The Challenge Fandom Podcast

Hey Fandom! Welcome back for another episode of Challengers Unplugged with your hosts Rick and Corrina Hayes. This week we bring you an interview not often done… Josh Martinez. From childhood life, getting on (and winning) Big Brother, then moving onto MTVs The Challenge, Josh takes us on an adventure through his life and how he got to where he is today. Fans and cast alike have gone back and fort...

Welcome back Fandom for another episode of Exit Interviews with your hosts Rick, Tony and Corrina! This week, sadly and happily, we got to chat it up with James and Tasha who were the most recently eliminated competitors from CBS's new reality competition show The Challenge USA. James (originally from Amazing Race) and Tasha (originally from Survivor) were such a joy to watch on TV this season. It...

Hey Fandom, welcome back for another episode of Trash Talk Roundtable where our hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony break down The Challenge USA episode 2 titled 'Oh Can You See Tiffany' including some of the twitter drama going on, what we thought of the eliminated pair, what we wish they had done differently with this season's set up and give some juicy details that we got from our exit interview...

Welcome Fandom, to a new segment of our podcast. Recently we were granted the ability to do exit interviews for the new Challenge USA premiering on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. While we were unable to meet the deadlines for the first week, we were so excited to be part of this! These interviews will be short and definitely bitter sweet as we talk to the eliminated competitors about their time...

Welcome back Fandom! You know what and who it is. If you don't, welcome! The Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony are back this week with an epic (and epically long) recap of both The Challenge All Stars 3 finale streaming on Paramount Plus as well as the premier episode of The Challenge USA premiering on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus. We break down each step of the second p...

Welcome back Fandom! This week we have a VERY special episode for you! With the premier of the new CBS show The Challenge USA, we have decided to start branching into other shows that filter into MTV's The Challenge as well as The Challenge USA (airing on CBS) and help you all get to know these competitors on a more personal and unedited level. This week your hosts Rick and Corrina are joined by t...

Welcome back Fandom! You know the drill by now! Our Challenge Fandom Hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony are back for another grand recap of All Stars 3! Not to say that our recapping abilities are "grand".. but you gotta admit we are pretty funny! Catch up with us and all our craziness while you listen to us break down All Stars 3 Episode 9 titled "Cheater! Cheater!". We also give our predictions...

Welcome back Fandom! This week we have our hosts Rick and Corrina to bring you another episode of Challengers Unplugged. This time around, we have none other than Davis Mallory! Davis is from Real World Denver and appeared on 3 seasons of MTV's The Challenge. Even more than that though, Davis has lead an incredibly interesting life, has one of the coolest jobs on the planet and is a really great m...

Welcome back Fandom, your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony are back with another episode of Challenge Trash Talk Roundtable where we are recapping All Stars season 3 episode 8 titled 'Going Bananas'. Per usual we break everything down, throw in a few laughs and this time we even tried something new! Rick stepped back as host (or tried to), so come listen to Tony and Corrina try to carry this show on o...

Welcome back Fandom, for another episode of Challengers Unplugged! Your hosts Rick and Corrina are joined this time by none other than Yes Duffy himself! We break down Yes's life before Reality TV even became a reality for him, travel through his casting story, time on Road Rules Semester at Sea, his friendships built and lessons learned and so much more! Yes tells us about getting invited back fo...

Your Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony gather for another fun night of recap, trash talking and this time, we brought along a special guest! From Netflix's series 'The Circle' we have Alex Brizard (AKA Nathan) from season 4. We have a great time talking all about Alex's history, fandom and projects along with some Challenge Fan tested questions to see how he feels about c...

Welcome back Challenge Fandom! We're back this week for our FIFTIETH episode and it just so happens to be a roundtable, as it should be! Rick, Corrina and Tony (no Josh.. sad face) sit down to go over MTV's The Challenge All Stars season 3 episode 6 titled 'Revenge of the All Stars'. Refresh your memory with us before the next episode and prepare for Trivia Day! Download and listen today and remem...

Welcome back Challenge Fandom, for another episode of Challengers Unplugged and this time… that title couldn’t fit more perfectly. Your hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony take on a beast of a human (in The Challenge and in life) with Syrus Yarbrough. Syrus takes us up, down and side to side through his whole life and even throws in some twists you’ll want to hear! In fact, we must apologize that there i...

Welcome back Fandom. You know what it is! Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony are back for another recap and this time, it's all The Challenge baby!! Survivor is over for the season so all our energy and focus is on The Challenge All Stars 3 and boy did we put all our energy into this episode.. of the podcast that is! Come have some fun and well, make this latest episode fun with us, your favorite Fandom...

Welcome back Fandom for another crazy week of Reality TV Competition show recaps! On this episode your Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina and Tony sit down to recap the Survivor 42 finale, our after thoughts on some of the cast we would love to see make a jump to either version of The Challenge (CBS or MTV) and how we truly felt about the winner of Survivor42. Then, our 4th host, the inf...

Hey Challenge Fandom, your Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony are back with another incredible episode of Challengers Unplugged. This week we have none other than MJ Garrett himself! We sat down with MJ the week of Mother's Day and talked about everything from his childhood, to what he wanted to be when he was younger, his college football career, dreams of basketball and his journe...

Your Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina, Tony and Josh are back with another roundtable recap for All Stars 3 and Survivor 42. Join us as we do a full recap and rundown of Survivor 42 EP11 'Caterpillar to a Butterfly' and talk about all the epic moves made on Survivor this season. Don't worry, if Survivor isn't your thing we've got you. Check for the time stamp below to jump straight to...

Let's Fucking GO!!!! Welcome back to another Roundtable Recap with your Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh and Tony. This week we kick off in an epic way by picking up on Survivor 42 and discussing the most recent episode and some of the players we have been paying attention to in anticipation for their potential appearance on The Challenge someday. Don't worry, if Survivor isn't y...

Get comfy Fandom, this will be a long one but oh so worth it! Your Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick and Corrina sat down back in February of 2022 to talk all things life, love and The Challenge with none other than Tyler Duckworth himself. As huge fans of Tyler's, we were very excited to talk to him about every little thing we could and thankfully for us, Tyler wasn't opposed to giving us so mu...

Get ready fandom because we are back with a HISTORIC episode of The Challenge Fandom Podcast. This week we wanted to discuss our thoughts on the most dominant season ever played in MTV’s The Challenge and we thought, who better to help us with that than The Challenge Historian himself?! Jacob Hollabaugh, aka The Challenge Historian, joins us as we deep dive into all the best played seasons of The...

Challenge Fandom... this is one for the books! The Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina, Josh, Tony and Steff sit down with the Sky Squidz hosts Marlon (former Challenger from MTV's The Challenge Rivals 2) and Ambrose (fellow Challenge fanatic and long time friend of Marlon) to discuss the biggest and most controversial Challenge fandom conspiracies. We break each one down with what we saw...

Buckle in Fandom, this one is gonna be a wild ride! Your hosts Rick and Corrina Hayes of The Challenge Fandom Podcast are back with another absolutely epic discussion with none other than the Queen herself, Marie Roda. Marie was originally on MTV's The Real World St Thomas and then appeared on five seasons of MTV's The Challenge which included Battle of the Seasons, Invasion of the Champions, Dirt...

Come take a stroll down memory lane with your hosts Rick, Corrina, and Tony of The Challenge Fandom Podcast with an episode of Challenge Trash Talk where we discuss some of MTV The Challenge's most iconic moments and quotes in all of history. We touch on everything from old school Challengers who helped make the show such as Coral to brand new favorites who have kept the fandom alive like Queen Mo...

Your Challenge Fandom Podcast hosts Rick, Corrina and Josh are back with an absolutely epic guest! This week we are joined by none other than the history-making Queen herself, Jodi Weatherton. Jodi drops by the podcast to talk to us about pre-reality TV Jodi, her casting story, what it was like walking into her first Challenge season, and even what her original goals were for reality TV. We go ove...

***Spoiler Warning for The Challenge CBS Cast*** While nothing is official until they are standing in front of the man TJ Lavin, the source from which we get our cast spoilers is very reliable and has not led us astray for many years in a row now. There are no gameplay spoilers in this episode, only cast, and discussion of what they may or may not have accomplished on their respective CBS shows. T...