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For his part, Phillip was glad to have a regular night’s sleep. He claims he hasn’t really slept in 36 hours because he was worried of what Brandon might do. Anyway, after confirming that everyone feels good about tribe unity - because what are they going to say, my tribe sucks? – Probst announces a tribe switch. He hands out eggs – he has two bowls of eggs, one bowl for women to pick from and the other for the men – and on cue, the castaways smash them to reveal what tribe they are on. Malcolm smashes his right on his face.

The orange tribe is made up of Eddie, Andrea, Malcolm, Reynold, Sherri, Erik and Brenda, while the purple tribe is Corinne, Phillip, Mike, Matt, Cochran, Julia and Dawn. I guess I’m going to have to learn the tribe names now. Thanks a lot, Probst!

First thoughts on the new tribes – they are both four “favorites” against three “fans”, which isn’t good news for the fans. For all of Phillip’s Stealth R Us weirdness, giving names to everyone and not making anyone really feel excluded actually worked out for him as there were no obvious outsiders who would be easy to flip. And within both tribes, only one of the obvious sub-alliances – between Sherri and Julia – was split up. Eddie & Reynold are together on Gota (the orange tribe), while Matt & Mike and Cochran & Dawn are on Bikal (the purple tribe). Phillip’s in a much weaker position, though – Dawn and Cochran are tight and Corinne doesn’t like him.

There’s some dull chit-chat about how different people are feeling with the change. Probst asks Brenda to assess the tribes, and her immediate response is that one tribe has all the young fit people, while the other has all the old and weak who should be staked out in the forest to be taken by the wolves. More or less.

After the break at Gota, Reynold is saying that he doesn’t see the other tribe beating them at anything. He probably said that when he first saw the “fans” like him and Shamar and Eddie face off against the “favorites” like Phillip and Erik and Cochran. Eddie thinks the switch is great because they have a “young, good-looking tribe." It must have been tough for poor Eddie, looking at all those ugmo “fans”. But he admits that theoretically the “favorites” can do whatever they want because it’s 4-3, but he thinks that due to the high levels of buff-ness and hot-ness, they won’t be going to Tribal Council soon.

Reynold and Eddie immediately start dishing the dirt to Erik and Malcolm, and Erik gets a rare interview, saying they were pushing to immediately get Sherri off the island, which “raises red flags,” especially as “Reynold is like a used-car salesman.” Eddie, talking with Reynold, Malcolm and Erik, talks about how Sherri is probably over there getting a new alliance already. Like that’s not what he is totally doing. Chicks, right Eddie?

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