It's the recap of MTV host Ali and Brian T. and the dog and a party to evil like this song that don't I hate.

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the challenge, spies, lies, and all is wrap up podcast episode 14. I am Brian Cone with me as always, my coach. I'll share I have you.

Brian. I'm somewhere between okay and unwell. How are you?

Well, I'm leaning more towards out well. So this is where that also a great start. Not great. That great.

I want to be optimistic. I have been optimistic. I am not coming in optimistic.

Oh, I mean, where is the time? God, he said for James. I'm like three, three weeks ago. Is that when we went to three teams? It was like this is a new day to our stand.

We're so negative, so amazing. And it's like last week, all of our comments are so negative. Again, not towards us. We appreciate you, but towards the season.

And now, you know, I'm halfway to throwing my hands up and saying, you're right. Let's call it a day. We've got all stairs to let's invest our time in that.

And even that wasn't that great. But even for this one, though, like an hour five into this, I was still like, all right, this has been a pretty good episode. I like the daily. There was some politics and going around.

Things are setting cells up for what was going to happen. And then the actually this appearance, the absolute travesty that happened with the elimination. And now it's like, what, what was this hour and a half that we just watched? Cause great.

Emerald, I guess Emerald is, is different. That's fun. But I mean, big T still being on the show. And that was, I don't think I've ever like been actually upset about something that's happened on the topic, reality topic, competition show in like a long time.

A really long time. I can't remember the last time I was genuinely like hiss when Tuesday was like, well, big T, come on down. You're the next contestant on let's screw up this season.

Like, how, how is she back? What, what were they doing? Who's clamoring for more big T this point? Who?

If I, I would have to, like, I don't remember the last time I wasn't pissed about reality TV. So different stat there. We need the challenge stats on that.

Yeah, it's interesting because my main gripe with this episode is the first half.

Not that I will get to the elimination. I mean, two of us, we just see that I'll just pull the plug on the entire show.

Or, you know, is it half full or half empty? Like maybe between the two of us, we can scramble together like a decent outlook. But there you go.

I have yawn and all caps written down like to remind myself how bored I was because I have almost no notes. Like I was just like, wow, something, nothing must really happen.

Quite frankly, I was shocked that there was even an elimination once Ashley gets the boot. I'm like, oh, that's why they were doing all of this.

Amanda gives them a quiz to see if they're like smart narrating Nelson working out like all of this stuff that would normally be like stretch, stretch. We have nothing.

I was like, okay, they're eating up the time that would happen in the elimination. And then they ran the elimination. I was like, wow, they really have nothing going on.

And I think a lot of people have pointed to this as something that has hurt the show of this all that alliance being so dominant. But I think it sounds stupid, but this episode, it was so clear and so frustrating. And that one, there was nothing to know strategy really to occupy the first third of the episode because they know, they're already like basically set.

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