Speaker 1: What's up everyone, I'm Tory, I'm surprised, I'm Bigti. It's
Speaker 1: time for a very special episode of MTV's official Challenge podcast.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately Anissa couldn't be here for this one, but we
Speaker 1: are super excited to have on the Challenge Bet and
Speaker 1: resident comedian Big Ti to co host with me today. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be here. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: talk about this week's insane episodes be either. I was
Speaker 1: so excited when I heard you we're gonna be co
Speaker 1: hosting this with me. I'm so excited to hear what
Speaker 1: you have to say about all this. So let's just
Speaker 1: get started. Yeah, let's go all right, vig Ti, let's
Speaker 1: just dive into this. So I'm gonna show you how
Speaker 1: it's done. Me and Anissa have this thing in honor
Speaker 1: of the thirty six season of The Challenge. We do
Speaker 1: a thirty six second recap. It does involve a lot
Speaker 1: of anxiety. It's hard to get a lot of facts
Speaker 1: out there in thirty six seconds. But because you're new
Speaker 1: to the show, I'm gonna dive in. I'm gonna how
Speaker 1: it's done. Okay, gets the timer on, Let's get it. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's good story. This episode was crazy. Everybody looked like
Speaker 1: a little piece of poop dangling from a string. Poor
Speaker 1: and I said that rope looked crazy, but there was
Speaker 1: a helicopter. No, he was really excited. But Devin and
Speaker 1: Josh could not get on the rope. But the one
Speaker 1: person who got on the rope and shocked everybody was
Speaker 1: the one and only Big t who was co hosted
Speaker 1: with me today. And that shit is gonna be crazy
Speaker 1: to talk about because she murdered that swim. That shit
Speaker 1: was nuts. Then after that, everybody went back to the house.
Speaker 1: Everything was split up. Durell didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: He was like to go this way or that way,
Speaker 1: or this way or that way. He looked like he
Speaker 1: was playing twister with his mind. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he got into the booth. Bam, did one did a
Speaker 1: dirty shit. TCT got in there. He was like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck? And then all of a sudden, TJ pulled
Speaker 1: out and he was like, nah man challenge breach or
Speaker 1: something like that, and We're all like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: And then TJ did his dirty and cut off the
Speaker 1: episode early. It's all I gonna say about that. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: very impressive. I didn't know if I can tulp that false.
Speaker 1: I'll give it my best try. You know it, give
Speaker 1: it a slow, thirty six second thoughtful, you know, make it,
Speaker 1: do whatever you got to do to make it yours. Okay,
Speaker 1: can I just say one line for thirty six second?
Speaker 1: I won? I won in today's challenge. Big Ti is
Speaker 1: a great swimmer. Okay, did you see that coming? No?
Speaker 1: You didn't. Thirty six seconds. That's all I've got to say.
Speaker 1: Might drop ah, Okay, you really hit me with a
Speaker 1: curveball with that one. That was good. I gotta give
Speaker 1: it to you, though, And like we do this thing
Speaker 1: on here, play of the day, best athletic move a
Speaker 1: hundred percent, it goes to you. You gotta walk us
Speaker 1: through everything about that, Like we're gonna get dive deeper
Speaker 1: into it in the episode, but like, just give us
Speaker 1: a little bit right now. How did it feel? It
Speaker 1: just felt so good because I had so much pressure to,
Speaker 1: you know, really perform in Today's daily because I knew
Speaker 1: how much Cet wants to go down to get his
Speaker 1: goal skull. I was feeling bad because I felt as
Speaker 1: if I was holding him back this entire season. So
Speaker 1: I saw that rope and I was just like, you
Speaker 1: know what, You've got this jump on this rope. I'm quietly, like,
Speaker 1: quite a confident swimmer, but I didn't want to say
Speaker 1: anything beforehand, just in case I messed up and be like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm great at swimming and then you know,
Speaker 1: do really bad jobs. So yeah, so yeah, So I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed both parts of the challenge. Were you more
Speaker 1: nervous for the rope hold or for the swim I'm
Speaker 1: just getting onto the rope, because the thing was, I
Speaker 1: was confident in my skills on hanging onto the rope because,
Speaker 1: as I said, I've done pole dance classes and so
Speaker 1: I knew those were going to come in very handy.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I love that. Oh my god. I
Speaker 1: love when you were like telling CT you gotta do
Speaker 1: pole dancing. He's like, okay, imagine CT on a pole.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that has to happen. It would be
Speaker 1: like a delicious shishka bab and I'll be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take a bite. I'll have a slice of that.
Speaker 1: I'll have a slice. Okay, Well, let's get into the
Speaker 1: dirtiest deed of the day. So what do you think
Speaker 1: was the craziest political move on this episode, well, she know, well,
Speaker 1: I think the craziest and shadiest political move was by
Speaker 1: mister Durrell, because you team Durrell had been playing the
Speaker 1: game since you know, day one ogs together and then
Speaker 1: for durrell sus side with Big Brother. You know, that's
Speaker 1: something that I thought was an ultimate blindside. It took
Speaker 1: me by surprise because you do see Darella's this like
Speaker 1: loyal og kind of guy, but like he Big Team
Speaker 1: had him pins like he's like he floats his way
Speaker 1: to the final and then he kills it when he's there,
Speaker 1: and that's like exactly Durrell's game. I was shocked that
Speaker 1: he sided with Big Brother too, But there must have
Speaker 1: been something about him being partners with Amber b because
Speaker 1: she was Big Brother all the way, and like maybe
Speaker 1: when you're close with your partner, you start to put
Speaker 1: their feelings into play and you do have to work
Speaker 1: with them in a challenge. So I think that she
Speaker 1: may have helped to sway that to get Josh you
Speaker 1: know safe, keep him safe, Yeah, one hundred percent. And
Speaker 1: also there was just something in the ad this season,
Speaker 1: like the Big Brother crew like they had some juju
Speaker 1: going on because they had everyone under their spell, so
Speaker 1: you know, and also I think with Darrell, he wanted
Speaker 1: to vote the same way as his partner, which I
Speaker 1: think a lot of us did do. Totally. It was
Speaker 1: such a crazy episode. Well, let's to dive into it
Speaker 1: a little bit more because I got to pick your
Speaker 1: brain on this daily challenge. Yeah, you know, this is
Speaker 1: a daily challenge that I'm very happy to talk about
Speaker 1: more than some other ones in the past. Okay, So
Speaker 1: because you were there, I am really curious. Just explain
Speaker 1: to me what airlift was all about, what it was
Speaker 1: like to be there, and how you felt doing it.
Speaker 1: So Tori, We're walking down this hill and the first
Speaker 1: thing I see is a helicopter and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we're going up again. And at this stage,
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely terrified because I know I'm going to be
Speaker 1: in the air and it's got something to do with swimming,
Speaker 1: because we see a platform which is, you know, quite
Speaker 1: far away from us, like a small pavilion. So for
Speaker 1: today's challenge, t lets us know that we have to
Speaker 1: go on a speed boat. Whilst the boat is going
Speaker 1: like vast speeds, we have to jump onto this rope
Speaker 1: which this helicopter above us is like holding. We have
Speaker 1: to hang onto this rope and then jump down at
Speaker 1: a certain point and then swim the pavilion and then
Speaker 1: set off this buzzer. You know. This was actually turned
Speaker 1: out to me my favorite challenge, even though going into
Speaker 1: it I was absolutely terrified. But this was the first
Speaker 1: time I felt as if I was actually doing like
Speaker 1: a stunt from like a James Bond movie, like you
Speaker 1: know that ed boat and then you know, going to
Speaker 1: detonator and helicopters and all that jazz. It's fabulous, totally,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you crushed it. There was plenty of
Speaker 1: people who did not crush it, Like there were people
Speaker 1: who I thought were going to do really well and
Speaker 1: then just dropped the bar. But I mean, like everybody
Speaker 1: started off really strong. Like who was the first team
Speaker 1: that went again, It was Casey and Leroy. They crushed it,
Speaker 1: they did. And I know that Leroy has been doing
Speaker 1: swimming lessons recently, so kudos to him because he did
Speaker 1: so well with that. Totally. I mean, it's always great
Speaker 1: when you see a challenger do something not so great
Speaker 1: on the show and then they go back and they
Speaker 1: work on it because that's like all you can do.
Speaker 1: You can't really train for everything. The challenge throws shit
Speaker 1: at you left and right. You never know when you're
Speaker 1: going to be a Tampa and hanging on a string
Speaker 1: from a helicopter, Like, you can't prepare for that. You
Speaker 1: just got a home. Do what you can, you know, absolutely,
Speaker 1: so I thought they did really well. I was actually,
Speaker 1: you know, with Nanni and Josh. I was really disappointed
Speaker 1: for them because, yeah, because I was excited to see
Speaker 1: Josh's swimming because I've heard he's very good swimmer. He is,
Speaker 1: he is. But you know what, maybe all that flirting
Speaker 1: beginning in the episode got in Josh's mind and he
Speaker 1: was like, let me get my fair maide in her rope,
Speaker 1: let me be the let me bring chivalry back to
Speaker 1: the challenges, like Josh, today wasn't the day to do it,
Speaker 1: bro Today it was not the day to do it.
Speaker 1: Poor Nanni, man, So you reckon. That was some sort
Speaker 1: of like flashing technique on Josh's behalf, like trying to
Speaker 1: Ben's rare, Like, I don't know, listen, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you a funny story about Josh real quick. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I should say this, he might kill me,
Speaker 1: but this story is so good. You were actually their
Speaker 1: big team. We were in the bunker on total madness,
Speaker 1: and Josh got really wasted one night. We went to
Speaker 1: go to that like cavern out in like the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere. We went to that old movie thing. He
Speaker 1: comes back, he's laying on the bed. We're like rubbing
Speaker 1: him because he was like throwing up, you know, he's
Speaker 1: like hungover, so really rubbing him. And as we're rubbing him,
Speaker 1: he's like, Anissa, will you suck my dick? And we
Speaker 1: were like, Josh, he's one of He's a lover boy,
Speaker 1: certified lover boy. He's hilarious. He flirts with everybody in
Speaker 1: the hashway. I love that about Josh. I think it's amazing.
Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised that Josh is getting a little
Speaker 1: you know, cozy with Nannie, because I mean, she's beautiful
Speaker 1: and she's amazing, so why and Josh is actually, you
Speaker 1: know't quite surprisingly quite a massive horn dog like he's
Speaker 1: me actually as well. So I was a bit like, okay, Josh, okay,
Speaker 1: I thought it was just me and I'm a bee
Speaker 1: and somebody else that you find. Nanni two is everybody.
Speaker 1: Nobody's safe, nobody. I gotta love him, though, Man, it
Speaker 1: sucks because you know, after he finished, he obviously comes
Speaker 1: down and then you know what happens, Devin, Devin Walker
Speaker 1: starts verbally vicious. This man has no chill. Once he
Speaker 1: finds like a weakness, he just like takes a stick
Speaker 1: and like jabs at it. Devin was definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: enjoying that moment with Josh, and he was capped on
Speaker 1: gyrating and just kept jabbing Josh and you know when
Speaker 1: it came to his and Gabby's ton and as he
Speaker 1: says an episode, I hate to say it, I feel
Speaker 1: like that was a little bit of Calma a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's like, you don't talk shit before
Speaker 1: you finish. Like, if you're gonna talk shit, do yourself
Speaker 1: a favor and make sure you can get the job done,
Speaker 1: because if you're gonna talk, then it's gonna look worse
Speaker 1: on you. Like, at the end of the whole thing, Devin,
Speaker 1: you're the one who looked like the asshole, And like,
Speaker 1: who's to say that you being an asshole in that
Speaker 1: moment wasn't the reason that Durrell inevitably switched his vote
Speaker 1: because maybe Durell was like, h like, I actually don't
Speaker 1: like the way that person is because it sucks to lose.
Speaker 1: So you just never know, you never know, you never know.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I gotta give it to Gabby
Speaker 1: because she got on that. She was so cute up there,
Speaker 1: holding onto that thing so tight, like scowling at Devin
Speaker 1: from Bob. Gabby was absolutely fuming because already from the
Speaker 1: offset she was kind of telling Devin to like shut up.
Speaker 1: She was like stop, you know, throwing these insults at Josh. However,
Speaker 1: you know, she did really well and I feel like
Speaker 1: she could have done very well in that challenge, and
Speaker 1: so I feel bad for Gabs there totally. Yeah, Cam
Speaker 1: and Leroy also did really well. Nam and Lolo did
Speaker 1: really well. I mean there was not Cam and Leroy,
Speaker 1: Cam and Kyle did well. Oh my gosh, Tory Lolo
Speaker 1: is such a fast swimmer. Really, you can't even see
Speaker 1: t J being like whoa, because like she just springed
Speaker 1: him in that water. Was absolutely happulous. The shoes fell off.
Speaker 1: So if that hadn't happened, I think we would have
Speaker 1: seen her beat even faster. Well you beat her, so
Speaker 1: how does that feel I'm beat an Olympic athlete. That's
Speaker 1: so cool, that's so cool. Oh my god. Leoli was
Speaker 1: so funny. After I wont she came up to me.
Speaker 1: She was like, you know, I've got to really rethink
Speaker 1: my Olympic training. You know, like, oh my gosh, what
Speaker 1: are these poll classes that you're doing? Like sign me up,
Speaker 1: o man? And you know what, she is such a
Speaker 1: fierce competitor and you can see it. You can see
Speaker 1: it in her demeanor while she's at the challenge and
Speaker 1: after it's over. She's really hard on herself. So I
Speaker 1: think that's why it it weighs on her so much
Speaker 1: heavier because at a high level, she's a very professional athlete,
Speaker 1: and like you could see it in this episode, it
Speaker 1: really gets the best of her because obviously she ends
Speaker 1: up going home. Yeah, you know, because as an athlete,
Speaker 1: you have such a regimented schedule and like work out routine,
Speaker 1: and I think, as he said, she's very hard on
Speaker 1: herself not excelling. But you know, this isn't the Olympics.
Speaker 1: So the challenge, the dailies that we do are so
Speaker 1: random and it is different skills, whereas Lolo is trained
Speaker 1: for specific skills running and bob sledging and you know,
Speaker 1: the skills that come with doing those athletic petitions, and
Speaker 1: so you know, with the Olympics coming ahead and training,
Speaker 1: I think you know, her focus was, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: on excelling in this competition challenge, to let me go
Speaker 1: back home and focus on what I'm really good at,
Speaker 1: which is being an Olympic athlete. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it was a very tough decision for her because I think,
Speaker 1: you know, she doesn't want to come across like acquitter,
Speaker 1: because she was and I think she was just you know,
Speaker 1: prioritizing what needed to be prioritized, and it paid off
Speaker 1: because she won a medal recently. So well done, Lolo,
Speaker 1: Well done, Lolo. And you know what I gotta say
Speaker 1: this though, like I absolutely I support anyone's decision to
Speaker 1: walk away from the game because it is mentally draining.
Speaker 1: But the one positive thing you can get out from
Speaker 1: losing the challenge is that you have to learn just
Speaker 1: to not be hard on yourself. You never know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get, You never know when it's not going
Speaker 1: to be your day. You never like you never know
Speaker 1: when you're not going to compete like it's you just
Speaker 1: don't you can't really prepare for it, so you have
Speaker 1: to just you have to be easier on yourself. When
Speaker 1: you lose, you lose. You gotta take it. You gotta
Speaker 1: take it the best way possible, and you just try
Speaker 1: to got to be easy on yourself. So I hope
Speaker 1: that she can just take that away from the show.
Speaker 1: But let's get into something more positive. Let's get into
Speaker 1: your win. Let's talk about it. Tell me about your experience.
Speaker 1: Did being the last team help you? Do you think
Speaker 1: that you had the ability to watch everybody or were
Speaker 1: you just getting more psyched out and more nervous, more
Speaker 1: and more psyched out. By the time it came to
Speaker 1: me and CT, I was literally shaking. I was petrified.
Speaker 1: I was being so hard in myself. You know, I
Speaker 1: was kind of expecting not to do well, and at
Speaker 1: this stage is put too much pressure on myself. And
Speaker 1: that's why when we're on the boat, Cet holds my
Speaker 1: hand and he's like, do you know what, just do
Speaker 1: a best and you know you're going to make me
Speaker 1: proud whatever the outcome. And that just really gave me
Speaker 1: this sort of, you know, little happiness and then you know,
Speaker 1: good encouragement. Then I jump onto the rope and I
Speaker 1: was just like, bloody hell, this is fantastic. This is
Speaker 1: much fun. You were smiling the entire time, like what
Speaker 1: like nobody was smiling. You're just like, yeah, like rolling
Speaker 1: in circles smiling. I was actually screaming. I was being like, yay,
Speaker 1: this is so fun set and he was like looking,
Speaker 1: He's like what, like he's the one struggling. He's gone
Speaker 1: holding on for dear life right now. He's like two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pounds, like in a good way. He's
Speaker 1: big dude, you know, like holding on for life. And
Speaker 1: you're over there just like smiling. You're a little happy
Speaker 1: butt off. But then the swim, I just we got
Speaker 1: to talk about it one more time. How much training
Speaker 1: and swimming do you have? Because you crushed it. So
Speaker 1: while I was back at high school, I was on
Speaker 1: the swimming team, so like I'm used to doing like
Speaker 1: front call sprints, like I'm not used to swimming in
Speaker 1: a life jacket. But I just had all this adrenaline
Speaker 1: in me and so much determined nation. I just literally
Speaker 1: just just went for it. I just swam as fast
Speaker 1: as I could, and I did kind of surprise myself,
Speaker 1: but you know, it was a really happy outcome, and
Speaker 1: especially you held on to the rope really long, like
Speaker 1: CT was like drop and you were like not yet.
Speaker 1: And I was nervous for a second there that we
Speaker 1: were going to have this moment where you were like
Speaker 1: too afraid to actually fall, but then you like timed
Speaker 1: it perfectly, Like did you did you do that on purpose?
Speaker 1: Or was it just like the universe working through you
Speaker 1: and like you becoming this epic competitor. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it was the universe coming to me. Yeah. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: just felt really confident in my actions and I just
Speaker 1: felt really focused and all the nerves and everything and gone,
Speaker 1: and I just felt like, you know what, T got
Speaker 1: this and just enjoy it. And I enjoyed every second
Speaker 1: of it, and you know what, it was just I
Speaker 1: really needed that for my morale because going into it,
Speaker 1: I was just feeling really low and hard in myself,
Speaker 1: and I just came out and felt bloody amazing. I
Speaker 1: felt like, Wow, this is something I'm going to definitely remember.
Speaker 1: And that was my favorite day Ali I've ever done
Speaker 1: in the show. And yet that moment, I was like
Speaker 1: I'm back in the game, baby, yes, yes, it's like
Speaker 1: that moment where you like feel like okay, I am
Speaker 1: like you feel like you are a challenger. It's like
Speaker 1: so good. And you never know when you're going to
Speaker 1: get that moment in a game because, like you said,
Speaker 1: you just don't know. You don't know what it's going
Speaker 1: to be your time. And so you crush that and
Speaker 1: you know what, you turned the house upside down because
Speaker 1: no one thought that you guys were gonna win. You
Speaker 1: guys get back into the house, and now the deliberation
Speaker 1: is insane, Like what was that like being in the
Speaker 1: house when nobody knew where they were going to go
Speaker 1: or where Durrell was gonna go. Well, that's the things.
Speaker 1: I had no idea what was going on either, really,
Speaker 1: because I knew that CT wanted Josh, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know what was going to happen with the numbers. Now
Speaker 1: I'm so close to Devin, and you know, I'm very
Speaker 1: worried because you know, Devin has a way of getting
Speaker 1: himself into trouble, and I was like, oh, dear, I
Speaker 1: think he might have put a target on his back again.
Speaker 1: And yesterday by like you his comments to Josh m
Speaker 1: So it was very intense. So you know, when we
Speaker 1: come back to the house and me go to the
Speaker 1: club to eat, I glue clube and I had a
Speaker 1: rule that, you know, no talking game tonight because tonight
Speaker 1: we're just going to have fun. Um. I see that
Speaker 1: Nanny and Leroy broke that rule, which is noted, but
Speaker 1: but yeah, like we just wanted to have fun, and
Speaker 1: you know, just because we knew that the next day
Speaker 1: was going to be very intense. And but you know,
Speaker 1: I had my VIP area again, which I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1: And if I was to like come back for next seasons,
Speaker 1: I'll definitely bring back the VIP area and TAFT might
Speaker 1: even into like a private members club. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: classic at this point. And not only that, you're when
Speaker 1: you step into it after you've wont a challenge, you
Speaker 1: just like own it, which I absolutely love the Alphit's
Speaker 1: gotta keep coming. The style's gotta keep coming. So I
Speaker 1: was gotta keep coming, VIP's gotta keep coming. I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Leroy and Nanni. Obviously le Roy's seems like he's
Speaker 1: playing a little bit of both sides. Like you see
Speaker 1: him have this conversation kind of with CT and then
Speaker 1: you see him go up to Nanni and tell Nanni
Speaker 1: what CT said, and then in the morning you tell
Speaker 1: you actually, Roy's like, oh supposedly, you know, so Leeby's
Speaker 1: doing this thing where he's he's not sure which direction
Speaker 1: he's gonna go. Like, do you think that a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the house were on different like playing
Speaker 1: both sides at this point or do you think it
Speaker 1: was like a really clear cut split. I think it
Speaker 1: was a really clear cut split. It definitely was, because
Speaker 1: that's why Durrell's vote was so essential. Yeah, Like it
Speaker 1: was literally at this stage and not many people left
Speaker 1: in the house, so every vote really does matter because
Speaker 1: at this stage really can't be burning and so so
Speaker 1: that was really intense. Actually all eyes were on Darrell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he ends up voting for Devin, which blows
Speaker 1: everyone's mind. And the security breach happens when we get
Speaker 1: to the challenge or when we get to the elimination, Like,
Speaker 1: where did that come from? Feeling that the security breach
Speaker 1: came from the fact that Larney left the game, because
Speaker 1: you know, thus far, we never get to preampt to
Speaker 1: whether it's going to be a girls elimination or boys elimination.
Speaker 1: That were this security breach that's just changed everything because
Speaker 1: I was just like, is it going to be a girls?
Speaker 1: Is it going to what is going to happen? Dude?
Speaker 1: It was crazy. And then you walk up to the elimination.
Speaker 1: What was it like for everybody when they saw what
Speaker 1: the elimination was? You know? So we started to see
Speaker 1: a pattern at this point because we've seen a variation
Speaker 1: of this elimination in the past with Ki and Cam,
Speaker 1: So I think people were like, Okay, we kind of
Speaker 1: know how this goes. We've seen Ashley and Calm's technique
Speaker 1: in the past doing this exact elimination. However, they seem
Speaker 1: to be puzzle pieces on the balls this time, so
Speaker 1: we're like, okay, this is going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: something different similar They've added an additional puzzle, yeah, which
Speaker 1: is what we saw with the josh Emati thing, because
Speaker 1: Josh e Meati did the same elimination a Nissa and
Speaker 1: I did, but then they had this like slider puzzle
Speaker 1: before and it like threw Meetsie completely off because he
Speaker 1: couldn't even figure out the puzzle, which I get it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's you're under so much pressure you can't even
Speaker 1: think and Josh crushed that puzzle. So it's interesting because
Speaker 1: Devin gets to be in a position now where he's
Speaker 1: already in elimination and he gets to do something that
Speaker 1: isn't hands on physical, like he just has to control
Speaker 1: his own body weight, and then it's a puzzle. So
Speaker 1: it's like, Devin's not in the worst boat right now
Speaker 1: because these are kind of his strengths. But you know,
Speaker 1: he does love a puzzle, and you know he is,
Speaker 1: like I think he calls himself a puzzles I'm not
Speaker 1: sure he does. He's got a lot to live up to.
Speaker 1: Dev you call yourself the puzzle master, you gotta go
Speaker 1: down there and fucking rock that shit. Indeed. Indeed, so
Speaker 1: when they said security breach, what did what were you speculating?
Speaker 1: Where did your mind go? My mind absolutely phrased, because
Speaker 1: I need to see she wants to go throw himself
Speaker 1: down into that to get his gold skull. But I
Speaker 1: was kind of also thinking what does this mean for me?
Speaker 1: You know, like this is so intense, and you know,
Speaker 1: as I said in the episode, like it just shows
Speaker 1: this game expect unexpected, and you know, at this stage,
Speaker 1: this is the longest I've been been the challenge for
Speaker 1: I've never like survived this many weeks, so I was
Speaker 1: really happy about that, but I was also like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, what am I let myself in for. Listen,
Speaker 1: you never know until you get there, so it's amazing
Speaker 1: that you've made it thus far. Obviously, there's so many
Speaker 1: people rooting for you out there. We want to watch
Speaker 1: you keep killing it. So like maybe next episode is
Speaker 1: when you go in and get your score. I want
Speaker 1: you to tell me, but I'm not going to put
Speaker 1: you on the spot like that, not going to make
Speaker 1: you lose your contract for this podcast. But thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Big Tea. I think we should get deeper
Speaker 1: into an interview in a little bit because I have
Speaker 1: a lot more questions. I want to ask you personally
Speaker 1: about your experience on the show, and we want to
Speaker 1: get to know you more. So stay tuned, everybody, because
Speaker 1: we're about to interview Big Tea. All right, welcome back everybody,
Speaker 1: and high Big Tea again. I'm so excited to dive
Speaker 1: into a more personal interview with you because you are
Speaker 1: one of like the new fan favorites on the show.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves you and it's time to get to know
Speaker 1: you more. Not that we don't know enough, but we
Speaker 1: want more, we need more basic. So let's dive into
Speaker 1: some questions, shall we. Okay, have you been watching the
Speaker 1: episodes of The Challenge or are you just like one
Speaker 1: of those people who goes on the show and it's
Speaker 1: like I can't deal with it. I can't watch it.
Speaker 1: Do you know what, Tory, I'm so addicted to watching
Speaker 1: each episode, like this gate is so intense, Like even
Speaker 1: having watched this episode with you, now I'm sweating and
Speaker 1: I know what happens, Lax, like you really loved. I'm
Speaker 1: really backed in every emotion and also seeing things that
Speaker 1: I haven't seen, like other people's conversations, like I'm so
Speaker 1: fastly for all of it. I love it. Were you
Speaker 1: a fan of the show before you became a Challenger
Speaker 1: or did you learn about it by getting castied and
Speaker 1: then watch it? Okay, so I actually I've heard of
Speaker 1: the show before getting casted, but I hadn't watched it.
Speaker 1: So I do my audition, you know, I hear that
Speaker 1: I'm going on the show. Then I watch an episode
Speaker 1: of it and I was just like, bloody, how it's
Speaker 1: intense totally. And then when you arrived on the show,
Speaker 1: where you like it's more intense or it's as intense,
Speaker 1: or it's less intense, Like what was your gage when
Speaker 1: you got there, I was like, this is much more
Speaker 1: intense because I was as prepared for the physical intensity
Speaker 1: of the game, but I wasn't prepared for the political side,
Speaker 1: and I didn't realize how important that was to navigate
Speaker 1: your way through this this you know, in this experience,
Speaker 1: which is so interesting because I feel like you thrive
Speaker 1: in that area, thank you. I'm a quick planer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just like thrive in it. I feel like you.
Speaker 1: But maybe yeah, oh, I guess over the seasons, like
Speaker 1: you really do kind of figure out your political game,
Speaker 1: because we've seen the evolution because the first season you
Speaker 1: weren't there for too long. It was were of the
Speaker 1: world's too right. Yeah, I was more of a social visit.
Speaker 1: It's been actually popped in and out really, but then
Speaker 1: total madness, your eggs started to crack and like we
Speaker 1: really got to get to know you, and now this
Speaker 1: season you're crushing it. Thank you know what, Like I
Speaker 1: feel as if I've you know, had good mentoring from
Speaker 1: the Vats in the past, Like, you know, I learned
Speaker 1: a lot about social game from my Ashley I've gone
Speaker 1: and I've learned things from like CT Like I feel
Speaker 1: as if I've been lucky to have some vets like
Speaker 1: take me under their wing and kind of like train
Speaker 1: me up. And I still have a lot of learning
Speaker 1: to do, but you know, just don't we are it's
Speaker 1: as I go, totally do you train in the off
Speaker 1: season for potentially coming on another season. So training has
Speaker 1: been just part of my life now since doing my
Speaker 1: first season, because you know, it's no secret that I
Speaker 1: wasn't the faces, you know, coming into my first episode.
Speaker 1: Since then, I've like, you know, signed up to the gym.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, Jim Go. But then once aga for
Speaker 1: a season sorry those like a couple of months leading
Speaker 1: up to you know, when we go film. I'm in
Speaker 1: the gym every single day, like morning till nighttime. Yes, uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's That's one of the best things about being
Speaker 1: a part of this show. It's like it really inspires
Speaker 1: you as an individual to just better yourself in your
Speaker 1: physical health area of life and to want to work
Speaker 1: on things that you think will make you more successful
Speaker 1: in the show. Like I practice math now, Like I
Speaker 1: don't ever want to practice math I practice math, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to do what you have to do to
Speaker 1: get better. Yeah, completely, And like I love that. But
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, spilled into my everyday life. Like
Speaker 1: I'm much healthier person since Jane's show. I'm not a
Speaker 1: couch potato anymore. You know. I didn't take taxis all
Speaker 1: of the time. I will walk to the shops now
Speaker 1: and I'll go for runs totally, which I love. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting because you're kind of all over the map,
Speaker 1: I know that, like sometimes you live in LA sometimes
Speaker 1: you live in the UK, right, yes, yeah, So where
Speaker 1: where have you been since this past season ended? And
Speaker 1: like are you Yeah, we're just curiously where have you been?
Speaker 1: What have you been up to? Okay, So I went
Speaker 1: back to South Africa family, and I was there for
Speaker 1: a couple of months, and that was just like a
Speaker 1: beautiful experience because I haven't been back home for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, and I'm acted with like cousins for
Speaker 1: I haven't seen for like twenty years and things like this,
Speaker 1: So it was incredible. And also I have this like
Speaker 1: six year old niece who's such a diva and she's
Speaker 1: a huge fan of the challenge, you know, and you
Speaker 1: know when I was watching episodes with her when I
Speaker 1: didn't win dailies, you know, she was kind of giving
Speaker 1: me a look and be like he left the team down.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to really enjoy watching today's episode for sure.
Speaker 1: She's going to Yeah, You're going to be like her
Speaker 1: new favorite superhero. So yeah, she had from a helicopter
Speaker 1: on a robin swam and beat a big man, which
Speaker 1: gonna be so proud to like sit some twelve year
Speaker 1: old kids, you know, quite an accomplishment, really so hard, totally. So,
Speaker 1: how how was working with CT this season? I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys seem like you have a great bond. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we definitely have amazing platonic chemistry. Like you know, I
Speaker 1: felt really bonded towards him because I was really terrified
Speaker 1: during a lot of these challenges and he held my
Speaker 1: hand in those moments, and I think that's actually very bonding.
Speaker 1: And like, you know, there would be times when like
Speaker 1: I'm literally I might be smiling, but inside I'm panicking,
Speaker 1: but I just can't let it go to my exterior
Speaker 1: because I know that I will literally just become like
Speaker 1: Jelly and just like collapse and just staying strong, not
Speaker 1: just for myself, but for my partner, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's totally bonding and yeah, so he really encouraged me.
Speaker 1: I love like CT's progression of working with partners over
Speaker 1: the years. I did a show with him called a
Speaker 1: Final Recogname, and we were all partners with people that
Speaker 1: we had like problems within the past, and he was
Speaker 1: partners with this woman named Ronica, who's like an og.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves Ronica. She's a stavage and he just had
Speaker 1: a whole different vibe with her. And I think that
Speaker 1: like she was so stressed out working with him because
Speaker 1: she felt a lot of pressure, and he realized how
Speaker 1: negatively that impacted her game. So we hadn't We had
Speaker 1: him on the podcast not too long ago and he
Speaker 1: talked about that and he was like, yeah, if I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been like that with Veronica, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been able to be the partner I am for Big
Speaker 1: Team now because I saw how it hurt Veronica's game.
Speaker 1: So it's just so interesting how over the years you
Speaker 1: learned so much. And like we got to see a
Speaker 1: clip of that when Gabby was upset that she didn't
Speaker 1: go into the elimination and CT was like, listen, my
Speaker 1: first five seasons, I was making rookie mistakes, and like,
Speaker 1: you learned so much about yourself and as a competitor
Speaker 1: over the game, so you have to have grace on yourself.
Speaker 1: And I love that he's grown so much so that
Speaker 1: way he can be the partner he is for you today.
Speaker 1: You know, I've definitely got out his my fuzzy side.
Speaker 1: What she tells that you did bring that now everyone
Speaker 1: knows he's a massive soft day. Yeah, it's amazing to watch.
Speaker 1: So you know, you've obviously got to learn a lot
Speaker 1: from him strategically, Like how do you feel like your
Speaker 1: game is evolving? And like what do you feel how
Speaker 1: do you feel strategy is important now? Like just talk
Speaker 1: to me about how you look at the game now
Speaker 1: and like where your head's at with the political side,
Speaker 1: because so like with the political side of the game,
Speaker 1: I what has evolved for me is just like the
Speaker 1: importance of it and I don't know, I feel as if, Okay,
Speaker 1: so with the political side of the game, I've learned
Speaker 1: to like not to wear my heart on my sleep
Speaker 1: too much because I was always very reliant to the
Speaker 1: fact like, Okay, these are my friends in the games.
Speaker 1: So therefore, as friends will be loyal with each other
Speaker 1: and vote the same way. Be trusting. So like I've
Speaker 1: learned not to be too trusting, and you know, I
Speaker 1: was very naive with that because you should never be
Speaker 1: trusting in a situation when there is a million dollars
Speaker 1: on the line, and you know, yeah, so that's something
Speaker 1: I definitely learned. I just definitely like, you know, just
Speaker 1: keep eyes and everyone, yeah you want, even people in
Speaker 1: my own alliance. I think that's something that's I've learned.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so politically, I think that's something that yeah,
Speaker 1: I can bolt them. Yeah, And I think that's key
Speaker 1: because it's like the more you the less naive you become,
Speaker 1: the easier it is to just like accept when things
Speaker 1: don't work your way and to just move on from it.
Speaker 1: I think like as a competitor, you know, you you're
Speaker 1: obviously competitor and you've you swam in in high school
Speaker 1: you said, or in college? Which one high school? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're a competitor. Like you know, how like addicted
Speaker 1: you could get to like trying to win a game,
Speaker 1: and like it hurts when like somebody kind of backstabs
Speaker 1: you or doesn't vote your way. But the more you realize,
Speaker 1: like it's a game, it's for money. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: more seasons, hopefully I have another chance, the less personal
Speaker 1: you take things, and the easier it is to heal
Speaker 1: after a season, because let's be real, coming home from
Speaker 1: a season of the challenge sucks. That flight home is terrible.
Speaker 1: Oh my good dreadful, dreadful. Like I cry the entire
Speaker 1: flight home every time. Everybody on the plane thinks my
Speaker 1: whole family died, like the even my cat, My cat's
Speaker 1: dead too. I was like, I just like got broken
Speaker 1: up with by like the richest man in the world,
Speaker 1: and I'm like living in a bag now, Like that's
Speaker 1: that's what I look like when I come home from
Speaker 1: a challenge is bad. So let's not talk about that.
Speaker 1: That's just gonna that's just gonna put us in our fields.
Speaker 1: I am curious, though, do you did you expect yourself
Speaker 1: to win this challenge, this weekly challenge, especially because you
Speaker 1: trained pole dancing, which I love, well, do you know
Speaker 1: what with the pole dancing anything? It's hilarious because that's
Speaker 1: actually part of my challenge training. So like, oh, my
Speaker 1: friends at home, we're like, why are you suddenly doing
Speaker 1: so many, so many pole classes. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm training for the challenge and everyone was laughing at me.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so good. So is there any other
Speaker 1: secret skills that you're hiding from us besides your incredible
Speaker 1: shakure impression? Shall you? Oh? Is it share or secure
Speaker 1: or is it both? Maybe you should just give us
Speaker 1: a little taste. Really, no good album is a amazing Sorry,
Speaker 1: I can I feature like a song with you, I
Speaker 1: would be delighted. I would be literally crying and sweating, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things, like one of our favorite thing.
Speaker 1: Me and I needs to always sing your graces on
Speaker 1: this podcast because you're one of those people that like
Speaker 1: you're a gem of a person. And when we're filming
Speaker 1: and you do shit like that, God, you just take
Speaker 1: everybody out of the game for a moment and we're
Speaker 1: like this woman just saving our lives right now. So good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we need those moments of just like just comment relief
Speaker 1: because it's such an intense environment. Like I've had you
Speaker 1: mentioned this in past podcast, like people don't realize how
Speaker 1: intense it is. And I think you were talking about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, doing a puzzle under pressure, like last episode
Speaker 1: with the totem and how people viewers might be like, well,
Speaker 1: that looks simple, but like you know, when you have
Speaker 1: a timer and so much pressure on yourself, like with
Speaker 1: your partner, and these things are really difficult to do
Speaker 1: totally absolutely, so you're right whenever you have a moment
Speaker 1: to just like check out of the game, it's so important. Well,
Speaker 1: just like you know, we got a little comic relief
Speaker 1: earlier in this episode with your training with CT I
Speaker 1: just want to know what the fuck did he hook
Speaker 1: up to your body? And do you think that training
Speaker 1: helped you? I think I must have done something because
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I don't think I swam that fast essentially,
Speaker 1: so it definitely did something, But well, what did he
Speaker 1: hook up to your body? And it was like this,
Speaker 1: these like things that increase your blood flow and you
Speaker 1: can do a fifteen minute workout and it has the
Speaker 1: same results it's like a one hour workout. And then
Speaker 1: these like brain recept to things that apparently just like
Speaker 1: calm down your brain and oxygen and I don't know
Speaker 1: it was it was a lot of equipment that was
Speaker 1: really scared. But ultimately, I think, you know, he should
Speaker 1: come out with a workout video because it worked. Apparently
Speaker 1: it worked, but I was afraid you were going to
Speaker 1: get electrocuted. I'm not gonna lie. I was like, what
Speaker 1: is happening? It's terrifying. That time he said to me, like,
Speaker 1: you know, let me train you up. I was very nervous, Tory,
Speaker 1: we'll be back in five, and then just like ran
Speaker 1: to my room totally. So I have one more question
Speaker 1: about this vip igloo section because it's amazing and I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people could pull it off.
Speaker 1: I honestly think if like I walked out and I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, everybody vip a gloom I asked, they'd
Speaker 1: be like, Tori, you're too cocky. You can't do a
Speaker 1: vip a glue, but you have this like you just
Speaker 1: can get away with shit. So do you think that
Speaker 1: you're going to bring this VIP thing back? You have to.
Speaker 1: I think I will definitely bring it back, but like
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's going to escalate, Tori. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I escalate being a VIP area to being like a
Speaker 1: private member's club. I'm going to be like, sorry, you're
Speaker 1: not coming to the igloo to like get like a body.
Speaker 1: Did you have a bodyguard. How Ever, you'd have a bodyguard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so good, file out of it. My VIP section who
Speaker 1: kept trying to comment, but you know, so funny. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's get into some fun questions. Let's just like
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit deeper. I'm curious, okay,
Speaker 1: who is your ideal celebrity partner on the challenge? I've
Speaker 1: answered this question before. I said, if I had to
Speaker 1: do it, I'd be partners with Will Farrell because everybody
Speaker 1: would want to keep us around. So who would your
Speaker 1: partner be? Well, actually I was thinking about It's like
Speaker 1: maybe like Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the UK,
Speaker 1: because I think, what bad a partner to come in
Speaker 1: with the politician? You know, so dumb social game wrapped
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson, let's slide in his DMS everybody. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if he has Instagram. So Big Tea wants
Speaker 1: you to be a partner on the challenge at Boris,
Speaker 1: that's a good kate ourselves out of any situation. I
Speaker 1: feel like that million dollars would be in the bank.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so funny. Okay. Rumor on the street
Speaker 1: is that you're the big better in the house and
Speaker 1: you are you? Definitely are you? You're always betting on
Speaker 1: somebody or something. So what's the one challenge bet that
Speaker 1: has made you the most money? And who was it against? Okay,
Speaker 1: So I did bet on every single elimination and I
Speaker 1: kind of showed feel bad that I betted on my friends,
Speaker 1: but like, I need so much money from it, so
Speaker 1: I didn't feel that guilty. You know, I did vote
Speaker 1: on the Ambers. I did. I'm sorry because I knew
Speaker 1: that Amber beat has experience in rugby and happening, so
Speaker 1: I just felt like she had like such a huge
Speaker 1: advantage with that. Yeah, and at this stage of both
Speaker 1: Ambers were very underestimated and so I made a lot
Speaker 1: of money on that one. Yeah, amazing, Like have you
Speaker 1: always been a bit of a gambler? We'll be with
Speaker 1: a bit of horse racing. I like to bet on
Speaker 1: the stallion's hut. I can't. Oh, and this question kills me.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this one? When? When are we
Speaker 1: going to get the fresh cotton pads merch? Yeah? Well
Speaker 1: I should have made some t shirts or some mosques
Speaker 1: with a pandemic saying fresh caution pads. It's a good idea.
Speaker 1: I saw cotton pads. Oh my god, that's such a
Speaker 1: good idea, big to caton pad, like an extra big
Speaker 1: one large caultion pads. I'm going to do this well,
Speaker 1: Big Tea. It has been an absolute pleasure getting to
Speaker 1: know you deeper. You're a fucking light in this world.
Speaker 1: And I'm so excited to close out this segment and
Speaker 1: get into some listener transmissions and some Challenge confidential. So
Speaker 1: stay tuned, guys. All right, welcome back everybody. We're going
Speaker 1: to get into listener transmissions. That means listener questions. We
Speaker 1: get a lot of them in our DMS, and Big
Speaker 1: T's been getting this one a lot in her DMS.
Speaker 1: So tell me right now, Big T, Is there something
Speaker 1: going on between you and CT? Yeah, very honest. CT
Speaker 1: is a very very good looking man, and when I
Speaker 1: was watching old episodes of The Challenge, I thought he
Speaker 1: was the most dashing. Yeah, you know, But however, this
Speaker 1: season our friendship and chemistry was purely platonic, absolutely very much.
Speaker 1: So you know what, CT is a great person to
Speaker 1: have a platonic relationship with. I mean, he is a stud,
Speaker 1: but at the same time he's CT like you kind
Speaker 1: of like love him. As this brotherly, fatherly figure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent probably fatherly figure indeed, but there was
Speaker 1: no denying that he is an absolute stub man totally.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh big by Lah, I'm okay. So another
Speaker 1: question that I have been getting a lot, and maybe
Speaker 1: you've been getting a lot too, is do we get paid?
Speaker 1: I love this question. Don't know if we can really
Speaker 1: answer it or not, but we'll give you this much.
Speaker 1: I promise you we don't go on the show for free.
Speaker 1: My ass is not going on a forty foot platform
Speaker 1: hanging over helicopter eating a cabbage for no reason. Okay,
Speaker 1: You're gonna pay me. And the more shows we do,
Speaker 1: the more we get paid. So yeah, definitely, and I
Speaker 1: very much enjoy that pagecheck totally. Okay, And to wrap
Speaker 1: this up, let's give some challenge confidential. This isn't exactly
Speaker 1: part of the challenge, but this is news that just
Speaker 1: broke pretty much all of the challenge tea pages, and
Speaker 1: that is that Drake a ka Champagne Poppy aka Drizzy
Speaker 1: aka o Bo Daddy is following now the challenge on
Speaker 1: Instagram and your partner's CT. How crazy that it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Partos like Drake has actually watched me and you on
Speaker 1: Telly and it's fabulous. You know, Tori, I've been checking
Speaker 1: my dms every single day. He still hasn't slid in,
Speaker 1: but I have absolute faith that he will slide in.
Speaker 1: Give it one more day, this, one more day, and
Speaker 1: then I'm coming in. Drake. Yeah, I think everybody who's
Speaker 1: listening to this Challenge podcast has to do two things
Speaker 1: right now. Number one, go on Drake's Instagram and DM him.
Speaker 1: Tell him that him and Big Tea would make a
Speaker 1: beautiful couple. Then tell him that I want to be
Speaker 1: in the relationship to Belygamy Black. Yeah, I'm ready, I'm ready. Well,
Speaker 1: Big Tea, it has been a pleasure having you on
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you so much. Is there anything you
Speaker 1: want to say before you go? You know what, I
Speaker 1: think everyone just next episode is going to be so intense.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been such a great season. I would
Speaker 1: say thank you so much to you Tori for having
Speaker 1: me on your podcast. We've had a lot of fun today,
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and definitely slide in. My Dear's
Speaker 1: actually okay, working world, this is going. Where can we
Speaker 1: follow you, Big Tea so that everyone could spam you
Speaker 1: with some love. Okay, So you can find me on
Speaker 1: Instagram on at Big Tea Fast or you can tweet
Speaker 1: me at the og Big Underscore Tea. Yeah, so go
Speaker 1: spam her with some love. Make sure you tag Drake
Speaker 1: and all her ship because we're trying to get Drake
Speaker 1: and Big t to be teamed up on a season
Speaker 1: of the Challenge. And you guys can follow me at
Speaker 1: Tori Underscore Deal and make sure that you watch all
Speaker 1: the new episodes of the Challenge every Wednesday. Next episode
Speaker 1: is going to be absolutely insane. We cannot wait to
Speaker 1: see what happens. And make sure you tune into the
Speaker 1: Challenge podcast where you can go behind the scenes with
Speaker 1: us for the next morning. Thank you so much again,
Speaker 1: Big Tea. I love you, I love you. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. M HM.