Pod Meets Twirl'd: The Traitors 405
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4.7 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When you think of The Traitors, you think of castles, hooded robes and now…smoked salmon?? Will and Rider are back to recap episode 5 and try to figure out the cast’s undying obsession with lox.
They analyze the night’s heated round table and break down Michael Rapaport’s complete 180 that could lead to his exit from the game.
Plus, find out who Will and Rider think is the most exposed Traitor thanks to poor lying skills, and learn something new about history’s most famous traitors, trivia that Will just causally knows.
All this and more, on Pod Meets Twirl’d!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to PodMeets Twirl, a podcast from two guys who had never seen an episode of Dancing with the Stars, but took it on and walked away experts. |
| 0:15.5 | So now we turn to traitors. |
| 0:17.5 | Another show I've never seen, while Will is convinced that he could win it. |
| 0:21.6 | We are Wilfredel and Ryder Strong. |
| 0:24.1 | Two best friends. |
| 0:25.1 | One, a TV expert. |
| 0:26.7 | One, a TV skeptic, both dance scholars. |
| 0:30.4 | Join us as we step into a castle full of lies, alliances, and over-the-top wardrobe choices. |
| 0:35.5 | This is Podmeet's twirled, trading places. Yes. I will. Hi, writer. So, by wearing a hood every episode, you're aligning yourselves with the traders. Well, I just, you are a traitor. Frankly, it doesn't really matter either way what I am when I get there eventually. I just, you know, I had the cloak. |
| 1:15.2 | I very rarely get a chance to wear it. And when I do, people throw stuff at me. So it's fun to just be able to wear it in the comfort of my own home. What's funny is that I actually went into the hot tub last night and soaked for a little while and then put this on after. And it's still a little damp. Oh, gross. So it's fun to just have a gross kind of little damp little, uh, little robe on me there. |
| 1:16.2 | Love it. |
| 1:18.4 | This is what we do for entertainment, my friend. |
| 1:20.7 | All right. |
| 1:22.5 | Episode five. |
| 1:25.2 | This was a, this is a dramatic one, man. |
| 1:25.8 | Yikes. Yeah. |
| 1:26.6 | Yikes. |
| 1:33.5 | Yeah. Yeah. This is, is um for a lot of reasons for a lot of reasons but this was tough we talked about it last episode just getting personal you know like yeah and uh people you know |
| 1:39.3 | it's one thing to to role play and to like call each other like traitors and faithful like as if those things |
| 1:46.5 | actually mean something but yeah it gets it gets a little personal in this one and um starting yeah |
| 1:52.5 | you know i'm really curious how this how this show plays out when they're not celebrities or |
| 1:58.6 | reality stars do you know what i mean like because that's how it started, right, with regular people? |
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