By Order of the Faithfuls: Just Don’t Be Boring! w/ Jonathan Penner (Survivor)
Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge
iHeartPodcasts
3.6 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Penner, 3x Survivor player and longtime fan favorite, is joining Wells this week to talk Old Era vs. New Era, the secret to success in this game, and whether or not he received a call for season 50!
Jonathan reveals WHY the New Era is actually more difficult, despite popular opinion.
Plus, he spills his methods of *trying* to prepare for the show back in the day (which may have included bootleg DVD’s)…
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | All right, welcome in all you faithfuls and traders to another episode of By Order of the Faithful Survivor Edition interview style today. |
| 0:14.4 | My name is Wells Adams alongside. |
| 0:16.8 | No one. |
| 0:17.5 | Dolores is out. |
| 0:18.3 | She's doing some real housewives Press, so I am flying solo. |
| 0:22.5 | But not for long because we are going to be joined today by Jonathan Penner, a contestant from Survivor, Cook Island, Survivor, Micronesia, and Survivor Philippines. |
| 0:31.4 | John is a producer, writer, director, and actor. He was a series regular on Grapevine and The Naked Truth. |
| 0:37.3 | He also made guest starring appearances in CSI, The Nanny Seinfeld, and Arrested Development. |
| 0:43.7 | I love all those shows. |
| 0:44.8 | He's a Survivor fan favorite that is known for his blunt personality and his ability to be a source of conflict among his tribe mates. |
| 0:52.1 | After three seasons of Survivor, he's a very memorable personality in |
| 0:58.0 | this game. Jonathan, welcome to By Order of the Faithfuls. Hi. How are you? Good. You're known as a |
| 1:06.7 | very big personality on Survivor, which is why you've been on the show, three different seasons. |
| 1:12.8 | Do you think your personality is one of your biggest strengths or one of your biggest downfalls in the game? |
| 1:19.2 | My personality as a, I mean, everyone who loses the game loses, I guess you could blame their personality. |
| 1:29.2 | You know, I mean, apparently I have a big personality, maybe because I'm loud or, or I don't know. |
| 1:35.1 | I mean, we can talk about it if you want to. |
| 1:38.5 | I'm constantly working on myself, as so many adults do, try to be the best self I can I can be I think that |
| 1:47.9 | you know my my the fact that I didn't win three times I must have some to do with my |
| 1:57.6 | personality because because I couldn't figure I couldn't figure out |
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