Hello, welcome back to After Reality. It's Courtney Robertson here. Happy Friday. I thought I would do a little fun

flashback Friday episode for you. Maybe we'll call it Free Ball Friday. You know, I watched this week's

episode and I didn't get a chance to do a recap, but it definitely jogged my memory. And I went on

Reality Steve's podcast. It's a flash,

he's doing like a fun Friday and it really inspired me. So, you know, I have been on countless

podcasts and I've told stories here and there, but I thought, why not put it on my show? I've got a

lot of tea in this vault. So this week's episode, they're in New Zealand with Jen,

and it really jogged my memory. First of all, with the X showing up on my season,

season 16 with Ben Chantelle Newton showed up when we were in San Francisco, and I threatened

to leave. I actually kind of wanted to leave. It wasn't just because

she showed up. I didn't really have any interaction with her, but I thought we would start there

because Matthew shows up in New Zealand. I think it's really funny that he's like, I flew myself

here and they really hammered that into us. I'm like, I'm sure production helped out.

And I guess Jen's ex-Matthew was documenting it on TikTok. Maybe he's a, I don't know, influencer.

So I thought that was kind of interesting. But I'll be excited to see how the season ends.

I think the last two episodes were my favorite.

I liked the drama between Sam and Devin. It seemed very squashed this week.

Fashing back to my season, Shantelle Newton showed up. Apparently, the way I heard,

overheard them talking, I heard her say, you know, I enjoyed meeting you

or something along the lines of that they had met before and she just wanted to come and shoot

her shot. And I didn't hear the rest of the conversation. At that point, I just took it as,

oh, this is someone he dated. It's an ex-girlfriend. we're not she was really pretty i'm like we're not

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