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Weston Bergmann: GOAT Infused Lava Mar 16, 2019

Show notes

Wes has appeared on 15 total challenge seasons including spin-offs, he boasts a combined 27 daily challenge wins, 19 elimination wins, 6 final appearances, 2 challenge wins and more than $257,000 in prize money. Outside of the show, Wes has made quite the name for himself as an established entrepreneur, founding Betablox a startup incubator and accelerator, or Wes describes as really good advisors to make startups better faster guaranteed.

Interview Hit List:

His wedding, Brad's wedding and CT's wedding
Casey Cooper the legend
- Casey V Danny V Kaitlyn
- Casey & TJ dating rumor
Johanna and the infamous house deed
The OG 'influencer' money maker aka appearances
Top Challenge swimmers
- Shane & Alex Smith
Rivals 1 dynamic
- Evan's real reason for wanting to face CT
- Did Adam throw the final elim?
Svetlana V Beth Duel 1 elim
- CT V Brad
TJ's progression on hosting the Challenge
Shanni and Wes arguing over Fresh Meat's format
Zach and Wes talk sports
Winner's picking the order
- Better modern twists with a similar concept
CAMEO: Paulie, Cara, Bootstrap
Young Wes' first business ventures

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War of the Worlds EP 5: Da'vonne's Tears and Bear's Cartwheels Mar 08, 2019

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Shanni welcomes a special guest star for this week's episode, Hannah Okosisi! Hannah produces all the content for the Hannah's Hit List section of the Saniac website. Listen as Hannah and Shanni unpack this week's episode of MTV's The Challenge War of the Worlds.

Recap Hit List:

The Amanda tape situation
- Viacom trying to cover it up
- Da'vonne's perspective
- #showusthefootage
Glittergate
Turbo and Nany
Daily Challenge
- Bear and Da'vonne's dynamic
- Hunter falling behind Georgia
- Paulie and Ninja's clear dominance
- Winners and results
Nominations
Tribunal drama
- Zach Vs Cara
- Da'vonne's tears and Bear's cartwheels
Tribunal aftermath
- Mattie supporting Zahida
- Poker game
Voting strategy
Killing floor
- Cara's speech and Jenna's shutdown
- Voting
- Elimination breakdown: Light's Out
- Results

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War of the Worlds EP 4: Friends With A Millionaire Mar 01, 2019

Show notes

It's highly possible Shanni was off her rocker for this episode. A recap full of shade, jokes, tangents and classic MTV's The Challenge talking points.

Recap Hit List:

Amanda being tied up -- deleted footage from MTV
- Cara Vs Paulie's reaction to it on live
Zach, Jenna, Kyle not letting Cara start drama
Daily Challenge: Fallout
- strategy at play
- Zach and Zahida resetting the tone
- Wes' potential throw
FIRE Tribunal
Costume party
- Cara Vs Zach
- Georgia and Bear's fling
- Kyle Vs Georgia
- Kyle Vs Paulie
- Leroy, Kam and Theo's love triangle
Double elimination: Ring Tossed
- Fantastic twist!
- Selection strategy
- Another legend down
Wes' GOAT status?
Power rankings

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Kailah Casillas: Lohan Tea House Feb 28, 2019

Show notes

Kailah got her start on the Real World 31: Go Big or Go Home. She's appeared on 4 challenges and made the finals in Vendettas. Most recently she's made an appearance on Lindsay Lohan's new MTV show - Lohan's Beach House.

Interview Hit List:

How Lohan's Beach House differs from The Challenge
- Zero organization
- Constant confusion
- No set format
- Good TV vs good employee
Casting process
- Rumor: the original cast member meant to go with Kailah instead of Kyle
Lindsay's perspective on male female relationships
- Double standards of the guys vs girl employees
- The weird AF yacht conversation about Mikey
- Brent the golden child
Job description at the club
Lindsay yelling at the DJ
- Is Lohan the real Slim Shady? Is Ashley her mom?
Lindsay's sobriety levels
- Shanni's exclusives on Lindsay's nasal hobbies and Passover tears
Oprah? Oprah?
Getting fired
- The messy room situation
Current friendship status with the cast members
Challenge Talk
- Biggest downfall on the show
- Elimination losses - Sylvia, Camilla
  - Losing to Camilla right before the final
- Champs V Stars
  - Fun daily challenges
- Hunter Ashley situation
- Stan culture
- Cara Maria
  - all the stories and more
Her new radio show: Kickin It With Kailah
Her first tattoo

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War of the Worlds EP 3: A Bruised Banana Feb 21, 2019

Show notes

A great episode filled with tangents, fan shoutouts and of course a recap of the best War of the World's episode thus far.

Recap Hit List:

The Relic twist
House relationships
- Georgia and Bear
- Cara and Paulie
  - Cara V Mattie
- Zach and Jenna
Daily Challenge: Search and Destroy
- Nostalgia for OG mud challenges
  - Old school CT bod
- Female MVPs: Georgia and Ninja
- Shaleen (?)
- Zach's blunder or Wes' master plan?
Tribunal strategy
- Kam's "burn" vote
- Amanda and Josh's new social standing in the house
House drama
- Amanda V Josh
- Wes V Bananas
- Bananas V Zach
Elimination: a Shanni Zach favourite
- Was Zach the right choice?
  - A clear better option
- The 'legend' exits
Predictions

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War of the Worlds EP 2: Revenge Served Cold Feb 15, 2019

Show notes

Recap Hit List:

Hunter and Wes' preseason alliance
Nany and Turbo
Daily Challenge: Arms Are Gettin' Tired
- Suspicious scoring and results
- Tribunal concept
- Matchups
The mumbo jumbo fight
- All the moving parts and fight progression
- Amanda's bomb
- The aftermath
Elimination: Drone Ball Drop
- Tribunal voting
- Matchup and results
Next week's preview

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Mikey P: Twitter Culture and the Social Media Illusion Feb 14, 2019

Show notes

Mikey is a musician, MC, Ninja Warrior, personal trainer, influencer and the boyfriend of MTV's The Challenge regular, Kailah. Mikey is a member of the music group DaCav formerly DaCav5. In 2009 they released the wildly successful single, Tetris. DaCav received the MTV Video Music Award for "Best Breakout Philly Artist."

Interview Hit List:

Resurfaced Tweets and Twitter culture
- Kailah Vs Cara Twitter feuds
- The stan armies
- Production's role in online drama
- Influencer culture and their social media tricks
- Online hate and the power of words
His former relationship with Jenna and how he met Kailah
- If he would do the Challenge
Ninja Warrior and Chris Wilczewski
- Natalie 'Ninja' Duran Tweets
Music career
- Radio internship
- DaCav's formation and success
- VMA
Surprise appearance from Kailah

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War of the Worlds EP 1: All About the Brits Feb 07, 2019

Show notes

The long anticipated episode 1! This season has been hyped from every corner and we finally get a taste for this season.

Recap Hit List:

Feature film level cinematography
The first challenge: Impending Doom
- The impressive first showing from the UK boys.
- Zach's useless insights on Dodgeball
- Da'vonne showing up hard
- Cara's weak start
- The two extra prospects twist... expected.
The Brits in full force
- Theo shutting down Ashley aka Eminem's mom
- Bear's shining charisma
Hookup seeds planted
- Chase/Nany
  - Chase acting like he's still on the bachelor
- Leroy/Kam
- Theo/Kam
- Bananas/Morgan
Team selections
- Turbo's poetic words for Nany
- Alan gets some news from TJ
- Pots and pans may still get some screen time
The Amanda/Zach strategy vs the Kam/Da'vonne strategy

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War of the Worlds EP 0: Meet the Prospects Jan 31, 2019

Show notes

Welcome back Saniacs! We missed you all and are thrilled to be back at our mics.

Recap Hit List:

Rookie cast breakdown
- Original shows
- Cast pairings
- Fan reactions
Fight & hookup teasers
The Paulie Cara Danielle debacle
The Trishelle debate
- Are the OG's worth the same money as Bear
- What had higher ratings - RW Las Vegas or Love Island season 4?
Season predictions, hopes, thoughts
Saniac announcements
- A Challenge news column is in the works and will be up and running by episode 1. Shoutout to Christian from This is the Final Cut blog who will be heading up the Challenge news section.
- Challenge trivia quizzes will be up on our new site as well. Written and created by our long time contributor, Hannah.
- This season we will be going live Wednesday nights right after the Challenge at 10pm EST on our Facebook page.