Rice Wars
Last episode we saw Mike and David join Matt on Redemption Island as the desperate Zapatera tribe were unable to make any inroads with the Ometepe cult.
This episode opened at:
Redemption Island - Night 24
Matt is praying, out loud (I know I'm cynical but he is carving out his own little niche there - maybe get his own Christian/medical show after this is over... and he's starting to look more and more like Jesus... I'm just saying.) He's taking strength from God and if He wants him to stay in the game he'll keep fighting.
-David shows up at camp and surprises Matt who's mind is blown (of course it is - God didn't tell him this was coming) and they three of them speculate on what a 3 man duel or tri-uel could mean - are they on the jury? (Oh, that could be.)
Murlonio - Day 25
Zapatera is eating rice and fish - Steven is glad he didn't end up going last night, he wasn't ready yet. Ralph says he didn't say much at Tribal council and Steven said he couldn't, it was all taken up with Phillip flapping his gums.
-Speaking of Phillip, he's sitting by himself, retying his feather on his headband and mumble-chanting to himself. Steven is watching him and says he just can't figure Phillip out - everything he does irritates the remaining Zapatera but the Ometepe are clinging to him like glue. He can't imagine someone being that strange all the time. The only hope the remaining Zapatera have is the possibility that the Ometepe tribe will get fed up with his antics. (Oh buddy, I think that ship has sailed, they went past fed up two weeks ago but he survived. Now they are using him as a weapon on you guys.)
Murlonio - Day 25
-Phillip is out on the rock chanting and meditating - he says once he got into Buddhism (huh, did we know that already?) he realized his spirit was one with every other living thing - God/Allah/Buddha will manifest itself in many ways and you just have to be open to accept that. He says in his meditation this morning he had a premonition through his grandfather that his relationship with Rob had come to the full circle of trust and he'll be there at the end of the game.
-So, last week Rob told us he's set up the uncomfortably merged tribes to still be separated - with separate eating times and, I'm assuming, their own food supplies stayed with the separate tribes. Julie says the Zapatera three have a lot of food - and they are gleefully eating it right in front of Ometepe.
-Phillip is watching them like a hawk and he's obviously hungry and jealous - he goes and bitches to Andrea and Rob that Julie had seven and a half (oh yes, he's counting) scoops of rice - when they, in Ometepe are lucky to get 2 scoops of rice. Phillip contends that Julie is trying to use up their rice before they go so he takes it upon himself to even things up and goes and steals rice out of their tin - "the fact of the matter is all rice here belongs to all of us" (OMG - have your cake and eat it too - you won't eat with them or speak with them but they should share their food - give your head a shake.) "I'm watching them like a lion - it's trivial but apparently that is the state of the Morlino tribe" (yeah, he can't get any names right, ever.)
-Steven and Julie go and get tree mail that tells them all of them are going to Redemption Island to see the duel. I can't wait for the fireworks at next mealtime!
Redemption Island - Day 25
Matt, back to back blindsides, where is your emotional state right now?
-I never knew strangers could hurt me so deeply (ugh, man up already) shame on me for letting them fool me twice. I'm ready to keep going if I can.
The Duel - each of them will have 150 wooden tiles - they will use the tiles to build a house of cards - the first two people to reach 8 ft stay alive - the loser is out for good and will become the first member of the jury. (Matt looks pointedly at Rob with a smirk - Rob won't meet his gaze - coward.)
Off they go Mike has taken a huge lead - he's at 7ft, Matt has a few fall, David at 3ft. Mike gets up on the ladder and he's almost there - his stack is teetering.... Matt and David are catching up, they are all very close to finishing. Mike is the first to complete his 8ft tower - Matt is the 2nd to complete it and David is out. (Burn your buff, b*tch.)
-David saw Redemption Island as a chance to further himself in the game and it didn't work out that way - he feels more focussed to tackle things in real life now though. And with David leaving that means Carol-Anne D, Lynne B and Bryon L are out of the pool.
-Rob says they sent guys to Redemption Island they thought could beat Matt and David didn't cut it - so Matt is still in and is now officially Rob's NEMESIS - if he comes back and beats me, it's over.
-Matt has God on his side - as long as it's His will he'll stay in and try to take Rob out. (Rob is now evil in this equation - I'm seeing him more Jim Jonesy than the devil.)
Mulonio - Day 26
-Rob and Grant are singing a little ditty about RICE WARS (like d-bags) and it bites them in the *ss when Andrea opens their rice container and finds maggots and mold in there. Phillip says they have to dump out all the rice on a blanket and take out all the bug and contaminates - Rob doesn't see a problem - we'll just put all the rice in their container - Phillip says he wouldn't want to do that if he were them.
-Julie and Stephen are watching, they know what's going on but are largely unconcerned - Julie, "Bon Appetit". Stephen - "wow, how nasty would that be."
-Andrea goes over and asks Steven and Julie if they can combine the rice and just put it all in their container and Stephen says, "No, I don't think so." (It's called reap what you sew m-er f-er.)
-Phillip says it's an eye opener to see how they are behaving in a survival situation (WHAT? You stole their rice and have treated them like crap... hello pot, it's the kettle calling) .
-Phillip confronts Stephen, who, to his credit, never gets up from his prone position in the shelter - and tells him that this is not a Zapatera decision, once we merged the only things separate were the rewards (right, now he's making things up) - unless you take that rice container with you everywhere you go, I'm going to take it and put the rice in it and you can come to me for rice. (So he's just going to steal all the rice and not give them any... yeah, that's better.)
-Stephen doesn't like being threatened and when Phillip says he's a reasonable man, Stephen says, you're a lunatic. (Oh no you ditn't!)
-With a stammering flourish Phillip plays the race card - "when someone of my colour gets up in one of your faces you feel I'm a lunatic"... All the Ometepe tribe is listening uncomfortably (except Rob and Grant who seem to be loving it.) Phillip rambles on ridiculously and Stephen goes from incredulous to uncaring...
-Oh, Phillip is the Chief of Counter-Intelligence now, Kung Fu expert - Stephen, "Right on brother."
-Phillip is talking to the camera now and says Stephen thinks he's better than him and he feels there is some racial undertones to it. "They're the one's that take it to crazy. I'm like a lot of black man, we're prepared to self-destruct at any moment and a lot do self-destruct (he pretends to pull out a gun.)" (WHAT? Okay, I'm not black but I can't help but think that other black people do not want him to be speaking for them - ever... and even on this show, Francesca was the first person to call him crazy - I really don't think it's a racial thing.)
-Ralph comes back and Stephen and Julie fill him in on how Phillip went off about the rice.
-Phillip is back in his chair and going on again - You are going to be begging me for some rice. Ralph is just dumbfounded, he doesn't know what to make of this, tries to defuse things but... Phillip just goes off - he's still running his mouth and he starts throwing the N-word around to boot. (It's ugly, everyone is uncomfortable and I think Phillip knows exactly what he's doing. It's kinda sick.)
-Stephen had to turn his back and walk away - he goes over to the fire where Rob and Grant are and quietly says, for what it's worth, we're voting for Phil tomorrow. He tells the camera that Phil's a loose cannon and a little scary too - he thinks the tribe will be in better shape without Phil. Talking to Julie, Stephen is saying he's unstable man, someone like that doesn't last in the CIA (he may have been a custodian in the building, he let it slip that's what he did in the army - I wouldn't be surprised at anything at this point. Oh, and the droopy fuchsia drawers made a comeback too.)
-Rob tells the camera, he's not sure how he did it but what started as a fun little song between Grant and I, Phillip managed to make a war about white rice, racial. At the end of the day, Phillip is going to be public enemy #1, he's still not sure who to make #2 though. Then they throw it to Ashley saying she'd rather die then keep Phillip around. (Foreshadowing there?)
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
They must build a multi-stage puzzle wheel. On Jeff's go they must race to release a puzzle base (unscrew a round tray from a post by racing around in a circle) once they have the base free, they must race over to a table and assemble a jigsaw-type puzzle inside the round base. The first 6 to finish will move on to the next phase where they'll put that puzzle base inside another circle and have to assemble more pieces around it to complete the wheel. First person to get it right, wins immunity.
Off they go - Andrea is the first one to get her wheel free but they all get going on it rather quickly - Ralph and Ashley drunkenly make their way over - Rob is the first one done (Mr Puzzle Guy) Julie, Ralph, Andrea, Steve and... Grant! (Phillip thought he had it at one point, but no.)
Next round - off they go- Steve and Andrea going quickly - Rob is right with them... and Rob completes it by seconds over Steve. ROB wins Immunity. (Dang it! I'm rooting for Steve to stay after the whole Phil dust up.)
(Oh, I just realized that no matter what, Phillip will be on the jury. I'm pretty sure he won't be a finalist - but he could bring the Rat v/s Snake level of speech in the finale - that should be some fun.)
Murlonio - Day 27
-It's meal time - they show Ometepe scraping the bottom of the pot and Zapatera with more rice than they know what to do with in their shelter... (I can't feel bad about that - Ometepe brought it on themselves.)
-Julie says their vote is going to be easy, there is only the three of them, they are voting Phillip and Ometepe still has the numbers so they could vote out one of theirs - it's the perfect time to get rid of Phillip.
-Julie casually walks over to the clothesline and nicks Phillips swim trunks on the way by and just keeps walking (HA HAHA - I love Julie) she goes and buries them - and we will be treated to a lot more of the saggy underwear from now on it appears.
-Phillip comes back and notices they're gone - he asks if anyone moved his swim trunks - everyone pleads ignorance - "That's okay, it can get real fun and exciting around here."
-Ashley sticks her tongue out at him like a Moari warrior, who does that? - She says to the camera that everyone at camp is over Phillip.
-Phillip goes on that he knows they were taken and he can play that game - I hope it comes up tonight, it better. Steve says he feels threatened - You shouldn't feel threatened by me, I don't threaten, I just go off.
Steve, That's scary. You should be scared... (Is he even listening to what he says?)
-Phillip is prowling around like a crazy man - he's got his feather on and his buff as a loin cloth and when he picks up the machete - Steve and Ralph eye him warily... how can anyone want to keep that guy around?
-Steve is hoping that's the case and Ometepe takes the opportunity to get rid of Droopy Crazy-Pants.
-Rob says it doesn't matter who of the three Zapatera goes next - but then he does have some room to play and he doesn't know where Phillip's head is at. One man should not have this much power on an Island, but I'm glad that I do.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
Phillip, based on what you're wearing, I'm guessing you had another meditation?
-I actually had a former ZAP (he looks over at Steve) thinking it was cute, he removed my clothes.
You looked at Steve?
-I could tell it was Steve.
This goes back to your training?
Steve's look says I had nothing to do with it and Julie looks like the cat that ate the canary.
-Phillip - Absolutely, I confronted Steve that they were consuming all the rice and it's been all out war since.
So, Steve, Phillip is asserting that the Zapatera tribe are eating a lot more rice than anyone else - true?
-Well, as the mouths start disappearing from the Zapatera tribe we haven't had to ration as much, so we're just eating our food the way we choose to.
Andrea, the Zapatera tribe is making the argument it's not your business how much rice we eat.
-It is a little frustrating cause we'll look over and they'll have this huge bowl of rice between the three of them and our rice had maggots in the bottom of it. (Still, feel zero sympathy for them.)
Steve - And Chef here wants to make it a whole black and white thing over the rice.
What was that about?
Steve and Julie tell Jeff how Phillip threatened them and brought up the N-word.
-To his credit, Jeff remained calm and asked, Who brought up the N-word? Phillip did.
-So Jeff tried to get to the bottom of this - Phillip says he can't put it into words but he's sure that when Steve calls him crazy he's calling him the n-word.
Jeff says, I don't follow your logic, how do you get the n-word out of crazy?
Richard Pryor had the number one selling comedy album titled "That n-word is crazy." You're not black, you don't know. Like a woman can't say when something inappropriate happens to them (Yes we can, you're not a woman you don't know.) I just know.
Okay, you say I'm not black so I don't know, how do you know what he's saying when he says crazy? (By the same logic, he's not white, he doesn't know.)
-Phillip tells the story about going to the grocery store in 1968 with his father and his father was called boy...
- Steve says he played his last 7 years in the NFL on a team that was 1/5 white – he has no line between black and white in his heart.
-So Jeff boils it down: There has been a big debate about living together which culminated with the rice. You threw an idea out that you felt was reasonable and Steve said, I don’t know, let’s figure it out, let’s talk about it – and as the argument about the rice continued – Steve said, I don’t like it – You’re crazy. And at that point you equated that with ‘You’re calling me the n-word’ and we have a whole new world we’re dealing with. Phillip agrees with that.
Okay, so now I’m caught up (Jeff is handling this so delicately, you can tell the racial thing is not something Survivor wants to mess with – normally he’d let the sparks fly but not around this hot button issue… interesting.)
Two people from different worlds had an argument, you took it one way and nobody can question the way you took it, it came from your experiences and those of people before you. Nobody knows Steve’s intentions other than Steve, nobody really knows Steve – it’s quite possible that both of you are telling the truth. That that felt very much like the n-word and he absolutely did not mean it that way – Is that a fair assessment? Yes. (Everyone agreed – situation diffused – wow, Jeff should be in international affairs or something, well done.)
So, Rob, how do you go forward at tribal council when all of this is in the context of a million dollar prize?
-It’s not easy.
You’re going to vote someone out tonight, is this going to factor in? (Oh, it looks like Phillip just realized that. Sigh… and do I have to stop calling him crazy now? Am I racist?)
-Yeah, they’re grown men, they say and feel what they want. It’s problematic but it’s real. People are going to have disagreements but at the same time I can’t imagine this not factoring into our decision.
Natalie (who? Oh yeah) How does it impact the game?
-It’s really hard for me to sit here and just listen because I feel for Steve, I don’t think that he has any prejudice in him and I feel for Phillip because I don’t know what it’s like to be an African-American man. (And, she totally didn’t answer the question… whatever.)
Okay, last question – shorts, who took them, who has ‘em? (Oh, and he went there – I thought he might let that go…)
Julie – I TOOK THE SHORTS!
Thank you.
-Nobody will ever find them, I dug a hole and buried them and a rock is on top of them (she says with Glee! <3)
If this were therapy, I’d say, very good session. And he gets a smattering of applause.
Julie as a Zapatera member you’re looking for a crack in Ometepe, maybe you just found it.
-Yeah, hopefully seeing that we would be a happy family if there wasn’t this one division (Phillip looks like he wants to eat her liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.)
Steve, clearly you’re uncomfortable being labeled as a racist. Yeah. But in a game for a million dollars would you be fine if, as a result of this argument that you were a part of, Phillip gets voted out?
-I would be happy but not for any black or white issue – we got three votes going that way and hopefully one or two others might be getting as tired of him as we are.
Phillip, if you were voted out tonight – at this moment do you believe it would be based on anything racial?
-If for some reason they felt like “Oh, we need to let Phillip go at this point in time” then the tribe has spoken… (sub-text – and they are all racist!)
Time to Vote:
Steve votes for Phil – I hope you find peace in your heart brother – nothing racial in the crazy comment.
Julie votes Phil – this has nothing to do with the colour of your skin. Phil, you are one crazy dude.
Ralph votes Phile (yes, he spelt it phile) – I hope you have a good night on Redemption Island with your underwear and your two feathers.
Phillip – gets heads shaken at him by David and Andrea as he flops up to vote in the droopy drawers – he votes Julie
Tallying the Votes:
Phillip 1, 2, 3
Julie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – Darn it! I guess we have two or three more weeks of Phillip then. Julie says to Phillip – “I guess you’re not going to ever find your shorts.” (Yeah, rub it in as you go… did I mention I really like her?)
Next week: Phillip has his best day yet and Andrea could be scheduled for an early departure. Matt is also plumbing the darkest depths – he’s wasting away and crying – God has been literally carrying me… Awww, poor Matt – he’s spent almost his whole time out there alone, that’s got to be tough.
Redemption Island - Julie was not expecting to be the one voted out tonight she really thought it would be Steve or Ralph but she’s okay with it. This was an ugly Tribal, there is poison in that tribe and his name is Phillip. (She opted for poison instead of cancer – but it’s the same jist.) It’s kind of nice to be removed from it.
Have a great long weekend everyone, Happy Easter.
Coleen
Last episode we saw Mike and David join Matt on Redemption Island as the desperate Zapatera tribe were unable to make any inroads with the Ometepe cult.
This episode opened at:
Redemption Island - Night 24
Matt is praying, out loud (I know I'm cynical but he is carving out his own little niche there - maybe get his own Christian/medical show after this is over... and he's starting to look more and more like Jesus... I'm just saying.) He's taking strength from God and if He wants him to stay in the game he'll keep fighting.
-David shows up at camp and surprises Matt who's mind is blown (of course it is - God didn't tell him this was coming) and they three of them speculate on what a 3 man duel or tri-uel could mean - are they on the jury? (Oh, that could be.)
Murlonio - Day 25
Zapatera is eating rice and fish - Steven is glad he didn't end up going last night, he wasn't ready yet. Ralph says he didn't say much at Tribal council and Steven said he couldn't, it was all taken up with Phillip flapping his gums.
-Speaking of Phillip, he's sitting by himself, retying his feather on his headband and mumble-chanting to himself. Steven is watching him and says he just can't figure Phillip out - everything he does irritates the remaining Zapatera but the Ometepe are clinging to him like glue. He can't imagine someone being that strange all the time. The only hope the remaining Zapatera have is the possibility that the Ometepe tribe will get fed up with his antics. (Oh buddy, I think that ship has sailed, they went past fed up two weeks ago but he survived. Now they are using him as a weapon on you guys.)
Murlonio - Day 25
-Phillip is out on the rock chanting and meditating - he says once he got into Buddhism (huh, did we know that already?) he realized his spirit was one with every other living thing - God/Allah/Buddha will manifest itself in many ways and you just have to be open to accept that. He says in his meditation this morning he had a premonition through his grandfather that his relationship with Rob had come to the full circle of trust and he'll be there at the end of the game.
-So, last week Rob told us he's set up the uncomfortably merged tribes to still be separated - with separate eating times and, I'm assuming, their own food supplies stayed with the separate tribes. Julie says the Zapatera three have a lot of food - and they are gleefully eating it right in front of Ometepe.
-Phillip is watching them like a hawk and he's obviously hungry and jealous - he goes and bitches to Andrea and Rob that Julie had seven and a half (oh yes, he's counting) scoops of rice - when they, in Ometepe are lucky to get 2 scoops of rice. Phillip contends that Julie is trying to use up their rice before they go so he takes it upon himself to even things up and goes and steals rice out of their tin - "the fact of the matter is all rice here belongs to all of us" (OMG - have your cake and eat it too - you won't eat with them or speak with them but they should share their food - give your head a shake.) "I'm watching them like a lion - it's trivial but apparently that is the state of the Morlino tribe" (yeah, he can't get any names right, ever.)
-Steven and Julie go and get tree mail that tells them all of them are going to Redemption Island to see the duel. I can't wait for the fireworks at next mealtime!
Redemption Island - Day 25
Matt, back to back blindsides, where is your emotional state right now?
-I never knew strangers could hurt me so deeply (ugh, man up already) shame on me for letting them fool me twice. I'm ready to keep going if I can.
The Duel - each of them will have 150 wooden tiles - they will use the tiles to build a house of cards - the first two people to reach 8 ft stay alive - the loser is out for good and will become the first member of the jury. (Matt looks pointedly at Rob with a smirk - Rob won't meet his gaze - coward.)
Off they go Mike has taken a huge lead - he's at 7ft, Matt has a few fall, David at 3ft. Mike gets up on the ladder and he's almost there - his stack is teetering.... Matt and David are catching up, they are all very close to finishing. Mike is the first to complete his 8ft tower - Matt is the 2nd to complete it and David is out. (Burn your buff, b*tch.)
-David saw Redemption Island as a chance to further himself in the game and it didn't work out that way - he feels more focussed to tackle things in real life now though. And with David leaving that means Carol-Anne D, Lynne B and Bryon L are out of the pool.
-Rob says they sent guys to Redemption Island they thought could beat Matt and David didn't cut it - so Matt is still in and is now officially Rob's NEMESIS - if he comes back and beats me, it's over.
-Matt has God on his side - as long as it's His will he'll stay in and try to take Rob out. (Rob is now evil in this equation - I'm seeing him more Jim Jonesy than the devil.)
Mulonio - Day 26
-Rob and Grant are singing a little ditty about RICE WARS (like d-bags) and it bites them in the *ss when Andrea opens their rice container and finds maggots and mold in there. Phillip says they have to dump out all the rice on a blanket and take out all the bug and contaminates - Rob doesn't see a problem - we'll just put all the rice in their container - Phillip says he wouldn't want to do that if he were them.
-Julie and Stephen are watching, they know what's going on but are largely unconcerned - Julie, "Bon Appetit". Stephen - "wow, how nasty would that be."
-Andrea goes over and asks Steven and Julie if they can combine the rice and just put it all in their container and Stephen says, "No, I don't think so." (It's called reap what you sew m-er f-er.)
-Phillip says it's an eye opener to see how they are behaving in a survival situation (WHAT? You stole their rice and have treated them like crap... hello pot, it's the kettle calling) .
-Phillip confronts Stephen, who, to his credit, never gets up from his prone position in the shelter - and tells him that this is not a Zapatera decision, once we merged the only things separate were the rewards (right, now he's making things up) - unless you take that rice container with you everywhere you go, I'm going to take it and put the rice in it and you can come to me for rice. (So he's just going to steal all the rice and not give them any... yeah, that's better.)
-Stephen doesn't like being threatened and when Phillip says he's a reasonable man, Stephen says, you're a lunatic. (Oh no you ditn't!)
-With a stammering flourish Phillip plays the race card - "when someone of my colour gets up in one of your faces you feel I'm a lunatic"... All the Ometepe tribe is listening uncomfortably (except Rob and Grant who seem to be loving it.) Phillip rambles on ridiculously and Stephen goes from incredulous to uncaring...
-Oh, Phillip is the Chief of Counter-Intelligence now, Kung Fu expert - Stephen, "Right on brother."
-Phillip is talking to the camera now and says Stephen thinks he's better than him and he feels there is some racial undertones to it. "They're the one's that take it to crazy. I'm like a lot of black man, we're prepared to self-destruct at any moment and a lot do self-destruct (he pretends to pull out a gun.)" (WHAT? Okay, I'm not black but I can't help but think that other black people do not want him to be speaking for them - ever... and even on this show, Francesca was the first person to call him crazy - I really don't think it's a racial thing.)
-Ralph comes back and Stephen and Julie fill him in on how Phillip went off about the rice.
-Phillip is back in his chair and going on again - You are going to be begging me for some rice. Ralph is just dumbfounded, he doesn't know what to make of this, tries to defuse things but... Phillip just goes off - he's still running his mouth and he starts throwing the N-word around to boot. (It's ugly, everyone is uncomfortable and I think Phillip knows exactly what he's doing. It's kinda sick.)
-Stephen had to turn his back and walk away - he goes over to the fire where Rob and Grant are and quietly says, for what it's worth, we're voting for Phil tomorrow. He tells the camera that Phil's a loose cannon and a little scary too - he thinks the tribe will be in better shape without Phil. Talking to Julie, Stephen is saying he's unstable man, someone like that doesn't last in the CIA (he may have been a custodian in the building, he let it slip that's what he did in the army - I wouldn't be surprised at anything at this point. Oh, and the droopy fuchsia drawers made a comeback too.)
-Rob tells the camera, he's not sure how he did it but what started as a fun little song between Grant and I, Phillip managed to make a war about white rice, racial. At the end of the day, Phillip is going to be public enemy #1, he's still not sure who to make #2 though. Then they throw it to Ashley saying she'd rather die then keep Phillip around. (Foreshadowing there?)
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
They must build a multi-stage puzzle wheel. On Jeff's go they must race to release a puzzle base (unscrew a round tray from a post by racing around in a circle) once they have the base free, they must race over to a table and assemble a jigsaw-type puzzle inside the round base. The first 6 to finish will move on to the next phase where they'll put that puzzle base inside another circle and have to assemble more pieces around it to complete the wheel. First person to get it right, wins immunity.
Off they go - Andrea is the first one to get her wheel free but they all get going on it rather quickly - Ralph and Ashley drunkenly make their way over - Rob is the first one done (Mr Puzzle Guy) Julie, Ralph, Andrea, Steve and... Grant! (Phillip thought he had it at one point, but no.)
Next round - off they go- Steve and Andrea going quickly - Rob is right with them... and Rob completes it by seconds over Steve. ROB wins Immunity. (Dang it! I'm rooting for Steve to stay after the whole Phil dust up.)
(Oh, I just realized that no matter what, Phillip will be on the jury. I'm pretty sure he won't be a finalist - but he could bring the Rat v/s Snake level of speech in the finale - that should be some fun.)
Murlonio - Day 27
-It's meal time - they show Ometepe scraping the bottom of the pot and Zapatera with more rice than they know what to do with in their shelter... (I can't feel bad about that - Ometepe brought it on themselves.)
-Julie says their vote is going to be easy, there is only the three of them, they are voting Phillip and Ometepe still has the numbers so they could vote out one of theirs - it's the perfect time to get rid of Phillip.
-Julie casually walks over to the clothesline and nicks Phillips swim trunks on the way by and just keeps walking (HA HAHA - I love Julie) she goes and buries them - and we will be treated to a lot more of the saggy underwear from now on it appears.
-Phillip comes back and notices they're gone - he asks if anyone moved his swim trunks - everyone pleads ignorance - "That's okay, it can get real fun and exciting around here."
-Ashley sticks her tongue out at him like a Moari warrior, who does that? - She says to the camera that everyone at camp is over Phillip.
-Phillip goes on that he knows they were taken and he can play that game - I hope it comes up tonight, it better. Steve says he feels threatened - You shouldn't feel threatened by me, I don't threaten, I just go off.
Steve, That's scary. You should be scared... (Is he even listening to what he says?)
-Phillip is prowling around like a crazy man - he's got his feather on and his buff as a loin cloth and when he picks up the machete - Steve and Ralph eye him warily... how can anyone want to keep that guy around?
-Steve is hoping that's the case and Ometepe takes the opportunity to get rid of Droopy Crazy-Pants.
-Rob says it doesn't matter who of the three Zapatera goes next - but then he does have some room to play and he doesn't know where Phillip's head is at. One man should not have this much power on an Island, but I'm glad that I do.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
Phillip, based on what you're wearing, I'm guessing you had another meditation?
-I actually had a former ZAP (he looks over at Steve) thinking it was cute, he removed my clothes.
You looked at Steve?
-I could tell it was Steve.
This goes back to your training?
Steve's look says I had nothing to do with it and Julie looks like the cat that ate the canary.
-Phillip - Absolutely, I confronted Steve that they were consuming all the rice and it's been all out war since.
So, Steve, Phillip is asserting that the Zapatera tribe are eating a lot more rice than anyone else - true?
-Well, as the mouths start disappearing from the Zapatera tribe we haven't had to ration as much, so we're just eating our food the way we choose to.
Andrea, the Zapatera tribe is making the argument it's not your business how much rice we eat.
-It is a little frustrating cause we'll look over and they'll have this huge bowl of rice between the three of them and our rice had maggots in the bottom of it. (Still, feel zero sympathy for them.)
Steve - And Chef here wants to make it a whole black and white thing over the rice.
What was that about?
Steve and Julie tell Jeff how Phillip threatened them and brought up the N-word.
-To his credit, Jeff remained calm and asked, Who brought up the N-word? Phillip did.
-So Jeff tried to get to the bottom of this - Phillip says he can't put it into words but he's sure that when Steve calls him crazy he's calling him the n-word.
Jeff says, I don't follow your logic, how do you get the n-word out of crazy?
Richard Pryor had the number one selling comedy album titled "That n-word is crazy." You're not black, you don't know. Like a woman can't say when something inappropriate happens to them (Yes we can, you're not a woman you don't know.) I just know.
Okay, you say I'm not black so I don't know, how do you know what he's saying when he says crazy? (By the same logic, he's not white, he doesn't know.)
-Phillip tells the story about going to the grocery store in 1968 with his father and his father was called boy...
- Steve says he played his last 7 years in the NFL on a team that was 1/5 white – he has no line between black and white in his heart.
-So Jeff boils it down: There has been a big debate about living together which culminated with the rice. You threw an idea out that you felt was reasonable and Steve said, I don’t know, let’s figure it out, let’s talk about it – and as the argument about the rice continued – Steve said, I don’t like it – You’re crazy. And at that point you equated that with ‘You’re calling me the n-word’ and we have a whole new world we’re dealing with. Phillip agrees with that.
Okay, so now I’m caught up (Jeff is handling this so delicately, you can tell the racial thing is not something Survivor wants to mess with – normally he’d let the sparks fly but not around this hot button issue… interesting.)
Two people from different worlds had an argument, you took it one way and nobody can question the way you took it, it came from your experiences and those of people before you. Nobody knows Steve’s intentions other than Steve, nobody really knows Steve – it’s quite possible that both of you are telling the truth. That that felt very much like the n-word and he absolutely did not mean it that way – Is that a fair assessment? Yes. (Everyone agreed – situation diffused – wow, Jeff should be in international affairs or something, well done.)
So, Rob, how do you go forward at tribal council when all of this is in the context of a million dollar prize?
-It’s not easy.
You’re going to vote someone out tonight, is this going to factor in? (Oh, it looks like Phillip just realized that. Sigh… and do I have to stop calling him crazy now? Am I racist?)
-Yeah, they’re grown men, they say and feel what they want. It’s problematic but it’s real. People are going to have disagreements but at the same time I can’t imagine this not factoring into our decision.
Natalie (who? Oh yeah) How does it impact the game?
-It’s really hard for me to sit here and just listen because I feel for Steve, I don’t think that he has any prejudice in him and I feel for Phillip because I don’t know what it’s like to be an African-American man. (And, she totally didn’t answer the question… whatever.)
Okay, last question – shorts, who took them, who has ‘em? (Oh, and he went there – I thought he might let that go…)
Julie – I TOOK THE SHORTS!
Thank you.
-Nobody will ever find them, I dug a hole and buried them and a rock is on top of them (she says with Glee! <3)
If this were therapy, I’d say, very good session. And he gets a smattering of applause.
Julie as a Zapatera member you’re looking for a crack in Ometepe, maybe you just found it.
-Yeah, hopefully seeing that we would be a happy family if there wasn’t this one division (Phillip looks like he wants to eat her liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.)
Steve, clearly you’re uncomfortable being labeled as a racist. Yeah. But in a game for a million dollars would you be fine if, as a result of this argument that you were a part of, Phillip gets voted out?
-I would be happy but not for any black or white issue – we got three votes going that way and hopefully one or two others might be getting as tired of him as we are.
Phillip, if you were voted out tonight – at this moment do you believe it would be based on anything racial?
-If for some reason they felt like “Oh, we need to let Phillip go at this point in time” then the tribe has spoken… (sub-text – and they are all racist!)
Time to Vote:
Steve votes for Phil – I hope you find peace in your heart brother – nothing racial in the crazy comment.
Julie votes Phil – this has nothing to do with the colour of your skin. Phil, you are one crazy dude.
Ralph votes Phile (yes, he spelt it phile) – I hope you have a good night on Redemption Island with your underwear and your two feathers.
Phillip – gets heads shaken at him by David and Andrea as he flops up to vote in the droopy drawers – he votes Julie
Tallying the Votes:
Phillip 1, 2, 3
Julie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – Darn it! I guess we have two or three more weeks of Phillip then. Julie says to Phillip – “I guess you’re not going to ever find your shorts.” (Yeah, rub it in as you go… did I mention I really like her?)
Next week: Phillip has his best day yet and Andrea could be scheduled for an early departure. Matt is also plumbing the darkest depths – he’s wasting away and crying – God has been literally carrying me… Awww, poor Matt – he’s spent almost his whole time out there alone, that’s got to be tough.
Redemption Island - Julie was not expecting to be the one voted out tonight she really thought it would be Steve or Ralph but she’s okay with it. This was an ugly Tribal, there is poison in that tribe and his name is Phillip. (She opted for poison instead of cancer – but it’s the same jist.) It’s kind of nice to be removed from it.
Have a great long weekend everyone, Happy Easter.
Coleen
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