You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality. Steve Podcast, I’m your host reality. Steve, thank you all for tuning in on this Tuesday since it is party week, I. I think I’m gonna tell a story from each party the last couple years or in the next couple days, a story from the party that people maybe don’t know about or don’t remember.
I got an update on yesterday’s podcast, euphoria. Season three is currently filming, and one I totally forgot about this show. Two, it’s been three years since season two. But they’re coming back with a season three. Sidney Sweeney has got some comments on it, and we’ve got an update in the MGK, Brian Austin Green Pettiness Feud, and now others are getting involved.
This is so messy. We’ll get to all that momentarily. So, as you know, party Saturday Night annual ninth annual fan appreciation party, but this year it is coupled with my 50th birthday. I wanted to tell a story from, I was thinking back, like I’ve had some stories for sure from some of these parties.
Some of them are more personal than others, but this one I know I have told before, and I know I told it the weekend after the party, and it might’ve been the weekend leading up to it. I wrote about it at the time. ’cause nine years ago when this started in 2015, I didn’t have a podcast yet, so it must have been something that I wrote about and I’ve talked about a couple times.
But I wanna remind everybody that. The very first party that I held, I don’t remember the amount of people that came, but I wanna say it was like 30, maybe 35 people, and it was in June, but it was like days after my. 40th birthday, and that was the whole reason this came to be. So the first ever party that I had was because it was my 40th birthday, and I’ve never been a birthday guy.
I’ve never cared what I did for my birthday ever. It’s never been a big deal. But as they came up on my 40th, I’m like, eh, maybe I’ll go to Vegas and invite my readers. I didn’t have a podcast at the time, so it didn’t have listeners. You guys were readers. And so I was like, I’ll open it up to anybody. And then we had it in my room at Mandalay Bay and.
One of the people that attended that party was, you all remember the Nick Vial playing video where somebody recorded Nick, they were sitting in seat two A and he was in one B. He was in the aisle seat of a two seat first class, and this person was behind him. So they got it through the crack in the two seats in first class in row one, and Nick was on his phone talking to somebody from his family.
About what had just happened. ’cause he was on his flight back after their finale, I believe Andy season was in the Dominican Republic, and Nick was on his flight back home and explaining to them what happened. And I’ve told you that the person that recorded him was, it was just so random because it wasn’t just a fan who was a huge reality, Steve Follower or a huge fan of the show.
It was, I wouldn’t even want to call them an ex, they weren’t an ex-girlfriend. But they were somebody that I had seen before and spent a weekend with, and that weekend did not go particularly well. And after that weekend, I don’t think I ever spoke to them again, but that weekend was about five years before she saw Nick on the plane, and she still had.
My number in her phone, but she did not watch the show anymore. She just heard some of the words that Nick was saying and she was like, oh, I remember Steve. Let me go look on his website to see if this guy is on the Bachelorette. And she went on my website at the time. She scrolled a little bit. I, whatever she saw, she was like, oh wow.
This guy obviously made it far because I see him on Steve’s page and here he is sitting in front of me talking about what happened. It seems like he got dumped at the end, so she messages me out of the blue. She sends me a text message as she’s on the plane, but I didn’t have her number in my phone, so it just came up as a number, and she just tells me, not sure if you remember me, but I’m sitting behind someone who I think was just on the bachelorette.
Here, I’ll send you the video. She sent me the video and then she said, I’m about to take off. I’m not gonna have my phone for a couple hours. So once she landed is when I spoke to her and she said, yeah, that’s, those are the videos that, and she had sent me the two videos and it was Nick basically talking about how he got dumped and Andy and Josh are perfect for each other.
She’s just gonna do whatever he says. You gotta admit, Nick was pretty dead on with what he described about Josh. I will give him that. And by the way, if you still haven’t seen the Nick Vial plane video, just go to my YouTube page. You gotta scroll down a while. ’cause now I got a lot more videos on there, but it’s still on there.
It’s hilarious. I know Nick hates me for it, and I know that Nick blames me for a lot of the heat that he got. But hey, I look, I’ve gone back and forth on this. All I’m saying is if that video happened today. I got a video like that in 2025. I wouldn’t share the video. I would just share, Hey, I’ve got information, I have video of, or I, I would probably just tell you I have a video of the final two person on the phone with somebody talking about how they got dumped.
I just wouldn’t post it because thinking back on it now, was that an invasion of privacy? Yeah, it was. But in 20, whatever that was, 15, 16 it just, it didn’t, it never dawned on me, but it’s like, whose fault is it her for taking the video of it or him for speaking so loud on a plane about something that he wasn’t technically allowed to do at that point.
He could have told his family when he got home, but he didn’t want to. And look, I’m sure other people have done this. On the show, once they got their phone back, they probably immediately called a family member. It just so happened that nobody else in the history of the show has ever been recorded talking to that family member.
And Nick was. But anyway, the girl who recorded it, once we got through all that, ’cause that would’ve been around.
That would’ve been, he would’ve been flying back probably beginning of May. And then her and I just kept in touch for the next month and I was like, why don’t you come to the party? And she did, she ended up coming to the party that year. And I, we haven’t spoken much since then. I don’t even know what she’s up to since then.
But I was glad that we were able to reconnect, at least not in the way that we had connected before. Because there was a mutual interest between us. We were, I know, I know. I know. Before we took a trip together, we had spoken to each other, we had FaceTimed each other and you know, we just, we hung out for a weekend and it just didn’t click.
And I had my reasons. She probably had her reasons, but just didn’t work. And, but when she reached out to me, you know, I thanked her. ’cause she could have easily just been like, no, I’m not sending this to him. And I even asked her after the fact, I said, once you realized it could be somebody from the Bachelorette, and once you looked in my, in your phone, if I was still not in your phone, would you have tried to look me up?
And she said, probably not, but I still had your number. So I figured I would send, it would be really easy. I wasn’t gonna go break my back trying to look for you of a way to try and get ahold of you. I was like, fair enough. I I wouldn’t, I, I, I wouldn’t blame you. So it’s just funny how that all came about.
And then she ended up coming to the year, she ended up coming to the party the first year. And you know, I, now that I think about it, it is possible. This was year two of the party. I, I don’t remember. It was either 2015 or 2016. I know the party started in 2015. ’cause we had parties in 20 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
Skipped 20 and 21 and then 2220. Three and 24. Yeah, and those are the eight years we’ve had the party, and this year is the ninth year, so it might’ve been year two of the party kind of irrelevant to the story, but now that I’m thinking about it, it might’ve been year two. Either way, it was year one or year two.
It’s funny how it all came about. It’s funny how that friendship slash relationship all came full circle, and I hope she’s doing well now because she gave me the greatest spoiler I’ve ever had in my life, because I’m never gonna get that again. Like I said, even if I did, I would never post it. I would just tell you, I have video of so and so on the phone spoiling their own season to their family or whoever they were on the phone with.
It was clear Nick was on the phone with family. But you know, you listen to that interview that I did with Nick when I was on his podcast back during COVID and he tried to throw that in my face and. It’s like he again took no responsibility for, for his role in any of it. And the thing is, at that time, if you were in my position, if anybody was in my position, they would’ve done the same exact thing that I did, which is posted.
Anybody would’ve, who the hell would hold onto that? Why wouldn’t I have posted that? The funny thing is, even when I did post it, there were still people out there that didn’t believe it was real, and they said, oh, you were set up. I’m like saying I was set up for, this doesn’t even make any sense. Who would, why would, so you’re telling me someone told Nick to do that?
Someone told it it, it made no sense because at the time I wasn’t telling people who sent me the video. And I guess people were under the impression like, oh, a producer sent that to you. It’s like, for what? So you’re telling me a producer told Nick to say that over the phone, told him we’re gonna record you and send it to reality, Steve, to throw him off.
Well, why would they, let’s just go along with that, that I was duped and I was set up. Why would they send me a video of Nick saying he was basically dumped? Wouldn’t they want me to post wrong information? And if they were telling Nick to do this ’cause they were gonna send it to reality, Steve, you would have Nick on the phone telling his family that he won.
So reality, Steve would have a video of it and would report it. So again, it made no sense at the time. I knew it was legit, but it was just so funny to see how many people online were saying, oh my God, he got, he got duped by production. There’s no way this is real. And it was like even, it just goes to show, even when you show evidence of things.
Facts don’t matter to people anymore, and they didn’t matter back in whatever that was, 20 15, 20 16, when this all went down. It’s people’s own self truths, people’s own narratives of their head is all that matters. And it doesn’t matter if you present them with, well, you think this, but here factually is what really happened.
Here’s this, this, this, this, and this. Here’s the piece of evidence you need to see. Here’s some video, here’s some photos, here’s some audio. And it’s like people can’t say like. Oh shit. I was actually wrong. It’s amazing. It’s amazing to think that here we are in 2025 and that’s still the way most people think.
