Digging For Idols

In this DFI mini we forego the usual song and dance to discuss Survivor tattoos: who's got 'em, who should get 'em, and which Survivor quotes would we most like to see inked?

Taylor's birthday pick has us going (out)back to the early aughts to behold 3-time Survivor Jerri Manthey's performance in the 2005 island creature feature "Komodo vs. Cobra."

2022's Babylon is manic and relentlessly abrasive. A perfect vehicle for Survivor: Panama's Shane Powers! This ep we are covering his wild Survivor stint and his brief but prominent role as a securit…

Christopher's birthday choice of covering uncredited parkour stunts by Frosti (Survivor: China) in the pilot episode of Chuck spirals into a nesting doll of birthdays and intrigue. Will our hosts unc…

DFI is thrilled to welcome our first ever guest on the show, the extremely interesting and multi-talented Rita Verreos! Rita joined us for a marathon chat about her fascinating upbringing, her curren…

Music is in the air with the 2024 Grammys this week and DFI is double dipping on castaways as we cover Survivor: South Pacific's favorite showmance Whitney & Keith joining forces in the music video f…

In light of CBS dropping Season 46 cast auditions pre-season, Taylor and Christopher pause their usual subject matter to each recap and rate a variety pack of five Survivor audition tapes. Who will b…

Listener discretion advised for this very special and very adult episode in which Taylor and Christopher slither into the grossest recesses of the internet to find The Virgins of Sherwood Forest,  th…

From one social experiment to another, this episode we follow Rita Verreos from the snake-infested sands of Survivor: Fiji to a racism-infested episode of What Would You Do? that pits a character pla…

We've got a fever and the only prescription is more Cao Boi! DFI’s hosts are NOT splitting the votes this week in their appraisal of Cook Islands’ Cao Boi Bui and his performance in the 2017 futurist…

In our first attempt at a "mini" ep during a holiday week, DFI goes on a side quest to investigate a mysterious and extremely elaborate alternate universe / fanfiction Survivor wiki that was found wh…

If it's your holiday wish to watch a movie on YouTube about Santa getting a divorce that features a small cameo by Survivor Borneo & Blood vs. Water castaway Gervase Peterson then let this episode be…

Jefra Bland Hines appeared in a handful of music videos around the time that she was cast as a member of the Beauty tribe on Survivor: Cagayan, most notably the Shooter Jennings music video anthology…

You may recall learning about the denizens of wrestler John Hennigan's "Slamtown" during Survivor: David vs. Goliath, but did you know he was also brochachos with a burping pig named Arlo? Leave your…

Fill your elephant dung canteens with boiled amoebic dysentery and cow blood! We're headed back to Survivor: Africa to talk about the extremely dehydrated Jessie Camacho and her equally dehydrated ch…

It was never a question of "if," only "when." DFI is on a Sugar high and digging through the center of the earth to Stars Hollow for the deepest of dives into the nexus of pop culture where Survivor …

It's Election Day 2023 and we're dueling our way to the Oval Office to watch and review Matt "Wyatt Nash" Elrod's performance as Tad the dapper White House aide in Season 1 Episode 7 of the short-liv…

For Halloween we're sinking our teeth into Jud "Fabio" Birza's starring role in the charming no-budget family comedy My Stepbrother is a Vampire!?!  Did we get glamoured and become his familiars or d…

Taylor and Christopher volunteer to be tortured by Lucifer (the show) in order to hunt down Survivor: Amazon's Daniel Lue and his performance in s3e19 as "Bounty #2." Also: Survivor Love Languages!

We're trading in our shovels for flashlights this week and going trekking for ghosts, casting a light on Jonny Fairplay's haunted performance in the 2011 web series/short "Ghost Trek: The Kinsey Repo…