Survivor B&B RHAPups

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas welcome Jordan Kalish to play a series of segments and games around Episode 2 of Survivor 41. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas welcome Kirsten MacInnis and Maggie Morgan to play a series of segments and games around the season premiere of Survivor 41. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas play a series of segments and games around the season to come in Survivor 41.   This week's charity shoutout is the Second Harvest Food Bank, which is currently providing disaster relief to victims of Hurricane Ida. Click here to make a donation.   If you have any suggestions for games or feedback for the B&B, feel free to reach out to us on soc...

In a Why ___ Lost first, Survivor super duper fan and Millennials v Gen X winner Adam Klein joins David and Jessica to discuss why he won! Adam knew the game and was focused on winning it. He didn’t always do things in quite the right way, but the end result was a unanimous jury. Adam jumps into the analysis of his own game, plus there are plenty of behind-the-scenes stories from the season as he...

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas play a series of segments and games around the upcoming season of Big Brother 23. Mike and Liana will be back throughout the season with podcasts about BB23. Get us your games and ideas at rhapbnb@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tyson came into this Blood vs. Water already seen as a threat. The idea of him being a threat then came up a numerous times throughout the season. Yet nobody ever mounted a serious attempt to vote him out. How did he put himself into such a favorable position and control the game so well? David and Jessica did a full season rewatch and compared the Final 3 to David’s rules, so it’s time to take a...

Cook Islands began with tribes separated by race. But in the end it came down to brains vs. brawn, with just one vote separating Yul and Ozzy. How did Yul pull it off? How much of his success should we attribute to the overpowered idol compared to his own game play? And what was Ozzy missing? David and Jessica did a full season rewatch and took a new look at David’s older articles and interviews,...

Chris caused his tribe to lose the very first challenge because he couldn’t make it over a balance beam. Very often, that would spell the end of a Survivor player. But Chris had bigger plans and a while he was unable to handle the beam, the rest of his game was very balanced. At the merge it again looked like he should have been doomed, but he turned that around too and came out as the winner. How...

After the Samoa finale originally aired, David was overwhelmed by e-mail from his website readers. Some people were seriously pissed. Is it as controversial now, in retrospect? Through most of the season, Natalie appeared to be just one of Russell’s followers who would compete for second place. How did she turn the tables on the man who thought he was the best player in history? What did Natalie d...

Many people have Bob near or at the bottom of the Survivor winner rankings. Not to spoil anything, but there are some very good reasons for that. He’s a very nice guy, but David and Jessica have a job to do, which means telling it like it is when it comes to Bob’s game play, as well as that of his fellow finalists, Susie and Sugar. Someone had to win this season, and it obviously wasn’t going to b...

Sophie went to play Survivor and instead found herself surrounded by those claiming to value honesty, loyalty, and integrity. She worked her way through quietly while being overshadowed on TV by Coach, who is quite the opposite. But you don’t need big TV moments to win. How did Sophie maneuver in her path to victory? What did Coach and Albert fail to do correctly? Should Cochran have gone to rocks...

As we take a look back at past seasons of Survivor on the RHAP All-Time Top 40 Season Rankings, some winners make us scratch our heads and think hmm how did they win? Today, David Bloomberg (@DavidBloomberg) and Jessica Lewis (@jessicalewis89) are here to apply David's seven rules of Survivor to Fabio's game. They walk us through the season of Survivor: Nicaragua as they explain Why Fabio Won! Lea...

Survivor’s Karishma Patel joins David and Jessica to discuss Kaysar’s game and eviction. Last week we found that there were things Janelle could’ve done that might have changed the outcome, and that’s true again this week for Kaysar. He had seven more days to try to change his situation and no longer had Janelle drawing as much attention to the two of them. What did he do with that extra time and...

David and Jessica have one final journey through time, going back to the first Survivor winner, Richard Hatch. Without him, it’s quite possible that Survivor would have been very different. But in his season, he was arrogant. He was in your face, especially when he was walking around naked at camp. Somehow those negative qualities didn’t stop him from winning and setting out the roadmap for future...

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas welcome two-time Amazing Racer and host of the Psychobabble podcast Korey Kuhl to play a series of segments and games around the finale of Survivor: Borneo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coach was probably the most melodramatic player in Survivor history, and this week’s journey through time takes David and special guest Sarah Carradine back to the vote against him in Tocantins. They discuss Coach’s unique view of the game and why it could never be a winning strategy, plus they take a trip down memory lane for so many of the other great (and not-so-great) Coach moments, including...

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas play a series of segments and games around Episode 12 of Survivor: Tocantins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, David and Jessica look back at Survivor: Pearl Islands and some memorable moments from that season, including of course the vote against Tijuana in the 11th episode. She had just grabbed on to power when Jonny Fairplay turned on his allies. How did she flip things back around and get them to work together against her? Plus, they discuss like the first quitter, the dead grandma lie, and...

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas are joined by RHAP Class of 2020 members Kevin McClain and Nigel Bocanegra to play a series of segments and games around Episode 11 of Survivor: Pearl Islands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David and Jessica look back at Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains and the vote where J.T. was sent packing thanks to his own idol. What lots of people remember was the stupidity of giving away his idol to Russell. But what was behind that decision and why did the Villains target him, in particular? It’s time to dig deeper into the move and everything that led up to it, including David’s own interview w...

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas play a series of segments and games around the merge episode of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David and Jessica look back at Survivor: Micronesia and the vote against Eliza Orlins in the infamous effing stick episode. In this episode, there was little doubt who was getting booted. The question is what happened to put Eliza into this position. How much of her fate was due to bad luck and how much was related to her strategic attempts, personality, or threat level from her first appearance? ...

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas play a series of segments and games around the merge episode of Survivor: Micronesia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David and Jessica look back at Survivor: Philippines and the vote against former baseball player Jeff Kent, who swung for the fences but ended up striking out. The official CBS episode description says this was “one of the most complicated and entertaining Tribal Councils ever.” Does that mean it was a live Tribal Council, or was everything carried out like it had been previously set? How did Jeff...

Welcome to the RHAP B&B! Mike Bloom and Liana Boraas play a series of segments and games around episode 8 of Survivor: Philippines. This week's charity shoutout is Survivor's initiative this past spring to support research and treatment for ALS. Every donation made is split amongst The ALS Association, The Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS, and Compassionate Care ALS. Go to alsa.org/survivor to...