Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls it's your boy Johnny bananas, and I'm going to be covering a brand new season of the challenge USA on CBS

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end up and walk now. Hello and welcome to the watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at the ringer.com and joining me in the studio my hackney diamond. It's

Andy Greenwald. Chris, it's great to see you. It's great to see Kaia. Happy Labor Day everyone. It's post Labor Day now, right? I hope everyone, you know,

took a moment to reflect on the labor movement in this country. I did. Yeah. And now as we were just saying before we

hit record the silly season of the summer is over. It's it's back to school time. It's below 80 degrees in Los Angeles. It feels great.

Guest the lines is back. I'm about to go fucking apple picking out in this piece. So I read it. No, it's just it's September, man. I love it. Today on the podcast, just to set the

little table of contents for everybody. Okay. Carriage fees. How do they work? We'll talk a little bit about why the Disney channels may not have been

available to you. If you dialed up your your cable subscription on your cable box and search channels surfing. And then you just

got like a weird terse message saying the Disney corporation is is trying to screw us. So we're not going to carry their channels right

now. We'll also talk a little bit about winning time. And maybe how to a John Wilson, which is maybe definitely how to a

John Wilson. And then Andy, a segment that I know that you've been looking forward to for eight weeks. No, seven because the first

two one up at once. The return of the lioness tamer can't wait. By the way, we should start with that. Once we get through our like news and

notes section, front of the book, stuff. You want to do lioness up top. Yeah. Okay. I came here today to do two things.

To chew gum and listen to you talk about enhanced interrogation techniques. I'm all out of gum. Okay. I'm all out of enhanced interrogation.

I actually have gum. But I said that's just really bad form to do that. Yeah. You remember when Jacobi used to when we first were doing

hollow perspective at Grantland. Yeah. And Jacobi used to have a lot of notes on mouth sounds. Yeah. Yeah. Jacobi had a lot of notes on

everything. I think it was because I was doing a lot of nicotine gum back then. And the reason why I was showing nicotine gum is

that when I moved to Los Angeles, I thought David Jacobi was going to be my smoking buddy. Yeah. We were all going to

smoke Los Angeles. And I got to the offices of Grantland. I like day one. And I was like, Hey, brother, whatever. Go light

dart outside. And he was like, Oh, I quit. He did that to you. Yeah. He was a cold turkey. I quit. Wow. I thought that he was like a New

York smoker when he lived in LA. You know what I mean? Like you you cross the middle of the country. Uh-huh. And then it's okay.

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