You should probably conserve your Ciera-hate, since she's gonna be on every episode this season. Pace yourself.

Shocking that Probst wasn't a fan of an older woman. He usually regards them in such esteem.

If my math is correct, we typically record at 9 am your time then. Which I'm guessing is less than ideal.

Because you're assuming she'd be facing Dreamz?

What's your UTC time zone?

Because I couldn't record them this week, I blogged my predictions for next week at the podcast Tumblr: http://purplerockpodcast.tu…

Linda Holmes is probably the main reason I write/talk about Survivor on the internet. I agree with her central thesis (the show can be sexist, Probst especially), but question its placement in the context of this season. Particularly in the episode where the biggest sexist character was eliminated and treated all…

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus To be clear, Carroll hates Culpepper (because of the anti-gay remark), but he still saw Culpepper playing a John Carroll-esque game.

@avclub-499e67d4cd06284f915b191db84224ba:disqus Hatch didn't make the choice to face the more difficult opponent, Kelly won the final three challenge and had the choice of he or Rudy. Hatch, on the other hand, intentionally dropped out of the challenge so that he specifically wouldn't have to go into the final two…

Ask Colby what happened to beating people nobly.

Interesting note on John Carroll: he (like me) predicted that Brad would get voted out this week because he saw himself in Culpepper. So he figured Brad would get ousted for the same reason he was.

Yes, VTEPs for both Vytas (the second vote) and Ciera (the first vote).

You forgot the eventual winner of HvV, Sandra. Being a former winner that season wasn't nearly as important as being a potential threat to someone's camera time (Stephanie, Boston Rob, Tyson).

Yes, Jenna Lewis. It was a bonus for her since A) she had two former winners on her original tribe of 5 and B) one of them was an ex-boyfriend.

Honestly, I told @JudgeReinhold:disqus that he wasn't allowed to have you on the podcast without me. We're saving the best for later and all that.

Kim is the right answer. She has the most portable game in the history of Survivor. There's nothing about her win that wouldn't have worked in any other season. You can argue that she got lucky that the men's tribe was dumb and gave her the path to victory, but that ignores the fact that Troyzan and Jay were…

John's a doctor, not a lawyer. Brad is a lawyer. (Yes, really).

The new podcast is live! We went a little long on this one, as the subject of quitting required a lot of discussion. Enjoy and comment.

I always just assumed it was because you had better things going on in your life.

John and Candice would basically have to, just because of the opportunity. Although, I suppose the camera crew might dampen the mood.