The Effing Stick Podcast

Annie and Dan return to recap the 10th and 11th episodes of Season 2 of Survivor, the Australian Outback. Alternate Titles: Good Job Us, A Muck Glow-Up, Flirty Flirterson, Grabbed her by the P-Word, Who Doesn't Love a Coccyx, Infinity Deadly Creatures, Straighten Up with a Book, Gwyneth Paltrow Diet, Thieving Turtles, Ok Boomer(ang)

Annie and Dan return (and re-record) to recap the 7th and 8th episodes of Survivor Season 2 - The Australian Outback, and since they lost the episodes the first time around, they suplement their Survivor Talk with a brief trip review by Dan of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando Alternate Titles- Live-in Child, Crikey!, Kipperson Jones, Always an Incel, A Tribe Called Halibut, Heavy Ita...

Annie and Dan return to review the 5th and 6th episodes of Survivor Season 2: Australian Outback. Alternate Titles: Slow Burn, Pooping in Holes, Everything in Advertising, Starvation: Sponsored by Target, Dog Whistle Shit, Tall-Ass Mitchell, Crying Helicopters, Wine O'Clock Somewhere, Shouter for Kucha, Unabashedly European, The Oscar Robertson of Survivor

Annie and Dan return to review the 3rd and 4th episodes of Survivor Season 2 - Australian Outback. Alternate Titles: Fuzzy Little Corolla, Robot Purge, Build Up the Puffs, Scoopin on Skupin, Beta Boston Rob, Verging on Gay Panic, Middle-Aged King

Annie and Dan begin recapping the 2nd Season of Survivor, with the first two episodes of Survivor: Australian Outback. Alternate Titles: Sleepover Vibes, Manhandling the Fire, Kutcha Trahhhb, Immature Baby Language, Free Willy the Cliff, Southern Fried Hatch, Student of Nutrition, Bitch-Ass Jerky Smuggler, Mud Whelks and Witchety Grubs

Annie and Dan break down the Survior: Borneo Season 1 Finale. Time to decide if you're a rat or a snake. Alternate titles: Stay Woke or Get Broke, One-Note Old Crank, Arm Wrestling with Sonja, The Rudy Boot, Tik Tok Man, The Sex Number and the Hard Idol.

Annie and Dan return to discuss Survivor Season 1: Borneo, Episodes 11 and 12.  Alternative Titles: I Don't Remember When, Long Hard Days, Ageism Exposed, Birth is the Only Escape, Like Guantanamo, Most Annoying Song, Probst Witch Project, Hacky Journalism, Secretly Noodly, Crotchety Old Sweetheart, Jeff the Brigand

Annie and Dan return to discuss Survivor Season 1 - Borneo, episodes 9 and 10.  Alternative titles: Not Kanye-Related, B-Anon Deep Fake, That's the Rizz, Rescinding Goat Jokes, Cuz Alphabet, Geriatric Survivor, Sad Music Rice, Re-Borneo, Dumb at Survivor, Bring Me Your Staff

Episodes 7 and 8 of Survivor: Borneo find the contestants (castaways? Survivors? Idiots?) experiencing "the merger", which leads to some additional interpersonal dynamics between Rich and Greg, Greg and his weird sister, and Rudy's feet and the heads of literally all of the women. Gervase remains ultra confident in his charm in spite of the mounting evidence that maybe he's not super charming, and...

The 5th and 6th episodes of Survivor: Borneo bring us more general campsite nonsense and frivolity, and not much strategy to speak of. Richard spends some time naked. Colleen and Greg maybe (or maybe don't) also. Gervase still can't swim, but that doesn't stop him from being a mild challenge beast. Dirk and Joel get on everyone's nerves, and never get a chance to enjoy the sweet, sweet random voti...

Annie and Dan return to recap Survivor: Borneo Episodes 3 and 4, where basically not much happens, and it isn't even really clear if the players know they're involved with a game. They do eat rats, so that's fun. Everyone is weird, and it's kinda awkward and sexist and maybe racist, and definitely homophobic, but that's just how it was in the Year 2000. Alternate Episode Titles Include: Joel the R...

Annie and Dan begin their long, quixotic quest to discuss Every. Single. Episode. Of. Survivor, starting here with their coverage of Survivor Borneo's 1st and 2nd episodes. We get to meet legends like Richard Hatch, Rudy, and Sue Hawk. We see astronomically bizarre gameplay. Low production value challenges. The origins of many of the most iconic running themes in Survivor, and a lot more. Some alt...