Digging For Idols

2022's Babylon is manic and relentlessly abrasive. A perfect vehicle for Survivor: Panama's Shane Powers! This ep we are covering his wild Survivor stint and his brief but prominent role as a security guard in Babylon. Plus: which Oscar winners do we want to see on Survivor?

Christopher's birthday choice of covering uncredited parkour stunts by Frosti (Survivor: China) in the pilot episode of Chuck spirals into a nesting doll of birthdays and intrigue. Will our hosts uncover the details of Frosti's involvement in time?

DFI is thrilled to welcome our first ever guest on the show, the extremely interesting and multi-talented Rita Verreos! Rita joined us for a marathon chat about her fascinating upbringing, her current gig as Jewelry Television's first bilingual host, and of course, Survivor: Fiji.

Music is in the air with the 2024 Grammys this week and DFI is double dipping on castaways as we cover Survivor: South Pacific's favorite showmance Whitney & Keith joining forces in the music video for Whitney's 2021 song "Lightweight". Plus: pairing Grammy Song of the Year Winners with Survivor players!

In light of CBS dropping Season 46 cast auditions pre-season, Taylor and Christopher pause their usual subject matter to each recap and rate a variety pack of five Survivor audition tapes. Who will be awarded the coveted 5 out of 5 fish score?

Listener discretion advised for this very special and very adult episode in which Taylor and Christopher slither into the grossest recesses of the internet to find The Virgins of Sherwood Forest ,  the pre-Survivor adult film starring eventual Survivor: Thailand winner Brian Heidik. Plus, which Survivor episode titles sound the most like the names of adult films?

From one social experiment to another, this episode we follow Rita Verreos from the snake-infested sands of Survivor: Fiji to a racism-infested episode of What Would You Do? that pits a character played by Rita against a restaurant full of outraged San Antonians. Plus: Taylor names a Survivor: Fiji boy band.

We've got a fever and the only prescription is more Cao Boi! DFI’s hosts are NOT splitting the votes this week in their appraisal of Cook Islands’ Cao Boi Bui and his performance in the 2017 futuristic sci-fi short film “The Last Fisherman,” but what rating will they agree on? Plus: who will direct the movie version of Cao Boi’s "Plan Voodoo" dream and who would you cast on an all-t...

In our first attempt at a "mini" ep during a holiday week, DFI goes on a side quest to investigate a mysterious and extremely elaborate alternate universe / fanfiction Survivor wiki that was found while investigating an earlier episode.

If it's your holiday wish to watch a movie on YouTube about Santa getting a divorce that features a small cameo by Survivor Borneo & Blood vs. Water castaway Gervase Peterson then let this episode be your Christmas miracle because we watched the 2023 holiday romcom "Santa's Second Wife"! How does a "divorce scroll" work? Can Taylor distinguish between Santa's...

Jefra Bland Hines appeared in a handful of music videos around the time that she was cast as a member of the Beauty tribe on Survivor: Cagayan, most notably the Shooter Jennings music video anthology "The Other Life." Will her work as "The Wife" earn her a  Digging for Idols tiara and sash or will she be left on the southern rock pageant jury?

You may recall learning about the denizens of wrestler John Hennigan's "Slamtown" during Survivor: David vs. Goliath, but did you know he was also brochachos with a burping pig named Arlo? Leave your table manners back at camp because we're going to sanctuary this week to overindulge on John's performance as Tommy the painter in the family film Arlo: The Burping Pig (2016)...

Fill your elephant dung canteens with boiled amoebic dysentery and cow blood! We're headed back to Survivor: Africa to talk about the extremely dehydrated Jessie Camacho and her equally dehydrated character in the 2010 crime/adventure flick "Treasure of the Black Jaguar."

It was never a question of "if," only "when." DFI is on a Sugar high and digging through the center of the earth to Stars Hollow for the deepest of dives into the nexus of pop culture where Survivor and Gilmore Girls overlap: Sugar Kiper (Gabon, Heroes vs. Villains) and her performance as Shane in the s3e07 episode, "They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?"

It's Election Day 2023 and we're dueling our way to the Oval Office to watch and review Matt "Wyatt Nash" Elrod's performance as Tad the dapper White House aide in Season 1 Episode 7 of the short-lived Presidential  comedy 1600 Penn. Will the Mayor of Redemption Island earn his way back into the DFI fame game or find himself vetoed by President Bill Pullman?

For Halloween we're sinking our teeth into Jud "Fabio" Birza's starring role in the charming no-budget family comedy My Stepbrother is a Vampire!?!  Did we get glamoured and become his familiars or did Survivor: Nicaragua's finest dude get the stake? Plus: our favorite Survivor nicknames!

Taylor and Christopher volunteer to be tortured by Lucifer (the show) in order to hunt down Survivor: Amazon's Daniel Lue and his performance in s3e19 as "Bounty #2." Also: Survivor Love Languages!

We're trading in our shovels for flashlights this week and going trekking for ghosts, casting a light on Jonny Fairplay's haunted performance in the 2011 web series/short "Ghost Trek: The Kinsey Report." Plus: our top scariest Survivor moments and our first TVN.

Survivor: Cook Islands may feature more literal digging for idols than any season of Survivor and we're channeling that energy here to review an appearance by Cook Islands alum Sundra Oakley as Assemblywoman Denise Bowser in Season 1, Episode 9 of the family dramedy Parenthood.

Get to know the hosts of Digging for Idols as they sort out, truly, who is the rat and who is the snake while they review Sue Hawk's background work as a server in the teen comedy Bubble Boy (2001).

We're checking into "Seattle Grey's Sloan & Grey Memorial Pacific Northwest Institute whatever it's called" to watch s16e2 of Grey's Anatomy and review Woo from Survivor Cagayan and Second Chance's guest appearance as a bad boyfriend in a scooter accident.

Dig deep with us as we discuss the charismatic Sean Rector (Survivor: Marquesas) and his performance as restaurant robber Ricky Edwards in s1e7 of "Everybody Hates Chris."