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Chapter 1: What insights does Austen Kroll share about his time on Southern Charm?
What are you doing here? It's time to leave. It is known that it has been a good holiday when you feel like going into hiding. Under the sun. So that you don't have to leave yet. Lomiajoiden et soisi loppuvan.
I have a question. Yeah. Do you have air in here? I understand that I'm wearing like a chunky ass sweater. No, we do. And I totally could take it off.
No, we do.
Oh, I feel it immediately in the back of my neck. This is heaven. Why didn't I have this going?
That's just our system blowing on you back there.
For anyone watching, he is not sweating because of our roasting.
No, I'm sweating because it's physically actually hot in here.
Austin, welcome to the Vile Files.
In the flesh.
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Chapter 2: How does Austen Kroll view his relationships with cast members?
So have you checked in with him? Is he alive and well? Of course.
Shep is fine. Shep is en route back to the States.
Okay, good. Well, I mean, one, again, I'm excited to have you on. I've been looking forward to having the three of you on. All three individually. I'm fans of all you guys. It's funny. When I saw you at BravoCon, it was my first BravoCon. I was really fascinated. But I feel, and a lot of the Bravo fans I talk to, you three really... seem to have your own unique audience.
A lot of men like Southern Charm because they relate to the three of you. And I feel like you guys, for better or worse, depending on what the audience thinks about you guys, I feel like you guys represent heterosexuality on Bravo Reality TV.
Well, I appreciate you saying that. I think that's a really nice thing to say. I mean... There's so much to say about that where we all three are so different. We're the definition of like the Spider-Man meme. Like we're all pointing at one another. Like you do that more than me. No, you do that. And like, we all do that to each other. We all call up one another when the other one fucks up.
For some reason, we'd love to tell the third person who's not involved in the fuck up about the other one's fuck up.
So we've seen.
Yeah. And, and you have no idea, you know, and, and it, it is great that I have buddies who work in all sorts of fields and, who will call me and be like, look, man, watching this show just reminds me of the drama that I have with a friend of mine. It's just not on TV.
And let's not forget that Mr. Jon Hamm gave us very high praise a season ago talking about how he loved Jarm because it's kind of about the guys. And no offense to all the wonderful women on our show. Those are Jon Hamm's words.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Austen face with commitment in relationships?
Solid friends.
Yeah. Yeah.
you know and and uh and so obviously that was nine years ago so um and and that's kind of how it happens right i mean everyone needs like a like a point of contact into the group right because it's not like okay cool this person is beautiful but they don't know anybody so not not referring to myself of course
But, you know, it like has to be some sort of degree of separation, of course, from the other group. And yeah, that was an interesting time because you look back, Charm now is so different from, I mean, it always changes, right? But back then, you look at the cast of characters that were on the show then and now, crazy. I mean, every single person is gone except for Shep and Craig.
Yeah, every time they do a flashback, I'm always like, oh, yeah.
I mean... I forgot about this. And talk about like a daunting cast of people to jump into the deep end with, you know? I mean, Catherine and Thomas and Cameron, they're all, you know, larger than life personalities. And I'm like, I don't know what the hell is going on. So... It's like at that time, it was basically like, thank God for Chelsea Meisner because she was like my life raft.
Yeah.
What were you doing before you did all the TV stuff? Yeah. I was a beer rep. And so you saw that for me. So I was a territory sales manager. for the southeast of a brewery based out of Atlanta. So I wanted to be in the beer game. And then when the season aired and all these people being like, oh, maybe we want to try this beer. I was like, why am I hawking someone else's product?
I should create my own. Like, whoa, my eyes are open. But got into the beer game, Nick, because Wisconsin. I lived in Wisconsin, as I told you prior to jumping on here. And I became like a beer nerd to the max. So beer for me, I was like, all right, let's try and figure out something in the beer game. And that's what I was doing prior in Charleston. Okay.
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Chapter 4: How has Austen's past affected his current friendships?
And it's not if, I mean, it did, right? So like what I take back, the video of me and my boxers yelling Madison's name over and over. Yeah, I would, but maybe that had to happen in order for Madison and I'd be great friends today. Right. I mean, I don't know. It's, it's all.
No, I mean, that is true though. Right. Like if you ask any rad TV star, you know, no regrets, like everyone has them. Yeah. But to your point, you don't get to pick and choose, which is why whatever we think of the networks or the producers who make these TV shows, they know what they're doing. They're professionals. They're not as these evil wizards that so many fans make them out to be.
Yeah. Quickly jumping out of Southern Charm, I'm sure we're going to jump right back into it. But going into your childhood, I didn't know this about your sister passing at nine.
Okay. We are switching gears.
Sorry. And you obviously don't have to answer if you don't. My question is, how old were you when that happened?
Seven.
You were seven. Yeah. How did your family keep, because you're obviously so close to your family today, your parents and Katie, how did your family keep y'all together during that time?
One word, Katie.
Really?
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Chapter 5: What does Austen reveal about his experiences with loss and family dynamics?
That's Katie always acknowledges Kyle and always, you know, refers to her as, you know, my sister, Kyle and things like that. I mean, always talks about it, you know, never refers to it as like, you know, your, your sister or things like that. And honestly, I've never asked her that question. I'm sure that she does have a relationship in a way with my sister. That's fascinating.
Were you there when she fell? Yeah. You were? Yeah. What was this cliff?
I... see to talk about, you know, the town, it just got, you know, man, white wiped off the map by a hurricane. And there was no love loss with, with my family on that one. So I, I won't even say the name of the town for terms of, but there was no love lost with it. And, And yeah, I don't know.
How did you, I mean, and just, and we can move on, but like, how did you personally deal over the years with that tragedy? And has it been something throughout your life you have had to like revisit in a way of dealing with it where you've, you know, have you felt it creep up and affect you in different ways throughout your life?
Well, my therapist would say so. Okay. I don't know if... I don't know if anyone who's watching this podcast has noticed over the last nine years of my tenure on Bravo that I'm a bit of a commitment foe. And I think that my therapist thinks it's not tough to notice. And I think that my therapist would attribute it partly to that.
And part of me is like, oh, that's so low hanging fruit to blame it on losing my sister. But she's not the only one who's brought this to my attention. And so I think Maybe it had, you know, I'm not going to blame shitty past behavior and the passing of my sister, but commitment issues potentially could be.
Prior to your time on reality TV, what was the longest relationship you've ever had?
It's been capped at like a year and a half to two years. Okay. Two years. That's not nothing. It's not nothing. No. Yeah. It just gets to the point for me. What do you mean? It gets to the point for me where like not to sound like a... You know, but like, oh my gosh, you know, forever. Big, big, long, scary term.
Like the get married or break up.
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Chapter 6: How does Austen Kroll navigate the pressures of reality TV?
So it was like almost my twenties were like my thirties almost like flipped around in a way. But is there any part, I guess for me, I stay, I was single for so long because after my twenties, I was like, okay, well I know what I like and I know what I don't like. And when I was 20, I just would like fall in love and just like, it felt good. And so you just did it.
And I was a lot more pragmatic and I was maybe a little more cynical and that i i didn't know how to like fall in love or like lock in with someone so i never really i didn't even get to a relationship past four months in my 30s like before i dated natalie i was just
But like, by the way, I think that now looking back at all the things that I've gone through, like that is almost better than like locking in for like a year and a half and then going through a way more hard, a harder breakup. Right.
At least like a four months or three months or, you know, whatever you're like, Hey, sorry, uh, I'm not, you know, willing to go the distance or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, I don't know how, you know, relationships of yours ended. Tragically. Yeah, well, they basically all do, right? Unless they end in, you know, the ring on the finger. But, like, I don't know. I don't know.
Do you, well, given that, like, the way you described it, that you kind of almost get to a panic mode, do you have any, like, one, do you have one that got away?
So I definitely can point to the like big blow up messy like love that that everyone has. And they're like, I'm never gonna do that again. Right. I can point to that one. You know, that's Madison. And then, you know, I don't know if this is like a cop out because it just happened, but I was at such a peace with myself, with my most recent girlfriend.
And she provided a very safe and healthy space. She wasn't a part of this world at all and liked it that way. And she let me live the life that I want to live. She wasn't
you know what are you doing tonight where are you who are you with there was none of that it was all just and it was up to me to not be like a shitty boyfriend right and so i don't know if i can point to that and say that that definitively is the one that got away but up up to this point that would be that that's like why did you guys break up were you broken up before the season started airing no no because was she pissed that it looked like you hated her
She's she I just recently not to divulge and to drag her into this and things that she doesn't deserve. But I certainly just thought that I was having some conversations that normal people would have like a year and a half in about where the relationship could potentially be going. Hey, you don't like, she doesn't live here. So, so what's going to happen?
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Chapter 7: What are Austen's thoughts on Shep and Taylor's relationship dynamics?
Let's go. Where's the arc? Come on, dude. You know, the like IDK answer does not work. Right. And so that's kind of what began to happen. And I thought that I was just having open conversations with a few close people about what the future could, you know, look like and what my reservations were about the future. And yeah,
bam dive in let's crack that armor open and really really try to this up i used to always think like when i was single in my 30s and i moved out to la and i was living at a buddy's place i was dating and i'm you know i'm post bachelor era i'm like in my where i was probably around your age maybe a little younger and so i in my mind i'm i'm like dating with the intention of meeting someone to you know eventually settle down
But I was also sleeping on an air mattress. And I was taking improv classes in LA. And for the first time in my life, I didn't have this steady paycheck. You wanted to be an actor?
Yeah. I am an actor.
Ah, yes. One more?
No.
Eye on. Okay. Stars of the KFox.
Yeah.
Okay. No, but yeah. So like, and then I just remember at the time as I got more established in the, in this kind of post bachelor world where I was like, you know, I'm just, I was just trying to make it. I realized that, That there was zero chance that I was actually going to like be anyone's boyfriend at that time.
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Chapter 8: What future plans does Austen have for his personal and professional life?
what, like, what is my, like, how do I break the cycle and date and not make the same mistakes that I have in the past? And how do I keep it going forward? Kind of thing. So, I just feel like if I were to meet somebody, right? I mean, everyone's got the honeymoon phase, but then what happens when that honeymoon phase ends? Like that's a big thing to think about, right?
Because then you're like, okay, you know, like all the things that happen in the honeymoon phase, I don't have to list them out are like, Not as like electric, you know, anymore. Right. And all these things, it's just all these things. And maybe you're right. Maybe what I told myself is that I do want a person that I look at with like awe. And I'm like, ah, right. Say that we're at like a party.
I see that person across the room. I'm like, that is my person right there. She is. Look at her. She's, she's mine, you know, and not just, you know, beauty, but like, and all these things. Right. And maybe I just haven't, you know, I had one-on-one end of the spectrum. It was, mean as hell to me. And I ate it up like with a fork and knife.
And, uh, and, and I just want to find someone maybe who's like, you know, in the middle of what I've dated perhaps. Okay. If, if that answered the question that you asked, sorry, but there's no right or wrong.
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