Ep. 483: Dee Valladares

Challenge Mania

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Derrick Kosinski & Scott Yager are joined by Challenge New Threat and Survivor Winner Dee Valladares.

Dee certainly made a splash in the Survivor world by winning season 45 and instantly being dubbed the best winner of the new era. Only 2 episodes into The Challenge: Vets and New Threats, she has made a similar splash; this time by winning the first daily Challenge, immediately partnering (in more ways that one) with 7x Winner Johnny Bananas and already causing her own version of a Challenge staple...the Love Triangle that leads to a violent outburst! Hell of a debut for the Miami native! She joins us to talk about ALL of it, even some insight on how she was able to do both The Challenge 41 AND Survivor 50 which already filmed but will air next year!

WATCH this interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-episode-2-135885720

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0:00.0	What's up everybody.
0:13.8	This is Scott Yeager here with another edition of Challenge Mania.
0:16.6	This episode brought to you by Challenge Mania Live Phoenix coming to you from standup live on Sunday, September the 7th. Boy, do we have a great lineup for that one. Tori Deal, Jody Weatherton, Theo, Olivia, Anisa, Mark, Derek Chavez, one of the rookies on this season. Ben will be there. It's a jam-packed house at Stand-Up Live. Get your tickets at Challengemania. Live today. But you didn't come for me. you came for D and we have a double dose of D because not only do we have Derek Kaczynski,
0:42.4	but we have a new threat in the house.
0:44.2	She's a survivor winner.
0:45.5	Give it up for D. Viadaras, everybody.
0:48.8	What's up?
0:50.8	That was a great intro.
0:52.5	Well, and that's not all she won.
0:54.0	She also borderline gets the name of. And that was a great intro. Well, and that's not all she won.
1:02.5	She also, borderline gets the name of this episode by proxy somehow.
1:08.3	I believe it's called, episode two is called, hold, do you remember what it's called?
1:09.6	We used to hookup. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11.4	He doesn't remember. Messy, messy. Yeah, I take it out of my head. Yeah, this is something, yeah, this is, you, you have sort of become known for this, uh, through many, uh, through many, uh, series now. I feel like this is kind of your calling, dude, few episodes. I got to stop.
1:08.2	They got to stop casting me when I'm single.
1:10.4	That's what they gotta stop doing. So she pulls it and this isn't our first talking point, but just we're on top of it. Yeah. She pulls in the seven time champ, right? And makes another dude cry on this episode. listen we'll get to that we'll get to that
1:47.0	I have a lot of notes yeah let's get to that and and we will get to that but on top of that like
1:52.6	she like her character basically like punches through the fifth wall I didn't even know there's
1:58.9	a fifth wall in in the in the reality TV
2:01.4	universe, but you pretty much like what like not single handedly, well, Will kind of single
2:07.5	handily. Yeah, that wasn't me. That was Will. Punches through the wall in reverse and takes us into a hotel
2:13.9	that we're never even allowed to talk about on any post show podcasts or anything.
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