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Jeff Pitman

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Scientist, writer, publisher of the True Dork Times, an artisanally hand-coded web compendium of irrelevant information and opinions about Survivor. He/him. https://www.truedorktimes.com

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 37m

And one or more of Caissie or Alcantara or Ballesteros ought to be able to provide decent DH power, maybe even for a whole season, at a tenth of the salary.

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 2h

Jeff Probst: "Ugh, S14: Fiji was the worst!"

Also Jeff Probst: Furiously tries to recreate those same conditions every season.

(Personally, I like Fiji *despite* the twists, but definitely not because of them.)

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 4h

#Survivor49 Here are Damnbueno's reactions to the swap, including who played their new position the best, and those who very much did not: www.truedorktimes.com/s49/damnbuen...

What not to do at a swap | Screaming at the Screen - Damnbueno's Survivor 49, Episode 4 recap/ analysis

It's finally time to swap to two tribes in Episode 4 of Survivor 49, and while the numbers didn't favor six contestants, Damnbueno finds some definite successes and failures in how those outnumbered p...

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 13h

#Survivor49 I feel like if you're calling it that, there needed to be 42 total blocks.

From Paramount+, the RC/IC in Ep4 of Survivor 49 was called "Stackie Robinson"

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 14h

#Survivor49 I can't say the swap worked out the most interesting way possible, but two tribes of seven was a very nice thing to have, finally.

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 14h

#Survivor49 Wait, a pistol is one of the voting booth options? This changes everything.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 14h

#Survivor49 No ball and chain? Did the people responsible for the idol retrieval tasks at Hina just call it a half day and skip a few steps, or... ?

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 14h

#Survivor49 I'm glad that the NuKele tribe managed a win, because it would have been really dumb if the tribe artificially set up to lose actually did. (They still should have been at Uli.)

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 14h

#Survivor49 The group balance beam portion of this challenge was also in #SurvivorAU: Australia v The World. (Which filmed four months after 49.) Weird!

The Aussie tribe transporting blocks in AU v The World's Ep2 IC.

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 15h

If I recall correctly, he might have actually used that phrase in 48, too. Very odd to suddenly change nomenclature, although maybe he forgot while it was banished during the early new era.

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 15h

#Survivor49 Jeff Probst: "I had to keep taking Kele's flint because they didn't EaRn It."

Also Jeff Probst: "Four out of six Hinas? You earned too much. No flint or rewards for you."

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 15h

#Survivor49 Not sure how I feel about Jeff Probst time-traveling back to 2001 and calling it a "tribe switch" instead of a swap.

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 15h

#Survivor49 The ocean: "Oh, you guys are still talking about shoe bandits? *I'LL* show you a shoe bandit."

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 1d

Some parts of internet history should probably be forgotten.

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 1d

Leetspeak version of “EarnIt!”

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, I was guessing “34rn1t!” So close.

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 2d

“Look, I know it’s weird to send half the cast to the disaster tribe’s empty beach, but we’re not going to learn if the sea krait has now developed a taste for human flesh any other way.”

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! "Shoepacabra" is perfect, but I had a vague feeling I'd heard it before, and I couldn't place it. (This is the problem with multitasking while listening to podcasts, I guess.)

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 2d

I’m mostly worried that Alex or Sophi misses the days of one shoe moving 10 feet, and decide to reenact it.

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 3d

The next two #Survivor49 episode titles sound like call and response:
Ep4: "Go Kick Rocks, Bro"
Ep5: "I'm a Wolf, Baby"

And then Ep6 is the alarming "The Devil's Shoes" (just when you thought the bandit was gone...)

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 3d

#Survivor49 Seems like "Act One of a Horror Film" was an accurate title.

Jake wrangling with a snake in the Ep1 IC

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 4d

Petition to make both the LCS series interleague, so we can have Blue Jays-Mariners in the World Series instead.

Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 4d

At least it wasn’t the same outcome after 15 innings.

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Jeff Pitman @truedorktimes.bsky.social · 4d

#Survivor49 The dumb thing about the new era's combination of always-three-tribes and "you have to EARN it" thing is: Uli won exactly the same number of challenges as Kele: zero. But Uli had food and fire and comfort items and just got to chill for six days.