So today is. The Unwell Networks Winter Games. It’s a show created by Alex Cooper with a bunch of reality stars. It’s gonna air just the next four days. I’ll check it out. But it’s got Huda from Love Island and Delvy. You got Serena and Joe from Bachelor World and also you got Dakota Mortenson. Now, we also found out the over last weekend.
That Dakota is getting cut from Vanderpump Villa, which already filmed, I guess last summer. They’re cutting all of his scenes from Vanderpump Villa, so he will not be on the upcoming season. Now, unwell is starting to take a little bit of shit because Taylor, Frankie Paul filmed a season of The Bachelorette.
We know that’s been canceled or on pause, however you wanna call it, but it’s currently not airing. Dakota filmed something last summer. That was set to air. It is going to air soon. I don’t know the start date for Vanderpump Villa, but whatever episodes he was in, he’s been edited out of. Now, the UN Unwell Network literally announced this Winter Games thing last week, and it’s airing, starting today.
It doesn’t look like they’re cutting him out, and Alex Cooper’s taking a little bit of shit because why is he good enough to get or bad enough to get cut out of Vanderpump Villa for the upcoming season, but you won’t take him out of your show. It’s a good question. It’s a fair question. It’s probably a little bit harder to do in a show like this because all these people are living together and competing in challenges, and if he’s competing in a lot of challenges and he lasted for a while on that show, I, it, it wouldn’t make any sense.
Obviously, for Vanderpump Villa, a lot easier to cut him out of scenes because all he is doing is just appearing in scenes and having conversations. You can just take those out and replace those with other conversations. He’s clearly going to be on it today. The only thing we know about this show, it was filmed at the end of January, beginning of July beginning of February.
Contestants are divided into teams in the winter survival style tasks, aiming to create unfiltered drama and alliances. It was filmed at a luxury chalet in Park City, Utah, and yes, I will watch some of it today. I’ll watch the first episode, hopefully it’s not more than an hour or something like that, and we’ll report back and and see how this goes gle if Chenko is in it.
We read you the cast list last week. And it was a bunch of people where you’re like, okay, this is gonna be messy, but we have no idea how eliminations work, anything like that, we have no idea. So we will, after watching today’s episode, I wanna circle back and talk a little bit about Survivor because there has been a lot of pissed off fans after what happened on Wednesday.
And not just because people went home, it’s the way they went home and. Again, my whole take on Thursday after watching Wednesday’s episode was they made such a big deal outta this blood moon thing, and it’s like, okay, you sent three people home in one episode. You’ve had plenty of episodes in the past where you sent two people home and we saw two tribal councils, so we saw three.
Great. You’re acting like this is the biggest thing in the world. When really if they would’ve been like, we’re sending five, we’re having five tribal councils tonight, six. But we all knew this had to come at some point. This shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise just because it’s a 13 episode season.
They got 24 people on the cast. So we knew, and the way they did it was just so out of left field. And I totally understand that. Survivor is a game of luck. You have to luck out anytime a tribe swap happens and you have to pull a rock or you have to pull. A new bandana. Yeah. You have to hope that the numbers are in your favor.
You go to a tribe where you have a majority alliance, or it’s even, or at least you have some allies on that alliance. And what they did on Wednesday for this blood moon was utterly stupid. It’s like, okay, first off, Ozzy and Rizzo, you guys are just safe. You gotta go to Exile Island, but you’re safe. You know why they did that?
Because okay, we need three tribes of five. We can’t have two extra stragglers, so we’ll just send them off to Exile Island. Oh, okay. Just making up shit as we go. I understand that this is season is the in the hands of the fans and the fans did choose, Hey, we want more twists this season. While we did choose more twists, we weren’t told what those twists are gonna be.
And I guarantee you, if you ask the fans, Hey, we wanna do this blood moon twist, where when there’s 17 people left, we’re gonna merge all of them. Then we’re gonna send two of ’em to Exile Island, and then we’re just gonna do random draws of three tribes of five, then we’re gonna send ’em to tribal that night.
It’s like three tribes of five. And really just having a three to two majority is all you need to vote somebody out. No. That’s strictly blind luck, and a lot of people are very upset about Genevieve getting sent home and almost how can you not be? If you’re a Survivor fan and a survivor purist, how can you not want some justice for Genevieve?
She found two idols in this game and didn’t get to keep either of them. She was in a great spot in her old tribe. She picks the wrong rock. And ends up on a tribe that was pos probably the worst possible draw for her. And she ends up missing the jury and with these tribe draws that they did, where they drew rocks, even though we didn’t see them draw rocks, we saw the end result.
Here are your three tribes of five. Genevieve said it in all of her exit press. I realized if I didn’t win that, if I didn’t win that immunity, I was going home. There was no way I was gonna be saved. I tried my best, but there was no way I was gonna be saved. And your tribe draw is all luck, and not only is it all luck, then you had just a few hours with your new tribe.
It’s one thing, it’s like you do a tribe swap like that and the next tribal isn’t for a couple days, then maybe you can garner something at that point. When you do a tribe swap. Seriously, it literally just comes down to, all right, who’s got the numbers? That’s what it comes down to. Genevieve had zero chance, she said it in all of her exit press, and that’s just not survivor.
That’s just luck of the draw. Like she wasn’t rewarded for good gameplay. She found two idols. Yet these Billy Eilish idols do We realize now how stupid they are. What’s the point in finding one if you don’t get it? Unless somebody gets voted out with it in their pocket, that doesn’t make it this, these.
In the hands of the fans while we voted for more idols. We didn’t vote for a Billie Eilish idol. We didn’t vote for a twist that was as lame as this one. Put it this way, I’m not the only one complaining about Survivor this season. I’m really not. Every content creator out there, whether it’s you, listen to the Know-It-Alls podcast, you listen to Tess Higgins, you listen to anybody.
Recap what’s been happening on Survivor this season has one person said, I’m absolutely loving these twists. Ooh, I loved the blood moon twist where they just randomly created three tribes of five, and within hours they had to go to tribal council. And these people don’t have any allegiance to anybody else outside of who ended up on their tribe.
And if they got lucky enough to be in the majority. I haven’t heard one survivor content creator say they’ve liked what has happened this season, especially with the blood moon. What a joke that was. The more we get separated from it and the further away we get from it, the more upset I am at it.
Genevieve got screwed. She flat out got screwed. Camilla had a chance, but Jonathan decided to go with old school players instead of new school players. Okay. But then Kolby was a unanimous vote. He pretty much knew he was done and in his exit interviews, he said, if I didn’t get voted out at Tribal, I was probably getting medevaced out the next day because my foot, I had basically strained a ligament in the bottom of my foot.
So while I like the people that are playing the game, the game, and this is not on the contestants, they’re playing as hard as they can. If you’re Genevieve, you gotta be absolutely livid. What happened to you this season? You found two idols and yet you couldn’t use them. What’s the point of giving somebody an idol if they can’t use it?
So dumb. I wanna go back to also the Age of Attraction finale because I did end up watching. A lot of what they said. The reunion, like I said, on Thursday in Thursday’s podcast, I said, yeah, I listened to a lot of it, pretty much all of it. And the one thing that stuck out to me, I think I forgot to bring it up on Thursday.
The one thing that did stick out to me was the people that did break up, whether it was Theresa and John or Nne and Jorge, both of them said the same exact thing in regards to the age. They both specifically said when they were asked, do you think age had to do any, had to do at all with your breakup?
And both couples said no? Well, what was the reason? Well, it was our communication. Okay, that’s fine. But do you not think that the age difference of 54-year-old dating a 27-year-old and a 60-year-old dating a 27-year-old. You don’t think that had any reason to do with your communication issues? Like it’s so funny of them to say no.
Age didn’t play a difference at all. It’s like they were told to say that and they’re just like, yeah, our communication skills weren’t good. Yeah, because you come from completely two different generations, a 60-year-old and a 27-year-old. I’m not surprised in the least bit. Have communication issues. A 54-year-old and a 27-year-old, I’m not surprised, have communication issues.
You know why? Because they were born 27 and 33 years apart. They’re not gonna communicate in the same ways. I’m sorry. So that was just really bizarre to hear. No age didn’t play a role. Communication did. Yeah. And you know why your communication did because of your age difference. Okay. And finally I wanna talk about this because, you know, I feel maybe some people think I’m too hard on Jelly Roll because I’m just sick of him being on every single show on TV and singing the same song over and over.
Well, this is kind of a sports crossover, but did any of you watch the Final four on Saturday? Did you see who put on a concert in between game one and game two? It was the Chainsmokers. Okay. Yeah. First off, it was about as Ill-timed of a concert as you could get. Like, why are we having a concert in between game one and game two of the semifinals That has really nothing basketball linked to it.
It was just did Somebo, did chain smokers have a contract that they needed to get in one more date before a certain, before the first week of all April was up or something? I’ll say this. As much as shit as I give Jelly Roll. I think you can now throw the Chainsmokers into that because anytime you see the Chainsmokers perform on tv, at least as far as I know, you know, we know Jelly Roll only sings liar.
Right? At least that song came out within the last three or four years, right? I don’t think that was a song that’s been around for a decade. Like every song, the Chainsmokers sing, like I understand. Look, I’m a Vegas guy. I know the Chainsmokers perform at Encore Beach all the time, and they love inviting women, including women from Bachelor Nation behind the DJ booth.
They’ll literally DM them and ask them to come back behind the booth. I know women who have gone there and then they try and get laid up in their room. Trust me, I’ve heard all the stories. Anyway, that’s probably why Halsey dumped that guy. Anyway. I will say this closer baby in the backseat.
That one? Yeah. I think they came out 10 years ago. Literally that is their go-to every single time they play at Encore Beach. And when they played in between Game one and Game two of the Final four this past Saturday, they’re still singing closer. They’re still singing in Paris.
Yeah.
So. Throw in the Chainsmokers. It’s not just you Jelly Roll that drive me up a wall. It’s the Chainsmokers. And look, I’m not saying I don’t have closer in Paris in my Apple music, it’s in my library somewhere. I like the songs, but I also liked them a lot better in 2016. I, that was just the most random concert, unless you tell me and, and you could be right on this.
And someone correct me, are these guys originally from Indiana? ’cause that’s where. Final Four is this year. Are they, is one of them from Indiana? This was this like a home state thing? I I, I don’t know where they’re from. I just know anytime you see them perform, they are 1000000000% singing Closer and Paris.
And it’s like, do you got any other songs? ’cause those came out 10 years ago. That’s all I’m saying.
Oh baby. Holding clothes in the backseat of your robot and you make and afforded mattress on the floor, whatever. Ugh. Chain smokers. Anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcast. Also rate and review, but you gotta hit place. Only way it counts as a download. Sports Daily coming up in an hour from now.
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