Talking with T-Bird: Yau-Man Chan
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
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
The time has come for the return of “Talking with T-Bird.” Each episode, Rob Cesternino (@robcesternino) and Survivor: Africa‘s Teresa “T-Bird” Cooper (@tbirdcooper) will catch up with a former Survivor player and talk about anything and take listener questions. In the fifty-seventh episode of “Talking with T-Bird,” Rob and T-Bird’s welcome two time contestant, from Survivor: Fiji and Survivor: Micronesia, Yau-Man Chan!
Yau-Man made his greatest strength known early in Survivor: Fiji; he used his intelligence over brawn to break open a crate that physically stronger competitors were unable to open. Although his first tribe was unsuccessful in winning challenges, Yau-Man was able to find an alliance who kept him safe until the merge. On the day 34 reward challenge, Yau-Man won a truck, and struck a deal with fellow castaway Dreamz Herd: Yau-man would swap the truck if Dreamz would give him immunity at final four. Yau-man was also sent to exile, where he found an idol clue, and subsequently the hidden immunity idol, which he used to keep himself safe successfully. When it came to final four, Dreamz did win the immunity, but went back on his deal to give it to Yau-Man. With Yau-Man being such a threat at final tribal council, he was voted out on Day 38.
In Survivor: Micronesia, Yau-Man returned as one of ten “favourites” from past seasons of Survivor, battling against ten superfans of the show. Although he quickly found an alliance, he was deemed to be a threat to finding immunity idols. He was voted out of the game early, on day 8.
You can check out Yau-Man’s statistics on the Survivor Wiki from their Survivor career here: Yau-Man Chan’s Survivor Wiki Profile
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Past Episodes of “Talking with T-Bird”:
* Talking with T-Bird: Helen Glover – May 30, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick – June 20, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Gretchen Cordy – July 2, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Kelly Goldsmith – July 11, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Judd Sergeant – July 22, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Sean Rector – July 29, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Scout Cloud Lee – August 3, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Robb Zbacnik – August 13, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Rodger Bingham – August 18, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Ami Cusack – August 25, 2019
* Talking with T-Bird: Frank Garrison – August 31, 2019
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| 0:00.0 | If you stay here with sad, your life will never be the same. |
| 0:16.0 | Cause we're talking with T-Burgrang. This T-Burgrang cannot change. |
| 0:36.0 | If things might get pretty straight. Yeah, that's right. Talking with T-Burgrang is back again here to talk to the great a y'all man, Shantutai survivor. |
| 0:54.0 | And of course, let's bring in a woman who should be a two-time survivor. |
| 1:00.0 | Number one in our hearts. Here is the great Teresa T-Burgrang. |
| 1:06.0 | Well, that was so sweet. Thank you for that. Yes, T-Burgrang. How are you? |
| 1:10.0 | Good, Rob. I'm good. How are you? Very good. Excited to be back. Got a good one here today. |
| 1:16.0 | Talking with y'all man and excited to hear what he's up to. But he'll be weird us in and just a moment. |
| 1:24.0 | T-Burgrang, what are you up to? Well, Rob, you know, I've been flying and I just did a great. |
| 1:32.0 | Nice to see your posts that you were posting that you just got done with your shift. |
| 1:38.0 | Yep. So Rob, actually, I was in Mobile, Alabama where I just learned that that was kind of the big start for Marty Grah. |
| 1:46.0 | Oh, I didn't know that before. Yeah, before New Orleans. Who knew? I won't give you the history. |
| 1:52.0 | I can't remember. Well, they everybody there was saying how it started there back in 19s, whatever, whatever, whatever. |
| 2:04.0 | And then it was really big there. So I actually got a trip there at the last second. |
| 2:10.0 | Yeah, the last second for real short. It was only a few hours. How did you say? |
| 2:16.0 | Well, they didn't lose it. They didn't lose it. But I think the tradition started in Mobile, Alabama. Well, I know I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. |
| 2:24.0 | So anyway, I had a really, really short labor. I didn't have any clothes with me, which most people might find a little unusual. |
| 2:30.0 | I've had that dream. Yeah, wouldn't have. You know, I had with me was a bathrobe. And we stayed at the middle of everything. |
| 2:38.0 | So I thought, how can I miss this Marty Grah parade? So I ended up enjoying the parade in a bathrobe. So I think I got a few more stairs that I would have. I know. |
| 2:51.0 | I know I know I think I got a few more miles and I would have a New Orleans New Orleans. I would fit in just fine. |
| 2:57.0 | But the Mobile crowd was was a little bit more conservative. I think that the New Orleans crowd. But anyway, everything's great. Just been flying a lot and excited. |
| 3:06.0 | That's probably good, I think, for New Orleans. For New Orleans, it would have been perfect. It had monkeys all over it. So like, like I said, I think nobody would have noticed. |
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