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What's up everybody this is Scott Yeager here for another edition of Challenge Mania coming to you from New Zealand. I'm here for a few more days. This episode is brought to you by

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he finds his tennis shoes. Mr Derek Zinsky what's up dude you find those tennis shoes.

Yeah yeah I actually actually did a throwback earlier today at the gym and found my old crossfit shoes because I'm back at the gym. I got this uh I got this uh you know this little injury that I'm hiding not hiding for a while here you know about it. I don't talk about it too much but I'm back at it again. I put the old school kicks on. I'm feeling good my man feeling good.

Especially after this final is final is nuts and guess what? I know you like the drama buddy where you missed it on Twitter or did you see it on Twitter it was fucking ass. I felt like I was in a riot. I've been doing my best to stay off social media whenever possible. We are also a day and I think well three quarters of a day ahead of you guys. So like right now recording this it is one PM Saturday while you are recording it. I'm recording it at 7 a.m. on Sunday.

So there's a bit of that. It also took me a while to be able to sit down and watch the finale but I did see bits here and there people referring to the finale a lot of the drama as you said. That's why I made the tennis shoe joke. It's funny without having seen the finale. I could put together a lot of the stuff you know you see Natalie and Joss going back and forth Veronica commenting on the finale.

Jimmy Wang in Marie with her highlight clips but I didn't understand all the references to the tennis shoes it made no sense to me I'm like how does this play and then I'm watching the episode night kind of forgotten about it and at the end there after hunters had the money taken from him and he's just furious and all he wants are his shoes so he can get out of this cave that they're in but he keeps calling him tennis shoes which I call him sneakers I don't call him tennis shoes but some people do call him tennis shoes.

And it was just so adamant where am I tennis shoes where am I tennis shoes so that was the one I could not put together via context clues some glad I actually got to see the final reckoning and on that note that final final reckoning episode that we all watched and then everyone has something to say about that is what this episode is going to be entirely about now this is going to start as a patron only podcast for our dedicated patrons to enjoy this weekend.

And then while I am flying back from New Zealand which takes about a day and a half this is going to go live on iTunes for everyone else to enjoy you know having not really been a part of the conversation on social media everyone having a billion questions myself included.

I thought this was a good way to put our thoughts and concerns out there for the world to hear so this will be the first iTunes episode for us everyone this week and then hopefully we'll have some more.

At the end of this week because this Thursday is our one year anniversary we have a very special episode planned for that and we are going to have the guests start rolling in to discuss this controversial finale and this controversial down the stretch run here on the final reckoning you saw Tony wants to come on Johnny wants to come on now that this finale is aired who knows who wants to come on from this group of eight people because they all played a part in this thing and have all waited on social media but as you know challenge mania is officially the place.

To come in area dirty or your clean laundry so D why don't we kick it off with me just asking you you mentioned all the drama on Twitter what what were you referring to there what kind of jumped out of you as being the most interesting part of this week long narrative that stemmed from this big news worthy finale.

Well my biggest takeaway to become really honest with you after everyone you know whether they agreed with Ashley or not you know believe it or not you know there was a lot of

people you know backing up Ashley you know with her move we saw the comments made by by Hunter it looks like it's going to sort of come come come to play at the reunion and I don't know if you saw the clip on at challenge MTV's handles but they ask they ask Hunter what his thoughts were on the words he used you know about slut shaming quote unquote slut shaming and the words used towards her family that comes out to play CT backs them up a little bit

and you know Hunter sort of goes quiet you know I mean it was almost like you know pop big pop it's spoken and Hunter was like yeah maybe I should just say I'm sorry and he said I was sorry and he was like I said I was sorry on Twitter which I don't think helped his case too much so but but with that being said you know big pop up speaks up CT speaks up but we also have the female version of not big pop up

but like the queen V you know the queen B one of the queens of the challenge Veronica comes out and speaks out and fucking blast everybody she takes sides blast people and that was kind of my my biggest takeaway you know you know after after the Tweetle had picked there had chosen their sides whether it was Hunter or Ashley and I thought it was fairly divided Scott you hear you hear CT at the reunion and you hear Veronica fucking

blast off bombs away so I thought it was great to hear from like the OGs as being like almost like the final answer which isn't the final answer it's more of just you know fuel to our fire and stuff for us to break down here at Challenge Many.

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