‘Challenge’ Mailbag With Johnny Bananas | Death, Taxes, and Bananas

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4.4 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Before we kick off our coverage of ‘The Challenge: USA’ Season 2 this Thursday, Johnny Bananas answers listener questions from social media about his views on the direction of the franchise and what people eat before a final. Host: Johnny Bananas Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone this is Craig Horrellbeck from the Ringer Fantasy Football show
0:04.4	join me Danny Highfits and Danny Kelly every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to help you win your
0:09.3	draft, win your league and most importantly avoid that last place punishment.
0:13.0	Follow the Ringer Fantasy Football show on Spotify. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to welcome you all back to the death taxes and bananas podcast.
0:36.6	Now I often get credited with you know being just such a reality television challenge icon.
0:46.2	And I know, over the years, I have accomplished quite a bit.
0:50.1	Don't need to run through all the accolades, But while we're here, we just might as well.
0:54.6	18 years and counting on reality television, my 22nd challenge season, about to air. Seven wins.
1:07.0	Most challenges ever done, most dailies ever won. Anyways, enough about me.
1:09.0	This is about you, because I would not be the man, the banana that I am today without all you loving and supportive fans.
1:19.0	A lot of you have withstood the test of time with me going all the way back to 2005 when I was just an
1:28.0	itty bitty banana straight out of college fresh on the reality television scene, real world Key West.
1:36.4	And a lot of you have stuck with me all these years.
1:39.2	We've picked up some along the way, so I'd like to welcome you all to the Banana Boat.
1:44.4	It's really funny because over the years,
1:46.2	I have gotten so many messages from fans that were like,
1:49.2	I used to hate you, you were the worst, I despised you.
1:53.2	But over the years, they've all seen, not they've all,
1:57.1	there's still some holdouts, all right?
1:59.2	But a lot have seen to finally come around. And I'm like an acquired taste I guess to some you know some people don't like wine I didn't use to like wine when I was a kid I hated wine now I love it drink a bottle a night or half a bottle but usually it's a bottle. So yeah, here we are all these years later all of you still support and so what I wanted to do is I wanted this episode to be about you, all right?
2:24.2	To be about the fans, you know,
2:26.6	we're gearing up here for the Challenge USA,
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