Hey, hey, hey, challenge fam and friends. What's up? I'm Devin Simone.

And it's Daveon Rogers, and this is MTV's official challenge podcast. We are back with another

episode and ooh, this one was a little spicy. Girl, my blood pressure is going up. You know what?

Like, I can't. I'm at the age where I got to be mindful of that. And I feel like this episode, it just, it's, mm-hmm. We had the challenge band together, which was super creative. Can I just say time and time again with this season in particular, the mind of TJ and those who come up with these games,

we've seen so much stuff done over and over.

And it gets hard, 41 seasons in.

It's so creative.

And so many of these games this season, I feel like, are equalizer games.

Meaning like it's not a clear, oh, I'm strong.

I can swim.

I can win.

It's like, oh, I've never done that before. Yeah. We're going to see who's good at it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought this one was really, really good because from the outside looking in, it's so simple. Right. It looks so simple, but it took so much detail to really make it work. You know what I mean? So, yeah, this was, this was a good one. I really enjoyed watching this. I thought Nani had it in a bag. 100% I thought Nani had it in the bag. You know, she has a background in gymnastics. Right. And Justin. Yeah. A cheerleader. Yeah. And this was theirs to win. It was. So I was very surprised. Very, very surprised. Who did you have your money on? I mean, also, Jeremy and Aviv. Aviv, she's very muscular, but she is shorter. And then Jeremy being, he just seems really, like, agile. We know he likes to, like, rock climb, all of that. He's very smart. I just felt like those two, I was really shocked to see them at the bottom.

I never would have expected Derek and D to win.

No shades either.

I just, this was like not the thought of the thing that I thought they would have won.

You know what?

Okay, I didn't have them in the forefront of winning because like I said, I thought Nani was going to take it home. But I'm not surprised because this was a very survivor-ish type of challenge. And so, you know, D getting out there in that water and balancing and collecting a flag, that's kind of like, that's what she does. Yeah. So, yeah, very much that. Absolutely. But I'm happy for them. Like, I wanted to see them pull out a win i'm happy for them i

feel like they've been you know they both have so much potential you know derrick has shown that in the

past i feel like d definitely has that so it's really good seeing them do it um you know yeah i thought

that was really great so then okay from a social angle in this episode, we had a lot going on.

We had Theo come up with this plan to try and get Gabe because Theo and them knew that he was going in.

Because as you guys know, as challenge fans, you already know this.

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