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The Challenge RHAP-up | Rob has a Podcast

The Challenge: Season 39 | Ep 3 + 4 Recap

The Challenge RHAP-up | Rob has a Podcast

Reality TV RHAPups

Tv & Film, After Shows

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2023

⏱️ 83 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 episodes 3 + 4 of The Challenge Season 39: Battle for a New Champion. In this week's double episode: betrayals! Romance! Arguments! Tune in now to revel in the drama. Ali and Brian will be back to recap each and every episode this season! Subscribe to RHAP's Challenge Feed NOW! Share your thoughts with us on Twitter by tagging @RobHasAPodcast and using #RHAP. Follow your hosts on Twitter: @LashTweets @CohenBrian_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello It's the recap of MTV Your host, Allie and Brian C And a drunk of R8 of R8G you don't like the song that don't I

0:22.9

Hey. Hello, everyone, welcome to the challenge battle for new champion wrap up podcast for episodes

0:29.5

three and four.

0:31.2

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

0:34.1

How are you?

0:36.6

For the historic record, I remain terrible, um, truly every day, but to channel hoo-hooey, I'm okay. I'm perfect. I'm ready to do this. Well, that makes one of us because this was, this was a slog to get through. I can't recall. Normally for the challenge's very easy to digest, even like for us, they're having to take notes. I legitimately had to watch this in like three settings. I just like at one point, I'm like, I'm like not processing anything. I need to pause and walk away. I get back to it. It again. This was a lot of challenge in one night, in one sitting.

1:12.4

It was a lot.

1:14.4

Like, may I, may I say, it's not just like, yes and, yes, yes, yes, it was a lot of challenge in one sitting.

1:26.2

And as I speculated with you when we

1:28.9

scheduled our record on Saturday morning, my ass will even procrastinate watching television.

1:34.2

So I started watching this at seven in the morning. But so like not only was it just a lot of the

1:40.0

challenge, but it was also not great challenge.

1:45.4

So, like, I think both the amount of time spent on what ended up being very, very,

1:54.5

like, expected House votes, very sort of inconsequential, dies, like, it begs the question, was the control

2:03.5

phase a flop, or did we just get sort of unlucky in early days of the challenge?

2:09.6

Yeah, I think the control this type of format could have worked.

2:15.6

I just don't think, I think the more so the flop, and I think it's the problem with

2:22.0

this season.

2:22.7

And it was kind of the problem that the challenge USA1 kind of felt was the premise of

2:29.2

the challenge is not the show, it's the people.

2:32.9

And it's the connections we have to the people. And it's our rooting interests. And it's their long history with the people. And it's the connections we have to the people.

2:35.3

And it's our rooting interest.

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