And Hi everybody and welcome back to the Survivor 50 wish list

podcast an off-season series where we're trying to figure out who could and should come back for Survivor 50.

My name is Mike Bloob and we are still basking in the glow of Heroes versus villains as we move into what some survivor

fans have typified the dark ages of the show but we're hoping to find some light here in season 21 Nicaragua. It was a battle of the ages.

It was a battle of players against the elements. It was perhaps a battle of how did a young man by the nickname

of Fabia at 21 years old win the show but I predict that hopefully today will

not be much of a battle but hopefully a very spirited debate. I am so excited to bring in this

person to talk all things Nicaragua. She is my medallion of power. It is the great Sarah

caradine. Oh thank you so much It was the worst of times. It was the worst of times.

So yeah, here we are. We're encountering a very interesting period for Survivor.

When this entire experiment was announced,

a lot of people came to me and were saying,

good luck finding people to scrape off the cast

to put in the ballot for Thailand.

And I'm like, have you met the early 20s of Survivor?

Which, look, certainly have some highlights,

which we will get into today,

but have been known colloquially for a long time by survivor fans as certainly not the most high quality stretch of

seasons for bringing in controversial twists like Redemption Island into things.

Seasons 22 and 24 in particular are regarded as two of the worst seasons in this in survivor history.

The casting is a little uninspired across the board and especially with Nicaragua we talked about this

with Van Oahu there is again this this high that survivor fans are forced to come down

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