Speaker 1: Everybody working about the Challenge the podcast All About the
Challenge Episode two, in our classic coverage of fresh Meat,
I am Brian sitting in his house about to go
for a beer, as he said right before we started recording, uh,
and sitting working on her staying glass stuff. Still Carlan
san Diego, been a whole week. She's still working on it.
Speaker 2: I know all the time, Carlon san Diego.
Speaker 1: And sitting at his house unmuted. Unlike last episode.
Speaker 3: Za.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Zach's about to give us a crib style tour
of his apartment.
Speaker 2: Oh so, last episode we learned that Zach was in
a cult. This episode we get to see Zach's whole apartment.
Speaker 3: I was just moving to a computer chair.
Speaker 4: That is a coach. That's your lounging dude, lounging fall asleep.
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You can also join our Patreon, which we will get
to later. I am shocked that nobody in the live chat,
since we were doing four episodes at once as a
cult question.
Speaker 2: For Zach Bordo was the only one in there right now.
Speaker 4: Isn't he? That's right? Bort to think of one and
get a drink, so I'm not drinking alone over here, Zach.
We do have to get into the cult stuff, but
first we have to try our best to travel back.
Guys in our mind well, sorry, I fucked that up.
We have to travel back to June fifth, two thousand
and six in our minds.
Speaker 2: You want to know the best part about June fifth
of two thousand and six, What it was my nineteenth birthday?
Speaker 4: Legal Barely Legal, perfect dage for Girls Gone Wild, which
is a big video series at the time, I know
from last episode. So to do that, we're gonna talk
about the top things that were happening in the country
at that time. TV shows are unchanged. Guys two and
a half, Men, Garbage still on the top of the
TV charts, big shake up at the at the box office,
though the breakup comes in at number one. Woofy. Do
you remember the breakup?
Speaker 2: What was the Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Andison Worried.
Speaker 4: That's that top song Hips Don't Lie featuring Whyite Clutch,
Jean Shakira featuring White claf Sean.
Speaker 2: Shakira.
Speaker 4: Oh she's so fine. She's still so fine. That's Shakira.
I never I think that's when I heard of her
for the first time. She's been famous forever, right, like
Columbia or something. Yeah, and then that was her big
like you breakout whatever.
Speaker 1: I must have got rid of that. I got rid
of the breakup.
Speaker 4: I guess are we back in two during your breakup?
Speaker 1: We believe it probably probably did left my house, Zach.
Speaker 4: I got to know more about your cult.
Speaker 3: What do you want to know?
Speaker 4: Did you did you? Did you share a bedroom?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I had my own bedroom, we all did.
Speaker 4: Did you share a bathroom?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: There was?
Speaker 1: You have a multi sex bathroom.
Speaker 2: This is just like a giant, giant house in the woods.
Speaker 3: It was, yeah, I mean it wasn't like a big
communal bathroom like multiple toyts and sold like a regular bathroom, so.
Speaker 2: One at a time.
Speaker 1: Still a multi sex bathroom.
Speaker 3: Yeah right?
Speaker 4: What was the like when they say you had to
work at the at the cult. I don't like what
were you doing, Like, is this like taking out the garb?
But is this like chores or are you like fucking
digging ditches or some weird ship.
Speaker 3: We actually did the dig dig ditches at one point
to put a fence and stuff like that, going out
chopping wood, helping in the kitchen, uh, you know, vacuuming
or dusting me you know, the hallways and the living
communal living spaces. Just yeah, basic housework.
Speaker 1: Why kitchen guys?
Speaker 2: Why did your mother think that this was a good
thing for you to join.
Speaker 3: As a cult. And you know, my mom's not religious
at all. I've always kind of been like, you know,
into Christianity and religion. And me and her have a
great relationship. Now we do not get long when we
live together. So I just got back from college. I
was living with her. Things were not going well, which
is like, hey, there's these people I work with. They
helped run a house. It's like a Christian group, you know,
community house, and like, I think it'd be a good
fit for you.
Speaker 1: And I don't care if it's a colts or pocket
that out.
Speaker 3: Of my basically.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so when you left the well, all right, we
got to save the cult. Leaving questions for next week,
the next week, this segment. Yeah, I've heard it's like
dangerous to leave a cult. I want to know how
it went.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll have to get into it next week.
Speaker 1: Is there like weird things you had to do because
I'm not I'm not necessarily feeling the culty stuff yet.
I mean there are some of it's there, don't don't
get me wrong, but there's no like, oh, we had
to all have sex with the leader, or we all
had to uh you know, yeah, just give all my money.
I mean, they definitely it was a comment coming we
all had to join it by you know, killing ours.
Speaker 3: They definitely went after my So they kind of presented
themselves rich. Is like, oh, like we're a Christian home
that helps people kind of like you know, get on
their feet. Like you know, a lot of people that
lived there were like, you know, struggling with money or
you know, find jobs and stuff. They're like, yeah, well
come help you. But then they definitely sucked your resources
at you, so you became reliant upon them. I was
like one of the only people there that wasn't one
of the leaders that actually had a vehicle. I can
have referenced it. You know in the last episode, several
times they would pop my tires, you know, smash it.
Like they did not like that I had the ability
to come and go as I pleased. They want me
there relying on them for transportation.
Speaker 2: Okay, And what is this called? We just called it
the listeners who want to go and.
Speaker 5: Google it Wikipedia, Yeah, we just called it. We were there,
they called it the Fellowship. It's full name that we
found later as the Fellowship of Friends originated in California
and have spread through.
Speaker 4: Did they have any weird shit, like you had to
like wear a uniform or like wear the same anything
like not It wasn't Jones sending that have to have to
wear the same shoes or some that it Jones sound like.
There's weird shit they could.
Speaker 3: Do sometimes not uniforms, but I mean they definitely were
very conservative and what you were allowed to wear, and
like when you first moved in, they would kind of
go through the clothes you bron you know, remove stuff
that they didn't want you to have. And there's been
several times, you know, when I lived there, that I
would go, you know, I'd leave for a while and
I'd come back in my room and even though we
had like I had the building of lock mine. They
would come and they would like go through it, and
like I could tell stuff was moved, and they'd be
like DVD that'd get like I had a the first
season of the show Weeds on DVD that went missing
real quick.
Speaker 4: All right, crazy, all right, more could stories next week, guys,
good times.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm still just fucking blown away, but.
Speaker 4: Stop being blown away and start going over the notes.
You're up, miss Carlin.
Speaker 2: All right. So now that we are successfully back in
two thousand and six in our mind, the episode starts
off initially like immediately into deliberation and nominations, we have
TJ telling the house name Bitch that the winners of
the previous of the previous challenge get to choose who's
going into exile. We still don't really know what exile is.
And then the house has to choose the other team
that's going into exile. Well, at the end of the
last episode, we saw Wes politicking to try and get
it so that he and Casey would get to go
against their kind of team of choosing. They wanted to
go against the team that he thought that was the weakest,
which at that point in time it was Shane and Lynnette.
Well he made according to his other Austin friends, he
made the real boneheaded decision to go and try to
uh make a deal with Tanya. And Tany at this
point in time is feel in some type of way
about Wes trying to basically manipulate her into voting his way,
and she goes and tells Shane and Lennette that Wes
is gunning for.
Speaker 1: Them, and what a slut.
Speaker 2: Exactly this is I believe that slut for Yeah, I
think that's when he did his his talking head where
he called her slut. It's like that was so unprovoked,
so unprovoked. But whatever Wes was just it. This is
when like height not he this is the beginning of
the height of his dickheaded nish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we have Zach would say it never ended true.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 2: Now we have even more dickheads. Uh. So we have
a House vote and the House decides that, uh, they
don't really care what Wes once. Ultimately they have to do.
The vote is out loud in front of everybody. You
go around and each member of the team gets there
of each pair gets their own choice. You don't have
to vote as a pair. It comes down to Danny
and Evelyn part of the Austin Alliance, and Tanya and
Johnny are the other two. So it's Dani and Evelyn
have eight votes, Tanya and Johnny have six, and we
get to Joanna and her partner Jesse, and you get
the little talking head of Danny saying, Joe, all you
need to do is vote for Tanya and Johnny and
then it's tied us up, and then the next two
teams after you like, it's a much higher chance that
we are not going to be the ones to get
thrown in. Well, Joanna lets her partner vote and they
burn vote on Shane and Lynette.
Speaker 4: I don't think that this matters as much as Danny
thinks though, right.
Speaker 2: I there are two more teams to go, But if
she had tied it up, there's a much higher chance
that people would have gone for Tanya and Johnny over
Danny and ev But I agree, it's still a you
were probably going in no matter what. You're just looking
for a way to like a scapegoat.
Speaker 4: I think that's what it was.
Speaker 2: Yep, And unfortunately that scapegoat is Joanna. So Danny's fucking pissed.
He's absolutely lived at Joanna. He's you know, yelling at her,
saying that this is all your fault. Yeah, this is
when Wes calls Tanya slut for not not voting the
way that he wanted them to and all that. I
just so so jarring hearing some of the language, some
of the things that people call each other in this
the way that they talk about some of the people
in this show. It's so jarring from how things are
done now. Yeah, and Wes is Wes and Danny are talking.
Wes is trying to kind of call Danny down, and
Danny sits there and goes, look, dude, like, it doesn't
matter if you and I both go into this. One
of the two of us is coming home and we are,
And if it's you coming back here, they are immediately
going to throw you back in because you've pissed the
entire house off with trying to manipulate Tanya and for
just going as hard as you have already.
Speaker 4: So it's going to be awesome every time. That's just
sort of that's what it is, right, It's going to
be awesome every time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's also like if you look at
even seasons now, like if you come in if you
are not part of the VET Alliance, if you come
in with a group of people, you are automatically targeted.
And it doesn't matter who that group of people is.
They can be from are you the one, they can
be from survivor they can be people from the Challenge.
If you are newer and you're not part of that
VET Alliance, you are automatically going to be targeted. They
are going to throw you in every week no matter what.
Speaker 4: And I remember back in two thousand and six when
this is on. You know, I didn't I don't watch
Real World and stuff, so I didn't know that Austin
people from anything, and I was on board of like, yeah,
fucking get those people out of there, get those new people.
I don't need to see them again, you know, I'm
done with them. SAME's it's weird feeling it. I feel
differently about it now, but I remember the I remember
that back then.
Speaker 2: I honestly watching this show, like it's been so long,
I had those feelings again of like, yeah, absolutely, get
Wes and the rest of the Austin cast out, like
they are so fucking annoying and they're all cuddled up
all the time.
Speaker 4: They're new. They're just the new ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're the new kids. And Wes especially is acting
like he knows what he's doing, and it was just
it was fun watching.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just find it interesting that they're like, yeah, us
veterans need to get these new people out, and then
it would be like, uh, you know, like Coral twenty seven,
then like nineteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is weird. Yeah, it's like the child like that.
They've always been about my age, the challenges. They just
keep getting older with me. Yeah, eventually they're gonna they're
me too old. We might be there ready, all right.
Speaker 2: And then we get a text from TJ. The text says,
now that you have entered the bush, prepared to get whacked,
be ready to leave by eight am. I missed the
text from TJ's so good it is. Again it's not
on a sidekick, which I was a little upset by.
But I don't think the sidekick was a thing quite yet,
so I guess it kind of made sense. So we
have the Xile Day challenge. We find out that Wes
and Casey and Daniel ev have the chance to save
themselves if they win this challenge, but they have to
win the challenge order to get the pardon, so the
game is called bush whacked. There are a bunch of
stumps in a circle that everyone has to Everyone has
to stand in their pairs on top of these stumps
and then throw a medicine ball on a string kind
of like a pendulum at other teams to try and
knock them off of this stump. There are three heats.
First heat is all of the teams on one foot stumps.
Second heat is after four teams have been knocked out,
they move up to three foot stumps, and then the
third heat is just the final four. I don't know
why they said it was three heats, because the final
four was just continuation of the second. It's very strange,
but we do find out that if that whoever wins
this challenge, they also get a slighter phone with a
year of T Mobile service.
Speaker 4: Zach, you were in alask at the time. T Mobile
had the coolest phones, but T Mobile had shit coverage
around here. Do you remember this time? We'll fee I
really wanted a T Mobile phone, but you couldn't, Like
it didn't work anywhere around here.
Speaker 2: I feel like T Mobile had the coolest phones, were really.
They were the ones who had the slide, the sidekick.
They always had shit.
Speaker 4: Service, yep. And I had the one that was like
the numbers were like in a round dial around the phone.
I wanted that one. It was in that movie Cellular
with fucking the fucking Captain America.
Speaker 1: Guy.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that one.
Speaker 4: Remember that one will be.
Speaker 1: Writer same writer wrote the wrote phone Book or phone Booth.
Speaker 4: That those came out of a similar time ish And he
wrote two scripts.
Speaker 1: And he had one that dealt with a cell phone
and one that dealt with a phone booth. And some
movie studio was like, we love them, we want both.
Speaker 4: I like Cellular. Cellular was a banger of a movie.
Kim Passenger, Yeah, and Chris Evans, right, that's the gay.
I ironically enjoy that movie very much. And that someone
was fucking cool that he had in that movie.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I've ever seen either of them.
I know that, like Colin Farrell was the phone Booth
One's phone Booth.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Phone Booth is a very good, sort of Hitchcockian
type movie. Yeah, he's stuck in a phone booth and
if he steps out, someone's going to kill him. He's
on the phone with the killer and stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I just I just haven't seen either
of them.
Speaker 3: So it's looked. In two thousand and six teen, Mobile
did not own any cellular towers in Alaska, so if
you had a T Mobile phone up there, you were roaming.
Speaker 2: And that was back when roaming was real fucking expensive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, getting a text was like a quarter if you
were in roaming. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: That was still during long distance times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that was the movie Sayular two thousand and four,
So we're in the approximate range too.
Speaker 1: Remember Anna Mullins was living down in Saint Louis, and
sometimes I would call her just a chat because then,
like I hadn't seen her in a while, and that
shit costs me, Like for me to call Saint Louis
two and a half hours away. That shit was expensive
on the cell phone.
Speaker 4: Yea, sucked back then sucked.
Speaker 2: All right. So onto the game, everybody gets up on
their stumps, and this is kind of our first indication
that Joanna is not good at the challenge, like at all.
She and Jesse literally just fall almost immediately. Yeah, like
it's within the first two or three uh swings of
this medicine Ball.
Speaker 4: And Jesse is also super unlikable as a as a
man like I just there's something about him I don't like.
I don't like him, Yeah, anybody else with me?
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's just he was paired with
Johanna and that it didn't want to have a.
Speaker 1: Band called the Rippers. I would like him more.
Speaker 3: Reference what do we get that said for you? Part
like him? Last episode four? The post credit scene.
Speaker 4: With him, yep, the post credits scenes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So then Danny and Ev who are one of
the two teams that need to get a pardon if
they don't want to go to the exile. Unfortunately, they
fall in the second heat. Wes and Casey are still
in They make it into the third heat, but then
they fall because the medicine Ball goes behind them and
kind of spooks Casey and she you know, moves a
little little bit and Wes loses his balance and then
they fall off. I also like this episode was real apparent.
There were like Tanya is screaming at her partner Johnny,
but there is so much like color commentary on the
side about how much people disliked Tanya and I had
forgotten just how much she was disliked, Like there were
so many people who were calling her name saying that
she's an idiot, Like just I completely forgot, Like I
don't know how that woman stayed on the show for
as long as she did and just continued to come
back to so many people who disliked her so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I've always thought that Tanya. Yeah, I've always
thought that Tanya sort of persecution was much like I
never really understood the hatred.
Speaker 1: She seemed.
Speaker 4: Like I kind of a dru total, total coop total
that job. But I don't know if she's worth all
this hatred and stuff that she gets. And I do
think there's like this mean girl pyle on thing. We
even see fucking Jesse that guy start talking about Tanya,
and it's like you're just doing it because everyone just
to fit in, and that's the worst fucking way to
do this. Yeah, I wish.
Speaker 1: She's presented, we'll say, presented on the show. How the
edit is. I mean, these are twenty minute episodes, but
it doesn't seem like from the four episodes we've watched
so far that she's done anything to warrant people just
being such a.
Speaker 2: Such assholes to her, and I don't I truly, I
just don't remember from other seasons if there are things
that were missing, But goddamn, yeah, people just fucking hated her.
Speaker 4: You know. It reminds me of the more recent seasons
Amber Curly Fries. She gets a lot of hatred too.
And remember we we had a million conversations where it's like,
what are we missing? Why is it? Why can people
just talk shit about her? And you know, I don't
get it. I feel that same way about Tanya.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very true, because like people also hated Beth,
but Beth was hated because Beth was an asshole. And
I get the Bethe asshole and she knew that she
was hated and she played into it. Tanya is just
this like she's almost this like baby deer that doesn't
understand what's going on in the world, and people hate
her because she's just so aloof Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I've noticed the audience count and the chat room
went up. And since all of you have joined and
probably don't know yet, last episode, Zach revealed he was
in a cult for a while, So please leave cult
questions in the chat room for us to ask him.
In the next two episodes that we're about to record.
Speaker 2: Very important listeners, very important, and anyone, anyone who is
listening to these episodes once they actually get published, please
please reach out to us and give us your cult questions,
because this is I'm so curious.
Speaker 4: About in a new podcast, just exclusively cult shit, right,
all right.
Speaker 3: So ultimately I want to read something really quick from
Reddick because I googled why with Tana so hated? And
here's a couple posts they al say the same thing.
Multiple cast members have basically said it came down to
her constantly lying about her life. She was a chronic one.
Upper if people were sharing stories about their life should
make hers out to be incredible and exciting, but then
would be unable to keep her stories straight. But yeah,
that's what let it be in that outcast.
Speaker 2: I just I still feel like that's not enough for
her to be hated so much, and not just hated
so much, but like hated on a platform that is
going to then, which I guess they didn't really realize
it as like how much it would influence people, but
like she's hated on a platform where people will just
adopt those thoughts and feelings because they like the other
characters on the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that, I feel like those are those are
insights we get because we're in our late thirties and
for me early forties. I don't know about anybody else forties,
early early forties, but like this is you know, these
are teenagers, do you like and like early twenties people,
you know, they just don't have they just don't know
or they haven't well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Beginning of Like it's still in the early early days
of reality TV. Yeah, I mean, like reality TV has
been around for a while at this point in time,
but it's nowhere near what it is like now. It's
not the powerhouse. And they also didn't have the Internet.
Speaker 4: Like we do. That's that was the other thing. Yeah,
social media didn't exist. So these people just did a
season and went home and a little different.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you you might not like your like this
cast member or that cast member, but the chances of
you interacting with those people are very slim. Yeah, whereas
nowadays they can just go straight on to Reddit or
other websites and immediately start blasting these people. All right,
So anyway back to the show, Coral and Evan win
So this is their second challenge, win in two challenges. Yeah,
they are setting themselves up to be real popular or
real good in this game. And the challenge is now over,
but we immediately go into exile. The TJ comes out
and tells them, all right, well, Wes, Casey, dannyv you
guys didn't win the pardon. You have ten minutes to
say you're goodbyes, and you're going straight to exile. Go
grab your bags, And everybody's just floored. Joanna starts crying because,
oh what am I gonna do without you? Here was
and what happens if you go home? And Linda's crying
because Danny's doing the same thing, and yeah, it's a
bunch of barf, and then the cast leaves. They are
also like the Vets who have been in this game
for a while, they are really bummed that they don't
get to watch the exile. They don't get to see
this elimination happen, which I think was this the first
season where the elimination was not in front of everybody.
Speaker 4: I think it was. Yeah, yeah, it was very surprising.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the looks on all of their faces,
like Tina and Coral especially, We're like, wait a.
Speaker 4: Second, what, Yeah, I kind of like it. Well, this
is a way around the challenges. Helping each other in
the arena, which depending on who you talk to, is
a big problem with the format of the challenge. Gives
her that and I kind of like it. I kind
of like that. The Exile is kind of a mystery
because we see that come into play later when Wes
and Casey don't tell people what it is spoilers. Well, yeah,
but you see it like there's some strategy with it too,
so it introduces like there's a level of you know,
a new level here.
Speaker 2: I love it for that same reason. All right, So
the game The Exile is basically it's a race. It's
a race that has a start and a finish and
two checkpoints. These checkpoints are optional, but if you do them,
and if you get them right there's you will get
a prize of some sort. And that could be everything
from time off of your ultimate score or ultimate time.
It could be a ride to the next checkpoint. It
could be dropping the weight that you're having to carry.
Because they are also informed when they get to the
start line that they had their bags weighed when they
first showed up in Australia, and now in the exile,
they have to carry bags, not their luggage, but they
have to carry weighted bags that equal the same amount
of weight of the as the luggage that they brought in.
Speaker 4: I don't like this either. I like this.
Speaker 2: You don't. I love this.
Speaker 1: It's sort of fun, like, let's use stuff that you
didn't know you were being measured against as part of
like your elimination or whatever.
Speaker 2: I just think it's funny because it's like I think
it's funny one because like Casey immediately sits there and goes, okay,
I have sixty pounds in my like my bags. Evelyn
brought forty four or twenty four, sorry, twenty four pounds,
and so it's the major discrepancy there on, like who
brought more stuff? That sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But imagine Smashly, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Some of the girls in the currency, hell, even some
of the guys in the current seas, like the amount
of stuff that they all bring.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Binanza's guitar, that thing, ate that thing, ate light.
Speaker 2: But I like that they have to carry the weight
because they have those checkpoints where they the the prize
for doing the checkpoint is potentially dropping their bags, which
we see happen a few times over the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what I don't like about it is
number one, it's arbitrary, and number two, it's like sort
of outside the game, like that that happened when they
were home. You know, like if there was a like
you had less weight because you won the challenge or
you did you know, you got a certain time or something.
I would like that, But the bag seem seems too
random to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they were all given the same
instruction as to like, hey, you're going on this thing
for X amount of weeks. These are the things that
you need to bring. It's up to you as to what,
like how you interpret those instructions. So technically they could
all have relatively the same amount of weight. They could
all go on that twenty four pound like Evelyn Dad.
Speaker 1: Technically they were all weighed when they showed up at
the airport, so it was inside the game too.
Speaker 4: Oh wha yeah, but still humm, there we go, guys.
Speaker 2: Yep, souh. Checkpoint one is like checkers like game where
basically it's the game where you have to move the pieces,
you have to jump over pieces, and you can only
jump every time you jump over one. You can move
that one out of the game, but you have to
have one piece left on the board at the end
of the game.
Speaker 4: Most of us Midwestern has played this game at the
fucking Cracker Barrel. Yep, Carlin, are you a Cracker Barrel person?
Speaker 2: I think I've been to Cracker Barrel once and it
was in Colorado.
Speaker 4: Zaki, did they have cracker Barrel in Alaska?
Speaker 3: You do not have Cracker Bell in Alaska?
Speaker 4: Bummer.
Speaker 1: I bet Zach wouldn't need anything in cracker chicken prid stake, Zach.
Speaker 3: I've paid Cracker Bell a few times here in down
That's fine, nothing fam like great, but I'll eat it.
Speaker 1: You were about to say it's nothing fancy.
Speaker 4: But they have this game with the golf tees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the golf tees on the tables and yeah, I
followed that in last and not at restaurant, Well, no,
we actually have one restaurant. I have that a lot
of times. You just SEEHM on people's like coffee tables
up there at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen a shirt recently that has that game
on it. This say, is I like to get pegged?
Speaker 2: Nice? Yeah? So it's that game. Uh, Wes and Casey
decided to just skip it. Daniy and Evelyn decided to
do it, and they get a reward of one minute
off their time. But Dany does make the point of like, oh,
that's great, but it also took us more than a
minute to do this, so if we hadn't done this,
then we probably would still be neck and neck with
Wes and Casey. So that's the trade off. Is like
you have to kind of think about is it strategic,
Like is it strategic to do these checkpoints or should
we just continue on? So Wes and Casey skip that
checkpoint and they start heading for the next one. The
next one is there a bunch of bocks is set
up or a bunch of squares laid out with sticks,
and the instruction is you have to move three sticks
to make three boxes. And Evelyn, Wes and Casey again
skip this one and just keep going. Evelyn decides that
she wants to try the puzzle, but she doesn't read
all the instructions. You can only try this puzzle once,
so the moment that you move a stick, you cannot
move it again, and that you can't retry it. So
they get it wrong, which means that they have now
just wasted more time and have to continue running on
this course without the benefit.
Speaker 1: And it's a bummer because the prize for this one
was get in the car and drive or get driven
to the finish line yep.
Speaker 2: So there's a good chance that they would have won
if they had gotten this one right, but they didn't,
so they ultimately they end up losing Wes and Casey
when Wes has done quite a bit of yelling at
Casey this point in time, and we don't actually find
out who wins until we get back to the house,
So they kind of do a cut scene before the
actual finishing of this checkpoint, and we see Wes and
Casey get out of the car and everybody's kind of
like some people are really excited, other people are really upset.
And then it does a flashback which we know Wolf
he loves back to the to the Xile to kind
of show the ultimate outcome of what happened with the game,
which we kind of knew.
Speaker 1: This one's a little less egregious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it literally just happened.
Speaker 1: And they're showing like they're setting up that the loud
the winner is surprise, Like, okay, it's less about like, oh,
here's pertinent information you didn't get up until this very second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was about revealing it, like we are. We
are also surprised about the winner, right, so for us
to be surprised, we don't know how. We can't know
how the exile goes. I agreed Wilfe. As they were
doing the flashback, I thought, I bet Wolfe hates this,
and then I thought, no, this actually kind of makes
sense this time, like for the you know, for the
reasons he said it does.
Speaker 2: Isn't like all of a sudden, like hey, there was
this a twenty minute conversation about these people, but you.
Speaker 4: Oh, you're wondering why they voted, Like here's why, show us,
show us how it happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there wasn't a like Wes comes out of the car.
But then they flashed back and showed Danny crossing the
finish line first and what the fuck? And then they
flashed back all the way to like the very first
puzzle and find out that they got disqualified doing something
that they didn't tell us, like there was a problem
like back when it happened. Yep. Then I'd be like
this is bullshit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well the other fun thing is that we now
have Wes and Casey are being asked all of these questions,
but oh, what's the exile? What do you guys have
to do?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 2: That, and the other. And we get the little talking
heads from them of like this is great. We get
to lie and about all of the shit that we
have just done. So we have Casey going hardcore on
a lie about how they had to eat kangaroo sack,
tongue and balls in order to get through this exile,
and she's having a fucking blast telling these people that
she ate this ridiculous stuff.
Speaker 4: I love her so much. I had such a crush
on her. I still do kind of.
Speaker 2: I had this like uzzy like ooze beef jerky and oozy.
Ooh yeah, but that's the episode.
Speaker 4: She's so fine.
Speaker 3: All right. So post credit scenes because I figured I
could add those because I watched them all flashing back
to losteps are real quick that for the episode there
the post cred scene was just Quarrel mocking Casey about
her inability to jump and be like what happened and
Western like, don't don't her ask my partner? She's like,
I'm not asking her. I'm just trying to understand how
like f her age, she hasn't learned how to jump.
This was Less and Kasey in the van on the
way back discussing the plan about lying about eating, and
at the very end you have Casey Gill do kangaroos
even have balls? And West is like, how am I
supposed to know? But if we don't know, they won't
know either.
Speaker 2: Yeah I do. I loved that they took that and
ran with it like I thought it was. I mean,
it's a great idea. You're the only ones who have
been in the exile absolutely lie, steal and cheat about
what's in there.
Speaker 4: And I really do feel like that's a West thing too,
of like, look for any fucking advantage you can, even
if this really doesn't make a difference, like let's try
to use it.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I like seeing Wes's influence even early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like that.
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Speaker 1: We we lost one person out of the chat room
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all right? Did anybody us have evernything else I want
to say before we wrap this episode up? All right?
Well for another episode of Challenge, Sweetet, Carl and san.
Speaker 3: Diego, Zachie Banana.
Speaker 1: And as I don't know Zach said in his cult
probably like oh my god, I'm in a cult.
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