He also said Cochran is playing the best 3rd place game in history

I'd love for Coach to win/F3, but wouldn't Probst be calling this a GOAT season if that happened, like he did with BR's complete control season?

Why? I don't see any reason for Coach and Albert to stick together the whole way. It'd be bad for both of them. I think one of the two will go next, and the other will probably end up in the finals.

No. Probst thought BR was like the GOAT human and thought it was perfect for Survivor. Sadly their editing resulted in it being a bottom 5 season, but his overhype of it could easily be justified by the story of Rob finally getting there.

This is Coach. He was a joke before, he was never "robbed" of a victory, he was anyones opinion of GOAT player.

Side note: I know some people have expressed their dislike for Mario's funny 115 writing style, but you really should go check out #2: The Fall of Russell Hantz Part 2.

Because it's total garbage? Mario is not a good writer at all.

I never said he was. I said #2 was worthy of checking out.

It's only good if you're out of Ambien. He might as well have just called it "Every Scene Russell Hantz Was Ever Involved In."

So what you're saying is you checked it out?

I thought I was almost done...and I realized I was only a quarter of the way through, so I gave up. I'm obviously biased, but it wasn't entertaining or funny at all. Mario has no ability to censor himself, and he just makes the same point 400 times. We get it, Mario: you hate Russell. We don't need you to remind us of it every four seconds.

EDIT: To be clear, I feel this way about all of his entries, not just the Russell one.

I mean all valid criticisms and I don't mean to say he's good or anything. I just feel that one was pretty amusing because you can just imagine him pounding on the keyboard typing why Russell sucks and shouldn't have won - when everyone already knows he shouldn't of won lol.

Then explaining the concept of "angry jurors are bad" over and over just adds to it.

There's a few lines I do enjoy too.

Idk, I found it amusing.

I read through much of it, and not only are there zero laughs, but his analysis of the game is cringeworthy. Dedicating 700+ images and several thousand words to the downfall of Russell is redundant and unnecessary enough, but to present it as if Sandra had a god damn thing to do with it, let alone somehow masterminded it (just like she did with Fairplay!) is to demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding about both characters involved in the story.

Hell, now I'm really glad to mention it for the rants
I'll disappear again now tho

The bond between pupil and master transcends the game.

edit: whoops, I misread and thought that said Cochran. Line would have been funnier then.

you never know what coach will do though. he could bring them along for honour reasons.

also depending on who wins immunity and when, and the threat of coach's hii, it could just work out that way.

is rob's podcast on itunes?

nm. that was easy to find. also gonna check out:

Survivor Fans Podcast
The Tribe: A Survivor Podcast

I've never heard an episode of The Tribe, but I'm hoping that they picked the name for the show specifically so each episode could end with someone saying "The Tribe has spoken."

Pro tip for others looking for podcasts: thorough and well-reasoned Survivor analysis for your listening pleasure can also be found HERE

/whoring

You guys should set up an itunes subscription.

+1

Just need to find a way to get Kos, Empireman, and Soncy involved.

If anything I think it would have been easier for the players who were out there with Russell to identify him as a goat by F10. Everyone who's been stranded 24/7 with Russell has testified that living with him is an ordeal, and as viewers can we make that judgement based solely on public information (e.g. his behaviour at Kelly's boot TC). I think you also overstate Whitney's likability; none of the bootees have had good words to say about her. It's certainly possible that she picks up spite votes from Savaii jurors, but imo Upolu would swing towards Jim even if they're not voting on gameplay. Juries tend not to look kindly on showmances either, so dragging her and Keith to F3 is a viable option for Jim.

Coach and Brandon would be less likely to vote based on 'loyalty' since it's not them whom Jim would be betraying. Coach voted for Parvati to win HvV even though she lied more than Sandra and was closely tied to Russell; if Jim won a few challenges along the way and wasn't too openly arrogant, I see him getting Coach's vote (and, by extension, Brandon's).

Apologies once again about the sound quality; I don't know why it was so bad (and neither does cstone, the Yankee bastard), as it was fine with the same setup last week. Hopefully I can fix it soon.

We'd love to have any of them on, so the question is whether they feel the same way :P

I'll try to set this up for next week.

Power Rankings could change according to this recap episode, so Power Rankings will be sent on Thursday/Friday.

Gotta listen to that podcast. I hope Savage has a boss accent.

Early thoughts as I listen to first 5 minutes or so of podcast:

1. You need an intro, ldo
2. Savage has the boss accent I hoped
3. Colin you are a pretty good host.
4. Hopefully you can have Albert on the podcast. Maybe Jim too.
5. Get ESPN's Gary Wise, since he has interviewed the likes of Jim and Boston Rob.
6. Grand Master General K.O.S. needs to convince Cesternino to be a guest on this thing.

Overall I like this thing. Nice work boys.

Yep. Gary and I were talking about doing one, so the interest is there.

One of the 23 most memorable seasons of Survivor.