Podcasting Becomes ‘Chaotic Good’ Outlet for Athens Local

In a small office tucked behind Total Training Center, Allison Skinner sat between her maroon backdrop, her desk covered in computers, a mic and photos of current Survivor players. She had just filmed her reaction to the first episode of the season 51 premiere of “Survivor“ for her podcast “Chaotic Good” moments before.

“Survivor 51“ began Sept. 23, but Skinner has watched since season 1, “Survivor: Borneo,” aired in 2000.

Skinner first watched the show with her family when she was 8 years old, prior to their move from Des Moines, Iowa, to the Oconee County area. She recalled falling in love with watching adults handle complicated social dynamics. 

“It is a forever memory (when at) final tribal council Sue (told) Wigglesworth, ‘if you were dying of thirst on the side of the road, I wouldn’t even give you a sip of water,’” Skinner said. “Being a child looking at adults navigate relationships, it can get really messy … I was so interested in it from there.” 

Skinner and her family watched several seasons before taking a hiatus due to soccer practices and busy schedules. It was not till the COVID-19 pandemic that she rediscovered her love for not only “Survivor,” but “Real Housewives,” “Love Island” and other reality television shows. 

Before she rediscovered her reality television love, Skinner was busy at UGA earning her degree in journalism and a Certificate in New Media. She found her passion for coding through the certificate, and after graduating in 2015, she started her own web design business.

Though Skinner loves her job, she found it boring and lonely working alone, so she looked for an outlet. She started “Chaotic Good” with her friend Nina Guzman, and uploaded their first episode Sept. 14, 2025. Guzman has since had to step away due to the demanding nature of hosting and editing a podcast while balancing a busy schedule. 

Skinner said though starting a podcast is challenging, the time she spent at Grady College prepared her for the field. 

“I feel like with ‘Chaotic Good’ this is the most broadcast version of myself that I’ve entered,” Skinner said. “Like having the confidence to put yourself out there and start things without really knowing how they’re going to end yet.”

The name “Chaotic Good” came from an alignment chart used in Dungeons and Dragons that categorizes players by good, bad, chaotic or lawful. Skinner said even though she does not play Dungeons and Dragons, the concept of chaotic good encapsulated what makes reality television entertaining.

“It can be lawfully neutral, it can be every alignment of it, but the reason I want to get on and record it is to find the chaotic good,” Skinner said.

Chaotic Good has 793 subscribers on Youtube with 153 videos posted, as of Oct. 5. The podcast’s first breakthrough came Jan. 6, in a profile episode about fellow podcaster and survivor player Rob Cesternino, gaining 4,700 views and 127 likes. 

The early breakthrough was just the beginning of celebratory moments, as Skinner’s “Big Brother 28″ reaction videos gained steady traction over the past two months. The 10 episodes have an average of roughly 4,100 views per video, and individually topping off at 8,900 views and almost 200 likes on her week seven episode. 

Skinner circled back to her roots of sharing reality competition television with her family, as she has hosted several watch parties at her father’s bar Authentic Brewing Company on Park Avenue. She also hosted a trivia night on Aug. 31, and hopes to do more “crossover events” with her family at Athentic in the future. 

The goal of Chaotic Good is to create a real companion to people’s experience while watching reality television. Skinner hopes the podcast can connect people with the emotion, feeling and chaotic good of it all, as she believes that what fans fall in love with first.