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I listen to the podcast. An interesting piece that they didn't talk about was that the keys were on a rope so that helped guide the digging. If you weren't careful, though, the rope snapped and then finding the keys was almost impossible. That's what happened for those that timed out. They also indicated that Michelle was still working when Laurel started talking about quitting. They believed that Laurel quit because she would had the penalty and then potentially would look bad in the next daily. This way she goes out on a 'win.'

But what could she have done instead for a "laminated" dessert? Isn't lamination in baking a very specific thing? It's not like she could have done a napoleon and called it laminated. I also didn't think the umami options were equivalent. To me, red miso seemed much harder than soy sauce or parmesan. I have no opinion on Aaron, but Lillian is one of my faves! :)

Listening to Cory and Josh fight, didn't Cory totally screw over Josh in a previous Challenge? I knew Derrick wasn't going to beat Cory, but I could hope.

I honestly have no recollection of her at all on this season. (Or in her own season(s) for that matter)

I think I'm confused. I binge watched the whole thing and in the pilot I thought she said it had been 6 years since she had seen some action. But I think here she may have said 3 years? And they were only 'together' 3 months? I mean, I know I've pined for someone I couldn't have but that just feels excessive.

I appreciated Cory saying that he was working on puzzles with his kid because he knew he was weak at them and wanted to build up. That's growth. Of course he also said if he won the million he'd propose to his (I'm assuming baby mama) and that is less growth to me. 😆 On the one hand I'm okay with the purge of 8 because 40 people is TOO MANY and I have no idea who half these people are despite having watched most of the seasons. (Including Fresh Meat. I don't remember Aviv at all). But it will kind of suck for those under the radar folks, like Aviv, who may end up going out early because nobody knows them and they have no alliances. This is my least favorite part of any season and so I fast forwarded through it. I hate the begging and justifying.

I had to stop watching Sons of Anarchy at one point because somehow the Sons were all so much smarter than all of law enforcement combined. This show is walking that line for me too. Like those two yokels are smarter than the entire FBI group and police? This is why they can't bring Spencer back. He'd wipe the floor with the "big bad" this season. (Or they'd make him bumbling and stupid too and that would the actual "big bad.") I didn't love it last season and I'm loving it even less now. I would prefer someone, anyone else. The worst part, is that it is kind of a cool concept. How to delineate conspiracy theory from actual conspiracy. Or what happens when conspiracy theories become actual situations.

I know this is from 2 years ago, but I've just now discovered the show and binged season 1 and 2 over the weekend. This was how I felt as I watched the whole season. I didn't like any of the teams. The least worst was the father/son team. I didn't remember Ty being so... TY the first season. I assume part of that was because his team was super unresponsive to his suggestions.

They brought him in to prepare him dinner. He's also Holland America's Fresh Fish Ambassador (whatever that means) and according to Google, he has a pop-up restaurant experience once per cruise on the fleet's other 10 ships. I'm going to assume those just bear his name and not his actual person, but I could be wrong.

Not for Gail. That pre-heat outfit was not flattering on her. I've never had lion fish, but would a lion fish mac & cheese worked do you think? Or would it be too overwhelming to "such a delicate" fish? As 3 of them were doing raw preps I kept thinking lion fish mac & cheese.

I do believe the words I've heard to describe the northern part of the state is Flobama. My sister lives there. I think whomever had Tumbleweed should have done ghosts for a ghost town. That was too many hillbillies.

Per google it is the Lake Michigan White Fish that they use. And there's a whole history of this back to the Scandinavians.

I googled it because I totally didn't understand kerosene thrower's explanation. The oil from the fish rises to the top, as oil does, and the kerosene causes the water to boil up suddenly which pushes all the fish oil out of the pot immediately. But I also don't disagree with the view that it is a gimmick and basically theatrical. I too appreciated Dan's candor about the whole thing. I'm glad he was honest and I wonder a bit if that's not what helped some of the other chefs come up with their different takes on it. When he described the food as bland that piqued their thought process to think about ways to add flavor. I am not happy about the previews for next week's episode. We want plates not food served directly on the table. Can we not validate that annoying Tik Tok trend?

100%. Which makes sense. If it is only a budgeted amount of $150k they have to take what can legitimately been done within that budget. Like so much of that stone/cement would be the whole budget to pull down and replace with drywall and make it stable.

When I saw the ads for this show, I didn't realize it had been on for 5 seasons already so I binged it all at once. I think in doing it that way I've become more irritated by the people who just live with the things that could be easily fixed rather than fixing them. I like the guys with the green house, but they could have painted over the Texas flag on their cinder block wall. There are little improvements many of them could have done to make things at least a little better. My house is from the 70s and about 4 years ago I had all the carpet pulled up and put in new flooring. Before I moved in I pulled wallpaper and painted many of the rooms. Since then I've painted other rooms. I will say, though, that a thing I liked when I first moved in (a 70's stove hood above my stove that floats in the middle of my open kitchen/living room space) I now hate because I hit my head on it so often. So I can also see something that they may have liked originally becoming a nuisance.