The Viall Files
E946 - Love Island USA IS BACK w/ Trey Kennedy, The Valley, Next Gen NYC Premiere, and Vrbo Horror Stories
Thu, 05 Jun 2025
Welcome back to The Viall Files: Reality Recap! LOVE ISLAND USA IS BACK BABY!!! And we could not be more excited. We welcome comedian, Trey Kennedy, to get into bombshells entering the villa, steamy makeouts, and more! Meanwhile, we get into the most recent episode of The Valley where Nick shares his experience of Jasmine on his season of The Bachelor, and the premiere of Next Gen NYC. Is it the next Vanderpump Rules? The spiritual successor to HBO’s Girls, even? We discuss. Also, Nick and Natalie start off the episode with their nightmare experience with Vrbo. You certainly will not want to miss this one… “It feels like summer is here when the islanders show up!” Subscribe to The ENVY Media Newsletter Today: https://www.viallfiles.com/newsletter OUT NOW! Listen to Humble Brag with Cynthia Bailey and Crystal Kung Minkoff. Available wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@humblebragpod https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humble-brag-with-crystal-and-cynthia/id1774286896 Start your 7 Day Free Trial of Viall Files + here: https://viallfiles.supportingcast.fm/ Please make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode and as always send in your relationship questions to [email protected] to be a part of our Monday episodes. Follow us on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheViallFiles Listen To Disrespectfully now! Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disrespectfully/id1516710301 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0J6DW1KeDX6SpoVEuQpl7z?si=c35995a56b8d4038 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCh8MqSsiGkfJcWhkan0D0w To Order Nick’s Book Go To: http://www.viallfiles.com If you would like to get some texting advice on Office Hours send an email to [email protected] with “Texting Office Hours” in the subject line! To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected] or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/theviallfiles THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Mack Weldon - Give your closet a breath of fresh air for spring. Go to https://mackweldon.com and get 25% off your first order of $125 or more, with promo code VIALL. Wayfair - Don’t wait! Make your outdoor space your dream oasis TODAY with Wayfair, and enjoy it all summer long. Head to https://wayfair.com right now to shop a huge outdoor selection. Mint Mobile - This year, skip breaking a sweat AND breaking the bank. Get your summer savings and shop premium wireless plans at https://mintmobile.com/viall Tonal - For a limited time, go to https://tonal.com to get FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS OFF your Tonal purchase plus a FREE FOUR-YEAR WARRANTY. Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (10:20) - Horror Story (20:43) - Daily Dilemma (27:39) - Household Headlines (38:31) - Mormon Wives Takes with Trey (43:28) - Love Island Recap (01:07:43) - The Valley (01:26:15) - Next Gen NYC (01:30:50) - Outro Episode Socials: @viallfiles @nickviall @nnataliejjoy @treynkennedy @ciaracrobinson @justinkaphillips @leahgsilberstein @dereklanerussell
Chapter 1: What happened during their night in Vancouver?
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What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the Vile Files Reality Recap Edition. I'm your host, Nick, and we are back in Vancouver. Natalie is asleep.
Sorry, we had a crazy night last night.
We're drama.
What happened last night? We're drama. Drama follows us. Yeah, we're drama. We want to be so simple and meek.
Yeah.
And it just doesn't allow for us.
Yeah. We just want to be easy to be around, easy to work with, you know, which I feel like we are.
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Chapter 2: What is the horror story with Vrbo?
Yeah.
Well, we finished our we finished our work day yesterday. A busy day. We finished a little late. So we were going from Whistler to Vancouver. We had my mom, we had River, Nick and I. It's like a two-hour drive, hour and 45-minute drive.
We have to set the stage a little bit. We were planning on coming and making the commute earlier, but a last-minute work-dinner got scheduled and it was important for us to be there. And so we made the executive decision to delay our commute, which by the way, it just reminds me, I think I've told you this story before, but like- The butterfly effect. No, not that one.
Okay.
But- I just like, you know, and when we tell the story... Nick's quickly changing his story.
Not that one.
Sorry. No, I'm on no sleep. Anyways, I'm glad I get to do life with you and I'm glad that we work together and we do everything together. I mean, that's... You know, listen, when I remember being a young, young man, I was in my early twenties and one of my uncles is a very successful businessman, right? And he was kind of like my, you know, professional role model.
And my first girlfriend, you know, drama, drama, drama. We broke up, got back to the girl, broke up, got back together. And one of our breakups, I was like sulking. And my, my aunt came up to me and she was like trying to basically like talk shit about her in the nicest possible way and trying to convince me to like move on.
And she knew I was like, aspired to, you know, be successful in business and be like my uncle and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And she was just like, listen, you're going to need a partner who like, can like be by your side at like very important dinners. She's like, if you want to be successful in business, you're going to, you know, it's a lot about like networking.
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Chapter 3: What insights do they share about Love Island USA?
You know, there's, it's not the middle of nowhere. There's, you know, there's, Traffic, you know, pretty regular traffic, even at 10 o'clock at night. Does no one need gas?
It was crazy that they turned off the gas pumps. I've never seen that before.
There's no open gas station in 20 miles, at least. Yeah.
Anyways, there's like a there's this there's this one that I like look up and I'm like, OK, this one is is two miles away. So we go to this one and it's like it's like this is like some construction site. Like, I don't know what the hell this is, but like this isn't a gas station.
Like lights are off. It's pitch black. I'm like, I'm not getting out of the car here.
Did y'all ever feel like you were in a horror movie while- Yes.
Oh my God, yes. Oh my God, this was horror movie. This was absolutely horror.
Slasher was going to come out of the woods.
I'm on the edge of my seat. I'm like prepared for a jump scare. Oh, it gets worse.
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Chapter 4: What are the highlights from The Valley?
In a verbo.
That's not a real word. It's not a real word.
For those of you, it's not an Airbnb. It's like an Airbnb. You know, it's like a, not a hotel. Yeah.
You're like renting someone's apartment or something. And after we had been in obviously a hotel for two weeks, we were like, we'd really love to like have a kitchen and be able to cook our daughter breakfast and lunch. And so we ended up not going for a hotel and going for this rental house.
I'm already nervous because my team sends me like photographs, a QR code, all like pages of instructions of like, and it's, you know, I'm like, we're going to be getting there at 1230 a.m. And I'm already like this. This is this is going to this. This is going to be a problem.
The photos have like arrows of like which street to turn down. It's like this is going to. Yeah, we're in for a doozy. No. That's never good when they have pages of instructions.
I'm not booking.
And anytime there's a QR code, I'm like, I don't trust a QR code. Give me some digits. Give me a password. Yeah. Give me a lockbox with a key.
I want an old fashioned lock. I want a key.
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Chapter 5: What happened during the Next Gen NYC premiere?
And she's going in waves of, hey... It's 6 a.m. I'm in a great mood to screaming like she's ever screamed before.
Yeah. So we finally get a hold of someone on Nick's team named Amanda. God bless her sweet soul. She, I guess, had woken up to one of our calls. Technically, she's my manager. So obviously, my manager would answer because she was definitely the most helpful of the group. Yeah.
Shout out, Amanda.
So she woke up, she answered our call, she saw our pleas, and she was like, oh, I have the code. Okay, here's the code. This is what you need. Use this QR code to get into the garage. We find the garage. We're scanning this QR code, and it's not working.
Chapter 6: What struggles did they face while traveling?
Not working.
To get into the garage. Aww. Those never work. That's the name. It never works.
Thankfully, someone is coming out of the garage. So we were able to get in the garage. And I'm like, okay, I don't know. Maybe it was just the outside. Well, to get into the building requires the same QR code. And that thing did not work.
So now it's 1 a.m. and we're standing scanning this QR code 20 minutes over and over and over. And it's just flashing red lights. So he's on the phone with Amanda. He's like, this isn't working. She's like, I'm getting a hold of someone at Verbo. Like, I have to call you back. No, she's not. She's on hold. No one's picking up at Verbo. Everyone is asleep.
So finally, I'm like, we've just got to find a hotel. Like at this point, it's 1 a.m. River's getting like she's done. She's over it. We have an early morning. Like, let's just find a hotel. So Nick finds we were staying at the Fairmont Whistler. So he's like, OK, here's a Fairmont in Vancouver. Let's just go there. So we go there. All the doors are shut. It's all black.
They have like signs in front of the doors. We're like, this is a hotel, right? You can't shut the doors. Like, what if we went out for dinner? How do we get back in? So finally, we find like the back parking lot and all the doors are locked. And it has a big sign that says at this time, only registered guests can enter the hotel.
Like press a button for the doorman. He comes out. He's like, yeah, I'm sorry. We're sold out. You're crazy.
So then I call every hotel. in the city of Vancouver, and every hotel is booked up.
Vancouver, you're popping off. Popping off. You are booked and busy. The weather is nice. People are coming to Vancouver. Congratulations to the Tourism Board of Vancouver. Truly. You're crushing it. You're absolutely crushing it.
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Chapter 7: How did they handle their experience with the rental?
It's like I will say I got a text from Natalie at 11 p.m. And I was like, oh, what is going on?
Do you get a refund for the for the rental?
Working on it.
You didn't even use it. OK. Yeah.
Working on it. Working on it. They right now have a no refund policy. Well, of course.
Oh, you would imagine they'd also have a an access policy. We allow our guests into into their rental policy, but they don't have that 100 percent guarantee.
We check into our hotel in this crisis and like I'm trying to like I almost feel like I have to explain to the guy like why we're in this pickle. You know, like, am I just a bad dad? You know, did we not plan for this? Like, how did we just show up and be like in a panic, need a hotel room in the middle of the fucking night? So I'm like, we couldn't get into our our our Verbo.
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Chapter 8: What are the plans for upcoming episodes?
He's like, yeah, that's a thing here.
We get a lot of those. Right. See, this is why you need a company with a real name. You've got to use a word that exists or else it's not going to work. What is Verbo?
So true. Yeah.
Anyways, other than that, we do have a great episode lined up for y'all today.
We do. Trey Kennedy is with us. You may follow him online. He's a pretty funny dude. Anyways, he loves reality TV and he's going to break down episode one of Love Island. It's good to be back, Islanders. It really is. Summer has begun.
It really takes me back. I talked about this the other day on my TikTok of like nostalgia and that feeling. And honestly, like watching Love Island takes me back to the lake house in that room that we'd stay in with that massive TV that like your parents took from some other room and put in there.
And we would it was like summer and it was hot outside and we would get in bed and watch Love Island and you'd fall asleep and I'd keep going like it took me back and I'm excited to be back.
Obviously, the intros are really fun. I don't know what they spend on all these licensing for music, but I'm so appreciative that Peacock makes that investment because it just makes it fun when you have all these mixes and soundtracks tied to these cast members. Obviously, it's episode one, so you're 40 minutes in and you're still getting to know people.
But boy, once they get going, they get going. It's just like, oh, and we're making out. Yes. This is great. We'll get into it more later. We got any headlines?
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