The 38 Most Surprising Secrets of Survivor: Millennials vs Gen X

There are a lot of things we do not know about each season of Survivor. From how things work behind the scenes to why certain moves are made, to fun stuff that is cut out of the show for inexplicable reasons. Like how Adam Klein was cast for another season entirely and Will wanting to do an intentional Matsing. This video contains 38 behind the scenes secrets from Survivor: Millennials vs Gen X.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - #1
01:56 - #2
02:48 - #3
03:39 - #4
05:01 - #5
06:10 - #6
06:56 - #7
07:27 - #8
07:49 - #9
08:10 - #10
08:58 - #11
09:35 - #12
10:03 - #13
11:08 - #14
12:03 - #15
12:39 - #16
13:18 - #17
13:56 - #18
14:59 - #19
15:35 - #20
16:08 - #21
17:08 - #22
17:48 - #23
19:05 - #24
19:45 - #25
20:04 - #26
20:30 - #27
21:06 - #28
21:38 - #29
22:21 - #30
22:50 - #31
23:20 - #32
23:53 - #33
24:28 - #34
24:53 - #35
25:13 - #36
25:39 - #37
26:14 - #38

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

Watch every secrets video I have ever made here! - kzbin.info/aero/PL-J4ldj2BdE2McwzPjDDJAuBDHZriyYOG

[@connormcs6129]

Adam saying “bro be wan kenobi” genuinely hurt me. You have to warn us next time you show that

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

That's how I felt when just casually watching the behind the scenes and it happened lol

[@reginamachamer821]

Idc what anyone says.. "A-bro-ham Lincoln" is gold.

[@VivanLaMNWA]

Scarred is the word I’d use…

[@TheEricaIsrael]

A secret I don't feel like people talk about enough is that Hannah was a student is Max Dawson's (Worlds Apart) Survivor class at Northwestern. I was in this class with her and it has been so cool to see both her and Max on Survivor!

[@PhillipOnTakos]

This season was such a good watch. Good cast, a decent theme and a winner you don't really see coming until late in the game. Not to mention it has such good drama and it never feels manufactored.

[@babis6919]

I loved this season so much. I was very hyped to see Mari from Smosh and I was so sad to see her go so soon

[@rosstheboss6266]

Whole reason I started watching and she went out early

[@esinger23]

Mari is an awesome person! I was also bummed that she went out so soon

[@Furkward]

If only Hannah said something and Michaela didn’t flip for 0 reason.

[@georgewashingtonmayo]

I heard that one of the two, figgy and Taylor had an eye infection in the early days but they wouldn’t stop coddling each other and production would try to step in and break it up so the infection wouldn’t spread

[@reginamachamer821]

"I'm on the BOTTOM?! With THIS GUY???!!" 🤣🤣🤣 I fcking love Zeke I can't believe that didn't make the show lmao

[@rowanmoon]

Great video! Definitely hoping for a Gen Z vs. Millenials vs. Gen X season sometime

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

Which secret is your favorite?

[@rowanmoon]

@@OnceUponAnIsland I liked 11 and 12 "Adam is an awkward duck" lol

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

@@rowanmoon So awkward lol

[@rowanmoon]

@@OnceUponAnIsland Totally felt second-hand embarrassment watching that

[@zztanerzz]

I rly enjoy this cast and season of survivor I think it’s underrated

[@Thepokedek]

It's channels like yours that keep my love for survivor ongoing. Better than the us version of the show sometimes.

[@christophermaybury4918]

Taylor found out his girlfriend was pregnant after he got home from Fiji. 🤐 That was the end of him and Figgy. 😅😅😅

[@kenji-san4681]

Is he sure it's his...?

[@Souten66]

Oh shit! He had a girlfriend before he went on Survivor?! 😬

[@nealmiles9070]

@@Souten66he only broke up with her to be single on survivor lol

[@coral54hgmb]

This is genuinely my favourite season. I am probably a little biased since I haven’t seen many older seasons, and this was the first season I ever watched, but I just love it so much. Adam is also one of my favourite winners. I was rooting for him the whole time and to have my favourite player win on the first ever season I saw really made me love survivor. I think lots of people like to downplay Adams game because he was given an unusual winners edit (highlighting his mistakes as well as the high points) I actually think it made the season more interesting. I liked seeing that he wasn’t perfect, and he didn’t play the perfect game. But I also liked that the narrative of the season showed that you don’t have to play a perfect game, you just need to play a better one than whoever your at the end with. Adam did this flawlessly, using Jeremy’s meat shield strategy and aligning purposefully with someone who he knew could beat the biggest threats in challenges when he needed them to be vulnerable. And even if this wasn’t intentional at first, he was smart enough to realize that he could play it up like it was and make himself seem like the mastermind of the season. He also had a great final tribal, simultaneously doing a good job of explaining his game to the jury and tearing down Hannah’s, who was the most likely to beat him. I also think that lots of people discredit his win since he had a “sob story”, but I don’t think it really was the reason he got all the votes. Sure it didn’t hurt him, but ultimately the jury gives votes to who they think played the best game. Adam is also the first (to my knowledge) to play challenges defensively in stead of to try and win them. As Peridiam talks about in his hacking challenges series, Adam used clever strategy in challenges not to win, but to keep his target from winning. Anyways, if you’ve made it to the end, thank you for reading this defense of Adam Kline. I think he was a really clever player who deserved to be recognized as such.

[@Keeks_Eek]

The Michelle dragon/dinosaur thing may also be the particular brand of Christianity she´s a part of. If you want to take a deeper look some keywords; IBLP and ATI curriculum. Its a homeschooling curriculum for fundamentalist Christians that teaches exactly that and by her Survivor description she's a missionary recruiter. IBLP is notorious for going on missions as photo opportunities. Its not a far leap to connect the two. Love your vids! So informative and interesting. Edited to add a couple words.

[@MsPandachen]

But her clothes and everything else wouldn’t fit the IBLP type.

[@Keeks_Eek]

@@MsPandachen absolutely true for normal life, but production are the ones that choose what contestants wear.

[@MsPandachen]

@@Keeks_Eek yeah but IBLP would be super strict about going on something like survivor. Not that she isn’t part of some strange religion, but women in the IBLP wouldn’t be allowed sleeping on the island next to some random guys

[@truevinesanti]

Michelle is a recruiter for Bible translators. She’s definitely not IBLP.

[@kat8559]

Yeah in my experience *some* christians have some very unscientific beliefs about dinosaurs (and now dragons, apparently).

[@reginamachamer821]

Will has always been underrated. I feel like he was edited that way lol

[@Mikayla_Y_1998]

Thank you so much for making these videos! They are super interesting to me! You should do it for all the seasons you can❤️☺️

[@bc5163]

Looking back, I'm super-nostalgic for s33 given it's the last season with the classic jury format. The better jury format.

[@reginamachamer821]

"They're funny for 2 seconds. I don't really see the point in continuing them for 24 hours.." lmaooooo poor Will

[@tubagal13]

Oh wow - I've been watching Survivor on P+ and had no idea David and Cochran both write for ST lower decks! I wonder if they'll ever co-write a survivor-inspired episode, haha.

[@MsPandachen]

No secrets for me but it was my first season and the cast is so lovely and nice and a lot of them are part of the survivor fan community, so I knew all the secrets they spilled 😂

[@JordanC2004]

This is one of my favourite seasons because of its very strong cast and a very satisfying winner

[@iamkonner4813]

R.I.P Sunday

[@ceridden]

Nice I’m finally early to a video! Haven’t watched it fully yet but I’m sure it’s great

[@christophermaybury4918]

RIP, Sunday. 😢

[@kevinharvey8588]

puzzlegate has me dead 😭

[@tatianamaranoedits4184]

AHH THE FIRST SEASON THAT I WATCH!! THANKS

[@caidenmagill1006]

Cool that brett and chris where on the amazing race same with michale and jay being on the challenge.

[@carolinam4361]

@9:37 I love this scene of Adam... so relatable :)

[@reginamachamer821]

Oh wow I had no idea you were in the navy.. thank you for your service.

[@TheDizzleHawke]

The puzzle prank was my favorite.

[@silentstorm454]

Am I the only person that thinks Jay looks like gaten Matarazzo

[@Moneyalmenial]

Great cast, hope to see many of them again... Maybe not in the current mess if twists though

[@iamkonner4813]

My personal favorite season

[@miakodemelo]

Same!

[@Emily-sj4zi]

tina scheer IS legendary! timber tina forever!

[@derekwoodard-lehman1203]

Will is an underrated player

[@yoshiplay7730]

Ikr

[@jonaskinsey8746]

Some of these are so funny holy crap lol

[@TheGamerGirl2330]

I miss Sunday!

[@Normabbot27]

Before watching: I hope he shouts out Bret and Larry in the drunk tank

[@Nolaris3]

4:49 Marco Polo didn't write about his travels, it was written by another guy who he was imprisoned with where he dictated his stories. That guy is known for being a romanticist and wrote about King Arthur so he's sure to add a bit of fantasy in there

[@shellbacksclub]

I respect defense lawyers way more than prosecutors!

[@shellbacksclub]

Always the perceived underdog team that wins these themed seasons

[@jenniferconstantine9041]

Love the scripture at the end! Keep them coming!

[@justinpascal8332]

At the time that Jay won his elimination CT won 3 times

[@ek4459]

jay beating ct still gives me chills

[@shellbacksclub]

If it was really a survival situation, romance would be the last thing on ur mind

[@dylpickle6123]

I think figgy hates him now.

[@kenji-san4681]

Michelle was hotter than Figgy

[@lillianerbstoesser4702]

How do you see clips of them at that house after they get voted out?

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

The ponderosa videos can be found on the DVD's for each season, but sometimes people will upload them to KZbin as well.

[@kat8559]

Omg michelle nooooooo I mean, to be fair, komodo dragons and other big lizards exist lol 😂

[@kat8559]

This cast is SO GOOD. I love hannah in particular, if I had to name anybody else I'd list half the cast lol.

[@kat8559]

Honestly I totally see the zeke/richard hatch comparison.

[@kat8559]

I'm so mad at you for showing me those clips of adam saying bro but it's because it's so endearing that I got heart eyes despite of the cringe

[@kat8559]

I have no idea how I feel about chris now

[@kat8559]

ZEKE IS AN FBI AGENT

[@chungus2602]

Number 13 was on the show

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

I don't count the reunion as an episode.

[@godofconquest4026]

9:01

[@shellbacksclub]

Was Zeke on the show before this season? I saw a clip where someone grossly calls him out for lying about his gender

[@bjroo]

that’s a later season: Game Changers

[@thefoxoflaurels3437]

Chris is a random favorite of mine. He seems like a normal dude: good and bad.

[@shellbacksclub]

So he lied about his mom being a huge Survivor fan?

[@isabellaearnhardt6380]

❤️

[@DRev89]

When one of the secrets is clearly someone who has clearly been listening to too much Kent Hovind

[@Thepokedek]

Micronesia secrets?

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

Check the pinned comment.

[@Thepokedek]

@@OnceUponAnIsland ah thank you :D i did look up the playlist but i guess i didnt see it

[@sadieteawalsh]

I think Hannah is an overrated player, I don’t see her beating anyone on the jury in a final 3. Except maybe Ken and Taylor, but even then.

[@jobee1]

Michelle’s not wrong, there is actually more proof than people want to think there is and there is a reason you never learn this stuff in school but I’ll leave that for you to find out why.

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

I am all ears. Tell me everything there is to know.

[@choux7746]

I didnt like hannah 😂

[@darksiderider1233]

What Michelle was talking about really isn't that crazy, the dinosaur part was but that there could have been a creature we aren't aware of at that time that's been hidden through history is not

[@shawnadmire5309]

As good as this season was, it will always be remembered as the season where Jeff Varner pulled the biggest scumbag move in the history of the show.

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

I believe you are thinking of season 34, Game Changers, not season 33, Millennials vs Gen X.

[@shawnadmire5309]

@@OnceUponAnIsland ah yes. My mistake

[@nathandanczak7822]

Almost all of these secrets are dry and boring!

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

😆 this season did not have the best ones at all. Some seasons knock it out of the park, and others are like milking a rock.

[@firstylasty9417]

22:50 - It's unfortunate to hear that's how people talk in the armed forces. I know it's in jest. But the whole "liberal pansies" trope -- and equating people who "cry all the time," and "people who wear dresses" -- sounds very much like the type of people I grew up with -- in a religious, conservative place, rife with misogyny, homophobia, and ra¢¡al issues -- who often "joked" as a way to convey messages and undertones, and affirm beliefs with laughter. Always with certain groups as the brunt and target. ...I'm not brandishing my liberal pitchfork, here. I simply felt moved to comment. That part stood out to me in the video, and I had flashbacks to a time, people, and place I've tried to move a way from. ...Regardless. Thanks for your videos. Always entertaining.

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

As a Christian myself I find it abhorrent to see anyone make fun of/joke about others in that way. It is not how Jesus called us to live at all.

[@firstylasty9417]

@@OnceUponAnIsland Hey, thanks for your response. I'm glad to hear. There are good ones out there. ...I've just been traumatized by religion, myself, and the oft-coinciding discrimination and judgment that fabricated the undertones of those remarks. Just gave me pause, and I felt the need to express. ...I try to bear in mind, tho, that everyone has their own journeys, and that takes different forms. You always seem to have a level-headed take, and your words are never unkind. My comment was mostly in regard to their exchange. ...Again, appreciate your thoughtful response.

[@Thepokedek]

I hate David and Hannah with a passion. I skipped Wentworth's returning season bc of David 🤬🤬🤬🤬. There's annoying and there's David and Hannah. 🤢

[@reginamachamer821]

David is one of my favorite players lol .. I have no defense for Hannah 😂

[@jenniferconstantine9041]

I liked both of them a lot, although David less so on his second season. I wouldn't mind seeing Hannah play again because I think she's adorkable.

[@kenji-san4681]

Wentworth is overrated and the annoying one. Couldn't stand her on that season with David.

[@lydiam.1833]

Worst season ever. (So far). Pretty much despised everybody for one reason or another. Especially those entitled M's.