Future Past Survivor: A Strategy Podcast
Aug 19, 2026 · 49 min · 12 segments
Brett Schultz, creator of The (Improvised) White Lotus, joins Josh and Bryan to discuss his new show: **SURVIVE The Improvised Play**…
Brett SchultzGuest
Josh KettlesHostBryanHost
And I feel like I totally get the direction of, you know, not trying to cram in too much game mechanics, you know, and overstuff it.
It'd be fun, obviously, to see multiple rounds and whatever, you know, as it would be to see a full season of, you know, survive the improvised play, the show, you know.
But I feel like that, yeah, I feel like ending on a boat like that is gonna be a dramatic finale.
So this, if I understand correctly, like this is, you've done the White Lotus as an improv play and now you're transitioning it to being a survivor play.
Yeah, and when I started the Improvised White Lotus, I was like, okay, the survivor tie-in is Tim Spicer is on the show.
And then the next show happened and I was like, okay, I think they should start in tribes.
And then the next show was they should have torches and someone, whenever they die, they should get their torch snuck.
And it just like kept rolling till eventually I was like, well, I love Survivor.
But it just like very clearly became, oh, I think I'm actually, and that's the thing about Survivor.
And I am getting closer and closer to understanding what the connection is to me.
But it seems that like a lot of the creative things I do and the way I live, it's just getting me closer and closer to that call of this game that I really love.
No, I definitely I think like I love Survivor, of course, because of the strategy and stuff.
And that's what we talk about on the podcast here, because, you know, that's there's something so fun about figuring out a puzzle and watching people, you know, on this show, like really navigate just like, you know, it is on the great narrative show where it likes, you know, some, you know, writer writes their character into a corner and then you see the satisfying way that they get themselves out of it.
But I also, yeah, I mean, like, I think my favorite moment of the new era is probably when Joe, like, has that confessional talking about Eva and he just like talking about, I got her.
And I feel like I totally get the direction of, you know, not trying to cram in too much game mechanics, you know, and overstuff it.
It'd be fun, obviously, to see multiple rounds and whatever, you know, as it would be to see a full season of, you know, survive the improvised play, the show, you know.
But I feel like that, yeah, I feel like ending on a boat like that is gonna be a dramatic finale.
So this, if I understand correctly, like this is, you've done the White Lotus as an improv play and now you're transitioning it to being a survivor play.
Yeah, and when I started the Improvised White Lotus, I was like, okay, the survivor tie-in is Tim Spicer is on the show.
And then the next show happened and I was like, okay, I think they should start in tribes.
And then the next show was they should have torches and someone, whenever they die, they should get their torch snuck.
And it just like kept rolling till eventually I was like, well, I love Survivor.
But it just like very clearly became, oh, I think I'm actually, and that's the thing about Survivor.
And I am getting closer and closer to understanding what the connection is to me.
But it seems that like a lot of the creative things I do and the way I live, it's just getting me closer and closer to that call of this game that I really love.
No, I definitely I think like I love Survivor, of course, because of the strategy and stuff.
And that's what we talk about on the podcast here, because, you know, that's there's something so fun about figuring out a puzzle and watching people, you know, on this show, like really navigate just like, you know, it is on the great narrative show where it likes, you know, some, you know, writer writes their character into a corner and then you see the satisfying way that they get themselves out of it.
But I also, yeah, I mean, like, I think my favorite moment of the new era is probably when Joe, like, has that confessional talking about Eva and he just like talking about, I got her.
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