstacles without dropping it. If they drop it, they’d have to restart. Once they make it through the obstacles, they must roll balls in a series of targets to win. This could be done while social distancing.

 

Sunset Grill (reward challenge/hero duel from Actions vs. Accusations): In this challenge, each player must race across a wobbly beam while using a paddle to transfer a wooden square. If they get six across, they win the challenge. It could be done while social distancing.

 

Game of Throw-ins (immunity challenge from Actions vs. Accusations): In this challenge, players will be tethered together in pairs, competing as pairs at a time. They would have to race through obstacles to get a ball and then get it into a basket. The first tribe to get three points wins. If they take out the part where they are tethered together, then this could be done while social distancing. The name is similar to the book series turned TV series Game of Thrones. Well, the book series is called A Song of Fire and Ice. I wonder if the books were finished being written yet.

 

Flips, Flops, & Flags (immunity challenge from Make Some Magic Happen): In this challenge, the tribe members have to race up a tall wall, push a cube to a series of posts, grab puzzle pieces at each post, and use the scrolls inside to solve a flag puzzle. It could not be done while social distancing.

 

Long Road to Ruins (reward challenge from Wrinkle in the Plan): In this challenge, each tribe member would help load puzzle pieces into a cart, push that cart to the base of a tower, use the puzzle pieces to build a temple (and lock you away), have a person race to the top of it to unlock a statue, and have everyone hoist the statue to the top to win. It could not be done while social distancing. The title of this challenge references a Foo Fighters song called Long Road to Ruin.

 

Shake it off (reward challenge from Getting to Crunch Time): In this challenge, players would face one on one against another person of the same gender to knock a person off of a wobbly beam over mud. As this is a physical challenge, it could not be done while social distancing.

 

Dirty Water Dog (reward challenge from This is Where we Build Trust): In this challenge, one player at a time would dive into the water, swim to a platform, jump off the platform to get a key, collect puzzle pieces, and use the keys and puzzle pieces to build a puzzle statue. If this were only individual, this could be done while social distancing.

 

Vase off (immunity challenge from Let’s Make a Move): In this challenge, contestants will hold onto handles, one with each hand, while their feet balance on a teeter-totter. The last person who doesn’t drop their vase wins the challenge. It could be done while social distancing.

 

Статья Time в выпуске Time от 17 декабря 2018 года начиналась на странице 17, и в ней говорилось об отчете Мюллера: «любые разоблачения, которые [Мюллер] раскрывает, вряд ли обрисуют в общих чертах грандиозный заговор», далее говорится, что этот провал будет « наших собственных ожиданий». В статье отмечается, что Мюллер «видел многочисленные заявления о признании вины и получил обширные обвинительные заключения, обвиняющие сотрудников российской разведки в двух различных заговорах: во взломе компьютеров США и во вмешательстве в политическую систему США». Пол Манафорт — одно из таких убеждений. Но идея, что это вернется к парню в Белом доме, была проблемой с самого начала.

 

Отчет Мюллера столкнулся с «неоднократными попытками… подорвать расследование Мюллера» с потенциальными проблемами «отчасти из-за дезинформационной кампании Трампа». В статье указывается на ужасный факт, что «препятствование Трампом правосудию стало обычным явлением, даже ожидаемым», когда вопросы, которые он вызывает, «едва подняли брови, хотя должны были вызвать двухпартийное осуждение». В самом деле, нет никаких причин, по которым Трампу могло бы сойти с рук столько, сколько он сделал.

 

When I shared two songs from Thomas the Tank Engine during my posts on Survivor 41 last year, it made me think that the next time Halloween came around, I would share the Halloween song from that show, namely Boo Boo Choo Choo.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj00rC7ei18

 

The other Halloween song that I will share in this post is called This is Halloween, the opening song from The Nightmare Before Christmas. I now plan to share all of the songs from the movie, but I have them split into two different sections and will only share them chronically in one post at a time.

 

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

 

I ran out of time to cover all that I wanted to in the last post, just like I ran out of time to cover more of my NFL team rankings in this post. I’ll talk some about why this post is so late later in this post. Now I was going to mention how old Noelle is now. She is 25 now which means that she has been applying for Survivor for 6 years. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, the red tribe gets back from tribal council with Cody glad about how things are going. Jesse thinks about the side that he is on. Dwight wonders which tribe to joins. On the yellow tribe, there are more crazy issues with Gabler’s idol. Some believe that he can be convinced to give his supposedly powerless idol away. But Gabler knew all along that his idol is still good.

 

Sami tells Gabler that some were trying to use his idol with the search to confirm the advantage’s power now known to Gabler. He tells people such as the double agent Owen that he’s in favor of keeping this idol as a souvenir for his idol. Meanwhile, Noelle wants to keep her feet in the game, even though she only has the one foot still. On the blue tribe, some female (I miss who) finds the beware advantage, but leaves it alone. Other stuff happened as well.

 

In the second segment of the show, Nneka talks about wanting to help her mission team in Nigeria. She still wants to help out despite setbacks and being mad at God at times. Karla, the woman who found the advantage earlier, goes back to the advantage. She also has to get beads from all the players. She uses the lie of building a necklace for her wife. She even trades for them. I hope that she gets the right beads, but I’m not sure that she would be so dumb. We’ll have to see for sure. I love how she does this. And she doesn’t tell anyone that this is for an idol.

 

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge that is also for reward as well. Noelle is doing this challenge without her leg. Why? The yellow tribe comes in first and blue tribe comes in second. This sends the red tribe to tribal council. Dwight is upset that Nneka and Jesse couldn’t do the puzzle and lost this challenge for their tribe. Meanwhile, three players, one from each tribe, are sent on the summit for a while.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, the red tribe thinks about their loss. Nneka thinks that she is partly responsible for her tribe’s loss. Jesse doesn’t want to vote for her since that would be like voting out his mom. But Ciera voted out her mom in Blood versus Water. Meanwhile, the summit happens between Noelle, Owen, and James. She is ready to do a threesome with these people that she has just met. Since she is on the outs, the men take no risk and Noelle gets the advantage automatically. Dwight thinks that the advantage will play into tribal council. Noelle lies and says that she didn’t get something, only to tell Dwight privately about it. She gets a steal a vote. She just wants to survive the night.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, the players talk about how they lost the challenge. Nneka gets a bit emotional about having to lose a tribe member. Cody talks about how there is still a game to play. Dwight talks about what to do. Noelle also talks about her journey. Most people are confident about how the vote will go. Survey says that most people don’t know how the vote will go. Noelle doesn’t use her advantage this time around despite not being as confident in the vote as the rest of the players either are or seem to be. No idols or advantages are played. The person voted out is Nneka.

 

On the next Survivor, the tribes finally get the looting advantage that we haven’t seen in a while. There is something weird going on potentially. And it is hard to think about much else that is going on. Because we all know that there will be drama.

 

Total confessional count: Nneka- 5, Gabler- 8, James- 4, Owen- 10, Noelle- 5, Sami- 5, Jesse- 6, Ryan- 2, Dwight- 8, Elie- 7, Jeanine- 2, Cody- 10, Geo- 3, Lindsay- 3, Cassidy- 2, Karla- 6.

 

New confessionals this episode: Elie- 0, Jeanine- 0, Cody- 2, Geo- 0, Lindsay- 0, Cassidy- 1, Karla- 2, Nneka- 2, Gabler- 1, James- 1, Owen- 2, Noelle- 2, Sami- 1, Jesse- 2, Ryan- 0, Dwight- 3.

 

I am unsure of planned future posts already as I share the tentative schedule for November’s blog posts. I have no idea what the plans for around Thanksgiving are so I have the day before and day of as unknowns at this point in time. I would doubt that they would air a new episode of CSI: Vegas on the day of Thanksgiving itself, but I have no idea what the schedule will be for that yet. I also don’t yet know if my church will be doing earlier Advent services like last year where it won’t mess up this blog and it won’t be delayed. Know that if I’m not able to watch Survivor live, I will blog about that on Sundays instead of on the usual delayed Thursdays.

 

Planned November blog posts

 

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

 

I have a late post of this blog AGAIN! I’m in the late window where I’m counting this as a Tuesday post even if it may not be Tuesday anymore in some places. My blog may both count this as Tuesday and Wednesday. So what happened? Well, I did sort of have the time to finish writing this post, but I had to prioritize other things in my mind. It’s a shame because I could have before having to delay this post still done Survivor: Borneo posts during the airing of this season, but now that can’t happen. It seems that once a month since May, a post of this blog and only this blog even winds up delayed or not published at all when I said that it should be. It is often one or a combination of the following: weather, exhaustion, and time constraints. I can only hope that I have everything ready for the next post in advance, but am not sure that I will. We’ll see. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.