Survivor 50 Wish List Ballot Reveal

[00:00:00] Hi everybody and welcome back to the Survivor 50 Wish List Podcast, an off-season series where we're trying to figure out who could and should be coming back for the upcoming returning season of Survivor 50. And we have done it! 697 Survivor contestants have been talked about

[00:00:22] over the course of 46 podcasts, and today we are here to reveal the final ballot, go through one final round of wildcards, and look ahead to what comes next. Of course my name is Mike Bloom and I

[00:00:37] am joined by someone who is the reason I'm here today for multiple reasons. He's the one who came up with this truly incredible, complicated idea and a member of the 50 Wish List Ballot, which

[00:00:50] we'll be getting into over the course of this podcast, the one, the only Rob Cesternino. You give me too much credit Mike, you're the reason why we're here. You're the reason for the Survivor 50 Wish List and

[00:01:03] you're the one who did all the work. I just lied here the whole time. Yeah well that happens sometimes though, you lied and wait like the alligator. Yes yes and now here we are as we are about to send people

[00:01:17] to the polls. Yes exactly, we'll see maybe the polls will be open by the end of this. Well for what it's worth we're going to be going through some names today like we always do.

[00:01:28] What's our mission today Mike? Our mission today is that we are going to be revealing the full ballot by the end of this. That is including going through all of the names that

[00:01:39] have been put on so far and doing one final round of wildcards since the halftime show that we did. So we will leave this podcast with one final set in stone ballot for possible Survivor

[00:01:53] 50 contestants to vote upon for the first round of voting and yes I did say first round of voting, more on that a little bit later. Okay all right well Mike you've been very busy talking with

[00:02:05] all of the great podcasters and alumni here through 46 editions of the Survivor Wish List. Yeah and I really have to give major thanks amongst my huge list not only for this wish list but amongst the kudos to give to everyone who did come on between podcasters and alumni.

[00:02:26] I mean look as we're about to get into it was far from an easy job to do and it certainly did not come without people voicing their opinions as to who they wanted to see on but I greatly

[00:02:36] appreciate those who either took the time to re-watch their season, do their research or just come on and give their opinions about which people they would want to see back on Survivor. It was

[00:02:46] such a fun time and also a massive thank you to everyone who checked it out as well whether you were in here every day at 6 or 10 a.m seeing everything that happened or you only checked

[00:02:57] out some of them or you just followed along through recaps on Reddit or Twitter or what have you. Either way it's the off season. I love the engagement that happens in our Survivor community

[00:03:09] regardless and we had a lot of engagement around this which I really hope does carry forward into the actual voting itself. People are very excited and this is an opportunity for people like you

[00:03:18] know people have had so many personal experiences with the show Survivor and they have all of their favorites and many people like relish the opportunity to see their favorites come out here and have that opportunity again and so there's a lot of just you know wish casting

[00:03:37] that's going on and it's been a great word for all of this to describe this just entire experience for for and I could say for the fans but I think a lot of the alumni too. Yeah absolutely so

[00:03:52] let's get into it shall we Rob? Let us not tarry any further before we tally let us not tarry and we'll get into not deets and we'll get into the Survivor 50 wish list ballot and as always

[00:04:05] I have a visual on this series so we're going to start going season by season again for the first 22 seasons Rob you and I got together halfway through to do a little bit of a recap and add

[00:04:15] some wild cards to the ballot which we'll also be doing today. The wild cards are indicated with an asterisk so for the first 22 seasons we're just going to go through who has already been added

[00:04:26] and then the game will change a bit as we get to season 23. We're not going to stop down too much on the first 22 seasons because we already did that. Yeah it's just a reminder for everybody

[00:04:36] especially as we are looking ahead to opening up the polls. First off from of course the enigmatic titan of a first season that is Survivor Borneo we have five Pagongs Rob we have Jervis Peterson

[00:04:48] yeah Jenna Lewis Greg Buiss Gretchen Cordy and added by wild card the one the only Ramona. Wow no toggy. No toggy the toggies had their moment you know give the Pagongs a second third

[00:05:00] chance if you will. Moving on to the Australian Outback a season full of returnees and we added four to the wish list in the form of our top two in Tina and Colby of course one of the stars of

[00:05:13] the season in Gerry Manthe and a former second chance candidate herself in Kimmy Kappenberg. Okay Survivor Africa we have our fallen angel in Lex perennial RHAP standout in Teresa T. Bird Cooper Goldsmith Clarence Black our merge boot in the person that went right before him

[00:05:32] in wild card Lindsay Richter some good options here. Survivor Marquesas we have our top two in Vesepia and wild card Nelia Dennis we have our fallen angel in Kathy Vavreck O'Brien we have of

[00:05:48] course the one the only Sean Rector his ops in John Carroll and our pre-merge sweetheart in Gina Cruz and if you're just joining us Boston Rob will be later on. Awesome Rob will be later on don't

[00:06:02] worry I did maybe retrofit some other people but look I had to fill out the red rejection island side of the palace so I thought Boston Rob might show his beautiful face there instead. Survivor Thailand we have fourth place finisher Helen Glover of course the only returnee from

[00:06:16] this season in Sheehan we have our final boot before she in the form of Rob with two bees and of course pre-merge standout Gandia yes bring back Gandia in the chat working hard after

[00:06:29] getting snubbed for winners at war she needs to come well I don't think that Gandia got snubbed okay okay sorry so winner in our hearts truly yes bring back Gandia and Sheehan wow all right

[00:06:43] moving on to a season that is near and dear to your heart Rob the Amazon of course we have our winner Jenna Maraska look at that cutie patootie by the name of Rob Sesternino we have added via

[00:06:56] wild card Heidi and Christy and we have your old buddy Dina yeah not to stop down too much on this I'm not campaigning to go on Survivor 50 but to me Survivor 50 is like the hunger games it's like

[00:07:10] if they pull my number it's like what I got I have to go but I'm not like I'm not like you know sitting here with my fingers crossed uh well playing hard to get will get you everywhere

[00:07:23] Rob I see the tactic you're trying to pull off listen my my work is here all right well your work might not be done according to the fans we shall see moving on to one of the most popular

[00:07:34] Survivor seasons of all time Pearl Island's got a big group out of this five drakes one Morgan we have of course legend of the Survivor yes Sandra Diaz trying to Kendrick doesn't we have of course

[00:07:47] Johnny Fairplay we have added via wild card Burton and Krista we have a huge fan favorite in Rupert Boneham and added also added by wild card second chancer himself Andrew Savage okay moving on because again we skip all returning seasons Survivor Banuatu we have our top two

[00:08:07] in Chris Doherty Twila Tanner we have two of our returnees from this season in Eliza Orleans and Amy Cusack and added via wild card Rory okay we finish out our top 10 seasons of Survivor first 10

[00:08:22] I should say with Survivor Palau our top two Tom Westman added via wild card and the runner up of that season Katie Collins huge fan favorite from that season turned three-time player Stephanie

[00:08:35] LaGrosa our quote-unquote merge boot in Kobe and uh someone that will return with Stephanie the very next season Bobby John Drinkard okay next up going to Guatemala we have a real Rafe's choice

[00:08:50] of candidates here in the form of our third place finisher Rafe Judkins talking with T-Bird standout Cindy Hall added via wild card Judd Mann he's on the ballot as well whether it's Gary Hogan boom

[00:09:03] or Hawkins he is in as a wild card and two pre-merge favorites in the form of Brian Coridan and Amy O'Hara if you don't vote me in I will beat you down next up Survivor Panama colon exile

[00:09:20] island we have two through six basically it is our runner-up Danielle DiLorenzo our big hero from Lamina the aforementioned Terry Dietz legend of the game of Survivor and Big Brother in Surrey Fields snubbed for Survivor second chances Shane Powers many times yeah and someone that uh

[00:09:41] threw a friend to snuff in her own shitty apartment Courtney Merritt Survivor Cook Islands this is a chunky one it's a chunky cast because we have four out now multiple returnees legends of the game and four pre-mergers added via wild card we have Ozzy Loose of course

[00:09:59] the winner of Micronesia Parvati Shallow three-time players Jonathan Penner and Candice Woodcock Cody and then uh merge slash pre-merge darlings at Nate Gonzalez Jenny Guzambay Cowboy the mastermind of Operation Voodoo Plan Voodoo and Billy Garcia yeah this is a plan voodoo this

[00:10:19] whole thing it truly is it truly is by the end of this Survivor Fiji you know you've been following GeoWorthy you've seen their names being thrown about the winner of this season Earl Cole one

[00:10:33] of our runners-up uh tied for second place in the first ever unanimous jury vote Dreams Heard added via wild card first person to be idled out of the game in Stacy we have someone that arguably

[00:10:46] got screwed in one of the most bs twisted Survivor history in Michelle Yee and someone that we felt maybe deserved a bit of a second chance given his pre-merge showing Anthony great to see it moving on to Survivor China like Australia uh we're bringing back mostly returnees

[00:11:05] but someone that people have greatly wanted to see back on the show in our winner Todd Herzog alongside him his number one ally turned two-time runner-up Amanda Kimmel we have a second chancer in the form of PG and we have two-time fan favorite James Clement okay Survivor Micronesia

[00:11:25] remember we only did the fan side of the cast here and Eric Reichenbach did choose to drop out so we are left still with a mighty trio in the form of Natalie Bolton Prince Jason Siska and uh

[00:11:38] pre-merge Rob G.Ottas Tracy Hughes-Wolfe okay next up we're going Gabon uh after the from Rob's perspective controversial snubbing removal of Susie Smith here uh we have fourth place finisher added via wild card Maddie Whitmore we have the dynamic duo of Kenny and Crystal as well as the

[00:12:00] dynamic duo of Charlie and Marcus yeah and pre-merge villain Ace so I just want to add that we have a Gabon talking with T-Bird coming up later on this week so little little bit of a of

[00:12:14] a tease here Rob I don't want to press you too much yeah any sec any second thoughts about the Susie snub listen what what are we even doing that what is anybody that are there is there some

[00:12:30] some uh plurality of people that is clamoring for Susie Smith to come back that is gonna that is gonna vote her in there there I've seen a healthy amount of people say it now the whole

[00:12:43] thing is that put Susie on go for it go crazy peer pressure at its finest I don't care there we go there we go who's to say Rob is like have Susie replace me can I get an age

[00:13:00] check on Susie Smith what is she 65 years old I think she's 60 yeah I'm sure she's rare rare indigo I'm sure the Survivor producers when they hear this are gonna jump for joy oh Susie Smith is back on the ballot bet oh boy all right well let's move on

[00:13:24] she's a lovely person that I don't think she wants to come back I don't think they want her but go for it go crazy I mean listen we'll get to the wild cards uh we say bet in response to that

[00:13:38] in response to that 63 year old Susie Smith a year from now 64 year old Susie Smith I'm sure is they are they are they are absolutely gonna be ecstatic to hear she's back on the ballot

[00:13:53] listen we ended this we're gonna end this firmly in French vanilla fantasy territory so Rob is just sweetening the deal there let's move on to Survivor token chains we have uh added by a wild

[00:14:07] that's fan favorite game changer Susie Smith thank you very much we have added via wild card our winner and three-time player JT Thomas we have third place finisher Aaron Lobdell of course

[00:14:18] two of the biggest characters from this season who will come back to make it to the final tribal council in coach and Tyson and Tyson's number one ups in the form of Sierra Reed voted in by

[00:14:28] wild card all right next up Survivor Samoa we have our top two and arguably one of the most controversial top two finishes in Survivor history in our winner Natalie White enigmatic and of course our runner-up in Russell Hance we have Jason we have another returning from this

[00:14:47] season in Laura Moret our merge boot in Eric Cardona and the person that went right before him in Liz Kim okay moving into the post heroes versus villains era Rob we're getting into the 20s and

[00:15:02] closing out the first half of the wish list Survivor Nicaragua we have our winner Fabio fourth place finisher Holly Hoffman we have one of our quitters but arguably one of the stars of

[00:15:13] the season in Nayanka Mixon uh one of our I think the only returnees so far from Nicaragua in Brenda Lowe a player yeah Mr. Fardy himself Marty Piambo okay and then last up for the first half of the

[00:15:28] ballot here from Redemption Island here's your Boston Rob everybody we threw him on here because yeah otherwise it's Andrea Belkin Stephanie uh Stephanie Valencia yeah I just uh as a note on

[00:15:40] the ballot so Rob is going to be at Redemption is it too confusing to not just have him in Marquet even though he got vote in the process yeah we're throwing him up there because we'll talk about a

[00:15:49] couple of other people that were added in there you know not from their original people to be confused no I mean to be honest I have a feeling that people are just going to control f Rob anyway

[00:15:58] and after you they'll just be like okay Rob Mariano that's honestly in my opinion how people should navigate the ballot is like it's going to be a little unwieldy so just control left the people

[00:16:06] you want to vote easiest thing to do okay all right now let's get to the task at hand yes so we started with South Pacific and what I'm going to do is instead of saving the wild cards for the

[00:16:17] end just to make things more efficient Rob I put out the petition on social media on Twitter on Reddit on a little bit on Discord and certainly the YouTube comments came in throughout these

[00:16:28] podcasts as to people we may have missed the first time around and so we're going to add these people in via wildcard and I'm going to do it season by season so like I'll go through South Pacific and

[00:16:37] I'll say okay these people are added via wild card right what I will say again is thank you to everyone who responded to that we only ended up going with those that I would say multiple people

[00:16:49] and a good amount of people had vocalized their support for I know that pretty much every survivor player out there has a fan in them but we want to go for those that probably have the most like

[00:17:00] by popular demand uh sort of swarming around them uh and I will also say not to necessarily ballot shame too much but it's a little bit of like a lesson in parenting Rob where sometimes

[00:17:11] I'll be out shopping with my lovely son Asher and he'll be like oh can we get that cookie and I'm like are you really going to eat this seven dollar cookie when we get home he says oh yeah I

[00:17:19] absolutely am and then I buy the cookie and he takes one bite of it and says I don't want it anymore they never eat it yeah so listen there has been very lovingly vocal support for some of

[00:17:29] these people to put on as wild cards and not to say that you need to vote for them but you know it's a little bit of put your money where your mouth is yeah okay and and that's why like I've

[00:17:40] been you know pretty vocal about like okay look uh if you if you people want this person fine fine put them on but this is we're heading into round one of the voting which is going to be the

[00:17:51] primaries and Mike on the podcast with the podcasters has taken it down from what the 700 some odd survivor alumni we're getting it down to this list this is primary season and now we're

[00:18:04] going to go in round one okay here's all the names that there are people that would like to see them come back we're getting it down to 50 and then that's our real vote of that 50 is going

[00:18:17] to be a cast of 20. All right well let's start adding some new names to the ballot shall we Survivor South Pacific I talked about with Grace Leader uh we added our winner and winners at war

[00:18:29] stand out in Sophie Clark Shady whatever you want to call her we have one person that she finished alongside of who did not drop his stack in Albert so shiny yes very shiny and we have a Redemption

[00:18:41] Island standout in Christine Shields Markoski and listen we talk about the clambering for people that were left off the short list here we heard you loud and clear Stacey Powell fans blam she is

[00:18:53] a wild card okay loves love Stacey Powell I don't know if uh Jeff even knows who Stacey Powell is if you asked him but uh would love to see it also added alongside us and I actually asked this on

[00:19:07] the podcast alongside Grace it's a healthy amount of actually acclaim across various pockets of social media to have Jim Rice back on as well former podcast standout so he will also be on

[00:19:17] as a wild card yeah move hope Jim Rice is doing great wherever he is I think he's you know uh well especially with uh certain things becoming legal in the past few years I think he's rolling

[00:19:27] he's ahead of the curve yeah all right moving on Survivor One World which I talked about with Amon Adwin yeah listen a little bit a little slimmer pickings I would say than other seasons but of

[00:19:38] course the list is top heavy Mike well speaking of which Kat Ederson is on the list uh we added I would say an underrated Rob Sessorino impression back in the day of our merge boot Jonas Atsuji

[00:19:52] and Bill Posley who we all thought I think got done a little raw by the events of Survivor One World yep okay all right moving on here to Survivor Philippines we have of course our golden boy

[00:20:09] Malcolm Freeburg we have someone that I think some people may have forgotten about when I talked about with Jay Cocaine was pretty underrated in the form of Pete Yurkowski we have our merge boot and

[00:20:18] someone who Pete actually helped turn Abby against in RC and as one of the ultimate wild cards though he was not a wild card he was put on the list proper first boot Zane Knight okay all right

[00:20:30] now did Abby say did Abby say no did she decline Abby has even as recent as a few months ago said like I'm never playing Survivor again okay so I take people for their word you know

[00:20:44] sounds good but yeah I would say uh unfortunately one of the snubs there by choice Survivor Kara Moen if we talk about the pickings being slim we had to choose between the fans tribe on Kara

[00:20:56] Moen I was joined by of course the one Omar Zaheer we put on Reynold and we put on Laura finally finally exactly the justice for Laura Alexander but there were uh two people that were added on by

[00:21:10] popular demand as wild cards of course of course open up the dog bars people Eddie Fox people wanted on and there was a clamoring for Sherry Beetham oh I thought you were gonna say Julie Landauer no I think uh she's got other cars to drive unfortunately no track

[00:21:27] say on Twitter that like listen like I'm I'll be good now yeah I mean listen you know times will change maybe it's like sprinkles inside the vanilla ice cream I love vanilla ice cream by the way uh

[00:21:38] but yeah we're gonna add Eddie and Sherry who were the top two finishers in the fans to add to the ballot here okay moving on to a Survivor blood versus water again we're only pulling from the

[00:21:48] loved ones tribe we have uh one of the biggest standouts from the season voted out her own mom in Sierra Easton we have our first big brother crossover in Hayden Moss we have a uh stand out

[00:22:00] in the pre-merge turned a runner up in Brad Culpepper and John Cody okay very fun let's go into of course Survivor Kaga Yan we have two-time winner one of the biggest characters in the show

[00:22:17] Tony Vlachos we have third place finisher Cass McClain Grace her rival uh to the bitter end in the form of Trish and the purple pants badass Bryce Isaiah okay all right that's a great list

[00:22:33] for sure and yeah got one more I pretty much said it was gonna happen because we only had four spots but don't dump out the rice people we're putting Jetty on the list as well okay yeah I mean that

[00:22:45] would be great I mean Survivor Kaga Yan you could probably go 10 deep on uh bringing people back from that and they really they kind of have uh but great great list all right moving on to

[00:22:57] our second blood versus water season in San Juan Del Sur we have our winner and the highest average place survivor in history I believe technically speaking in Natalie Anderson we have the guy who

[00:23:10] she ends up undoing in the game in John Misch we have uh the pair of boyfriends at the time in Reed and Josh and Kelly Wentworth we did add on during Edge of Extinction just because we only had

[00:23:23] four slots at the time but of course she's brought in as this is her original season if not her most unmemorable one and again a huge clamoring for this other person added on by popular demand

[00:23:35] how could we have John on without Jacqueline by his side okay I'm curious uh now did Jeremy not is he is he coming later Jeremy does not want to come back what Jeremy has said as recent as

[00:23:51] this year that he he does not want to come back and play survivor again okay again I take him for their word you know I don't want to extrapolate too much as to what decisions they would make I

[00:24:02] know that's uh some people vary in terms of how much they want to do that but for now I'm taking what I'm given okay all right let's move into asking about that let's move maybe have a chance

[00:24:13] to ask him about Val Val doesn't want to come back Val does want to come back but I think she was you know second boot on season 29 might be a little tough I don't know how much there is there there

[00:24:24] I said it people okay I got my catchphrase out of the way let's go into the 30s starting with the dirty 30 here that we found four rather clean individuals comparatively we have our winner

[00:24:38] Mike Holloway we have uh the second place finisher who some people felt was robbed to get a second chance almost immediately in Mama C we have Shireen who does get a chance to be on survivor

[00:24:50] second chances and we have a standout from a character perspective in Jen Brown okay all right let's move of course we skip over survivor Cambodia as we move into survivor co-wrong here we have of course our winner and two-time finalist in the form of Michelle Fitzgerald

[00:25:09] recently appearing on the challenge season 40 which is premiering this Wednesday we have two-time player Tai Trang we have one of the biggest demands to come back for a one-time player in Sydney Gillian and uh someone who I think people thought was very underrated especially

[00:25:24] at the age she played at in Julia Sokolowski okay now has Sydney said that she would play again Sydney has actually come around a bit in recent years to say basically like

[00:25:36] it when I retire I am more than happy to come back and listen I don't know what and I'm not sure if I'm getting the the the bodybuilding she is a bodybuilder professional

[00:25:48] bodybuilder yeah and so suffice it to say the the nutrition she lost out there tell her 26 days now that's exactly what I was saying though I think unfortunately the less food like we

[00:25:58] Chris and I were talking about how she has to pretty much like negotiate for macros instead of rice if she wants to you know uh keep up the the physical regimen look the big person that is

[00:26:08] missing from this list and one of the most controversial snubs we're rectifying it Aubrey Bracco is on the ballot here we are not getting run down in the middle of the road she's being added

[00:26:19] okay I mean we talked around talking with T-Bird uh again I think that she's not like clamoring to do it but I think that she would do it you know the thing is it's like

[00:26:29] I could tell you like as an alumni it's like every time I think I'm out they keep pulling me back in like I don't think that any of us really want to like there's some look there's some people

[00:26:40] that have had like traumatic experiences like for whatever reason is like no never again I think a lot of people are like I guess so yeah but but if I make that assumption

[00:26:56] then what are we doing here then we should know I know I'm just telling you like that I think that Aubrey like that's how she feels about it yeah I agree and that's another

[00:27:05] reason why I think uh Kirsten in particular wanted to leave her off is I think of these four prospective five people she was probably the least gung-ho about actually wanting to come back

[00:27:13] considering especially how things kind of fell out in Edge of Extinction and I could just tell you that also as an alumni it's hard to have like one foot in and one and one foot out because when

[00:27:22] you are going to go and do it you have to be all in so it is like for your own like mental health like it is not necessarily like a healthy headspace to be in of like I am all-in returning

[00:27:36] and you have to like really you know it's it's all you think about when you are going into that and so as somebody who has been like a multiple play uh you know seasoned player like like an

[00:27:49] Aubrey like you know the only way to sort of like keep your sanity is to like say like yeah like don't lose my number but well I do have one more wild card to add in from KoRong and we talked about

[00:28:01] her a bit as someone to prospectively put on and received a good amount of support from the social media as well I think our mental giant Alicia Holden should get a wild card spot here. Oh you got to

[00:28:12] you can I mean obviously there we go dripping with sincerity that's how we love you Rob Sesternino moving on to Millennials versus Gen X. Couldn't have the ballot without her. So we have our

[00:28:26] fallen angel in the form of David Wright we have two challenge stands outs in the form of J Starrett and Michaela Bradshaw okay and uh the third person rocked out in Survivor history turned

[00:28:37] Survivor podcaster in the form of Jessica Lewis now this list may look a little different than when we left it and that's because I do have some breaking news. So the one the only lovely Henna Shapiro contacted me after this podcast came out

[00:28:57] and let me know unfortunately she would not come back to Survivor okay at the moment she is in right now which would then be Survivor 50 which would be next year she said she has

[00:29:08] declined opportunities in the past and she her life is fine at the moment we love that for her all right let's move into now this is when things start getting even more unwieldy Rob because

[00:29:21] we're getting into the era where besides winners nobody has come back and so we decided to expand the ballot expand the courts from four people on the list to five and we're still gonna add

[00:29:33] some wild cards in here. Triple H heroes versus healers versus hustlers we have our runner-up Chrissy Hoffbeck our fallen angel first one ever eliminated via forced fire making at the final

[00:29:46] four in Devin Pinto knock knock it's Dr. Mike somebody who I think a lot of people felt robbed in the moment and was one of the stars of the season at the time in Lauren Rimmer and pre-merge

[00:29:58] Queen in Allie Elliott okay very fun I mean would Lauren Rimmer I feel like in the moment and Devin too there was like a lot of momentum for them to play again and it just never came together right

[00:30:10] so that's what the purpose of these podcasts were as well as it was very fun to explore like in the moment oh how popular were these people now and like is it worth re-exploring that we do have one

[00:30:21] more name to add from this because I heard it loud and clear Chappelle this one's not for you only but definitely for you I questioned it but listen she's a challenge champion and let's see if we can

[00:30:34] add a survivor champion on top of that I'm gonna add Desi Williams as well I think she would play I think she would play my concern was that and you saw this in the challenge USA too that

[00:30:44] she did have some problems with the most like deceitful parts of the game but for what it's worth she absolutely commanded the challenge USA season two yeah I think great pick all right um

[00:30:57] moving on makes sense to a little bit of shade there to ghost island which I did with uh aforementioned wish list uh ballot member Bryce Isaiah so we talk about one of the most dominant pairs in

[00:31:11] Survivor history and the only top two so far to tie the final vote in Wendell and Dominic we have the person that arguably brought the sea of money back to Survivor after Ty got it I made it a main

[00:31:24] stay for a little while in the form of Donathan we have a frequent RHAP guest and podcaster as well check out road to reality in Helen Vectold and we have of course uh the beneficiary himself

[00:31:38] the noble one Chris Noble okay and added as a wild card this was certainly something that Bryce and I talked about whether or not there are other people that maybe have taken his spot in terms

[00:31:48] of archetype but there was enough talk about it after the podcast we're gonna throw a young lad on there let's put Michael Yerger on as a wild card okay what do you think Rob do you think uh

[00:32:00] any appetite for the Yerger and 2024 he wants to do it but I feel like that he at the time he certainly seemed like a lock to return all right well let's take a swing here as we move into like

[00:32:13] Sammy Sosa as we move into one of the most acclaimed seasons of all time get a zaddy calendar appearance out of it I'm pretty sure he already has multiple times over uh let's talk

[00:32:21] about Survivor David versus Goliath a lot of people to choose from here so we have two of our top three in the form of Mike White and Angelina Keely we have three fan favorite Davids in Davey Rickenbacker

[00:32:37] Christian Hubicki and Gabby Pascuzzi Natalie Cole was not initially included on but of course Brian Scali won a money in the bank pass for the ballot incoming in second place in the R.A.J.P. pressure

[00:32:49] cooker and as a result decided to add Natalie Cole back on sprinkle some Natalie Napalm on and there's one more wild card and Rob to be candid I was a little shocked about this okay

[00:33:03] I triple H was two seasons ago but there's been a good amount of fervor to put a certain wrestling figure on the mayor's land down John Hennigan we're adding as a wild card here is a great cast

[00:33:16] it's a really great cast this is another 10 deep democracy yeah but right now we're going several mm-hmm so yeah we're gonna add John Hennigan on as well the George Bushy of Tushy and let's see

[00:33:27] how he'll do on the ballot compared to W proper we're gonna do it all right let's move on to Survivor Edge of Extinction so this was a bit of an interesting one because we kind of had

[00:33:40] leftovers to put on in the form of Kelly and David not David E. Kelly and so the newbies that we put on were of course our runner-up and some would feel maybe one of the rightful winners of the

[00:33:51] season in Gavin da da da da da talk about breaking news Rick Devins we have one of the strategic standouts in Victoria Baymont and one of the most legendary first boots that is yeah a long tail

[00:34:06] in the game especially in Rob's soundboard and impression book in the form of Reem Daly it's fine you know what dude it's fine well you know what wasn't fine uh maybe some people's

[00:34:18] reactions to the quartet that was put on because there are oh there there are people that the fans want on let me start in like sort of uh going from the top down here and we left him off i guess much

[00:34:30] like the person that he won alongside on the challenge usa too but there was a lot of acclaim to put chris underwood on the ballot uh someone who ends up declining winners at war could be

[00:34:42] interesting to see back for 50 yeah i think that that would be fun and put him on the ballot for sure especially you know these other people that are sort of like made their bones on the challenge

[00:34:51] a little bit uh so would love to see him come back someone that let's see him on the ballot on the ballot at least people argue probably the biggest snub we had so far in the back half uh you

[00:35:03] know matt le gore was a big stumper for gavin and unfortunately it came at the expense of losing the lovely lauren o'connell but she's back baby we heard you loud and clear people lauren o'connell

[00:35:16] on the ballot as a wild card okay and last but certainly not least you know uh school is not necessarily back in session but let's put ron clark on as a wild card as well yep uh ron would

[00:35:29] be they would be lucky they have ron clark play again i was thinking uh is ron clark the biggest celebrity to play until john lovett in survivor 40 several uh has ron clark been the biggest

[00:35:42] celebrity but you know it's hard with some of these uh athletes uh so are you counting uh mike white mike white played before ron so since uh i'd have you know what just off the top of my head

[00:35:55] uh i'd have to like uh give that some thought okay so you said off the top of my head tvd yeah sorry about that let's move into survivor island of the idols so uh we pulled from this

[00:36:10] basically four through seven in the form of lauren ashley beck janet carbon elaine stott and krishna patel who uh we recently had actually on tv for real this past week uh and of course

[00:36:24] podcast standout jamal uh and one more wild card here we don't have to search too much for him a lot of people wanted detective dean dean kowalski on the ballot how what's a lot of people mike

[00:36:37] i got a good amount more than several wanted detective on the ballot okay sure go for it go crazy all right now we move into the new era and here's where things got even more interesting

[00:36:54] rob because again i would say the casting is the strongest part of the new era and so picking only five people from it was an even tougher thing to do than usual and so suffice it to say there's

[00:37:10] going to be a lot of new era representation here on the ballot makes sense let's go to season 41 we have our third place finisher that i think some were surprised to see finish in third xander

[00:37:22] hastings yep we have uh what ends up becoming his number one ally by i think xander would be like a sneaky good uh returnee i think so as well maybe not sneaky sneaky returning that's kelly i think

[00:37:33] he's been kind of forgotten i think that uh production liked him i think that the fans liked him uh that he's uh i i think that he's somebody that i think a lot of people sleep on

[00:37:44] in terms of like oh he's just like a dumb surfer guy even after the season is over like he's a pretty smart guy not to mention he's like pretty svelte nowadays as well yeah and so yeah like a sneaky

[00:37:55] good athlete so well we have uh the person that he ends up sharing that really tender moment with before he's voted out in ricard of course one of the most complicated dynamics of the new era we

[00:38:07] have shan alongside ricard we have a co-host of the pride has spoken evy jagoda and this is nasir on the ballot this isn't this year one additional wild card here and honestly it was between nasir

[00:38:21] and this person for the last spot so it only makes sense that we'll add them on baruch ashem tiffany sealy on the ballot okay sure and listen i'm getting some calls for danny mccray danny has

[00:38:33] said he never wants to come back okay he said as recently as last year truly the hourglass twist broke him he does not want to come back and play survivor when they broke the hourglass they broke

[00:38:44] danny too honestly yeah uh pretty much one for one a series of events there let's move on to season 42 a very well-acclaimed season of the new era as well as the cast reflecting it we have our

[00:38:57] winner of course in mary ann we have mike turner the runner-up finisher we have one of the most physical presences in survivor in some time in jonathan young strategic standout and chaos king

[00:39:12] omar zaheer and we ended up putting tory on as well who had a little bit of an underdog story throughout the first half of the game okay and we've got some more names to add okay what do you

[00:39:23] got so we've got uh to start off someone who ends up finishing in fifth here to i think close out the entirety of the top six rx of the sex besides romeo the top six on this ballot lindsey delashevich

[00:39:35] uh our fifth place finisher who i think much like xander would actually be really good i thought she had a very you know solid game yeah she didn't get a lot in the pre-merge uh for whatever reason

[00:39:46] she was a little purple in the pre-merge but i mean she had a really great run in uh the second half uh she's a very fun person so sure let's say hi to hi hi with somebody that scally and i were

[00:39:58] kind of between him and tory and the fans have spoken so we'll throw high on potential for hi and then as much as i said you know i don't know how what the chances are that pre-mergers from the

[00:40:09] new era get on the ballot that doesn't mean that the fans don't want to see them on the ballot there are two the people that came out for jenny kim to be on incredibly admirable jenny was someone

[00:40:21] that was screwed over by a series of unfortunate events and so people want to see her on the ballot and so she is as a wild card okay and i've seen this name being stated pretty much non-stop in

[00:40:33] the chat for the past minute so it only makes sense we gotta have this guy come on finish higher than what uh eighth place and say beat you cory zach wortenberger yeah okay well if you're waiting

[00:40:50] for me to say a bad word about zach wortenberger keep waiting it's not gonna happen all right moving on to survivor 43 this is another one we went two through six on so we have our runner up in

[00:41:03] cassidy clark our zero bow finalist in owen knight the big strategic powerhouse of the season in jesse lopez so of course definitely a powerhouse in our own right as well carla cruz godoy and someone

[00:41:16] who i think would be very interesting if he was brought back especially alongside jesse in cody yep okay well you got some more mike i got some more so the first one i want to bring up noel

[00:41:29] i think noel was someone that we definitely considered yes i think that she is a real survivor 50 sleeper i think that she's a production favorite a fan favorite and i think she's hungry

[00:41:39] to come back so yeah that's a good one and last one this might be controversial but you know his association with survivors certainly marked with controversy but i saw a healthy amount of people

[00:41:52] out there rob who wanted to see gabler come back i mean put them on the list uh let's see if they if all these like uh gabler stands are uh you know if they're put their money where their mouth is

[00:42:07] yeah or if they're just gonna lie underneath the surface and maybe they'll they'll come out before we realize it yeah and shame for no james jones yeah james jones but you might be hearing

[00:42:18] from james jones sooner rather than later where he can uh he can yell at me yeah and also i heard that there were some ellie requests ellie i i can say from firsthand information has said that she

[00:42:27] would not like to play again so unfortunately she her life is also fine let's move on to survivor 44 a season full of characters we have our winner in jam jam we have arguably one of the biggest

[00:42:43] fan favorites in recent memory and certainly i think a shoe-in to uh come back should she want to and carolyn of course future traders contestant we have uh like the tasmanian dead devil through

[00:42:54] the jungle danny we have one half of of course uh in in frankenship in franny and we have the guy who climbed the rocks in the form of matthew okay and one more name to add on to this especially

[00:43:13] when it came out you see two of the tika three on there and i think it only makes sense and again there was a good amount of opinion about this to to put carson on i had said that are carson drew

[00:43:25] and charlie competing for the same spot i don't necessarily know but you know put them on the ballot and see where the votes yeah but really i kind of feel like that the exercise should be

[00:43:35] like let's put like carson is certainly a viable returnee let's put these people on the ballot and then to the powers that be they can get a sense of like where is like the fan support among the if

[00:43:50] if they're looking if they're looking at a board that has what drew carson and who drew carson and charlie drew carson and charlie and they want to see like okay what do the fans want this is the

[00:44:03] great you know like uh for us to leave him off the ballot and then they don't have that information yeah that's the thing is that i understand people might have consternation for certain

[00:44:13] people that are put on again everybody has opinions if you don't want to see someone on 50 don't vote for them yeah i mean that's what this exercise is all about of like uh letting

[00:44:23] the people who are going to make this decision know what do the what do the the biggest fans of survivor think all right well let's move on to two of the biggest seasons the most recent someone say

[00:44:36] the best that the new era has to offer and as such it's gonna take up a good portion of the ballot here survivor 45 we have our winner in d via daris recent jeopardy standout and recently

[00:44:48] mentioned drew basile we have uh sapui i was really stumping for uncle bruce okay back for a third time what the hell guys it's kelly nel bandian and our first juror but certainly made an impression

[00:45:00] in caleb great and we've got quite another number of names to add on here we get it people and i understand i was stumping for this guy baby girl is coming home you don't need to say whoa in reaction

[00:45:15] to jake not showing up here he is on the ballot put him on the list and easy one easy one i'll put katora on the list great as well there was a lot of acclaim for katora there there was a good amount

[00:45:28] for austin as well i think that i was i argued on the podcast that are austin and xander competing for the slain slot as you mentioned uh but i think a lot of people showed interest in wanting to see

[00:45:39] him come back you know besides charlie the closest to win in the new era i mean this is an exercise of getting them the data put all these people that they're they've got a board of people and

[00:45:52] you know a lot of the people we talked about earlier are probably not on that board but these are the people that they're really going to be deciding between and we get another pre-merge

[00:46:01] standout here a lot of push for sabaya to show up okay well so she'll also be added as a wild card i'm a sabaya fan and listen that was my winner pick yeah uh i'm very strong so it'd be interesting

[00:46:13] to see her in a second time i've said it before i will repeat it again emily has said as recently as like a day before i recorded the 45 podcast she does not want to play again are you sure

[00:46:27] survivor 46 let's talk about that season shall we so we have again a lot of fun people to pick from here we have our runner-up in charlie of course i think what people will think is another

[00:46:39] shoe in or q in to be on 50 in the form of q now our chaos our chaos queen venus cancel christmas if you don't have q yes exactly uh we have uh one of the you know biggest people to go out with an

[00:46:54] idol in her pocket stop making the block hot or the ballot hot tiffany and we have someone who i think production would really like to see back in some way shape or form in tevin yeah i've said

[00:47:06] i think he's a sleeper to be the third co-host of the on fire podcast also yeah we'll see uh and maybe that could listen we talked about with dean rick that could even increase his chances of

[00:47:15] getting on yeah any wild cards here mike oh a bunch uh because i don't want people saying that they're pissed that liz willcox yes liz willcox back on here let's see if she's allergic to any

[00:47:29] votes here and i talked about this as to you know whether or not she would make it she just missed out but i think especially there's a good chance she and charlie would get cast together for that

[00:47:38] potential i'll put maria on as well you know taryn and i argued as to whether or not him and jonathan are two sides of the same coin but there was a lot of a claim to put hunter on the ballot give them

[00:47:53] the data and last but certainly not least jelinski why not you gotta keep his name out there the legend the monster jelinski showing up here as the final person is a legend

[00:48:11] put on the final ballot yes okay all right great list mike can i that i had uh some i had a friend ask me to uh this week uh a favor could carter williams get on the ballot i it would but i ran

[00:48:29] into him at a grocery store yes and he was very rude to me and so unfortunately i'm gonna have to snub him okay all right i have i had i had promised i would ask okay all right so let's get into it uh

[00:48:45] so here we go rob i can officially say what are we getting into well i can officially say now the polls are open it is time to vote it is time it's time to vote to quote bonnie who unfortunately

[00:49:00] did not make the list and so what we are doing is if you can go to rob has a website.com slash vote 50 can we put that up on the screen yes actually i will put it up with the uh the

[00:49:17] full schedule there we go rob has a website.com slash vote 50 you can get in there and let me explain how voting works so don't vote yet wait for mike to finish explaining yes so in this first

[00:49:32] round as rob mentioned so we have i believe it's it's 227 total people which is a lot it's a lot but okay listen we cut it down we cut it down from 697 so still we eliminated what probably like 60

[00:49:48] percent of uh survivor players there so you can go and vote for your top 10 men and your top 10 women you get 20 votes 20 votes per email address and so you go there you cast up to 10 votes for

[00:50:04] men up to 10 votes for women you can't be like oh i want uh 16 women and four men it's got to be up to 10 on each side the top 50 vote getters move on to the second round and so you don't have to

[00:50:17] vote for 10 from the men and the women you could vote for two and move on to the next page yes so basically what you do is if you're watching the video version it's a very simple google form

[00:50:29] you come in you click up to 10 women we have it distinguished as to who is a wild card who wasn't you do that for the women do that for the men again one ballot per email address uh you

[00:50:40] will get a chance to vote again later on we'll get into that in a second but for right now one ballot per email address the voting i gotta find suzy is uh get my vote in there you go ron make

[00:50:54] sure your voice is heard so you have from now until friday august 16th so a little less than a week friday august 16th at 12 p.m eastern 9 a.m pacific to cast your votes okay from this

[00:51:12] giant group the top 50 vote getters move on to round two so the voting is going to close on august 16th we're gonna take a little bit of the weekend to dissect the data make sure that we're

[00:51:23] reminding our p's and q's crossing our t's dotting our eyes insert other letter reference here august 19th my birthday rob i will gift the survivor happy birthday mike thank you as i

[00:51:34] will record a video that reveals our top 50 vote getters and then the final round of voting will commence that's when it gets down to it you're going to be able to get the chance once again

[00:51:47] to vote for your top 10 men and your top 10 women think of this basically as like you doing your own dream cast okay not second dream cast based on the ballot that's ahead of you okay and

[00:52:00] so the top 20 finishers will then be revealed later on so you're gonna have the voting open from august 19th to tuesday august 27th so a little bit over than a week to cast your final ballots

[00:52:11] and then our final edition of the summer of survivor on august 28th at 6 p.m eastern will announce the final results and who you voted for the cast of survivor 50 okay all right um i

[00:52:28] saw some a question in the chat uh is our final list going to are we working in the diversity initiative 50 50 black indigenous people of color uh we are going to reveal the results of the poll

[00:52:43] and then cb again this is an exercise of these are the top 20 vote getters cbs and the powers that be will build a cast that will be in line with the diversity initiative but that's not on our on us

[00:53:01] to then take the like knock people out of the top 20 vote getters to fit it in with uh the diversity pledge for what the actual show will be and i also have had a lot of questions from people being like

[00:53:15] okay are we casting these ballots based on second chance theme or legends theme or best never win theme the answer is yes uh you know rob oh i know you were a big proponent of just making this as

[00:53:28] open as possible this is your whoever you want to see on survivor 50 so if you want to create your own theme and cast accordingly you can if you don't want to see boston rob back for a sixth time

[00:53:40] don't vote for boston rob and again this is all about getting the data to the people that are going to make the decisions and if they see a list that looks like oh this is a great idea for second

[00:53:50] chances i think that that is instructional on its own right so again i will uh bring this up on the schedule one more time so right now round one voting is open friday august 16th 12 p.m round

[00:54:05] one voting closes monday august 19th i will reveal the top 50 and the final round of voting will open august 27th tuesday at 12 p.m eastern round two of voting will close and it will all be announced

[00:54:19] at 6 p.m eastern on wednesday august 28th rob has a website.com slash vote 50 that's where you can go for round one and eventually round two as well we have done the work we've made the podcast we put

[00:54:33] 227 names on the ballot it's your turn it's your turn okay rob's website.com slash vote 50 all right the people are waiting for their live feed update taryn is standing by to get you all of your

[00:54:48] saturday live feed uh updates so be sure to make sure you're subscribed so you uh don't miss when the results come online go to rob's website.com slash subscribe of course uh on youtube hit that

[00:55:03] subscribe button as well all right mike great job i have to commend you once again for all your incredible work to get us to this point and now the decisions in your hands uh people of the planet

[00:55:15] earth and beyond rob is a website.com slash vote 50 all right thank you all so much uh not only for your support all this series round but for tuning into this podcast rob thank you as well

[00:55:26] for your support from the beginning of this idea as we emerge in the next phase of this as the polls are open people get to voting we'll be back on august 19th to reveal the top 50 vote getters but until then everybody take care bye