I never thought a “recruit” was an actor. I just think it’s probably easier to win a season with a bunch of recruits (like survivor Fiji) because they aren’t necessarily fans of the show or strategically-minded.

@Nersius

3 жыл бұрын

Until you realise that The Specialist himself was recruited.

i am really enjoying your insightful tidbits - almost every time you start a sentence, or have a slight pause, i literally fill in the rest of the sentence and we always match! I am really beyond upset that you are not on this season - it would be SO interesting to see how you play - i am rooting for YUL!

My understanding of a "recruit" is none of those things. What I thought a recruit was just some producer goes into a bar/restaurant/park/whatever and sees someone who he/she thinks seems interesting or compelling and then gets them to apply and fasttracks into the show. Hence why we see lots of mactors that make it..... though the more I thought about it, the more I didn't really care, if they are a model or actor they are still just a person playing the same game as everyone else.

Your outro is a 100 times better than before.

@SoulLoveBase

4 жыл бұрын

Hey you! Yes you! You still have a job to do!

Great Video Rich! When I originally saw you in Borneo I HATEEEDDD you but over time I was like shit this man is good TV.

@reubenmanzo2054

4 жыл бұрын

I was too young to watch Survivor when his season aired, but I recently got a copy on DVD. I'm the sort of person that likes forward thinking people, people that dare to try something that hasn't been tried before. For that reason, I was quickly drawn to Richard's game. This is probably going to receive some hate, but I was drawn to Russell's game for the same reason.

Thanks Richard! i am working on my video, i appreciate the tips!

Thanks Richard!

I like the phrase you use “offer a position to participate “

Another great video!

Another good video for the books. I would love to see a video of you taking us threw the process to becoming Survivor player. I want to play one day, just wondering what that will look like. Thanks! (Sidenote) I like the end clip better. Well done

Video thumbnail brought back memories. I was at that open call April 2016. ❤️

great thanks for sharing!!! more about casting lease

I don’t have a problem with people being recruited. However, it seems that people who are recruited are more likely to quit or be dragged. They seem more concerned with getting air time and promoting themselves than winning the game. Fans of the show and applicants usually understand how to play the game and want to win. They have much more to lose in the game they love and play like it. It works against the producers to recruit people who don’t know the show and therefore have no qualms about losing.

@DavidBilla

4 жыл бұрын

I think that was an issue in the past. But in the past 10 seasons or so, those people don't usually make it to the island anymore.

@JacksonvilleTammy

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you Sammy. I see that a lot on Big Brother, the recruits just give up they want out and make a big stink to get air time until they are booted.

thank you Mr. Richard the day i saw you on the show i said he is going to win, my sister said how you know that, i said he is a person you would have a love and hate relationship with. you loved him and hate him at the same time.

I feel like most of the later seasons have a ton of recruits in high profile jobs.. Half the press for season 40 on youtube is Jeff being interviewed by former contestants, and from what i can tell. They had positions in these companies already.

Love ❤️ your videos Richard. Question .?? Can you do video Of your favorite top 3 that you would like to win and who you think will be the top 3 and the winner of survivor 40. It would be fun to look back and see if you were correct and why you think a certain person would be the top 3 and win. Thanks!

I have a question. The new jury phase where they address Outwit, Outplay, and Outlast - I have to be honest I feel like there is no clearcut defintion of each criteria as there is a lot of overlap despite Jeff trying to group into buckets

I always thought of application as the process and recruitment as the result. So you apply and if you succeed in getting their attention, you'll be recruited.

In a way we are all actors in our own lives.

You didn’t address the ppl that had relatives on the show, like Russell Hantz’ nephew. Most ppl think that they get on the show bc of a phone call. Let’s face it, there is no way at the time he could’ve passed a psychological test. I felt terrible for him & hope that he’s OK now & living his best life.

Great video Rich. I always thought casting Jerri Manthey was interesting... she is (or was at the time) a professional actress and I wonder to what extent that influenced her game play (or not).

@consis

4 жыл бұрын

Name one single movie, film, commercial, or ad Jerri Manthey has acted/worked in/for.

one wonders if allocontestants joined sagcftra if working conditions violate union rules and what would be price to produce show..

I would live to be on survivor and win for you richard!

Rich - did you apply or were you recruited? And actually, there has been at least one "actor" on one season, and that was Lisa Welchel…...

Agreed...Jeff is still insisting that "Edge of Extinction" is a great idea, despite all of the fan opinions to the contrary. Ego.

@elmin2323

4 жыл бұрын

All of the fans? You asked us all?

@newjaye

4 жыл бұрын

@@elmin2323 Dude, if you're gonna come for someone, at least be right. Re-read the sentence, that is not what I said.

@yoursports6910

3 жыл бұрын

I actually like edge of extinction

I wonder what Yul would've said about you at tribal council if only you'd been on this season!

Do you still have money from your winnings?

Why did you wait so long to start your channel here, Richard?

Hi Richard!🤗Warm greetings from Philippines🇵🇭👋🏻 I am an avid fan of Survivor since your days time.Hope you have video interviews with your former Survivor players.Where is Coleen now?

@jpbproductions3872

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. No one knows. She’s still alive but if she died, nothing would change

Where are casting calls held? I’m auditioning this summer to hopefully get on season 43/44.

@user-jk7ue2fg2i

3 жыл бұрын

Hihi, I'm from another country and I'd love to apply for the US Survivor. Is that possible since I’m not from the US and am not a US citizen?

@erikschultz934

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-jk7ue2fg2i I think that depends on where you are from and what your citizenship is. I do know that Survivor opened casting up to citizens of Canada within the last couple of years. Other than that, I do not know of any other countries besides them. Their are multiple seasons of Survivor in other countries... Maybe give those a look.

I'm guessing that most players chosen have "applied" to be on Survivor. Do you know of any Survivors that were "recruited"? And if so, can you share with us who some of the better known "recruited" Survivors are?

@gregoryfuller9736

3 жыл бұрын

FairPlay was a recruit

Hello my name Nadeem Shaikh I want to go survivor challenge I am interested please tell me

Won’t stop till I’m on the show!!!!! I will be the person that makes the Most fake idols 😎 I promise!!!!!! I can’t wait to fool the team & the looks are there face. Hopefully I get to audition.

Damn, so being with someone who got recruited is like being at a bar and a hot chick approaches you, but she actually came over to ask if your more attractive friend is single? Asking for myself

ok i love these videos but when will they stop LOL

@pam2858

4 жыл бұрын

what lol why would you want them to stop?

@joshdepaola4002

4 жыл бұрын

@@pam2858 ok maybe im just annoyed cause he produces them so fast i never have the time to watch them all. Love him though he was the first person I thought about when I heard Winners at War was a Reality.

Other shows yes, but not Survivor.

Sorry... but remember the guy from the Brochachos, can't remember his name, but he was an actor. Saw him in an couple episodes of "The Last Ship". The same season, one of the other guys was a Hollywood WRITER. Come on... its hard to sell me on this argument when I can list TWO Examples in ONE Season off the top of my head.

@cassieclover99

4 жыл бұрын

very interesting...I know the members were christian, dan, and john..john is a pro wrestler. so was it dan and christian involved w the show?

@thebackyardbear

4 жыл бұрын

@@cassieclover99 It was John, the one pretending to be a wrestler. I mean, yeah, maybe he wrestled... but he also acts. I understand lying to the other castaways about your acting career... but why hide it from the fans? (and yes, it was a SPEAKING PART, named role, albeit very small, and recurring only a few episodes.)

@eliwidner7172

4 жыл бұрын

Heath Barrett Just google his name, he’s way more famous for wrestling than acting. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal

@yoursports6910

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebackyardbear Mike white was also in a few movies but he was also a film maker Being a part of the Goliath tribe is being rich and powerful and that includes rich actors

In person applicants are not Recruits 😂 Kassting meeting randoms at a bar, nightclub, or via referrals -- then pushing them through the casting process is a Recruit.

So kinda ironic that Hayden from Blood Vs Water was recruited because he was from Big Brother, when actually he was a recruit for his original Big Brother season

@colebauer2610

3 жыл бұрын

Hayden was Kat’s boyfriend hence the “blood” That whole season was based on loved ones. Who cares if he was on big brother?

I feel everyone knows how fake reality tv actually is at this point

Respectfully Richard, your take is a strawman. But before I give my critique, I want to emphasize how essential you were to the success of the show. Your intellect set the stage for what the show became. Also, while casting and game design mistakes were made; both casting and production made many many great decisions. But to your take here ... no one is bothered by "recruits" as you describe. The tipping point in the applicant/recruit controversy was Fiji were the pool of 50,000 odd applicants (tape/casting call) were deemed boring, repetitive, untelegenic, undiverse, losers etc ... which forced Casting to recruit all but one of the cast. The lone applicant was Gary, a 55 bus driver from Minnesota. It was brazenly cynical and condesending of the fan/applicant pool (as flyoverland deplorables). It was also deceptive and reduced the fan applicant processes to a PR farce. Survivor also suffered from the Californification of the casts which damaged the geographical diversity of the casts which connected the fans to the show ... it is us playing (nothing against Cali applicant fans, 1 in 9 Americans is a Californian and therefore there should be roughly two Californians per season). Fans became disillusioned by the casting farce as they were ignored in favor of dim witted blondes discovered at Santa Monica taco stands (literally). There was also a narrative that casting all fans would destroy the show because they would play a boring game "by the (Hatch) book" of building dominate alliances going into the merge and systematically "Pagonging" the minority groups.Therefore, it was necessary to cast Survivor know nothings; recruited dolts, who literally had never seen the show, to add randomness to the game. We got a glimpse of how bullshit this all had become back in 2011 when CBS and Sears created a contest to allow fans to vote on a pool of applicants from which CBS would select 1 from the fans' Top 10. What we saw was two pools of some 5,000 applicant video tapes that were deep in compelling people. At this same time, hard core fans were also discussing game design changes that would stress "by the book" play and create more dynamic possibilities as well as strategies to the game itself that evolved passed simple alliances ... that is, ideas of how to win Survivor in ways that "passed the Zeke test". The low point was the early 20s seasons where horrible casts dominated by rediculously contrived recruits playing a game they neither cared about nor understood; they were there to be validated or to be discovered or to have a vacation ... and the show was nearly destroyed. Several of us hard core fans came together to illustrate this by loading all 5,000 application tapes onto a 3rd party website and conduct our own casting where fans voted on the 5,000 directly. Then a few of us assembled an actual cast of 18 from this pool and designed an entire season that placed these 18 super fans into a game designed to stress alliance and promote dynamic play. Many of the concept we come up with were used in subsequent seasons and ultimately we were validated when seasons of fans like S28: Cagayan were finally created and we got modern dynamic Survivor. The fan cast simulated season is still up on the fan boards ... including all 18 application videos ... would have been an amazing season. You may recognize one from our cast, Laura Nelson, who you have met at several reality TV confabs as she was subsequently cast on Naked & Afraid. www.tapatalk.com/groups/survivorsucks/survivor-east-vs-west-casting-game-design-game-pla-t99338.html

Um WRONG. Rodney admitted, and will tell you or anyone else, that he met one of the producers at a club where he frequents and 'she' asked him to come be interviewed for the show. This is a well-known fact and is commonly understood by anyone paying attention. When attempting to submit a video to the official cbs survivor website I find NO 'list of questions'. AND......that's not the only example I can give. Rich, you do realize this show has been around for some 20 years right? The available information on it is crazy copious, like a ridiculously overwhelming amount of facts to disprove what you're saying. Say it with me Rich: "Google"

@yoursports6910

3 жыл бұрын

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@consis

3 жыл бұрын

@@yoursports6910 It means they recruit almost all the players. They only extremely rarely ever check videos sent in, only when they've about one slot remaining from a full group of recruits and their backups

@yoursports6910

3 жыл бұрын

@@consis dude this guy was on the show and just told you how it works We’re you ever on the show? So how would you know

Nice job sneaking the conversation from application vs. recruitment to a bunch of bullshit about Probst and egos. You’re mad that you weren’t chosen for 40, and it’s your ego that is the issue. Pack it up.