Josh Wilder & Alex Phillips Leave No Crumbs! (Survivor, 100 Cooks) | Pod Friends
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Friends of Rob Has a Podcast
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🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Josh Wilder & Alex Phillips Leave No Crumbs! (Survivor, 100 Cooks) | Pod Friends
This week on Pod Friends, Matt Scott (@MattScottGW) sits down with Josh Wilder (@lets_get_wilder) and Alex Phillips (@aphill44) for a heartfelt conversation about love, resilience, reality TV, and building a joyful life together.
Josh reflects on his experiences as a Survivor 44 castaway, physician, kidney transplant recipient, and cancer survivor, while Alex shares his journey from the operating room to Food Network’s newest competition series, 100 Cooks. Together, they open up about meeting at work, navigating life’s challenges as a couple, finding community, embracing queer joy, and supporting one another through every twist and turn.
Along the way, Matt, Josh, and Alex talk food, fitness, medicine, Pride, reality TV, and what it means to choose joy even when life doesn’t go according to plan.
If you’ve ever wondered how to build a beautiful life through adversity, love deeply, and keep moving forward, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Josh Wilder, Alex Phillips, why should people listen to this episode of Pod Friends featuring you? |
| 0:10.6 | So in this episode of Pod Friends featuring us, we get into how Alex and I met, how us being on two different reality shows impact our life in our relationship and how we're |
| 0:23.9 | doing in Atlanta and what has changed since the reality world. |
| 0:29.6 | Yes. |
| 0:31.0 | There's some survivor. |
| 0:32.7 | There's 100 cooks. |
| 0:34.4 | Alex, why should people listen to this episode? |
| 0:37.1 | People need to listen to this episode because you need to see the pipeline between |
| 0:40.8 | reality shows in your real life. Not necessarily did I want to go on Survivor, but I found |
| 0:46.2 | my own reality TV community 100 cooks. He had 15 other tribe members or maybe more. I met 99 |
| 0:53.2 | other people. |
| 0:56.4 | So it's just phenomenal to meet these other people and be able to do podcasts like this |
| 0:58.0 | is just to get your word out there |
| 0:59.4 | and to be able to spread your personality |
| 1:01.1 | because I love meeting people. |
| 1:02.7 | I do think I have that golden, golden doodle. |
| 1:07.1 | What do this thing's called? |
| 1:08.4 | Golden doodle. |
| 1:09.5 | Golden Lapperdollos? |
| 1:12.1 | I feel like I have people out Energy. Is it on the board? Golden doodle. I just, I feel like having the outlets for these |
| 1:22.4 | things is what's important, you know, to have these spaces that you've always heard. |
| 1:28.2 | It's like, you need to listen. |
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