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All right. Welcome in to Snuffing Torches Survivor 49, Episode 7 Recap. The Merge episode got me, Nate, Clemer, and John Rich. Full Crew.

This is a pre-recorded one.

I thought this was a great episode.

I liked this a lot.

I thought, you know, I mean, right off the bat, I like that it's a classic merge.

It seems like they have listened to some feedback of things people were getting annoyed with with the show.

Like, the Earn the Merge. I mean, obviously the Hourglass is long gone. But even like the earn the merge where it's two tribes. Like that just wasn't. I liked that it was just a straight up merch. Likeed that. And then a good vote. A blindside probably, I guess Shannon was blindsided last week, but I think this was like the biggest blindside

probably of the season. Don't think Nate saw it coming at all.

I did not.

In his voting confessional or his exit confessional.

Yeah, I thought a good episode, I'm glad we're not going to just have one alliance steamroll

through the whole thing.

I mean, now maybe the other side can, but I feel like the game's a lot more fluid now. And yeah, I thought it was a,

we've been saying throughout the pre-merge, like, all right, it's been okay, but hopefully we

have a good merge, and I think this was a great start to the second half of the season.

I thought the second half of this episode was really, really, really good.

I loved how they edited it. I loved the strategy talk. I loved that they kind of laddered,

like, this person can go home, this person can go home, this person can go home. You just

mentioned it. I think they listened to a lot of criticism of the last eight seasons, and they've gone back to what they

do best. And I, zero-sob stories, a lot of strategy, characters that you care about. I think

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