Wendell told in one interview they gave up their entire shelter for rice…. But when his tribe went to the reward he and Don stayed back and ä builded it up so fast after that, that the show cut it out. 😂
Rob was a construction foreman when he did his first season of survivor. I don't get how people find it so hard to believe that he can make a really awesome shelter when he's given a lot of tools and a huge amount of time.
Exactly. He knew what he was doing and had over a month with nothing to do but fish and shelter build. He's gonna do something with his time. Plus and this isn't a dig on Rob, he's way too proud to let production make him a kickass shelter and then him just take credit for it
i can see a few extra hands to help lift, move, or otherwise just assist with some things, but yeah coming from a construction background he definitely had the capabilities to make that shelter especially when theres not much else he has to worry about.
Agree. Not sure why people would doubt those two. She was probably weaving the roof while he put the structure together. It falls well within what we’ve seen from the two of them.
I'm a carpenter turned general contractor. If you can build a house that passes code and will hold up for 150+ years, shelters like those are a walk in the park. TBH I feel like mine would be much nicer than Rob's.
Rob and Amber is why my wife and i started watching Survivor and the Amazing race. She got me a Cameo from him on my birthday, it was awesome. In front of the Red Sox painting Amber got him
Hey Luke! Since 45 started and people are having trouble physically it reminded me of how hard older seasons were Have you thought about making a Top 10 hardest seasons of Survivor video?
This is on the list and would be such a fun topic, the difficulty for me is the research. After you get past the obviously toughest seasons like Africa, Guatemala, and Cambodia, every player ever seems to think their particular season was the toughest. I'll definitely do it someday though!
@@IdoledOut Kaoh Rong has to make the list for sure. Damn near half the players were medevac'd or came close to it, and Caleb's medevac was the scariest one in history even over Russell S.
@@IdoledOut I think Samoa should be up there, and Nicaragua should also be considered for one of the lower spots. The amount of rain they experienced was more than any other season I've seen.
I’m reminded of how Jeff mentioned in an interview once how he’d never go back to Marquesas because of the bugs, so I’d consider that a notable mention. Micronesia was also deceptively dangerous, given how many med evacs there were.
Rich getting richer. And attributed their wins/status to all the hard work they did and how the poor were just poor because they stayed lazy. If that wasn’t a realization to the rich that what you were handed over everyone else (family connections, good medical care, food, good schools) is why you are still rich and not your ‘hard’ work.
The clips of Amber watching with growing interest as Rob builds the shelter are kind of hilarious. I wonder if one day their kids will go back and watch mom and dad fall in love on live TV.
If you listen to Rob Cesternino describe their "courtship" of each other he'll tell you it was a week before they even hit the island that he saw the sparks. Their tribe was sequestered together at Michael Bolton's father's home in Panama (not making that up) and Rob remembers how close they were getting there and like the first night they were on the beach she was sitting on his lap at the fire and Rob is looking around like "what a couple of idiots", but it obviously didn't end up mattering.
Honestly, production might have given Rob some materials and tools (and maybe gave it a safety check) but I fully believe he built that, especially if they were truly living outside the whole time. Rob has the experience and knowledge and he strikes me as the type that struggles with being idle, it’s a good outlet for that energy. I’m a creative person who doesn’t really like being idle, give me 30 days of free time and some resources and I’d 100% be making stuff, I’ve been known to chaotically build and build Halloween decor when given the time😅 (Plus, I’m in the architecture field so a shelter isn’t outside the realm of possibility either, I’ve seen colleagues put together some crazy stuff in short time periods).
His first season he was idle and kind of lazy at camp. Their shelter wasn't that impressive for having a construction worker on the team. Its more likely the crew helped him on the island of the idles
Also, the Fiji group had Sylvia heading the whole construction after winning the supplies. She's been an architect since she auditioned for the show and still runs a pretty successful architecture firm here in the Bay Area so I'm not surprised their shelter came out really well.
How crazy good the Moto shelter in Fiji is always blows my mind since it seems to get better every time I see it. Like, Dreamz legitimately called it an upgrade from real life living conditions he'd previously had pre-show in a confessional. That has to be the only time being on Survivor has been considered an improvement.
I doubt the shelter Rob built in ioi was faked. The man has worked in construction and had nothing better to do on the island for over a month. Production might've provided a bit of assistance but I'm betting it was fairly authentic
I'd read that production offered to make a shelter for Rob and Sandra for Island of the Idols but they'd turned them down and said that they wanted to make that shelter themselves.
I'd say Chapera's shelter definitely qualifies. Yeah, they had tools, but they still had to design the thing and build it using their own skills. As noted, Rupert's Deathtrap is proof that this can be done poorly. If any shelter should be disqualified from the list, it's Koror's. All else being equal, I'd argue it's the #1 best shelter, but that comes with the BIG asterisk of "Built entirely by production, with their own materials and tools." I mean, they used a freaking chainsaw at one point. When are you going to see that on any other season of this show?
Can’t wait to see Bob and Bruce being passed out in the Charmin toilet with the remaining wine Casaya won as a reward in your top toilet moments countdown.
genuine question: what else would be on the list besides this and the koror reward bc i can't think of anything else (maybe that spa reward that was sponsored by charmin and had the decorative toilet paper everywhere ??)
@@uglyaniimalswell in a recent season a girl was so stoked she went poop in the ocean she’s very excitedly announced it to the whole tribe! That was hilarious.
I'd like to have seen them have a lavish camp and a bare bones camp, and if you win immunity as a tribe you have the choice to take the immunity, or keep the camp and make team members from the winning tribe do an on the spot hidden vote to determine if they take the immunity, or the camp. It seems they did that near the end, but it would have been more interesting to do it from the very first challenge.
You are discrediting boston rob for no reason, It looks more impressive than it is due to camera angles, Its a very simple structure, you can have the main structure of that built within a few hours if you know what you are doing, Plus he had the previous seasons build for practice, so it wasnt exactly his first rodeo, a quick internet search can also bring up allot of blueprints for bamboo structures which on his first season he said he'd done allot of research.
If anyone likes your video as much as she like watching that man put the shelter together, I hope they can't come within 500 feet of you and it's enforced by a judge. She was THIRSTY and couldn't hide it. Good video, you got a new sub.
*2012* ''I don't care how comfortable this looks, it would still feel like a nightmare sleeping in that'' *2023* ''Love that it faces the ocean and only 1200$ a month with a down payment of 50 grand, you say?... SOLD!''
When I first heard about the premise of Survivor Fiji I was excited, since I thought they were putting people who were wealthy in real life on one tribe up against people who were poor in real life. But then I watched the premiere and saw them do "rich vs poor" in the worst possible way.
It was such a frustrating season to watch pre-merge … I feel like they should have just given up on the way they were doing it and done some production shennanigary to change how they tackled the premise before the merge hit.
Rob built "most" of it... aka he did a quivk sprint up and down the beach to get sweaty, then picked up a saw or hatchet and just started hitting things. There is NO WAY that a man with no traditional island construction techniques and from Boston with another american could not have built that themselves. Its hard enough building a shelter out of found materials that is simply off the ground but 2 full stories and a prfectly tarped and canopied roof... yeah no chance. She me a time lapse abd maybe ill believe you. But no way they built that 2 story mansion themselves just 2 people in less than a month...
I was expecting to see Cambodia, when 5 were forced to give up individual immunity for it ( did 8 say yes? . That was a pretty badass shelter, and they finally got to play the game thanks to it, so much rain that season...
I watched the first 4 or 5 seasons of Survivor and turned off my cable since and haven't watched further. Since when did this show become less about surviving in a remote location without manmade resources and more about living next to a big box building supply store?!?
Willing to bet Rob was given schematics for that shelter and all the machetes and rope needed. As for actually chopping the bamboo and tying it, that was probably him.
No one in there right mind would pay any money to live at any of these shelters, no one quit saying, oh 3500 dollar place oh 300 a night b and b stop it your delusional it's disgusting
Ethan having to use the toilet in the village they visit on reward in Season3 because of the greasiest french fries i’ve ever seen. Bobby using the toilet in Season12 after the whole tribe decides to use it as storage leading to a fight with Courtney. Bobby and Bruce also from season 12 getting wine drunk in the toilet just for the tribe to find them still in there when they wake up. Any ideas for another 2 Top Toilet moments in Survivor?
Best toilet moment ever....was the toilet big Tom was wearing. Then Boston Rob said in confessional "thats not the 1st time he had his head in the toilet" 😂
this is the first time i saw this and this looks like when my father and uncles was having fun building shelter for us kids while they enjoy climbing the mountains- they dont have a freakin muscular body- they have the dad bod uh huh
yeah in survival situation good shelter can boost morale a lot. imagine the day of hardworking going back to heated shelter not a soaking wet sleeping spot.
Look im poor as dirt and I would would have made the same choice. I would merk a mug for coffee in a survival situation. And im sorry 99% of the people they put on these shows flat out suck, if you have access to bamboo palm frond and a machete esk implement and you cant build a near plaice like structure with that many people you just suck at life and natural selection should be allowed to run its course. between beach combing and the palm fronds you have more than enough cordage, more than enough sturdy material thats easy to work with. There is no excuse.
You do understand that the 2nd team spent their energy on building the good shelter, they were kicked from? And they didn't get food? Or water? Or tools? Can you use brain and add no food + no water + tired? What does it equals? NO ENERGY and no morale.....Just like in real life....
Being born n raised here in rural China and its like born in Ravu absolutely no chance of succeeding in life, impossible to get out the our financial situation, and even now I’m still too poor to go abroad even once despite teaching myself a lot of things even speaking a foreign language, my life is was predetermined by the so called “capitalism with Chinese characteristics”
