Revisiting Johnny Bananas’s Seventh ‘Challenge’ Win With Bill Simmons | Death, Taxes, and Bananas

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week we’re revisiting Johnny’s July 2020 interview with Bill Simmons on ‘The Bill Simmons Podcast’ about his seventh ‘Challenge’ win on ‘Total Madness,’ which broke his six-season finals drought and the curse that Jemmye put on him after he stole Sarah’s half of their winnings on ‘Rivals 3.’ Nearly two years later, their conversation about how to save ‘The Challenge’ is as relevant as ever. You can also listen to Johnny discussing his iconic moment from the 'Rivals 3' finale with Bill Simmons on 'The Bill Simmons Podcast.' Hosts: Bill Simmons and Johnny Bananas Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up guys? Rachel Lindsay here and I am teaming up with your favorite
0:04.0	Ringer podcasters to deliver the Bravo drama and news that you've been craving on
0:08.8	morally corrupt. It's the show about all things Bravo from the housewives to Summer House and everything in between
0:16.8	We'll be mentioning it all every week. Check it out on Spotify and the Ringer.com. Coming up. I remember he came on after his sixth title. It was right at the start of the
0:41.6	ringer and now he's coming back because he just
0:44.5	went again Johnny Bananas the greatest challenge star of all time on MTV's the
0:51.4	challenge he won again he won another season. We're going to come and talk
0:55.1	about that and about how to fix the challenge going forward. I have a couple ideas. I've
1:00.8	been known to have some ideas from time to time. Without further
1:03.4	do, Johnny Bananas. All right, my next guest came on after he won his
1:09.4	sixth title on the challenge and we compared it to Michael Jordan who had also won six titles
1:14.5	only he had something up his sleep a seventh title which happened this week on the
1:19.0	challenge they said it couldn't happen they said he was cursed after he backstabbed Sarah. Not really. I defended you. I did not think it was a backstab. I thought it was in the spirit of the game.
1:31.4	Agreed? You finally did it. People said you were too old,
1:34.8	people said you hung on too long. No, you won. I mean, I mean Bill, I was one of
1:42.2	those people, okay? I'm not saying that I had completely counted myself out
1:46.7	but you know to sit here before you right now to say that I had you know the the faith that it was going to happen for sure, I didn't.
1:57.3	And you know, at first I wanted to just prove to everybody that curses don't in fact exist. I thought I was just a victim of my own success which is what I think I've actually told you on this year show before.
2:10.0	But yeah, because everyone's gunning for you.
2:12.0	Everyone's gun, and that's and that was just kind of what I had to deal with and that's when I had to adapt to
2:17.3	And and you know I figured listen I'll just keep throwing crap against the wall and it's gonna stick one of these seasons and it just wasn't and instead of actually
2:26.4	doing better every season it was almost working in the opposite direction and after the last two seasons
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