I think one of the biggest takeaways from.
What Rachel said on the podcast yesterday and the Morally Corrupt podcast yesterday, if you wanna go listen to it, it starts about the 10 minute mark of when they start talking about Nick and Natalie is her assertion that, you know, these two talk about what’s happening in pop culture. And they don’t just report the news, they opine on it, they give their opinions, but when they become the topic, when they become the story, and this is what I’ve repeated all week.
Nick and Natalie know damn well everybody is reporting on this. It’s not like they are burying their head in the sand and they have no idea anybody’s talking about them. That’s why they can say like, what do you mean people are talking about us? We’re not. We’re not talking about it because I have no idea.
People are talking about us. They know damn well. They’re very well aware that so many content creators are talking about them and saying not only what Natalie said was insensitive, the timing of it was terrible. It made Austin uncomfortable. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, but they’re also now saying like I did this week, why don’t they just apologize?
It’s so simple. This isn’t like, and at no point have I said they need to be canceled. Their podcast needs to be shut down. No. All we’re saying is when you become the story, you report news and all that, all this stuff, and you give your opinions on pop culture stories, but when you now become the story, you can’t address it.
And we’ve gone over this like, I don’t know if Rachel knows, but I’ve given you the reason why Nick and Natalie are not talking about this and not acknowledging the fact that content creators are talking about what they said in their interview to Austin Kroll. It’s ’cause they don’t respect their listeners.
They don’t care. Not to mention they’re all full of themselves. They just are because there’s no other way you wouldn’t, there’s no other reason why you wouldn’t address this. Period. End of story. You don’t respect your listeners enough to say, Hey, you know what those people are saying about us, here’s what we have to say in response.
And these two, this isn’t the first time. It won’t be the last time, but they think because they have a three year, $30 million contract with Lipson and because they get good guess. They feel that if content creators who don’t get the guests that they do and don’t make the money that they do, and don’t draw the downloads that they do, if those content creators are talking about them, if they address those content creators, they feel like they’re punching down.
I’m telling you, that’s the reason Nick has essentially said that in his podcast before because he has called content creators like she’s all batch and myself fan podcasts and whatnot. So he’s basically saying, I’m not gonna address those peasants. Look at me. I’m the king. I’m up here. They’re down there.
If I address what they say about me, every time they have something to say about me, I’m punching down. He doesn’t get it. The lack of self-awareness of Nick Vial is just criminal. He has no clue. He does not know how to read a room. He’s proven it time and time and time again. How many times have I said it?
When it comes to Nick Baal, the hypocrisy is laughable. It is absolutely laughable that this guy has no problem giving other people advice, telling them what they should and shouldn’t do. When they say or do something on a reality show, and he even knows he’s been on 1700 of them. He knows how edited reality shows can be, and he still has very strong opinions when he watches the shows that he covers.
Yet, this was an actual podcast. This wasn’t a reality show. This was real life where his wife said this. 10 minutes into an interview with Austin Kroll. About a 9-year-old sister that died when he was seven. The sister fell off a cliff and Natalie was basically asking it to him. Like Rachel said, was she seeing this info for the first time?
If it is, yes, it was insensitive, but as a podcast host, that’s your fucking job. How do you not know? It’s okay. I’ve forgotten things. You’ve heard me when I’ve interviewed guests. Sometimes I’ve forgotten. Like, oh, you did this. Oh, I didn’t know that. But it’s not something as big as, oh my God, wait a second.
Your brother died when he was nine. I had no idea. And if I missed, if I ever did something like that and I messed up that bad, I would’ve been apologizing the very next day saying, that’s my bad. I should have done my research. I, I’d be pissed at myself. Natalie can say what she wants about what the audience is thinking of her right now.
She should be upset with herself because she looks like a fool in that interview because your job as a podcast host is to know something that big, and it just seems like almost that there’s your proof that these two don’t really care about their guests because. Natalie was seemingly reading that off a cue card or off notes given to her by her producers saying, Hey, Austin had a sister that died when she was nine and a cliff was involved.
I just can’t believe you’d be that insensitive to not even bother to do research on your guests on a topic that thick. Like if she misquoted something or she told a wrong story about something that happened on fucking southern charm. Okay, we’ve all done that because we can’t remember every single thing.
That happens on these reality shows. But this is a personal story. That was a very big story that he’s clearly told on Southern Charm that I’ve heard people say he’s told this story before. So kind of proves that Nick and Natalie don’t even watch Southern Charm ’cause they’ve never heard him tell this story because she acted like she had never heard this.
You’ve never heard this guy? I mean, I haven’t, ’cause I’ve never watched Southern Charm. That was the first time I ever heard. That Austin Kroll lost his sister at the age of nine when she fell off a cliff. It’s just, as Rachel said, it’s a lack of respect for the industry to have a podcast guest on and not know something that deep.
You screw up something that, oh, I didn’t know this aired in episode two of your season. Okay, we’ve all done that. This totally, totally disrespectful. This podcast is brought to you by Ali. If you know my dog, Luca, she’s my best friend. She’s my favorite roommate I’ve ever had No shade to any former roommates.
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And. And I was just, when I, when I was reading you the lyrics earlier this week, or maybe it was the end of last week, I was like, this is just weird coming from somebody who’s now a mother and and has got four kids. Like why is she singing about stuff that you would expect this to be from someone in their early to mid twenties that has gone through heartbreak?
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I’m confused. She’s a mother, she’s got children. Why is she talking singing Like she’s a 23-year-old single woman who just went through a heartbreak with somebody that she was living with. Well, she put out on Instagram yesterday. Roommates is a song about when life is Lifeing babe. Aw. Thank you for calling me babe.
It’s the ache for a wilder freer time. Before the days were swallowed by carpools, budget talks, grocery runs, and letting old or new insecurities slip in. It’s the restless hum of wanting to find your way back to your rhythm, to your person, to your self. Roommates out now. So we’re gonna listen to the 30 seconds, along with, I mean, you can’t see the video, but 30 seconds that she posted.
On her Instagram yesterday, and this has a definite, distinct sound to it.
I wish that I could catch you in the right light. I only want, I don’t want the end, the part where you see God. Look at the You and Wake Uplights. 10 butterflies.
Okay, I’m sorry. That is an absolute banger and it’s literally Taylor Swift. Like, what if I played you that? And I said, this is Taylor Swift’s new single. It’d be like, yeah, I hear it. Like it totally sounds like a Taylor Swift knockoff song, or it sounds like something you would hear on midnights. You know, even sounds like anti-hero, doesn’t it?
Almost the same beat, whatever that song is. A banger, absolutely downloaded it last night. Have listened to it a few times. Okay. I’ll admit, I have watched the video every single time I’ve listened to it because, well, Hillary Duff is in it. She’s in a very yellow dress and she’s having water dumped on her, or it’s like raining on her the whole.
Video. Yeah, I’ll admit it. She’s hot. We, I’ve said this for years. Top five for me. With that said, I do like the song and I do like it because it’s very Taylor Swift dish and you know how much I love Taylor Swift. That’s the type of music that I listen to. I know it’s weird, so I’ve told you today I listened to Hillary Duff.
Obviously, you know I’m a Taylor Swift fan. Grease two, the live rewatch happening tonight. You’ll be getting the singing those songs pitch perfect. Like what is wrong with me? I’m certainly not the demo for Hillary Duff Music, grease Two and Pitch Perfect. But here I am, proud and loud. Anyway, thank you all for listening.
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Episodes four and five. Recap of the Traders, and then eight o’clock tonight on my Patreon, patreon.com/reality. Steve, a live Grease two rewatch. I will see you there. Have a great weekend everybody, and I’ll talk to you Monday.
