RHAP: We Know Survivor - The Social Game: Summit Sisters

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

This week, Michele and Kellie discuss their fateful meeting and how this podcast came to be before Kellie tests Michele's New Era Survivor knowledge by making her guess which guests were or were not on Survivor.

okay hello everybody welcome to the social game podcast i'm kelly nalbandian i'm joined by michelle fitzgerald i am her i am her first we're going to get a few things out of the way just remember if you want to see more of us go to to thesocialgamepod.com to subscribe. Wherever you get your podcasts, Spotify, Apple, blah, blah, blah. And follow us on Instagram, basically, more importantly, at thesocialgamepod. That's where you'll hit all our updates. Yeah, we are legitimate. We have a website. We just found that out.

Five minutes ago, maybe. And yeah, make sure to subscribe to us. We're excited. We are on the journey with you. Somehow, someway, your life has taken a wild turn and it landed you in our podcast. If you are confused that we have a podcast, so are we. So are we. You know, it just sort of, you know, happened out of thin air, but I love it.

That's how it should happen. It really did. Me and Kelly barely knew each other mere weeks ago. We pitched a podcast and here we are. I got shot down. we have this one right so this is actually a backup podcast we were failures at our first podcast pitch and rob gave us the consolation prize of this wild wild podcast rather than what we were really going for but which we plan to make him regret yeah he's given us a lot he's given us a long leash for what this podcast would be about

yeah and we plan on abusing that to the full length that we can our goal is to make rob as stressed out as possible so um you know rob usually has a lot of strategy podcasts he talks about dissecting games and why you made certain moves and we are here to do none of that no we are going to have great great guests on we're going to play fun games and really the goal is to let ourselves shine obviously more importantly our guests who are who are going to come on here and we're going to absolutely shock them confuse them and leave them. Bamboozle them. Yeah. We're going to leave them richer than they came in.

You know, it's like everybody, there's so much strategy talk and what RHAP needs is vibes. And that is what Michelle and I can bring to the table. So should we talk about how this even happened? Talk about it, Kelly. So, you know, Michelle is very elusive i would say in the survivor world yes yes i've never been told that i was elusive ever if anything i am way too accessible i make myself accessible to basically anyone and everyone okay elusive

to me okay yeah okay i'm like i'm in New York City I am so excited to be on Survivor never meet you at any of these events because Michelle doesn't really watch the new era of Survivor well I don't know if you know this but I'm not a one-trick pony I'm actually also on the challenge which airs the exact same time on a competing network so unfortunately I really have to try to amp up my ratings and tune in live to my show that I'm currently on. Doesn't make me not a Survivor fan, but I'm not accusing you of not being a Survivor fan. Here's the thing. I most people would never say I'm elusive. I'm available on every single Wednesday for years of your life.

But if you have not gotten enough of me, I will be sure. But if you have not gotten enough of me, I will be sure. That's why we have this podcast. We don't have enough for Michelle Fitzgerald on every single network on TV. She's coming for the summit next. Yeah. Yeah. And back to our original story.

What I'm saying is, you know, I never met Michelle. And so where would I find her? Absolutely. Of course, a summit CBS event, the hit CBS show, The Summit, which Michelle was tapped to host. So I didn't know I was hosting. They had asked if I could attend this event. I usually say no because they don't they don't pay me. And usually there's not free alcohol. I found out that there was this time open bar. So I said, you know what? I can run up the tab enough to basically be considered a paycheck. Yeah. So I said, yeah, sure, I'll go. And the day before, maybe even the day after, like, we'd love you to host it. I'm like, really? Jesus, I haven't even watched the screener you sent me. I don't know what I'm doing.

So somehow I got tasked with this role and you crushed it. I did something. tasked with this role and you crushed it I did something yeah yeah we brought they brought up the contestants um you know in front of the screener which was like a bunch of CBS reality people and then I'm not really sure who else was there but you interviewed them and you had set questions but she went off script I did and it was very entertaining we had a very spicy panel from the summit yeah mainly because I can't read't read. So I just decided, I just decided I was going to just make up my own notes. And at that moment I knew I loved Michelle. And so after that, you know, as these events are, once you're done with that part, we all, we all went out to a gay bar. Yeah, of course. Of course. Where else would we go? would we go and um you know that was our first

meeting bonding experience and the rest is really history but well is it because they don't know our history which is why we're here on this podcast okay so this is i'm being elusive now yeah she's the elusive one she went to yale guys i don't know if you know this so she's she don't brag about it i'm just kidding i'm just kidding uh she has a full-time job and i am a myriad tv contestant you know challengers don't have jobs we just anyway working out so basically yes i was hosting this event as i mentioned i was taking i was using the open bar as my tab and i was really just milking it for all it was worth and I found Kelly at the bar as well and we seem to have similar interests in wine and alcohol so we just

got to on a roll we started talking about the summit our newfound passion really though after a few vodka sodas we decided to text Rob from Rob has a podcast and say we would love to start a summit podcast not knowing that Rob had already had us on. I mean, it was like coming out. So it makes sense that Rob is prepared to have a summit. He hired people who are actually equipped for the job. Yeah.

Unlike us. And we had the passion. We, the passion was there. And so, yeah, somehow, some way Rob said,

well, why don't I do something, you know, where nobody will tune in because it doesn't really happen. There's no theme. There's no theme. No show. It's just us. It's just us.

So he gave us the gift of just being able to do whatever the fuck we want. And that is our plan. And so, welcome. This is our byproduct of a night out at a k bar it is us two narcissists in reality tv being like we should have a podcast yeah we're so funny okay well cheers episode one we have our champagne cheers oh that was nice that was something maybe we'll do asmr after this our goal my goal today is to get kelly a little bit tipsy so that she so she really opens up on episode one you know let's really get to know kelly let's get to know michelle you're very elusive as i've said so i need to know more about you

yeah well we do have some fun games in store that That is our goal. We want to make it fun. We want to learn about each other. Yes. About our guests. I feel like, you know, so many people go on reality TV and they're so interesting and fun. And they come on the podcast. And of course, you have to talk about the game, blah, blah, blah.

But now it's like, you know, do I need to know about how much money was in the deal or no deal case that party just picked out? I don't know. I'd rather talk to her and play a funny game and mess around so that's gonna be the plan yeah what like i've heard that she has all these black spider qualities or whatever she says i hear that she's black widow black widow spider she casts webs who the fuck knows anyways she has all these qualities i want to learn yeah we're gonna be just how to flirt do you. I want to learn. Yeah, we're going to bring spiders on the podcast. I'm going to say, Barb, teach us how to flirt.

Do you think we need to learn that? I feel like we're pretty good. I mean, I'm seasoned. I feel like I've dipped my toe into every reality TV dating pool there is. So for me. She said it, not me. But, you know, there's always something you can learn. I think Barb has a lot to teach us.

She has the most to teach us. Absolutely. But we're going to have such fun guests. Our lineups are insane. We're praying that they don't hear this first episode and back out because they're like we don't want to be part of this shit shit storm this shit show shit storm but it's just fine it's gonna be fine it's gonna be great it's gonna be great we are gonna jump right in we're gonna we've already annoyed you guys enough with chatter so we're gonna play some games i feel like every other episode is gonna kind of be me and kelly sort of introing and then we're going to intro our

guests and we're going to play games with them. Today, it's about learning about your hosts. We're going to learn about each other. We really, we've hung out four times, I think. Yeah. They've been great every time. Every time there's just magic in the air. Chemistry, amazing. Rob is frothing at the mouth. Yeah here we are time five and we thought we could learn a little more about each other by playing a game and the wizard behind the screen over here mr brandon donlan has prepared for us um basically an autocomplete interview if you're familiar with that michelle was not so basically real celebrities not us will play this game where we'll look up what are people googling about anyone and uh we're going to talk about it you know spit some facts put the truth

out there do you want to start michelle okay so the google search here survivor survivor michelle her little face is so cute i'm so young and naive and not a millionaire yeah she was broke she had about nine dollars in her bank account she had no idea that her life was going to take such a turn that now she fights on reality tv for a living i had my big hopes and dreams at that point you can see the sparkle in her eyes before she was tainted by seven seasons of reality tv beating her down okay so what do people want to know about michelle survivor michelle ever michelle oh starting off real strong controversial win controversy how do you feel about that one um you know a win is a win i have a million dollars

in my bank account but i will say what i've learned from Brownie TV in general is that sometimes when you win it feels like a loss and sometimes when you lose it feels like a win and that was my win for me very I'm very poetic you know no that was good that was your win for you I was like if you're gonna say I felt like I lost I was like oh no no but I I in some ways I it was like for me the biggest moment of my life I was 24 years old I was so green I really didn't even know what a confessional was and I just went in and I like played my heart out and I thought that the narrative would would reflect that but it was telling other people's stories and so I felt like when I watched it back I was like oh my god what am I doing here did I even deserve this and I and

a lot of people didn't believe that I did I was I was insecure about the win in general and it's taken me a long process and a lot of therapy to learn that you know it doesn't matter what people say I'm I should be proud of that moment but I didn't feel proud in the moment so it was very controversial people still talk about it but uh, I don't look at the Reddit threads anymore. So that has helped me. You gotta teach me about that. Get off Reddit. Is what I've learned. Survivor Michelle.

Is it? Yeah. No freaking way. I've learned how to invest money properly and how to avoid Survivor Reddit. That's what I've learned from my time. And that's actually better than a million dollars. Yeah, exactly. No, no. Okay, Michelle Survivor. that's what I've learned from well that's actually better than a million dollars yeah exactly no no

okay okay the shell survivor ex-boyfriend well you'll hear me talk about them a lot which one I don't know okay who's your favorite oh well they're all exes for a reason I'll tell you that much listen I have said it before and I'll say it again. I came on to the show. I was flirty and thriving and young and naive. And I thought that casting's whole role was to put me on the show with a bunch of hot people so that I could end up with one of them. It turns out that was not what Survivor's about. But you made it into both winning a million dollars and a dating show you know on your season i or actually i mean we don't have to go there i don't know you know i've

dated a lot of people on the challenge on survivor and i found that a lot of them what they have in common is that they are narcissists and uh yeah you can't put two narcissists in a relationship together. It just doesn't work. Spoiler alert. No, but I will say, if you want to find love, go on Survivor. Okay. And The Challenge. Perfect. That's flawless advice from Michelle. Okay, two years now.

Climbing rails, everything. You're doing amazing, sweetie. What's the Google search? Is Kelly from survivor play gay yes i am despite what the show said i am in fact i never mentioned on it once so my dms would disagree it's heavily in my hidden section is heavily men interesting very upsetting always upset every time i post you know anything about women i lose a few followers it is what it is um well i love the gays so that we were really we met we met at the gay bar i know we're on track here i will say that when i told my friend who i was doing a podcast with you he was like oh my god I have the biggest crush on her and

I was like do I tell him do I break the news that she likes v not d well you know I'm I'm still like appreciative that people you know you're appreciative of the d uh no I'm gonna be on record absolutely not appreciative of have you ever been appreciative of the date? No, I never have. Really? Never once. A B-girl forever. They call that a gold star.

Yeah. Really? That's a real thing. Gold star lesbian. You ever slept with a man? Wow. Okay. Have you ever done anything else with a guy?

Yeah. Okay. All right. So it's really like a silver star. Well, not everybody can be winners on this let's call it what it is you know all right pretty close listen it was a long time ago it was like 18 2019 i was sad one time yeah i will well you know okay okay next one is kelly from survivor 45 i can't get it married well probably should be but not yet october we got engaged like right before i was an alternate for season 43 i don't know if you

even know that no yeah so i applied really late and then they were like you're late we love you anyway i went like to fiji after like getting the first car probably like a month before. So it was crazy. I had just been proposed to. This was 2022. So we're getting married in 2025. I have a patient, Saint. Yes. Of a fiance, girlfriend. So not yet, but I will be married soon.

Maybe I'll be there. I better be there. We're going through so much together. We're going through so much together. Actually, the seventh time we hang out, we'll be at my wedding exactly exactly it is open bar right that was it is open yeah that's all i'm sorry but if you are somebody who's on here and you had a wedding without an open bar this is not the podcast literally what we're talking about what we want to do for our wedding it's like it has to be open bar the playlist is like we're being like very we want to do for our wedding, it's like, it has to be open bar. The playlist is like, we're being very strict.

Yes, that's all I care about. As you should. It's supposed to be fun. Yeah. Three years in, like, this is three years of planning. Is there a dress code? It's not black tonight. All right.

Now we're talking. Hide up the skirts, ladies. Oh, yeah. She's off the market, but there will be somebody available. There will be survivors there for you. So actually, Michelle is going to facilitate a survivor dating show at my wedding. Yeah. Gabby doesn't know this yet.

Yeah. But it's going to be fine. It's going to be great. We'll give you the mic for a speech. Everyone will think, you know, you're one of my bridesmaids. So I've hung out with now seven times and tables will turn. I do love a mic. Yeah.

There will be a lot of survivors. And you know, who knows other people. Okay. Did we finish this one? Yes. That one's done. No one needs to know how old.

Not that old. I know. Like. Should we go back to Michelle? Yeah. Let's circle back. Okay. So many good ones on here.

Is Michelle from the challenge? Do you want to take that one off? How tall is Michelle from the challenge? Wow. take that one off how tall is michelle from the challenge wow everyone wants to know that the world is weighted with bated breath over how tall i am you're elusive it's so strange because i feel like this happens when i meet like so many survivors or challenged people in real life and you just have this perception of how big they are like i thought andrea belke was going to be a totally different build than she was she's much smaller than i thought uh people who watch the challenge look at all the big girls and they think that i'm really

really tiny and then you met me and i was like yeah i was bigger than you i thought you were going to be really i thought you were tall okay because you i don't know i think that's like the way you kick over the puzzle and stuff yeah just give me big tall girl energy okay well i'm a classic five five so i feel like i'm five five you are yes so you're still i'm five four i thought we were the same height no no i'm five five honey and and that's a nice clean number my birthday is may 5th 5590 i'm. Wow. I weigh a hundred. No, I'm just kidding. Not going to get into that, but I do love a clean number.

And just know if it ends on an otter, even sorry, if it ends on anything, but a five, I will die until I hit the five. I'm okay. Okay. I mean, effective, I guess. I know if I bet, if I gamble everything. So what season, this is season 40 of the challenge. It is. You should have been on my, I was on season 45. So if I gamble everything so what season this is season 40 of the challenge it is you should have been on my I was on season 45 so you should have been on my

season I mean I didn't need it I had a lot of clean numbers but then they threw in 32 and I was like the fuck turns out I needed something that was it wasn't just a little controversial exactly exactly okay well there you go for all of you people who have been just waiting for that answer it has been debunked honestly so many I was disappointed too I'm just kidding I'm actually thrilled it's great there will be a theme that there's a lot of disappointment it's like it's more impressive you know I was like oh she's tall of course she's good at challenges yeah you know all right let's get all right we'll finish me here turns out there's a lot of survivor kelly's you don't know this think how many who name another kelly on survivor okay any others i don't like it oh

yes i could uh i'm trying to blank jeopardy noisey noise. Was it Purple Kelly? Oh, oh my God. Infamously. Infamous Purple Kelly. You know, I wore a purple shirt in my, I didn't think about this because I was not clocked into the Survivor fandom before I went on Survivor.

And I wore like a purple shirt in my cast phone and everybody's like, bold choice, Purple Kelly. I was like, I'm reclaiming. Isn't it so interesting, like how deep the fandom goes not just on survivor but also i feel on the challenge like people know everything about everything it's so crazy like they know how many confessionals everybody has i didn't know any of this and because i was the alternate of course i don't know i started like i was like okay let me like you know listen to some rgb and like look around and I asked my

casting person what should I do it's a little jar it's a lot and then I was like I think I was like over honestly I think I was like overstimulated with information before I went out there I should just I like intentionally never re-watched anything before I went on it so like when I entered my first season of Survivor I had never never rewatched anything to pet myself. I was like, I want to go in and I want to be like authentic. I felt if I had watched another season, I would act like somebody else. And I wanted to, I'd be like, oh, I have to emulate so-and-so. So I wanted to keep it as pure as possible.

So I intentionally did not watch anything. And that's nice. It is. I could have learned. I could have learned something by watching it back and like learning how people interview like what's interesting and dynamic and like I do think that that's an easy way to get purple there's like not knowing how to do that jump off the screen no so I think I probably could have done with a little bit more research in that

department but I think going in authentically like but you were like you were like watching survivor like consistently when you went on or no I had watched it basically my whole like childhood but I didn't have by the time I got on I don't even think I had a tv I was like I really was not super on top of it um yeah amazing I I didn't watch till the pandemic so I was was like, Oh my God, I'm fresh. Yeah. So I was like, you know, COVID nursing going home being like, let me go watch Michelle. Oh my God. Um, but I applied and I had only, I was like watching old seasons and I was like, Oh, whatever. This is great. Like I want to do this. And they called me and it was during season 41. So new era had just started. I hadn't seen anything. I was in the middle of your season and I had to stop but Caitlin was like you have to watch season 41 and

40 yeah like this weekend right now and so I was like what the hell am I getting into but then I went back and then when I was like finishing casting I was watching you win I remember oh my god I remember the season I was watching as well I think it was Kagaian I know it was Kagaian when I was like you always remember the one the one the one that you leave on yes you're watching it a little bit more intensely yes I was like I was actually just gotten engaged I was in this I remember being in this hotel room in San Diego and I like vividly remember seeing you like to be here we are now yeah you know here we are the way life grows we've we've successfully survived our first derailment here i love that we're gonna go back to the game i think i forgot okay anyway um there are yeah

there have been 14 kelly's on survivor so if i search myself it's kind of hard you never know who they're talking about which maybe like can help me protect my ego a little bit they're probably talking about someone else named kelly yeah of course but i do spell my name with an ie so when they look me up and they comment on my voice or all of my my controversial i know exactly what they're talking about i don't there's not enough michelles to cover up the trauma of my reddit history i just think yeah there's a few michelles but not 14 kelly's defies probability really does it sucks but at least i have my name spelled weird thank you parents if you're pregnant and you're thinking about naming your child after a survivor kelly seems like a fair bet you're gonna piece a lot of people actually

if you want to get on survivor or you want your child to get on survivor you should name them kelly yeah preferably not the ie because i would like to stay the only one. Yeah. Okay. Anyway. This is Survivor Kelly, psychologist. I'm not a psychologist. I think this might be about Survivor Australia Kelly. Tough. Who I believe. One of 14, guys. That's actually another one.

It's not about you. That's the Australian. That's another. That's probably 15 if we count her. Oh, no. You're becoming you're becoming more and more diluted the more you talk it's really sad i feel for you i'm glad you're enjoying this i feel your empathy radiating across the couch anyway i'm not a psychologist i am a

nurse um i'm actually a nurse practitioner now i'm starting a new job in march amazing congrats do you know what that is no but what i do know is that if anything's like cussing or acting funny you're going to be the person i text yeah no problem i feel many bizarre texts i nursed on survivor i had to try to pass out twice wow i feel you're gonna come in handy in my life yeah no i feel like i'm not don't listen to me um don't call me sage advice out don't call me but yeah anyway uh nurse practitioner you know they like see patients like a doctor it's like a pa you know pa okay yeah so i'm doing cardiology so oh my god mostly heart problems yeah she's a woman of the heart she's so in mine oh check it oh i should get my step yeah beating so fast for you kelly oh jesus okay anyway whatever all right let's let's do this last one kelly oh would not be uh

talking about me and survivor if we didn't talk about what the hell guys have you heard about this no what the hell so this is pretty you see this is how little michelle knows about me is that she hasn't seen pretty much what i've known for her survivor which is my blind side got viciously blindsided a little early blocked before i wanted to and uh blacked out entire tribal council don't remember anything i said um i got up and i looked at everybody first I said you did this people say it's kind of like Michaela from a little like Michaela's like angry I am sad I'm definitely getting sad but I just go what the hell guys oh yeah everyone I'm sad I accused two people you did this you did this and then I'm like you know that there's a sound on TikTok right now that's

like are you kidding me I need to calm down that's basically what happened to me in real life I was like oh my god I am on TV and I need to not freak out and then I was like oh my god I'm just shocked everyone stood up hugging it's like silent like so awkward I forgot my torch oh oh yeah it was tough but you know what yeah it was there was actually a worse thing that didn't make oh but it's okay we don't need to talk about that and everyone really took to what the hell guys people loved it but I did not remember saying I had to be told three or four days later and they were like we were like signing a flag for something and they were like what we're like let's write our little things and they were like oh you have to write what the hell guys i was like what do you mean you know my collection i feel like

you black out in those moments like i mean you wouldn't know i wouldn't so i've heard that when you get voted out no i'm just kidding okay i feel like every tribal council i like i have said things like uh that's a bunch of malarkey to me you know i say a lot of shit when you're under the pressure yeah i know you don't text me like a malarkey girl uh i'm very cultured okay i say a lot of big words i don't know i went to i may not have gone to hill but i know the term malarkey okay kelly i'm not saying you don't know it i'm just like i wouldn't be surprised that you would use yeah of course because it's a term that 85-year-olds use. Yeah, yeah.

I was also confused when I heard that I said that. Okay. I was very confused. But that's what I'm saying. You black out. You say stuff and you're like, what the hell? You black out. You say things.

You don't even know you say them. You watch them back and you're like, yeah, I guess something takes over you. So you can't be blamed for anything that happens. I don't know if you haven't seen it. So it was very much like before season 45, not everybody, but it was very much like people get voted out and be like, Oh,

good game guys. You got me. What? So people were like, I was nervous because everyone was being so like sports and like, and I was not. And I was like, really?

I was, I was like, well, and then they were really not all of a sudden. And so I wasmed like i was really like of course i'm one i'm here to win dude like whatever so everyone was really happy actually in the end that i kind of brought back yeah being allowed to be mad at tribal and now we've had several several shout out to our future guests um people who are really upset when they leave that's the sound pouring more champagne for this story can you hear that in the can you hear the sound of me

pouring more champagne for this tale yeah listen it's that piping but yeah it is piping i'm like i'm the poster child for like being annoyed when you're voted out and now you should be annoyed i think more people should be annoyed i hear that for season 50 jeff is casting people who aren't annoyed they don't show even he said them ones of annoyance and you know what i don't know the backbone of reality tv is built on people being annoyed that's what's interesting you know yeah you're supposed to be annoyed you're supposed to be uncomfortable you're supposed to hate your life and hate everybody else for all the decisions that they made. They're selfishly good for them and terrible for you. Exactly.

I mean, you know, it's like good merch line for me. It's all good. Survive. The challenge that I've learned is all about being bitter and you can carry that bitterness. It's acceptable to carry that bitterness for years. You can actually, any decision you make, you can circle back to bitterness for years you can actually you any decision you make you can circle back to bitterness from years ago and sit and channel that i'm just taking those guys and so that's the difference is that bitterness is in the blood of the challengers that's why

you know i've i've shifted you've crossed over to the other side the dark side i live half and half you know but i am a petty bitch and i do believe that being petty is okay if somebody deprives you of a million dollars you should be you're not supposed to be like good game fellas yes that's how i'm at god i wish i played better what do you think uh you fucking suck go suck a big fat one okay great i was gonna ask you what do you think you would say if you were voted up but maybe we just heard it i don't know i think i think it depends where you go to i feel like i always really if i went later like i went i was the second juror okay oh okay well at least you made jury you're dateable well we know you're getting married but you're you're whoever like initiated that cat ederson or something oh yeah yeah she was wow nice survivor

the thing you don't know about me is pre-season 32 i know everything oh not everything that sounds like a challenge yeah nope nope it's not but i do on the next episode i do remember i do obviously remember somebody who says well I have to as somebody who's dated half of all of single eligible people on reality television I have to know that to make them I just knew that I had to make the jury in order to be dateable so for me that's that was my marker the survivor hinge there's like it has to say like made the jury so actually once I made the jury I I was like, well, I've done all I've needed to do here.

And then they just kept me in the end and I won. So it was crazy. It's controversial. Do you get like vote? I'm sorry. I don't know. Do you get like voted out? Do you like lose challenges on the challenge you get voted out?

There's like multiple ways. The format always sort of changes. That's what makes it different than survivor is that it's unpredictable. I've only seen the challenge USA and another another one of the season okay yeah well i'm getting inducted i'll watch the finale tonight and and survivor usa is a great one to introduce you to because it has like your favorites from other cbs shows but you know you know it was it your favorite it definitely has more strategy i would say than like a regular traditional one but the truth is is like the interesting part about the challenge is that you can get voted into elimination but you also can save yourself at the end it's like yeah so so there's a there's a certain amount of that your fate is in your own hands okay so

you're like you're like nominated and you play like another challenge exactly so there's there's a bit more chances to get yourself out of a sticky sitch yeah that sounds fun oh it's the oh yeah when you're like facing off against somebody else you fade the face yeah yeah i've seen you do some math oh yes i certainly have don't need to go to yale for that i didn't have to go to yale community college all the way baby ever heard of it it. Ever heard of community college, bitch. Don't do this to me right now. Maybe you're going to like me as a bad. I'm just totally kidding. I went to nursing school at Yale. Okay. It's not like real Yale. Not to, not to discount my nursing school. I'm very grateful for it. I will say if I

went to Yale at all, I would have, I would only wear Yale sweatshirtsirts yale hats i would have yale booty shorts on the back i don't know but i would wear yale merch okay all day next episode i will come fully decked out in yale booty shorts and now i know somebody from yale so i expect all the merges well like they could be like did you go to yale i'm like no no no but my podcast my podcast went to y'all already graduated like it would be my intro to everything i'd be like hi i'm No, no, no. But my podcast. Went to Yale. Already graduated. It would be my intro to everything.

I'd be like, hi, I'm Michelle. I went to Yale. And I was also on Survivor one time. Like it would be. It's the second to Survivor. No, I don't know. Yeah. I would be very proud if I were you.

But now look where your life's led you. So I went to a couch in Hoboken. We're going to do something really fun. And I'm going to test Michelle. Yeah, that sounds fun. Cheers. Cheers. Does this sound like that to you guys?

This sounds really nice and nice. Oh, you think it's good? I thought it was good. Yeah, let's do it again. You want to do it like gentler? Maybe a little gentler. All right, guys, we're back. And as you know, Michelle has never seen the new era of Survivor which personally broke my heart

when I met her and so now I'm going to share that love and today we're going to bring on a amazing group of icons living legends that somehow Michelle has never maybe heard of and yeah we're going to give her about two minutes to question them talk to them or you know if they want to talk over us that's fine and she will have to decide were they in fact on New Era Survivor or are they a decoy of some sort okay okay you up to the challenge I'm ready I've got questions locked up in the arsenal. Okay. I am ready. I do apologize in advance to everybody who I don't know. And I just want to say, listen, it's PTSD enough to go experience this. Watching it back, tough man. So it's not,

it's not you, it's me, you know, and just know, I'll say, yeah, just know I support you and I'm proud of you, however you placed but you know all survivor players need their egos brought down just a little bit so we are here to do that today anyway why don't we start with our first our first ever technical guest on this podcast wow what an honor oh my god let's go bring them in oh there he is all right right. What's up? Dave. Hey, how's it going? Dave, 24, slot machine salesman, and I like long walks on the beach. You know, Michelle does have a boyfriend.

I have been known to take long walks on the beach as well. But the question here is that, did you take them in Fiji? That's the question. I would say my walk is short on the beach. You know, I didn't like to be on the beach often. I like to chill in the shelter on the bamboo. I see. I see. And so, I'm sorry, what's your, Dave?

Okay, Dave, where exactly did you go to the bathroom when you were on Survivor? I so everyone would normally go in the ocean but I would choose to go in the wilderness. Oh the wilderness. I see. And then I would use the And what did you call the area in the wilderness that you went to the bathroom?

Dave's Dump Dungeon. Oh okay okay. Well it's called coconut grove first or you were not on survivor no i was well i was on for sure it's just like your your your experience on survivor like what happened to you so basically um I did not get along with my initial tribe and then uh I was like throwing objects and shit that they had

and uh Jeff didn't like me and I got voted out wow tale as old as time Dave okay well I love your accent I think that that usually goes a pretty long way with casting. I have an accent? You certainly do.

Where are you from? I'm from Las Vegas, Nevada. But my family's from Memphis, if that's what you're hearing. Sorry. Okay. What does his byline say? What season were you on? The new era.

What one? The new era number 46. 46. I really wouldn't know. Well, you're about to find out once you decide. I think that you, I think that you were, I think you maybe went out a little bit but your thought is just not clicking okay no you weren't

you weren't on final answer you weren't unfortunately Michelle he was on so wait I won season 46 I was the winner no he's fucking with you oh holy shit I was like I thought I knew the winners

I was the first one voted out unfortunately for the audience wait you were the first person and he goes by Jelinski so Dave was really shocking to me okay so here's the thing Jelinski um just you the only reason I guess no

is because there was a few things that it makes sense that you were gone earlier but sir sir were you really throwing things was that your oh yeah honestly i didn't even think about that when i did it i hate to say it i i just asked one of my primates i said bro should i throw this he was like yeah i just did it for fun um it's like um in the beginning of the new era we have to like earn our supplies and so he volunteered to earn the supplies and there was an hourglass and he's basically like screw this and threw the hourglass on the beach like minute day one that's his that's for like fellow survivor contestants they actually

got to smash it you know so when i did it it ended up being a big deal and everyone was upset with me but you know there were some things i threw in there, Michelle, to throw you off on purpose. OK, well, you know what? I will. I will watch since I barely, barely have to apply myself to watch your episode. I promise I will watch your episode. Here's the thing, Michelle, the legend of Jelinski, you have to watch more than episode one because I make it all the way through. Yeah, I will. We will have to fill you in.

Jelinski, I am just so honored that you were our first guest thank you for joining us from your car go sell those slot machines boy oh here we are all right restart sorry i'm like the biggest challenge fan um like i i'm like this is an honor to me okay so okay i haven't seen every season of survivor but i have seen every season of the challenge so I'm like, this is an honor to me. Okay. So, okay. I haven't seen every season of Survivor, but I have seen every season of The Challenge. So can't wait to watch your finale tonight. Love me. I love you already.

I don't care if you were on Survivor or not. Same. Okay. Michelle can, so Michelle can ask you a couple of questions or you can, you know, share with us about your time on Survivor, however we want to do this. Give it to me, Hannah. Tell me your story. Well, excuse my robe. I'm really bad at doing anything that makes me slightly uncomfortable and it's really fucking cold here in Asheville. My name is Hannah. I'm 34. I have a crippling nicotine addiction, which impacted me on the show um i was totally on survivor and i made history as the earliest person to quit which upset millions and millions of people forcing me

off the internet and now i live in the shadows you know what you and me both live in the shadows I've done a lot of things on reality tv that have put me what you know I've won but I have lost a lot as well okay well let me tell you something I've heard about you that's how far your infamy goes I didn't know your name I've never seen your face before I'm not gonna lie to you but you're beautiful for somebody who you know is a quitter but like besides that I think okay listen girl well why did you not give up the devil stick you know okay so it's not vaping or smoking it's just these little baby nicotine pouches and in my mind okay so I am not like I said i'm not a huge survivor fan i'm a huge challenge fan and i was like maybe if i go on survivor like michelle i can meet tj lavin and go

on the you know um it was just a stepping stone but so i applied kind of like as a joke, like not thinking I'd ever hear back. Seven months later, I'm in Fiji with Kelly on season 45. And we had a great conversation in the bathroom. We did. I couldn't stop pooping. The morning filming started, I could not stop. I thought we were going to have the poop alliance. Really upsetting for me. I didn't make it that far.

Anyway. Well, we kind of blew this one out. I just hated it it and i told jeff you could not pay me a million dollars to stay another minute in this hellhole you know i did the math when i was on season 39 i was so uncomfortable and it was a longer back in my day sorry it was 39 days. Now you guys have it. But okay, but here's what I had calculated. If I want a million dollars, every minute that I was uncomfortable would come out to about $20. That's like how the ratio works.

So if I was uncomfortable, I said, is this minute worth $20? And that's how I got through it. And Hannah, every minute is worth more than that if you have less days that's like math you know it's a fucking thing yeah I wish it's not worth it not worth it I need food I need sleep I need comfort yeah warm I need tribe mates that don't fucking snore yeah looking at you over here anyway it's uncomfortable I hear you butannah you were on the show and you know what maybe you

left early but your impact rippled through the survivor community so you can you are the only person michelle does know from the new era which is far you are the only only one right couldn't be better hannah you should be proud you made an impact nice to meet you Hannah love you coming on who knew I had such a face here we go all right welcome Izzy hi what's up excited for your finale tonight thank you excellent I'm a big swimmer so I I'm obsessed with the swimming part of the final same let me tell me tell you, if I was on land, it wouldn't be going so great for me. But I got it really said, let's let's give this girl a leg up. She's been struggling. Let's give her water.

Amazing. All right, Michelle, you want to ask Izzy a few questions and see if you can figure out what she wants to write? Izzy, give me like a little package here tell me about yourself I love that okay I'm 34 years old from New York City I play the flute for a living I did not have my flute on survivor which was a pain in the ass but I did try and play like every stick or coconut shell that was out there it annoyed the shit out of everyone but that's another story um I oh I was like the only visibly queer person like female on my season and I like really

was like found myself like wanting to get like with an all women's alliance but I found down that path before I was like super bonding with the dudes on my season so I was like felt stuck between a rock and a hard place you know and I had two really close allies that ultimately were closer to each other than my dumb ass and so um yeah I barely made jury I was a little bit of a vote out because of like collateral damage one of my allies won immunity clearly it's still raw um and um yeah yeah that's that's a good summation yeah there you go that's the okay you have had to have been on the show because i feel i feel the pain and the hurt that comes through only by being wronged by an alliance member where you come second for them. It's like, motherfucker, we're so tight. Yeah, exactly.

I'm talking to you, Jeremy, when you chose Tony over me. Anyways, besides the point, okay, but I think that you have, you seem like a big personality. I didn't even know that people were like professional flutists or whatever you do. Flautists. Are you a flautist? Flautist.

I didn't even know that was a thing. He's actually joining us from England right now. So I'm in London right now. whatever you do. Flautists. Are you a flautist? Flautist. I didn't even know that was a thing. He's actually joining us from England right now. So I'm in Flautist right now. That's right. Are you flouting out there? Are you doing the flute? But my fiance

is a lighting designer and her opening night of the show on West End is happening on a page. I feel that you are too interesting to not be on TV.

So it's good reading. You must be a survivor. So it must, you must be a survivor. Thank you so much. All right. Michelle, you have a great eye for casting. Unfortunately, Izzy was on Big Brother. But

she was besties with Serena on Big Brother. So I think, you know, people call her Izzy Peele. She's a real survivor. We've kind of adopted her on our season. Yeah. Okay, well, you're a crazy person for going on that show. And

could you not bring your flute there either? No, no, no, I couldn't. 57 days without the flute. It was kind of great actually wow I I could never do Big Brother props to you you are very interesting and that was a good read for me and if you live in New York I feel yes we have to hang deprived that we haven't met yet and this is just basically let's end the podcast now this is a meet you I'm catching a plane let's go I have to go watch the summit to meet you so it's not you know it's a little hard

well come meet us in Hoboken listen if we ever find ourselves on the same season I'm working with you Izzy this is my pre-game pre-game we doing it from day one Kelly's out you're my podcast

all right it's been fun I say one third here, right? Yeah, bye Kelly. Kelly's out. You're my podcast. Alright, it's been fun. Alright, anyway, Izzy, you're the best for joining us from another time zone. Thank you. Nice to meet you. We suck at this game. No, we wanted you to suck. But also, Izzy, I knew it would be good. Okay, here we go, big man.

What up, Q? What's up? Hi hi this is Michelle Michelle what's up ask you a few questions or you can maybe you can just tell Michelle a little bit about your time on Survivor and she is going to guess if you are telling the truth or not she does not know everyone who's been on the new era? I was on season 46. Okay. And I came up with this thing called the Q-Skirt. Okay. And everybody's wearing it nowadays.

Okay. I even have my own hats. I even have my own sand. And if you're naughty throughout the year, I might cancel your Christmas. Oh, yes. Everything, baby. You want to ask him anything?

Where do I begin? Where do you go from here? Okay. Give me a Q tip. What would be your tip on how to win Survivor? Don't get voted out. Yeah, that's a great tip. I feel very confident. Make a couple friends.

Yeah. Come on a podcast. Come on a podcast. That's how you do it. That's a pre-represent. How long did you last Q? How long did I last? I mean, I don't think I've left yet.

I'm still in a place of survival. Okay. So, I'm gonna well, you're interesting. So, I do feel you're casting Dream. I feel you might have entered a bit confused, which either means that you are in on the plot

or they just didn't give you enough information about this. So, I'm gonna say you were not on the plot or they just didn't prep it didn't give you enough information about this so i'm going to say you were not on survivor wait before before before you answer before you answer and say this is your final maybe you should ask me a couple more questions okay well i can tell that you like i can tell that you like the attention which is a trait that is very favored by me as a survivor player and so I do feel like if you're a man who loves the camera who loves to stay on yeah you kind of have the thing that we all have in common which is being you know a little narcissistic and sociopathic that's my key trait um fuck okay

so ask me something that only a survivor would know okay what did you use to brush your teeth oh me yeah i didn't brush my teeth there's no need to brush my teeth when i'm outside in the jungle uh talking to other people with stinky breaths. Yeah, you are not a listener. You are not a listener. No way. Listen, people chewing watermelon bubblegum. I feel

confused and I feel that you could not have been on the show. You can't just run around with stinky breath. You got gotta get a stick to rub them off. The stick you do the charcoal thing? Yeah, you gotta use something, you know.

No, you're not gonna run around with like cute animals. If I'm out there in the jungle, I'm a survivor. Why is that important? We gotta win a million bucks, right? Yeah. Not to have the best smelling breath. It's a comfort thing.

It's kind of the social game, too. You have bad breath. It's a comfort thing. Alright, my final answer, I don't think you were on. Now, I'm not. Were you? Was he on? Tell me. Tell me. Was he? Are you? Why don't you reveal, Q? Come on.

Of course I was on Survivor. He was on Survivor. And everything he said was true and everything was not made up. He did create the Q skirt. He said cancel Christmas many times. And he was quite a recognizable face of the

new era. Oh my god. Okay, well, I'll watch you on season 50 then. I'll tune into season 50 and i'll watch it i have a newborn kid congrats going on uh he's a cutie i don't see myself doing anything else you know what then enjoy the time off enjoy the new baby and maybe i'll meet you when you come to new york sometime and i'll buy you a drink first guessing that you weren't on and also sort of calling you a narcissist you ready never drank never smoked so you can't buy me a drink but let me say what you can buy me the best cheesecake that cheesecake has in new york i well we're gonna i mean and it must be gluten-free

all right well now there's a lot of parameters all right this feels now that my gift to you is now being manipulated if you want a cheesecake well i offered a drink no, I'll get you a cheesecake. But from Cheesecake Factory. Because I love that 17-page menu. So you truly brought everything you wanted me to. I appreciate that, Kelly. Thank you. Thank you for having me. You are always entertaining.

You brought it. I'll have a gluten-free cheesecake waiting for you if you ever come to New York. And you duped Michelle. Can't ask for more. That was great. Wow, he's not a big personality at all. Hi. Hey, what's up?

Ellie, what's good? Thank you for coming. So you know Michelle probably, but she doesn't know you. I've never had the pleasure of meeting Michelle in these streets. What's good, Michelle? Hi, what's good? So Michelle can ask you a few questions.

You can talk about your time on Survivor, and then she'll need to guess if you were, in fact, on The New Era. Okay, I'm excited for this. I've been waiting to meet Michelle. Okay, well, tell me a little about yourself or Survivor journey. Okay, my name is Bruceuce i'm 35 and uh if you think hannah had a sad story on survivor you ain't heard nothing yet okay who's hannah hannah earlier she's the one who quit yeah the one damn you said you're gonna

yeah you you said you were gonna disrespect us but i think you're gonna disrespect us like that i didn't even tell you my sob story yet you'd already disrespected him i'm so sorry okay go on i don't want to open this wound now michelle you're gonna laugh at my it's really hard to wrangle bruce yeah oh my god oh god oh sorry okay let's get level and calm so let's let me yeah let me let you lead in here i didn't spend a lot of time on survivor uh i actually was medevaced uh i had a concussion in the first challenge and it was a reward challenge i never even made it to camp we got ready to to start the challenge and we're we're running underneath these things like these like bamboo poles.

And I immediately crack my head on the first one underneath it. I'm not even joking. First one out the gate. We had to stop everything. They were going to let me go back to camp and monitor it. But the concussion was so bad that I got removed from the game.

And I can say, if you thought Hannah's story was bad, I spent less time on Survivor than her. Okay, well, your personality is there you're good at storytelling I would cast you and I'm a little jealous because you already given away your hangout with Izzy and I'm like hey I thought it was all gonna be all of us as a family I didn't even know they were gonna be here these other people I thought this was about me yeah okay well I love that behavior you have been listening and truly flattery is the way to my heart so uh you you seem like you'd be a good social player if you didn't just knock your head on the bamboo which is I think bamboo

I was literally gonna come in and lie about it and be like no I got I made the merge or something but like honestly it's the saddest story you could ever hear and after you hear Hannah's you know so here we go yeah you had a one-up Hannah yeah yeah it would be crazy if they brought me back though that would that's what I was waiting on but we'll see okay so what season were you on I was on season 44 okay well I think that that I do like you you seem like somebody who could probably con me into an alliance and then with your charm and then kick me to the curb but you didn't even get time to play yeah do you think I would have you on the challenge not having any time like I was on survivor so like they would have me on the challenge, right? No, I just don't believe you, Bruce.

I really don't. And you know why I don't believe you? Because you said, when you were telling the story, you said, like, I swear, like, honestly, which is a telltale sign of a lie when you like have to oversell it a bit. So I feel like you weren't on Survivor. But you think we would be friends if I was on Survivor? We're going to be friends either way, Bruce.

You're stuck with me now and forever. Kelly, you didn't tell Michelle that you and I played on the same season of Survivor, right? Actually, I would say I was talking about Bruce and Michelle only 15 minutes ago. So this was... Really? Really, yes. minutes ago. So this was really, really. Yes. What? Where? He was in Rhode Island. That's why we're talking about it. Yeah, I ended up coming back for season 45.

My number one ally betrayed me and her name is Kelly. I got to watch all season, Michelle, as this woman talked so much. This is incredible. Well, I would say like, this is my number one ally. Follow her off a cliff. And I did off the cliff. Right there I go.

He said how high? Sorry. We've all fallen into that trap before. Okay. Did you actually get medevaced? Yeah. I'm the only two time survivor player in the new era because they immediately

wow okay anyway Michelle your final answer was he was not I suck at this game you were correct he is not on survivor he is cosplaying as Bruce which I didn't know what he was doing he wasn not on Survivor okay he is cosplaying as Bruce which I didn't know what he's doing

the story I told was true it's just not me I'm Chappelle hi how are you oh my god did you just change your name at the bottom yeah I did not know Chappelle I don't know what you have against applying for these shows, but you really should, because that was incredible and so funny. I did not know that was going to happen. Can we talk about it? Ten out of ten. So here we are, Michelle. I'm sitting here backstage and they're bringing on Survivor players and Big Brother players.

I'm like, well, what the hell am I doing here? So I had to figure out, you were asking about Coconut Grove and stuff. I'm like, I know these answers, but I don't know if I should know these. So I was like, all right, I'll just pretend to be somebody Kelly knows and catch her off guard, too. That was so good. And Chelle is an RHCP podcaster. Oh, my God. Vibrant personality.

So I knew that he would do a great job and he really blew away my expectations here. I feel like I got double hoodwinked is what you really you sent me through the ringer there, honestly. But ultimately, you got it right. Ultimately, I got it right. And I started really questioning everything about myself throughout this entire you had me feeling every emotion one could possibly feel regret that I didn't watch anything I obviously went through the sorrow of not knowing somebody who I just interviewed maybe about three or two four minutes ago you really put me through the rollercoaster of emotions. Well, Chappelle, you're

the best. That was so funny. And Michelle, you really brought it. The thing is, is that you're bringing on big personalities. Okay, Izzy was a big personality. She was on Big Brother. So I'm trying to It was a tricky one. You hoodwinked me. And now I already know that I can't trust my co-host. So the trust has gone

out the window episode one. So that's a confusing tidbit there. And you were in on the plot with Bruce. I mean, honestly, I just yes and did that because I'm just going to pretend that this is Bruce. How very improv. It was very funny, though, because literally 20 minutes ago I was talking to you about Bruce. And I told you he was like in his late 40s. And then Chappelle said he was 35.

And you're like, oh, well, one thing to learn about me is I barely pay attention. I'll barely listen to anything that you say. So it's really, I heard that, but I didn't fully, I didn't fully hear the whole thing. Yeah. Thanks for joining us. You had so much fun today. I hope you did too. Michelle, you really brought it during the game, even though you only had a two out of five.

Pretty good. That's like a failing score, I think. really brought it during the game even though you only had a what two out of five pretty good that's like a failing score i think i didn't go to yale but i'm pretty sure you can see my face right now what is it a c no oh no i thought you were good at math what is two out of five actually producer it's lower oh that's a day yeah we're great let's wrap this let's wrap this let's put a condom on it let's get it out of here this has been so fun and we want to hear from you if there's anything that you want us to yap about if we didn't yap enough today please you can leave a comment or you know our instagram the social game pod you can send us a dm whatever you're thinking whatever guests you want to see games you want us to play pretty much nothing is off limits according to rob sestradino himself so yeah dream big everybody with us and

we have a fun guest coming up next week just a little teaser her and i have a lot in common yeah you know and i'm picking my friends you know from the world of Survivor I I have really specific qualities and yeah winning Survivor is one of them but you know sometimes there's more crossover yeah we're gonna we're gonna have a lot of fun there's a lot yeah my best friend uh Diva Idaris will be here yeah she will be she's signed up for this on this tour with us and it will be it will be an interesting time. You don't want to miss it, right? You definitely don't want to miss it.

Tune in. We'll see you next week. On the social game. Thank you guys for joining episode one. It's been a pleasure, my dear. Oh, another cheers. We haven't done it. We haven't done it enough.

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