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Welcome in to Snuffing Torches, our Survivor 43, Episode 6, Recap.

It's me, Nate, Jake, and a very special guest.

We have finally made it happen after years of promising a guest, after months of saying we were going to get Mike on.

We have delivered Hoboken, Mike Turner, season 42 finalist, shoot nothing torches.

Mike, thank you for joining.

I made it and I've been looking so forward to this,

and I'm not kidding you. Yeah, no, I appreciate it. We were talking before we started recording.

There's the miscommunications, I think, with like the CBS publicist and contact people,

where you thought we were canceling on you. We thought you were canceling on us. So just,

just a big rigmarole. This time we said, you know what, let's just cut out the middleman. I'll just talk to Mike myself. We're able to set it up. Absolutely. I'm happy to be here. But just know, I'm only using you to get to Jonathan. Let's just put it straight out there. Well, I got to be, you're not the first. You are not the first. He might be the first straight guy to do that. Let's just put it straight out there. Well, I got to be, you're not the first. You are not the first.

He might be the first straight guy to do that.

That's true. That's true. But, so here's what we'll do. We'll do our typical episode recap,

just Mike joining us. And then we'll have some questions for Mike at the end. I'm sure

we have some. If you have some in the chat, we'll take them live from the chat. But Mike, let's start off. What are your thoughts overall on season 43? Well, you know, I actually like it. But season 43 starts off like a lot of seasons. It's like a monopoly game. The beginning is kind of slow because you're

getting to know the people on the show. You're getting to know the game. You're getting to know

the twist. And as now it starts to get really rolling towards the merge. You start getting vested

in certain characters and you start getting really into the show and start cheering. And the more,

obviously, the more people that have advantages, the more interesting it gets. And today was a typical example of that. The merge, murgatory, it all comes in to get. So I actually think the season is going really good. I'm really enjoying it. I thought this was a good episode. This is one of the better episodes of the season so far. I felt, I think a lot of us have felt like the strategy this season has kind of been lackluster

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