Tony Raines on Coming Into His Own on ‘The Challenge’ and His Complicated Relationship With Johnny Bananas | Death, Taxes, and Bananas

The Ringer Reality TV Podcast

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.4 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

After forming one of the most complex and fascinating relationships on ‘The Challenge,’ Johnny Bananas and Tony Raines hash out all the details of their friendship and foeship. They start with Tony’s turbulent start in reality television on ‘Real World: Skeletons’ and the fights and the injuries on his first 'Challenge' season, ‘Battle of the Bloodlines.’ Then they go through Tony’s finest and lowest moments on the show, from ‘Rivals 3’ to ‘Invasion of the Champions,’ and all the defining moments of their relationship throughout ‘Dirty 30,’ ‘Vendettas,’ and ‘Final Reckoning,’ including what really happened behind the scenes during the fateful Milk and Cookies Elimination. Host: Johnny Bananas Guest: Tony Raines Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Matt Bellany founding partner of Puck News and I'm covering the inside
0:04.8	conversation about money and power in Hollywood. With my new show The Town I'm
0:09.4	going to take you inside Hollywood with exclusive insight and what people in show business are
0:13.7	actually talking about. Multiple times a week I'll talk to some of the smartest
0:17.5	people I know, journalists, insiders, all of whom can break down the hottest
0:22.2	topics in entertainment to tell you what's really going on.
0:25.0	Listen now.
0:27.0	This episode is brought to you by M&M.
0:34.0	M&M sells big brands at low prices.
0:37.0	The clothes and footwear are always up to 65% less,
0:41.0	and so their podcast ads. So he's some elevator music to fill the time.
0:45.3	M&M big big brands, low prices, always up to 65% less than R.R.P.
0:58.0	Click on tap now to shop at M&M. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the death taxes and bananas
1:15.7	podcast. I'd like to apologize to everyone. I know we did not release an
1:19.9	episode last week. I heard about it all throughout my
1:25.8	my d.ms and social media.
1:27.8	You know what, it actually, it actually warms my heart
1:30.9	to know that you guys are all so infatuated by the podcast that when I take a week off, you're lost without me.
1:38.8	Because I just want to reassure you, I'm lost without you as well. But I would have done none of you any justice had I done a
1:44.7	podcast last week because I was a train wreck all right I was in Miami I realized two things
1:51.4	after being in Miami though. One, I'm no longer 21 and spring break is not for me.
1:56.8	All right, those days are long gone. And two, I'm gonna need a, I'm gonna need a butt lift.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.