Hello, everyone.

And welcome back to the Challenge Rivals through a Hap podcast for episode 11.

I am Brian Cohen.

Not here with me as always is Michael's eyeless. She's away here with me this time for the second

time is my friend Dane Williams. Dan, how are you?

Whatha! Now two-time podcast, guys. How does it feel?

It feels like Vince being on the challenge twice.

Nobody's demanding it at all. So am I, am I that your cousin bananas then? Because that's like the best compliment you've ever given me. I know he's your favorite. So, of course. Welcome aboard. Welcome to war. So we didn't really get, we didn't even talk about this episode at all offline. I chose, purposely chose not to talk to you at all because I want to keep all thoughts for here.

But just for your thoughts for the season going into that, where are you right now?

I actually think this has been a bounce back season. I don't enjoy it. There's no clear edit as to who's going to win. I assume bananas and sour are going to win, but that hasn't been the clear edit at all.

So, yeah, it's just been dominating.

Yeah, very dominant.

Yeah, I mean, the edit definitely has been, as we discussed here, we're all along with the two big continuions.

Now this one, which felt like a yada yada episode where it was, I mean, after a season of no eliminations, we had two eliminations and a challenge. No time in the house, basically. Very odd episode again. But got to compare it. Do we want to spend more time in the house with these losers? Probably not. And the problem is, as there's less and less people, we see this every year, the amount of drama that really takes place

when there's less and less people, we see this every year,

the amount of drama that really takes place when there's only like now five, six teams

is getting so minimal that it's really all game focus. So I have no problem with them.

Just jumping straight to challenges, jumping straight to eliminations and whatever they have to

do. Agreed.

So picking up where we started off last week, we start off with

the elimination, but leading into that, because I wasn't on last week, and then we didn't really

talk about it either. So the big move from last week was Dario and Nicole's decision to not throw in

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