Let’s talk a little survivor from last night. I think it is fair to say. Probably one of the most powerful scenes we’ve ever seen in the history of the show. They promoted it for the last week. We knew it was gonna be an emotional episode because for the first time in 48 seasons, Jeff Probes was crying on set.
Go read Dalton Ross’s interview with Jev probes to get a little more in depth on it. I’m not gonna read it to you. It’s on ew.com. You can find it there. It was just if you were not moved by what you saw last night between Joe and Eva. I, I, I don’t know what to tell you because that was so powerful. I had a feeling, you know, for a week.
I don’t read spoilers on anything when it comes to Survivor. I don’t wanna know. But when they promoted this for a week and Jeff was crying, I, it just, in the back of my head, I figured it had something to do with Eva as the episode was playing out and as the immunity challenge was playing out, I was thinking, okay, it’s gotta be coming.
We know it’s coming at the end of this immunity challenge. ’cause this is the outfit that Jeff was in, in the commercial. And we know it happens during a challenge because just the, the preview that we saw. W it was with Jeff, and Jeff is only there for the challenge and it wasn’t him sitting at a tribal council.
So I’m trying to think of what is it gonna be? The first thing that came to my mind and the thing that I thought it was as the challenge was going on, especially when it was down to say and Eva having to do the puzzle or having to do the the game board and move the ball, the maze, or however you wanna call it, down the board.
And Eva was struggling. There was a part of me that thought somehow, some way Joe was going to give up his immunity so Eva could be safe, because in the clip we saw when Jeff was crying him saying, this has never happened before. So that’s what went to my head was as this was happening, I was like, oh my God, Eva’s going to lose.
She’s gonna take the full blame. She’s probably going to get into a you know. An episode that she has that she explained to Joe that she sometimes can get into when she feels overwhelmed. And I, I somehow, I, I, I thought that Joe was gonna give up immunity and he was gonna talk to his tribe or something along those lines because of the way they presented it in the commercial.
And he didn’t, it wasn’t anything like that. Eva did accomplish what she did. She got immunity for her tribe. But in the end, she was still overwhelmed and had an episode and Joe consoled her, like she told him when they talked on day two or three, and she confided in him that she was autistic and sometimes she has episodes and if her hands start shaking, she needs somebody there.
And she hadn’t told anybody else. So she brings Joe over and I mean, God, that was, again, if you didn’t have any sort of feels in you. Watching that I, I don’t know what to tell you, but that was the initial thought that went through my head. I thought Joe was gonna give up immunity and to save Eva thought it was gonna be something along those lines.
But it was kind of a save in a particular way, but just wasn’t a save and immunity. It was a save of, Hey, you’re okay. And just man, an absolute powerful moment. I, I can’t remember any other moment like that. You know, the only thing that comes close to me would be Zeke, but that was used as a, a, a negative because Jeff Varner was such an asshole by outing him as trans.
That while it became a very profound moment in the show history, the scene itself had so much negativity behind it. This scene didn’t have any negativity behind it. You know, it was all positive. It was all powerful. It was a man who has children at home. Taking this girl that he had just met nine days earlier, under his wing and, and comforting her in a time where she was having an overwhelming response to feeling inadequate and almost, you know, even though she, she ended up accomplishing what she needed to do, getting to that point, to have Joe there and, and do that for her.
I mean, it brings up one of these things where it’s like, holy shit. Who doesn’t want to see Joe or Eva win this thing? You know, they’re like the two greatest humans ever. And hell, Mitch might be a, a, a, a, a close third. Who’s gonna wanna see Mitch get eliminated? Who’s gonna wanna see someone blindside?
Mitch, a guy who is clearly suffered from stuttering his whole life and has it out there. Like, who’s gonna wanna see that guy get eliminated? Is anybody gonna wanna see Eva get blindsided and a and a tribe turn on her? What about Joe? What if Joe and Eva get to the final two? Like something tells me if Joe and Eva are somehow two of the final three people on the show, I think Joe would advocate for Eva to win.
I could just see him doing that, just seeing the way this guy’s been for nine days. I can’t see Joe campaigning against Eva ever, and I can’t see Eva campaigning against Joe. You can say, oh, it’s a game. I’m sorry, after what happened last night. There’s no way these two are just gonna go on and continue to play a game.
And hey, if I gotta vote ’em out, I gotta vote ’em out. I don’t see either of them ever writing the other person’s name down. No way. I’d be stunned. And I think it would kind of take away from yesterday’s moment. It really would, to me at least, you could say, Steve, it’s a game. You gotta do what you gotta do to survive in the game, man, something tells me, I don’t think Eva would ever write Joe’s name down and vice versa.
It would be very, very, very interesting though if these two are two of the final three sitting there at the end, wouldn’t it? Holy shit. Who do you vote for? How do you even choose a winner between those two? I don’t think Joe’s speech or any questions that he answers that final tribal, if he happens to be in the finals, I have no idea who wins this season or who gets to the end, but if those two happen to be sitting there, there’s no way Joe campaigns against Eva and calls out something in her game where he was better than her.
I, there’s no way he does it. This guy will probably just talk about his own game and I wouldn’t be surprised if he says. Not, hey, vote for Eva, but champions her game just as much as he champions his own. Then again, it might be a moot point. Maybe these two are the next two to go once the merge happens next week.
I, I, I’m pretty sure other castmates are well aware if we have Joe or Eva sitting in the finals, we’re not beating them and they would be right. You would think. So as great as a story at it as it’s been, unfortunately, it probably puts a target on their back because nobody wants to sit against either one of them in the finals because I fear they would run the table.
But the episode last night, they hyped it up and I thought that they would under deliver. What is it? Over promise and underperform. Look, the fact that they got Jeff probes to cry for the first time in 48 seasons is amazing, but it delivered, at least for me. It did. And if you read Dalton Ross’s recap, he admits he was a crying mess during the episode.
He also did an interview with Jeff to go check it out on ew.com. But it was a fascinating, fascinating episode. I do wanna talk about Ddy from Tuesday night. The finale because what we saw outta David, and, I mean, I can’t help the fact that poverty lost her voice, but I, and we’re gonna talk about it next week.
I just thought it would’ve been really cool to have it two days after the finale, but whatever, we’ll talk to her about it next week, because what we saw outta David was unlike anything we’ve ever seen in reality. TV game show history. I mean, David, they said it numerous times on the episode, if you missed it.
He became the biggest winner in reality TV game show history with $5.8 million. But it’s not just the fact that David won $5.8 million, it’s the fact that, as I’ve always told you about this show, it’s nothing but luck. There’s no skill involved in picking a briefcase. You have no idea where, if you had clues to where higher values might be or lower values might be.
Yeah. But you don’t. You’re just literally picking random numbers. One through 26. For the first time this season, we had more than 12 briefcases. We had 26, so he picks all these briefcases and he’s just going and going. The biggest briefcase was $12 million, 12.3 or whatever it was. He had 13 low values and 13 high values, and here he is picking off numbers at left and right and left and right.
He had gone through four rounds. He had gone through three rounds and then he got a $994,000 offer, and this is the guy playing for the whole thing. This is actual real money. He said, no deal. Then he had to choose three cases. Got through that his offer went to $1.5 million. Then he had to choose two cases, got through that.
His offer became $1.98 million, no deal. So now he’s through what? Six rounds. He had to pick two more cases. Again, got through that and his offer went to $2.9 million. This is a guy who has a wife and four kids, and he turned down $994,000, $1.5 million, $1.98 million. Then he turned down $2.9 million. He had four cases left.
Three of them were low values, $25, $75, $750, and 12 million. If he chooses that 12 million, his offer is literally going to be $400, and he had just turned down 2.9 million. We’re all sitting at home going, this guy’s crazy. Everybody on the set, all the castmates were saying, this is crazy. This is why I can’t talk.
I can’t wait to talk to poverty about it because I’m gonna ask, I’m gonna ask poverty. Which offer would you have taken? I mean, the first time you saw a million pop up, would you have taken that? Would you have done what he did if you got through that and got 1.5? I mean, it’s. It’s, it’s different to do it now because she has seen all the values, but when you’re in it, I mean, I can’t believe he turned down the first offer of 994,000, but you know, whatever the case may be, he is down to four cases.
Three, three low, and the 12,000,001, he had to choose one case. I mean, this is. Guarantee yourself $2.9 million versus a 25% chance at $12 million. You obviously take the 3 million unless you already are a millionaire. Yes, I know he’s won game shows in the past and he’s probably got a decent amount of money and probably got an appearance fee to come on this show, but $3 million is $3 million for a 25% chance of 12 million.
No, you take the 3 million. Nope. He said, no deal. And he ended up choosing a case and that case had 750 in it. So then his offer went to $3.87 million and there were three cases left, the 25 to 75 and the 12 million, and he said no deal. Again, he turned down $3.87 million, chose one case. It was the $25 case.
So there were two cases left. The one he chose. And a $75. The the one he chose, and there was one on the board, one had $75 in it, one had $12 million in it, so his offer was now 5.8, which is a little less than half, but you figure that’s what it was gonna be around 6 million, something like that. So the offer was $5.8 million.
You either take the deal and accept $5.8 million, or you say No deal. You open up your case and that’s what you have. That’s what you get. He was either gonna get 12 million or 75 or or 75 bucks and he took the $5.8 million, which great. Yeah, I mean you should have taken the 1.5, the 1.98, the 2.9, and the 3.87.
But if he would’ve turned that down and done no deal he might’ve gone down as the biggest goof in reality TV game show history. With that said, if you read Dalton Ross’s interview with David afterwards, he had said if he said no deal, he would’ve been offered the chance to swap his case that he had chosen in the beginning, number 18, for the case on the board number seven, and he said, I would’ve swapped.
He goes, I just felt it was in number seven. I felt I did not have the 12 million. And he would’ve been right if he swapped and he would’ve won 12 million. But are you gonna sneeze at 5.8 million? The largest prizes ever given to a reality TV game show contestant in the United States? No. But man, that guy had some balls because that was actually real money.
All the other ones that you’re playing earlier in the season, you’re just playing to build up a pot that, a pot that you might not get to play for at the end of this game. And this guy just, just. Balls of steel because who in their right mind is turning down that much money four different times, 1 million, 1.5, 1.98, 2.9, and 3.87.
He turned down all five of those at any point when he was picking cases. After that, if that 12 million comes up, his offer literally drops below a hundred thousand, and obviously when he got to the end. When he had three cases left of 25, 75 and 12 million, and he had to choose one case. If he chooses the 12 million, that means the two cases left are 25 and 75.
He would’ve won 50 bucks. Instead he walked with 5.8 million. It was an in incre. It was so tense watching that. It was incredible. Yet again, the show was all luck, complete and utter luck. But he had. I mean, it wasn’t skill to continue to stay in and say no deal, because it’s not like he had some sort of advantage where he knew, oh, I know I’m not gonna, I know that one doesn’t have the 12 million in it.
No, he is just guessing. He can talk about all he wants about a sign from God and a sign from his dad. He’s still just guessing. At any point, he could have picked the $12 million case and he didn’t. It was an incredible run that I don’t think anybody on Don d will ever beat $5.8 million ’cause I don’t think anyone will ever have the balls again to go that high.
They will take one and a half million, $2 million, unless the person playing the banker in future seasons is already a multimillionaire. That would be the only reason you would ever turn down that money. Now, I don’t know David’s finances, but he’s obviously won 500 grand from Survivor Australia.
Apparently he’s won something else. So he is probably doing well for himself from these game shows. But to turn down two and a half million or 2.9 million and then 3.8 million balls, I tell you. And speaking of balls, we’re gonna end with this. The meteor ball, my planner, fasciitis ball. I’ve told you all about it all week.
I told you I emailed them and I left a review on the site just saying I gave them five stars. ’cause I love the product. But I said, Hey, it got stolen outta my TSAI was on, I was not allowed to do this. I read you their response. I emailed support personally and they got back to me and they said they will make an exception.
And they have already emailed me out a new meteor or mini, which I really appreciate, and they are not a sponsor for this show. When I get the Meteor or mini, I will absolutely post it on my Instagram story and I’m gonna tag them and I’m gonna say thank you for the customer service, because they didn’t have to do it.
I didn’t ask for a new one. I just said, Hey, this happened to me. Actually, I did ask, what am I saying? I said, this happened to me. Is there any way that I can get a new one sent out to me? I said, I, I wasn’t stern with them. I wasn’t like, I deserve a new one. This is bs. I just said, I had no idea. I don’t know why TSA stole it.
You guys said on your frequently asked questions on your website, Hey, it is TSA approved, but. I’m just telling you, and I told them, I have no way to prove that it was stolen, but I would not lie about this. And I told them, I have a podcast. I’ve talked about it for three days. I would not talk about it if I made this whole thing up and they said, thank you for letting us know.
We will make an exception and send you out a new one. So I should be getting it. I believe the tracking number said I’ll be getting it by Saturday. So I, it’s what I like to see outta businesses. If they would’ve said no, I wouldn’t have been like, Ugh, what a horrible business. I deserve one. But it doesn’t hurt to ask and ask nicely, which is what I did.
Asking nicely. Won’t be what I do when I send Netflix an email. Told you I was gonna do that when I got back from California and I’ll eventually get around to it. I still need to calm down a little bit ’cause I’m pretty pissed off of the way. They handled everything and how unprofessional they have been.
But I am gonna send a certain email and they’re gonna probably ignore it. They’re probably gonna ghost me. It’s probably gonna go in one ear out the other, but I need to know. They might not even read it, and I don’t even know if they, I have no proof that they will read it, but for my own peace of mind, I need to get it off my chest.
How unprofessional I feel that they were in the handling of the Love Is Blind contestants with me. It’s just how I feel and I’m gonna do that. But congratulations and well, not a congratulations. A thank you to Mayo Storm, M-Y-O-S-T-O-R m.com. Where you got the Meteor Minis and I appreciate them taking the time out to respond to my email and actually send me out a new one, even though I had no proof that it was stolen outta my suitcase.
Anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcasts. Also, rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts as a download. Sports Daily, coming up in an hour from now. Episode number 4 36 will only be coming out, like I said on my YouTube channel at 9:15 AM Eastern Time today, and it is yesterday’s interview with Ben Fra Zone.
If you wanna go check that out on video form. If you didn’t listen to it, just go listen to it. I changed the title of yesterday’s podcast. It now says episode or podcast number 4 36 with Ben Fra Zone. So now we know. So just so I can keep it going, it just be basically means I, instead of a Thursday podcast, I released it on Wednesday and audio form and Thursday and video form just so I could keep it going, that I have a once a week podcast that comes out in video form where I interview somebody.
It’s just my own little thing for housekeeping purposes. So I just wanna. Do that. So next week we’re on track with podcast number 4 37, hopefully with Ty Shower. Anyway, thank you all for listening again, really appreciate it and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
