Ep. 532: Rob Cesternino
Challenge Mania
Challenge Mania
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Without Rob Has a Podcast, who knows if there would be a Challenge Mania! The Podcast GOAT joins us Live & In Studio to talk about his NY Times Best-Selling Booking The Tribe And I Have Spoken, Survivor 50, The Traitors and a ton of other stuff we've always wanted to ask him!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? This is Scott Yeager here with a very special crossover edition of challenge |
| 0:16.2 | mania and Survivor mania coming to you live from our apartment, just kidding. |
| 0:21.4 | We have a very special guest here today. |
| 0:23.6 | He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Tribe and I have spoken, |
| 0:28.2 | which I was privileged to be a small part of, but he is a massive part of everything we do at Challenge |
| 0:33.4 | Mania. |
| 0:33.8 | He's a massive part of the Survivor world, the reality TV world, and we are so glad to be joined here in person, Lindsay and myself with Mr. Rob's Sisternino. |
| 0:42.2 | How are you? |
| 0:42.6 | Wow. |
| 0:42.9 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:43.8 | And that was very Jonathan like to be Mr. Rob sister, Meno. |
| 0:47.1 | Yes. |
| 0:48.0 | Mr. Rob. |
| 0:49.4 | Uncle Rob. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.8 | Yes. |
| 0:53.6 | Scott gets a little jealous sometimes because I am probably a bigger fan of your podcast than I am. |
| 0:59.1 | You mean you listen to his podcast? |
| 1:00.6 | He'll be like, did you hear my podcast this week? And I'm like, no, but let me tell you what Rob said this week. |
| 1:06.6 | So it was an honor to be asked to be here with you today. |
| 1:10.0 | Yes. Well, so nice to be here. |
| 1:11.5 | Thank you for listening. And if it's any consolation, my wife listens to very few of my podcast. Oh, I thought you were going to think she's a huge challenge mania fan. You know what? She might be. She might be. She might love it. Can I be honest, though? I'm not going to, I'm not going to lie. it is a little bit more liberating that you don't listen as much as you used to. In fact, sometimes when you're |
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