Listen Up Survivor

Is Jeremy still on the Hunahpu tribe? It definitely doesn’t seem like Jeremy wants to be a part of his tribe at all and would rather be in his own tribe. He is completely disgusted with his tribe’s decision to make a trade in order to gain the rice that they are in desperate need of. This trade to get the rice may seem like the smartest thing that Hunahpu could do, or maybe they weren’t really listening to Jeff Probst or were using selective listening when Jeff told them that the penalty for their rice would be very stiff. Jeremy was definitely listening. He knew that Jeff was going to clean them out and that’s exactly what he did. The tribe lost almost the entirety of their shelter in turn for the bag of rice. The rest of the tribe seems pleased and content with the trade, while Jeremy can’t believe that they could be happy about the trade. Listening in groups is much more difficult because there are so many different ideas and perspectives being discussed and listened to. Perhaps Jeremy’s idea and perception was too different than the consensus of the tribe and couldn’t get the attentive listening that he obviously deserved. On the next challenge, the Hunahpu tribe won a Survivor BBQ. I’m sure they sure wish they hadn’t made that trade now, as the rain absolutely pounded them all night while they were stuck huddling in the rain with almost no shelter.

Heading towards Coyopa’s tribal counsel, it seemed that Dale got John listening pretty good when he told him that he had an immunity idol and would give John that idol given he survived the tribal counsel that night. Maybe John was pseudo listening to give Dale the impression that he really was listening, although he did seem pretty convinced by Dale’s claim. However, I think John’s girlfriend had him listening and thinking much more critically, as she seemed skeptical about Dale’s claim to have an idol and obviously did enough to convince John to vote out Dale.