Hello, everyone. Welcome back to You Thought You New, the podcast where we talk about survivor

players that may be underrated, underappreciated, or just misunderstood. Each episode, we try

to answer a question that's designed to make us challenge our preconceived notions about a

famous survivor contested. Of course, there are no right answers. It's just some excuse to talk

about our favorite show. I'm Nigel Bokenegra, and as always, I'm joined by my co-host, Kevin McClain.

Yes, excited to be here. We're talking about a survivor fan favorite, and I also think we can

do it with an RHAP fan favorite. So this is like, this is an exciting time. Yes, and what a treat

today. We are joined by the Mike Bloom. Mike, how are you? I am fantastic. I am so happy that you did

that entire introduction to the concept of your podcast before I came on here because I was about

to ask what in the Nickelodeon is going on here. But now I don't need to change the channel,

any defunct kids networks that can stay right here right now. It's kind of like Avatar the last

airbender where we get Katara giving us a brief summary of what to expect going into it. So I think

it's a nice refresher. Yeah, it's a good recap. Just in case anyone forgets or there's any new people

and you know, you don't have to worry about Nickelodeon or how successful they're being lately.

And Kevin, you know, we are talking about the fan favorite James Clement today. Would you like to

get us kicked off with the lovely talking with Tea Birdage? Oh, yes. The Gravedigger James Clement

electrified the audiences with his gentle giant persona and his enormous biceps. There's no denying

he was a popular icon of the show. He's the oling one of three contestants to win the fan favorite

award twice and he was the first one to do it consecutively. But why was James so popular?

In a show with a catchphrase of Out-Wit Outplay Outlast, he did lack in multiple categories.

He even dumped himself as one of the dumbest survivors of all time. He had never won an individual

immunity challenge in all three of his seasons and his social game often lacked when he had to

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