Australian Survivor - Australia V The World Week 1 (w/ Karin Gunatilake)

Brains v Brawn II legend Karin is back on the couch to recap the first explosive week of Australian Survivor Australia V The World with Sam and the dolls have thoughts! Huge blindsides of Gods and Kings, and a huge South African man, Janine isn't getting juiced, but poor George is! Parvati is sitting pretty, on the mystery box and Kass and Luke have secret idols which could change the game for good. We are stoked with this iconic first week. 

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Transcript

Intro

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This podcast was produced on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

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Welcome to Australia.

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Someone who is such a connoisseur of reality television. The content is hideous.

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So sorry about this. Oh my god.

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Oh my god. Hello. Oh no, I'll I'll let you adjust. Are you comfortable? Okay. It's very important that you're very comfortable.

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Okay, good. Also, like the footwear

Let's Get Some Shoes

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is just like what is happening.

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You can go a bit closer.

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It's really clashing.

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Our footwear? Yeah. Oh my god, how did I not notice those shoes? Those are amazing.

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Wow. Where what? I want these. They're really cool. If you're not watching on video, you should be just to see these shoes. They're really cool. They complete the look.

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They're Nike Shocks. Um, and I so I have a love-hate relationship with people that wear Solomons. Not love-hate, I hate them.

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Yeah. All people or just people that get them for pure fashion and not for like outdoor adventure.

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Yeah, it drives me insane because there's like urban solomons and there's like an entire line of Solomons that are built for people to walk in the city.

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I feel like if you're buying a pair of Solomons right now, honey, I have to tell you, you've missed, you've well and truly missed the trend. Yeah. You might as well just give up.

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Well, because I bought a pair of Solomons to go on Survivor because they have really good grip.

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Everyone on your season had them. Yeah, I was like, and a few like hooker.

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A few who had hookers?

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Someone did. I remember looking at me like, oh, a lot of like ergonomical.

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Yeah, ergonomical. We really thought about our footwear. Chris Kristen and I talked about it because both of us had the same pair of Solomons. Because both of us thought we would have to do some sort of like pushing challenge. And we're like, we need we need good grip. Um and then we both realized that they made our feet cook.

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I haven't cocked any footwear good or bad this season. Because there was a few like croc seasons.

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Very croc. Um Titan Sea Rebels were very simple.

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Very crocod and then we went to a place of Solomon. And now we're in a place of, I don't know. I honestly have not been around.

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It was like the Selenials all wearing Solomons.

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But no, I think what are the world tribe wearing?

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Um no, um Parvi had a good pair of like watershoes, I noticed.

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Oh, like coral walkers or whatever.

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No, they had like a little like mesh situation.

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It was very it was very fashion, but like Parvi's like she's not like a fashion girly, but she always looks like she looks good. She very age appropriate.

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Yeah, yeah.

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She always looks hot. She is hot as fuck. But you never like remember anything she wore.

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Yeah, because um I I was kind of like going, what what's with the like tailored trouser look? Like what are we what was the look there? I don't know, because like Pav's like first season, it's the most iconic shot ever. The camera pans, they're on like a boat, and then she just goes her blue steel face turns.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Like, whoo! It's all it's very sultry, and it looks um I can't look at her.

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But you're never paying attention to what she's wearing. Like, no one no one's ever like, oh, an iconic poverty look. Because who was I talking about this with the other day? Like going as a survivor contestant to a Halloween party or something. Oh no, some a friend of mine's going to a birthday party and it's dress up, and you have to dress up as something that the birthday person likes. Yeah. And they like Survivor. Okay. So they asked me, they're like, how would I dress as like a survivor contestant? And I was like, girl, just like get a buff. I don't know. Yeah, get a buff. And like look a little bit disheveled. Maybe just don't eat for a week.

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Eat, don't eat for a week, and then do what they do to us when they're shooting the promotional material, which is quite literally cover us in mud.

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They go, do they really? I love that.

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There's a bucket of mud, and they're and they're like, you need to go to hair and makeup. And I'm like, I'm not kidding.

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And it's some homosexual with a mud bucket.

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No, I thought I was so excited. I'm like, this is this is it. I'm gonna be uh a survivor. I can't, I'm on reality TV, someone's gonna put makeup on me.

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And it was literally they're like, come here, slip. I thought you guys just got that from sliding down the mud bit or whatever.

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No, it was just mud. And the to be honest, like, I really want access to the because they didn't use the mud shots. Did you notice our season had like I'm whinging now, but anyway, we'll talk about the next season soon. But like, um actually I can win about this. No, I'm not done. Do you know why? Did you also notice they had really good bags, they had really good water bottles.

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This season.

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Yeah.

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Oh, like they've upgraded the bags and water bottles. Joking they're showing off for the international.

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Yes, yes, which is why we got Timu Survivor.

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You actually got legitimate.

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We got Timu, we got Timu Survivor. Because we had little little little tote bags that were legit from Kmart, and someone screen printed the like tribe logos onto it. And then the world and the Australian tribes get this beautiful, like woven Samoan situation, and like nice water bottles that have insulation. I think I got like, I don't know, Legionella from my box.

Aussie Kangaroo V World Bird?

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Yeah. We do need to talk about the tribe logos this season. We've got iconic Australian kangaroo and then iconic bird bird of the world. I love it. World bird. World bird is so.

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Is it because the Americans and like eagle birds?

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I think maybe if it was an eagle, that would be too American specific. So they just made it like we should be in gun.

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No, sorry.

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It looks like a um that bird that just does the, you know, the like water flamingo. Yeah, it look it doesn't look very threatening. No, I think. Like the kangaroo looks like a roided Yeah, like a roided juice double. But World Bird looks super placid.

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I thought it looked like a vulture.

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It's like an ugly.

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It's like an ugly carpet.

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I've got to say, I was expecting Channel 10 to go all out with the nationalism. I predicted this last week on the pod. I was like, I bet there's gonna be like national anthems playing and shit.

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And yes, then they played um for David's intro.

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It was like a national anthem sounding song, but I don't think it was the actual one. It was something like that. I thought it was But that was kind of all it was. I thought they were gonna I thought they were gonna go hit more ham than that. They look they were quite restrained.

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Julia Gillard turns up halfway through.

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She's not doing much. She speaks at a lot of like graduations and stuff.

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Yeah, instead of tribal council, JLP like disappears in Julia.

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She does the misogyny speech.

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Yeah. And Parf's like snaps for

Shonee's Iconic Dress

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Julia.

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While we're on fashion, we need to talk about Shawnee's dress. So iconic. So does she just get like a new one?

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She's like her. So season two was the red treat.

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Red.

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Oh my god. I love that. Red tea dress. Yeah. And then All Star, she had a red one. And then Hero See Villains because the theme was purple. She had a purple tea dress. But that's the that's the tea. The tea dress. Um and it's iconic because even um I was watching it with my friend um the other night because I was introducing her to Survivor, because she literally has not watched a single season other than my season, and she doesn't know the law. And I had to tell her, I'm like, you don't understand.

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You can tell her anything you want. Well, I'd be like, I won.

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I know she knows because she stopped watching after episode eight. But um I was trying to explain the the gravity of the situation to her because she didn't understand why I was losing my mind. And I went, you this is this is this is the World Cup, the Olympics of everything. So I'm explaining the law to her. And um Shawnee's going down the slide. This is episode one, the first challenge. Um Shawnee's going down the slide and she's in the tea dress, and my friend's going, Well, why is she still in the dress? Everyone's like in gear, like, why didn't she take the dress off? And I'm like, You don't understand.

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You don't understand. The dress. Also, she's like just had a kid, right? So come on, let her like wear the, you know.

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No, but Shawnee always wears the dress on the challenge. Like, even yes, even like um, I remember all stars are trying to like across this platform y thing dresses there.

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Yeah, she's not one of the girlies that like has the jugs out, but she doesn't need to because she's bloody iconic. Well, I mean, look, we we've jumped straight into it, but before

The Real Housewives of London (Patreon Plug)

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we begin our official recap, um did you know I am also recapping The Real Housewives of London?

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Oh this is the special, isn't it?

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It's just started. It's like hey, you have started it as like a new show. It's a brand new franchise, new women, but there's some people that are familiar, like um one of the cast is from Ladies of London, one of them was on like Real Housewives of Jersey, which apparently was a show.

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Oh my god, like Jersey as a new like Jersey New York.

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Jersey, Jersey, not New Jersey, yeah, yeah. Oh but it's first episode's out, it's amazing. Um if you want to listen to my recaps of that, it's over on Patreon or Apple subscriptions.

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I might have to because I'm on a media blackout. Other than yeah, yeah.

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No, I love this for you. You're on like a cleanse. A cleanse. A media detox.

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A media media detox, except um Paramount and 10 play. I watch on 10 play just to keep, you know. Gotta support channel

More JLP T

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10. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, gotta keep the ratings up.

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I did hear some baseless rumours about did you see this? About JLP?

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But it was from like women and some some like.

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I think it was so dramatic, which is like I love you, Megapouss, but also sometimes the tea is piping cold. But it's so if you haven't seen this. Yeah, the tea is glacial, but hey, I also don't want this to happen. But so what the tea is, is apparently channel nine are circling like vultures on the franchise because I don't know, allegedly the contract is up or something.

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Yeah, so the contract for the formats uh needs to be renewed, um, and they're circling world bird circling.

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Worldbird is circling the carcass of survivor.

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Survivor.

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And apparently they're like, oh, and if nine was to get it, they would absolutely welcome JLP back. And I'm like, firstly, where where is this coming from? Literally, I reckon some channel nine exec like did too many lines at like work drinks and was like, oh, you know what? We could buy that, we could do that, we could do bloody survivor, yeah.

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But channel nine like ruined they so they had was this no nine or seven. Actually, no, I'm I'm causing baseless slander here. They've had Survivor, yeah, but like back in the day.

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Like American Survivor.

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No, no, no, no. They had like so Australian Survivor. The reason why our season is considered season 12, not 10, is because of the two seasons.

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Yeah, exactly.

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One was like a celebrity, one was a celebrity and one was like OG, like Australian.

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It was in like South Australia, yeah, yeah. And it was like a little rough, yeah, like very rough.

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Yeah, I I'm I'm like anyone on the interwebs. If you have i archival like footage of I have it. Do you have it? What?

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Yeah.

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I'll sort you out with some links later. Yeah, I found it. Yeah. Along with all of the mole, like the original the mole, which is to this day, like I I rewatch it all the time. And because so much time has passed, I've genuinely forgotten who the mole is. So you can re-watch the seasons and you're like, uh, who is it? And then when they reveal it, you're like, oh, that's right.

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This is great because this can't be a part of my media blackout because this is like history.

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I'm making you relapse.

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Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. I'm a historian. I'm a historian. I'm going back through like archival records for um.

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Oh, we'll we'll talk offline about links. IRL. Uh let's get some high-level thoughts,

Australian Survivor Australia V The World Week 1 Recap

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week one. Wow. What a show. Lived up to the hype.

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The hype was real.

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The hype was real, and I was scared. Yeah. Because it could have gone either way. I was like ready for Reddit to be like, This is the worst thing. Shittiest thing ever.

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This is so bad. Like, why can't they like just get normal people out there? Why do we need to get returnees?

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And it's not long enough, but everyone's over the 16 days. I actually think, hot take, I think the 16 days is perfect for this because it's not gonna drag on. They're gonna fight from the start. And these are people that like know how to make good TV, as we've seen already. So, like, great, give them the limited time. Plus, I I'm I'm so excited about this. I want them to do it again and again.

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I know, like and everyone is like you're like, I really do. I know like work will give me 16 days off.

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Yeah, oh totally. I can't. And me if you need, you know. Look, I know Sean Ross is doing a great job, but if you need me as well, you know, we come together. We could just fly over together, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And like, you know, and we we could like do an after show. Exactly. Exactly.

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Are you have you been also watching the drop your buffs after show?

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It's cute. It's really cute.

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I'm really into it. I'm so into it. I'm just like so stoked for Sean. Like, it's honestly like watching someone live their dream. It's so adorable. He is delightful.

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And and like even like Nick just um Nick did all the like behind-the-scene footage of him like walking through his old stomping art, and it's just genuinely emotional.

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I know all the content, those three, and Ricard as well, like all the content they're putting out is like so sweet.

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And you can just imagine the like the three of them just itching for this to come.

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Because it was like six months or something.

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Yeah, well no, like September last year. Yeah, yeah.

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Wow, I'd I wouldn't have been able to sit on that.

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I would have died. I would have actually died. Oh yeah, but no, it's such like this is why the hype is real, because now you've got like you know, Sean, um, Ricard, and um Nick doing all of the um after show content, they're releasing content as well, and then you've got like juiced up T20 series Survivor, um, and everyone's going nuts. Like Twitter had a field day, Twitter imploded.

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Oh, it's amazing. Yeah, it's so good.

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Yeah, oh my god. Every everyone was just like, oh my god, I can't believe it. Like the fact that Parvity and Cree had not played for what 15, 16 years? And now they're together.

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And now together with Tony. It's great. Also, these internationals that aren't the Americans, I fully thought they were gonna get no airtime, snubbed, shunned, whatever, which like is a little bit true. However, I'm not gonna lie, pretty much most of my faves coming out of this week are those. I'm obsessed with cass, like obsessed with cast.

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She's she's incredible. Also, Survivor Quebec is a stupid number of days long.

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How long's that?

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I think it's like no, I like someone fact checks for me, but it's like ridiculous. Longer than 50. Yeah, longer than 50. Like a shit.

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They must have a content quota. Like a French Canadian content quota, like 10 does with our Aussie one. Yeah. Um, and then Lisa, just like Lisa was the one that when we did the cast assessment last week, and I will like eat my hat, like admitting that I fucked this up. But I was like, eh, she's filler. Like I literally said that. And first ep, I was like, I fucking got that.

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I went through an emotional whirlwind with Lisa because I went, uh, okay, cool. And then called George Insufferable, cried about Sari. I'm like, you are a queen. And then just went, all right, you know what? Rob bye.

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Referring to the reality TV multiverse, I died.

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Died. And then the Don D quote at the end, be like, oh, stop giving it. She's like, Don Dy spoilers. I know. She said dealing no deal island. She went Don D.

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The fact she said no. Yeah, she's quite she it's like having a fan of the show.

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The the Survivor lore coming out of um Twitter about Lisa is incredible. Apparently, her prep for the show, she made a like video um basically calling her like a terrible survivor player, and then made a fake account and commented on it, just further, you know, oh my god. Elaborating that fact, just as though it throw people off her scent, which is incredible. And then I like watched because I needed to find out more about Lisa, I watched the recap of her season as well.

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I think I'm just gonna like watch it. No, no, she's like actually now that I've seen her, I'm like, that's a season I'll go back and watch.

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And the iconic thing be like, oh yeah, Survivor New Zealand got canned, so I'm the winner forever.

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I'm the winner forever.

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I went as you should be.

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She's like the lazy Susan of uh of Survivor. But um, yeah, I've heard though this the host on New Zealand is tough stuff. Okay, like not a good host. So if you can push through that, okay, yeah, you yeah.

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Get a new host, revive it, get JLP.

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Oh my god, JLP moves to New Zealand.

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God. Um, all right, let's get in to episode one. Okay. Um, this intro was camp. I like they dropped it like a day early as well.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Yeah, just so you could watch it twice. And it was the it was even better the second time, even though I'd watched it five times over.

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Just Shawnee on the runway is easily the highlight.

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Oh, Shawnee on the right on the runway. Abort! Abort and then the shon them starts. The shon. From now on, we will put Sean in front of every word.

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I shonic. Uh so good. Then um we get to the Matt's. Kirby tells the world, Tribe.

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I haven't seen none of you.

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I don't know who any of you are.

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I don't know who I'm fucking she's good.

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Because I'm like, I don't buy that for a second. Yes, you might not have like watched every frame, but surely you know who some of these people are.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

I I think I mean like she would have done a bit of research, but I fully believe she has not watched it.

SPEAKER_05 18:17

Yeah, I fully believe she hasn't watched it all, but it's she plays it down and she's getting so far she's getting away with it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

She like, but but she genuinely has not watched much survivor. I think she's done research, yeah. Um, but like not in the way, not in the um way Phil, Eileen, and I watched the entire series of Kagayan in one night.

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Like she's not crazy.

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Um but then um like Siri walks in, um, and I think it was Sarah that went, oh my god, it's Sari, and she's damn someone heard my.

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George as well is having like a out of body experience. Do you think they really didn't know? They fucking knew.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

I don't think so.

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How do you keep I don't know?

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I don't know. I don't but like I like even if you did if even if you did know, if like poverty had the fucking shallow walks in like in front of me, I will, you know, convulse and just not not be able to form words.

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The best bit of this was so they start with a challenge off the bat for some rewards. Um they go through the rewards and they're like the flint. And Shawnee goes, boring. Boring. I don't I want that champagne. I want the champagne. They should have had mugs. Imagine if it was like a flint, a fishing kit, and like spicy mugs.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Oh, I guess.

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I would have just died.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Shawnee would have loved a spice, spicy mug.

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But they did champers, which was cute.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Champers was cute as well. But it was like also, how are they getting coffee? Like the Americans are oh not the American, the world tribe, the world bird tribe is having a lovely cup of coffee with their beautiful French breast every morning.

SPEAKER_05 19:51

Oh, devastated. If I didn't win that coffee, I would I would write. Knowing that it exists on another beach, I'd be fuming.

SPEAKER_01 19:59

But it would you also, what if you got the coffee and no flint? Oh, which they did. Oh, and they weren't tribal the first day, so it's fine. Yeah, they didn't get the flint. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 20:06

They didn't get the flint, but um golden god propositions rob at this challenge. So after that, it's big unit on big unit. Yeah. These huge men um got on. It's it was like watching two straight men at like the gym. Like the bro ups. Being like, oh, what do you think? How much do you bench? How much do you bench in over there?

SPEAKER_01 20:24

Do you want to spot bro? Yeah, that was the equivalent. Like, yeah, I got your back, you got mine. It was very that.

SPEAKER_05 20:29

Yeah. Um, then we get these matchups. Ten do this, right? They like pretty much tell you who your like matchup is gonna be, right? Or do the tribes actually pick?

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Um, no, no, you pick because yeah, and like But you're trying to make it even. Well, yeah, because like, you know, for example, like I, you know, I'm not gonna put my like you so I think when you when you get these challenges, like one team puts up a person first. And then they go, oh, and then the other tribe goes, Oh okay, they look a bit beefy.

SPEAKER_05 20:56

I'm not gonna or I'll I'll retract my statement, but what I do think is when they're casting, they have matchups in mind. Probably of course, because there's all these one-on-one challenges, yeah, yeah, one-on-one challenges.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Uh-uh. And um, just to balance it out. And also, like a beefcake needs a beefcake. Otherwise, it's just like, no, it's just one little chunk of beef.

SPEAKER_05 21:14

Starts with George and Tommy. George wins, which I was shocked by, but amazing. Do any sports? That's really terrible. Do any sports? No. Uh no. Which is a lie because George is on a football team. Yeah, George, George is on a football team and he's like a soccer team.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

Yeah, soccer, yeah, like the the that one.

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The like, yeah. Wob football. Yeah. He loves that.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Yeah, he loves it.

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And like played it down.

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Played it down, but also like nails the shot and just like, yeah. Old Finland had no chance.

SPEAKER_05 21:41

Finland had no chance. Finland had no chance. Kirby beats Parv. Oh. Iconic. Iconic. Luke beats Tony.

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Luke beats Tony.

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And Lisa beats Shawnee.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

Wait, who did Janine go up against?

SPEAKER_05 21:55

Oh, that was the only other thing.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Oh no, three?

SPEAKER_05 22:00

Been it. Or was no, there was a Janine. I can't remember. I can't remember. It was all over. I liked that as a fun little way to get the tribes interacting with each other off the bat. But to our knowledge, uh Golden God and Rob were the only people that actually had a strap chat during the challenge.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Oh, everyone chats on the way up the stairs. Like even if it's just like, oh hey man, is it slippery? What do you reckon? You have a chat. Like it's the and like I like Australian tribe, most of them, no, all of them. Oh no, yeah, all of them are pretty much like fans of the show. Of course. So you're gonna chat. You're gonna be like, huh? And then like cast badly for quite.

SPEAKER_05 22:38

Yeah, exactly. Okay. Over on the world tribe, um, they pop a bottle and introduce themselves.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

It was like sort of like a Mexican standoff, being like, alright, guys, you should know who I am. It was a bit weird.

SPEAKER_05 22:52

The meet and greet, but then the internationals had to explain themselves. Yeah. Um, Seree says she should have won Path season, which I was like, oh that was amazing in the confessional.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

Oh, that was my favorite confessional where um Parv's going, you know, oh Sari talks like this where she's strategizing.

SPEAKER_05 23:11

Oh, like the side of her mouth.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

The side of her mouth. Um, and then Sari just goes, my season. And I went, oh, T. Yes, fight, fight. So good.

SPEAKER_05 23:22

Um Rob, smart idea that backfires, thinks about forming an anti-US alliance. Anti-US alliance. Which like in today's political climate, I was like, this is fabulous. This is great. This is great.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

This is the current international sentiment.

SPEAKER_05 23:37

Anyone but new Americans.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

Um, so good on Rob for like matching up you know the geopolitical climate of the world.

SPEAKER_05 23:44

Yeah, it's also very Aussie to do that. It's very like tall, poppy. Yeah. Like gotta take knock them down a peg. They already think they're the best.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

But also, like, you do want to make take a swing at one of them. But not on poverty's birthday. Like, obviously, don't do it. It was her birthday.

SPEAKER_05 23:58

That was wild.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

Like, no, not not on and also. Yeah, not on the queen's birthday, and also please let her get 152 so she beats Rob's.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

So now she has played the most amount of days of Survivor, which is now 152 plus. Plus, plus, plus however long she loves.

SPEAKER_05 24:19

So she's 16, maybe. Oh no, no.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Give mother her birthday and her and her dates. Thank you. Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 24:28

Lisa is beside herself and cannot mask the excitement to meet Suri. And she goes, you know what? And I love this is what I love about Lisa. She's so honest. She was like, I could have played it cool, but do you know what? Yeah, this is my one chance, fuck it. Yeah. And it paid off. So she goes up to Lisa, she's like, Look, Sorre, big fan.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:45

Big fan. And what does Sari do? She goes, Great, I want to fucking work with you. Amazing. Which I and correct response, I think. Correct response. If you've got someone that's obsessed with you, of course you should work with them. Because then it's like, you can fucking tell Lisa what to do. And also.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

And I thought it was so incredibly endearing of Lisa. Like it's just like you turn into a fan first every single time. And she is a brilliant player in her own right, as I've discovered from my like Lisa deep dive.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

But her to just be like, ah, you know what? Screw this. Screw screw the intelligent thing to do. I'm just gonna fangirl. And loads of people are against it. Like um Twitter had a full riot about this. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_05 25:25

Like people were like, she shouldn't have done that. Hold your cards close to your chest. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

Like, you know, you're still you're still playing a game, like, you know, hold your emotions to yourself. This is the whole like rhetoric, you know, like yeah, keep your emotions to yourself.

SPEAKER_05 25:36

Sorry, I'm of the camp that yes, this is a game, sure, but it's for at first, it's a TV show, and the real game is getting arse back, getting more screen time opportunities to turn it into a career, which Lisa is doing by being like that. So I think she's winning the long game.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

And it also creates this like beautiful like sentiment. Siri now goes, Oh, okay, even if she goes, all right, she loves she's obsessed with me. This fucking woman is obsessed with me. I can use it so.

SPEAKER_05 26:13

At least obsessive obsessed and stalker vibes. Yeah. But no, she's like genuinely into it, which is cute.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Which is cute, but also like if you think from like Siri's standpoint, she's also going like there's four of them, there's three of there's three of us. So any chance of making a relationship, I will. And also just Parv and Siri just going, yo, divide and conquer, sweet, done, not talking to you anymore. Bye. Oh it's so good.

SPEAKER_05 26:37

Over at Ozzy, George is worried about David and Luke.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 26:42

So he and also he's like, fuck, I've also got to clear the air with Sean. So George's got his work cut out for him from day one.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

He does not clear the air well.

SPEAKER_05 26:51

I um sorry.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

There are no hard feelings. Motherfucker, you voted me out.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

She's like, Yeah, why would there be, Doll?

SPEAKER_01 26:59

I think. Remember when you kicked me off the jewelry? Yeah, you kicked me. No, you you so you booted me from the game, and then you booted me off the jewelry, so I couldn't even hang out in Samoa no more.

SPEAKER_05 27:08

Double murder.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 27:10

And then, yeah, Sean is like, nah, but I love she kind of entertains him and then in confessional straightaway is like absolutely as you should hard known.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

This is this is great. This is why Shawnee continues to make the shantent.

SPEAKER_05 27:22

And the shantent is shonenting. The way as well that, and I love that, and I know this is getting into like outside of game stuff, but George's come out and are saying that they're mates now, and it's all good, and I'm so happy. And like he was also telling us this the other night at the watch party that yeah, they're they're good, and that makes me really happy. Yeah, because I wasn't sure how grudgy holdy she was.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

Yeah, like you you never know in these like it's like some some grudges stern, so like, yeah, um, uh, but like I don't know, with the bottom alliance, what the power bottoms are we just supposed to get there?

SPEAKER_05 28:01

So this is when the power bottoms are born, but also not this I have so many thoughts about this.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yeah, because give them please.

SPEAKER_05 28:09

I'd well, I mean, firstly, did anyone else not see what I saw in this scene where it was just kind of like two straight men just like laughing at a gay man.

SPEAKER_03 28:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:21

And then kind of like leading him on by being I was like a little bit triggered watching this scene as well. And I know George was like laughed at off and stuff, but I'm a bit like it's okay to recognize that this is a bit weird.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

It it felt a bit weird. It was um a it felt like you know, those two like macho toxic, like rugby boys just like bullying on the the you know the to your face, they're like, oh yeah, yeah, and we're all good, but then like I make the like oh this fag.

SPEAKER_05 28:49

Like, come. It was felt like that.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

It felt like that. Okay, it wasn't, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 28:52

No, I yeah, I felt that, but at the same time, I was also like, This is kind of great. And I don't know, obviously, like David's a model, he has worked in that world. I'm sure he like has lots of interaction with queer people. I'm sure he's fantastic, and I'm not at all insinuating homophobia, not at all. I think it's it felt like schoolyard schoolyard was kind of and he was showing David was also like showing off that he knew what that term was, which um in 2025. It's a bit like sure. Everyone knows what a bot. Exactly, it's not that exciting. But I liked he thought he was getting some cred.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Yeah, and it was I don't know, it felt a little bit mean because you know, yeah, um George goes, Oh, you're the king of the jungle, you're the golden god, I'm the king of Bangstar, and then the two of them burst out laughing, and I went, Oh, okay. I know leave him alone.

SPEAKER_05 29:40

Yeah, don't love this edit for George, but at the same time, he still just entertaining no matter what.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

No, but like absolutely diabolical. The intro sequence is George getting smacked in the face in the face of it all.

SPEAKER_05 29:55

Like, he's such a good sport for being like, Yep, that's great. Because I would be like, I would riot. Yeah, but at least it's memorable. And I think that's the thing. George would rather be like the class clown and like talked about than not iconic at all. So he's winning in that sense. Snaps for Georgie. Snaps to you, Georgie. Um, so Sean is like hard no on George, but instead she makes a secret, solid alliance with Kirby.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

Like Kirby went from knowing nobody to having like a sneaky, like, you know, you know, alliance with everyone. She's a sneaky link.

SPEAKER_05 30:28

Sarah like obsessed with her. Sarah's obsessed with her. Alright, back at world. Parv is after Rob. She's like, I want Rob and Rob wants Parv.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

My my theory is my I don't know. My theory is Parv, uh Parv and like Rob. No, no, Parv and Dave from either side. Yeah. Or like pre-gamey. Everyone pre-games, and I reckon those two pregamed.

SPEAKER_05 30:52

They definitely did. Yeah. And then they had to do it on camera to like make it not pre-gamey.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Not pre-gamey.

SPEAKER_05 30:59

But then she definitely pre-gamed with David. Yeah. And then this is when we get. So I've got um what is it's almost like she's David's like manager or something. She's like, David's really interested. We've discussed because I don't know if you know this, but we were on this show called Dilanoda Island, and then cut to like break, and there's like an Dilanodia Island!

SPEAKER_01 31:23

I was like, did you guys plan this? Like, what is going on?

SPEAKER_05 31:26

Paramount Plus streaming now. I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

Okay, okay. Content. Did you dundee? I did. I dunno. Is it good? It's actually really good.

SPEAKER_05 31:34

I watched the first episode and I was like, uh uh.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

Okay, so I specifically watched because I A, like, knew that Dave was on it and then Barbie was on it. Um I think that's why everyone that's why everyone watched it. And then it got very survivor-esque. There are challenges, they have to compete.

SPEAKER_05 31:50

Like, I I don't I get everything for the suitcase thing, I'm like, honey.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

I I get everything up until the suitcase bit. I just I don't I it's like random. You just skip it. Yeah, I I mean there's a certain level of probability, I suppose, and maybe you have big enough cojones to like meet your package. Gamble, yeah, not that. But like up until the I just don't care. I pretty much watch up until the briefcasey bit, and then fast forward to like some when someone like wins or gets booted, and then I restart all over again. Yeah, that was my Don D experience. Um, and then obviously I saw like Dave bitten like a bajillion dollars. A bajillion.

SPEAKER_05 32:24

Yeah. Rob says, Oh, I promise not to tell anybody, which I'm like, okay. He's gonna tell you everybody. You're gonna um and it's Pav's birthday. The challenge is oh that's right, they'd be like lift up. There's a little bit of a box. There's huge boxes, they look very heavy, very heavy. You get the golden god on his like Hercules shit. Oh yeah, literally, pretty much like the editing was so good. He's like cat literally has the weight of the world on his face.

SPEAKER_01 32:56

It was like, what's it called? Atlas and the yeah, that was the moment. That was the moment.

SPEAKER_05 33:00

Um, what a beast. And I love George being like, oh, the golden god, what a beast. Like in the background, I'm like, shut the fuck up, George.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

George, just so good. But like I think the Americ this is this is not the beauty of Australian Survivor. All the Americans go, oh, oh, and S does not exist. No, no, it does not exist on there on this show at all.

SPEAKER_05 33:24

Yeah, and they're hard challenges, and they Aussies take it out, which is like great for the story, I think. Yeah, for them to win the first one. Yeah. Um, at the end of the challenge, Rob looks over at God on God, Gigi, and says, Find me the key. Yeah, we need the key for our special mystery box.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Like, and like, bro, like, do you even know if the key's on the other side? And also, like, that's so obvious. Yeah. I so this is my hot take for episode one, re um Rob. Rob thought, I don't know. I don't know why Rob played it like he was playing like a newbie season.

SPEAKER_05 34:00

He thought those eyes were just gonna like get him to the end. I think he's just like a little bit to Lulo and cocky.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

That's that's what I got. Because he the whole like almost like basically going up to Tommy and like Cass and Lisa and being like, all right, we're gonna do this, this, this, like he was on a newbie season didn't sort of make sense. I'm like, sure, International Survivor. I don't know how much you've like me, you you probably not watched any of their seasons. I don't think he did. No, I don't think he did, but like take into account Cass was the you know runner-up, Tome was the runner up because Lisa won.

SPEAKER_05 34:30

Yeah, you're not playing with like plebs.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

Yeah, you're not playing with plebs.

SPEAKER_05 34:33

Like I think he thought because he's won.

SPEAKER_01 34:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lisa's won.

SPEAKER_05 34:37

Also, I heard that in his season he won, but everyone was pretty dumb dumb. Ah, okay. I didn't watch it, but yeah, apparently it's like it was a pretty easy win. Okay, I haven't watched it. It's like not to take away, like still amazing.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Survivor South Africa is incredible. I'm so good.

SPEAKER_05 34:51

I just haven't seen his season.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

Oh, I haven't seen his season. I've seen I've seen most of him now. I went like backwards. It's good. Yeah, it's excellent.

SPEAKER_05 34:59

Rob tells us that Sari is his target in confessional. Which I was a bit like, that's random.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

Yeah. Why?

SPEAKER_05 35:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

No, no, no. Because see, again, again, like in UBC, it's like, oh, we're gonna make the tribe stronger. Let's take them. I'm like, you take Sari Field out.

SPEAKER_05 35:17

I know. I think wasn't the tea we got from George at the watch party was that he tried to work with her or something.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

Uh and Siri didn't work.

SPEAKER_05 35:24

And she wasn't that into it.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 35:27

Or the other way around. No, I can't remember.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

I thought it was Sari tried to work.

SPEAKER_05 35:31

Yeah, Siri was like, let's work together. Yeah, yeah. And and he was like, nah. Yeah. For some reason. But that didn't make it to the to our screens. But I don't know. I don't know. Take that with. I mean, he wasn't on their beach, so I don't know if that happened. Um, over at World, they uh bricking it for this. No one wants to be the first one to go. Rob and Pav have an awkward as fuck chat in front of Cass and Lisa, who Lisa like falls into the ocean with like the smallest wave.

SPEAKER_01 36:03

It was just like more iconic, Lisa. We just need I need to like start like capping Lisa random moments, and that was great.

SPEAKER_05 36:11

Um eyes on Lisa, we need to make sure she's safe. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. That was great, and then I love that she's kind of like acting a bit like, oh, you know, she's fucking smart, she knows how to play this game. You don't like reveal everything in front of the group, and then later on he's like, Oh, but we had that chat, and she's like, That wasn't a chance.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

That wasn't a chat. Like that entire conversation was the most awkward thing ever. Because he's speaking to her like she's played like three days of Survivor, and um, oh my god, it was like the biggest fumble ever.

SPEAKER_05 36:45

It was a fumble.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

And like, I I don't know, maybe he's just like really I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 36:48

He was aggressive, he was like grilling her to reveal who she was going for in front of everyone. That's such a I'm sorry, I've never even played this game, and I'm like, I would not do that. You can't be like, you tell uh tell the class right now who you're gonna vote.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

Like, wouldn't you be Stand up and tell who you're going to vote for?

SPEAKER_05 37:06

Especially the first one. That's the one where you should be being a bit more like, oh, like what do you guys think?

SPEAKER_01 37:12

No, and in a group situation, absolutely all like, hey, where's your head out? What do you want to do?

SPEAKER_05 37:17

Where's your head out? But don't be like, I need a name. Yeah. He was like, give me a name now. And she was artful.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

She was like, um, I don't want to give you a name right now. Yeah. And also, if you're gonna have an alliance with poverty, like make sure it's on the DL, like on the download. Like, absolutely, don't and he loses it at this.

SPEAKER_05 37:35

He totally doesn't get that he's fucked it up. He's like, Oh, why won't Pav do what I say? It's like humans, I don't know, humans.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

Oh, and then the most like brilliant piece of theatre from poverty is just, you know, guys, what are we voting for? It's not me, is it? Oh my god, it's not me, is it?

SPEAKER_00 37:54

Oh my god, it's me.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

She's so good. And then it's just oh it I and because oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 38:03

And I love as well this whole episode, Tony is like nowhere to be seen.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

He's just like telling me He's building a spy shack.

SPEAKER_05 38:09

Exactly, probably, and he's just like, ladies, tell me what to do.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

I it's it's so untony of him. But like, truth be told, he was probably running around that island looking for a key.

SPEAKER_05 38:20

Um yeah, smart of him to not play hard from the start. If you he's got probably the biggest of anyone there's target on his back, if would you say? Yeah, like two-time winner won a winner all winners season as well. That's like to me, that is like the biggest threat. Yeah. Because not only has he won a regular one, he's won a similar one to this. Like the all-stars of all-stars, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

Like every single person.

SPEAKER_05 38:45

That's I would be like, Yeah. I think he's I think when they merge, he's first out.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

Yeah, if people are and also knowing Tony's track record, you don't leave him alone. Like he's actually incredibly good at winning challenges as well.

SPEAKER_05 38:58

So he's and I think Parv and Sari will be very happy to do that. Yeah, but I don't know, we'll see. Um, all right, then what happens? Parv calls out Rob for being a bulldozer, which she was being called out, and then Parv, Cass, and Lisa discuss flipping it to Rob. And I'm like, girls, yeah, assemble.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

I did like the Black Widow Brigade 2.0 has totally already started at tribal. And the thing is, Rob brought it on himself.

SPEAKER_05 39:26

Oh, totally. And there's no surprise, but look, I was still at this point, first time watching, I was like, oh my god, if PAVEDY goes first, I'm flipping a table, I'm boycotting the show. Yeah, gay Twitter would just like explode. Twitter would like Twitter would boycott, Twitter would not Yeah, no one would watch it. They'd be like, if Pav's gone, why?

SPEAKER_01 39:46

I'm not gonna do this. And at the hands of Rob, how dare you?

SPEAKER_05 39:49

So I'm glad that didn't happen. It was never gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 39:51

It was ne no, like, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:53

But great editing for letting us believe that there's a chance.

SPEAKER_01 39:57

Yeah, and it's like I feel like incredibly unpatriotic, being like, no, Parvity, don't go, but like, no.

SPEAKER_05 40:02

We get this iconic line from Rob at Tribal. He goes, I know about you and David. And they're all like, Scoozie? Scoozie? It's like, oh and like, what's the tip? Lisa is sure. This is when she's like, not spoilers for Don D.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

So like, oh no, fuck the spoilers. Damn.

SPEAKER_05 40:24

And then second iconic line from this tribal was you tried to blindside me on my birthday. I'm not mad.

SPEAKER_04 40:31

And just disappointed.

SPEAKER_05 40:34

Motherquake. And then by Rob. Bye Rob. So good, perfect first boot. I think he was a good sport. Like on drop your buffs, he was a really good sport. Um, he didn't have a tantrum or anything. He was like, Oh, you know, I think he did say, like, oh, I'm such a threat. And I was like, debatable, but sure.

SPEAKER_01 40:52

Yeah, you're like the his read on his castmates was wrong, his read on poverty was deathly wrong. Um, so yeah. Yeah, yeah. And like the shame for the like honestly, shame for the South Africans because like the South African like sees oh South African survivor is incredible.

SPEAKER_05 41:10

Well, I hope we get another season of this with some different types of players that aren't just like a big Marion like mass guy. Marion. Yeah, totally. Or um chappies. Oh, chappies. I'd like chappies. And Chappies is a little cutie. Yeah. Uh all right, episode two. This is the one we watched together. Yes. At a stunning private event. Stunning private event Kirby hosted.

SPEAKER_01 41:33

Kirby hosted, yes.

SPEAKER_05 41:34

So thank you, Kirby, for the invite to that. It was very gorgeous. Um, who is we had a lot of Australian Survivor players.

SPEAKER_01 41:43

I think the entirety of Titans v. Rebels is some suspicious characters missing.

SPEAKER_04 41:49

Yes. Oh yes. I did clock the presence of.

SPEAKER_01 41:54

If he lives in Brisbane, it's hard it's far. But you know, Caroline came from, you know.

SPEAKER_05 41:59

Caroline came down.

SPEAKER_01 41:59

Where does Caroline live? Caroline uh Burley Heads. Oh, okay, right.

SPEAKER_05 42:03

But she's down for a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 42:04

But she's out in her I think her family isn't is in Melbourne, so she's down. She's down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 42:10

Um Raymond came down to the room. Raymond was there. I mean, like then. So I I'm not usually very like starstruck or anything, but I did, when Ferris walked through the doors, I did have a little like pussy quiver.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

Did gasp.

SPEAKER_05 42:24

Um he's a incredibly handsome.

SPEAKER_01 42:27

Ferris has been working out, and we notice he's been working out because when we were watching the screen, man's entire triangle shaped back in front of the screen. All I saw was back.

SPEAKER_05 42:38

And he was so sweet. He was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. Am I blocking the screen?

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Am I blocking the screen? Yes. Yes, you are, but flexible. You are blocking the screen. Yeah, you are blocking the screen. Yeah, it was great fun. Yeah, really good. Um, other than the sound system.

SPEAKER_05 42:52

Oh, that's right. They took them a little while to fix the sound.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

Like, this is not a footy game. We footy game, sure. We can watch it, that's fine. I need to hear what these people are saying. I have a podcast to do.

SPEAKER_05 43:04

Yeah, it was so true that I was just like, oh, but we got lovely staff, fixed the sound, and we were all away. But yeah, great episode to watch with that lot, especially after what happened. And also, it was an iconic night of Australian Survivor because after the Golden God finally departed, then 10 decided to drop. Just drop. Yep, he's the host. The rumors are true.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

And also, like Dave Janay, a very attractive man. Yes. It made him look buttfuck ugly. He did. What was that?

SPEAKER_05 43:35

He also looks pure evil in that photo. He looks like he is pissing on the grave of JLP. And I'm kind of it's kind of can't.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

It's the same, like the button down shirt, like the tight jeans and the belt. Like he's not a rancher.

SPEAKER_05 43:48

It's like two different shades of denim on each other, which I don't feel good about.

SPEAKER_01 43:51

It was like two different shots, it's like one dark wash denim and like a light wash shirt. And he's like head ponytailed back. Like honestly, puty. But I mean like I don't know, put him bare of board shorts and like the songs before all I care. But like Dave Janae is hot. Like you've made him look very hot.

SPEAKER_05 44:07

And you told me this during the show that he's one of your favourite players ever and that you love him. And I was like, okay. No, but like same. I honestly like I hang short on him just because he's he's too perfect. Yeah. And that that's why I want to like bring him down a bit. But he is a great player, makes great TV.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

Makes great TV. I I I love I've watched, I mean, I've watched everything he's done from like a reality TV perspective. Um and he's good. Like arguably, I still think his first season on Champions V contenders was better than All-Stars, purely because he was more like Cunty David.

SPEAKER_05 44:43

And All Stars, I feel like he just from halfway through, you're like, well, he's one. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? There wasn't much like arming and awing about what was.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

No, there was no arming and eyeing. He was kind of like he picked his troops and he sort of like herded them.

SPEAKER_05 44:56

He just did it, which is like testament to his game, but also like didn't make for a compelling season.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Whereas like Cunty David is like what I'm after, and like, you know, yeah, pissing on the sh grave of GLP David.

SPEAKER_05 45:08

Kind of amazing. Episode two starts with idol hunting taking place on the Aussie tribe, and we get a lot of George in Speedo's buttons. Yeah, a lot of George butt shots. Which became a drinking game. We became a drinking game.

SPEAKER_01 45:22

For you items drinking.

SPEAKER_05 45:25

Luke finds an idol. Yeah. Immediately puts it on his pants. Yeah. Cute little idol. It looks like a little it looks like a compact mirror.

SPEAKER_01 45:35

No, it looks like a but the CD like. Oh yeah, a shiny a little pearl. Very like pearlescent themes going on. I don't know what the the why the theme is pearls. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 45:45

I don't know what the it's a world bird pearl. It's a pearl around the season. Alright, over at World, Parv reminds us that she is the black widow. And I was like, Yes, you are. Yes, you are, ma'am. Tony knows that Parv and Sari love a girly alliance, and he's equal parts bricking it and cool with that. I don't know. Yeah. So he's kind of leaning in, which is awkward. He's like, yeah, girl. Yeah, girl.

SPEAKER_01 46:15

I'm like, ooh. We love a you know, we love a what's it called, ally. Exactly. And Tony's an ally.

SPEAKER_05 46:20

But calling it out, I think, is smart.

SPEAKER_01 46:22

Yeah. Call it.

SPEAKER_05 46:23

Makes people scared and they might might not want to do it.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

Well, the thing is, if you like, if you're worried about it, you make other people notice. Like, hey, girls are chatting. Why are other girls chatting? And like they are outnumbered at this point.

SPEAKER_05 46:35

Over at Aussie, Dave, I think, is starting to realize that he's underestimated Kirby. And he's like, oh well she's good.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

She well, she he doesn't realize it initially. Um his uh he just goes up to her and just goes, Hey, what are you doing? We'll we'll be like, yeah, you you and I, ride or die. You know, I'll take you under my wing, Kirbs. Like, you don't know anybody. We'll we'll do the thing. Hey, let's make a wig.

SPEAKER_05 47:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:02

No.

SPEAKER_05 47:02

The wig thing I was like, okay, having fun. Look at us having fun.

SPEAKER_00 47:07

Can you guys shoot some b-roll of you having fun? Thanks.

SPEAKER_05 47:11

Kirby asks George, I know Janine is a good choice because George is like, and I think this is a little bit was his undoing, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 47:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:20

So hell bent on Janine, which I'm like, get over it. But um Kirby goes, Look, I know Janine's good, but how about David? Which I'm like, whoop.

SPEAKER_03 47:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:29

I'm listening. Everybody's excited about this. But George is a little bit scared of Gigi and his spies. Like, he's got spies everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 47:37

Yeah, which is very un-George-like.

SPEAKER_05 47:39

I agree. You'd think that he would want to do it straight away, but he was almost.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

I think he just genuinely thought he was in a power bottom.

SPEAKER_05 47:46

He really doesn't like Janine. And I think he was playing emotionally and just wanted to get her out. Like blinkers on.

SPEAKER_01 47:54

Because again, very unGorg.

SPEAKER_05 47:56

I hate her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:57

So I yeah, I don't know if it was a bit more.

SPEAKER_05 47:59

I think because she's not a big fan of the game, and everyone else there is. And I maybe that's why. Potentially. I don't know. I think Janine's fine. But anyway. Yeah. Kirby also asks Sarah. And Sarah's like, well, he's a good meat shield. Yeah. Fucking Sarah. She Sarah is spiraling.

SPEAKER_01 48:19

But this also Sarah is being very unsarah-like.

SPEAKER_05 48:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 48:23

Because, like Sarah, you are like a notorious sneak. And we love you because you're not.

SPEAKER_05 48:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:30

But Sarah, no, be a sneak. I love you as a sneak. You're the sneak.

SPEAKER_05 48:34

Um Sarah tells us that Dave is her like modeling pal. Which and so is it true that she like pretty much got him on the show? Or like she was on the show first.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

No. No, is that not right? The lore is that Parv got Dave on the show. Oh, on this one. Yeah. No, I mean like I mean back in the day. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 48:52

Sarah was on it first. Oh yeah, she's like, I fucking made you.

SPEAKER_01 48:54

Yeah. You are you are like nothing without me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 48:57

I brought you into this world.

SPEAKER_01 48:58

Golden God. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 49:02

But yeah, but she's like, look, I love my friend, but I don't want to get sucked up into the supernova that is the golden god. And I was like, correct. Correct. We get an immunity challenge of this like battering ram thing, which I thought was quite cool. I liked this one. It was original, I think. Yeah. Had like a key thing to slot through.

SPEAKER_01 49:20

Yeah, and then it looked hard. It did look hard. And then you had to like balance it. Um was that the one with the boxes?

SPEAKER_05 49:26

And they had to yes, there was balancing things on it. Yeah, do a lot of things with this one prop.

SPEAKER_01 49:31

Yeah. And it looked heavy.

SPEAKER_05 49:33

It did look heavy. And the world. Take it. Yeah. Is this the one that Sarah kind of fucked up? Was that the no that was next week? Yeah. Next app. Um yeah, no, no one was really to buy them. They just kind of didn't pull through.

SPEAKER_01 49:46

But this is the thing, like, like arguably, world like voted out the biggest beefcake on their um tribe, who would be like, we gotta keep the team strong, and then nailed the challenge.

SPEAKER_05 49:55

So um Aussie tribe. Uh George tells Kirby that life is for living, which is one of his favourite quotes. Uh, and Sean and Sarah as well, and they're like, Let's get out, David. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:10

Um Kirbs is itching to get out, David. And like, George is backpedaling. George, Georgie know. And Sarah is spiraling.

SPEAKER_05 50:18

She is a bit, she's kind of torn, Natalie Bruyard style. Yeah. Because she's like, he's my mate, but also he's a big threat.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

But then I also have to keep my alliance with Kirby. Yeah. I but then she like swept this is the this is the this is the issue though. Uh um, my belief system is that all of your relationships outside of the game, like yeah, incinerated. Oh, totally as soon as you step in.

SPEAKER_05 50:41

Because this is an artificial environment.

SPEAKER_01 50:43

Exactly. It's a my complete microcosm of itself. I think that's a good way to do it. Yeah, and then sure, like these are returnee players that are played multiple times. So you're gonna have playing experience, sure. But I don't think you should sort of like real relationships, nah. Yeah, off in the wind. And even if you do, don't swear on your friendship.

SPEAKER_05 51:02

Oh, yeah, that was bad. Because are they mates now? Like, I TVD on that, honestly, because I feel like he would be a bit of a grudge holder, but I don't know. Yeah, um, okay, so this is the iconic scene where George and David are having words with Kirby present. David's like, well, who's uh who's saying my name? And George goes, Stunning silence. She's standing right there, and Kirby's like, you little fucking bitch.

SPEAKER_01 51:28

Like you, George.

SPEAKER_05 51:31

And watching this episode with those two people right there.

SPEAKER_01 51:34

I was like the screen was there, but we were all live. And George and Kirby were there, and you were just going, Oh my god, cinema.

SPEAKER_05 51:42

It was so good. I died. Uh then we get I loved this shot of Kirby in the bath. The princess. The princess having a blah blah blah. It was great. And David is so perturbed by how chill because Kirby has just this beautiful serenity, yeah. Best poker face ever. David is mad. He's like, and this is when we get all these confessionals, him going like full roid rage, like inside.

SPEAKER_01 52:08

I couldn't imagine that confessional where he's just going, I did he's like, why is she so calm?

SPEAKER_05 52:15

She should be bowing to her god. And it's like she couldn't fucking care less, mate.

SPEAKER_01 52:20

And could you imagine him just like standing on like the just the bag being like fine? Should I go to Okay, I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it. And then just crouching low, waiting into the water, and then it and like Kirby just just soaked there. Dave goes up to her, Sarah goes after.

SPEAKER_05 52:37

She's making me come to her. Nobody does that.

SPEAKER_01 52:40

It's like the mountain will not come to Mohammed. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 52:45

Uh, but at this stage, it wasn't looking good for King George. I was worried, yeah, and yeah, again, good editing by the show because I was like, you know, you want to go into a trouble as a viewer being a little bit like, ooh.

SPEAKER_01 52:59

Yeah, because like, you know, like because in my head, I'm like, oh my god, is Dave going? And then oh, it swung towards George, and then you really didn't know.

SPEAKER_05 53:08

Well, George pivots to his anyone but me strategy, which he's like, is that groundbreaking? No, but it'll do.

SPEAKER_01 53:13

And I was like, oh honey, what do you think?

SPEAKER_05 53:16

Ungeorge like, ungeorge like but I get it, like it's their first one. It's their first one. I'd probably be like that too.

SPEAKER_01 53:21

And also, like George arguably will have a lot of targets on his back. Like that's that's the that's what happens when you're King George. Uh-huh. It's um, it's the same, it's the same when you're the golden god. Um, unfortunately, one of them has to go.

SPEAKER_05 53:34

Exactly. And I would say golden god was probably a bigger threat to people as a winner, but then yeah, and then with that shield gone.

SPEAKER_01 53:40

I mean, winner and also like George, arguably not a huge challenge threat when it comes to community. When you get there, yeah. Dave, however, very much is so makes sense.

SPEAKER_05 53:52

At tribal Kirby, this I thought was a bad acting on her part. She really tries to downplay her game at the start, and David calls it out. He's like immediately. She's like, Oh, well, because you know, I'm just I'm playing with kings and queens and gods, and I'm just a little player band. And then David's like, honey.

SPEAKER_01 54:10

Honey, you are so good at this. Like you just ran circles around the entire tribe for an entire day. Um, ma'am, you know how to scramble. She laid it on thick, but I was like, like by all means, like I mean the the the the tactic in is um if you're gonna lie and if you're gonna lay it on thick and they go the next day, what's the matter? They've already gone. So you you've still got the rest of the tribe to pull the wall over.

SPEAKER_05 54:35

So chaos breaks out, we get whispers. I mean live tribal. Some great editing with like sound. Like I love when they do the sound, like someone's having a fucking seizure, and it's like and you can hear like Shawnee in the background going, yeah, well, Jonathan.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

It's like tunnel vision and it like zooms out, and then the Shawnee becomes blurry and it just pans to George, going and then George and David have a little breakaway chat. And the Kirby looks livid.

SPEAKER_05 55:04

Yeah, they decide on Shawnee. Shawnee's been like a weird last-minute scramble scapegoat twice now, but then like is fine.

SPEAKER_01 55:13

Yeah, it's pretty much like oh, anyone but oh, Shawnee.

SPEAKER_05 55:16

So crazy.

SPEAKER_01 55:17

Which which and then she keeps escaping it.

SPEAKER_05 55:19

Yeah, she's it's that dress, just bounces off.

SPEAKER_01 55:22

Well, it's a bulletproof dress, that's it.

SPEAKER_05 55:25

Uh then we have a tie, which is very exciting. So it was three on Dave, three on George, and the one on Janine. And that was when I was like, George.

SPEAKER_01 55:33

Georgie Fucking hell.

SPEAKER_05 55:35

Like, leave Janine alone. Did you get like a food poisoning from boost juice or something? Like, what is this personal vendetta?

SPEAKER_01 55:42

Oh man, and then the next I know that's the next episode. Juiced get juiced. Oh yeah, he's like juiced, Janine gets juiced, yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 55:49

What is she does not get juice?

SPEAKER_01 55:51

What's your favourite oh actually Segway, what's your favourite boost juice?

SPEAKER_05 55:54

I'm not a boost juice girly, but from back in the day for me, it's like so nostalgia. It's like high point shopping center, like 2002.

SPEAKER_01 56:01

Oh, you so you wouldn't have magic. Oh, oh okay. I was green tea mango mantra.

SPEAKER_05 56:06

Oh, that sounds good.

SPEAKER_01 56:07

Yeah, it was really good.

SPEAKER_05 56:08

We should have I mean Janine, if you wanna if you want to supply the pod with Boost Boost for my guests, we can please. I'm not above it.

SPEAKER_01 56:18

We will, you know, sip yeah. Some boost. Logan, oh, also a segue. Logan used to work at Boost. Oh, I love that. See, there you go. Everyone loves boost. Guess we need to stop plugging boosts.

SPEAKER_05 56:30

I know. Then we get the reboat, and turns out Sarah turns her back on her modeling. Halhooshi swore on her friendship. So good. Oh delightful.

SPEAKER_01 56:42

Oh, no, and the entire tribe, she looks like so torn. Um, it looked painful. It did, so painful. That would have sucked. Um, and then David just in immediately announcing his retirement and then the meta moment.

SPEAKER_05 56:57

Amazing.

SPEAKER_01 56:58

It was just inception, like, uh, could not yeah.

SPEAKER_05 57:01

Him going, oh well, this is definitely a wink to camera the last time I play this game. And I was like, you knew. He fucking knew, right? 100% had to have. Like he like looks at JLP.

SPEAKER_01 57:13

And they're like, like snuff me now. I'm gonna snuff you in a few months.

SPEAKER_05 57:19

Oh god pretty soon, baby.

SPEAKER_01 57:21

I yeah, and then immediately show finishes and all of the it was like a gossip girl blast.

SPEAKER_05 57:28

And everyone was like, Oh my god, have you seen boop boop boop boom?

SPEAKER_01 57:32

So that was exciting. Genuine gossip girl blast. And I love I know this is like all like survivor people, because in between ad breaks, everyone's on Twitter.

SPEAKER_05 57:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:41

Oh, we're so predictable. It is fun.

SPEAKER_05 57:44

Episode three. Episode three. This was another good one. Round out the week. Um, very well. Starts at Aussie Tribe, George is in hot water. Because, you know, he did he had an outlier vote vote. So it's like, doesn't look good. Shawnee is like, look, George isn't a cockroach, he just possesses a lot of cockroach-like qualities.

SPEAKER_01 58:08

And then cut to B-roll of George eating a leaf. And you're like, okay, who would add it that this?

SPEAKER_05 58:14

And then she's like, Am I literally Sue's big move?

SPEAKER_00 58:19

Because I keep saying I'm getting it now, but Am I Sue's Big Move was so good.

SPEAKER_04 58:23

Put Sue on fucking the next version of the state.

SPEAKER_01 58:28

Oh no. There's there should be an Australia versus the world, but just I don't know, the the Sues, the rogues.

SPEAKER_05 58:38

I do not need a rogue Ruben on my screens. But yeah, definitely bring on Sue.

SPEAKER_01 58:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 58:43

Hurricane Kelly.

SPEAKER_01 58:45

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 58:46

She was there on um Monday night. Yes. I was like, hey.

SPEAKER_01 58:51

Hurricane Kelly. Australia Versus the World 2.

SPEAKER_05 58:54

I reckon. Do it. Do it. Doing some wild cards. Uh the Aussie Girlies minus Janine assemble to form a new alliance. But Sarah thinks that Shawnee complicates things. And I'm like, no, Sarah, you're complicating things. No?

SPEAKER_01 59:09

No, it's like there, it's it's like I love triangle at this point. It is. Kirby, as every, you know, just dom lesbian in the trifecta, is just like, why are these women?

SPEAKER_05 59:20

They are all crushing hard for Kirby. Well, these girls are like magnetized. It's that, yeah. Yeah. It's that domoch energy. I feel the same way every time I've interacted with Kirby. Oh, I know. I get real sub. Just like back up. Like, do whatever you want. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Oh. Over at World Hav educates Tony on what a French press is. This was hilarious. He's so like jersey, isn't he? He's like, what?

SPEAKER_02 59:54

What? Coffee comes out of the coffee comes out of this machine. Australians are weird.

SPEAKER_05 59:59

The attention turns to the mystery box. So this was on the first episode. They won this box at the little challenge with the boring flint and the exciting champagne. And of course, I think the box was the first thing chosen. The box was the first thing. Rob Rob picked it.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:16

After he beat Dad Gigi.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:18

Which, of course, you do that because it's probably got something good in it. This was so good. They go key hunting, everyone's key hunting.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:26

It's just the the dangling king every shot.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:30

And she's like, maybe it's maybe it's the oh my god. Grabs it, then we get this incredible thing. So we're saying, calm down. Stop looking exciting. This was a great scene.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:40

Tony, nonetheless, um But it's like poverty sitting on it and the locks like fully open.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:46

It's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:47

Oh I would have shatter brick.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:49

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:50

They did a really good job. I would have I thought Tony was gonna clock it.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:54

But yeah, amazing that he didn't.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:55

Honestly.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:56

Then I love Sari tells Lisa the news, which I was like, okay, so you are doing it. You're legit about working with her. You're telling her this news.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:04

It wasn't just like that. Oh yeah. I was shocked, actually.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:06

I was like almost a bit like, oh Sari, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:08

I honestly thought they were two timing them. Like I checked.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:11

Me too, but no, she tell lets her in.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:13

And Lisa's like, oh, isn't that nice?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:17

She was like, oh, that's real good, Sari. Thanks for that. I'm like, you are fucking adorable.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:24

She's so and but she's downplaying it. No, she's doing no no. So her season, she did the same thing where she's like, I'm a super fan, but I'm gonna be like, I'm a mom super fan. Oh, oh my god, that's so great. I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:36

She's actually doing Sari. Yeah. Beating her at her own game back in the day. Oh man. It's so good. Um they set a plan to distract Tony so they can get into the box, blah blah blah. They get in and it's a bit of a it's a bit of a flop what's in the box.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:52

No, but like the it's Lisa distracting Tony. And Tony is like body line.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:58

Oh my god, how'd I forget about the well? He's like crawling down. How did all of Tony fit in? Turns out it wasn't hard to distract Tony at all. They were just like, hey, jump down there. And he was like, oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:17

Tony, you can look directly at the bottom. I know that well.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:20

That was so they find out that it's there's an idol at tribal on the podium, which we're like, which we've had before.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:28

Yeah. Yeah. Or is that an American cinema? So Blood versus Water had it. Um South Africa had it.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:35

So they so then an American one did I think.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:37

No, no, no. So Americ so um uh what's his name? Adam Klein.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:43

Adam Klein in Tribal Um asks Jeff, like, oh, can I play that? And just points at like this not an idol. Yeah. Um but no, uh Pulissa from South African Survivor found the idol. Yeah. Um and then Blood versus Water. Um Chrissy steals it.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:04

That's right. Yeah, as well. Love Chrissy. I think we're ready for a Chrissy returns. Chrissy needs to return. Chrissy needs to come back.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:11

Chrissy needs to come back.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:12

I'm I'm ready. And then amongst all this chaos, Cass finds an idol as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:17

And she's like, so good. And and this is this, I I want like the like sleeper, you know, Cass to come in. And like, and that's great. Because I think players like Cass, once they get power, they're like, Alright, good, I'm good. I just need I just need a bit of comfort. I've got my alliance, I've got my idol. Now I'm just gonna the French Revolution will begin. Oh no, sorry, she's quibicways. The Canadian revolution.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:42

Pardon, sorry, the French Canadian Revolution. French Canadian revolution. She's going to begin. Yeah. Oh, she's giving really cute her confessionals, but she's kind of like being a little bit sassy and cute. Uh great.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:52

A little bit sassy and cute, also like you know, dipping into like in a bit of French in there.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:55

I think she's going far.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:56

She's gonna, yeah, yeah. It's good, it's good. That idol will stay put for a while.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:01

And everybody, I think everybody so far that has an idol, no one knows about it. Is that right? Because Luke's got one that no one knows about. No, hasn't told her. Didn't even tell God and God. Oh, how good was on drop your buffs when they told God and God Luke Catal.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:14

He was like, oh man.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:16

He's like, now I've got to cut Sarah and Luke.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:19

Jeez, oh man.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:20

He was actually pissed off.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:22

Like this.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:23

But I'm like, dude, it's the Olympics of drag. Like, come on. But this is the thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:26

Do you reckon it's gonna cause like a lot of drama?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:30

He's he's got he's millions to whack his tears with at night.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:33

Yeah, I don't know. If you like lose at the Olympics, do you like get mad? I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:37

I don't know. I've never been to the Olympics. Come on, come on.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:40

You know you've been to the Olympics, tell us. Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:42

Yeah, uh, Australia Tribe. Sarah is kind of like it's weird because she was a part of getting David out, but it's almost like she regrets it or she feels weird about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:55

No, no, she feels so so this is I kind of thought that this is what Kirby did, which was get Sarah like really comfortable and be like, okay, it's not gonna be Dave, it's not gonna be Dave. And then at tribe will be like, it's Dave. Yeah, it's Dave. And then she's like, she's stuck.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:09

And she was like pusmatized by Kirby's like power.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:14

Kirby's power, and also kind of being like, oh fuck, I have to be loyal now, I have nowhere to go. And that's why I think she brought it up because she's like, Oh, did you do that on purpose? Like, did you corner me? Um, which is I which I feel like is arguably a good play by Kirby if she did, if that's what she did.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:32

Anyway, yeah, Sarah, she's giving insecure girly at this point. I'm like, you're a grown woman.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:37

Yeah, Sarah.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:38

I mean, you look incredible. Sarah, remember who you are. Yeah, I want her to exactly I wanted to snap out of it. She's being like weird, and she's like, because Shawnee is moving in on Kirby, and she's being that jealous girl at high school that's like, she's my friend.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:52

She's my friend.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:53

You can't have she's my BFF. You can't have her. You can't have her. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:57

Yeah, and she mentions it when she's talking to Kirby, like, oh, this is personal fault. Me and I went, but like he's giving pick me, girly. Shawnee and Sarah have they played? No, they have played two no they haven't played together. No, no, because Sarah was on all-stars?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:11

No, Sarah was an all-stars.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:13

Sean was um champions v. Contenders one.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:17

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:18

And yes, Sarah was the season. I didn't know the other one.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:24

Challenge. It's the sandbag thing. This was like for such a like kind of povo challenge. Yeah. It gave great great content. Great content, great tension, great drama. We had George being like, hey Tony, um what are you gonna do? Chat about our tribal, and then Janine being like, Are you giving away our secrets? Which like I can see both sides of this. I don't think he was giving away the secrets, he was just being cheeky and wanting to make TV, but like to the Aussies, it's like how dare you say how dare you? So I think he shouldn't have done it just for that. Yeah, I think it kind of sealed his vote in a weird way. So they were pissed off about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:02

Because they bought it up at Tribal as well, because Janine was on like a war path at Tribal.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:05

Yeah, um fair enough, because George kind of started it, he was going gunning for her for no reason. So I don't know, I'm kind of Janine in this case, yeah. Only because, like objectively, like be flexible, mate.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:20

Yeah, dude. Anyway, um, but no, the the intro shot of that challenge was great. Um, they're all holding the sandbags above their head. Um JLP's like, oh, you know, you guys have a bit of experience, you have a bit of experience. Pav, you did a challenge like this now because I held my hand above my head for six hours.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:38

Six hours, Jonathan. Two hours passes by, amazing effort. Everyone's like psyching each other out. I was living for this challenge. It was really well done.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:46

It sucked. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:47

Uh but then Sarah, her face, the face, the face, was like can't do it. She's like, and then I just was like, she's dropping. Yeah. She yeah, she loses it for the Aussies, which they don't seem to care about that, by the way. I guess it's not we're not playing Survivor back in the mateship days where she would have gone home for that. Exactly. But we're playing in the strat era where the challenges are kind of secondary.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:14

Challenge is secondary. Like, if you I think it's so much so that people are like, should we throw it? I don't want to be bothered. Do you want it? Alright.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:21

This is when George is like, Janine's getting juiced.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:23

Janine's getting juiced. Luke is getting something alliteration appropriate.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:28

Um, but like He gets too this is where George fucked it up. Yeah, he starts telling them what to do.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:33

The Hooper's built up and it was too much.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:36

He's like, telling them what to do. Janine's like, who are you? Like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:40

That's what that didn't make sense. Because this is like George Heroes v. Villains, where like I'm gonna tell you what to do. These are your rights, sign, sealed, delivered. Yeah, take it. But like George, you you think you've got the numbers, they could arguably still like flip on you just because like DG's not there, like you're and also Gigi's not there, so who's next?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:02

It's you, like everyone is not a threat to like trying to push it on her. I'm just like leave her alone. She's not in the mix when it comes to big targets.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:12

And like all you had to realize was like if you had like a conversation with Sarah and realize that she was gunning for Shawnee, and like also understand that you know, just because you like rub a bit of dirt on a wound, it's not a little bit of make hair and makeup makeup, like Shawnee will want to knife you in the back. Like, come on.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:31

Sarah and George were off.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:35

Off. Off. Yeah. Like George turned the dial up on the George factor too much. Like last episode was mansplaining. Yeah, he's mansplaining. Like last episode was like ungeorge, and this was too much George too early.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:50

Yeah, he dialed it up. Maybe he knew he was going and then was like, fuck it, I'll just go out in a blazer go, nah.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:57

Nah, nah, George, George doesn't play like that. George, like, it's glory or death.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:01

Yeah, yeah, true. But like, I mean, I know he certainly knew he was his days were numbered. Yeah. Um, going in, I think.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:11

So makes sense. I mean, it would also make sense why at Tribal he was pretty much just like it was George rage bait on like crack.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:21

Yeah, which sometimes works for him and then sometimes doesn't. And the audience for this, no, like Janine was not into it.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:28

Because that's how what he did to Simon in Heroes V Villains was just every opportunity he would just bait Simon.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:35

Simon, I don't even know what you're doing. Which was like so.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:39

And then Simon would bite every single time, and it would just like arc him up. But like this one. Oh, hello. Hello, we have a guest. Yes. Tell us. Tell us about George. Um, Frida has arrived. Frida. Okay. Sorry, that was weird no way. You can stay. Um but like the rage bait didn't work because Gene was kind of just like, dude, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:07

Like Yeah, she wasn't into it. She wasn't into it. And again, I think that's a strategy that works when you're all normies, but not when you're returning players, perhaps.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:15

It just like it didn't have the wow factor where everyone's like, oh my god, this guy's crazy. I'm terrified.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:20

Do you know what else I thought was a flop? Was when he was like, listen, his pitch to say was so cooked. He was like, I'm the best at flipping a tribe in the minority at merge to like be on top. I was like, I don't really think anyone's buying what you're selling.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:38

It was also too many words. Like George Punchline's. It was a bit of a stretch. Yeah, George Punchline's hit, and then like it just yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:49

Yeah, sadly, it didn't work out. Also, I loved Shawnee celebrating her 50th tribal council with a little special message to George. But yeah, that the Shantent was Shantent was peaking.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:01

Shantent was peeking. And did you did you do that? Yes, I did. I did. It was really good.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:06

It was really good. And he was like pretty pissed, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:10

As you do, you do graciously accept it. Um and like like the the the mid-tribal going, oh damn. Yeah, I'm going.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:20

It it's so good. His drop you buffs episode was really good as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:25

Um David and um they were impersonating each other.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:27

I just love that they're it was George's moment and then impersonations of each other that are like a little bit cringe, but still great.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:33

It's okay, it's content. We like it. Exactly. Just give give it to us.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:36

Oh, it's so good. Oh well, we did it. We did it. Week one is down.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:42

Week one is incredible.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:43

What are we hoping for from week two?

SPEAKER_01 1:12:45

Oh, three episodes. But oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:48

Are we merging next week? Do you think? Surely we are merging because it's like halfway through.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:52

Has to happen. I'm so keen for this merge.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:56

I I my head will implode. Yeah. And like, like Curbs and Parv have already like done a little bit of like, oh the um, when they um Parv is like, I have six hours, and then Curb goes, Oh, are we bragging? And then they have a little strong eye bit of eye fucking.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:11

Kerb and Parv. I actually think because I know everyone online is like Sean and Parv, Sean and Parv. That's like I actually think Curb and Parv is the true that's like a true match. Cause like we love the Shantan. I love the Shantan. But yes, Fredo, darling, but I think Kirby and Parv are like equally like deadly.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:31

Absolutely. And it's oh, and then you just you could just see them like clocking each other, and uh, I just I feel like that could be the you know, oh that could be like a solid final too.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:44

Stop don't oh no welcome. Thank you so much for joining me this week.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:52

Happy to we're very happy to be here.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:54

It was so much fun. See you next time.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:58

See you next time.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:58

Bye-bye.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:59

Bye-bye.