Hello, everyone, welcome back to the challenge.

That is a wrap to the podcast for episode 13.

I am Brian Cohen. Here with me this week is not last year, but is Dane joining me for another go around. So, Dane, how are you? I'm doing fine, not as always. Semi-frequently once a year, maybe twice a year when the challenge happens all the time, year round, here I am. So just to kick things off, I think there's probably some people who don't know who you are, and there's least one person who does it, because Marcy Oskoblitz asks, who's Dane? So who are you? I'm Dane. I'm Brian's friend. That's really all you need to know. I think is now your your fourth season doing this with me, or if you will, anyone appearing? I think this is my fifth podcast. Fifth podcast, that's, I mean, beyond even now on the course of status. When you've been podcasting along the eye of bed, you stop keeping count. Yeah, I mean, this is, this is now, when you get to five times, now you're like a full regular. This is like a thing. So there's all going back. You are an honorary member of the RF community, at least in my mind. Well, luckily you will make that decision. I don't. There was like a March Amanda style bracket for that. I am I was surprised they even on the board. I'm a 13 seat. So, you're the 13 seed? I'm a 13 seed, yeah, but I'm on the board at least. Who are you facing off again? They messed it all against everyone's clothes, so I'm up against Alley, who's a dominant four seed. You're going to get crushed. Yeah, I'm going to get, if there's like an actual voting thing, I think I might lose by the biggest margin of any given matchup. So I'm certainly prepared for that. I mean, I'd throw you a sympathy vote, but like Natalie, I've got to give that vote to Allie. Yeah, I probably will for Alley as well, so I'll go down to ship. So since this is your first time on this season, we can do a little bit of a retrospective of the entire season as a whole since we're up to the finale next week. So what has been your thoughts on like this format, this test, any like the weird twist and turns, some of the stuff they've done this season. What has been your sense of the season? Funny of you asked, I feel like we really haven't talked about the whole season. No. No, we haven't. So, what do you got for me? It's so long. Oh, my God. I don't know. Even this one, I thought this one hasn't been that bad.

I mean, last season was like 40 episodes.

This one, I mean, it was like a weird dragging in the middle, but I think it hasn't been as bad as the last couple of them.

Spoiler.

Oh, to be fair, anybody listening to this podcast hasn't watched the episode you deserve to be spoiled

right four four eliminations was that four today four eliminations in an episode maybe we don't

need to focus a whole episode on who wrote the note that's true and the fact that they're going

of a finale with eight people with i think probably only three or four even casting so they're going to a finale with eight people with, I think, probably only three or four even casting.

So they're going in with a little bit of access than they didn't even neither.

Yeah.

I mean, honestly, the challenges have been pretty good, I thought.

That car one where they had to jump cars might have been the only downer in my mind.

But the competition has definitely picked up on the show.

What about the eliminations?

I mean, they're okay.

The one with the mercenaries, the second time, awful.

Yeah, that was awful.

That was a big swing in a mess.

I mean, I don't want to bring up what I thought about this week yet. But, you know, it's been a solid season, not great, not because level. Right in the middle. I mean, I agree. That's a good, that's a good side. I think baseball is like next season. And this is supposed to like the second of a trilogy so who the hell knows what they're actually looking to build with this this show sometimes but yeah I agree I think right in the middle of the past

season nothing some good moments some draggy moments and no stuff didn't really give much of a payoff and there was a big focus on that. So without that and if they made these episodes of the limitations more normalized,

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