What's up everybody. This is Scott Yeager here with another edition of Challenge

Mania. This special holiday edition of our episode breakdown podcast, our final episode breakdown

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We have tickets on sale for.

We have two that are sold out.

That's Baltimore and Philly.

But Friday, January 23rd, we return to the Big Apple in New York City. You may already know that Wes and Kara and Mark and Michelle will be there. That's because they just got Allen and Ginter Cards from Tops and Fanatics. So you can bring to the show and get signed during the meet greet. But did you know Jay Mitchell will be in the house? Did you know Ryan Keo will be in the house? And just added today, the host of the reunion that we will be talking about today, Devin Simone will be gracing us with her official challenge presence. And, and, and, and, and, TJ's favorite new threat, Sydney Siegel will be in the house. So hell of a lineup on January 23rd, New York, City Winery. Get your tickets for that. A rare and nighttime affair for us, 7 p.m. on Friday the 23rd. Then Chicago Bowls, our most interactive event of the year, Sunday, March the 1st. You can bowl alongside cast members like Amber and Melinda and Wes and Mark. I'll get to meet everybody as well. Get a real world Austin photo op. Maybe you, Melinda, and Wes. Who knows who else will be in attendance? Oh, yeah, Aviv will be in attendance. forgot about her, the Fresh Me Queen. Tickets to that at challenge man. All right, you didn't come for me. You came for this man. You came for D. You could be watching this over at challengemaniacs.com. or ho, ho, ho. You could be listening to it in its entirety on the main feed. That's right. No preview this week as a happy holidays. Thank you to you guys. We're putting this entire episode breakdown for free up on the main podcast feed. And I, of course, am joined by Mr. Derek. What's up, buddy? Ho, ho, ho.

Merry Christmas.

And that's where we're about to take a little Maverick to see Santa here right after this.

But yeah, one thing that it didn't hit me until yesterday until I just realized that like after what Johnny said about this,

you know, about, you know, maybe the challenge moving over to Paramount Plus and, you know,

whoever's going on to season 42 better bring it.

Like this is like obviously what we're hearing from Johnny, right i would never have you know come up with this unless we had heard this out loud in the public um that

i just realized that this may be the last time we ever see the challenge on m tv it's possible if he's

right it's if he's right,

if he's right,

it's certainly possible.

Yeah.

And like I had this one picture where it was like,

it was like everything like encompassed and why I got on reality TV and how I got on

the show was literally like the one message in my head was like

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