# BOLD PREDICTIONS FOR SEASON 51

An episode of [Making The Merge - Survivor Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1770945758), 23 Sep 2026, 34 min.

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The Survivor 51 Premiere is TONIGHT so we decided to make some last minute predictions for tonights episode!

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: I'm a really good stacker.
[0:02] Speaker 2: Like, if you have a pantry, and let's say your
[0:05] Speaker 2: spices are all out of order.
[0:07] Speaker 3: Call me.
[0:08] Speaker 1: This is Making the Merge. We can very well win
[0:13] Speaker 1: this thing. I'm a dog person now.
[0:16] Speaker 2: I'm making the Merge, baby.
[0:17] Speaker 4: If your dog was sick, I'd say, I'm coming over.
[0:21] Speaker 3: You know, I'd crack open a coconut and eat it
[0:23] Speaker 3: and cheer for.
[0:26] Speaker 1: You.
[0:26] Speaker 2: You're either a survivor or not.
[0:29] Speaker 1: Welcome to Making the Merge.
[0:33] Speaker 2: Guys, this is a special episode.
[0:36] Speaker 1: The season 51 premiere is tonight.
[0:38] Speaker 5: It's happening.
[0:38] Speaker 1: We made it.
[1:00] Speaker 2: I typed in.
[1:02] Speaker 5: Okay, so I meant to type in Twas the Night
[1:05] Speaker 5: Before Christmas, and then I was going to change it
[1:08] Speaker 5: to Survivor stuff, because you know how it's Tuesday, and
[1:11] Speaker 5: tomorrow is Survivor? We're going to put this out tomorrow,
[1:14] Speaker 5: but I just wanted to do a little thing, but
[1:16] Speaker 5: I accidentally just typed in Twas the Night Before Survivor,
[1:20] Speaker 5: and the Google AI wrote one. Oh.
[1:24] Speaker 1: Oh, no.
[1:25] Speaker 2: Does Google AI just generate stuff based off?
[1:28] Speaker 1: My understanding was that it was just going to give
[1:30] Speaker 1: you search results based off of.
[1:33] Speaker 2: That's what I thought. It generated a poem. Here's what
[1:35] Speaker 2: it said.
[1:36] Speaker 1: It generated a poem? Yes.
[1:39] Speaker 2: I'll read it.
[1:40] Speaker 5: Twas the night before Survivor, when all through the camp,
[1:44] Speaker 5: not a creature was stirring, not even a cramp.
[1:47] Speaker 2: God.
[1:48] Speaker 3: Ant.
[1:49] Speaker 2: Ant was right there.
[1:50] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:51] Speaker 1: What the fuck?
[1:53] Speaker 2: The buffs were all hung by the shelter with care
[1:56] Speaker 2: in hopes that Jeff Probst would soon be there. That's okay.
[2:00] Speaker 2: That one got me.
[2:01] Speaker 1: That one got me.
[2:02] Speaker 2: The castaways were all nestled... This is long, by the way.
[2:05] Speaker 2: The castaways....
[2:07] Speaker 5: No, I'm going to finish it. The castaways were nestled
[2:10] Speaker 5: all snug in their dirt while visions of pizza bypassed
[2:14] Speaker 5: all their hurt.
[2:15] Speaker 2: And Natalie... And Natalie.
[2:18] Speaker 5: In her jacket and I in my buff had settled
[2:21] Speaker 5: our brains for a game that is tough.
[2:23] Speaker 2: So Natalie's here.
[2:24] Speaker 1: Of all the people that we could have called out.
[2:27] Speaker 1: In Survivor history. We get Natalie in her jacket.
[2:31] Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we're almost halfway through. Actually, that reminds me. Okay,
[2:33] Speaker 2: all right, you finish, and then I have to tell
[2:34] Speaker 2: you something really important.
[2:36] Speaker 5: When out on the beach there arose such a clatter,
[2:39] Speaker 5: I sprang from the bamboo to see what was the matter.
[2:43] Speaker 5: Away to the tree mail, I flew like a flash,
[2:45] Speaker 5: tore open the note, expecting a clash. The moon on
[2:49] Speaker 5: the breast of the new-fallen rain gave... Whoa.
[2:54] Speaker 1: Hey, breast is in the original book, by the way, Chase.
[2:57] Speaker 1: It's not.
[2:58] Speaker 5: Really? It's not.
[2:59] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[2:59] Speaker 2: I knew you'd have it memorized. I... Listen, you know me. Midday...
[3:04] Speaker 2: It's because it's.
[3:04] Speaker 1: Christmas, not because it's breast, okay? All you freaks out there.
[3:08] Speaker 2: Okay, new-fallen... Then it... Okay, but... This thing is getting
[3:13] Speaker 2: off the rails.
[3:14] Speaker 5: But what to my wondering eyes should appear but a
[3:17] Speaker 5: sleek speedboat and a host we hold dear. With a
[3:20] Speaker 5: dimpled old driver so lively and quick, I knew in
[3:22] Speaker 5: that moment it must be St. Nick.
[3:24] Speaker 2: No, wait.
[3:25] Speaker 5: It's Jeff Probst in his blue button down, ready to
[3:29] Speaker 5: vote someone right out of town.
[3:30] Speaker 2: Jeff doesn't vote.
[3:31] Speaker 1: Jeff doesn't vote.
[3:32] Speaker 3: Um.
[3:33] Speaker 5: Now Tony, now Parvati, now Boston Rob and Sandra, on Seri,
[3:37] Speaker 5: on Cochran, on Tyson and Amanda, to the top of
[3:40] Speaker 5: the challenge, to the top of the wall, now dash away,
[3:42] Speaker 5: dash away, dash away all. He sprang to his boat
[3:45] Speaker 5: to give his crew a whistle, and away they all
[3:49] Speaker 5: flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard
[3:52] Speaker 5: him exclaim, as he drove out of sight, fire represents
[3:55] Speaker 5: your life, and the tribe has spoken tonight.
[3:59] Speaker 2: The ending really kind of pulled it all together.
[4:01] Speaker 1: All right.
[4:02] Speaker 5: Okay.
[4:02] Speaker 2: The rapid fire names was pretty baller. I'm not going
[4:05] Speaker 2: to lie.
[4:05] Speaker 1: That's good. Speaking of Amanda Kimmel, a lot of people
[4:09] Speaker 1: online are saying that our favorite sex store owner reminds
[4:15] Speaker 1: them a lot of Amanda Kimmel, like a young Amanda.
[4:17] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[4:18] Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
[4:19] Speaker 2: That's awesome.
[4:20] Speaker 1: What are we doing here today, Chase? Never mind. So today,
[4:24] Speaker 1: we have.
[4:25] Speaker 2: So Jeff went on a crazy press run this week,
[4:28] Speaker 2: and it all seemed to come out yesterday. And so
[4:31] Speaker 2: we all were very excitedly watching all of this stuff,
[4:33] Speaker 2: as I'm sure everybody listening was. And today, we're just
[4:35] Speaker 2: going to play a few of our favorite moments, and
[4:37] Speaker 2: then each of us is going to make a prediction
[4:39] Speaker 2: of something that's going to happen in the premiere. But first,
[4:41] Speaker 2: I need to tell you guys what happened in my
[4:43] Speaker 2: dream last night. I'm so excited about Survivor that last
[4:47] Speaker 2: night I dreamt that I was... on a returning season
[4:51] Speaker 2: of survivor. So I dreamt that I was on my
[4:54] Speaker 2: second season playing on survivor and I was playing with
[4:58] Speaker 2: Angelina and I was with Angelina and I was telling
[5:02] Speaker 2: her about how I got evicted the first time I played.
[5:05] Speaker 3: Okay.
[5:06] Speaker 2: And then she was like, dang, that's really rough. And
[5:09] Speaker 2: I was like, we don't say evicted here.
[5:12] Speaker 1: That's right.
[5:12] Speaker 2: Oh, that's big brother. Sorry. Sorry. I'm in big brother,
[5:15] Speaker 2: big brother mode. But, uh, I was telling her about
[5:18] Speaker 2: it and then I was like, look, I don't want
[5:20] Speaker 2: to win this season. I want you to win this season.
[5:22] Speaker 2: And then I woke up.
[5:24] Speaker 1: I love that even in your dreams, you're so cocky
[5:27] Speaker 1: that you would think that you'd be invited back for
[5:29] Speaker 1: a second season. Dream itself doesn't even have to experience
[5:35] Speaker 1: the first one to know that that's how good I did.
[5:37] Speaker 1: I'm back, baby.
[5:38] Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I didn't win in my dream.
[5:41] Speaker 2: So my dream was humble enough to know that I
[5:42] Speaker 2: didn't win either times.
[5:44] Speaker 1: But you are entertaining enough to get an invite back.
[5:48] Speaker 2: Come on, dude. You really think if I went on Survivor,
[5:50] Speaker 2: they would not ask me back?
[5:52] Speaker 1: No, you're right. You're right.
[5:53] Speaker 2: Depends on how your game went.
[5:54] Speaker 1: Don't insult me like that. You'd be doing TikTok dances
[5:57] Speaker 1: of Jeff Probst, Rizzo style.
[5:59] Speaker 2: Rizzo would wish he was me.
[6:01] Speaker 1: That's right.
[6:03] Speaker 2: But I am very excited to talk about what we
[6:04] Speaker 2: got going on. PD, do you want to start with
[6:07] Speaker 2: what you found? What I found?
[6:11] Speaker 1: What did you find in your research? Your bold prediction. Yeah.
[6:16] Speaker 2: Can you throw his picture up?
[6:18] Speaker 1: Sure, I can throw it. Who are we looking at here? Kilby.
[6:24] Speaker 1: Your bold prediction is Kilby.
[6:27] Speaker 5: My bold prediction is Kilby, and that's it. No, I
[6:31] Speaker 5: want to start by saying I'm sorry to this man,
[6:33] Speaker 5: but watching the previews, I just kept getting the feeling
[6:38] Speaker 5: that he's the first boot, and I don't know why.
[6:42] Speaker 1: Kind of a Brandon Nolan.
[6:42] Speaker 2: But I think it's him. Is that his name? Brandon Nolan,
[6:45] Speaker 2: is that the name?
[6:46] Speaker 3: Donovan.
[6:46] Speaker 1: Yeah, who got so freaked out because he's such a
[6:50] Speaker 1: big fan of the show.
[6:51] Speaker 2: Yeah, that he just panicked immediately, which I think we
[6:54] Speaker 2: can all relate to.
[6:55] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[6:56] Speaker 5: It's just every time they show him, he looks so excited,
[6:59] Speaker 5: and he's like, oh, it's going to be chaos.
[7:01] Speaker 2: I'm going to create chaos. I'm like, I think the
[7:03] Speaker 2: chaos is going to send you home first. Did you
[7:06] Speaker 2: manage to see what he says to Rob? Because Rob
[7:11] Speaker 2: from Rob Has a Podcast managed to talk to all
[7:13] Speaker 2: of them in a little short burst at the Survivor
[7:16] Speaker 2: 15 premiere.
[7:16] Speaker 1: Red carpet style, yeah. Which I will say, how impressive
[7:21] Speaker 1: is it that all of those people know what happens, right?
[7:26] Speaker 1: And it has not leaked. It has not leaked, but
[7:30] Speaker 1: Rob asks them.
[7:30] Speaker 5: Well, it probably has, but we just don't seek that out.
[7:33] Speaker 1: That's true. I'm sure the prediction models have got the leaks.
[7:38] Speaker 1: But anyway... Yeah, but Kalshi. Kalshi. But anyway.
[7:41] Speaker 2: Don't look at this stuff.
[7:43] Speaker 1: They all... Rob asks all of them, why are you
[7:47] Speaker 1: going to win? And they all answer it... Knowing that
[7:52] Speaker 1: they didn't win. Except one. Yeah, it was weird. Pretty impressive, though,
[7:56] Speaker 1: that they're able to do that. Just sell themselves while
[8:01] Speaker 1: they're going to be the ones to win, even though
[8:03] Speaker 1: they know that they didn't win.
[8:05] Speaker 2: Because one of them was the first boot, and then
[8:08] Speaker 2: they had to cut a promo saying that they were
[8:10] Speaker 2: going to win it all, and they know that that's
[8:11] Speaker 2: going to look embarrassing in hindsight.
[8:14] Speaker 1: I will say, to address Petey's bold prediction that Kilby's
[8:17] Speaker 1: going to be the first boot, I disagree. And here
[8:21] Speaker 1: is why I disagree. I listened to Jeff's interview that
[8:25] Speaker 1: Rob did with him at that event. It's like a
[8:27] Speaker 1: 30-minute thing. And Jeff says something, and I think it's
[8:30] Speaker 1: a little... little slip up by Mr. Jeffrey Probst.
[8:35] Speaker 2: What'd he say?
[8:36] Speaker 1: He's talking about something like how you gotta, you're gonna
[8:42] Speaker 1: bother people or you just gotta be you or whatever.
[8:45] Speaker 1: And he says, like Kilby, Kilby does this thing all
[8:49] Speaker 1: season with his fingers.
[8:51] Speaker 2: Damn it. There goes my bold prediction.
[8:54] Speaker 1: PD's already wrong. But knowing Jeff, he's probably, he's a freak.
[8:58] Speaker 1: He probably said like, Jeff said all season to throw
[9:01] Speaker 1: you off.
[9:02] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[9:03] Speaker 1: He is a freak. He says Kilby all season, which
[9:07] Speaker 1: makes me think that Kilby goes far, but I don't know.
[9:10] Speaker 2: What if Kilby wins? Then I have to retire.
[9:15] Speaker 1: Who has Kilby? Who drafted?
[9:17] Speaker 2: Bran, did you draft Kilby?
[9:19] Speaker 1: Gosh, I'll look real quick. I'll pull it up. I
[9:22] Speaker 1: like your bold prediction should be that he's either first
[9:25] Speaker 1: boot or winner.
[9:26] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[9:26] Speaker 1: How about that?
[9:27] Speaker 5: Okay.
[9:27] Speaker 2: Bran, you have Kilby.
[9:28] Speaker 1: I have Kilby. I thought I did.
[9:30] Speaker 2: If you're not, last, you're first. That's my prediction for COVID.
[9:33] Speaker 1: A reminder, really quick, while we're talking about this, a
[9:35] Speaker 1: great time to join the Patreon, where you're going to
[9:37] Speaker 1: be able to lock in with one of us. And also,
[9:41] Speaker 1: they are having the opportunity right now to vote on
[9:44] Speaker 1: trades in the first two episodes, I believe. And it's
[9:47] Speaker 1: looking like trades are on the table.
[9:50] Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a poll over on Patreon to see
[9:53] Speaker 2: what the.
[9:55] Speaker 1: Fans, in the hands of the fans. In the hands
[9:58] Speaker 1: of the little mergers.
[10:00] Speaker 2: Not only are we going to be able to make
[10:01] Speaker 2: trades for just the, wait, what is it, the first
[10:04] Speaker 2: two weeks, right? The first two episodes?
[10:05] Speaker 1: I think that's right, yeah. Yeah.
[10:07] Speaker 2: But here's the thing. We can trade one player for
[10:11] Speaker 2: multiple players. Okay, so it's not just a one for one. Yeah,
[10:14] Speaker 2: you could do a three for one, a two for one,
[10:16] Speaker 2: a five for one. Some person can be so confident
[10:18] Speaker 2: that Ori is going to win that they trade all
[10:21] Speaker 2: of their other players and ride it out with just
[10:23] Speaker 2: one player.
[10:24] Speaker 1: In the spirit of Survivor, this is maximum chaos. Anything goes.
[10:32] Speaker 2: It's the open era. Speaking of maximum chaos.
[10:35] Speaker 5: Does anybody want to make a trade proposal before we
[10:38] Speaker 5: even watch Survivor?
[10:40] Speaker 3: Nope.
[10:40] Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
[10:41] Speaker 1: No, I don't want to, but I do appreciate you asking.
[10:45] Speaker 1: A reminder really quickly, my team is Jelly, Carter, Kristen, Jenna, Kilby, Eric,
[10:52] Speaker 1: and Rob. A really strong crew. We'll find out tonight.
[10:57] Speaker 2: How do you know?
[10:58] Speaker 1: I feel really good about it. I feel really good
[11:00] Speaker 1: about it.
[11:01] Speaker 5: Pissing me off seeing our fans being like, Bran has
[11:04] Speaker 5: the best team. Nobody knows.
[11:05] Speaker 1: How do we know? Nobody knows a thing.
[11:07] Speaker 2: We will find out tonight just how strong that is.
[11:09] Speaker 2: I think it's because of Jelly. People seem to really
[11:12] Speaker 2: be behind Jelly this season. And we haven't even seen
[11:15] Speaker 2: the first episode. Chase's team is Ori, Lewis, Pat, Brady, Alexis, Mike,
[11:22] Speaker 2: and Maggie.
[11:24] Speaker 1: Maggie. And PD has Anna, Linnea... T-Anne, is that right? Tanon.
[11:31] Speaker 2: Tanon.
[11:32] Speaker 1: I'll get it by the end of the season. Devin, Sharonda, Aliyah,
[11:37] Speaker 1: and Christian. And I'll say this, Sharonda is, to me,
[11:42] Speaker 1: just being online, like the most polarizing of the survivors
[11:48] Speaker 1: this season. Like, a lot of people are like, Sharonda's
[11:52] Speaker 1: winning this. And a lot of people, kind of like us,
[11:55] Speaker 1: we're kind of like, she seems kind of boring and like, Like,
[11:58] Speaker 1: she's not going to give us a lot. So I'm
[12:00] Speaker 1: really interested to see what we get out of Sharonda
[12:03] Speaker 1: tonight in particular, you know?
[12:05] Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so pumped. I mean, let me read before
[12:11] Speaker 2: I give you my bold prediction for the premiere. Someone
[12:14] Speaker 2: on Twitter named at slightly bitter.
[12:18] Speaker 1: Nice.
[12:19] Speaker 2: They were at the Survivor 51 premiere, and they gave
[12:21] Speaker 2: spoiler-free takeaways.
[12:23] Speaker 3: Okay.
[12:25] Speaker 2: It's a very different feel from the new era, so
[12:28] Speaker 2: that's exciting. Not that I disliked the new era, but
[12:31] Speaker 2: I am so excited that we're, and this is something
[12:34] Speaker 2: that I think, Bran, you found in one of the
[12:36] Speaker 2: Jeff interviews from yesterday. He said that the new era
[12:41] Speaker 2: was very formulaic. You kind of knew what was going
[12:43] Speaker 2: to happen every season, even though there was twists and turns.
[12:46] Speaker 1: But the twists were building on the twists from the
[12:50] Speaker 1: season before, basically. It was constantly building on itself. So
[12:54] Speaker 1: players basically knew what they were in for, for the
[12:57] Speaker 1: most part.
[12:59] Speaker 2: Yeah, but he says open era, anything goes. It's going
[13:01] Speaker 2: to be chaos. And apparently it's going to come true
[13:06] Speaker 2: from this premiere because it says there's slight tweaks on
[13:09] Speaker 2: old ideas that worked really well. People are finally unafraid
[13:13] Speaker 2: to be mean. And that they really like the whole
[13:17] Speaker 2: cast overall.
[13:18] Speaker 1: Getting some villains. We've been asking for villains. Chase every
[13:21] Speaker 1: season goes, villains are back. And then They aren't, and
[13:25] Speaker 1: so we might get it. I'm an optimist. This is
[13:28] Speaker 1: what Jeff said in a TV Line interview. He said,
[13:30] Speaker 1: in the premiere alone, there are seven different things.
[13:35] Speaker 2: Several. Several and seven. You combined them.
[13:39] Speaker 1: I know. That's really something. A real Jelinski, am I right?
[13:43] Speaker 1: A real Jelinski situation. There are seven different things from
[13:47] Speaker 1: six different seasons, plus three new things.
[13:52] Speaker 2: A lot of numbers there. That's nine things. Nine things
[13:55] Speaker 2: in the premiere.
[13:56] Speaker 1: That's ten things.
[13:57] Speaker 2: Ten things.
[13:58] Speaker 1: Whoa. Man, we are not.
[14:00] Speaker 2: Beating the dumb allegations anytime soon.
[14:02] Speaker 1: Anyway, very excited about that.
[14:04] Speaker 2: That's a lot of things, okay? Okay, let me go
[14:06] Speaker 2: next for my bold prediction, okay?
[14:07] Speaker 1: Let's go. Here's my clip that I'm basing this off of.
[14:11] Speaker 1: This is from the very first promo that we got
[14:17] Speaker 1: during the season 50 season. finale. If you recall, there's
[14:20] Speaker 1: the big 51 promo video and there's something in it
[14:24] Speaker 1: that I want to touch on.
[14:25] Speaker 4: Along with dangerous new elements never seen before. Okay.
[14:33] Speaker 1: That's it.
[14:34] Speaker 3: Whoa.
[14:34] Speaker 5: Right.
[14:35] Speaker 1: Okay.
[14:35] Speaker 5: Whoa.
[14:36] Speaker 1: Two things happen there, right? Jeff is saying dangerous elements
[14:41] Speaker 1: never before seen, right? Cut to a helicopter landing on
[14:47] Speaker 1: the beach. So helicopters and survivor, we haven't seen a
[14:54] Speaker 1: helicopter in a while, but helicopter and survivor means one
[14:57] Speaker 1: of a few different things. One could be a medevac.
[15:01] Speaker 1: They've medevaced people in a helicopter before.
[15:03] Speaker 2: Typically a boat though.
[15:04] Speaker 1: Typically, typically a boat, especially since moving to Fiji. I
[15:08] Speaker 1: think it's been exclusively boats. Yeah.
[15:10] Speaker 3: Hmm.
[15:11] Speaker 1: It could... Helicopters have been used in the past for
[15:14] Speaker 1: those dumb challenges where you have to make a thing
[15:19] Speaker 1: on the beach, like a smoke thing.
[15:22] Speaker 2: Like an SOS.
[15:22] Speaker 1: Yeah, like an SOS, and then someone flies over and
[15:27] Speaker 1: judges it. Really bad challenge.
[15:29] Speaker 2: Jack Brown will do the.
[15:31] Speaker 1: We haven't seen that in a while.
[15:32] Speaker 2: But this helicopter is landing, right?
[15:35] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[15:36] Speaker 1: So it makes me think of the other thing that
[15:38] Speaker 1: we've seen a helicopter used for in the past since
[15:40] Speaker 1: everything is up for grabs again, and that is destination rewards.
[15:46] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
[15:48] Speaker 1: That's awesome.
[15:49] Speaker 2: But would it be a surprise to them?
[15:50] Speaker 1: That's the thing, PD. What Jeff says is surprise, like
[15:56] Speaker 1: dangerous elements, he basically says. Let me replay it one
[15:59] Speaker 1: more time.
[16:07] Speaker 2: They're getting kidnapped. That's the danger. It could just be
[16:11] Speaker 2: the TV editing.
[16:12] Speaker 1: Right. So what I was trying to figure out is
[16:16] Speaker 1: are those two things related? Jeff saying dangerous and then
[16:22] Speaker 1: us seeing helicopter. So one of the things I thought through,
[16:26] Speaker 1: like what would be a dangerous element that would involve
[16:30] Speaker 1: a helicopter?
[16:31] Speaker 2: You have to jump out of the helicopter.
[16:34] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[16:34] Speaker 2: Total Drama Island style.
[16:37] Speaker 1: I don't think that they're going to do anything truly
[16:40] Speaker 1: dangerous involving a helicopter, right? So that is why my
[16:44] Speaker 1: bold prediction, and we're constantly being told, open era, everything's
[16:50] Speaker 1: back on the table. I am saying during this season,
[16:54] Speaker 1: we will see a destination reward.
[16:57] Speaker 2: I think that's a really great prediction.
[16:59] Speaker 1: An old school destination reward, season 51. That is my
[17:03] Speaker 1: bold prediction.
[17:04] Speaker 2: I'd love that. I think that's great. I think that's
[17:06] Speaker 2: a really great prediction. My prediction, I'm going to go
[17:11] Speaker 2: more specific to the premiere.
[17:15] Speaker 1: Okay.
[17:17] Speaker 2: Because as you guys know, and if you didn't watch
[17:20] Speaker 2: the draft episode or the preseason extravaganza, you might know,
[17:23] Speaker 2: or you might not know, I'm enlightened.
[17:27] Speaker 3: God.
[17:27] Speaker 5: Yeah, and famously, every enlightened person repeats that they're enlightened constantly.
[17:33] Speaker 1: Exactly.
[17:34] Speaker 2: It's a part of the Enlightenment. I looked up the
[17:38] Speaker 2: day that they started filming season 51.
[17:41] Speaker 1: Okay.
[17:43] Speaker 2: And on that day, I checked the cosmic transits of
[17:48] Speaker 2: what was happening in astrology that day.
[17:50] Speaker 1: Hey, James, what are you talking about? What are you
[17:53] Speaker 1: getting on about?
[17:54] Speaker 2: The cosmic transits? Is that what they call it? Like
[17:56] Speaker 2: the streets of the sky?
[17:57] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[17:58] Speaker 2: Yep, the cosmic transits. And did you guys know that
[18:01] Speaker 2: the moon was in Taurus on that day? Do you
[18:04] Speaker 2: know what that means? Because it's very interesting. Well, I
[18:08] Speaker 2: don't know what... Sorry, keep going. It creates a collective
[18:12] Speaker 2: craving for stability, predictability, and comfort.
[18:17] Speaker 1: Which is the opposite of what we've been promised in
[18:21] Speaker 1: the open era. Exactly.
[18:22] Speaker 2: It favors practical routines, home-based care, and financial mindfulness rather
[18:29] Speaker 2: than impulsive risks.
[18:31] Speaker 1: Dude, I just found out that my moon is constantly
[18:34] Speaker 1: in Taurus. That's crazy. Really?
[18:36] Speaker 2: Yeah, I just.
[18:37] Speaker 1: Always want routine and I want to be home.
[18:41] Speaker 2: So based on the moon being in Taurus, I think
[18:44] Speaker 2: that the premiere is going to be a big shock
[18:46] Speaker 2: to all these players because all these players are going
[18:49] Speaker 2: to be wanting the new era format.
[18:52] Speaker 1: And they're going to get really thrown... Your bold prediction
[18:55] Speaker 1: is that the players are going to be surprised?
[18:57] Speaker 5: I'm not.
[18:58] Speaker 2: Hey, let me finish. I'm not done yet.
[19:01] Speaker 1: Stop talking about moons, Chase.
[19:03] Speaker 5: Are you saying that the Survivor is not energetically aligned
[19:06] Speaker 5: with the stars?
[19:07] Speaker 2: Hold on. Because Mercury was in Aries, and it was
[19:11] Speaker 2: aligned with Pluto in Aquarius.
[19:14] Speaker 1: No, there's no way all that's true. It is true.
[19:18] Speaker 2: I'm not making this up.
[19:19] Speaker 1: It means that sharpened minds. What does literally any of
[19:21] Speaker 1: that mean, Chase?
[19:22] Speaker 5: Hold on.
[19:23] Speaker 1: Hold on, Brad.
[19:24] Speaker 3: Sharpened minds brought intense direct communication.
[19:29] Speaker 1: Like Elvis?
[19:30] Speaker 2: Oh, that's suspicious minds.
[19:34] Speaker 3: This aspect acted like a cosmic reality check. Reality check,
[19:40] Speaker 3: reality TV show check, reality money, million dollar prize. I
[19:45] Speaker 3: think in the premiere, they are going to announce that
[19:48] Speaker 3: the prize money is more than a million dollars once
[19:51] Speaker 3: again whoa.
[19:52] Speaker 5: I don't understand how you got from point a to
[19:57] Speaker 5: point um what.
[19:59] Speaker 2: That's because you're not enlightened That's because you don't know
[20:02] Speaker 2: the cosmic transits.
[20:04] Speaker 1: Now, there is one more thing. Can you connect it
[20:06] Speaker 1: really quick? I'm sorry. I know this is all BS,
[20:10] Speaker 1: and I don't know why I care. But the moon
[20:14] Speaker 1: is in Taurus. Yes. And it's aligned with Mercury?
[20:21] Speaker 2: No, Mercury is in Aries, and it's aligned with Pluto
[20:24] Speaker 2: in Aquarius.
[20:24] Speaker 1: What do you mean when you say Mercury is in Aries?
[20:29] Speaker 2: That's a very good question, Bram. And then Aquarius. What's Aquarius?
[20:37] Speaker 2: I think that's a nightclub. It's a zodiac sign.
[20:39] Speaker 1: All of these are zodiac signs, right?
[20:42] Speaker 3: Yes.
[20:42] Speaker 2: That's a Latin nightclub, Berea. So the astrology, the constellations
[20:49] Speaker 2: are aligned with the planets. In fact, and this is
[20:52] Speaker 2: the biggest revelation of all, so I'm really glad that
[20:55] Speaker 2: you guys are on board with this.
[20:56] Speaker 1: There is a connection with Jupiter. I don't know what
[20:58] Speaker 1: gave you that.
[20:59] Speaker 2: There is a connection with Jupiter. The Taurus moon's harmonious
[21:03] Speaker 2: tie with Jupiter, which is in Cancer, offers emotional support,
[21:07] Speaker 2: making it a favorable day for nurturing close relationships and
[21:12] Speaker 2: managing home matters without overextending. I think that someone on
[21:16] Speaker 2: the first episode of season 51, the premiere, is going
[21:20] Speaker 2: to get Jeff landing in a helicopter, running out and saying, hey,
[21:25] Speaker 2: there's an issue at home. You need to leave the
[21:28] Speaker 2: beach today. We are going to get a situation like Jake.
[21:32] Speaker 1: Getting bit by the snake. Is that what you think
[21:33] Speaker 1: the helicopter is?
[21:35] Speaker 2: That is.
[21:36] Speaker 1: And it's not just what I think.
[21:37] Speaker 2: It's what Jupiter thinks, Bran.
[21:39] Speaker 5: Jeff has never entered via helicopter to give someone bad news.
[21:43] Speaker 2: It's always via boat. But that's what it's exciting and different.
[21:49] Speaker 2: So we're going to give you your awful news. It's
[21:54] Speaker 2: such a bad emergency. Not that I'm wishing that on anyone,
[21:58] Speaker 2: but they've got to helicopter them out immediately. There's no
[22:00] Speaker 2: time for that.
[22:01] Speaker 1: Hey, so-and-so's mom died. How do we deliver the news?
[22:04] Speaker 1: We could do boats like we normally do, or we
[22:07] Speaker 1: could make it fun.
[22:08] Speaker 2: Yeah, we spiced it up a little bit. I think
[22:11] Speaker 2: they went with the latter.
[22:13] Speaker 1: Outside of Moon and Mercury and Pluto and Venus and
[22:18] Speaker 1: all of that, do you have anything, any supporting content
[22:24] Speaker 1: or anything that has been said that would make you
[22:26] Speaker 1: believe this?
[22:27] Speaker 2: Are you asking if I have clips from... I'm asking
[22:30] Speaker 2: if you have clips. Okay, yeah, I do, but they
[22:32] Speaker 2: have nothing to do with anything. Let's watch this video
[22:35] Speaker 2: of Jeff being a freak.
[22:38] Speaker 4: Thinking about you this morning, Gail, this is the analogy.
[22:41] Speaker 4: You're wearing this beautiful blue dress today because it's of
[22:43] Speaker 4: the moment.
[22:44] Speaker 1: And the shoes.
[22:45] Speaker 4: And tomorrow you'll probably have something similar of the moment.
[22:49] Speaker 4: But imagine if instead you had a giant treasure chest
[22:52] Speaker 4: of everything you have ever worn in your entire career.
[22:55] Speaker 4: And tomorrow we pull out something from 1987. And that's,
[22:58] Speaker 4: that's the idea is it could be literally anything from
[23:01] Speaker 4: 25 years and 50 seasons at any given time for
[23:04] Speaker 4: any given reason without anyone.
[23:06] Speaker 1: Oh my God. That's what made it permanent. And where
[23:08] Speaker 1: did this idea come from? Desperation. At least he's honest. Desperation.
[23:16] Speaker 2: Nate Burleson is great.
[23:17] Speaker 1: I would have loved for Gail to be like 1987.
[23:19] Speaker 1: How old do you think I am? He did call
[23:21] Speaker 1: her old. I know. That's great.
[23:25] Speaker 2: She had those rumors with Oprah back in 87. What
[23:26] Speaker 2: were the rumors with Oprah? That they were like a couple,
[23:31] Speaker 2: I think.
[23:32] Speaker 1: That they were doing it.
[23:34] Speaker 2: Well put, Petey. You're welcome. Then, in the same interview,
[23:39] Speaker 2: Jeff does that weird thing that he does sometimes where
[23:42] Speaker 2: I think he just starts talking without thinking, and he's like,
[23:46] Speaker 2: I'll figure it out on the way. You know, the
[23:48] Speaker 2: classic moments. You mean the thing he does all the time? Yeah,
[23:50] Speaker 2: you know, the classic moment like, oh, your dog is sick?
[23:52] Speaker 1: I'm coming over.
[23:54] Speaker 2: Well, he does this again with Petey's boy, Nate.
[23:57] Speaker 4: I'm constantly thinking, I'm only thinking, really, about Survivor. Even
[24:02] Speaker 4: looking at Nate, I'm like, he always pulls out my text.
[24:05] Speaker 4: Somehow in my head, I'm like, how do I get
[24:07] Speaker 4: that into Survivor?
[24:10] Speaker 2: You missed it talking. Because of my text about Aaron Rodgers.
[24:14] Speaker 5: Did you see the play where Aaron Rodgers got folded
[24:17] Speaker 5: in half and they fumbled the ball 40 yards backwards?
[24:21] Speaker 2: I could not stop laughing. Okay, we're going to watch
[24:24] Speaker 2: this again now.
[24:25] Speaker 4: I'm constantly thinking, I'm only thinking, really, about Survivor. Even
[24:29] Speaker 4: looking at Nate, I'm like, he always pulls off the
[24:31] Speaker 4: tennis shoe. Somehow in my head, I'm like, how do
[24:34] Speaker 4: I get that into Survivor?
[24:35] Speaker 1: What is it that he's doing? What is it he's bringing?
[24:38] Speaker 2: How do we get Nate's tennis shoes in Survivor? How
[24:41] Speaker 2: do we get that in there?
[24:45] Speaker 1: I think they already wear shoes pretty regularly. So maybe
[24:51] Speaker 1: we go Survivor, no shoes. No shoes allowed.
[24:55] Speaker 2: See how it affects.
[24:56] Speaker 5: Two tribes, one with shoes, one with no shoes. So
[25:00] Speaker 5: I did listen to that interview. I also listened to
[25:03] Speaker 5: the one with Kelly. Kelly Ripa, right?
[25:06] Speaker 2: Kelly Ripa, yeah. I like Ripa better.
[25:10] Speaker 1: Her husband of Riverdale fame. No, Strahan's gone. Who is
[25:18] Speaker 1: her husband? Veronica's dad in Riverdale.
[25:23] Speaker 2: Hiram Lodge. Bald white man.
[25:25] Speaker 1: Mark Consuelos. She does not do the show with a
[25:30] Speaker 1: bald white man.
[25:31] Speaker 5: Not Consuelos. I guess I wasn't looking that closely. Anyway,
[25:35] Speaker 5: I was listening though.
[25:36] Speaker 1: This is how Petey finds out that Regis is dead.
[25:38] Speaker 1: He's like, what? What?
[25:42] Speaker 2: What is Mark's last name?
[25:45] Speaker 1: Consuelos, I think, is right.
[25:47] Speaker 3: Really?
[25:50] Speaker 2: Kelly and Mark.
[25:51] Speaker 5: Anyway, what Jeff said on that show was that he
[25:55] Speaker 5: word for word copied his intro from the first season.
[25:59] Speaker 2: He did, and that was really exciting to hear. And apparently...
[26:02] Speaker 2: I have another prediction based off that.
[26:04] Speaker 1: Something to look out for while you're watching tonight is
[26:08] Speaker 1: the apparently editing cut in, while people are throwing stuff
[26:12] Speaker 1: off of the boats, they cut in shots from season one.
[26:17] Speaker 1: That's awesome. That mirror the stuff throwing, which I think
[26:20] Speaker 1: is pretty cool. But yeah, apparently it's the same little
[26:22] Speaker 1: speech from season one.
[26:24] Speaker 5: So my bold prediction is that the winner of this season...
[26:28] Speaker 5: will at some point get naked and then evade taxes
[26:33] Speaker 5: after they get paid.
[26:34] Speaker 1: Dude, I honestly thought about a similar prediction of having
[26:39] Speaker 1: the winner be naked at some point, but I literally
[26:43] Speaker 1: don't think they're allowed to anymore.
[26:45] Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they're allowed to anymore either, but
[26:48] Speaker 2: that would make it even more exciting. Yeah, make it
[26:51] Speaker 2: look like an accident.
[26:53] Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
[26:55] Speaker 2: Oh, no, I dove into the water.
[26:56] Speaker 4: Uh-oh.
[26:57] Speaker 2: Yeah, a shark took my top.
[26:59] Speaker 1: Yeah. Chase, did you say you had another one?
[27:03] Speaker 3: No.
[27:03] Speaker 2: Oh, I did have another prediction. I predict that the
[27:06] Speaker 2: speech that Jeff gives in the premiere is going to
[27:08] Speaker 2: be the exact same speech he did in the first season.
[27:13] Speaker 1: I think it's been confirmed.
[27:14] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he said it. I'm feeling good about
[27:15] Speaker 2: that one, yeah. Yeah, I'm feeling good about that one.
[27:19] Speaker 1: My last big prediction is that he's going to call
[27:23] Speaker 1: it the open era.
[27:26] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, 100%. That's a solid one. We're doing legit
[27:29] Speaker 2: predictions right now. I do want to say I think
[27:32] Speaker 2: that the first boot is going to be someone that
[27:34] Speaker 2: we don't expect, potentially one of our first draft picks. Interesting.
[27:39] Speaker 1: Can we really quickly just say, like, how do you
[27:43] Speaker 1: think the tribes are going to be split up?
[27:48] Speaker 2: Schoolyard pick. You think it's going to be schoolyard pick?
[27:51] Speaker 2: Schoolyard pick. I think that's one of the six things
[27:53] Speaker 2: from a former season.
[27:55] Speaker 1: Schoolyard pick to pick the tribes, the person who's not
[27:58] Speaker 1: picked goes to exile. Exile island.
[28:01] Speaker 2: And then whoever gets eliminated, the person on exile will
[28:04] Speaker 2: join that tribe. So we're still even at 10-10.
[28:09] Speaker 1: I like that. Because if you notice... I'm almost 99%
[28:12] Speaker 1: sure that's... If you notice the clips that we've seen
[28:15] Speaker 1: from the boat, they're not wearing colors of any sort.
[28:19] Speaker 4: Right.
[28:20] Speaker 3: Right? Right.
[28:21] Speaker 1: So clearly they didn't give them any sort of, it's
[28:23] Speaker 1: just like wear whatever you want to that tells your story.
[28:26] Speaker 1: And so it kind of leads me to think that
[28:30] Speaker 1: maybe you might be right.
[28:33] Speaker 2: Would that be crazy?
[28:34] Speaker 1: Yes.
[28:35] Speaker 2: Would that be crazy for me to be right?
[28:37] Speaker 5: Yes. It would be because one of my other bold
[28:39] Speaker 5: predictions is that by the end of the season, I
[28:41] Speaker 5: will be more enlightened than Chase.
[28:43] Speaker 2: And I can already kind of feel it.
[28:45] Speaker 5: Like when I was hearing him talk about his prediction
[28:48] Speaker 5: with the stars and everything, I think I... understood better
[28:52] Speaker 5: than he did the energetic effect that all the astrological
[28:58] Speaker 5: stuff is going to have on this season. Because he
[29:00] Speaker 5: was saying that the stars, it's all about order and predictability,
[29:04] Speaker 5: while Jeff is down here on Earth trying to throw
[29:06] Speaker 5: away all of that. So I think it's going to
[29:08] Speaker 5: be maximum chaos because Jeff is in direct conflict with
[29:12] Speaker 5: the stars.
[29:14] Speaker 1: Fantastic.
[29:15] Speaker 2: That's very interesting, but you're not enlightened, you're dampened. So
[29:17] Speaker 2: I don't know if we can really trust anything that
[29:19] Speaker 2: you're saying. But I appreciate you supporting my endeavors and
[29:23] Speaker 2: my enlightenment.
[29:24] Speaker 1: My final bold prediction.
[29:25] Speaker 2: Did you see my name on the riverside?
[29:27] Speaker 1: Yeah, what is that? Read it out loud.
[29:30] Speaker 2: Enlightened.
[29:31] Speaker 1: Enlightened, yeah. Really cool.
[29:35] Speaker 2: I'm going to get that tattooed across my neck. Dude,
[29:37] Speaker 2: that's sick, bro.
[29:39] Speaker 1: Final bold prediction. we're going to be back tomorrow recapping
[29:43] Speaker 1: the first episode of Survivor 51. I can't wait for it, boys.
[29:47] Speaker 2: And if you're on Patreon, we'll be back tonight.
[29:49] Speaker 1: That's true. Come hang out with us.
[29:51] Speaker 2: So, quick reminder of everything that we do over on
[29:54] Speaker 2: the Patreon during the season. On Wednesday nights during the
[29:58] Speaker 2: episode East Coast Time, we are live chatting during the episode.
[30:03] Speaker 2: We've got a really fun community over there. It's a
[30:05] Speaker 2: lot of fun. Then, directly after the episode, we go
[30:08] Speaker 2: live on Patreon for Fresh From Tribal. That's just kind
[30:10] Speaker 2: of a goofy show where we give our takes right
[30:13] Speaker 2: after the episode ends. It's usually not super fun. I
[30:17] Speaker 2: won't say enlightened because everything I do is enlightened. But
[30:19] Speaker 2: it's not super professional. It's something for the patrons. And then.
[30:24] Speaker 1: It's a stream.
[30:24] Speaker 3: The regular.
[30:26] Speaker 2: The regular episode comes out Thursdays, usually pretty late on Thursdays,
[30:31] Speaker 2: if not early Friday. And then, very excited to announce
[30:35] Speaker 2: that this season, after a bit of a hiatus last season,
[30:38] Speaker 2: The Sanctuary is back. We will be doing Sanctuary episodes.
[30:42] Speaker 2: That means two episodes a week on the main feeds,
[30:44] Speaker 2: plus the Patreon livestream. We're very excited for this season.
[30:49] Speaker 1: It's going to be great. Can't wait for it. And guys,
[30:51] Speaker 1: I'm just happy to talk about Survivor with my friends.
[30:54] Speaker 1: I'm very excited.
[30:55] Speaker 2: Me too, man.
[30:56] Speaker 5: Me too.
[30:56] Speaker 2: It's the open era of making the merge. It's going
[30:58] Speaker 2: to be better than ever.
[30:59] Speaker 1: Anything goes. Anything from the past few seasons of making
[31:03] Speaker 1: the merge is on the table.
[31:06] Speaker 3: Right.
[31:06] Speaker 2: That's right.
[31:07] Speaker 1: And another very exciting thing. Except for Jonathan. Jonathan is out. Right, right.
[31:12] Speaker 1: He's not on the table. He's gone. He's not here.
[31:15] Speaker 2: I want to start a rumor that Jonathan was forced
[31:18] Speaker 2: to quit. because I wanted him fired. That's the rumor
[31:22] Speaker 2: I'm going to start spreading. And so I gave him
[31:24] Speaker 2: an option where it's like, look, we can either fire
[31:26] Speaker 2: you publicly or you can quit on your own accord.
[31:29] Speaker 5: It's nice for you to give a rumor that's like
[31:31] Speaker 5: rooted in some reality.
[31:33] Speaker 2: Right, because that's exactly what happened, PD. Thank you for
[31:36] Speaker 2: sticking with me on this. Hey, chasebridges.store if you want
[31:38] Speaker 2: the brand new Making the Merch, Making the Merch merch,
[31:41] Speaker 2: our brand new logo. Three different color variants on three
[31:44] Speaker 2: different types of shirts. It's pretty fun. That's right.
[31:46] Speaker 1: And buffs are coming at some point, right?
[31:49] Speaker 2: At some point, yeah, that's the goal.
[31:50] Speaker 1: Buffs are coming.
[31:51] Speaker 2: Have we even said our team names at any point
[31:54] Speaker 2: in our preseason? Do we want to do new team names,
[31:56] Speaker 2: or are we rocking with the same team names?
[31:59] Speaker 1: I like mine. I like Brands Blindsiders.
[32:01] Speaker 2: I like mine, too.
[32:02] Speaker 1: Brands Blindsiders.
[32:05] Speaker 2: Brands Blindsiders?
[32:06] Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to find my jersey.
[32:07] Speaker 2: I don't know where it is. PD, you're PD's Journeys. Yep,
[32:12] Speaker 2: the PD and J's. Oh, I like that. I like
[32:16] Speaker 2: that a lot, actually. And then mine is Chase's Fake Idols.
[32:19] Speaker 2: Another bold prediction. We're going to get at least one
[32:21] Speaker 2: fake idol play this season.
[32:23] Speaker 1: I love that. I love that idea. All right, we'll
[32:25] Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with some more Making the Merge. Enjoy
[32:28] Speaker 1: the premiere tonight.
[32:28] Speaker 3: Bye. Bye.
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[32:35] Speaker 1: Here in the old studio.
[32:37] Speaker 2: Thanks for listening or don't listen. It's really up to
[32:41] Speaker 2: you at this point.
[32:42] Speaker 1: It's at the end of the show.
[32:44] Speaker 3: I mean.
[32:44] Speaker 1: You're listening to me.
[32:45] Speaker 3: Hi.
[32:46] Speaker 2: But here they come.
[32:47] Speaker 1: I promise they're coming.
[32:48] Speaker 5: Yep.
[32:49] Speaker 2: Here they are. Happy day.

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