The Survivor On Fire podcast has returned.
Jeff Probst is the primary host of the podcast, but he gets help along the way.
This is the fourth season of On Fire, with Jay Wolff continuing as a co-host and executive producer.
They have also added Charlie Davis from Survivor 46 to provide the commentary.
Charlie will help provide the point-of-view from the players, and he is also a fan favorite from the New Era of Survivor.
During On Fire’s first Season 4 episode, Charlie explained what happened with Andy Rueda and his paranoia/exhaustion.
As a quick reminder, Andy had a panic attack during the night with his tribe and then broke down following the first Immunity Challenge. But he wasn’t the first person sent home. Instead, he helped flip the vote on Jon Lovett.
Charlie Davis speaks about Andy Ruena’s breakdown at the challenge
“The first thing I want to say is if I had to show one clip to a Survivor fan and to explain to them, ‘this is why playing Survivor is so hard,’ it would be this clip of Andy,” Charlie Davis states during the On Fire podcast.
“He has this paranoia of being at the bottom. He’s having self-doubt from his past life experience that’s now resurfacing. He has heat exhaustion from competing in a brutal challenge that he had to do on an empty stomach, and all of that comes together and is leading to this blowup moment where he’s spilling all of his beans,” Charlie elaborates.
“Everything is coming out,” Charlie adds as he expresses how he felt bad for Andy.
Doing it all in front of the entire cast of players was also noted, and Charlie said they would all be thinking about that moment in the future.
“Your insight into a player’s life experiences outside of Survivor is so pertinent,” Jeff Probst weighed in after Charlie said his piece.
More to come from Survivor 47
As Survivor fans saw during the season premiere, Andy wasn’t the first person sent home, even though he appeared to be a huge liability.
The tribe voted out Jon Lovett instead by a very one-sided 5-1 vote. Was it because Jon got caught trying to flip the vote on Anika Dhar? Or was it simply because the tribe saw Jon as a threat? Did they feel bad for Andy? We may find out more during future episodes.
Jon spoke about his elimination after the Tribal Council but struggled to answer what he could have done differently. He noted that his tribe (Gata) kept saying they were voting out Andy, so he didn’t have much to add.
Survivor news and notes
Here’s the full Survivor 47 cast list and bios. It’s an interesting group of players in Fiji this time.
Previous episodes of Survivor 47 are available for streaming on Paramount+.
Survivor 47 airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.
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