Are You the One?

We are joined today by a very, very special guest.

We have got one of the all-time Are You The One Challenge crossover queens, somebody who got the name Killa Kam because she just murdered people in eliminations over and over and over and over again.

I got the joy of watching her origin story on the Challenge: Vendettas, and now she's come full circle with me, who also found love in a hopeless place, is married to Leroy, has a beautiful family, is an entrepreneur, and has given us a few minutes of her time.

So welcome to the podcast, Killa Kam.

Well, Kam, Kam is a very, she is very unique in so many ways.

So I, I mean, I was supposed to be on Vendettas.

That was supposed to be our first intro together, but I had known Kam prior to Vendettas, right? 'Cause I saw her on Are You The One? And in a time period where people were just kinda using easy outs or whatever, she stood, like, on her business, and she was like, "Listen, I'm a queen, all right? And I ain't about tearing nobody down, because y- it's y'all's loss." And when I saw that, I was like, "Damn, that's crazy." 'Cause, like, coming from, like, Big Brother, it was very much, like, the Natalies or the Natalis, as I say.

And, like, listen, Natalie's great, but [clears throat]-

where and i'll put this um on the website and instagram and all the things but where what channel

i think that one's on hulu okay um and married at first sight and like either tlc or lifetime one of those okay got it um yeah and then the other reality show which we don't have to you can cut these two no but my favorite reality show of all time was are you the one

this sounds familiar

it was on like MTV it was like it was like The Bachelor except there's 10 women and 10 men oh it was it was like Love Island this was like earlier days so I didn't used to explain it that way but it was Love Island except for that they predetermine who your perfect matches so there's 10 oh people in there that are perfect matches and they have to figure out who they're matched with by the end all 10 of them have to figure it out by the end oh wow money And it's just like much more complicated.

Oh, amazing.

Messy.

Are you the one? Yes.

Are you the one? Okay.

And I think there isn't.

So my original show, was called Are You The One? And during that show, every episode, we would go into a thing called the truth booth.

And it

was very different because it was a dating show that would reveal whether or not you were a perfect match with somebody.

But I wonder if, and maybe it's an alternate reality, but I wonder if there's anyone that has, that is a Papa Roach fan that has gone to one of those concerts that also was an, are you the one fan is gotten both meetings of the truth booth in their life.

And if you're that person and you're listening, I would love to know.

Um, because like clearly your truth booth is fucking way cooler, but there was one that existed that is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum from that one.

Home of the Save.

We spoke about him briefly last week.

Nelson, where was Nelson from? Was he on Real World? No, he might've been on Are You The One? Anyways, Nelson transitioned into the challenge.

He then was off the challenge for a bit because he had an injury that led him to be an amputee, but he's now back on the show with a prosthetic.

And then Josh, he's also from Love Island.

say after the fifth season, the show – the show – like, initially the confessionals, the people – a part of this, too, that motivated my obsession with this kind of stuff, I got divorced when I was, like, 27.

And somebody from one of MTV's, like, casting partners – Like, scouted me and asked me if I wanted to be on the second season of Are You the One? And I was just like, no.

But as time has gone on, my wife and I watched, like, five seasons of it.

And I used to think a lot, like, how different would my life be? And it also...

And also the other thing too about these shows is as they go on, the people who want to be on them – because Geordie Shore goes through so many different iterations of the cast.

It becomes a journey to a media career.

Like are you the one yeah the first season is ten guys ten girls who sincerely believe? That this MTV show is going to connect them with the person they are meant to be with romantically And they're so fucking stupid.

It's like so good.

This is a raw, authentic game.

And I got to say, I don't know what it was like walking into the Are You The One stratosphere, but...

Think of it like this.

My first experience of going into a reality TV house was a studio lot.

It is

kind of interesting, too, because Nelson's history on the show, there are actually two different moments that stem from this because Nelson got cast as Amanda's rival's partner because he was wrecking the kitchen on Are You the One? And she got mad he was wasting eggs.

But then they become friends years later.

He then goes on Dirty 30.

[laughs] The Challenge has always been messy, okay? If you don't know what The Challenge is, it is a challenge show on, or competition show.

It was a spinoff from The Real World, and now it has people from different shows like Are You The One? or, um, even Love Island.

They have some international people as well.

Like, it really has become a big, big thing, even outside of the MTV universe.

I forget Taylor's last name.

But Cory and Taylor, they've been together for a while now.

They have two kids together, and Cory, he was from Are You The One?, if I'm not mistaken.

And where was Taylor from? Was she also from Are You The One? And then did they meet on Ex On The Beach? Either way, these two are reality vets from, like, long, long, long time, and the way they got together was a bit messy.