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Brian Cohen

Brian Cohen

Sep 14, 2026

8:29
This is much more of a Dee move than a Devens move.
8:33
And I'm surprised they wouldn't just, like, showcase that, right? 'Cause at this point, we're in the endgame, so, like, you could set up whoever you wanna, you know, be your, like, your star of the show to potentially win.
8:42
Like, Dee's already built up to be, like, this mastermind, and Devens is more, like, a little bit more like the kooky character saving himself with the blockbuster, doing the gambling things.
8:50
Give Dee the full credit.
8:51
Like, the show, like, Dee's, they're showing Dee herself giving herself the full credit, being like, "I can't believe they kept me." Go all the way and be like, "I was the one who only saved myself." Devens is still, like, off to the side trying to do his own thing.
9:03
Just, like, dive fully in and give Dee, like, the 100%.
9:06
Like, this is her move, her arc right now.

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33:14
You, you look stupid.'"
33:39
You, you look stupid.'"
33:42
I just think for Yash, he was just, he was just so, like, 10 toes down in that nomination ceremony when Angela was like, "You're a liar.
33:47
You're a liar.
33:48
You're a liar," and he just doesn't wanna, like, go back to that and be like, "Well, I was lying about this, but I wasn't lying about the vote." And now he's just like, "I'd rather just be known as, I guess, a, a stupid player than a liar, because I've been so adamant that I'm not a liar." So he'd rather go down on the lying ship than realizing that, yeah, like, not putting up Devens is actually an atrocious play.
34:09
Like, why would you put up Devens is, or not put up Devens over Melody? That's, like, so stupid.
36:17
Yes
36:17
... like, will respect it more.
36:18
Like, "Yeah, like, I, I was gonna go home.
8:50
Okay, do you have a famous Rob?
8:52
Okay, this is not someone I support.
8:55
He's kind of a Looney Tune, but I'll do Robert Kennedy.

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25:06
[laughs]
25:07
Um, I mean, I think we probably have to go with our leader.
25:10
We've seen you do some videos dancing before, so I'm gonna go with Rob Sesternita.
43:22
Brian, do you feel like that you will be able to tell, uh, who makes the most, middle, and least money?
43:30
I think so.
43:30
Akiva gave me a good heads-up I'd be doing this, so I've been prepared for a long time.
43:33
So yeah.
44:23
Brian, what would be a great question to ask our panel?
44:26
Okay.
44:27
Let's see.
44:28
Choo, choo, choo, choo, for how much people make.
53:06
... and then them proving me wrong.
53:07
But it seems like, I'm sure Barrett probably read your book, Taran, probably a lot of good feedback and advice, but I think he might have actually read-
55:16
Never dissed.
55:17
So, but, but what's great is there's not some game-changing twist that's about to happen to, like, ruin everything that's happening this game.
57:16
But no, but is that, I, I, would they do that again?
57:19
I, I fear the twist could be something like, uh, Chuck automatically gets power.
57:25
Whoops, Chuck isn't here.
57:26
Closest thing, Angela's husband.
57:28
Angela.
58:08
We accidentally took out the wrong person, but that's the only reason it was bad, and we're gonna prove it by doing it again, and you're gonna love it this time."
58:18
Do we think, though, it has to play out this coming week? Because theoretically, if Evans didn't use the Diamond Power of Veto, that would've been in play for, like, this coming week, so they would have to have factored that into whatever, so-
6:46
Could you?
6:46
Yeah, for sure.
6:47
So in the US, they have an estate tax administered upon death, which is different than what we have here in Canada.
6:55
In Canada, when you die, there's what's called the deemed disposition of your assets.
7:01
So the day you die, your assets get assessed at fair value, and the CRA treats it as if you sold all of your assets.
7:09
There's certain exceptions, obviously registered investment accounts and things like that, and, um, you know, you can create trust structures to, to avoid this or, or defer, mitigate it.
7:19
But generally speaking, it's as if you sold all of your assets on the date you die, and you as an individual pay that tax.

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16:13
And is it a type of US corp we should be considering?
17:48
What do you think is the quintessential Joe move? What do you think is the move that most emblematically represents who he is as a whole?
17:58
I mean, it's really probably, in essence, the moment you talked about with Ava of her episode and him stepping outside the game, being that dad figure and really comforting her.
18:13
His strategic move is not going to be doing a 3-2-1 at a Final Six.
18:19
His strategic move is going to be forming a building block alliance with some of the male alpha, female alphas of a season and building a coalition and trying to breed loyalty amongst that.
18:33
He's not the type of player, unless he really has learned from 48 going into 50, he's not going to be that type of strategic mind that's going to be coming up with some grand scheme of doing different things.
18:42
It's going to be more of an overarching strategy move that's how he sets himself up for the full game I don't like I said I don't he's not going to be finding an idol playing on someone else did you vote for this but that's not his game that's not what he does it's going to be finding a group of six I think a group of four finding his very strong ride-or-die one and And try and arrive that to the end.
19:04
Like that is the Joe game, which other people have tried to do other people on this season, which is interesting.

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29:09
So Brian, what do you think is the level of trust right now with Joe and these two? And who do you think he trusts more out of Camilla and Kyle?
46:25
[laughs]
46:25
I'm very excited for that.
46:26
And actually, that's a shot at Natalie, Mr. Mike Bloom.
47:02
... about all this?
47:04
Oh, it's unbelievable.
47:05
It's very exciting.
47:05
Very exciting.
47:06
As um, I'm sure you guys have already said, it, it's gonna be pretty surreal to see him up on the screen again for the first time in so many years and see how many more people can experience, you know, this Rob that we've known for so long, and like get to see him and see how many people go back and watch the Survivor seasons and stuff.

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