The Challenge Fandom Podcast

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challenge Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony, Josh and Cory! That's right, we have a full house on this one! Fair warning: We recorded this episode approximately 6 weeks ago. Since then one of the girls we talked about on this episode made some choices that have been very controversial amongst the fanbase so to avoid becomi...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challengers Unplugged where your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and Josh take you beyond the edit with some of your favorite Challengers and reality stars. This week we have a very special guest joining us all the way from Australia, Troy Cullen! Troy was such a joy to have on and learn more about his life and his approach to these games. We start out wit...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and Josh! This week we are wrapping up our 3 part The Challenge MT Rushmore series with a very special guest - Alex Brizard of Netflix's The Circle and the successful podcast, Two Dudes Watch Cartoons. We kick the episode off by catching up with each other, discussing what it's like wa...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challenges Unplugged: Beyond The Edit where your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony take you beyond the edit with some of your favorite (and least favorite) Challengers from MTV's The Challenge to get their side of the story. This week we have a very special guest returning for her second round with us, Jodi Weatherton. We start out by catching up toge...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and Josh. This week we have a very special topic so we had to bring a very special guest to help us break it all down and we could think of no one better for this topic than The Challenge Historian, Jacob Hollabaugh. We start off by discussing some important Challenge topics such as the advanc...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challengers Unplugged: Beyond The Edit. Your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and Josh are joined this week by a very special guest and someone we have been dying to talk to - Nelson Thomas! We start out with a very short intro because Nelly is PROMPT ( 0:00 - 3:30) . When Nelson joins us we start out by covering his early life such as where he was born/rai...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challenge Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony, Josh and Cory! Yup, that's right we've got a full house tonight and it was for a very special reason! We all got together to finalize an official Challenge Fandom Podcast Mount Rushmore list for men and women! We kick off the episode by catching up as Rick tells us his heroi...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challengers Unplugged where your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony take you beyond the edit with a Challenger from MTV's The Challenge. This week we are joined by Ben Driebergen from Survivor 35, Survivor 40, The Challenge USA and Challenge World Championship all airing on CBS and Paramount Plus. We start off by catching up with Ben about "Benzo&...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challengers Unplugged: Beyond The Edit. This week your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and Josh come together and sit down with former Dallas Cowboy's player and reigning Challenge USA Champion Danny McCray to break down the entire season of The Challenge World Championship. We kick off the episode by discussion why we are so excited to talk to Danny,...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challenge Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and Josh! This week we kept it OG to close out this season of The Challenge World Championship. We kick off with Rick giving us some voice acting while we talk about Challengers we love now but it didn't start out that way. Then, Rick and Corrina tell a story about Rick's ris...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable Recap with your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony! This week we had a VERY special returning guest on with us to recap The Challenge World Championship EP11 "Weight Of The World", the one and only The Challenge Historian AKA Jacob Hollabaugh. Join us as we start off by catching up with Jacob and talk about everything from h...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable with your Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and Cory! This week we have a special guest returning for her 2nd appearance on our podcast - Alexis! This week we all get together to break down The Challenge World Championship EP10 "Cruel World". We kick off by putting all the pressure on Alexis to choose...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another epic episode of Challengers Unplugged where your hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony take you beyond the edit with some of your favorite Challengers to give you the opportunity to get to know them better. This week we sat down with none other than S38 Rookie of the Season and quite possibly Male Rookie of 2022/2023, Horacio Gutierrez, Jr. We kick off the episode...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challenge Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony where we are going to be deep diving into The Challenge World Championship EP9 "Transform The World! This week, Josh attempts to join us for a full recap but ends up only being able to make the intro but hey, a little is better than nothing! Listen in as we catch up wit...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of The Challenge Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony. This week we have a very special episode for you because we are going to be collaborating on this recap with none other than Sarah and Jay from Final Alliance Podcast! We have been going back and forth with Final Alliance Podcast for awhile now but it was so great to finally...

Hey Challenge Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony. I'm going to keep this one real simple by saying our intro is us clowning on IG trolls and talking about why this was one of the BEST episodes of The Challenge in recent seasons (0:00 - 13:00) . Then we break into recapping the most recent episode of The Challenge World Champ...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony! This week we are here to break down The Challenge World Championship episode 6 "Brave New World" and since this is the midseason marker, we are here with our good friend and special guest Alex Brizard. You may recognize Alex from Netflix's The Circle where he catfished as Nat...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another epic episode of Challengers Unplugged: Beyond The Edit. This week your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony go beyond the edit with none other than MTV's The Real World, The Challenge and Teen Mom OG Legend, Cory Wharton. We start off the episode by talking to Cory about how Maya is doing post open heart surgery as well as check in on Nelson's status and talk a...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and kind of Josh! This week, we're all back (at least for the intro) to catch up with one another on various things like our upcoming episodes, why we love Kind Cotton SO MUCH, our favorite recent reddit comment about us (just for funsies), MJ Garrett's WILD fan video request and what...

Hey Fandom and welcome back for another episode of Challengers Unplugged: Beyond The Edit. This week your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony sit down with MTV's The Challenge season 38 Ride or Dies rookie Jakk Maddox and talk all things life, love and The Challenge. Fair Warning: there are some very deep and possibly triggering topics in this episode. We start out talking to Jakk about his life grow...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable and if we never meant it before, we do this week! Your hosts Rick and Corrina are back with TWO special guests: Cinco Holland from Love Island season 3 and CBS's The Challenge: USA as well as Malik from Love War and Challenges Podcast. We've had them both on here before so when I say we had way too many laughs, talked wa...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challengers Unplugged: Beyond The Edit. This week your hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony are joined by a very special guest. Returning for her 2nd interview with us, we sit down with MTV’s The Challenge reigning female champ from season 38 Ride or Dies, Tori Deal! This was a really special one for us… we kick off the episode in a BIG way by diving i...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable for a brand new episode of The Challenge! Your hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh, Tony and Cory are all here tonight to bring in this premier of MTV's The Challenge World Championship with a bang... literally! Start out with us as we go live on IG during our intro for the first time and engage with our IG followers while having discussi...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challengers Unplugged: Beyond The Edit! This week your hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony have a very special guest, Chauncey Palmer! Kick off the episode with us while we get ready for Chauncey and get the team settled in. Then, break right into the interview with us as we travel through Chauncey's early life discussing everything from where he grew...

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another round of Trash Talk Roundtable with your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony! We are kicking off our next set of 100 episodes with none other than a FULL cast breakdown on the newest spin off version The Challenge - Paramount Plus's The Challenge World Championship. On this spin off, competitors that won and competed on various international versions of  The Chal...