Australian Survivor - Brains Vs Brawn II Week 7 (w/ Brendan Kacev)

‘Meme Daddy’ Brendan joins Sam on the cringe couch this week to chat Aussie Survivor and all the juicy goss from the Jury Villa. AJ’s playing 3D poker, while Kristin doesn't know what rocks are. The girls in Jury Villa are giving looks and sass and we are living and the jungle rat continues to cause chaos. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

This podcast was produced on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Welcome to The Cringe Is Real. How are you going?

Memery

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Good, good. I'm very happy to be here.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

I'm so happy to have you here. I'm a little bit starstruck because I've been, you know, I've been sharing your memes for some time and then we were both at the same watch party event and I had no idea who you were because you never really post too much of yourself. And then someone was like, that's the meme guy. And I was like... what the meme guy's here i was like more excited you were there than like all of the cast

SPEAKER_00 0:55

it's it's the weirdest thing like when people come up to me i had actually someone tap me on the shoulder and i'm like what how do you know who i am yeah um it's just like a very weird and it's happened the last couple seasons like i feel like some of the cast as well like we want to meet the meme guy i'm like i want to meet the cast like well it's just a very weird like sort of uh trip i'm i'm having which i'm enjoying i'm not gonna complain yeah i like the ego stroke as well but

SPEAKER_01 1:20

how did you sort of fall into it

SPEAKER_00 1:22

so it started off actually uh strategically i i wanted to apply for survivor yeah i applied for the first season um i had a zoom audition uh back then it was zoom um it was meant to go for half an hour within five minutes she just cut me off and she's like all right thanks for your time do you have any questions and i was like you know well

SPEAKER_01 1:39

clearly i'm not the one

SPEAKER_00 1:42

yeah clearly yep um so i was like well a i've got to work on my my riz but b i've got to stand out like I've got to do something different I'm sure everyone came on the show I'm the biggest fan and I've been watching since I was two years old and yes so how do you feel about that by the way

SPEAKER_01 1:59

casting fans I know it's like a very controversial topic over on american survivor because that show right now is just like watching people geek out

SPEAKER_00 2:09

it's yeah and my mindset's changed when i when i first heard that there were recruits i was spewing i had no idea like some of these players were recruits and then you hear someone like all the athletes yeah for example the olympic we've kind of cut back on that a little

SPEAKER_01 2:22

bit

SPEAKER_00 2:23

yeah bar

SPEAKER_01 2:23

morgan

SPEAKER_00 2:26

um even like someone like yeah all the afl players but then they end up actually some of them work like sean hampson for example the whole yeah the horse he was someone who as soon as I saw AFL player I was like ridden him off I hate him and then I was like actually he's kind of growing on me and then I was like I want more give me more Sean like I just loved him at the end love Sean

SPEAKER_01 2:48

doesn't him and Megan Gale own like a little like cafe in like Ascot Vale or something someone told me that once and I was like that is so cute yeah I'm sure they own a lot of things yeah yeah yeah they're like busy they're like busy but wholesome it's like kind of infuriating

SPEAKER_00 3:06

yeah it's like you look at them and they've got everything you like like supermodel famous athlete you just want to hate them oh but you can't yeah

SPEAKER_01 3:15

they have like gorgeous children yeah and they're like not annoying on social media

SPEAKER_00 3:19

no yeah they are actually lovely I've DM'd both of them actually because Megan follows me as well yes Megan Gale within the fan page community it's great if a player likes and shares your stuff but if Megan Gale likes it you've hit it honey you know you're good

SPEAKER_01 3:35

you've absolutely made it oh how good and um what about the cast this season are they into it are they lolling along with you or some of them upset what's what's the deal

SPEAKER_00 3:45

i've had probably the most interactions with them out of all the cast yeah so usually i find the last couple of seasons players are very hesitant to like say anything because channel 10 tells them you're not allowed to share this you're not allowed to talk to the fans you're not allowed to do whatever and now i've got like i've got my two girls i've got like everyone like just you know DMing me. I'm getting all this gossip, all this tea, which I might not be able to say all this. Please

SPEAKER_01 4:09

don't. This is not a gossip

SPEAKER_00 4:10

pod.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

Hang on, when you say your two girls, Logan. Logan and Karin, obviously. So much fun. They are just... I love this cast so much. It's the best. It's... I can tell why they would be into your stuff because they're all really happy to be on TV and

SPEAKER_00 4:28

you can tell. Oh, they love it. Yeah, they love it. I mean, it's the same thing with every season though. You've got like a lot of hate from, and I always feel for like, especially younger women on the show, they always get craps on by the fans. Yeah, it's true. But these two especially, not only are they like entertaining, but they're just clapping back and they're like, yeah, they're obviously that resilient. So it's, yeah, I'm impressed by them as well as just being in love with them.

Jury Villa Tea

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Yeah, it's so much fun. And we were talking before a little bit about Jury Villa, which you haven't caught up on, but you must. Because it's like giving, I don't know if you were ever into RuPaul's Drag Race, but back in the day, there was this side show called Untucked. And the tagline was, if you're not watching Untucked, you're only getting half the story. And I'm feeling this season, Jury Villa is like, Untouched. Yeah. Because there's so much going down. Normally, they finish the game and everyone's like, oh, yeah, cool. Like, woo, it's done. No, no, no, no, no. Not Paulie.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

No, he's got receipts.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

He's like, girl, like, Kristen walks into that dinner table and it's, like, better than Housewives. It's so good. Yeah. He's, like, raking over the calls. It's so awkward, but... Incredible.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

No, this week especially, no one ever mentioned Jury Villa. I've had four different people tell me, you have to watch it. I've got the night off from Survivor this week. I've got one night off. I'm going to have to catch up again. Thank you,

SPEAKER_01 5:58

Ten. We love that. Three nights a week. Seriously, I have no life at the moment. No, I'm the same. It's fucked. I'm looking forward to the end of the season. But two is manageable. Yeah. What did you think of this week's episodes?

SPEAKER_00 6:11

High level. So, I mean, very emotional for me to see Logan leave the way she did. Not only is she my favourite, not only do I have her on my wristband, which is a Pilates injury. And we should say

SPEAKER_01 6:25

also, you're not normally a wine drinker. However, we've poured one out for Logan tonight. So cheers, girly. This is for you, Logan. For Pilates wine mum. It's not a Shiraz, sorry, as she was banging on about, but it'll do. Yeah, I was so sad to see her go as well. But then also now we've got iconic Jury Villa content to look forward to.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

I need to get onto that. But no, just the way she went, it was so like, just, it was iconic. It was just, it was so on point for her. Like the amount of like drama involved in that tribal and, And we didn't even get the full story. We got the edited, cut down, watered version. I was like, if she was going to go out anyway, that's the way you want to go out. You want to have the most over-the-top, memorable tribal. I think this is it for the season. The most memorable one.

Ten (don't) Play

SPEAKER_01 7:23

And how do 10 feel about your memes? Because they do try to make their own, which, look, to give them credit, sometimes they're all right. But nine times out of 10, they're like pretty

SPEAKER_00 7:35

shit. I would say maybe 99 times out of 100. Yeah, I think that's more fair. So... I was always like, yeah, never had much of a rivalry the last year. In fact, hardly ever mentioned them. They did, I think like season one, season two, have like someone who loved the banter. So he would like rip into me, which I loved. And then it just went silent. And then this year, all of a sudden, pre-season notification, Survivor AU started following you. It's a new intern now. Maybe it was a misclick. It's happened before. It's happened before once. They followed me. It's JLP. He's just

SPEAKER_01 8:13

like lolling.

SPEAKER_00 8:14

Well, the first time it happened, I got the follow and I was like, oh, okay, don't fuck this up. What happened? I took the screenshot. An hour later, I checked. I was like, they're not following me anymore. And then I was like, oh, that's devastating. Like, why did they do that?

SPEAKER_01 8:29

A scandal.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

And then this year, they followed me. So I'm like, hang on. I've fallen for this before. You're back. Let's see what happens let me play nice we were bffs they were a bit responsive and then then they started coming into my territory like I'm happy for you to post, I don't know, content about the show, previews, I don't know, but memes, that's me. That's your jam. They should really just hire you at this point.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Well, yeah. But then you wouldn't be able to do anything too fun. No, I'd be very restricted. They'd be like, not that.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

No, no. Definitely not some of the stuff I don't even post.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

God, it sounds like you guys have this kind of weird ex-lovers type relationship where you get drunk and then accidentally re-follow. Then you're like, shit, they're going to see that.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Yeah, well, I think they're the drunk ex because all of a sudden I'm getting random people initially commenting, liking, and I'm like, well, you don't even follow me. You've actively searched me clicking on polls, for example. That's very weird to do. If I'm going to stalk my ex and she's going to post polls on there, I'm definitely not going to start answering her poll. So what happened with the poll? This is too good. I died at your video event. about this so the poll I put up was which page posts the best memes me them and one of the other pages used for Australian Survivor facts oh yeah this stuff's good too yeah so he's more of a frenemy than an enemy but Survivor AU it's sand in the line yours is

SPEAKER_01 10:03

cheeky the facts is like yeah

SPEAKER_00 10:06

It's more time, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, usually if I'm posting the meme, obviously it's my fans. I'm going to get... most of the likes, most of the votes. And within a few minutes, I checked the polls. I was like, that's weird. Why are they on like 12 and I'm on three? Like within like a minute or two, I'm like, huh? So anyway, I'm like, this is suspicious. So I thought, let me just see who's voting. Like sometimes like, I don't know. Postal votes. Yeah. Sometimes I'll get players like George will always vote like against me. Miles has done a few votes against me in my polls. He's posted a few memes before. Has he?

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Well, he's got merch.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

I know. Oh, I know. Which is

SPEAKER_01 10:46

quite

SPEAKER_00 10:47

cute. Yeah, yeah. I'd wear it if I was given it to, if you sent me some. Yeah, I mean, same.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

Just saying.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

So anyway, I've got these random people who don't follow me. answering the poll and answering for Survivor. And I'm like, for Survivor AU. And I'm like, this is... Who are these people? Do I have enemies? Russian bots. Maybe, maybe. Val, I don't know if she voted. Oh,

SPEAKER_01 11:13

I was there with you with the tinfoil hat. I was like, this is like

SPEAKER_00 11:17

actually a

SPEAKER_01 11:18

cyber crime.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Yeah, yeah. It's fraud. Can you imagine in the upcoming election if, I don't know, like... I'm trying to think who's a shit party. All of them. If all of a sudden all the parties start getting a lot more

SPEAKER_01 11:34

votes. Yeah, totally. No, I love it. And I just love that, yeah, in my mind, Channel 10 were really upset about it and they need to... Like, they will do anything to be considered to have the best memes. And we all know, guys, this is not true.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

I don't think it's Channel 10. I think it's even worse. It's a company called Hello Social.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Oh,

SPEAKER_00 11:56

okay. Here we go. Hello Social. And that's their job. They've had the content for months. They've got teams. I do this. I make it up as I go. I don't have the benefit of...

SPEAKER_01 12:09

It's small business. Exactly. It's real content. from fans by fans we love it exactly

SPEAKER_00 12:16

hello social I do it for the people yeah I don't get paid it's not my job

SPEAKER_01 12:20

it's actually crazy though like yeah social media today compared to I don't know even five years ago it's just such a different landscape it's yeah the sponsorships the everything I know it's like I'm not having as much fun as I used to on there so I definitely enjoy accounts like yours where I'm like oh this is there's no motive here except for just like having a bit of fun.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

Do you know what I mean? That's something I've always said. If I start getting paid to do this, I start to start listening to what my employer is telling me to do. It's like

SPEAKER_01 12:54

everyone keeps telling me I should go on Survivor and I'm like, if I do that, I can't fucking talk shit

SPEAKER_00 12:58

about it. Maybe you'd have to go like, I don't know, wear a mask. Yeah, exactly.

Australian Survivor Brains Vs Brawn II Week 7 Recap

SPEAKER_01 13:04

All right. Should we get into this week's episodes? Yeah. Episode 19 was called The Magic Number. And we start with AJ, who's telling us, he loves to tell us how good he is, but he starts by telling us that he's so good that now he's not even making his own moves. He's making moves through other people. So Logan's very happy claiming last night's vote was her idea. And AJ's like, great, love that. It's all yours. My hands are clean. How do you feel about AJ?

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Well, I like AJ. I used to play a lot of poker and I've always been disappointed on US or Australian. Whenever there's a survivor poker player, they're always just shit.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Who else has there been? I know George plays poker, but is that more of a post-survivor thing? No, no.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

He always did. Who else? There was a guy in, what was that season with like Tarzan and Tessa? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like vote out number three. That's right. There's JRB from the US Survivor. Oh, there's heaps one of the worst social players like poker is a social game yeah as much as it's a strategy game sure so whenever these like players come out it's like why don't you have any personal skills yeah it doesn't make sense and AJ's somehow not only acted like a lunatic throughout the season yeah but he's still there

SPEAKER_01 14:34

that's what I'm baffled honestly watching it I'm like

SPEAKER_00 14:37

how is he there yeah and I don't get the feeling he's being there like kept as a goat because that's no you get rid of that shit when he's holding hostages 10 episodes ago

SPEAKER_01 14:48

yeah no he's legitimately like doing the thing but I think his strategy is just like cause a bit of chaos and like clean up the mess afterwards and then like claim that as well it's just I don't know he just needs to be seen to be leading but then now he's telling us he's happy for other people to kind of stick their necks out

SPEAKER_00 15:09

which to me is also smart play because that's something he can then claim at the end true but people aren't going to say oh hang on If Logan, like this example that you're saying, if Logan wants to take responsibility, cool, she's the target. Yeah. Go for it. Go for your life. And then he can then later on explain how, well, actually.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

Yeah. Oh, if he gets to the end, his final tribal speech is going to be. epic so if i was there with him i would not let that happen no i would try really hard because he you know he's gonna talk some great

SPEAKER_00 15:40

yeah like he's a very good yeah um i mean except for that bit with kate on the chat gpt

SPEAKER_01 15:46

which we get more of this week i couldn't believe it he also i can't remember if it was this week or last week but he tells us he's like gonna win he's like oh well like i figured out the math and like there's no way i can't win now and i was like oh okay

SPEAKER_00 16:00

You're going to

SPEAKER_01 16:01

say that on camera?

SPEAKER_00 16:02

Sure. Do you think producers get them to say that sort of stuff? 100%. So they can then say, all right, this episode is your downfall episode.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

But then the fact that they've used it, but he's still in, I'm like, is he fucking winning?

SPEAKER_00 16:16

He got his way, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

That's why I feel like him or Miles

SPEAKER_00 16:21

are winning this season. At this point, if I get a Miles AJ final too, that's... That would

SPEAKER_01 16:27

be really fun too. I'd like to watch that. Do you know what I mean? In the morning, Kristen explains herself to AJ and Kaelin. She's kind of got a tail between her legs a bit. She's like, oh, guys, yeah. Ooh, sorry about that. And to her face, they're like, yeah, cool, whatever. We're fine. But then they're not really thrilled. And they're kind of done with Kristen.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Yeah. I get the feeling, and maybe this is confirmed in the jury, that she's not a super fan.

SPEAKER_01 16:57

No, yes, it is confirmed in the jury because she walks in and she's like,

SPEAKER_00 17:00

I don't even know what rocks are. Yep. That's what I was getting at. And

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Laura's like, excuse me.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

so good well see that's part of me ages ago if that was brendan the super fan or meme daddy the super fan i would be spewing and hating kristin but i've developed i've understood like survivor au is not a game bot it's it's about the characters yeah and she was a great character she was the loving motherly yeah um she clearly had such a good social game that she was able to hold a public idol for how many votes before miles stole it probably could have gone for longer yeah

SPEAKER_01 17:35

and she She tells a great mum joke about Chuck Norris.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

She's got great references too. So yeah, she's an innocent, sweet lady. Playing a great social game, whether intentional or not. But yeah, she tried to pull a couple moves.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

She's an archetype we have every season, I think, on Australian side. The kind of mumsy type. And every season, they're not usually the one I'm into. And this season's no different for me with Kristen. But I do think she... She actually did try a few times to stir some shit. But it kind of felt too late. Kind of like Caroline last year. She left too late. Yeah, she waited too late and then was like, oh, now I'm going to do all this stuff. And I was

SPEAKER_00 18:23

like, okay. Yeah, you had 47 days.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

So, yeah, again, she's a lovely person. Seems like a great social game. Yeah. would probably have not won, especially given you've got on the jury, you've got Karen, Logan, was Paulie a super fan? I can't remember. I don't

SPEAKER_01 18:43

know. I think Paulie's like a super fan of himself.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

Yep. as am

SPEAKER_01 18:50

i i think bully's in it for the good times

SPEAKER_00 18:53

yeah of course yeah but if you've got so many super fans on the jury true it's generally i mean there will be a bit of bias against anyone who's not a super fan it's like this yeah camaraderie thing that you have with fellow super fans and yeah true and and we all know how the weirdos that go to the those parties i would vote for them at the final two if we

SPEAKER_01 19:10

true true

SPEAKER_00 19:11

exactly uh

SPEAKER_01 19:13

miles welcomes zara to the bottom club which i thought was quite cute yep yeah i think Miles has a way they tried to like edit him in this way in the first half of the game where they're like he's annoying and I wasn't buying that I'm like yeah he's like chatty but I don't know I find him so endearing I feel like he actually like tries to bring people in he's so excited to be there and he wants to make everyone else excited

SPEAKER_00 19:38

I think it's his over like zealousness about being there that comes out and annoys people.

SPEAKER_01 19:44

Yeah, I think so too. So

SPEAKER_00 19:45

again, he seems like, yeah, great guy, but we're also getting snippets. And that's the problem with like, as much as I'm talking up Kristen saying she might've been the nicest, she could have been the biggest bitch behind the edit. We don't know that for certain. But yeah, with Miles, I get the feeling that, yeah, he probably was so excited to be there. And because I think he's one of the younger ones, I don't think he had that like, I don't know, that subtlety or that like, awareness just to I don't know tone it down a bit so I can see why he's constantly at the bottom even though he comes up with all these crazy over-the-top moves that somehow work all the time yeah so definitely it actually reminds a bit of George in the way they play

SPEAKER_01 20:25

yep I think George and maybe he like figured this out because he's played multiple times but I think George is like he's like a producer of the show yeah in a way Whereas I think Miles is like excited to be there. That's the difference. But I think if Miles plays again,

SPEAKER_00 20:45

we'll

SPEAKER_01 20:47

see him be more King George vibes. Yeah, so we get this reward challenge, which was balancing on some floating thing on the water. And you win. And night on an Ikea bed. What a treat. I love that they are doubling down with this sponsorship. Like, if you didn't like the previous Ikea reward, well, get ready. They're back. And my favourite part was Kristen later on trying to pronounce the names of the pillows. It was like mum in Ikea walking around being like, oh, it's the Flurban. I was like, oh,

SPEAKER_00 21:27

this is so good. And tried to just play it off casually. I was like, I know what I'm talking like. They left it in. I was like,

SPEAKER_01 21:32

didn't someone from Ikea watch that and be like,

SPEAKER_00 21:35

maybe

SPEAKER_01 21:36

not. The bit where she like butchers the name of the pillow. So good. Anyway, AJ's out right away. He's like, so not here for the challenges, and I love it. He does not give a fuck about the challenges.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

I don't know. I reckon maybe he's just that shit at some point. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 21:56

In my mind, he is wanting to do the opposite of, like, Caelan and, like, not look like he's threatening in that way. But then I reckon when it gets, like, the last one, all of a sudden he's going to, like, try 100%.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Well, maybe. Maybe. it's a very long game to play. True. Uh, but I think it's also the, all the endurance stuff. I just think I, I mean, he's got mental endurance, like as a poker player, but that doesn't translate to, can I hold myself in a pole? Can I balance for, I don't know what it was half an hour on the water. Um, I think it's like, yep, not too hard. I'm not going to win. I just, yeah, give up. I'm not interested sort of thing. But if there's a challenge that suits him, I think he'd destroy it. Like if there's a, I don't know, some sort of poker game, some sort of luck based probabilities game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

SPEAKER_01 22:43

yeah. I do love that every time there's a poll-based challenge, everyone's like, hey, Miles, hey, get on the poll. So good. So Kristen wins this one and takes Morgan and Logan on the reward. But back at camp, Zara is stoked that she's not on the reward because she gets an opportunity to do some strat chat with AJ

SPEAKER_00 23:06

and Miles. Zara did say multiple times she doesn't need it.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

She doesn't need it. Doesn't care. Hates

SPEAKER_00 23:12

Ikea, famously. Hates the flugan. The flugan, not

SPEAKER_01 23:17

for her. She preferred twigs and branches. So we're kind of back to the graduates, which I was like, could this be an actual alliance this season that actually sticks together for more than two seasons? seconds what did you think

SPEAKER_00 23:32

I've been just on that note I've been loving it like from a understanding what the fuck is happening no idea oh try

SPEAKER_01 23:40

recapping this each week I'm like who the fuck is voting with who now like I have no idea

SPEAKER_00 23:44

what's going on as soon as you said graduates the only reason I know it is because of that channel 10 post with them all wearing little graduation caps real original guys I mean I didn't think of it but also because I was I had my head in my phone, I don't know, probably making duck memes about Karen at that point.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

It's such an, just back to the meme rivalry, it's such an unfair advantage because you're literally watching it when it comes out. They have this content pipeline like ready to go for like

SPEAKER_00 24:13

months. I've had people tell me, oh, it's so obvious. You watched the show before. I'm like, how? Nah, bitch. I'm just quick. Sometimes, when I'm... I'm the

SPEAKER_01 24:23

same. I'm not getting screeners. I'm fucking doing this

SPEAKER_00 24:26

after it comes out. Yeah, we don't have insider info. We just, I don't know, maybe we're just smarter than everyone.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

And better looking. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

And modest. AJ says he can't trust Kristen anymore after her little backstab of the Berries alliance. And then Miles finds his fourth idol... Which is kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

I know. Hey, Miles, is that an idol in your pants? Or are you just happy to see me?

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Exactly. He tells us it's an Australian Survivor record.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

I think it is. Which I'm like, okay. I think it could, well, yeah, I think it is. Four is a lot. But does that include the one he stole?

SPEAKER_01 25:07

Yeah, probably. Yeah,

SPEAKER_00 25:09

it must have been. He's played three, and he's, yeah. Yeah, so this

SPEAKER_01 25:13

must be, yeah, that's right, because he stole... Kristen's one. Her, like, public one from that chaos challenge where they just peppered idols around. I actually love that. Ah, that was great. He tells AJ about it, who is excited. So, tells Miles he's excited, but then is secretly... not that thrilled um because he reminds us that miles has played the last three correctly so it's like he's it's like a probability thing right he's like this is dangerous but if he's on your side and you convince him to like get rid of it quickly it could be good i don't

SPEAKER_00 25:55

know well Firstly, when it comes to that, arguably, Miles played one of them correctly because AJ told him, we're all voting for you. When they had the Baron bounty split. Don't remind me. Paulie was loving life that day.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Oh, that was so good. Just Paulie's miserable day.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

It's like, if you want to make him the main character, the show is just like how his sanity devolves over a few weeks. Paulie is

SPEAKER_01 26:25

always He's the main character at Jury Villa. He's the main character of this podcast. Yes, still. And you're gone, Paul, and we still love you. Oh, my God. On the reward, Logan is very excited to debrief with the girlies and have a shower. But Kristen, yeah, continues to murder the names of Swedish pillows. Then we get some fancy flashback editing and we see AJ planting the seeds. How dramatic. I was like, ooh. With Miles, Zara and Kalen against Logan. He's like, she's the biggest threat. And I was like, excuse me, AJ, get her name out of your mouth, young man. I

SPEAKER_00 27:10

was so mortified. No, that to me was when I... I think, yeah, as much as I respect AJ as a player and as a contestant, as a character, if you're going after one of my girls, one of my favorites, one of my meme daughters. Sorry, mate, I'm cutting you out.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

No, no, keep going.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

No, I'm cutting him out.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Oh, great. Sorry, I thought you meant me. Yes, I agree. Because I'm kind of here for him when he's doing his silly antics. But then, yeah. When my favourites are up for grabs, I'm like, no, no, no. We get this new kind of immunity challenge where it started off in teams and then became individual later on, which I actually kind of loved. Going through was Miles, Kate, Kaylin and Kristen. Did AJ throw this?

SPEAKER_00 28:05

No, he... No? I just feel like

SPEAKER_01 28:07

every time a challenge is involved, AJ's throwing it.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

No, I think he... I mean, at this point, there's no incentive for him to throw it. But

SPEAKER_01 28:16

if you're in a group with someone that you... Because he was in a group with Logan. Yeah. So I think he was like, I don't want her getting through.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Maybe we need the tinfoil.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

I've got a fresh roll. That's a good point. No, I

SPEAKER_01 28:33

just... I don't know. Something about him in Challengers, I'm like... because he's always trying to game every like micro part of the whole experience.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

That would be me. Yeah. Like I love the, like for Survivor, I love the fact, and this I do with kind of anything I'm in a remotely competitive setting. If I can find some sort of weird loophole or some sort of advantage, I'm going to take it. I'm not going to like hold back and be like, oh, that's technically not fair or they don't know about this. It's like, no, bitch, like it's mine. I'll go for it. So that could have been a strategy. He could have thought, I'm not going to win the challenge if we get to the end. You could have blown it, yeah?

SPEAKER_01 29:09

My strategy would just be flirting with the producers. I'd just be like, love that top. Yeah. And then they'd be like, hey, do you want to just like come for a walk over here and look behind this tree? And I'd be like, oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

That's an idol. I would probably be like, what? What do you mean? I don't want to go for a walk there. That's weird. Just behind the well. I'm not into that.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

So, the bloody golden retriever slash sheepdog slash I'd have forgotten what dog breed he is this week. Yeah. He wins once again. And this was like, I've been warning him every week, girl, you got to like chill with the wins.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

I feel so indifferent to him, which makes me not like him. Yeah. I'm not feeling indifferent, but...

SPEAKER_01 29:56

Fair enough. I mean, I just enjoyed looking at him. Yeah, I think we all do. But besides that, it's like... Yeah, I'm not getting much. Like,

SPEAKER_00 30:06

yeah, he doesn't need to be there. No. He's... I mean, who doesn't like seeing records being broken? If he wins one more immunity, great. We can say we witnessed the record. But every conversation about strategy and voting, it's always been him being like, oh, I don't know what to say. I'm not allowed to do anything. AJ told me this. I feel like he has no agency. And my theory is that he's being built as like the goat for the final two. He's probably someone that you want to take.

SPEAKER_01 30:36

Yeah. Oh, 100%. Because you get him to the end and then you go, oh this dummy like yeah won some challenges but didn't didn't talk strap for one minute he's like awkward when they're talking strap yeah and sometimes and he's even blown up well not blown up but like he's like fumbled plans before where they're all trying to be he's like oh but aren't we doing this and they're all like Caelan

SPEAKER_00 30:58

And the one thing which infuriated me was when he told AJ about Logan's Idol. That's right. Emotionally, I was like, how dare you? That's not cool. That happened when we

SPEAKER_01 31:09

were at that watch party.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

I was distraught. But then also it's like... why did what was his strategy to go tell aj so then aj can then tell him what to do moving forward it's like yeah i don't know i would have thought like you've got this info use it to your advantage not i don't know what to do so i'll tell aj that's that's the vibe i was getting i could be wrong and again he seems like on his socials like a great person but as a player i'm just just not like there's nothing yeah and i think he's very much goat material at this point

SPEAKER_01 31:41

Oh, yeah, totally. I would actually kind of love to see that. Like, yeah, I'd love his final tribal speech, which I know we got like a sneak preview. But like him just being like, oh, yeah, hey, guys. Yeah, love catching fish. Yeah. Winning challenges. Everyone's like, oh. but then he wouldn't get a single

SPEAKER_00 31:59

vote but if you look at the jury I don't think they appreciate no they would hate it he could win all every challenge until the end I don't think that's going to get any votes yeah

SPEAKER_01 32:08

Kyron and Paul Lee and Laura don't give a shit about

SPEAKER_00 32:11

that yeah so and that could be I don't think that's necessarily even the only way he's going to get to the end but if he does yeah like in previous seasons there would have been players on the bench on the bench on the jury villa yeah who yeah would have said no I think you put your body on the line I appreciate that. Clutch player, whatever you want to say, we'll give you the vote. But this season, I just don't see anyone thinking, that was a great way to get to the end. You deserve it.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

Well, back at camp, Kaylin lies to Kristen and says that he doesn't know what the plan is. I'm like, okay. And then she gets quite activated and comes up with a decoy plan. with logan that it's a kate morgan split but they're actually interested in doing zara i was like right uh and then with no one wanting to budge it looks like it's going to be a stalemate. And this was like, they'd kind of tease this in the promos and stuff. So we kind of knew something was

SPEAKER_00 33:14

going to happen. It was a very Suze Big move.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

It was, oh my God, this is so Suze Big move. Cause I was like, oh my God, craziest travel ever. Can't wait. And then it's like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Cause think of like rock draws, the last rock, firstly, never an Australian survivor. Yeah. I was so ready for it. And the last one in, in American one was, I don't know what, 10 years ago, it feels, I don't know. Yeah. Let's

SPEAKER_01 33:36

be honest, AJ and Miles were just wanting to claim that as the nerds that they are. And I love that for them. Yeah. And I'm really mad we didn't get it. But also I'm like, calm down, boys.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Well, they knew as well. So you had... In their alliance, Kaylin was immune and Zara was immune at the rock draw. And the other side was just Logan was immune. So you had two 18 miles and you had three of the girls. So if you want to play probabilities, odds are it's going to be one from that alliance. So I think that's probably what was not really shown. Yeah. And that's why I think they were so bravado about it because they knew, well, we are in a high probability. Still have a high probability. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

I mean, but yeah, they wouldn't have loved it if they... went home but at the same time you know it's still i think in their minds they're like if we do go home on this one of us does go home on this that's setting you up for yeah playing again do you know what i mean as if you're not going to get invited back oh yeah that happens to you yeah

SPEAKER_00 34:37

And also, I guess, AJ would know from, I guess, a poker probability perspective. It's like, you make the right move, you got unlucky. That was kind of, I think, what his mindset might have been. But yeah, definitely, it was built up. It was going to happen. And then I was actually excited. I'm like, oh, Logan's safe. Like, she's not going. And then I was like, no, no, no. And then slowly, slowly. Then heartbroken.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

I know. Before that, though, Karen makes her first sexy jury entrance, which I was like, snaps, diva. All three continue to stun in their looks. Best part of the episode. Pauly's face entering each time. It's like they're equal parts sexy and pissed off. I'm so into it.

SPEAKER_00 35:19

I love that. It's like, yeah, are you trying to be like hot and attractive? Yeah. Or are you trying to be like this angry bitch here?

SPEAKER_01 35:25

They're the saltiest. jury of all time and i am here for it and the

SPEAKER_00 35:32

guys there are they're so excited like they're like it makes it so weird i'm like it's

SPEAKER_01 35:41

just so funny as well the whiplash of like watching them roll around in the dirt for like 40 days and then cut to them with like full glam hair and makeup jewelry clean

SPEAKER_00 35:51

clothes so good over the top ah i love it It's the main stage of

SPEAKER_01 35:58

RuPaul's Drag Race at this

SPEAKER_00 35:59

point. Well, I've been saying that this season, it's like they've been trying to like massify it. Maybe they've been trying to like drag race it a bit as well.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Maybe. Yeah. Who knows? All these shows do roll into one when you're watching them all simultaneously like I am. Oh my God. JLP asks the guys if they have the full picture or if anyone's got the full picture. And I was kind of like... Well, I think for the first time in a long time, most of these people actually do have the full picture. Like, we haven't had a huge amount of blindsides compared to normal seasons, don't you think?

SPEAKER_00 36:36

I'm trying to think what's...

SPEAKER_01 36:38

I don't know. I just feel like normally there's like two kind of main alliances and then there's like flip-flopping between and the people that do that really piss someone off. But this season, it's more like there's like these little... random bits floating

SPEAKER_00 36:54

around. Well, that's what I'm loving. And JLP also made a comment that whenever there's a big move, the deck reshuffles. It feels like the deck reshuffles regardless. Yeah, yeah. There's nothing hard and concrete.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

True. They're good at, yeah, they don't hold like big grudges. But then, I don't know, Jury Villa is now telling me that they do hold grudges when it's not seeing them on the show. Oh, man.

SPEAKER_00 37:15

Oh, my God. That's the sort of tea I love.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

It's, yeah, so good. Yeah, so they vote, unfortunately, Unfortunately, it's the 4-4 tie that we were kind of dreading. And then upon the re-vote, I do love during the votes, Zara writes down Logan's name and she says, this is for taking out my ride or die bestie. And then Logan writes down Zara's name and goes, I really hope this sends you home. I was like, fight, fight, fight. And AJ's like, I really hope we go to rocks. And no one gets what they want. Which means they have five minutes to discuss who should go between Logan and Zara. Otherwise, they become safe and it's a Russian roulette for the others who go. Which anyone that's watched the show for a million years like us knows. However, Kristen, Morgan and Kate thought that it was like a fire making challenge. Yeah. Apparently. Yeah. Yeah. what

SPEAKER_00 38:17

you get the rules like when you're in like a few days before i think they're in lockdown in a hotel room like but

SPEAKER_01 38:23

even wouldn't you just like ask someone on the day yeah i don't

SPEAKER_00 38:27

know or

SPEAKER_01 38:28

kind of important

SPEAKER_00 38:29

yeah um so that makes me think as well if they didn't know i was going to rocks like and then when they found out like Did that sway their decision? Like would they have just not gone with the plan? I

SPEAKER_01 38:44

think you could see it happening in real time, I think. I think Morgan in particular was like freaking, because I didn't realize I was at risk. I thought it was still going to be between... Zara and Logan, maybe that's what she thought. Yeah. I don't think she realized that, yeah, it actually reverses the kind of scales.

SPEAKER_00 39:04

So then I wonder if Logan was ever going to be safe in that case. Yeah. I do love it. Yeah. If they were informed and I mean, they kind of knew what they were doing on the show that they're on. Yeah. Maybe they wouldn't have just gone with the plans to begin with. They would just thought, nah, I'm not risking myself. True.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

I don't think they would have. You're right. I don't think they would be into a risk that big because they've been playing it so safe. To date. Allegedly. Like, exactly. I do love Miles and AJ want to go to rocks because they are the self-proclaimed biggest psychopaths on the tribe. We're the biggest psychopaths. I was like, I love this. Self-aware queen. And anyway, Miles pitches why Logan is a threat. And unfortunately, yeah, it just kind of turns to this unanimous decision. And Logan... doesn't admit defeat but gracefully sort of what's going to happen. So I think there was nothing she could have done. The writing was on the wall, but

SPEAKER_00 40:05

we hate. Celine Dion. Yeah. I was actually, I don't know when I last felt that watching an episode of Survivor. And I was just, I was like, no, no, no. Like in denial, I'm like, it's going to be a non-elimination episode. Like everything I could think of, I was like, it has to, it can't, this isn't right. It's not happening. And I was so distraught And then I appreciated it. Then I was like, I love this for my girl. Like, I love that she got voted out in this iconic way. Yeah. Do

SPEAKER_01 40:35

you want me to talk about

SPEAKER_00 40:35

that? Yes, please.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

We're just refilling our glasses, you know. Yeah, it was, you're right. I think she really got a good ending because it's like, yeah, it was graceful. She was like, okay, this is what's happening. See ya. She wasn't like kicking and screaming. No. I don't know. I was into it.

SPEAKER_00 40:56

I loved it. She's a classy gal. Yeah. Loved it. And now her and Cara and my two favorites can... I want to see the jury

SPEAKER_01 41:05

villa stuff. Yeah. Well, that's... In my notes, I've got the jury is now stacked with my faves. Episode 20 was called The Reaper Is Coming... Miles is feeling himself, even though he's bummed that they didn't get to go to rocks. But, yeah, he's such a little showman, isn't he? He's like, I can do all the things. He says he has a final three plan with AJ and Kaylin. So, Zara would be at four from the so-called graduates. Kristen knows she's pissed off her lights, but... is good at what she refers to as dusting herself off and trying again. And I'm just glad that she didn't make a liar joke because I was like, we don't need her butchering references. I feel like she fought that temptation quite hard. She pivots, though, to Zara all of a sudden and she starts sucking up to Zara. She's like, I mean, you know, we don't just want to get knifed by the boys, do we? And then we'll start turning... Seeds have been planted with Zara. What did you think about this

SPEAKER_00 42:19

desperate move? Straight away, I was like, no, that's not working. Yeah. Zara. Oh, you

SPEAKER_01 42:24

could tell Zara wasn't going to do it.

SPEAKER_00 42:25

Yeah. I can read Zara beyond her. Really? Beyond her resting bitch face, I can tell she was thinking at that point, if I jump ship to Kristen, I'm with Kristen on a newly formed weird alliance that I don't really know much about. with two girls who are not they're inseparable yeah um it would be it's then you're basically saying i'm i'm volunteering to be on the bottom whereas with the others at least she might have a bit more agency or she might think she has a bit more agency so yeah she's not not flipping um i i don't know what else kristen could have done because kaylin I don't think he's approachable. I think he's on AJ's leash for sure.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

That's really good. See, I don't know. Maybe I'm just not paying that much attention to Zara. I'm not, like, vibing with her as a character, to be honest. She kind of, like... annoyed me in the earlier half of the season where she was quite bossy but in not like a fun way i don't know it's the pta energy for me so i don't maybe i'm just not paying attention but i thought that and i i don't know look he was kind of hoping that she was gonna jump on with this even though i'm not here for kristin either i just like it when people disrupt the main narrative like we all love when that happens right um but

SPEAKER_00 43:49

yeah i was laughing before when you're saying she's bossy And she's this. And I was like, when I messaged Zara, I was like, you remind me of my wife. Did you actually say that? I was like, it's amazing. Like a stonewall, like approach, like lawyer vibes. And I'm like, like, like the boss, not bossy. The actual boss.

SPEAKER_01 44:15

Well, yeah, that's, I think that's what I'm trying to say is, yeah, I'm terrified of Zara.

SPEAKER_00 44:19

So I actually think if I was on the island with her and I think if I would have clued in on her personality, I think I could have been tight with Zara. But yeah, as soon as that conversation, I was like, it makes almost no sense for Zara to flip. Kristen's also like, she realizes she's in a shitty situation because she's in a three with two who are inseparable. The only saving grace for Kristen is she's probably not the next target. Yeah. It would have to be breaking up Kate and Morgan. Yeah. How has that not happened? I don't get it. That's crazy to me. Like, I understand for a certain point, but we're at now, like...

SPEAKER_01 45:00

Is that more goat vibes? Like, just they're not causing issues for anyone?

SPEAKER_00 45:05

I think maybe there's a bit of that. I think AJ might be trying to play that. Yeah. but you need one of them. You don't like, unless, unless maybe the thinking is both of them. Cause then if you, if you split them up, then there'll be hell to pay. That's what I'm thinking. You'll piss them off. Cause they're the girlies. And then you'll come back and you'll also, it's a

SPEAKER_01 45:26

package deal. It's like two votes potentially. I don't know. Yeah. Zara is like, I love Kalen, but it is time to make a move for me or that's the editing we get anyway. Then we get this immunity challenge, which is an actual torture chamber. Loved this. Hanging off a steep platform. And then it like... Anytime there's like a hand crank mechanism involved, I gag. Like it's so funny. So medieval. Exactly. And then we get Kate's iconic line. She's like, didn't sign up for Saw. Loved that. And then... It turns into actual water torture. They all get like sprayed in the face. It was so

SPEAKER_00 46:12

good. But also out of nowhere. Like it wasn't like, by the way, like.

SPEAKER_01 46:15

It was like, oh, JLP is like, oh, whoops. Looks like I accidentally hit the spray button.

SPEAKER_00 46:21

Sprinklers aren't meant to come in now. I know. It was like totally like that.

SPEAKER_01 46:25

I know. I was like disappointed in the lack of innuendo from JLP with that. He could have been like, oh, Kaelin's getting squirted on or something, but no.

SPEAKER_00 46:34

Or some sort of, I don't know. Yeah. Some sort of. I don't know, champagne shower. Oh,

SPEAKER_01 46:39

everybody's getting wet. I don't know. He like lives for that. He's missed it. So do I. Yeah, it was a sexy torture device. And then big boy. Kaelin,

SPEAKER_00 46:51

of course, he's a specialist at this. He's

SPEAKER_01 46:54

a specialist at winning

SPEAKER_00 46:57

physical challenges. Because I look at it, maybe part of the indifference, which has turned into dislike, is because I look at him and I'm like, I never looked like that. I was never that strong. I was never that good at challenges. I was like, oh, maybe I'm a bit jealous.

SPEAKER_01 47:14

Well, yeah, maybe. There's also something just kind of like a bit bland and sincere about him in the way that he's just like, oh, you do the challenge and you win. It's like, oh, okay. Sure.

SPEAKER_00 47:25

Or did I read it somewhere about it's like he doesn't know he's there for Survivor. He thinks they're on the challenge.

SPEAKER_01 47:30

Yeah, true. He's giving old school casting where it's like mateship and like got to win. I'm a gold medalist and I love mateship. Oh, my God. Remember that? They'd be like, you can't lie on this show. The whole show is about loyalty. You're a snake. I'm so glad we don't. get as much of that anymore. They definitely do pepper in a few of

SPEAKER_00 47:55

those. Yeah. A bit of a Sam Webb vibe now.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

Yes. Oh my God. Don't take me back there.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

And just, just picturing Lee saying, ah, the Alliance. And it's like,

SPEAKER_01 48:07

fuck. You guys are on a show. AJ stoked that the golden boy wins again, probably because, I mean, you know, he's in his Alliance and they're protected, but also great. Yeah. to have him just make himself even more of a threat. Because I feel like next week...

SPEAKER_00 48:26

As soon as he doesn't win.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

Discussion. Yeah, as soon as he doesn't win, they're all going to go, hey, do we knife the... What is he? Golden Retriever? At camp, Kristen is acting seriously despo at this point. She pleads her case to Miles. She's like, just in case, you know, if you want to work with me, I'm a fun mum. I'm not like a regular mum. I'm a cool mum. I'm here to work with you, Miles. And he's like, sure, Jan. Cool story. Kaelin is so awkward at the Strat Chat. It's like he doesn't want... I think that's why he wins the challenges, so he doesn't have to participate in it.

SPEAKER_00 49:03

Yeah. I'm picturing almost a bit like Kent early on. Just go have a nap. Oh, my God, Kent. Vomit with that guy. Let's not go there. The praying man. Oh, he's a millionaire. That was his personality type. Yeah. Because I'm a millionaire. I'm a millionaire, baby.

SPEAKER_01 49:20

Kristen is trying to flip Zara now to take out AJ because Kaylin's won immunity. And DJ Kate is so frustrated that the brawny girls are on the bottom. She's just like, I'm going to try and like... work my magic with aj so her and morgan tried on with aj this was so bizarre and then morgan cracks it understandably because aj is like a brick wall and he's just like so reluctant to tell them anything but he's doing it and he's like patronizing this fuck way i would respond in the same way as morgan i'd be like well this guy's fucking not giving us anything so see you later

SPEAKER_00 50:00

that that to me was very indicative that uh she was a recruit and has no idea like you feel that on the inside but you don't you don't do that on the outside you do what you you let him talk you you brush his ego stroke his ego stroke whatever else um yeah you you do what you need to do to get him on board and by doing that you're just making yourself you just like yeah you lie yourself further away you

SPEAKER_01 50:25

placate people you tell people what they want to hear

SPEAKER_00 50:28

like duh because like literally the game imagine if you said to aj like um i don't know what i'm trying to think what she could say to him to then be like if you keep me around one more vote i'll do x like yeah give him some sort of carrot but instead what you're doing is you're you're making him then think to go back to his alliance hang on it's true because she's

SPEAKER_01 50:47

putting up just as much of a brick wall back by being like we'll buy it's like closing the door yeah i don't know i get though she feels probably pretty powerless but you're right it's like you've got to kind of grab

SPEAKER_00 51:01

it that's the power dynamic exactly it's when it happens in the real world when you've got someone using their leverage or power yeah call them out it's bullshit whatever but when you're on a game where it's a social political game like you exactly you need aj's in power you need him to help you like it's not like yes you have to beg you have to grovel you have to bend over backwards bend over forwards whatever he wants yeah you do what he wants and he'll he'll help you out he'll throw your bone but if you're gonna blow up in his face yeah and maybe the plan was to get kate but now he's like hang on a sec i know if i get rid of kate i'm dealing with this well there's

SPEAKER_01 51:38

also two of them so it's like think creatively for a second like you know and you've got a few floaters i don't know if they wanted to if they were really working hard they could flip the whole game but they're not no so that's the thing and that's why i do think that you know, there's been a lot of discussion about like Morgan and Kate and like, are they getting like a shit editor? I'm like, well, probably not because like, you've still got to do some stuff. Like as you're telling me, they were doing all this stuff and the producers would just like leave that out. Like, come on.

SPEAKER_00 52:15

I don't know. It's a weird one. I have heard when I've spoken to George in the past, like he'll say that a lot of the people who get- Loves the chat, George. I love it. Friend of the pod, George. Yeah. I remember at the first Johnny Fairplay party, the Channel 10 car got a good workout. Oh my God. I loved it. I don't think I paid for a drink, but I think I was so hungover But even this recent party as well, like I was not in good shape. I got home, I don't know, 2.30, woke up at 6.30, like drinking beer. And I, oh my God. Will

SPEAKER_01 52:50

George and Morgan have been at each other on the socials? Which is... delicious um yeah what does he what do you call it and kate boring or something and then they were like fuck you mate

SPEAKER_00 53:04

yeah like there's other things or things you don't know yeah

SPEAKER_01 53:07

i'm like i can't wait for those ndas to run out because i want to know what she's talking about yeah

SPEAKER_00 53:11

yeah we'll find out we will but yes what i was going to say with george and that's kind of the point that he was making like in the past he said to me um there might be super fans of the show who get no airtime like gerald for example in his first season gerald Harold apparently had been watching the show since also, since I don't know, he gave his first milking to a cow or whatever he does. Stop. And he just wasn't cut for showmanship. He didn't have the showmanship. He didn't have the Logan drama. He didn't have that fierceness from Karen. He wasn't giving them anything. Whereas George would say he would actively give them multiple things to work with. He would record something and they'd be like, yep, cool. all right, that's done, you can go. And he'd be like, no, let me tell you in case the plans change, I want to say this part. So like George was, yeah, he knew how to play the game and he knew how to get the producer's attention. 100%. But yeah, but he's also naturally charismatic, whereas Kate and Morgan just might not be giving them anything.

SPEAKER_01 54:14

True. When Kate is in the show, I really enjoy it. Morgan, I don't think has even had a crumb. Yeah. So I do feel bad for that. Cause I feel like at least give us, you know, surely there's some stuff she's said or done that they could have included and they're really purple to her. But I think with Kate, it's like when she's on it, I'm like, oh yeah. Cause you know, she's wearing jeans as a top this whole time. And I'm obsessed with that. So it's like, how can you not? Anyway. Speaking of Kate, AJ and her are talking she's batting her eyelids and we get more discussion about how beautiful her eyes are and I couldn't I shuddered it was like I

SPEAKER_00 54:58

can see why AJ's single he's like

SPEAKER_01 55:03

oh I'm talking to Kate she's just got such beautiful eyes and I was like stop I was like, sir, step away from the woman. It's

SPEAKER_00 55:11

like, it'll be like a cartoon cutout of his heart coming out of his chest. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:16

I do like, yeah, they were trying to kind of, I don't know, give her a bit of a poverty edit or something for a second. They're like, is she going to try and like float away? Which I think is a absolutely valid strategy and amazing. But no, I don't think, I don't think she's interested in doing that for real.

SPEAKER_00 55:35

Yeah, I don't think she even thought of it as an option to do that. I don't know. I would like to know what's going on in her mind.

SPEAKER_01 55:46

Yeah, I think she's definitely a little bit flirting with him to, you know, see what happens. But I don't think there's any, she's not thinking about like how she could use that.

SPEAKER_00 55:57

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, and it's one of those things, like, I don't know if you've ever been in a workplace and it's like,

SPEAKER_01 56:03

unfortunately I have,

SPEAKER_00 56:05

where you'll be like, oh, like, that's the hottest person we have here. And it's like, then eventually it grows and it becomes like, oh, okay, they're not so bad. And then like, when you leave the job, you're like, what the fuck was wrong with me? that could be what's happening on the island. It's like, well, who does she have to choose between? AJ, Miles? Well,

SPEAKER_01 56:23

it's funny you should say that. I'm having the same experience as a viewer because like at the start of the season, I was a little bit like, not that many hotties this season. Now, because my guest last week, Dan Morrison, was like, AJ's a bit hot. And I was like,

SPEAKER_00 56:37

hmm. Is he? Or is he

SPEAKER_01 56:39

just the best we've got left in the game? And now I'm like, this week I was like, AJ's a bit hot. Which I could not believe I was thinking but yes you're right I think it's just like slim pickings yeah anyway he is making great telly but I do want to give him a little slap at tribal our sexy jurors walk in sissy that walk they keep out sexing themselves so good DJ Kate reads the graduates for making boring moves which I was like tea She's like, you could do a boring move or you could fuck shit up. And I'm like, yeah, but you guys still have to like decide what fucking shit up looks

SPEAKER_00 57:23

like. Yeah. You can't just, yeah. Say we, cause she kept saying we have a voting block of three. We have three easy votes for you. And it's like, yeah, but sell it. It's like, yeah. Like

SPEAKER_01 57:33

what's the end game baby. And then, Oh, this was awkward as when Morgan and miles kind of got into it. It was like, Miles was like, well, I didn't get any pictures from Morgan. So I was like, correct. And she's like, well, I didn't get any pictures from you. I'm like, yeah, but you're kind of like on the out

SPEAKER_00 57:54

style. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:56

Like it was awkward because he had to like actually explain that. And it was uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00 58:03

That's what I was saying before. Like in the real world when you have– boss taking a dynamic yeah fine that should yeah you call it out because that's someone taking advantage of their position exactly personal benefit but if I've done the training all the modules yeah and then yeah but when you're on a game where that is the point of the game is to outmaneuver and to use leverage and to it's basically yeah change the

SPEAKER_01 58:32

dynamic yeah which you can do yeah but not by being sookie it's yeah it's like Morgan's like sad at like how the cards have fallen over. It's like, well, pick them up. Yeah. Do something else.

SPEAKER_00 58:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:45

And yeah, unfortunately, Miles, I think, yeah, was all too happy to explain to her kind of like the lay of the land. So she kind of did get a bit served. Then after that, the brawny girls start whispering and Morgan wants to switch to Miles, which felt very personal. Very emotional. It was like this... little bitch is like telling me that you know i'm not working hard enough at this strategy so let's get rid of him and i was like oh but then they tell zara and zara's like works for me

SPEAKER_00 59:22

yeah i well but that to me is a conversation you can have at camp like yeah you need zara you can't just tell zara oh we're voting for aj and you think about it's like what do you prefer what who do you want who can you see yourself working with better we'll go the other way like we'll do whatever you want sort of thing um

SPEAKER_01 59:42

and as you knew she was going to do she didn't flip and we see the back of christian which to be honest i was fine with

SPEAKER_00 59:50

yeah i i think her character had run its course yeah

SPEAKER_01 59:54

yeah

SPEAKER_00 59:56

um I'm curious to see when she comes out in the jury, the next tribal.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:03

What her outfit's going to be like? It's going to be like the divas and then mum. It's going to be like the four hot babes are going to walk in and then it's like mum at the back. Or do you think they're going to give her a little glow up?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:16

I reckon she'll have a bit of a clap. Yeah? Yeah. I can picture like a bit of a, I don't know, hair all up and nice and a bit of like a summery dress. Yeah. And like just makeup and I think she'll, I think we'll be pleasantly surprised.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:29

Yeah, I think so

SPEAKER_00 1:00:30

too. Either that or she's going to come like in full on like fiery gear, like big baggy fire safe overalls, helmets.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:42

So Druryvilla, do you want me to catch you up on a few bits? Yeah, give me the cliff notes. So the cliff notes of Druryvilla, Loras is great. She just gets time by herself, which I was like, amazing. I was very jealous of that. Paulie... She got a good, like, four days by herself. Yeah, because it was, like, a non-alim, so she got to, like, totally just hang out. They, like, took her out or something. She was, like, living. Paulie comes in and talks a lot about the sexy six and Paulie and Nunes' plan to take out Kate and Morgan, and that's why they held that against him. So little bits keep sort of, like, coming out, like Laura passed that on. Then Karen's episode... She's, oh my God, Karen. Fuck, I love her. On her way there, she's like so excited for the goss. She's like sad she's gone. But then like equal parts like, yes, now I'm in Jerubal. I'm going to get all the goss. She's like, I hope Pauly's like being cute. Then they do this gag where like she walks in and Laura and Pauly's faces are like. mean, like, scowls. And the music's like, dun, dun, dun, dun. But then they're like, what?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:50

Joking. And they do

SPEAKER_01 1:01:51

this little gag. So funny. I

SPEAKER_00 1:01:54

love Karen. I feel like... if you're with her or against her like she's the type of person that you just want around you at camp like totally like the brief time like i've spent with her like i was i was yeah like she's sarcastic yes witty and then she's like she can flip and be like she's like i just i was just listening to her at the at this party and it's like she's got like the sarcastic sassy vibe and then like someone's asking her a question like a genuine like i don't know some i don't know some emotionally oh she's a star like honestly she's like giving her like advice and i was like this is really nice like it's just like an awesome like all-around person

SPEAKER_01 1:02:32

she will play again yeah having crossed paths with her a few times now can confirm star quality yeah like she's just yeah really really

SPEAKER_00 1:02:40

funny things she needs to work on we need to get rid of those overalls yeah i love them but they're not yeah great because she's

SPEAKER_01 1:02:47

like seriously hot and it's

SPEAKER_00 1:02:49

like why are you wearing these overalls and also if you're going to let throw it take a pin out of a grenade you have

SPEAKER_01 1:02:55

to throw it oh yeah I mean look she tried

SPEAKER_00 1:02:59

she yeah I think I actually think that edit was like made it just look really bad I think yeah I agree I think the plan on that I know I know it wasn't on this episode but I just something I want to touch on I think yeah I think she um had this idea floated to her like flip the flip your vote to zara and zara goes home um and then i think she wanted to save zara because if she flipped on zara that buys her one tribal um so what's the point she she flips on zara and then she's on the bottom the next tribal anyway like what's it doesn't get anything yeah

SPEAKER_01 1:03:33

but then she

SPEAKER_00 1:03:33

did vote for zara well

SPEAKER_01 1:03:35

unfortunately but i think i think that's oh she only did that because the performance didn't go the way she hoped and she's like fuck it i'll just go back to the But unfortunately, everyone else had moved on.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:45

Yeah, well, I think she was initially trying to get that idea of like, well, if I can have my cake and eat it too, then save Zara and buy myself a couple more votes.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:53

Honestly, and for too long on this show, it's like always been the men that do these like big performative moves. So I was so happy to finally see... like a woman on the cast being like, no, I'm going to like do some like ballsy performative shit. I was so here for it. And yeah, it didn't work, but so what? Like you leave an icon and we all want more. So well, you win.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:16

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So no, I was, I was very impressed. I was, I saw very distraught. I had, yeah. Um, but I was very impressed with the way that went down. Um, I don't think the edit did it justice at all.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:28

Yeah. No, so her Drewville episode is adorable. Highly recommend watching that. She also says, like, after a few, like, cocktails at the dinner, she says that she hopes everyone at camp chokes on their beans. Then she calls them all dumbasses. She goes, I hope a dumbass doesn't win. And she goes, well, there's some serious dumbasses over there. And I was, like, gagging at home. And then she's like... Yeah, I just don't want a dumbass to win, which is absolute queen behaviour. And then they go paddleboarding in the rain, which is quite funny. Then Logan arrives and she's so excited to kiki with her girl, Laura. But then Laura... isn't excited to see her. And it kind of kicks off and they have some awkward tension at the dinner. Like, I'm not making this up. Drewvilla this year is Housewives. Like, every dinner party, there is a fight. Like, it hasn't happened yet, but I'm assuming wine will be thrown at some

SPEAKER_00 1:05:29

point. Why don't they air it as like a full episode? Do two regular episodes and have like an hour and a half of Drewvilla. Yes, they

SPEAKER_01 1:05:37

should. I would even love it like cut in to the main show You could do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:42

Yeah. It's like, and this is why the jury is so salty. Yeah. It's not that salty at the players, that's salty at each

SPEAKER_01 1:05:52

other. Yeah, it's crazy. But they kind of work it out on the remix, those two, which is good, but it's still a bit awks. But then Kristen coming in next, totally... Like, we forget about that because this is wild. Like, Kristen walks in and I actually did feel bad for her because it's like two seconds in and Paulie's already like, so, just wanted to have a bone to pick with you. And she's like, fucking, she's like, girl, let me like at least eat some food. And he just goes, or he's like, when specifically did I... Lose your trust. And then she's like, she's actually really good. She's like, well, all right, here's some examples. Like at the start, you were dictating things to me and not including me and blah, blah, blah. And then she actually kind of schools him a little bit, which I was not expecting.

UNKNOWN 1:06:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:45

she outlines like all the times that he just like point blank lied. And then she also is like, and when you do lie later on, when I call you out about it, you're just like, he, he, he. And I'm like, yes, that's so true. So I actually was like, Oh no, Pauly. But I'm like, still like, in love with paulie and i still think kristen's annoying but she definitely had some good points

SPEAKER_00 1:07:08

but it's that to me is like so on point for paul it's like kristen's walking and i'm the main character yeah

SPEAKER_01 1:07:14

yeah and then logan's amazing she's like paulie call it she's like let the woman have a like a meal yeah and then she even it's really awkward she's like okay i'm gonna leave dinner now um A, because I want to go to sleep and B, because like this has been the most awkward shit ever.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:33

It's like... yeah

SPEAKER_00 1:07:36

to me like it's so interesting because when i think of i did watch i remember not that i've watched many drew villas um but i always get the feeling it's like yeah it's like a celebration it's like we're out the game let's have some fun it normally is and that's why it's whatever clear things up but at the end of the day we all like yeah we're here for a game let's like oh exactly

SPEAKER_01 1:07:55

and the game is like kind of over for them

SPEAKER_00 1:07:58

so it's like yeah and i remember once sam gash got grilled but that also lasted like half the dinner and then it's like oh everyone's friends again they moved on whereas this was the whole dinner it doesn't sound like it doesn't

SPEAKER_01 1:08:11

sound I mean we'll see next week I'm like more excited about Jerubal at this point but we'll see next week I want to see I want to see Paulie just like grill the shit out of everyone that walks

SPEAKER_00 1:08:20

in for no reason yeah just even if he likes them yeah like Lyle's you saved me but you didn't save me enough what about yeah exactly you didn't save me

SPEAKER_01 1:08:29

enough because I'm here it's so good oh well Brendan thank you so much for joining me

SPEAKER_00 1:08:34

thank you on the pod thanks for the wine oh we should have

SPEAKER_01 1:08:37

cheese one more Yeah, it's been fun. And obviously, people can find you on Instagram.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:46

At Australian Survivor Means.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:48

Australian Survivor Means, which, I mean, if you listen to this, I assume you already partake. But if you're living under a rock, and, Kristen, a rock is a round object.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:00

No, that's not going

SPEAKER_01 1:09:00

there. Then that's the account. But, yeah, thanks, Joel, and I'll see you soon. Thank you. Bye-bye.

UNKNOWN 1:09:08

Bye.