Is Carter the New JT? Survivor 51 Social Game Take
Clip · 19 Oct 2026
Summary
One host says everyone thinks Carter is a bit of a buffoon, but there are strategic chops there, or at least social ones. Whenever he talks to someone one-on-one, he seems to come away with a strong alliance that looks real. The other asks if it is the Southern twang. That is the JT thing, they agree, and if the comparison is to JT’s first season rather than his third, Carter becomes very interesting.
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0:00 Cody, I know everyone thinks that he's a bit of a buffoon, but I think that there's some strategic chops there, or at least some social chops there. Cuz it just seems like whenever he talks to somebody sort of one-on-one, and he makes these like really good alliances, they seem really legitimate. They like seem super >> Southern twang? >> It's a JT thing. And if you're if you're making comparisons with JT, no, maybe not season 3 JT, but season 1 JT, then like all of a sudden it becomes very interesting.