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Survivor 40 DEEP DIVE | Tony Vlachos

In the eighth of our Survivor: Winners at War post game deep dives, Rob Cesternino sits down with the winner of Survivor: Cagayan and Survivor: Winners at War Tony Vlachos to talk through his 39 day journey to become the second two time champion!

Previous Survivor: Winners at War Deep Dives:

* 5/22 – Survivor 40 Deep Dive #1 with Rob Cesternino and Kim Spradlin-Wolfe

* 5/26 – Survivor 40 Deep Dive #2 with Rob Cesternino, Brice, Izyah, and Wendell Holland (hosted on the Purple Pants Podcast)

* 5/26 – Survivor 40 Deep Dive #3 with Rob Cesternino and Adam Klein

* 5/27 – Survivor 40 Deep Dive #4 with Rob Cesternino and Ethan Zohn

“Survivor Winners” Page

* Check out the new and updated “Survivor Winners” page which covers all winners, including those who played on Survivor: Winners at War (Season 40).

* Check out the winner page for the winner of Survivor: Kaoh Rong Michele Fitzgerald.

Show Links

* All Survivor: Winners at War content on Rob Has a Podcast

* Survivor: Winners at War Cast (from EW.com)

* Survivor: Winners at War Ponderosa Videos (from CBS.com)

Black Voices of Survivor: A Conversation with Jamal Shipman

To elevate the Black voices in the Survivor community, Rob Cesternino talks with Survivor: Island of the Idols castaway Jamal Shipman in the first conversation of our new series “Black Voices of Survivor.”

In this series, Rob will speak with various African-American members of the Survivor community to teach the audience more about their experiences playing Survivor as an African-American and the unique challenges they faced on and off the island. They will also be focusing on their life experiences as an African-American and tell the listeners how we all can be allies to the Black community given all the unrest going on in the world currently.

Show Links:

* Donate to Campaign Zero

* Campaign Zero is a project of the non-profit organization WeTheProtestors with ten different policy solutions created to help every single police department across the United States to end police violence by supporting the analysis of policing practices across the country, research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide

* Purple Pants Re-Post: Brice Izyah Discusses George Floyd – June 3, 2020

* RHAP Spotlight: Revisiting Sean Rector on Talking with T-Bird – June 10, 2020

To elevate the Black voices in the Survivor community, Rob Cesternino talks with Survivor: Island of the Idols castaway Jamal Shipman in the first conversation of our new series "Black Voices of Survivor."

In this series, Rob will speak with various African-American members of the Survivor community to teach the audience more about their experiences playing Survivor as an African-American and the unique challenges they faced on and off the island. They will also be focusing on their life experiences as an African-American and tell the listeners how we all can be allies to the Black community given all the unrest going on in the world currently.

Show Links:

Donate to Campaign Zero

Campaign Zero is a project of the non-profit organization WeTheProtestors with ten different policy solutions created to help every single police department across the United States to end police violence by supporting the analysis of policing practices across the country, research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide

Purple Pants Re-Post: Brice Izyah Discusses George Floyd - June 3, 2020

RHAP Spotlight: Revisiting Sean Rector on Talking with T-Bird - June 10, 2020

Mike Bloom’s Survivor Tattoo Selection Special

In a special offseason podcast, Rob Cesternino is joined by the co-host of the RHAP B&B, The Amazing Race recaps, and the Top Chef RHAP-up Mike Bloom, and the co-host of The Amazing Race recaps as well as the international Amazing Race podcasts Jessica Liese. As announced on the Survivor: Winners at War episode 13 feedback show, Mike Bloom challenged the listeners of Rob Has a Podcast to raise over $23,000 for the Direct Relief charity, getting personal protective equipment to the doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. If this goal was met, Mike pledged to get a Survivor themed tattoo.

This goal was met and well exceeded so in true Mike Bloom fashion, the tattoo that will end up going on his body forever will have to be determined using the Survivor season simulator known as BrantSteele. Earlier this week, Rob, Mike, and Jess asked the listeners of the podcast to submit their ideas and sketches for the tattoo. Since we had well over the 20 ideas needed for the simulation, this podcast entails the crew narrowing the field down to 20 contenders pre-approved by Mike’s wife Angela Bloom for the fake season Survivor: Islands of Ink.

Show Links:

* Survivor 40 Episode 12 Feedback with Mike Bloom from May 9, 2020

* The YouTube video of the Survivor: Islands of Ink BrantSteele Cast Selection show

In a special offseason podcast, Rob Cesternino is joined by the co-host of the RHAP B&B, The Amazing Race recaps, and the Top Chef RHAP-up Mike Bloom, and the co-host of The Amazing Race recaps as well as the international Amazing Race podcasts Jessica Liese. As announced on the Survivor: Winners at War episode 13 feedback show, Mike Bloom challenged the listeners of Rob Has a Podcast to raise over $23,000 for the Direct Relief charity, getting personal protective equipment to the doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. If this goal was met, Mike pledged to get a Survivor themed tattoo.

This goal was met and well exceeded so in true Mike Bloom fashion, the tattoo that will end up going on his body forever will have to be determined using the Survivor season simulator known as BrantSteele. Earlier this week, Rob, Mike, and Jess asked the listeners of the podcast to submit their ideas and sketches for the tattoo. Since we had well over the 20 ideas needed for the simulation, this podcast entails the crew narrowing the field down to 20 contenders pre-approved by Mike's wife Angela Bloom for the fake season Survivor: Islands of Ink.

watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbYQyNj3Uuw

Rob, Tyson, and Danny talk about how the reading of the Mayan calendar was wrong, according to a conspiracy theory on Twitter, and while the world didn’t end on Dec. 21, 2012, as originally prophesied by calendar readers, Mayan doomsday is sometime this week or next and all the interesting news from the internet.

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Dalton Ross on the Oral History of the Dragonz

In a special bonus Survivor podcast, Rob Cesternino is joined by Entertainment Weekly Survivor writer Dalton Ross to discuss his newest oral history. The essay was an oral history on what he called “the greatest Survivor rock band ever”: the Dragonz, a rock band started at Ponderosa in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains by the first three jurors of the season.

Dalton interviewed the three founding members of the Dragonz, Benjamin “Coach” Wade, Courtney Yates, and James “J.T.” Thomas, Ponderosa video director Norwood Cheek, contestant manager Caitlin Moore, later jurors on the season Amanda Kimmel, Candice Cody, and Danielle DiLorenzo, to get their takes on every moment surrounding the history of the Dragonz rock band.

Please check out Dalton’s essay “The Dragonz: An oral history of the greatest Survivor rock band ever” in addition to listening to the podcast to support the great work Dalton is doing.

Show Links:

* Check out Dalton’s essay on Entertainment Weekly: The Dragonz: An oral history of the greatest Survivor rock band ever.

* Commend Dalton on Twitter for writing such a masterpiece over at @DaltonRoss.

* 5/8/19 – Dalton Ross on “The Ultimate Blindside” of Erik Reichenbach

* 8/29/19 – Dalton Ross on the Oral History of Dan’s Funeral

Rob, Tyson, and Danny talk about how the reading of the Mayan calendar was wrong, according to a conspiracy theory on Twitter, and while the world didn’t end on Dec. 21, 2012, as originally prophesied by calendar readers, Mayan doomsday is sometime this week or next and all the interesting news from the internet.

In a special bonus Survivor podcast, Rob Cesternino is joined by Entertainment Weekly Survivor writer Dalton Ross to discuss his newest oral history. The essay was an oral history on what he called "the greatest Survivor rock band ever": the Dragonz, a rock band started at Ponderosa in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains by the first three jurors of the season.

Dalton interviewed the three founding members of the Dragonz, Benjamin "Coach" Wade, Courtney Yates, and James "J.T." Thomas, Ponderosa video director Norwood Cheek, contestant manager Caitlin Moore, later jurors on the season Amanda Kimmel, Candice Cody, and Danielle DiLorenzo, to get their takes on every moment surrounding the history of the Dragonz rock band.

Please check out Dalton’s essay “The Dragonz: An oral history of the greatest Survivor rock band ever” (https://ew.com/tv/survivor-dragonz-oral-history/) and commend Dalton on Twitter for writing such a masterpiece over @DaltonRoss.

Survivor 4 Episode 3 Wiggle Room with Josh Wigler

Rob Cesternino is joined by Josh Wigler and to discuss all that happened during episode 3 of Survivor: Marquesas, the fourth ever season of Survivor in the “Wiggle Room.” The episode originally aired on March 13, 2002 and was titled “No Pain, No Gain.” First, Rob and Josh talk about their thoughts about the episode, its place in history, and much more as Rob Has a Podcast continues a weekly rewatch of the most influential Survivor episodes over the 40 seasons and 20 years of the show’s history!

Then, Rob and Josh conduct a song parody competition, coming off its 6th installment called the “Wandoff” where the listeners submit song parodies of the episode and the listeners are tasked with voting on their favorite from the week.

You may skip ahead to the “Wandoff” (or remember to stop listening) at 51:54.

Schedule of the RHAP Offseason Rewatch Podcasts

* 5/31 – Survivor 1 Premiere Know-It-Alls with Rob Cesternino and Stephen Fishbach

* 6/1 – Survivor 1 Premiere Wiggle Room with Rob Cesternino and Josh Wigler

* 6/4 – Survivor 1 Premiere RHAP B&B with Mike Bloom, Liana Boraas, and Shannon Guss

* 6/4 – Survivor 1 Premiere Why __ Lost with David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis

* 6/8 – Survivor 2 Episode 2 Wiggle Room with Rob Cesternino and Josh Wigler

* 6/9 – Survivor 2 Episode 2 Why __ Lost with David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis

* 6/10 – Survivor 2 Episode 2 RHAP B&B with Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas

* 6/15 – Survivor 4 Episode 3 Wiggle Room with Rob Cesternino and Josh Wigler

* 6/16 – Survivor 4 Episode 3 Why __ Lost with David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis

* 6/17 – Survivor 4 Episode 3 RHAP B&B with Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas

Show Links

* All Survivor content on Rob Has a Podcast

* Wandoff Finalist Videos (created by Jason Curtis Rivera)

* Wandoff Winner Voting (votes compiled by Curt Clark)

* Wandoff Wiki (maintained by Alex Rubino and Bob Mihocik)

* Full Playlist of Wandoff Entries for Patrons only (compiled by Randy Knuppel)