Deal or No Deal Island Season 2 Ep 4 Recap
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January 29, 2025
TLDR: This week on Deal or No Deal Island podcast, Rob, Jenny, and Chappell debate Season 2 Episode 4.

In the latest episode of Deal or No Deal Island Season 2, Episode 4, the podcast team, led by Rob, Jenny, and Chappell, dives deep into a thrilling episode that has left fans buzzing. This recap captures the episode’s key moments, themes, and character developments, providing insights into game strategies and emotional dynamics between contestants.
The Episode Overview
The episode brought forth significant gameplay advancements and emotional upheavals, particularly surrounding the dynamics of the contestants' relationships. It set the stage for pivotal moments that could alter the course of the competition.
Major Themes and Discussions
- Dixon's Game Strategy: The episode opens with a focus on the intense gameplay led by Dixon. His move to eliminate Storm shocked many, especially given Storm's position as his sister Maria Grace's boyfriend.
- Showmance Dynamics: The evolving relationship between Storm and Maria Grace sparked considerable discussion, as Jenny noted a lack of tension from the showmance that had been hinted at, which led Chappell to express disappointment in its swift conclusion.
- Conflicts and Alliances: The podcast highlights the division forming among the contestants, particularly between the family unit represented by Dixon and his allies versus Dr. Will and his emerging strategies.
Highlights of the Episode
- The Surprise Elimination: Dixon’s unexpected choice to eliminate Storm sent ripples through the fanbase. Listeners heard the reactions as the hosts discussed whether the move would benefit Dixon’s strategy in the long run.
- Discussion Points:
- The contrast between personal connections versus competitive gameplay.
- The strategic implications of being seen as a threat in physical challenges.
Character Insights
- Dixon's Evolution: Listeners witnessed Dixon transform from a seemingly humorous character to a cold strategist. His quote, "I came here for the Super Bowl, baby!" encapsulated his shift into a serious competitor focused on winning.
- Storm's Reaction: The emotional fallout from Storm’s elimination and the implications for his relationship with Maria Grace were discussed fervently. The team reflected on how the audience perceives these relationships against strategic gameplay.
- Dr. Will’s Role: As a seasoned player, he continues to be a wildcard. His decision to manipulate allegiances and his recognition of the family unit as a primary threat highlights his strategic thinking.
Gameplay Mechanics
The episode introduced the Banker’s Temple and the unique dynamics of the case selection game. Listeners learned how contestants navigate the game’s psychological aspects while also strategizing against one another. The balancing act between personal connections and competitive drives was brought to life,
Conclusion
The hosts concluded that Deal or No Deal Island’s second season is intensifying, with divided loyalties leading to electrifying confrontations. As characters grapple with personal and strategic decisions, fans are left eager to see how these dynamics will unfold in upcoming episodes.
Key Takeaways:
- Personal Relationships vs Strategy: The episode heavily emphasizes the ongoing tension between contestants' personal relationships and their strategic gameplay.
- Emerging Alliances: As defined factions form, audiences are keen to see how these alliances evolve.
- Dixon's Rise as a Major Player: His move against Storm marks a pivotal moment in his character arc and the broader narrative of the season.
What to Expect Next
Listeners can anticipate more twists as the strategic landscape continues to shift with each episode. Will the family faction maintain their power, or will outsiders like Dr. Will find a way to dismantle their unity? Stay tuned for further recaps and insights into the captivating world of Deal or No Deal Island!
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Yeah, that's right. Deal or no, deal island. Episode four is back. And wow, what a night here of Donnie. We've got so much to talk about here on a huge episode of the show. I think it was the best of the season and we will break it all down. First, a woman who can weigh in on tonight at what level was the Dixon energy Jenny autumn?
The Dixon Energy was very, very big, Rob. And the final briefcase is Boston. Boston Open. Wow. It's filled. It's filled to the brim. And I am filled to the brim with joy about what we got to witness tonight. I'm very happy having a good time, so.
Okay. Of course, we have a man who I think is got to be excited after this episode. It's Chappelle Schmar, how are you?
I'm good, but what's exciting about this episode? We lost the showmans. The whole reason I came here was because you told me there was gonna be a showman. It was an episode, man. It happened a moment to man. It was a one showman. It was a showman. It was a showman. One showman. It was a grand opening, grand closing. I was promised a good time. It was a quick storm. It was the fastest storm, the briefest of storms. And I'm so excited to talk about it with y'all.
You know how it is in Texas. The storm blows in, blows out. Yeah, but everything's bigger in Texas. The energy was big. The Dixon energy was big. But man, we just did not get enough of the like, you know, it was supposed, the show man was supposed to happen. And that just, I feel like I was robbed. Where's the sequel? Yeah. Not enough will they won't they? Right. Doctor will they won't they?
I don't feel any of the tension building up like I thought like it was so fast. It was like a fairy tale love story gone too soon. I don't think we've ever had in the history of dealing no deal island a rug poll like we had tonight where it's like, okay, I'm expecting CK to go home and Dixon.
Even Dr. Will couldn't believe it. That Dixon of all people that, you know, we saw it in a little bit of a glimmer back in the first night of Deal or No Deal Island when after Luke went home, Dixon was like, well, serves him right. And part of you was like, Oh my God. Cold blooded.
Yeah. I don't want to be that guy who's like, I saw this coming, but you did? How did you see show? There are moments throughout the episode where the show is really kind of well, no, I'm not Jenny probably caught it in the previews. Okay. But what throughout the episode, whenever you get a storm and MJ, MJ moment,
they cut to Dixon every time. And he was like, look, why do they keep cutting to Dixon? It's like, why, why is he a family back rub? Well, why, it's not, he never looked like the doting brother that you would think if you were supporting this romance, he looked like he was, he had a license to kill here. And he was like, do you think that there was some jealousy, Chappelle?
No, I'm not one of those family relations. No, no, no, God. No, no, no, no, no, not like that. Not the Lannister relationship. No, I was just siblings. I think the show was just show like sprinkling some little breadcrumbs throughout to be like, maybe everybody's not supportive of a showmates. And I would love to talk about the strategic elements of what Dixon did in this game.
Okay. Yeah. This was just a huge night. Of course, there will be exit interviews tomorrow. Check out the exit interview with storm coming on Wednesday. You know, Jenny, you got to ask him a question. What's the question? I mean, we got to know. Is this, is this thing for real or warm? Yeah, it's the storm. Yeah.
Did the store make landfall? Right. Like what's going on? Like that hurricane, Maria Grey. Yeah. Right. What are we doing here? No, we didn't. We didn't come here from play. We came here to ask the hard hidden questions, Jimmy. Okay. All right. We'll find out. You can hear that, of course, in our Dandy podcast feed, we know dandy.com. And let me just say I am not one for hyperbole. Okay. I'm telling you. All right. I'm going to say, I'm going to speak directly to the listeners. Okay.
We have a Don D podcast coming up. You're not going to believe. Okay. So trust me on this, go to we know Don D dot com. Make sure you subscribe. Look to search for our podcast feed wherever you listen to podcasts. Okay. You're not going to want to miss this.
He's not one for hyperbole. Listen to this man right now. Yeah. The seriousness of his tone. I would not use this tone if I was not deadly serious. Rob, you got to put yourself full screen. Put yourself full screen. I was going to be like, Oh, what happened? No, no. Listen, listen, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I would not, I would not lie.
15 years in the game, stake my reputation on this. You're not going to want to miss this. In fact, this whole week is gonna be, we're gonna blow your minds, okay?
Right. Let us blow your mind. Okay. All right. So we've got a lot to figure out, but really the Dante season, I think kicked into a whole new gear after tonight because I think that, you know, we had everything that was going on with Dixon, but now we have sort of like this drama of really it's set up of the family.
of, okay, we had, we knew with, with David and Parvati and Dixon, but now MG of now no storm. Okay. Now, are the kids fighting? Are the kids fighting? Are they going to, is Parvati and David going to be able to fix this? But seems like on one side with Dr. Will.
calling his shot at the end of the episode that he is, he's very wary of Dixon. And now he's targeting the family. And it's turning into, I think every Don D fan needs to ask themselves, which side are you on?
It's a fandom divided. It is a fandom divided. And luckily, we are a fandom here. And so I have to ask y'all, Rob, I think I asked you this before we even started the season good. You have poverty, you have Dr. Will, you have David, who are you rooting for? Well, I have to feel like Dr. Will is squarely the underdog right now, right? I mean, Izzy, there's a huge target on this family, Jenny.
But here and here's something that I feel like I didn't get as like flushed out as I wanted. Obviously, we've got a lot of setup about the family. We got mom and dad and David and poverty. Dixon is clearly their son. And this new, you know, piece of the family tree in this episode that apparently Maria Grace is the daughter, I guess. The daughter.
But there seems to be, you know, we were acting like Dr. Will is out on this island. He's literally on island. It's Don D. But that he was really just like a lone wolf out here. And, you know, we see him strategizing in one of the little domes with
Sacial, Philip, and Storm in such a way that it felt like they were a thing. And it wasn't really explained to me, but it was like, you know, Will talking about him and Sacial being safe and then like what to do about Philip and Storm and how to protect them.
And I just feel like was this a thing? Is this an alliance? And did Will truly lose a number that could have rode for him tonight in losing storm? Was there an opposition building that could rival the family?
I don't know. It's a great question. Why those four? The doctor will be picking up people who are the anti-family. I think it's hard. There's not a ton of people out there in the game. You have Philip, who is closely aligned with Parvati. You have CK, who hates Dr. Will. Storm so much. Will doesn't trust Dixon. He's in the family. I mean, who's left? LaShel? Seisha?
Yeah, that's it. That's the team. That's the squad. I don't think this is the crew he was going to use to build to take out the family, right? Because here's why. Anybody with eyes can probably tell that Philip and Parvati are aligned. If you've been paying attention, it's clear that Storm ain't going after MG anytime soon. You know what I'm saying? So for that to be his ally where he's like, yeah, y'all are going to be the ones I take out the family. He's like, no, no, they're not.
You don't think MG is going to go after storms. I mean, storm is going to go after MG. Stop it. And she's not going to betray MG's father and mother either. So that, to me, that's not what that is. To me, this looks like I got a rally to troops to get CK somehow. And these are the people that I need for CK specifically, because I'm coming in. I got power.
So the people are flocking to me to make sure it's not them. And there are several people who are just safe because of the cases that they pull. I believe storm was, I mean, I believe of what was the bottom two cases were safe and the biggest two threats or whatever were safe. So there's a group of people that are like, I can't really be touched anyway. So he's got to go to these, they got to come to him basically and try to get whatever will they want Dr. Will to do. And so for him, he's just like,
Yeah, I'm kind of trying to build something right now with whoever will work with me because I do think he still feels like he's on an island. But is there an extended family? Is this the sort of thing where it's like, because there's these other people that seem to be
not in the family directly, not in how it's been presented to us, but you've got your, you know, like CK is talking game with Parvati quite a bit. She is clearly linked somehow to these people. And like what's going on with Letty?
Don't really know where we're here. What's, what's happening with Lettie? Lettie seems like someone that poverty might have kind of in her fold. Like our Lettie and CK, like the cool ants, you know, what I'm just saying. I'm just saying like, is this the sort of thing where, you know, this wasn't about will seeing the family and being like, I need to target the family.
his target is CK, but CK is like adjacent to the family perhaps. And it's someone that, you know, David and Parvati might have their, you know, hooks into. So I don't know, I think that it might, there's like the nuclear family and then there might be like, you know, these people where it's like, you're not a piece for me, you're a piece for them. And so you can go.
I want to go back to the end of the episode and we'll talk through everything from tonight, but just the decision that we see Dixon make at the end of the show where he takes out storm that first off, did either of you see that coming?
I did. You did. I'm telling you, when you're watching the competition, because they keep giving us these tender moments between Storm and MG, but every time they do it, they cut to somebody who's looking like, why are they doing this? Even in the very beginning, Lachella comes out in her robe, like, girl, get in the house. I see you out there with that boy.
There are definitely levels of disdain, but for some reason, whenever they cut to Dixon, I mean, whenever they were having the back rub and all this other stuff, Storm is celebrating so big when Dixon hits the target. I'm like, are y'all aligned? I haven't seen any of that. And so when it came down to it and it's like, oh, yeah, I'm going to go work myself. Let me go and convince Dixon what to do. I was thinking,
That's not the Dixon I know. I remember I was told the Dixon that we know is cutthroat and so the whole time I didn't think like necessarily like oh yeah I know for a fact he's going to go and betray Storm but I definitely thought something else is about to happen. This is too straightforward. It's not going to be CK.
Mine was a combination of, and now I just think I need to stop watching like the teasers at the, at the, you know, like in the premiere because there were enough scenes involving people that I hadn't seen happen yet. And so I was able to kind of like knock a few possibilities. But early in the episode, I was, I was definitely noticing the visibility spike of the, the show man's or the episode man's of, of MGM storm. And
Until we got the challenge results, I was actually most worried for MG. I was worried like, I was like, oh, I think that she's gonna get sniped here. It's gonna be like a, you know, we have to break up the showman's kind of narrative. This is before we even know who's in control here. And then obviously she ends up being someone who is safe at the Bankers Temple. So once that was out of the question, that's when I really started to get worried for our guys storm here. So it wasn't a big shock, but it was still riveting.
when it happened. I couldn't believe it. Was this a good decision? I think so. I think this is the move. I think this is the move for sure. Dr. Everyone's like, let me talk to Dixon. OK, I'll get him to do our bidding. OK, he'll go after CK if we lose him. We lose him if we don't eat. But if I'm Dixon and I'm in this family, I got mom and dad. I got MG. And here comes this boyfriend. I'm like,
Where are you people? Where you come from? I ain't never met your family. How are you just going to come over here and just start dating? Because now you're pulling my sister away from the alliance. Now she's more loyal to you than she is the brother. CK isn't coming for Dixon. CK ain't coming for Dr. Will. Somebody else in the episode said it like, hey, as long as the family is around, I think it was Seychell. She said,
As long as the families around, people are looking at them. They're not looking at me. They should be thinking the same exact thing. Parvity, David, those people you need to keep in the game. Dr. Will, when they did the excursion where they had to put everybody's ranking, as far as like, who was the biggest threats? Guess who was at the top of the board? Will, Parvity, and David. So why am I taking them out? Let them hang out. Y'all go after them. I'm going to take out one of these pieces in the middle and then go back in the hide. And I kind of liked it. Yeah.
I think on paper, with the options available as well, it makes sense. I don't think that taking out CK would have been terrible either, though, because maybe he has gained favor with CK by not doing what clearly she knows Will would have wanted him to do.
you know, maybe that helps or builds a relationship. But I think that he was probably, it seemed like he was actually good with Storm. However, you need, when you're in that position and you're not, you're deciding, I just made an incredible deal. I need to make a move. I need to make sure somebody is eliminated. That is some sort of threat to me. And even if he isn't a strategic threat to you at this point, because you have a relationship with Storm,
You're thinking, there are physical challenges, and I need to do whatever I can to level this playing field. I am never going to beat a guy like Storm in whatever the final challenge is if there's any sort of physical component. So just on that level, it's like,
This is someone who is not going to target me probably, but this is someone I'm going to have to beat eventually, so why not do it. Pisses some people off, but I don't think like a ton of people. I think it makes what I worry about for Dixon here.
is that I think he really illuminated that, and not just subtly, he was like, I am here to play, I am here to make big moves. Not just with his actions, he was saying it the whole time he's up there. So I worry that he just drew way too much heat on to himself with this too. People are looking at him differently now, and so maybe that he ultimately becomes the target, and does Maria Grace try to avenge Storm?
No, because he's in the family. Parvity and David are going to make sure that they keep the family together. That's why it's perfect. You picked this tangential piece that you're not really aligned with. She said, I thought y'all were friends, but that's it. She wasn't like, you betrayed our alliance. You know, to me, it felt like it was like the perfect, like, oh, dang, I didn't know we were supposed to save Storm. I didn't know you were the same.
Well, Shmoop, do you think this move came from the top? Do you think that Parvati maybe puts a bug in Dixon's ear of like, you know, this Maria Grace, she's a good girl, but you know what? I'm not liking this guy that's hanging around.
If poverty did a thing with a shoulder to us, because that's the type of, that's the energy I need from poverty, right? Like she's still up there, like sitting up on her throne, like the queen stays queen, make no mistake, Maria Grace. I'll shut this down. But we didn't get it. I think he went wrong. And I think, like you said, you pointed out a great thing in the first episode. People were underestimating Dixon as far as like what he can do in the game. And a lot of people, it seems like have no issue going to the end with him.
So it's like, okay, well, if y'all all are fighting to go to the end with me, I'm gonna make sure that the people that I want at the end are with me and not just whoever, you know, the David's, the storms of the world. If it's up to him, all these big, these big strong people can go and it's probably him and Seychelle at the end, you know, battling it out.
All right. But also, sorry, I was just going to say, Parvati could be pushing the agenda here and just that, like, you know, maybe they can't show everything if they want there to be like a bit of the shock because look at like, like people were genuinely shocked that this is and who ended up being eliminated by Dixon here because you have to think that if you're Parvati, like you want to, obviously you want to make sure David doesn't go out here.
And it seems like that was maybe a little bit of a tiny concern for a second, especially when you hear Dixon doing a lot of these confessionals, but I'm going to make a big move. And you're like, oh, what is a big, what's a big move? But she's got to be someone who wants to keep a CK in because
She's worried about Will. Will is a problem for her and you cannot let Will get what he wants here. And you need Will and CK to keep feuding. Keep that as the big distraction here. So I really feel like if
Harvard, he knew that CK was who was like, Will was telling Dixon to try to do it. Like she's gonna be like, that is not good for your game. You should do something else. And we just didn't show it. Maybe, I mean, it's such a great jaw drop moment when he ultimately decides to go after a storm. So maybe the editors didn't want us to like know what he was gonna do. That big surprise shock moment. I mean, I was stunned when it happened. So, you know, I will was shocked when it happened.
Yeah, I see, but see, my thing is if I'm poverty, right? Storm isn't the piece I want off the board because Storm is still a part like, like Jen was saying, this is her extended family. This is her daughter's boyfriend. He's not for the mom. He's not going to do it. But Lachel's right there. Why not her? You know, she.
She's not in the family. I feel like if it's poverty, there's one extra step that you could take to make sure that you kind of fortify your group a little bit more. And to me, Dixon removed that piece. So I felt like this was a rogue move, but I don't know. We'll get an exit interview at some point. I'm going to ask about this one for sure.
Let's go back to the beginning of the show where we see Maria Grace and Storm. There's a literal storm that's happening. That's where he gets his powers that in the rain, we see Maria Grace and Storm coming together. The showman's is happening. People are seeing it. We saw Lechelle in her robe as Chappelle mentioned, spying on it. You saw Dr. Will. He's, listen, Dr. Will, don't forget,
he invented the word showman's. He gets royalties every time there's a showman's on a reality TV. He made money this episode. Yeah. Yeah. He made bank and that's the problem. Why is this so obviously a showman? It's right. Like we are led to believe that MG knows survivor. She's seen it. You know, some of the people have seen Big Brother, they recognize Dr. Will. They recognize poverty. Nobody recognizes it.
They've watched these games before. This is the easiest way to put a target on your back. And it's just like, if you ever want to show somebody a, like, here is Showman's 101 reality TV. Here it is. This grant, like, I'm talking about from beginning to ending, find somebody that you can work with. You get close to, you're getting the Showman's, you hide it. You hide it with your life because people are going to look at it as a pair that they got to break up. And you're doing this in front of the person who literally invented the way that game was played. It's just like, man,
You should.
is Dondie like actually the perfect environment to brew a showman? It's because they're comfortable, they're clean, they're not on live feeds, it's hot. It's like you got like the sexy sweaty thing going on. It's a beach. It is air conditioned. Yeah, but outside you're like having your little like nighttime chats outside. Yeah.
Yeah, like I just, I just feel like, you know, we're only on season two of Donnie and we maybe just haven't had enough hot eligible singles on Donnie yet. And I just think that like they have the comfortable environment. They're not like, it's not like on Survivor where they haven't brushed their teeth and they're like, you know, laying on the ground in between like, you know,
like a 68 year old man and then like girl that you want to hook up with or something. You know what I mean? It's like the perfect environment to get a little romance going. And this might be the beginning of something beautiful.
Even the camera worked, Jenny, in the first scene when they show it, it looks like they had ducked off to the side away from the cameras, like, okay, now quickly, over here, okay, now, how you doing? Like, what's up? She said he took off his shirt and I couldn't go inside, but it didn't look like it was a part of like, it was like, you know, production was in on it. It's like they saw them and were like, wait, what's going on over there? So you're right, this is a perfect time to duck off, to get the, you know, canoe a little bit, and then get back to the game. The problem is everybody can see you, we can see you.
but it's not live feeds at least. No, I'm the big brother. We can't see you. Yeah, we can't see you. Okay, yes. So we see the next morning, Parvati and CK are talking and Parvati is like, look, you made it too obvious. We get it. You blew up your spot that you don't like Dr. Will. Dr. Will is like, okay, bad body language from CK. He can tell. He knows when people don't like him.
He does. He can sense it happens all the time. He knows. He was enemy number one in Big Brother for a long time. And matter of fact, for two seasons, he did very well under those circumstances. So yeah, this is not new territory for him. I think also if you employ the kinds of social strategies that someone like Dr. Will does where it's purposely kind of like,
you know, playfully trying to get under your skin. It's like,
You're purposely giving opportunities to see who is really going to be able to handle it and who is just completely like FU, please go away forever. And so I think that that's just, he knows what to do to basically test the temperature of how everyone is feeling. So it's the perfect way to know if someone F's with you or not and she does not.
No, she knew. He knew what he did. She didn't have to say it at the banker's temple. It was already obvious. It was obvious. It was obvious. It was up to C.K. She would say to Dr. Will. Well, you watched the poverty interaction with C.K. though.
What do you think? Do you think this is poverty kind of making sure that CK's aim is directly on Dr. Will? Because, you know, what does she do? She's just like, hey, maybe calm it down a little bit. You know, people, Dr. Will can tell you don't like him. Like to me, I felt like she was still kind of pushing her. It's kind of just still directing the ship a little bit.
Yeah, I think poverty is saying like a little bit more. Maybe this is taking from her trader's experience of you need to be a little bit more of the like silent assassin. You can't let him know you're coming. And so I think that she's trying to give her some advice. And I think that maybe she's hoping that CK will reciprocate some of that like goodwill back towards poverty, even though she thinks it's a very bad will that's out there on Donnie.
And so I think that, you know, poverty is, you know, trying to, we've seen poverty in CK, you know, have like some like productive strategic conversation.
Mm hmm. Yeah. Um, I know she was trying to make CK kind of like the figurehead of like whatever all this is. Like she wants CK to be as big of a target as she as as possible. And so I'm like, yeah, by saying CK, you're huge, you're huge target to know to Dr. Will. Maybe, maybe you should stick around and make sure you go after Dr. Will. You know, let's lay low. It's kind of like you're helping her. But at the same time, you're making sure she knows who the number one enemy is.
I want to talk about this next conversation that we see between Dixon and David, okay? Dixon and his island dad and David is telling Dixon to, you know, jump into a little bit more of the convales, but we get more about Dixon's backstory. We heard, I don't know if it was in the first episode of the second episode, a little bit more about Dixon.
that basically his parents owned a restaurant. There was like an older couple that sort of like took him in as an adopted son. Now, I think he's probably he's talking about his biological that I'm imagining in this clip, but I don't know. This was like a little bit of like the like Dixon villain origin story that we got here.
I think my dad saw that I came home with millions of dollars. He would want to spend a lot more time with me. And he told me that I'm not entertaining enough. I'm not special enough to get on TV. So prove you're wrong, dad. Well, he's not entertaining enough to get on television. Why don't you say that, Dixon's dad? Yeah, you say that.
No wonder he's taking, you know, David as his island dad. And then possibly like be on the island. How dare you Dixon's dad? What a terrible, what a terrible thing to tell your child. Like you are, you do not have the personality or charisma to get on the TV. Screw your dream. So yeah, good for Dixon to be like jokes on you. Here I am.
Yeah. Dixon's interviews are so funny to me, though, because he's always like, yeah, so I was talking to my dad, and my dad said, I'm not like, it's the way he talks about it. That's a nice thing, though. That's a great TV. What are you talking about? He's great. Dixon's dad does know anything.
No, no. Okay. I don't know. I don't know what kind of reality TV he watches and maybe he just doesn't realize like, you know, maybe he thinks that everything is like, you know, like late 90s, early 2000s where, you know, I shouldn't say this in front of all, you have to be like certifiably insane to like even get this touching. You have to send it up. VHS tape. It's crazy back then. Okay.
I think it's like the real world like like MTV reality. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it.
Dixon's that little more of somebody's face back then yeah, maybe maybe that's what it is though He's comparing it to those all days like I couldn't see his old school I can see him spinning in somebody's face, you know, like Jackson Oh God, you know man came here to play. He's a gamer. I think he does
Yeah, I think that's the thing is you just don't reel it. Don't judge a book by its cover. Because you're looking at Dixon. And that's what everyone's been doing being like, oh, this sweet little funny quirky guy. He's, you know, he's just kind of here to have a good experience. This man is cold. Look at what he did tonight. Ice cold. Yeah.
I wanna talk about Parvati and David, okay? Now, we talked about the body language with a couple of different players, but Parvati is sitting on David's lap here as they're talking. What the hell is wrong with him?
I did to keep reminding myself that I think at the time of this filming, they were both in relationships. I don't know what their lives look like. But I had to keep reminding myself, be like, you're not allowed to stand that. You're not allowed to be shipping mom and dad like this, even though if you're a child of divorce like myself, you're just like,
Oh, mom and dad, they should be together. That's not what I think in my world. But here I am, watching this being like, she's like sitting on his lap with her arm around him. And I'm like, well, any parents to have a conversation with them in this position. See, I believe Milwaukee, I believe is the term.
I was just more annoyed at the idea that they have the audacity to do this in front of everybody. You know, like, if we're going to talk about story, having an alliance in front of everybody, they should, the entire cast should not be calling y'all the family. You know, like, why is that your branding? I sit on his lap, we talk strategy over here. Like, bro, if anybody has a target, how? Like, what are y'all doing? I said, part of it, you're better than this. What is going on?
Okay. When competitions and keep most of the family safe, I don't know. That's like the wild thing about it. It's just like playing in everyone's faces here. Yeah. You know, it's very much survivor when you know, like, you know, at least Philip Shepard is giving everybody a nickname. These people are like, no, mom, dad, brother, sister, bye. Like it's like, I can't be the dog. I can't be the wacky next door neighbor. Can I get in on the family? Nope, nope, no, nuclear family only. Sorry.
Yeah. All right. So let's talk about excursion for today. All right. So Joe. I understood this one. Yes. I understand this one. Okay. Good. Yeah. This was fun. This was fun. Have you ever done this? X throwing? Oh, I didn't. I didn't even rank everybody.
Okay. Well, I feel like I feel like I've done this too. But axurring I did for the first time like a few months ago, and I absolutely hated it. Oh, because I was just so stressed out that I was going to injure myself or somebody else. It was a very stressful experience.
And I wasn't even throwing it at people's faces, like on the board. I hated axe throwing. I don't have a lot of rage that I need to get out. It's not really my thing. I love it for other people, but it's harder than it looks.
I don't think I've ever done this. I don't know. I've done a lot of random stuff. I feel like it's usually at a bar. There's usually like white cloths and stuff. Oh, y'all be getting dressed in a bar, I would say. I feel like there's almost always beer involved with axe throwing.
That's crazy. It's like bowling, where it's on the floor if you're drunk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I've done this. I don't think I have. Like, I think I've seen enough drunk in his dinner. Right. When he said bar, I was like, well, maybe, you know, maybe I really want to do this. She really wants to go axe throwing. And I'm like,
Why don't we do something else? I think I love this for Nicole. Has she ever done one of those rage rooms where you just go in and break everything? That feels like a Nicole thing. I mean, she's done that in like our house, but she's got her own rage room. I told you we're going to clean up this room. This toys. I'm getting.
I think you should surprise Nicole with a raised room, not the extra. I think that's like, that's like a level. I think you need to take it to the next level and just let her destroy a damn like shit or whatever. And I think, like, bro, I think you love it. And let me like gamify things in which case it's good. That's throwing because you can like
aim at it have like an objective besides just like rowing a weapon. Yeah. Okay. Let's talk about the first part first. Okay. All right. So rank everybody in terms of who is the biggest target. Okay. So we're going to rank everybody and then we're going to look at the list. Okay. And so, uh,
Say Shell, she's the reverse, Dr. Will. She's putting herself last. Dr. Will's putting himself first. Joe needs a volunteer. And Dr. Will raises his hand. It doesn't even hear what it's about.
My king, he's doing what we know him to do best, y'all. It's like, Dr. Will, of course he did this. Of course he picked himself, of course he volunteered. This is typical Dr. Will's shenanigans. Yes. Would he raise his hand if he was at one of those?
And you guys know how I feel about magicians, or if you, I don't know, I feel like I've talked about this at bed. Magic mine. Yeah, she was. He thought he was. But like, do you think many of you is that one of those like hypnotist shows where they ask for like a volunteer? Do you think Will is like volunteering in that situation? Because I don't think that he would like to be hypnotized. I don't think so. No, he's a man of science. Yeah, maybe not at a hypnotist show.
Yeah. Or like just even, I guess maybe if it's not hypnotism, but if it's just like being like the magic. It's not a magician's assistant. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's like that. I think he has an appreciation for magic, but maybe not hypnotism. So Will raises his hand. He thought he was volunteering to be in Magic Mike 4. And so he gets to share who he marked as the biggest threat and he picks himself.
I thought they, they made it sound like he was going to share the whole list, but he literally just had to say whose top person was, which was easy because of course he's going to stay himself. But I love this, right? Like it's, it's Dr. Will doing Dr. Will things. He's identifying, look, I'm a big threat, but also he's not putting a target on his back by saying, Oh, Will thinks the number one threat on the board, you know, it's, it's one other way of just kind of like hiding while being in plain sight.
So he gets to go first in the axe throwing. And so that we have ranked all of the faces on the targets based on how big of a threat you are. You had to throw an axe and hit the target to claim your suitcase. If somebody goes closer on the bigger targets, they could steal that case. Wasn't an advantage for Will to go first and throw at his own face. Yes?
Yes, because I think especially because he was like the easy number one like guaranteed to be one or two on the list. So that was like guaranteed safety. And the thing that I feel like doesn't really get explained in the episode is that like
When somebody else has hit the target somewhere, it is harder to try to hit it. It's not even so much about just trying to beat what they've done. It's like now you have another axe in the way of trying to just even make contact. The chances of bouncing it off and then getting nothing are so high that it basically, the only person that was probably
a concern for him and we see him address is CK. Everyone else is like, I would rather hit something and know that I have gotten a chance at this. And I just feel like they didn't really explain that. So I think for Will, huge advantage. He knows that he's someone that is gonna get targeted. He knows he's a guaranteed number one or number two on the threats. And he's basically just claimed the territory. It's gonna make it super hard for anyone else to go for him.
Yeah. And yeah, until your point, Jenny. I mean, if I see you trying to basically undermine me and go for the same target I got, and you take me out and I end up in a position to go after the banker, who do you think I'm going to go after? The person who put me in this position probably. So that's another reason why when he goes to CK, he's like, look, if you do this, and you fail, maybe if you miss, it's you. We coming after you. I'm coming after you if I'm in that spot. So yeah, I agree. I think this was a perfect spot for him.
Yeah. And he ends up leveraging that spot when CK later on tries to go for his target after he has already thrown an axe into it. Let me ask a question. We're throwing the axe. There's some kind of like strategy to like throwing it like it spins end over end. How do you make sure the blade hits the board in the same way? Like do I throw it a certain way that it that like how do I make sure the hand doesn't hit the thing?
And it does sometimes, Rob. It does, which is extremely stressful because if the handle hits it, it's gonna bounce off and come flying towards you. Why do you have it, it works? Does it drop? Does it drop? I don't think it flies back. Well, they were way further back than like you might be in some axe throwing places. Like it's usually pretty safe, but that was the thing that stressed me out is like, if you don't make a real, if you're not like a fricking pro at this, you like, if you do a bad throw,
You're not, it's not even just about like getting the axe into the whatever. It's like you don't want it to like hit the handle and go flying back towards you. And it's very hard. There's different techniques. There's usually people that show you how like to do it and watch your like form and stuff. Like there's like the one handed or you can do like above your hand to like get like more like throttle or I don't know. It is like.
There is a technique and it's not easy. And you want like a sharp axe too, so that it's like primed to like hit and stick. Yeah. In this competition, it's going to be the top two values, the people that were the top two biggest threats, and then also the bottom two threats are going to be safe. So there's some strategy in terms of
who you're going with. But I feel like the people were not really vying for, I think people were just like, hey, I just need to get a case. I guess if you didn't get a case, you were automatically up for elimination. Yeah, absolutely. And so, because you only get two shots at this, right? And so, I think the first try, you try for whatever your ideal situation of who's left, and then the second try, you're like, I just have to get whatever. But I think you also are in a spot where you're now logic thing in your mind, okay.
who's the biggest threat left or is this person a small enough threat or you know since it's like ranked voting your smallest threat is not necessarily the root smallest threat right so for for Dixon he might be like like storm is on my lowest one on the list you know so I'm not going for storm or you know or something like that or I'm going to go for storm because he's so low on the list or say she'll know I'm like
I know I'm I know I'm the last so I'm gonna go for me you know so I think there is something to it but each person's biggest threat is probably different they have to figure out what the consensus smallest threat and biggest threats are and I think you know the biggest threats were clearly off the board very quickly.
I just feel like the people were kind of playing scared throughout this. Like people were not trying to compete for any, oh, okay, you threw it. Like the only time we came close to it was what Dixon and Storm were going for the same one and CK was going to try to go to Dr. Will and then ultimately she's very quick. She undercut Phil. Remember, she undercuts Phil. That's true. That's the one time it actually happened. Yeah.
Yeah. But other than that, they were just kind of sticking to their own zones. Yeah. Okay. So there's a one dramatic moment that happens where CK is going to go for Dr. Will. And ultimately, Dr. Will says, hey, if you go for any other target and I get it, I won't put you in the thing tonight.
Yeah. I think it's a great deal. Yeah. Because he already got himself. So if she fails, he knows there's no world where anybody in this game is a bigger threat than Dr. Will Consensus. He just knows he's number one. So it's like, if you miss this, this is going to be a problem for you. But you could go somewhere else. We can call it even for now. We'll live to fight another day. And I think that's what C.K. goes with. She doesn't want to go against the banker again.
she was also early enough in like the order and I don't know how the rest of the order was decided and that I think is actually important though because like I said you know once another acts is in somebody's thing it becomes harder to to hit it so being like having
the pick early on like obviously Will had the easiest like situation he knew who to go for and he got to go first but also like C.K. was like one of the first like four people I think or something like that so she had other options she really didn't have to risk it to go for Will like that.
Yeah, I think she was six out of 10, but like the thing is all the target taken. No, well, that's the thing. There were still things on that. Yeah. Cause I think a couple of people also didn't hit, right? Right. Exactly. And then Phillip and Sacial went for the same. So like that's one less. Yeah. David missed. Yeah. So you're totally right. There was a, there was a ton of like,
She had the lots of other options. So that's the time to do it. It's like, if she had to do, if she had the same chances, no matter what, to like hit and be safe, then I can see her being like, screw you, I want power and I want to guarantee my safety. I'm going for you. I'm going to do a better job than you. But I think that given where she was at in the options she had, it was like,
That that was a decent deal for her to make be like, Hmm. Yeah, I can go do something else. Maybe she's done axe throwing before and she's like, it's not not that good at it. Yeah. All right. And Jenny, if that's the thing, if she takes out Dr. Will the first round, he gets a second chance. He could then take her out again. You know what I'm saying? Like it's not out, right? All together. That's true. That's true. You know, you're basically putting yourself in a shootout at that point and I would, I would risk it. One more very dramatic moment from the axe throwing comes when storm
is going to the only face left is his beloved Maria Grace. And so he's going to come out to throw his axe at Maria Grace's face. And she comes out to massage him and loosen him up.
He says, oh, just the shoulders. My god. What else happened that we missed? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, this was, he causes romantic.
That was the part that I could not understand. Because he hits her face with an accent. He said this was the most romantic thing that could happen. The most perfect and romantic thing that could have happened was when I hit a picture of this woman in the face with an axe. Yeah, concerning actually. You know, it's said that's what accounts for romance these days.
Showman says I don't want these to be drunk at a bar and start throwing some axes around. To me, this excursion is one of my favorites so far, because there are so many funny moments. The moment where you're talking about is ridiculous, obviously. But when Dixon goes to throw his, uh, his, uh, acts at storms, a target or whatever, he misses the first time.
And the second time he hits it and the crowd goes wild. Joe Magonello like jumps in the air, feels like, yeah, I was like, what is we, what are we doing? What are we doing? They're hyped up and it's like storm is like clapping. I'm like, storm, you're a danger, buddy. You know, what are you doing? And so, and then when storm hits Maria Grace, he falls on the ground like like a, like he just made scored like the soccer goal and it was like, oh, I was like, what?
Y'all, y'all, someone's going home tonight. What are we doing? All right, we reveal the cases. We don't, uh, not super dramatic. So everybody open your cases. We'll instantly know. I got it. We, we don't get the order of the threats either. Like we know, will is number one and poverty is number two. And we know the last two are MJ. I mean, MG and, uh, say, I'm sorry, MG is one of the last ones. Um, but we don't get the entire list.
But they showed it on the phone, I thought. No, they gave us the list of the amounts that the people got. So Will and Parvity picked themselves. LaShale was third. There's no way she's the third biggest threat. So that's how I do that wasn't the list of threats. Oh, interesting. OK. Yeah. Well, they showed it. And then they showed that first. And then they flipped it to who had why. Well, could you cross reference to who LaShale put an ax in David's face? So that means David was the third.
Yes, he was, right? Joe said that. He said, David, you're the biggest threat that isn't safe. Yeah. If they flipped it, then they showed it. But I don't know. I just remember seeing the list of being like, what's your winter? Hold on a second. Are we burying the lead here? Because wait, did Dr. Will just win a cup? Hold on. I thought Dr. Will can't win cups. Donnie's different, baby. That's what the word is. Dr. Will, he can't win anything.
Always be throwing. Throw an axis. Throw an axis. Throw an axis. Look at that. Throw in a competition. His best skillset. He proved it right here. When he needs to, he can win a comp everybody. Uh oh. Well, here's the thing is like, you know, in, in, in Donnie, like winning competitions, uh, also helps secure big money into the pot, which
Will is very motivated by the money. And so this might just be like, this isn't big brother. This is a situation where he's going in and he says, yeah, I used to throw to lower my threat level. The threat level is already there. And if I'm not winning stuff, I want this money. I got to go get my money.
But also he said it himself. He said, if I don't get secure safety for myself, I'm going to be out very quick. And I was like,
I agree and I don't. It's scary. Like he knows it. He knows that he's in a situation where he kind of has to change what he does. It's not the same as just like throw comps and then rely on like, you know, social manipulation to get yourself. You can still do a little bit of that, but it's like, what? Just give yourself some safety here. Look at him.
All right, we come out of the excursion. Will won. He has his number one target. It's C.K. But he doesn't want to put C.K. up. He wants to keep his deal. So we see some talking about what they should do. Phil will say shall talk as Jenny referenced. Then one of them, they talk about like, who should they put up? Maybe take out C.K. Could be Dixon. How about that?
tell Dixon he's going in, but take out CK. And this is where, and this is where I, you know, cause storm storm is here. And this is when, when Will is saying like, okay, Cecile and I are safe because she got one of the lowest cases. So she's safe. And, you know, we have to be worried about who gets taken out if we,
you know, we need to protect you, Phillip, and Storm because apparently we're working together. I'm trying to protect you. And then we see like, you know, Storm getting in on the strategy where he's saying like, okay, like, so then let's think of another person who we might be able to get to take out CK. And he has a relationship with Dixon. He thinks like this might be someone that I can work on here. Yeah.
This should have been the moment you knew, Rob. We're four episodes in and we know nothing about Storm. We've never seen this man talk to anybody before. We've got nothing. In this episode, Storm is like, I'll talk to Dixon. I think I can win him over. I think I can. I think I can. I was like, wait, Storm, since when? You know, not to say there's storms like I know they're suggestions. Yeah, but the show has not shown a storm in this light. I was thinking like, oh, you know, the show man is here now. But also it was really the Storm show at that point. Mm-hmm.
And he's not dumb, like that's the thing is like we didn't know anything about him and his like game prowess up until this point. So it's like the visibility spike and then him being in on the plan, like, you know, especially because it's like so perfect narratively that he's like the one suggesting like, what about Dixon? Dixon might be the best person to try to, you know, use to get out CK like, this is not going to turn out so good for you, my friend. Yeah.
So we see CK talking to Maria Grace. And so CK feels safe with Maria Grace. And she's asking about Storm. She has to worry about Storm. He's like a hotter version of Dixon. First off, how dare you?
That was Lettie who said that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We're not going to break up this show man. I'm still in on the show man. We got one episode Rob. We only got one. What is going on? Lettie, are you Dixon's dad? Come on. What is this? Rose? Come on. We have our friend alone.
All right, we see Storm talking to Dixon, okay? Who do you think Dixon, who do you think CK is targeting Dixon? Could be you. Yeah, could be me. Yeah. And he did the thing where like, and it could just be edited this way, but it wasn't even like Storm said, I think that she could target you. It's like he got Dixon to say what he needed him to say.
to be like, she could be targeting me. And it was like, boom, you said the thing, you said the thing. And he sells us that his fatal flaw is that he always assumed people are doing the right thing. But tonight for Dixon. But in reality, I'm looking out for myself, baby.
Baby, look at how for myself, baby. I was like, yeah. No one telling me he's not good TV. He's doing it. He's doing it. Look at how for myself, baby. I was like, you know, um, he's right though. Or I'm just coming to him like, this isn't your best interest. C.K. has been listing her targets at number one on the top of her list, Dixon.
Definitely not that cool. Well, we're not available, so it's like. She doesn't get to choose this game. She doesn't get to choose this round, which is another good point of why he shouldn't take her out. I might be one of her targets, but I'm not number one. She's around and buys me a week. Okay, so we see David in poverty talk. David,
is not that worried about Dixon going in. It's like, okay, this is fine. My buddy goes in, if he loses, he loses, but he's not gonna send me out, so I'm fine. David is fine if he loses his son here. Just crazy.
Well, I think it's just that there were limited options of people that could play the banker, and they're thinking like, we don't want to lose one of our allies this early, but we also want to send someone to face the banker feeling good that they will not eliminate you. Because that's the thing is you
You don't want your worst enemy to be playing the banker. You don't want people that you feel like not super good with to be playing the banker because all it takes is a deal.
And you're out. So it's like this complicated thing where it's like, I wish he could be safe, but of the options on the board, I would love for him to play the banker and make a good deal. Best case scenario. Worst case scenario, we lose an ally. Like that's better than being at risk myself.
You know? Right. What parent wouldn't sacrifice their son to save their own life, you know? Like who among us? Yeah. That's the true meaning of family. Yeah. David is so comfortable with Dixon in his moment. But should he be like, after this episode, should David be like, maybe, maybe I don't know what Dixon's going to do with us. And I can't count on him to not shoot at me. Took out a big dog. And if you're David,
And you're like hearing the rationale for why storm gets taken out. You're saying like, you know, how strange does this father-son relationship between us have to get for you to be looking at me being like, you're the next big dog? David might need to win and take out Dixon, you know? I don't think that Dixon can handle another dad betrayal. He's got a lot of dad issues already.
Oh, I don't go away. Yeah, but this I think this is bad. I think this is bad. I think that if I'm David, I'm like, Oh, son, you know, ball. Great. But also if you're targeting the big guys, I'm the biggest guy. Why wouldn't you target me? I kind of I thought I thought I had a little wiggle room and I might have bought myself a week with this whole storm thing. But eventually there's no world.
where Dixon wants to sit next to David at the end in those physical competitions that we saw last season. There's no way this man knows the game. He knows Dylan, no deal proper to where he knows the bottles by name. There's no way this man don't know. If I get to the end and we're doing a ropes course against David, I'm cooked. So David, wake up. Dixon's coming for you. Yeah. Okay.
Let's go to the banker's temple, okay? Dr. Will tells us Dixon is going to play deal or no deal. And he's ready. Dixon's ready, okay? He's going to come out and choose case number four, okay? Yeah, we don't know why he picked four, right?
I know it was, um, it was, uh, one of the things that was carnal for the car. Oh, Molina. Oh, Molina. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Molina. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I said in 2006 in the game seven of the NLCS F that guy. Well,
Maybe you get cases of people you hate. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. It might have five million in a minute. So Dixon does something we've never seen before in Dandy, okay? Never. Okay. He starts to rattle off the cases of the glamorous former dealer, no deal models. No shout out to Meghan Markle.
uh, but yeah, not yet. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Dixon chooses number 10 for Anya.
this freaky. He's he's right on. Yeah, Monza Kova famous deal or no deal model of like a wiki with like the number 10. Yes, Jenny. Like the baseball cards. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay.
She's gone on to have quite a career outside of Donnie or as a dealer, no deal proper. What's she doing now? She's been like a million things. Okay. What's she doing? So I want to know. I mean, I guess really the queen. She's gone on to have a great career on Anya.
Monzakova case number 10. Okay. She has she has acted and modeled in all sorts of things. Okay. She's a she's been on SWAT. She was an iron man. What? She felt she was in how high to
Stop it. Stop playing. Stop. I'm at the watch. No way. I'll watch you watch our lives. Yeah. I'll watch the catalog. Yeah. Yeah. I was watching the catalog. That'll be our bonus episode of Criminal Minds. Yeah. Come on. Everybody was in Criminal Minds. Go on. Yeah. I'll see you work on you. On you. Oh, okay. Nixon, you're a freaky frog. You're freaky frog. Oh my gosh. All right. He was warned up. Yeah. Then he had his mind on something. Number one, Claudia Jordan.
Hey, Dixit, I see you, what? Yeah, I was right here back in the day, baby. I have Claudia now too. That's a whoop. Okay. Hey, but the funniest thing about this was, like, LaShell, like turning to whoever she was sitting next to me, like, she didn't have very good luck.
Geez, you know, show that show got the stats. Okay. She might play around. Yeah. Okay. It was a little shady and I love it. So not that great. That was good. And then he picks number 26 for Lindsey.
Well, it was numbered. So Lindsay was Lindsay was the last case number. So obviously we didn't go up to 26 cases. So his rationale was instead he couldn't pick 26. So he picked 12, which was the last case in these set of cases. It was like a little bit of a reach to get there. But you know what? I appreciate his his dedication to the number 26, which is a great number.
Yeah, okay. And I'm really excited about this show and why she appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother, also. Real. Mm-hmm. Another fun detail about this whole display was MG and her reaction. She was like, what is happening here? And you know what? I get it. Probably traumatizing for her to watch her brother thirsting over women. Yeah.
I apologize. It's not with Lindsey Clubbing is her name. Case number 26. Okay. What's she been in? Okay. Here she is in a police uniform. Oh, she looks like one. You know what? I think, I think our friend Dixon might like blondes. Yeah. Well, he picked Claudia. I think she was blonde at 1.2.
Okay. So there you go. But then he doesn't know any of her dealing with your model. That's her top three, baby. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She married a Boston Red Sox pitcher Clay Buckholtz, Jenny. Hey.
So, he's a great, he's an all-time great red sock. Listen, sometimes you're on reality, you're a hot blonde on reality TV in the early 2000s, and then you marry a baseball player. Yeah, tail is all this time, yep. Yeah, all this time. All right, anyway, so Dixon, first offer comes in, he even picks number seven, shout out to Luke for 421,000. He's gonna keep going, okay?
I feel like you never take the first deal. Why would anyone else you had like a real players board?
And also, it wasn't even in the middle. It wasn't even like, you know, it was like, I think it was three cases were lower and he had five on the board that were still higher. So it was like, you know, I would say that if the first offer was at least in the middle of what you had going on, then you may be considered if you're feeling a little stressed and you're like, I'm going to end up in a lot of 50, 50 situations here maybe, but like,
You're not taking it when there's five more cases out there that are higher than the offer. Now keep going. Okay. So he then goes number five for pool halls. Yeah. Oh, and then number six for Maria Grace, but I don't know why she keeps saying that. Okay. But anyway, so he's doing, he's doing great. Offer to comes in 1.45 million.
There's four cases that are left on the board. $1.75 million, $2.5 million and $5 million. And he says, no deal. Get in there. Get that money. No deal. That's an illegal call there. Get that money from myself, baby. Get that money from myself. Get that money on, that goo out, that skriller, that cheddar, that paper. Cheese.
Honestly, I am taking that big Dixon energy as I continue into 2025. I'm looking out for me, baby. For me, baby. Everybody was going crazy. That big Dixon energy.
They dig the long ball and big dicks and energy. I really feel like we're stepping all over my boy Nick from last season. Remember big, wicked Nick energy? Remember? Like that was a thing. Y'all don't go forget the OGs of Dylan Odila. I will keep the OGs alive here on this podcast. Okay. Nick, you deserve better. Okay.
I love Nick. It's just I've been traumatized by nicks on on reality television. So it was like there was a part of me that was protecting myself. All right. He opens up two more cases. One is 1.75 million and then he takes the $1 off the board and he gets put into kind of a tough spot. Okay. So he's down to 50 50 odds. Okay. Two point five mill or five mill.
Storm. The two highest cases too. Like that's wild. Yeah. Storm says to Maria Grace, he's our lucky charm. Protect him at all costs. Storm. Storm. Yeah. This is the album. Before we get to it, we really have to track the journey of storm in this episode. Storm Tracker, Chappelle. Right. Let's go out live to Storm Tracker.
Hi, it's me, Chappelle. I'm your storm tracker today with our storm report of dealer No Deal Island season four episode season two episode four. Here we are. Storm starts off the episode in a showman's. It's a very in a storm in a storm. A showman's in a storm is a very pulling showman's everybody knows about it.
Everybody knows about it. He then goes on to the excursion where he roots for his friend here, Dickson, to win the... I mean, he celebrates. Literally celebrates with Dickson hits his axe on the thing. He even gets a back rub from his girlfriend, his showman in this moment. He celebrates as well. He thinks that Dickson is just a nerdy guy. He's just a nerdy guy. No, he's not the smoothest, whatever. Let me talk to him. I can get him to make him move. Let me convince him. And here he is, the good luck charm.
This man is just watching like, if I was to her, I might be watching this just like throw away my remote at the TV like, God dang it. Cause it's right there. It's like a Shakespearean drama. He says to Dixon, you got to open your case. You got it. You got it. Give him good advice. I mean,
At this point, that is not just being results oriented in that, obviously, it's a good result, open your case. But it's like, you're getting down to 50-50 anyway. It's one or the other.
just commit to what what you chose. Like what is the reason to switch at this point? Christian, you'll explain what other there's a reason to or not. But I just think that like there's no reason to switch. You felt you felt a connection. You have to choose a number. You felt a connection.
Stay pot committed here. Yep. Mm-hmm. Well, yeah, everybody see that's the thing Rock should have stayed pot committed to last so but he's trying to play the odds You got to go with the field and rob these about the case you pick a joke, right? It's one of Philip's two laws in life. Stay in your lane And stay blinkety black like me. Mm-hmm. Yeah, okay. Yep. All right, so
Dixon, what is he saying to sure pal that he was just, he, he, he ends up with, I came here for the Super Bowl baby.
Yeah, I don't know. Not the playoff. He said, I don't come here for the playoffs. I came for the Super Bowl baby. Yeah. Yeah. And as a bills fan, that was a little. What do we do? What do we do? What do we do?
You can't get in the way with this. All right. So he opens it up. Five million, baby. Yeah. You see storm fist bump. Everybody's not so crazy. And it's like, wherever's so excited. But it's like, hold on, Dixon, there's still one more thing to do. You got to give us a name. Storm. Bloody storm. It's like a slow moving train wreck. Yeah. We all got to watch the episode back, knowing what's coming. And it's just like,
It's like the Simpsons episode with the like when Lisa breaks Ralph Williams heart. You can see the moment where his heart was ripped out of his chest. That's what I think of watching Storm celebrating. So happy, rooting his friend Dixon on not knowing what was to come. It's so bad.
All right, so we get a storm, it's storm. MJ's like, what? MJ's what? I thought you were friends. Yeah, no. We'll look pissed too. He's just like,
He looks just, he looks down. Dickson goes to storms and hey, I'm, I'll still come visit you. It's like, I don't want you to, I never want to see you again. I never want to see you. I think you need an invite. Yeah. I'm still going to come visit you. No, thank you. Stay away from me. It's my number. Yeah. This man took him out the game and ruined his showmates and all in one fell swoop. Okay. This is the ops.
If your storm, you should be saying, you better win this final case and take me on a trip and buy me something. Like, bro, make this decision worth it. Because what the hell? If you're going to visit me, you're flying on a private jet and you're picking me up and we're going somewhere. Dickson say out loud why he did it or only in professional.
I think only in confession, if I remember correctly, maybe I'm wrong. I thought he was talking out loud saying like, no, cause I remember he was saying, cause well, when he was starting off who he was going to pick, he said, you know, like regardless of whether he made a good deal or not, he thinks that they're all great people blah, blah, blah, but then he's like, I came to play. I made a lot of deals with people. Like he's saying too much, I think at this point where he's like, and then he says the best chance for him to win is to take out storm.
So and then he says, sorry, I came to play. So he's like reiterating that it's like, I know what I'm doing here. Like I am owning that this is a big move and I'm going like I'm swinging here. So it was just like, I love the vision. I just worry that like the confidence of, you know, the moment like,
You know, the Super Bowl, the lights got to him and he was just like showboating a little too much. And like, which is fun. I love that for him. But like, I don't love that for putting too much attention on you when you've literally just been proclaiming to all of your fellow competitors that you came to play. And they just watched you take out the guy who is playing under the radar and was your friend. Like, that's scary.
Yeah. Um, we never hear Dickson say that him and Stormer friends, you know, he's here for the game, you know? Um, but I think I think you're right. I think you're, I think they all like each other, you know, but I think you, I think you have a great point though. I think you can do this.
humbly and be like Storm I'm sorry I just don't think I could beat you in the end or even like Storm for my game this this is this is all I have to do like I don't really feel comfortable like you could play this down decent like not game on a storm boom bow take that you know and like for me
Storm is so low on everybody's threat level list. You know, like I was looking at the ranking. Okay. He's probably made right. He's made lower bottom. Yeah, like he's like, yeah, like the two lowers are like LaShel and Seychelle. And then right above there. Probably in the Jordan spot. Right. Like Storm, Nixon, MJ, MG, right? Like that, like that's a low hanging fruit. Nobody, nobody would really care.
about catches up. They don't really care about storm going empty would be upset. But none of them are really looking at this like a huge move. But the way Dixon delivers is like, no, take that checkmate baby.
my self baby. Dixon's like in reality. I'm looking out for myself, baby. Baby, baby. Such a yeah, it's the more I hear them where I love it, to be honest. He is going to be my 2025 mantra. Yeah, I think that, yeah, like he could easily just not not even make it about playing the game like strategic wise to just be like, listen,
There are enough of these physical portions of these challenges. And you've seen, you saw me throw an axe today, guys. And I just don't, I know that I'm not going to be able to beat a guy like Storm. And this might be the only opportunity I have to get rid of like someone physical. Like you could just totally blame it on the physical part of it. And then not make it seem like you're like, you're thinking about the game part of it, I think. But we saw that little glimmer back in the first episode, poverty collected too. You know, it's so interesting.
I would just love to compare Aaron who we talked to a couple of weeks ago and Dixon because I think that Aaron, while he knew the game, I feel like he had a big heart. Like I don't think he relished taking anybody out of the game where Dixon is built different. He's he is here to slip throats.
I think Dixon's been hurt. And I think that like, you know what I mean? Like, I think that it like kind of, it's like he's got like a score to settle almost where he's like, I'm here. He's even saying he's like, I want to prove people wrong. And I think where, you know, someone like Aaron, like he's just
He likes people, you know, and he gets, he doesn't take any pleasure in hurting other people. Like that's more his character. He wants to play the game, he wants to win. But I think that that's where maybe things differ, where it's like Dixon's whole non to something. He's like, he's like,
What better way to like have the last laugh than come out here and just completely like blow the competition away? All these people that are probably underestimating me. Just like maybe saying a little quiet part, a little too out loud too early. Well, yeah. He caught the attention of Dr. Will, who says, okay, I underestimated Dixon and I am coming for the family. And we leave things off. Yeah.
See, the family, it's still a bigger threat. Like the family in itself is such a big threat. I just love that. I love that. Has the family, I guess the big question going forward is, you know, Will obviously sees that he underestimated Dixon. He's a problem for him and has the family and what they represent.
become a higher priority target for someone like Will over CK. Or is he still going to say, this is a single person who is going to be trouble for me if they face the banker and make a good deal. Whereas strategically long term, I need to do something about the family, but I have to get rid of this direct threat to me first.
in CK. What do you think? I think that he had already gotten there. I think the idea that go back on his deal against CK was enough for me to say like, okay, he's identified that, okay, I won't go after her because if he really wanted her out, he could just go after her.
Yeah. And she can't take them out if she makes a good idea. She can't take them out. She can't take them out. He could literally go straight toward her and make her make a move, right? But he didn't. So I feel like already, he's kind of like, I need her out, but not enough to where I would go after her. I got to argue that maybe even if he beat the banker, he wouldn't have gone after CK. He doesn't have to. I don't think he loses any status with anybody. It's not like social suicide for him to go back on the deal. It's Dr. Will. They already hate him.
You know, so I think that for me, it looks like the family is just this big threat that everyone's going to have to tackle at some point. And this was just another notch in the like, yep, there you go. Exactly what I'm talking about. Look at it. Like we know mom and dad got game, but even the sun, even the sun.
Yeah. Okay. I mean, this is really shaping up into quite a game of thrones season of like, uh, where, where's this going? Who are you rooting for? Dr. Will's on one side. The family is on the other. And I think people are going to have to like gut check of what do they want to have happen moving forward.
Because they're not all going to play along. Yeah. Bring me back. Bring me back to night owls. They wouldn't stand for this. They'd shut this down. Okay. She's always longing for the night owls. He rides for them. Okay. Anything else from this episode of Don D.
Um, don't just that, uh, you know, we get to see, uh, the unprecedented, you know, storm is on his way out. He's doing his little like, I just lost the game confessional and, uh, Maria Grace, uh, pops onto the, the frame and asks if she could get, she can get something before he goes. And they have a little kiss. Yeah. And then storm goes, that was cool. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, wow, that was wild that they did that. I've never seen that done before. Yeah. Yeah. It's like Donnie has that romance. Imagine that in Survivor, right? The person's like, I was blindsided. I should have played my idol. And then somebody just walks in the frame like, Hey, before you go, I need to get something. Can I get your shot in the dark, please? You know?
But like Billy Garcia is like, can I go see Candice before I... Real quick. I just need to share a kiss with my one true love before you send me to ponderosa. Did I, Billy? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Get away from her. Get a job. Okay.
All right. What a night on Don the course. Check out the exit interview coming up with a storm. By the way, also check out the deal. You'll have to show with Boston Rob. I hear you'll get an exclusive on storms real name. It's not storm.
Oh, there's been a lot of names. This is like a season of fun names. So yeah, I find out what storm with storm is hiding behind the storm. All right. We got all that and more coming up. Huge week. We know Don the dot com. Jenny, what else is coming up for you?
Uh, not a whole lot. Just, uh, really, I feel like we're just starting to get, you know, we're heating up. Yeah. And, and Donnie at the place where he wave is moving in on the Donnie. Yeah.
hot front. Yeah. Is that what they got warm front? I don't know. Yeah, you can follow me on social media at Jenny Awesome. And I am appreciating all the all the love that Don Divas are I think I feel like the Don Divas have accepted.
Yeah, we follow the comments. Everybody has been really just, you know, super interactive with this season. So we're having so much fun getting to talk about this. Chappelle, what's next for you? Shout out to the Don Deviance as well. We still out here living life as well. You know, I'm around, catch me on recap, kickback, you know, talking about whatever I want to talk about this week. Mari and I, we went to the movies, not together, sadly,
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