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Speaker 1 (00:14):
What's up, everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is Scott Jeger here with a very special edition
of Challenge Mania.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yes, it's that special.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Episode that we dropped once or twice a year that
we know you guys are excited by. And this episode
is brought to you by Challenge Mania Live Pittsburgh next Saturday,
June the twenty eighth. And if you haven't heard the news,
start spreading the news.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is the big Man. CT.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Tamborello, who we're gonna mention again in this episode has
joined this epic lineup. He has joined his Traders co
champion Trischelle Cannetella to Challenge Mania Hall of Famers in
Susie Meister and Sarah Rice and boy Mike excited to
see Susie Meister with a live mic in front of CT.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I'll just say that.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And two more Challenge Mania Hall of Famers in Derek
Kazinski and Mark Long and guess what. Even though a
lot of Pittsburgh maniacs already picked up quite a few tickets,
you can still get tickets to.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Chania dot Live right now.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So head to Challengemania dot Live to get tickets to
Challenge Mania Live Pittsburgh on June twenty eighth, featuring CT
as well as Detroit October fifth with Nannie and Wes
already on sale, and Chicago, Boston, Atlanta and more.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
All Right, you didn't come for me, you came for D.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And if you came for D, you might want to
check out your TV screens on Wednesday, July thirtieth as well,
because he's here to break down the cast and the
season of the Challenge season forty one.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
With me, mister Derek Kazinski Wisharto.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah. First of all, I was not expecting to see
my name on this cast list, considering what had happened
on season forty But there I am. There he is,
He's right there in the thick of all these vets.
I think we've got here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, sixteen.
(02:00):
That's how that's how much I I remember. I had
to count sixteen and sixteen. That's thirty two, that's sixteen,
that's in sixteen new threats. We're you expecting that one?
We're you expecting that one.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Here's what I'll say.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And first of all, if you're new to our Challenge
Mania season and cast drops and breakdown podcast. Well, you
might be hearing a free preview of this on the
Challenge Mania podcast feed. To hear the whole shebang, you're
gonna want to go to Challenge at maniacs dot com
is where you get all of our bonus podcasts. That's
where every week Derek and I will be breaking down
season one, season forty one, I should say, one episode
(02:37):
at a time. We again do put free previews on
the main feed, but if you want to get the
full episodes ad free full video, we are not doing
full video of this reason being I'm smack dab in
the middle of my vacation. I had sneak into a
little boardroom here at the gorgeous Marriott in Marco Island, Florida.
Hopefully they don't start their meeting earlier, come and boot me.
And if this podcast ends abruptly, you'll know why. But
(02:59):
either way, go to challenge maniac dot com right now,
sign up for the season. You'll hear the rest of
this cast breakdown, and you'll also hear all of our
bonus podcasts and interviews in full video and ad free
audio the second we.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Recorded them all. Right now, Derek, what.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You're asking me, is am I surprised to see your
name even though obviously logistically you can't even be gone
without me having to bring in guest hosts or you know,
have to call on a fill in for a live
show or do some interviews by myself.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I'm still more.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I'm still more, but I'm still more surprised to see
your name on here, or whenever I quote unquote saw
your name on here figuratively, because, as you mentioned, dude,
you suffered. I want you to just walk us through
this before we break down the other people you're gonna
be playing with. Normally we save your name for last,
we do the big reveal at the end. No, we're
going to talk about you first, because what I want
to ask you about is how you got to go
(03:49):
on a plane to go film the show when the
last time we saw you, you you shattered your leg
or your knee, and we heard that you had an
epic amount of surgery and medical attention that you had
to and to beginning end of last year. So how
does someone go from that to being able to take
part in a challenge that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Had to film in the last few months. Here walk
us through that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, A lot of quick work, a lot of luck
on your side, and yeah, kind of piece in the
leg back together is what happened, and it happened pretty far.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Remind us of what the injury will remind us what
the injury was. What was the injury?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So I tore my ACL and meniscus when I jumped
in the mudpit on season forty. You may have heard
me say, I think I broke my leg. I think
I broke my leg. I didn't break my leg, I
didn't break a bone. I tore my ACL. I'm sure
if you guys, anybody pays attention to sports, it is
(04:47):
a very common injury. But at forty years old, it's
an injury that takes a lot more time than you
know your regular you know, college or or or when
you're younger. The body heals a little bit faster when
you're older. Like for me, what I did was typically
(05:12):
what people get when they tear their ACL. The reconstruction
is they take your patella tendon or your quad tendon
and replace that ACL graft with that. They use your
own body to heal your body. Now what they did
with me, since I'm over forty, my ligaments, my tendons
(05:34):
aren't as youthful and spry as you know the younger days.
They took a graft from a cadaver, from a dead body,
and they replaced that acl from a cadaver. It's a
it's a cadaver graft. Basically, that's a dead body. It's
(05:56):
from a dead body. So hopefully and maybe what I
got there was a nice, hopefully athletic dead person and
they replaced it in there, and I was basically fast
tracked to get to go and do this.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, Zombie Derek is coming to play.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You're coming to play alongside a ton of other Vets
and some New Threats because this season is called the
Challenge Vets and New Threats. As I mentioned Wednesday, July thirtieth,
very excited that that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Will be coming next week.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And we only have next month, I should say, we
only have a few more months without a challenge in
our life.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So we're gonna go through.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We're gonna name every cast member that will be taking part.
You're gonna recognize some of them, obviously the Vets. You
might recognize some of the New Threats as well. Then
we're gonna say goodbye to you guys on the main
feed and over at challengemaniacs dot com we are going
to get full breakdowns of all of these cast members.
So without further ado, let's start with the vets here,
all right. MICHAELA. Bradshaw two challenges. You guys also know
(07:00):
her from Survivor. She is back in the thick of things.
Theo Campbell last performed on season forty He.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Is back after four challenges.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Derek Chavez took home a lot of Challenge Mania awards
this year, and this is his sixth challenge or I believe.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Let me see, is this the seventh challenge? I believe?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, this would be his seventh challenge. So these are
the amount of challenges they've done before. Johnny Bananas is back.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You guys know.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Johnny Banana is our featured guest in Atlanta on July thirteenth.
Can still get tickets to that? Johnny Banana is coming
back to maybe take home his eighth win. Anissa Ferreira
one of the most storied female competitors. Can she finally
take home that female title? We're going to find out
season forty one on July the thirtieth. Speaking of seasoned veterans,
we've got Leroy Garrett and Nani Gonzalez, both from Real
(07:46):
World Vegas. We just announced that Nanny Gonzalez will be
with us in Michigan on October fifth. Leroy Garrett ironically
lives in Michigan. We'll see if he'll be making appearance.
We don't know, but as I mentioned, you can get
tickets a Challenge Media Dot Live. Olivia Kaiser one of
the if you newer quote unquote vets on the season,
alongside her still current booth THEO they're going alive and
well in Alaska. If you've been following their social media travels.
(08:09):
Three challenges under her belt. This is her fourth. We'll
see what she can do with it. The aforementioned Derek Kazinski,
we've talked about you. Aviv is back. We love seeing
that Aviv, after taking what was it eighteen years off,
returning as an alternate on season forty is now back
on season forty one, and you love to see it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
We had wondered we always talk about, is All Stars
sort of purgatory island before people make their triumphant return
to MTV and the flagship show. Well, Ashley Mitchell is
back ten Challenges two wins, of course, some of the
most wins out of any female competitor.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Ashley Mitchell's back, and she will be.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Playing on the same season as someone we know she
does not get along with Anissa Ferrera. We'll see how
that goes. Naya Moore five challenges under her belt, and
here's a good one. The bear ROGI bear Rogan O'Connor
re challenges, so I believe this would be okay. So
this must be the amount that they've done, including this,
because he's only done two seasons, correct Rogan, right, yeah, yeah,
(09:05):
so this is his third.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, so one win, of course, got.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The way I don't I don't know if that's I
don't know if that's correct because we said that Derek
Chavez this was his seventh challenge, but it says six.
And if this says Rogan has.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It says has three, so that would tell me that anyway. Well,
either way, Rogan O'Connor one win. Have not seen him
in quite some time, and he's someone we obviously love.
We had him in Pittsburgh a few years back. We'll
be in Pittsburgh next week without him but with CT
so good to see Rogan back.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Car Maria Sorbelo, the Queen of the show. She's back.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Cet Tamborello, somebody we will be with next Saturday. We'll
talk about how it feels to be back on season
forty one. Obviously not the best run for him alongside you.
On season forty we'll see if he can redeem himself.
And then last but certainly not least on this Vets
roster here d Turbo my God. Four challenges, one win.
Turbo is here rounding out the Vets before we get
(09:58):
to the new Threats. Give us some general thoughts on
this group. Don't go into too much detail, we'll save
that for Challengemaniacs dot com.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
But yeah, just to just to just to like confirm,
it's three challenges for Rogan. This will be his fourth,
so like you you were right. It was like Derek
has six challenges, that's right, and then and this will
(10:25):
be his seventh.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So Rogan appeared.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
So he got the first exit on Vendettas and he won.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Uh the oh you know what.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The third one is total madness, that's what we're getting,
where he loses to Johnny Bananas up on the ice block.
That's the last time we've seen him and that's the
last time we've spoken to him. Actually was talking to
people recently about his last appearance on the podcast and
how he opened up about a lot of mistakes he'd
made in the past. And I remember candidly talking. I
believe this was in my private group chat with the
(10:55):
patrons over a challengemaniacs dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's right, I got.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
A maniac level group chat. There's also diesel level group chat.
But it's a constant back and forth. We're always talking
about stuff, a lot of stuff that maybe wouldn't put
on social media and whatnot. But where people were talking
about Rogan in that interview, and I remember it at
the time, and it's interesting. I'll talk about this now
while we're talking about Rogan. There were some things at
the time that were going around, old tweets of his
or old videos him, you know, singing. It was either
(11:20):
tweets or singing lyrics and whatnot, or quoting movies and things,
and yeah, you remember what I'm talking about. I thought
it was it was Drake. It was Drake lyrics. It
was pulp fiction quotes, things like that, and he was
and he told me off airs like you know, they
told me not to talk about it. It told me this,
and I said, look, dude, I go, here's the thing.
You don't talk about it, and then they still don't
bring you back till season forty one, and then by
(11:41):
the time you want to go and address this and apologize,
all the fans will think it's disingenuous.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I go. If you go and you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Apologize about it, now at least the fans know where
you stand and they can decide. Well, guess what, he
apologized for it. He addressed it directly, and we still
didn't see him ttil season forty one, So who knows
whether it's he brought it up or not, whether he's
been in time out, or whether they just had different
options for the last few seasons.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's great to have the Rogie.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Bear back in our lives, uh as well, as we
mentioned Nashally Mitchell as well.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
So a lot of a lot of triumphant returns here
for the flagship. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, I think whenever you get to know, like you know,
the the true hearts of some of these people that
you know have made quote unquote mistakes in the past,
like you know that you know they that sometimes the
world you know, kind of steers us in the in
the wrong direction and you don't know, and they act
out of ignorance. And I think that, you know, Rogan,
(12:33):
you know, it's nice to see him back because when
you get to know him, you know what kind of
a person he is. And uh, yeah, he does do
still do some dumb goofy stuff on on social media,
but that's that, that's who he is. And uh, I
don't think there's any malicious intent. And uh it's pretty
interesting that you know, we got you know, we got
that kind of like exclusive back then.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh So let's say let's say this, we've been talking.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We're trying to figure out a time maybe during season
forty one, where he'll be back in the States and
we can hopefully bring him out to meet some of
you find folks, because as of now, he's only appeared
at that first ever Challenge Mania Pittsburgh show at the
City Winery a couple of years back. And he was
a hit back then, not just with the fans. I
remember he was hit with the fans. I remember him
signing quite a few breasts and whatnot, but also Susie
(13:17):
Meister loved him.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I think all that.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I think her son Lincoln loved him. He's just a
ball of energy. Everybody loves Rogan, so glad he's back
in our lives. Now, let me ask you this. So
we haven't gotten to the new threats yet, a lot
of those will feel new and fresh. A lot of
people from United States shows you might recognize.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But we're talking just the Vets.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
This makes up half the cast, Okay, So I always
say the caveat when you have a theme like this
where only half of the cast are Vets, it's going
to be a smaller number across the board. However, are
you surprised to see such little representation of what you
would call the latest era of the Challenge, Era four
if you will. THEO and Olivia, by my account, are
(13:55):
really the only Era four representatives in this group of veterans.
I guess Mikayla would be in there as well. Mikayla
also Era four. She didn't participate on season forty. She
was literally on team Era four, but she is a
newer cast member as well, so THEO, Mikayla, and Olivia.
I don't know if you've been following on social media,
(14:16):
Arassio has been very outspoken about not getting a call
for the season Dereese has mentioned she didn't get a
call for the season. I've been saying, look, and this
is kind of what I've been alluding to. When you
take a look at this group, it's really not that
many people from seasons thirty eight, thirty nine, forty, et
cetera that that, you know, you shouldn't really be offended.
It's not like they took twelve of your peers and
(14:36):
not you. Clearly, this wasn't something where they had a
lot of folks from Ryder Dieser later, spies, lies and
allieser later on their radar. So were you surprised to
see not those familiar faces of the latest crop of
newer challengers?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You know, to be honest with you, I'm surprised with
the whole cast and the Rogan.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Rogan is kind of borderline.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, even Turbo is kind of like the newer era, right,
even though he's like an older fella, he's in his
you know, late thirties. You know, I think he's like
thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven, he's still kind of
like I think maybe Era four. He may be Era four.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, I'm kind of mad. I'm kind of mad.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I called it Era four Here's why, because I don't
think all air fours are equal, because to me, Josh
and Paul and Rogan, except in Turbo, are not.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
They're like first half of Era four.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
They feel like they've been a part of this world
since pre pandemic, since War of the Worlds, They've been around.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Let's put it through this way.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Rogan debuted on Vendettas, which was season thirty one.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Choochoo.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Guess what, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
The train, the Chew Cheo train, the CT Tamparello train
is rolling through Pittsburgh Saturday, June twenty eighth. Yes, I
know it's relative short notice, but that just goes to
show you never know when a guest is going to
be added to a challenge, made a live lineup, and
you never know when a headliner like CT might pop
his head onto our stage. Guess what, guys, there are
still tickets available for those of you guys who already
(16:02):
showed faith and did buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
You are good to go. For those of you guys who've.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
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Girls in the House Hall of famers Susie Meister and
(16:28):
Sarah Rice, plus the Godfather, Mark Long plus Derek Kaczinski.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I will be there as well.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
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It's going to be a great afternoon at Celebrations Bank
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Speaker 2 (16:48):
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Speaker 2 (17:50):
So I don't think Wrogan is in the same group.
What I really met were the kind of rider dies
or later kind of people spies, lies and allies or laters.
You're just remember we did talk about how that with
such a seismic rookie class with your ravens and nurses
and Rossio's and Olivia's, that's kind of more where I'm
at with it. THEO also again kind of fits in
the Rogan crop. You forget because he's kind of had
two arcs here. He took so much time off with
(18:12):
the eye injury that this is sort of THEO two
point zero, THEO one point oh debuted on More of
the Worlds alongside car Maria. So you know, I just
think you know, to me, what really jumps out of
me are the really the really true new cast members
who only debuted on The Challenge season thirty seven or
later are Mikayla and Olivia.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So let's let's go more with that.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Let's say you no so so here here. The biggest
issue with with casting the past few few seasons has
been like, not casting the right amount of ogs, right,
Like I think people like are okay with getting to
know some of the newer cast, but not a whole cast, right,
(18:55):
And we'll get to the rest of the sixteen rookies
that people are not going to know anything about. And
you're lucky that you got me here, because when you
look at the list, you ain't gonna know shit about
any of them. And I think it's it's well, maybe
a few you would, maybe a few.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Well that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
That's what we're gonna do next because we're still in
the free preview over at challengemaniacs dot com, which you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Is interesting because this is what separates.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Us from a lot of Not only are you here
during this cast breakdown to give us firsthand knowledge not
just of the veterans that you know well from several
years of playing alongside them, but these new threats are,
like you said, new names to me and a lot
of other people out there, whereas you have a bit
of an added insight and will continue to have one
throughout the season. So that's what people will be getting
over at Challenge Maniacs dot com full bonus episodes every week,
(19:42):
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(20:05):
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(20:26):
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We have lots of other fun stuff, as I mentioned
(20:50):
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early tips on stuff and whatnot. So all right, d
let's roll through just name all the new threats. Then
we're going to say goodbye to the main feed.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But let me just give my my quick two cents
on the Olivia and Mikayla. Yeah, so Olivia I do
think is the youngest vet right and uh and I
do think her and Theo are are that that that
couple that may have sort of like now taken place
(21:20):
of Harasho Nourice, right, Like remember it was like Hirasio
and Nourice were kind of like our our headliner for
a little while there. But you know, coming off of
season forty you've had this you know, you know, brewing
romance with Deo and Olivia and like you said, they're
they're they're going strong in Alaska. It's kind of like
our that that new to watch couple, you know. And
(21:42):
uh in Olivia you know very much made a name
for herself on season thirty nine, Like she was the
headliner on season thirty nine, whether it was like the
one person or you know, one of four people that
came out of uh what was that season called battleflo
Champion where it was all newbies, and these are the
(22:05):
two that are kind of like, you know, at least
Olivia is kind of the one that really came out
of that, you know, Nourice and Hirassu of course as well.
But here we go we get to kind of follow this, uh,
you know, from Shattered Face to you know what will
we see you know coming in the future with Olivia.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think people from Shattered Face to the face maybe
who knows, you.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Know, yes, you know, she's She's the one that's kind
of that we accepted, right, It's the challenge community sort
of accepted and we're like, you know what, this from
this crop of people that we want to never see again,
this is the one that we want to give a chance, right,
And she's taken her Boo with her, And to be fair,
(23:01):
Theo is still one of the most interesting characters that
we haven't really been able to see, you know, full
seasons out of I think he gets a bad break
on on Battle for a New World Champion or what's
called World Champs or whatever it's called whatever it was
called this the season, the international season where what was
(23:22):
called Global Championship. It was like people people that people
were upset that this guy was even on there. Uh
making it to the end with Sarah Lesina, Uh, I
just feel like we never get to see his full
personality come to fruition. So hopefully this is uh you know,
(23:43):
uh a team that we'll we'll be looking forward to.
And also you got to watch out there's this faction.
There is a faction and it is Olivia Theo and
Derek Chavez.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, well, we're gonna talk more in detail about the
vets and the threats over Challenge Me. But just to
round out this free preview, and like what you said
is to Olivia thirty two years old, Mikayla thirty four
years old, or remember michaela debut on Survival It seems
like a decade ago. I don't have it in front
of me, but I think it was about ten years ago.
We're going to breeze through the names of the new threats. Now,
we're going to say goodbye to the main feed and
(24:16):
we're going to break them all down in detail or
as much detail as we can get to over at
challengemaniacs dot com that we're going to answer some more
questions about the vets and the threats for Challenge Mania patrons.
All right, meet the new threats. Jake Cornish, Love Island
All Stars. We've got Ben Davis, who is a boxer. Now,
it's so interesting when you get these cast lists. You
get these names to tell you what shows they debut on,
(24:37):
and then sometimes you get Boxer, so it'll be interesting
to get your take on Ben Davis and what sort
of boxer he is and whatnot? Or is that a
show called Boxer that airs in nider No, Argentina or something?
Leonardo Dianoccio And excuse my pronunciation on some of these names.
I'm sure that hopefully later on we'll be able to
find tune that Love Island, USA. Is he Fairthorne too
(24:58):
hot to handle? Bill Gagnin? Are you the one? Justin
Hinsley from Cheer Now? And believe Cheers a show from
Netflix about cheerleading Again, I don't think it's the show Cheers,
by the way, shouts to Norm Rip from Cheers, Cedric
Hodges from Big Brother twenty six. More Big Brother representation
(25:19):
continuing to funnel down to the challenge Jeremy Hi k
or Hi Khi Kai from The Amazing Race thirty five.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
That we've got Blue Kim Blue Kim.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Interesting name there, but I do remember hearing somebody from
Blue on Big Brother twenty five, So she'll be playing
alongside America Lopez from Big Brother twenty five as well.
So we've got two people from Big Brother twenty five,
one person from Big Brother twenty six, and you wonder
will America the country be rooting for America the cast
member Adrian Naylor from Married at First Sight UK. Here's
(25:54):
someone I do remember from Survivor's season forty one, Sydney Siegel.
I'll admit I haven't thought about her much since Survivor
season forty one, but she is back to play here
on the Challenge.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We'll see what she brings to the table.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Leka Sodade from Canada's Ultimate Challenge. That sounds like a
badass show. D Via dares now d one Survivor forty five.
A lot of people think she's had the most successful
modern Survivor season that's post Survivor forty out of anyone.
She really steamrolled and was a great cast member, Such
a great cast member on that season. In addition to
(26:26):
winning that Jeff made her the co host of his
podcast for the following season, and such a dominant and
popular Survivor cast member that we can already say because
it's been publicly announced by Survivor on the CBS Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Was revealed a few months ago or a few weeks ago.
I should say d.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Is back competing on Survivor fifty, which I believe is
filming right now. So d viadares not hearing this, not
seeing this cast announcement, because she is very much in
the thick of Survivor fifty, so shouts to her she
will be going.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I believe the way that this will I not believe.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I know the way that will air chronologically is that
July thirtieth, she's going to be on season forty one.
And then if you end up loving d and you
want more of her, we'll guess what. You'll get more
of her in early twenty twenty six when Survivor fifty debuts,
to Survivor forty nine's debut, and right down the road
here and I believe September twenty twenty five, two more here, Gabe,
why I believe it's WAI. So I'm gonna say why
(27:20):
for now, and hopefully you can tell me if I'm
right or wrong. He's listed as former WWE, so we've
got a boxer and we've got a former wrestler, it seems.
And then last, but not least, or maybe least, we'll
find out when we see the show. Tay Will Coxon
from Big Brother Australia fifteen D. Don't get too specific
because we're saying goodbye to the main feed, but give
me quick general thoughts on this group of new threats.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Well you didn't know did you know him? Then? But
once you start listening, you'll get to know him a
little bit more. So tune in to our little break
down here because you know, again some even some of
these shows like I'm not even familiar with right like uh,
(28:07):
like you have like, uh, you know Canada's Ultimate Challenge,
right like, you know, I'm gonna have to give you
a little bit on that, uh you know former WWE.
I'm sure we have a little bit you know, to
talk about on there. Uh you know Big Brother Australia.
You know, there's there's only a few people that I
recognized from this cast that I was like, oh, like,
(28:30):
for example, like I recognize Blue and America because I
think somewhere down the line that was the time when
I was trying to watch Big Brother. I was making
a valiant effort to try to get into Big Brother,
just like I've tried to get into Survivor and I've
only watched a handful of seasons where I would be like, Oh,
(28:52):
I saw you on that show I watched. I tried
to watch that show, and coincidentally, Blue and America, I
watched some of their show somewhere down the line, and
I recognize them, And those were the only ones really.
So the rest of these people you know from Amazing
(29:13):
Race thirty five, you know the most recent Big Brother
with Cedric? Are you the one with will like too
Hot to Handle? I needed to get some more information
on too Hot to Handle and how that works, you know, So.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Well, look, our thoughts might be too hot to handle
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You can also go back and listen to all of
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(30:14):
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Speaker 1 (30:18):
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Speaker 2 (30:26):
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(30:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is Scott Jeger here with a very special edition
of Challenge Mania.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yes, it's that special.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Episode that we dropped once or twice a year that
we know you guys are excited by. And this episode
is brought to you by Challenge Mania Live Pittsburgh next Saturday,
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is the big Man. CT.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Tamborello, who we're gonna mention again in this episode has
joined this epic lineup. He has joined his Traders co
champion Trischelle Cannetella to Challenge Mania Hall of Famers in
Susie Meister and Sarah Rice and boy Mike excited to
see Susie Meister with a live mic in front of CT.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I'll just say that.
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And two more Challenge Mania Hall of Famers in Derek
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Speaker 1 (01:14):
All Right, you didn't come for me, you came for D.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And if you came for D, you might want to
check out your TV screens on Wednesday, July thirtieth as well,
because he's here to break down the cast and the
season of the Challenge season forty one.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
With me, mister Derek Kazinski Wisharto.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah. First of all, I was not expecting to see
my name on this cast list, considering what had happened
on season forty But there I am. There he is,
He's right there in the thick of all these vets.
I think we've got here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, sixteen.
(02:00):
That's how that's how much I I remember. I had
to count sixteen and sixteen. That's thirty two, that's sixteen,
that's in sixteen new threats. We're you expecting that one?
We're you expecting that one.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Here's what I'll say.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And first of all, if you're new to our Challenge
Mania season and cast drops and breakdown podcast. Well, you
might be hearing a free preview of this on the
Challenge Mania podcast feed. To hear the whole shebang, you're
gonna want to go to Challenge at maniacs dot com
is where you get all of our bonus podcasts. That's
where every week Derek and I will be breaking down
season one, season forty one, I should say, one episode
(02:37):
at a time. We again do put free previews on
the main feed, but if you want to get the
full episodes ad free full video, we are not doing
full video of this reason being I'm smack dab in
the middle of my vacation. I had sneak into a
little boardroom here at the gorgeous Marriott in Marco Island, Florida.
Hopefully they don't start their meeting earlier, come and boot me.
And if this podcast ends abruptly, you'll know why. But
(02:59):
either way, go to challenge maniac dot com right now,
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Speaker 1 (03:10):
Recorded them all. Right now, Derek, what.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You're asking me, is am I surprised to see your
name even though obviously logistically you can't even be gone
without me having to bring in guest hosts or you know,
have to call on a fill in for a live
show or do some interviews by myself.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I'm still more.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I'm still more, but I'm still more surprised to see
your name on here, or whenever I quote unquote saw
your name on here figuratively, because, as you mentioned, dude,
you suffered. I want you to just walk us through
this before we break down the other people you're gonna
be playing with. Normally we save your name for last,
we do the big reveal at the end. No, we're
going to talk about you first, because what I want
to ask you about is how you got to go
(03:49):
on a plane to go film the show when the
last time we saw you, you you shattered your leg
or your knee, and we heard that you had an
epic amount of surgery and medical attention that you had
to and to beginning end of last year. So how
does someone go from that to being able to take
part in a challenge that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Had to film in the last few months. Here walk
us through that.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, A lot of quick work, a lot of luck
on your side, and yeah, kind of piece in the
leg back together is what happened, and it happened pretty far.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Remind us of what the injury will remind us what
the injury was. What was the injury?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So I tore my ACL and meniscus when I jumped
in the mudpit on season forty. You may have heard
me say, I think I broke my leg. I think
I broke my leg. I didn't break my leg, I
didn't break a bone. I tore my ACL. I'm sure
if you guys, anybody pays attention to sports, it is
(04:47):
a very common injury. But at forty years old, it's
an injury that takes a lot more time than you
know your regular you know, college or or or when
you're younger. The body heals a little bit faster when
you're older. Like for me, what I did was typically
(05:12):
what people get when they tear their ACL. The reconstruction
is they take your patella tendon or your quad tendon
and replace that ACL graft with that. They use your
own body to heal your body. Now what they did
with me, since I'm over forty, my ligaments, my tendons
(05:34):
aren't as youthful and spry as you know the younger days.
They took a graft from a cadaver, from a dead body,
and they replaced that acl from a cadaver. It's a
it's a cadaver graft. Basically, that's a dead body. It's
(05:56):
from a dead body. So hopefully and maybe what I
got there was a nice, hopefully athletic dead person and
they replaced it in there, and I was basically fast
tracked to get to go and do this.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, Zombie Derek is coming to play.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
You're coming to play alongside a ton of other Vets
and some New Threats because this season is called the
Challenge Vets and New Threats. As I mentioned Wednesday, July thirtieth,
very excited that that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Will be coming next week.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And we only have next month, I should say, we
only have a few more months without a challenge in
our life.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So we're gonna go through.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We're gonna name every cast member that will be taking part.
You're gonna recognize some of them, obviously the Vets. You
might recognize some of the New Threats as well. Then
we're gonna say goodbye to you guys on the main
feed and over at challengemaniacs dot com we are going
to get full breakdowns of all of these cast members.
So without further ado, let's start with the vets here,
all right. MICHAELA. Bradshaw two challenges. You guys also know
(07:00):
her from Survivor. She is back in the thick of things.
Theo Campbell last performed on season forty He.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Is back after four challenges.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Derek Chavez took home a lot of Challenge Mania awards
this year, and this is his sixth challenge or I believe.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Let me see, is this the seventh challenge? I believe?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, this would be his seventh challenge. So these are
the amount of challenges they've done before. Johnny Bananas is back.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You guys know.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Johnny Banana is our featured guest in Atlanta on July thirteenth.
Can still get tickets to that? Johnny Banana is coming
back to maybe take home his eighth win. Anissa Ferreira
one of the most storied female competitors. Can she finally
take home that female title? We're going to find out
season forty one on July the thirtieth. Speaking of seasoned veterans,
we've got Leroy Garrett and Nani Gonzalez, both from Real
(07:46):
World Vegas. We just announced that Nanny Gonzalez will be
with us in Michigan on October fifth. Leroy Garrett ironically
lives in Michigan. We'll see if he'll be making appearance.
We don't know, but as I mentioned, you can get
tickets a Challenge Media Dot Live. Olivia Kaiser one of
the if you newer quote unquote vets on the season,
alongside her still current booth THEO they're going alive and
well in Alaska. If you've been following their social media travels.
(08:09):
Three challenges under her belt. This is her fourth. We'll
see what she can do with it. The aforementioned Derek Kazinski,
we've talked about you. Aviv is back. We love seeing
that Aviv, after taking what was it eighteen years off,
returning as an alternate on season forty is now back
on season forty one, and you love to see it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
We had wondered we always talk about, is All Stars
sort of purgatory island before people make their triumphant return
to MTV and the flagship show. Well, Ashley Mitchell is
back ten Challenges two wins, of course, some of the
most wins out of any female competitor.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Ashley Mitchell's back, and she will be.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Playing on the same season as someone we know she
does not get along with Anissa Ferrera. We'll see how
that goes. Naya Moore five challenges under her belt, and
here's a good one. The bear ROGI bear Rogan O'Connor
re challenges, so I believe this would be okay. So
this must be the amount that they've done, including this,
because he's only done two seasons, correct Rogan, right, yeah, yeah,
(09:05):
so this is his third.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, so one win, of course, got.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The way I don't I don't know if that's I
don't know if that's correct because we said that Derek
Chavez this was his seventh challenge, but it says six.
And if this says Rogan has.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It says has three, so that would tell me that anyway. Well,
either way, Rogan O'Connor one win. Have not seen him
in quite some time, and he's someone we obviously love.
We had him in Pittsburgh a few years back. We'll
be in Pittsburgh next week without him but with CT
so good to see Rogan back.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Car Maria Sorbelo, the Queen of the show. She's back.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Cet Tamborello, somebody we will be with next Saturday. We'll
talk about how it feels to be back on season
forty one. Obviously not the best run for him alongside you.
On season forty we'll see if he can redeem himself.
And then last but certainly not least on this Vets
roster here d Turbo my God. Four challenges, one win.
Turbo is here rounding out the Vets before we get
(09:58):
to the new Threats. Give us some general thoughts on
this group. Don't go into too much detail, we'll save
that for Challengemaniacs dot com.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
But yeah, just to just to just to like confirm,
it's three challenges for Rogan. This will be his fourth,
so like you you were right. It was like Derek
has six challenges, that's right, and then and this will
(10:25):
be his seventh.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So Rogan appeared.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
So he got the first exit on Vendettas and he won.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Uh the oh you know what.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
The third one is total madness, that's what we're getting,
where he loses to Johnny Bananas up on the ice block.
That's the last time we've seen him and that's the
last time we've spoken to him. Actually was talking to
people recently about his last appearance on the podcast and
how he opened up about a lot of mistakes he'd
made in the past. And I remember candidly talking. I
believe this was in my private group chat with the
(10:55):
patrons over a challengemaniacs dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's right, I got.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
A maniac level group chat. There's also diesel level group chat.
But it's a constant back and forth. We're always talking
about stuff, a lot of stuff that maybe wouldn't put
on social media and whatnot. But where people were talking
about Rogan in that interview, and I remember it at
the time, and it's interesting. I'll talk about this now
while we're talking about Rogan. There were some things at
the time that were going around, old tweets of his
or old videos him, you know, singing. It was either
(11:20):
tweets or singing lyrics and whatnot, or quoting movies and things,
and yeah, you remember what I'm talking about. I thought
it was it was Drake. It was Drake lyrics. It
was pulp fiction quotes, things like that, and he was
and he told me off airs like you know, they
told me not to talk about it. It told me this,
and I said, look, dude, I go, here's the thing.
You don't talk about it, and then they still don't
bring you back till season forty one, and then by
(11:41):
the time you want to go and address this and apologize,
all the fans will think it's disingenuous.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I go. If you go and you.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Apologize about it, now at least the fans know where
you stand and they can decide. Well, guess what, he
apologized for it. He addressed it directly, and we still
didn't see him ttil season forty one, So who knows
whether it's he brought it up or not, whether he's
been in time out, or whether they just had different
options for the last few seasons.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's great to have the Rogie.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Bear back in our lives, uh as well, as we
mentioned Nashally Mitchell as well.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
So a lot of a lot of triumphant returns here
for the flagship. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, I think whenever you get to know, like you know,
the the true hearts of some of these people that
you know have made quote unquote mistakes in the past,
like you know that you know they that sometimes the
world you know, kind of steers us in the in
the wrong direction and you don't know, and they act
out of ignorance. And I think that, you know, Rogan,
(12:33):
you know, it's nice to see him back because when
you get to know him, you know what kind of
a person he is. And uh, yeah, he does do
still do some dumb goofy stuff on on social media,
but that's that, that's who he is. And uh, I
don't think there's any malicious intent. And uh it's pretty
interesting that you know, we got you know, we got
that kind of like exclusive back then.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh So let's say let's say this, we've been talking.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We're trying to figure out a time maybe during season
forty one, where he'll be back in the States and
we can hopefully bring him out to meet some of
you find folks, because as of now, he's only appeared
at that first ever Challenge Mania Pittsburgh show at the
City Winery a couple of years back. And he was
a hit back then, not just with the fans. I
remember he was hit with the fans. I remember him
signing quite a few breasts and whatnot, but also Susie
(13:17):
Meister loved him.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I think all that.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I think her son Lincoln loved him. He's just a
ball of energy. Everybody loves Rogan, so glad he's back
in our lives. Now, let me ask you this. So
we haven't gotten to the new threats yet, a lot
of those will feel new and fresh. A lot of
people from United States shows you might recognize.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But we're talking just the Vets.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
This makes up half the cast, Okay, So I always
say the caveat when you have a theme like this
where only half of the cast are Vets, it's going
to be a smaller number across the board. However, are
you surprised to see such little representation of what you
would call the latest era of the Challenge, Era four
if you will. THEO and Olivia, by my account, are
(13:55):
really the only Era four representatives in this group of veterans.
I guess Mikayla would be in there as well. Mikayla
also Era four. She didn't participate on season forty. She
was literally on team Era four, but she is a
newer cast member as well, so THEO, Mikayla, and Olivia.
I don't know if you've been following on social media,
(14:16):
Arassio has been very outspoken about not getting a call
for the season Dereese has mentioned she didn't get a
call for the season. I've been saying, look, and this
is kind of what I've been alluding to. When you
take a look at this group, it's really not that
many people from seasons thirty eight, thirty nine, forty, et
cetera that that, you know, you shouldn't really be offended.
It's not like they took twelve of your peers and
(14:36):
not you. Clearly, this wasn't something where they had a
lot of folks from Ryder Dieser later, spies, lies and
allieser later on their radar. So were you surprised to
see not those familiar faces of the latest crop of
newer challengers?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You know, to be honest with you, I'm surprised with
the whole cast and the Rogan.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Rogan is kind of borderline.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, even Turbo is kind of like the newer era, right,
even though he's like an older fella, he's in his
you know, late thirties. You know, I think he's like
thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven, he's still kind of
like I think maybe Era four. He may be Era four.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, I'm kind of mad. I'm kind of mad.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I called it Era four Here's why, because I don't
think all air fours are equal, because to me, Josh
and Paul and Rogan, except in Turbo, are not.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
They're like first half of Era four.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
They feel like they've been a part of this world
since pre pandemic, since War of the Worlds, They've been around.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Let's put it through this way.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Rogan debuted on Vendettas, which was season thirty one.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Choochoo.
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Speaker 2 (17:50):
So I don't think Wrogan is in the same group.
What I really met were the kind of rider dies
or later kind of people spies, lies and allies or laters.
You're just remember we did talk about how that with
such a seismic rookie class with your ravens and nurses
and Rossio's and Olivia's, that's kind of more where I'm
at with it. THEO also again kind of fits in
the Rogan crop. You forget because he's kind of had
two arcs here. He took so much time off with
(18:12):
the eye injury that this is sort of THEO two
point zero, THEO one point oh debuted on More of
the Worlds alongside car Maria. So you know, I just
think you know, to me, what really jumps out of
me are the really the really true new cast members
who only debuted on The Challenge season thirty seven or
later are Mikayla and Olivia.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So let's let's go more with that.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Let's say you no so so here here. The biggest
issue with with casting the past few few seasons has
been like, not casting the right amount of ogs, right,
Like I think people like are okay with getting to
know some of the newer cast, but not a whole cast, right,
(18:55):
And we'll get to the rest of the sixteen rookies
that people are not going to know anything about. And
you're lucky that you got me here, because when you
look at the list, you ain't gonna know shit about
any of them. And I think it's it's well, maybe
a few you would, maybe a few.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Well that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
That's what we're gonna do next because we're still in
the free preview over at challengemaniacs dot com, which you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Is interesting because this is what separates.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Us from a lot of Not only are you here
during this cast breakdown to give us firsthand knowledge not
just of the veterans that you know well from several
years of playing alongside them, but these new threats are,
like you said, new names to me and a lot
of other people out there, whereas you have a bit
of an added insight and will continue to have one
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(19:42):
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(20:05):
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(20:26):
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We have lots of other fun stuff, as I mentioned
(20:50):
that group chat where you get lots of inside info,
early tips on stuff and whatnot. So all right, d
let's roll through just name all the new threats. Then
we're going to say goodbye to the main feed.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But let me just give my my quick two cents
on the Olivia and Mikayla. Yeah, so Olivia I do
think is the youngest vet right and uh and I
do think her and Theo are are that that that
couple that may have sort of like now taken place
(21:20):
of Harasho Nourice, right, Like remember it was like Hirasio
and Nourice were kind of like our our headliner for
a little while there. But you know, coming off of
season forty you've had this you know, you know, brewing
romance with Deo and Olivia and like you said, they're
they're they're going strong in Alaska. It's kind of like
our that that new to watch couple, you know. And
(21:42):
uh in Olivia you know very much made a name
for herself on season thirty nine, Like she was the
headliner on season thirty nine, whether it was like the
one person or you know, one of four people that
came out of uh what was that season called battleflo
Champion where it was all newbies, and these are the
(22:05):
two that are kind of like, you know, at least
Olivia is kind of the one that really came out
of that, you know, Nourice and Hirassu of course as well.
But here we go we get to kind of follow this, uh,
you know, from Shattered Face to you know what will
we see you know coming in the future with Olivia.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I think people from Shattered Face to the face maybe
who knows, you.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Know, yes, you know, she's She's the one that's kind
of that we accepted, right, It's the challenge community sort
of accepted and we're like, you know what, this from
this crop of people that we want to never see again,
this is the one that we want to give a chance, right,
And she's taken her Boo with her, And to be fair,
(23:01):
Theo is still one of the most interesting characters that
we haven't really been able to see, you know, full
seasons out of I think he gets a bad break
on on Battle for a New World Champion or what's
called World Champs or whatever it's called whatever it was
called this the season, the international season where what was
(23:22):
called Global Championship. It was like people people that people
were upset that this guy was even on there. Uh
making it to the end with Sarah Lesina, Uh, I
just feel like we never get to see his full
personality come to fruition. So hopefully this is uh you know,
(23:43):
uh a team that we'll we'll be looking forward to.
And also you got to watch out there's this faction.
There is a faction and it is Olivia Theo and
Derek Chavez.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, well, we're gonna talk more in detail about the
vets and the threats over Challenge Me. But just to
round out this free preview, and like what you said
is to Olivia thirty two years old, Mikayla thirty four
years old, or remember michaela debut on Survival It seems
like a decade ago. I don't have it in front
of me, but I think it was about ten years ago.
We're going to breeze through the names of the new threats. Now,
we're going to say goodbye to the main feed and
(24:16):
we're going to break them all down in detail or
as much detail as we can get to over at
challengemaniacs dot com that we're going to answer some more
questions about the vets and the threats for Challenge Mania patrons.
All right, meet the new threats. Jake Cornish, Love Island
All Stars. We've got Ben Davis, who is a boxer. Now,
it's so interesting when you get these cast lists. You
get these names to tell you what shows they debut on,
(24:37):
and then sometimes you get Boxer, so it'll be interesting
to get your take on Ben Davis and what sort
of boxer he is and whatnot? Or is that a
show called Boxer that airs in nider No, Argentina or something?
Leonardo Dianoccio And excuse my pronunciation on some of these names.
I'm sure that hopefully later on we'll be able to
find tune that Love Island, USA. Is he Fairthorne too
(24:58):
hot to handle? Bill Gagnin? Are you the one? Justin
Hinsley from Cheer Now? And believe Cheers a show from
Netflix about cheerleading Again, I don't think it's the show Cheers,
by the way, shouts to Norm Rip from Cheers, Cedric
Hodges from Big Brother twenty six. More Big Brother representation
(25:19):
continuing to funnel down to the challenge Jeremy Hi k
or Hi Khi Kai from The Amazing Race thirty five.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
That we've got Blue Kim Blue Kim.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Interesting name there, but I do remember hearing somebody from
Blue on Big Brother twenty five, So she'll be playing
alongside America Lopez from Big Brother twenty five as well.
So we've got two people from Big Brother twenty five,
one person from Big Brother twenty six, and you wonder
will America the country be rooting for America the cast
member Adrian Naylor from Married at First Sight UK. Here's
(25:54):
someone I do remember from Survivor's season forty one, Sydney Siegel.
I'll admit I haven't thought about her much since Survivor
season forty one, but she is back to play here
on the Challenge.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We'll see what she brings to the table.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Leka Sodade from Canada's Ultimate Challenge. That sounds like a
badass show. D Via dares now d one Survivor forty five.
A lot of people think she's had the most successful
modern Survivor season that's post Survivor forty out of anyone.
She really steamrolled and was a great cast member, Such
a great cast member on that season. In addition to
(26:26):
winning that Jeff made her the co host of his
podcast for the following season, and such a dominant and
popular Survivor cast member that we can already say because
it's been publicly announced by Survivor on the CBS Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Was revealed a few months ago or a few weeks ago.
I should say d.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Is back competing on Survivor fifty, which I believe is
filming right now. So d viadares not hearing this, not
seeing this cast announcement, because she is very much in
the thick of Survivor fifty, so shouts to her she
will be going.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I believe the way that this will I not believe.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I know the way that will air chronologically is that
July thirtieth, she's going to be on season forty one.
And then if you end up loving d and you
want more of her, we'll guess what. You'll get more
of her in early twenty twenty six when Survivor fifty debuts,
to Survivor forty nine's debut, and right down the road
here and I believe September twenty twenty five, two more here, Gabe,
why I believe it's WAI. So I'm gonna say why
(27:20):
for now, and hopefully you can tell me if I'm
right or wrong. He's listed as former WWE, so we've
got a boxer and we've got a former wrestler, it seems.
And then last, but not least, or maybe least, we'll
find out when we see the show. Tay Will Coxon
from Big Brother Australia fifteen D. Don't get too specific
because we're saying goodbye to the main feed, but give
me quick general thoughts on this group of new threats.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Well you didn't know did you know him? Then? But
once you start listening, you'll get to know him a
little bit more. So tune in to our little break
down here because you know, again some even some of
these shows like I'm not even familiar with right like uh,
(28:07):
like you have like, uh, you know Canada's Ultimate Challenge,
right like, you know, I'm gonna have to give you
a little bit on that, uh you know former WWE.
I'm sure we have a little bit you know, to
talk about on there. Uh you know Big Brother Australia.
You know, there's there's only a few people that I
recognized from this cast that I was like, oh, like,
(28:30):
for example, like I recognize Blue and America because I
think somewhere down the line that was the time when
I was trying to watch Big Brother. I was making
a valiant effort to try to get into Big Brother,
just like I've tried to get into Survivor and I've
only watched a handful of seasons where I would be like, Oh,
(28:52):
I saw you on that show I watched. I tried
to watch that show, and coincidentally, Blue and America, I
watched some of their show somewhere down the line, and
I recognize them, And those were the only ones really.
So the rest of these people you know from Amazing
(29:13):
Race thirty five, you know the most recent Big Brother
with Cedric? Are you the one with will like too
Hot to Handle? I needed to get some more information
on too Hot to Handle and how that works, you know, So.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Well, look, our thoughts might be too hot to handle
on the main feed. So we're gonna kick it over to.
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(30:14):
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Speaker 1 (30:18):
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(31:08):
After all right, say goodbye to the main feed. We
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Speaker 5 (31:13):
This, all right, d all right, guys, this sends your
time here on Challenge Mania. Take care of yourselves and
hopefully we'll see in the future.
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