Ryder Strong

And so women were getting eliminated like just...

You know, even the first couple rounds and challenges.

And so I believe at some point they decided to institute more puzzles and to make the social game more.

Yeah.

So it wasn't just.

And then because at a certain point, you know, if your tribe is losing.

you just decimated there's like one person left and what was ended up happening is people would never want to vote their big powerful men off so they would they would just keep winning with their men and vote the women off so i believe the new era has something to do with that shift because the game is way more balanced now in terms of like the teamwork involves like a puzzle always or some sort of like throwing challenge that doesn't need brute strength or physical

ability yeah it's yeah it's much more balanced and then also um this you know when it gets to the individual challenges a lot of the the challenges are physically tough but they're often about perseverance and your own strength like with your own body in other words you're like be holding on to something holding on to something just by your fingertips right and it's like it's your own weight do you know what i mean so it's not like it's a it's like it's varied to the person it's not like we all have to lift the same amount you know or whatever it's like

It's all scaled to you.

So it's really about challenging to yourself.

So yeah, I believe that has something to do with a new era or the old era.

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah.

Okay.

So an idol protects you at tribal.

So if you can't be voted out, you cannot be voted out, but you only play it after everyone's voted.

Oh, so essentially they're wasting their vote.

And so if you feel like everybody's going to vote for you and they don't know you have an idol or only certain people on your team, on your tribe know you have an idol, you could then bust the, after the vote, you say, Hey, I'm playing this idol.

And then the person who gets the next level of votes is the one out.

So it can be a real turnover.