Survivor Why _____ Lost RHAPup

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Ep 2 with Jordan Kalish  David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis are back to discuss the second vote of Survivor 48, and they have special guest Jordan Kalish to help break it all down! Kevin looked ahead in the game and didn’t like what he saw. He worried that if they voted out Mary, he’d be on next. But he didn't exactly fix the problem! Did he have good reasons for making hi...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Premiere David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis are here again after the first Survivor 48 vote, and they have a special guest who helped make it all possible – Jessica’s tribemate David Wright from Millennials vs. Gen X! Stephanie tried to change certain aspects of her personality for the game, but how did it go wrong? Was her exit written in the stars or caused by the script...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Preview Survivor 48 is coming so it’s time for the Why ___ Lost preview as David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis take a look at all the new players in a focused review of how they predict each will do in terms of David’s rules for winning Survivor and in the game overall. Who do they think will do well? Who may be voted out early and why? And who does each choose as the most...

Why ___ Won (And the Others Lost) Survivor 47 The Survivor 47 Final 4 could be broken down into two pairs. Two of them were threats to win, two weren’t. Two claimed to be underdogs who stuck around due to their own gameplay while two didn’t have the same claim. In the end, it came down to a decision between Rachel and Sam. They fought it out in Final Tribal Council, but the real battle took place...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 13 Andy had a rough start in Survivor 47 while Genevieve was practically invisible, but both of them rose up in different ways. Andy pulled off the biggest move of the season while keeping his threat level low. Genevieve made some moves of her own while staying mostly under the radar. But something changed for both. David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis look at what each d...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 12 Caroline seemed to be in a very good position. There weren’t the usual red flags David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis talk about when discussing a player’s loss. She wasn’t the biggest threat, she was solidly in the majority alliance, and she had a strategic plan for the rest of the game. So what happened? How did she go from believing she was running things to being b...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 11 Some people may think it’s obvious why Kyle lost, so do David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis really need to do a whole podcast on this? The answer, of course, is YES! What’s supposedly obvious never tells the whole story. Even Rachel said this week that the decision was nuanced. What did Kyle do – and not do – to end up in a situation where his only option was winning...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 10 This week, Gabe said it was the best he’d ever felt in the game and, “The fact that the fellow players around me have allowed this to happen is mind-blowing.” But they didn’t allow that to happen! It may seem obvious that Gabe was voted out because he was a threat. But it’s almost never that simple, because there are a lot of threats! David Bloomberg and Jessica Lew...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 9 We heard over and over that Sol was in good with everyone. But if that was the case, how was everyone good with voting him out? David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis welcome back special guest Dr. Jeremy Faust to figure out what led to Sol going from great relationships to a unanimous vote against him after a very live Tribal Council. Plus, Jeremy has a great story about...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 8 Sierra began her final words by saying, “I couldn’t tell you what happened.” Luckily, that’s why David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis are here – and they have special guest Omar Zaheer this week as well! Since the end of her game, Sierra has done some detective work. While she gave 100% credit to one person, was it all him or a larger group who all came together with di...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 7 Even though twists meant only four out of 12 players were eligible to be voted out this week, a quirk of chance turned it into a Tuku Tribal Council where they all had history and good reasons for their decision. As David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis discuss, it was like traveling back in time to deal with where Tiyana stood – and thought she stood – with each of them...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 6 Rome acknowledged in his final words that he ruffled some feathers. David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis agree with him on that, but was it enough to explain how he so quickly became the obvious first boot of the merge, or was there more to it? Could he have avoided it if he’d just taken his own advice? At RHAP, we know Survivor, and we know Why Rome Lost. LISTEN: Subsc...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 5 Looking all the way back to the Why ___ Lost preview podcast, David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis worried about Anika trying to be too much of a project manager in Survivor… and there she was. Anika doesn’t think her bossiness sent her home – is she right? Were other factors even more important than the way she treated Sam and others? David and Jessica take a look at b...

BB26 Why ___ Won and Others Lost  The Big Brother 26 winner did an excellent job of laying out the important aspects of her game in her Final 2 responses and speech. The runner-up accidentally also did a great job of laying out why she DIDN’T win. But there was a lot more to the intricacies and details of the situations. David Bloomberg and Ovi Kabir are back one final time to look at the Final 4...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 4 David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis welcome special guest Liz Wilcox to discuss what happened to Kishan this week! It’s good timing because in Survivor 46, Liz put a lot of work into molding what others thought of her, but this went wrong for Kishan in a number of ways. The episode made it seem like Genevieve decided to turn on him because he used her name as a decoy....

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 3 Many viewers saw ___ get voted out and thought it was simply because she refused to turn on Sol. But the reality is often more complicated than what we see on TV, and it certainly was this time! David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis had special guest Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt from Survivor 44 to discuss and debate all the ins and outs of this vote – and there were a lot!...

BB26 Why ___ Lost Week 11 There was a time when ___ helped flip Big Brother 26 on its head. He seemed to have the potential to make some moves in the game! But then, it never materialized. Indeed, most of the time ___ was on TV, he was being nominated. Sure, everybody loved him, but David Bloomberg and Ovi Kabir wonder: What happened to his game? Was he ever really a force in the game, or was it a...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Ep 2  In his final words, TK said his tribe voted him out because they didn’t value winning. Obviously that wasn't the reason, but it highlights that being strong in challenges usually helps keep a player around in this early stage, so how did he overcome that advantage? He said coming into the game that his social game would be his superpower, but did it turn out to be h...

BB26 Why ___ Lost Week 10 | Big Brother 26  It’s was double-eviction night, baby! That means David Bloomberg and Ovi Kabir have two different players to analyze! Even though they were essentially a duo in the house, Angela and Leah were indeed very different in the games they played! What changed so drastically that ___ went from feeling completely safe to heading out the door? Why was __, the ete...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 47 Premiere David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis are here once again after the first Survivor 47 vote, and they have special guest Jake O’Kane from Survivor 45 to talk through it all with them! Jon Lovett talked about the tribe not having many strategic discussions, but was that really the case? The TV episode made it look like Jon didn’t fit in with his younger tribemates whil...

BB26 Why ___ Lost Week 9 | Big Brother 26  ___ seemed to have an invisible shield for much of the game. People knew how they felt about her and worried she could beat anyone at the end. But they didn’t do anything! It looked like she might fly to the end on the wings of angels. David Bloomberg and Ovi Kabir are back to look at what finally got people to act on what they saw, and also what she didn...

Why ___ Lost Preview | Survivor 47  Survivor 47 is coming so it’s time for the Why ___ Lost preview as David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis take a look at all the new players in a focused review of how they predict each will do in terms of David’s rules for winning Survivor and in the game overall. Who do they think will do well? Who may be voted out early and why? Will some players join together in...

BB26 Why ___ Lost Week 8 | Big Brother 26 ___ said in his final speech that he was like Icarus and flew too close to the sun. It’s not a bad analogy, but it doesn’t truly encompass his whole game. He had a lot of potentially good ideas, but also some really bad ones. His decisions tended to follow the route of the latter. Many people enjoyed his presence on the show, but did his urge to be enterta...

BB26 Why ___ Lost Week 7 with Ovi Kabir | Big Brother 26 After being evicted, ___ had some ideas about what happened to cause it. Was he seen as more of a threat? Maybe he showed a little bit of hubris? Did his allies make some stupid decisions? Could he have been right in any of his ideas about what went wrong? Or did he really miss the big picture? David Bloomberg and Ovi Kabir are back once aga...

BB26 Why ___ Lost Week 6 with Cliff Hogg | Big Brother 26 Well, it actually happened! They got him! And David Bloomberg has special guest Cliff Hogg from Big Brother 21 to discuss everything that happened to end ___'s game. He was certainly entertaining, but that often doesn’t equate to winning. Did it happen for the reasons people have been predicting or was there even more to it? And is there on...