Hello everyone, welcome to the Challenge All Stars, we're having a podcast for episode

5, I am Brian Done and if you listen to Spies Lies and Allies, you will know that Allie is not here just yet, we had a scheduling conflict this week, so we are doing our trademark move of doing solo podcasts, merging them together, one fell swoop, so you will stuck hearing from me first, and then you will hear from Allie, if you listen to Spies Lies and Allies first, you will know that I went on an absolutely just wild 48 minute man, man rant about last week's episode and mainly about CT,

that is about who could essentially be the go I swear I promise I am not going to be talking for another 48 minutes, I literally had to take like a 15 minute break in between these because I thought I was going to pass out that's like thought, I don't think I thought for that long, straight in my entire life, I don't know like a presentation has been that long, talking amongst friends, at least when you're with someone else, someone else talks, you can take a break, take a break, I can't even speak anymore, you take a break, drink a water, a little food, I literally twice during last podcast had to physically

stop myself from talking, take a drink of water, so I just would not be found here, pass that on the ground, oh, how did Brian die? Oh, he was talking on a podcast for 48 straight minutes, what a way they got, no, so I had to take some water, take a little break, and here we are for All Star episode five, the much more much much more entertaining show, delivery again, I thought as not as good as the episode as it was last week, last week's All Star episodes, honestly, one of the more is one of the best challenge episodes in a long time,

I started to finish this one was, it was good, not as good, but just as entertaining, we wrote a lot of stuff, so just to hit a few of the beats, because again, I just can't talk for that long, I'm already struggling, here we are, Iana wants to avoid eliminations, you know, she won last week at the life saver doesn't want to keep doing that, he's a child avoid elimination, and then a lot of the stuff for this week, we got a little back

a little more backstory about Melinda, I didn't know about what she has gone through coming into the season, I don't think it was public now, I'm sure it may be public knowledge, I don't know, but I certainly didn't know about just a horrific story that she shared, which I know about, she had to give birth to her five month old daughter who lost her heartbeat, she was having a birth there, even though she was obviously it already passed away, and it's just an absolutely tragic story,

to hear Melinda share that, and you know, this was the date of this daily was when, was the date of her schedule C section when she was going to be born, and I mean, it's just absolutely horrific, and it's just a wildly weird coincidence on that Netflix show, something sunset, there was a storyline about someone from that show, also having a very similar type of situation, having to give birth to their child that already tragically passed away,

I can't even put a words what they must have gone through, I guess if for Melinda having people there, supporter in this type of environment, I don't know what good thing bad thing, I don't know, but I'm glad she had people here to kind of lift her up because it is just a horrific horrific story that she had to share, and I mean, this is the type of stuff that I mean, all stars again, like really I mean, yeah, they'll stuff with Derek early in the season about,

the sister, the stuff in the Linda, I mean, these are like real fully grown adults with full lives outside of the show, personal lives, family for like, and you know, it's, it's not like a wacky fun land that it is in the challenge proper.

So you get these type of storylines and for Melinda had this sharing, it was just very, very sad, very sad, but at least she had John A and I think it was Steve or I think it was MJ there to help supporters, so you know, that was very nice and no easy segue there, but the main lines that we kind of saw being.

cemented last week or two weeks ago, the, I guess now they gave it a full of an official name, the three kings, the amaya, the tarry and attack, the three kings, which is just, you know, they were all in the same room together, so they formed that bond.

So now they start plotting out their next move at the reveling in how well last week went fact that they will take out Derek works so well tech has his sights set on MJ wants to take him out.

Letarian notes that Steve isn't is a part of this group.

He feels he, you know, he's brought him into the full little bits, he doesn't really know anyone, so he wants to look out for him.

And I was back and then we start getting a look at Tina.

Tina looks back on who she was in the past on these shows, very angry, fiery, but she feels over the over the years, which I'm sure a lot of people probably feel this way they're not the same person that they were we know when they were 25 and especially doing a reality TV.

She feels she has grown is a much better person and, you know, is able to play pretty diplomatic and fair and form for new relationships.

I mean, there's scenes of a reforming bonds with with Casey and and people.

So, you know, that it was encouraging the scene in the beginning.

It's a potentially new Tina coming in, which is what you want to see.

I'm challenged as well as you want to see growth and new promise from these people that have been all first queen for 10, 15, 20 years.

So, we got a little bit of what we might see from Linda.

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