‘The Challenge’ Hall of Fame: Mark Long | Death, Taxes, and Bananas

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4.4 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Welcome to 2022! Johnny is welcoming in the New Year with the OG (original godfather) of ‘The Challenge,’ Mark Long. Press play to hear stories from the very first season of the ‘Real World/Road Rules Challenge,’ ‘The Duel II,’ ‘Battle of the Exes,’ and much more from the wild, wild West of old. Plus, Mark tells Johnny about how and why he conceived the idea for ‘The Challenge: All Stars’ and what he sees for the future of the show. Host: Johnny Bananas Guest: Mark Long Associate Producer: Sasha Ashall Additional Production: Juliet Litman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Derek Thompson, longtime writer with the Atlantic magazine on tech culture and politics.
0:07.1	There is a lot of noise out there and my goal is to cut through the headlines, loud tweets, and hot takes in my new podcast, Plain English.
0:15.9	I'll talk to some of the smartest people I know to give you clear viewpoints and memorable
0:19.9	takeaways.
0:21.5	Plain English starts November 16th. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your
0:26.2	podcasts. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to welcome you all back to the death taxes and bananas podcast
0:46.0	and the answer is yes
0:49.0	I missed you just as much as you missed me
0:52.0	quite possibly even more I've actually been kind of
0:54.9	lost without all of my dedicated death taxes and bananas podcast listeners I've
1:02.2	been getting all your messages in the inbox, when's the
1:05.1	pod coming back, who are you having on next? When are you going to start in
1:08.8	only fans? And I've got an answer to a couple of those questions.
1:13.3	One of them might be disappointing.
1:15.2	Only fans were still shelving that idea, all right?
1:18.4	But this is the first episode back of 2022,
1:22.3	and I figure what better way to kick off this new year
1:25.0	with our first episode back with an absolute legend in the game. The word
1:31.3	legend the word vet the word og in my opinion these days gets thrown
1:35.4	around way too cavalierly, all right? So to start off this year, I'm going to kick it off
1:42.0	with one of the guys who started it all a true
1:46.1	oh g in every sense of the word and I'm not talking about an original gangster
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