Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Challenge USA to wrap up podcast for episode 11. I am Brian Cohn. Good week. As always, is my co-host. I'll share. How are you?

Can't complain, Brian. Another day, another Thursday, another average plus episode of the challenge.

I'm really liking this season overall.

Yeah, average plus that, like, I was on the verge of, like, being like,

this could be a good one if the shot was taken, but then it would, like,

Michaela just backs down and go, let's just do Tyler and Cassidy,

womp, womp.

But yeah, it could have been a lot of fun.

Could have been a lot of fun. But the daily and the elimination were fun. So at least that provided some extra boost. Yeah, I do think this episode, which is, you know, what you're getting at maybe, is like a little bit of, slightly suggests that the format is failing a bit.

Well, it's still always the hope of the hopper,

but just in terms of, you know,

people's motivation,

who people want to run finals with,

having a man and woman get on the same page,

kind of tough in that situation.

So I'm excited to talk a three with you. Yeah, it's tough because again, like this is, I mean, it's like deja vu for Michaela from last week. We're like replay that conversation of like, oh, when's the right time to take a shot? And it's almost like, is there something just more structurally wrong with the game or is it is it bad for this show for

the challenge to have to have one person be like a nominator where you just have like the or two

people really but like the one one man one woman be the nominator so the the brunt of the vitriol is on one person or it like is it better just to have

these teams where you can't just be focused on one person to take a shot when you want to

take out someone big and here you because so many people are going to be like, why would

I do this and Torrey Wains is she's going to focus on me.

And I get it.

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