RHAP: We Know Survivor - Why We’re Excited about Survivor AU vs The World

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Why We’re Excited about Survivor AU vs The World Rob Cesternino and the world’s most qualified international Survivor correspondent, Shannon Guss, are thrilled to announce we’re less than a week away from the premiere of Survivor Australia versus the World! This highly anticipated “once-in-a-lifetime event” has been in the making for almost a year, promising […]

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Rob Sesterino, back with you to kick off. Or maybe my guests today might say, like, what do you mean kickoff? I've kicked this off three months ago. but we are less than a week away from the premiere of Survivor, Australia, versus the world. And I am so grateful to be here with the world's most qualified person to talk about all of the international survivor stars who have gone to Samoa to play a game will never forget. It is our chief international survivor correspondent. Shannon Gus, Shannon, how are you? Rob I'm great

We kicked this off last year Me and you Yes we did Do you remember that? We did a podcast like emergency podcast Like on it was like a Sunday night I had gone to bed my favorite I love to go to bed early on a Sunday night

That's like my you know Like keys to the week Sto to bed early on Sunday night And I woke up on Monday morning I think that I had like a frantic message Like an overnight That it had announced No I think I want to say

from Sam, and it was, they had announced Australian Survivor versus the world, and it was happening, and then we did a podcast then. And since then, we have been waiting with bated breath, counting down the days to get here. And Shannon, we are less than a week away from the kick, from the actual start of this once-in-a-lifetime event. Yeah. So I think that it was not this year. It was, I think, like, almost a year ago, they announced AUV World. Sure, like when they filmed it. Yeah, yeah. So they announced AUV World.

Like, you know how many babies have been born from people on this cast since filming? I'm going to guess one? Yes, one, but multiple people are pregnant. Anyway, that's the Australian Survivor way of life. But, no, seriously, can the people return so often as well? It's like baby, return, baby. Anyway, different story. Yeah.

A year ago, we did the podcast, and they had announced the Americans. And they announced, like, three Australians. I can't even remember now. I guess it was like Kirby, Shawnee, and George. And then they, then nothing for months. And then they announced the whole cast in like April. And so we've just, and now we've just, it's been like the world's longest preseason. It's been a year long preseason for what's going to end up being like a three week season,

which is an insane disparity, really. Three weeks in terms of airing, it was less than that, I think, in terms of the game, right? yeah we're on the new era right now except not this is the kind of thing where it makes a new era look like the old era or maybe more like Australian Survivor usually yeah this was I think that props called in and was like hey Australian Survivor this 50 day season you're making us look bad with 26 days you think you can maybe do us a favor yeah and honestly it could set a bit of a mold of if they were going to do 26 days they say in the street genuinely yes I mean how many days is it is it like 16 days whatever i think it is about that and if so if they ever

want to do like a celebrity season or things like this again yeah i think that the branding probably should have gone 14 days call it survivor fortnight you get all of the kids watching like oh survivor fortnight this is going to be great yeah no every day they add it was survivor fortnight they're like is ris god on it no no but check it out anyway yeah i you could tell me me anything about fortnight and i believe you i i don't is the banana guy there no why is it 16 days why 16 as opposed to any other four i don't know 16 people 16 days for 14 people for 14 people i think you need to have maybe more days than people i think it's like okay we can't do 14 people 14 days they should have made it like three weeks all right they should have anyway they should

done a lot of things. But anyway, listen, you love the season that you have, okay? Not the season that it could have been. And that's what we learned with Survivor 50. Yes. And so, Shannon, we are ready to get started. Sunday night is when it all goes down and we're going to talk a little bit about what is our coverage going to look like. I've got questions for you about all of this, for anybody who has not been just in the weeds with you, just in case you had missed it. Shannon, has been doing individual player previews on this entire cast now for weeks. And we've got it all up on our YouTube channel. Shannon has profiled every single person in this cast.

We've got a playlist for you to check it out in case you've been just like, you know, getting lost in the Big Brother. Hey, it's time to get back to Australian Survivor. I agree with you. I agree. Big Brother over this. This has to re now. Okay.

Shannon goes where Surrey goes, okay? When it was Big Brother 25, Shannon was Big Brothering. Now, Ceri's here. I watched Snake in the Grass. I watched that one, but I found it. I found that episode of Snake in the Grass. I watched that. I've seen the whole Ceres cinematic universe now.

Yeah. Did you wait a year to watch her on Traders, though, or that was Poverty? I watched Poverty last week at three times. I watched Ceri, not a year, but it wasn't at the time. Traders is, and I will watch. What are you going to watch the next one? I won't watch it in time. But do be fair, Traders does air during Australian Survivor, usually.

So it's very difficult for me. I watch the re after the fact. But for one person more than that, I would watch it at the time and that is Donic Health. Very fair. Yes, okay. All right. So let's just talk about, okay, we're going to get started on Sunday night. And can you give us a sense of, okay, what are we doing on the podcast?

And I know, just in case it was like, wait, what was this? Rob, not know. I do know. I'm letting Shannon tell you. Tell the people. I want you to tell them. Well, okay. So every week, Australian Survivor airs at an ungodly hour here in the United States. But what is it on? Is it on like 8 o'clock in Australia? I think it'll be 7. 7. Oh, I like that. Motion to put a U.S. Survivor on at 7 o'clock on the East Coast.

It is very late for things to air. That's what I'm saying. But anyway, Australian Survivor will air. But to be fair, it will finish at the same time as U.S. Survivor because it's like their four-hour episodes. So it has to start. It's not ending any early. It's just starting earlier. Three episodes a week, Shannon Guss will be locked and loaded with you to have a recap after every new episode.

Shannon's Angels are back. She's got Chappelle, Pooja, and Mike Bloom ready to go. And she gives each of the guys a different. week or a different day of the week and so you've got like what it would like Chappelle Monday or whatever and then three episodes week and then after

Shannon's Angels get through on the daily recaps Shannon and I will be together on Wednesdays to discuss the week gone by here on R-H-A-P Plus Shannon will bring you exit interviews

with every voted-out contestant along the way. Yes. I'm pretty good. My notes. Do I miss anything? The angels, we call them

Recap Bitches. That's the first thing. Secondly, Shannon will bring you as many ex-interviews as 10 will give her, which is hopefully all of them. What does that come down to? Player availability?

Well, I mean, are some of the players possibly hosting the show at this current time? Is that person going to call in and for an ex-interview? TBD. But I don't want to count my chickens, you know?

So I'm just saying, I would be there day and night for any interview that they would give me. But I am beholden to the network. And otherwise, I think we got it. Do you want to be like a recap bitch proxy? I mean, then what would happen to my already existing spot? Well, you can be something slightly different. You can call it something slightly different. Oh, okay, you're asking me, not that do I want to recap an episode of Australian Survivor?

do I want to be an aforementioned recap B word? And I, can I be a different B word? Like, like, what? I don't know. Like, I'm more of an analysis B word. Yeah, more of the anal B. Yeah. I don't know.

Okay. Oh, okay. So you want to be more like a feedback bitch or like a, a check-in bitch listen whatever let's let's keep going

let's keep going check-in is not bad so we're going to have the coverage every single week very excited about it just in case anybody is under a rock do you want to just like what do you want to do to set up

the theme of what they're doing here one time someone sent me a very angry message because I said people who don't know about this are under a rock so I hope that your DMs are okay secondly it's Australia versus the world they have an Australian tribe of legends some of whom may currently be hosting the show maybe and they have a tribe of global legends three from the US you may have heard of three Tony and poverty knocked it out of the park 10 out of 10 no notes except present company excluded. And then they've got four internationals who you might have seen we've covered either on our HAP in the past or through this preseason. So they have someone from

Survive of South Africa, Survivor New Zealand, Survivor Finland, and Survivor Quebec. And that makes up our global tapestry of Survivor. Yeah. And they're all going to, you know, play over seemingly one week-ish. And we're going to, yeah, we're going to watch it play out. And now, Shannon is so dedicated to the sport that she covers that she has recently gone and watched the Survivor Finland

Seas Survivor Finland or Survivor Quebec? I watched both. Okay. She watched both of them. The Survivor Quebec season that Shannon watched that this person is from is, was how many episodes? It was 67 episodes from?

67 episodes. Yeah, which sounds like a joke. And it annoys when people are like, Oh, wasn't there like 40 episodes? I'm like it, it's 67. Was it good? Did you like it? Yes.

It was wild. Rob. I should have made a game. Oh, that's what I should have done it and I didn't do it. I could probably do it on the fly of like, you would never believe if I would give you two truths and a lie on Survivor Quebec, some of the things that happened, wild. Yeah, I can't even imagine what would have been so unusual about it. It's in 67 episodes.

They had to like, they had to do a lot of things. Yeah. Don't worry about a game. Just tell me. Yeah. Okay. The highlight. Um, snap edge of extinction, just randomly like not, you know, you say they should go to the edge pre-emerge?

They didn't until like halfway through the pre-merge and they're like, you're actually going to the edge. They sent like four people to the edge, actually five, someone left. Yeah. They did snap edge and then it ended. There was a pre-murge rock draw, not the first time in Global Survivor. Right. But that was fun. Um, I'm trying to think about what they're really good.

That was, that was what was really crazy. They, in 67 episodes, do you think they went to a final two, Rob? No. No. Still a final three. And they introduced fire. I was like, this is now mocking me at this point because I've been here.

Final four. Firemaking in Survivor Proveck? Yeah. And they introduced it for the first time. That was unfortunate. Just to like be clear, because I know this, but people who maybe have not been following it.

So the 67 episodes, it's like basically it's like one like long episode, but each they break down like each part of the episode into like its own like half hour episode, right? 22 minutes, yeah. So, like, in time, it actually is the same as like an Australian Survivor season. However, it's like, this episode is just like

the camp life after the reward challenge. Yeah, and there sometimes will be three reward challenges in a road because they went to a final three. Like, it only went from 20 people to a final three with one edge of extinction battle back. That's a lot less than Australian Survivors. So if you think about pure time to eliminations,

it's not that much. Now, that what part wasn't good, but the season itself was wild. Premurge, wild. Postmerge, wild. Cass, who was on Australia v. World, did not go to Tribal Council on the pre-merge for, I think it was 26 episodes. I think that's the number. I was watching it for her.

I'm watching for Cass. And the other tribe is like completely imploding by any. And Cass is chilling. I'm like, go to tribal cast. I'm here to you. Did you feel like that this is like, okay, I can totally get why that from the complete thousands of people that they could have picked for Australian Survivor versus the world, I get why this person. person from Survivor, Quebec, that I didn't even know existed, is one of the 14 people were picking for this Survivor Olympics.

I mean, if I say no, this can be quite harsh on Cass and Tommy, who are both great. Like, Cass from Quebec and Tommy from Finland are both really fun additions. There are so many fun additions. Some of them, I would not have had to watch Survivor Finland for it. You know what I mean? Can you give me a comparison? Like, what global player would you say that they are most like? People call Cass the Quebecan.

Is that Quebec-Cubeckian? Amanda Kimmel. Okay. She's really well-rounded, super-physical, really good in endurance, great social game. In 2025, we take any Amanda Kimmel we can get. Well, without, like, the law of Amanda Kimmel, but the issue with Cass is she didn't vote out her number one ally.

She lost unanimously at the end. She didn't have the killer instinct. So she loses at a final tribal council. And she didn't, like, make that push. Who does Tommy remind me of from Finland is a great question? Tommy's a big super fan. And, like, he was a fans versus favorite season, which was very confusing for me because I didn't know any of the favorites, and the subtitles were not good.

So it took me a while to catch up onto what was happening with that. But he's, like, a huge super fan. And the fans actually really dominated that season. Um, who, who's, I need to think about who Tommy kind of reminds me of. He was like, maybe, like a you, maybe, no. Oh. I'm just looking at you. No, but like he is a big, in ways, honestly, like, he's not as, not as funny, to be

honest, but like, he's a really good player. He ran the season. He, he had, like, he had this, like, reverence for the franchise. Mm-hmm. Maybe he is like you. I see a little bit of you and him. A couple of fun facts by Survivor Finland, Rob. They have, um, the dice of fate.

shot in the dark which you can win which is best one out of three not one out of six but they actually roll a die this time yeah okay so an improvement yeah an improve they roll like a like a fairly large die and also fun fact about tommy Tommy lost in a jury vote there was three three and his opponent had won an extra jury vote and that's how Tommy lost the game wow okay so robbed g dot odd Tommy Rob yeah and he's like you He's like me. Kind of, I guess. Shannon, so I had been thinking about this this morning

as we were getting ready to talk about this. And I would love to know from you that do you feel like that there is a certain Australian Survivor play style? And does that, is that different than how Australian Survivor is played across the rest of the world? How Australian Survivor is played or how Survivor is played? Australian Survivor, like, is there actually, like, a difference when we talk about, like, okay, it's Australian Survivor versus people from these other Survivor seasons?

Is Survivor just so universal, or do you feel like that the Australians play Survivor distinctly different than how it's played in these other countries? Well, if anything, Australian Survivors play it very big. That's what we've seen, right? Like, we call it the George effect, but Andy and I was saying on the Tony podcast, like, it's really the Tony effect, I think of, like, wanting to be a big character, wanting to actually get a confessional, wanting to return every year between the babies that they're having, which is opportunities that are afforded to them in these like, you know, very common returning

seasons. And they play really big. They get these massive characters. Everyone coming back on the season is one of those massive characters. And I think that while that is maybe more common to a Australian survivor, it's not unique to a Australian survivor. And they've cast a lot of the global tribe who will be like that. You know, Tony, again, they're doing it in the Tony mold.

three, poverty, like, someone like even like a Rob Bantle, like they are superstars who are going to get airtime. So I think it's going to be about playing big. I think it's going to be about making really big moves, not keeping it safe ever. Like, that's how I see the season going. And I think that's honestly how Australian Survivor has been a lot of the recent times. I feel like you have such a good mind for figuring out like in terms of like changing the different parameters of the season and have you given thought and i'm sure you have to how the shorter season affects things and the type of players that benefit from it being a 14 day season yeah this is it's saying it's 16 days okay don't take that we don't know don't take those days same as survival

Quebec don't say 60 67 after 16 days every every moment counts um if it's 16 days I think about this a lot we're in such new territory I think the social players gain less. Like if you need some time to ingratiate and work your magic, this is not the season for you. You're the kind of person you can get in there and make some fireworks quickly.

I kind of feel like that might be counterintuitive you would think, okay, no, there's social players who like people bond to them really quickly will be good. But I just think that there's not going to be as much time to really make, there's always several the new year, right? Like make decisions based on relationships. It's going to be a lot more game heavy, more like strategic.

Like this is the right move beyond, you know, not voting out a close ally because I've spent an interminable amount of time with them on Survivor Quebec compared to, well, I've known them for a week and we're already at the jury. So I probably can vote them out. So I think that there's, even though there are a lot of pregame relationships and that might, that might also define it a little more. But what do you think? I mean, it's got, it's got like the longest lead time of these like multi-year relationships coming in often and then they're going to play in such a short amount of time. Like, I don't know how that will kind of combust. Well, I feel like that's, it's an interesting precursor to Survivor 50,

which is not so short in days. Listen, again, this is like the framing. But in terms of like the people where that's going to be what, 26 people or 24 people in 26 days. And this is, you know, a little bit of a, you know, similar, like when you get down to the similar number of days in people, you know, it's like bang, bang, bang. the good news for Australian Survivor fans, Shannon, I'd be very surprised if we have any non-elimination episodes along the way. I don't think we'll have any to imagine.

I'd be pretty upset about it. So in a lot of ways, it's sort of like if you just got rid of the non-elimination episodes, it's basically the same as a normal Australian Survivor season. Yeah, and 10 people, you know, from the 24 to the 14, and a month, literally a month of playtime, then yes, that's what you would get. I mean, I think, you know, and when we talk about the shortest season as well of, like,

it's very hard to keep up. There was a season of Survivor South Africa that they did. That was 27 days. I'm talking about Survivor South Africa champions. And but then the pre-mage was like totally normal, but they moved on like day like 19 and then just every day was triable. And people fell away very quickly. Like if you couldn't keep up with the speed of the strategy, like it very much separated like the adults from the children, basically. So I think that that might be true.

I feel like I could see it both ways where I feel like it's like, hey, we're going. going to tribal, we're having a challenge every single day. We're going to tribal council every single day. Tribe strength is actually pretty important here because if we, we need to just avoid going to tribal council more so. But it's also I could see where it's like, hey, like the final tribal council is in 14 days. I'm thinking more about my numbers more about than I don't care necessarily if we lose challenges as long as I have my people. Yeah, I think they're merging like tomorrow. They have been merging at 14 people in Australian Survivor.

Like, there's literally the merge tribe amount of people. Yeah. Especially because, like, I think that they'll stay in AUV world for a very short amount of time. They want them to interact with the global community that they've created. So whether it's a swap or a merge, I think that like a round or two, genuinely, is that, that might be that first week, like three episodes and then emerge. What are you most excited about? I know we've talked a lot about Ceri, Parish. Harvey, Tony, but what about on the Australian side?

Like, what are you excited to see? I mean, it's, it's, honestly, this is the culmination of my whole life. So that's exciting and sad. Why sad? This is my whole life wrong. People need more than this in their life. Do they? Look at all you've accomplished.

Yeah. Don't say that people need more. This is our audience. We don't be anywhere but here, okay? We love you guys. Stay here with us. Don't do anything else. But listen, how many people can say they've watched every single season, every day that these people have ever played on Survivor, you're in a select company?

How many people do you think it is? We were actually talking about this on Blue Sky. Do you think it's like fewer than 100? I think it's fewer than 10. No, it's not fewer than 10. I know 10 people. I think. I could count.

Yeah. There are a lot of Survivor fans in Finland who might have, or in Quebec, who might have just watched the one other. and have seen international survivor. Perhaps. I think it's like 57. Mm-hmm. But here you are. You're ready to go.

And now these are all of the stars, these different franchises coming together. I just want to point out, I said it's really sad that this is the culmination of my whole life and you said, why is it sad? You watch all the Survivor Quebec in Finland. That didn't make things better,

that if anything was just making my point for me. I'm just saying that you have a degree of expertise that I think is unmatched. Thank you so much. And you and you are unbiased. So I really appreciate it coming from you. I really do. What am I excited about is, I mean, these are legends. This is a really good, this is really good casting, to be honest. Like, no real notes. I mean, there's obviously so many good people who could come back, but I'm not mad at any decision. I think that's what it is. It's like, sure, they could have had X. You know, I kind of felt like, I'm surprised they didn't have someone from Survivor UK because we have like a big sporting

a rivalry with the UK. And it's airs on 10 plays. I'm kind of shocked they didn't just go with the UK in that direction. And there were some picks there that I think could have been good. But even though there are people like, oh, they would have been good. Also, every pick in the cast is good. There is not one bad pick, I think, in the cast. So that's what's exciting to me. Like, it feels like the thing we've talked about for decades maybe, like the Olympics of Survivor, this exhibition match that's, I don't know. It really is a combination of everything I've ever worked for and ever loved. So I think that's what I'm most excited for. Yeah. Any big snubs in your mind from the, on the Australian side?

I mean, Ferris that isn't there. You'd love to see Ferris. Do we know? Did he pass? Did he pass? I mean, not RIP. Oh, did he pass on it? Was he invited and said no?

I don't think so. I mean, to be honest, the guys are George, David, and Luke. Like, hard to argue. I would still put Ferris probably after that for me. Did they not want to have Ferris and Kirby? Yeah, that's possible too. Like, Ferris was the most recent winner

when it filmed and that we had seen and he was like a fan favorite. I'm always happy to see Ferris, but I also can't argue with David, Luke and George. I think that's it. You'd love to see like a Haley. But Haley had a kid as everyone on a screen survivor had

and also you can't argue with all the choices again. Like, who is she replacing? Like, you'd still lose someone great. Who, what about you? Are you happy with the cost? Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty happy with the cast. I feel like that I wish it had been with, and look, with all due respect to Rob Bentley and Lisa and, you know, of course, our friends from Quebec in Finland, I would love to have seen it be all U.S. versus Australia. Like, I feel like that that would be, to me, cleaner of like, okay,

here is like the, you know, OG franchise versus the Australian franchise. I think that there would have been no shortage of people from American Survivor who would have gone and played. I think they could have done that. I'm not sure necessarily why they decided to open it up as Australia versus the world. Yes. The relationship between Australian Survivor and its older brother who hates us in US Survivor is a complex one. So I think, I don't know if that had anything to do with.

you know, it becoming, because I think that is what they had wanted to do. And believe me, Australian Survivor had so much reverence for the US. Like, I think it would have loved to do that. But barring that being possible, I do think getting these three US legends to represent the US so well. And then making it global. I mean, look, it makes it more niche for me specifically. Yes. You know, like we covered Lisa. Lisa won Survivor New Zealand in an RHAP shirt, Rob. Like, where was the first season I ever covered? Like, Rob Bentelay, you know, like I love Survivor South Africa more than, again, most things in life. So, like, for me, like, there's definitely, like, this is maybe for a few select people

who probably are listening to this very podcast, I think it's, like, that much more special, but, like, you can't argue again on AU versus US, but there's something really special about this, like, global community that we've built, even on this podcast and definitely in the world of Survivor, that is the point of the whole podcast that I do, and it's literally manifesting on the season. And something about that, I think, is really special, even though, yes, I have to specially watched Finland in Quebec, didn't think that that would necessarily come into it, but I feel like we're all caught up now.

So there's something special. Will you watch future seasons of Survivor Finland and Survivor Quebec? I've had season three is better than season two of Quebec. And I'm like, well, that's actually kind of impressive because season two was wild. It was wild, Rob. You need to meet Andre. You don't understand what Dean Audrey went through. Are you ready to expand your podcast coverage to start doing Survivor Quebec in Finland?

I want to say no. With the JLP news and everything, like, I don't know where my next meal is necessarily coming. I'll never turn anything down. But at this time, I'm very happy with the book after my life. Are you concerned that you might get unceremoniously let go? By you? Is that what you're concerned of? No, I was worried about a Australian survivor.

Oh, my God, wrong. What about the JLP news? Have you commented on this? I need it like publicly, like in competition. while I was off the grid and I yeah I mean it was very surprising to hear that because I feel like that JLP is pretty revered among all of the Australian Survivor fans so that was a surprise it was you came back I was like don't leave again JLP got fired okay things are wrong in the world like we need you here just keeping an eye on things but yeah this is JLP's last season as well so this is like

really the end of an era um and then there'll be a new era yeah heroes work. But yeah, this is this is the end of something special that we've had here with Australian Survivor. Okay. Well, this has been something special as well to get together and talk about what's coming up next Sunday. Now, anything else that you want to just get out there before we head into the actual premiere coming up this weekend. Yeah. So the preseason coverage, again, so what it was was Rob and I kicked it off one year ago. Then Mike and I did a cast announcement in April. Then we have done, I think there's going to be a playlist on YouTube.

It's all that we know global survivor.com. It's everywhere you get your podcast on that feed. So subscribe to the feed so you don't miss any of that. And it's all on video as well. So it's the podcast we did talking about each player, they're about an hour long each. They hopefully work if you don't know that player and introduces you to them. But it's also, I think they got a lot of really good individual analysis on each player, what type of player they are, how we think they're going to do.

So if you kind of just want to refresh out and also want to meet some of these players, you might not know from any of the franchises. We have all of that. Then we have this. Then we're going to do a draft with the recap bitches. I didn't know that you were a checking bitch yet when we did that. So you have not been included. But I can only apologize.

But that's me v them. So it's Australia versus the world. So I have a team of seven and they have a team of seven. Then we're going to have, it's a look. Then the season is going to start one year later. Wait, so it's you versus all of them that you get to pick seven people and they get to pick seven people? It's a UV world. That's what Sam wanted to do.

do you think that was a good idea no that's a fair you get seven people yeah but on teams the team is me versus them yeah they also got seven people combined do they get to like family feud style like collaborate for who their picks should be

they said they were mind melding I think they have a group chat without me because they were like very much in the thing yeah yeah you think so you think they do have a group chat without me probably do you really think that with Mike Chappelle and Julia

it's like a big love situation What? Oh, I get it. Yeah, it's like you're the main or you're the top dog and then you have your like three like, you know, sister wives. And they probably, you know, talk about like, oh, like I hope Shannon's nice today. Like, well, I'm not. So no, I think if they did my favorite is, do you think it's me? It's my favorite is.

Do you think it's me? say it openly. I literally introduce him like that. Yeah, well, whatever. They seem to work it out. They seem very happy with their team. So you can watch the draft when that comes out to see if you agree. Yeah.

And then it's a look with Bryce. And then the season will start with the coverage that you so excellently laid out. Are you excited? Yeah, I'm thrilled. I mean, I feel like that we've been waiting for so long. And I always love the chance to get to podcast with you. It's always fun when we get to talk together about Australian Survivor. like in the real time. And a lot of times like it is going on simultaneously with a season of

US Survivor, but we're always fortunate with Big Brother that, you know, Taryn does so much of the heavy lifting with Big Brother. So shouldn't be too much of a conflict with what I'm already doing on the podcast. Yeah. I mean, this is this is a moment in time. And I am expecting through my mind melding. I'm expecting three episodes a week for three weeks and then a finale. So by my calculations, yeah, it'll be over three weeks after it begins, which is terrifying. So basically don't miss a moment. Don't be like, oh, I'll get to it later. Later, then the season's done. It's already done. Like, you need to begin it now. In this moment with us, we've, you know, we've put everything into knowing everything we possibly can about all of these players, watch the whole poverty

cinematic universe. I watch series. I also watch Traders in this type, Rob. I'm not been doing anything else other than they're just binging content constantly, but I just want to be completely up to date with everything. You watch a deal or no deal island season two? Yeah, I watched that at the time.

I watched that at the time. That's the most important season of any reality show coming into the season. That's like the clutch season that no one knew about. That is the most important to the season of all. Yeah, all of that. So I watched The Apprentice that Janina David did together at the time,

watched Georgia Stint on The Amazing Race. I've done it all. Do you know how many reality TV seasons? These people have done. How many? It's insane. Their career reality TV contestants, no offense. I understand you have some stuff coming up,

and that's a very legitimate career. But I did everything. Couldn't be more prepared. This is where it's at. Please join us. And yeah, that's all I have. Okay. That's my plate.

All right. Shannon, what is the podcast feed to get all of your Survivor Global coverage. It's we know global survivor. We know global survivor.com plus it'll be all on our YouTube channel as well. So go ahead and go to watchrhap.com for that. Yeah. And follow me as Shannon Gates. I'll post

it all. And it'll be like the recaps will be out like right after the episodes come out. So you can watch the episodes, watch the recaps on your commute, keeping it zippy you're off, keeping it super zippy. Like one hour one hour 20 one hour 25 yeah okay yeah all right shannon great job can't wait to get started with you as we get ready for the big premiere coming up on sunday night thank you so much for joining us and we'll be back with the premiere of australian survivor versus the world coming up uh monday morning

will be the first uh recap sunday morning for you guys yeah and i think oh sunday morning for us Yeah, Sunday morning, because you're a day behind. So it's like overnight Sunday for you, Sunday night for us. So it's going to be Sunday, okay, Sunday Monday, Tuesday for us and for you. What night is there in Australia? Sunday Monday, Tuesday. Yeah. So, okay.

I don't think that's going to be our Sunday morning. It is, Rob. What time is it for you right now? Is it Monday morning? It's Monday morning. It's Monday night for me. Hmm. Okay.

So that's how. You would know. Yes. I know the time difference. that you guys are a day behind. So it was a Sunday night for us, Sunday morning for you. People often ask where they can find the episodes. That's usually the frequently asked questions. We try to make it so easy for the patrons of Rob's the podcast. We don't leave anybody behind in terms of if you're a patron, we're going to make sure you're watching Australian Survivor with us.

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