Ep 493 - Interview with Parade's Mike Bloom on Survivor 50
Reality Steve Podcast
Reality Steve
4.3 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
(SPOILER) I begin by talking about yesterday's hearing involving Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota. Then Mike joins me (9:36) and we discuss the twists of season 50, the Stephanie/Cirie relationship, last Tribal Council, ranking the twists for the season, and much, much more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Reality Steve podcast with your host, Reality Steve. |
| 0:14.2 | He's got all the latest info and behind the scenes juice on Taylor Frankie Paul season of The Bachelorette |
| 0:19.4 | and interviewing some of your favorite |
| 0:21.3 | reality stars. |
| 0:22.7 | Now here's Reality Steve. |
| 0:34.2 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to podcast number 4.83. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm your host, Reality, Steve. |
| 0:39.0 | Thank you all for tuning in. |
| 0:41.8 | Got a great show for you today. |
| 0:43.4 | First time guest, one of the best coverers of Survivor in this franchise. |
| 0:50.1 | It is Mike Bloom. |
| 0:51.2 | You know him from Parade Magazine. |
| 0:52.9 | You also know him from Rob has a podcast. |
| 0:55.4 | As I said, first time on the show. |
| 0:57.5 | Very, very great insight to this season of Survivor 50 and especially Wednesday's episode. |
| 1:03.3 | And we will get to that momentarily. |
| 1:06.4 | So before we get to Mike, let me just tell you, yes, I wanted to have Mike on after the episode |
| 1:12.3 | aired. It just didn't make any sense to have him on before because this was an episode that was |
| 1:16.6 | talked about for a while. How could it not be? You know, I had already thrown out the salvo of, |
| 1:22.6 | good God, do we need a Mr. Beast episode. But as I said at the time, I said, I'd be willing to retract my statement if this ends up being a good twist. |
| 1:31.1 | And I think it did. |
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