What's up everybody? This is Scott Yeager here with another edition of Challenge Mania. This is the edition of Challenge Mania. You guys have been waiting for since we started this podcast. That's right. The banana man is here. And this episode is brought to you by Robin Hood. That's right. Robin Hood is an investor.

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DKO playing devil's advocate on challenge mania. That's right. Mr. Derek Zinsky, what's up dude? Where is that shirt at? I already got it all figured out and everything. What's the strategy for the devil's advocate shirt? Yeah. Let's hear workshop with me right here. Have you ever seen, have you ever seen Deadpool where he's sitting there on the on the nice like like nice chair, but it looks like like a lawyer's chair and he's got like the the the craft of like I don't know. Maybe it's like whiskey or some sort of like dark alcohol and

he's sitting there with his with his legs crossed, you know what I mean? And I was thinking maybe like shooting bullets out of my mouth while I sat there and I waited patiently for the next person to go a little too far right.

Our little too far left. So I got bring him back to the middle Scott. All right. Well coming to the challenge mania shop somewhat soon. Guys, you guys have been asking for today's guest since we started this podcast. I say all the time. This is one of our most requested guests. No doubt in my mind that this is probably our most

requested guest and it makes sense because his name has become synonymous with the challenge. She's the guy who got the challenge on the

tonight show and is now indirectly bringing the challenge back to NBC by hosting first look starting this Saturday after SNL. Johnny

Benanas is here folks. Do you finally made it happen? Who knew? I don't I didn't I didn't know I didn't know it was I was it was kind of came out of nowhere. But yeah,

obviously, you know, 17 seasons. Shit. I didn't I thought it was like 15, you know, so there's a lot of stuff that I that you know we're going to hear on this podcast that you know these are like these, you know, underground stories. This is why you come to

challenge mania. This is why you guys listen to the show is because of is because of the underground. There's always more there's always you know gaps to be filled and that happens with him. Who better. He's been on the last like 17 seasons, dude. I don't know if he's ever even missed one. But like I say,

you know, in the podcast like he's done more he's like, you know, you know, he's taken the extra step the Jamie Chung step the the misstep, you know, like this is this is the next step for one of us, you know, so.

I'm I'm happy whenever someone does that dude, you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean look love him or hate him and he is a he is a guy who has I mean you gotta think that any challenge fan out there has an opinion on the guy they're either team

bananas or they like watching bananas lose but no matter what he is a part a large part of the show that you guys love enough to be listening to this podcast I

compare him to Rick Flair, you know what I mean? He's a great heel. He's a great baby face just depending on what kind of competitor what kind of character you like to root for. But like it or not, you have to know and be willing to admit he has become over the last 10

years certainly the face of the challenge franchise. So I'm happy we were finally able here on episode 74 to get him on challenge man, it's been a long time coming all I had to do is calling a couple

favors at NBC and get him his own show and now we have him on the podcast so that worked out well you're welcome D. Yeah, yeah, okay, no, he's definitely, you know, look, the last time you

supposed to come on he had TRL like he missed us for TRL, you know what I mean and I TRL guys TRL in 2018 it doesn't get better than that so you can understand I'm just messing with you D.

I'm just so we got an extra long podcast with the man the face the franchise the guy that's every that everyone's gunning for the guy that everyone is

gunning to be better than he has held the throne for a very long time he's made his own name and now he's got his own show I'm not trying to

to his horn, but I'm proud of him. There's a bit there's a bit of horn tooting in this podcast and you know what I'll

cop to it because you know I say it during the podcast too when somebody from this world goes and gets an even larger

platform for not only themselves but by definition for the challenge you have to give them props you know he's not he wasn't given this by MTV MTV isn't

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