The Women's Alliance : A Survivor Podcast

We made it to the end, and we agree, it WAS a banger of a season. And who better to review the season finale of Survivor than with friend and comedian Mary McDonnell! We are so happy to have a worthy winner this season, discuss  if we can spot the winner via the edit, and speculate on what we want to see for future seasons of Survivor. Someone let us choose themed seasons and future challenges! Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Mary McDonnell: Instagram: @maryinhaste The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Lida for a conversation with Ernest Meyers - a comedian, writer, and avid Survivor fan - about Season 44, Episode 12. On Survivor fire is your life and this episode is fire - they talk about their favorite seasons, Beyoncé, and the power of striking. Of course, they analyze strategy too - the tensions between Jamie, Heidi, and Lauren and their chances of making it to the final three, how knowledge of Survivor can be beneficial or detrimental, and debate the advantages of individual versus group rewards. And of course, it’s the last chance to predict who is going to win Survivor. The Women’s Alliance has spoken. Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram  Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Ernest Meyers: Instagram: @ernestmyers3 The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are happily joined by our favorite guy, Yoni Lotan, to cover Survivor S44E11, “I’m Not Worthy”, and as newer Survivor fans, we all ate it up! In this episode we jump into Survivor theory, what happens on the production side of filming Survivor, how much awareness you need as a player, and how long does it really take to vote? We’re big fans of owning your emotions, famous Survivor controversies, and ask the question: how important is physical prowess for final tribal? Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram  Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Yoni Lotan:: Instagram: @yonilotan The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Lida is joined by the amazing playwright and writer Rachel Herron to talk about S44 E10 while Jenny works on a Gala (We have to make that money if we’re not winning the million dollars). Lida and Rachel get into bringing back the brainy challenges, social skills on the island, and which players are hot! Who do you think is going to have to make fire?  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Rachel Herron: Instagram: @rachelherron_ The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re thinking this episode was a little predictable but the love for Survivor is strong from Lida, Jenny, and special guest Rylan Sylvester. But we would do anything for a Survivor cameo, scout’s honor, and how important mediation seems to be this season! Special shout out to the Dream Team, people who think they’re threats but aren’t, and our dream sign off lines if we were voted off the island, (not that that would ever happen!)  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Rylan Sylvester: Instagram: @rizadoink TikTok: @rizadoink The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The girls are back after watching this episode at former guest Gabe Bergado’s Crystal Lake Watch Party with some very special people. *Rhymes with Clam Clam* They’re joined by Christian Banda, who someday is probably going to be on Survivor - he’s already had a call back. We chat strategy, romances, and of course, the fart heard round Fiji. Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe! Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Christian Banda: Instagram: @thatboybanda The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is that an echo we hear? Maybe! But it is also an echo of one of our favorite guests, comedian and friend, Rachel Taenzler is back to cover Survivor S44+E7, “Let’s Not Be Cute About It”! The merge is real, the love is real, the idols are not always real. We’re here for the 2003 Fan Cam for Matt & Frannie, we want a fully jury vote, and our new rule: We’re not dating if you don’t make the merge! And let’s hear it for Positive simp representation!  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Rachel Taenzler: TikTok: @RachelTaenzler The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh my goodness, it’s just the girls to talk about  Survivor S44E5 “The Third Turd” and S44E6 “Survivor with a Capital S.” Two episodes, one merge, a man who fell from a rock, and the ghost of the man who got bonked on the head. We talk about the twists this season (We like!), whether it would hurt or help our careers to be on Survivor (We don’t know but probably bad!), and who we would be ok with winning this season (Not the men!). Do you guys think Carolyn is going to win? Let us know in the comments.  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raise your torches because Jenny and Lida are back with one of their favorite guests of the pod, Connor Johnston, to get into weird little episode S44 Ep3 “Sneaky Little Snake.” And it’s extra special because Connor watched this episode at CLAIRE’S APARTMENT with a dozen Survivor players - Maddy, Helen, Claire, Carson, Matthew, Josh, Jam Jam… wtf! He doesn’t have spoilers, but he does have details. We talk about mental health on Survivor, all the girlies getting voted out, and fake immunity idols galore! Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Guest Connor Johnston:  Instagram: @conjohn.nyc TikTok: @officialconjohn The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re back baby! We are ready for an invigorating season with hosts Lida Darmian & Jenny Gorelick to cover the first two episodes of Survivor Season 44. Of course we need to cover a bit of season 43 before we get into what we think of the first two episodes: “I Can’t Wait to See Jeff” & “Two Dorky Magnets.” These new tribe members have personality, strength, and savvy, but who do we align with? Immediately we are saying farewell to more members than we thought, but there’s also a budding romance. Of course,  it’s better to be nominated to be picked up by the man on the boat to get an advantage early, but then you have to be a really good liar.  And are we able to name a winner from the first two eps?  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello to Felicia! We are joined again by one of our fave comedians and friends, Glennis LaRoe, to cover Survivor S44E4 “I’m Felicia”. Though we may have started watching with ex’s but the only X’s we care about now are the ones in the birdcage! Of course we are rooting for the underdog, we spot the Disney adults, are huge fans of the big boys jumping in the water, and we sense a villain origin story coming. And we ask the big question: Should Survivor cast an influencer? Tune in at the end as we actively stalk some of our favorite players on social media, no one is safe from our detective skills!  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod. Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh TikTok: @lidapida Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi Follow Glennis LaRoe: Instagram: @theglennisshow Twitter: @theglennisshow TikTok: @theglennisshow_ The Women’s Alliance is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We did it! Lida’s recording live from a Covid Hotel for the finale, let’s go! And *spoilers* but turns out Jenny correctly guessed the winner, and our girl Erika is the Sole Survivor. Hooray! We chat about the incredible fire-making challenge, Ricard’s sad exit, Xander’s villain edit, and the Covid of it all!! Join us as we drop our buffs one last time for Season 41. Slow and steady wins the race, baby!  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s finally here, our penultimate episode of S41!!! Lida and Jenny are joined by UCB’s hottest couple 5 years in a row and gorgeous new parents, Betsy Kenney & Ryan Haney. Jenny is absolutely in quarantine with Covid, but that doesn’t stop them from talking about Survivor’s obsession with ex-NFL players, Danny & DeShawn not fighting for their loves, and our FINAL PREDICTIONS for who will be the Sole Survivor. We also get into missing the family visits and the idol hunts. Make your guesses for who was right in predicting the winner! Hehehehe.  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   Follow Ryan Haney: Twitter: @ryan_haney Instagram: @ryan_haney   Follow Betsy Kenney: Twitter: @betsykenney Instagram: @bkenney   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This season is aging like a fine wine by getting better with time, and we are stoked to be joined by comedian Glennis LaRoe. We discuss the importance of spoiler-free culture, the impact Shan's leaving has had on the game, and the twist to end all twists—Do or Die! We chat about the magical elements of the show, Liana speaking to the racial dynamic of the game, and UTI medication on the island. Tune as we get one step closer to finding our winner!  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   Follow Glennis LaRoe: TikTok: @glennislaroeshow Twitter: @glennislaroe Instagram: @glennislaroeshow   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a treat, the Survivor gods gifted us two amazing episodes! We are joined by a new Survivor watcher and Lida’s mom (!) Setareh for her first ever podcast recording. We talk about how you play in the game is how you play in life, the very fun double elimination, and how episode 10 is a perfect episode. Now that we’ve lost a few of our favorites, we’re starting to see Xander play smartly from the bottom, Erika just playing smartly in general, and Ricard is JUDAS. And as always, what’s the point of the shot in the dark??? Happy Holidays to us!!!!! Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wow, the episodes are really starting to slap! We’re joined by the hilarious Gianmarco Soresi (The Downside Podcast) to talk about which seasons of Survivor he should watch (all of them… but especially the ones with hook ups), treats at the sit out bench, and as always our favorite Mafia Pastor. The question of the day is… would you be mad about Papaya Gate?  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   Follow Gianmarco Soresi: Instagram: @gianmarcosoresi Twitter: @gianmarcosoresi TikTok: @gianmarcosoresi   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finally we are HAPPY with what’s going on, and we are ecstatic to be joined by hot hot comedian, Ariel Gitlin!, to discuss the first two-part episode of the season! Through our journeys, we have developed applesauce brains, having stomach issues on the island, and the birth of a BIPOC alliance. We promise to start training our cores for the infamous foot challenge, the wacky time-turner twist, and we discuss the way the diversity of the casting has impacted the alliances. It’s a spicy one!  Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.  Come to our watch parties on Wednesdays at Tailgate Bar in Williamsburg!     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   Follow Ariel Gitlin: Instagram: @arielgitlin TikTok: @arielgitlin   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s two more wild episodes and the “secret” advantages are out of control! Lida and Jenny are joined by bestie of the pod, Connor Johnston, to talk about Cirie, of course, baby turtles, and sportsmanship. We debate Heather’s struggle with the reward challenge and settle once and for all what is the point of the Shot in the Dark Advantage. Come hang out with us at our watch parties at Tailgate Bar in Brooklyn! Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.  Come to our watch parties on Wednesdays at Tailgate Bar in Williamsburg!     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   Follow Connor Johnston: Instagram: @conjohn18 TikTok: @officialconjohn   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The super speed season continues, and we are just trying to keep everything straight! Today we are joined by comedian and Tribeca Film Festival darling, Dara Katz. We pay an ode to Buffs, the million advantages, and we want them to bring back the night vision camera! We discuss the way idols and advantages are rapid fire this season, our idea for idols, how we miss the reward challenges, and what else we want to see in Survivor. And now we all get to guess: who will win? Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.  Come to our watch parties on Wednesdays at Tailgate Bar in Williamsburg!     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   Follow Dara Katz: Instagram: @kdara   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank the Survivor Gods - it’s finally a brand new season! For the first time ever, Lida and Jenny are both watching Survivor in real-time and neither of them knows who will win. Jeff had a lot of time to think about what he’s done over the pandemic, and he comes in hot and mean - making the tribes fight to survive, taking away their flints, and … no rice!? We gossip about our initial thoughts on the players and have some HUGE drop our buffs about the B-roll packages and advantages. And in the end, Jenny and Lida both reveal who they think will be the 41st Sole Survivor!! Please cast your votes to keep us alive by liking and subscribing wherever you get your podcasts! Rate The Women’s Alliance 5-stars on Apple Podcasts and tell us your favorite season of Survivor and maybe we’ll cover it next. And make sure to share with your tribe! Connect with The Women’s Alliance on Instagram @thewomensalliancepod.  Come to our watch parties on Wednesdays at Tailgate Bar in Williamsburg!     Follow Host Lida Darmian: Instagram: @lidapida Twitter: @leeduh   Follow Host Jenny Gorelick: Instagram: @jennycestquoi Twitter: @jennygorelick TikTok: @jennycestquoi   The Women’s Alliance is on the More Banana network. It is produced by Regina Averion. Music is by Boy Brooks. Cover art is by Dustin Molina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices