Welcome to Survivor Brothers: The Ultimate Unofficial Podcast from TV Guide. This week, Fox Van Allen and Lance Cartelli discuss "We Made It to the Merge!" the controversial and unprecedented eighth episode of Survivor 39: Island of the Idols.

They discuss Dan Spilo's unwanted touching of Kellee Kim (and his subsequent warning from production); Missy Byrd and Elizabeth Beisel's decision to exaggerate how unsafe they felt around Spilo to survive the merge, and the cruel gaslighting of Janet Carbin, who blew up her own game by standing up and doing the right thing.

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