Bananas is the Hulk Hogan of the Challenge but you guys are The WWE. You guys are consistently great while Johnny is the GOAT. I can’t pick a favorite cause both shows are so freakin good. This show is a must listen every week.

Why is Scott always on top of Landon’s hot dog. Nobody wants Landon back. Nobody cares if he comes back..:.he wasn’t even good tv! I don’t get why Scott is obsessed with him.

This isn’t a podcast, it’s a really long commercial for premium content. Super lame.

I loved this podcast. I was a day one listener and day one Patreon subscriber. I couldn’t get enough of this podcast, and now I’ve unsubscribed and canceled my Patreon membership. Scott likes the sound of his own voice too much and sometimes it seems like he’s just talking to himself during the interviews. Two star rating is only because I’m a Derrick fan.

I really used to like this pod. But first they’re celebrating the highly questionable, lucky to not be in jail Kenny & now they spend the entire show titled “Season 39 Episode 18 Final” talking about…Nelson? Who I guess is getting a pass because he didn’t kill anyone else? YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS. Scott & D both have children so I guess they’d be OK or consider it a badge of honor if Nelson had plowed into their kids while driving drunk? WILD. Wild choices. No content about the final. Privileged white frat boys being privileged white frat boys. There’s a LOT of Challenge content out there folks & it might be time to cut the cord from these clearly misguided MAGA minds. And sorry not sorry but we all know D doesn’t program any of this so this is all on Scott. Clown show.

Derrick and Scott-I don’t think Olivia’s choice of not choosing to save Nurys was just about her for fans (from what I have seen online) but also about HORACIO because Nurys would have then saved him and of course Horacio would’ve save Kyland. Remember Horacio and Olivia both got taken out of the game last time due to a horrible accident. He has basically been her “ride or die” and wanted to run this final with her. He has said that in an interview, so he was really, really hurt by her choice. Listen, I don’t know what it’s like to play this game for all of you, but this is just my humble opinion… for those of you that do have friends in the game and outside relationships and friendships. May be a good choice to establish upfront that if you are playing for each other, then do so and stick with each other and ride it out or at least be upfront and say look we are friends outside of this game, in real life, where it counts, but inside the game I have to do what I have to do for myself because everybody has goals and dreams and aspirations and would like to win the money or just the title of knowing that they can do this and win in the end. I get that. It’s a learning curve for Olivia and I’m Horacio both.

I just finished listening to episode 13 of season 39. This use to be one of my favorite podcasts. This episode was mostly talking about events that already happened. Barely anything about the current episode. If you want people to only listen on paitron just move the show there. I love the Challenge, I would love to go see the mania show. What I don’t love is a description saying it’s a review of the episode, then it’s not. It’s gotten worse and worse. If it doesn’t improve, you’ll lose listeners. Maybe you only want people to pay to listen. Maybe do that before you make the rest of your listeners rate your podcast.

Big Challenge fan. Love Derrick & appreciate Scott’s enthusiasm & knowledge of The Challenge world. However, thought Scott’s comments about her were distasteful & inadvertently racist. Calling an Asian woman “small”, non threatening, & that’d she’d be better suited as a “tour guide” were very socially unaware. Lol wow! Having a nice demeanor can actually be more threatening because you’re disarming your opponent perception of you. Scott clearly has never been a physical competitor before to understand that. Would love to see Kaz meet Scott one day & kick his butt!

I would have liked to give this five stars but Scott, please stop talking sooooooo much. The other day I tried to skip through one of your questions and hit fast forward four times and Scott was STILL asking his question. I understand these long form interviews need to be conversational but the audience is here to listen to the guest.

Great pod. My only gripes are the long intros promoting the live shows, patreon, etc. Love D, but he is a terrible communicator. Questions are constantly extremely long-winded and end up being 3 questions in one long tangent. Tighten up those few things and you have a top notch pod.

I like Scott he does a great job and I also like Derrick but maybe he should take some communications/ interviewing classes. His constant interruptions and talking over people are awful. Every commercial break is at least 3 1/2 minutes. Finally, instead of getting full hour long interviews, they are now about 20 minutes because the rest of the time Scott and Derrick are talking about some other B.S. while telling you to go to their pay Patreon to hear the rest of the interview. PLENTY of other podcasts do this for free, so I’m sorry but you’re done.

Love the variety in guests, the easy dialogue and of course…hearing anything from my fav challenger D!!!!

It’s already been obvious that Derrick has been losing it for a while but NOW it’s starting to become annoying…I understand that people go through things but STOP coming on the podcast and ruining the content for us. Most of the episode is filled with Derrick running around in circles with his words and dragging out NOTHING. It’s not only affecting his image but it’s making me not want to listen anymore

Any of these taped live events make me less likely to ever attend one. It’s just Scott taking up all the air in the room and never letting anyone say anything potentially interesting or meaningful. I swear he just gets hard at the sound of his own voice. He’s an annoying host and has no Challenge or Survivor knowledge. What exactly does he bring to the table?

When talking about Devin in that spot, I disagree, is there any other puzzle elimination contestant other than CT that you wouldn’t want to see than Devin? Just ask Johnny bananas. It’s almost like both men and women champs, they are all of a certain flavor when it comes to their main elimination strengths, no? Great podcast guys, keep it up!

D and Scott have been doing this for awhile and only get better. Great content and guests, derricks energy and insight is top notch, and scotts always got the best questions.

At first i liked the podcast, over time now i can’t stand it. Scott is too long winded. Scott constantly spoils the other shows. Like the winner of bb24 he talked about the next day on a survivor edition of the podcast. Also spoiled an eviction of bb25 on a challenge edition podcast. See he talks about big brother on podcast that aren’t even about big brother. And now i just got spoiled on the next exit In challenge usa season 2 with the title “exit interview: w/ paulie calafiore. It could have just said exit interview.

I’ve been following the challenge since day one

I do love the podcast but recently there’s been an emphasis on how bad cancel culture is for reality tv stars , having people with different viewpoints etc. people are allowed to grow and change but they don’t have to have a national platform in order to do that and Scott constantly bringing it up as a bummer is an even bigger bummer when he-a middle class , cis white man living in one of the most expensive cities in the world—will never be the target for people’s racist, classist, homo and transphobic views.

Scott and Derrick have the best pod out there about what has become my favorite show on television. Revisit all your old favorite seasons and follow along with all the new challenge seasons. They also have amazing interviews with all your favorite challengers. Check it out!

and way, way too much Yager. It is starting to feel like Derrick is an occasional guest rather than the star of the podcast.

The fact that Scott constantly talks about the outcome of Survivor 44 without spoiler warnings on non survivor podcasts is baffling

Scott says something and then feels the need to reiterate that comment 4 times in 4 different ways without letting anyone else talk. We got it the first time dude shut up. The Susie episode was absolutely brutal to listen to.

Holy moly! Scott - let the guests get a thought out! I’m trying to listen to the episode with Susie and all I hear is Scott talking. He isn’t letting Susie (or even Derrick) speak and when she does, he just talked right over her. This is painful.

I love all of Scott’s questions and discussions. I feel like I just become confused more than half of the time Derrick speaks. I love Derrick on the Challenge though.

Can get same content for free with other podcasters

Scott take the advice you gave to the Challenge “less is more”. Get rid of all these other lame shows that have nothing to do with the Challenge. No more lame wrestling or Survivor or whatever this abortion you did today. Never forget we came for D!!!

Scott is an idiot.

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Love the challenge and this podcast has good guest. I like how the want to get history on players. But they are too wordy, talking over each other constantly!

Show is dicey!! Stop talking over each other-it gets old quick. Also, Scott’s way of asking a question is painting a 5 minute picture. Just ask the freaking question. Difficult to listen to sometimes. EDIT- if it weren’t for appearances from challengers..I would not be able to listen. Derrick rambles way too long. 2nd EDIT- yeah I can’t listen anymore. Scott can ask a simple question. Cringe to listen to.

I tried giving it chance after chance. But it seems to just be getting worse. Tons of ads with weird loud outgoing music signaling the ads are coming for like a minute before the ad actually plays! Also the beginning is basically rambling with lots of ads. You can usually skip the first 10 minutes and not miss anything. Scott tries but he asks long rambling questions where he basically tries to voice his opinion on the subject and asks if the guests if they agree with him. He usually asks like 5 questions all the once and confuses the guests. Derrick is even worse. I don’t think he even tries. He has been getting bad ratings and feedback since the beginning but he has not improved at all. Shows that he doesn’t really care about listeners’ opinions and thinks he’s doing great. He rambles on so much and his thoughts aren’t even linked. He usually starts with something tangentially related to what was said, but then he rambles on for so long that he gets lost halfway through. After 5 minutes of him rambling straight, I find myself asking what point he even made in that time. Sometimes I skip whenever he talks because he does not contribute anything. Just detracts. He should try to limit himself to 3 sentences every time he talks. That might help. Also, even if you did not subscribe for non challenge content, be prepared for random podcasts about survivor, wrestling, Disney trips (??) and random thoughts from Scott no one asked for.

check it out! some really good guests and interviews

The people they have on this podcast is great HOWEVER THE SOUND QUALITY IS HORRIBLE

Derrick is not good at talking. He doesn’t have the skills required to host a podcast. Scott does but Derrick is so hard to listen to that I can’t enjoy any of the interviews.

Scott is amazing but Derrick needs to go.

Wasn’t sure whether I was going to learn anything new since Jakk was also on the mtv podcast but loved learning more about his personal life, the tangents on what the players could say in the confessionals and emo era, and additional insights into his game play and dynamic with Jay. Great questions too from Scott and D. Nice job!

Huge fan, highly recommend! Scott is just pure podcast gold and Derrick is The Challenge, the perfect combo. Why am I wanting to be a wrestling fan now? I love that there are so many different avenues on this. Challenge, wrestling, Broadway, music, survivor etc.

This podcast has become harder and harder to listen to. The main reason is that Derrick keeps talking, and talking, and talking, and talking….. D can you please ask the guest a 1-2 sentence question and then listen for longer than 10 seconds before feeling the need to interrupt. Scott does a great job and if it was only Scott on the podcast I would probably listen all the time. Most episodes I get halfway through, get really annoyed with Derrick talking all the time and I end stopping. Going to have to get my Challenge content elsewhere.

I loved listening to them thank you for putting on the reg podcast. Everyone was so great! Next please do not invite Tina! She took over Veronicas to the point where here Veronica told her to shut up. I was so happy she didn’t say anything in Cara Maria’s. Then there she was again in Brad’s. I found myself yelling “Shut Up Tina!”

Love all the content (especially on Patreon), and I think it’s great how passionate the two of you are about the challenge. I have no one to discuss challenge stuff with, and this fills that gap. I feel like I’m there with you!

Just listened to the most recent interview with Jordan and it really brought to light why this podcast is harder to listen to than all the other ones. Derrick “ah-ah-“ in the background was so frustrating. He is constantly interrupting guests and talking over them. He obviously was just waiting to give his two cents instead of actually listening to Jordan digesting what he was saying. It’s bugged me in the past but wow it’s getting way worse now that Derrick has returned to the franchise. The official challenge podcast hosted by aneesa is way easier to listen to and less mansplaining/interrupting/ outbursts. There are times when I want to hear Scott’s opinions too and Derrick can’t let him get a word in

I am a super fan of the challenge survivor and big brother. So I love D and he’s great but sometimes he need to…. Take a pause? Maybe. I am so glad Scott hosts and I love the survivor updates and the Disney updates were awesome(super Disney need too). Also you should book a Disney cruise and do an update on that too. Anyways big fan and love the podcast and will listen forever

Derrick speaking reminds me of a cd skipping. Before speaking please form a idea and stop repeating things twice or even three times in a row. The cussing is also terrible. You know a podcast is bad when there’s so much cussing as filler words. Scott does a great job but does not make up the fact Derrick needs to get better.

Maybe don’t bring a gigantic sign to an event blocking the view over and over again. Thankfully security finally stopped you. Signs are cool, being obnoxious is not.

The clod holding the Challenge Mania sign during All Out has guaranteed I’ll never listen to this basement production.

Put your stupid sign down you clown

I recently started watching the challenges and Real World again and saw this Podcast b/c of the guests and wanted to know their stories on how they got on and what they do now. I skip around based on guests and it just scares me on the early episodes b/c the audio is horrible and Derrick is just so bad with speaking which I wasn’t surprised about b/c he’s like that on the show. The man can’t speak coherently without saying uh or um and stuttering his way through questions and interruptions. The guy can’t seem to remember anything for more than 3 min and constantly asks questions the guests just answered. Scott is great and can actually speak clearly and tries to have structure but, is constantly hampered by D. Whoever does the editing on these need help when inserting the ads in the worst times ever literally will here an ad mid sentence sometimes and come back after a min. I want to support it and keep giving it a try but, I know it won’t change as long as D is on here.

For starters, this podcast is absolutely being carried by Scott. Scott is fun to listen to and asks tries to be super engaging with the guests. Honestly every episode gets harder and harder to get through and that is solely due to Derrick. He can’t seem to stay on topic and interrupts the guests constantly to ask questions that have already been covered. He like to try and relate what the guests are saying to himself a TON, but usually can never quite articulate why he’s doing so. It very regularly feels like Scott and the guests are actually doing the interview and are trying to drag Derrick up to speed as they go and be damned if he actually paid attention to any of it. It’s getting harder to justify supporting you guys. Get Derrick some proper training or something, he’s literally struggling so hard.

Worst podcast I’ve ever listened too. I wanted to stop but really love Cinco. Couldn’t hear Cinco at all and the hosts were all over the place and too many Umms