Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Dylan here with something a little bit different today.
So one of my favorite shows is a little reality
show you may have heard of called Survivor that's been
going on since the early two thousands up until today,
still going strong, and just recently CBS announced the cast
of Survivor fifty, which is the first returning.
Speaker 2: Player season in a while. Now. I love Survivor.
Speaker 1: I've watched it since I was a kid. I've watched
it since before I even have a memory, Like I'm
pretty sure my family and I watched since season one,
but I have very few memories of those first few seasons,
just because I was so young at that given time.
I've kind of gone up and down in terms of
my interest over the years, but it's kind of been
a family thing. I've always watched it with my parents
or even if I'm not near my parents, we always
check in and talk about kind of the water cooler
moments of the episodes week to week and years to
years at this point. So it's a show I love
very much, and I thought this would be kind of
fun to go in here and just kind of share
my thoughts my reactions to the cast announcement. Now Survivor
of fifty is not actually happening until like next spring.
Well they're out there right now on the island filming,
but it won't be airing till next spring. I think
it could be fun to do like a draft or something.
We've done drafts in the Discord before. If you're interested
in Survivor, definitely joined the Discord where we have a
channel dedicated talking about it, which you know, a bit
of a ghost town sometimes, but every once in a
while we're having discussions in there, and we did a
draft at one point for a couple seasons, maybe forty three,
forty four or something like that. But I'm thinking it'd
be fun to bring it back for fifty. Maybe I'll
get like Travis and Jessica in there too, because they're
also big Survivor fans. Maybe Travis has lapsed a little bit,
but I think he still has that kind of passing interest.
He was reacting to the Survivor fifty cast announcement too,
But yeah, I just wanted to share this here, and
you know, if Survivor is something you guys want to
hear more of, I could probably bring it up on
like a newscast kind of thing. Like, I don't think
I want to get to the point where I'm doing
weekly recap episodes. I don't really that interest. But I think,
you know, a reaction here to our returning season doing
the Giraffe something like that could be fun. So yeah,
if you want to hear more Survivor content, I mean,
there's a million podcasts out there that do that, but hey,
if you want to hear from us, let me know
and join. Definitely joined the discord and chat with us
in there. So yeah, let's talk about Survivor fifty. This
is the first returning season since Survivor forty, which was
Winterers at War, which means it's been a while since
we've had the opportunity for a lot of players to return. Obviously,
back in forty you were limited there. You could only
pick from like, what thirty eight people because there's you know,
two time winner in there, So thirty thirty nine people
that were eligible for that season in the first place.
So obviously a much smaller pool than like Survivor fifty,
which had a pool of like seven hundred plus people
that could have been on there. And there's been a
lot of rumors of people who were caught who were
in the running who have been removed from the cast,
and obviously they whittled it down to an eventual twenty
four people that are out there right now, with a
mix of New Era people, Middle era people, old school people.
It's it's kind of a crazy cast. It's kind of
all over the place. I don't really think it has
much of a theme. It seems like there's a few
legends in there, but there's a few first timers. There's
a lot of New Era people, a lot of people
from just the most recent seasons, so it's kind of
a mixed match. It's kind of all over the place.
I think my just general reaction or thoughts on the
cast as a whole, Like if I was to go
percentage wise, I'd say I'm happy with like fifty or
like fifty sixty percent of the cast, which maybe doesn't
sound like a lot, but this is a huge cast.
I think it's the biggest cast the show has ever had,
you know, most of the time, or at least the
last few seasons they've done in the cast of eighteen,
so three tribes of six at the beginning, they often do,
you know, tribes of twenty to two teams of ten
something like that, and I don't know if there's ever
been more than twenty and now we're all the way
up at twenty four, so it's a pretty big jump.
And also with the new era, the show changed from
thirty nine days long to just twenty six days a long,
so we have twenty four players to whittle down in
twenty six days. I think because of that, this season's
gonna be super messy, Like we're not gonna have a
ton of time for super in depth strategy or like
deep connections from players, like just forming connections here on
the island.
Speaker 2: Like I think we'll probably.
Speaker 1: See a lot well we won't see this, but I'll
feel like there's a lot of like you know, people's
relationships before this season kind of coming.
Speaker 2: Into the season.
Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be a mess I would
say the odds are low that's gonna be a great season,
but I think it could still be a lot of fun,
and there's a lot of great people in here. So yeah,
like I said, like maybe half the people I'm stoked about,
but you know that is still like twelve ish people,
which is quite a lot as far as that's like
almost as much as a regular Survivor season, so there's
a lot to break down here. I have all sorts
of random thoughts will share at the end, but I
think I'll just right now go through person by person
and we'll talk about all of them. There's really only
like three people in here that I don't have anything
to say about, and first one of those is gonna
be the first person. So Jenna Lewis, who is on
Survivor borneo the first season of Survivor and then came
back for All All Stars, just because it's been so
long since I've watched either of these seasons. Also like
it's been since I was a child that I've watched
these seasons, so I really don't have much to say
on her. I think I don't know if I'll do
a rewatch of those seasons prior to this, but I'll
probably just watch like Jenna Lewis's best moments on YouTube,
like a ten minute clip that just has all of
her good stuff, because I don't really know much about her.
But it seems like for this Survivor fifty like it's
a big number. It's kind of a big anniversary type number.
I think they definitely wanted someone from the very first season,
and that's cool to bring her back. You know, obviously
she's on All Stars, but like forty nine seasons later
to come back, that's pretty iconic for any TV show ever,
I think, so it'll be cool. I don't really know
what to expect from her at the moment. I feel
like her threat level would probably be pretty low, would
be my prediction, So I think she could do pretty well.
But also, you know, I think last time she played,
there wasn't even hidden immunity titles in the game, right,
Like that's how long ago, and that's like such a
you know, staple of like Survivor and strategy and stuff.
So we'll see how he's able to keep up because
the game has changed a lot in whatever. However many
seasons it's been since she's last been on, I think
that is definitely setting a record in terms of first
appearance to most recent appearance. Is Jenna here, So that's
that's pretty cool. So I'm excited to see her. I
think that'll be fun to have an old school person
that I'm not too familiar with, And like I said,
I'll probably do a little bit of catch up before
before this Surider fifty comes out. Next up is Colby.
So Colby, you know, kind of an icon from the
early era of the show. He was first on the
second season and then came back for All Stars, and
then was on Heroes Versus Villains. This is one I'm
not really that excited about. I think I think back
to Heroes of His Villains, which is probably the best
season in the show's history. He was on there, but
he was definitely not like the player that he was
in his first couple of seasons. I remember even back
then just kind of being underwhelmed. And there's like the
famous quote from I Think James who called him like
Superman in a fat suit, because he back in the
day was like a challenge beast to huge you know,
physical presence. But on Heroes of His Villains he was
just kind of there. And so he's not very memorable
to me.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, like.
Speaker 1: On his first season he made it the final tribal
and lost, So I just don't even know, like story wise,
what we're gonna get. I don't know if he's been
keeping up and if the strategy and pace is something
that he'll thrive in. He is an iconic name. I'd
see why they picked him, but personally, I'm not that
excited for him, unfortunately. Next up is Stephanie Lea Grossa,
who was on Palau Guatemala and then Heroes Versus Villains.
From what I understand, she was like a really just
incredibly famous person, one of the most famous people in
Survivor history, just in terms of the show. You know,
was so huge in the early two thousands and it's
waned since then, but it used to be one of
the biggest shows on TV, and she was definitely a
staple name. So it's cool that they got her in here.
But I also remember and Here's Verse Villains, and it
says here on this article that she got nineteenth Here's
Verse Villain. So she went out pretty early and I
don't really remember her much from that. So another one
that I'm not too excited about, to be honest, But
we'll see what she's a to do. I'm open to it.
I think maybe she's got some some fight in her.
I think she's been on a cop couple other reality
TV shows recently, so that could be interesting, like, you know,
getting her head back in the game, even if Survivor
is a bit bit of a different beast. So we'll
see what happens there. Next up is Sirie. Now this
is this is a tricky one because you know, this
is gonna be her fifth time out, sixth if you
include that the fact that she's going on an Australian Survivor
or she already did but hasn't aired yet something like that.
I've never watched Australian Survivor, but she's on that season
as well. So if you factor that in, like six
time playing six times playing the game of Survivor, and
I think that is a record for anyone ever.
Speaker 2: So it's a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, she's never won the game, and so of
course there's always that opportunity to like get that full
circle moment close it out. She's one of the people
who has gotten so close so many times. Of course,
in Micronesia, the fans vers favorite season. You know, kind
of a surprise final two at the end of that
season where she thought, okay, I'm made it to the
final three, I'm in the final tribe. I can pitch
my case that they kind of rug pulled into the
final two, and then she got voted out and obviously
couldn't win the game at that point.
Speaker 2: So that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: Didn't do great in Here's the Verse Villains, and then
came back for Game Changers and went out in like
an iconic but also really savage way, which is that
everyone that I think it was the final six and
everyone else was immune. You know, one person of the necklace,
a couple of idols were played. I don't even know
how other people were. I don't know how five people
were immune. I can't even remember how that possibly could
have happened. But obviously just advantages everywhere everyone played them.
She didn't have one, so she didn't even get voted for,
but she just went out by default. So obviously that's
a pretty Honestly, it's a pretty iconic way to end
her Survivor career. I think if that was the final
season she was on because it's like, hey, I've done
the best I can. It is like raw dumb luck
I am. I'm just out of here and there's nothing
I could do about it. I feel like she's probably
got to be like the highest threat level person out here,
and you know, she's never been like a challenge beast.
Speaker 2: But in terms of the social dynas, I think a
lot of people know her.
Speaker 1: Story and would be happy to give her the million
even if she didn't play the best game, but just
like for the legacy, Like you know, sometimes in the
Oscars they kind of just give someone like a legacy
oscar almost you know, it's like, ah, it's your turn
to get this and get this award, that kind of thing.
I feel like I could see that situation happening with
Suri here. So she's always good TV, she's always fun.
She's an icon of the show. Five times says a lot.
But she's one of the few people, like you know,
that's worth an exception like that. Next up would be Ozzy,
and this is a really interesting one to compare and
contrast again, so he's also coming out for his fifth
time here. You know, Ozzy, when I was a kid,
was my favorite player. He was like the jungle boy type.
He was climbing trees, getting coconuts, he was fishing, he
was winning all these challenges. That's not really my preferred
archetype anymore. And I also think just you know, his
most recent appearance, which was on Game Changers, he was
just sleeping out of the wheel. He really phoned that in,
and that's why I was not really that excited to
see him come back. However, he is a player like
Siri that I feel like he doesn't really get as
much credit for how close he's been to winning the
game twice. I think we kind of just underestimate him
because he's not a huge strategist or anything like that.
But like his first season, he got to Final Tribal
and I think he lost by one vote something like that,
so like one person's change of a vote could have
he could have been a winner. And then in South Pacific,
which was like the season that was built around him,
and coach had this Redemption Island thing, and he did
some crazy stunt where he like intentionally got voted out
so that he could go to Redemption Island and win
all these challenges to fight his way back into the game.
And he did that, and he got like all the
way to the end and then just got like voted
out at fourth or something and just was, you know,
one vote away from Final Tribal and I think if
he had made it to final he would have definitely
got the w there. So yeah, he like even more
than like Sie, like he probably was so close to
two wins, like in two separate seasons, and just barely
didn't get it.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: You know, he's little bit older now, does he still
have that fighting him? Is he's still going to be
doing all this crazy stuff? Is that what I want
to see? Not necessarily, So I'm a little low on
this one, not too hype, even if he is similar
to Sree in that same way.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll see give him a chance, but yeah, this is
not one I was too excited for it because we've
seen him so much and I just don't think he's
really going to bring anything new this time around his
fifth time out, So we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 2: Next up is Coach.
Speaker 1: Coach I feel like is a player that annoyed me
so much back in the day. I think he kind
of annoyed everyone, but also he's just such an ignomatic character,
like no one is like him, and I think he's
had for me. This is one that you know, I'm
down for it because I think he's just he's a
goofy character and he'll probably make good TV. But in
terms of his story, I feel like he did have
a pretty complete loop where he started in Token Chein's
came back for Heroes Vers Villains and then South Pacific
once again that season with Ozzie there, which cool to
have both of them back, you know, the season that
was built around those two characters. Having both of them
back here so kind of you know, interactions they have
that could be interesting.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he made it to the end and then like.
Speaker 1: Lost in Final Tribal, finally played the game he always
wanted to, but realized that, like, that's not what people
want that, you know, that's not what people we're looking for.
So he's you know, worked for three seasons to get
to this point, finally did it, and the people said, hey,
this is not the kind of game that's like worthy
of a win, which I think is a great closed loop.
Like I feel like that's like the perfect loop for Coach.
Not every loop, not every storyline has to end in
a win for it to be satisfying. So once again,
not super duper thrilled to have him back, but I
think he will probably make for good TV unless he's
just like older and not as goofy as he once was.
But I feel like even on social media, he's been
going off doing some silly stuff, so he's probably still
got that silliness in him. You know, once a silly man,
always a silly man. Next up is Aubrey. This is
this is a tricky one. So Aubrey started sometime in
the early thirties and then came back like two two
times really in really quick succession, I think within like
four or five six seasons something like that, and each
time was kind of did worse.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: In her first season she made the final tribal, lost
to Michelle, came back in Game Changers, and then came
back Edge of Extinction, which was, you know, not a
great season and always tricky when you're in a captain's
type season where you're like only one of two or
three returning players, obviously you have a huge target on
your back. And she was voted out pretty early and
then you know, it was in the game for a
while because of the Edge of Extinction mechanic there, but
just didn't really bring anything. I can't remember a single
thing from that season. I can't even really remember what
she did in her second season note the first one.
I do remember that arc of like her breaking down
in the first episode or two, just like couldn't handle
the stress and the pressure of it all.
Speaker 2: Then like fights back makes it to.
Speaker 1: The very end and like probably pretty close to a win,
but doesn't quite get it, And so it kind of
just feels a bit like diminishing returns every time we've
seen her, and I guess I'm not I don't.
Speaker 2: Miss her yet.
Speaker 1: I did like her as a character, but I think
I maybe needed another few seasons before or I was
ready for like the big Aubrey comeback. This feels a
bit too soon when it feels like we've been had
you know, it's been so long since the returning player season.
I would have liked other people to get a chance
before her fourth time. It's crazy to say that she'll
be out there for fourth time. I do think she'll
be like a lower threat level player, would be my guess,
and so I could see her doing quite well. So yeah,
we'll have to kind of wait and see see what
happens there. Next up is it Chrissy. Chrissy from one
of my least favorite seasons, Heroes, Healers, Hustlers. There was
a period there in the early thirties of the show
where I was I was really not digging it, and
I got really close to quitting watching the show, giving
up definitely with thirty nine with you know, all the
crazy shit that happened in that season. But then you know,
they announced Winners at War and it's like, Okay, well,
of course I'm gonna watch the Winners at War season.
And I like that season, even if it was very gimmicky,
So that kind of reignited my hype a little bit,
and that's when I think I got a little bit
more invested in the show. Like I don't really rewatch seasons.
I've rewatched like two or three seasons in my life,
but you know what around words that War is when
I was like, oh, I want to listen to more
of this exit press and hear people like do deep
dives on the game, listen to more like podcasts and stuff.
And that's when I got like, maybe more invested in
Survivor on like another level and thinking more deeply about
strategy and players legacies and even if I'm not rewatching seasons,
I'm listening and kind of being in this community and
just hearing, you know, people chatter about these different people
so I can remember them better even if it's been
a while since. There's certain seasons, but her season was
not one of my favorites. I'm not a not a
bed Ben fan. That's the one time in the history
of the show where I have said, like, this show
is rigged, Like it just felt like it was way
too way too many little twists and turns that just
fell on his lap to give him that w But anyway,
Ben is not here, so I don't need to complain
about him, But Chris Chrissy because of you know, all
that situation with Ben, feels like she got robbed a
little bit, made it to the final tribal, but you know,
because of the fire making twist that was added in there,
feels like she maybe had in the bag, although you
know it was her.
Speaker 2: Devin.
Speaker 1: Devin was the other guy there who I really want
to see him back to. I would have liked to
see him on this cast as well. Hopefully he gets
another chance at some point. But those two feel like
I would of all Survivor history, maybe two of the
most robbed people for a potential w once again. I
don't know which one of those two would have won
had they made it, but it'd be an interesting alternate
reality if the fire making twist wasn't added in there
and Ben didn't win, Like who would have won. Between that,
maybe they would have been on Winters at War and
we had a whole different, you know, whole different timeline
going on. But I think Chrisy definitely deserved another shot.
For me, there was like I'll say, I'll say two
people and then one season from the thirties that have
been so robbed to not have the opportunity to come back.
Because in the thirties, you know, we had Edge of Extinction,
but that only had three returning players, so not an
opportunity for a ton of people. And then forty was
Winners at War, so only Winners could be back, and
so there's a lot of people from the mid to
late thirties seasons that have just never had the opportunity
to come back. For me, it was Chrissy was like
shoe In whenever you know, they did another returning season.
She had to be on there Dom as well from
Ghost Island others that I hate, but he, you know,
the first ever tiebreaker at the final tribal definitely deserve
to come back, but he's not on the caster he unfortunately.
And then David vers Goliath as a season, like just
so many great characters in there. All those people deserve
to come back, and we'll talk about them in a minute.
So they kind of got it right in terms of
the thirties for me, you know, I didn't need to
see Aubrey necessarily, but in terms of getting Chrissy and
some David verse Galathe people like, those seasons really deserved
some good returneys, and I think Christy is a good
example of that. So I think she'll be lower threat level.
I'm excited to see what she can do. She wasn't
necessarily one of my favorite characters, to be honest, I mean,
just that whole season I was not really big fan
of I was rooting for Devin at the end there,
but I'm curious to see what she got. I think
she'll be what she's got. I think she'll fight pretty
hard for this, so that could be quite fun. And
then yeah, we jump into the David verse Gale. I
think this is actually the first time we've had multiple
attorneys from the same first season, meaning that like obviously
a lot of people played on All Stars, a lot
of people played on Heroes or his Villains together, but
in terms of like their original season, we have three
people from David vers Gliath, which makes sense once again
because that is such a great season. We have Christian, Angelina,
and Mike White, so I start there. I was shocked
to see Mike White on the cast list here.
Speaker 2: I just thought, this.
Speaker 1: Guy's so big right now, he's doing White Lotus stuff,
you know what is he? I just never thought i'd
see him on Survivor again. He's too busy doing too
many other things.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: He made it to the end on David vers Goliath,
so like thought maybe he was pretty happy with his
journey there. But I'm stoked to have him back. I'm
really curious to see what he does the second time around.
I feel like I've seen a lot of people talking
about like, I don't know, are people not going to
target him because they want to like get on White
Lois or whatever, which could be the case because you know,
Angelina Christian, the other two people who were cast here
did appear on White Lotus. Angelina had like a spoken line,
Christian unfortunately didn't have any dialogue. But they're both cameot
on the show, along with a bunch of other people
from his season. So I'm That's another thing I'm excited
for now is like a lot of these people from
Survivor fifty. I could see making appearances on White Lotus
in the future seasons. But yeah, I'm just shocked to
see Mike White come back. I never really thought it
would happen.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He played a great game the first time around. You know,
there's a lot of scuttle, but that like he kind
of threw at Final Tribal because it was gonna make
like a better story and he didn't really need the money,
which I think makes sense into something he could do.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know. I think he's just he's.
Speaker 1: Obviously a great writer, comes up with great confessionals, and
I think he'll be a ton of fun to have back.
And in that same train of thought, Angelina super messy player,
but so much fun, so many iconic moments, hilarious player.
I'm really curious to see if she is like a
Pokemon here and evolves or if she just kind of
stays the same thing. If she is, we'll get some
great quotes. I'm sure we'll get another Rice in negotiation, Like,
we'll just get a bunch of funny stuff from her,
unless she goes out early, which I don't know. I
don't remember her being too great at challenges, so she
could be an early target unfortunately, but if she makes
it through, we're definitely gonna get some great moments with her.
She'd absolutely deserve to come back. I'm gonna say the
wayne chances are unless she does have that Pokemon evolution.
Speaker 2: But I just I just don't know if I.
Speaker 1: First see that happening, but we shall see. And then
Christian coming back so obviously super robbed person that he
never got an opportunity to come back prior to this.
It's crazy that it's taken thirteen seasons, but there just
hasn't been an opportunity really, so I'm super excited to see.
Speaker 2: Him come back.
Speaker 1: He's smart guy, super funny, very social. He's gonna have
a huge threat on him, but I think the fact
that this is such a big cast and there's so
many other threats, hopefully he can squeak by because I
hope he makes it deep end of the show. And
then I think the interesting dynamic here between the three
of these is that Angeline and Mike White both made
it to the final tribal and you know, obviously Nick
who ended up winning it isn't isn't in this cast.
He was on Winners at War. Christian, who was on
the jury, ended up voting for Mike. Actually, so Mike,
even though he didn't win the season, Christian did vote
for him to win and did not vote for Angelina.
So I wonder if there could be some good drama there.
But maybe Mike will be partial to Christian want to
keep him around because hey, this guy voted for me
last time. I should keep around. He might vote for
me again, and then who knows who will be the
first to strike there. But yeah, I think this is
I'm so glad that the season got three reps. I
could have taken more Davy Gabby, Like, there's so many
Cara even you know, anyone who's on the White loads,
Like it would be fun to like have them back
in the mix. So I hope in the future we
get more opportunities for more from this more people from
this cast to come back, because I actually is a
season I have rewatched and it's pretty modern compared to
some of the other seasons, and it's just it's super good,
so funny, great season overall.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see, and then we have our last one
from the pre New era people we got Rick Devons
from Edge of Extinction, so he was kind of the
biggest character of that season.
Speaker 2: Tons of screen.
Speaker 1: Time, you know, all those antics of running around finding IOLs,
getting voted out, coming back into the game. There was
no chance in hell this guy wasn't coming back in
I actually I should mention when I said the people
who were robbed from the thirties and not have a
chance to come back.
Speaker 2: Devon's is up there. I think he's fun, I think
he's cool. Well I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: He's another one that I'm really excited to see what
that evolution is. I don't know what he's going to
bring on a second time around. He probably could be
pretty abrasive and pretty in your face, but there's so
many people that maybe he can sync in a little
bit more, but maybe he'll tone it down. I'm not
exactly sure. But someone that I, you know, wasn't top
of my personal list, but it's someone I expected, and
so I've I've kind of been mentally preparing for it,
and yeah, I think it'll I think he'll make for
good TV, which is at the end of the day,
what I'm looking for here, which is, you know, something
that will lead into the next person going to bring up.
But I think for me, like, I'm not a huge
challenge person. Honestly, I'm just so jaded with the challenges
watching the show for twenty odd years at this point
that you know, if I'm ever rewatching this season, I
skip past the challenges unless it's like a really iconic
one that I want to see. And when the challenges
are on now that's when I'm on my phone or
I'm like playing a game on my switch or something
like that is when I kind of check out of
the show because you know, especially these days, they do
the same challenges over and over again. I don't need
to see someone like balancing on a beam, crawling under
a thing, and then like doing the same puzzle that
I've seen three million times. It just is not really
exciting for me. You get the odd challenge that is
super exciting and really tense and when, especially when the
stakes are super high, this person needs to win or
they're gonna go home kind of thing. But for the
most part, I kind of turned my brain off for
that part. I am really into the strategy, but I
think above all, I'm just like I just want someone
who can like give good confessional confessionals, someone who's funny,
someone who's smart and witty. Those are the people that
are the most rememorable for me. And I like a
good strategist too, But I mean I'm not big on
like the challenge beast he type people. So in terms
of like my archetypes, I think I have definitely have
some biases there on, like the kinds of people i'd
want to see return. Speaking of which, jump ahead of
the New Era season forty two.
Speaker 2: Jonathan.
Speaker 1: This guy, yeah, maybe the like most challenge beast of
Challenge beasts we've ever seen on the show. The fact
that he could just like pick up his tribe on
his back and crush some of these challenges. You know,
to me, he's a very one note player. He's very
one dimensional. He's going to do great challenges, But like
I don't even remember anything about his personality.
Speaker 2: W pretty bland to me.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really that funny. I also think, like, just
because of how much of a beast he is, like,
there's no way in the pre like let's say his
chance his team does lose an immunity challenge, there's no
chance he's going home just because he has such a beast.
He's gonna win the challenges for them, So to me,
I just feel like, Okay, he's gonna be in here
and he's probably gonna at least make the merge, and like,
I don't know, I just don't need that personally, So
I don't know. We'll see, maybe he can dial it
into a new gear, but to me, not my favorite.
You know, one of the things with this cast is
a lot of people from the New era, but he's
the only one from season forty one to forty four,
So it's kind of crazy how many people got snubbed
in place of him. Not that that's how it works, it's
not a one to one, but I can definitely see
why production and Jeff and Crewe would want him. He
does make for good TV and the challenges. It's just,
once again, that's kind of my least.
Speaker 2: Intriguing part of this.
Speaker 1: I think one element we could could be interesting to
see is like Ozzie was an original Challenge Beast Colby
original Challenge Beast from different airs of the show, and
so up against Jonathan, I mean, he's younger and like
probably more ripped than either of them, so he'd probably
still he will definitely be like the most challenge beast here.
But we have a lot of those people, and that's
another reason why I think this cast is a little
bit weak at some points. It's just like I feel
like we have a bit too much of that archetype
when really one or two people is maybe enough to
fill the quota, but instead we have like four because
we have another person coming up here that's kind of
all about just challenges only sort of things. So we'll
see what happens with Jonathan. Not my preferred pick, but
you know he's here. And then we skip ahead by one,
two or three once what is it? Yeah, three seasons
up to season forty five. We have two people coming back.
We have Emily and d so d being our first
winner in the cast. This is something that seems like
the show in planning for seasons fifty, went through so
many different themes for it. Was it like a legend,
was it just new era only? But it seemed like
for most of the like rumors or the scuttle but
that like winners were not going to be part of this.
And then kind of in the final hour, d and
one other and maybe another one because we have some
unknown players here. Being added to the mix just changes
things up a little bit, So I don't know, we'll
see what happens. I think, you know, speaking or skipping ahead,
like Kyle's the other winner, we'll talk about him from
forty eight. So D and Kyle to me, like from
the New Era are like the two strongest winners. I
think they had the best games. I think forty eight
is probably my least favorite season of this New Era.
But in terms of Kyle's game, I think he played excellent,
and I think the only contender he has for like
best winner of the New Era would be D.
Speaker 2: And so you got the best ones.
Speaker 1: But I kind of feel like I wanted if I
were to have some winners, i'd maybe request someone different,
like to just see what else they got in the tank.
Like I think Erica kind of got shafted by the
edit in a season that was filled with twists, and
so I'd be down to see her again, see what
else she has.
Speaker 2: Marianne super fun.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I need to see it from
like the proving her side of things, but I think
she's just good to entertainment value. Jam Jam, He's super fun.
It would have been down to see him, and then
I think more specifically, Rachel season forty seven is one
of my favorite from the New Era, and I think
she ended up part of her story was that she
ended up being like a challenge beast idle playing type player,
which was not what she wanted to play, not what
she thought she would play, but just like circumstances, that's
like the game she had to play to win. And
so she's one I really want to see come back
at some point and see how that changes or is
she able to play the game that she wanted to play.
I mean, she still got the win either way, but
I guess what I'm getting at here is there's other
winners that I think could have been a bit more
interesting to see come back instead of these two. However,
d is a really fun character. I think she is,
you know, part of a really dominant alliance iner season
and didn't really have a lot of friction. There was
not a lot of people mounting an opposition against her,
and so I think hopefully, you know, Target's gonna be
pretty big on her back. I'm excited to see her
play maybe from the bottom, or play with a little
bit more opposition this time around, just because people will
be gunning for her and scared of her. But you know,
I never know how that works too, Like, wouldn't you
also maybe want to go to the end with someone
who's won before, because like maybe the jury would be
more inclined to vote for you who hasn't won. It's
like person already has a million dollars, give me the
million dollars. We've played a similar level game. So I
don't know, we'll never see how that really, we'll see
how that works out here. D though, I think is
you know, she's a really fun character. It's just kind
of odd how few winners there are in here and
having no winners from the pre New era.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like we could have waited a few more
seasons to get D back. But you know, she was
on the podcast with Jeff like his his his official podcast,
so it makes sense. He's obviously a big fan of her,
and I'm down. The other one from forty five is Emily.
Emily's a weird one because I remember, like in her
exit press and everything, she kept saying how she had
no intention of coming back. One season was good for her, she,
you know, out of many, like the whole history of
the show. I feel like she had one of the
most complete full season arcs of like coming out being
really abrasive, really rubbing people the wrong way, kind of
being a loud mouth and kind of trashing people a
little bit, being way too honest, and then like realizing
those flaws in herself and that she was rubbing people
the wrong way, ended up becoming a lot more of
a social butterfly kind of back being a little more chill,
and then becoming so loved and then going for a
big blindside and getting voted out because you know, the
target became so big. But yeah, to me, she had
like a really complete arc, So I'm kind of surprised
to surprise to see her here. I think she'll bring
it for sure. I think it could be fun to
see what she's got in the tank, and I think
she will have a lower threat threat level compared to
some of these other people. So yeah, I think if
she makes it to the merge, I think she could
be a big winner, threat type person. So I'm excited
to see her back. I think that will be fun.
And jumping up to the next season, forty six has
three representatives here. First, we have q Q is you know,
absolute slammed dounk. There was you know, if I was
to predict, you know, which I kind of was in
my head, not vocalizing on a podcast like who are
the most likely people to come back from specifically the
new era for season fifty, but also just in general,
and like Carolyn and Q, I feel like we're like
the top two for me. Carolyn kind of got shafted
here not on the cast, but Q definitely in there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The least surprising thing I think. I love what I
love about Q one. He's super funny, great quotes, uh,
very you know, great confessionals, brutally honest, really like he'll
always bring it, I guess, you know. Eventually he did
like kind of almost quit and then just kind of
sat around for a few days. But I think, to me,
like Q just thinks about the game completely differently. He's
gonna go he's gonna be unique, he's gonna be crazy,
he's gonna be chaotic. Then I also think, and this
is not something I loved, but I think it's good
that I didn't love it. At the end of his
season in Final Tribal, when he asked the question to
the to the people Hey, what are you gonna do
with the money. I'm gonna give my vote to the
person who needs the money the most. So he almost
at least, you know, if we take his at his word,
which he definitely is pretty chaotics, I don't know if
we can, but he pretty much based his voting, his
vote for the winner off of like strictly their outside
life and how much they need the money, and nothing
to do with how well they actually played the game.
I don't love that, but I love that it's different.
You know, He'll he'll add a different flavor to the cast,
he'll think about the game differently, he'll provide a different
type of commentary. And so I think he's just you know,
once again slam dunk. Of course he's gonna be on here.
I think he'll be a three time player that extra
turning season, he'll be back again. He's just one of
these people that we're gonna get over and over again.
So very excited for him, a little bit less excited
for the other two from forty what was it six?
We have Charlie and Tiffany. Charlie, you know, really really
close to a win. So in terms of like, you know,
looking at like the Chrissy's or you know, other people
who got like super close to win but couldn't quite
grab it. He's He's definitely deserving in that sense. I
think he's funny. I think he's a funny guy. I
think the Taylor Swift stuff got a little bit old
and you know, by the end of the season. But
I think he's a really smart player. I think he's
maybe the youngest person on this cast, so he might
be under.
Speaker 2: Rated for that reason. I think he.
Speaker 1: Will maybe have a bit of an evolution. I think
he maybe needs to see that he needs to play
a little bit harder, because he kept kind of waiting
to make his move, and he eventually did get some moves,
but I think he was waiting in the wings so
long and maybe he saw that, like, hey, my number
one ally ended up not voting for me at the
final tribal, Like, I need to play this game differently,
and he is smart enough and strategic enough and social
enough to be able to evolve his game and do
something different, so I will. I do think we will
get a different flavor of Charlie this coming season. And
then I think, you know, a potential point of drama here.
I think that's a big part of the casting with
these forty six people, I don't think we needed all three.
I think just Q would have been fine, and maybe
one other person. But anyway, now with Tiffany the third
player here, there is some good drama here of.
Speaker 2: Tiffany on well.
Speaker 1: Actually, both Tiffany and Q did not vote for Charlie
at the final tribal, so that's some immediate drama right there.
Tiffany was also on a tribe with Q at the
start of the season, and they bickered a lot, constantly
batting and Q, I think outed the fact that she
had an idol, you know, all sorts of drama here.
I do think that's part of the reason they cast her,
to get some drama out of Q and play up
that friend rivalry more rivalry than friendship storyline. But I
also feel like Q would produce that same level of
chaos with like almost anyone like I think that's just
the kind of person he is. So I don't know
if you needed Tiffany, and I actually would have preferred
Venus from their same season in place of Tiffany, just
because once again, very chaotic player, very not self aware
at all. But I thought she was super funny, had
some great confessionals. I think Tiffany's a cool player. I
think she's good. She played a solid game other than
the not playing her Idol thing at the very end
of her game. But yeah, not what I'm super excited for.
I think, if you know, we're looking at like a
history of the show or legend type stuff, I just
feel like this season's a little bit overrepresented. But it
is typical for these returning seasons on Survivor to have
a lot of people from the seasons that like just
recently came out, So you know, I was kind of surprised,
as you're on here, just seems like one of the
most low key people. But I think that's probably good
for her in terms of like threat level. I think
she might be one of the lowest threat level people
on the island. So yeah, I think she also maybe
placed the lowest out of anyone here. You know, obviously,
someone like Stephanie got like nineteenth in one of her seasons,
but has got as high as second or as I
think Tiffany maybe has like just the lowest placement for
a player on like their first season, I guess, or
their their best season. You could say, so, yeah, we'll
see what she brings to the show. Maybe she has
some good good stuff on a second time out. And
then we jumped to forty seven, when you know, once
again one of my favorite seasons of the New Era,
we get Genevieve here, so I think maybe the only
Canadian or actually one other Canadian Camilla coming up here.
Speaker 2: I think, so we have two.
Speaker 1: Canadians overall, Genevieve. This is a slam dunk, one hundred
percent great casting.
Speaker 2: I didn't know. She didn't feel like a slam dunk pick.
Speaker 1: For me, just in terms of like what survivor likes
for their archetypes and stuff in terms of bringing people back.
So I'm so happy that she is out here. To me,
she had great confessionals. You know, she was very sleepy
in the first couple episodes, but then really brought it
was part of Operation Italy, a huge big move in
that season. Very funny, had like an interesting storyline of
like feeling bad about voting people out and like how
that how they reacted to that, and just like hurting people,
and so she kind of became a little bit emotionless,
maybe too emotionless at times. I think she will also
be a little bit under the radar type player, but
I think she could really bring it. I would love
to see a Genevieve win. I think that would be
so cool. So I'm very happy she's back. She's maybe
one of my favorite picks for the season, honestly, like
I was really really hot on her, and yeah, I
think she'll I think she'll bring it. I think she'll
be a little bit different than some of these other players.
Hopefully she doesn't go out early. I think there could
be a possibility. But yeah, there you go, Genevieve. Excited
to see her. And then forty eight we have three players,
So yeah, I'm not thrilled about this because I didn't
love this season and also just ended, so it feels
a bit too soon. But we have Joe, we have Kyle,
and we have Camilla. So of the three, I think
Camilla is the one I most want to see back.
I think this is still a bit too soon. I
could have waited a little bit, but I think this
is this is just weird to me. Like Kyle, so
he won the season, and then you're like also giving
him like his two strongest allies from the season that
never betrayed him, Camilla voted for him to win the
game at the end. It just feels like, I don't know,
these people are just gonna get targeted big time. I
think there's no way you can leave Kyle and Camilla
and Joe in the game, like there go after each
other early, Like maybe we see an evolution there they
turn against each other.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I just I didn't need to
see Kyle this soon.
Speaker 1: I think he had He was a great winner, but
I think as a character, he was not the most
exciting and I would have loved to see him come
back at some point in the future. But this just
feels it just feels too soon to me. You know,
we're still getting off, Like the announcement was obviously last
week for this, but like it was only enough that
he won like the days before that, right, So it
just feels a little too soon. And then Camilla, Yeah,
I don't know. I think just since she didn't win
and she was with Kyle, like she has a bit
more story growth there. But I just feel like there's
no way Kyle makes it to the end and like
wins again. Like I feel like he'll just get targeted early.
So it's like, what is even the point? And I
feel like it takes his wind down a little bit,
Like it's almost like, dude, just relish in the big
win for a while, but hey, if fire him, I
would not turn down the opportunity to play again. And
then Joe was the one I'm least excited for. It's
not shocking. It's very much like the type of character
and story that Jeff Probes and the Survivor team love.
But to me, he's He's a player that has like
one speed, and I just feel like we're gonna get
that same speed again. He's a challenge kind of guy.
He's like the classic loyal to his death kind of guy,
which is interesting, Like I feel like he lost in
the exact same way that Coach lost, like making it
to the end, being the loyalty, but like not actually loyal.
That's just like how they describe their game. But then
they're not actually loyal people, because you can't really be
loyal in the game of Survivor unless you're just like
a goat.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: So, I don't know, will he turn it up, turn
up the temperature.
Speaker 2: For another season?
Speaker 1: I just I just don't see it happening, to be honest,
So I'm not too excited about him, and I think
three people from this season is way too much, Like
just Camilla would have been fine, But yeah, this is
definitely over representation in this sense.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: I also think I was thinking about this, you know,
the early forties are kind of underrepresented. A person who
actually had a very similar game to Joe was Mike
Turner from season forty two. I ended up losing to Marianne,
but you know, very similar to Joe. He's a firefighter,
he a bit of a loyalty guy. When it got
to the final tribal they were but like, hey, I
played a loyal game and backstab anyone, you know, not
owning the moves they did, but instead just like really
doubling down on this loyalty that was not really existent.
Speaker 2: You know, They're a bit diluted.
Speaker 1: But I feel like Mike was like way more social,
way more interesting, kind of a funnier guy, had a
very similar storyline, and he's someone that I could see
changing his game for a second season, whereas I just
don't see that for Joe. So actually, in this archetype,
I would have way preferred Mike Turner but I think
it's just he wasn't super I wasn't quite as memorable
as obviously a few seasons older now. And obviously Joe
in this EVA storyline from the most recent season was
very heartwarming and beautiful and all that. So it makes
sense that they want to go for that. It's a
bit more TV friendly, I guess, and it's more recent
on people's minds. But I would have preferred like Mike
Turner in this exact same spot, like that would have
been just a way better cast.
Speaker 2: Decision in my opinion.
Speaker 1: So that's everyone, of the exception of two people from
season forty nine who obviously are have played the game,
but that season hasn't aired yet. Their names are out there.
It's leaked, but I won't spoil it here for people
who don't want to know that kind of stuff, because
it's kind of changing how I'm gonna go into forty nine.
I'm gonna be like, have my eyes glued on these
people because I know they're coming back. I don't know
if that means one of them wins, or if it
means they just were entertaining or got close or I
don't know. I don't know really what to make of it.
You know, I've seen some theories that like, how are
they going to divide this tribe at the beginning? Are
they gonna do with twenty four people? Are going to
do three tribes of eight? Or are they going to
do two tribes of twelve? And then wheel that down
if they did three tribes of eight? Like are they
going to do one winner on each on each tribe
and therefore, like maybe one of these people leaked would
be the winner that third winner to go on that.
I think some of that's a bit too hair brain
scheme and not like any of the players will know
that any of them won. But I guess you could,
like infer maybe if that's how the tribe divisions worked.
So yeah, I you know, no thoughts there other than
like I would have preferred people that I know and love,
But who knows, maybe in the fall I will know
and love these people and be super stoked to see
them back on forty nine. But I think if you
just look at it, like three people from forty six,
three from forty eight, two from forty nine, one from
forty seven, that's a lot of represent from these most
recent seasons, And like, you know, do we need three
from forty six? Do we need three from forty eight?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think we could have spread the love a little
bit more. But you know that's just that's just me.
Uh let me see what other thoughts did I have
on like specific dynamics here. I shared that one, oh
one random interesting thing that I don't know if they're
like casted this based on this, but I remember in
Q's in forty six, in Q's season, he had a
quote to vote out Mariah or Mo I think her
name was in that season because she reminded him too
much of Aubrey. She had too much Aubrey energy to her,
and that's why he wanted her vote, wanted to vote
her out. And now obviously he'll be on a season
with Aubrey. So I think it would be a total
miss if they don't put Q and Aubrey on the
same tribe at the start of the game, because that's
like immediate drama right there and then. So I don't
know if that was part of their casting of Aubrey
of like, hey, they do that, Q, Let's get Aubrey
in there and make get some like just free drama
once again. I think Q will make drama with anyone.
But I don't think think, yeah, I think that's that's
an interesting thing. We'll see if that turns into anything.
I also I had an interesting thought.
Speaker 2: Here with Mike White.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I'm really curious to see
just how the players interact with him, Like I don't
see him being in early boot, not just because like
people don't want to get on his bad side, because
like they maybe want a cameo and white lotus. I
don't think people are gonna be like overthinking that, but
I do feel like people will be pretty highly aware
that Mike Whit's probably gonna get a lot of screen time.
Speaker 2: He's a big star right now.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's not an actor, and he has acted, but
he's more just known for white lotus being kind of
behind the camera. But he's a big name in Hollywood
right now, and I think obviously survivors, no matter how
poorly or well he does, like he's gonna get a
lot of screen time. And so I wonder if people
are gonna like try and team up with him to
like get more screen time. I know that's like a
really weird argument, but I remember back in forty six
once again very chaotic season. Liz in that season talked
about how she wanted to vote Tevian out. She just
felt like he was a guy who is gonna get
a lot screen time and she wanted that screen time,
which is crazy, but I love that. That's like, of course,
a way that people could think about this game. But
I feel like people might want to really align themselves
with Mike White and work with him, like just to
get like more screen time out of this bad boy,
Like especially if it's a twenty four player season, which
means like your percent chance if you just roll to
die to win as much lower than any other season
because there's just more players. Like, just have some fun
with it, try and get some good TV moments out
of it. You know, you're playing maybe for like another
return in the future kind of thing. I wonder if
we'll see that kind of thing. I mean, I don't
think well anyone will ever actually confirm it in like
interviews or anything. But I feel like if I was
out there, I would definitely want to align with Mike White,
also because I'm a fan of White, Lotus and school
Rock and all this stuff. But yeah, I think that's
a I'm really curious to see just how people interact
with Mike White. That's a very unpresentent situation. You know,
he's already famous by the time his first season came out,
but now he's even more of a big deal with
one of the biggest shows on TV right now. So
really curious to see what happens there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mentioned like in terms of one of the interesting
webs is like Ozzie and Coach, who were both part
of South Pacific in that journey, So to see them
back I think could be an interesting dynamic and how
they interact with each other. You know, obviously people like
Suri and Ozzie have been multiple seasons together and Surize
voted him out like at least once, if not twice,
So that's definitely some like just good free drama right there.
I mentioned the David first GLI stuff. A lot of
interesting dynamics there of how those people played together on
their first season. I think guess Aubrey hasn't played with
any of these people, which is weird that she's a
three time now about to be a four time player.
Actually that's not true because three end Ozzie were both
on Game Changers, which she was on too, right, So
I don't I don't remember any interactions between those people,
but that's something I should go back and check out,
because definitely some interactions to be had there. Stephanie was,
you know, on season with seriz Or. Obviously there's some
dynamics there. And Colby of course have all kind of
worked together. Colby and gener were both on All Stars together.
I don't remember if they really interacted much at all,
so we'll see what happens there. I'm really curious to
see what the tribe divisions are if we get two
tribes of twelve or if we get three of eight.
My guess is just because of you know, twenty six days,
twenty four players, my guess is in the pre merge,
what we're gonna get is, you know, one tribe wins immunity,
the other two tribes go to tribal council, so you
get two voters in one episode. Hopefully we get more
episodes for this season, you know, if we don't get
more days, like, give us a couple more episodes to
just ingest all these people. Obviously, Survivor is ninety minutes
long now, which is great for a season like this.
We have more time to spend with these people, but
hopefully we get a couple extra episodes to really just
have all these players get some good screen time and
get their like even if they go out early, like,
at least they can hopefully have some good screen time
to tell an interesting story or have some good TV moments.
Speaker 2: So my guess would be three tribes of eight. I
don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it's divided pretty evenly, Like, I don't think
they really have the numbers to do like old era
versus mid era of versus New School, just because there's
too many people from the forties. It doesn't really make
any sense to like have an even distribution there. It's
just so top heavy with New Air. So yeah, I
don't I don't know. I think we're gonna get mixed
of people on all these different tribes. It'll be really
interesting to see that the people they put on specific
tribes together, like if they put Tiff and Q on
the same tribe intentionally, or if they leave them apart
at first to like build up maybe an eventual connection
between them again later on. So yeah, we'll see what
happens there. And then, you know, another thing that I'm
really curious about with this season, and what I said,
it's probably gonna be messy because of the short amount
of days, a ton of the huge amount of players.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Another part with this season is that they were they
doing for like throughout season forty eight, is they had
fan votes for various mechanics like such as, you know,
is fire making going to be in there? You know,
little things like is there gonna be a live reunion?
You know, get little random things like vote on the
tribe colors. But you also have things like immunity, idols,
like I mentioned fire making, quantity of advantages, so there's
different game mechanics things, And if I had to guess,
I would say that I don't think the players are gonna.
Speaker 2: Know what the results of those votes will have been.
Speaker 1: So I think people will come into the season not
knowing if ammunion diels there will be in there, not
knowing if there'll be a fire final for fire making,
so they'll have to play around both possibilities with their strategies, which.
Speaker 2: I don't think is great.
Speaker 1: I hope that they give them that information and get say, hey,
there's idols in the season. There is not a fire
making at Final four. There is you know, I guess
some of the advantage ones are worded kind of weirdly.
It's like, do you want advantages or not? Well, like,
I feel like, obviously there'll be some advantages to some extent,
So hopefully the players have that information, but I just
don't think they will, And so I think that's going
to lead to hopefully not a season of people playing
scared because they don't know what they're up against, but
hopefully just people going balls to the wall because like,
for the same argument, they don't know what they're up against,
you might as well.
Speaker 2: Just play super hard.
Speaker 1: And with this many players, like, oh god, it's just
it's gonna be such a mess. I hope, you know,
a lot of my favorites don't get voted out early.
I think some of my favorites here, as I mentioned,
could be more under the radar type people. So hopefully,
like you know, David verst Glat type people like a Genevieve.
You know, I hope these people kind of make it
far because I want to see some of them play.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think there's a lot of possibilities here.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, there's a million people who got
snubbed for this who I would have preferred to see,
and I'm not gonna comment in all like the leaked
people who were cut or cast or were potentially in
the mix and didn't make it, because like, I don't
really see a point in complaining about a season that
doesn't exist, Like I would rather talk about the season
that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: The people that we know are here.
Speaker 1: But I do think there are a few weird ones,
like having no one from forty one to forty two,
or that's not true, sorry, forty one, forty three, forty
four is weird to me, Like Carolyn seemed like a
slam dunk, a Shannon Ricard coming back, a Jesse from
forty three just feels like I would have liked to
see a little bit less forty six and forty eight
and a little bit more variety across these seasons, just
to give a you know, at least someone from each
each season of the New Era a chance to be
in the mix here.
Speaker 2: I think that'd be a bit.
Speaker 1: More fun for the whole you know, Marvel crossover of
it all, like the multiverse situation of it. I'll just
get a little bit more variety in there. So yeah,
there's definitely a ton of snubs, and if people want
to talk about those snubs, you know, join the discord.
Speaker 2: We can chat about it there.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like spending another hour talking about all
the names that I would.
Speaker 2: Have preferred to see.
Speaker 1: But yeah, hopefully, you know, at the end of the day,
hopefully there's just not this long of a wait before
the next returning player season. I think so many people
who still should get a chance at another try in
the New era, people from the thirties who were missed,
like I mentioned a Dom for example, and you know,
some older some older winners, some older players who are
just raring to come back, people who are salting the
last couple of weeks because they mentioned that they got cut. Like,
There's just so many great players that I'd love to
see play the game. I'm guessing these returning player seasons
are more expensive because there's like appearance fees for a
lot of these people rather than just the usual prize
money I believe.
Speaker 2: But hopefully, like by you.
Speaker 1: Know, forty fifty three fifty four, we can get another
returning player season, no matter what the theme is, Like,
just get a little bit more people in there, and
you know, maybe some of these people who are coming
back for a second time here could get like a
third chance as well.
Speaker 2: Like I just I hope we see a little bit
more of that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to wait another ten seasons before we
get returning to players, because there's just so many great
people I want to see play again. But yeah, I
think that's pretty much all my thoughts here. I'm excited
for the season. Maybe I'll do one more, just last
last pass through. I think the people I'm most excited
for would be all the David Vers Glyath people, you know, Genevieve,
I'm really excited for the forty six or like specifically
Q I'm excited for. I think Genevieve has a that
would be maybe my early winter pick, but I don't
know if that'll sick. I think that's just kind of
a heart pick as well. I think it would be
cool for like a Jenna whois to come back after
all these seasons and get a win.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think there's there's a lot of interesting things to
be had here. I'm thinking closer to the season, especially
after we've seen forty nine and we see the two
players from that season that are in the mix to
do a draft would be really fun, so definitely plan
to do that, maybe around the time Season fifty is
about to launch. But yeah, thank you everyone for listening
to something to different once again. And if you if
you like this, if you want to see more coverage
of Survivor or weird thoughts like this, yeah, let me
let me know because I'd be open to doing a
little bit more of this. So thank you for listening
and I will see you again next time.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.