MANIA REWIND: Jon Murray
Challenge Mania
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Jon Murray is the M in BMP. The Murray in Bunim-Murray. He created Real World. He created Road Rules. He created The Challenge. He is responsible for Reality TV as we know and love it today. He joined us on the podcast a few years back but since many of you may have missed it we wanted to share it again. It is one of our favorite interviews. Any plugs, shows, Live Reads, or promos are likely out-dated so ignore those.
This Interview is from March 2022. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody. |
| 0:14.0 | With a very special episode of ChallengeMania. |
| 0:18.2 | This episode brought you by Challenge Mania Live Nashville, |
| 0:20.9 | coming to you from the city winery in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday, July the 30th. |
| 0:25.6 | Very important that you head to challengemania. Live pretty soon because we have less than |
| 0:30.2 | 10 VIP tickets available. There will be ample GA tickets to attend the show, but if you want to attend |
| 0:35.0 | the post show, mean, greet party, you better head to challenge mania. soon. You're going to come and hang out with me, John A, Derek, Katie Cooley, and we might be out on some new guests pretty soon. All right, you didn't come for me. You came for D. Do not talk about Jada Pinkett Smith on this podcast, D. |
| 0:54.2 | or you know what's coming. |
| 0:55.6 | Mr. Derek Kaczynski, what's up, dude? |
| 0:58.5 | Well, you just totally changed my perspective and thoughts on what I was about to say |
| 1:03.2 | because did G.I. Jane just get canceled from all of comedy as well as everything else? |
| 1:11.7 | All right, all right. |
| 1:12.9 | Well, my joke was that's how bad of a movie G.I. Jane is that even joking about it gets you smacked up. |
| 1:19.3 | Dee, that was our man, Chris Rock. |
| 1:20.8 | We just saw him in a room with 80 people, ironically, with Questlove sitting next to us, |
| 1:25.4 | who won the Oscar that Chris Rock was there to announce, |
| 1:28.7 | and he's getting smacked up by the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. |
| 1:32.2 | The Fresh Prince has lived long enough to see himself become the guys on the playground who are up to no good, making trouble in the neighborhood. |
| 1:40.3 | Oh, good one, good one, good one. |
| 1:42.0 | My, my, my, my, my, good one. My joke was good jokes gone bad. |
| 1:49.1 | The best one, the best one I heard was Chris Rock woke up, looked in the mirror, |
| 1:53.5 | and on his face he saw fresh prints, |
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