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You can find that at YouTube.com slash The Ringer. the Hello and welcome to the pod is spoken the Ringer's Survivor

Recap podcast. I'm Riley Mactee. I'm your host. Every Thursday I'll be

here on the Ringer dish feed to recap the latest episode of Survivor.

On each pod I'll be accompanied by a different Ringer Staffer and today joining me is somebody who is driving the bus here at the ringer but nobody maybe knows it it's Juliet Lippman.

Hi Riley, thanks for having me. I'm so excited. I love Survivor.

Yeah, thank you for coming on the show. I'm really excited for this conversation.

Today we are breaking down episode 8 of winners at war. This was the

merge episode really a like a crucial pillar episode in every season of Survivor. It ended up with

Wendell going home. He was clearly blindsided. So we'll break it all down.

Let's get started. We always start with our segment that we call Tribal

Council, which is kind of just our instant reactions and discussion of the

episode.

Let's start with not the boot but the player who actually came back into the game because this was the very beginning of the episode

Tyson wins the challenge to come back, what do you think of Tyson?

I just really anti-Tyson. I always have been since his first season.

I've just thought he was I think his first one was token jeans maybe and I've always just found his humor really annoying. I actually I

liked him more this episode when he was pretty genuine and and emotional about coming back and if he's able to do it, like this was probably

the most I've ever like Tyson, but I find his humor that he used to like deflect everything,

just really irritating. And I don't know why he's so well liked,

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