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. A good show for you today, and I’m finally going to address what a lot of you have emailed me about, and that is the Nick and Natalie interview with Austin Kroll that happened last week.
If you’ve been on social media, whether it’s Instagram or TikTok, you have seen a ton of content creators call them out for their behavior and their interviewing of Austin Kroll, mostly Natalie. Nick is an accomplice in this, and I’ll give you my thoughts on it. Also, we’ve got some news regarding Survivor 50 and Survivor Seasons one to 49.
We’ll discuss that. Also, I have something to read in regards to the traders episodes one to three, so there will be spoilers talked about. I didn’t bring this up yesterday. I didn’t even bring it up Friday, but I have seen this on social media since Friday. And it’s something that I didn’t pick up on in the first three episodes, and somebody has a theory about something that possibly could have happened, and we’ll go over that as well.
So let’s get started. A lot of you have reached out to me since last week and have asked for my thoughts on Nick and Natalie interviewing Austin Kroll from. Southern charm. Like I don’t watch Southern charm, but I’ve seen enough content creators cover this. I have since read his story and I’m kind of caught up in the thing that is upsetting most people.
So for those that don’t know, Austin Kroll went on. Nick and Natalie’s podcast, the AL Files last week, and about 10 minutes into the interview, I’m sure you’ve all seen the clip by now. Natalie just does a 180 and goes completely off course and asks him about his sister. His sister that died when she was nine years old and he was seven.
And from everything I can gather, he witnessed it ’cause she fell. And everyone, and this isn’t for before anybody says, well Steve, of course you hate Nick, so of course you’re gonna get on him for this. And that’s not it at all. All you need to do is open up TikTok and Google, Nick and Natalie, Austin Kroll, and you will see how many people online are saying, you know, to cancel the vial FOD Vial Files podcast.
And Nick and Natalie should be canceled. Look, I’m not calling for anybody to be canceled because I don’t really know how that’s going to happen. Was it handled poorly? 1000%. I don’t know what the hell Natalie was thinking going into that line of questioning. 10 minutes into the interview you even saw Austin and how uncomfortable he got.
He’s like, oh, we’re, we’re just jumping right into this, aren’t we? And she even admitted, I don’t know about your sister, or, I didn’t realize this about your sister. It’s like, maybe you should, he’s your fucking guest. Anyway.
Every time something happens with those two regarding a podcast, something they said or something they did. I mean, you can take their nick before Natalie even entered the picture. You know Nick’s interview with me. You know them calling out Blake Horseman for sharing texts. Him and Natalie do the same exact thing when they had an issue with Katie Thurston, or him not doing any research on Gary Turner’s ex-wife and making an ill-advised comment about her death or the mom shaming of Whitney Levitt, or now the incentive interview with Austin Kroll.
Like I could go on and on and on. You know this, those are just four instances, five instances just off the top of my head and. Here’s the main issue that I have with it. Was it a bad look? Absolutely. Are they gonna get canceled because of it and the vial files is gonna go away as a podcast? No, it’s not gonna happen.
You could complain to every single advertiser on their podcast. They’re not going anywhere, unfortunately. I’m not saying they should lose their job. What I’m saying is I appreciate the content creators calling him out. And calling her out the bigger issue. And every time I have talked about Nick on my podcast, I have always said, look, he does what he does.
I just let him do his thing and he continues to put his foot in his mouth. So as long as he’s gonna continue to put his foot in his mouth, he shows you who he is. And Natalie, seemingly in recent weeks. Has shown you who she is. Oh yeah. How can I even forget one of the more egregious stories they ever told where Natalie was reading, somebody who was sitting in front of her on a plane reading their text, complaining about how loud their daughter river was.
And then Nick saying, let River do whatever she wants just to be mad at, and just to piss off the person in front of them like that is elitist fucking behavior. And to think and to tell that story. To the public thinking it would get people on their side. I, it’s just the lack of self-awareness from these two is kind of mind blowing, considering how popular their podcast is.
You can say what you want, you know, I’m not a fan of this guy, but I’m very well aware. He’s got an insanely popular podcast. We can sit here and debate why he does, but he does. I can admit that it has nothing to do with any sort of professional jealousy that I have with Nick. I don’t. I don’t like Nick for the way he has treated me personally.
I will point out when he screws up on his podcast, but here’s the biggest thing and the biggest issue that I have with Nick for all these screw ups and all the times that he has been called out by myself, by other content creators for things that they have said on their podcast. As far as I know, not one time have him or his wife ever come back on the podcast and said, Hey guys, you know what?
We overstepped our bounds there. You know what? We screwed up. We apologize. And that is just so much more to who they are as people and podcast hosts than the screw up itself because we’re all allowed to screw up. Everybody screws up. Granted, they probably screw up more than most podcasters and put their foot in their mouth way more than other podcasters.
Hell, I just gave you six instances. In the beginning of this podcast until now of times where they could easily have said, dammit, you know what that was, that was on us. Our bad. We shouldn’t have said that. We shouldn’t have done that. We apologize. But as far as I know, these two have never, ever come out after the fact.
Trust me, Nick and Natalie, as much as they claim or we don’t talk about those content creators, they’re insignificant. As much as they say that they’re very well aware of what’s being said about them right now, about the Austin Kroll interview, it’s everywhere. There’s no way those two don’t know what’s being said about them, and that’s the most infuriating part because it’s not that hard to apologize.
It’s not that hard to admit a mistake. It’s not that hard to say, Hey, you know what? Hell, even if they do it privately to Austin, I don’t think they would. You don’t have to do it publicly because they’re so ego driven by doing it publicly now they’re drawing attention to the fact that, oh my gosh, we were insensitive during an interview.
And now more people are gonna see it or ask, why did we apologize for something they might not have seen in the first place? And that’s just the wrong line of thinking, and that’s probably one of my biggest issues with them. Personal stuff aside. I don’t like the way Nick has talked to me in the past. I have the proof of it still on my phone.
Yeah, it was years ago, but somebody treats you like shit years ago, you’re gonna remember it, and you just don’t wanna be in that person’s life whatsoever. I have no reason to talk to Nick. Nick has no reason to talk to me, but I’m allowed to form an opinion on the way I was treated by him. And I’m not even talking about the interview I did with him.
I’m talking about stuff that happened between us personally during a text conversation on a couple of occasions. I just don’t like the guy. Period. End of story. I don’t like the way he talks to people. I don’t like the way he treats people. So that’s one issue. And then there’s this issue where we’ve talked about issues that have come up.
The Blake Horseman stuff, the Gary Turner stuff, mom shaming of Whitney. Now this Austin interview them talking about pissing somebody off in front of them on a flight. I, I just don’t understand how they can’t come back after the fact when they know people are talking about this. And just admit wrongdoing, admit you screwed up.
Admit you said something that maybe you shouldn’t have said. That’s all. That’s all anyone’s asking. And you know what? They’re not gonna do it. This Austin story has been out there for four or five days. I don’t know Nick’s podcast schedule, but I’m guessing they’ve released a podcast since then, right?
Did they address it? My guess would be no. And if they don’t address it on their first podcast back from since the one or first podcast that they have recorded since the Austin interview, if they haven’t addressed it, they’re never gonna address it. And I think to me, that speaks volumes of the type of people that they are.
They think they’re above you. They think they’re above their audience. They think they’re above all the content creators just because of. The contract that they’ve signed with Libson, the fact that they do get really good guests. They get big names in the reality TV and the celebrity world. Yeah, they do.
But for some reason that has inflated their brain to think that they’re better than anyone else who doesn’t interview those people. It’s clear as day hell. They’ve even said it on podcasts. They have thought other content creators are insignificant. I just wanna point that out. Every single time they do something like this, they know they’re getting called out by a bunch of people online, but considering those people in their mind are below them, they feel like, well, if we address what people below us are saying about us, then we’re punching down.
No, no, no, no, no. These people are openly, they’re not just hating just to hate. If somebody is just calling nicknames or Natalie names, that’s stupid. That’s dumb. They’re giving a fact-based reason about why they’re upset with something that you did. Criticism, not hate, criticism. And they can’t deal with any sort of criticism.
Just come out and say, you know what? Our Austin interview, we’ve seen what people have said. We went back and watched it. And you know what? Maybe that wasn’t the way to go. Maybe we should have handled it a little bit differently. Maybe we should have waited till 30 minutes into the interview, 45 minutes into the interview, an hour in.
Maybe we should have given Austin a heads up before the interview started that at some point we were going to bring up the death of his sister at nine years old. I don’t know. But anything is better what they’re doing than what they’re doing now, which is seemingly ignoring it. But this is who they are and let’s be perfectly honest with each other right now.
That interview was five days ago at the time of this recording. No apology has happened, so to me. Even though it’s getting major run now, and Natalie and Nick both know they’re being called out for how they treated Austen in that interview. Even an apology right now by Natalie and or Nick, whether it’s publicly or on their Instagram, or they cover it on their next podcast, whatever, I’m sorry, means nothing, and it’s too late because it’s been six days now since that podcast aired.
They know damn well it’s out there and what people are saying. And if it takes you six days to respond just to say, you know what? We screwed up, then to me, they’re not sorry. They’re sorry that they’re getting called out. That’s what they’re sorry for. Choose to listen to them or not. But just know who you’re dealing with.
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