By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It is an honor to welcome both Weston “Wes” & Amanda Bergmann to The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast. Reality TV fans first met Weston Bergmann in 2006’s The Real World: Austin. On the show, he met longtime friends Melinda (Stolp) Collins and Nehemiah Clark, and once filming completed, Weston […]
Jake’s Take’s Podcast: Oscar Chark
October 15, 2025 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It is a privilege to welcome actor and content creator Oscar Chark as a guest on The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast. In August 2020, Oscar joined YouTube as the host of Rookie Revolution. Over the past several years, Rookie Revolution has built a following for its takes on the […]
Jake’s Take’s Podcast: Drew Angelman Returns (2025)
July 23, 2025 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com I always enjoy welcoming my friend, Drew Angelman, as a guest on the Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast. Drew is the creator of Angelcake Entertainment. He has covered the popular MTV reality competition series, The Challenge, since Final Reckoning and many of its spin-offs, including The Challenge: All Stars, The […]
Jake’s Take Podcast: Scott Yager & Mark Long
July 13, 2025 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com A Note from Jacob: 375 podcast episodes! I never expected to record 375 interviews when I first sat down with reality TV and pop culture commentator Brent Wolgamott in November 2019. I never thought that best-selling authors, an Emmy-nominated director, Emmy-winning journalists, podcast hosts, Reality TV icons, a Songwriters Hall of […]
Jake’s Take’s Podcast: Drew Angelman Returns!
December 9, 2024 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It is a privilege to welcome back for the fifth time onto The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast – the one and only Drew Angelman. Drew is the creator and founder of Angelcake Entertainment! Since he last visited the podcast, Drew covered several Challenge spin-offs – The Challenge: World Championship, […]
Jake’s Take’s Podcast: The Challenge Historian
October 26, 2024 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It is a privilege to welcome Jacob Hollabaugh to The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast. Jacob is known as The Challenge Historian, and since 2021, he has kept track of MTV’s long-running Reality TV competition, The Challenge. If it’s happening in The Challenge universe, Jacob will be discussing it on […]
Jake’s Take Podcast – Paige of Most Likely Returns!
August 1, 2024 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It is a joy to welcome back one of my dear podcasting friends, Paige of Most Likely Podcast and the Queen of Challenge TikTok, back to The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast. Paige is the Queen of Challenge TikTok, and her podcast Most Likely recaps several top Reality TV shows such as The Amazing […]
Jake’s Take’s Podcast: Derrick Kosinski
January 1, 2024 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It’s The Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast’s fifth anniversary season kick-off episode! I am honored that three-time Challenge champion and Challenge Mania co-host Derrick Kosinski visited the podcast! Derrick began his Reality TV journey on Road Rules: X-Treme, where he and his teammates, including fellow Challenge legend Jodi Weatherton, completed 13 missions across Argentina and Chile. He debuted on The Challenge on […]
Jake’s Take Podcast: Syrus Yarbrough
June 11, 2023 By
By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It is a privilege to welcome Reality TV OG Syrus Yarbrough as a guest on the Jake’s Take with Jacob Elyachar Podcast’s 230th milestone episode! Syrus made his Reality TV debut on MTV’s The Real World: Boston. Four years after the show finished, he had his first experience on the long-running competition series The Challenge. He won the […]
