The Challenge: Season 39 | Ep 1 Recap
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the ruthless world of The Challenge, this newest group of non-champion, next-gen players must work together to win the grand prize — but it’s still anyone’s game.
Today, Ali Lasher and Brian Cohen pair up to recap episode 1 of The Challenge Season 39: Battle for a New Champion. The challengers move into the house after a night in the arena and learn they will be playing as teams.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the Challenge Battle for New Champion |
| 0:28.7 | in a half-up podcast for the premiere. I am Brian Cohn and me, as always, is my |
| 0:33.2 | coach Alex, how are you? Same answer as always. Immediately in the |
| 0:41.7 | immediate present, I am okay at a macro level. I have not well, but happy to be |
| 0:45.4 | talking about the episode. Yeah, here we are another season. We've just put the |
| 0:50.9 | bed USA season two right off the bat season 39 kick starts here and we got |
| 0:58.4 | we definitely have a season. We have a season. I don't know how good it's |
| 1:03.6 | going to be, but we have a challenge season. Look, I'm choosing to |
| 1:06.9 | mitch watch the whole concept. I'm loving the format. I'm loving the |
| 1:09.9 | control phase. We'll talk about it. Obviously, we didn't know, you know, much |
| 1:13.9 | after episode zero, although a few things I'm like, how did we not assume |
| 1:18.2 | that? But that's how I always feel. Hindsight is 2020. Or as you in a |
| 1:23.0 | softmite say, Hindsight is good. I just want to take a pause. No, I just |
| 1:32.1 | want to pause and say and take a moment to say, how great the final exit |
| 1:39.1 | interviews were. I texted you about this. I treated about it, but for |
| 1:43.0 | anybody who would listen to this podcast as I would listen to it and |
| 1:47.0 | probably not listen to exit press, no disrespect. I sat down and I watched |
| 1:52.7 | on YouTube, the interviews, and they were delightful. Thank you so much. |
| 1:56.4 | They really were a lot of fun. All seven of the eight finalists, you |
| 2:01.6 | know, Sweden, the one who was mysteriously absent brought a lot to |
| 2:05.8 | it. They're all really fun. I think a lot of them had a lot of good |
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