Survivor Why _____ Lost RHAPup

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Ep 9 with Lindsay Carmine   David said in his final words, “There are no heroes, there are no villains. We're just people. And we're all going to be heroic one day and villains the next." That certainly described his time in the game. But he also said, "Unfortunately I don't think there was anything I could do." And he was definitely wrong there because there were many th...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Ep 8 Chrissy went out swinging because she didn’t want the Honesty/Integrity/Loyalty/Muscle alliance to run the game. In the voting booth, she said she thought she screwed herself in this vote by opening her mouth. But David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis know when something seems that obvious, it often isn’t. Were there were other, bigger issues at play? At RHAP, we know Su...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Ep 7 with Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt Sai and Cedrek were bound together from the start of Survivor 48, and both were voted out when they finally had to go to separate Tribal Councils. It seems like each was the “obvious” choice. What did they do to result in this situation, and what could they have done differently to guard against even the luck of the draw? Survivor 44 run...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Ep 6 with Kellyn Bechtold   Lots of people predicted Charity would go in this merge episode. What was it that stood out as being a problem? Why did she think she was doing so well, only to have the rug pulled out from under her? How was that difference in viewpoints at the root of the problem? David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis have special guest Kellyn Bechtold from Survi...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Ep 5 with Liz Wilcox    David Bloomberg and Jessica Lewis are definitely not PISSED that Survivor 46’s Liz Wilcox joins them on the podcast again! The vote against Bianca is a particularly interesting one because what she said in interviews doesn’t really match up with what we saw. Was she voted out because she told Cedrek she lost her vote? Or was there something more go...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Ep 4 with Dr. Jeremy Faust Thomas was a fun player who had a lot of game left in him. He thought he’d put himself into such a good position that he didn’t need to reveal his previous lie by playing his Vote Steal. Why didn’t things didn’t work out that way? What happened to make him the number one target for Emmy Award winning actors Kyle and Kamilla? David Bloomberg and...

Why ___ Lost: Survivor 48 Ep 3 with Dr. Joseph Darowski  Justin lost his vote through bad luck he had no influence over. But he did have the ability to try to counteract what happened. At first it looked like he would pull it out, but one final plea from Sai caused Cedrek to make, frankly, a poor decision. What did Justin do well to get Cedrek to stand by him two out of three times? What did he mi...

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...