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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:17:37 GMT -5
Yes, I know we made the video, but I wanted to pay tribute to the cast of this season in written format as well. No matter how tonight shakes out, it has been an honor to play this game with each and every one of you.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:18:43 GMT -5
MORGAN
I was in the VL for your season because I had a few friends playing with you. I wish we’d gotten to meet because you seem like someone I’d click well with. Anyone who can teach math to teenagers surely has the patience of a saint.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:19:24 GMT -5
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DUKE
Pat’s brother!! I wish we’d gotten to meet because I feel bad about how I did him dirty in 12.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:20:20 GMT -5
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AUSTIN
I hadn’t heard of you before this game, but from what Mike & Taylor described we seem like similar people. I look forward to meeting you at the reunion.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:21:11 GMT -5
JERMINAlways love a flight attendant! Let’s get a coffee or a drink if you’re ever in Orlando (this goes for anyone from the cast btw).
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:22:01 GMT -5
NINANINA! I loved talking to you so so much. I knew from VLing you in XTC and Conquest that you were one of the most dangerous players here. You took that hiking trip & unfortunately, that gave everyone the out to say you were inactive the round you went home. Know that your legacy lived on because everyone kept trying to get me out based on that story you made up about Jenn, Lamont, and me having an alliance.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:22:42 GMT -5
AJAJ! I felt so bad voting you out. That’s no way to repay the guy who gave me an idol clue. But, I think we both realized that round that voting for each other was our best bet. Let’s hang if you come back for Hearts of Reality this year!
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:23:43 GMT -5
SPENCERI never met you either, which is a shame because apparently you live close to me (or at least you did). Your boot caused me SO much headache because the narrative on the swap tribe became “DOWN WITH PINK”. And I’ve been idoled out before – I know how much it hurts.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:24:30 GMT -5
LEAHSpeaking of knowing how much it hurts to get idoled out. Leah, I wish we’d started on the same tribe or at least gotten on call sooner. I don’t think you and I would ever have crossed paths in life if not for this game, but that doesn’t mean you’re not an awesome person. I know you wanted to play this game so badly, and I know I’m the sole person responsible for ending it early. I hope you can forgive me, and that you see that knocking you out there set me up to make a run all the way to FTC. (Although if it makes you feel any better, you taking my vote threw a wrench in my plans!) Thanks for playing & I hope we can make amends after the season wraps.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:25:15 GMT -5
ALLIEThis one hurt a lot. You remind me so much of my friend Ali, I felt like I was talking to her when we were on call. You are legitimately someone I enjoyed getting to know during our few weeks together, and I wish fewer people had been immune so we could both have survived that merge round. It sucks being Mayor of Ponderosa back-to-back, but I had to take the shot at you so that it wasn’t me.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:26:05 GMT -5
ROCKYUgh, Rocky… why didn’t you just tell me the truth that you voted to get rid of me over Allie? The math didn’t math on that one, and if you can’t tell me the truth once it’s in the past, I can’t trust you in the future. I legit loved our calls though, and I hope your new job is going well.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:27:02 GMT -5
LAMONTMy first rock in this game! Had the unmerge not happened the way it did, you’d likely be sitting at FTC instead of me. Thank you for making me laugh, thank you for listening to me, thank you for keeping me grounded when I spiraled after the idol play. I do not thank you for telling Kyle I was coming for him at merge, but there was no lasting harm done there. I am looking you up the next time I’m in LA and we are hanging out. Ricky’s coming too.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:28:08 GMT -5
KYLEKyle, Kyle, Kyle. I could never shake the feeling you didn’t truly want to work with me in this game, and I think you knew the same about me. I would have been willing to patch things up after F11, but then we unmerged and I could tell at F8 that I did not figure into your endgame plans at all. Letting you go allowed me to get closer to Jenn & ride that relationship into FTC. I want to apologize for some of the mean stuff I said about you in confessionals. I intended it in the context of the game, but if it crossed a line, I’m truly sorry. I liked talking with you about animals & zoo stuff, and I’m definitely down to meet up if we’re in the same city at some point.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:29:07 GMT -5
BENOh this one hurt. Ben, why didn’t you bring me in on the Kyle plan? Why did you let me hear about it from Taylor instead? As soon as I knew you’d left me out, it confirmed what I’d suspected: that you saw me as a number, rather than as an ally. I had initially planned on taking the shot at Carlos at F7, but then you & I couldn’t get the word TWIST, and that was that. You played a great game, and I loved our talks. I’m going to look you & Nina up the next time I’m in Boston and we’re gonna… idk, do something fun.
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Post by michael on Nov 10, 2022 18:29:56 GMT -5
CARLOSThe only other successful idol player of the season! You were one of my top people on Maskorra 1.0 – your sense of humor matched the most closely with mine. Same as with Ben, when I realized you were willing to make a move without me, I realized you’d be willing to cut me, so I had to get to you first. I do want to thank you for what you said on your way out the door though, because I was able to lean into it super hard with the F5 players. They fully thought you got in my head and that the jury wouldn’t respect my game. The former part is absolutely not true, and I’m hoping the latter isn’t either. Now stop reading my Rites of Passage and go work on your thesis.
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