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Welcome back to the Challenge Battle of a new champion

Wrapup podcast for episode 18, part one of the final.

I am Brian Cohn with me as always is my co-host

Alachar Ali.

How are you?

Episode 18 on a macro level, I remain bad. On a micro level, I'm fine. How are you? Doing good. We covered a lot of ground this season. I mean, it's crazy. 18 episodes and stuff. You know, I put it out there. I was like, oh, my God, how many times if we reached episode 20 and then like a bunch of people like, it's been 20 episodes every year for the last like four seasons.

All the time.

I couldn't believe that.

Like I was like, I don't know.

Is it the 90 minutes?

But then everyone's like, no, it's been 90 minutes for a while now too.

I was like, all right, then I guess this is, I'm just, it's like childbirth, because I blocked out the last few seasons of this, that it just feels different this time. No one said anything, no one has ever said anything more relatable than Mariah saying, we say last push so many times, but this really is the last push. And it wasn't the last push. There's another, we knew that, but I was like, no. This is like the final push, but it's like, count down to 10. And it's like, all right, now really count that the 10. We're in the really. We're entering the really stage next week, although really not. We still have another elimination. And then we're in the really stage. So we're almost there. Before we get into this really stage, Kyle Picard has the

question on everybody's lips. Is Brian too big for the podcast now? You know, I thought about that.

I, you know, I feel there's so many of my media requests for the week. I thought, you know,

there's so many other opportunities I can do with the platform I have now. But I decided, you know,

I'm loyal to my roots. They didn't want to give up on this. We come so far. We're almost at 10 years. I can't give up on this. Come on. I'm here over the long haul. I think now the views are matching the views in your head, you know? It's not like you've reached another echelon. It's just now the audience is responding to where you've always felt you were.

Right. like you've reached another echelon. It's just now the audience is responding to where you've always felt you were.

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