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Sarah's Ponderosa video is up on the CBS website.  Aside from some nasty personal comments about Kass towards the beginning (I rarely think it is seemly to claim someone must be a horrible role model for their kids based on how that person played Survivor), she seemed pretty OK with everything.  I think (hope?) she's going to set a good tone there once the others come.  Unless the next person to show up is Kass; that might get uncomfortable. I usually enjoy watching the Ponderosa videos almost as much as the show, so I hope people can let go of the game and have fun there this season. 

Edited to change the word "never" to "rarely" about someone's Survivor game indicating they might be a bad role model for their kids.  Because, Lindsey.  Ugh.

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Being the proud Iowa Hawkeye that I am, here's a link to a piece I wrote about the history of Iowans on "Survivor." Pretty good track record so far: Three finalists (and one winner), one whose boot set up the season's enduring storyline, another whose storyline helped win Probst an Emmy, and the most recent who just left in a pretty damn memorable tribal council.

http://robhasawebsite.com/holding-hantz-russell-hantz-survivor-cagayan-interview/

 

Russell Hantz on Rob Has a Podcast. The interview is suppose to be offensive, I am listening right now so I cannot say but Rob has an edited version and an unedited version with a few minute disclaimer. So it should be interesting.

 

There is a new show Holding Hantz starring the Hantz family.

I was listening to EW radio on Sirius this morning and Dalton Ross was broadcasting from Niceragua where the new season started filming 3 days ago (tonight-or whenever night is there- is the first tribal). Apparently there is no redemption island this year and there is something new in its place which Dalton apparently loved. We shall see.....

Hooray for no RI!  I haven't read many of Dalton Ross' writings on Survivor, nor do I listen to EW on the radio.  What has been his response to other Survivor "twists?"  Does it bode well that he like this new one?

 

Nicaragua is in the same time zone as Central Time in USA and Canada.  So, as I type this, it is 9:31 pm on June 5th in those time zones.

Thanks, tvfanatic13!  It appears that Dalton Ross and I think very much alike as well, except that I didn't like RI even in BvW.

 

Maverick, IMHO, Nicaragua was not a very good season.  It featured "characters" such as "Hurricane" NaOnka (Who gave us the phrase "smuffed torch" and, along with Purple Kelly, aka PuKe, quit, but both were allowed on the jury), Shannon (male, which I'm clarifying because it's a unisex name), and Holly (Who very early on fillled Dan's $1000+ shoes with sand and set them out to sea, though she did make a turnaround and went deep in the game, being voted out because she was a threat to win.  At the reunion show she gave Dan a pair of $1000+ boots because she felt so bad about the shoe incident.).  Jimmy Johnson (NFL, not to be confused with racecar driver Jimmie Johnson) also played that season.  Do you remember Brenda, one of the "Favorites" in Caramoan?  Her first seaon was Nicaragua.  Editorial:  I didn't care for Brenda in her first season and I thought she made some questionable choices by aligning with who she aligned with, but really liked her in Caramoan. /Editorial

Yeah, whenever I am reminded of the shoe incident, I wonder what Dan was thinking.  Worse than Palau Jonathan's $500 jeans that he ruined by diving in the water and swimming to shore to try to beat the boat.  Shannon was the first out of the younger tribe because he stirred up crap at TC by asking Sash if he was gay.  Jud, aka Fabio, IC'd his way to FTC and won by 1 vote over Chase.  Sash rounded out the F3 and scored a goose egg on the vote.

Boston Rob and Amber just had their fourth child, another daughter by the name of Adelina Rose Mariano.  Rob just tweeted the following:

 

We are thrilled to announce Adelina Rose Mariano 12:51am June 20th, 2014
Mom and baby are doing great! #4for4

 

Congratulations to him and Amber!

 

Oh, and Tony Vlachos just had his second child -- a boy -- yesterday.  He tweeted a pic of his 15-month-old daughter giving her 15-HOUR-old brother a big-sister kiss on the cheek; it was the cutest thing I've ever seen!

Congrats to Rob and Amber. Man, he's just completely out-numbered in that house.

 

I love these two, but I really hope they'll take a hiatus from birthing babies for a while. I think this makes 4 little girls in less than 8 years. Amber needs a break!

 

 

Has it been 8 years because I feel like it may be less. The oldest is only 5 or 6 right? The good thing is though they didn't start having kids immediately and enjoyed a few years of it being just them before they started having kids. I remember Amber giving that explanation when people kept asking when they were going to have kids. She said they just wanted to enjoy being newly married before having children. With the way they've gone since they started, I see her point.

 

Good for Tony as well.

I've been a little confused on exactly what happened that caused him to die. People.com stated this, and I'm still confused:

 

Meanwhile, more details have emerged about the accident that claimed Bankston's life. According to the Jefferson County coroner, Bankston was standing on a small ladder on the rear car of a loaded freight train. As an engineer began to back up, the car derailed, throwing the reality star onto the tracks. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

 

Maybe I'm picturing it incorrectly. I picture him standing on one of those ladders attached to the train that have the steps so you can get to the top of the train, like this. The train went off the tracks (derailed) and it threw him on the tracks. Is it the distance of the fall? The train didn't run over him I'm guessing. It seems to me that railroad companies (my grandpa retired from Southern Pacific) would have some safety measures in place (I work in quality myself and there are safety measures for everything, even small things) to prevent something like that from happening. And unfortunately some times, instances like his will make a company tighten up on safety.

Oh lord help us. As I was clicking over, I was both trying to think of what other twins were on TAR and also thinking, "not the Twinnies, not the Twinnies, not the Twinn ... ah FUCK it's the fucking Twinnies." These two were unpleasant enough on both their seasons of TAR; I can't even imagine how hard they would ratchet up the obnoxiousness once they've been without food and sleep.

 

And John Rocker, just why. Why?

 

I've watched every season of Survivor and I'll watch this one too, but I've never dreaded a season more.

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