The Riskiest Season Yet w/ Faysal Shafaat
MTV's Official Challenge Podcast
MTV Entertainment Studios
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The Challenge: USA is back! Faysal Shafaat joins Devyn Simone and Tori Deal to kick off the brand new season. They get into the early house dynamics, whether he's sided with the Big Brother contestants or the Challenge vets, and the reason this season is different than any other season he's played before.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention all challenge fans. There is a ton of great challenge merchandise at the Paramount Shop. |
| 0:04.8 | We're talking shirt, yoga mats, workout gear and much more. Whether it's an official challenge |
| 0:10.4 | t-shirt for the gym or a hoodie to rock while you watch the latest season, shop everything |
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| 0:20.3 | That's 20% off at checkout on all challenge products with code Challenge20 at Paramountshop.com. |
| 0:26.4 | Hey everyone, it's Devon Simone. And I'm Tori Diel and this is MTV's official challenge |
| 0:35.1 | podcast. I hope you all enjoyed our free agents rewatch. I know I did, but the weight is over and |
| 0:41.6 | the challenge USA is back for a second season. Tori, what did you think of this first episode? |
| 0:48.1 | Oh my gosh man, it was just incredible. I loved the way they put it all together. I love the |
| 0:53.5 | personalities. I didn't get to meet these people prior. Seeing their introduction from a viewer's |
| 0:59.5 | perspective, I'm like, oh shit, I actually really like these guys. What a good cast of people. |
| 1:05.0 | For sure, it's cool and it's cool seeing a little bit of their history. And then the vets, |
| 1:09.6 | you guys too. I love when they do those flashback moments so that you can really understand who they |
| 1:14.4 | are and kind of, I don't know, get a sprinkle or glimmer into their personalities. Which is |
| 1:20.5 | yeah, yeah, I know. Like Wes is opening interview line. Like I've done so many. I cannot had to buy |
| 1:27.3 | a bigger house for my trophies. Like he's so funny. What is hilarious? I hope he stays longer than |
| 1:33.5 | two episodes this time because Wes is seriously probably one of the funniest people on your challenge |
| 1:41.2 | of all time. Like he's just hilarious and seeing him and bananas pull up on jet ski. Like I wish we |
| 1:47.6 | could also just frame that they need to blow up that photo. Like put it on a canvas and hang it |
| 1:52.4 | in paramount offices, CVS offices, because I just it's iconic. It is iconic. Yeah. Corey pulled |
| 1:58.8 | it up looking like he was on the cover of a Drake album. Yeah. So sick on that thing. Yes. |
| 2:05.5 | Corey is bringing like fly vibes into the house this season. I'm excited to see what that's all about. |
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