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MTV's Official Challenge Podcast

"The Best Birthday Present" w/ Jake Cornish

MTV's Official Challenge Podcast

MTV Entertainment Studios

After Shows, Sports, Tv & Film

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jake Cornish (and not Will) joins us to talk about the switch from Love Island to The Challenge, the UK Alliance that never was, celebrating a birthday in the Challenge house and ranking the biggest liars and most loyal members of the cast.  Watch “The Challenge: Vets & New Threats” on MTV and then catch new episodes of the podcast every Thursday. Stream previous seasons of The Challenge on Paramount+.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, hey, friends. What's up? I'm Devin Simone.

0:07.0

And I'm Devon Rogers, and this is MTV's official challenge podcast.

0:12.0

Beo, bea, pia! Yes! Oh, we love sound effects. It beats the grasshoppers. Are the crickets? What do we have, crickets?

0:18.0

Oh, right. You know what? We didn't stick with that, did we? No, sorry. You know, an ADHD brain. Oh, it was a good idea. This is going to be fun, Day. Yes. What did you feel about this daily? I have, like, so many thoughts about it. The daily was actually really, really fun. I don't know if I would have been one of the people volunteering to pull

0:37.6

the chains. That just wouldn't have been me, but you put me behind a wheel and we're good to go. Oh, you think you can drive like that? Okay. Yes. What? They used to call me lay foot, girl. I'll be gone. Oh, I believe it. Same. Girl, I'm the same. I'm the same. I like intentional driving. This looked like a lot of fun, but it looked tricky. I mean, everybody, the swerves were swerving. Yeah, yeah. Obviously, knowing what we know now about Olivia. Yeah. Every time, I'm just like, oh, my gosh. Unbelievable. No one knew at the time. She didn't even know at the time. Oh, like, good gracious. So good. Will and Olivia crush this challenge, right? Did a great job. Theo and Adrian. My goodness. Theo. You know what? My goodness today. Go ahead. No, because Theo, listen, listen, listen.

1:29.5

He doesn't.

1:30.2

He doesn't.

1:30.8

That's it. That's the problem. And that's the problem. The thing I love about TJ is he's going to give you multiple warnings and then enough is enough. Right. And so it's not like, okay, I cost you one time it's a rap. He told that man about five, six, seven, eight, nine different times to stop pulling on that chain and he just kept doing it, kept doing it, kept doing it, like Theo. It's insane. What are you doing? But it's like, it's actually mentally not right. Because, dude, you know they're also on top of that. Like, you should listen. You should play by the rules. You should do all the things. But fine, let's just say hypothetically, we rewind back to previous episodes where

2:03.2

Cedric had said, if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, right?

2:06.6

But here's the thing.

2:08.6

Theo knows there are cameras in that car.

2:12.2

So, like, just because T.J. is standing outside of the car doesn't mean he can't see, you know what I mean?

2:18.7

Like that they're not watching you move the chains when he keeps telling you to stop.

2:24.3

Like, dude.

2:25.9

Yeah.

2:26.3

And to keep going.

2:27.8

And even with your partner, see, that's another thing.

2:30.1

We always talk about how him and Adrian really don't, well, she listens, but he doesn't really listen to her. Right. You know, and she's begging him pretty much. Like, stop pulling the chain. I got it. Stop, stop, stop, stop. So you got T.J. yelling at you. You got your partner yelling at you. At what point does it click? Olivia was yelling. At what point does it click? It's wild.

2:59.2

It's, I mean, the restraint that Adrian had, because I don't know, I feel, I just feel like an instantly an Angela Bassett waiting to exhale moment.

3:03.1

Now, I know that sounds extreme, but think everybody talks about how it's a pressure cooker in this house. And you have this man over here, and the car's already, like, looks like it's been burned up.

3:07.2

I would just 100% light a match and walk away in slow-mo.

3:12.7

But yeah, that ended them in the elimination, although there are no strangers to being down elimination.

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