We’re so sorry but un-kind forces have kept of from making shows.  We like this even less that you do.

We will back as soon as we can.  Talk among yourselves.  We love you all.

Marji and Mike

Sorry folks, there will be no show this week.  We hope to be back on time next week.

M & M

While one tribe feasts on fish the other tribe enjoys a show as an elephant shows itself at camp.  Then both are called to the Reward Challenge.  The challenge is to throw pieces of fruit through holes in fences while a member of the opposite tribe tries to bat the fruit out of the way.  Fong is leading until Super-Team Kota rallies together and with stellar catches by Randy wins the reward.  Kota takes a fresh herb garden, salt, oil and fruit back to camp along with the knowledge that they won again.

Ken tries to pump up his tribe but they are starting to crack.  After CG rows off he gets back just in time to go to the Immunity Challenge.  The tribes are to roll a ball down a steep cliff, through obstacles and pas a blindfolded member of the other team.  The person blindfolded is guided by a caller.  Sugar and Ace team together and Sugar is the caller as Ace is the defender.  Randy calls for Dan on the Kota team.  Sugar forgets that she needs to talk out loud and is worthless in helping Ace even get close to blocking balls.  In the end Kota wins again!

Back at the Fang camp GC is ready to quit and go home.  Crystal is tired of his tantrums and is happy to let him “quit” but then they remember that Sugar may have the idol.  They search through her bag and see that she has found it - now who do they vote out?  In the end GC is voted out.

Topics:

• Tantrums
• Crazy or crazy smart?

Predictions

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Music by:  Her and Kings County - “Deep Six” from from “1609”

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The teams are still settling in at camps when Jeff calls them together for a “game”.  Rank each person on your tribe according to performance and….. stand on the posts in order of your rank.  Kota’s rank is:  Marcus first, Ace, Bob, Charlie, Jacquie, Corrine, Sugar, and last as she is least, Kelly.  Fang ranked each other in this order:  Matty, Dan, Randy, Crystal, Ken, GC, and Susi.  What can one do with this information?  Jeff has the answer - mix up the tribes.  The new Kota team is made up of Marcus, Dan, Charlie, Randy, Corrine, Susi and Bob.  Fang now is Matty, Ace, Crystal, Jacquie, Ken, Kelly and GC.  Sugar is sent to Exile and will join the tribe that has to vote someone out at council.

Sugar happily goes to Exile as she picks comfort over clue and renames Exile as Sugar’s Shack.

Back in the game the teams are called to an Immunity challenge.  Teams are in individual rafts and each are given a paddle / lacrosse stick.  It is bumper boat / water lacrosse.  First to score 3 goals wins.  This challenge was one sided with Kota dominating the game - Bob, Marcus and Randy had a plan and executed it perfectly - 3 goals in a row and an easy win.

Fang went back to camp and tried to understand what happened to them.  As Ace put it so eloquently “We looked like legless chickens against sleek weasles out there”.  So off to tribal they go.  Should Kelly go as she was the poor performer and “whiny little cow” or should Jacquie go as she had a bond with Ace and Sugar who would be soon joining the tribe?  In the end GC, Crystal, and Ken decided that the bond was more of a threat than a poor player and Jacquie was voted out.

Topics:

• New Fang, Old Fang, Same bad Fang

• Did Ace throw the challenge so he could have Sugar on his tribe?

Picks:

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This week the better half of the Armchair Survivor podcast is in Florida at a conference while Mike freezes his gabon off in Northeast Ohio but instead of doing a solo show, a couple of seasoned podcasters from the Juvenile Brain Trust came to fill their mother’s shoes while she was out.

MARJI!  PLEASE COME HOME SOON!

Nonetheless, Fang was able to make a nice come back this week which kept them from becoming the loosingist tribe in Survivor (actually, they were far from that).  One of Mike’s favorites, Sugar, set aside her distain of swamps to make a nice little gain for herself, too, and in the midst of this we have to think to ourselves, “Is she going to pull another Johnny Fairplay?”  Isn’t is kind of strange that everytime someone’s loved one dies on Survivor we are so jaded as to start in with the “sure — dead — yeah right”  It’s kind of like being a Distorted View fan and hearing about old people getting hurt.  We got to see a show down between the physics geek and the computer game geek and it looked like perhaps Bob may have tied the bow tie a little too tight this time.  Paloma attempt to push a few buttons to save herself but in the end she may have fell a little short.

Gabrielle and Nicholas guest host on both the live show and in this podcast.

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