If viewers were shocked by the first person to be voted out of Survivor 47 on Wednesday’s two-hour premiere on CBS, they weren’t alone. So was the host. It appeared that Andy Reuda would be the first booted after the AI research assistant from Brooklyn suffered from heat exhaustion at the challenge and called out his tribe mates for not liking him.

The host and executive producer also unpacks Andy mid-challenge medical situation, and his post-challenge meltdown.

When podcast host Jon Lovett found himself in trouble in the Survivor 47 premiere, he attempted a risky move to save himself from elimination on night one. Jeff Probst says in the Survivor On Fire podcast (embedded below) that he once believed Jon was capable of winning the entire game,

Jeff Probst teased that Jon Lovett, is a former political speech writer, is one of the ‘greatest storytellers’ to be on ‘Survivor’

Nothing is ever certain in Survivor, but host Jeff Probst says that Season 47 has uniquely unpredictable alliances.

Jon Lovett, a podcaster and former speechwriter for the Obama administration, talks about the new season of Survivor.