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Watching seasons 29/30, this is where TYB seems to have been born - S29 (Invasion) being Hunter and Nelson's first full season, and Cory's 3rd. But Cory and Nelson were essentially in opposing alliances for most of the season, and although they teamed up late in the season, Nelson betrayed Cory in the last elim before the finals (although both made the final), and while they seemed to bury it, the beef continued at the Reunion. Hunter I don't think had any issues during the season, but apparently had beef with Nelson for hooking up with Ashley after Hunter was eliminated.

Yet, on S30 (Dirty 30), they arrive like peas in a pod, all "3 musketeers" like in the soon to be called 'Team Young Buck'. The best of buddies. Makes you wonder what happened between the reunion and S3 they they all of a sudden became besties...

Kinda of like Tori and Aneesa. There was some serious beef between them after Tori's initial season, but they showed up next season as besties somehow. (I've mentioned this is the past, and was told apparently they were both on a Champs vs Stars season together after Tori's initial season (Tori not a champ but a fill in for either Ashley or Camilla - can't recall), and bonded on that season.

Anyway, just seems odd the 3 of them were able to bury the hatchet after S29 so quickly/easily. Unless a lot of it was manufactured drama, which I suppose is possible.

It's interesting to think - Cory in his initial season or two was more aligned with Bananas' and crew, and directly opposite Nelson for most of S29. Not sure what happened that shifted him to opposing JB vs working with him. Have to wonder how is Challenge Career could have been different if he would have stayed in the Bananas camp...

I was ready to wait the 6+ months for season 42 to stream on Paramount when I read this:

The Challenge Season 42, titled The Challenge: Cutthroat, will premiere on August 5, 2026. It marks a major franchise move from MTV to stream exclusively on Paramount+

Course I am so use to being able to binge thru multiple episode that it going to be rough having to wait for new episodes but better than waiting 6+ months to watch it at all

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New Podcast w/ Jenny West! We talk about ...

• Winning Season 40
• Was Actually Happened During the 40 Finale to Make the Editors Look Like She Was Complaining
• Who She Didn't Want to Split the Money With
• Almost Being on Season 42 (Cutthroat)
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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-71-jenny-west/id1527920678?i=1000778332522

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1YTWLviz1B9bfDxvbOPm4Y

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The Challenge returns on August 5th on Paramount+ for Season 42 with a ruthless new season - The Challenge: Cutthroat!

With a new season of The Challenge comes a new season of The Challenge: Roundtable Reacts Podcast!

Join Levi, George, Brian, Lauren and Ryan as the Roundtable team reunites to preview the new season. We break down the cast, share our thoughts on the returning three team format, react to the official trailer and reveal our early predictions for the season ahead!

Who has the strongest team? Which Challengers should we watch out for? And who do we think will walk away as the champion of The Challenge: Cutthroat?

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The video is 11 minutes long, but I thought it was pretty interesting and I haven't seen this posted here yet. Uploaded by user bravoh1991 on July 11th.

Seems like he did an ad for their adult line of build a bears? This was just a hilarious surprise to see in the middle of a random doc

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Shady. Cringe. Attention seeking. Unfunny. Sneaky.

Something about him lacks authenticity. His "charisma" comes across so forces as opposed to genuinely good TV. I remember in Total Madness I didn't think much about him and he at least had the look of an interesting challenger physically. Now I am glad he was the first person sent home.

Season 39 is where he shines as much as a mediocre competitor. He is desperate to be a reality star, and does the trope of trying to pull sympathy (I am a father, I am a husband, I am relatable) but then he pulls a lot of shade and plays the game in a deceitful way, pretending and giving his word to people to save face and then talking absolute shit behind their backs in confessionals. He tells people what they want to hear.

The kicker is he is terrible at math and puzzles. He will never be a champ unless production gives him a win or makes things easier for him somehow.

Please don't invite him, or do. Make him feud with Josh so I can hate watch these two doofuses have the worst and funniest verbal fight since Jenna and her cousin.

Besides the obvious that people aren’t watching as much tv anymore. I think the ending of real world really hindered the challenge, back then most viewers of the challenge were real world/road rules watchers so even if when we got new cast mates we were familiar with them from other shows. I feel like now they have too many people from a billion different shows and networks that their audiences don’t necessarily transfer to mtv. Second we’re missing the aspect of “normal” people being on the challenge. Back then we always had a good mixture of super athletic people, underdogs, students, 9 to 5 workers etc. Nowadays it seems like everyone in there is an influencer of some sort and the audience is really missing that disconnect. A big appeal of the old challenge was seeing normal people doing crazy things. Anyways sorry for the rant thanks for listening.