Welcome to Podmeets Twirled, a podcast that once chronicled two guys who had never seen dancing with the stars, but watched a season and walked away experts.

From there, we ventured to traitors, and now we turn to Survivor Season 50, The Big One.

Join us as we dive into Alliance's Blind Sides Firemaking, Sand-related misery, and 25 years of television history,

culminating in a single massive season. This is Podmeets Twirled, seeking immunity. I am Rider Strong,

and today, my usual partner, Wilfredel, is out, and I am joined

instead by someone who actually knows the game of Survivor, and not just from watching it,

but from living it. That's right. Today, I am with an honest-to-goodness survivor. Please welcome

to Podmeets World, a finalist from Season 49, Sophie Blerdi. What's up, everyone? I'm so happy to be here. This is so cool. I am so, this is amazing. Yeah, because Will couldn't do it at this episode. And we were like, well, who were we going to get? And like two weeks ago, like after our first episode episode you messaged me on instagram and i was so

this was like the coolest thing ever um yeah so did you watch boy meets world did you listen to our

show or of course i did i did both i grew up watching it this is a dream come true you're so young though

you're old like 28 how did you well i'll be with you. It was a little bit ahead of my time.

I did watch the Girl Meets World version more because it was on when I was watching Disney channel. But I still watched your show. And I grew up with you guys, basically. And I do listen to your podcast. And so when I saw that you did, you know, you're covering season 50. I was like, oh my God.

I sent a DM to writer.

I was like, hey, if you ever need someone, and here I am. You know, sometimes they work if you shoot your shot. Yeah. But I did have to say, you didn't watch season 49, but Riz God, the Riz God on season 50 is a huge fan of you guys, and he would kill me if I didn't tell you.

So if you ever need someone in the future, reach out to the Riz God.

Okay.

Yeah, well, he's on the season right now.

So, yeah.

So my problem with Survivor, my biggest challenge, is that my family decides to watch seasons without me.

So my son and my wife will get like, you know, six episodes into a season and then I'll be out of town and I'll come back and I'll only watch like one. So I saw the snake bite incident of season 49. That's it. I didn't know who anybody was. I just jumped into that one episode. So tell me about your experience. I have so many questions.

I want to hear, let's start this way.

Like, rather than, because I feel like you can fill me in on the actual details of what happened, 49,

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