RAANAP: Rob & Akiva Get Freaky
Rob Has a Podcast | Survivor 50, The Traitors & Reality TV - RHAP
Rob Cesternino, Survivor Know-It-All and The Traitors, | RHAP Productions
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Rob Cesternino (@robcesternino) and Akiva Wienerkur (@keev26) need a podcast and every week, Rob and Akiva spin a wheel of listener-submitted podcast ideas, and whatever the wheel lands on is what they podcast about next. This week, Rob and Akiva get freaky!
Get ready for a freaky ride as Akiva Wienerkur and Rob Cesterino dive deep into the world of “Freaky Friday” on their latest podcast episode! This “non-cononical Freaky Friday episode” explores the cinematic universe of body-swapping family fun.
The hosts kick things off by recounting the 2003 original “Freaky Friday” starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. They cover the mother-daughter duo’s switch after opening magic fortune cookies in Chinatown, leading to hilarious chaos as Lindsay Lohan (in her mom’s body) maxes out credit cards and Jamie Lee Curtis (in her daughter’s body) struggles with high school and a garage rock band. The film culminates in a concert and a wedding, with the switch reversing when understanding is achieved.
Then, they jump into the 2025 sequel, “Freakier Friday,” which features a groundbreaking four-way body switch. Lindsay Lohan’s character is now a music producer with a surfer daughter, and Jamie Lee Curtis is “Gamma Graham”. The new movie addresses problematic Asian representation from the original and introduces a new love interest for Lindsay Lohan, Manny Jasinto. This time, the switch is triggered by a fortune teller and involves all four main characters, leading to a similar journey of self-discovery and family bonding.
Beyond the movies, Rob and Akiva discuss the “freakiest day of the week,” celebrity actors playing characters with their first names, and review listener mailbag ideas for future episodes, including “Robin Keeper Pen Pals” and “Send Tommy Guam Back on the Street”. Don’t miss this insightful and entertaining breakdown before their upcoming “Guessing the Draft” and “Renap Hall of Fame” episodes!
For the link to the spreadsheet that Rob and Akiva use to compile ideas, check it all out here: ?Rob and Akiva Need a Spreadsheet? (compiled by the great Will from America).
For the link to the spreadsheet that Rob and Akiva use to compile ideas, check it all out here: Rob and Akiva Need a Spreadsheet (compiled by the great Will from America).
To submit an idea for a future episode of “Rob and Akiva Need a Podcast” to be discussed on the mailbag, submit it on this form: Rob and Akiva’s Mailbag Form.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | That's right. That's Robin Akivaida podcast, Scott. Remember Skah? Scott might make a comeback this year. I'm Akiva Wieniker. And with me as always is a guy who's freaky, not just on Friday, but every day of the week. Rob, how are you? Am I freaky every day of the week? I don't know. I mean, you're not freakyer on Friday, let's just say. You're probably equally freaky. I don't even know if I'm freaky at all ever. What do you think is the freakiest day of the week, though, if you were freaky sometimes? What's the freakiest day of the week? A lot of them Monday can be pretty freaky. |
| 0:58.7 | That's why Garfield hated Mondays because it was too freaky for him. |
| 1:00.3 | You just wanted to sit and have lasagna. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.1 | I feel like historically a lot of stock market crashes have been on a Monday. |
| 1:06.0 | And is that freaky? |
| 1:09.0 | Are all bad things necessarily freaky or is that just bad? |
| 1:16.8 | But I feel like that a lot of people, most people get freaky, probably Saturday more than Friday? |
| 1:18.1 | Not Friday night? |
| 1:19.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:21.3 | I think a lot of times Saturday, you're still, Friday night, you're tired from the work week. |
| 1:27.1 | So I'm not sure if a lot of people are getting freaky on Friday night, you're tired from the work week. So I'm not sure if a lot of people are getting freaky on Friday night. |
| 1:32.5 | Should we put the census, freakyest day of the week? |
| 1:35.1 | Yeah, put it on the census. |
| 1:37.2 | I love it. |
| 1:40.0 | And what's been going on with you, Rob? |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.5 | So, well, let's just, I know you're driving today. |
| 1:46.9 | We've switched roles today. |
| 1:48.6 | But just for the audience who might have been expecting a different podcast today, a non-canonical, |
| 1:54.4 | Freaky Friday episode where I have watched 2003's original freak. |
| 2:00.8 | It's not even the original. This is one from the 70s. We could have watched somebody watched that freak as not even the original there's one from the 70s we could |
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