#221 The Challenge Unplugged with Devin Walker

This episode feels full circle in the best (and messiest) way possible.

Devin Walker joins The Challenge Fandom Podcast for the FOURTH time — and somehow, every milestone episode we’ve ever had.

✔️ Our first-ever guest

✔️ Our 100th episode guest

✔️ Our 200th episode guest

✔️ And now… one of our final interviews

If this really is the end of an era, we couldn’t imagine starting this closing chapter with anyone else.

In this wide-ranging, no-filter conversation, Devin breaks down everything fans have been arguing about all season from The Challenge 41 rookies and alliance chaos, to production decisions that have quietly hurt the game for years. Nothing is off-limits, and yes… tea is absolutely spilled☕️

We get into:

• Devin’s honest thoughts on The Challenge 41

• Were the rookies actually good… or just lucky?

• Why Turbo gets very weird with female partners

• Newer challengers throwing shade (and disrespect) at CT

• What production has been getting wrong for YEARS

• Why watching the OGs doesn’t hit the same anymore

• The cheating during the mini-final eating portion and whether Devin would’ve cheated too

• How revealing mini-finals really are

• Which rookies Devin had his eye on all season

• Which vet could’ve won it all if alliance structure didn’t screw them

• How Michele Fitzgerald would’ve completely changed the game

• Devin’s thoughts on The Traitors and Tom Sandoval

• Jordan Wiseley’s new project Champ Camp

• Board games, football, music, and random Devin chaos

• What fans actually need to do to get their favorites cast on The Challenge 42

• And finally… Devin’s thoughts on us leaving CFP, what’s next, and what HE wants to build with US moving forward!

This episode is the first of several “going away gifts” for the Challenge fans who supported us through every era of this podcast. More interviews. More honesty. More calling things out. More debates about what The Challenge needs to do next if it wants to survive.

If you love The Challenge, Devin Walker, reality TV strategy, behind-the-scenes insight, and unfiltered opinions - this one’s for you.

👉 Like, subscribe, and buckle up… because this is only the beginning of our end!

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