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Specifically, the Prestige TV Podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network,

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On Sunday nights, grab your battery and join Van Lin and Charles Holmes for an instant reaction to the latest episode.

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you get your podcast. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Death Taxes and Banana's

podcast, arguably the greatest podcast ever created.

All right?

And if you have any disagreements, don't at me.

Now listen, I know that I have up to this point this season heaped a ton of praise on this season's rookie class so in the interest of not sounding like I'm beating a dead horse,

which I hear is something that they do in Alaska for fun.

This is the last time, this season, that I'm going to do it, okay?

Now, I've been around, I've been in the game for a long... season that I'm going to do it, okay?

Now, I've been in the game for a long time.

I've seen a lot of challengers come and go.

I've maintained in the past that they just don't make them like they used to.

All right? I feel like the old school challengers were just cut from a different cloth.

Because in my eyes, being a great challenger takes more than just being great at the challenge, you need to be competent in a myriad of other areas as well.

Which is why someone like myself, who's only somewhat athletic, has been able to find so much success on the show.

Because I'll be the first one to say say I don't necessarily think that all of my

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