While I haven’t talked about
it as much or all the time, since I now have a blog where I cover tech in blog
posts, I might cover how my blogs affect other blogs of mine. I should express
my annoyance with that even though I should be more in control that I am with
that. These are my blogs after all. I do have some limited control over some of
what happens with it so I will do and change some of the timing of it when it
works out. Basically, I have three days of the week occupied with four blogs
right now and this will change over time with me ready to do blogs at other
times. I might even do certain movie lists on certain days of the week in order
to help me out like this.
Next, I would want to get to
the one time challenges from the thirty-sixth season, but for the third time,
there are none. That season, Ghost Island, is the first season with all new
players not to have any unique challenges as the other two ones so far were all
star seasons with all returning players. I thus must go to the one time
challenges from the thirty-seventh season.
Open (reward/opening challenge
from Appearances are Deceiving): In this challenge, there is a set up between
the two tribes. One tribe got to pick the other tribe’s perceived weakest two
members of each gender before picking their own tribe’s strongest perceived
members of each gender. The other tribe would then pick the three obstacles
that they would have to do. It is possible that something like this could be
done while social distancing, although I’m unsure how or if they could change
this challenge to be done in random seasons instead of this specific one.
Carry on (reward challenge
from Aren’t Brochachos Just Adorable?): In this challenge, a member from each
tribe would be strapped to a bag of coconuts and carried by the others. While
racing to the beach, the person with the coconuts will go over an obstacle to
get rings on a balance beam and then toss those rings onto pegs. Once the four
rings are on the four pegs, they would win.
Ring Leader (immunity/only
challenge from There’s Gonna be Tears Shed): In this challenge, players must
swing a long pendulum through a frame around a statue. They cannot lose momentum
or have their statue knock over. They also have to switch hands every 15
minutes. This challenge could be done while social distancing.
A Hand out (immunity challenge
from So Smart They’re Dumb): In this challenge, contestants must balance a pole
connected to water while standing on a perch where if they step off the perch
or lose their bucket, they are out of the challenge. This could be done while
social distancing.
Now should be the time that I
put a Persian paragraph that I have written and translated via Google translate
into this blog, but I haven’t had time for that even with this blog six days
late. I can’t even promise that the next blog post of this blog will be on time
either. Let’s just skip to the YouTube videos section of this blog post.
The last video that I’m
including from The Odd Ones Out relating to Sooubway was Wrong Numbers. This was
actually done before his fourth video on it as it mentions in the video. There isn’t
much that I can say about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4DV5KZClk
Now in honor of possibly the dumbest
challenge in Survivor history, I’m sharing the song that the challenge was
named after, Love on the Rocks by Neil Diamond. I like the song enough so that’s
why I’m sharing it in this blog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbvxP08FlMs
Most people have probably
heard the song Jump by Van Halen as it is one of the most notable ones that I’m
familiar with. I forget how old it is, but it seems good despite that. Some songs
are timeless, much like that one NBC show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM
Now there are a lot of
Christmas songs to start sharing in this blog. Since Advent started on the
Sunday before this episode aired, I considered it the start of the Christmas
season and could have included this if the posts were done on time. Since there
was a contestant on this season named Noelle and her name sounds like Noel, I’m
sharing the Celtic Woman songs The First Noel and previous video leading into
it, In the Bleak Midwinter from A Christmas Celebration version, the last
concert featuring all of the original members of the group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwIMckuAj0
A lot of the seasonal songs that
I’m sharing in this blog will not be returned to until that season is happening
again. Since I had shared some Thomas the Tank Engine songs last year, I am now
going to share one called Snow and get to the other one in the next post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2BMst5yVjg
When I had posted about the
season China earlier this year, I knew that I would have to cover the song You’re
a Mean One, Mr. Grinch. That’s because of a challenge link included in a post
called With a 10 Foot Pole. While I posted that all the way back in January, it
is nice to get back to something. Speaking of which, I need to do a set up for
procrastination that I’ll get back to in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFaP1tkGgM
While there are a lot of
Christmas things that I could talk about, for now, the only one that I plan to
share right now is one called Which Ween Costumes? This is based on a Halloween
tradition that they didn’t do that year and wanted to do in a Christmas way.
https://homestarrunner.com/toons/which-ween-costumes
Continuing on finally with
more songs from The Nightmare before Christmas, I like to think of one that is
perfect for snow on the ground in October. It’s called What’s This? It does
make sense for someone to watch and see that doesn’t know about Christmas.
Maybe they just came to life and doesn’t know about such things. Sometimes once
you come to life, you don’t know nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLvvkTbHjHI
Let’s get to the football team
updates. This features the teams of Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions, Cleveland
Browns, and Cincinnati Bengals. I plan to get to the end of these before this
season is over. I’m almost done anyways.
Matchups: Bengals lost to
Browns, Bengals beat Vikings, and Bengals beat Lions; Browns beat Bengals,
Browns beat Vikings, and Browns beat Lions; Vikings lost to Bengals, Vikings
lost to Browns, Vikings beat the Lions; Lions lost to Bengals, Lions lost to
Browns, and Lions lost to Vikings. This makes the highest to lowest of these
four teams Browns, Bengals, Vikings, and Lions.
The one last thing that I’m
adding is that while I still plan to do the occasional watching of old Survivor
episodes starting next year just to cover the other blogs needing changed with
certain days of the week needing updated. I really want to get caught up on
shows on tape and laptop with me wanting to see all of the shows from before
the midterm elections or (with tapes at least) what I can get caught up with
what I allow myself to (unless a lot more gets recorded, which may not happen
given all of the family visits that prevent me from seeing as much as usual
right now). But enough of my ramblings.
In the first segment of the
show, Sami talks about being left out of the vote. He admits this, but not in
the smartest way (if there is one) to other players. Gabler talks about being
in a good position. Owen talks about all of the votes he has now been left out
of. But he’s not closest to the blindside without yet being the one blindsided.
Sami reads his letter from home again. Karla is in a dangerous place since she
has revealed her idol to Cassidy and wants to make things better with her.
In the second segment of the
show, not much is happening when a random boat with a random person shows up
with just one simple note, paraphrased thusly: there is an advantage in your
jungle, go. And all hell breaks loose. They even look as a group the way that
they would have in Vietnam during that war. Does no one know to look at where
the cameras are pointing yet? Or are there too many of them? They need to stop,
watch that sound, everybody look what’s going round. Cody is the one who
finally identifies the object. He is able to win this if either he or the
person he bets on wins the challenge and he knows that it will be Last Gasp. I
couldn’t win this challenge. But I probably might have had a chance before I
had covid. I’m not too worse after it, but there are some things I will never
risk doing now.
In the third segment of the
show, we get to the immunity challenge. Now everyone knows what the challenge
is. He now reveals the advantage of choosing your champion. He will get
immunity if he bet on the right person and doesn’t win himself. It won’t be
revealed who he bet on until after the votes are cast at tribal council. So it
is like in Guatemala where there was an immunity twist during the episode with
the double tribal council.
Has there ever been swells in
this challenge before? I wonder if Cody would keep up appearances if it were
just him and the person he bet on in the challenge. Besides, he could always
ensure that he’s the only one with it if he wins. I have the feeling that I
might be like Janu in this challenge minus the part where I quit later. Cody is
out later after desperately trying to stay in. I think that the person he bet
on is already out of the challenge. But we’ll find out.
How do people do this
challenge? This and Waiting to Exhale are challenges that I just don’t think
that I could do for long if at all. And I know that I would fail at Bugging Out
if I were eating m & ms as I’m that slow an eater typically. Is this the
longest this challenge has ever lasted? If high tide disappears, would they
have to do something else? Ultimately, that is what happens when Karla and Owen
outlast the challenge and get joint immunity. Sami talks about possibly playing
the shot in the dark.
In the fourth segment of the
show, Cassidy talks about being the target potentially. Karla sees no choice
other than to turn on Cassidy to keep her idol secret and safe. Is there
writing in black speech on it? Meanwhile, Jesse wants to vote out Sami. Jesse
tells Owen this, but Owen wants to target Jess. Cody reveals to us that he bet
on Owen so he’s safe. He has to make the right choice in the end.
In the fifth segment of the
show, we get to tribal council. Jeff talks about how both of them had lasted
the high tide and swells in the challenge. Jeff goes on talking about swells
and the certainty of there being a high tide and a low tide. Nearly half of the
group could be immune. No one knows how high or low the tide is going on. I got
distracted a bit and missed some of what was talked about.
People want to talk about how
much of a threat someone might be in the game. Some people don’t need their
idols or advantages and can still win without them. Sami even admits that he
will play his shot in the dark. I wonder now if people will think that he’s to
blame and give love a bad name. Wait, that’s heart, not dark. A bill could be
counterfeit. The votes are cast with Sami deciding whether or not to vote at
all. He did play his shot in the dark. Sami is voted out and it doesn’t seem
like anyone else got votes? Is that what we are to gather? Or do we not know
that Karla voted against Cassidy?
On the next Survivor, there is
a final four deal being made, Karla’s potential betrayal is brought up, and it
is revealed that everyone voted for Sami in his final words. I can’t tell much else
will be coming up in the penultimate episode of the season next week. But I
look forward to it as always. I just hope that I’m not too tired with little to
no chance to nap after work since I will have church then supper and only then
the possibility for a nap briefly before this show starts. But only next week
might be affected like this one was or would end up being potentially.
Total confessional count:
Karla- 19, Gabler- 21, Owen- 24, Sami- 18, Jesse- 21, Cody- 22, Cassidy- 11.
New confessionals this episode: Sami- 4, Jesse- 1, Cody- 2, Cassidy- 1, Karla- 2,
Gabler- 1, Owen- 3.
This post was late again as
there just wasn’t much time to do it. I could have worked on it more while
watching shows on my laptop on Wednesday, but that didn’t happen this time
around. I’ll explain more of what I did that in the next post. I can’t promise
that it will be on Wednesday like it should be. For now, this is Adam Decker,
signing off.
