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We just watched a new episode of Survivor.

Welcome to the debut episode of Snuffing Torches. I'm

your host Tommy Smokes. We got Jake Marsh, Glennie Balls, Jeff D. Lowe, and Nate in the

building. Josh Behind the Glass producing for us. Guys, what? That was natural. We'll get it's out later.

Wow. Hard G. It's early a hard G early on the show.

Fellas. Fellas, boys. A two-hour premiere tonight. A lot to unpack here. We're just going to do this chronologically. So we haven't, obviously, we haven't done any test episodes or anything because you can't do a test episode when there's been no new survivor. We're just going to go through pretty chronologically. but overall, what were your thoughts to finally have some new survivor background screen?

A lot of changes tonight, a lot of different things, but still a pretty good cast. I do have hope for this season. It was just a lot at once tonight. I was oddly not confused that much by the rules. But it was a lot. Like, I don't think it was that it was confusing for me as that it was just a lot of different rules and that I think bogged it down a little bit I think you probably could have done

one less and I guess at hindsight because you didn't know that nobody would use the shot in the

dark but the shot in the dark being introduced and then not being used, it felt like unnecessary filler. Like, I feel like that's something maybe you do the next episode. Maybe you do that the next, the next vote. It just felt like a lot. I think when you look at it all laid out, easy to parse, but it's just a ton to thwart you for the first episode, which is already filled with a lot of expeditions and cast introduction. It was a lot of exposition, I guess. My question for the shot in the dark is we have no idea how many times you can use that. I have to imagine that's once a season. If you can use that every tribal, why would you not use it every tribe? Well, I guess because you lose your vote. 17%, and then when you vote someone out, it changes to 20%.

So are you still eligible to use it?

Or is that just the this episode thing?

I don't know.

That's something they should have definitely explained better.

Tommy, as someone who hasn't watched a live season since I believe season three when I was a

wee lad, and then I, like like probably a lot of people listening binge the

entire show during quarantine so much momentum going into it and I did think it fell compared to a lot

of other season premieres a little flat especially just how many new rules and twists there were

a ton of backstory to the players which which I don't mind, but they

were all so depressing. And so they just beat you down with it so much that I do think, I mean,

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