Everybody what's going on Rob Cesternino back here to preview some survivor contestants

a random group of six people that we are going to talk about here today with a man who

got to speak firsthand with these very survivor players of course he does outstanding work

for parade dot com and many a different podcast ventures across post show recaps and

Rob is a podcast. Give it up for Mike.

Beautiful morning, Rob. The sun is shining. The birds are tweeting. There's a lot of

birds. There's a lot of birds this season. Yeah. Listen, I don't want to start our coverage

by me patting myself on the back here, but can we just flash back to the salad days of

May 2023 when you and I prognosticated what the survivor 44 reunion would look like.

I think the last question we asked was what will be on the logo of survivor 45. I took

a literal shot in the dark tried to capitalize on an inside joke from back during I think

our David versus Goliath days and said, Oh, I think a bird will be on there. I did not

realize the hitch cocky an amount of birds that would be taking place across season 45.

Why I know that there's some birds in the logo. Are there a lot of birds from what you've

seen from the early survivor 45? Well, listen, what I will say, and this will also couch

perhaps why we are talking about these sticks, particular people is that at the moment we

are speaking, CBS has not officially announced what the tribe divisions are of these 18 contestants

for survivor 45. But look, if you've been watching the marketing materials, if you've been

seeing all the give me shelter commercials that have air throughout the entire summer

between we are the music you right. I can't remember the only other time that I can remember,

like them licensing a music track to promote a survivor season was in season 26 survivor

caramoan. They were advertising the survivor season. I remember this ad campaign well that they

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