# Octopus - Cook Islands Ep 5

An episode of [Making The Merge - Survivor Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1770945758), 25 Jul 2025, 32 min.

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Hop in the Survivor Time Machine with Bran, Chase, and PD to discuss a tribal invasion, mashed potatoes, and Chase sings an awful song

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Maybe did get a massive pile of wood this morning.
[0:02] Speaker 1: I've never seen a pile of one bigger than that.
[0:04] Speaker 1: There's just so much more manly now that the top
[0:07] Speaker 1: dog has gone.
[0:09] Speaker 2: Said by the time machine, the time machine, the time machine.
[0:15] Speaker 3: By the time machine, that.
[0:18] Speaker 2: Time machine, that time machine.
[0:20] Speaker 3: Get on to the sub.
[0:30] Speaker 2: Survin.
[0:42] Speaker 1: No, it doesn't matter.
[0:43] Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let's go.
[0:47] Speaker 4: All right, Welcome to survivor Cook Islands time Machine or
[0:51] Speaker 4: whatever we call it.
[0:52] Speaker 1: I'm here with tranded Chase.
[0:54] Speaker 3: Yes, we don't have the theme song. Where's the theme song?
[0:57] Speaker 3: We're putting it?
[0:58] Speaker 2: Did you miss all of that chase where it was
[1:00] Speaker 2: like I'll get it and.
[1:00] Speaker 3: I'll sid No, I heard it, but I I wanted
[1:04] Speaker 3: the audience to know what was going on. I don't
[1:06] Speaker 3: like I don't like that we keep secrets from them.
[1:10] Speaker 1: You sounded like a fucking dork.
[1:12] Speaker 3: All right, so you.
[1:15] Speaker 2: Look like one too.
[1:16] Speaker 3: Oh it's gonna wear glasses today, doesn't wear Chase.
[1:20] Speaker 5: When you got close to the camera like that, I
[1:21] Speaker 5: was actually thinking, man, he looks really good in glasses.
[1:23] Speaker 3: Oh, thank you so much.
[1:25] Speaker 4: He was like, doctor Christian, You bicky, but that's not
[1:27] Speaker 4: the season we're taking.
[1:28] Speaker 1: You're talking about Cook Islands. Thank you, Brand.
[1:31] Speaker 3: Actually you know what, well, he's putting his shades on
[1:38] Speaker 3: inside brother, that's like computer. Yep, yeah, that's fun.
[1:44] Speaker 2: That is.
[1:46] Speaker 3: All right, guys. This is this is episode five of
[1:49] Speaker 3: Cook Islands.
[1:50] Speaker 4: But we say that every week. It's gonna be like
[1:52] Speaker 4: why are they even covering this season? But I've been thinking,
[1:55] Speaker 4: I thought this episode was better and I think something
[1:58] Speaker 4: amazing happens in the after this that I can't wait
[2:01] Speaker 4: for Brand to see.
[2:02] Speaker 5: Next next episode is be Did you guys see that
[2:06] Speaker 5: Survivor CBS once again is rideing our coat tails because
[2:12] Speaker 5: they did a newsletter thing, and guys, I honestly thought
[2:16] Speaker 5: I was I got this email and I was like.
[2:18] Speaker 2: Did making the merge start a newsletter?
[2:19] Speaker 3: And I just somehow.
[2:21] Speaker 5: Signed up for it because it says the subject is
[2:24] Speaker 5: the Tribe has Spoken Season thirteen is iconic, and I
[2:28] Speaker 5: was like, well, well, we're covering thirteen. Yeah, and it
[2:31] Speaker 5: just says it's from Survivor treemail. That's what their newsletter
[2:34] Speaker 5: is called.
[2:34] Speaker 3: It's a trivia thing.
[2:37] Speaker 2: And they did a thing. I guess it's about the best.
[2:40] Speaker 5: When when we asked you to vote for which Survivor
[2:43] Speaker 5: season still is rent free in your mind, Survivor, Cook
[2:46] Speaker 5: Island came up on top or out on top, I
[2:48] Speaker 5: guess we should say.
[2:49] Speaker 2: And then they do like a you know, a trivia thing.
[2:52] Speaker 5: But how about them promoting the season that we're talking about.
[2:56] Speaker 4: Thanks Survivor, Thank you. I appreciate it, Jeff. And we
[2:59] Speaker 4: start this episode, but the guys trying to prove to
[3:01] Speaker 4: the women, hey you.
[3:02] Speaker 1: Do need us.
[3:03] Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, it's really just because they're scared. JP went
[3:07] Speaker 4: home and then ParvE clocked it. ParvE noses up.
[3:11] Speaker 2: What's up? Yeah, that wood.
[3:14] Speaker 3: Hey, I just want to say massive energy, massive, which is, hey,
[3:19] Speaker 3: let's just get through this real quick.
[3:22] Speaker 1: That's not at all.
[3:24] Speaker 4: I wanted to talk about the episode because I love
[3:28] Speaker 4: Survivor and I love Cook Islands, and I think you
[3:31] Speaker 4: suck Chase. So ParvE clocked it, and uh, she said
[3:34] Speaker 4: that Nate had a massive pile of wood. Please use
[3:37] Speaker 4: that in the intro brand I.
[3:39] Speaker 2: Knew immediately what I was using this way.
[3:42] Speaker 4: She said specifically, Nate has a massive pile of wood
[3:46] Speaker 4: this morning, and she's never seen a pile of wood
[3:48] Speaker 4: that big.
[3:50] Speaker 1: She got her id out right after.
[3:55] Speaker 4: Uh. Then we get the women comparing armpit hair and
[3:58] Speaker 4: then we go to Challenge time with Chase. Dude, we're
[4:00] Speaker 4: flying through this episode just telling you what happened.
[4:04] Speaker 5: No, it does happen in like four minutes, and they
[4:07] Speaker 5: go it's crazy.
[4:08] Speaker 3: But I was watching the episode, I was like, dude,
[4:10] Speaker 3: challenge time already. It must have been a boring three
[4:13] Speaker 3: days on the island for that episode. It's the reward time.
[4:19] Speaker 3: Each tribe will select three pairs chick each hair. Each
[4:27] Speaker 3: pair will stand on a platform with each person using
[4:31] Speaker 3: one arm to hold onto a hook. Every two minutes,
[4:35] Speaker 3: five pounds sandbags will be placed on the hooks. The
[4:38] Speaker 3: last pair left standing wins the reward. The reward is
[4:41] Speaker 3: fishing supplies, spices, and bottles of wine. Immediately, the tribes
[4:46] Speaker 3: have different strategies for putting the weights on. Raire Row
[4:49] Speaker 3: is trying to give to like space out the weights
[4:52] Speaker 3: of their rival tribe, giving like each duo some weight
[4:56] Speaker 3: to hold. But I too, is loading all of the
[5:00] Speaker 3: onto Nate and Adam.
[5:04] Speaker 4: Which I strategy. I thought, that's what that's what you do.
[5:08] Speaker 4: You loaded up on the big strong guys.
[5:10] Speaker 3: I immediately was like, dude, I think I think I
[5:13] Speaker 3: two is gonna lose this challenge, because I don't think
[5:16] Speaker 3: that's the right strategy if you put all it, because
[5:19] Speaker 3: there's the intervals, you don't get to just put weight
[5:22] Speaker 3: willy nilly. You have to wait. So if you use
[5:25] Speaker 3: five rounds to put weight on the same duo, there's
[5:28] Speaker 3: still two more duos that have no weight, and they're
[5:31] Speaker 3: gonna be able to last longer. Then even if you've
[5:34] Speaker 3: just been holding ten pounds, eventually your arms are gonna
[5:37] Speaker 3: get tired anyway. So I do think right away that
[5:40] Speaker 3: that was a flaw in their strategy. At one point,
[5:43] Speaker 3: Jeff asks Nate, and I mean Nate and Adam are
[5:46] Speaker 3: like they are weighed down. Jeff goes, how you're feeling, Nate,
[5:50] Speaker 3: and Nate goes, feels like we're gonna get whined at
[5:52] Speaker 3: night and get faded. Mm hmm.
[5:54] Speaker 1: And then Flicka said more like whining.
[5:57] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[5:57] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[6:00] Speaker 4: The Pinner line to Jeff about when Jeff said, yeah,
[6:04] Speaker 4: it's like now he said, he said wait, as in
[6:08] Speaker 4: w A I T and then Pinner goes sounds like
[6:10] Speaker 4: a bad pun Jeff, and Jeff was just.
[6:13] Speaker 5: Like, ah, didn't even pick up on the fact that, like,
[6:16] Speaker 5: it took a while for everybody to realize what Flicka said.
[6:20] Speaker 5: It was like more like whining and they were like, yeah.
[6:27] Speaker 1: Good one horse movie.
[6:29] Speaker 3: Jeff was just like, wait, do you go, Jessica because
[6:31] Speaker 3: Jeff refused to call her.
[6:32] Speaker 1: Fla now and people on her own tribe wouldn't call
[6:35] Speaker 1: her slick.
[6:35] Speaker 3: I noticed that too, So funny.
[6:37] Speaker 2: Dude, that's what happens when you try to make a
[6:39] Speaker 2: nickname a thing, you know.
[6:40] Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, speaking of what Jay, guys, Uh, you haven't
[6:43] Speaker 3: been calling me by my nickname?
[6:45] Speaker 2: What was it again?
[6:46] Speaker 3: I don't remember.
[6:48] Speaker 2: That?
[6:50] Speaker 3: Yeah, dang dude, Okay, Chase, h Chase. I like that. Uh.
[6:55] Speaker 3: Yule is the first person to drop. That shocked me.
[6:58] Speaker 3: But they did have a lot of way him and Pinner,
[7:00] Speaker 3: so they have to sit down. Then Rebecca is the
[7:03] Speaker 3: next one to drop, so her and Stephanie have to
[7:05] Speaker 3: sit down. After that, Sundrad drops her and Canvas sit down.
[7:10] Speaker 3: That means that Ozzy and Flicka are the last pair
[7:13] Speaker 3: for I two. Nate and Adam at this point have
[7:17] Speaker 3: thirty pounds each and they're holding each other pretty tightly. Honestly,
[7:22] Speaker 3: it's a pretty great bro moment between bros. I really
[7:26] Speaker 3: liked it.
[7:26] Speaker 5: If you can't hug your bro while trying to lift
[7:29] Speaker 5: a bunch a weight?
[7:30] Speaker 2: When can you?
[7:31] Speaker 3: And it was it was pretty wholesome, the way that
[7:33] Speaker 3: they were hyping each other up. Like at one point
[7:35] Speaker 3: he was like, I'm struggling, man, and Nate was like,
[7:38] Speaker 3: you got this, bro, You got this, bro, you got this.
[7:39] Speaker 2: And honestly, big, big week for hugging during challenges.
[7:42] Speaker 5: We'll get to it a little bit, but a lot
[7:44] Speaker 5: of you just like, grab on, let's let's get close.
[7:48] Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, doesn't take much longer. After that exchange between
[7:51] Speaker 3: Nate and Adam, Flicka drops, which means that REI ro
[7:55] Speaker 3: wins the reward.
[7:56] Speaker 5: I loved that Flicker was the one like talking talking
[7:59] Speaker 5: stuff Allen.
[8:00] Speaker 3: And I can't do anymore. She lasted longer than than
[8:04] Speaker 3: almost everybody else. But I mean, that's a lot of
[8:07] Speaker 3: weight for one arm.
[8:08] Speaker 2: Someone else is gonna be whining tonight, you know what
[8:11] Speaker 2: I mean?
[8:12] Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And it's and it's because Pinner gets sent
[8:15] Speaker 3: to exile island.
[8:18] Speaker 1: Yeah, Pinner does.
[8:19] Speaker 4: And that's what I texted you guys earlier, and I said,
[8:22] Speaker 4: this show is racist.
[8:23] Speaker 1: They only send whites to exile.
[8:26] Speaker 3: Did well?
[8:29] Speaker 1: The last Candice in Pinner we're sending whites to exile.
[8:34] Speaker 3: I think the reason that Pinner was upset about having
[8:36] Speaker 3: to go is that there's no point for there to
[8:37] Speaker 3: be an exile island. That he knows the idol's gone,
[8:40] Speaker 3: that idol has been gone.
[8:41] Speaker 4: Or he finds out there's no reason for him to
[8:44] Speaker 4: be there at least. But if what ton of digging.
[8:47] Speaker 3: If what Billy told us is true, and that the
[8:49] Speaker 3: whole cast gets let like they get to know the
[8:53] Speaker 3: the hints from exile, you'll I'm sure everybody knew you dig.
[8:59] Speaker 1: If I knew, I wouldn't dig.
[9:02] Speaker 3: I know, I know. But he doesn't seem happy about digging,
[9:05] Speaker 3: Like the whole time he's like, I'm digging for no
[9:07] Speaker 3: reason and I know it.
[9:10] Speaker 4: Then we get uh octopus Gate, speaking of hugging.
[9:15] Speaker 1: Hugging.
[9:16] Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm on fire. I always today?
[9:21] Speaker 1: Is I not good? Last week?
[9:22] Speaker 2: Sorry?
[9:23] Speaker 3: You know what, You're right, You're good, You're always good.
[9:26] Speaker 4: Thank you.
[9:26] Speaker 1: I appreciate that I'm not Jonathan geez.
[9:28] Speaker 2: We're also encouraging today.
[9:31] Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's because we just talked to Tag.
[9:33] Speaker 3: It's probably.
[9:38] Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck what you think, Cedric.
[9:42] Speaker 2: Hey, it does sound an awful lot like Cedric.
[9:44] Speaker 4: People are listeners have been pointing that out to us,
[9:47] Speaker 4: that the mastermind is just Cedric, that's all.
[9:50] Speaker 3: Dude, What if it was that'd be awesome.
[9:53] Speaker 4: So yeah, octopus stuck to uh Adam's leg. It's on
[9:57] Speaker 4: there pretty tight. And then they all try eat it.
[10:00] Speaker 4: And that's when Christina is like, she gets in the
[10:03] Speaker 4: kitchen and she's like, this is what we need. We
[10:05] Speaker 4: need some coconut we need some salt water coconut pieces.
[10:07] Speaker 4: And then and then put a little pizzazz on there.
[10:09] Speaker 4: I think she said that too.
[10:11] Speaker 3: And then she.
[10:12] Speaker 4: Goes to the water to you know, trying to make
[10:14] Speaker 4: this stew, this octopus recipe that she's just crafted, and
[10:18] Speaker 4: then just spills all the octopus.
[10:21] Speaker 3: And then blame it on someone else.
[10:23] Speaker 1: Yeah, she blamed it on Jenny, I believe.
[10:26] Speaker 2: Yeah, so I thought.
[10:27] Speaker 5: Jenny was there. Jenny wasn't there. Jenny's like, you knew
[10:29] Speaker 5: I left. Well, I don't know what you're talking about.
[10:31] Speaker 1: Jenny announces, Hey, I'm getting up now. Very clearly.
[10:36] Speaker 3: I heard it.
[10:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, we all heard it.
[10:39] Speaker 3: Yeah, So even if she was sitting there, what was
[10:42] Speaker 3: she going to do to help?
[10:43] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still like it still happened.
[10:46] Speaker 1: And here's something.
[10:47] Speaker 4: Jenny called her the new JP. But to my knowledge,
[10:51] Speaker 4: Christina wan Pablo Jump Paul. But to my knowledge, Christina
[10:58] Speaker 4: has never disowned the Hispanic race, So can she really
[11:01] Speaker 4: be compared to JP? No, dude, My next note confused
[11:05] Speaker 4: me because there's a typo says Ozzie Flick's Cowboy. It
[11:08] Speaker 4: was supposed to be Ozzie Flick a cowboy.
[11:11] Speaker 1: He did not flick Cowboy.
[11:14] Speaker 2: That cowboy flicks.
[11:15] Speaker 3: People get the whatever, bad wind bad window. Before we
[11:20] Speaker 3: get to that, there was a funny moment where Yule
[11:24] Speaker 3: is trying to get Sundra to join their alliance, and
[11:27] Speaker 3: the way he does it is almost like a job
[11:29] Speaker 3: interview where he's like, I don't know, I just feel
[11:32] Speaker 3: like you would be a good fit for the team,
[11:33] Speaker 3: as if they're not on the same tribe already. I
[11:35] Speaker 3: thought that was really funny.
[11:36] Speaker 4: That's what I tell people and I try to get
[11:38] Speaker 4: them to come on this show. It usually doesn't work.
[11:44] Speaker 3: Like Jonathan can't get him well, I never.
[11:47] Speaker 4: Told him I thought he'd be a good fit for
[11:49] Speaker 4: the team. It was more of a you're my friend
[11:52] Speaker 4: who watches Survivor. I guess you have to be on here,
[11:56] Speaker 4: you know.
[11:56] Speaker 2: Yeah?
[11:56] Speaker 5: Yeah, did you guys know that if an octopus is
[11:59] Speaker 5: already dead and it's attached to you, you can't.
[12:02] Speaker 2: Get it off.
[12:04] Speaker 3: I did not know that.
[12:05] Speaker 1: It didn't surprise me.
[12:06] Speaker 4: You know, there'll be like spiders, they're dead and they're
[12:08] Speaker 4: still moving around and stuff.
[12:09] Speaker 1: They still have some function.
[12:11] Speaker 3: Some animal pushes octopus OCTOPI, Yeah, let's go with that one.
[12:18] Speaker 2: Pretty nuts. They're crazy animals, ye open up jars and stuff.
[12:23] Speaker 3: Apparently they're like super super smart.
[12:25] Speaker 2: Yeah, but we just watch them die all the time.
[12:27] Speaker 2: Onever we look.
[12:29] Speaker 4: I got sucked into a I G Reels thing where
[12:31] Speaker 4: this dude had a pet octopus and he would film
[12:33] Speaker 4: videos of it hunting shrimp and whatever else he puts
[12:36] Speaker 4: in the tank.
[12:37] Speaker 1: Is great.
[12:38] Speaker 2: They're really cool animals.
[12:39] Speaker 5: They make me a little uncomfortable to watch them for
[12:41] Speaker 5: too long, Like at a certain point I start feeling
[12:43] Speaker 5: weird for some reason. But they feel like they're suffocating
[12:47] Speaker 5: my heart while I'm watching.
[12:48] Speaker 4: And then get brutally murdered every time. I don't know
[13:01] Speaker 4: what you're going for there, but you know, no, I'm
[13:02] Speaker 4: not gonna got that happening. So this is the expedition
[13:07] Speaker 4: this is and I just move on completely. I'm just
[13:14] Speaker 4: like whatever, we'll leave it in. Let Chase have his
[13:17] Speaker 4: little moment.
[13:18] Speaker 1: Uh.
[13:21] Speaker 5: Do you ever feel like Chase is making too much
[13:23] Speaker 5: money on YouTube's he's.
[13:26] Speaker 2: Buying gadgets, wasting our.
[13:28] Speaker 4: Time, He's buying gadgets. He refuses to come to Bramblefest.
[13:32] Speaker 4: I wasn't too good for it. I was happy to
[13:34] Speaker 4: be there.
[13:35] Speaker 3: Yeah, guys, I'm just delirious. If you guys knew the
[13:37] Speaker 3: amount of episodes of television I have watched this week.
[13:41] Speaker 1: Not even including The Survivor and Big Brothers.
[13:43] Speaker 3: Stead if you count Big Brother Survivor, Pretty Little Liars
[13:46] Speaker 3: everything else, I'm I'm TV out.
[13:49] Speaker 1: Yeahs such a hard job.
[13:51] Speaker 2: Constructions Listening to us is like, wha, my gosh, Hey,
[13:57] Speaker 2: I don't.
[13:58] Speaker 3: Like this anymore. Pissed he's going back. I can't hear him.
[14:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't hear you.
[14:14] Speaker 3: I think I think p D's just gonna leave and
[14:16] Speaker 3: come back.
[14:17] Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I don't hear myself anymore.
[14:21] Speaker 3: Octopus got a lot of tentacles, Octopus, don't.
[14:25] Speaker 5: Let me forget to give you your uh your little
[14:28] Speaker 5: centric uh patch thing that was fun?
[14:32] Speaker 3: Maybe well we can record if you guys have everything
[14:34] Speaker 3: set up time machine in person before you leave for
[14:36] Speaker 3: the beach next week.
[14:38] Speaker 2: No, I leave this week.
[14:40] Speaker 3: Oh okay, well then yeah, we'll see you next week.
[14:43] Speaker 2: Then how is gonna be at the beach just a
[14:46] Speaker 2: few days?
[14:47] Speaker 3: Okay? Is it that guy that lets you use his
[14:49] Speaker 3: beach house? Whatever?
[14:50] Speaker 2: No, this is with my wife's family.
[14:53] Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I think octopus happened?
[14:59] Speaker 3: And can you.
[15:02] Speaker 1: Okay, I don't care happened?
[15:04] Speaker 4: Yeah, because I could see and hear you all the
[15:07] Speaker 4: whole time, and you're like, Pete, where'd you go?
[15:10] Speaker 2: That's crazy?
[15:11] Speaker 5: Yeah, you dropped and you came back in and there
[15:13] Speaker 5: was a weird echo thing and we couldn't kill you anymore.
[15:15] Speaker 5: But it's great now, and I apologize. However hard this
[15:18] Speaker 5: makes your.
[15:19] Speaker 3: Editing, I'll get your I'll be your give you an
[15:21] Speaker 3: edit point. I'll give you an edit point. Yeah.
[15:30] Speaker 1: Anyways, Chase has it so hard he has to watch TV.
[15:33] Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's a hard life. It's not for everyone, dude,
[15:35] Speaker 3: it's not for Jonathan.
[15:37] Speaker 1: Uh So, where were we at the expedition?
[15:40] Speaker 4: That's Ozzie, Flicka and Cowboy. They want to go search
[15:45] Speaker 4: for some food. On a different island, and they tried
[15:48] Speaker 4: to pull in canvas, and they tried to pull in Sondra,
[15:50] Speaker 4: but both of them were like, no, we're not gonna,
[15:52] Speaker 4: you know, go off with the ostracized group in a
[15:55] Speaker 4: search for something that we may not find.
[15:57] Speaker 2: This would be me, guys.
[15:58] Speaker 5: I like I have a hard time like sitting still
[16:01] Speaker 5: and like I get a little restless, Like I could
[16:03] Speaker 5: totally see myself.
[16:04] Speaker 2: Just be like you guess when I like, go do
[16:07] Speaker 2: something like that.
[16:09] Speaker 5: We don't need to do.
[16:10] Speaker 2: Like just goof for a while.
[16:11] Speaker 6: So question, I have some wider questions about this wider
[16:15] Speaker 6: or whiter with a d. Okay, this is the season
[16:20] Speaker 6: that you have to clarify though, yeah, very true.
[16:22] Speaker 3: My bad, my bad, my bed. I have some cracker questions.
[16:29] Speaker 1: Cracker questions with Shade Triple C.
[16:34] Speaker 3: Production production. Obviously, let this happened or made it happen, right,
[16:38] Speaker 3: because they would have stopped them.
[16:41] Speaker 1: But it's not the first time, right, this happens.
[16:43] Speaker 3: Is the first time? No, this is the first time.
[16:45] Speaker 1: Did it happen later? Is that what I don't think?
[16:48] Speaker 1: So okay, maybe this is very fresh for me.
[16:51] Speaker 2: The seasons one through twelve and this has never happened before.
[16:54] Speaker 4: Okay, So Ozzie, Flicker, and Cowboy eventually make it to
[16:59] Speaker 4: rare Row, and Rairo's not cool with that at all.
[17:02] Speaker 4: Adam's like very tribal up in here. Yeah, Adam's not
[17:05] Speaker 4: cool with Cowboy being there. He wants to fight him off.
[17:07] Speaker 4: But Cowboy was hilarious during this whole thing. Yeah, yeah,
[17:11] Speaker 4: he was.
[17:12] Speaker 5: Can you imagine Can you imagine you're having a good day,
[17:15] Speaker 5: right and Cowboy comes and just pops a spot and
[17:19] Speaker 5: talks non stop for like five hours.
[17:23] Speaker 1: Would have made it a better day.
[17:24] Speaker 2: I'd have been in heaven. Gosh. I know that they're
[17:27] Speaker 2: playing a game and it probably threw them for a loop.
[17:31] Speaker 2: I'm all in.
[17:32] Speaker 5: There's I will say thirteen seasons in at this point,
[17:37] Speaker 5: no player.
[17:38] Speaker 2: I'd rather hang out with more than Cowboy.
[17:41] Speaker 4: Definitely maybe Ozzie, but Cowboy Ozzy be number two in
[17:47] Speaker 4: that situation. I think Cowboy's number one, and then Richard
[17:50] Speaker 4: Hatch number three. For text of advice, I do have
[17:54] Speaker 4: a trivia.
[17:56] Speaker 3: I have trivia about this. Some clarification.
[18:00] Speaker 1: Okay, fun facts, we Chase Fun Survivor Wikipedia with Chase.
[18:05] Speaker 3: Yeah, thus far, Cook Islands is the only season to
[18:09] Speaker 3: have one tribe accidentally stumble upon the opposing tribes camp.
[18:15] Speaker 2: Accidentally stumble upon.
[18:18] Speaker 4: I think it could have been started as an accident
[18:20] Speaker 4: and then they get over there and the producers are like, hey,
[18:23] Speaker 4: what if you went twenty yards that way?
[18:26] Speaker 5: It was I think the first time in watching this
[18:30] Speaker 5: show that I was like, I don't know about this one.
[18:32] Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
[18:33] Speaker 5: Maybe maybe Billy's rubbing off on me. And now I
[18:36] Speaker 5: think everything's fake.
[18:37] Speaker 1: But yeah, you had a little behind the bathroom deal
[18:39] Speaker 1: with Gilling.
[18:42] Speaker 3: I mean at the least they didn't stop them, you
[18:45] Speaker 3: know what I mean.
[18:46] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[18:48] Speaker 3: It Also I didn't think it was that interesting where
[18:51] Speaker 3: it's like, oh, well they're in their camp and it's.
[18:54] Speaker 4: Like, well, you know, I thought it was pretty interesting.
[18:56] Speaker 4: There was a trib swap at this point, so like
[18:58] Speaker 4: it'll never happened before, well.
[19:01] Speaker 3: Yes, or since, And I think for good reason.
[19:03] Speaker 4: I think it should have happened every I think there
[19:05] Speaker 4: should have been an evasion that like the other tribe
[19:08] Speaker 4: didn't know about usually they know about.
[19:10] Speaker 5: What would have been interesting is if like Cowboy is
[19:15] Speaker 5: sitting there talking their ear off while Aussie's over there
[19:17] Speaker 5: climbing trees and taking all their food.
[19:21] Speaker 3: That was fun.
[19:22] Speaker 4: But what you guys are missing or what Chase is
[19:24] Speaker 4: missing and saying this isn't that interesting, is like did
[19:27] Speaker 4: you not hear cowboys talking about the dog and the
[19:29] Speaker 4: horse and the turtle and the monkey and the dragon.
[19:31] Speaker 4: If you look in your life you find a lot
[19:33] Speaker 4: of dragon and monkey friends. And then in wartime the
[19:35] Speaker 4: horse helps the nation.
[19:39] Speaker 2: You're right, thank you my best moment in Survivor history
[19:43] Speaker 2: bad and.
[19:45] Speaker 1: Then cowboys begging for some spice?
[19:46] Speaker 3: Also, yeah, that's true. Did they I missed it? Did
[19:49] Speaker 3: they give him any?
[19:51] Speaker 5: Am? I?
[19:52] Speaker 3: Right?
[19:52] Speaker 4: Guys? That's more for Chase. Chase watches movies. Lot of
[20:00] Speaker 4: Nicole's actor puts they have those in Dune. No, I
[20:04] Speaker 4: just watched the movie and like the speakers in Cherrydale
[20:06] Speaker 4: were busted and I had no.
[20:08] Speaker 1: Clue what was being said.
[20:10] Speaker 5: Do you guys remember when the theater at Cherrydale had
[20:13] Speaker 5: the fire alarm from going.
[20:15] Speaker 1: Off for like.
[20:21] Speaker 3: Wanda, Yeah, it did, Multiverse of madness, but man, it.
[20:28] Speaker 5: Was the way like if you're watching like a big
[20:30] Speaker 5: action movie, nobody like it went on for a long time,
[20:32] Speaker 5: just like months, and you would go and I'd be like.
[20:35] Speaker 2: Action movie it's fine, you have the audio.
[20:44] Speaker 1: I went to the fire alarm.
[20:46] Speaker 5: I'd be watching like an indie flick and it's quiet,
[20:49] Speaker 5: and all I hear.
[20:49] Speaker 3: Is that's crazy sucks.
[20:54] Speaker 1: I asked somebody about it.
[20:55] Speaker 4: I was like, Hey, what's going on with the sound,
[20:57] Speaker 4: and they're like, dude, it's it's a fire alarm. We
[20:59] Speaker 4: can't turn it off. The fire department has to come
[21:02] Speaker 4: and do it. So I went up to the fire
[21:03] Speaker 4: alarm and put my phone up to I was like,
[21:05] Speaker 4: I need to have this sound because they're gonna fix it.
[21:07] Speaker 1: I want to. I want to be able to have
[21:08] Speaker 1: it for.
[21:09] Speaker 3: When we talk about it on a Cook Islands podcast.
[21:11] Speaker 1: And it came in hand.
[21:12] Speaker 5: But I talked to the manager about it, and I
[21:14] Speaker 5: guess someone did come to check it out, and that
[21:17] Speaker 5: was gonna need to be some sort of fix that
[21:20] Speaker 5: was gonna be like thousands, tens of thousands of dollars.
[21:24] Speaker 3: I'll fix it. I'll just cut the core.
[21:26] Speaker 2: Dude.
[21:27] Speaker 4: I'm gonna start a business where I install something and
[21:29] Speaker 4: then it makes us super annoying noise and you have
[21:32] Speaker 4: to get me thousands and thousands, thousands and thousands to
[21:35] Speaker 4: fix it.
[21:36] Speaker 5: Do we start going around a new developments and just
[21:38] Speaker 5: installing little things that we can.
[21:42] Speaker 3: But instead of that noise, it does the octopus song.
[21:45] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Chase is really trying to make this OCTOPU.
[21:48] Speaker 3: I'm making it work. I'm forcing it, Chase.
[21:50] Speaker 4: A problem with your filter is it only comes out
[21:53] Speaker 4: in one note, and songs need a little bit more
[21:56] Speaker 4: than one note. I need you need a new autotune filter.
[22:00] Speaker 3: Little I'm gonna be with you. I'm gonna be one
[22:04] Speaker 3: honest with you. I can't hear myself, so I have
[22:07] Speaker 3: no idea what I sound like whenever I use any
[22:09] Speaker 3: of those filters.
[22:09] Speaker 1: A monotone robot.
[22:11] Speaker 3: Oh so it's not as fun as.
[22:14] Speaker 1: It is fun to make fun of you for it.
[22:17] Speaker 5: I mean it's it's not as it's not as fun
[22:19] Speaker 5: as uh as this robot.
[22:24] Speaker 2: It's a fun robot.
[22:25] Speaker 4: Yeah, that robot is me with a robot and an
[22:28] Speaker 4: alien filter. Pans to the left and right side.
[22:31] Speaker 3: Dang, that's from behind the that's the artist right now.
[22:35] Speaker 2: Artist.
[22:36] Speaker 3: I was happing next.
[22:38] Speaker 4: Uh cowboys begging for some spice. And then we get
[22:41] Speaker 4: a challenge time with Chase. I hit that one more time.
[22:45] Speaker 3: There's a lot of meat. Yeah, it is another Challenge time.
[22:50] Speaker 3: I felt like we got these challenges back to back,
[22:53] Speaker 3: almost like it was quick.
[22:54] Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Challenge Expedition Challenge.
[22:57] Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh So for this challenge, which is the Immunity Challenge,
[23:01] Speaker 3: You've got to assemble stepping poles. You then use these
[23:04] Speaker 3: stepping poles to transport two tribe members from one large
[23:07] Speaker 3: platform to another. All eight tribe members will then swim
[23:12] Speaker 3: out to a small platform. The first tribe to get
[23:15] Speaker 3: all eight tribe members on the platform wins immunity. We've
[23:19] Speaker 3: seen this a few times over the years. I think
[23:22] Speaker 3: it's a fun challenge. It's pretty close throughout. Really. The
[23:28] Speaker 3: only eventful thing that happens for the majority of the
[23:30] Speaker 3: challenge is Itwo's poles come apart at one point, and
[23:35] Speaker 3: then that gives RaRo the lead. Flicka gets headbutted hard.
[23:41] Speaker 3: She got a shoot head butt. Yeah that was rough, Yeah,
[23:46] Speaker 3: I think so. But Flicka was playing hard though. I
[23:49] Speaker 3: think she earned my respect. She was playing hard.
[23:52] Speaker 1: She has great balance, yeah she does.
[23:55] Speaker 3: And then so Rarero has the lead going into the
[23:59] Speaker 3: final state. But getting all eight players on the very
[24:02] Speaker 3: small platform, it's very difficult. I know. The only reason
[24:08] Speaker 3: I knew it was possible. Is because I'd seen this
[24:10] Speaker 3: season before.
[24:12] Speaker 5: When it's happening, I'm like, I honestly don't know how.
[24:15] Speaker 2: You do this.
[24:16] Speaker 3: I don't either. I was like, this is crazy. They
[24:19] Speaker 3: all fall under the water, which means that I two
[24:23] Speaker 3: does it. I two wins immunity.
[24:25] Speaker 4: Good for them, you know, I because Rarero they're the heels.
[24:28] Speaker 3: To me, if you say.
[24:30] Speaker 2: That sounds like I too win immunity.
[24:33] Speaker 1: Which is Chase one immunity.
[24:35] Speaker 4: After Really, it all comes down to Stephanie needs to
[24:38] Speaker 4: go home because she wants mashed potatoes.
[24:40] Speaker 2: Dude.
[24:41] Speaker 3: Stephanie messed up again, this.
[24:44] Speaker 1: Again, and even worse this time.
[24:46] Speaker 4: Somehow, even though last week she's straight up like, get
[24:48] Speaker 4: me out of here, this time is just mashed potatoes.
[24:51] Speaker 5: This was I gotta be honest with you, this is
[24:53] Speaker 5: this would happen to me, Like I think about all
[24:57] Speaker 5: of the top my favorite food, I would think I
[25:00] Speaker 5: would absolutely at some point when I think I'm just
[25:03] Speaker 5: talking to my bros, I'd be like, man.
[25:07] Speaker 2: You know what, I can't wait for mash potatoes. They'd
[25:11] Speaker 2: use that against me to vote me out.
[25:14] Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, honestly, if you brought it up to us,
[25:15] Speaker 3: we'd probably try to get you out.
[25:17] Speaker 2: Yep.
[25:18] Speaker 5: But my thing is, hey guy, last week, yeah, I
[25:22] Speaker 5: like mashed potatoes.
[25:23] Speaker 3: Can we do some about this? Can we get him
[25:25] Speaker 3: out of there? Yeah?
[25:25] Speaker 1: He didn't mention Gravy, so I love Bravy.
[25:31] Speaker 3: The thing about it was last week she was just
[25:33] Speaker 3: trying to be like self depreciating in an effort of like,
[25:38] Speaker 3: you know, I messed up at the challenge guys, I
[25:40] Speaker 3: feel terrible. I send me home, thinking that everyone was
[25:44] Speaker 3: gonna be like, no, we love you. You're such an important
[25:46] Speaker 3: part of the tribe. That's not this type of game.
[25:48] Speaker 3: So that's when she messed up last week. Then this
[25:50] Speaker 3: week I understand she was just trying to be funny
[25:53] Speaker 3: and she was like, you know, hey, I you know,
[25:55] Speaker 3: I'd love to have some mashed potatoes, but I mean,
[25:59] Speaker 3: you can't. Had to be doing stuff like that.
[26:02] Speaker 4: No, And I wish that it was one of the
[26:06] Speaker 4: dumb guys going home and that Stephanie could have stayed.
[26:09] Speaker 4: But she just she made a mistake telling that to Nate,
[26:13] Speaker 4: of all the people she could have said it to.
[26:14] Speaker 1: If she had just said it to Poverty or said
[26:16] Speaker 1: it to.
[26:16] Speaker 4: Jenny anybody else, it wouldn't have been a problem, but
[26:18] Speaker 4: she said it to Nate, and then Nate then runs
[26:20] Speaker 4: with that tells everybody that, look, her mind is on
[26:24] Speaker 4: the potatoes.
[26:26] Speaker 1: She's gotta go.
[26:27] Speaker 3: Yeah, which was a great way for Nate to twist
[26:30] Speaker 3: that and work it to his advantage. So great, great
[26:33] Speaker 3: work from Nate. But I mean it was like Nate
[26:37] Speaker 3: went to Stephanie was like, so is the plan still
[26:39] Speaker 3: to vote out the cop or whatever? Christina Christina, and
[26:44] Speaker 3: she was like yeah, but hey, I wouldn't mind some
[26:47] Speaker 3: mashed potatoes and gravy tonight. Huh.
[26:49] Speaker 4: And it's like, dude, wrong time, wrong answer, wrong answer, Steve,
[27:01] Speaker 4: and then Christina she was on the chopping block. It
[27:04] Speaker 4: was Stephanie versus Christina. It seemed pretty obvious it was
[27:06] Speaker 4: gonna be Stephanie. And I knew it was gonna be
[27:08] Speaker 4: Stephanie because Chase dropped the spoiler last week and He's like,
[27:11] Speaker 4: you know, Stephanie's always go fifth and I'm like, oh,
[27:13] Speaker 4: we're on our fifth episode.
[27:15] Speaker 1: Guess who's gonna go home? Great job, Chase.
[27:19] Speaker 3: I don't even I didn't even realize that there was
[27:21] Speaker 3: a Stephanie in this season when I said that last week.
[27:23] Speaker 4: That's hilarious, and I think, well, the reason you brought
[27:26] Speaker 4: that up because we were talking about the Stephanie from
[27:29] Speaker 4: ye season, so huge overside by Chase.
[27:32] Speaker 3: Dumb dumb, big dumbest.
[27:34] Speaker 4: That's also it's like if you say everybody named Brad
[27:37] Speaker 4: goes home in the first episode, and it's like you
[27:40] Speaker 4: just spoiled fifty seasons or however many seasons of brads
[27:44] Speaker 4: there are, man Chase really ruined it for everybody.
[27:47] Speaker 1: Every time there's.
[27:48] Speaker 3: Only there's only four Stephanie's. There's like ten brads, So
[27:51] Speaker 3: I would Stephanie.
[27:52] Speaker 5: From last season it got voted out before five, right
[27:56] Speaker 5: up first first, there you go.
[27:58] Speaker 3: It's always it's always first or fifth.
[27:59] Speaker 1: So only.
[28:02] Speaker 3: It was wrong except for Stephanie from Guatemala, who made
[28:07] Speaker 3: it very very far that.
[28:09] Speaker 2: It's either first, fifth or very far.
[28:11] Speaker 1: Yes, so there's a lot of variable Stephanie curse.
[28:15] Speaker 3: Yeah, you just guys, you just got to understand the
[28:17] Speaker 3: qualifications for the Stephanie curse, that's all.
[28:19] Speaker 4: And so at Tribal it's Christina saying like I didn't
[28:23] Speaker 4: realize all of you hated me. I'm sorry, I'll try
[28:26] Speaker 4: to fix that. And then it was sad. It was
[28:29] Speaker 4: it was pitiful, and then Stephanie goes home.
[28:32] Speaker 3: If you guys were on Survivor, would you guys try
[28:36] Speaker 3: to use like sympathy and and stuff like that as
[28:40] Speaker 3: a weapon towards other players?
[28:42] Speaker 4: You know, some would say sympathy is a knife, and
[28:46] Speaker 4: uh yeah, definitely definitely.
[28:48] Speaker 3: Brand, I think your mic unplugged.
[28:50] Speaker 1: He did the same thing I did.
[28:52] Speaker 3: But how we're hearing you through your computer mic not
[28:55] Speaker 3: your microphone mic.
[28:57] Speaker 2: That's crazy.
[28:59] Speaker 1: So we both ejected but got evicted from the riverside.
[29:02] Speaker 2: Now I can't change my I can't.
[29:04] Speaker 1: Believe and come back.
[29:06] Speaker 2: How's that gonna work with me?
[29:09] Speaker 4: Wrap up?
[29:10] Speaker 2: Wrap it up?
[29:10] Speaker 1: About to say we could just end.
[29:11] Speaker 3: It, okay, may guys for a second because we can
[29:14] Speaker 3: hear the air conditioning.
[29:15] Speaker 4: Yeah, we're having technical difficulties and Brand is just gonna
[29:18] Speaker 4: listen to us. Close this out on mute now, I suppose,
[29:21] Speaker 4: so any final thoughts Chase, Stephanie's going home, Christina sticks around.
[29:25] Speaker 3: I thought it would be really funny if there was
[29:27] Speaker 3: actually nothing wrong with the Brand and we just asked
[29:29] Speaker 3: him to mute himself. We didn't want to hear him. No,
[29:35] Speaker 3: I mean, dude, Stephanie going home really isn't a big
[29:38] Speaker 3: deal to me. She wasn't one of my favorites.
[29:40] Speaker 1: Yeah, she wasn't a big character.
[29:43] Speaker 3: No, and and I mean she kind of like after
[29:46] Speaker 3: the whole ordeal last week, you would think that she
[29:48] Speaker 3: would be more careful about saying stuff like that. My
[29:50] Speaker 3: big takeaway from the end of this episode was next week.
[29:53] Speaker 3: The preview for next week looks awesome.
[29:55] Speaker 4: It does, and it is because we know it's a
[29:58] Speaker 4: game changing thing that's about to happen. That that comes
[30:02] Speaker 4: from the mind of one of the high.
[30:04] Speaker 3: Boys, Cowboys, Vision baby a vision Brand looks very exciting.
[30:10] Speaker 2: Brand.
[30:11] Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's singing the octopus song.
[30:15] Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I don't even remember the octopus song.
[30:18] Speaker 3: Octopus, Octopus, got a lot of tentacles octopus. Okay at that?
[30:24] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great.
[30:25] Speaker 3: Thanks, let's wrap this up.
[30:26] Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, listen to Making the Merge wherever you
[30:30] Speaker 4: get your podcasts chase out. Oh yeah, we're doing Big Brother,
[30:34] Speaker 4: We're gonna be doing Survivor. Au brand has a million shows.
[30:38] Speaker 4: You can go listen to all of them if you want.
[30:40] Speaker 4: All right, that'll do it.
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