By Order of the Faithfuls: The Best to Never Win w/ Rob Cesternino (Survivor)
Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge
iHeartPodcasts
3.6 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Wells is joined by legendary gamer, Rob Cesternino, to talk all things Survivor AND Traitors…
When Rob got the call for Survivor 50, what was his response?! What does he have to say about his short-lived time on The Traitors? Is there a chance we could see him back on either show?
Plus, Rob tells us how he was first recruited onto Survivor back in 2002, how he compares New Era to Old Era, and who he’s rooting for in season 50.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | All right, welcome in all you faithfuls and traitors to another episode of by order of |
| 0:09.8 | the Faithful Survivor Edition. |
| 0:11.9 | Wells Adams here. |
| 0:12.9 | Fly in Solo. |
| 0:14.5 | Yeah, I don't know where the ladies are and it's fine. |
| 0:17.1 | Don't worry. |
| 0:17.7 | Everything's going to be okay because we've got one amazing guest joining us today. |
| 0:22.7 | Rob Sesternerino is best known for competing on Survivor, the Amazon and Survivor All-Stars and was praised by host, Mr. Jeff Props, as one of the best players to never win. |
| 0:34.7 | After his time on the show, Rob found continued success as the creator and host of Rob |
| 0:39.2 | has a podcast where he recaps and analyzes Survivor and other television series. And Rob |
| 0:44.2 | appeared on season four of the Traders as a faithful and he was murdered in episode three. So that |
| 0:49.4 | means he got farther than I did, which is fine after accurately suspecting a murder in plain sight. That was being |
| 0:56.0 | orchestrated by the traders. Rob, welcome to the show. Hey there. How you doing, bud? I'm doing |
| 1:01.9 | fantastic. 10 out of 10. How are you? I'm better than I deserve. That's for sure. You know, |
| 1:07.7 | we have something in common. We were both ousted from traders far too soon too soon yes |
| 1:14.4 | you've now competed on survivor and traders we started this podcast by recapping traders because we were all |
| 1:22.5 | on the show so i'm curious did you find traders or survivor to be the harder game to play? |
| 1:29.6 | So, well, I think that Survivor is actually harder to play, but based off of how long I stayed, |
| 1:38.2 | you would think that traders would be the harder. I think that traders will get harder as it |
| 1:43.9 | goes on. But for a faithful, even for the traders, I think that traders will get harder as it goes on. |
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