RHAP: We Know Survivor - Survivor 50 Wish List Vote Reveal

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

Today, Mike Bloom, Rob Cesternino and Shannon Gus reveal the Top 20 contenders in the FINALE of the Survivor 50 Wish List!

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job. This summer, we have talked through every single Survivor contestant. We have put a good amount of them on a fan-voted ballot. And now, tonight, we will get, as voted on by you, the 20 Survivor contestants to make the fan cast of Survivor 50. My name is Mike Bloom, and I am so happy to be here. I've dressed up in a black tie affair. I realize now, in retrospect, I look a lot like SpongeBob, but that just means I'm ready. I'm ready to talk about these people. Actually, I didn't even realize that this is,

I believe if my math is right, our 50th Wishlist podcast, which works out incredibly fittingly. So let's go around the board. Yeah. and talk about who is here to join me of course you heard her melodious voice as you have been this entire summer shannon gush shannon how are you i'm great i love that you're dressed all fancy it's adorable um yeah i was like wow 50 what are the odds right because you did one per season there are 46 seasons then you did a couple of extras and now it's not amazing but it still feels cool all right i i you know we're not amazing that's another show that's amazing but it's superb perhaps uh and of course this man is very superb because this guy has been joining me since the beginning stopping in throughout the wishlist series and maybe one

of the names we talk about tonight he is on a razor's edge right now. It's Rob Sesternino. Pins and needles, Mike. Very excited to be back here with you both to talk about this. You know, it was back in May that is that when the Summer of Survivors started? Is that when the Survivor 50 wishlist started? And so to have it all come together tonight. Amazing.

Mike, what you have been able to do with this wish list, the podcast, the response, it has been absolutely a marvel to watch you cook. And so, Mike, really just this is beyond any expectations that that we could have ever imagined so congratulations thank you so much i mean you are putting words in my mouth but i completely agree with everything you're saying and i i know i've expressed this before uh when it comes to the top 50 reveal i this morning on twitter you know i shouted out each and every person from the RHAP and Survivor community who joined me for those daily podcasts. But I cannot express how much gratitude I have to everyone who engaged with this project in some way, shape, or form, whether it's those that came onto the podcast, whether you listened to one, whether you listened to all 50,

whether you voted in either round of the ballot, to those who shared the ballot, especially, again, the Survivor alumni who did, who came out of the woodwork. It just absolutely blew me away. One of the happiest blind sides I've experienced in my life. And this was, it's not a labor of love if you love the labor. And I had such a fulfilling time getting to do this, no matter what happens.

I'm a journey over a destination type of person, but I truly feel like Jeff has talked and will talk in a future interview with me that will be posted at a later date about how he wants 50 to be a celebration of this milestone season accomplished by this incredible show. And no matter what happens with the cast we get tonight

or the cast we get on season 50 proper, getting the opportunity to really take a walk down memory lane across nearly 25 years of the show that we hold near and dear to our hearts was such an honor. And a Jervis who did make the short list at one point. And so I just so much love in my heart for everyone who has engaged with this project in some way, shape or form. And for you, Rob, for putting the trust in me to guide this ship. Yeah, well, look, Mike, Survivor may not have the rites of passage anymore, but you certainly went on a three month rites of passage and went through every single person that has so far ever played this game. And it's all to get us to tonight. All right. So let's all to get us to tonight. All right. So let's get to tonight, shall we?

No more dilly-dallying here, though on Summer Survivor, we love to dilly-dally. Let's talk about what we're going to do. So again, many people voted in this final round where we winnowed down the first ballot to the top 50 vote-getters.

And tonight, I have your top 20, the people that would fill out this theoretical cast of Survivor 50. And of course, we could only reveal this cast in truly the most Survivor-themed way possible. And what's more Survivor-themed than an island-based show that is featuring more and more Survivor alum as the seasons pass. Let's go a little deal or no deal-esque, shall we, folks?

What's more Survivor-themed than an entirely different show? Exactly. Also set on an island. Maybe next time we should do a Dondi wishlist. Oh. Ooh, I mean, that's emphasis on short in shortlist, but that's certainly something

worth pursuing for a two-day period but what i have set up for you tonight 20 cases in front of you and no there are no dummy amounts i am making no offers everything is final these are the 20 people in our fan voted cast of survivor 50 it's quite simple shannon rob you two are in the hot seat oh you are going to pick a number you're the banker are you gonna make a deal mike no i'm i'm the howie oh uh could you not tell from like my shiny forehead uh but basically what we're gonna do is you pick a number i reveal who that person is and maybe we'll talk about them and just to be completely transparent i am going to shuffle the boxes. Oh my God.

I'm going to follow it. Oh my God. You can do that. I have friends who can do that on the arcade game. What are you following? The number 13 where it went? Yes. But how did you know?

Is that a Swifty reference? Because that's where I'm going. Go and pick my 13. All right. So there you go. You have one through 20 right now. The world's your oyster. By the end of

this we'll have our full cast of 20 we'll give our thoughts on these people as we go along and let's uh we'll finally put this thing to bed after a you know very long night over the course of three months okay man it's been long all right mike anything else you want to set up and again just for to be clear with everybody i know nothing i have mike you can testify to this i have not wanted to know anything about the vote how it went who's on the board i know exactly the same amount as the viewers and the listeners do yes there are only two people right now who have the skeleton keys to who these 20 people are. Myself and Sam Moore, who I also have to thank alongside Scott St.

Pierre and Jess Sterling and everyone in RHAP behind the scenes for making sure all of those daily podcasts went out smooth as silk. And so we are the only ones who know who these 20 are. So we are the only ones who know who these 20 are. I will say, you know, I put out on social media a petition that every vote counted. And that was very, very true. The margin between number 20 in the votes and number 21 was 30 votes. Okay. Out of thousands.

So that's crazy. You all went out and you went to the polls. Yeah, we shall see. Listen, everyone has their thoughts about how casts end up at the end of the day. But thank you to everybody who did vote and let their voice be heard, no matter what that voice might be. Yeah. Also, shout out to all the survivors who mostly have been pretty good sports about this. And, you know, pretty damn good sportsmanship, man. Taking this for the exercise it is of that it is all in good fun yeah i think everyone's had a lot of fun with it and everyone's just been like

really happy along the ride with no um grievances so that's really good that's what you want and if you and if you do have grievances about the cast at Shannon Gates on Twitter, she is receiving them all with a smile and an open palm. That's me. That's how I that's usually how I accept grievances. OK, smile. All right. All right. So we are going here until the top of the hour.

Also, to our big brother coming up starting at eight o'clock. I will be live to recap a two hour Wednesday Wednesday night Big Brother coming up at 10.15. So just the start of a long night here on the podcast. And we'll get a two-hour Survivor premiere as well in just a few weeks from now. So it's a good warm-up, Rob. Okay. All right. Getting ready for my Wednesday night marathons.

All right. Well, what's to be first and how do we decide that? It's up to the two of you. Shannon, no, just go. Whatever. Pick a random number. It's one to 20. I'm happy to say this paper rock. Nope. Just go. We don't have all the time. I want number 13. I want number 13. All right. We're starting off with number 13. Let's see if this is a lucky pick for Shannon. Our first contestant on Survivor 50 is.

Andy! Wow! What a pick I got! A banger... Angelina. Wow. What a thing I got. A banger to open up. Yes. Okay. Mike, are we learning anything else here other than this is one of the people?

I will not disclose any other information. You can certainly ask questions along the way, but I do reserve the right to plead the fifth. Any surprises to see Angelina on here to make her way back to reality tv after her sterling scripted cameo in the white lotus season two um not a surprise here for me i mean i didn't draw up a list or and full disclosure i did not vote don't get mad at me anybody you didn't vote after i just said you should feel bad if you didn't you didn't vote uh you should feel bad it was my place. It is your place.

Are you a watcher of the show? I mean, you did have a place on the ballot. Yeah. So, no, this is not a surprise for me. I feel like that this was like one of the people when you talk about like who should come back for a season, who should have already been brought back. Can I have your Angelina, please? I think we found that in Summer Survivor. Can I have your?

Yeah. So Angelina, one of the most snubbed people by COVID. Like by the New Year. Angelina, yes. One of the people most screwed by COVID in the history of the United States. In Survivor returnee terms. Obviously, don't send people to complain to me and then put words in my mouth

that will be taken to the Outer Context account and look bad. No, I mean, like, there are some people from Ghost Island, not Ghost Island, it's early, from David versus Goliath, who would be, like, three-time players had they played in 27, if not 37. But they're one-time players

because we did, like, Winners at War, and then we went to the new era. So those are people who have to come back soon and i expect them on the ballot definitely and angelina is definitely one of them so yeah great pick shannon thank you you did this is gonna be teams right and we'll vote on who has the best team oh i like this yeah boy style these are the tribes i will. All right, Rob, then let's start drafting for your tribe. Who's next? Stephen in the chat, not Stephen Fishback, Stephen C said, Rob needs to pick six.

So, shout out to my friends back at the Amazon. It's Butch's birthday today. Shout out. Happy birthday, Butch Lockley. Hope he's blowing out some candles. Give me number six. All right, Rob does a pick six, which is hopefully not any that Aaron Rodgers will throw in the NFL season.

Kelly Wedgwood. Not a bad pick. I feel like people will be divided on the picks that have played multiple times. Yes. But for me, Kelly, if you're going to have someone who's played multiple times, Kelly's like at the top of that list for me. I feel like she's always good TV.

I always love seeing her back. She was someone I wanted to see back. I just feel like a lot of people want one time as a lot of people want old school, but I love Kelly. I cannot quibble with the pick at all, but I, now correct me if I'm wrong.

I thought that Kelly said she does not want to play again. Don't do that now. again. But pretty intense research. Did she clarify that? I contacted her privately and she told me that she actually would be more. All right, then. Now we know this is great news. Your commitment to journalism like you in that tie as well.

Like you're professional. Now we know all good journalists wear ties. That's our foot in the door. Yeah, that's it. That's the one metric of that. Okay. Okay, well, great. This is a great start to the season.

Yeah, this is good. This is good. It's an interesting representation, though, of especially what we saw with the top 50, the various capacities that people voted in. And it certainly garnered a lot of comments as to we really cut a wide swath of like, with not knowing the theme of 50,

is it legends? Is it best to never win? Is it second chance? Is it only new era? Giving people kind of carte blanche to vote, the results were understandably scattered. And that's already reflecting here on our cast. And now we have a four-time player in this case

and someone who hasn't returned yet. I will say my one gripe, I want her on australian survival she covered australian survive with me this year i want it for us like don't take her you have so many people but that's a gripe the chat is saying mother convention already mother convention all right early survivor let's see if we can keep it rolling i didn't have much of a choice after 13 i'm gonna go five my cat's birthday. All right. Let's see

who Kelly's next door neighbor is. T-Bird! Wow. Look how we keep it rolling. Yes. Incredible. Here we go. We are doing what unfortunately the public could not nearly a decade ago.

The fans have given teresa t-bird cooper officially her second chance on survivor 50 yes justice finally all these years later i mean that t-bird would rock it she would be so great uh she is such a wonderful energy and just like the nicest person ever but she's competitive she'd slit your throat but she's so nice don't tell people that right before 50 i guess you whispered it so it's fine um no i feel like there's not there's not any survivor players watching shannon oh for sure they don't care about the players don't care about what the fans think which is good um t-bird i hope that production look at this and realize that i don't know what went wrong in 31 with the vote but t-bird

should have been on the season it was a great season anyway but t-bird should be on survivor again i hope they know that we want t-bird on the show old. Old school, one time, non-winner. That's what most people want. T-Bird, like absolutely representing. Not to mention as well, I think an old schooler that has a lot of connections to the new era, certainly someone that watches all the seasons

and obviously has many connections throughout basically every era of Survivor. You know, she really is a constant through this equation, just through all the connections that she's been able to make and yeah her energy somebody should bottle that because just the the joie de vivre that she contains uh has me certainly going for miles and miles every time i listen to her just one of uh the greatest people ever t-bird all right rob you're probably disappointed that you couldn't add t bird to your team but

let's have the other one are there even any men on this season is this did did y'all voted all women oops all women for survivor 50 i mean that's very progressive could you imagine if that was the theme all women women i don't think they should call it that what would they call it no men no men island yeah that's really like a soft way to do it we're not gonna that's really market testing of like well we're not gonna say all women but if we say no men that might come no survivor 50 no men allowed okay that sounds actually pretty good people would like it okay all right all right some people would hate it christmas you're gonna draft in survivor all women wow i'm really really going straight. I woke up early

for this crossover. All right. The chat says Rob got to pick 10 for our birthday month. Thank you, Chris. OK, go for 10. That's my 10th birthday month.

I love how you're doing this Price is Right style of just looking to the audience of what number to pick. Well, Mike, is there a better system to base the random number picking on?

I don't know. You watch Dondi. Don't people come up with asinine strategies all the time? I'm getting like a feeling from number 14. We're going to open all of them. It's not like we're going to pick two and they're

not going to get on the cast. That's true. There's no... Imagine if they did the Cambodia vote like that. There's no whammy in there. I don't think. I mean, your mileage may vary. I was going to say that you should have showed us and then turned it so we could follow it, but then I'm like, no, then we would have seen the whole cast.

All right. Number 10 for Rob is Don't you have a strategy Not about I'm sad to not have you on my team, sorry Yeah, Wow, I mean incredible and I'll have you on my team. Sorry. That's my cat's boat. What are the chances? That's why I was going to go next. Yeah. Wow. I mean, incredible. What are the chances? I mean,

could we just... What are the chances? 50%. Could we... I mean, we should stop down just for a moment to acknowledge

this achievement. Yeah. That on a poll of Rob as a podcast listeners Yeah, which Rob is that? Rob Sestranino has gotten in the top 20 of a vote.

Pretty incredible. Well, I'm glad because if that hadn't have happened It would look worse. That would be for you. You'd never get to play ever. That would be so much worse. We're coming up all dressed up with nowhere to go uh truly flattered i want to know well i don't think we're gonna find that out yeah uh no truly flattering uh thank you all so much for uh to the uh the many people that voted for me to come back.

Truly an honor. There we go. And I do think as well in Survivor, no men allowed, where you're allowed one man, like the one homer and the no homers club. Rob is great for that. Rob and all women.

And I think Nicole will be happy with that too. Yeah. Well, I was going to have Kieber host the know--Alls while I was gone, but now we're totally... Wow. Oh, I hope you're first out. Well, there we go. So the first two picks, we got two mothers, and we've got two podcasters as well.

Pretty evenly divided. I think we have four mothers. Rob's mother. I think we decided that when we did... Well, didn't we figure out, was he father or zaddy? We never did that podcast. He was both. Okay. Well, well done. Congrats to you yes thank you rob i am very i am extremely flattered uh by the response and so thank you uh thank you so much to other people that think that that would be a good idea.

Yeah. I feel like I won because my season that I covered with you, Mike, Amazon got someone on. Rob. There you go. That was your long game. That's what you wanted at the end of the day. Representation.

Rob-presentation, if you will. And here we have it. Shannon, back to you. You lost out on having Rob on your team, but there are plenty of stars out there. No, I'm done. Are there any other good numbers? I mean, that was all. I think so.

I bet there are, yeah. I'm going to do the number one ranked season of Survivor. Season 20. Give me 20. Wow, alright. Going on to 20. We have Jesse Lopez. Back to back Caroliners here.

Yes. Evening out the gender distribution now. And our first new era representative on the season. Okay, I wonder when we get done with the 20, how many new era, how many classic era are we going to get? But Jesse, another one, I think that

in the same camp as Angelina of like when you say like, all right, quick off the top of your head, who are people that they should bring back? Jesse, very much top of mind. I think a another great job by the voters. Yeah, I do think that Jesse, when you look back, even through six seasons of the new era and you're asked like, and again, this is only one theme, but like who are some of the best players to never win in recent memory? Jesse is certainly someone that comes to mind considering just how wide of a swath he cut into the game of Survivor 43,

being behind what Jeff Probst calls a Hall of Fame, Mount Rushmore move, one of the biggest betrayals in Survivor history, and obviously has a big chance for redemption in the way that he went out in fire. I'd be intrigued to see Jesse on a return of, obviously he was able to disguise a lot of what he was doing behind the scenes

because he wasn't really suspected of doing any of that. I do wonder that now that people know what Jesse is capable of, if that is something he can necessarily do the second time. But Jesse is also a very nice and personable guy as well, that he might be able to get over his reputation preceding him. Yeah. It'll be very fun to watch, you know. Well, you won't be watching.

Yeah, sure. I hope he's the one who cuts you. Great job by the voters. voters yeah and now we're getting to the whole raleigh alliance i think with the raw alliance now with jesse i feel like he could come on to a bunch of different themes right like we don't know where they're gonna go but if it's modern which we think it might be if it's like a second chance he'd be great for that even for like legends if they want modern people jesse has loomed very large with how he controlled 43. So, good pick.

Your pick. My guy Chris in the chat saying, Rob, I'm feeling 13. Chris, they already picked 13. That was Angelina. It was a great pick. It wasn't even available. He's just giving his age, Rob. I feel 15.

Well, you should be in bed. Okay. All right. Hmm. Yeah. All right. In honor of my amazing run in all stars says, Oh,

Rudd, give me number eight. All right, let's move left side of the board is very lonely. All right. Well, let's see who the first member of team left is here. Chance.

Wow. Another new era. Mastermind. Good one. Shan. Yeah. Another new era mastermind. A good one. Shannon. Yeah, I mean, we talked about this, that season 41, you know, is sort of remembered a bit oddly

and just all the stuff that it brought about. A lot of new in the new era as to what characters stick around in the minds of the fans. Shan is absolutely one of them. Okay. All right. Shan was really just

such an important figure in Survivor 41. In a lot of ways, it's her story until it's not. And even there's like in the wake of her not being there, she cast such a large shadow over the season.

I am a little surprised in terms of I am thrilled to see her on the list, but I wasn't sure necessarily that she had the support of the voters. Yeah. Well, I mean, listen, we'll certainly get into this,

that, yeah, I think that sometimes social media footprint does not necessarily represent, you know, fan support that there are people that, regardless of, like, whether or not they still talk about the show, that they still loom large in the minds when people think, especially about the new era.

Shane was only on three years ago. Seems like a lifetime. Feels like a lifetime, yeah. It's good that she's, like, stayed present in the votes then. I mean, that's only a year before 43, and we aren't surprised by Jessie. But 41 does seem like a long time ago. I also thought with Shan,

there might've been like some production question marks, whether she'd even be put on the ballot, and now she's here in the top 20. So I think if she can get past any of the drama, she's a good pick. I mean, she had her own theme song. Mm-hmm, yeah. How many people can we think of?

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Invest with RBC today. All right. Back to Shane. Look, a lot of people in the chat have a lot of things they want me to pick. With a lot of cats' birthdays, it's hard to choose all of you. I'm going to go two because I have two cats. All right. Number two for the kitties. Okay. Venus Vapa! Wow!

From one big new era character from the early period of the new era to a later new era period character. Venus! Yeah, and this is not surprising yeah yeah the with the the uh big fan support venus support as big as a planet i would say i mean venus definitely and it's even tough to say considering the personality filled cast of 46 but definitely one of the bigger

personalities had this storyline of becoming an outsider and fighting against and taking out the people that she felt ostracized by, only to be one of the many people to go out, nearly several, with an idol in her pocket. There's a lot of second-chance qualities from somebody like Venus. And look, I saw some people in the chat saying,

like, well, I wanted to vote Shan on because she'd bring the drama. Venus would make Shan look like an episode of Full House. Okay. Weird analogy, but I get what you're going. Mercy. This is an interesting one because I feel like there'll be a lot of people

kind of upset now that we've done three new eras in a row, but those people wouldn't be upset about Venus. So I feel like some people are torn right now. It's like, it's getting very modern, but for Venus, it's okay. She's a new era player that I think represents an old school value that I know a lot of people were talking about.

Yeah, I think this idea of like being very open, having, you know, being able to bring conflict into an era that I think is mistakenly kind of regarded as like too ooey gooey, sappy. Venus is somebody that I think helped contribute to the feeling of 46 feeling like a season outside of the new era.

Okay, wow. But much like Shan, from a drama perspective, like would they? Maybe they'll just have to like take her Twitter password and put her on the show. Let it play out on the island. You want to know what you're playing for? This is the two-factor authentication

to Venus's Twitter account. Okay, all right, wow. So, all right. Back to me. And bottom row is very unopened. I want to fix that. Of course. That's so important.

Symmetry. I am going to say in honor of 18 for Stephen. Actually, it would be JT based on jay cocaine's i didn't say this was the jay cocaine uh system it's implied yes okay um how about let's just go with a uh 16 people all right 39 days Actually 18 and 26. One. Person going on to your team. Who is?

Amanda Kimmel. Wow. That's genuinely shocking to me. So you talk about, I didn't know how people would get on without any social media footprint. Amanda Kimmel was like that second set of footprints that disappears on the beach. She's somehow walking beside you. She's carrying us. Wow. Reddit cannot be stopped. Anddit cannot be stopped and good for them and good for them amanda kimmel i'm genuinely like

this is this is like love amanda kimmel what she contributed to the show in the middle age of survivor is incredibly important not her middle age no carmel age yeah no i'm sure shannon she's older than your denoted middle age of 35 this is so interesting Amanda Kimmel so okay Amanda Kimmel is out there I feel like she's

not only is she like hey who's Shan but she's also like who's T-Bird she is in the middle she's in the middle she She's in the middle. She doesn't know the people before. She doesn't know the people after. He could know for real.

She's like, where's Rupert? Yeah. Is Rupert at the top 50? Do I get to play with James again? I can only play with James. Yeah. This is shocking for the reason of like, I feel like people are against it

when it's like the multi-time legends, but then like with the name recognition of like the poverty and stuff, you think they're just going to get through. But for a man to get through, I mean, I guess it was like a niche. We don't know. We don't know if poverty is here or not.

Well, that's the thing though. Yes. Amanda played three times. Amanda played three times in five seasons. She has not been on since 2010. We have had two us presidents since Amanda Kimmel has played Survivor. That's crazy to me. And she and Poverty,

they were the duo. Yeah, I remember. I do remember Amanda Kimmel from Survivor. What I've also found some interesting discourse around when it comes to these votes is like, I kind of feel like low key Amanda Kimmel, though obviously the big joke is that she can never win.

She made it to back-to-back final tribal councils and lost in the end i feel like the new era game like the emergent playstyle is not too dissimilar from like the way amanda used to play right which is like be a stable personality and don't be too much of a threat get in with a good alliance and then make your way to the edge yeah so i actually think think Amanda could, if she even She's probably going to win. Yeah, if she brings the same set of skills in she'll, well, we know she'll place at least second. Good night, everybody.

Um, Rob, you should know that. Take it to the end. You can win. I'm just saying for your season because you're going out to Fiji tonight. Get the bag. I think, like, for Amanda, there could be a fun theme around old versus new school, and she would represent part of that.

But from a legend season, you'd think that maybe others would get in. She's not a one-time player. I'm just trying to find the theme. I think old versus new, that's the one for Amanda. I didn't expect it, but look, the Amanda stand is can't be defeated. So good job, Amanda Kimoers can't be defeated.

So good job, Amanda Kimmel. Good job to them. Good job turning out. She's getting paid, right? Okay. All right. Yes. You don't remember all the concerted efforts of Amanda Kimmel flying banner planes over every continent on the globe?

I got it. I see it here in Australia. Okay. All right. We still have to get through what? We got 12 more to go. All right. Yeah. All right. I'll got uh 12 more to go all right yeah all right because i love steven all right this one this next pick is going out to steven fishback and it is

okay yeah from one runner up to another no that's that's great for Dom Abate. I had kind of thought that just like sort of like thinking it through, thought that maybe Dominic Abate had kind of got left behind. I think that he was a shoo-in to come back after 36, but then immediately followed by 37, all the people from 37 and people from 38, and then the new era. And then I thought that maybe he was a little bit forgotten in the minds of the voters, but they did not forget.

Well, I also think, you know, he has this appearance on the challenge USA because he's pretty much like, I don't know when I'm coming back to Survivor. And it was pretty unmemorable and it's kind of largely regarded alongside the shit show of an ending. But yeah, I think the idea

of what Dominic brought to Ghost Island, and especially the fact that he is the person that has come closest to winning. I know Amanda has gotten there twice, but Dominic was one Laurel away from a million dollar prize. There is a lot of appeal in that storyline. Some feel he is one of the best players to never win the game. And I think he is a shoo-in for that type of thing. Yep. Good pick by the voters good job i um i do think that as we talk about that era like if no covid

happens and they keep going with the way they were going on returnee seasons and they have one in like 43 like don't play multiple times by now more than two probably so i don't want him to get overlooked i don't want it to be like new era or not it should be modern if we're going that way and don't fit into that all right so you're happy or no shannon no i am happy i love dom all right i think he's a good pick i think he got screwed over by covid the most screwed over by any of anyone okay you're just bringing it on to yourself at this point no i'm just sarcasm doesn't come across. We just picked Angelina.

We just picked them about a, uh, who's in the middle. Number 17, uh, for my favorite met Keith Hernandez. All right, let's see.

Will we be spinning on this pick or not? Let's see. Number 17 is Natalie. But what a week for Natalie Bolton. Yes. Micronesia. Of course, she appeared on Dropout recently

alongside Seri and Parvati. And Ethan just came out of the woodwork. She was in, I think it was Out Magazine. She did that random photo shoot with Parvati. It really is the year of Natalie Bolton, evidently. Yeah. Ready for the comeback. Here we go.

I hope the production see that the fans have been demanding for Natalie to come back for decades now for so long and it's not coming down anytime soon i love the black widow brigade reunion that we're having here in the boxes not domabate but if we move it over amanda and natalie the fans have wanted natalie bolton back for so long as you said she is doing things making sure she's you know being seen wants to be on tv like would you really do you think natalie bolton truly will ever play a survivor again like in your heart of hearts yes or no i'm gonna manifest it this was i mean this is like do you think so i mean look that if you would have asked

me a year ago i would say probably probably not, but things are changing. Yeah, she got voted into this poll. Natalie Bolton has increased her public appearances. She's on TV. That's the thing. She's increased her public appearances 300% between like 2008 to 2023

and 2024. If there was ever a time to appear back in the public sphere. You got to roll with the punches, Shannon. A couple of months ago, it looked like Joe Biden was running for president. We don't get that over here in Australia. Things change. Okay.

That's just a random analogy. They should have a polling question of how does that resonate for you in the bedroom? Yeah. Yes. Okay. Or in the closet. exactly all right everyone's one natalie bolton she was always getting on this ballot i see everyone go check out a dirty laundry on dropout by the way it's a very fun time and you you'll learn some things about survivor contestants that we still didn't know about them going on 20 years all, Shannon, back to you. All right.

Does anyone have a cat's birthday that they want to give me? You should ask the chat if anyone has a cat's birthday. That's what the chat's been giving me. Okay, I'll do three because there's three of us. The three amigos that have been here all summer doing this. All right. Number three for Shannon is Todd Herzog. All right.

All right, All right. Amanda, you got your buddy back. It is Todd. Amanda's going to know at least somebody else. Okay, good. Does she remember Todd? I think she would. She would probably remember Todd.

Look, Todd gave me that great pop. That was awesome. Todd's pop pop. Todd's side hustle of, I guess guess the first one being a survival winner and the second one being his job of making the pops is great I love my pop thank you Todd Todd Herzog coming back a great

one time player who it would be I think just iconic for him to return in this spot I think when he played on China, I remember, you know, it was the first time since like the days of Richard Hatch and Brian Hyde

that people were saying like, oh, this is a strategic villainous character that went on to win the season. Todd, of course, an incredibly unique perspective as well. He was this like young gay Mormon flight attendant. And then, of course, a huge journey for Todd off the show where he succumbs to addiction and was able to overcome that

and is now sober and is doing incredibly well. And I think it's just, it'd be so incredible. Todd is such a big fan of this game as well, even from when he played to now. And I think we unfortunately missed that boat in Winners at War, but we're coming back around to the dock for 50 and I hope Todd gets on this first winner that we've seen uh revealed this is the first winner okay all right fans uh seemingly did not vote winners we'll see we still have

we're halfway there could be all the winners at the end here okay all right is it back to me either no it's back to back to shannon now you just made your pick okay no i picked todd i said the three best friends us the three amigos three best friends okay how could you forget that it was very memorable all right let's see um don't know if any of these uh give me number 12 i saw joe nameth all right number 12 who will be number dirty dozen here it is christian what's happening there's a little lion thing here we got a david next to a goliath yep yes the most screwed by covet of anyone christian who bicky would be a five-time player if they had kept going i'm i'm literally a mainstay he would just be the john he'd be the john Bananas of New Era Survivor. It's crazy to think how many times

Christian would have played if he played in 27 instead of 37. Somebody else who I think you make a short list of people that deserve to come back and should have been brought back. And I think that Christian is right there at the top of that list. And so great job by the voters to recognize that

and make their voice heard that Christian should be back. I know in Christian's endurance, I think Christian could just talk for 26 days straight. Now that the game is a lot shorter, he can just filibuster the entire time. He doesn't need a break

like he did in David versus Goliath. I'm excited for the Christian. The comptroller of Slamtown. He's here. That we're getting on the season. That is definitely happening with these people. But if Christian doesn't play survivor again, something is wrong with the world.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Now I believe it's back to Shannon. Yeah. Fair enough. We'll in the chat says 15 for Taylor Swift. Taylor has a lot of numbers.

One of them is 15. When you're 15, I'm going to pick that box. She gets 13 and 15. She has a lot of numbers. One of them is 15. When you're 15, I'm going to pick that box. She gets 13 and 15? She has a lot of numbers. Shannon's next pick is Kayla. Okay.

A Shot in the Dark by Shannon hits. Yes, great pick. Really excellent pick. Very fun. I think people really want Kayla back. I think he's exceptional casting i think i wish we'd gotten to see more he like i feel like he and emily

defined the first half of the season then then he goes home he has a very memorable shot in the dark moment but he also has more than that i'm really excited about caleb this was this was a someone i wanted to see this was someone i got on my team yeah i think regarded as uh one of the biggest underdogs of the past couple of seasons in particular like you said contributes to a first one of the first big advantage-based moments that we have in the new era and somebody that still gets talked about as sort of like not only the definition of charisma but also how that can work both for and against you in the game caleb has kind of dealt a raw hand from pretty much beginning to end of his time on a survivor uh culminating in the fact that Caleb has kind of dealt a raw hand from pretty much beginning to end of his time on Survivor,

culminating in the fact that he kind of gets screwed in that split tribal council. So I think he also has a lot of there there, if you will, when it comes to the possibility of coming back. Yeah, and Caleb is the person who made me adjust my Sparkle ranking. I'm like, oh, you know, a sparkly person, that person will win.

Then I met Caleb, literally said hi to him. He walked away. I said, I see why they voted him out. He like a jerk no he's way too charismatic i think he'll have to be less charismatic on the comeback because it's so evident yeah but if he can dull himself a little bit when you bring back a ton of people who have sparkle like uh it's not necessarily that caleb stands out so much the diamond mind of a season i genuinely think caleb is that sparkly he needs to be a little less sparkly it's my one note then i think tone it down if they're going to be a little bit of competition much like david jennett had with

harry and australian survivor all-stars of like are caleb and kelly gonna have ops with each other because one no ironically enough nullify the other's record for most votes nullified by an advantage yeah i don't think they're nerdy enough to care about that like i would care for sure ironically enough, nullify the other's record for most volts nullified by an advantage. Yeah, I don't think they're nerdy enough to care about that. Like, I would care. Christian might care. Yeah. Okay.

All right. Back to Rob. We have several left. Several left. Okay, in honor of Jelinski, I can't believe that we let it go this far. Give me a box number several. A legendary number.

There's also another Taylor Swift number. And hopefully a legend number several. A legendary number. And hopefully a legend behind it. Number several is Omer! Yes! Yay, Omer! No, you don't. He trolled you the entire time. I don't care. Yay, Omer!

Good for Omer. Yes. All very happy about this. I'd be intrigued to see. Again, I think much like Jesse, the really fun thing about Omer was that a lot of people were unsuspecting with the stuff that he was pulling off behind the scenes, especially in that post-merge. I'd be intrigued to see, again,

now that people kind of know him as one of the better players of the new era, if he'd be able to pull that off. And also, to be candid, how much of the absolutely lov you'd be able to pull that off and also to be candid how much of the absolutely lovably messy chaotic persona that we see of him across all these podcasts and games how much

would that translate to a second season yeah he is somebody who look like that they were on their way in Survivor 42 Marianne makes her big move takes out omer and uh would be incredible to see omer get a second chance good another good job by the voters yeah very upset not to have him on my team

with this is teams i one of my favorite people on the planet all right but now this is where things are starting to get a little tense okay yeah, we only have six spots left. We had back-to-back Canadians. This is getting very stressful, actually. Alright. I'm really stressed. Don't make a bad pick, Shannon. The stress is on you right now. You got another pick here. Who are you going to pick?

I think some people want the winner of this season back. So I'm going to say 14. Alright, number 14 is where does he fall on the screwed by covid scale shannon um very high they were gonna make a whole season around him being the banker right he was gonna be the banker of survivor so wow wait a minute could could survivor have done don d? Were we actually careening towards a path where Survivor became Dondi?

I don't think he was the banker. I think he was like the general store clerk. Yeah, that's fairly similar. Mm-hmm. I guess. So it was going to be about fire tokens. Yeah, so there was going to be money involved, I guess. Like, look, those people have a reaction to this.

And they always do it for Devon. And I love Rick Devon. And that's also why he's been voted through is that that was also his edit guess like look those people have a reaction to this and they always look for devon and i love devon and that's also why he's been voted through is that that was also his edit throughout survivor edge of extinction the post-merge was dictated by this guy big personality in season 38 recipient of the sea of money hosted the on fire podcast uh season, what, 45? He was the host of the podcast there. Seemed like, you know, Jeff was very complimentary of Rick

all through that whole process. So Rick's a fun guy. People love him. Yeah, that redemption appeal as well. Again, he was on his path to somehow through idols and immunity wins and tribal council shenanigans being able to get his way to the end of the game then a man stepped in by the name of chris underwood and the guy who was voted out and came back to the game ends up

losing in fire to the guy who was voted out right before him and came back into the game yeah please stop reminding us of that i think that um with Devins I love Devins he's someone who will play again like Jeff loves Devins clearly as we've said the only thing that's stressing me out is how few spots we have left and how many people we have to fit in them that's stressing me out and people will have a reaction I really love Rick Devins and I think he's definitely going to play and could fit onto multiple seasons you know the second chance of it all the way that it went down as a fallen angel one-time player modern could even be around like a legend thing is like a very modern big game personality i think i got him on my draft team i think he was like my first did i he was one of my

first draft picks because i really think he'll come back well you can check it out behind the wall if you want to remember the whole draft and get back up to speed. Okay. All right. Five picks left. I'm going to go with number one. Number uno. And we have... Carolyn! There we go. What some people might consider the number one chalk pick to come back

from the new era, Carolyn Weiger from season 44. Let out some noises like you want want to do you have made it to the top 20 of survivor 50 carolyn uh of course what a standout in survivor 44 instant returnee but then i guess uh the only monkey wrench uh is that she went and played on the traders and i think that that's uh just a question of is that is that a factor from what i have heard and even looking at last season of the traders ct was on the traders on tv from like january to march and then went to go play the challenge 40 i don't think it's

yeah i i at first i kind of thought it would be but at first i kind of thought it would be but then i feel like ah who cares now but maybe if it's on when they're making the decision i also do wonder even more so maybe than jesse and omer i mean carolyn was able to really prevail from this unsuspecting persona of oh i'm just the the wacky comedic relief when really she was again doing so much great strategic stuff behind the scenes to a point where it even gets called out by her closest ally.

Again, is that something that people will more so be onto when she comes back? Or once again, will that personality kind of supersede everything that is happening? And she'll be able to, again,

craft another great game. She's a great pick. You got to have Carolyn. Carolyn's going to play Survivor so many times. So many times. It's just, it's going to happen. This is a realistic pick. She's carolyn carolyn's gonna play survivor so many times so many times it's just it's gonna happen this is a realistic pick she's gonna be on that show okay all right well there's so many people i'm like i'm stressing now like there can't be four they need to be like 24 um that's just you as an australian speaking to that well that's what we

need oh my god this is so stressful we're not gonna get it from we want i'm stressed um i'll go for based on all right for a bunch yeah to manifest the four people that could not make the list shannon and number four is chaos chaos okay people love cas people love cas yeah cas 100 chance of making the top 20 yeah wow that shows the same power and Cass has said she wants to do it again she she has said that she's wanted to do it okay well that's exciting look at the tie he's wearing he knows what's going on I know he but that's why I ask him yes I believe she said a few months back she's like uh well you know my kid's graduating high school but as long as it lines up with those dates, I want to do it. Okay.

Now, this is what's stressing me out. Like, I love Cass, but I know I'm like being like all the people in the chat and the voters where I can't stop thinking about like, who's going to miss out? And it's really stressing me out. I don't want that to take away from Cass. Yeah. I mean, having-

This is a loaded Cass. Yeah, I mean, Cass, Angelina, Venus, and Shan on the same season. And then Natalie Bolt in the background flossing with jugulars like, Jeff Probst, I'm sorry. Villains are here to stay. Yeah. Okay.

Alright. Is it back to me? Three picks left from stress. Alright. September is the month that Survivor is going to premiere. Give me number nine number nine in between you and shan we have charlie number yeah that's fun yeah only second person from survivor 46 so far right second person to make it so far from Survivor 46. Yet another runner up, I think

obviously looms large in the mind of fans because many feel was for many reasons, perhaps left out of a win there at the end. But someone who played an incredibly stable, strategic game, one of the calming forces amidst the torrid waves around him.

There's a lot of appeal, I think, to Charlie coming back for a second time, considering how close he got to winning the last time. Yeah. Charlie fits into a bunch of themes as well. Chad is saying he could link up with Dom Abate. Mm. They're almost winners.

I mean, if we haven't, imagine the final three of Charlie, Amanda, and Dom, of like, you gotta vote for one of us. One of us has to win here. More of that. 2015, my brother's birthday was on day 39 of season 31 of like you gotta vote for one of us one of us has to win here more of that that second 2015 my brother's birthday was on day 39 of season 31 in real time yeah and i wrote like a 15 page document about what i thought was happening and i made like a final tribal council loser alliance and it was

woo and steven and kelly wigglesworth and steven won it was a whole thing anyway so we just manifested that we have one winner on the whole thing. So far? Yeah. People didn't want to vote in winners. We'll talk about it in a few. We still have two more boxes to open. I love Charlie as well. I love all these people. We have one man and one woman left.

Okay. Shanna, do you think you know who the man is and who the woman is? I mean, there's so many people it could and should be. I think I know who the man is and who the woman is. I mean, there's so many people it could and should be. I think I know who the man is. Q? The man is a song by Taylor Swift. Who the woman? I think I know who the woman is.

I think I'm going to... Marianne? Where's the read? I'm going to... Yeah. I'm just looking at this list. Yeah. Well,

there's only two choices. I might manifest Davey here by saying this number the only way I can only say it to quote him. 11? Still quote Davey saying that. All right. Number 11 is Serene. That was the woman that I thought.

Who's Marianne? Is there no woman left? I think that maybe the voters said no to winners. And Seri famously, somehow. Not one. Oh, that's upsetting. I mean, listen, when you talk about either a legend season

or best to never win, she was quite literally called this by Jeff Probst. I got Seri. People want to see Seri back after, you know, a long 70 plus days in the Big Brother house. They say, Seri, we need you back on the beach. Look, I love Seri more than like life itself, you know a long 70 plus days in the big brother house they say sari we need you back on the beach look i love sari more than like life itself you know so i'm really happy to have her on my team she'd be on every season of survivor it was just like i feel like it was a cruel thing to have like

sari be my last pick where i'm like happy i got sari but then i'm thinking about all the people we didn't get so like i'm have these dual emotions as many of the voters i'm sure do but yeah sari fields is my like reason for living. So, yeah. Okay. Rob, what are your thoughts about Suri possibly coming back for a fifth time to

play? Well, I have just always felt that yes, she came back for the traders and yes, she played big brother, but I felt like that Suri's exit in survivor game changers was very much a story and a legacy unfinished. That the way that Jeff brought her out

onto the stage in the Survivor Game Changers finale always said to me that she will be back. And I feel like that Ceri, I've always maintained, has one more run in her on Survivor. And she wants to do it,

she's always said. She has more runs. Yeah. Why not? Ceri is a Terminator. She is the C-1000. And we will see her shape shift into maybe a winning game on this ballot for Survivor 50. There is one pick left.

Rob, you think you know who it is. I think I do. Do you want to write it down or be open about it? I'll be open about it. I'm going to say that I'll be surprised if the voters don't put their Q skirt on and it's not cute. I think that

there were some other snubs, but I feel like that to me coming into this, I thought that Q would be one of the top vote getters. So if he is not on this list, debatable. Will it be a big mistake? Cancel Christmas if it's not Q.

He has a lot of sayings. What is it? Santa, you keep your job. Q is our last name on the cast of Survivor. The idea that you cancel Christmas and then Santa loses his job. I hadn't thought about that. Look at this

little graphic thing. That is that. Look at this little graphic thing. That is cute. Look at this group. Look. People will. Hard to quibble with the people that are on the board. But a few folks should have got through. Q is an old time.

Rob will gladly sacrifice his spot. Rob will be giving it up for us. We've done this once before. Look, Q... I wanted to see Bryce on the list. I know, I'm really upset about Bryce. Before we talk about some of the snubs in our mind, they're all snubs.

All the people who didn't make it on, snubs. Everyone who didn't make it on to the 50, all of them snubs. Every person who's ever played, who's not on, snubs. But I just want to give Q flowers. Q should be there. Q will play many, many times,

and he's an all time character of Survivor in general and it's not recency bias I've said about Bryce though this is the thing is that I think it is a huge honor to make the top 50 it's like just an absolutely impossible job

I know that a lot of people have expressed to narrow this down to 20 and like I said the votes were tight but yeah, some really interesting facts here. Of the 20, one winner. And I do think, again, I don't want to speak on behalf of everybody, but I do think it speaks to the fact that even if people did not make winners at war, that I think people don't necessarily want a repeat of that theme of bringing back winners again something else that should be noted here out of the 20 including yourself rob only five of them have come back to play again the 15 out of this group three quarters

we're very overdue uh we're backed up for a returning player season yeah for a rob sostenino season i thought of what you were gonna say no but i but i think i think it makes sense as well i think second chances was such a great theme there was so much potential of you didn't get a chance to to you know win the million dollars whether you finished pre-jury made to the jury or just made it to the end and lost out there's an appeal for redemption Look, all of the casts in the 40s have been super strong. It's one of the strengths of the show, the way that they cast it.

But they needed some kind of second chances along the way, some kind of new era all-stars. And it's hard because what are you going to throw out 45, throw out 46? But in a perfect world, we wouldn't have known. Yeah, we would have seen some of these people

come back already. What they should have done, and this has been said so many times, that it would have been really great to see even just any second chance, even if it was skewed modern with some like, you know, put T-Bird in there, put Sean Rector in there,

and then do a legend season for 50 that then builds on those like second chance characters. Because we know once they do like an all-returnee big season right after second chance it usually goes really well so i think they should have done that but yeah i'm i'm the trend of no winners i think you know people really wanted vasepia people did really want sean i think these are the names we're going to hear i really wanted marianne i think a lot of people shame powers was one again for shame hopefully he's not watching this, right? I know he watched it.

He's probably watching. Shout out to Shane. Not again. Not again. This has already happened. Should I watch all of Exile Island today like I did the day that Shane didn't get into 31? What should be noted as well for breaking it down by chronology. So the people who were represented from the first 20

seasons who appeared up through Heroes vs. Villains, six. Six people on this ballot have appeared in Nicaragua through Winners at War and then eight from the new era. Yeah, I think there was obviously a lot of commentary last time about how new era heavy it was and it is

about half and half but it actually is like fairly evenly balanced between those quote unquote, three big eras of the show. Three tribes. Yeah. Well, like the, the,

the lack of people wanting winners really plays out over Sepia, Marianne. I think those are some pretty massive stuff. Also create like on that, like Amanda over poverty is just shocking to me, but look, if they want to do three tribes, they,

I mean, they could do 21. They could do three tribes of seven yeah put marianne and put bryce in have they ever done that on any of the international seasons three tribes seven yeah there was a south africa season did three tribes of seven yeah i don't know if they like the like uneven gender numbers you could figure it out you could work they could but do that um yeah bryce is such great casting that we missed out and we all are aware of that it's it's it's tough because i mean uh unless we're counting returnee seasons no one in this list got voted out pre-jury you know the lowest the lowest the lowest places were caleb and cass who both were the first juror on there

and i'm mad about that too i want zach on this as well you know i've got a lot of my favorite returnee theme of all time pre pre-juror versus post so look a lot of good stuff here congratulations to you great job uh mike putting this all together incredible job uh good luck with the response yeah congratulations to our top 20 and hey look we've teased this out a little bit and we uh have been you know always welcoming to responses that's what this entire project has been if people want it maybe we run a little brand steel of these 20 only if people are interested in it though you know i um don't at me by the way're angry. At Rob. He said he didn't vote. He's the person, okay? So Rob, oh, where's Bryce? You didn't vote!

That's true. I did... People should be voting if they care about things that are important. If they're on the side so that I agree with. I mean, Mike said the next person was 30 votes away. It wasn't one vote away. You are 30 people, Rob. You're on this.

Where you go, 30 people will follow. Yeah, okay. Will you give up your spot to someone? See, that's a lose-lose situation also, Shannon. Then you can choose who it is alone, and then people can add you on your choice. That's good. People get mad either way on that one,

Shannon. Okay. At Rob and 29 other people who didn't vote. Yeah. Okay. All right. Incredible job, Mike. What an honesty it's been for you. You have really just what a podcasting project that you did

over a month. Did you say how many votes total? So between the first round and the second round, we got about cumulatively 35,000 votes. Cumulatively? That's crazy. That's so many people. Yeah, cumulatively.

Emphasis on the Q. Again, those numbers just absolutely blow me away. And look, when it comes to all this stuff, people may have their various reactions to things. That is completely understandable. But as I mentioned before, I am more of a journey than a destination person. And while I very much enjoyed this group of 20 that came out,

I had such an unbelievable time being able to undergo this entire process. And just once again, if you're really not happy with how it came out, just remember, this was not the real cast. It is, and you're leaving now.

Go get your suitcase. There's a whole real cast that will come out one day for you to actually get angry about. This was just a poll. This is just a actually get angry about. This was just a poll. This is just a nice warmup. You know, this is just a poll.

Exactly. A soft launch. Hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of votes and an insane amount of work. Mike Bloom, super proud of you and your cute little tie. Hardest working man in the world on anything. I'll take that title. Absolutely. Congrats to Mike. Everyone go tell mike how much

you love him and how excellent he is oh thank you yeah and um this has been a really fun summer this has been a really really fun summer i love that this ends up kind of being a wish list summer of survivor hybrid uh just because these are two incredibly fun projects that i got to work on over the course of the Survivor off-season, to the point where it hasn't even felt like an off-season to me, at least. You know, I'm blinking and I'm thinking,

oh my God, September is right around the corner. It felt like Memorial Day just came around. And so it's been such a pleasure to get to occupy all these Wednesday nights and other days and nights, getting to talk about this show and fill our mind with Survivor chatter before we get to do it all over again with a new group of people in just a few weeks time. OK, we've got Big Brother coming up earlier today.

Shannon and I talked about Big Brother 26. It was a return of the Surrey cap. Shannon's favorite player, Surrey. She watched all the Big Brother 25. She didn't watch any Big Brother 26 until right before our podcast. So find out what Shannon had to say about Big Brother 26

in our patron podcast feed at robiswebsite.com slash patron. There we go. Any other comments you want to have about that, Shannon? No, we had a really good time with Rob. And honestly, this episode was fun. And now I find out that there's

a lot of romantic intrigue and I'm kind of in. Like, I don't want, I'm not in, but I'm like, but I'm interested. Now I'm like looking at Twitter with intrigue. They say the truth shall prevail. And now Shannon has expressed her truth when it comes to Big Brother 26.

So you can check that out. And of course, from my perspective, I've reignited the Lost Talk with Josh Wigler doing TV for Real, which actually includes one of the members of the Survivor 50 cast this week. Kelly Wentworth will be joining me and Sasha, which should be very fun.

Going to get maybe her fresh reactions to her being in the top 20 of this ballot. From Parade's perspective, I'm, of course, doing Big Brother Exit Press. I'm doing the Challenge 40 Exit Press, which is also airing a new episode right now. Last thing I will say is, look, they got to release the Survivor 47 cast at some point.

And if and when it happens, I will have the great pleasure of getting to release all the preseason interviews I did with this cast, which features maybe a couple of familiar faces and getting to talk about it all with you, Rob. Yep. So if you want to make sure you don't miss any of our Survivor 47 preseason coverage, you got to make sure you subscribe to Rob as a podcast.

Go to robaswebsite.com slash subscribe. That's also how you make sure you get these podcasts coming to you every single time we make one. And also, in case there's another vote, you're going to know first. If you go to robbisawebsite.com slash subscribe. If it happens, you're going to know. All right. Well, can I just say Asia robbed?

Right? That as well. Yeah. We needed another podcast. We needed a 47. Well, Mike didn't do a Survivor 47 wishlist. Well, I'm complaining about it. Yes.

Yes. Listen, I certainly have some ideas. Yeah, I have some ideas already percolating in my head for the holiday season. But we have an entire other season to get through ahead of that. But this has just been such an incredible way to spend the summer.

Thank you to everyone who tuned in this entire summer checking out this project. Congratulations to everyone who made the top 50 and especially to our top 20 as well. Let us know if you want us to do a brain steal of the top 20 and see maybe even one step further how this metaphoric cast would do on a season together. Thank you all so much for listening and has been such a sublime summer and I cannot wait for another season right around the corner. Until then, everybody, take care. Bye-bye.