The Hours w/ Emer Harkin
MTV's Official Challenge Podcast
MTV Entertainment Studios
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Devyn Simone sits down with Ride or Dies Executive Producer and Showrunner (aka:HBIC), Emer Harkin, to talk about coming up with the idea for an 100 hour final, how she navigated Olivia's injury and everything you need to know before next week's season finale.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello challenge family. It's your girl Devon Simone. It's |
| 0:06.8 | a birthday today. So I'm coming in older, wiser and maltheir. And I am so glad |
| 0:11.0 | that you're here. I'm holding it down. We have such a great episode for you |
| 0:15.0 | today to go along with the great episode that we just watched. I mean, can we |
| 0:19.9 | get into it? You're tuned in by the way to the official challenge podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | So much to talk about, which is why I'm talking so fast. Okay. I just I can't |
| 0:29.2 | eat between the ice cream and the pasta and the puzzles and the green sludge. |
| 0:34.2 | And I'm still reeling over Olivia. Like, can we just say, I am a living, |
| 0:40.4 | breathing Olivia stand account now. I don't I don't care. Anybody says just the |
| 0:45.2 | way that she carried herself through all of this and has just been |
| 0:49.8 | such a fighter, the way that Horacio like supported her as well. Like that |
| 0:55.7 | she this is an Olivia stand account. Just she's section inspiration. The final as a whole |
| 1:01.0 | 100 hours, 100 out. Do you guys know how long 100 hours is? It's a long time. |
| 1:10.1 | 100 hours. That is like half of a week, half of a week with no real shower and just |
| 1:16.1 | like sludge and then you're eating stuff and you know someone's been severely |
| 1:19.6 | injured now. So that's kind of like running in the back of your mind because you |
| 1:22.5 | don't want to be injured and everybody's limping and everybody's yelling. |
| 1:26.3 | It is just pure chaos. And I'm so excited because we're going to get some behind the scenes. |
| 1:32.4 | You're not going to get this anywhere else about the final how it all came to be. |
| 1:37.1 | All of that stuff when we get into this interview. Okay. Let's talk about some highlights from |
| 1:43.7 | this week. Now, first of all, someone who would be up for Gold Star would be Tori and her hair. |
| 1:50.3 | Because I don't know if you caught this, but at about our 50 when everybody else is looking to |
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