KFC Radio - WATCHLIST: Yellowstone, The Hills, Johnny Bananas, Shooter Gets Canceled and Jason Bourne gets an Origin Story

Episode Date: August 22, 2018

NO SPOILERS - Johnny Bananas stops by to talk with Clem, KFC, and Feits about The Challenge and his new show, First Look. The recommendation of the week was Yellowstone, which we will watch and discuss next week. Send us your recommendations with the hashtag #WatchlistWednesday. Shooter gets the ax, much to Feitelberg's dismay. Treadstone looks good, it's the Jason Bourne origin story. The Hills is back, True Detective 3 is coming soon (are you excited about it?), and a recap of the VMAs.What are you watching?You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/kfcr

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sign of the apocalypse fucking Netflix has commercials and they're trying to not call them commercials they're fucking commercials they're trailers

for new TV shows and I love it I love it Kevin you wanna know why? why? first of all I love trailers I'm a trailer guy myself

big fan of trailers new one just came out called Hold the Dark. Director of the Green Room. Oh, yeah. Looks dope as hell. I wish that came on in between an episode for me. Okay.

Second of all, I miss commercials. I need a break. I do like a phone break. I do like a bathroom break. I'm actually down with commercials. But here's the thing. No, I think I'm in. I was going to say, I'm down with commercials, but when you want to binge and you pay for something and you don't want commercials and they add them, it's like, fuck that.

However, all it does is just provide me a little time to eat, a little time to eat. I put on subtitles so I don't look at my phone so much while I'm watching TV. So I read the subtitles instead of reading my phone. Team subtitle for life. And I've been in subtitles for a while, but now I've just realized that that's what it does and like i get mad when i can't i don't know i haven't figured out how to put it on my actual tv yet so i only watch subtitles on netflix and hulu i'm a fucking idiot i mean i have i have literally haven't tried but i also haven't figured it out like it hasn't just happened which is kind of how i hope everything

right right yeah and so i'm not reading my phone so when i have a little break that's what that's what it's nice to play with your phone. I miss commercials. I got a Hulu now, right? I got a Hulu. I like the commercial break there. The 90-second ones? No, no, no.

I like the little commercial break. I'm cheap. I only got the $7.99 Hulu instead of commercial free. So I get like a little two commercials, a little 60 seconds. That's perfect. Yeah, I feel you. And then I actually don't like at the end, though, in between episodes, kind of like where Netflix is having their thing, I wish they played trailers. Because it's just 90 seconds of nothing.

Nothing. They just play music. Right. It's just a thing ticking around. Yeah, show me a fucking trailer. Show me something. Show me a trailer for an upcoming show. Pro commercial here at The Watch List.

We got the MTV Awards this week. The MTV Awards is, I don't know, like 90% of the people. Yeah. Like I'm too old for that shit. Well, I didn't see the MTV Movie Awards last night. I was getting ready for the after party. And while we were there, I didn't recognize anybody. You could tell everybody was somebody, but I didn't recognize anybody.

I mean, listen, everybody is like 16 years old now. We're washed up. We don't know that. We don't know what the new up and coming. Everybody's a rapper with like little fucking, little sneaker heads. like 16 years old now that's we're washed up we don't know that we don't know like the new up and comer you just told me like Lil Lil fucking Lil Sneaker

Lil Xan who I swear to god is that dude from Shameless yes he's Carl he's just Carl it's 100% Carl this is like a big ad

for Shameless this is what Lil Xan is how do you get away with the name Lil Xan and you know what he wrote a song about he doesn't like Xanax right yeah

and it's like dude change your name yeah that's kind of disingenuous yeah my name is racist John I'm not a racist

like uh I feel like you probably are bro that's everybody at the MTV Awards but the people making headlines are all old people

you had J-Lo shaking that ass winning a lifetime award with A-Rod in the crowd filming crowd bang listen she's on television.

There's live fucking real cameras all over. We don't need your goddamn iPhone, Alex. It's the same shit with like parents at, and this is just a dad move, where it's parents at like a recital. Yo, you're going to pay $40 for the DVD when this fucking thing's over. Why are you filming on your phone?

And it's going to look like trash. You're never going to watch it again. I do it all the time myself. Eventually, you're going pay $40 for the DVD when this fucking thing's over. Yeah. Why are you filming on your phone? And it's going to look like trash. You're never going to watch it again. I do it all the time myself. Eventually you're going to have your phone be like, storage is full. Yeah. Listen, listen,

phone. I got enough fucking problems in my life. I'm going to deal with storage right now. The cloud hasn't updated. Yeah. No fucking kidding. Guess what? It's never a fucking update again.

Uh, Madonna gave the video of the year award, but in the meantime, as she was up there on stage dressed like a total fucking asshole I mean she looked like she looked like the demon from Ghostbusters

she looked like the gremlins from Gremlins she looked awful and she was rambling on and on about herself when she was supposed to be talking about

a reason Franklin the black folks were not happy well an old crusty white woman up there and she talks about herself instead of the queen of soul

not going to go over well she has released a statement yes that she did intend, she was not supposed to be giving a tribute to Aretha Franklin. Right. The Aretha Franklin thing happened earlier. The show had been planned. They said, if you want to throw in a little tidbit about your stuff with Aretha, she said, that's all I did.

I wasn't trying to pay tribute. I could never do that in two minutes. Which I guess is fair. But listen, if you get up there and you're like, Rita Franklin was so great, let me tell you about her, and you start talking about yourself, you're going to look like an asshole. Yeah, for sure.

And if you're dressed like that, and if you're Madonna, you're pretty much always going to look like an asshole. Pretty much. You're just an asshole. Speaking of A-Rod, he must have been sitting in the crowd like, I made the right fucking choice. I was just going to say, talk about a fucking upgrade. You got this one who looks like she is literally a zombie raised from the dead

dressed in like a fucking dashiki robe. And then you had J-Lo who not only looks sexy, but last night she was shaking that ass. She was like, brrrr.

It was impressive. We asked you guys to tweet us what you want us to talk about, what you want us to watch. The overwhelming response right now, the big TV recommendation,

Yellowstone. Kevin Costner, who's the guy who created it? Taylor Sheridan. Taylor Sheridan's a monster. He kind of, he's off his hot streak after Sicario 2.

Sicario 2 is pretty meh. But Taylor Sheridan has directed three, my favorite movie in the last three years. He did Sicario in 20, I can't figure out what year it is.

16? 15? I'm going to say 15. Yeah. And then Wind, no, and then Hell or High Water in 16, Wind River in 17. I believe that's the order. And these are very similar. It seems like Yellowstone is kind of like a Wild West,

like pretty heavy, dark tale. Yeah. And all those movies are kind of similar. Sheridan does the thing too where he's, which I love, and True Detective they do. We're going to talk about True Detective in a second. True Detective was very good at season one where they make

the environment a character like Sheridan in looks like it'll be like that with Yellowstone which I've been

meaning to start Sicario Mexico was like humongous and then Wind River they're in fuck I forget what I was going to say

it looks like Alaska but it's not Alaska it's like Wyoming or something like that Montana and then Hell or High Water Texas

obviously they're all like very important parts of that. And I think those land shots are so sick. Yeah. I mean, it adds a whole new element when the setting is a new character. And Costner's the god. I mean, I'm happy for Kevin Costner back in the mix. It feels like a Sons of Anarchy-type deal, where it's like, they're the bad family.

I can't really figure it out but I wanna I'm gonna start I'm gonna start this and I've been waiting for Castle Rock we got a lot of Castle Rock yeah

Castle Rock I watched the first episode scared the shit out of me I wanna binge it I'm waiting for it to finish John it literally scared me good I was like afraid

I was like I don't think I wanna watch this before bed scared me I do that with Criminal Minds too I do I'm like if Morgan's not here I can't fucking sleep.

Well, you're going to have to pick up a new show because Shooter, R.I.P. and Peace. The Feidelberg Kiss of Death. Right after Feidelberg throws that huge cosign on it. Console. It's a wrap for Shooter. Had a good run. Not real. Shooter was dope.

Had a great run. Three years. But guess what USA taketh away and USA giveth because we're getting Treadstone Treadstone's gonna be

better than fucking Shooter Treadstone if you can't put it together the origins of Jason Bourne you give me a Jason Bourne television show it's not gonna be like I think it's gonna be

totally the origins but it's gonna be the origins of the Treadstone project you're gonna follow around the sleeper cells I mean that's the story that's gonna be so funny. That's going to be awesome.

I know Shooter was near and dear to your heart. I make this trade a thousand times out of a thousand. I just hope they get Ryan Felipe to play Jason Bourne or something like that. Because then I'm super ready. That's going to be tough to play. Matt Damon, there's a few characters who are ingrained as a character, as an actor. I mean, you think of Jason Bourne,

you think of Matt Damon. Well, he's not going to be in a USA. as an actor. I mean, you think of Jason Bourne, you think of Matt Damon. Well, he's not going to be in a USA film. I love USA. I'm saying whoever does fill that role, that's tough shoes to fill. True Detective 3 just wrapped this season with Mahershala Ali. Mahershala Ali. Mahershala Ali. Who's the monster? He is, but I've given up on True Detective.

Oh, you're missing out. This season's going to be dope. No, it's not. Yes, it is. No, it's not. It's it is. No, it's not. It's going to be the same as I thought. Okay, so it's Rehearsal LA, who's fire. It's...

Pizzolatto's had five years to write this one. It took him, like, 20 to get one good season. Right, and then they tried to force him to do one. They tried to force him to do another one in one year. Didn't do that. That dude had one good story. No. That's it.

You're wrong. And then also, the big fuck-up was they had... And he stole it. He stole it. He stole a. No. That's it. You're wrong. And then also, the big fuck up was they had eight. And he stole it. He stole it. He stole a good story. That's it. They had eight directors in the last season. That was all fucked up.

It was Corey Fukajama or Kerry Fukajama who just smashed season one. That's what really stuck out. They just didn't bring him back, right? I don't think he wanted to come back. Right. But so now it's, for this season, it's, fuck. It's the guy who's directing Hold the Dark and the director of Green Room. It's him.

It's him. You can do all the good directors you want. It's him and the dude from The Americans. They're going to fucking make a good show. The story has to be good. All that can be in place. You're going to have great actors. You're going to have a great director.

If Nick Pizzolatto delivers another convoluted, self-fucking-aggrandizing story like he did last time, it's going to stink. Yeah, you're right. If he does what he did last time, it will stink. Season 2 stunk. You're going to watch Season 3. I'll give it a shot. But I am going to have the quickest hook. I sat through all of Season 2 out of fucking allegiance from Season 1.

I'm not doing it again. Season 2 gets one and a half shows from me. If I'm not hooked by then, I'm out. Season 2 gets too much shit, too. Well, it's not good. I'm not doing it again. Season two gets one and a half shows from me. If I'm not cooked by then, I'm out. Season two gets too much shit, too. Well, it's not good. I'm not defending it. Oh, it was so bad, John. But no, because I thought...

The dialogue was so bad. No, only Vince Vaughn was bad. Vince Vaughn and his wife. No. Everyone else was pretty good. Colin Farrell was terrible. Colin Farrell was good. I wanted to be an astronaut until I found out they don't even go to the moon anymore.

Shut the fuck up. Taylor Kitsch was awesome. He was all right. He was very good. He was very good. You just have, you're blinded by Taylor Kitsch. I'm blinded by Taylor Kitsch for sure. And then what's her tits?

Rachel McAdams. Rachel McAdams was really good. Yeah. No, her and Taylor Kitsch. And Colin Farrell did a good job. He had some bad lines, but he did a good job. Some really bad lines. That's the thing.

You take a shitty story. Season two of True Detective was not good. It was not as bad as everyone says good job. That's the thing. You take a shitty story. Season two of True Detective was not good. It was not as bad as everyone says it is. Yes, it was. We wrap up with

biggest TV news of the week. This is an example of great television. Not good, but great television. The Hills is back. The Hills is back.

The Hills is coming back. It's like, I've always said I'm not much of a reality guy. I fucked with The Hills. I mean, because The Hills was coming back. It's like, I've always said I'm not much of a reality guy. I fucked with the Hills. I mean, because the Hills was some OG shit. But they also, like, they're still having close a deal with the two important ones. You need to bring back the heavy hitters, no doubt.

Kristen and LC aren't back yet. I mean, I can't imagine Kristen getting down, right? I think she said she would be. She probably wouldn't be a major character. She'll probably be in a few episodes. Because my thing is, if you can't get Kristen, I don't think LC is going to do it. Because it's like, well, if Kristen's too busy, I can't be the one who signs on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So if you don't get one, you don't get either. My fear with it, though, is that I guess with the people they have on, it doesn't really matter. Because they haven't really done it. Like Whitney, I don't think Whitney's even coming back. And then they have, the people who have signed on, like, my fear was that it was going to be people who have established careers and they're not going to be fucking crazy. Right. You need to get some people who have nothing to fucking live for. But that's what they have.

They got Brody. I mean, not Brody. Justin Bobby? Justin Bobby is what I mean. That guy. Nothing to do but get drunk and fuck people and make them work. Spencer and Heidi are back. Those people are absolute lunatics.

I'll fuck with them. That's it. Give me those three and I'm good. Justin, Bobby, Ricky. Oh, and Audrina. And Audrina, who was like my first love of all time. I was so obsessed with Audrina Patriots. Patriots, Patriots, Patriots.

She had the fakest tits and she was so hot. She's got like a tattoo sleeve now. Yeah, let's go, buddy. Bring me back the hills. That's it for Watch List Wednesday. We'll get on Yellowstone. Let us know what else you want to watch. We see you guys next week all right it's watch this wednesday here on kfc radio we are joined by the one and only friend of the program now he's kind

of in in the barstool fam right clem we got uh the one and only johnny bananas you guys adopted so is the adoption official i think so as the as the podfather uh challenge guy i think you are now adopting Johnny Bananas. I think if Captain Kahn is coming into the office and saying, I got to go see my guy. You're in the family. Well, it was mostly to come in and be like, can you stop talking about me losing to Corey in arm wrestling? Kahn is never going to get over that one, man. I wouldn't either. Captain Hardo.

That's what we call him. Captain Hardo. There's a reason why. That hurts him. Yeah. either captain hardo that's what we call it there's a reason why that hurts him yeah in barstool when you catch an l everybody knows it forever which i feel like is uh very much your world i mean you've been living on camera basically your entire adult life so any any any rare time you did catch an l i don't know has he ever how. The CT backpack. That shit happened 10 years ago.

10 years ago. I was not going to bring it up. I knew someone was. I'm not saying it. All right. I was going to. That was. Elephant in the room.

All right. I knew someone was going to bring it up. But you know what? I will say this. That is one of those. There's those moments in your life when you're like this is either gonna make me or break me and it was like after that was when i went on my you know big run dude and it was almost like one of these things where it's like i can't ever let that happen to

me again never that's like i'm gonna start doing steroids i'm gonna start lifting i literally immediately after that like started eating babies i mean if it's going to happen to somebody, it was a worthy opponent. Yeah. No, it was. It really was. And that guy actually ate babies. He did. He did.

He actually had a baby foot hanging out of his mouth when he came into the ring. But no, that was him. Dude, that was CT at his most dominant. And that was me about five weeks into a challenge at my skinniest I've been in a long time because we're preparing for a final. So it was almost like the perfect storm of events. They bring CT out of like the steam was like rising off. They roll about like the end of a lecture.

And he hasn't been on a challenge in three seasons, mind you, because he had just smashed Adam King's head and ate it. So they finally bring him on. It was like his triumphant return. I mean, this guy walks out like bigger than he's ever been and i'm like sitting there like yeah we're gonna strap you to his back and i'm like this is how that ends i'm like exactly the way you expected it to it's like there's a reason why in in in boxing like you know middleweights don't fight you know heavyweights there's weight classes for a reason yeah yeah but um yeah so that was my uh that's

the l that i will never live down so but like you said you went on your big run after that and now i i feel like you're one of i don't one of like the forefathers of this kind of shit like the reality tv competition where it's the the mix of like physical challenges with the brainy shit yeah i mean how many years you've been doing it now 13 yeah i mean that's 17 seasons yeah that's that's a long fucking time you know it's a lot i spilled a lot of blood in this mud dude and it's you know what and and i always knew like on the challenges i didn't know what the next step was going to be but i knew as long as i just kept on putting one foot in front of the other and kept on grinding there's a lot of cash i was like i need to take a season off i need to take two seasons off. I never,

that thought never crossed my mind. I was like, dude, I'm going to do every single season they asked me to do until I can't anymore. I ran into you in, in, uh, Acapulco. I think it was one of the spring break spots and the,

the, the shit I've done since then, like got married, had kids, yada, yada, yada. And you're just like still grinding it out.

Still doing it. Not even grinding. I was, I was just like looking grinding it out still doing it you know not even grinding i was i was just like looking up like your winnings you're fucking rich dude you're not grinding well yeah but listen out of everyone who's who's who's got reality tv money i would say bananas and all the mtv people earn it more than the average climb you've been watching this i mean you gotta fucking put your heart, mind, soul into this. Listen, you think I made a lot of money. Guess what?

Every dime of that will eventually go to a therapist. The damage, the challenge is done. And what's funny is like the way you're saying it. And I really do feel like this isn't just for me. I feel like I'm living out a dream for guys, you know, that I went to college with friends, just the guy that's like, listen, man, you know, that I went to college with friends, just the guy that's like, listen, man, you keep doing what you're doing. Marriage, a job that, uh, before that, that that's, that's always going to be here.

You found, you've somehow found a loophole in life to essentially get paid to continue to act like an asshole and to party. And you've somehow not only made like a living off of it but you've actually like made a name for yourself too and that's the big differentiator yeah like you found this glitch in the matrix yeah clam you've been watching every single challenge and there are other dudes who come through other guys and girls who are like charismatic or they're stars or they're like big and athletic in their own right none of them do what bananas have done bananas it's uh you know the guy has made a

fucking fruit into his name and he's bananas there's johnny he's banana he says whatever you want to call him see it's always been ct and bananas i said what how did i compare i think ct is like the pay at manning where it's like he's the he's the he's fucking we loved him he's just been a stud but bananas that dude just came up wins the rings and you know the brady of of uh of the challenge yeah the tom brady the, what do you think you did? That is, that is quite the crowd. Good for you.

What do you think, uh, you did differently? Like what you just that much smarter or that much? You know, did you get on the phone with like some business manager? I was like, how do I turn this into a real career,

real life, or you just keep fucking going on TV? My, everything I've done in life, every big step none of it's been planned right that's how we do it but like i'm like i shit you not like it's just like yeah i moved to new york when i was 18 yeah i'll go to penn state i go to penn state yeah i'll send an audition tape for the real world my parents are like what we just sent

you to college for four years you're going reality tv and i'm on and i do the real world and it's like i want to do the challenge. I go on the challenge and then I just kept doing seasons. And I think what my success has come from has been, A, like I said, never taking a season off. A lot of guys have been taking these. And it's like every season you take off, that's a gap of like six months where you're not out there.

And people are quick. They don't need. You know what I mean? People forget quick. Now they need bananas on the challenge. But if you skipped in the middle it'd be like all right there's another fucking moron doing the same shit and like you said am i the smartest i do the business manager thing no i'm i'm not the smartest person on the challenge and i'm not the strongest person on the challenge what i do do better than anyone else is i adapt and i think that that's what has made me such a strong competitor not just on the challenge but also like obviously what i'm doing with the show first look now is i don't give a shit what circumstance you put me in i don't care what the the the the challenge is the environment

the people i'm with i can figure out a way to to to live and to work and to and to thrive and the challenge like a cockroach man you can't get rid of bananas and that's the thing about the challenge is every season's different the guys that have the hardest time And the challenge... Like a cockroach, man. You can't get rid of bananas. And that's the thing about the challenge is every season is different. And the guys that have the hardest time on the challenge is people who come in and when TJ changes the rules or when someone gets eliminated

or when they get called into elimination, it's like they freak out. They do this. Or their lines get blown up or whatever. And it's like you have to be able to constantly be able to readjust. And I think that that skill set on the challenge and doing this for years and dealing with the personalities that i've had to deal with i mean i'm in a house with 30 of the most difficult people you've ever

met in your entire life and i have to figure out a way to arguably like the top 30 in the world yeah and outsmart these people and outthink these people and out manipulate these people and that skill set that i've honed i feel like over the years has really set me up so perfectly for the first look and what I'm doing now because I'm hosting now, which I've never done. But the ability – but what I've learned over the years dealing with people and interacting and understanding people and bringing out people's strengths like i'll meet people when i'm when i'm interviewing them and it's like i can see kind of like what their what their level is what their sense of humor is what they're good at what they want to talk about and you know i'm i'm you know constantly on a daily basis i mean i was racing drones yesterday right and the guys i'm racing drones with i mean these guys the one guy invented the drone simulator this other guy i mean these guys are like nerdy guys.

You know what I mean? They're nerds. Drop the N-bomb. The guy who I raced against, his name was Nurk, and I kept calling him nerd. All right? Nurk. But it's like these guys in their own right are such characters, and they're so good at what they do. And I was so impressed by these guys' skill set.

I'm going to Coney Island on Saturday, and I'm going to do sandcastle carving. I was just in France. I'm now best friends with the biggest winemaker in France, this guy Gerard Bertrand, who I'm sitting at a table with the CEO of Emirates, the top guy from Southern Wine and Spirits, all these bigwigs, and he's having more fun with me than these other guys. I mean, that's kind of the way we approach things, too. It's like we're not going to like normal media we're not gonna ask you the same questions we're gonna like like you said what what do you like to do what's your strength i'm gonna bring that out have a good time with you and did you have a feeling of like mama i made it when it's like instead of you know fucking fighting ct it's like i'm sitting with the

deal of emirates yes dude a lot easier to be sipping wine in france it is to be like climbing fucking yeah yeah yeah then getting backpacked out of a or like like falling off a 30-foot apparatus onto your face yeah right um yeah it go ahead i was just gonna say from like an even fan angle it's like i said to kevin beforehand like seeing you on it on like mbc mtv you know that that's like your house where you live now you've gone up to mbc and it's almost like seeing these guys on the rundown on comedy central seeing barstool van talk on espn rfp and it's like your house where you live. Now you've gone up to NBC, and it's almost like seeing these guys on the rundown on Comedy Central, seeing Barstool Van talk on ESPN2, RIPMPs. And it's like, shit, I know those guys back when he was just some fucking dude on the real world.

And it's like, oh, shit, you really mean it. And I feel invested in you. Yeah. Well, I appreciate that, man. I love you, man. I love you, buddy. I'm invested in these fucking assholes, too. Thanks, man.

Well, I feel the same way about you guys. And guys from the challenge. I mean, you guys, it's like, I feel like this is the environment and the world we live in these days is so much different than the way it's ever been. And you guys are so like cutting edge and you guys really are on like the next step. And you guys have kind of, it's almost like how now people are cutting the cable and they're not watching traditional cable anymore. You guys are like, you guys are like the Netflixflix or like the roku box or like the whatever it's like we're

giving you a new way we're giving you a new way to get your content and this old way that you used to do it it's just not it it's just like ain't it who the fuck is direct tv anymore now it's like oh we can find a million other ways to do it and so you guys are bringing people the most amazing content in such a different way and it's so outside the box you know what i mean and it's like i like to try and think that i'm doing things the exact same way where it's like with this show first look i think for the past you know if you're a fan of first look you ever seen it forget everything you've known about this show because dude it's bro it's it's there's a new sheriff in town man and it's gonna be a whole put the banana stamp on it before i came along you know the host that they had that you know uh ashley and ardrina i to be a whole different era. Before I came along, the host that they had,

Ashley and Audrina, I feel like a lot of the segments they did were very safe. Very like, I want to go horseback riding. I want to taste wine. I want to do yoga. Me, it's like, you're going head-to-head with the Pouncey Brothers. I got my ass handed to me by Mike and Mark. He's Pouncey. I ran routes around Mark Ingram.

I had Travis Kelly. It's like, dude, I'm sumo wrestling a 600-pound guy. I made the L.A. Chams cheerleading squad. The L.A. Rams cheerleading squad. I'm a cannabis sommelier. I went ghost hunting in Miami. I wrangled up iguanas. Dude, I caught iguanas for an entire day with a fishing pole.

Watch out. That's getting the Johnny Knoxville terror. You're going to just end up dead one day. Those are professionals right there. So, yeah. And it's such a cool experience for me, dude. It's like the stuff that they have me doing. I get my itinerary every week,

and I'm like, I'm doing what? Like, wait a minute. We're going to Coney Island and carving sandcastles. Have you done anything yet with First Look that you're like, not scared of, but you'd rather be like, I'd rather be back on the challenge than do this shit right here? So, i just got back from the south of france and um

we were there for nine days it was supposed to be this whole expose on the south of france and oyster hunting or oyster shucking and drinking wine and this wine festival the producer gets an idea he goes hey man there's this jousting competition in an island called cert all right you're on boats like legit like viking boats with guys rowing and you're on top of this pedestal and you have a shield and the guy across it's instead of jousting on horses you're jousting on boats and they signed me up to do this and i'm watching the videos and these guys are mutants dude these guys are monsters they're talking there's like videos of guys getting like spears in the face and i'm like i can't like i'm freaking

out the whole day and it just so happened that the one shoot ran longer than it was supposed to so we weren't able to do it like oh but i was like damn i was really looking forward to doing that man but no dude okay the the x so the the shoot we do with the nfl it's all it's gonna be part of an nfl segment i i work out with travis kelsey in kansas city and then on the schedule it said're going to be at XPE, which is a training facility in Boca Raton. They're going to put you through an NFL program. I did the whole combine. I put up really good stats, by the way. I'll tell you about it in a little bit.

So do we. And then they were like, you're going to do drills with some NFL talent. The Pouncey Brothers, Carl Lawson. The guy is an absolute beast, dude. Mark Ingram. And so first they're like, yeah, they have Mike and Marquise Pouncey with pads. And they're like, you're going to try and pass rush these guys. So I get around them once.

He throws the pads down. And now it's like I rush him. And the dude literally picks me up and like slams me on my head. Then his brother grabs me and like runs me me down, throws me over a desk. We ain't on TV anymore, bro. Then they're like, all right, now you need to pass protect Carl Lawson. And this guy gets into a three-point stance, dude. And when I tell you, the look in this guy's eyes, I'm looking at him, I'm like, buddy, we're just not going full speed.

He goes, no, I'm going to kill you, motherfucker. And all these guys, it actually made TMZ. I'll show you guys a video in a minute. TMZ Sports picked this up because there's a picture of an entire football squad standing around filming this with their cell phones laughing. They're like, kill that white boy. I'm like, no, man. So luckily, I luckily I didn't. Luckily, the guy didn't kill me.

I mean, he definitely embarrassed me. I rodeoed that so fast. Did you try? No, I swum his ass, dude. He came. Yeah, yeah. But that was terrifying. Your entire career before this was basically you trying to be the biggest asshole you can possibly be.

Yeah, I'm still trying to. I'm still trying to figure out that. Now all of a sudden you're working at NBC and it's like I can just fucking like manipulate you or make fun of you to the camera or whatever like yeah are you adjusting to like politics life where you gotta like 100 it's been it's been it's a work in progress okay the thing is it's like is it's like dude i've only known one way to be on television my entire life right that's for 13 years i've been the tongue-in-cheek pot-stirring manipulative obnoxious asshole the lovable guy you know what i mean lovable though yeah yeah yeah lovable asshole but um and now you know it was lovable until you fucking took

all that money the 250k all-time that was that was as he did. You want to split this money? No, I'm all set. Holy shit, that was a fucking move and a half. I always say, man, it's like in The Simpsons. You want to see exactly when her heart breaks. You want to see Sarah, her hand. The moment someone's soul leaves their body.

Was there any... I assume not. I wasn't going to say that. I was going to say reconciliation. And there shouldn't be. That's it. That bridge is burnt. uh, no, I assume not. I wasn't going to say that. I was going to say like reconciliation or zero. And there shouldn't be, if that was her, like that, that's it. That bridge is burned.

Listen, we're even, you know what I mean? We can just go on and just forget about that. But, um, uh, no,

but so coming on this now, one of the biggest, one of the biggest hurdles for me has been, uh, not necessarily the hosting part interacted with the person because I'm fine with that. It's, it's, it's, it's listening and not talking and, and actually being like interested in what these people are saying.

That's tough. Yeah. It's tough to the point where it's, you're not just asking the questions that you're reading on the script. You're actually taking the questions they answer and asking follow-up questions based on that question. And really like asking questions to like, you know, really get to like, you know, the root of whatever the situation is.

That's been a hurdle and not making everything a punchline. Like with me, it's like on, you're on reality TV. It's like, you have to, you don't know how much time you're going to get. And you know, the only sound bites are going to be shown is if you're saying something funny, if you're saying something controversial. So I'm on here, and it's like – and I'm sitting there with these people.

We're like doing the most random stuff. Like, dude, yesterday, drone racing, and I'm trying to – we're talking about the remote control, and I'm trying to figure out how to make a joke out of playing with the sticks or something like that. And it's like – so my mind is always working to make things a punch how to make a joke out of playing with the sticks or something like that right and it's like so my mind is always working to like make things a punchline or make a joke out of it and they're like you don't always like this isn't the challenge like you don't always have to be funny like you can you can be vulnerable you can open up to these people and you can actually be like sensitive and like emotional whereas on the challenge that's a big no no i do yeah yeah the second you the second you open up and become vulnerable is the second you die. Yeah.

So it's like it really has – it's a learning curve for me, and it's been a process, me trying to be okay with not having anything be a punchline, being a good listener and understanding what people are saying, and being like, I don't know, dare I say, vulnerable. So wait. You listen. You're not funny. You're a chick. You turn into a chick, bro. There you go. Well, hey, man,

I gotta please that. I gotta please that side of the fan base, you know what I mean? So then as soon as I start getting vulnerable, I just take my shirt off and I'm like,

all right, still a man. Don't you guys fall for this fucking shtick, by the way. This is banana. He always lulls everyone. There's a reason he keeps winning.

I'm telling you. He's vulnerable now. Listen. Let me step on your throat. I somehow fooled NBC into thinking that I'm a different guy. What is it? The Pepe Sanchez? What's the thing in the-

Pepe Sylvia? Pepe Sylvia. That's what's going on. In his basement right now, he has MTV The Challenge. No, Real World, MTV The Challenge. Then he goes to NBC for first. All of it. And then we're going SNL.

Then we're going to Night Show. You're going to be the new Fallon. And then you're going to fuck president. Our president's an old reality star, man. You're fucking going president. President Bananas. Put me in the fucking cabinet. You know what?

It's funny that you mentioned that. Bananas, Clem, 2024. It's funny that you mentioned that because we're actually going to pitch it as a segment in the next election. I'm going to run for president. Yeah, that's how these things start. It's a joke. It's just a joke.

It's just a joke. It's just a joke. Yo, if you ran for president, what would be your main thing on the platform? I would make all cell phone chargers universal. Oh, that's okay. You got my vote for it. We don't have a different port for everyone. I would make another day in between Saturday and Sunday. Extend the weekend?

Yeah, dude. I've always thought Colorado, they just changed to four days. Four days.. Extend the weekend. Yeah, dude. We need... I've always thought... Colorado, they just did. They just changed to four days a week. That's a big one. Yeah. Colorado's... They got a big year now.

They legalize weed. They're living in the future. They shorten the work week. Yeah. Get rid of day-to-day savings. They're going to be so goddamn rich. They're saving all that money with no Mondays. Got all that fucking tax money coming in the week.

From weed. Colorado's going to be the new utopia. Yeah, it always used to be. I love that place. Colorado. Yeah. It's delightful. week. From weed. Colorado's going to be the new utopia. Yeah, it always used to be. I love that place. Colorado. Yeah. It's delightful. The place is amazing.

It's beautiful. They make you think it always snows out there, and people who live there are like, no, it's like sunny in December. All the time. It's beautiful. It may have a snow here and there, and then we go skiing. Downtown Denver doesn't even feel real. It feels like something out of Stepford Wives.

It's so perfectly groomed. It's like a movie. Yeah, it's like a movie set. I'm like, am I in the Truman Show? Like the way people are walking by. This is fucking weird. No, they're all just high. It's like a movie. I'm like, am I in the Truman Show? The way people are walking by. They're all just high. We're doing a reality challenge right now called Barstool Idol

where it started with 16 people and they get an offer. They get a job offer at the end of this week. There was one kid who came in and he was good. He got the most Twitter followers, got the most clicks on his blog. He was pretty charismatic on camera. But he in playing the actual asshole shtick he was talking

shit about everybody he was like i'm gonna be you know let's let's cut to friday i'm gonna be here i'm gonna win he was doing this asshole thing and like by day three you could tell he wasn't really an asshole yeah and he it was a shtick he was telling everyone he's like i'm starting to crack under the pressure like i don't want to be mean to these people the audience is turning on me and he lost last night he got sent home and i and i was saying i don't think you can fake that you gotta really either a be an actual asshole or like i don't think you're like an actual bad guy asshole but i do think you don't give a fuck i don't and you have to but you have to really not give a fuck you can't just say that takes that takes time yeah i imagine it's not something that you're because i'm telling you man i'm not gonna lie i mean sometimes you know tweets are hurtful man

and like but you really do have to have vulnerability you know what you have to do you have to tell you and this is what i do you have to you have to tell yourself it's like these if if you if you have haters and people are talking shit it's like you're doing something right yes there's a quote we have a few if everyone loves you or everyone hates you you're doing something wrong you know what i mean so you you just you you really can't you really can't give a fuck and it's like you know what i've always said it's like yeah i'm an asshole and yeah i'm like you know mischievous and stuff but nothing that i do is coming from like a hurtful like awful place i just like getting a rise out of people yeah i dude it's ever since my sister god bless her my younger sister i mean the one that wrote all the notes last season if you watch that the

pink notes fucking cerebral assassin i'm telling you this poor girl i literally like she was like i picked on her growing up our entire lives it's like i've always just loved poking at people just to get a rise out of them you know what i mean you're an asshole man yeah i was an arson i was a pyromaniac when i was a kid i used to love watching fires just lighting fires to watch them burn i still like that i've just figured out just to do inside people's heads exactly now i just like you know i'll stir some shit up and light a little fire and watch it roast explain to them what this note is too because this was next level villain shit what you did so before i went on uh see vendettas um you know how girls are dude especially in this reality television world dude they're all together very catty they're all gossipy they all secretly hate each other

even though they pretend oh my god i love you no you don't no fucking way yeah no shot you want they don't even like their friends let alone those random reality strangers they hate their friends yeah yeah so knowing how catty they were knowing like how to you know really how to get a rise those people what i did is i came up with all of these really incendiary nasty things that girls would say to each other for example he's only using you for a vote. You're next. You don't even know a bitch. You're awful at this game. Everyone in the room is talking about you when you're not around.

So I had my sister on pink paper write all these notes. I had like 50 of them. And then what I would do is strategically, I would strategically stick them with using duct tape under their beds so they'd lay down and they'd be this pink piece of paper and they'd pull it down and it would be like this note in female handwriting bro when i tell you it caused the biggest fucking ruckus you've ever seen because all the girls did the guys know you were doing or you just leroy is the only one

leroy's my guy leroy's my guy he's the only one that knew that i was that i was doing this the the note we called it note gate all right everyone was blaming everyone the girls were like i don't care yes you do oh it was they said they were blaming the girls whose bed it was in that they were writing it to themselves just to try and throw the the heat off them she but then she knew that she didn't write it and then she's like i know it wasn't the girls my room but then secretly she's like maybe it was the girls my room they all blamed marie and shane for writing them so like dude it caused the But then she knew that she didn't write it, and then she's like, I know it wasn't The Girls in My Room, but then secretly she's like, maybe it was The Girls in My Room. They all blamed Marie and Shane for writing them. So, like, dude, it caused the biggest controversy you've ever seen.

And it didn't help my game at all. I just loved watching the controversy. How is it possible that people weren't immediately like, we can't figure out what this is? It's fucking bananas. That was my first guess. And that was the that and that was the most amazing thing about is my name never even came up never even came up there and by the time it did there had already been so many other people accused it was like oh yeah sure i did it

yeah and what nobody and here's what nobody thought is it was like this motherfucker is so sick he actually did this before he even came on the challenge it's not like i got ready yeah yeah i actually had the foresight to like think about this before the show even started have my sister write it you know who's a sick fuck your sister she's like yeah i'll fuck these bitches let's go well now every time i just posted a picture the other day of me and her for her birthday and everyone's like is that your sister is that the one that wrote the notes because dude it was like such like an amazing amazing moment it's brilliant and that's what it is it's brilliant and that's all i wanted to ask you like how you feel about like the reality stereotype that like you're talentless or you don't have like like we just happened with kylie jenner where kylie jenner was on the cover of

forbes for being a billionaire or almost a billionaire and i was like she doesn't have talent she's not smart that's so fucking false yeah like i hate that when it's about Kardashians or any reality people. You have to be – you've been talking about me for 20 fucking years. I obviously know what I'm doing. There's been a million other reality stars and you ain't talking about them. You're talking about me because I'm different. Yeah, obviously. I think that – here's the thing, and I've always said this about reality TV and about me.

People are like, oh, well, you're not an actor. Well, you're right. I'm not. But what I think I do is more impressive than an actor is actors get paid to be somebody else and a lot of times who they really are is not that likable i somehow have actually made a name being myself not portraying somebody else not acting like somebody else not trying to you know impersonate or mimic somebody else um and i mean that's that's that is the most like replica replicable thing like you can just i can keep doing this because it's just

me there's no it's never gonna run out and it's never gonna get old and while who i am off the show isn't i'm obviously more a little more colorful a little more animated on the challenge it's like i'm still my i'm still the same guy you know what i mean that's similar to us too but that gets exhausting because you're if's similar to us too. But that gets exhausting. You hype up a little bit. Because if you're always putting you out there, that gets tiring because you never just get to keep anything to yourself anymore. You just have to sit at home at night and be like, I'm still acting because I'm still on Twitter. So I'm still me.

But that gets fucking tiring. Again? To grind that out for 20 years. 13 years. out for 20 years and again with first look what's what what's cool about you know about how they want me to be on first look is it's like you don't always have to it for me it's so we'll do shoots we're all be on where we'll do five six days seven days in a row we're in france and to not and to know that i don't have to be on all the time i can just sit here and like be myself and be cool and chill and not have to constantly be thinking about like what's the next punchline or what's the next joke

or how am i gonna like make a mockery of this situation you know what i mean or what can i do to stir the pot it's like i can just be me and like that's okay and it really is like it's kind of it's kind of like a a relief in a way yeah definitely that's kind of like a relief in a way. Yeah, definitely. That's kind of like everyone here stays up until like 3 a.m. every night because once everyone else goes to bed, that's when you can just be chill. Okay, everyone else is asleep. The games are over. The shows are done. Nothing to comment on.

I'm just going to fucking lay on the couch and just like be awake but just be relaxing as me for a little while. You need it, dude. You do. You do, man. And like I said, I mean, You do, you do, man. And, and, and like I said, I mean,

this show it's, it's, it's challenging me. Like I've always said, it's like with the challenge, I really do feel like, I don't know what else I can accomplish on the challenge at this point. Okay.

I just, don't get me wrong. I'm not, there's no signs of stopping. I'm going to be on it for as long as my body allows me to do. But as far as wins are concerned, as far as money one, as far as – I mean my – anything I do at this point now is just going to be like icing on top. Yeah, absolutely. What's cool about First Look is they're putting me in the most out there, zany, wacky environments where it's challenging me in ways that I like never knew were even possible, you know? And it, and it, and it is, it's, it's, it's, it's almost like,

it's almost like show me that there's like this whole other world of stuff out there that I can do now. And the sky's the limit. Like, for example, you know, I'm pitching them ideas about like, there's a school bus demolition Derby in, in Indiana, right some twisted metal bro school buses there's a downhill big wheel race in san francisco there's a portal there's a port there's a port-a-pot listen there's an outhouse race in like colorado so it's like i want to do shit like that you know what i mean like and that's what i'm saying like and that's what and the producers like they've even told me they go we love the fact that there, nothing's off the table with you.

Right. There's nothing that we could think of where it's going to be like this. Johnny won't do that. He won't do that. Cause I'm going to do it. And actually one of the, one of the bosses told me the other day, she goes,

listen, you know, you don't have to go a hundred percent on all these challenges. That's the only way I know. That's, that's, I have one speed, you know what I mean?

And that's, I'm going to do everything, you know, the best I could do it. And I think that once this And I'm going to do everything the best I can do it. And I think that once this – I'm so excited for this to come out because it's like all this stuff that I've done. I haven't seen it air yet. And it's like I'm just so excited to see how it comes out on TV, how it's edited. And I'm really excited to see the reaction that I get from everyone seeing me still be me.

But just in a different way. In a whole different realm dude yeah someone who has to go to the box do that oh my god the box in new york city it's a live sex show bro i've heard about it yeah i heard a training around beat all over people yeah they just shit one girl just shit in a pizza box another one like put a needle in her dick it was yes it's disgusting man it's wild shit. What was I going to say? We were actually, I was just talking to Dave about possibly doing something. We do like a segment with the Rough and Rowdy. Oh, yeah.

Dave, get a quick video of us just bullshitting for Instagram. That's right up your alley. I know, but this is for Instagram. Okay, that's not Instagram. Yeah, man, listen. After you record it, just save save it dave just hit the save after um you're coming from a world of of like you know amateur sports competition like that's what i mean rough rowdy yeah that's what it's about well it's and that's the thing is it's like

it's it's i mean i could be like a ring guy like i don't know we could do like anything why don't you fight in it why don't you have wow is you it why don't you have come on no backpacks involved just fucking boxing dude he has to wear the big inflatable gloves and i get to like wrap my hands in like glass shut up dave you just save it trial by combat right yeah right there you go I mean you versus CT and we'll give you a cut of the pay-per-view you make bank bro

buddy I don't need brain damage man I don't need I've already listen I've already damaged his brain enough just pardon the way

that I have I think South Africa took about 9 years off my life have you slowed down you had to slow down a little bit right in what way

partying chicks come on man tell the truth i see you have the eye mask how old are you all the 20 year olds are arguing you've got on the challenge i listen i listen i don't party on the challenge man i got my eye on the prize or on you know do you fuck chicks on the challenge or you stay i haven't dude i haven't in in forever i just it's not a good look for me dude you know what i mean like back i'm not 22 anymore right how old you now 36 yeah so it's like that's why i gotta old are you now? 36. Yeah. So it's like, that's why I got to go on.

And I really do want to like, and it's like, I'm, I also have to remind myself that it's like, I'm not, I need to think of the bigger picture too now. And NBC is a different animal, dude. You know what I mean? And I really, you heard it here first. Johnny, Johnny's going soft on the channel. Worried about his corporate job. No, no bad language, no drinking, no fighting.

No, no, that's, that's no, I'm on late night fighting no no that's that's no i'm on late night yeah that's right that's true listen i'm on s late night on snl you know i but i really do have to like you know i i have to you know just don't jeopardize anything for the fucking challenge like you said you conquered that one man so um no dude i'm still i'm still i'm still me dude i mean obviously you you you're you i go as much as my body allows me to it's like i'm very in touch with like what my body will allow me to do like the other day we were at saratoga dave was there too we didn't we didn't link it up but dude we drank all day at the racetrack got an hour of sleep and then we partied all night at gaffney's and i was a corpse

the entire next day yeah so i mean it's like i don't care who you are 36 comes for everybody but but i mean like i said it it's what's weird about it though it's like i'm 36 but i think again another amazing thing with the challenge is it's kept me young oh you're 36 going on line 21 exactly going like 18 like i mean you know just being in that environment and like you're always around you know younger people with the MTV like demographic, like all that. Like, I really do feel like I don't feel like I mean, I don't feel 36. I really don't. Like, I'm sitting around like, hey, man, you're older.

I'm like, no, I'm not. Let's go to the gym and shit. Like, I just I just turned 30 on Tuesday. People like, oh, man, like you must feel old. And mentally, it doesn't bother me at all because I work in Never Neverland. But physically, I have. That's what I always say. I'm like, the I work in Never Never Land. But physically, I have felt 40, I'm 22. That's what I always say.

I'm like, the challenge is like Never Never Land, and I'm Peter Pan. Right, right. And all these idiot cast members are lost boys. Yo, before we wrap up, I saw you when you kind of intro-hosted X on the Beach. Yeah. That show is sadistic, man. That show is fucked. You are so fucking sick.

Your eyes lit up. When I understood the premise, I was like, so wait, you send all of their exes. That makes fighting CT and that... Walk in the park, bro. They asked me if I wanted to be on it. I'm like, I would rather

stick a toothpick under my toenail and kick the wall than have to be on that show. He's not wrong, though. He's not wrong. You watch that show. Right? Like have to come in and then your exes are there and then they're going to be like, oh, really? Well, I'm going to go fuck this other guy right in front of you. It'd be like, what?

Yeah. You're lucky that you got in when it was just like, do a puzzle, climb a fucking ladder, and fuck this girl. Okay, I can do that. The challenge of that is like refraining from murdering your girlfriend. Yeah, right. I'm going to go fuck you guys on Facebook. I'm going to murder you. Fine.

All even. All right, man. Well, so first look is on Saturday nights after SNL. Starting September 29th. September 29th. Big premiere party in the city, so you boys are all welcome. Okay. And yeah, listen, you kind of mentioned it before.

You're one of the guys who came from, like, the alternative side of content. You know what I mean? We do it differently. So to see you make it on something like that at NBC is pretty cool. I feel the same way. Every time I see, you know, you guys doing it. I mean, you guys have press badges now. Like, that's amazing.

Yeah, man. It's like press conference. I don't know why they let us, but, you know. It's amazing. We droop the world. I love it, though, dude. He just said it. My manager's a huge fan of you guys, too. And he sent me a a screenshot yesterday of nadama can sue in the back it's like

the minivan but that's hilarious dude like stuff like that it's like sean spice was in the other room yeah that's wild that's what guys that's what like people like have been because it's like i'm sorry espn's dead i mean let's just let's just call a spade a spade here um nobody wants to get their sports Like that anymore Nope You guys like make such a fun way To not just get sports But just like

Dude you just make it You know You just You make it You make it the way it should be So Do an episode of First Look here bro Dude

Listen Anything Listen Anything is on the table Let's do it Everything and anything is on the table He's gotta come to At the new office on the first day

Cause after that it it's going to be trashy. Yeah. Listen, and honestly, if you guys come and again, they're open to new ideas. If you guys come up with any like segments that you guys were like this, like we heard about this or we saw this or this would be a great because like, for example, like the different segments, I did a segment called Johnny gets a job and each episode that has four segments in it.

So one of them, I was a zoo keeper in Miami. I was a cannabis sommelier. I was a matchmaker and Miami. I was a cannabis sommelier. I was a matchmaker. And the other one was something else. Come be a blogger for the day, man. So there you go. So that's what I'm saying. So we could just think of a theme, and it would be like whatever,

and then we'd have segments underneath that. So whatever you guys could – I know you guys think out of the box too, and I love that. Good stuff, Bananas. Check them out. First Look, September 29th on NBC at Dress-Up.