AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR S10 Brains v Brawns:

INTRODUCTION excerpts

"S: Survivor, Brawn versus Brains in, as they say... Samoa.

D:Samoa.

S: Samoa.

D: Samoa.

S: Samoa.

D: Samoa.

S: So this is the second brains versus brawn. The first one was in Outback Australia and that was four years ago. Survivor Australia of course has not been as successful as the original survivor, but it is still pretty good.

S: Actually, I should also state that I am a big survivor fan, but I'm not a hardcore fan like I would NOT go on this show and we will discuss the reasons why, and also because, there's a lot of seasons I have missed, etc. but I do know the history of it, and I do know that a British man actually created it.

S: But of course. The British will do anything to make their lives more exciting. You know, create a show about other people's reality, starvation and no place to sleep. Oh my God. But anyway, this is all light, you know, light stuff. So I can't remember what his name is. If I recall correctly, it is Charlie Parsons? Yes.

S: The first ever show was in Europe. It was somewhere in Scandinavia. Then it went over to the States. And also Jeff Probst, who apparently was near, you know, poverty at that time before he got the job, is the host.

S: Well, he is the legendary host of survivor. I really do like, that Jonathan LaPaglia is the host of Australia's Survivor. It's important because the first host of the Australian survivor was, I told you, Dicko.

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So I'm a huge fan of survivor, as I said, not hardcore but huge, and that there are many seasons that I just love. And I do want to get to this because I love that you like it now.

D: Well, I have watched a few. I think I've watched one season, I think one of the first seasons, and I think it was a US one, and I think I have watched an Australian survivor. I've never understood why I liked it.

S: The reason I love it is because it is this wonderful social experiment.

D: Absolutely. It's, it's a little tiny world. And you can see the construct playing out as it does in life almost. But the difference is everyone on this island is got some level of intelligence. Because let's let's face it, right. In the real world, not everyone has the same level of intelligence and is on the playing field at different levels. But over here, everyone's on the same level. They've got the same thing.

S: So is that's equity or is that equality? Because in the real world, what is equal is the construct that says the lie that everyone can have everything they want as long as they all do this.

S: But the different levels of intelligence, does that mean people don't know how to navigate certain things?

D: And so in that way most people have more advantage just because of that. Right.

D: But over here everyone's kind of the same. Everyone's there. Everyone knows what the game's about. And like in life, some people do get some advantages. You know, like in the game. This is insane.

S: It is. And this is why it's interesting, Putting them into groups like Brawn versus Brains and what people consider their strengths.

S: And so shall we do the breakdown of, I keep saying characters because it is like a soap opera of life.

D: Well, this is a game. They're playing a game. They’re, players? But they are characters because they have personalities. And so they think they're larger than life.

S: And that makes for good television when people think they're larger than life. Because if you're larger than life [in actuality] you don't need to do much [to be] better.

YOU ALREADY ARE and people don't like that.

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