Road to Reality | Having Fun with Davie Rickenbacker
RHAP: We Know Survivor
Survivor Know-It-All, Rob Cesternino
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Road to Reality is a limited edition series hosted by Kellyn Bechtold (@theKellynB) from Survivor Ghost Island. Listen in while she interviews former Survivor contestants about their real life and how being on reality television has had a major impact on their life trajectories. Every reality contestant has been on a story-worthy journey to land on television and yet the edit turns them into a hero or a villain or maybe something in between, but it is always just one dimension. Tune in to hear a 360 degree perspective from some of your favorite contestants.
In episode 7, Davie Rickenbacker from Survivor David v. Goliath talks us through how he ended up as a public health professional working at CDC during a pandemic, how being an extrovert means something different once you enter the world of reality tv, growing up as middle child of three boys in South Carolina, bringing his childhood dreams to life in adulthood, and how he’s navigating being an influencer online and in Atlanta, and of course – his experience of being on Survivor and his specific reasons for wanting to play again in the new era.
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Show Links:
* Davie’s Favorite Podcast: Black Men Can’t Jump
* Davie’s Movie Suggestion: Into the Spider-verse
* Atlanta Cosplayer Group: Beltline Cosplay
* TikTok: nintenbro
* Instagram: iamdavie
* Twitch: itwitchdavie
* Snapchat: isnapdavie
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Road to Reality, a limited series where I, Kellen Bechteld, go on a conversational |
| 0:13.7 | journey with fellow survivor contestants about their real lives. |
| 0:17.8 | In this 10-part series, we invite you to listen in on unscripted conversations that, crazy |
| 0:22.1 | enough, aren't really about playing Survivor, but about being a person who was on Survivor. |
| 0:28.1 | These are deep dive conversations, not into post-game strategy, but into the lives of contestants |
| 0:33.2 | before and after survivor, and the experiences that shaped them into who they are today. |
| 0:38.6 | So sit back, relax, and join me as we take a ride down the road to reality. |
| 0:44.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome back to Road to Reality. |
| 0:47.8 | Today, we are talking with another David versus Goliath David, David Rickenbacher. |
| 0:56.2 | We talk with David about how he ended up as a public health professional, working at |
| 1:00.1 | the CDC during the pandemic. |
| 1:02.6 | How being an extrovert means something different once you enter the world of reality TV, growing |
| 1:07.9 | up as a middle child of three boys in South Carolina, and bringing his childhood dreams |
| 1:12.3 | to life and adulthood. |
| 1:13.6 | How he's navigating being an influencer online and in Atlanta, and of course, his experience |
| 1:18.6 | of being on Survivor and his specific reasons for wanting to play again in the new era. |
| 1:23.9 | David lets us into his world in a way that feels like going on an adventure with him. |
| 1:29.0 | My face hurt throughout the interview from smiling through so much of it. |
| 1:34.6 | He mentioned at Ponderosa that Gabby Pascusi gave him one of his favorite compliments of |
| 1:40.1 | all time, which was, I've never met anyone like you, and I cannot agree more. |
| 1:45.2 | There is no one else like David Rickenbacher on this planet, and we are so lucky to spend |
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