what's going on guys i'm flint masters and welcome back for a special video for today i'm pleased to
be joined by russell muscle tv another survivor youtuber who makes awesome content seriously the
guy's a machine when it comes to his channel so please give him a sub for today we'll be looking
back at season 41 and countdown the top 10 most iconic moments from this season this is being
recorded before finale night so the list will be moments from episode 1 to the penultimate episode
and again these are the most iconic moments so even though some of the moments on this list
might have been frustrating they were still a big part of the season with that said enjoy the video
guys let's start off the top 10 by talking about one of the greatest pretty much characters of all
time and brad reese despite only lasting three episodes brad made a serious impact on the season
as the guy flat out told sarah and shan they were in trouble in episode one and in episode
three it was basically the brad show as he found the idol clue and the beware advantage however
that same episode his short run came to an end as he was blindsided by shan and ricard
but the reason he was blindsided by the two in the first place goes back an episode prior after
simply seeing a conversation between jd and ricard brad went full on tony vlacho's mode creating a
spy shack to spy on the two and springing back and forth between a spy shack and camp to make
it not look suspicious yeah i don't know about that one brad he told shane exactly what he had
done but instead of winning shane over this proved to her what a paranoid and hard player brad was
giving her no choice but to vote him out at the next tribal uwa attended one of the biggest
praises of season 41 has been the cast with brad being the standout pre-merged character due to
all his antics in his short stay but nothing was better than his complete paranoia shown
in episode 2 leading him to join the survivor spy shack club while also being his downfall
i'm sitting in camp and i see ricard and jd head out to get water it doesn't take
two people to get water you know and so you know exactly what they're doing and my mind
just immediately goes dude i can take the beach front and i can beat him to the water i know i can
and so i blaze down the beach come shooting over to the water
and uh i kind of look around well here's a nice big old plump bush just within 10 feet of the
water hole right and i just dive right in no i don't have a lot of time so i dive right
in there and just kind of get hunkered in there as low as i can and i wait and sure enough here
they come right down the trail how you feeling hello everyone i just want to say thank you
flynn masters for inviting me onto the channel i love talking with survivor every chance i get
anyway the number nine moment from season 41 needs to be the emotional moment we are given
in episode 11 regarding danny winning the immunity challenge for his father
for card drops xander drops at the same time danny wins his first individual community safe
tonight at tribal council guaranteed a spot in the final six clearly a huge moment for danny
okay we are obviously getting way ahead of ourselves here the challenge win itself was
entertaining to watch as danny beat out challenge b xander and ricard but it was all the build up to
this moment that made it so spectacular so one of the new things brought into survivor this season
with the whole drew up the floor and leave the one was the idea of survivor flashbacks to give us
insight into the players lives back home honestly this was a hit or miss for me the entire season
but this was a clear time when it was executed to perfection my entire life i think i was angry at
him you know you want your dad to be superman you hear about other people getting into accidents and
them surviving and you wonder why he didn't and then you're jealous and mad every father's day
every every football game where your dad's not in and you see other kids with their fathers
and all this every time i wanted to say i want to make my mom proud of my family proud i was really
leaving him out of it i was really really upset so today is more like uh trying to get rid of
the shame that i feel for being angry for so long for something that my father couldn't control from
now on i'm gonna make sure i go visit his grave as much as i should talk to my mom about it more and
just try to let them know that i apologize and i was wrong and i'm a man now and i understand that
and i think moving forward uh my thoughts and and how i deal with stuff back at home will will
change greatly so i'm going to try to move forward uh being happy and try to live the rest of my life
of making him proud it's one thing for dane to explain to us in a confessional about what the
day means to him but it's just something about the added pictures and videos that makes you feel for
him on a deeper emotional level danny talks about the fact that this was the day his father passed
away and in years past he would try and stay as busy as possible and not think about what happened
but one of the terrible parts about survive that a lot of people don't talk about is that
the majority of the days consisted of down time with nothing to do this leaves danny with nothing
except his thoughts to really think deep inside about his father with help from deshaun danny
is able to come to terms with his father's passing and says he is finally at peace with the situation
i didn't think that it would bring me this much joy to win an individual immunity but
being out here on survivors made me realize some of those negative emotions that i had around my
father passing and not being here to take care of the family and this experience helped me to let
it go and i'm really grateful for that so danny's past couple days have already been a full roller
coaster but he ends it on an extremely high note as he won his first and only individual immunity
challenge of the season and says he did it for his father first individual immunity win guarantees
you a spot in the final six oh brother like come on listen and this is no lie i let go a whole
bunch of stuff yesterday and i literally just started saying i'm gonna make my dad proud yeah
we'll now go back to episode 2 for an episode that really set a lot of the narratives up
for the rest of the season to start the episode we as survivor fans watched in horror as after
xander found an idol we learned that not only was it not activated yet but he wouldn't be able
to vote until it became activated so instead of having the normal protection of an idol
xander was as vulnerable as could be so in need of some allies he showed this to voce and evy the
latter of whom used this to completely turn the tables on xander not only did evie rat xander out
saying he could be dangerous down the line but she used this as an easy opportunity to make an
all-girls alliance who were in the majority of yasay then at the immunity challenge while it
was funny to hear xander say this i truly believe that butterflies are just dead relatives saying hi
it was still frustrating watching at home knowing nobody else had found the idol and evie now knew
there was nothing xander could do to protect himself but then at the immunity challenge
tiffany had an abysmal performance basically single-handedly costing yasay the challenge
with this performance xander and voce were convinced the tribe had to get rid of tiffany
for being the weakest link but lyanna and evie knew the time was now to take xander out however
despite being told the rules of the idol by evie tiffany still was too paranoid to believe it as
she knew the guy's votes were going on her and an idol play from xander would send her home but in
hilarious fashion tiffany continued to push for beauche as to save boat despite evie and lyanna
both knowing xander didn't have an idol and they might not get the chance to take him out again
it got to the point where you are wondering if maybe tiffany's paranoia would in fact cause her
to go home instead but despite literally costing the tribe the challenge and acting paranoid all
day tiffany got evie and lyanna to do something completely out of their best interest and vote
out voce due to tiffany's best wishes this vote really impacted the season with a lot of spoilers
saying tiffany was the winner of the season people were assuming at the time this was the show's way
of saying that tiffany could get what she wanted even despite her paranoia this also set up the
liana vs xander one-way feud throughout the season with lyanna always wanting xander out but xander
would be the one to come out on top and speaking of xander the guy has made it all the way to the
finale with the idol still in his pocket with many people thinking he's a shoe-in for the final three
with maybe even a slight chance to win this season considering the guy was literally helpless at that
tribal he ended up being the last yasai standing and was a massive presence this season and this
was all thanks to tiffany's extreme paranoia hold on it's whether or not he has the idol no
it's not what keeps us here today tomorrow no matter what the only way to protect me listen
if he has the idol the only way to protect me is to put voce's name down what does that tell you i
listen i know you want him now but it has to be voj that's what i think there's a lot of things
going on right now that i can't even keep it all straight xander has some sort of idol that he has
to come together with other people and i still am unclear if he has one or doesn't have one listen
he's savvy he might even be lying debbie unless i'm being one of those stupid
survivor players which i really hope i'm not third person voted out of survivor 41.
it's three that's enough need to bring me a torch number seven and we're keeping things early season
41 with shan's ruthless gameplay on jd this is actually crazy does anyone else think it's been
such a long time since jd has been on survivor please let me know what you think because jd's
season 41 story feels like such a long time ago so to get the full picture of how ruthless shane
truly was to jd we need to take things back to the very beginning of the season and i'm talking
all the way back to episode 1 when jd went to the first ever summit island with xander and
danny if you don't fully remember this was really cool how it was set up because all three of these
players played it off in a different way danny took the safe road and was honest about it with
his entire tribe xander took the risky rope but was still honest with his entire tribe and jd
well jd got caught in a lie i feel like everybody's still getting to know each other and
like we kind of are it's it's in that blurry gray area so far i think they ate it up i really think
i sold it really well i feel good okay but yeah that was what happened yeah so jd just came back
from his little fun adventure and i don't believe he just said it just doesn't make sense
he's shady boots lion so let's get rid of jd that's crazy right we then need to fast forward
into episode three where the uwa tribe is quickly falling apart and is headed to tribal council it
becomes richard and shannon's decision on who to keep and who to send home as brad and jd are the
ones on the chopping block the decision gets a little more complicated as chan sees something
hanging from jd's pants look this is a hundred percent on jd for playing sloppy survivor here
causing shannon ricard to lose trust in jd and with a bunch of backwards maneuvering
decides to hand his extra vote over to shan jd ultimately survives the tribal as brad has voted
out but we get to see how much of a villain chan can truly be in the very next episode
with a bunch of back and forth yelling about trust shan decides to tell everyone that brad
had the idol and this of course gets jd upset and explains that he won't be tricked twice
after the ua tribe loses yet another tribal shang goes from superhero into super villain assassin
is able to trick jd again jd says he doesn't want to come off like a survivor dummy but my guy you
just turn into a survivor dummy as this is all going down we get shane humming her sneaky music
ultimately jd doesn't play the survivor game that he grew up imagining that he would as he goes home
wanting more fifth person voted out of survivor 41. jd that's three need to bring your torch
particular reason i love you
let's now talk about one of the best strategic moves of the season after a very chaotic couple
of merge boats survivor producers for some reason felt the need to divide the tribe up
into two teams to send two people home and before you say it was due to a rush schedule
they could have simply made the hourglass episode its own illumination episode to fit the schedule
or even simply do a back to back tribal double elimination episode i just really hate to see
these small tribals after the merge especially when it looks like things are starting to heat up
and it looked like we would get two boring boots this episode xander and evie were outnumbered on
one tribe with heather and erica outnumbered on the other and normally at the final 10
a person like heather would never be in trouble but due to how things played out she was not only
the easy boot but it was so obvious that even the majority wasn't hiding it bringing nasir to tears
but with this boot being so obvious ricard came to his senses that this would be the perfect time
to blindside nasir with an idol in his pocket since he would literally never see it coming
however for some reason shane was locked in on heather as she was extremely scared of the
heather erica duo but thankfully once chan's extra vote came into the mix it was clear what
they could do the two could use their extra vote to ensure their safety as since heather and erica
were voting for nasir his one vote could take out whoever he wanted if the votes were unanimously
on this year so shane used her extra vote to put a vote on heather and nasir with ricardo nasir both
voting for heather resulting in a 3-3 tie with nasir ultima going home on the revo this was
so well played all the way around with her card convincing sham that nasir was the bigger threat
heather and erica both play in dom and shin using her extra vote perfectly to ensure her and recard
safety and so while it sucked to see nasir go here and it must have been really awkward to not even
go to ponderosa immediately afterwards this was a phenomenal tribal considering it looked like
it would be a boring heather boot and definitely was super unexpected it's hard for everybody why
is it hard for you because heather and i we had a relationship like from the beginning it's like
a roller coaster but i approached her because i'm still learning there's a lot to learn so she's a
great teacher and i really respect her like mother but that person is about to leave that is hot
ninth person voted out the second member of our jury this here
mr need to bring me your torch we'll play with you guys thank you thank you for everything
this year the tribe has spoken
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