Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Challenge 30 at the Rappap But podcast for episode

5. I am Ryan Cohn. Here with me today is my friend who's now been on here about three or four times. Dane, how many times has been? Four times. Four times. Once a year, right? Once a season? Once a season, yeah. You're like, not even like challenge vet. You're like real vet status now. You can throw a vet under my name now. Yeah. Well, you can throw anything under a vet name on this show. But you're a true vet. You got four times under your belt. You're a few more seasons away from basically becoming like a full time regular. Yeah, I'm a little bit above Tony, still below bananas. At least you. At least you haven't got it kicked out for violence, yes. They got that going for you. Yeah, nor do I have two kids to take care of. Another good thing going for you. So what are your thoughts so far? I feel like we use you this later in the season when you hop on. So we have more of like a full season retrospect of of the catch up on but what are your thoughts now five episodes in before we dive into this one just

with a theme the cast any general thoughts you have well you just were five episodes in yeah it does

not feel like five episodes no it feels like one i feel like i'm two episodes Yeah, well, I mean, that's like the rumor on the street that's gonna be like an 18 episode season that's gonna go for like the rest of the year. So, like everyone needs to just like buckle up and just brace for what we're in for. That's a terrible decision. It's a horrible decision. I love the challenge, but God, this is garbage so far.

The format's awesome.

Yeah, I mean, it's going back to the days of when they actually had this many episodes,

but they were each like a half hour.

So now it's literally going to be double the content, stretched out.

And like they actually drank back in the day and were interesting.

Instead, I just hate all of them. So you have no, no one, you're not happy to see Veronica back. You're not happy with Dorel being back. You're not happy with anyone? Well, I was being a bit facetious about hating all of them, but. I want to get some love out of you. Let's get some love. I do enjoy, I mean, Ramka pulled that shady move during the challenge.

I enjoyed that, but I don't know.

I mean, Veronica pulled that shady move during the challenge.

I enjoyed that, but I don't know. I mean, it's cool that Jemmy is back. She's great for the confessionals. I'm not a big fan of her, but she does bring great drama to the show. Yeah. Andrew Stiles brought up a good point. He says, Is Jemmy a perfect example of the need to give contestants a season or two off to keep them for becoming stale and having them come back more fiery? I think, I think Camille is the perfect example of how you need to give somebody a season off. Yeah, I agree. And I think someone who now, if they came back again, I think would be welcomed is Nani. I think Nani's now been off for a couple seasons. We got a little break, a little refresher, and I think, you know, Nani 8.0 or whatever this would be, I think it would be a fresh Nani. You know, we really need back. Frank the tank. Yes, that would be great. I don't know. You think he'll ever'll ever like stop trying to be a real regular person and make the trip back?

We're seeing all these former people come back.

Unless Sam TV backs up the money truck, I just don't see him coming back at all.

Yeah, I figured if he doesn't come back for like what's supposed like the big 30 season,

I don't know why he would come back for like season 31 or season 32. So I think the frank day and age is gone. But you know, we got some other guys back. Jordan came back. So I think there's always hope.

But you got to take what we can get. Yeah. Plus we know we're not getting Kenny back either. So no.

That's disappointing. One of the people we did get back who actually started this season, sorry

of this episode, I should say, after being pretty non-existent for most of it, is

Veronica.

And basically discussing about what it's like to kind of re-engratiate, reconnect, re-doctrinate

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