Podcast #423 – Interview with Stephen Fishbach (includes transcript) – Reality Steve

(SPOILERS) I start with a preview of Stephen’s appearance, discussing the death of Kelly Flanagan’s father, a “Lost” tribute, and one of my classic Christmas songs. Then Stephen joins me (6:05) for a recap of Survivor Season 47 as we talk about Rachel’s best win of the new era, Operation Italy being the best move we’ve ever seen, and whether Sam deserved With more than 1 final tribal vote, who of these cast members may we see in Season 50 and beyond?

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(Spoilers) Your Daily Roundup Covering Podcast #423 Preview Featuring Stephen Fishbach, Kelley Flanagan’s Dad Dies, Going Down Memory Lane on ‘Lost’ ‘s travels, and my big question about a classic Christmas song.
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Daily Review 12/26 Record

The Daily Roundup you’re listening to is part of the Reality C Podcast. I’m your host, Reality Steve. Thank you all for tuning in on the Thursday after Christmas. I have a good show for you today. We’ll be previewing what’s going to happen in about a few hours on my YouTube channel and your podcast feed at approximately 9:15 AM Eastern Time.

This is Podcast 423 with Stephen Fishback. There’s some sad news for Bachelor Nation. Kelly Flanagan’s father dies. Today we will briefly discuss this somewhat lost topic. We all remember Lost, don’t we? Well I totally forgot that two days ago was a very important day in Lost World and saw it on my twitter and I totally forgot to talk about it.

And then, yeah, we’ll talk about that. My question is about a very, very popular Christmas song. Someone needs to explain this to me. We’ll get to all this later. so. In a few hours, at 9:15 AM ET, you will appear in the podcast feed of my YouTube channel. Steve 24 is the fourth-ranked 23 podcast and is hosted by Steven Fishback.

You know, we invite him twice a year. We cast him in December when the Survivor finale aired, and we cast him in May after the Survivor finale aired. We discuss it. I asked Stephen, is Operation Italia the best move of the new era? Is Rachel the best winner of the new era? Do you think Sam should get more than one vote in Final Tribe?

Stephen has some very good answers, very thoughtful answers. By all accounts, he is the encyclopedia of the show. I was shocked by how much he knew, but we always had him present. Because he is the best Survivor guest. I can’t thank him enough for coming every season.

Just after the finale airs, we can discuss and review everything. I purposely don’t read anything he writes. I didn’t listen to any of his podcasts because I wanted to talk to him and hear what he had to say for the first time. There will be some sad news about the past week or so on my YouTube channel and in your podcast feed at 9:15 AM ET, and if you follow Kelly Flanagan on Instagram, you would know that her father’s health, which had improved, would soon take a turn for the worse.

Unfortunately he passed away yesterday. Kelly posted on Instagram. Said she wanted to thank him for being the best to mom and all six of us kids I can’t begin to explain how much we love you and how much we appreciate everything you do for us every day I know you are in heaven now with us Will watch over us all until we meet again We will all miss you dearly You will not and will not forget your patience with each of us The house was always a mess and you were a calm soul somehow Handle it with grace, you have held on so strong these past few weeks and I truly believe that you held on until Christmas, your favorite holiday, so that there would be no sadness in the future and your family could celebrate you together.

I am so happy to have spent 32 wonderful years by your side. I will be sad for a while, but I know you want me to cheer you up and celebrate you instead of being sad. The family dynamic without you will take some getting used to, but with us here, I will try to celebrate you every day.

I have never met a kinder, smarter, more giving person. I am so proud that you are my father. You leave an amazing legacy and you will never be forgotten. rest in peace. Kylie’s message was so wonderful that she put up a photo carousel on Instagram that included 20 photos of her and her dad over the years. So if you’ve been following her lately, you, you know that his health wasn’t great and it looked like he suddenly ended up in the hospital and then unfortunately passed away.

So our thoughts and prayers go out to Kelly and our condolences to her and her family. Especially after everything she’s been through this year to win, obviously, just two months ago she went on Chicks Off on The Office podcast and talked about her breakup from her ex-boyfriend Ali Laputus, Ali ·Raptus basically gaslighted her and completely destroyed her.

It was later discovered that he had cheated on her. Ugly sights everywhere. And then to have that happen to her on Christmas Day, you know, I just felt terrible. Kelly, our thoughts and prayers are with you. I wanted to bring this up because it’s been a while since I talked about this show.

And December 24th will always be a big day in the lost world. Now I’m watching Lost from the beginning, but it’s also a show I only watch every episode once. I think I watched more than a few episodes in one sitting, but I watched the season from beginning to end, but I never binge-watched it again because it’s a show.

You really have to focus and think, and sometimes I don’t want to watch TV and have to think, and this show is full of messages like, damn, if you don’t write it down, you’re going to forget and so will you Forget the storyline. Obviously, we know that this is the first show ever to continually incorporate flashbacks into its storytelling, maybe even the first.

This is where it gets confusing. Because you wonder, what’s their backstory? All these people who crash on a plane in the first episode, we start to learn more and more about each character through flashbacks, we learn who they are before they even get on the plane.

There are a few episodes in this six-season run that stand out to me. The first is the season finale. In season three, this is the season three finale, right? Yes. It’s a Jack-centric show and the whole time we were watching, they were telling the same story as the first three seasons and every episode, which is to say, there’s music or there’s swishing sounds and you think you Will go back to the place of the past.

But we find out, at the end of that episode, throughout the episode, that we’re watching flashes of Jack. We first realised, because when you watch the show in seasons one, two and three, the whole question you always ask yourself is: Do these people ever leave the island?

Second, what would happen if they did? Well, we don’t know when that will come. And then in the season three finale, we’re watching the entire episode. What we think of as a flashback is actually Jack’s flashforward. We realize. Oh, shit, he and some of them did leave the island, and that’s what season 4 is basically meant to fill in.

So this was just, this was one of those episodes where we thought, wow, you could say, how did you not figure that out? Obviously, there are some clues in this episode now that this isn’t a thing of the past, but you have to really, really, like I said, pay attention. So this was an episode that stood out to me.

Another thing I always remember is the constants. If you’re a Lost fan, you know what I’m talking about. I don’t even think I can do justice to this constant and that episode because even when I see it pop up on my Twitter feed, I have to go back and re-read the episode recap of that constant to remember it accurately.

I remember the gist of it. Desmond went back and forth between 1996 and 2004 with a bad conscience. He has instant memories of his body and where he was in 1996. The lost part is that time, it was 2004, and then when they flashed to 2004 and he was sitting in a helicopter landing on a freighter, all he knew in his memory was 1996.

Don’t ask me to explain why. It’s all about light, lightning, radiation and electromagnetic fields. Lost is very, very, if you’re not paying attention you won’t know what’s going on, but it’s a very good show and one of the best written. So when I started seeing it on Twitter, I was like, I gotta watch it again.

So I watched it again yesterday. There are many great episodes in television history. You can probably name a few, this is probably in the top five episodes that I’ve ever seen on TV, both in terms of how well written and how well acted. The story itself, how it works with time travel, everything was perfect for him.

and his 1996 character, but telling Daniel Faraday in 2004, This is where I am in my brain right now, Daniel Faraday said, Oh, you’re switching back and forth between consciousness in ’96 and 2004. When you go back to 1996, I need you to go to the university, meet me there and tell me the coordinates.

Like. Everything fits. Anyone who knows anything about constants knows what I’m talking about. I will go back and watch this episode to see how good it is. If you’re a failed fan, if you’re not a failed fan but you are, you won’t know what’s going on. By going back and watching that episode.

But man, the episode I watched yesterday was just as good, if not better, than when I watched it in 2004, and it was a masterpiece of episodic television. Holy crap. Outstanding. A wonderful episode. So I just wanted to say, because, oh, by the way, the reason I point this out is because December 24th, for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, that’s the day.

That day, Desmond told Penny that he was going to call her and she needed to answer the phone. You may be thinking, what does this even mean? Unless you’ve seen this season or the entire series, you won’t know what I’m talking about. But he called and she answered, tears flowing between the two of them.

Great, great episode.