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The Ringer Reality TV Podcast

‘The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and Allies’ Episode 8 With Hughie | Death, Taxes, and Bananas

The Ringer Reality TV Podcast

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Tv & Film

4.4952 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week, Johnny welcomes everyone’s favorite rookie, Hughie Maughan, to the podcast to talk about all the behind-the-scenes details, dramas, and tidbits. First, Hughie tells Johnny how he got his start in reality television on ‘Big Brother’ (0:40) and why he chose Ashley to be his partner at the beginning of ‘The Challenge’ (16:30). Then they get into all the juicy details of the veteran alliance (22:50), Hughie’s mid-elimination fight with Corey (43:50), the drama between Emy and Burna (54:55), the frustrating challenge that Hughie and Burna almost won (1:09:00), and how his ass got in the way of winning the elimination (1:22:00). Host: Johnny Bananas Guest: Hughie Maughan 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

Hello reality TV fans, I'm Juliet Littman and I want to tell you about our brand new

0:04.4

Ringer reality TV podcast. On the feed right now we are covering the bachelor

0:09.1

franchise of Amelia Weddamie, The Challenge with winner Johnny Bananas, Survivor with Survivor winner Tyson

0:15.2

Apostle and the Great British Bakeoff with my colleagues Amelia and Kate

0:19.2

Hallowel. Plus, Cali Curie and I pop on there sometimes talking about our best love shows.

0:24.3

So follow the Ring of reality TV podcast on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Ladies and

0:42.5

Welcome back to the Death Taxes and Bananas podcast.

0:46.9

I am your host Johnny Bananas.

0:49.4

Now you know the reason we call this the death taxes and bananas podcast there are only

0:56.0

three certainties in life in my opinion and those are death taxes and Johnny bananas.

1:01.6

Now this podcast we, we've kind of run the gambit of guests, all right?

1:07.2

We started off with the infamous Bill Simmons to give us his perspective on the challenge and what he thinks about this season and past seasons.

1:18.0

I've gotten vet perspectives. I've gotten outsider's perspectives. Hell, I've even gotten a perspective from the ugliest

1:25.3

ginger on planet Earth, Westen Bergman. But up to this point what we have not gotten is the rookie perspective.

1:33.4

And I am over the moon and thrilled about my next guest who is come on.

1:39.1

I've had a crush on this guy since day one, all and I want to introduce our next guest to the

1:46.4

death taxes and bananas podcast my future ex-husband Hughie give it up

1:51.6

hello everyone why do we have to be Hewie. Give it up! Hello everyone.

1:54.0

Why do we have to be ex-usbands?

1:56.0

Why can't we just get married?

1:58.0

Oh no, actually, we can be ex-usbands because you've won times, that means they'll probably come away with some money, so yeah, let's get divorced.

2:07.0

Listen, I just don't think, I don't know you, I just don't think it's gonna work between the two of us, man. I don why I mean I but listen I but let's

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