The Challenge

Like if you, if there are, if there is...

I have cards here in the office of, you know, it's, uh, I call them my, my nostalgia collection, right? Hunger Games cards and, and, you know, uh, The Challenge cards and, uh, Seinfeld cards and, you know, just stuff like...

I mean, they're just, they're not cards that have great value to them.

They're just cards that they're shows that I watched or movies I watched, and they mean something to me.

Not a ton, but really fun that CT and Phaedra, the rumors are true, they are dating.

Okay, the CT that we're watching right now in the challenge, I can't imagine Phaedra wanting to have sex with that CT.

Like, I don't get it.

I mean, she's not like a horned dog like Portia, so maybe it's more of a like spiritual connection and friendship and maybe some...

But that's just me looking into everything, you know.

It's what you're supposed to do.

OK, so I want to touch briefly on the challenge for a second.

So Corey goes home because his youngest daughter is having an emergency surgery again and, you know, she's sick.

He can win any of these comps.

But, I mean, we also have to consider the fact that last night he chose to keep in D, someone who has been on The Challenge, someone who has won Survivor.

D won how many Immunity Challenges? Um, and so even though she hasn't been, like, winning all the comps here, she's been doing well enough, and still, like, as the numbers narrow down and whatever, it...

Just, like, I have faith in her to win.

Um, so lots of fun episodes, uh, to check out there.

We're talking through all the players as they get eliminated, um, from Big Brother 28.

Uh, Free Agents podcast, talking to Brian Scally about the challenge all the time, especially with this current season.

And Dancing With The Stars is back.

Save big money at Menards.

Challenge specialists John McKenna and Alex are back, and we are here to break down episode 7 of the Challenge Cutthroat season 42.

And we're just gonna start off this podcast a little bit of, like, we don't talk about spoilers or anything that's not in the episode until, you know, it's aired.

We know that there's some drama toward the end of the episode, but... it's not shown this time so we'll talk about it next time we're not going to talk about that big kind of cliffhanger and you know thing floating around um we're just going to talk about what's in this episode and we've got some stuff to talk about we kind of have like a mini final uh this episode we've got a tragic departure this episode so some good things to to chat about here

Yeah, I mean, this is an interesting episode of the challenge so far.

I think it's kind of like, if I'm looking at the six that preceded it, it's probably like my lowest ranked season or episode of the season so far.

But that's because it very much feels like the transitional part of the season as to we're getting into something new again, just based on like how this episode ends.

Nelson tried to talk about me again.

That is definitely not for press.

And definitely not because allegedly this last season of the challenge that was filming was cuckoo crazy.

And maybe they're trying to do something to help some people out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, I mean, on Reddit, on the Reddit, everything of his social media has been like very recorded.

Um, like it wasn't 2024 so i think that was just after he was on traders it got really weird but i saw him at challenge mania in january and what's crazy is people think i hate ct like i don't even hate ct i just want people to like be factual um and while we were at challenge mania he actually said he's like i don't want to do the challenge anymore i loved being on traders i want to try different shows and i'm like him going to bravo makes sense but i also think ct's like very fragile to comments.

I think he reads all the comments.

Deal with the consequence of their actions.

And in playing that out, in thinking about that a little more, the reason for me that the challenge succeeded in episode 12, the mission, was because of the level of consequence.

And if we're thinking about how to make the missions better overall...

Not getting money is not really enough of a consequence or a stake for me.

I'm very interested to go back and watch some of my favorites on Survivor, play in some of the American versions.

And is Chris Tamburello on this show? Is CT on this show? I do not know who that is.

He's from The Challenge.

And did he get married to some woman that he met on The Traders? Or are they dating now?

Okay, reality people, I need everybody to sit down because we have some tea.

And this is the kind of tea I like because it involves Bravo, The Challenge, MTV, traitors, flirting, secrets, dating, and an Emmy red carpet.

Naturally, a divorce that apparently hasn't finished divorcing.

You couldn't write this shit.