Hey, everybody, welcome back to an episode of Challenge, the podcast all
about the Challenge as usually, and Brian sitting across the internet is not Tims.
Go ahead, Carlin. Hi, there's not a good way for me
to tell you when to go. So, uh yeah, Tim's gone.
Carlin sitting in za Zach you banana here, you go, get your get
your nickname. Man. Uh, Tim's got some shit going on. He
may be back next week. He may you check out the week off.
You don't know, nothing super crazy, just a bunch of shit that's like
I need to not focus on podcasting tonight. And I was like, yeah,
I don't worry about it. Whereas last week he said it. Now
it gave him all taking his spot. Yes, Tim tried to pass it
off to you permanently, and I said no, no, no, no,
Carlin has not earned a permanent spot yet. Hey, I've been trying.
I think I put in like four or five years of guest hosting before
I got invited permanently. I have been trying to guest host. You guys
keep saying no, don't say such things. You'll end up on this show
permanently and you'll be trapped like the rest of us. Hey, I'm not
married yet, so I think I'll be okay. I don't know, guess
as Carlin, he's a challenge us name because big Uncle Sweet Tea. Yeah,
I do need to figure that out. But I think you guys will
be proud of this. So I listened to another podcast called Knowledge Fight,
which is it. Yeah, do you listen to this? But we don't
listen to our show just over and over on a loop all the time.
No, I do listen to this show constantly, which is a really big
problem in my life. Called Knowledge Fight. It's all it's it doesn't sound
ridiculous. It recaps Alex Jones and his shows, but they basically prove all
of the shit that he does wrong, which is hysterical. Um, they
do shout outs at the beginning of their show, and all of their shout
outs have to do with various different like they're always inside jokes for the show.
But one of the hosts is a big fan of the challenge. So
I just submitted a added to their Patreon and submitted my um nickname as Bye
Bye Tucker, Don't take care of Seeing Never, So hopefully they'll understand it.
I think we can do Carlin Tambarello who the other I will take the
other CT. Nice. Yeah, we'll have to come up with a nickname.
Yeah, chat room, come up with Carlin's show nickname. Oh god,
I don't know if I want to open it to the chat room.
This could be a problem. Well, jokers in there. It can't be
that bad joker. That's why it could be a problem. Kat seems to
enjoy the other CT. Jacqueline says l LCT, So there you go.
All right, um, all right, so we're on episode nine. This
what's called transformed the World. This we'll get into later. Something for me
to complain about. Um uh, this this one opens up rather than the
like congratulatory like, uh, you know, walk into the house, Hey
we won the elimination, they start with a night out. Everybody's just partying
it up. That's Kim hated the episode. Something we forgot we forgot to
talk about since we didn't podcast last week. Two big things that we need
to cover is Ben got sent home for medical because he was super sick,
which left Casey wondering, what the hell is going to happen to me?
She was going to be sent home? And then Amber, who's also been
sick opted to swap her places, and t J allowed it, so Casey
was allowed to say I actually I really appreciated that. I was a little
worried that they were going to say no, you cannot join forces, but
it was kind of fun to see them like, no, go ahead and
do that, like that makes perfect sense. Why not? And also we'd
have this conversation so many times on this podcast, when the fuck am it
going to get pregnancy tests these women? Right? I realize that it's not
the most pc thing to do, but this is what the third fourth pregnancy
that has happened in the last like three four years. Yeah, too many.
It seems like part of your medical test to get on the show should
be pregnancy tests. Physical blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, yeah,
Katzas, has something ever happened like this before? I don't think anything has
ever happened like this before where they've let two teams, someone from each team
leave and then the other two people join, which I think is why it
was so neat. They might have, but I don't, but I think
when it did happen, it was part of the format of the show.
Yeah, yeah, never mind, Yeah, and I was also thinking when
they brought back Teresa to partner with oh yeah with Leroy Yeah. Um.
And then the vote happened. Casey and uh Zamber's old partner I can't even
remember his name, Troy, got voted in and they had to compete against
Jody and ben Ha and they won. You're a new team, Yeah,
totally. Um So, Jody and ben Ha finally won and Argentina is completely
out of the show so finally lost. Yeah, finally finally um So.
Like I said, this episode opens with a night out. Casey's talking about
how happy she's still be there, but she talks that it's kind of shitty
for Yes and Emily to vote them in. Do you guys agree because it
was It's a it was a turn aloun on their own team, right,
Yeah. I feel like we're at a point in the game where kind of
have to and I mean making that up. Then the previous week, like
Kiki and Drell like throw their vote or vote for one of them, So
I mean, yeah, Ki and avoided for someone else in Australia. Yeah,
ooh, there you go. I don't know. I feel like Yes
and Emily have been shady this whole time though. Yeah, they've been very,
very aligned with Team US and not at all aligned with Team Australia.
Team Massy the Dog's not impressed. She's an awesome I figured she would feel
some kinship with them. She's sleeping. Uh. Cut to Danny and Tory
and they're talking about sort of their rough road that they've had so far their
Team m Danny talks about how he's frustrated that Tory has like all of these
alliances and stuff that you know, he feels like they can't even vote anybody
in because Tory. He's like, no, no part of my alliance,
can't vote that man. And when it comes to Danny stuff, she's like,
well, we have to vote somebody in, anybody else. Hired of
Danny and Tory arguing every episode, Oh my god, I'm so over it.
Tori does have a lot of alliances, and I mean I know that
she's saying that she really only has two, but like even this episode,
she got to the point where they they she oh, I'm so sad that
we've voted him in because it's his birthday. It's a game play the game.
Yeah, yeah, it's the last episode. Sarah said this is the
game he keeps signing up to play. So I was so happy that she
said that because it was almost like a fourth wall breaking, like because you're
signing up to play a game on TV, so play the game. Yeah,
Zach, we're gonna say something. I'll just say. It's crazy to
me though, like just how they seem to feel like, oh, like
we you know, we're both trying to win, but like either way they
go, they'll win together. So like it's not like, you know,
the going with Tori's plan is bad for him or going with his plan is
bad for Tory. Yeah. Well the other thing it's like she's she's aligned
with Jordan. But the big thing last season was Jordan was like this is
just a game. It's not going to affect or out of the game relationship.
So theoretically this season, if she decided to actually go with her partner
and vote Jordan in, then shouldn't it not effect they're out of the game
relationship going to because we all know what's going to but we'ven we even saw
you know, him voting Casey and you know he called Toriat on it saying
like I think as in the last episode, being like you know, like
I voted in my friend, that's part of the game. Mhm. I
feel like Jordan's always been pretty good about that though. I'm like, this
is a game. Let's play it like a game. Yeah. Uh.
So they cut to Jordan Jordan doing one of his uh confessionals, and he's
talking about how fresh shirt he is with Danny and Sarah because they won't they
don't seem to want to get on the get on the alliance game with him
and Tory. It's like, we should all be working together, and these
two seem to not want to do that. Zabella's agree with Jordan, I
do. I mean, like I said, it comes down to the act
that they're gonna win as a like duo or lose as a duo. So
it's like it seems like Danny feels like if I go with toys plan,
I can't win. It's like, no, you can, because if her
plan works out and she wins, then you win by default, Like that's
how it works. Yeah. Yeah, Danny's kind of frustrating me this season,
but it could be because he's right Sarah and I fucking hate Sarah.
So I was just about, let's say that same thing I Honestly, I
know that it sounds like people may like Sarah from Survivor, but I'm not
thrilled with how she quote unquote one last season, total cop out. I
think she she won by losing, and it drives me nuts that she's there.
It drives me nuts that she's there. But Devin isn't there and he
actually won his season. Um, yeah, I still don't understand why he's
not there. But yeah, I'm not a huge fan of of Danny and
Sarah teaming up because I don't remember them being all that friendly in their season
of the Challenge, and I don't know, Danny just seems like a more
annoying person this season than he was last season. Yeah, and I really
liked him on Survivor and I really liked him on the USA season. I'm
kind of bummed, but I'd enjoying him on this season of the Challenge.
H Yeah. So we get back to the house, Tristan and kaz Or
sitting there talking in Uh, apparently they're good friends that they win on their
season together. Yeah, it sounds like I haven't watched their season, but
from what I'm getting, it sounds like they are the winners of their season,
So they that is crap Final together? Is that available now for us
to watch? An elis? Yes, it is Doom pamount plus Oh sweet
okay um. So Tristan and Kaz are talking and they are both sort of
like, yeah, we haven't really connected much this season, but you know,
hey, we're still friends, right, Yeah, We're still good friends.
So they agree that they're going to look out for each other and then
they specifically say, like, look, if I understand if you have to
say my name, but just tell me before it comes up, so I'm
not blindsided or sure. And of course they both agree like, oh for
sure, We're totally gonna do that, and then everybody can predict what's going
to happen. Oh my god, the moment that that came out of their
mouths and oh oh we know what's happening next. It always happens away.
So the next morning, Kelly Anny Keiki are talking pool side. So mad
that all these conversations are happening pool side. I want I want stuff in
my life to be happening pool side. You need to get a pool,
I know, but I don't want to take care of a pool. I
want someone else to take care of a pool. Let me just hang out
by it. Tell your lady, right teller, Cindy, if you're listening,
get a pool so I can hang out by it. Joker says,
Oh, Joker said a whole paragraph. He says, let's be honest,
Sarah. Sarah and Danny are playing to win, and they're trying to do
it on their own terms. They realize that the Vets always get far because
they manipulate the newer players, using them until they're no longer helpful, and
then they cut them first. I don't get why people can constantly bitch about
the same old routine that's become every Challenge season, yet hate Danny and Sarah
for trying to shake it up. They are trying to shake it up.
I just really don't like Sarah. No. I like it when all the
rookies like team up together and trying to take the Vets out. I find
that way more interesting, you know, I think. I think it's also
Danny and Sarah don't feel like rookies. They because they have played a similar
style game on their own show. They don't feel like they are completely brand
new to this game. Maybe that's what it is, And I think what
drives me crazy? Is you know, Danny's always saying like, oh,
like Jordan is Tories number one, she will pick him over me. But
it's like she can't, like literally, she needs you to win it unless
she's sacribouts herself. So like, I think that's the issue with being like
you know, I like Dany and Sarah trying to shake it up, but
it seems like it's to their own detriment if they just you know, this
is a season where it benefits them to have shut up and just go along
with the Vets. Yeah, because the Vets are going to take them to
the final because they're paired with them. I angry with that, but I
also see Jack's point. Um Sukiki and Kellyana talking they're mad about yes,
and emily'veting them in. Um. I feel like there's something else that I
probably didn't write down that I don't remember. Kiki feels like she has to
prove herself even after she wont to last her on her season. Well,
Keki comes off. I was thinking about this while I was watching the show.
She like Jenna was Barbie Beast, but Kiki is kind of Kiki kind
of falls into that same category of the she doesn't look like she should be
able to do anything, but she really She proved herself really well on the
season of Australia, and I think even on this season because it's a bunch
of people that she hasn't met before, she's doing the same thing where it's
like she doesn't look like she should be able to do anything. These things
she doesn't look like she should do well in this show. So she kind
of falls into that same Barbie Beast category. So it's it's I don't know,
I really like Kiki. I like her so far. See what happens?
Yeah uh. And then they agreed to sort of have each other's back.
Sure, um, and that all around MESSI a time she says that
she's gonna have somebody's back, I take it with a very large brain of
salt. You uh enjoying her um twenty alliances she has this season? Yeah
uh. That takes us into the challenge. How you mean the Transformers challenge?
Oh Jesus Christ, We're gonna get into it. Uh. TJ shows
up in a dune buggy. Everybody's just standing there like looking around, like,
what are we doing? Where's TJ? What's going on? And of
course TJ has to make his superstar entrance in the Dune Buggy Grand entrance.
Yeah uh. And then he he uh talks about how this challenge is pretty
much sponsored by Transformers Rise of the Beasts and everything has to be about Transformers,
Transformers, Transformers, Transformers Best Beast Beast, and then everybody's confessional throughout
this entire challenge, someone has to work in Transformers somehow into what they're talking
about. And oh my god, I fucking hated the sponsorship placement of this
one. Jesus Christ, I agree with that. My my notes literally say
there's another Transformers movie question Mark, question Mark question Mark, Yes, the
one. I feel like it's like Fast in the Furious they just never die,
right, And then the like, oh we have one of the stars
of the movie. I'm like, oh a Shila Buff. Is it like
taking thoughts? And that's some guy I've everyone heard of, right, Yeah,
Shila Buff hasn't been on, hasn't been in the trans Stormers for a
long time. Okay, I haven't watched it since he was on. Yeah,
I haven't either, to be honest. So so, yeah, this
Anthony Ramos dude shows up, says a bunch of shit like, oh,
this challenge is gonna be amazing, and then blah blah blah blah, and
then there's a plug for the movie. Okay, um and the two semis
show up, and I want to point out the complete missed opportunity that the
whoever the uh graphics person was on this, because, um, so you
have one truck rolling in with the Autobots logo on the front, and they
have a second black semi as well, which there is one in the cartoon,
also has the Autobots symbol on the front. You put the Decepticons symbol
on that one. Come on, people, come on, Yeah they didn't
have I thought they had both. I didn't realize they were both autobots.
That's dumb. Yeah, that's stupid. And plus I'm gonna come on MTV
you play you Got the Touch from the Transformers animated movie when they come rolling
in? Do I have to drive over to MTV and do everything myself because
Jesus Christ, I think hard there. Yeah, yeah I am, because
it's an amazing song. Um let's see. Jacqueline says, what what a
silly challenge? Almost not fair for the last place to go in? How
far apart. Could the times be agreed? Joker says, I just want
to say how lame this comp was, and hearing everyone brag about how what
unquote challenging it was made me want to puke in my soup. Had a
Biggie and Anissa been teamed up for this, they would have cracked the top
three one hunder. I mean, I'm sure that. Sorry, Well,
if you go ahead and do your explanation, this is called highway hijacking.
So one person the team's going to jump onto another from one truck to the
other as they're driving by each other to get a key, and then they
jump back, unlock it and hit a button. When they do that,
the teammate that it then is in the semi trailer below them that's already in
a dune buggy. We'll see a green light go off and then there's some
sort of explosion outside that lowers a ramp, and then they floor it and
a buggy crashes through the back styrofoam they have put up, and then they
floor it to get to the finish line. That's the entire challenge. Oh
my god, it took so long for TJ to explain how to do this.
Challenge. It took longer for him to explain how to do the challenge
that it did for us to actually watch the challenge happen. Yeah, I
just s another one. It's one of those challenges it seems like it would
be fun to do, but it was really boring to watch. But I
feel like it was also really boring to do because all they did was jump
jump, put a key in, and hit the gas. Yeah, this
was gonna be my That was gonna be my exact point. Another one that's
probably fun as hell to do, but from a visual standpoint, I'm like,
this is fucking boring and could have been could have been as most of
it was just a montage. Um blood say, I would love to do
this. It looks like it's fun to do, but it's extremely boring to
watch. Yeah, oh my god. The only fun things to watch were
the two crashes, and one of them was quote unquote on purpose, and
both of them were completely preventable. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
The only the only things to really talk about is that Emily crosses the
finish line and then her her dune buggy flips over on its side. Does
look what was she doing turning the wheel at like sixty miles an hour.
Well, she's probably still she's an awesome she's trying used to drive it on
that side of the road. If you notice, Sarah actually did a donut
after passing, So I think they were all trying to replicate Sarah like and
look cool spinning out. Yeah, but she didn't look cool spinning out.
She just spun out and then rolled over. Well, no, but she
is trying to be like Sarah. I will say from a visual standpoint,
it did look pretty gnarly at first. I mean, they have the camera
mounted like inside of it, so you can kind of see her head just
sort of smack the ground and stuff. Yeah, so ahead was it gonna
say. She seemed kind of rattled and was kind of like help, And
then when the crew got her out and the kind of checked her over,
everything seemed fine. She's probably just more shake it up to anything else.
I was completely convinced that this was going to be one of those things where
they show the accident happened and they come off like, oh no, everything's
totally fine, and then like five ten minutes from now, back at the
house a few days later, like a day later, Oh my arm hurts
so bad, I can't do the challenge or I can't do the elimination,
because I was completely convinced something that that was going to happen. Yeah,
just some sort of like oh my head, my head's been hurt never since
the challenge. Then it would just be an ongoing injury and an excuse for
why they shouldn't go into elimination or something of that sort. Didn't seem to
pan out that way, but which is exactly what it was going to,
which exactly what puts a target on you to get voted into the challenge,
or to the element of the time. Tory takes a similar spill, but
she's laughing the whole time, and she stands up and she's perfectly fine.
She's like, do I gross the finish line? Like she had a good
time with it. Oh, I know Joker hates Tory now, but she's
fine. Kat brings up, this is the only cool thing about this competition
was the drone. I agree with. The drone was the only cool thing
about the competition. Fair enough, Kat says, this would have been better
with a puzzle, which I can agree with. They had to jump to
the other thing and do a puzzle and then jump back and yeah, they
should have had that, or like jump across and yeah, I think you're
right, jump across to a puzzle to get the key, but kind of
like they had in a few seasons ago, where like they had to jump
across and grab something, but they only had a certain amount of time they
had to get back over to the other semi before the semis split. Yeah,
and then the semis would come back together. If they did something like
that where they had a little bit of a time limit, you had to
do some sort of It was just so boring. The only I think the
only thing that was exciting about it was they had the the speedometer on the
screen and it showed that it was up at fifty miles an hour. Okay,
completely locked into this to this apparatus, You're not going to fall on
the ground like who carries you could be going at no miles an hour.
That's the thing with a lot of these A lot of people are like,
oh, I'd be so scared, and I'm like, I don't think I
would be, because I mean, MTV is not going to let you die
because they will get sued like out of like they will lose all their money
in lawsuits, so they are going to make sure you are locked in and
good to go. So I think I would be fine. Yeah, I
was thinking that exact same thing. So that blackluster. Yeah. So they
revealed the times Jordan Kaz and THEO and Sarah the best, but Jordan Kaz
are the winners who and for some reason, this is completely voiced over by
TJ at a later date, as they only show the back of TJ's head
and the audio quality changes, so I don't know what he said at the
event, but apparently was not good enough. Semise running in the background,
they couldn't hear anything. That's possible it could have been Wendy, who knows.
Durrell and Kiki are dead last and unfortunately we're going in to the arena.
Kiki talks about this being pear shaped, and Durrell doesn't understand what pear
shape means. I love this. She tries to explain it. I don't
think she does a good job of explaining it. But no, but Durrell's
comment of yeah, pear shape means you've got a big old booty was fantastic.
Maybe really having that Darrell Durrell has been killing it the last month or
so with his commentary on the episodes. Be sure he's good, He's good.
We get back to the house, Kelly An starts campaigning right away,
starts going around all the teams. Oh my god, she's so messy.
She's so messy. She's like, hey, maybe we should start throwing some
of the USA teams in, you know, like Tori and Danny and Aaron
THEO. And first she talks to Yes and Emily, but Emily is like,
I think I'd rather say uh um Casey and uh Troy before I'd say
them. Then, like cut to her Emily's confessional and she's like, Kelly,
and you've said my name multiple times, Like they've never said my name?
Why would I throw them in? Yeah? And on top of that,
she's allied with them, Like are you blind? Right? I mean,
at least to us, it seems really obvious that the two of them
are allied. So that she and Sarah are allied, which means that she
and Yes are allied. Like it just yeah, Kelly Ann is so messy.
She has always been messy. She will always be messy, and it
drives me nuts every every season she's on She's had a pretty good social game
so far. I mean, it is a little messy. She's figured out
a way to work stuff to her advantage. We'll find out this episode that
that doesn't continue. But yeah, yeah, I appreciate that in this episode.
Uh Tristan. At one point in time, during this whole debacle of
her going around trying to drum up votes, he tells her, you know,
you need to calm down, and she was like, these are my
relationships. I will do with him what I please. All right, well,
at least you're owning it. So as as as all of us men
know, the best thing to do to a woman is to tell her to
calm down. That usually works. Um, of you are still married,
right, Oh yeah, yeah, marriage has been great. H Kelly and
then goes talk goes to talk to Casey and uh Troy. Um. She
tries to talk Casey to Sanatory and Danny and Casey's like, uh oh,
Like she tells Kelly and that, like you know, I don't know,
my whole head doesn't understand the numbers on this, like you know, blah
blah blah cuts her a professional. She's like, I'm not saying Tory Anny
she's nuts. Well again she went to another person and called out the person
they're allied with. Right, you were so messy, Kelly Anne. I
don't know if they just don't know that these people are allied with these people.
But I don't understand how you wouldn't know that. It seems like Casey
and Tory are hanging out all the time. It seems like Sarah and uh
what's her face or hanging out all the time. Yeah, Joker says Kelly
And maybe messy, but she looked hot as fuck on the treadmill. Yeah,
I'm not gonna lie. I agree with that. Even Carlin agrees with
you, Joker. A woman she is. Even when I met her in
person, I thought she's very attractive, but wasn't allowed to say different than
it used to. But she's still a good looking woman. Kat says,
she's just she's just desperate. But I feel like Kelly and has always played
a desperate game. Yeah, she's always kind of an island done to herself.
Most times. She'll make agreements with people and maybe have a small alliance,
but you're never going to see her and Johnny Bananas, like, you
know, working together on stuff. Johnny's an idiot anyway, shut up,
zach Um. So, Kelly Ann goes and talks to Yes like by himself,
and she tries tries to talk him into saying Tori and Danny since Um
Emily doesn't want to say Sarah's name, and he doesn't seem too keen on
this conversation. He says, I'll talk to Emily about it, and Kelly
Ann's like, yeah, but tell her not to, you know, don't
be spreading this around this conversation and this is when Kristen tells Kelly and she
needs to chill out, and then she says it's her relationships and she'll talk
to however she wants. Yeah, that one. I appreciated that quote just
because it I don't know it. It kind of showed that she knows that
she's messy, but she's fine. Uh. Jordan talks to Danny, Tory,
Sarah and THEO. They come up with a scenario. They're like,
Jordan's like, Okay, what if we do this this week? We will
say Kelly Ann and Tristan Um. But then he gets them. He gets
Sarah and Danny then to agree next week. Then they have to throw in.
They have to vote for yes, and Emily, this is a big
agreement. We cut to Danny. Danny's saying like, we finally have a
moderator for all of us, and his name is Jordan, and he actually
comes up with a good plan, Like you know, they're sort of doing
the uh okay, well of you guys would you want this week, but
next week we have to promise that we're gonna do something that is good for
this and everybody sort of agrees to it. I mean, I think Danny's
legitimately on board. I don't think he really cares one way or the other.
It is not yet Sarah to agree to it. Cut to her confessional.
She seems way more like, yeah, I'm gonna totally say this.
That doesn't mean I'm gonna stick to it. So we'll have to see what
happens next week. It gets to the point that they make them sign a
dry erase board as a contract. I don't know what's happening. I really
would not be surprised if next week we see Sarah immediately go back on this
and convinced Danny to go back on it as well. It's possible. I
wouldn't be surprised. Man, go Zack. Oh, I said me that
I thought the moment we got the confession of her being like, you know,
next week, we'll have to see what happens. I was like,
Oh, she's totally backing out first chance she gets. Oh yeah. I
think Sarah just thinks that she knows how to play this game, and that
she knows how this game is done, and she knows how she can manipulate
people, and I really don't think she does. I just really don't like
her. Well, this might be a good a good time to talk about
why I feel like this season feels a little different than most seasons. And
the big thing that I'm taking away from this is that Sarah and Danny are
used to playing Survivor, where Survivor realistically is the one and done season,
so you can burn the shit out of people and not really have to worry
about it. They do have those ones where they bring people back and whatever,
but I mean, you know, by then, you've you know,
it's been like ten seasons and people they've gotten Yeah, people don't care as
much and plus you know, you've burned like maybe two people, and what's
the percentages that you're going to be paired back up with them again that you
have to worry about stuff like that. Result of that's always play like,
well, these are my friends. If I burn them, they're not going
to be my friends next season. That's not gonna be good for me.
So the social game on this show is important about maintaining friendships across multiple seasons
rather than just trying to make it to the end of one season. That
makes sense, any comment, Sack, since I know you're a Survivor fan,
No, I agree, And I think that's always what made the Challenge
so exciting is you know, you can't just play for one season. You
gotta plan, you know, like years ahead, knowing that way you do
now can come back to bite you. Kat says that's the part of the
reason I didn't like Casey, because she plays the challenges if it was Big
Brother. There's some truth to that. The strategy is completely different between Big
Brother and Challenge. But at the same time, Casey makes it to the
end almost every single season, So why why I fix it if it's not
broken? Yeah, stupid fusty. Yeah, So I don't know. I
think that may just be throwing off the gameplay, and maybe it feels like
some of these people are being messy for another term that we're throwing around for
Kelly in this episode, but we're kind of looking at Sarah and Danny like,
oh, they're being so stupid. Why are they being so dumb?
But again, I think their mindset is, I just have to make it
to the end of the season. I don't need to worry about next season
or the season after that or whatever else. And maybe that's legitimately they're thinking,
maybe they're not playing on coming back past whatever their contractual thing was for
USA and the Global chanpionship. Yeah, that would make sense, very possible.
I don't know. This season is annoying. Say, do you have
any other theories? It sounds like you had some earlier. Me. Yeah,
not really any theories. It just I don't know. The season is
just annoying. It's I don't know. It just it seems like like Sarah
and Danny think that they know how to play the game. And I mean,
granted to jokers Joker's point earlier, we're always really excited. We always
want the rookies to do their own thing, and we want them to try
and beat the Vets at their own game and all things and we're really excited
when it does happen. But it just, like I said, it doesn't
feel like these people are rookies, and it I think it might actually be
because they are players from another game, so they're not playing like rookies.
They're playing like players from another game. So I think that's a good point.
But yeah, I just I think it's just I just dislike some of
the people on this game, like Sarah. It's weird. How is it
everybody just doesn't like Sarah? Problem there is that I never stop harping on
that. So part of this plan is then that one of those teams have
has to sort of go up for a big brother, uh parlance, Uh,
one of them has to go up with a pawn and uh, Tory
and Sarah decided to rock paper scissors it see who gets to and Sarah tries
to pull out this like, WELLY did like half scissors half paper, so
you know I was covered either way, and I go, no, I
was paper. Um, and uh they sort of call it out so like
okay, best two out of three and then Sarah does legitimately and so it
kind of puts the end to it. But Tori not a good rock paper
scissor player apparently well, and I mean, I guess the other thing is
she honestly, she could have lost the rock paper scissors and it wouldn't have
really mattered because she and Danny have voted themselves as their vote lost what two
three episodes And I'm only only stuck on that. I mean, there's one
thing when you when you disagree with your partner on who to vote in,
but Tori, you never vote yourself in, even as a burn vote.
We know how that goes with Leroy, Like, what are you doing?
Right? I guess you're somewhat safe, but it's still that doesn't make any
sense to me. That takes us denominations. I don't know, There's not
a whole lot to talk about. Um. Seems like everybody sort of gets
the memo that they're all voting Kelly Inn and Tristan Inn and Tori and Danny.
Um. Kelly. Anne's not happy about it, and she's wiping away
tears and God, yes, Brian at the dog. She's out there barking
and nothing. Um, alright, mine has been bringing me toys this whole
time. So if you guys have heard her collar in the background, that's
fine, Uh, I don't know. So everybody votes for Kelly and and
Tristan and Tory and Danny. It's not that exciting of a nomination ceremonies.
Kellyan and Tristan couldn't guess that they were going to be the ones going in.
I would be really surprised. Yeah, O'Kelly or Kat says they did
it um twice as a burn vote Danny, So yeah, I mean that's
still two times more than you should have done. H Tristan points out that
he's he's kind of upset about this, and he hopes that Kaz can sort
of talk Jordan out of voting them in, which, as we all know,
if Tory's the other nominee's that's not a very good uh chance of that.
And cut two, Kaz being like, well, what's the likelihood of
we're gonna be able to vote Tory in? And Jordan's shaking his head the
whole time, and she's kind of pissed because she's like, this is like,
you know, this is a team. We're supposed to discuss these decisions,
and it seems like Jordan's already got his mind all made up this one.
Yeah, I don't know why anybody's surprised. But yeah, it's just
I mean, especially after last season when we watched he and Tory go at
it all season and then them get really mad at each other because you know,
he she gave him an ultimatum and he said and he went against it,
and I don't know, it just it was weird coming back into the
season and seeing the two of them like, oh, no, we're ride
or Die for each other. No, but are you really like you were
literally on a show called Rider, literally hated each other a season ago,
Like what's happening? Yeah, I mean it is good to see that he's
also in that same boat and it's not just one sided from Tory, because
it felt very one sided from Tori for the last few episodes. Yeah,
Kat brings up. I thought Troy and Casey was interesting. They voted for
yes and Emily and then I think Sarah and THEO I want to say,
yeah, they didn't really go anywhere. I think that was just more of
a you guys threw it at us, We're gonna throw it back at you
type of thing. But Ken also says what happens if Jordan and Kas don't
agree? I I don't know if anything happens for him, because there it's
not the full team. But well, I guess they were the one.
They didn't they didn't win, right, they did win? Yes, Yeah,
they did win. I don't know. It'd be interesting to see if
they were a tie vote. Maybe production was just to go one way or
the other. In the first episode we had that happen where there was a
tie and basically they gave they gave Kaz a deciding vote because she was the
woman, and it was like a woman's elimination. But I was right with
teammates. Yeah, but wasn't that that was a stalemate though, between the
decision of choosing people to go in his nominations though right like it was the
house, they couldn't decide. It isn't the um, it wasn't the winning
team or whatever. I don't even remember. Honestly, I latched most of
the rest of the season out because it's been so boring, which is ridiculous.
Pause. I feel like we all say that every season. Oh we
have a review about that, don't you worry? Oh no, no,
So it was granted Zara. They came in first place for their gender,
so they got to pick and then because yeah the how um no, Granton
Zara disagreed on who should go in between Kaz and Kiki, and so they
gave it to Zara to decide because she was the woman and it was a
woman's elimination. Oh yeah, that's right. Oh yeah, But that that
whole situation was full of weird circumstances is because one of the males was hurt,
so they didn't have a male elimination and they just sort of were like,
I don't know, everybody else couldn't decide anything. Yeah, Nathan,
yeah he so, um uh so let's see the next day, it's Tristan's
birthday. Everybody celebrate and by everybody, I mean Kelly Anne was the only
one. Um, she's doing professionals. She talks that she's pretty confident about
their odds if they go in because they already won once. But let's be
fair, they were up against Nelson then, uh whoever Nelson's partner was that
I've already forgotten and Nelson's one of the most uncoordinated people ever. So Kelly
Ann shouldn't feel good about that elimination win. Oh that's right. Nelson wasn't
this season, wasn't he Yeah, they were doing They were doing the elimination
where she was laying on the platform on a rope and he had to like
swing it up. So that was such a bad, painful to watch challenge
for him, so painful. Um, Kelly's pretty confident. Uh. She
is super nice though, and leaves Tristan a muffin with a nice, like
happy birthday message, which was nice of her. It was it was weird
to me though, that she didn't like give it to him and she just
kind of left it there for him. Yeah, I mean, maybe they
were they she did it before he woke up or he was I don't know,
he was in the shower or something, but it was it was so
weird to me, Like, you guys are partners, you should like hand
this to him and say happy birthday. When he got it, he was
wearing his boxers and a sleep mask, so I assumed he was asleep and
she left it for him to find. That makes a little bit more sense,
which for me, people will know, you do not fuck with me
while I'm sleeping, so if you wake me up, you're in the danger
zone, so don't do it. So maybe a trill. Yeah, I
mean I wouldn't expect her to wake him up. That would be real rude.
If we're the lights are on all the time and you have to have
a sleep mask in order to sleep, and there are a million other people
in the same room as you, I'd be real mad if someone woke me
up while sleeping. Yeah. Uh, cut ta Kiki. She's annoyed that
the entire house is so dirty, um, which we've seen multiple people get
mad about this on this season. She didn't yell about open peanut butter jars
though, that is true. Um with her since I got divorced, I
haven't had open peanut butter jars on my counter either. That's for old school
challenged fans who remember that review back in the day. Um. So Durrell's
talking, He's like, when she gets when it comes up to elimination time,
she gets anxious. He feels like she's extra anxious. So he's like,
you know, but we just have to, uh, we just have
to, you know, go into elimination and perform. There's not much we
can do about it. Cut to Danny laughing at Tory because Tory says she
feels bad about throwing throwing in Tristan and He's like, you feel bad about
throwing in everybody, And She's like, but it's his birthday. Yeah,
who gives it's a game throw throw his ass in for a lot of money.
Tory, get over it. Yeah, that takes us into elimination.
Yes, so Jordan, Kaz Pick Kelly, and and Tristan. Tristan did
mention at some point during one of those confessionals that he had not heard from
Kass. Andy excepted that as a good sign since they had that agreement,
but backstabbed Jordan Kas totally vote him in, and Ka's immediately apologize it,
says she feels like a bad friend, and just she's wiping tears away from
her face, and Tristan just looks like, and these fucking people, I
swear to God, I mean, you should have known. I should have
known. This elimination is called hands off, and each partner is given a
giant chopstick. Okay, quickly prior to this. At one point in time
during this whole the nomination ceremony else sort of thing, Durrell does finally say
the final is right around the corner. And I think this is the first
time in this season that we have heard that that phrase oh oh stuck out
to me. It may not have stuck out to everybody else, but it
drives me out when people say it, because they start saying it halfway through
the season, when you start six episodes left. It's not that closed derrell
No. Um. So, each partner gets like a giant chopstick, and
together they have to pick up like these Tetris puzzle pieces and walk them up
over like these ramps and then down, and then they have to drop them
into their safe zone. And then once they do that with all the pieces,
they have to assemble a puzzle and whoever gets it done first wins.
Um. I don't really take much notes on the actual elimination because it seemed
like it kind of just went back and forth. One team was seemed to
do really good, the other team caught up, and then the other team
would get further ahead, and it just kind of went back and forth.
Yeah, ultimately, Kelly Ann and Tristan loose, so it kind of felt
like, I mean, I guess Jordan, I kind of feel like Kelly
Anne is pretty good at the balancing things, but yeah, maybe it's just
the balancing herself yoga thing. I'm thinking Durrell and Kiki talking their confessionals that
it was obvious that they were getting annoyed with each other because they're arguing back
and forth about how to do it properly. Yeah, and do you sound
like do you sound like a married couple? That's just like, no,
you're not doing it right. Come on, do it this way U.
But they end up winning. Um and TJ calls this a sick elimination?
Is it? TJ? It calls every elimination is sick elimination. It wasn't
that sick, TJ calm down. Oh, but but Darrell also says that
he knows how to do tangerines. Yeah, and you're like, what the
fuck? Darrell? He looks, He's like, I know they're called tanagrams.
It's like, okay, I died at that. I thought it was
great. Drell, like, like Zach said, got the one liners this
season. Keep it up ter all. He really does, And uh,
that's it. That's it for this episode. Kind of a whole hum episode
for me. Yeah, just I feel like the elimination wasn't that good.
The drama wasn't that good because Jordan mediated the USA team, so nobody was
mad at each other. The entire house seemed to accept the vote pretty quickly,
so it's uh, it's just okay, Yeah, I want the ridiculous
drama of like ten years ago, where it's all just stupid, ridiculous drama
that's happening in the house that then flows over into the game and they can't
get their head in the game. And I want games that are ridiculous but
a lot of fun to watch, and that obviously take longer than thirty seconds
to do, because this the game this season, for this episode took thirty
seconds and then they broke through drywall or styrofoam or whatever it was, and
I'm sure it took twenty plus minutes to set up again for the next person
to do it. So it's like, you, you took three times the
amount of time, if not more than that, ten times the amount of
time just to set up every season, every episode, or every challenge for
the next partnership, but it took thirty seconds for it to actually happen.
Right, yeah, yeah, Kat says, no one is getting drunk and
throwing Roman cups, right, we need more people getting drunk in cups.
This is becoming too much of a of a physical Challenge show and too little
of a ridiculous drunk drunk Roman throwing show. Yeah, it seems like because
I know Corey did an interview once where he said they're really starting to limit
their booze intake. Oh I wonder if that's Portnate helped keep the druma on
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do we have any reviews? Well, yes, wolfee, we do.
Um we have one review, one star. The title says what happened
uh and this review is left by Leslie parentheses not Vernon. If you're a
horror fan, that is a hilarious name. Um says. I used to
really enjoy this podcast. Lately, however, the content has been very hard
to listen to and enjoy. It's almost like the hosts are forced to watch
this show against their will and then record a podcast. Wolfee what Me seems
utterly annoyed to be there and offers little to no engagement when asked for an
opinion quote I don't know, I don't care. Seemed to be the best
he can muster most of the time, and he truly seems to hate the
show, and not in a fun way. It's kind of like someone killing
the vibe of a party when it would be better for everyone if they just
left. This last episode, I found myself screaming at my phone, why
are you here? Hopefully the show could get back to the magic that got
me to subscribe in the first place. Honestly, I'm finding myself stry to
other challenge pods out there where the hosts actually want to be there, and
then a shrug emoji. I feel like we could take this this review and
put it a year ago, and two years ago, three years ago.
I feel like this review is just a copy and taste of reviews that have
happened in the past, pretty evergreen. Usually it rotates, though usually it's
between me and Tim. I guess. Usually Tim's the one like, oh,
I'm so over this. I hate this season. We'll start every episode
that way. I think I've asked him before. Do you even like the
challenge anymore? He's like, I don't know, boy, is it so
long? You should be twelve episode or yeah, twelve episodes and that's it?
Sorry, Tim, Yeah, it's Zach. Do we have any social
media stuff? We do? So? First off, a little about two
weeks ago, we had a Drake Bell former challenge alumni from Champions of our
Stars well when missing for a couple of days. Yeah, we're gonna talk
about that last week, but we did in podcast. And uh, he
hasn't been found safely, but the police were posting that they thought he was
a danger to himself and others, but they didn't specify why. Yeah,
it seems like I had heard his wife may have asked for a divorce and
then he threatened to kill himself. Yeah. Then she officially asked for a
divorce about twelve hours after he was found. Yeah. And then speaking in
you know, Amazing Marriages, Lillionette Silaris, the wife of CT has uh
your question an emergency soul custody of their seven year old son. Oh yes,
well apparently they had a court hearing about it and then the judge sided
with CT, so yes, that is correct. Yeah, I was insane
it, I mean, not knowing much about her. That kind of sounds
like more of a retaliatory thing than an actual um necessary thing. But we
have also seen CT go completely and totally ape shit on this show. So
yeah, it's been many years, but we have seen that. That's not
quite social media news, but it is Zach news that he'd like to point
out because we need more bananas on this podcast. Ooh, I'd just like
to point out that when Banana's got eliminated, there has been four teams that
voted for him this season, and since then the only people who have gone
into elimination are those four teams. So it's the Banana carmentaur. This is
what you get. Interesting. I didn't realize that Joker does bring up didn't
the judge tell CT to stop posting about the divorce on social media? Yes,
you had to stop posting anything on social media about the divorce, talking
about it in interviews, and anything else that could be deemed as slander or
defamatory. But the good news out of all of this, as it does
seem like CT is now appearing at almost every single Challenge Mania across the country.
Get Carlin can maybe meet him sometimes from the real CT. I'm single.
Yeah, not just the other CT, but the real other CT.
Oh, Kat, you mentioned to remember when Tim was silent for an entire
episode. That was when Wolfie was silent for an entire episode. And that
episode was the episode that Josh went nuts. And I was so excited to
get really upset about Josh being insane that episode, and I think he got
voted off that episode or kicked off that episode, and Wolfie didn't say anything,
and it drove me insane until the very last, like three minutes.
So mad so made that whole episode. I don't I don't understand why my
ex wife would say I'm petty. Oh god, it was. I mean,
it was brilliant. It's brilliant, but rode me insane. I Ken
also wants to know do we know what's what was wrong with Ben? I
do not. Do you happen to look it up? Zach? I know
you're on mute right now. You're probably doing something important for work, but
yeah, I'm just getting ready to leave work. I'll let me see if
I could google it real quick, but I have not heard Yeah, don't
google while you're driving one c work. Okay, I'm just saying using your
phone while you're driving but not recommended by the Challenged podcasts or endorsed. Um.
Yeah, I don't know there anything else you want to talk about.
Take everybody's silence as a no. Unless Zach is very quickly told it and
figured out what was happening with Ben. Yeah, maybe I'll have to turn
into tune into our after show cliffhangers. All right, um, well,
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We need to figure out trivia for this season. See if Carlin can
win another guest hosting thing even though she's technically already doing it. She's wormed
her way into the show. She's somehow, somehow made Tim's life unbearable for
the past like week and he wasn't able to show up. Hey, I
did tell him that shitty things come in three, so hopefully those three things
be done. Now he should be fine. Yeah, which anybody's worried.
Tim's perfectly fine. He's had some bad look that's led him to be like,
no, fuck everything. Well all right, well, I guess that's
it for this episode of Challenge. This has been Brian Carlin document and is
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