Island Life - A Survivor Podcast

It’s finally here! Season 50: In the Hands of the Fans! We break down both episodes 4 & 5 as Christian & Charlie both get pushed to their wits' end, and their mild to large crashouts get one of them voted out. Emily continues to be a wild card for anyone aligned with her, and Ozzy's social game continues to be his #1 weakness as a Survivor player. Rizo builds his resume eve...

It’s finally here! Season 50: In the Hands of the Fans! We dive into episode 3 and react to our first swap of the season. Each new tribe has something going on, but some of the highlights were a single whisper from Christian causing chaos, the loyalty & integrity bros joining forces, and Charlie committing to do everything in his power to make sure Rizo doesn’t win. We also follow...

It’s finally here! Season 50: In the Hands of the Fans! We begin what projects to be an epic journey by discussing everything from BOTH episodes 1 & 2. We start by breaking down the tribes and highlighting who we’ve seen before and who we haven’t. We discuss the plethora of twists & advantages, particularly the return of Exile Island, which for us has never left since mos...

It’s time for our first ever returnee season: Season 16 - Fans vs Favorites! Strategy is (almost) always top of mind for this cast, and we’re eager to witness legendary moment after legendary moment. It’s merge time, and what was on the surface an easy 6-4 majority for the Favorites went the complete other way. After snuggling with another woman, Ozzy gets a bit too cocky for his...

It’s time for our first ever returnee season: Season 16 - Fans vs Favorites! Strategy is (almost) always top of mind for this cast, and we’re eager to witness legendary moment after legendary moment. We watch Kathy become the latest to leave without a vote, Tracy’s luck finally run out, and Erik cause all of Ami’s plans to blow up in her face. We also get the start of a pot...

It’s time for our first ever returnee season: Season 16 - Fans vs Favorites! Strategy is (almost) always top of mind for this cast, and we’re eager to witness legendary moment after legendary moment. We witness maybe the most dangerous challenge we’ve seen on this podcast so far, at least by injury count. And, seeing as Chet of all people puts an end to the Fan’s (and Ami&r...

It’s time for our first ever returnee season: Season 16 - Fans vs Favorites! Strategy is (almost) always top of mind for this cast, and we’re eager to witness legendary moment after legendary moment. In these episodes we see lines get drawn on both tribes. Ang & F are amazed at the power Cirie wields as she picks between the two groups of four on the Favorites Tribe, and Tracy fights back agai...

It’s time for our first-ever returnee season: Season 16 - Fans vs Favorites! Strategy is (almost) always top of mind for this cast, and we’re eager to witness legendary moment after legendary moment. The journey begins with the big reveal of some of our beloved and hated castaways, including Ozzy, Parvati, Jonathan Penner, Amanda, James, and Jonny Fairplay. Ang & F also give their first impres...

We journey to one of the most unique Survivor locations…China! Where challenges are fun & interesting, and the castaways keep us laughing most of the time. The finale is upon us as we watch Todd close the book on an excellent Survivor game. We discuss where some of the other castaways went wrong, including Denise’s bizarre decisions, Courtney’s continued indifference, and Am...

We journey to one of the most unique Survivor locations…China! Where challenges are fun & interesting, and the castaways keep us laughing most of the time. We witness one of the worst blunders in Survivor history and try to wrap our heads around how it happened. We also question whether some of the girls’ games/strategy are enough to compete against Todd’s. That, along with a potential Jonny F...

We journey to one of the most unique Survivor locations…China! Where challenges are fun & interesting, and the castaways keep us laughing most of the time. Justice is at last served as Jean-Robert's bizarre tactics finally come back to bite him. We also discuss James' increasingly overconfident attitude and whether it will hurt him in the end. Courtney's erratic actions also cause...

We journey to one of the most unique Survivor locations…China! Where challenges are fun & interesting, and the castaways keep us laughing most of the time. We react to the aftermath of Jamie & Peih-Gee’s challenge throw, which…seems to have backfire immediately. In addition, we discuss Todd handing over his idol to James, the merge, and Jamie playing what she THOUGHT was an idol. Recorded:...

We journey to one of the most unique Survivor locations…China! Where challenges are fun & interesting, and the castaways keep us laughing most of the time. We get a rare night time challenge, Dave finally gets his comeuppance, and we react to a wild and controversial swap, and a just as wild and controversial challenge throw. Did Jamie & Peih-Gee make the right decision? Is Aaron the most...

We journey to one of the most unique Survivor locations…China! Where challenges are fun & interesting, and the castaways keep us laughing most of the time. We begin our adventure going through episodes 1-3 in order to get the most info about our cast, which includes stars such as a lunch lady, a poker player, a chicken farmer, a parkour athlete, a grave digger, and (as Jeff puts it) a gay, Mor...

It’s time for a case study in chaos and self-destructions. We take Survivor F through Season 46 to see how he handles madness at every turn. It’s finale time where we watched what seemed destined to be a Maria vs Charlie slugfest turn into a Kenzie social game master class. We discuss how Kenzie emerged as a top contender, judge a few controversial Final Tribal juror questions, and det...

It’s time for a case study in chaos and self-destructions. We take Survivor F through Season 46 to see how he handles madness at every turn. FOUR. IN. A. ROW. For the first time ever, 4 castaways have been voted out with idols in their pockets in 4 consecutive tribals! Madness. We break down how that came to be, rock-paper-scissors battles to decide people’s fates, and the first two sh...

It’s time for a case study in chaos and self-destructions. We take Survivor F through Season 46 to see how he handles madness at every turn. Somehow the craziness has continued as we watched back-to-back tribals where someone went home with an idol in their pocket. We react to the repeated blindsides and F explains why they really aren’t exciting him. And we also witness a legendary Ap...

It’s time for a case study in chaos and self-destructions. We take Survivor F through Season 46 to see how he handles madness at every turn. Episodes 7 & 8 have begun to make F lose his mind as he has decided to dub this part of the season the “Chaos Saga”. We react to a pseudo swap after the first challenge, a few more self-destructs, the most high-stakes game of hide-and-se...

It’s time for a case study in chaos and self-destructions. We take Survivor F through Season 46 to see how he handles madness at every turn. We continue into episodes 5 & 6 where Jem’s master plan takes shape…and then promptly blows up in her face. We also see Moriah adapt and get the target off of her…only to then completely self-destruct at Tribal Council. In addition, we break down the Merg...

It’s time for a case study in chaos and self-destructions. We take Survivor F through Season 46 to see how he handles madness at every turn. We start off with the first FOUR episodes of the season so that we can get through the Bhanu Saga in one sitting. F reacts to the disastrous starts for Bhanu, Jelnisky, Jess, and really the Yanu Tribe as a whole. We intermix our break down of the full c...

And it’s all over! Savannah completes a dominant season as she goes the distance to earn the title of Sole Survivor. We react to her Final Tribal performance, as well as criticize most of the other castaways for their missed opportunities and strange decisions. As we reflect on the season as whole, we discuss which players’ strategies made any sense, who we’d enjoy seeing again, and whether Rizo,...

One more season before the big one. Episode 12 was allllmost an epic moment in Survivor history. If nothing else, it still gave us emotional whiplash that only certain episodes can. We talk through all angles of Sophi’s Knowledge-is-Power play, try to figure out who even made correct moves in this episode, and rank the potential winner chances of our final 5 castaways. ---------------- Intro (00:0...

One more season before the big one. We go through episodes 10 & 11 where the fated battle between the Bottoms Up Alliance and the Soph, Savannah, & Rizo Alliance took place. And…it was pretty much no contest in the end as Savannah succeeded in getting her “revenge”. We react to what likely was the end of Kristina having any chance to win, a pretty crazy Journey that Stev...

We tread into controversial territory as we tackle Season 13, Cook Islands! We react to the finale as the Aitu 4 complete their ultimate underdog performance. When it was all said and done, was “Race Wars” a good idea? And how did the existence of the Super Idol affect our final opinion of Yul’s game? We also share our thoughts on the worst Fire-Making attempts we’ve ever s...

One more season before the big one. At this point, do we have no choice but to put respect on R-I-Z-O-G-O-D’s name? After what seems like another Rizo master-class in manipulation, it seems the storyline of the season has taken shape. In addition to that, we consider whether it’s better to flush an idol, or let the idol-holder keep it so that you know where it is at all times? We also...