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The survivor specialists are back and today we have our episode three predictions and
power rankings for survivors season 50.
I am joined by Sophie Valerity from survivor 49, one of the members of Trace Latches.
This is a curse.
I just have to say this right of the bat.
Last week, I had Mitch on and Kyle had gone right before that.
This week, I have you on and Savannah goes right before this.
Next week, I have Kelly Wentworth on.
I guess Aubrey is who we should be ranking really, really low in our rankings.
Oh, no.
Oh, God.
I hope that's not a pattern because I love Aubrey.
How are you liking things?
Welcome to the show.
It's great to have you on here.
How are you liking the season so far, side from the fact that you had a watch.
Your beloved Savannah go out so early.
I know.
Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me because I am a long time fan of the
specialist as well.
And so is Riz God, who's in this chat shout out Riz God.
And survivor intro said that he ruined the vibe, but I don't think so.
I welcome Riz God in our chat.
Yeah, I'm loving the season so far.
I think it's meeting the hype that came before the season.
And even though Sav went, I can't escape the superfan and me still watching.
People like Ozzy, Surrey, Aubrey, everyone on my screen that I've grown up watching.
So I'm having such a good time.
And it's been so entertaining.
Usually, pre-merge is not that entertaining, especially on a season like 49 that I was on.
It wasn't as entertaining as this, so I just, it's only going to get better from here.
Yeah.
And you had said, I guess when Dalton Ross had put out that poll where it was like 93% of
people prefer the old school instead of the new era.
I think you had commented on that right and said they actually get to burn, but we mostly
agree.
Yeah.
Because people say stuff to all of us, all new era people will be like, old era so much
better than new era.
And we're like, we agree with you.
We agree with you.
We love to play the old school era and like play with a lot of those people in like a 39
day game.
Like, if I was old enough, like I started applying when it was still 39 day game, you know?
So it was because of COVID that it changed like don't get mad at us.
Like I wish it was the same.
I wish we got rights.
Like there's a lot of things that I wish were the same.
But this is giving old school era.
I don't know if it's because there's old school players, but I don't think so.
Like it's, it's, it's just a by an energy that's different about the season already.
Like I think it's just that everybody came to play.
And sometimes that's not true on a new season, like with new players.
So are you finding yourself?
Obviously you have the connection with Rizzo, Savannah, you indeed both being down in Miami.
Are you finding yourself pulling for some of the old school players though?
Like where is your allegiance when you're watching the tribes and the people actually compete?
So so yeah, I mean, I heard about season 50 before I even went out to play before I even
met Rizzo before I even met Saps.
So obviously I'm pulling for them.
Like if I had to say who I want to win the most, I would say it's probably Rizzo.
I would say Saper D, but they already won and Saps out now.
So I would say Rizzo, but I did tell him the other day, I'm like, I kind of want Seree still
to win.
But love that love for Seree like started when I was a kid and it just doesn't go away.
Like I still like and she still has that charm.
She's still good at the game.
Like you can't help but root for her and and there's just a lot of people that are really
likeable and and catching my attention to season.
So I'm going to say Rizzo at the top, but there's very people, there's very close seconds
that I'm rooting for on season 50.
Yeah, I mean, I appreciate that mentality because Rizzo has been listening to this podcast
since he was like 12.
I don't actually know how old he was, but I know he's been listening to this since we pretty
much started.
Yeah, and you know, when he's talking to Colby and Colby's like Rizzo's annoying, I'm
like, oh, yeah, he is.
Go Colby.
You're right, Colby.
Everything you say is perfect.
Even though in my heart, like if Rizzo were to win, I'm happy because he's been a fan
of us, like good for Rizzo, but when you're going up against Colby, it's like nine year
old Phil is popping out saying, yeah, Rizzo stinks.
Of course, we don't like, we never liked Rizzo.
We're always Colby stands.
So I get where you're, I get where the conflict comes from there.
And I think it's been, I think this part of what's been the fun is you are watching these
people interact with each other and for so long, it has been what would be better.
Old school or new era, who would be better at this version of the game?
Is this version of the game easier?
Who knows what's going on?
Now we're actually seeing it come into action.
We're seeing, I mean, Savannah, who a lot of people were like, why does she get to be
on season 50?
She just came out and in her two episodes was a massive character in a way that a lot
of these other new era players aren't even close.
And even I think Savannah, through her two episodes, has more confessionals than even
Surrey.
So it's like Savannah earned her keep being on the season.
And I think that's also fun to see kind of like which new era people can become the new
era stars that we haven't been able to, you know, really adapt yet or adopt yet because
we haven't had anybody come back and play a second time.
For sure.
And I think it's cool.
Another thing that we love as a, like I love as a fan is that even seeing one of my
good friends get voted out, I can't even be that mad because it was at the hands of Surrey
field.
There's, there's something about that that even Sav takes like as a compliment.
So she's not even that sad that she got out so early because she's like, hey, like I got
got by, by a gamer and I just won.
So, um, so yeah, that made it a little easier to to watch.
Yeah.
Travel her out here with the super chat.
Sophie for fans versus favorites.
Three would love to be cast in that season.
And then Mike here saying you have to be on 52.
So there you go.
You got your fans in the chat popping up.
Even survivor intros who's super anti-Riz God saying Sophie queen of the new era.
So, you know, you got to decide if my interests are not.
Yeah, you're all in.
All right.
So you obviously have done a lot for the season so far.
I mean, you got to go.
You were, you were the red carpet person.
You got to, you got to participate in the hand on a hard idol.
You've gotten to do all that stuff.
How has it been for you watching since playing?
Now, you, you kind of know behind the scenes.
You know how the sausage is made?
Like, how has it been for you sitting down and watching the season now?
Dude, it's been so cool.
I feel like there's, it's funny because you apply to survivor and you have this sort of
personality where you think you don't care what people think about you.
But then you go on survivor and you, and you read comments and you're getting this,
like, crazy amount of feedback of like who you are, people who people think you are.
And it is a lot harder than, than, like, it may look to people.
Even if you have thick skin, which I feel like I have and Rizzo has and stuff,
but it can be hard sometimes like being an actual player in the season.
And now that I'm out of it, I feel like I'm having a more fun time,
just like being able to just watch it with everybody else and not be in it
because I'm not getting that feedback.
So I can kind of be part of the feedback, which I, I bowed to be nice about
because now I know how it feels to be on the other end of it.
And like, have people critique every single move that you make.
But I don't know, it's so much fun.
And like, I was really lucky that CBS, I don't know, invited me.
And they thought that I was worthy of being on the season 50 red carpet.
I was like, looking around like, what am I doing here?
I got a compliment from Colby Donaldson,
who was literally my frickin' crush growing up.
I was like, I forgot about my fiance for a second.
I was like, Colby, you aged like fine, frickin' wine over here.
And he was giving me compliments.
I was like, what is my life right now?
And I think there's probably every survivor alum feels like,
what is your life right now?
Cool things are happening.
And you're able to be part of the community more.
And it's just fun.
And I get to live out a dream of being on the specialists.
Like a podcast I've been listening to for years as well.
So it's just cool.
Like only positives here.
And connecting with the fans in a different way is also and so.
So only I'm gonna be happy right now.
I'm glad you brought up the main dream there
because you've been making your podcast rounds right now.
So you've done RHAP and you've done Tyson.
And now you're finally hitting the big leagues.
You did the warm ups.
And now you're over here at the podcast
that everybody cares about.
The big one.
That's true.
Here you are.
That's the boss.
It's like, this is the final box.
And now I'm like, I can live my life and I'm happy now.
Yes, you got it all out of the way
in the first two, three weeks of the season.
We're not gonna hear from so people there
until the finale now, everybody.
So I'm gonna get it.
No, but I hear where you're coming from with that.
We haven't had a returning player season in so long.
So I think the last time it was was during season 39.
And I remember a lot of the 39 people I became close with
and we'd have them on for podcasts like this
who'd be like, how is it watching the show now?
And it is a totally different experience
to when you're watching a returning player season
right after yours than when you're watching
another new V season because you're watching these legends
rather than people kind of coming
and like taking your spot right away.
It's like, you don't have these next people
who are coming in saying, oh, who's the new soap polarity?
Who's the new this?
It's like, it's a totally different thing.
You get a little bit more time as the all new V season.
I didn't even think about that
like because I think the excitement for 50 as a fan
was just there anyways.
But that is true.
You know, there's no new newbies on the block
that are gonna outshine us.
Even though when I look back at 48 and 47,
like I don't think Eva outshines someone like Sam Falen
like I think they all get their flowers
which is really cool about the survivor community.
Like nobody really gets forgotten,
but I totally get what you're saying.
Like it is like this, this different sweetness
that you get just like coming off of your season
and then watching this like crazy new
like monumental season being aired.
So yeah.
Well, so you're coming in on the hardest week.
When we originally said it,
it's like, okay, you're coming in for the second prediction
and powering his episode normally.
You're just going through the motions of pre-emerge,
but because it's 50, they're doing a swap right off the bat.
Yeah.
So here comes Sophie trying to, you know,
decipher having to be the one who figures out
who's going to go home from these tribes as seven
and we're going to get brand new tribes
and obviously we have the dynamics of people
before they got on the show.
We have the dynamics of people who have been on the show.
Let's kind of go through these tribes
because I'm curious to hear what you think about them
and how it broke out for Rizzo.
How it broke out for Colby who you have now said
like you forgot about your fiance for a second.
So how it worked out for Colby
and how it worked out for some of these other people
on the show.
So if you're listening to the podcast, everybody
and you don't want to know the tribes,
I don't know why you're here at the specialist
for prediction power rankings.
You know, we always go through it as soon as it's announced.
So Mike Bloom put these out and let's start with Rizzo
because this is the new sealer tribe, the new orange tribe.
Yeah.
Charlie D. Jonathan Camilla,
Surrey Devins and the only person
from the original purple tribe,
R.I.Z.G.O.D. Rizgod, baby.
How are you feeling about that tribe?
So I'm, I mean, looking at it,
there's four people from the Cala tribe, the blue tribe.
So that is a crazy voting block right there
in a tribe of seven that could easily take over
any tribal council if they wanted to.
Even though Jonathan has said that D,
he wanted to get her out,
but I don't think when it comes down to numbers,
he wants to do that.
Then we have Riz Devins and Surrey
who just voted together to get Savannah out.
So they could be going into this swap,
also wanting to work together.
And then we have poor old Rizzo,
who's the only one who's alone.
And none of these people know how he played
his original game.
And he's actually like,
it's taking him some time to build trust
with some people in his alliance.
I think a lot of it also has to do
with Kyle leaving like circumstantial.
So like, he's been able to have that time to build that.
I don't know if in a swap,
you're gonna have that.
If you go to tribal council on the first day
of his swap or the second day,
it's really easy to be like,
okay, let's get out Rizzo
because we don't know anything about him
and he's alone wolf.
We're not gonna piss anybody off.
So I'm a little worried about Rizzo,
but I also have played with Rizzo
and I think he's really good at getting him with people.
And like, I know he's a huge fantasy.
I know he's a big fan of Dee and Charlie.
Like Rizzo's girlfriend loves Charlie.
Like he could get in with these people
just like feeding their egos and telling them
how much he loves them.
And there's a world where he's fine, but I do worry.
I do worry.
Yeah, it's a very interesting breakout
because what we heard about Rizzo last episode
and you might be able to attest to this
or maybe you'd say actually,
he was the hardest working person ever
which would speak a lot about 49,
but we heard he's lazy, he doesn't move,
he doesn't want to do anything,
he just sits there and he talks.
And Rizzo leans into that.
He's like, it's not, it's out of play at last.
It's not outlift up firewood, I don't care.
But when you look at his tribe,
none of the people there are gonna care
that Rizzo is not doing it.
Like they're, I don't feel like they're going to.
Like you could argue D or Jonathan,
but they're new era players.
Like he got a new era breakout
and new era people know what the new era game is all about.
And like what Colby might find important
or Stephanie might find important.
I don't think these people are gonna care.
And then Devin's and Suri,
they're just gonna be trying to get whatever numbers they can
because they're coming into this
on the wrong side of the numbers
from a tribe standpoint, but also
they're outnumbered five to two by the new era.
Yeah, and I actually,
I didn't even think about that
because Q, Colby, Stephanie,
the people complaining about Rizzo being lazy
are not on this tribe.
It's actually De Camilla,
Rick Devin and Suri haven't even had supplies to be busy
because they've been losing everything.
And then De and Camilla have been complaining about
Chrissy being too bossy about moving things around
and doing things around camp.
And then Jonathan, I think that's the role he likes to play.
So if he's a provider,
he's not gonna need Rizzo to go catch fish
and do stuff.
So I think in terms of that, Rizzo is definitely fine.
It's just all about, it comes down to numbers
that scare me.
But if he can weasel his way through,
I've been in this situation
where I'm the only one for my original tribe
on a tribe of seven or six,
I don't remember what it was.
And the way that I pitched myself was like,
hey, I have nobody.
Like I'm playing this game.
Now Savannah's gone like by myself.
I'm not a physical threat.
And you guys can scoop me up.
I can be a number for you.
And maybe I'll see Rizzo's gonna do.
Yeah. And then Hirodi Garcia says,
I wonder how Rizzo's reaction this Wednesday
for Savannah's vote out.
What do you think he is?
Is he, like it's obviously Camilla
was very emotional over Kyle,
but that was a meta-back.
That's different.
Do you think he's gonna be emotional?
He seems like he cries about everything
and he jokes about that too.
But is he gonna be emotional here?
Or do you think he's gonna hold it in a little bit?
You know, I haven't asked him about that.
I do know that he did cry about it
but like privately in a confessional.
But I think they went into the game
trying to make people think that they were separate.
So I don't know if he's gonna like continue with that
because he doesn't wanna be like,
oh, I lied, we were actually super close.
So I could see him like playing cool when she goes
and then maybe we're gonna get a confessional
of him balling his out.
So that's my guess.
Yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, I don't feel like this isn't like losing
a loved one where it's like,
now it's gonna light the fire under Rizzo.
But I do feel like it's gonna have some sort of impact
on his game probably for a positive.
Now, my question to you is because you know,
you know what a huge fan he is.
Is he gonna be star struck by Surrey?
I don't think so.
I think he's gonna do exactly what I would do
is which tell him like, I watched you on Big Brother,
I watched you on traders,
think I lost Sophie.
Chat is it me or is it Sophie?
Sophie, I think I lost you briefly.
Oh gosh, oh gosh.
Yeah, I don't know if it was you or me,
I'm trying to get the chat to say.
Let me see here.
Oh, it's Sophie.
Okay, so it's okay, it's you,
but this is the beauty of doing this live.
Rizzo says, oh my God, Sophie down.
Sophie, you're here now, I can hear you.
Oh, there we go.
She's now, okay, so we're gonna figure it out, right?
Ryan Rondo says bear cut the Wi-Fi out.
So I guess that's the new dog that cut out Sophie's,
Sophie's Wi-Fi, we'll see what happens here.
I can hear you now, you're back.
I don't know.
Well, I'm sorry, I don't know what,
like of course this happens now over doing this
because it's never happened.
Are you good though?
You're good now, you're back.
Don't worry about it if that happens.
People are used to it happening with me.
I was born with Todd Herzog for the first time like ever.
And it cut out, so it could be worse,
but you were saying, you've seen him on Big Brother,
seen him on the traders and they belong.
He's gonna, because he knows a lot about everything
and I think he's gonna bring that out
and be like, I love you guys,
or I love you specifically, because of this,
we saw this happen on Australia versus the world.
Who was it that completely fangirled over Sury
and she loved that?
She took that as an opportunity and scooped that lady up
and I think she helped her at game
and maybe Sury will see Rizzo as that person on this tribe
and he's gonna do the same thing to Dee,
the same thing to Charlie.
So I don't know, I feel like his social game
will flourish here on this tribe.
If he brings out the Rizzo tribe, which I'm sure he will.
There you go.
All right, so let's go to the new Kalo tribe,
the new Teal tribe, whatever color.
Bloom has it as green.
It is, to me it looks blue.
I have it right here, so I'm gonna go call it blue still.
But anyway, so we have, this is the well oiled machine tribe.
This is the people who, they work, they don't talk,
they don't have fun, nobody's smiled.
We have Aubrey, Chrissy, Coach, Colby, Joe,
Genevieve and Tiffany.
Now Colby doesn't have a vote here,
just for everybody playing at home,
paying attention at home.
So how do you see this one shaking out?
This one's interesting because we have 3B3
from original tribes and then Joe is the only,
the outcast, he's the one in the middle.
I feel like this is a good tribe for Joe
because he wasn't liked by anyone from his original tribe.
And all of that baggage is now out the window.
He can start fresh with this new tribe.
And people might look at him,
a lot of these people value work ethic
and loyalty it seems like in coach, in Chrissy, Colby.
And I feel like they'll wanna work with him,
at least the older school.
And so I feel like he could be either the middle man
or he can join forces with one of these three.
And I feel like if it's any three he's gonna join,
it's gonna be the blue three,
the original like Chrissy coach and Tiff
because Aubrey and Genevieve didn't really get along
on their original tribe.
So that's gonna be an interesting dynamic in this tribe
because I don't know how they're gonna work together.
For some reason, I worry for Genevieve
because I actually know
because she went in with Colby, right?
Yeah, and her Colby are tight.
Right, so I worry for Aubrey in this situation.
But yeah.
Yeah, and this one's interesting to me
because Colby doesn't have the vote.
So it's not an easy Tiff falls into the swing,
or Joe falls into the swing position
because Tiffany and Chrissy clearly aren't close, right?
Like Tiffany and Chrissy, I'd be surprised
that they vote together.
So I could see Chrissy, you know,
I don't wanna like call out people for their ages here,
but I could see an old person's alliance forming
of Chrissy, Colby, coach and Joe.
And then you bring in Genevieve there,
now even with Colby not having a vote,
you still have a four to two or four to three advantage.
But the scariest part here is Aubrey has the boomerang eye.
So Aubrey can play that idol and save herself
at a tribal council if she feels the person
who's going to go home.
And personally, I agree with you.
I think Aubrey is the one who's in the most danger
on that tribe, but if you have an idol
and you know you're in danger,
Aubrey's not making that same mistake
she made an edge of extinction.
Right, so I actually think maybe TIFF is in trouble.
But then, you know, I'm someone who reads into the edit a lot
and Chrissy did not have a favorable edit last week at all.
I mean, TIFF didn't really either
for looking at like confessional counts,
neither one of them had one,
but they specifically showed that tribe
talking crap about Chrissy.
So maybe she, you know,
rubs people the wrong way here,
but then again, she moved to this tribe with coach
who was working with her from that tribe,
which is good for her.
So Chrissy and Joe are seeming to get a fresh start
on this tribe with like nobody there
really hating on them, but I don't know.
Yeah, I guess my guess would be Aubrey and Colby
are in the worst position.
Colby because he has no vote
and then Aubrey for the reasons you said.
And then if Aubrey does play the idol,
I could see her getting rid of Genevieve
because her and Genevieve weren't getting,
well, long, long, long also,
if it's a six one pile on vote on Aubrey,
she plays the idol and there goes Genevieve and her Bob
and we're all crying going,
wait, why did Kyle have to get hurt?
This is the alliance we wanted.
Genevieve's taking over the edit
and that's how I know you've been listening to us
for a while because you talk edit
and other podcasts are like, no, we don't talk at it.
It's like, that's all I talk about.
That's what we're here for.
Will always make one of me call me a robot
on Wednesday night being like,
it's okay to talk about something other
than confessionals and edit.
I'm like, that's what's bad.
As a previous player, too,
that's all I look at now like the music,
how long someone's been talking.
If they're talking what's the substance about,
like is it about their game, is it about somebody else?
I look at all of that now and I don't know.
I feel like Aubrey and Genevieve are looking pretty good
if we're looking at the edit.
But how would be crazy if Aubrey plays her idol?
Idols out Genevieve, everyone would be so pissed off
about that damn boomerang idol
because Aubrey did nothing to earn it.
Genevieve found one but had to send it to somebody else.
So that would be crazy.
I think it would be like the fans would be so pissed off.
But I don't know, this tribe is kind of like hard to read.
I don't know what the hell they would do
if they went to a travel council.
It could be a lot of things.
Yeah, I agree with you.
Now that you've been on the red carpet,
now that you've done hand on a hard idol,
if Genevieve gets knocked out because of the boomerang idol
that she found and had to give away an Aubrey got
for doing nothing, whoever your connection is,
you better be calling them saying,
hey, here's a bunch of letters from the fandom.
I'll just use this special list.
You can just go through our chat.
People are gonna be blowing it up
because Genevieve is who everybody is the most excited
to see from the new era.
And if she goes out in that way,
poor season 50, that hot start it's off to,
that would be a cold week, that's for sure.
I know.
I think that's the only way like the season gets bad.
And if it's like continued fan favorites
to just be like voted out every week,
that's like, okay, what the hell are you doing here?
It's interesting, but like what are we gonna do
if we're left with a, you know,
shitty, final five or whatever.
But whatever.
Let's hope for the best for Genevieve win
and for her to survive this challenge.
And I feel like it would be hard to get a shit
final five from this cast.
Like I feel like, I feel like there'd be a very,
there's like a very rare few instances
of a bad final three.
And even if it's a bad, and I'm using air quotes here,
like I think some people would consider like Joe and Jonathan
both making final three would like drive people crazy.
But it's like if Joe and Jonathan are both there,
I want to watch the story of how Joe and Jonathan
has those big dudes, both got the final three.
Like that's a good story for me.
That's so true.
That's so true.
And then to get there, you got to blind side
some big players, which would just fun to watch too.
So that's actually very true.
I think either way, the season's living up to the hype.
It's gonna be good.
Like it's gonna be so good.
So.
Especially when they have the outcast twist
where Savannah comes back in and wins her way back in.
That's why Sophie's being super positive.
She knows about the outcast twist everybody.
By the way, it's gonna be an outcast twist.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It's called Island right now.
Yeah.
If there is an outcast twist, I just want everybody to know
that I actually don't know that.
And Sophie doesn't actually know that.
I don't need Sophie getting a hate on our comments.
I don't.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yes, twist.
Yeah.
We don't need that.
All right.
Third drive.
Three David Burst Goliaths all together.
Mike, Christian, Angelina, then we got Emily and Ozzie.
We got Q without a vote.
And we have Stephanie LaGrosa.
Yep.
And I'm not worried about Mike at all being the only one
from his original Calo tribe because he has two people.
He's not only played with, but it's clearly
closer in real life.
He put them in the white lotus.
They're good.
I think that there's probably an unspoken loyalty there.
And he's probably in a really good position in my,
because these people, Angelina and Christian,
have people that they work with from their original tribe
that they can vouch for Mike.
And be like, hey, you know, he's loyal.
I played with him before.
So I think those three are locked.
Yeah, I like the idea too.
If it's like Christian or Angelina vote out Mike,
he's just like, hey, we're going to go re-edit those episodes.
We're just going to call it.
Angelina, remember, you're speaking part.
Nobody else does.
Bye.
That's going on.
I am curious how this one will shake out with Ozzie Stephanie.
Like those two and Q, I feel like they
have very similar mindsets of like physical,
let's go play the game hard.
Not necessarily overly strategic.
I think Q, he's talking about Rizzo and Angelina
not doing anything.
Stephanie, we all know is a hardworking person.
And then you have Ozzie who just wants to go fish
and play this like physical game.
So I'm curious how that will go for all of them.
Q, not having a vote makes this one really interesting, though,
because it could easily be three-day-versa-goliath
versus the other three.
And Q can't do anything about it.
And then it becomes who's willing to defect,
to not blow up their game over three days
or whatever worth of alliances.
So this is the most confusing tribe to me.
And I kind of hope this one doesn't go to tribal right away
so we can see the dynamic play out a little bit.
I agree.
And do we know if anybody else knows if Q doesn't have a vote?
I'm assuming maybe Stephanie Woods,
since they were part of the same alliance
in their original tribe.
And they told Colby and Rizzo.
So I'm assuming if Colby, Rizzo, Stephanie,
know, Genevieve, probably knows.
But I doubt Angelina knows.
Yeah, that's the only way where I kind of worry
about him in this situation.
But I don't think, I don't think Steph would say anything.
And I, I don't always going to play it off
like if he does.
And then, and it doesn't matter that he doesn't have a vote.
Or if people are going to find out and be like,
we need to get QL type of thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the most interesting tribe, though.
So if they go, that's the one where I'm like,
I really have no idea.
I'd be surprised if Christian or Ozzie went,
based on how big their edits have been so far.
Yeah, that's true.
Those are the only two with massive edits on that tribe.
Right.
Or did they set them up because they want to set the,
they know they're getting set home soon,
because Sav had a pretty big edit in episode one
and then she went the next episode.
That's true.
But I agree.
I think Christian's in the best spot right now,
because he has Mike and Angelina.
Emily seems like she's blinding the loyal to him
and Rick.
Ozzie's voted with them.
I don't know.
I think Christian's for sure not going home this week.
That's like, I would put my, I'd put everything on that.
And yeah, I don't know.
I also don't really know what the heck would happen
if these people went to tribal.
Yeah.
We're about to find out.
You just said that you were going to put your money
on Christian not going home.
So let's start ranking these players,
because we still have 21 people to rank.
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All right, so I'll let you go first with your number one.
Now, I just want to say this.
You said you should put everything on this.
We had Samuel Aude on here one time from season 43.
And he came on and said, if Kelley not banding
and went home, he would be so shocked.
He's like, that would be, if that happened,
I'd bet on the Arizona Cardinals to win the Super Bowl.
Kelley not banding went home that week.
And then Samuel Aude never ended up
betting on the Cardinals to win the Super Bowl.
So I'm just saying, and we call them out on that.
So I'm just saying, be careful what you bet here.
Is that I'm willing to put whatever on.
Because I don't forget, and I'd be like, hey, sorry.
You said you were going to put like 100 bucks on something
really stupid.
What's happening now?
I'll put 100.
I'll put 100 bucks on it.
I will give you 100 bucks if quotient goes home.
Well, now I need to call the editors and be like,
whatever week, Christian goes home, just make it this week.
Because I need that 100 more than you guys need your floor.
Well, we're talking about this week, right?
I don't know.
Yeah, but we had to move that episode up.
It'll be like, wow, that didn't even look like the tribe
who lost the immunity challenge in our tribal.
Anyway, all right.
So who are you going, Christian at number one, then,
or are you going to differ out?
Just because we're at, we look at the edit
and everything in this positioning in this tribe specifically,
with people that he's not only worked with before,
like he's clearly good friends with in real life.
I think, and then he has Emily and Ozzy.
I'm going to put Christian at number one.
I just don't see a world where he goes home this week.
We saw them hide and idle at tribal council.
I need to see that play out.
So I'm going to put Christian at number one.
Yeah, I'm going to put him at two.
So I have him a little bit behind.
I think coming out of this week's episode,
he's probably my favorite to win, which I know some people
would be like, he's more of a character.
But if you think about what the editors did with him
pooping his pants, they actually edited this man
to poop his pants and then tied it into the story
of him then playing a fool at the end
so that his closest ally could hide something.
People were staying on the internet.
We had posted a couple of things.
And when we had Carl on who played with Christian
back during Dave versus Goliath, he was given him a hard time
being like, you pooped your pants on national television.
And a lot of people were saying, why did they have to air that?
Like, poor Christian, give the guy a break,
like he's out there, whatever.
But I really, truly do think they aired it
because ultimately it played into the story
of what his character is and what he was able to do
in this episode.
I almost think for the first time in history,
we should almost look at somebody pooping their pants
as like a positive, like good for Christian, he did it.
So I don't know.
I feel like this really worked in his favor.
So I haven't met two.
Okay.
But I'm putting Jonathan at one
because you just did a tribe swap.
Jonathan's the biggest guy there.
You have D and Jonathan as the two best physical challenge
performers like for men and women.
I think they're easily the two best.
And D's probably top five, regardless of gender.
And then I think Camilla's really good at puzzles.
You know, they'll be able to put Saria in a spot,
hopefully not in a hero position.
Like the other tribe was doing.
But I feel like this tribe is probably winning this week.
And I don't know if it's a double boot or not.
But even if they lose to vote out Jonathan,
like let's say Jeff comes out and says,
two tribes going to tribal council tonight.
First thing, and you lose,
you're not getting rid of your strongest person worrying
that there's going to be double boots the rest of the season.
You want to actually win these challenges.
So I'm putting him at one and Christian it too.
Okay.
You just convinced me to put him up to put Jonathan at two for me.
Because that's yeah, because I didn't think about that.
Like I was just worried about numbers wise for Rizzo.
But looking at this tribe, we have like the strength.
We have the puzzles.
It's so well-rounded that I don't even think
they're going to go to tribal council.
So at least I don't know.
So yeah, I would say Jonathan at number two.
Because you're right.
And I got to vote him out, even if they do lose.
Even if they do lose.
Do we know if it's a double boot or not?
Do we know if it's two tribes going to tribal council this week?
They haven't announced officially, right?
They haven't said anything.
They just showed the swap and then kind of the breakdown
of the tribes in ways where they like show them talking.
But that's it.
Yeah.
Well, see, I mean, I hope, I mean,
they got to start getting rid of two people
at a time eventually, right?
I don't want this to be like, hey, we're going to play
Earn the Merge and the tribe that loses every single one
of you.
That would be crazy.
Like a bloodbath.
Look at the sterile sea more.
Phil convinces people to change their minds.
He'd be great at final tribal.
Thanks, sterile.
It's true.
I don't know if I'm cruising that far if I ever get on survivor.
But anyway, Sophie, who do you have at number three?
Well, I would say at number three, I would put,
if Sela wasn't a tribe where Rick Devons and Ciri
were the only two from the original Sela,
I would probably put Rick at number three.
But I'm going to say Emily Flipett at number three.
I just don't see a world where she goes home.
I think Christian will vouch for her.
And she's going to be in the numbers no matter what
in that Vatu tribe with either Christian, Angelina, Mike,
Ozzy.
I think that three of Christian, Emily, and Ozzy
are voting block.
And then on top of that, they have Mike and Angelina.
I just have to be, I just feel so sure of it.
So I'm going to say Emily at number three.
She's doing a good job of playing out of the radar.
Really good, because her biggest errors in her first season
were just coming in so hot.
Emily's coming in chilling.
She's just hanging out.
I mean, she is throwing out.
I don't know what how close she is,
but she seems to have such a tight relationship
with Emily with Rick and Christian, where even though she's
throwing out Ozzy's name to Syri's face,
and to everybody on her tribe, it's not working,
but like nobody's targeting her because of it.
Like it seemed like Jenna went home
because she was saying Syri's name.
But like the whole last episode, Emily was like,
well, I want Ozzy out.
I want Ozzy out.
But nobody's like, oh, we should get Emily out because of that.
So I don't know.
That does actually remind me that Ozzy
is on this tribe with her.
But I don't know.
I'm going to keep her in number three for me.
And I also feel like Emily learned from her first time
that if Christian says Emily, we've got to just work
with Ozzy here.
And Ozzy's gone through some tribe swaps
before he's gone through bad times.
I think Ozzy is also somebody who'd be like,
we're desperate.
Emily, I will work with you.
Like let's make this happen.
Let's stick seal a strong.
We all voted together.
This is where the plan that Christian and Devon's
really focused on of wanting everybody to make
unanimous votes for those first two
is coming to fruition, because I did not
give serene nearly enough credit last week
for the way she was able to move the vote around
and get it on a savanna.
But also Christian and Devon's wanting it to be unanimous.
I think is also a big portion of the reason why that happened.
And so I think that helps because now Ozzy's coming in.
We know it from the edit that Ozzy's not necessarily
tight with these people, but does Ozzy
realize how much these people were discussing potentially
voting them out?
I don't know, because they all voted with them.
That's so true.
I agree.
I agree.
And I guess if they really wanted Ozzy out,
Christian can probably gather the troops
and Q doesn't have a vote.
And he can get Emily, Angelina, and Mike to get Ozzy out.
But then he does have an idol too, so.
Yeah.
That actually looks like, I don't know.
And so it looks like people are saying,
I'm gonna put this one comment up
and then I'm blocking and deleting this person.
In case you were wondering, Sophie, if we get negative comments,
like just think about this.
We're asking if it's one or two votes.
We get this guy who says, yes, it's two boots.
Okay.
So then the next one says there's a promo shot
of only one immunity idiot.
Is that supposed to say idle?
I'm gonna hope you need to say idle.
Cookie snack and burger, if that is your real name.
Because why do you have to call us idiots on this?
So I'm gonna hope, I'm not gonna block you yet.
I'm gonna hope you meant to say idle.
Comment in the chat if you meant to say idle.
If you meant to say idiot, blocking you.
And then Christian Gallus says,
two tribes going to tribal council together like game changers.
I don't know who to believe,
so I'm not gonna believe anybody.
And I'm just gonna sit here and assume
two tribes are gonna go.
My rankings, we're gonna have one person
from each tribe is my bottom three anyway.
So whatever, we'll figure it out.
But okay, Cookie snack and burger says meant idle.
You better of poop.
Yeah, I don't think so, but let's just,
he gets to pass.
He doesn't want to get blocked is what he's saying.
And I just want to know which one of us he was calling
to idiot there.
He didn't even, he didn't put the S.
It could have been both of us for all we know.
It's true.
Anyway.
That's the same as you.
Let's just, yeah, well yeah, of course.
Take, I'll take the heat.
I like that so if he was like, no,
it could be either of us, but it's probably you.
It's like, thanks so.
That's what we're here.
Who's your number three?
So my number three, I am going to go,
I'm gonna keep playing this kind of like people
in the middle position and I'm gonna go a joke.
So I'm putting all of the,
as Australian survivor people would call it,
all the beef at the front here.
I'm putting all like the meat guys.
Christians not really meaty,
but whatever.
Joe and Jonathan at the top.
Joe, with nobody else from his tribe,
he doesn't have to do any damage control.
I think that a lot of people are gonna be happy
to play with Joe from that tribe.
I don't see Cole be being bothered by it.
I think Coach is gonna be like, I mean,
Coach and Joe on the same tribe,
can there be enough honor and integrity on one beach?
I don't know.
I feel like Joe's in a really good spot.
And I also have to acknowledge,
this is the first time in survivor history
that Cole be and Coach are playing together
on the same tribe.
We never actually saw them on the same tribe
and hero villains.
This is a big deal.
That's so true.
I feel like they would want to work together.
Because there's so much history there.
I'm sure on those seasons,
or that season they were on,
they hung out outside the game a lot.
So they know each other.
And I could see a world where they work together.
I think you're right that there's gonna be
like an old people alliance and they're gonna get together.
And maybe Tiff, Genevieve are in trouble.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, so your Clea is Joe.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
And going back to just close the book
on Puggy, Snack and Burry,
it says it wouldn't have been Sophie.
So it wouldn't have been me.
So okay.
So if you're in the corner here.
Yeah, this is the first time I guess,
Cole be and Coach will be on the same beach
since Coach owned Cole be at the premiere of heroes villain.
You know what I mean?
So this is, it's a big deal for Cole be.
Now it gets to be over there and like, you know,
maybe I could see the two of them bonding though.
I could see the two of them playing together.
They did their time at Ponderosa,
even though they weren't on the same beach.
So.
Exactly.
Okay.
Who's your number four?
So I'm tempted.
I'm actually gonna put D at number four for me.
And the reason why is because there's still so many players
in the game that like players who assume
that they have this big target on their back
that I think it's beneficial for a lot of them
to keep a winner in the game.
Because number one, she contributes to a tribe
and their strength.
But number two, it's like, as long as there's a winner
in the game still, the only winner left,
they're gonna always go for her before me.
And I know that's how a lot of them think.
So I'm gonna say D is my number four.
I don't see a world.
For, first of all, that this tribe loses,
but if they do lose that she goes,
especially when there's four people in the majority
from her original tribe coming into it.
So, I'm gonna put D at number four.
You have four people and no idols, at least as of now.
So that could be beneficial too.
That's true.
Do you think there's gonna be another
of Billie Eilish from Boomerang Idol?
We were talking about this on digging deeper with Carl.
Blake and I, we had figured out that the only one
that hasn't been found yet is the Colo tribe,
which is where Genevieve is now.
Could you imagine if Genevieve finds
the other Billie Eilish Boomerang Idol
and has to give it away again
and then gets voted out in the same tribal council
or in the same episode.
I think people would explore.
Oh my gosh, I think that's so likely to happen too.
Because I think that's true.
Why were there only two?
There has to be another one.
There has to be another one, so one.
And I don't see Joe, Chrissy finding it.
Like Genevieve's obviously, she knows where to look now.
That's so crazy.
Think about that.
Colby is not threatening to find an idol.
Tiffany did find one in her first season.
That's true.
I can see all four Genevieve finding it.
Our Aubrey already has one.
She's not going to be looking around.
It's just, it's also like bad luck, though,
for Genevieve Colby, Aubrey and Joe,
because they were on a tribe that had the Billie Eilish Idol.
And now they're on another tribe
that has the Billie Eilish Idol,
whereas like Tiffany coach Chrissy,
it worked out for them and I mean,
really it doesn't work out for Tiffany coach Chrissy.
It works out better for like Charlie, Jonathan,
D and Camilla, because nobody found it on their tribe.
So they were able to get one in general.
And now they're on another tribe where they, you know,
if somebody finds out, I don't know, we've got it.
That or the person who finds it
has the same mentality that Genevieve did,
assuming that Ozzy would get voted out
and she gave it to Ozzy.
So maybe Rizzo gets it.
Or Cherie or Devon, or maybe Mike White,
like because they're the odd ones out of their tribes.
Like if that same mentality happens.
That is true.
Now it's like, hey,
or you're trying to protect somebody in your alliance.
Like could coldly find it and say,
I want to give it the staff,
because I want staff to stick around.
You know, that could be,
there's a lot more dynamics here.
I just think that the Billie Eilish Boomerang Idol,
if you're doing a tribe swap, three people in,
just has the ability to blow up in everybody's face right now.
I agree.
That's so crazy to think about.
I didn't think about it like that.
Louis Bolerdy says be so funny if they just all make the merge.
So their idol doesn't ever boomerang.
Well, then it just becomes an idol, right?
Like that they can just use.
I think it could still come back to the people though.
Like they could, I think if you make the merge,
unless I read it wrong,
but I think if you make the merge and you play that idol,
or you don't play the idol and you get voted out,
I think it goes back to the other person.
Okay.
I think.
Yeah, I think so too.
Do you know that person?
Yeah.
That's my brother.
That's my brother.
Oh, okay.
I was going to say very quickly.
It's like commented on your stuff before.
I don't know why I assumed you would know that that was my brother.
Oh, I had no.
I mean, I recognize Bolerdy there,
but then I'm like, you know,
maybe it's just somebody trolling and then he said,
oh, maybe I'm dumb.
Sorry, also.
I'm not saying anything.
There's so much negativity going on in this chat today.
I can't say anything about that.
So yeah, I don't, I think it works though.
I think it goes through into the other portions.
I think it was.
I agree.
I think it's always a boomerang idol.
Like if they go, if they get voted out,
they, it goes to Genevieve or Christian.
So.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
My number four, I am going to go Aussie.
So maybe a little high.
I'm just putting, like I said,
all the big beefy guys at the top here.
But when I look at that tribe,
maybe he's on the wrong side of the numbers.
But if Aussie feels he's on the wrong side of the numbers,
he is going to play his idol.
And Christian and Emily would really have to be
in so close with Q.
Stephanie Angelina and Mike to be able to trick Aussie
into not playing it.
And I do think Aussies like radars also going off
a little bit right now of who trusts me, who doesn't.
So I'm feeling like Aussie's going to figure it out
if it's coming his way.
And I also feel like if you're on that tribe, especially,
look, Stephanie can still kick ass.
Like she was, she did great in that first challenge.
Q good physical challenge player.
Angelina Christian, Emily Mike.
I know Mike's got his six pack now.
He was the first one across the balance beam,
but not everything is going to be a balance beam.
So I think you've got to keep Aussie if you're that tribe
because you just, you kind of were to lose them.
There is a lot.
I feel like if we're talking about well-roundedness,
this tribe is pretty well-rounded too.
They have the strength and Q, Mike, Aussie.
And then they have the puzzles with Christian.
So who knows if this tribe will even go to tribal.
But the only reason I push back on that,
like Emily flippin' with, is that Aussie,
like he doesn't have to be being the brains of the operation
to be like, hey, you're in trouble.
Use your idol.
But I think you're right that he does have his like,
fighting senses up now because he was part of the conversation
on his previous tribe.
But I'm just worried that because he's voted already twice
unanimously with Emily and Christian,
they could pull the wool on like over him.
But so for that reason, he's not my four
and he's not my five either, but it's a good pick.
It's a good pick.
Yeah, I get where you're coming from with that
of pulling the wool over his eyes.
I think Q, not having a vote there
is going to have much more of an impact on that tribe
than anything else.
Because I think that you might see some divisions
and you might see people want to go a different route
and Q's just going to be like, I don't have a vote.
And it raised me like, hmm, okay.
I hope he doesn't say anything because I feel like
it would work more against him than with him
or that then for him.
So I don't think it'll earn anybody's trust
on this tribe.
There's already a trust formed between a lot of people.
And I think that would make it the easiest reason
to vote him out if he says it.
It's true.
He doesn't.
So who do you have at number five?
And I'll throw up this comment while you think
of your number five.
The B.C. guy was not including risk on me.
Yeah, risk on.
You can't say big beefy guy without including R.I.Z.
G.O.D.
risk on baby.
So I'll let everybody figure that out for themselves.
All right, so be your up.
OK, so for number five, I'm going to go Joe
for a lot of the reasons that you said.
But I think in this tribe specifically him being
the odd one out, like Rizzo is, it's not going to work against
him because he has a strength.
He just, all these people just watch 48
and how he was super loyal.
I think that's very satisfying for someone
like Colby, Chrissy, Coach.
And if there is like any alliance made right off the bat,
it's going to be these older people
with the old school mentality.
And I think he's fine in that tribe.
So I'm going to say, I'm going to say five for Joe.
What did you think about the Devin's
versus Joe argument last week?
Who side were you on?
OK, so watching it back, I know a lot more about that
because I talked to Sav about it.
And I know there was like a lot more of that conversation
that was shown, it was blown out of proportion
from what I've heard.
So if I saw the whole thing, I probably
would be on Rick's side.
But from what I saw, Rick Devin's
to the worst line I've ever seen in my life when Joe was like,
so what were you guys talking about?
I was so surprised because I feel like Rick is so crafty
and he's so good.
But maybe he's just been a little rusty
because he hasn't played Survivor in a while, but like that.
And I think he was self aware about it too.
He's like, I don't know why I'm lying.
I was so stupid.
So I don't think it was that crazy that Joe was pissed off
about him lying about it.
But then again, I think the way Joe reacted to it
made me be more on Rick's side.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know whose side I'm on.
I don't know.
How about you?
I was, well, I picked Devin's as my preseason winner pick.
But then I also rewatched it.
I'm like, Joe's really got a lot of points here.
Look, I know that the, I think what's
fascinating so far about this season as a whole
is that the editors aren't really giving us,
this is your hero, this is your villain.
This is who should be rooting for this isn't.
They're kind of leaving things a little bit greater
than usual, which is a hard thing for the internet
to understand because the internet is like, no,
you aren't either on this side or you are on this side.
And if you're not on the side, I'm on like screw you.
And I feel like this is like one of the first moments
we've had in Survivor in a while where people really
are split on it.
I think that's actually more compelling because it's like,
well, maybe we don't need to really be on one side
or the other, maybe it's okay to just be this.
So I think that the biggest problem with Joe and Devons
is exactly what Devons said at Travel Council,
which is we're both very stubborn.
And we let our stubbornness get in the way of everything
and we just kept budding heads
rather than ever seeing eye to eye.
And we saw Joe do this in his season with David Kinney.
And we saw Devons do this in his season with Wardog
to an extent.
So it happens with both of them.
Yeah, and ultimately they came together to vote somebody out.
It wasn't like Rick was like, I need to get Joe out
or Joe was like, I need to get Rick out.
So I don't know why they showed us that then
because it doesn't really contribute.
Maybe it will contribute to the storyline later.
But it kind of reminds me of the riff
between Aubrey and Genevieve
where like, I don't know who's side to be on.
I like both of them, but there's that conflict there.
So who would be your five?
So I'm going to go and this is not the person
who's side I'm on in this riff, but you just brought up the riff.
I'm going with Albs.
I'm going to put Aubrey at number five.
And I know that's going to sound crazy to a lot of people
but having that idol, Aubrey is not making the same mistake twice.
And if Aubrey gets any inclination
that things are going wrong for her,
she is playing this idol.
Like it's going to happen.
She got so duped and on edge of extinction.
And like I met Aubrey a couple of times.
Like after edge of extinction, look, she, you know,
she's human at the end of the day.
And like it's bothersome, you know, like it, especially Aubrey's trajectory
from survivor was should have been the winner,
but lost to was a relevant to, oh my God,
that was like one of the dumbest things ever.
So Aubrey went for being like the fan darling
to then everybody going, why is Aubrey even on my screen?
Why is she coming back for the fourth time?
And so I feel for Aubrey big time here,
but I think Aubrey for the last seven years
has been playing in her head,
getting duped by Victoria and all of them
and going to the edge of extinction and sitting there
and dealing with that.
And I think she's going to say to herself, look,
I don't have a good vibe from Genevieve.
Colby hasn't talked me at all.
Like I don't know coach.
I don't know Chrissy.
I don't know Tiffany.
Joe hasn't talked me.
And if anything comes out of her, she is playing her idol.
And if she does get on the right side of the number,
she doesn't need to play her idol.
Good for her.
But I felt last week watching Aubrey Alexa text me
and she was like, I feel bad for Aubrey right now.
And I was like, I do too.
Like I want her to succeed.
I want to see something good.
And it feels like she's just been like broken down
by the game.
So I'm hoping that in this episode,
it's kind of a not even this episode,
but with this tribe swap,
it starts to become more of a positive for Aubrey.
So I'm going to put her at five.
She gets blindsided with the idol again,
I'm going to be devastated for her,
but I just do not see it happen.
No way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's good.
I feel like so I still worry about her position
on this tribe.
So that's why she's not at my top five or even six.
But I could see all that.
And I do feel like we're looking at the edit again
with the last episode.
It felt like she came from the bottom of that tribe already.
And now she has an idol.
I feel like it's not going to go.
She's going to get voted out now next.
Yeah.
I think it's only up from here for her.
So she'll be maybe in the top 10 for me.
But I think for number six,
I don't know if I'm going to choose right now.
I'm looking at the list right now.
That's why I'm looking down.
But I really don't see a world or Cila.
I feel like Cila and Vatu are pretty good
and they're going to avoid tribal council.
So I want to pick someone from there.
I'm going to go with Mike for six.
I think he's going to be fine
in this next tribe dynamic.
He has Angelina who I think they're really good friends.
And then I just see a world where they want to scoop him up
instead of vote him out for this next tribal council they go.
So I'm going to put Mike at six.
Yeah, I'd be more confident Mike if there was a full seven votes
on that tribe.
But because it's yeah,
he's got Angelina and Christian,
but Ozzie having the idol and they're not being a full seven.
That's what's keeping me from putting him yet.
Because look at the Ozzie.
He's just like let's split up those three.
Who's the most threatening?
Yeah.
No votes.
What was that?
I keep forgetting that Q has no vote.
So, but I still feel like, you know,
think about it.
It's Angelina Christian and with Christian comes Emily.
I feel like Ozzie's going to want to stay true to those numbers.
Like they have four.
I feel like I don't know what Stephanie's going to do.
So it's Q or Stephanie.
You're thinking you're in trouble over there.
Yeah, that's what I think.
I kind of agree with you.
I really do.
I think you're going to it there for sure.
And then I think they're going to be like,
why are we getting a mic out?
He's alone and here he has this loyalty with.
I don't know.
I could be wrong, but that's that's my number six.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm going to go a little bit lower on Mike on Mike there.
And I'm going to wait.
I'm finally going to put Emily in here.
I think like you said, Emily is pretty much in the swing here.
Emily is either going to go with Christian Ozzie and they already have three.
Or it's going to be Christian Angelina Mike and Emily is going to go with them.
And now they have four.
So no matter what, she's at least into the halfway point of this.
And it becomes a lot easier if you say, no, we are definitely on this side.
Like if you're Mike, you have nobody but your day versus a lot of people.
If you're Angelina, Q and Stephanie weren't including you on anything.
So you don't care about that.
So I'm going to go with Emily here at number six.
And I think that I'm going to keep going with this.
Like where I have Mike a little bit lower Angelina a little bit lower.
But for me right now, Q and Stephanie are absolutely.
I think of the most danger on that video.
Yeah.
I'm reading the comment as I'm saying it on that try.
Focus Phil.
Look at your head.
Who do you have?
So at seven, I'm going to pick someone from Cilla.
I think I'm going to go with I would go with Rick or Cerey.
Maybe the Winx, but I'm going to go with Charlie because again,
I don't see this tribe really losing.
But if they do, he has that majority.
He I'm pretty sure was with the numbers.
They didn't really show a lot of his tribe in the last two episodes.
But I feel like he was in good standing with everybody.
Like Jonathan was coming for D, but I feel like in this tribe,
when you need the majority,
he's going to probably stick with his original tribe.
And I don't see them like coming for Charlie.
So I'm going to put Charlie at seven.
I haven't known what to do with Charlie because Charlie has been
so minor on the season so far.
Yeah, it's true.
They have to show him in a like strategically saying anything,
just like kind of talking about people on his own tribe.
So far his confessionals have been like Mike White has abs.
And I'd like to work with Chrissy because I like working with the older women,
but Chrissy is pissing everybody off.
Like if Charlie were to get swaps screwed,
I feel like he's gotten the type of edit for like,
oh, things aren't going to go well for poor Charlie.
That's why everything's really, really quiet for him.
So I don't have them that much lower than you have them.
I just don't know.
Oh, and then tag with says also the toe ring.
How could the last three forget the toe or that thing?
Yeah.
Yikes.
I know poor, poor Charlie's disconnected from the toe ring now.
He's away from that.
Well, they don't for that.
Yeah.
I was just towing.
That's crazy.
What did Coach say?
Isn't taking it off since like the 98 or something in Charlie's like,
can I have it?
Yeah.
We'll add it here.
Get out of here.
Uh, okay.
For my, for my number seven, I will also go to that seal of tribe.
And I'm going to go where you haven't gone yet.
And I can't believe it.
I don't know if you're just like trying to pretend you're neutral or what it is,
but I'm going to go with risk.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I'm surprised you haven't listed him yet.
I thought for sure I was trying to just like keep pushing them down my rankings
so that you could say his name first.
So it could be like, yay.
So of my best friend.
Thank you.
But then you didn't say it.
And I'm like, no, this is the right spot for him.
Real.
No, I texted him.
Say sorry.
You haven't read to you.
Yeah.
Well, he just texted me and said, I like you more than Sophie right now.
Thank you for.
Um, but I just feel like like with that tribe, he might not be the strongest or anything.
Yeah.
But he only person from purple.
And I just don't know why.
Like I get he's an unknown.
You've already kind of said it where it's like he, he can use his social game to get in.
And if you're one of these other people, you don't know what he did on 49,
but you also know Savannah is gone now.
So that makes Rizzo a little bit less threatening because you don't need to worry about them pairing up.
And then you look around and you say, Charlie, a lot of people feel should have won.
So raise the best to never win.
D one of the most dominant wins of all time.
Camilla wins if she gets to the end.
Devon's wins if he gets to the end.
And Jonathan's the biggest physical powerhouse ever.
Nobody knows what Rizzo is.
There's so many bigger threats on that tribe.
I think he's going to be okay here.
I really do.
Yeah, I guess I worry for him because he's an odd one out.
But yeah, now that you put, you say that.
I'm like, I do have faith in him.
I know he can get out of this.
But I just thought that there are people who are just in better positions right now.
But it's true.
And so on top of everything you just said,
Sav, I know, has told me, and she said it in some of her exit press too,
that she made sure to leave like people on her tribe with a good feeling about Rizzo before she left.
Like she, she tried to separate them, but she mentioned how loyal he was.
How big of a fan he was.
I think she tried to lower his threat level.
So I think the people from old Cila are going to come into meeting Rizzo,
maybe wanting to work with him.
That's the case.
And he isn't in pretty good standing within this tribe.
The only thing that I just can't ignore is that there are four people coming from the original collo.
So that's the only reason why I was like, I wouldn't put him at the top.
But yeah.
Yeah, I get it.
And I do wonder, I mean, I see how quickly Colby switched on Rizzo.
Is that bread crumbs from the edit to say, hey, Rizzo might put themselves in bad positions every now and then.
He's able to walk his way out.
Like Rizzo and Q, even though Q is complaining about Rizzo, Q is telling Rizzo.
I don't have my vote because I'm going to need you.
Exactly.
Angelina got nothing last episode.
So Angelina, I feel like is more of who that was targeted at than Rizzo.
And Rizzo is is almost more goofy.
Whereas Angelina is coming across as more serious than the way Q is saying it.
So I don't know.
I mean, maybe I should be more concerned for him.
But I just.
You're right.
You're totally right.
And that's why he's he's definitely going to be my top 10.
He's just not.
He's not seven or eight for me.
Gotcha.
Who is it for you?
So the next one.
Is going to be sorry for me.
Just because if there's anybody that's going to like weasel their way in there socially.
And that's why I think I'm going to make Rizzo my I'm jumping.
But he'll be next because I feel like this this tribe isn't going to lose.
So I think it's going to be fun.
I think that's why I think Rizzo is like to play as a player is like Suri players like Rizzo all they need is a little bit of time to talk you up to Shmoos you.
And if these people survive one tribal council and they're like on a beach for three days.
I think Suri is going to be fine.
I think she's going to get in their ear.
She's going to win favor over people like D Camilla.
Maybe even Jonathan and she's worked with Devon.
So I think Suri is going to be fine.
She's going to be slower because how can you ever be super confident in Suri when she's the best to never win.
You know, like people are at some point are going to say we can't let Suri get the final three.
But I don't think about that a final 21.
But if you have your opportunity, maybe you do take it, especially here where she's going to be outnumbered at least from tribe dynamics.
At least four to three, even if Rizzo were to team up with them.
So you need other things to go your way.
But I feel like Jonathan's a cheat code in the new school challenges.
Even if two tribes go to tribal.
This is the tribe I don't see going.
Jonathan's great.
And then you have Camilla doing a puzzle.
I just look, if Camilla is not there and Rizzo is doing your puzzle.
Maybe we're having a different conversation right now.
But right now I'm feeling pretty good about this.
And like you forget Rick Devon's one three or four immunities too.
Like Rick Devon's is good at challenges.
Like they're all pretty good at challenges.
So I have Suri not too much lower than you have her.
Okay.
So then who would be your number eight?
Well, so you're putting Rizzo at nine as well, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
So you are doing that.
Okay.
So I am going to for eight.
This is where it starts to get harder for me.
So I'm going to try to go like and try to like maneuver the edit a little bit here.
But first before I do that, I'm going to go coach first.
Because I just think nobody's taking coach seriously.
Yeah.
And that's exactly why coach makes it far on every season.
It's why he was.
12th place on Heroes versus villains, which you might say, well, that's not that good.
The second and last man standing on that try.
Like the women were willing to use coach because they knew that coach at the end of the day is just coach.
Like whatever.
And then he's almost drowning in this last episode.
Jonathan's having to save him.
He's arguing with Ozzy right after we're talk while we're still on the subject of Kyle's Achilles rupturing.
Coach is defending his honor and integrity.
And I feel like this is such a good swap for coach.
And even if Colby without his vote, Colby coach Joe, that's an alliance.
And Colby's got Genevieve.
And then Chrissy, she's massaging coaches calves.
I mean, she's got to be in with you.
You're not massaging that man's calves unless you have at least a little bit of respect for him or something.
I don't know.
I mean, Chrissy.
First episode.
Sorry to call you off.
But Chrissy went to coach and she was like, I want to work with you.
She even told him about how she wants to target D.
So we've been showing a lot about, you know, between Chrissy and Coach.
So I think they're kind of like a package deal and they're fine.
Like they're loyal to each other is probably going to stay true on this tribe.
Yeah.
And like if you're Chrissy, what's so concerning about coach?
There's nothing.
There's nothing there.
And Chrissy wasn't shown to be a people pleaser on her season far from it.
I mean, she pissed off a lot of people on her season.
That's why she doesn't win at the end.
So I just feel like for her to do this, like her and coach, she does want to work with coach.
I think these are all good points.
So I'm going to put, I'm going to put coach at eight.
And then at nine, this is where I'm fighting with the edit a little bit.
This is probably higher than a lot of people are going to have this person because this person has been absolutely relevant on the season.
But I'm going to go Tiffany.
I just feel like you're bringing somebody back for a returning player season.
And I know if somebody was going to be invisible and get thrown to the side, it would be Tiffany.
Eighth place worst of the best finishes out of anybody on the season.
Like I could see it happening, but deep brought her back for some sort of reason.
The woman has one confessional in four and a half hours.
I just don't buy that then they turn around and they say, oh, and she got swapskirt.
I'm just not buying it.
So I'm going to put Tiffany at nine.
And I'm going to read way too far into the edit to come up with that decision.
Okay.
So that's a little okay.
So if we're going to say that about the edit.
I'm going to put, I'm going to do same thing and put Camilla at my number 10.
Okay.
Um, I think, and I know I put like this entire seal of tribe in my top 10.
But I just don't, don't see them going to tribal.
Just because of, you kind of put that in my head like that they have the strength.
They have the puzzle making.
So, but if they do, if two tribes go to tribal council, I don't know.
I still see it being like either color of a two.
So I'm, I'm going to go with Camilla like we haven't seen a lot of her.
But none of what we've seen has been bad.
And I think there's always big, there's bigger threats than Camilla.
Kyle's out of the game.
So for the same reasons, I think Rizzo might be fine.
Camilla might be fine in this tribe as well.
And she has the numbers to back it up.
So yeah, I'm going to put Camilla at number 10.
How do you feel Camilla and Surrey are going to get along?
That's a random question.
But for some reason, I'm looking at that relationship.
And I can't figure out how they're going to get along.
I know.
I can't see them getting along either.
But she was working with Dee and Tiff.
And I could totally see knowing Dee personally.
I could totally see Dee meshing well with Surrey.
And, you know, they're the only women on the tribe.
I could see them coming together, just like Tiff and, and them two did.
So I feel like they would get along.
I feel like Camilla probably a fan girl over her too.
And Surrey would love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got Camilla a little bit lower.
I have Surrey here at spot 10.
So you had mentioned Surrey in your eight.
I feel like Surrey.
Look, I know that they're outnumbered.
I know there's four from that original collo.
But I feel like if that original collo tribe was going to just steamroll the second half of the game
or steamroll in this post in this post swap portion, we would have heard so much more from them.
We've heard, we've heard really nothing from anybody over there.
I know people are saying, Dee's invisible.
Dee's invisible.
Tiff and he's invisible.
Camilla is invisible.
He was in the water.
Like, Coach is getting huge at it.
Not nearly what I thought we were going to get from coach.
Chrissy was super small.
So I feel like there's so much going like that would need to have happened on that tribe.
And then they would have shown us more of that if they were going to just dominate this.
So I feel like Surrey is going to find a way out of this.
And I'll figure out what I'm going to do with Camilla and Dee and Charlie
and Devons on that tribe as we kind of work our way through because
as we kind of work our way through because I really don't know. I don't know. This is a good swap
because you have to take into account what people knew each other about beforehand and everything.
So I think it's a good swap all around. Yeah, I think it's a good swap too.
And I'm trying to think who's going to be right. I mean, I need to pick someone from
Carlo. I don't want to leave them last. But I think with what you said about coach,
he's not the biggest threat right now, but he can probably contribute something to a tribe.
And I just I really feel strongly that these older people are going to come together in
in this swap. So I'm going to put him at number 11 for me. I'm going to put coach at number 11.
I think he would be fine. Like if there was someone to go first, I don't think it would be him.
So do you think coach, and I don't know what your take was before the season began. So I'm asking
this both ways before the season began and now can coach win this season of survivor.
I don't think so. I don't think he can. I feel like they're showing him
cramping in the water and kind of losing his mind over the fact that like he took the key from
Aussie to show that he's going to maybe flame out of this game because I thought he was,
he said when he took the key, I was like, hell, yeah, coach, like this is a this is season 50,
like own your game. But the fact that he wasn't and it hurt him so much that that Aussie was talking
about the fact that he took the key as a bad thing. I think even Aussie didn't care that much.
Like I'm sure Aussie was a little bit hurt, but I think he understood and and coach has like this
weird chip on his shoulder or something that is is giving me the vibe. He's not getting a winners
at it. So I don't see him winning. But I do see him going a little bit of the distance for that
reason. Like I don't think anyone else is threatened by him. Yeah. Tag with says the edit kind
of feels like Andy's at it from 47, which I could see where it starts off really bad picks up
and then gets cut. But that's the pickup still. Did you think he could win before the season began
or have you always just kind of been out on coach? I didn't really have an opinion. So I'm going
to say no. I'm going to say I wouldn't put him as a front runner for me. Okay. Yeah.
Because we were all we were all pretty high on coach coming in saying like he could win. He was
close anyway in his season. He's older now. Maybe he's changed. After last week, I'm like,
was he goofy in a bad way or was he goofy in an okay way? Like I'm trying to cling to the fact
that he can win because he's like, you know, I love token sheans. I was in high school during token
sheans. Like that's my season. You know, like I love that. I just I don't know. Last week was
weird for him. I mean, they're showing a lot more of him than anyone from his original
collar tribe. Yeah. So we can we can hold on to that. At least that. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, speaking of just like living in your your feelings and not using your brain at all,
I'm going to put Colby at my 11. He's not in a good spot at all on this tribe because he doesn't
have a vote. I still think Chrissy coach Colby Genevieve Joe that feels like an alliance to me.
If Aubrey does get the votes and she does play her idol, I think she'd ultimately go after Genevieve.
At least that's what the end it set up. It wasn't set up to be coach. All right, not coach. I'm
sorry. Colby. And I just have to keep hoping watching Colby drag the snake was the coolest thing
I've seen in a long time. Chrissy sitting on the bench clapping for him and smiling. Yeah.
I was just so happy that like real Colby was back fat man. So Superman and a fast suit gone. Like I
am so happy that Colby is getting this like redemptive arc right now. I hope that he's able to
keep going with it. But I feel like we are getting such a I personally think that the heroes villains
Colby is one of the most underrated players in the history of the show because he still got all the
way to fifth when he should have finished like 18th. But I feel like we're getting such a better
version of Colby right now than what we got in season 20. So I'm happy for him. I'm putting him
at 11 because I got to keep the faith even though I think he's probably doomed. I mean they have
shown him in like a position of of bringing in people together to make an alliance and he's
only gotten like a good edit in terms of strategy. But a swap can always change everything. But he's
got a good head on his shoulders for this season. He's clearly in good physical shape. So if they
go to tribal council maybe they'll be like he's he's strong let's not get him out. But he's not
up there for me just because he doesn't have a vote like that. The people with idols and stuff.
I'm keeping them kind of high. I mean besides Aubrey but I think you're right that she's not going to
get screwed because she has her guard up and she's ready to play this game this time. So for that
reason I'm going to go with Aubrey for number 12. So I love that pick for Colby but I'm going to
keep him lower because of the vote. You're actually thinking you're actually thinking with your
brain not with your heart that's different. You know like I'm I'm an idiot for putting Colby there
and I know it. No I don't think you're an idiot because I'm doing this just purely based on
I want to mistake. Yeah but yeah I'm going with Aubrey for that. I think you change my mind a
little bit. I would have put her much lower because of her positioning with her original tribe and
like it's kind of a weird kind of like group of people for this tribe but the fact that she has
an idol like she can use it at any time and I know for a fact that she will especially if she
thinks she's in trouble and she knows that something's off between her and Genevieve. So and also
did they show her maybe realizing they went through her bag or she didn't know at all. They didn't
show it and I'm curious if she noticed or not and why they wouldn't show it or maybe they'll show it
in this episode or something like maybe it'll be like I come the Jesus moment before and that's why
she's saying oh no like I got to play this idol you know who knows. Yeah because I don't know if
they're doing a good job of making her feel like she's in the group or if she does have her guard up
and she's like oh no I'm on the outs of this tribe but either way I do think you're right she's not
she's she came to play and she doesn't want to get screwed again so she hasn't idol she'll be fine
and she feels like she's in trouble. I can't handle that happening to her again. All right so for
my number 12 I'm going to go with Charlie. I feel like I don't know why I'm like not super high on
Charlie. I think it's just because we haven't heard anything from him. When you look at that tribe
you would think Charlie wasn't getting any heat from Jonathan or Dee or Camilla. I feel like he'll
get along with Rick Devins. I feel like he'll get along with Rizzo. I feel like he'll get along with
Suri but then I'm putting him down here because I'm like why do I know so little about Charlie
like why is Charlie who I think had the most or second or third most like he was in the top five
for confessionals in survivor history on his first season and a lot of that had to do with the
fact that it's an hour and a half season so that was like that was a big play but why am I hearing
so little from Charlie. He's a very good narrator. I know that that tribe was winning but it just makes
me reluctant to put him too high so you haven't met seven which you know that's that's feeling very
brave on Charlie I think but I put it at 12 like right in the middle where yeah I don't know I don't
know okay no that's a good that's a good pick it's a good pick it's fair um but I think the reason
why they haven't been showing him much is because this tribe it's kind of like the Hina tribe on 49
they just won so much it's not really a reason to show them and now that there's a tribe swap like
those dynamics don't really matter anymore like they showed us coach and Chrissy now they're on
this tribe together maybe that's like they they showed that for a reason and um and also like
Celo went to tribal twice so and there's big interesting players on that season they are on that
tribe so they want to show a lot of like Aussie and Surrey um so maybe and we'll see a lot more
of Charlie now or maybe not if they if they do win like we think they will yeah my question is on
your season how did Hina end up doing I mean they want a lot of them didn't go to tribal council until
the jury started so they did pretty well in terms of that but then they got kind of wiped out
yeah exactly that's what I'm saying yeah no it's true it's that's a fair that's what I'm
worried about for Colo we have Stephen on the podcast with Tec with tomorrow at 1 p.m. so
okay yeah so Stephen's doing that so um but yeah that's what my concern is is that like Colo is
gonna go the Hina way and I just don't know if one of them's gonna go out early in unceremonious
fashion and I could see it being Charlie I think even more than Tiff but yeah okay who do you
have an unlucky 13 um I'm gonna say Genevieve because we just have seen a lot of her and I don't look
at this new tribe and think she's gonna get swapscrewed Colby doesn't have a vote but she has a
good relationship with him for some reason I feel like 47 and 48 those people have they problem
met hung out maybe you have a good uh connection with Joe and and I don't know she doesn't seem like
the odd one out to me on this tribe so if they went to tribal council I don't see her going and they've
just I can't help but look at it again like she she seems like a main character and her tribe
hadn't even gone to tribal yet so um I don't know I don't see her her going home next at least so
I'm gonna put her at 13 yeah I I was I had Genevieve originally higher and then we started talking
and I just have now convinced myself that if that tribe goes Aubrey's playing an idol and Genevieve's
going home like I am the that's already happened as far as I'm concerned that's how confident I
suddenly yeah yeah it's gonna be this is a disaster this is when it all goes downhill like I think
about redemption island the first time when Boston Rob was playing that first episode with
Francesco Francesco like whatever and then the next episode with Matt getting blindsided it was
epic those first guys and the next one was a tribe they they threw the challenge and Russell
goes home and then it just was bad literally every episode from there on and I am just like I'm
not saying it's gonna get redemption island level bad but I'm so concerned that we are about to get
one of those episodes that people talk about for all the wrong reasons and I've only thought about
this for the last hour and 16 minutes so I'm looking back at like what has happened she started
off so in such a good position on her original tribe and then Kyle got many back two of her allies
in her alliance Q it could be lost her votes and then now she's on this new tribe with like someone
she's kind of like not getting along with who now has an idol I don't know I think you're convincing
maybe that's I'm gonna keep her at their team because like you said it's unlucky 13 she's been
pretty unlucky so far so I mean it's just devastating because if this happens like when they do
new era all stars and you get out there and you're like wow it's all two-time players wise
Genevieve also here just know that it's because they realize Genevieve got the worst luck maybe in
survivor history so when it's a bunch of people on new era all stars playing for the second time
and then Genevieve is the only new era player playing for the third this is why friends because
they realize that Genevieve really can bring it that would stink I mean I was I was like ready to
put Genevieve at like 10 or 11 and then we just started talking and I'm just like I don't know if
it's just the fear of God in me right now where I'm like no if I put her at like 20 or 21 maybe
that will save her but then also with the other guy who totally meant to say idle and not idiots
saying no it's it's only one I'm like oh God like if two tribes are going I feel like that tribe
has a very good chance of going they don't have that Chris he's good at puzzles but I don't know
I can see that tribe going coach gets a leg cramp during the challenge forget it I know he would
milk that too at this point he would land around and scream and rye and oh god okay so who's
your a 13 I'm gonna go Mike white okay yeah you had him you had him up at six I like Mike's
position here being he's got Angelina being he's got Christian being is the only one from his
original tribe I think you and Stephanie are in the most danger over there by far but he's still
Mike white and that's just you know why I'm gonna put him at 13 and I I feel like once I get to
like 16 that's where I start to feel like these people could really go home so I'm still not
necessarily I agree okay that's a good pick who do you have a 14 so at 14 I'm gonna put Aussie
so he's not at the top because I do worry about his position I feel like he's the kind of person
with all these like connections in this Valti tribe from from before even before the game started
like they could easily just be like let's get Aussie out because he's a big threat and and we
could all just come together and do that and then he doesn't have to read being like a like they're
thinking this they're they're talking about this so that's the only reason I worry about Aussie
but what keeps what's keeping him so high is that he has an idol and he could play it at any
time so I'm I'm gonna put him higher than someone like Q because Q doesn't have a vote and and that's
scary so yeah so I'm gonna say yeah Aussie at 14 okay and and another thing that's important to
bring up here in case you forgot as I know some of the 49ers did if you don't have a vote that
means you also can't play a shot in the dark so Q couldn't play a shot in the dark what what are
you buying that Savannah really just forgot that she had the shot in the dark available like what
happened yes I do I do that this didn't have Rizzo and I'd be like girl play a shot in the dark
so I I think she did forget um and also I mean no I wouldn't have hurt to play it she she went
on a six six to one vote so but yeah I do think she forgot I mean I don't blame her too that was
really like day 32 for her in the game not day six like for some of these people so yeah yeah
I mean Savannah had like brushed her teeth 14 times and that's that you know and then she's back
out there hope she brushed it with the 14 but like that's how little she had been home at that
yeah exactly so so I do believe that I do believe she went in like kind of in a different headspace
and other people and she made it for a while and also nobody used it on her season so it was not
a fault of mind were people discussing it on your season or not really definitely like we were
always worried about it so we just made made a point to like convince the person who was actually going
home that they weren't going home so that they wouldn't play it so that was like what we we always
talked about in terms of this the shot in the dark we're just like we got to make sure they don't
play it okay yeah so it was part of the discussion so it's not like she's like not thinking about it
because nobody was even thinking about it anyway so yeah okay that makes sense for sure
yeah all right 14 sorry and Savannah said she was going to tune into this I don't want people to
you know if I start the rumor now that Savannah's like a maybe brush her teeth once a day person
I don't want people to be coming back at me with that so sorry Savannah wasn't my fault I was just
I was just making a really under underestimating big time all right so number 14 I am going to go
go this is I don't think this is like really a person who's going to go home here terrible
edit but you mentioned a couple times now the one thing we did get that was remotely positive
was like hey coach you want to hang out and now she's still got coach so I'm gonna go
Chrissy um absolutely horrible edits so far I mean Chrissy is not winning this season at all like
she has just been dragged over the calls and I thought it was funny because then she had a great
tweet about it where it was like I unnaughted somebody's hair I massage somebody's calves and I
asked them if one of them wanted to make fire because I had already made it in 10 seconds and was
like hey if any of you want to practice go for it and I'm like the biggest villain on the season
so far so I thought that was funny but I am going to put her here because it's been a rough edit
but at the same time like this swap works in her favor I think for sure so I'm gonna put her
yeah I have to assume that there was definitely more to that then but then wouldn't they would have
showed it so I don't know um but something tells me that like that probably contributed to why she
lost her first season like maybe there was a lot we didn't see about her social game that was the
reason why she lost um her original season but I don't know I'm not gonna put her so high I'm
actually gonna go for for 15 I'm gonna do Stephanie okay just because like they haven't shown
anything about her where I just I can't see them being like oh now we're gonna show her because
she's going this episode um and I do think she's someone who's physically strong that if they lost
they wouldn't want to get out right away they would just want to use her as a number she has her
vote and yeah I think horrible edit as well not horrible not as bad as Chrissy because Chrissy
the only thing they've shown of her is other people talking badly about her but she's kind of
just there she's just there so I wouldn't rank her super low but not in the lowest first confessional
of this season for whatever it's worth you know she she had a good first episode yeah terrible
second episode and I mean they didn't go to tribal most of what was going on there was looking
through Aubrey's bag and then Aubrey getting the you know the idol and we don't know how they're
gonna edit a 24 person season like this is totally uncharted territory even for us who have
been watching who do focus on the edit like there could be somebody who gets a nothing burger
in one of these episodes when it comes to confessional can still wins because we haven't seen
them have to do this big of a cast and that's true and it would make sense for them to leave some
people out because there's just not enough time in the episode so it could be like that where
yeah that that is true and that'll help you get my next one actually and one of the worst edited
seasons of all time is the first 20 player season that actually had all 20 people playing the game
because I don't count Palau because three people were out in episode one but Cook Islands is horrible
in terms of the edit like there's a person named Rebecca on that season there's a person named
Brad on that season like you would not know because these are people who make the jury phase of
the game yeah and they don't speak at all because they didn't know what to do it's 20 people yet
and ex online so you know it takes a little bit of time for them to kind of get into their groove so
we'll see what happens here but I like I don't mind step at 15 I'm just at the point now where I have
Q step in Angelina and I feel like Q and step for more likely to go than Angelina because of Angelina's
connections with Christian Mike yeah but I'm gonna stay away from that tribe for a second and I am
gonna go with Rick Devins here at 15 and I feel like Rick Devins my preseason winner pick really
big episodes both of them he's been he's been a focal point of the edit he's been a focal point of
just everything going on I know that this swap isn't amazing for him by any means but he still has
to read they've worked close together and I could see I mean I feel like everybody's gonna like
Rick Devins so even though I haven't met 15 it's more just because the swap didn't work in his
favor but I think he should be okay okay no that's that's that's true and I do think I see a world
where well he's your 15 right yeah okay I'm gonna put him at my 16 because I don't think he'll
go home next episode unless unless the the fake idol at tribal council we see it happen and he
uses it whatever but if it's not seen or talked about or anything in the next episode I have to
assume it's it's gonna be used or something in the future because why would they show it and
make such a spectacle of it in last week's episode if it wasn't gonna be play a part in this season
so I have a feeling that that is gonna show up somewhere and I don't see it being in this next
episode so he's gonna be my 16 because he was such a big character in the first two episodes he
had that moment that it's kind of like a setup for a future episode and and yeah he's playing
pretty good game and he's going to this swap with a strong tribe answering who he's worked with
yeah and again having the strong tribe is why so far I think that's been the tribe that I've been
the most favorable towards yeah although I guess I've been more favorable towards New Calo but that's
because I was just putting Colby higher than I should have but I yeah I feel like the devins Christian
things gonna have to come up in a bigger way or they could have just edited that whole thing out like
they didn't have to show exactly it took so much of the episode it was honestly one of my favorite
parts of the episode if not the most but they stayed there for the end too it was like a statement
they're like you gotta see this and and so I'm gonna hold out for that maybe working my 16 I'm
gonna go D I didn't say D yet I it's not so much that I'm really concerned for D it's just if
you do a swap and everybody starts pointing fingers saying let's vote this person let's vote this
person it becomes very easy to say what the winners are out why don't we just get rid of this other
winner I know you said earlier you might want to use the winner as a as a shield which I do think
though ultimately do that's why I have her still at 16 and not further down but I do get
concerned for D that if Saris starts to feel heat if they start coming out Saris he goes you have a
winner right there vote her out leave me alone I can't wait you're not gonna take me to the end
anyway she's already proven she can do it and that might resonate with some people so that's why I
have D at 16 I still think she's safer than Camilla on this tribe but I do worry if they were to lose
that she would go but I think because she's on the tribe and because she is so good at the physical
challenges because they have Jonathan and because they have Camilla I don't think they're gonna go
that's the tribe I'm least worried about but still okay that's good that's good pick um so
now we're on 17 right yep so for my 17 I'm gonna pick Tiff for the same reason you said
who did you say has a bat I think it was Chrissy she has a bad edit or like no edit at all or
something yeah Chrissy Charlie and Tiff I kind of talked about that yeah yeah but I think Tiff
is is gonna be okay because she's someone who I feel like when they they all talk about winners
and placements and then second place and she she got eighth place right like I don't think anyone
when it comes down to it is gonna be looking at Tiff when there's still people like Charlie or at
least on her tribe I don't know I just don't see her going home anytime soon and I think she's
just a casualty of like they don't know what to do with the 24-person season and her tribe has
it lost so they haven't had any real real reason to show her so you know when there's people two
people left that I have it ranked that don't have votes I'm not gonna put her below them so I'm
I'm gonna put Chris uh Tiff at 17 yeah I think that's a fair spot for Tiff I feel like coming into
this season and I kind of already said this and I've said this in a couple of episodes but there
was gonna be one person who's gonna be a victim of the edit if they didn't win no matter what they
did on the season it was Tiff like she was going to be that person so I don't want to read too much
into her getting little screen time because I feel like she was gonna get little screen
all I know based on watching these first two episodes is I would be really shocked if she wins
but I wouldn't be shocked if she's sitting at final four or final five or five six or even if she's
the third place losing final tribal council person like I wouldn't be surprised at any of that but I
would be surprised if she wins just because of how little we've heard from her but when you look
at the big characters and everything survivor history survivor royalty all these things she was
always the one who had the highest potential to be the victim of everything that was going on
and I feel like it's happened I feel like it's come through fruition so yeah well
all right 17 I am gonna go Angelina here okay and I know that she's a statue and I know she doesn't
do anything but she's got her two-day vs. Goliath people she had Hugh and Stephanie who didn't
necessarily want to work with her but like they're there and then Emily and Ozzy feel like they
probably go with Christian so I feel like Angelina should end up on the right side of the numbers
here but her at it's also been terrible and Angelina somebody who has such a big character on her
season that that scares me more than it does with TIFF so I'm gonna put her at 17 I hope she finds
a way to get a little bit better going forward but yeah 17 okay yeah and I I mean I don't want
to say too little but I feel like I totally agree I'm gonna put her at 18 for me for the same
reasons I haven't seen a lot of her and anything we have seen of her is someone else saying something
negative about her which is why I still haven't even named Chrissy yet because I feel like very
strong that Chrissy's not in a good position but yeah I have Angelina at 18 for me
are you I mean you've been a fan like you said are you surprised how little we've heard from Angelina
like being that I know her tribe has won and stuff but we have really heard nothing from Angelina
yeah I'm very surprised because I've heard I mean I saw I think Mike Bloom posted it that
she even did already a negotiation she's leaning into her character so I mean maybe we'll hear
more from her if they do go to tribal council I could see that happening like we've only had
two episodes I could see someone who's been completely purple to just being this big character
if they do go to tribal so I'm not super worried about her yet but I don't see her going home
so that's why she's not at the complete bottom for me but uh yeah I am worried about her position
like long-term because of how little we've heard of her in the first two episodes so so yeah I
am surprised yeah I feel like those are all good points that's been probably the most shocking one
out of anything so far on this season um no my number 18 so the Vatu tribe is the one I think
is the best chance of going which is why I have Angelina and Steph who I'm putting here at 18 both
so low um and then I have one person from each tribe in case it is a double boot or whatever
who would go next but I'm putting Steph here at number 18 because it's just a bad swap for her
I think that's really the only reason like it's a bad swap the show it like the players have
already shown that they're willing to vote out an early season person I don't think Steph will
overplay her hand but we also saw in Heroes vs Villains what happens when Steph's back is against
the wall she kind of just disappears and and gets out of the game I mean she had no shot after that
second tribal or after that second immunity challenge loss so I'm gonna put her at 18 because I'm
worried for her but I'm more worried for Q because Q without a vote to me is is is is a bigger deal
especially when you have the Davis Goliath people especially when you have Ozzy on your tribe you
don't necessarily need Q yeah well um yeah I'm a little more concerned for Q than Stephanie but
I'm still very concerned for Stephanie yeah I agree I agree with that it's a good point um I
normally so I'm gonna take over here because I'll let you do your last three so that you can
kind of have like the grand finale who this is where I think it's going um so I'm gonna do 19 2021
so I'm gonna go Camilla okay and I I feel like she's in the worst spot on that tribe if they lose
what I think that tribe is least likely to lose I know she has the four-person advantage there
with Kahlo but I feel like you have Suri Rick and and Rizzo who are all so social that they could
get in with somebody and I think you could Vince Jonathan Charlie indeed a vote out Camilla even though
D was shown kind of like working with Camilla Charlie and none of the night could see being like
strength strength strength and D is smart enough to know that like hey if this isn't working I
gotta go this route right then I'm gonna go Q at 20 because I've already like talked about that
I think he's a bad spot no vote and then I am gonna put Genevieve at 21 because I've just convinced
myself throughout this entire last hour and a half that Aubrey's gonna idle her out of the game so
I hope it doesn't happen but I'm putting Genevieve in the bottom spot as my person being voted out
wow okay yeah so Camilla Q Genevieve I think those are the three people in the most danger if
Genevieve goes home because of a Billie Eilish boomerang idol Jeff's gonna be hearing from my lawyer
you know okay so who are your what is your take here on the bottom three okay so my bottom three
do I go in order like do I say yeah okay so I'm gonna say 19 is Colby and the reason
wise because I feel like they just haven't shown anything negative about him yet and like that's
why I'm not putting him at 20 or 21 but he doesn't have an idol so he's there he's these three people
are I feel like in the most trouble and I think like if Aubrey there's a world where Aubrey uses
her idol and she idols out I think either Genevieve or Colby because she was at the bottom of her
original tribe and maybe she wants to escape that but I've only seen positive things about Colby
so that's why I'm putting him not at the lowest like where I think would be voted out I also don't
I think this tribe can potentially no I don't think they can potentially avoid tribal council
I could see them by a tribal council yeah I just agree with you I think this is this hard
when we get to the to the last couple it's hard but yeah I'm gonna put him at 19 I'm gonna put
him at 19 because he has no vote and if there's anyone that's gonna get idoled out it could possibly
be him or Genevieve and I don't I feel like Genevieve is too obvious and she's gotten such a big edit
it could be Colby and remember who complimented you Sophie when you're making this ranking remember
who complimented you that's why Colby that's why you not 21 that's why you got one okay I'm just
you know there's you that's the only reason you really need when we're getting as random as we are
and into the nitty gritty here right it's true so so yeah Colby at 19 then I'm gonna go with
Q at 20 for the same reason he doesn't have a vote but he does have Angelina and Steph and I feel like
Angelina probably wasn't aware that she was at the bottom of her original tribe so I don't think
she would be like she's got to go he was coming for me I don't even think she knows that he said
she was lazy until she walks the episode on Wednesday so I feel like in terms of his old alliance he
has some numbers there so I think and in the tribe of seven like you don't really need your vote
the only way that I really worry about him is if he's open about it because there's no reason to
like really vote any of these people out and that is like giving people a reason if he says it so
I hope that he doesn't say it but if he doesn't I think that he could be fine and he and he
he could be fine this week but my last person is Chrissy and even though this swap is favorable to her
tip was one of the people speaking negatively about Chrissy she had such a bad edit in the last
episode she hasn't really said anything but we've heard so many people say bad things about her
it kind of reminded me of them setting up Annie from 49 to leave like she left because she was
bossy and and the the things that people were saying badly about her I feel like we'll probably
rub off on a new tribe as well and if there's anyone to vote out it might be the person who's kind of
being annoying and so yeah I feel like she's my last one only because we've only got like
meal negative about her like in the last tribe for Vatu it was about Rizzo,
Angelina and Aubrey you can't get three people out but on follow it was only about Chrissy
so that's why she's the last one and the person I think if they go to tribal she's gonna go home
in the next episode sorry well and and the other thing with Chrissy is so we have I'm Joe
Mennon coming on the podcast on Thursday he's gonna do digging deeper with with Blake and I it
did feel like this was her problem the first time she played and I know that some people will
chalk it up to edit some people you know they want to make the argument here and there of Ben got lucky
Ben was a production favorite whatever what I've heard from talking to people from 35 is that her
social game is really would ultimately lost her the game yeah I thought I thought I thought
that she was a casualty to like this weird twist that happened and I thought Chrissy should have
won and and now it's coming to light that maybe maybe it was her social game like you were saying
it was her social game and and the thing is like you could still be a very nice person in real life
if your social game on Survivor isn't up to stump that doesn't mean that you're a bad guy I'd argue
Rick Devon's social game just sucked this last episode and I love Rick Devon like so I feel like
I could see Chrissy going I just feel like also though it could be one of those things
you're like look she's gonna be good for a puzzle also we have 21 people still let's keep her around
because people are gonna get aggravated by her they're gonna want to vote her at some point so yeah
I don't know okay so Colby Q Chrissy somebody in the chat here said here he goes axe it
feel how are you gonna be so gentle on the Colby slander I just have to like take it sometimes man
I just have to let it go and just let let Sophie say all these wrong mean things you know just
could hate you if he had a boat he would be up there he would be up there but he doesn't and like
that scares me yeah I mean and the thing that sucks for Colby and for Q at this point now is the
only way they're getting it back is if they lose but if they lose and then they get voted out
you're never getting that vote back like it now you're on a new tribe and that's what sucks for
them right yeah there's no boomerang there no no one gets the vote if you get voted out so
yeah you you go so yeah I don't know it scares me a little bit but but we'll see these tribes are
big I feel like you don't really need a vote when when you're trying to vote if there's like a common
enemy in one tribe and everybody's voting that person out you're fine if you don't have a vote but
if you're the person that they're thinking about then you might be screwed yeah and that's where
Q and Colby might have been better off throwing the challenge last week or something because it
seems like Angelina or Aubrey would have been somebody everybody would have lumped onto and maybe
you don't realize Aubrey as the idol and Aubrey plays the idol and then you guys are screwed but if
you go to tribal there like you get your vote back and we'll be looking a lot better now I agree
how could you look better um okay Sophie who is your winner pick for the season now that's
Savannah's gone you've seen two episodes Rizgot is in the chat saying Joe menna and all caps
but you know where where's your head at if you want to go Rizzo I'm going to make you choose
a second as well yeah I know I won't go Rizzo just because I feel like everyone's probably
going to expect me to save Rizzo okay and I feel like everyone's saying Christian too so I don't
want to say Christian either um hmm damn this is hard uh I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with Rick
Devons Rick Devons he comes after Christian just because of the edit he's gone so far well where
is me about Rick though is that he's playing the same way he played last time he's being bold
feel like he's gonna have a tarry on his back if he continues to be like the loud and that's what
happened with him on his first season but that's that's my final answer I'm gonna go Rick Devons
look that was my preseason winner pick I still feel pretty good with him but we'll say we'll say
okay who's your uh pick now do you have I forget do you change it every episode no I try to stick
with Devons but I'll just talk through and be like hey this is what I think is happening also I just
checked my phone I have it on silence so I said just saw your text you haven't had an issue since
that time well no okay but um no I I try not to change but it is like what is the edit telling me
who's doing what right this one's probably shocking to people I'm on kind of the Christian train here
but there is one player who has gotten three confessionals in both episodes who has had no reason
to get these confessionals and I always look at the circumstantial versus they're going out of their
way Gabler got a lot of we went out of our way Michelle in 32 they went out of their way a lot
why does Jonathan Young have only two fewer confessionals than Surrey and why is he so impactful
like why have I heard more from Jonathan Young on that tribe than D Tiffany Camilla and Chrissy combined
like why does Jonathan Young have more screen time than all of them combined that blows my mind now
that could also be Steven again tomorrow on the podcast with Tag with uh I'll name drop that now
so I don't forget again but tomorrow on the podcast with Tag with I think at one o'clock
Eastern time like Steven had a lot of confessionals on that Hina try and then ultimately nothing happened
from me but why Jonathan Young like he doesn't have any other connections on the season he could have
easily been somebody who's overshadowed the casuals are excited they get to watch Jonathan go do
you know big strong guy things it's just so weird to me and if you were to ask me what players would
have been invisible before the season started I would say Tiffany Jonathan and Genevieve
yeah Genevieve and Jonathan have gotten really good edits and I just don't get why
for John either I don't either but that's that's a good I didn't even think about that like with John
and it's not circumstantial he didn't find an idol he didn't find anything they're just showing him
because they want to show yeah like he didn't he doesn't go on a journey there's no reason I mean
and yeah he helped coach out of the water you could have easily given every confessional to coach
there you don't have to give any to Jonathan it's true and I also wonder why they even showed
Tyson was like I love that scene I like seeing coaches get hurt and whatever but I thought that
team was so random but they they made it a point to put it in there when there's still 20 how many
21 people left or 22 at that point and they made it a point to give them like a huge little
fishing segment when I felt like it's not needed at this point in the game and what is Jonathan's
confessional it's not just about coach it's about I'm trying to play this game differently this time
I'm gonna do different things and I'm like what the hell like why are we hearing about Jonathan Young
becoming better at survivor like it doesn't make sense right now it's too early no yeah you're
changing my mind now I'm gonna stay with Rick with Rick okay like I want Devins to win I mean I
I love Devins after I took extinction I thought Devins played a great game in edge of extinction
and getting voted out aside twice but you know I I love Devins and I think that he's such a fun
entertaining character and it's just like what him and Christian have done so far this season the
fact that Devins came out and said that he was like the alternate essentially of the old
schoolers like casting stop that like Rick Devins should have always been on this season stop
I actually didn't know that he was he was an alternate that's what he said yeah so he did well
before alternates were different I don't know did he go to Fiji too for another season I think
what happened was with this season is that he was well he was an alternate for 50 but I think
they ended up extending the cast to 24 like I don't think he was added in and somebody from
old school was dropped think ultimately Rizzo and Sav got on and they replaced two people and then
I think they were like we need two more old school and Rick and somebody else was there like he said
that he was an alternate he was not originally on the cast yeah Darryl Seymour before the cast
became 24 he wasn't on so that's crazy to me because I feel like Devins is bringing it on such a
level and we all knew he'd bring it on this level so that's that's crazy yeah yeah I feel like
the producers had to know too that he was gonna he was gonna bring it you with that yeah that's
crazy so all right well you just made an hour and 46 minutes of talking to me so good job
is that your is that your torch behind you yeah I made sure to sit in front of my little 50
LeBoubou and my fiancee's like making me like we don't have space in our place for anything of my
survivor stuff like a survivor bar car so I have all my stupid stuff my little season 50 finale
ticket what's your rate of stuff here plus my torch I haven't really opened yet but yeah are
they gonna make you bring that ticket are they gonna be like no so you should give us that
gigantic ticket can you imagine this was great the chat the chat was loving it I mean everybody
just with W's all across here so good job Sophie anything else you want to say before we wrap
this one up no be nice to Rizzo be nice to the be nice to the players during the season guys like
where people I hurt their feelings sometimes and no I mean this is awesome though thank you for having
me this is like a dream it's crazy that like literally eight months ago I was just like watching your
videos and commenting like a just regular person but not here and this has been so fun and I'll
come back whenever you have me so I appreciate this has been awesome awesome well it was a pleasure
having you I will definitely get you back for future seasons or we'll see you know we'll see what
happens in the future on this season too thank you all so much for listening like I said tomorrow
1 p.m. Eastern time tag with this live with Steven to go do map chat and then on Tuesday I'll be live
with Joe Dorowski who wrote the cultural history of survivor book we're gonna be doing our predictions
for episode three for the prophet so if you haven't gotten in on the prophet yet the weekly questions
are up and updated Wednesday night will and I will be recapping the episode and then on Thursday
Blake and I live with Joe menace we got a lot going on this week a lot of good guests and it's
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