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podcast. It is. We had a meeting on Saturday. I don't know
why I didn't do anything until twenty minutes before we were supposed to start recording,
because you're a slacker. Zach is also a slacker. He was supposed
to come up with some phrases and record them, and he didn't. I'm
the only one that did what I was supposed to do. How about that,
guys? You impressed? Well, I figured, as long as I
have my sound drops before I'm not here, I'm good. Yeah. I
guess that's true. Yeah, Zach, Zach might be replaced by robo Zach
at some points during this season. Yes, someone got his work schedule changed
the last second. There may be some good Wednesday news and we'll we'll discuss
on the after show. Right, cool, Olivia's coming to work at his
job and he'll never talk to us again. Um, all right, you're
ready to jump into this week's two episode premiere. And the fucking MTV made
the first episode an hour and a half with commercials. Well, so I
think they did that because the first episode aired on MTV. Oh did it
it? Did it aired on MTV tonight? Oh? Yeah on TV.
Yeah. But still, you guys don't have the paramount plus, you know,
like super additional without commercials because I had no commercials online. Yeah we
do. We have the good edition. Wolfe's just bitch into bitch. How
did you get on yours? But apparently mine's better because mine did not have
commercials? Yeah, didn't have commercials either, commercials A commercial. I said
it. I said it was an hour and a half with commercials. I
don't mean I watched commercials. I was just I was able to do the
math and be like, oh, this motherfucker was an hour and a half.
If there had been commercials, it would have made things longer. Yeah,
Because I didn't have a chance to watch the episodes until right before we
recorded. I thought I was getting a forty five minute and a forty five
minute how's to my surprise when I get home and I'm just like, what
the fuck? Over an hour? Goddamn it, dude. There is definitely
some challenge fatigue. It's not just me, like, I see people talking
about it online and stuff too. It's unending now either. You never can
look forward to the challenge. It's just it never stops. It's crazy people
fatigued. I felt fatigued this morning. I was like, man, do
I really need to sit down and watch two and a half hours of the
show? And I was hooked. I was obsessed with the season. So
the season has a strong start. I've enjoying it so far. In the
chat room, Carlin says she'll come on the show. I'm assuming she's meaning
of Zach has to take the week off, so we may just dump Zack
altogether and bring back another female host. Oh, Zach, everybody will be
happy you're fired. Oh you'll fire. Remember what that was fun to say?
If a weird band in this scheme, mask comes to your door.
Do not worry. Alright, this episode of breakfasting down all right. Hey,
World Championship, guys, very exciting. I think they were going to
call this War the World's Originally they didn't realize that there's already two seasons called
War the Worlds, So this is a World Championship. You don't know about
that. We covered both of them. Mophe No, No, I'm saying
they didn't. Actually, I think they were going to call it that.
Oh. I think it was tentatively titled that. I remember hearing that like
a tentative name early on. Yeah, pretty stupid. Well anyway, Hey,
they're in South Africa this time, guys. It's a little bit of
a departure from where we've seen them lately, but it's kind of nice.
New new setting, Yeah, new setting, new digs, new uh,
new attitude, I don't know, yeah, new attitude. Um. All
these teams show up. So we've got Argentina, US, UK, Australia.
They're all showing up in their various luxury suv is very much reminds me
of the cutthroat Intro. Pretty stupid. And there's all these helicopters flying around
also pretty stupid. Um, did you guys watch anything other than USA?
I watched Australia, did you. Okay, so you're you're familiar with some
of these characters. Yeah, I am very excited about all the Australians.
Okay, I mean I like everybody. Really. I will say I'm disappointed
there's a Kiki on this season. We don't need two kikiS, one in
spirit and one actually there. I know we should have a Kiki counter of
just how many times we hear the name Kiki. It's gonna be a long
season. We'll say. I did make a note. Twenty three minutes in
Danny starts talking about Kiki. First Kiki watch yes one twenty three minutes out
of this, and I like what he says too, Like I'm gonna like
Kiki because that's my wife's name, and so she's probably a good person.
I don't think that's related to the name. She could be a horrible person.
Um, do you think all people name Hillary are horrible people? Most?
Yeah? I mean fair enough. I only know too, and they're
bad. Okay, So TJ is not the only host this season, guys,
at least not for this little weird portion. They have the the other
hosts from the other shows standing up there with DJ. Yeah, I don't
like this. I don't like TJ standing next to other people makes me really
uncomfortable. Did you guys have him? No, that didn't bother me.
It does give him a moment later where he gets to laugh at a bunch
of people, and that was kind of fun. That was fun. I'm
just used to him. Whenever we see him, he's standing in the middle
of a big areen all by himself with his hands like like he's praying.
Sort of. Um, he seemed a little more casual here. I guess
that was cool. All right. So they're just saying all the typical stuff,
Welcome to the challenge, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But
this isn't all the players. We're gonna bring in some other players. This
is where the helicopters really start going crazy. Everybody looks up. They didn't
land these helicopters in this field, right, come on? Well, it
was obviously like an editing thing to make it look like, oh, it's
helicopters. They bring the more people, It's like, no, this ship
was shot like right days earlier, yeah, then the legends just come walking
down the stairs of the arena, right. Otherwise it's like they're gonna TJ
saying well, we're gonna bring some legends out. And then it's like a
half hour later the helicopters have landed and they come running out. I don't
think that's how that happened. It's ok a good like hour and a half
of them waiting like, okay, where are these people? Like? Right?
So, yes, the legends come walking out. Every one of them
kind of takes turns bragging about why they're a legend, why everybody should love
them and know who they are. As they get bound down to the bottom,
TJ says there's five five hundred thousand dollars up for grabs. He got
in a little heat. Did you guys hear about this? For USA?
He said something about five hundred thousand, like the winner will get five hundred
thousand dollars or something, and so Danny thought, I'm gonna get five hundred
grand and he ended up having to split it with Sarah, and so he
was kind of upset about that, which I would be too. That's a
lot of money. But so I think t is gonna be a little more
careful with how he says it. So every time he talks about the cash
prize, this time he says it's like up for grabs or your portion of
half a million dollars, that sort of stuff. Carlin wants to know why
the hell Nelson's is there. He's not a legend. I agree, It
just says, why isn't Devin there? Way more of a legend than Elson.
That's well, he's at least a champ. Devin probably should be there.
I don't know why he's not. Joker said, I was hoping they
were going to rope down like Navy seals. Right. Well, the other
one we're missing is CT. CT is probably the number one challenge legend.
Um, he couldn't do it for personal reasons, but it is weird to
have a show like this without CT. You would feel like he probably needs
the money, you would think, so I'd say CT is probably number two.
Oh, of course you would say that. Of course you would say
that. Okay. So basically this is like a qualifier. So the MVPs
are going to run in a series of little mini competitions to see who's the
best. And for those of us that have seen seasons of this show before
we know how this is going to work out. At some point they're gonna
pair up with the Legends, and the way you place in this sort of
mini final depends on how you get your partner. So without much ado and
much without much setting up, they just start doing all these things. Checkpoint
one guy's eating. We're starting this season off on the I love these eating
things. I love them, and I see nothing complaints about them online.
All I could think watching that with the white liquid and the like the black
pedestals, was Tim is loving this? I absolutely was. Did you guys
actually watch it like real men? Or did you have to fast forward through
it? I watched it nice, so you got to the part where Ben
was screaming while vomiting and getting it all stuck in his spirit. It was
great. I think that's probably my favorite puke of of the Challenge so far,
is that TJ laugh at his ass off, who the female host who
was just like, oh, I can't Oh, that was great. The
only thing I just wish they would tell us what it is. The last
two seasons they make them drink this gross concoction stuff, but they don't tell
us what it is, and it really takes away some of the enjoyment for
me. Yeah, and just you know, because I'm sure some people comment
on it. If we don't correct it at we'll feed the Australian host is
non binary and say them apologies. I did not watch. I was not
aware. Yep. They then well from here and now I don't think they
appear again, so you don't need another car already just corrected me in the
chat room as well. Oh, you were right, buddy. Zack's like,
nobody's gonna let this one slide. We're gonna jump up. Yeah,
and that's perfectly fine. I had no idea, so I have no problem
using correct pronouns when I made aware of them. So that's the thing.
Yeah, it's yeah, it shouldn't be offensive if you screw it up,
just like tell us the right one and then we'll try to use it.
That's fine. Uh okay, So yeah, Ben pukes all over himself.
It's fantastic. I watched this episode twice, guys, once just sort of
to enjoy it and then wants to take my notes. Only the second time
did I even notice that Nathan was there? Um with all these new people.
I just missed them all, but Nathan does, like say quite a
bit in this first episode. Normally, if they you know, we get
an early evac we don't even see them, but Nathan is like they're in
present. Kind of weird. Yeah, I mean he's to be like the
head of the you know, the snake to type put together the the UK
and was the Australia Alliancer. Yeah. We saw just one shot of him
much later in the episode, but on a couch sort of saying like the
other teams need to band together against Team USA, which is like a super
smart plan. Um, it's probably not going to go anywhere now that he's
gone, but anybody that's not railing for that is probably pretty stupid. Green.
Okay, so we're still the eating station. Ben finishes first grant,
his second, Troy is third. Um as we see Ben like he you
know, he launches out of the arena or whatever and he runs past all
the legends. They're all standing and they're cheering, watching everybody do what they
need to do. Wonder where they're at. I'm like, why is nobody
because usually they would cut to like people like laughing because people were puking so
much. But yeah, Yeah, why weren't they allowed to watch the eating
stuff? It's kind of weird. I would have liked to see that too.
But so the next station is that weighted tire that they need to hit
with a sledgehammer. Um, I don't know, fifteen feet or something to
go into the next one. So from here and out it kind of cuts
between people that are still struggling to eat and then the other ones that are
knocking the tires down the thing. What did you guys think about this tire
thing? Any seem probably hard to do. Yeah, Jordan probably would have
killed this. He would have been like, Oh, it's all about momentum
and timing and all that stuff, which is probably right. But yeah,
I could tell my shoulders hurt just watching it, so I know it's probably
tough. Yeah. When I first thought it, I was like, Oh,
that's not gonna be that hard to knock a you know, a tire
down a lane. But then seeing Ben go out and just how much he
struggled, I was like, they weighted those really heavy. Yeah, they
did. So all all three of us are sort of a rural people,
right, We were all sort of born in rural environments. Do you guys
swing sledge hammers. Could you swing a sledgehammer or an axe or anything big
like that? Could I? Yes, do I do it on a regular
basis? No? I mean so, I have used a sledgehammer, but
I've always I've always done any kind of coming from, you know, upwards
in a downmosh. I've never had to hit something like sideways with it.
Yeah, it was a it was an awkward motion, but um, you
could tell the people that had swung a sledgehammer before versus people that didn't.
Like Ben had a really good technique. He held that sledgehammer like by the
very end of the handle, whereas Danny, who is probably stronger in every
single measurement, was doing much worse on this because he was holding it right
up by the head of the sledgehammer. You just don't get the leverage that
way. He's a football player, Now there's anything wrong with that. It's
just he's been probably most of his life focused more on sports than doing like
outside work like that. Totally. It's really like it's the it's the sort
of blue collar guys that do well at stuff like this. Jordan and Ben
and you know, they just sort of know how to hold these tools.
So yeah, Ben does pretty well. Danny does not do well. Ryan
wants to know why they didn't just hook the tire with the sledgehammer and drag
it. Some did. We saw a couple of them doing that, some
did, some did towards the end, yeah, and I was like,
oh, is that allowed? Let him go? So I'm like all right,
yeah, And I think I saw somebody even just trying to push it,
Like he had the sledgehammer up against the tire, up against this belly
and was just trying to like walk in and like whatever you gotta do to
get that thing moving. I don't know. Um, pretty weird one of
those. They were there for like three hours and everybody's just like it's fine,
just let them go, just get it done, Go go go.
The next checkpoint are those like weird cement wheel things that they have to sort
of balance on and get them to roll over. Um. We've never seen
anything like this, at least not that I can remember. But I kind
of like this, what do you guys think it was? All? Right?
I mean it's sort of like the boxes where you have to flip the
boxes over without touching your feet touch on the ground. Yeah, it's kind
of like that. Yeah it is. It seemed like a lot of people
sort of crawled backwards on it. But I think the smarter move I think
we saw Sarah do it is keep your feet on the inside of the thing
and just sort of walk it on the inside. It seems easier, don't
you guys think? I think I would have fell off. M I saw
Ben hop up and try to like run it, like run run on it
so that it would just roll, and it started off like real good,
and then all of a sudden just note Yeah, no, it's a those
those balancing things are a slow and steady type of a situation for sure.
Um. But Ben is the first to that weird cement wheel thing. But
he's struggling, so obviously balance is not his main deal at this station.
He has passed by Grant and Troy. Um, I like Troy Zach.
Is Troy really cool? You've seen the whole series, right, Yeah,
he's a he is joyful, He's like, you know, he's just kind
of he's not what you a picture for someone that's a ninja war He's just
this very like eccentric, goofy character. Yeah, so I love it,
Like, you know, like, no one really, you know in Australia
took him that serious, like they talked about like, oh he's a ninja
warrior, but he's just such a goofball that they're like, oh, you
know, we like him. Yeah, And I like little guys on the
challenge. I don't know why I A I have a soft spot because you
know he's not gonna do well and like, uh, you know a pole
wrestle or hum Hall brawl or something, but they have like it because you
want to knew Derek since you don't like Derek. Now, I was thinking
more like a huddah okay, a little guy who like probably doesn't really stand
in a chance to win, but he's kind of fun to watch. He
had just had to duck. I mean, he e one in Australia,
so why not again? Oh I guess that's true. Yeah, it's that
was stupid of me to say it's not likely to for him to win and
he has coming off of win. Tell me a piece of shit. I
know I didn't watch the Aussie version. What can I say? Was there
less physical stuff in the Aussie version, zach Um, I wouldn't say so.
I mean a lot of the challenges we saw in Rider dies were recycled
for the Australian one. Okay, so just think of last season. Yeah,
that's basically what they did. So he either got lucky by avoiding elimination
or avoiding the super physical eliminations, or maybe he just dominated somehow strategy.
Maybe I should watch the Australian version. Maybe maybe I'll just speculate blindly and
wildly. All right, So next up is a weird puzzle. Again,
We've never seen anything like this. It's these like canisers that are different weights
and you have to line them up from heaviest to lightest, and then something
happens in the middle that they never quite specify. Five but you convert these
to some sort of a code and then you win based on the code.
I still don't know how they solved this. I don't have any I don't
know because they were they didn't really weigh them. They were all just picking
them up and kind of this one seems slighter than this one. Yeah,
but that was that was the game though. No, no, no,
but I'm just saying, if there's something that are really close, like I
would have sucked it up. Oh yeah, I don't think my like weight
system would help me with that. I'd probably be like, oh, this
one seems really heavy, and they're like, oh that's the lightest one.
God damn it. You would be a Tristan in this, uh situation.
So doing all this, they sprinkle in some drama that we as Americans may
not know because they happen in these foreign Challenge seasons. But there's some drama
between Kiki and Emily. Um, but it seems stupid drama. It seems
like show based she beat you elimination and she shouldn't have type of drama.
But we'll see them revisit that, I'm sure. I just don't know why
they made these all available like within the last like two weeks. Yeah,
you possibly a little better. Yeah, it's hard to get through three seasons
of a show like that, right, I mean, yeah, it is,
But they're not too bad. I think that show one's only like nine
or ten episodes. UK is only five episodes. Well that's not that bad.
I was not aware. Yeah, Argentina's only gonna be like five episodes
as well. I think every Challenge season should be five episodes, said with
love for the challenge. Uh yeah, so Danny was actually last coming off
the tire thing. He's actually just now finishing the tire as well as you
know. Everybody else's passed the cement wheel onto the puzzle. Danny's just figuring
out the tire thing. Uh. Theo's bad, guys, THEO, good
old THEO. He was on two seasons. I know, it is kind
of weird. He performed really well in War of the Worlds. But then
yeah, it's I don't know, he's not I would place him as a
legend either, whoever that I guess because this is the drama with what's her
face? Kaz, That's what I was just getting at. Yeah, we
again would not know this, but THEO and Kaz were in a year long
relationship, so pretty serious deal. But they haven't spoken since, so we
might get another Tory and Jordan style situation here. I'm not invested in this
because, yeah, THEO, we haven't seen him for a long time,
but I've never seen Kas before, so I frankly do not care about their
relationship. What do you guys think? Yeah, Kas is one of those
characters I just you know, she seems okay, but I just didn't get
into her, so I'm like, I don't know, like care Yeah,
I agree, all right, Well, Troy finishes the puzzle first, so
Troy is pretty decent puzzles. That's good. And the very last thing in
this sort of qualifier miniach final thingy is getting a big heavy flagpole, dragging
it across the field and getting it lifted up to represent your country, and
then you win this challenge. Troy, this is where his size really comes
back to bite him, because he's got the flagpole in the base before anybody
else is even there, and he just can't get the thing lifted up.
Instead, Grant just passes him right away. He finishes the puzzle and seems
to get that flag up like right away, no problem. So Grant's first,
Ben his second, Nathan his third, and then Danny and then Zara.
She's the winner for the women, has a second place for the women.
Ultimately, Tristan can't get past the puzzle. He's just out yep,
like TJ has come up. He's like, you got fifteen minutes, you
need to figure this out. It's just like nope, out of time.
Yeph Claudia also time out at the puzzle. So those two do not complete
this qualifier, but the other ones do, Okay, So the rest of
the order is Rodrigo, Justine, Troy, Kiki, Sarah, and whoo
Ee, which is the best name ever. Whohoi theig into that name.
So this is the point. Well, I would say, what the challenges?
They did something different on here, which your guys opinion on where for
each challenge, And they did later in the elimination as well. They showed
you like, this challenge is fifty percent physical, thirty percent mental, twenty
percent endurance. What do you guys think about? Man, they were made
up stupid numbers. But I mean I liked that they tried to covet their
bases. You know, they had a little of everything. Like it's a
mini final, so they had eating, they had balance, they had strength,
they had a puzzle. They had like a little bit of everything.
I thought that was cool. I'm not sure they need to call it out
as eighty percent strength, ten percent balance. It's like, who cares?
No. I was just glad to see that Sarah finished last, because what
do you have against Sarah? She's just obnoxious. I just don't like her.
Oh she thinks she's great at everything and then shows up last in this
and she's like I should have been first. I'm like, should you have
because you weren't. The only thing that saved you is you didn't DQ like
Claudia did. Well, you know, she did finish first in Survivor and
in the Challenge you, I say, yeah, because everybody else quit,
so she's pretty good. We're still under the assumption that production helped her with
that puzzle just so they would have someone to win because everybody else had already
quit. I absolutely do think that she wasn't. Sort of by default,
everyone else quit, so they were just like Sarah, just just go Yeah.
I think that's probably true. Well, this is where TJ tells us
a little more about the game. So Zara and Grant are the winners of
this little qualifier thing, so they are safe from elimination. And we probably
could have guessed this. This happens every season, but it's nice to know.
And we also find out that Claudia and Tristan are going straight into elimination
because they lost. And big fan of this. We've been complaining about this
for a while. Last place should always go to elimination. Greed so happy
to see this back. Yes, me too, all right, And that
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now for the big surprising reveal of the season. TJ tells everybody that these
new recruits are going to be partnered with a Challenge legend. Can you believe
it? You're telling that already? He does? He does? Yeah,
I could remember. I was. I was thinking. Everybody thought that that's
how I was gonna go. I don't know, I must Nobody is surprised
by this but you're right, there is Like several times it's sort of revealed,
like I wonder if we're gonna be partnered up about Yeah, stupid,
of course they're gonna be partnered up. That's why they're there's So we're back
at the house. Do you guys think of this house? Seems nice?
Yeah? Yeah, it looked familiar. I feel like I've seen it used
for another reality show. I can't think of what. It was kind of
like a high end bunker. It was like cement walls with sort of weird
industrial lighting. But I liked it too. Ye, bananas is doing his
toast. Zach's must have been your favorite part of this episode. It was.
I was so glad to see that they brought it back. Even though
the man can barely talk. What was up with his voice here? Yeah?
I feel like he must have lost his voice or something, you know.
Early on it seemed like half the first episode he could barely speak.
Yeah. I wondered if it was just from screaming at everybody during the qualifier.
But he doesn't seem like he would be that excited to be yelling at
everybody. Yeah, too much time with his head up his own ass,
that's what it was. I did. Like in this toast, THEO told
him, Hey, if you're gonna pop that cork, pop it up.
Yep, pop it. But what's weird? And then yeah, he started
talking about being blind and when eye but they never connected those two facts.
It's like you have to kind of know what happens off the show to understand
what's happening there. I got my eyeshot out. Yeah, THEO between seasons
got his eyes shot out by a fucking champagne corp of the weirdest injury and
now he's like almost totally blind in one eye. And I heard that THEO
is not gonna be back on the Challenge because he has no death perception and
it's just he's sort of like a liability now, but here he is.
We also learned, guys, THEO is a dad now he's playing for his
son. Always love it when challengers become dads. Gross, I love it.
It makes me root for him super hard. So THEO, I'm rooting
for you. And then we get you know, typical first night in the
house type of stuff. A lot of just sort of people kind of going
off and talking alone and halfway strategizing halfway kind of getting to know each other.
Are just lots of schmoozing. In order to save myself sometime I did
fast forward through some of this. Oh well, let me tell you what
you missed of important. Wes can speak Spanish poorly. Yeah, I did
see that, so he does that. Okay. We see Casey talking to
Troy, and this is the first time that I've liked Casey in the whole,
or even realize that she's there through any of this show. This is
the first time I liked her, and I think I decided. I think
I've figured out that i'd hate her in confessionals. I hate how she like
emphasizes the wrong word in every sentence, and she like like stresses things that
don't need it, And I don't know, it's really super weird how she
does it. Maybe we don't mind her when Nanny and Bessie are around,
Maybe that makes her less annoying. Maybe that's it too, But all of
a sudden, it's like, oh, man, I would actually like talk
to her if she was around, instead of not even recognize who she is.
We get the Legend women talking with the the MVP women trying to give
them sort of guidance and advice on how to play this game, telling them
sort of who some of these people are if they're not familiar, like who
Jordan is, who Wes is, all that sort of stuff. This is
where we also get that Nathan conversation that we were talking about Zach where he's
talking about going anti USA. Um. Smart. We never see Nathan again
or hear any more about this anti USA alliance, but it's smart. In
the moment, Carlin says Casey saying she had a good social game was laughable.
But you know, people like Casey. Everybody seems to say say nice
things about her. She's sort of the anti Amber. Yeah, I mean
I don't think she's super excited television, but I mean I'm big brother.
That was the big thing, is you know, even though it was a
very divided house, even the opposite alliance was like, we love Casey.
We want to keep Casey in this game. So I feel like, yeah,
I feel she's very likable. She's just not citing television, right.
Uh. This is also where we get Danny talking about his wife Kiki.
Get that Kiki counter, and I get Zack's picture froze in a very hilarious
way that nobody will see Zach, you are having banded with issues. You
might want to turn your video off of your but it is quite It is
quite the it's not a flattering picture of you. We get this big board.
I always like it when they have like on display who the winners and
who the losers and who the nominated people are. And this is like a
huge one with their photos and everything. Pretty fancy schmancy. But that was
cool, So Carlin says, Joanna sound sounded like an idiot when she said
she wanted a partner that wants to go all the way. No shit,
everybody wants that, you know. I think the biggest shock to me of
all this was when I find out that Claudia's forty five. Yeah she looks
good for forty five. Yeah, which I was like mid forty five represent
and then we see how that turns out. Yeah, I didn't didn't make
it too far. Hey, Durrell's got to be up there though, I
think he's close to that. Um okay, So this is where we learn
a little bit more about the format of this show. TJ says that for
this first elimination only, it's only the MVPSUM and the way it works is
everybody in the house gets together, you kick the winners out of the room,
and you kick the losers out of the room, and everybody else that's
left in the room nominates two people. Out of those, the winner picks
who the second person is an elimination, So it's the loser versus the person
that the winner picks that the house nominates. Uh. Yes, thanks for
making that way more complicated. Well, because sometimes it's real easy. Sometimes
it's like the loser of the daily and whoever the winner picks. This is
like a slightly more complicated UM, and it does. It's about to matter
for this first one. UM. And this is where we learned that Nathan
has been This is the quote from TJ medically separated from the game. Yeah,
what the fuck happened? Covid? Oh yep, So this season's a
little different, guys, because we can actually I can actually watch the show
and then hop on and read a little bit about the behind the scenes stuff
and understand what happens, because yes, he had COVID. Um. I
don't know why they don't just tell us that. Though there have been several
people that have been kicked off for COVID and they come back, and why
can't they just say this, they got COVID and they have to It's like
a hip a thing just where wouldn't be subjected to it. But maybe they're,
well, we don't want to tell them they're medical medical stuff on the
air. Yeah, you're probably right now that you're saying that. It's like
that's the obvious answer. Didn't even doll me um. But because Nathan is
not around anymore, Tristan lucks out. He does not have to go into
elimination this round. Claudia will be the only person in this elimination. We
learned Toy is the luckiest man alive. Yeah, I'm not sure the luckiest
man alive qualifies here, but lucky. Wow. This is where we learned
that Claudia has asked to go against Kaz and conversation sort of shifts at this
moment, like the whole group is sort of talking about what Claudia wants,
and then there starts to be some some people calling out the American team,
and this is when uh, Sarah just sort of steps up like, uh
no, we're not doing that. U. She's So this is when Sarah
just sort of says like, well, what happens if there's a tie,
and then like the whole conversation immediately shifts to what happens if there's a tie.
We rarely find out what happens if there's a tie, But Sarah in
particular seems pretty intent on making this a tie so that we can figure out
what happens in a tie. So she nominates Kaz and Kiki, thinking that
because of the two winners, they're each going to disagree on who to throw
in. It's gonna tie up. We're gonna figure out what happens in the
time, smart play. What do you guys think? Yeah, smart guys,
I don't know. Sarah. Yeah, No, I like this a
lot. And I first, you like the idea that they tried to do
it in a way where they threw in one Australian and one UK or no
one Argentina. Was it to the UK so that way tie up the winners.
Yeah, yeah, it totally made sense. I mean I think it
was a I think it was a really interesting plan. Use this very first
one to figure out what happens if there's a tie. Usually people are so
afraid of ties, they just avoided all season. Um, and this time
they're making the new Bees sort of figured out, well, still doesn't it
still doesn't matter, I know, So they don't. They don't learn anything
of value here, that's for sure. Um. So the nominees are immediately
revealed to the winners out in the uh what it? What's TJ call Hall
of Fame or something stupid? Um So, the the sort of nominees are
revealed to them, and they immediately disagree on who to throw in. So
I think all of us are sort of realizing like, Okay, that's gonna
be a tie. We're gonna see what happens. Yeah. I was a
bit disappointed. Uh. I don't know if while they were in that room
Claudia got to pitch her case to them, but I think I feel like
you should have been able to and then like we should have seen that,
because otherwise you just have them seeing together in silence. Yeah. Yeah,
they're just quiet looking at this TV screen waiting for something to pop up.
Right. Um, all right, so that's it, guys, we're into
the elimination. Yes, this season it's called the Arena kind of uninspired,
and I feel like we've heard the the Arena too. Yeah, we've had
it before. Yeah, I believe that was last season. Wasn't it called
the Arena? Oh? Probably? Maybe all these world championships are you sitting?
Last season? It was called the Zone? There you go? How
could you forget? How could I? All right, so we're gonna get
these weird intros as people go into the elimination. They've we've seen these weird
intros before. These are particularly weird. Did you guys catch these, like
these weird glamour shop poses that they're doing. They're sort of like posing and
just walking in a menacing way and stuff kind of weird. Well, isn't
it better than the ones you hated where they're like in a dark hallway like
punching, punching their fists and box in the air and ship Absolutely? My
notes actually say it's better than that Wild Animal shift from All Stars. Yeah,
where they're like scratching at walls and show up baring their teeth and Stuff's
like, come on, it's ridiculous. Yeah, And I just double checked.
The arena was all of the uh the country version, so USA,
Austria, they all did the arena for their elimination. Okay, all right,
I guess that makes sense if it's a theme. Yeah, the arena,
I don't know. I just like it when they have weird, the
weird names for this the goolog Yeah, I like it's so stupid. Um
okay, So yeah, obviously Zara and Grant disagree about who to throw in.
Uh TJ says something menacing, like, you guys really want to tie
it up. You guys really want me to decide who goes in, and
sure you don't want to change your boats? Yeah, all this stupid stuff,
and ultimately they say, no, we are just going to disagree.
We are tied, and Zara actually goes so far as to say that if
it is a tie, if that means she has to go in and take
um Kiki's play or Kaza's place, she will do that. I don't know
if we've ever seen a challenger be willing to do that. That's Zach did
Zach was that one time? Oh that's right, that was just because he
hated his partner though. Yeah, although they ain't tied up to do it.
I mean we had the time that Nelson took Corey's spot. Yeah that's
true. Yeah, so maybe it's happened before, and this is all hypothetical
because it didn't end up happening happening, So maybe I shouldn't give her any
credit for saying she would volunteer. She didn't actually have to do it.
Yeah, so the way this one plays out, it does it's actually not
a bad thing. Yeah, they're like, yeah, we'll just tie it
up and then my vote account so who cares? Yeah, so TJ says,
well, it's a women's elimination, so Zara, your vote counts more,
so you win. But the thing is, this will never happen again
unless they split the teams again. There is not going to be a men's
and women's elimination days. It's partners that are of opposite genders and the winners
are also opposite genders. So we didn't we learned nothing. Yeah, this
was a one off elimination, probably maybe a surprise later or something. But
I bet TJ made up that rule on the spot. I didn't like that
rule. I felt like it let them off the hook too easily. I
agree. What should they have done? Though? Guys, I think that
ZARV had to go in and take her spot. Agree? Really? So
okay, so a time means the winners go into elimination, yeah okay,
or or let the let the person that's already in the arena choose from anybody,
including the winner. Oh I would like that. Who gets to go
in? I would really like that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so
there's better things to do, and we'll see. Hopefully they'll tie it up
again. It's been a while since we've seen a meaningful tie like that,
so we'll see. All right, guys, so this is pole wrestle or
start this season off of the head, good old classic. West says that
he's the one that made Poule wrestle famous. I think he's probably right,
that one with him and Derek and the duel. Yeah. Yeah, I
want to disagree with him, but then I was like, well, all
the Poule wrestles I can really remember involved him, so I guess he's right.
Yeah, And that was a crazy Paul wrestle. He was doing some
results in the air and shit like that. That was crazy. This one
was a little bit of a weird when the pole was quite a bit bigger
than I think we've ever seen. It was like a bow staff. It's
very big. It's just easier to pull away from somebody. So maybe it
either doesn't last as long or less injuries maybe, yeah, twisting arms and
shit. Right, Yeah, it's hard to know. But they also changed
to to three wins. It's usually best of three. This is first of
three, so it's um, they changed up a little bit, just kind
of weird. Yeah, but this one's basically a blowout. Kiki wins three
for three. Um. Claudia puts up a good fight. She was just
Paul Russell's very much about how big you are, and Kiki was a couple
inches taller and probably twenty five pounds heavier, and that's it. We also
had the great moment with Kiki in the second matchup doing the splits to push
her off of it. That was pretty incredible. That was cool. She
just needed like another INTR two to get it out of Claudia's hands and kicked
her little foot up there and got it out, got it out. Kind
of cool for the most part. I like Kiki, but Jesus Christ,
stop stop injecting shit into your lips. I know it, I know it.
She doesn't even look human. I feel bad because I don't want to
like shame or anything, but I mean, I don't know. I just
don't understand how people think that looks good? I guess I don't know.
Yeah, I agree, it's like I'm old, so who cares what I
have to say? Middle aged white man in Middle America. That's right.
Well, and you know, yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot
of reasons why this is none of our business and she should just be allowed
to do whatever she wants if that helps her and makes her more confident.
She's willing to do that, or she's free to do that, obviously,
but there's a point and kikiS at that point where it's sort of uncomfortable to
look at her. It's like it's like she doesn't look right. It's just
a little weird. Um. Sorry, I would probably like hanging out with
her and stuff. But yeah, she seems very pleasant, but I was
worried she's gonna get hit and lip with that pole and the right coat the
whole place in Silicon right for botox? What are they putting lips lip fillers?
Um, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. This episode ends with
TJ saying, Hey, you're gonna pick pears based on the order that you
finished in the qualifying round. And that is the end of the first episode
Doctuh but hey, good news, guys. We can't write it as the
next episode. We get a second episode. I had no idea they're gonna
drop two episodes. Did you guys know this? I did not, But
they did last last All Stars as well. Carlins is one of them to
move on from the from the plastic surgery stuff. She's uh yeah, she's
taken over the female role on the show. Well you brought it up.
I wasn't going to. I'm an idiot. Don't worry. I agree.
Uh so this episode opens, can't wait, let's go with uh the Yeah,
what are they? What do they call them? The global MVPs?
I call them MVPs and legends. I think that's kind of what they're going
by. They get to pick, really, the only interesting picks are the
people who get picked first and the people who get picked last. Yeah,
who didn't get picked for zach Uh someone made a very poor decision and did
not select bananas. And who didn't get to get picked second either? Oh?
Bananas? Once again, you know you can't you can't count on these
people to like have a good taste. Okay, who didn't get picked third?
Who didn't get picked third, I'm wondering, so let's be honest.
Out of these like our challenge fain, like know who these people are,
Like, they didn't know any better, if they had any I think they
just didn't like him. They all had talked to him for a couple of
days in that house. They're just like, forget him. He's annoying.
He was the he was the fourth guy, Zach, he was the fourth
man that was picked stuff. He looked devastated. He looked depressed. You
probably looked just as depressed, Zach. Yeah, but Sarah, even Sarah
commented on how dejected he looked. Yeah, he's talking. He was talking
about like ten finals, seven wins, what he's been on like twenty three
seasons or something. He is the most like, he's a very good challenge
competitor. He's the winningest challenger ever. But nobody wants to work with him.
And I think that's pretty telling. So let me let me look at
this in another direction. Um the first episode, we saw a confessional where
Johnny said, I want to be paired with either Sarah or Justine because I
think the USA is the strongest group. So did Bananas mentally manipulate all the
other, and he got exactly who wanted. Well, it's hard to argue
with that. Maybe he is a psychic. It's a good point, Zach,
it's a good point. He's just the manipulator that West likes to pretend
he is. Well, West was the first male pick. Just gonna throw
that out there too. Czar picks wes O anybody else Grants pick john a
Yeah, Johnny is a great pick. Yeah, back to back season winner.
I mean, come on, yeah, but she doesn't look the part.
I mean really, if you're judging these women just based on how they
look, I don't think Johnny would be number one. This Grant must know
what he's doing. Oh yeah, No. I'd look at the females and
I was like, okay, like Casey is obviously physically like above everyone else,
So like I thought she was the obvious number one pick Casey. Yeah,
yeah she was. She was the second woman. She was. I
felt like physically she's, you know, probably the best woman. And although
she's you know, not gonna be like the person leading the alliance charge as
we're saying earlier, she's someone that just seems to get along with everyone and
just kind of floats along and no one really goes after her, right,
Yeah, and she's she's teamed with Ben, so she's on the American team.
And I do think the American the team USA just has I mean,
I just think they're stacked. I think they're gonna start picking off these other
teams one by one. Yeah. At the beginning of the second episode,
you know, we actually had an intro video, like, you know,
showing the entire cast, and that's what I think has as luck as each
team went by, I'm like, oh, I feel like America is like
way more stacked than any of the others. Yeah, it certainly seems that
way. Yeah for sure. Who gets picked last? Nellie and Kelly Anne.
Oh my, poor Nellie. But Nellie's got a really good attitude about
it. He's just like, hey, listen, these are all challenge legends.
I haven't one yet. I get it. I get why they're picking
all these other people that have one. Because also THEO was one of the
last picked, and that surprised me too. He's a huge, hulking brute
of a man and he was second to last. But he also has on
one. People know about his eye situation. They don't want them. That
could be part, and I think that they went after Champs um first because
yeah, THEO and Nellie are the two non champs and there were the two
last picked on the men's side. Uh all right, So we get back
to the house. Ellie and WHOI I pronounce her name? Who who?
WHOI who? Who? Who? Who? He? You're leaving off of
who who? Who? What? I don't know. Uh, they're talking.
They're trying to strategize. Nelson's trying, I don't know, probably trying
to hit on her like he usually does. Probably he just gets that intense
serious voice, you know, Yeah, like that Nellie Banana's Justine are talking.
Um. Johnny keeps talking about how well he's always worried because he's always
public enemy number one when he comes into the house. Ye, he likes
that Justine picked him. And then Justine runs down all of her athletic accomplishments
like I was on track, I did this, I did that, yep.
Dan. Danny has to come in and be like, is that my
wine? I love Danny and she's like, oh yeah, I was gonna
take a sip and I just walked away with it and it was totally empty.
Oh God, every time I see Danny on the screen. I just
like him more. I like this exchange. I just like everything about Danny.
Yeah, Danny's always great. Yeah. Uh. Joanna and Casey,
Uh, why do you keep calling her Joanna? John Ay? John Ay?
God damn it. I don't know because I had a stroke earlier in
the day and I don't remember how to say stuff. Apparently like who who
he? Uh? John Ay and Casey are talking game. Uh. They're
talking about the relationships in the house. John A is worried about Kelly Anne
and her not vibing after last season of Was It All Stars? They were
on together? Right, Um, Yeah, it looks like Kelly Anne is
trying to sort of latch onto um John A for some support in this game,
for a little bit of an alliance situation, and John Ay is not
interested in this. But John A is also not just telling Kelly In that
as Kellyan would flip out, no friend of the show, Kelly In,
I love you Kellyan. Uh. And that cuts to Sarah and Kelly Anne
sitting and have a conversation and she's going on about how Kelly has going on
about how annoyed she wasn't she was picked last Yeah, that makes sense too.
She's she used the smallest woman she hasn't won. I get why she
wasn't picked. Yeah. Uh. They cut to West giving notation to Tzara
and her writing it down in her notebook. This really rubbed me the wrong
way. And I like West, but I know that West said, like
Czara, get a notepad. Let me let me tell you this game is
played like a school teacher. Something so condescending. It's like, West,
don't make the woman take notes. It's embarrassing, it's ridiculous by un carlin.
Uh he first rule is ignore, ignore how everybody else is working out.
Just do your own thing and don't worry about it. Yep, that
West, because these rules are weird. Please please tell me you have the
workout montage in your notes. Next note is morning montages. Nice out.
Oh I was just really worried we wouldn't get a workout montage this season.
First people they show is Czar and West like running around outside. I hate
these montages. I hate them there. They do not belong on this show.
They're on everyone. Get these things out of here. They take up
a bounts of time for no reason. Yeah, and just pushes us right
into the challenge. Uh. So we see all the concessance walking through the
desert and I'm like, did they just drop them off of the desert challenge?
Very dramatic. Uh. And then they're all up on the podium and
of course here comes TJ. TJ has to enter and something cool. It's
like a little little tiny truck with like six whel side. Ye oh,
that's DJ Fors. Everybody cheers and he gets out. He's like, hello,
can you imagine being TJ? This guy pulls up in like a tank
sometimes sometimes like a monster truck. He pulls up to these challenges and then
everybody cheers for him. That's gotta be such like such a good thing for
your self esteem. Just think about that, driving a chink through the desert
and then you pop out of the top and everybody starts cheering for you.
How do you not just feel like the biggest badass in the world. Right,
that's such a cool thing. Like I'm cool, I know, I'm
cool. Yeah, someday we'll see someday that'll be me and you'll be there
clapping for me as I as I exert my tank. Yeah. Um,
So we're gonna be playing a game called chain game. So the contestants are
going to run up to like this shipwreck. There's gonna be different colored chains
laying there in the sand. Colors of the chains correspond to different puzzles.
The other thing is each chain weighs seven hundred pounds, so then they give
it to you, uh, kilograms or whatever for the rest of the world
that uses the metric system unlike the United States, right uh. And then
you have to drag your chain to the puzzle and use it to solve it.
And the puzzles that are closer to the shipwreck are more difficult to solve,
so you have to use what does he say? Decide if you're going
to use your brawn or your brain, which one's going to work better for
you? Uh. And then once you finish your puzzle, you gotta run
back and ring the bell. Only only the first team to finish is safe.
Last team to finish goes directly into the arena. Yep um. I
don't know if there's much to really talk about about. What team does what?
They all grab chains, they run to a puzzle, some people do
better than others, and then Grant and John a he win Yeah, first
ones. But Jordan kas are like literally right behind them like it was.
It was a race, yeah, to get to the bell, and that
was kind of fun to see. That was really cool. And I wasn't
sure who to root for because I loved john A and I was definitely rooting
for her, but I love Jordan too. No, so this is a
tough one for me. But I did like at the end, did you
catch it? Wolfee? Jordan was standing there like trying to give him a
high five, and they both just completely ignored him, and so he gave
giving himself a high five in the background. It was yeah, self five.
Um. The only other note that I have during this that I thought
was important is that there was a confessional between Kaz and Jordan, and Kaz
says that she's worried because she's already been nominated for elimination, so she's worried
that she's just gonna keep getting nominated over and over again. And Jordan just
has a really worried look at his face and he's like, uh, yeah,
that's what's gonna happening to be worried about. Yep. So I think
what a win was very important for Jordan here. Um So the fact that
he missed it by seconds. It's probably probably doesn't leave him in a good,
good mood. Get out of here. Cat is bugging the shit out
of me. I saw him up there. Um, he really sat on
my keyboard and scrolled through my notes, so I have to figure out where
I was. Uh and uh turns out who he and Nelson are last,
Yeah, directly into the arena they are. But Tristan was again super struggling
here. He is obviously really shitty at puzzles. A puzzle guy. Yeah,
I mean he won his season, right, Zach, you might be
the only one that knows this. Did Tristan win his season? Um?
All right, Zack doesn't know yet, Fine, you don't have to know.
Yeah, good, I think he did, Jack because they were talking
about how he's kind of like did nothing all season. Then he came alive
in the final and won it. Okay, Well, he is pure shit
at puzzles. I mean I've only seen him do too, but it was
pathetic at both and we knew kelly In's not gonna be good at this one,
so they just sort of they're struggling, but they do pull it out
Nellie, And again Nellie does not surprise me. He couldn't do this.
He's the worst puzzle guy I think we've ever seen on the show. Doesn't
surprise me he didn't do one. Yeah. Uh So it's gonna be Whohoi
and Nelson going in, so they have to dominate somebody else. We get
back to the house, everybody's already under the assumption like they're gonna try to
throw the other Argentinian teams in. Yep, keep up with the strategy they
were gonna do last last episode, and they're like, oh, just just
make the partners on the teams fight each other. Than that whittles him down,
yep. Jody is that I'm a big fan of Benja. Yeah,
yeah, And I like Jody a lot. It's nice to see her again.
We haven't in other than that one All Stars appearance. He hasn't been
on the show in like fifteen years, so it's nice to see her again.
So I hope that they can last a little longer. I like both
of them a lot. Uh So, Jody and West are chatting and West
points out that both of their teams have like less people than the other teams.
Um, and that seems like he's He's like, well, who else
should we should we nominate? Jody's thrown out Kelly Ann's name. He kind
of brings up that they used to be in a relationship back in the day,
and he doesn't know if he wants to do that to her. He
struggles with it for about five seconds. It seems like we get a nice,
nice flashback to the roof when their relationship was really impacted the game.
So um, and I don't know how it ended, did it, Zach?
You might did that? Did their relationship end on good terms? Are
they still cool? West? And Killian? I feel like I remember that
they weren't cool at the time of the breakup, but it seems like they've
gotten over and since then. Yeah, yeah, they seem cool now,
although not that cool, not cool enough for West to savor. Spoiler um,
so Olivia says West back with the icy heart. So Kelly ends up
talking with some of the other women about you know, well, I hope
they don't throw me in. Who should we who else should we nominate?
And she's like, honestly, we should throw and start throwing in people from
the USA team because you know, they got they got a really strong team.
And someone literally points as like, uh, toris teamed up with somebody
from the USA team. Camera pans over to Tori said, up the beard,
just like with her mouth open, like what the fuck? Yeah,
and Kelly An tries to backtrack it but gets out of the back here.
That's a bad move, Kelly, it was a horrible move. Maybe that
probably signed your death warrant to be honest. Yeah. Who The rest of
the episode is about that. Yeah, it's about it all right. Well,
now Kelly Ann's gonna go yep, did she? Uh? She starts
wandering around the house, is trying to talk to the other USA people,
and she talks to us about it, and just everybody seems annoyed. Yeah,
Johnny keeps telling her, He's like, I don't even talk to my
partner about it yet. Yeah, I've talked to you more about it,
to you than I have to my own partner. Everybody is annoyed at Kelly
Ann, and like, I understand why. I can you imagine living in
a house with like it's uncomfortable to watch that for five minutes on TV?
Can you imagine like being in the room for you know, this, like
as hours long? You know it would drive me insane? Yeah? Uh
So then of course Tory has to go and tell Danny and say Era and
shockingly, Sarah gets mad someone so is the name of someone of my lions?
They gotta go? Yeah, she pulls out a survivor phrase. If
you're not with me, you're against me. That's them. Maybe that'sn't survive
it a lot. She was going back to her roots. Absolutely. Uh,
And that kind of takes us into the nominations super weird like nomination situation.
They're just around a dining room table. What is this? Yeah?
Yeah, when it was just the MVPs, it was like like a little
small auditorium type thing. Yeah. Yeah, I loved it the auditorium and
I was so disappointed and go back to it. But I guess with that
many people, they probably can't fit. Um. I hope as they whittle
people down and there's less people they go back to that. Yeah. I
do too. I feel like the dining room table is not set up for
drama. I mean people started yelling, but it was like you couldn't even
get a picture of everybody. They're all too spread apart and weirdly placed.
So Yes immediately takes the lead. He says, the teams that were sort
of like towards the bottom should be nominated. He immediately just goes for uh
kill Yann and Tristan and then, uh, what's what's the dude's damn dude,
I feel like eight. I feel like eight people said his name and
every single person said it differently. So Benja, Benja, Benji, BENNI
like, I feel like everybody said it differently. His actual name is Benjamin,
but he goes by Benjama, okay, ben Benja right, there's no
m in there. Benja. Yeah, Benja had like Ninja okay, okay,
I like that. That's where we're going with them, Benja yeah,
but ben but yeah, this is full of shit. West is right.
I don't like yes anymore. That guy's full of shit by saying it's all
about like, oh, it's all how you placed, and you know,
they could have vote for people that did well. Uh, Jody and Benja
got fifth place. They did, They did really well. If it was
really a performance thing, it should have been Nellie and um okay who who
he um? So he's just full of shit. Why why did he say
this is a performance thing and then name the fifth place team? And why
did nobody push back on this, well, Nellie, and who who we
are already in? Tim? Oh? Well, yeah, okay, you're
right. Whoever the whoever the next one was? Then wasn't that Tristan Kelly
Ann? Let me see, Yes, it must have been. Yeah,
it must have been Tristan and Kelly Ann. And then Sarah and THEO would
have been would have been the next ones, and then Troy and Amber and
then Emily and yes, wait, Jody beat yes? Are you? I
didn't mean this together? Jody beat yes by quite a few places, because
then it's Nien Rodrigo, and then it's Kiki and Durrell, and then it's
Jody and Benja. So she she kicked his ass on that, and nobody's
gonna call this out. Yep, I'm very frustrated. Yes, is just
I don't know, I don't think I think it's it's just an excuse to
get another Argentinian team thrown in there. Sure, but then say that totally.
I mean, I don't mind that being a game move, that's fine,
just say just say it and own it. It drives me nuts,
this, yes, especially for Yes who tries to act like he plays like
honorably and it's all about competition. Blah blah blah. Yeah, that's exactly
it. I think he said that to make it seem like this is an
honorable competition thing, but it was not that that's had other motivations and he's
a liar. Sorry, Yes, I'm off the yes train. Oh I'm
done. I'm done with Yes, done with Yes, Yep, done,
I've never been on the train. Oh. See, Zach knows, Zach
knows better, Zack knew better and all the time. Yeah, I should
ask you, Zack, if only he knew better about Bananas. But there's
still time, Zach. So they go through the voting. Uh, nothing
really crazy. Some people look, well, I'm not voting for that person.
But specifically, Jordan does not vote for one of the teams, and
Bananas of course, has to call out. He's like, well, rookie
players, that is what we call. He burn vote Yep, Jordan starts
mockingly telling him to shut up. Yeah, it's see Jordan have a little
bit of a sense of humor. I like seeing them the human side of
Jordan. Yeah, and then uh gets down to it. West votes for
Kelly and to go in, and then cut to Kelly Ann's confessional where she's
kind of upset about it. Even though they dated a long time ago,
she still feels it kind of hurts. I think she's generally feeling betrayed that
the people that she thought would have her back, John A and Wes and
you know, some of these people that she's been close to for a long
time really just do not have it at all. Some, even like John
Ay, seems like she actively wants Kelly and gone. When they do get
to Kelly And to vote, she does point out that people really shouldn't want
the strongest people still here, which is a good point. But I don't
think it's gonna work for her. It's not, but it's a good point
and they should be calling that out in my opinion. So, yeah,
the two teams, it's gonna be Jody and Benja and Kelly Anna Tristan ye.
So after the vote, but Nana's of course has to give West shit
about voting for Kelly Ann. And uh, he's wondering if she said anything
about it, said Na, not that I've heard so far. Yep.
I like this conversation too. This is just very like dude bro giving each
other shit, fucking around conversation. I was into this because obviously Banan's is
a good guy. He would never do that to an app right uh.
And then cut to the most uncomfortable part of the episode where putting on makeup
and I'm sure that is so uncomfortable to me. Tim could not look at
the street. That's what you're talking about, right that. That was the
most uncomfortable scene because of that, because she's put uplying makeup. She's putting
makeup on, and I was like, Tim's gonna hate this. It was
a little too like intimate of a moment to be on television. Yeah,
I'm with you, very uncomfortable. Johnny comes in and Kelly Anne's like,
oh, I hope you don't choose me tomorrow. Then cut to confessionals,
where Johnny is like, I don't know what I'm doing, but Jesus Christ,
well it's clear what Johnny's doing. She's looking for Kelly Inn to say
it's okay. Yeah. I think she desperately wants Kelly In to say,
like, I understand you have to throw me, and I get it.
Kelly An is really not going to say that. My favorite part of the
conversation was when john a said, well, what would you do if you
were me and Kelly Ann said I would not put you in. It's like,
of course, that's how that conversation with Kelly like what did you or
John A like, what did you think she was gonna say to that?
I don't know. I would throw Jody in, That's what I would do.
Yeah, very weird, very weird, very uncomfortable conversation between those two.
Um, I don't know, they kind of go back and forth.
That's sort of what we end on No Elimination this episode boom. Yeah,
I was not a fan of the cliffhanger. Yeah, so we're gonna to
wait till next episode see the elimination and if they start doing it when they
cut it off at the end of every episode No Elimination, I'm gonna be
pissed. I don't think they will. I think these are just two of
the oddball episodes. Now we're gonna get in the rail the Real Formula Challenge.
Joker feels that John A is getting a touch of naughty itis. Oh,
just feeling a little entitled. Is that what you mean, Joker?
It's rustling expecting your friends to carry you to the final That's it for this
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Nobody really watches it, and it's pain in the ass to do it
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it's not a bad thing. We'll be I guess not. I hate my
voice though it was. I guessed it on the Couch Pilots podcast, which
you should go over Couchpilots podcast dot com. And I listened to the episode.
I just guessed it on. I listened at the beginning of it.
I'm like, oh, I fucking hate it. I gotta listen to it.
It's always fun. We're on the couch Pots show. I hate my
voice though. Uh. Joker wants to know it, Am I the asshole?
Because I don't give two it's about Jenna Ortega. Yeah, it seems
that seems like a comment like from left field. I don't. I don't
know. He's not going to enjoy the screen movie apparently. I don't know
if you're an asshole, Joker, but that is a bad take. My
daughter loves Jenna Ortega. I feel like she's too young for me to like
her. Yeah, you know, didn't she like seventeen or some shit?
She's of age? Yeah, I mean she's still way too young. It
would be annoying to like date her. But I'm not even talking to I'm
just like to be a fan, you know, like a forty three year
old man being a fan of a teenage girl in movies. Like, I
know, I'm not comfortable with that. You could be a fan of her,
you don't have to be obsessed with her. I can't be a fan
of her, dude, all right, I can't do it. I'll steak
with a yeah it works. Yeah. Um do we interviews to him?
Nope, he's actively any social med any stuff. Not really. I just
started. Um, nothing major going on yet. It's only been like twelve
hours since the episode one up. Uh, Olivia loves Jenna Ortega, so
suck it, joker. Joker says, give me the girls of Euphoria.
Dirty, old man. I never watched that show. I have a crush
on Zindaya. So the girl from the first season of White Lotus, isn't
it It's just naked in it? So o uh. Season winner picks,
right, we do have to do this? Has anybody spoiled? Zach?
You're You're the most spoilered guy. I am not spoiled this season. You're
not. Well. I know who you're I know who you're gonna pick for
your season winner, Zach, don't even bother. I don't think you do.
No. All right, who is it? Uh? He's voting for
Wes. No, I'm going for Danny. Okay, that's just who.
That's who you think is gonna I feel like, just you know, of
coming from the the pro sports background, I just feel like I feel like
in a purely physical competition. I guess mental too, But like the fact
you don't vote anyone out like I'm survivor. I feel like he's a favorite
to win just because of his background. Uh. Women will probably go with
Emily because she was an Olympian. Well, wouldn't it have to do Danny's
partner. I guess it wouldn't have to be good since part I even know.
Yeah, okay, yeah, I feel even better. Get Tory is
good? All right, So you're going Danny Tory. I don't even fucking
know. Um, I feel like I always say Jordan whenever anybody asks,
and Jordan's on the season, so I'm gonna stick with that. I'm gonna
go kaz In Jordan. Uh, let's go with Weston Zara just because why
not? Good? Nobody guess. I have no real pick. There's nobody
I'm seeing like, oh, they're gonna tear everybody up, Like yeah,
this early in the season, it is really just throwing a dart, like
there's no way we could possibly know. Just it's just a guess. Uh.
Bryan says there's about six teams that feel like they could win. Yeah,
this is a stacked cast. I mean by taking like the winners of
other seasons and stuff. This is a tremendously stacked cast um. So I
hope Jody sticks around for a long time. I don't think Jody's gonna win,
but I like Jody. We didn't get enough for her in her All
Stars appearance. It's really nice to see her back. I hope she lasts
for a long time. Yeah, uh, well, anything else? No,
should we wrap this puppy up? Let's wrap it up? All right?
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