You’ve seen it numerous instances earlier than. A Survivor participant ventures out into the jungle and finds a hidden immunity idol or benefit. It is available in a cute little package deal full with a parchment explaining what it’s, and when and the way it may be used. The participant is ecstatic, but has to now return to their camp with out in some way alerting the others to their discovery. In order that they do what so many gamers earlier than them have carried out: they stuff it down their pants.

Crotch idols and benefits are a lifestyle out on Survivor — we’ve already seen one this season on Survivor 49 courtesy of Sophi Balerdi — and the subject of those less-than-sanitary gadgets in some way discovered its manner right into a dialogue on the most recent episode of the On Fire with Jeff Probst podcast.

The impetus for the chat was a fan query asking what sort of materials the parchments for idols and benefits have been manufactured from, and the “sturdiness for when it's pouring down rain from the Fijian skies, or when gamers are out within the ocean they usually have notes of their pocket.”

Jeff Probst then launches into a proof on the podcast as to correct Survivor parchment manufacturing. “It's fairly thick paper that is available in sheets, large sheets, after which it's individually lower into the best dimension for whether or not it's a notice or a vote,” the host says. “After which it's aged by our artwork division, which incorporates all types of very delicate remedies, together with the work across the edges and the growing older course of that makes it look outdated and stained. So no two parchments have ever been the identical.”

As to the resilience of the parchment, “It’s surprisingly sturdy,” Probst notes. “I can typically inform when, say, a vote is used and it's been an additional vote, and you’ll inform that it's been in a participant's bag or shorts or shoved of their sneakers for a lot of days as a result of it's simply received all these little wrinkles, but it surely doesn't ever actually tear.”

The host in all probability thought (and hoped) the dialogue would finish proper then and there, however three-time Survivor participant Jeremy Collins (who cohosts On Hearth this season) then needed to weigh in.

“I can vouch for that, Jeff,” says Jeremy. “I've caught parchment in my pants quite a few instances, and it's the place the solar don't shine.”

Probst’s response? A clearly horrified “Oh, God.”

“It holds up, man,” says Jeremy, now in hysterics. “It holds up.”

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After all, Probst is all too conscious when somebody fingers him one thing at Tribal Council that it has probably sooner or later acted as Survivor underwear for the individual taking part in it, and the host simply has to face there and take it… actually.

“I’ll say each time anyone fingers me an idol, I'm very conscious that this has had its personal journey for a lot of days, and it's lived in many alternative locations.”

Which then results in this good change:
Jeremy: “I’ve handed you one!”
Probst: “Oh, thanks.”
Jeremy: “Go wash your fingers after this one.”
Probst: “Oh, I do.”

All a part of the job with regards to Survivor.

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