March 18, 2025 • 29 mins
Recap of Episode 15 of Australian Survivor Brains V Brawn 2 - Wake Up!
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Hello and welcome to American Talk,Australian Survivor.
I'm Rachel and I met Leah.
Couldn't join us tonight,but she'll be back with us on Sunday.
We just watched episode 15 of AustralianSurvivor
Brains versus brawn twoand there will be spoilers ahead.
We open up the night after the vote
and Milesis humming on his way back to camp.
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He's so happy and Logan is so mad.
She is sick of Miles, she said.
Yeah, so we obviously know that
we just went homebecause Miles played his idol for Polly.
And then Polly.
Well, my all the idols.
Miles. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah.
There's a lot of emotions going on,and I thought it was interesting.
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AJ tried to hug Kristenand she said, you don't need to touch me.
And so good for her
for standing up for herself and saying,you know, stay away from me.
Right. You don't need to touch me today.
And then AJ said something weird.He's like, well, I don't know what I did.
I mean, I thought it was pretty obviouswhat he did.
Right. Exactly. He's at home.
Kristen's number one, right?
And and Logan's mad both at AJ and Miles.
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She said.
And what she should be.
I mean, she said they burnt her before,and they burnt her again.
And they just keepkeeping her out of the loop.
And so I understandwhere she's coming from.
This was supposed to be her big vote.
And they took it from her.
It was and it was
it was like it feels likeit was like the move of the season so far.
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Yeah. I mean, it was a big move.
And then I thought it was interestingwatching Miles and Logan interact.
So, Logan, we've seen her bemore of an emotional player in the past,
and she definitely hada very emotional reaction to this vote,
which I think may not have been theI mean, I understand why she's emotional
and it's the hugethe moment that just happened.
But at the same time,
I think you kind of push Miles to say,like, we never really had that much trust
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in the first place.
And there it seems like they'll never,ever work with each other again.
Miles and Logan. Right?
She should probably hold back onsome of her emotions.
Maybeso she doesn't seem that upset. Right.
Because it's feeding his fire?
Yeah, like looking at Zara.
She was upset, but she wasn't, like,quite as vocal.
She holds her cards closer to herchest. Right.
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She doesn't let it out as much.
Yeah,but Miles and AJ are lying on the beach.
They're so happy.
They say the look oneveryone's face was worth the prize money.
But I can't believe a mouse does.
Next, he tells AJ about his other idol.
I know, I was like,oh, that seems like a mistake.
Yeah, it was sitting on it for so long,and I think that maybe Miles was
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just like on a high from this huge movethat he kind of like, let it slip, right?
I don't know, I.
Think AJ is the wrong person to tell.
Yeah, I know he's his number one,but I don't think
that she would never step in the back,you know?
Right.
So I don't think AJ would be that upsetif Miles pulled out an idol
and played it at some pointwithout telling him that he had it right.
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I think AJ would be like,that's gamesmanship.
That's play in the game.
But and he did it to be.
Friends and to show that he has trust.
But that could just come backto bite him.
Yeah.
I think if Miles said,you know, before a vote,
whenever they end up meeting it, you know.
Oh, by the way, I have this idol,then I would say, oh, great, let's try it.
You know, I think he doesn'tneed to know about it ahead of time.
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If they're not, we don't knowthey're going to turn on each other.
But we'll see how it plays out for miles.
And that's all that happenedat the nighttime.
I mean, that was a lot.
Yeah. Right.
Because then it was then it was a new day.
And there's Paulie and he's like,I'll never write your name down, Miles.
Yeah he is. And I. Did.
They put that in there just becausesomething's going to happen in the future.
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You know.
Maybe I don't know.
I thinkPaulie is like truly indebted to Miles.
I mean, he would have
absolutely been home last nightand this place if it weren't for miles.
So I think he really feels his loyalty.
And then Miles turned around and said,
you know, I'll probably cut himif I need to.
I don't see him in my long term plan.
I feel that he's my near long term plan.
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I know it's just like it was likehe did it for a move.
Maybe.
I feel like he did.
He just wanted a big moveand good for him.
He did it right.
He's definitely the talk of the show.
Yeah.
So Miles wants everyone to wake upand realize that the jungle rat
is the king of the rat. Yes.
And and then they want to get thegraduates back together, which seems odd,
but. Yeah.
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So I really liked the graduatesalliance back on the original brains tribe
when we saw Corinne, Zora, AJ
and Miles and Kaitlynall kind of working together,
and I think they kind of dissolvedbased on the, tribe swaps.
And then, you know, card and AJ didn'tget along, and I'm looking at it now.
I'm thinking,is this the best way forward?
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I feel like Zoro and Karand are mad at AJ and Myles.
Right?
I think it could,
I don't know, I wasn't so sureabout getting the band back together.
And Zara wasn't impressed either.
I mean, they just like cut to herand she just like had like a just
a blank stare like, I don't know.
You know, it seems to methat they're all quote unquote girls.
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Alliance was was better off together.Yeah.
This is graduate. Yeah.
You think Sarin Khan would be betterserved sticking with that.
I think. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think that AJ and Myleswill play a big game
and they could get themthrough to the end.
They'll be goodshields for Zara and Corrine.
HoweverI don't know that they won't turn on them.
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And I think the girls won't. Yeah.
To AJ and Myles advance meant they'llstick together and they'll get to the end.
Maybe.
But yeah, they're not going.
They're not going to beat them.I don't feel right.
I don't feel thatZara is going to beat Myles.
Well unless she makes some big moves.Right.
See. Right.
So so they tell the plan to Zaraand she kind of said okay.
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She like didn't look thrilledbut she also didn't give any pushback.
Right. But it's just too early I think.
Yeah I mean it was beforeany votes happened.
So I guess she was just like,well we'll listen to it, you know?
Why not?
And then AJ goes over to Khanand kind of pitches himself,
and it was lookingtough for him to sell it.
Right.
And it just seemed likethey were lying to each other.
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Right?
Yeah.
So Khan is still holding on to this ideathat, well,
so she was originally mad at AJ before
because you didn't tell them about, the idol that he had a couple votes ago.
And now Corinne's mad saying
that no one told her that Myleshad this advantage about selling the idol.
Thinking to myself, Khanand Myles weren't really in an alliance.
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Last vote.
You know, theythey were voting together. Yeah.
It seemed like an odd reaction.
Yeah.
It's thinking, well, of coursehe didn't tell Khan about it, but close.
Oh yeah.
So I almost feel like Khan's,you know, like desperation
for loyalty of this high extreme is goingto kind of bite her in the future. Yes.
And then she said, class dismissed.
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Yeah. About the graduates.
Yeah. Oh, well,she wanted to be the professor.
She also threw that line in there, too.
Yeah.
They know how to stick to a theme on this,right?
Yeah. That's.
So now it is time for the reward.
So, the rewardthis time is an American feast.
How exciting.
I know that was great.
And it looks like she's right. Yeah.
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They had. Americans talk.
Yeah, they had hamburgers and milkshakes.
That mac and cheese.
So, yeah,they should have consulted it. Us. Right.
Come out and eating an American feastwith the players.
Some nice big French friesand some ketchup.
Yeah. So? So this was.
Oh, I was just going to say it is theythey split everybody in the two teams.
And that's one of my petpeeves about survivor.
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You know they're all individuals.
But then they split them into two teams.
And I know we've talked about thisin other episodes in other seasons,
but to me it just should be individualfrom here on out.
It shouldn't be being put into teams as towhether you can win a hamburger or not.
You know.
I think it's fun and the sense of a reward
because it gives you the opportunityto create reward specific alliances.
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I feel like we've seen that in the past.
Wasn't there like a Project Italyor something
in the past where they ate Italian foodand they came up with, alliance
based on the Italian food,and I feel like I don't know,
I think it's interesting that it forcespeople together that you didn't choose.
And maybe you'll end up working together.
I see that, but being able to.
But then maybe they should just have thefirst, second and third people get to go
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and they eachget to choose one or something like that,
you know, instead of the first
gets to choose all six people who gets togo, who get to go on the reward.
I understand what you're saying.
Then you'rejust going to choose your friends,
and your friends are just goingto get more protein and more carbs.
But I don't know,just splitting it into teams I don't know.
They were in teams now they're not.
Well, that's. How I feel.
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I know it's not going to change.
Just my thought.
Well,they didn't ask us right in the money.
So if you like the good team, they.
Really should have consulted us.
Yeah, we had a lot to say on this reward.
Well they ended up doing teamsthat anyway.
And they had the players on
the teams tied togetherand then they had to like,
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walk in the water to shoot their balland everything to score basket.
And so I thought it was kind of funto see people tied together like this,
because we got to see people's differencesand athleticism.
Right.The jumping in and diving over. Yeah.
Yeah.
At one point,I think Morgan was attached to Laura.
Was it? Yeah.
She's an Olympic sprinterand was literally dragging her through.
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The water like she couldn't even stand up.
She was like caught off balance.
So I mean that's good.
I thought when they introduced the
the event or the, the whole challengethat it was going to be more physical,
you know, you know, like, like the ring,when they were doing the rings,
they were fighting against each otherand hitting each other.
I thought since two teamswere going out there,
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that you would knock down the other teamand try to push them
underwater or somethingand then go get the ball right, or.
You know. Yeah.
And then later on, Miles, did you know,they they kept throwing it to the,
the wrong direction when the team wouldget the other team would get the,
the other team's ball, they would throw itto where it needed to be instead of.
But then Miles finally got itand he threw it the opposite way.
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And then he ended up.They ended up getting that point.
Yeah, yeah, I think Morgan was the one
who started trying to catch the other balland throw it away.
Right.
But that one time she threw it to them,which was some of our.
But but yeah, that was likethe most physical that we saw.
Right.
It getbut I think it's better than seeing them
tackle each other in the waterand get all tangled up. Right.
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It was more justwho can get to their ball the fastest.
Who can score that point, right?
Seems like a lot of basketball typeshooting balls into baskets this season.
Yeah, that does be surprising.
But but good. You know that. That's fine.
I mean, especially if you practiced in it.
It seems like AJ practiced. Yeah.
Well yeah.
Another thing to practice when you'regoing on survivor add it to the list.
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My list is getting long.
Yeah. I'm breathing. Underwater. Yeah.
The winners of this reward were Polly,Miles, AJ, Kate, Karen and Kristen.
So they all get to enjoya lovely American feast.
They're sipping on their milkshakesthere.
No one was eating the mac and cheese.
It looked likeeveryone was eating the burgers.
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The milkshakes, but not enoughmac and cheese, in my opinion, right?
Yeah.
We didn't even really get a good shotof it to see if they enjoyed it.
So maybe it maybe it wasn't any good.
And there was an American consultant.
I would say everyone eatssome mac and cheese.
I've got a recipe.
So, that it didn'tthey didn't even mention
that anybody was looking for, a clue or anything.
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You know, you're right.
Nobody was looking under their plates
or checking each milkshakeor looking in their straws.
It's just.
It's just random.I guess you can't do it every time.
Or it would just be too much right there.
Too many clues in the game.
So then every once in a while,you throw one out there.
But I don't know.
Yeah,
I guessthey all knew it was going to be a clue
when they all got to eat individually,right?
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The Italian feast.
Yeah, but yeah, of coursethere's going to be one there.
But I mean, lots of timesin previous shows we've seen
somebody get a clue in a big groupsetting like this.
You know,they find it in their napkin or something.
And I was hopingand then it just like, yeah, right.
Exactly. Yeah.
And it wasn't there.
I was disappointed. Yeah. Yeah.
Because we could use another clue nowor another.
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Another advantage. Right.
Since, an idol and an advantagewere both played last episode.
Yeah.
We need another,we need a lot more in the game for idols.
Yeah. Keep getting played.
I thought there'd be more searching peoplegoing out looking today, and.
And I thought there'd be something at thisreward, but.
Oh, well.
Well, instead,there was some sharing of information.
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So initially Bilal saidhe doesn't want to talk.
This isn't the right group.
There's no plans for tonightto discuss with the group.
And then he immediately tells everyone
all of this plants are not just plants,but all of his information.
He shares that with Logan.
Logan has an idol. Yeah.
He just, like, is saying any thoughtthat perhaps him to his head.
And I'm looking at Corey and I'm thinking,oh my gosh, Miles is not selling
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the grade. You know,so that was kind of funny.
To see him talk as typical Miles,he gets a little bit of food that is.
Yeah. Put away so I forget.
How does Miles know thatLogan has an idol?
So Kaitlyn found it with Logan and Corinand Kaitlyn went to tell AJ and Miles.
So that's how they know. Okay.
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So I don't know that Corin knew that
anyone else knew about ituntil that moment, right?
So it's really not a good idea.Don't trust.
Well, so.
She must have hid her reaction well,or we would have seen a
a shot of it, you know. Like, oh yeah.
Like what?
Yeah. Well, the losers are back at camp.
No milkshakes for them. No.
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We see Logan, Laura,Zara, Morgan and Kaitlyn.
And they're chattingabout wanting to break up miles and AJ.
That is the target to get this episode.
It seems like a logical plan, right?
But all the.
If we all split the votes on those two,one of them plays an idol, then
we should be good.
Yeah, I mean, after the performancelast night, it does make sense.
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Right?
So then it's timefor the immunity challenge.
And this is the scary one.
I would hate to do thisif I was ever on survivor.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Classic challenge.
You're in the water.
You have that great aboveyou and you're trying to breathe.
That's the waves go over you.
I just it's beenyou cough just thinking about it.
Yes it is.
Yes. I'm like.
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I'm gasping. For air.
And Logan had the same reaction for us.
She was so not happyto be looking at this one.
And I feel like I say this every time,but I wish
that they had like a lever that you pullto do like an automatic release,
because when you're done, youthen have to go underwater and like,
you know, get out of your sessionand then take a breath of air.
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And I feel like.
It's. Still options. Yeah.
So you're like, okay, I've had enough.
I want to breathe
and you still have a couple of secondsbefore you get your head above water.
Yeah. It just you think about moving.
Yeah.
It just seems.
I don't know. Dangerous and torturous.
Yeah.
I wish there was a lever you pull,it opens up and you stand up right then.
But that's not how they do iton survivor, right?
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They must warn the players or something.
I don't know,but the first person doesn't come out.
Kate doesn't come outuntil 45 minutes into the challenge.
Oh, I was so impressed. Right.
So they were hanging out therefor a long time.
I didn't think it was the wayMorgan's reaction was.
Was it Morgan?
Morgan was pretty Logan's reaction? Yes.
Logan's reaction
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was that she wasn't going to stay in therefor more than a couple minutes.
But yeah,
but I guess at the beginning it did seemlike some of them had a lot of room.
Right?
They they had enough room for almostkeeping their whole head above water.
It seemed like at times.
Or maybe it was just the angle,the camera.
But then, you know, the water comesin, the editing speeds up, right?
And then all of a sudden there's no air.
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Yeah.
You know,
but I'm thinking even if there's no waves,you're just hanging out underwater.
Your ears are kind of covered,so you can't really hear Miles talking.
Right. And you're just uncomfortable.
And I, I don't know, I just I wouldn'teven want to do it in low tide.
Right.
And I was thinking as it was goingon, they must tell them that they can't
yell things because you can probably hear
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a couple of inches underwaterwhen it comes down a little bit, right?
As long as the water isn't movingtoo much, you could probably hear.
But I'm, I'm
I'm surprised that the players didn'tgo to their friends, you know, their buddy
and yell, hey, there's still three peopleyou're still beating, you know.
Oh, like words like encouragement.
Yeah, right.
Because because you're underwater thereand you have no idea
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whether there's ten peoplestill underwater or one other person.
Right? You don't know.
You don't know how you're doinguntil you come up.
Right? Well, I when Miles.
Came up,he was quite surprised looking around.
He wanted to see what was going on.
Yeah.
Well, I wonder, though,the issue is when you when they come up
and they tap you and they say,hey, come on out, you won.
So I would be nervous to come upto someone and say, hey, two people.
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Oh, I feel like, oh, I'm done.
Okay, you know what?
I heard something.I meant coming out, right?
I wonder if they just let them stay.
And they say, if you hear from us,you've won.
Yeah. That's it. Otherwise.
Yeah. Hey. What?
I just come up and listenso anyway, it was a scary challenge.
And Kaitlyn car in the miles with the lastthree, miles did pretty well.
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I know, I. Thought he was going to win.
You know, he was so confident going in.
Because he needed this, too, right?
And but it came down to Corinneand Katelyn,
and Karen was underwater for a long time.
I couldn't believe it.
She lasted a long time out there,you know, with the waves.
She is. Tough.
And Kaitlyn took home the win. Right?
I get immunity win in a row, right?
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Grab the necklace back. You know. Wow.
So he's a challenge to be reckoned with?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So good for Kaitlyn on the second win.
So I'm going to keep an eye onmaybe right.
That's true.
So then we get back to campand it's time for the scramble.
So Miles wants to do.
One more thing.
At the end of the challenge
he said, someone's going to get voted outand be the first member of the jury.
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Oh yeah, that was big news.
Kind of.
Yeah, no big news.
But it was newsthat we were wondering about.
Yeah, I thought we already knew that.
But maybe the players certainly didn't.
They all seem they all went with youor something, right.
Yeah. They were excited. Yeah.
So it is a really important pointto get to in the game
because that means that anyevery person on the beach right now
gets some sayin the final winner of their season.
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So that's amazing.
Everyone gets to stayuntil the end in one capacity or another.
And then each continuing episode,somebody comes out
with a scowl on their facebecause they just come to us.
That's always so fun to see themwalk out all dressed up and see what
they look like,their hair combed and different clothes.
Yeah.
So when we head back to campand Miles says
he wants A54 split on Logan and Laura.
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So it's very interestinghow confident he is
thinking that he has all nine people.
Right, I was surprised. I'm like,you really think that?
I mean, how can he how could hepossibly think he could do that?
Yeah, my thoughtif I had just made this huge move
and I knew I was kind of a public enemy,I would just kind of
sit back and say, well,what's the plan, guys?
What were we thinkingbefore I started pitching my myself?
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He's right at it.
Like,yeah, if I for splitting I'm like, Yeah.
But interesting is.
Going to get back to it,you know what I mean? When you have. Yeah.
Everybody involved.
Someone's going to spill the beans.
Yeah. Quickly.
Yeah.
But then interestingly we see the covenkind of reunite a little bit
and they want to do five on AJand three on Miles.
And so I thought it was kind of funny.
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Here are thegraduates are getting back together.
And now the covenskind of back together. Yeah.
So it's weird to see these old alliancesresurge.
Reunion time to.
Yeah. Split the votes. Yeah.
So that was fun. To see that.
And so they're goingfive on AJ, three on miles.
We see Kate and Morgan talkingthat they don't want
AJ to go homebecause there's too much drama with Logan.
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And I thought that was very interesting
because they had originallywanted to work with the women on the tribe
and to see them kind of say,oh, Logan's too much drama.
I think her reaction last nightmay have really kind of turned people
against her, right?
Yeah.
I was surprised that Kate said that,that she didn't want to leave.
Yeah. Really?
Wow. Yeah. So that was interesting.
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Then we saw Kate and Morgan talkto Kristen, who definitely wanted AJ out.
That's not even a date.
And they couldn'tcome up with the story, right?
It was all awkward there.
So the conversation and then we see Kateand AJ talking separately.
And AJ was like kind of surprised thatKristen wasn't going to vote with them.
And I thought, well, of course not.
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You just took this as friend.
But, AJ seems to have poor awarenessof how he's coming across to others
because he just isn't really gettingright on these things.
I don't know.
Why. Yeah, like, why would she hate me?
I'm. She's still here.
Yeah, I know.
But her best buddywho she'd never vote for is gone.
Yeah.
Suddenly find out that all of the powertonight lies with Karen.
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So she thinks that she will bluff.
Well, so she's saying what we should dois bluff to Logan,
get her to play the idol,and then actually vote out AJ.
Then you get two birds with one stone.
You flush an idol, and you get publicenemy number two, I'd say.
Right? Yeah, right.
One of the definite big ones. Yes. Yeah.
So it'skind of up to Karen and Zora right now.
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Are they going to go? Logan or AJ?
So that's an interesting placefor them to be in.
I wouldn't expect,
you know, you come into mergeand you're like, who holds the power?
What's going to happen?
And it does seem like every episodeit's someone different.
It does it definitely.
Yeah. It'srotating around the power. Yeah.
So it's kind of.
Just consistent withone person which is great.
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It's so much better that way.
Yeah.
Well Laura is feeling suspiciousand I have to give Laura credit.
I think she has great intuition.
She can kind of tellthat things are looking too easy.
Something's not right.
But then she goes to Miles
and kind of says, no, I can protect you,but I can't protect you and AJ, right.
So I'm thinking,is this going to make Miles play his idol?
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I know,
I thought, oh my gosh, I was surprisedthat she would come and say that, right?
I mean, she's like giving away
big, big news there I thought arebig information, big secrets.
Yeah.But Miles didn't have a reaction to it.
He didn't really have like a sound clip or
a talk with AJ where they kind of discussthis news, right.
And some. Yeah.
And you just wonder,did he not get that I don't know.
(22:26):
Yeah. It's very odd.
But as they're walking into tribal,Logan says that she doesn't think
she needs to use her idol tonight.
Right.
And Karen Karen thinks she has the power.
She whichever alliance she votes withis going to swing.
It's going to do it due to her vote.
And Karen certainlydid have the power tonight at tribal.
She did.
We sit down.
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We're just kind of going throughthe motions with the regular chatter
and Karen whispers to Logan,play your idol for yourself.
And then that sets off this hugechain of events with Logan and Laura.
They're like chatting. They're like,why did you say that?
Who are you voting for?
And what was so weirdis that they're looking at everyone.
They're going to Morgan,they're going to Zora.
They're like,who are you voting for? Are you voting?
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And no one will say anything.
I know, so, so she's luckyshe has the idol to play.
But I was surprised that Jonathan didn't
didn't call out the conversationthat was going on.
Like, yeah, like we sometimes see, like,what's what's happening here?
You guys are whispering,what am I missing?
Yeah.Like come out a little bit, right? Yeah.
I don't know.
I know,I mean you don't have to say anything.
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You can just beat around the bush.
Well, what we're just discussing
are a last minute changeor something like that, but.
But it was obvious that it was going on.
Yeah. Well, at the end of the game.
Yeah, well,
I thought that it was really interestingthat no one would say, oh, you're good.
You don't have to play it. I'mlooking at Zora.
I'm looking at Cate and Morgan.
I'm thinking you can lie.
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It's like space.
Yes, I just I feel like I wonderif it would have changed that.
But if any one of them would have been.
Oh, no. You're good. It's okay.
We're we're voting AJ,but no one's saying anything.
Of course.
Send them into a spiral. Right.
Logan's like, what's happening?
And she looks so worried.
Rightfully so.
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When goes right idol.
Yeah.
All that really say at tribal is thatwe're breaking up the buddy system.
So it's like an interesting. Right?
So finally it is time to vote.
And Logan plays the idol for herself,and Cochran looks happy.
Everyone else looks a little on edge.
Including AJ. Yeah.
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AJ doesn't play.
AJ doesn't play his idol.
I'm like oh. Well, I guess he knew.
Well, no, because it came down to threefor Laura, two for AJ.
So it really it was very close.It was closed.
Yeah well I guess it's Miles idolnot AJ's.
Oh so it was Mileswho should have played it.
But they took a gamble and it worked out.
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So yet againJonathan says does not count $1 million.
She reads outLogan does not count so many times.
So we should be keeping track ofhow many votes get canceled out from idols
and this entire seasonbecause it's got to be up there.
It was just insane.
Which is Logan does not count,Logan does not count.
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And then like we said, two on AJ,
three on Laura making Laurathe first member of the jury.
And she was completely surprisedand did not see that coming.
Yeah, she was really shocked.
And that's understandable.
I mean, she came into it.
She even said, tribal.
She was like,I don't think you have to play it,
but if you want to, Ryanso imagine if Logan hadn't played at Laura
but if you want to, Ryanso imagine if Logan hadn't played at Laura
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would have still in the game, in a bad spot, but still in the game.
So. So what do you think'sgoing to happen when Logan and Karen
get back together and she's going to say,why did you wait to tell me till then?
Yeah, that is an issuethat she waited so long, I guess
maybe she's going to playit as like, well,
if you had known before,you would have been running around
(25:56):
trying to make plansand AJ would have found out.
AJ, you would have been mad at meand I knew this was going to happen.
So you had to do,you know, something like that, right?
Like, I knew we didn't have the numbersfor AJ or something like that.
But but then the answer isI would still have my idol, though.
I would have changed it.I would have changed it up.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's then that there'sgoing to be some fallout for sure.
It seems like every episode we've beenstarting off with Logan comes so mad.
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I think it's going to continue tomorrowor Sunday night.
Right?
There's just Logancannot catch a break in the show.
She keeps getting very upset.
Yeah, she was yelling earlierthis episode.
You burnt me before you burnt me again.
And looks like this was her third burn,unfortunately.
And no, I don't AJ again. No I don't.
Yeah.
(26:41):
So I mean, thank God she found that idol.She needed it.
It saved her life.She played it correctly.
But it's sad to see Laura go.
We enjoyed seeing her witchy powersand her manifestation on the show.
I wish she could have cast a spellto save her a little bit.
But she seemed like a positive person,right?
I mean,she seems like a genuinely nice person,
so it is too bad to see her go.
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And it was a real blindside.
Absolutely. Yeah. She couldn't.
She was like, who voted for me?
She couldn't grapple with the idea. Right?
So it was tough.
She really did not expect it.
And she didn't want to go.
So it is interesting thatthat she just had one more vote than AJ.
Yeah, it was really close. So close.
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And Corrine could have flipped it right.
If Karen had voted for AJ, itwould have been him or well, I don't know.
Did they end up voting for Laura?Did you vote for Logan?
I can't remember.
It seems like they showeda couple of votes pretty quickly.
When Laura started to talk, and I thinkit was, at least two guys voted for.
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Yeah, method it for Logan.
So if she had swapped her vote from.
Oh, yeah,she did vote Logan because then she said,
I really hopeyou play your idol this time.
So I think if she had voted for Logan
and switched that vote to AJ,then it would have been a tie
and she still wouldn'thave been able to save Logan
because then on the revote,everyone would have voted out Laura
anyway, so she really couldn'thave saved her by herself.
(28:04):
Which is just surprisingthat they would vote Lauren over AJ after.
It seems like AJ burntso many people, right?
Yeah, and is playing the gameand I don't know you know.
Yeah, and is playing the gameand I don't know you know.
Yeah, well.
I think they Laura.
Seems to be making friendsand not burning bridges.
Yeah I wonder if they see himas just like a major shield.
Like he can be the common enemyat any point throughout the season.
Almost like.
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Yeah, like we can get rid of himat any time.
Yeah, but he still seems to be causingquite a bit of chaos.
So I wouldn't want to play with himif I were on the beach.
But I love to watch himfrom the comfort of my home.
Exactly. So another fantastic episode.
Let us know if you think Karenmade the right move by telling Logan
to play her idoland what you think is going to happen
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when they get backto the beach on Sunday night.
Oh, and thank you to everyonewho voted over in our Instagram polls.
We asked if you thought Miles should havetaken Kristen's idol or Logan's,
and it was splitright down the middle. 5050.
No one? No.
We were really tired,so I guess Miles made the right decision.
Everyone's pretty split on that.
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So thanks for voting.
Don't forget to follow us on Instagramat at survivor, TikTok at survivor,
and send us an emailat Australian Survivor at gmail.com
and let us know what you thinkabout the first member of our jury.
Laura, thanks for joining usand we'll see you next week.
Take care. Bye.
Hello and welcome to American Talk,Australian Survivor.
I'm Rachel and I met Leah.
Couldn't join us tonight,but she'll be back with us on Sunday.
We just watched episode 15 of AustralianSurvivor
Brains versus brawn twoand there will be spoilers ahead.
We open up the night after the vote
and Milesis humming on his way back to camp.
(00:20):
He's so happy and Logan is so mad.
She is sick of Miles, she said.
Yeah, so we obviously know that
we just went homebecause Miles played his idol for Polly.
And then Polly.
Well, my all the idols.
Miles. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah.
There's a lot of emotions going on,and I thought it was interesting.
(00:42):
AJ tried to hug Kristenand she said, you don't need to touch me.
And so good for her
for standing up for herself and saying,you know, stay away from me.
Right. You don't need to touch me today.
And then AJ said something weird.He's like, well, I don't know what I did.
I mean, I thought it was pretty obviouswhat he did.
Right. Exactly. He's at home.
Kristen's number one, right?
And and Logan's mad both at AJ and Miles.
(01:04):
She said.
And what she should be.
I mean, she said they burnt her before,and they burnt her again.
And they just keepkeeping her out of the loop.
And so I understandwhere she's coming from.
This was supposed to be her big vote.
And they took it from her.
It was and it was
it was like it feels likeit was like the move of the season so far.
(01:26):
Yeah. I mean, it was a big move.
And then I thought it was interestingwatching Miles and Logan interact.
So, Logan, we've seen her bemore of an emotional player in the past,
and she definitely hada very emotional reaction to this vote,
which I think may not have been theI mean, I understand why she's emotional
and it's the hugethe moment that just happened.
But at the same time,
I think you kind of push Miles to say,like, we never really had that much trust
(01:48):
in the first place.
And there it seems like they'll never,ever work with each other again.
Miles and Logan. Right?
She should probably hold back onsome of her emotions.
Maybeso she doesn't seem that upset. Right.
Because it's feeding his fire?
Yeah, like looking at Zara.
She was upset, but she wasn't, like,quite as vocal.
She holds her cards closer to herchest. Right.
(02:09):
She doesn't let it out as much.
Yeah,but Miles and AJ are lying on the beach.
They're so happy.
They say the look oneveryone's face was worth the prize money.
But I can't believe a mouse does.
Next, he tells AJ about his other idol.
I know, I was like,oh, that seems like a mistake.
Yeah, it was sitting on it for so long,and I think that maybe Miles was
(02:33):
just like on a high from this huge movethat he kind of like, let it slip, right?
I don't know, I.
Think AJ is the wrong person to tell.
Yeah, I know he's his number one,but I don't think
that she would never step in the back,you know?
Right.
So I don't think AJ would be that upsetif Miles pulled out an idol
and played it at some pointwithout telling him that he had it right.
(02:56):
I think AJ would be like,that's gamesmanship.
That's play in the game.
But and he did it to be.
Friends and to show that he has trust.
But that could just come backto bite him.
Yeah.
I think if Miles said,you know, before a vote,
whenever they end up meeting it, you know.
Oh, by the way, I have this idol,then I would say, oh, great, let's try it.
You know, I think he doesn'tneed to know about it ahead of time.
(03:19):
If they're not, we don't knowthey're going to turn on each other.
But we'll see how it plays out for miles.
And that's all that happenedat the nighttime.
I mean, that was a lot.
Yeah. Right.
Because then it was then it was a new day.
And there's Paulie and he's like,I'll never write your name down, Miles.
Yeah he is. And I. Did.
They put that in there just becausesomething's going to happen in the future.
(03:42):
You know.
Maybe I don't know.
I thinkPaulie is like truly indebted to Miles.
I mean, he would have
absolutely been home last nightand this place if it weren't for miles.
So I think he really feels his loyalty.
And then Miles turned around and said,
you know, I'll probably cut himif I need to.
I don't see him in my long term plan.
I feel that he's my near long term plan.
(04:03):
I know it's just like it was likehe did it for a move.
Maybe.
I feel like he did.
He just wanted a big moveand good for him.
He did it right.
He's definitely the talk of the show.
Yeah.
So Miles wants everyone to wake upand realize that the jungle rat
is the king of the rat. Yes.
And and then they want to get thegraduates back together, which seems odd,
but. Yeah.
(04:24):
So I really liked the graduatesalliance back on the original brains tribe
when we saw Corinne, Zora, AJ
and Miles and Kaitlynall kind of working together,
and I think they kind of dissolvedbased on the, tribe swaps.
And then, you know, card and AJ didn'tget along, and I'm looking at it now.
I'm thinking,is this the best way forward?
(04:46):
I feel like Zoro and Karand are mad at AJ and Myles.
Right?
I think it could,
I don't know, I wasn't so sureabout getting the band back together.
And Zara wasn't impressed either.
I mean, they just like cut to herand she just like had like a just
a blank stare like, I don't know.
You know, it seems to methat they're all quote unquote girls.
(05:08):
Alliance was was better off together.Yeah.
This is graduate. Yeah.
You think Sarin Khan would be betterserved sticking with that.
I think. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think that AJ and Myleswill play a big game
and they could get themthrough to the end.
They'll be goodshields for Zara and Corrine.
HoweverI don't know that they won't turn on them.
(05:31):
And I think the girls won't. Yeah.
To AJ and Myles advance meant they'llstick together and they'll get to the end.
Maybe.
But yeah, they're not going.
They're not going to beat them.I don't feel right.
I don't feel thatZara is going to beat Myles.
Well unless she makes some big moves.Right.
See. Right.
So so they tell the plan to Zaraand she kind of said okay.
(05:51):
She like didn't look thrilledbut she also didn't give any pushback.
Right. But it's just too early I think.
Yeah I mean it was beforeany votes happened.
So I guess she was just like,well we'll listen to it, you know?
Why not?
And then AJ goes over to Khanand kind of pitches himself,
and it was lookingtough for him to sell it.
Right.
And it just seemed likethey were lying to each other.
(06:13):
Right?
Yeah.
So Khan is still holding on to this ideathat, well,
so she was originally mad at AJ before
because you didn't tell them about, the idol that he had a couple votes ago.
And now Corinne's mad saying
that no one told her that Myleshad this advantage about selling the idol.
Thinking to myself, Khanand Myles weren't really in an alliance.
(06:35):
Last vote.
You know, theythey were voting together. Yeah.
It seemed like an odd reaction.
Yeah.
It's thinking, well, of coursehe didn't tell Khan about it, but close.
Oh yeah.
So I almost feel like Khan's,you know, like desperation
for loyalty of this high extreme is goingto kind of bite her in the future. Yes.
And then she said, class dismissed.
(06:57):
Yeah. About the graduates.
Yeah. Oh, well,she wanted to be the professor.
She also threw that line in there, too.
Yeah.
They know how to stick to a theme on this,right?
Yeah. That's.
So now it is time for the reward.
So, the rewardthis time is an American feast.
How exciting.
I know that was great.
And it looks like she's right. Yeah.
(07:18):
They had. Americans talk.
Yeah, they had hamburgers and milkshakes.
That mac and cheese.
So, yeah,they should have consulted it. Us. Right.
Come out and eating an American feastwith the players.
Some nice big French friesand some ketchup.
Yeah. So? So this was.
Oh, I was just going to say it is theythey split everybody in the two teams.
And that's one of my petpeeves about survivor.
(07:41):
You know they're all individuals.
But then they split them into two teams.
And I know we've talked about thisin other episodes in other seasons,
but to me it just should be individualfrom here on out.
It shouldn't be being put into teams as towhether you can win a hamburger or not.
You know.
I think it's fun and the sense of a reward
because it gives you the opportunityto create reward specific alliances.
(08:01):
I feel like we've seen that in the past.
Wasn't there like a Project Italyor something
in the past where they ate Italian foodand they came up with, alliance
based on the Italian food,and I feel like I don't know,
I think it's interesting that it forcespeople together that you didn't choose.
And maybe you'll end up working together.
I see that, but being able to.
But then maybe they should just have thefirst, second and third people get to go
(08:24):
and they eachget to choose one or something like that,
you know, instead of the first
gets to choose all six people who gets togo, who get to go on the reward.
I understand what you're saying.
Then you'rejust going to choose your friends,
and your friends are just goingto get more protein and more carbs.
But I don't know,just splitting it into teams I don't know.
They were in teams now they're not.
Well, that's. How I feel.
(08:45):
I know it's not going to change.
Just my thought.
Well,they didn't ask us right in the money.
So if you like the good team, they.
Really should have consulted us.
Yeah, we had a lot to say on this reward.
Well they ended up doing teamsthat anyway.
And they had the players on
the teams tied togetherand then they had to like,
(09:06):
walk in the water to shoot their balland everything to score basket.
And so I thought it was kind of funto see people tied together like this,
because we got to see people's differencesand athleticism.
Right.The jumping in and diving over. Yeah.
Yeah.
At one point,I think Morgan was attached to Laura.
Was it? Yeah.
She's an Olympic sprinterand was literally dragging her through.
(09:30):
The water like she couldn't even stand up.
She was like caught off balance.
So I mean that's good.
I thought when they introduced the
the event or the, the whole challengethat it was going to be more physical,
you know, you know, like, like the ring,when they were doing the rings,
they were fighting against each otherand hitting each other.
I thought since two teamswere going out there,
(09:50):
that you would knock down the other teamand try to push them
underwater or somethingand then go get the ball right, or.
You know. Yeah.
And then later on, Miles, did you know,they they kept throwing it to the,
the wrong direction when the team wouldget the other team would get the,
the other team's ball, they would throw itto where it needed to be instead of.
But then Miles finally got itand he threw it the opposite way.
(10:12):
And then he ended up.They ended up getting that point.
Yeah, yeah, I think Morgan was the one
who started trying to catch the other balland throw it away.
Right.
But that one time she threw it to them,which was some of our.
But but yeah, that was likethe most physical that we saw.
Right.
It getbut I think it's better than seeing them
tackle each other in the waterand get all tangled up. Right.
(10:33):
It was more justwho can get to their ball the fastest.
Who can score that point, right?
Seems like a lot of basketball typeshooting balls into baskets this season.
Yeah, that does be surprising.
But but good. You know that. That's fine.
I mean, especially if you practiced in it.
It seems like AJ practiced. Yeah.
Well yeah.
Another thing to practice when you'regoing on survivor add it to the list.
(10:55):
My list is getting long.
Yeah. I'm breathing. Underwater. Yeah.
The winners of this reward were Polly,Miles, AJ, Kate, Karen and Kristen.
So they all get to enjoya lovely American feast.
They're sipping on their milkshakesthere.
No one was eating the mac and cheese.
It looked likeeveryone was eating the burgers.
(11:16):
The milkshakes, but not enoughmac and cheese, in my opinion, right?
Yeah.
We didn't even really get a good shotof it to see if they enjoyed it.
So maybe it maybe it wasn't any good.
And there was an American consultant.
I would say everyone eatssome mac and cheese.
I've got a recipe.
So, that it didn'tthey didn't even mention
that anybody was looking for, a clue or anything.
(11:38):
You know, you're right.
Nobody was looking under their plates
or checking each milkshakeor looking in their straws.
It's just.
It's just random.I guess you can't do it every time.
Or it would just be too much right there.
Too many clues in the game.
So then every once in a while,you throw one out there.
But I don't know.
Yeah,
I guessthey all knew it was going to be a clue
when they all got to eat individually,right?
(11:59):
The Italian feast.
Yeah, but yeah, of coursethere's going to be one there.
But I mean, lots of timesin previous shows we've seen
somebody get a clue in a big groupsetting like this.
You know,they find it in their napkin or something.
And I was hopingand then it just like, yeah, right.
Exactly. Yeah.
And it wasn't there.
I was disappointed. Yeah. Yeah.
Because we could use another clue nowor another.
(12:19):
Another advantage. Right.
Since, an idol and an advantagewere both played last episode.
Yeah.
We need another,we need a lot more in the game for idols.
Yeah. Keep getting played.
I thought there'd be more searching peoplegoing out looking today, and.
And I thought there'd be something at thisreward, but.
Oh, well.
Well, instead,there was some sharing of information.
(12:42):
So initially Bilal saidhe doesn't want to talk.
This isn't the right group.
There's no plans for tonightto discuss with the group.
And then he immediately tells everyone
all of this plants are not just plants,but all of his information.
He shares that with Logan.
Logan has an idol. Yeah.
He just, like, is saying any thoughtthat perhaps him to his head.
And I'm looking at Corey and I'm thinking,oh my gosh, Miles is not selling
(13:04):
the grade. You know,so that was kind of funny.
To see him talk as typical Miles,he gets a little bit of food that is.
Yeah. Put away so I forget.
How does Miles know thatLogan has an idol?
So Kaitlyn found it with Logan and Corinand Kaitlyn went to tell AJ and Miles.
So that's how they know. Okay.
(13:24):
So I don't know that Corin knew that
anyone else knew about ituntil that moment, right?
So it's really not a good idea.Don't trust.
Well, so.
She must have hid her reaction well,or we would have seen a
a shot of it, you know. Like, oh yeah.
Like what?
Yeah. Well, the losers are back at camp.
No milkshakes for them. No.
(13:46):
We see Logan, Laura,Zara, Morgan and Kaitlyn.
And they're chattingabout wanting to break up miles and AJ.
That is the target to get this episode.
It seems like a logical plan, right?
But all the.
If we all split the votes on those two,one of them plays an idol, then
we should be good.
Yeah, I mean, after the performancelast night, it does make sense.
(14:08):
Right?
So then it's timefor the immunity challenge.
And this is the scary one.
I would hate to do thisif I was ever on survivor.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Classic challenge.
You're in the water.
You have that great aboveyou and you're trying to breathe.
That's the waves go over you.
I just it's beenyou cough just thinking about it.
Yes it is.
Yes. I'm like.
(14:28):
I'm gasping. For air.
And Logan had the same reaction for us.
She was so not happyto be looking at this one.
And I feel like I say this every time,but I wish
that they had like a lever that you pullto do like an automatic release,
because when you're done, youthen have to go underwater and like,
you know, get out of your sessionand then take a breath of air.
(14:48):
And I feel like.
It's. Still options. Yeah.
So you're like, okay, I've had enough.
I want to breathe
and you still have a couple of secondsbefore you get your head above water.
Yeah. It just you think about moving.
Yeah.
It just seems.
I don't know. Dangerous and torturous.
Yeah.
I wish there was a lever you pull,it opens up and you stand up right then.
But that's not how they do iton survivor, right?
(15:11):
They must warn the players or something.
I don't know,but the first person doesn't come out.
Kate doesn't come outuntil 45 minutes into the challenge.
Oh, I was so impressed. Right.
So they were hanging out therefor a long time.
I didn't think it was the wayMorgan's reaction was.
Was it Morgan?
Morgan was pretty Logan's reaction? Yes.
Logan's reaction
(15:31):
was that she wasn't going to stay in therefor more than a couple minutes.
But yeah,
but I guess at the beginning it did seemlike some of them had a lot of room.
Right?
They they had enough room for almostkeeping their whole head above water.
It seemed like at times.
Or maybe it was just the angle,the camera.
But then, you know, the water comesin, the editing speeds up, right?
And then all of a sudden there's no air.
(15:53):
Yeah.
You know,
but I'm thinking even if there's no waves,you're just hanging out underwater.
Your ears are kind of covered,so you can't really hear Miles talking.
Right. And you're just uncomfortable.
And I, I don't know, I just I wouldn'teven want to do it in low tide.
Right.
And I was thinking as it was goingon, they must tell them that they can't
yell things because you can probably hear
(16:14):
a couple of inches underwaterwhen it comes down a little bit, right?
As long as the water isn't movingtoo much, you could probably hear.
But I'm, I'm
I'm surprised that the players didn'tgo to their friends, you know, their buddy
and yell, hey, there's still three peopleyou're still beating, you know.
Oh, like words like encouragement.
Yeah, right.
Because because you're underwater thereand you have no idea
(16:35):
whether there's ten peoplestill underwater or one other person.
Right? You don't know.
You don't know how you're doinguntil you come up.
Right? Well, I when Miles.
Came up,he was quite surprised looking around.
He wanted to see what was going on.
Yeah.
Well, I wonder, though,the issue is when you when they come up
and they tap you and they say,hey, come on out, you won.
So I would be nervous to come upto someone and say, hey, two people.
(16:57):
Oh, I feel like, oh, I'm done.
Okay, you know what?
I heard something.I meant coming out, right?
I wonder if they just let them stay.
And they say, if you hear from us,you've won.
Yeah. That's it. Otherwise.
Yeah. Hey. What?
I just come up and listenso anyway, it was a scary challenge.
And Kaitlyn car in the miles with the lastthree, miles did pretty well.
(17:21):
I know, I. Thought he was going to win.
You know, he was so confident going in.
Because he needed this, too, right?
And but it came down to Corinneand Katelyn,
and Karen was underwater for a long time.
I couldn't believe it.
She lasted a long time out there,you know, with the waves.
She is. Tough.
And Kaitlyn took home the win. Right?
I get immunity win in a row, right?
(17:43):
Grab the necklace back. You know. Wow.
So he's a challenge to be reckoned with?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So good for Kaitlyn on the second win.
So I'm going to keep an eye onmaybe right.
That's true.
So then we get back to campand it's time for the scramble.
So Miles wants to do.
One more thing.
At the end of the challenge
he said, someone's going to get voted outand be the first member of the jury.
(18:06):
Oh yeah, that was big news.
Kind of.
Yeah, no big news.
But it was newsthat we were wondering about.
Yeah, I thought we already knew that.
But maybe the players certainly didn't.
They all seem they all went with youor something, right.
Yeah. They were excited. Yeah.
So it is a really important pointto get to in the game
because that means that anyevery person on the beach right now
gets some sayin the final winner of their season.
(18:29):
So that's amazing.
Everyone gets to stayuntil the end in one capacity or another.
And then each continuing episode,somebody comes out
with a scowl on their facebecause they just come to us.
That's always so fun to see themwalk out all dressed up and see what
they look like,their hair combed and different clothes.
Yeah.
So when we head back to campand Miles says
he wants A54 split on Logan and Laura.
(18:51):
So it's very interestinghow confident he is
thinking that he has all nine people.
Right, I was surprised. I'm like,you really think that?
I mean, how can he how could hepossibly think he could do that?
Yeah, my thoughtif I had just made this huge move
and I knew I was kind of a public enemy,I would just kind of
sit back and say, well,what's the plan, guys?
What were we thinkingbefore I started pitching my myself?
(19:13):
He's right at it.
Like,yeah, if I for splitting I'm like, Yeah.
But interesting is.
Going to get back to it,you know what I mean? When you have. Yeah.
Everybody involved.
Someone's going to spill the beans.
Yeah. Quickly.
Yeah.
But then interestingly we see the covenkind of reunite a little bit
and they want to do five on AJand three on Miles.
And so I thought it was kind of funny.
(19:33):
Here are thegraduates are getting back together.
And now the covenskind of back together. Yeah.
So it's weird to see these old alliancesresurge.
Reunion time to.
Yeah. Split the votes. Yeah.
So that was fun. To see that.
And so they're goingfive on AJ, three on miles.
We see Kate and Morgan talkingthat they don't want
AJ to go homebecause there's too much drama with Logan.
(19:56):
And I thought that was very interesting
because they had originallywanted to work with the women on the tribe
and to see them kind of say,oh, Logan's too much drama.
I think her reaction last nightmay have really kind of turned people
against her, right?
Yeah.
I was surprised that Kate said that,that she didn't want to leave.
Yeah. Really?
Wow. Yeah. So that was interesting.
(20:18):
Then we saw Kate and Morgan talkto Kristen, who definitely wanted AJ out.
That's not even a date.
And they couldn'tcome up with the story, right?
It was all awkward there.
So the conversation and then we see Kateand AJ talking separately.
And AJ was like kind of surprised thatKristen wasn't going to vote with them.
And I thought, well, of course not.
(20:38):
You just took this as friend.
But, AJ seems to have poor awarenessof how he's coming across to others
because he just isn't really gettingright on these things.
I don't know.
Why. Yeah, like, why would she hate me?
I'm. She's still here.
Yeah, I know.
But her best buddywho she'd never vote for is gone.
Yeah.
Suddenly find out that all of the powertonight lies with Karen.
(21:02):
So she thinks that she will bluff.
Well, so she's saying what we should dois bluff to Logan,
get her to play the idol,and then actually vote out AJ.
Then you get two birds with one stone.
You flush an idol, and you get publicenemy number two, I'd say.
Right? Yeah, right.
One of the definite big ones. Yes. Yeah.
So it'skind of up to Karen and Zora right now.
(21:22):
Are they going to go? Logan or AJ?
So that's an interesting placefor them to be in.
I wouldn't expect,
you know, you come into mergeand you're like, who holds the power?
What's going to happen?
And it does seem like every episodeit's someone different.
It does it definitely.
Yeah. It'srotating around the power. Yeah.
So it's kind of.
Just consistent withone person which is great.
(21:43):
It's so much better that way.
Yeah.
Well Laura is feeling suspiciousand I have to give Laura credit.
I think she has great intuition.
She can kind of tellthat things are looking too easy.
Something's not right.
But then she goes to Miles
and kind of says, no, I can protect you,but I can't protect you and AJ, right.
So I'm thinking,is this going to make Miles play his idol?
(22:04):
I know,
I thought, oh my gosh, I was surprisedthat she would come and say that, right?
I mean, she's like giving away
big, big news there I thought arebig information, big secrets.
Yeah.But Miles didn't have a reaction to it.
He didn't really have like a sound clip or
a talk with AJ where they kind of discussthis news, right.
And some. Yeah.
And you just wonder,did he not get that I don't know.
(22:26):
Yeah. It's very odd.
But as they're walking into tribal,Logan says that she doesn't think
she needs to use her idol tonight.
Right.
And Karen Karen thinks she has the power.
She whichever alliance she votes withis going to swing.
It's going to do it due to her vote.
And Karen certainlydid have the power tonight at tribal.
She did.
We sit down.
(22:46):
We're just kind of going throughthe motions with the regular chatter
and Karen whispers to Logan,play your idol for yourself.
And then that sets off this hugechain of events with Logan and Laura.
They're like chatting. They're like,why did you say that?
Who are you voting for?
And what was so weirdis that they're looking at everyone.
They're going to Morgan,they're going to Zora.
They're like,who are you voting for? Are you voting?
(23:07):
And no one will say anything.
I know, so, so she's luckyshe has the idol to play.
But I was surprised that Jonathan didn't
didn't call out the conversationthat was going on.
Like, yeah, like we sometimes see, like,what's what's happening here?
You guys are whispering,what am I missing?
Yeah.Like come out a little bit, right? Yeah.
I don't know.
I know,I mean you don't have to say anything.
(23:28):
You can just beat around the bush.
Well, what we're just discussing
are a last minute changeor something like that, but.
But it was obvious that it was going on.
Yeah. Well, at the end of the game.
Yeah, well,
I thought that it was really interestingthat no one would say, oh, you're good.
You don't have to play it. I'mlooking at Zora.
I'm looking at Cate and Morgan.
I'm thinking you can lie.
(23:49):
It's like space.
Yes, I just I feel like I wonderif it would have changed that.
But if any one of them would have been.
Oh, no. You're good. It's okay.
We're we're voting AJ,but no one's saying anything.
Of course.
Send them into a spiral. Right.
Logan's like, what's happening?
And she looks so worried.
Rightfully so.
(24:10):
When goes right idol.
Yeah.
All that really say at tribal is thatwe're breaking up the buddy system.
So it's like an interesting. Right?
So finally it is time to vote.
And Logan plays the idol for herself,and Cochran looks happy.
Everyone else looks a little on edge.
Including AJ. Yeah.
(24:32):
AJ doesn't play.
AJ doesn't play his idol.
I'm like oh. Well, I guess he knew.
Well, no, because it came down to threefor Laura, two for AJ.
So it really it was very close.It was closed.
Yeah well I guess it's Miles idolnot AJ's.
Oh so it was Mileswho should have played it.
But they took a gamble and it worked out.
(24:53):
So yet againJonathan says does not count $1 million.
She reads outLogan does not count so many times.
So we should be keeping track ofhow many votes get canceled out from idols
and this entire seasonbecause it's got to be up there.
It was just insane.
Which is Logan does not count,Logan does not count.
(25:13):
And then like we said, two on AJ,
three on Laura making Laurathe first member of the jury.
And she was completely surprisedand did not see that coming.
Yeah, she was really shocked.
And that's understandable.
I mean, she came into it.
She even said, tribal.
She was like,I don't think you have to play it,
but if you want to, Ryanso imagine if Logan hadn't played at Laura
but if you want to, Ryanso imagine if Logan hadn't played at Laura
(25:35):
would have still in the game, in a bad spot, but still in the game.
So. So what do you think'sgoing to happen when Logan and Karen
get back together and she's going to say,why did you wait to tell me till then?
Yeah, that is an issuethat she waited so long, I guess
maybe she's going to playit as like, well,
if you had known before,you would have been running around
(25:56):
trying to make plansand AJ would have found out.
AJ, you would have been mad at meand I knew this was going to happen.
So you had to do,you know, something like that, right?
Like, I knew we didn't have the numbersfor AJ or something like that.
But but then the answer isI would still have my idol, though.
I would have changed it.I would have changed it up.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's then that there'sgoing to be some fallout for sure.
It seems like every episode we've beenstarting off with Logan comes so mad.
(26:20):
I think it's going to continue tomorrowor Sunday night.
Right?
There's just Logancannot catch a break in the show.
She keeps getting very upset.
Yeah, she was yelling earlierthis episode.
You burnt me before you burnt me again.
And looks like this was her third burn,unfortunately.
And no, I don't AJ again. No I don't.
Yeah.
(26:41):
So I mean, thank God she found that idol.She needed it.
It saved her life.She played it correctly.
But it's sad to see Laura go.
We enjoyed seeing her witchy powersand her manifestation on the show.
I wish she could have cast a spellto save her a little bit.
But she seemed like a positive person,right?
I mean,she seems like a genuinely nice person,
so it is too bad to see her go.
(27:01):
And it was a real blindside.
Absolutely. Yeah. She couldn't.
She was like, who voted for me?
She couldn't grapple with the idea. Right?
So it was tough.
She really did not expect it.
And she didn't want to go.
So it is interesting thatthat she just had one more vote than AJ.
Yeah, it was really close. So close.
(27:22):
And Corrine could have flipped it right.
If Karen had voted for AJ, itwould have been him or well, I don't know.
Did they end up voting for Laura?Did you vote for Logan?
I can't remember.
It seems like they showeda couple of votes pretty quickly.
When Laura started to talk, and I thinkit was, at least two guys voted for.
(27:42):
Yeah, method it for Logan.
So if she had swapped her vote from.
Oh, yeah,she did vote Logan because then she said,
I really hopeyou play your idol this time.
So I think if she had voted for Logan
and switched that vote to AJ,then it would have been a tie
and she still wouldn'thave been able to save Logan
because then on the revote,everyone would have voted out Laura
anyway, so she really couldn'thave saved her by herself.
(28:04):
Which is just surprisingthat they would vote Lauren over AJ after.
It seems like AJ burntso many people, right?
Yeah, and is playing the gameand I don't know you know.
Yeah, and is playing the gameand I don't know you know.
Yeah, well.
I think they Laura.
Seems to be making friendsand not burning bridges.
Yeah I wonder if they see himas just like a major shield.
Like he can be the common enemyat any point throughout the season.
Almost like.
(28:25):
Yeah, like we can get rid of himat any time.
Yeah, but he still seems to be causingquite a bit of chaos.
So I wouldn't want to play with himif I were on the beach.
But I love to watch himfrom the comfort of my home.
Exactly. So another fantastic episode.
Let us know if you think Karenmade the right move by telling Logan
to play her idoland what you think is going to happen
(28:47):
when they get backto the beach on Sunday night.
Oh, and thank you to everyonewho voted over in our Instagram polls.
We asked if you thought Miles should havetaken Kristen's idol or Logan's,
and it was splitright down the middle. 5050.
No one? No.
We were really tired,so I guess Miles made the right decision.
Everyone's pretty split on that.
(29:08):
So thanks for voting.
Don't forget to follow us on Instagramat at survivor, TikTok at survivor,
and send us an emailat Australian Survivor at gmail.com
and let us know what you thinkabout the first member of our jury.
Laura, thanks for joining usand we'll see you next week.
Take care. Bye.
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