92: Invasion--Behind-the-Scenes of MTV's The Challenge
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk about the big news that Challenge:Invasion is coming out on February 7. We don't give away any spoilers, but we speculate based upon what we've heard and the little we know about the upcoming season. Plus, we delve into the casting process on reality tv. We discuss how they choose cast members, what they're looking for, and what it was like to go through that. We share our favorite reality shows, and talk about the latest gossip in reality tv with Teen Mom, Fixer Upper, Celebrity Rehab, and more. Also, they debate about the Mannequin Challenge.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to the Brain Candy Podcast. I am your host, Susie Meister and I'm here with Sarah Rice. |
| 0:19.0 | That's me, folks. Today's show is brought to you by HelloFresh. Hello. |
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| 0:31.0 | Sarah, yes. Hi. Hi, Susie. How are you? New Year, New Me. Do you feel like that? Actually, yes. Why? I know, isn't it annoying? I... |
| 0:42.0 | Or? No, this is what it is. I'm not in school, so I actually have time. Yeah. So I feel like I'm just getting stuff done. |
| 0:49.0 | Me too. I'm just like, bam, bam, bam, to do this. Bear with, read this book. Do it. It is fun. Yeah. Yeah, I know that. I didn't play that my refrigerator. |
| 0:59.0 | Ooh, right? I hate, I've been e-bang. You guys should buy my stuff. Oh, go to e-bang. Buy my stuff. |
| 1:06.0 | Brady6, BR80YSIX. What kind of stuff you hockin? A lot of clothes. Yeah. I think so. Oh, when you like all the designer fancy? |
| 1:16.0 | Like, once I came over here and we were packaging up a broadest shirt we were sending to somebody. I was like, what the heck? If you want to size two, I'd buy it myself. |
| 1:25.0 | I have a couple, J. Crew things. They're real cute. Buy my stuff, people. Yeah. You know what's funny? We do have a couple listeners that do follow me on there and buy my stuff. |
| 1:34.0 | Which reminds me, one of them... Well, I got first dibs, Peeps. So look out. One of those people that buys my stuff and is also a listener asked for her Patreon shout out today. |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, who is it? Her name is Rose. A rose by any other name would smell sweet. So Rosewood. Rose is lovely. And she is a very good supporter of our show. |
| 2:00.0 | Rose Rose Rose knows. She knows what to do. Disapport a podcast. Rose knows. |
| 2:09.0 | Rose? She got like two verses. She's awesome. Okay. What are we talking about? Oh, we're talking about reality TV today. That's right, people. |
| 2:20.0 | We're not just like plain old, plain old challenge reality TV. We were like, we got more news for you than that. And we've got other TV shows to discuss. |
| 2:31.0 | We got the pigeon hold. There you go. I'm sick of it. I mean, we have a lot to say about the challenge as you all know. |
| 2:38.0 | But we have other, you know, reality TV insights. Yes. And so you're welcome. Yeah. Well, I mean, come on. |
| 2:48.0 | There's so many great television shows out there that I just absolutely love, you know. Yeah, there's a lot to say. |
| 2:56.0 | Well, this the inspiration for this episode was when for on patreon.com slash brain candy. That's where most of our challenge content lives. |
| 3:06.0 | So we have a podcast about the challenge or about reality TV. And we have interviews with cast members and stuff like that. |
| 3:14.0 | And we did one whenever I was in Pittsburgh, me and you did it via Skype. And it was just the two of us. Yes. |
| 3:20.0 | And we were talking about our casting experiences. If you haven't listened to or watched that, you can do so on patreon.com slash brain candy. But what there was just so much to say. |
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