What is up everybody? Welcome to Survivor Mania episode 10 coming at you a little bit late because of course we had Thanksgiving weekend.

Lindsay and I took the kiddos off to a lovely dude ranch for the weekend and one of the casualties was Survivor Mania.

But we're bringing it to you at nice hot and heavy here on a Monday morning to talk about episode 10.

And dare I say the biggest episode of the season so far Lindsay do you have a three part plan to get through this podcast?

Ooh, it was a little bit scary there for a second for Jesse, huh?

That they were he was so confident there that I almost thought this might be his episode.

But I had a feeling it was no well because of that family reward that the curse of the family reward here.

Yeah, well, ironic that the weekend that we took our family on a nice little reward trip to go ride some horses and do some mountain tubing.

The family reward as you said the Achilles heel once again for the winner of this challenge now this was I think now the family reward quote unquote which now has been reduced to letters and things like that we no longer bring the families.

But in addition to that was it the family reward aspect of it or was it just the theatrical nature of this magnificent comeback from no well dare I say one of the best challenge performances we've ever seen albeit in a reward challenge not necessarily in immunity challenge.

But I mean to be in last place to see her over and over again struggling because obviously she has the evitated legs she has that prosthetic leg that is like designed for a lot of things in life.

But I guarantee you when they designed that thing they did not think of this and obviously she just like you know have the deck stacked against her trying to get on that balance beam over and over again did not give up kept trying the boom one or two shots it up onto that pedestal makes the the same back stay up there wins the challenge was it that and that just like you know being out there showing everyone hey if you let me get to the final three I'm going to win or was it the like oh I'm a little bit salty because you didn't take me to the sanctuary.

I think it was both things right I think that she has shown over and over again that she is resilient that she's able to get out of sticky situations she's shown it based on being left out on the boat and now she's shown it based on challenges and in her life right all that she's overcome in her life where she is now how strong she is what she's had to do to get there.

And I think she we've talked about this her story is out in the open everybody knows her story there's no way to hide her story unlike a Jesse right so everybody knows and is inspired by what she's doing out there on top of that that you have this reward challenge performance which I agree is one of the most exciting rewards that we've ever seen and only challenges that we've ever seen only because she persevered I think had had she not.

And we had to sit there and listen to Jeff over and over again point out you know how hard she's trying and how how much she's struggling think it would have been cringe worthy but the fact that he was doing that and then she had this huge come from behind when when nobody else thought she would although I did call that she was going to win it.

I think that that is obviously something that sets her apart makes her stick out makes her an easy target here because number one she's going to keep doing things like this and finding herself in situations where she's man she manages to get out of them whatever way she has to do it.

It shows her resilience the other thing is you know I she's made she's continuing to make these showy moves like she did in the last episode using her advantage in front of many people.

In a way that is building her resume for final tribal council and she's getting this momentum that's building and building as we near the end of the season and I think that it's just too many showy moves in a row here.

And on top of that I think it's mixed with the fact that you add in the family reward you giving somebody the gift of getting to whether it's see their family spend time with their family have words from their family is one of the greatest gifts arguably the greatest gift you can give somebody out there to get to have that either share that experience with the family member or in this case to feed yourself right you're not actually.

Getting food but you're feeding yourself with that moment with that you know energy of love love and inspiration and and reminder of what you're playing for from your family to get you through and I love that you know it's a reminder that hey like I'm close with these people on this island and I'm having this experience with these people on this island but it's only been how many days the people that I'm playing for in this letter are people that I have known my whole life.

That I have been married to for 20 years whatever it is reminds you I have to do what I have to do regardless so I think that it is a mixture of both of those things that you mentioned I think also when you give that gift to people people worry that people are going to feel indebted to that person and on top of that people feel bitter those who are not taken can't help but feel why not me and I think it is the kiss of death and I have said that I'm not going to give that gift to people.

I have said this before I think this is one of those challenges no matter how much you want that thing you want to have built up your relationships that you're that person that gets taken and you are not the one to take other.

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