Tree mail brings information about the next immunity challenge.  For the challenge the players must go through an obstacle course, retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces, run back through the course and then solve the puzzle.  First to solve the puzzle wins.  Tight race between Russell, Jaison and Brett but the first to solve the puzzle and win immunity is….  Brett!

At tribal the four Foa Foa must for the first time vote off one of their own.  Should Jaison go because he can’t beat Brett or should Mick go because he can beat Russell on jury votes - in the end the drive to beat Brett wins and Jaison is sent home.

The final four take the walk of fame remembering each of the fallen Survivors but head back and face the next immunity challenge.

The challenge is for each player to hold a statue on top of a stick.  Every two minutes an extra extension of the stick is added.  Last one holding their statue wins!  Mick and Natalie go out early leaving Brett and Russell battling each other.  Russell holds on the longest and wins immunity.  At tribal Brett is sent home.

The final three spend their last night discussing jury strategy.

At the final tribal council there are some interesting moments and some “what?” moments - we have Shambo telling Natalie she played like a C (hmmm, now what was the word?  coattails of course), Brett asking Mick where he would take him if they went on a Bro-date and Erik very upset over it all.

After all the votes are in - Natalie wins the title of sole Survivor and $1 million dollars.

It has been an incredible season - the show and players were some of the best, and better yet were all of you with your support, witty and heartfelt comments, and your calls and comments and chat posts.  We say it often and we sincerely mean it each time - thank YOU!

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Our music this week was “Anything Goes” from Her and Kings County’s “Austin Bottom Road” CD’cause Russell proved that anything goes on Survivor.   As well, at the end of the show we gave ya an extra bit ‘o Love (Brother Love) with Family Thing from his “Turn It Up” CD.

Would you like to see what Mike writes when he’s watching Survivor?  You will soon have the opportunity to purchase Mike’s actual show notes — yes the actual papers and ink from his hand, not a copy.  These are what Mike uses to remind him of what he watched an hour earlier.  Proceeds will go to the Gerard Carrino’s March of Dimes Walk for Babies and to John and Joannie Z’s Relay For Life team (Cancer Society).  Keep an eye on this web site for more details.

Podcast:  AS20091220.mp3

We get some answers about…… The Mullet.  The Shambolicious Mullet has been around since 1986 (was it popular then or was it even out at that point?).  There, we all feel better knowing now.

Reward Challenge - There will be two teams of three people.  There are intersecting ropes that are holding up coconuts.  Each team alternates pulling out one rope and hopes that no (or just a few) coconuts fall.  Russell and Natalie are team captains and Russell picks Jaison and Shambo for his team and Natalie chooses Brett and Mick.  Natalie’s team starts out strong but in the end the coconuts fall on them and Russell, Shambo and Jaison go on the reward.  They go to the village and get to feast on wonderful food and then get a night of comfort.  Discussions about why Natalie picked Brett start and Jaison and Shambo question Natalie’s alliance…

Immunity Challenge requires the players to race into a field, count objects that are at multiple stations and then race back and use the numbers to open a combination lock and use the lock to break a tile.  First to break the tile wins immunity.  It is a close race against Mick, Jaison and Brett but in the end Brett wins!

Should Mick go because he is strong and his loyalty may be waivering or should Shambo go because she isn’t helping win challenges?  Sorry Shambo - you time on Survivor is over.

Topics:

• Balancing heart and head

Picks:

Marji - 5 - Brett, 4 - Jaison, 3 - Mick, 2 - Russell, and 1 - Natalie

Mike - 5 - Mick, 4 - Brett, 3 - Jaison, 2 - Natalie, and 1 - Russell

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This week they deep-sixed one of the survivors to take it from six to five so Her and King’s County’s Deep Six seemed quite appropriate.  Check them out at http://herandkingscounty.com and buy some of their stuff or follow all of the links to stuff about them.  They good folk.

Podcast:  AS20091217.mp3

Double elimination night.

Russell is effective with his “damage control” with Shambo and she is back on his side.

Immunity Challenge #1 - Bowling.  Each player is randomly matched up and the two bowl.  The person who knocks down the most pins, wins and moves on to the next round.  This continues until only one player is standing - Jaison!

Tribal Council #1 - Discussions fly around camp - I should stay because…., these people are threats because…  But all the scrambling doesn’t pay off and the plan continues and Dave is voted out.

Immunity Challenge #2 - Each player races into the water to grab one of his/her 3 bags, then use a plank to push the bag into a basket.  The first to get all three of their bags into the basket wins!  The challenge looks exhausting but in the end Brett pools his strength and wins.

Back at camp Brett and Monica are working Mick, Jaison and Mick are questioning Russell’s loyalty, Monica is working Russell to the point that Russell started to get a little anxious.

Tribal #2 - Russell starts the action by standing up and putting on the “hidden” immunity idol letting everyone know it is there, not if he will use it.  Monica tried to divide the group but they stayed united and Monica is sent home.

Topic:

• Strategy for voting people off

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Our break music is not exactly what you may think:  sure Brother Love is singing on it but it’s not officially Brother Love — it’s his old band “All Jive Aside”.  For you we’ve got a couple bits of “Break It Down” — a title so appropriate for the remaining survivors.

Podcast:  AS20091216.mp3

Well, by now you probably have all heard (if you’re still a fan and listening to the show) that last Thursday our cable went out and we couldn’t watch Survivor so we couldn’t do our show.

Q:  Why didn’t you just watch it later and do a show then?

A:  First, we had something going on every night until tonight, Wednesday 12/16/2009 since Thursday the 10th.  Also, we’ve become addicted to having our live audience in the chat while we do the show — they help us a lot.  If you haven’t been to our live show recording sessions, please try it — hey, there is one tonight!

Q:  Why did you do a fake show?

A:  You see, we have this live audience and we also have this audience that starts downloading the podcast the moment it is posted to the internet.  We didn’t want to let either down so even if we didn’t get to see a show, we didn’t think everyone else should suffer.

Q:  Was the show you reportedly saw (the one you LIED about you F*CK*NG M*TH*RF*CK*RS!) based on any truth?

A:  Hmmmm — there is a show called Survivor and … well not much.  It was more like a game of fantasy football.

Q:  Did you record your show live while making up the story?

A:  No, since we had no cable we went down into the studio and recorded about a fake Survivor show while the live show was playing in our time zone.  We had our live chat on so we could see who was in the room that night — but they were talking among themselves.

Q:  So, how did you handle the live audience that night?

A:  The show was purposely short so we were done by about nineish.  When we recorded we also faked the pre show talk and if one was listening carefully, the music kind of changed form the normal Brother Love, Her and Kings County, Merit and Ben Lerman to the same stuff but at a different volume (I had to change devices).  We then played the recording of our fake show and hopped on the chat as someone else to stir up trouble.  Luckily we have a couple of old computers around the house so we could be on as ourselves and other people at the same time.

Q:  So the live audience wasn’t in on it?

A:  Not at that point.

Q:  Did you ever tell them you were faking it?

A:  Yup — after our recording was finished playing we got on (for real) and told them what happened.  It was kind of hard not to jump in while the recording was playing and I’m glad we had recorded it because watching the reaction in the chat was kind of weird for us — I guess we’re not very good pranksters.  But we were doing the prank because we didn’t want our audience to go without SOME KIND of a show.  The show must go on my friends — the show must go on.

Q:  Some people reported that the podcast didn’t download properly — that was a real — right?

A:  Nope.  We purposely made the show end in a way that made it seem like either the file was corrupt or the listener’s MP3 player had just given up the ghost.  In reality, neither happened.  But, being a child of the 60’s and a fan of the Beatles, you can hear me in the end talking about a fake show.  It’s really an old school technique I dragged out of the closet and stuck in the feed.  It’s all bullshit, really.

Q:  Wha….

A:  … but fun bullshit, though.

Q:  Thank you for clarifying that.  Are you done now?

A:  Yes.

Q:  Wh…

A:  Sorry.

Q:  That’s OK.  NOW! What are you going to do about this fake show?

A:  Tonight — Wednesday December 12 the year of our Lord — ok the Christian’s Lord — 2009 we are going to do a real show about the real show.  We will be starting somewhere between 4:30 and 5:30.  Come over to http://armchairsurvivor.com/liveshow and join the fun.

Q:  You know you had people going there.

A:  Yup.

Q:  And pissed a couple of people off.

A:  Yeah huh.

Q:  Well?

A:  I guess you gotta break a couple of eggs to make an omelet.

Q:  I guess you learned your lesson — yes?

A:  What lesson?

LIVE SHOW TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY 12/16/2009 STARTING BETWEEN 4:30 AND 5:30 PM EASTERN TIME!  COME JOIN US!