The 37 Most Surprising Secrets of Survivor: Samoa

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

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[@reginamachamer821]

Nicaragua or Worlds Apart.. although I'm having trouble remembering which ones you already did off the top of my head lol

[@kirstybrown1185]

I understand Russell’s frustration, but he also needs to understand that he can’t treat people so poorly, then expect them to want him to win because they don’t personally see him as a worthy winner and that’s not surprising. I enjoy him on screen, I would never, as a player vote for him to win. A lot of people mess about in their alliance and still win because they aren’t just arrogantly nasty. Whether he deserves a win more than others is irrelevant, you can’t understand the rules enough to go onto a show and then demand they be changed for your version of gameplay, instead of creating an effective gameplay within the rules already set. Again though, entertaining.

[@elitettelbach4247]

The Natalie and Russell voting confessionals montage at the end was really cool!

[@Vaidulis]

And Russel is nicest of his all family! Mind-blowing!

[@TheDizzleHawke]

I love how Jeff calls him Russel Haunts.

[@juanmora9190]

John: "She still thinks I sent her home." *Previous Tribal Council* John switches his vote from Natalie to Laura 🤦‍♂

[@stogerat]

well yeah most people probably wouldn't go to rocks with their own game for Laura Morett

[@juanmora9190]

@@stogerat well seeing how things went for him it mightve been the better thing to do

[@stogerat]

@@juanmora9190 Possibly, but at that point I think Dave and Laura and Monica were all tighter with each other than they were with John

[@mildtotemperate]

You have to be willing to go to rocks for your alliance, otherwise you'll lose numbers advantage and you'll all be out next, which is what happened here.

[@juanmora9190]

@@mildtotemperate Yeah especially when your competition is willing to do that. But John is an asshole for not taking responsibility for Laura going he wasnt owning that he did that.

[@MariaThePotterNut]

The confessionals really showcase exactly why Natalie won. Russel is very emotional, vindictive and every reason he lists is an emotional one. Natalie is calm, logical, and has very gameplay related reasons, even if the gameplay is don't be on the wrong side of her alliance. She was on the correct side of every single vote, and only got any votes cast against her once, and that was the same time she found the crack and saved Foa Foa from being picked off one by one. She knew about every vote, and voted correctly, meaning she was completely in the know the entire game, no one made any big or meaningful moves (at least not successfully) without her. No one wanting to ever vote her out is a testament not to her being weak and a goat, but to her social game of becoming close to everyone. Even when they targeted Foa Foa, it was never her because they liked her, she was pleasant to be around at camp. And that is incredibly good social gameplay. Natalie set aside her own feelings to do the vote that was in her best interest (unlike Russel, who again was very emotional every vote), and put worth behind the connections she made with people and kept her word. She made such strong emotional/social connections yet didn't let how she may have felt about someone change her vote if she couldn't influence the majority about it in advance. And she clearly saw each of the people she eliminated as a person rather than a pawn. And her last vote, between Mick and Brett really showed it as well. She had formed a strong connection with Brett at the end, but if she had voted for Mick instead, she likely would have lost to Brett with the sheer number of Galu on the jury and how liked he was, or it would have been a MUCH tighter vote. Voting him out solidified her win.

[@AllRequired]

There has also never been a season before or since where any contestant had been forced to play the absolute barest bare bones of a game. She had literally zero room for error. But it was a blessing in disguise, as it kept Russell's heat-seekers off her and protected her against the need to explain any kind of blindside. I should also add that Natalie was the _only_ player that never advocated for Russell's elimination. In fact, and just look at her interaction with Betsy for proof, she was fully active in the cause of protecting him since the start.

[@Shutterbun4]

The confessionals also revealed that Kelly was 100% riding Russell's coattails. Half of her explanations amounted to "this is who I was told to vote for".

[@ItsAMeJoldie]

@@Shutterbun4 That's mostly cuz she was using Russell as a meatshield. Her belief is that "the person with the most jury votes is who wins." and everyone, EVEN JEFF, knew he wasnt winning jack shit.

[@DukeHalliday-cv4fx]

What Crack

[@philbuttler3427]

Russel turning his head to face the camera like a super model in Jeff's predictions is so funny to me. I just imagine a photography director off camera being like you're evil you're evil give the camera a little smirk yeah. you're powerful and malicious russell give us a lil pout.

[@mutt8553]

“John Fincher is a Poser” might be my favorite Jeff Quote

[@robertscott3732]

That Laura M and Russell scene (#30) about lying and blindsiding was so good, surprised it didnt make the edit

[@sackeshi]

The season that changed survivor for ever. It started the end of bitter juries, made the game much more strategic, and idols became a big deal and were found without clues.

[@ethangc081]

Juries can definitely be bitter, and they have every right to be, but still, this season didn’t change that. But Russell definitely changed the strategic game for good

[@roger_towny_jr]

You forgot to mention how it made all future players inately aware how important a good social game was, and why we no longer see any intentionaly sadistic players anymore.

[@thefinisher2913]

russell change the pace of the game everyone started to play fast because of him the jury are defiantly less bitter because they get more fans to play and they understand the game unlike before where they wanted to stay with the people they first started with

[@akarinova]

@@Thesportsmusicgodto be fair, the jury was going to vote for Coach if he admitted he used his religion as strategy

[@066kshitizvsingh4]

Idk. There is a high chance that juries can still be bitter. It's just that hardly any FTC player treated them as bad as Russell did. Had Russell been just a bit humble, he would've probably won Samoa.

[@markjackson6431]

great video. can’t wait for the Russell character video

[@benlol3023]

3:30 and thats the beggining of the curse for J.T

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

Thanks Probst!

[@AGJ117]

Parvati said in her post HvV interview that Russell brainwashed the audience to want to root for for Russell because they kept showing him over everyone else all of the time, making him the only person people would want to root for. Even she didn't like him and she was his main ally. Seeing people who still think Russell should have won Samoa and Heroes vs Villains, she's probably right.

[@juanmora9190]

Something I was hoping to clarify about Natalie is that in a confessional not shown on the show she refers to being called "Survivor Barbie" I've always wondered who called her that.

[@OhSkyeLanta]

Russel Hantz is the evil gremlin love child of Henry 8th and Napoleon

[@iamskippy]

I loved the side by side or rather one after the other comparison at the end. #RussellIsALegend

[@mikerock621]

Voted correct every time.

[@MaxI-cn7vr]

All I have to say to Russell is: Stay heated, little man.

[@cougar33333]

Did you know that teenage daughter of Laura’s would go on to vote out her own mom?

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

Was this on an international season or something? I don't recall anything like that on the show...

[@AsraliaX2]

​@@OnceUponAnIsland It was on South African Blood vs. Water.

[@fredricknilsson3642]

It was on the American Blood vs Water

[@mildtotemperate]

I don't blame Erik for lusting over Kelly. She was a cutie.

[@DukeHalliday-cv4fx]

She Is HOT 🔥

[@reginamachamer821]

13:00 this is what bothers me.. in Russell's preseason interviews and even some of his early game confessionals, he seemed to understand that there is a social game involved. That you can't just blatantly be an asshoIe to people's faces. So what happened? How did he forget that part?

[@kirstybrown1185]

His arrogance played up that because he didn’t want to admit that he just played a pretty crappy game where survivor is concerned. Getting to the end and winning aren’t the same thing and he didn’t seem to understand that you need more than a goat besides you to win. He blamed everyone else for that. Giant man baby.

[@AllRequired]

@@kirstybrown1185 The mechanics of Survivor he is fine with. It is the core that trips him up.

[@stogerat]

He didn't forget it in Samoa he just got a bitter jury. In Samoa his social game wasn't great but it wasn't bad either, the only juror who wouldn't even consider voting for him was Laura. In HvV he was deprived from doing two seasons back to back and got hangry after the merge and spoiled his own strong pre-merge performance.

[@stogerat]

Like he had Foa Foa voting however he wanted the entire pre-merge without using idols and he even showed that he was capable of being diplomatic and doing what his alliance wanted when he let Ben Browning go.

[@dojo3175]

Russell Hantz has some great behind the scenes on both of his KZbin channels, The Russell Hantz channel and Enhanzed Reality

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

Yeah, I used one of his videos for Redemption Island.

[@ianmiller6798]

So many great secret scenes in Samoa. Too bad some are gone forever :(

[@elliodh]

I think Russell swan might have been able to win if he didn’t participate in the reward challenge that took him out

[@SirChrisM_PH]

In the confession video at the end, only Brett has a positive commentary from Russell. So, I think he respect that guy much for being such a game player!

[@reginamachamer821]

"Don't kiss me, Grandma. I'll punch you in the face!" Lmao I need to find this in gif form 😂

[@starwarsfan4283]

I’ve been waiting for this!!!!

[@ptderu7349]

I always thought Kelly could be the sister of Hayden Christensen. And now with that angry emotional Sith footage at 18:21 I'm convinced now.

[@reginamachamer821]

16:48 the irony in Jeff's assement of John is hilarious 😂

[@reginamachamer821]

"Luara" lmao

[@caidenmagill1006]

Man literally sneaks a whole other vid into this vid😂

[@reginamachamer821]

Omg yay I love this series sooooo much I'm going to be so sad when you finish all the seasons lol

[@alanw9620]

The biggest takeaway I had here was all the people watching the tribal council in the background of the vote confessionals lol

[@AllRequired]

Natalie was granted a measly 15 confessionals FOR THE ENTIRE DAMN SEASON!! And that record _still_ stands! By contrast, Russell received more than seven times as many, a record I think also still stands.

[@mrpineapplecc5342]

18:05 the guy in the back does a lunge, I wonder if he was stopping Russel from coming back

[@nvm9040]

Natalie is a underrated winner

[@nathan4327]

Yeah, her blindside of Jon Misch is one of the best ever

[@Machinu5]

Those voting confessionals don't make Natalie seem like an underrated winner.

[@stogerat]

@@Machinu5 for real, every time she just says "I'm just going with what the group decided!" Just a literal stick in the mud who got lucky.

[@tmm4195]

@@stogerat I mean she used Russell in a smart way though. She knew he was unliked by people. Of course she got lucky, but every winner does. Russell made the same dumb mistake with Sandra.

[@nvm9040]

@@stogerat I mean I get that but I think she wasn’t trying to go against Russell because he pushed most of those votes

[@Fitzbits687]

Secret number 6 add on according to Russell willie was called back for some strange reason but said no because of money also willie hantz had the best downfall change my mind

[@sackeshi]

If only he had left, maybe Phil would have been on survivor as well. :(

[@Machinu5]

I was so close

[@snuffedtorch3683]

Wdym

[@Machinu5]

@@snuffedtorch3683 Not sure how Sackeshi knows about my audition, but I was being considered as a replacement in case The Jeff Probst Show took off. Obviously it didn't work out for me.

[@Shutterbun4]

29:10 Doggie at the Ponderosa!

[@mildtotemperate]

Isn't it amazing?!

[@mildtotemperate]

Isn't it amazing?!

[@mikerock621]

19:37! Kelly!

[@EddieAFool]

34:40 He can actually compliment a person

[@ryanmurphy4901]

Natalie deserved her win and Eric summarized is perfectly at FTC

[@OnwardSoldier]

Where can you find the Ponderosa videos?

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

The dvds

[@mildtotemperate]

I wanna see them so bad. I wish they were on youtube.

[@DukeHalliday-cv4fx]

Where Can You Get The Dvds

[@benafferton8123]

anyway russell lost 4 times and natalie is 1/1 stan Natalie White

[@philbuttler3427]

Exactly what I said .

[@corvusclones]

"I control my family" is a big red flag for domestic abuse

[@DukeHalliday-cv4fx]

Not Good.... Makes You Think

[@joncross8483]

RIP Russell Swann (only in the game thank God) I really loved watching that guy and wish he had stayed in longer

[@survivorturnover]

russell hantz legacy

[@TheDizzleHawke]

Yay!

[@donniejohnson1232]

Love Danger Dave

[@awakenedsoul]

Reading the comments just show how stupid people are. Russell Hantz deserved to win and should have won. Very bitter jury...and Laura was trying to get everyone not to vote for Russell. This isn't hearsay, more then a handful on the jury said the same thing .

[@OnceUponAnIsland]

I made a few in depth videos showing why Natalie won and what Russell did wrong.

[@mikerock621]

Russell Haunts

[@isabellaearnhardt6380]

❤️

[@nathandanczak7822]

The conservatives are better players 3/4 of the time.

[@brettkot5309]

John Fincher is such an underratedly bad player

[@reginamachamer821]

That would suck to get voted out and be the only non-bitter jury member at ponderosa lmao

[@tjsam8103]

Russel should have won. Natalie fans don’t @ me. That whole season was decided by Russell. On winners at war suddenly people voted based on playing the best game. This season was decided by sore losers. Spiteful vote for the 2nd place to make 1st angry

[@daariankhan1129]

The last segment has me dead lmaooo Natalie had 0 strategy just going with the majority every vote 😂😂

[@AllRequired]

Relationships are a strategy.

[@joshuacoleman1037]

Natalie is the least deserving winner ever, she did nothing, had no guts, and only got won because she was nicer than Russell. You should never win by being nice and by outwitting, outplaying, and out lasting which Russell did and Natalie didn't. She didn't even deserve to be on WaW which is why she wasn't.

[@AllRequired]

The Fall of Russell Hantz, Part 1. Get reading.

[@JarinCOD]

Exactly, she would have been voted out before Amber if she was on WaW, LMAO.

[@adonm6998]

This video just proves what a bottom tier winner Natalie is. Still exciting to see russels downfall. Great video

[@kevwwong]

Yeah she didn't so much win the game as Russel lost it. But at the end of the day, it still counts as a victory.

[@joshuasimber8588]

Russel deserved to win season 19 he was dominant and took the other team out from being down 4-8. Most of the times he was mean was behind the scenes or during confessionals that other players don't see.

[@AllRequired]

Dominant doesn't make you deserving to win. You should read "Offending Many Who Do Not Understand Survivor."

[@joshuasimber8588]

@@AllRequired I know that's why I said season 19. Season 20 he was a dick so he lost. But everything he did that was mean in 19 was behind their backs or by himself on camera. People just didn't like him because he outplayed him. Which is why most of that jury regrets voting for Natalie

[@armanclark2401]

jeff needs to GO! retire/fire.... dont care just needs to go to fix the show

[@JarinCOD]

Just remove woke shit.