23: This Sh*t Is Bananas | Madness Behind MTV’s The Challenge Money
Trading Secrets
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
MTV’s ‘The Challenge’ 7x champ Johnny Bananas talks all about his experience on ‘The Challenge,’ reality TV endorsements from bar appearances to Instagram brand deals, diversifying your income, and how he ‘never got a real job’ and ‘made a living doing nothing.’
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Host: Jason Tartick
Voice of Viewer: David Arduin
Executive Producer: Evan Sahr
Produced by Dear Media.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a DR Media production. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets where today we continue our reality TV series with none other than |
| 0:22.8 | ready for this one Johnny the Godfather of the MTV network who has 20 plus yes I said 20 plus seasons of |
| 0:30.4 | experience under his belt the one only the Johnny bananas I know your schedules may have right now |
| 0:36.8 | Johnny so thank you so much for being with us buddy I gotta say if a hosting doesn't work out for you |
| 0:42.1 | you got a bright future pump and tires at the at the gas station man that's the that's the best |
| 0:47.5 | intro I've ever gotten man thank you so much for that wow and you share the intro before that was |
| 0:52.0 | just like an abbreviated version so if you know I think you know what to a person or two and |
| 0:56.8 | in the hosting world so let me know and I know you got a PR up on here so if you got any connect |
| 1:00.4 | let me know guys you got put it out there and also just a quick you know adjust where I want to make |
| 1:05.7 | I am not in fact the Godfather that's Mark long we like to refer to Mark long as the Godfather I'm |
| 1:11.1 | gonna go okay got you oh that's yeah see see what's interesting is I did the research on you and I |
| 1:17.4 | just self-proclaimed you as the Godfather neither knowing there was another Godfather so it's how |
| 1:22.0 | natural it was but we'll have to adjust that to the coach I mean it works I mean I got the |
| 1:26.1 | Italian thing going for me so I mean you know yeah yeah definitely it definitely works all right now |
| 1:31.0 | I have some obviously everyone right you pre-prepare some questions and stuff like that this is just |
| 1:35.4 | kind of going right off the cuff the bananas thing like you entered in the chat it said bananas |
| 1:40.4 | and clear font yeah I see your last name got the Italian last name where the hell bananas come |
| 1:45.2 | from why Johnny bananas it's funny because I've had a few actual real life run-ins with bananas in |
| 1:51.6 | my life that are kind of just funny anecdotes that go along with the nickname the first one being |
| 1:58.0 | when I was in elementary school growing up I was a big I watched movies that I probably shouldn't |
| 2:03.7 | watch when I when I was a kid my mom was very liberal with the the movies were she allowed us to |
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