Rob Cesternino

It would be absurd in this new era for somebody to be cast on the show that hasn't watched at least 35 seasons of the show.

So everybody who comes in is playing because they don't want the players to have to be learning the rules as they go because they feel like that really stagnates the gameplay.

So they want everybody going fast, fast, fast on day one.

It's like, hey, it's...

It's dangerous fun.

Go, go, go.

The game starts as soon as you land on the beach.

So if there are players who are sort of like, wait, how do I play the idol?

How does this work?

They feel like it would be too slow.

And you also get so much of the... The show loves to talk about the show.

The show loves...

oh my God, Jeff, I've been watching since I was two years old.

It's a little bit sort of like that they have cultivated this environment, like on The Price is Right when people come down, it's like they're wearing this shirt.

My grandmother watched this show.

You know, like pick me to play Plinko.

That's like the atmosphere that they've really cultivated on Survivor, where Survivor in the old days, it was people who really for, I don't know how they necessarily got the people, but a lot of them like had never even seen Survivor.

They don't even know what it is.

And now they're sort of like having to forge this society together.

And also that there were stronger bonds that were harder to be broken where everybody is, you know, the new era is a little bit more like they play like a board game.