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Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to the Challenge Rappap Podcast.

For a special episode, Ali Lashar could not be with me this week.

But I do have the great Sydney box found, the author of How to Win at the Challenge and Life, basically the Gospel on the Challenge. Very excited to have here with me. So, Sydney, how are you? Hey, I'm great. Thanks so much for having me. I am so excited to be here. Yeah, it's a great pleasure to have you here. We've been trying to lock this in for a few weeks now. Your book came out October 25th, so it's already on the shelves, ready to go. If people want to pick it out. So first, we'll just start with that. Where can people find it? Because I'm sure after this, they're going to want to read all about it. Where can people find the book and go ahead and purchase it? Yeah, it is available wherever books are sold, whether you get them from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, real actual bookstores. A friend actually texted me a photo that he saw

it on a bookshelf in an actual bookstore, which was so wild to me. So yeah, wherever you buy

your books, it's available there. Perfect. And so I just wanted to jump in first immediately.

We just kind of understanding your challenge kind of backstory.

Like what made you fall so in love with this show and like the world that you wanted to like

basically write the book on it because you wrote the book on it?

So what what is about the challenge that you just fell in love with?

Yeah, I started watching it way back in like the late 90s when it premiered as not even

a show called The Challenge.

I was only eight years old when it first premiered, so I didn't really understand quite a lot of

the social aspects of it.

But I don't know, there's just something about how real all of the people are.

They're not trying to be fake.

They're really, I mean, back then it was less of a competition.

But the way that it's evolved has also made me love it even more

because it's become something totally new and different through all its different eras.

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