Episode 11: Mullet Time w/ Kyle Cooke
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Craig, you and I have so many things kind of going on in our heads about what we are doing and what we need to do. I mean, gosh, we want like a fleet of limos now, apparently. I mean, and now Craig wants a country music concert. What would you call it? What would you call your Coachella? Craig-a-chella? No, I don't like using my name and stuff. You should see, I just took...

probably two hours to pick a screen name for PlayStation only to find that I could not change my gamer tag.

Oh, so five hours later, Paige is like, are you still on this? Yeah. Imagine taking like a gummy and trying to do that. You'd be sitting there for hours. Yeah. You'd be sitting there like, what? Right now it's like X underscore charmer underscore X. And I was like, I made that like in 2015. So anyone out there who's boyfriends or who themselves are husbands or whatever,

Play games. Find Craig because he just got a new system. A PS5? Yeah. Be on the lookout. X underscore charmer underscore 69 69. Yeah. Oh, God. You should see the names I'm trying to change it to. I've got a list. But.

I yeah that song just made me really happy but hey guys we've got Kyle Cook coming on tonight which is really exciting Austin just uh watched got kind of hooked on a show you just told me yeah um we're definitely gonna talk about it with Kyle but uh Traders uh Kyle obviously texted us was like yo you know you guys should watch the and I've been meaning to I really have been meaning to and and Craig and I are um

Greg and I are kind of interesting where we don't really like to watch reality TV because we know what goes on and it makes, you know, quite literally my skin crawl, you know, when I watch it. But but, you know, this is different. And it was cool because there were so many people from like Survivor and Bachelor and Big Brother and this and then like a couple of Bravo friends watching.

And obviously, you know, seeing Kyle, I was like, all right, I'm rooting for my boy. Yeah. See, that's fun. So I would love to watch people we know in a competition show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like, it's a weird sort of competition show, right? Because it's not like, okay, you won the challenge. So you, you get like immunity. It's the trader. Yeah. We'll get into it. We'll totally get into it. But I didn't really understand it when I began to watch it. And then I put it on pause and I went to dinner with my parents and

Then I came home to grab my car keys to drive here, and it was on pause, Craig. And I was like, well, let me just watch five minutes of it. And then I pressed on pause, and then I sat down for 15 minutes. I was like, I got to go. I got to go. I got to get out of here. So I paused it in the middle of episode two. So that's kind of how I feel about it. We hope you're enjoying the YouTube channel. This is us actually being like, wait, if we're recording ourselves, we need to.

No, definitely. We can't like hide behind a radio. You know, we were definitely radio people where we were like blowing our nose on mute and God knows what. And then I saw the videos and just how shitty that I looked on like my computer camera. And I was like, okay, if we're going to be putting this stuff on YouTube, I'm coming to Craig's house. I just, I'm changing before Kyle comes on. I just saw a fucking flip flop song. Yeah. I've been doing so good with it. But like,

You're in your house. Right. And it's fine. But now on camp. Oh, because I don't like walking on the floors yet because it's still like reminds me of construction. Okay. Okay. But why don't you get like a really comfy pair of slippers? So I got them for Christmas. My mom got me two pairs of Uggs. That's what I do. My feet get too hot.

My feet get too hot. See, I'm the kind of guy that wears socks to bed. Really? Yeah. Really? Not like intentionally, but you know, sometimes I'm like, I don't know, man. I said really intentionally.

Like, I wear hoodies to bed, socks. You wrap yourself in a blanket. I wrap myself in a blanket, you know, sometimes, like, and lie, like, on top of the covers. Is the phone always, or is the fire always on? I'm looking at Nick's fireplace. No, you're looking at your fireplace. Yeah, that's true.

Is your fan always on? Yes. I have a box fan that's always on the lowest setting. And actually, I never turn it off. So it's always on. Just like a cool little white ambient noise. You need to post what brand that is if it's lasted so many hours. Yeah, maybe so. And like it just drowns out, you know.

um foot foot traffic on the street and whatnot and it's do you have a security system yeah yeah i was gonna okay yeah i i do too because i like a noisemaker at night let me tell you this after saturday so craig and i went to a party on saturday and um yeah charleston is busy right now yeah and then i ended up at dinner with whitney and and thank god that he told me this but

Right. Because I called him. I was like, Whitney, I have no recollection of how I got home. Like and and he said that he had brought me home or, you know, had come over. And then that, you know, I passed out on the couch quickly thereafter. And and then he left. But my front door was like three inches wide open. And there was a CVS bag outside on my porch with the Gatorade and Advil in it.

And I was like, I haven't been this hungover and I feel like six months. And then I was like, Whitney, man, thanks. And he was like, that wasn't me, motherfucker. And so like I started to call people. He's like, I'll get you home, but I don't care about you. Yeah. Yeah. And I was calling people and no one has fessed up to it, Craig. I don't know who left the care package. Check your order history. You didn't Uber anything? Yeah, check your order history. Guys, I don't, I don't, I don't, like I order, Uber eats food. I don't. Don't.

Door dash things. No. So like I've never door dashed before in my life. So it's not door dash. It's probably one of the girls. In New York City is what? In New York City, everyone uses Seamless or? Postmates. Postmates. I don't use that either. Like there's no way in hell that I ordered that. I don't think we have Postmates. And it was on my porch in the back. You know, I realized...

Yeah. I mean, that's scary. Okay. I don't want to make you think about it. Also, so I'm just going to keep going with it. Uh, I also was like, okay, you know, who did I call? Right. Sometimes when it's like a night like that, I'm like, I don't even want to look at my text. I don't want to know who I was texting last night or who I called, but I looked at my voicemail and I was like, okay. And so someone on voicemail, uh,

was like, hey, I found your wallet in so-and-so parking lot. And I was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. You had a night. And so I called them. And she was like, hey, I tried to get in touch with you last night a bunch of times and you didn't answer. And I was like, why would my wallet be there? Right. Because it was a parking lot in Mount Pleasant. I live downtown.

And all that I had to do was go and check my pants to see that this was a lie. Right. And so I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, you know, my wallet. And I was stressing and I was like, all right, well, thank you so much for telling me so. And then I get off the phone. I go to call the restaurant that she said that it's in the parking lot of. And.

As I'm on the phone with them, I get a text from this number being like, you know that I'm just joking with you, right? And I was like, what? Okay, but as I was on the phone with the restaurant, in my brain I was going, okay, just because she found my wallet doesn't mean that she has my number. So who is this person?

And then it kind of took me all morning where I was like, who are you and how do you have this number? And the last thing that she said to me was it was in the bathroom stall in Salt Lake City. What? My phone number. And I was like, okay. So, yeah, but why would she like randomly think she don't, she must've Googled like Charles. Can you tell what's the restaurant that she's at?

It was in Yemen's Hall. The country club in Yemen's Hall. I don't know why she said Yemen's Hall. She probably just Googled something in Charleston. I don't know. I don't know if she's messing with me. I mean, it could be like... Your number was in Salt Lake City. That's kind of funny. But, okay, even if she's lying, that's still funny. Like, why would she think of Salt Lake City? Did you know at the end of this? Did you know who it was? No, Craig. No. No.

I was like, why don't you send me a picture of yourself? I'm so confused. And then she goes, why don't you send me a picture of yourself? I know what Corey would have said. Let me see your boobs. Maybe I'll remember. Oh, my God. So, like, just like a number of things happened.

That I am so fuddled about. So you went to, I'm going to guess halls and then share house halls. And so I was at Sunday. No, that was Saturday. Well, I'm all right. I mean, but you haven't blacked out in a while. No, no, I, I, not since we were in Vermont. Um, and so like two very weird things happened to me and I haven't been able to figure out either one of them. And then I asked her, I was like,

Because also she was like, I found your wallet. You know, like a Wells Fargo card. What a random. You know, like a Walgreens card was in there. And right then I should have known that she was lying because I don't have a Walgreens card. Yeah, I don't think. And you just type in your phone number. Totally bizarre. Well, one cool thing that happened on Saturday was we used the limo for the first time. Made in voyage. It was really sweet. It was. It was. It was. It was as sweet as we could have imagined. Correct. Yep.

So we hope we get to share the limo with everyone listening one day soon when you visit Charleston because there's no other way to travel. I mean, it really it's like a moving party. We we we also want to know names of our limo company. Like, what do you think that the name of our limo company should be?

Do you think that we should paint it? Do you think that we should wrap it a special color? Every time that I say that, Craig kind of ignores me because I don't think that he wants to wrap it. But I really do want to wrap it. Yeah, but why? We're not in Nashville. But, I mean, it's Bachelor. Because I want our limo to stand out more than just some black limo. We're the only limo in town.

Like, we're the only old town car limo in town. Craig and I are the only game in town. But you could stencil it like P&B on the side. Yeah, I just fixed it. We should do this. Did you text Nick? Yeah. We're about to bring Kyle on. It's the exact same as my freaking email, Nick, but just, you know, his name. All right, cool. Well, we're going to take a quick break, and then we're going to bring Kyle in. Here's a little teaser for what that's going to sound like.

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What's up, Kyle? What's up, baby? That'll always be the Kyle Cook song from, well, we'll tell you that story. But yeah, welcome to the show, Kyle Cook. It'll be funny. You always take your shot at introductions. Do you want to do this? Sure. Sure. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Let me think for a second. God, there's so many adjectives that I want to use to describe Kyle. Yeah.

All right. Everybody. The man, the myth, the legend. Yeah, the man, the myth. The mullet wearing more than shows in us now. I know. Besties, welcome our esteemed guest. He is the man, the...

The mulleted having for show being on. I mean, Jesus, man. You are busier than all hell these days. The lover boy drinking. The turd Ferguson in the background having.

That's my buddy. He's a dog dad now. He's a husband. Dog dad, husband, entrepreneur. Great. So many accolades. Yeah, man. Yes. And he's a trader, maybe. And I might be a trader. And he might be a trader. The last word to add to this. Kyle Cook, everybody. Yeah.

I know it's a long time coming. It's good to be here. Heck yeah. Well, we're happy you're able to pop on. I know Austin was trying to skew us by a day. But I was like, Kyle finally can make it. So thanks for being here. Dude, I am currently talking to you, Kyle, for the first time in my life as a fan of yours. Okay.

Okay. Well, I'm always like a fan of yours. I'm always a fan of yours. I always root. I was root for, for my friends, you know, success you, but this show I am actually watching. So now I like have questions and I want you to talk about it. Talk about your experience. The fact that you were in that bad-ass castle, like, yeah, just like, tell me about it because I know you,

I know because, well, actually, I just saw, you know, your post where it's like, well, this is different because, you know, as Bravo people, we're used to getting, you know, flayed alive, right, by fans. But people, it's like a different kind of show. Well, you had to be close-lipped. You were pretty close-lipped about it, even with us. I know, even with us. So we're excited. Yeah. I mean, look, like, I mean, you guys can attest, right? Like, you film Southern Charm.

And then you step outside of that world and it's like, whoa, like things are done differently. And that's when you, when you came to winter house, that was still like a Bravo show, right? This was eyeopening. I mean, even let's just start with production since I just said that.

Ooh, I got to turn off my Slack. Hey, we're still working here. Yeah. I will say that it never seems like you have downtime. Yeah. Turn Slack off right now. The Slack is, I know it's like a holiday and I still have people slacking me. So yeah,

Look, the production team alone was six times bigger than Summer House. It was nuts. There was 300 people running around this castle behind the scenes, like making things happen. And it was crazy. Like we, when I kind of take a step back, it was just an incredible once in a lifetime experience. I mean, we're literally in a castle in Scotland, like,

I've never watched. I don't know. Have you guys ever watched like survivor and big brother? Cause I haven't. Yeah. And I watched the mole, which was not really similar. Yeah. This is like almost like the inverse of the mole. So I go in completely blind. I've never watched it. You never, I'm not a big TV guy. No, I've never watched it. I thought survivor was just like a, a battle of physical feats. Meanwhile, it's like,

social strategy and alliances and yes it's like it's like trying to get rid of like the strongest people you know this well but that could work against you yeah but you still want to work right really okay i mean that's the crazy thing like how many there's like 40 something seasons of survivor like you know the the

the weight off comes together you know with the challenges and like the cast and same thing with traders like there's always going to be a different outcome which i think is fascinating and people just are on like the edge of their seats this was this was uh you know part so peacock is part of envy nbc universal just so everyone understands like bravo is part of nbc blah blah blah so

They wanted to do a show, a big like digital, like digital first. We're going all in on streaming. And so this was, you know, they launched it and they did like a binge drop. And I was like, okay, like we're used to like. I like that though. I like that.

I like it, but I also love anticipation. I like to have something to look forward to every week because it took over my life for like, you know, 48 hours. But I'm a total weirdo. So no, look guys, it was, I mean, you can ask me any question. I'll tell you. I mean, it was fascinating. We had 10 people from TV, 10 people that have never been in front of the camera.

and that that alone was just like a crazy dichotomy who was your favorite tv person that you didn't know prior and you were like whoa this person's kind of awesome so the only people that i knew uh personally was kate and reza i never met brandy but brandy watches all of bravo so she knew me so we just kind of hit it off but outside of that um

I mean, I really hit it off with Cody. He won. He's been on Big Brother a couple times. He won it an all-star season. Hit it off with Stephanie. She was on Survivor three times. And then, of course, you know, like you have –

Well, I don't want to do any spoilers, but like, um, cause you know, I know some people haven't watched it, but I mean, there, there's just, it was a collection of personalities from different shows. Like people that have done amazing race, the bachelor, like Ari was actually, he, he told me his, his whole story filming. Holy crap, guys. Like,

incredible story i've never watched the bachelor so i was just like what yeah no i i've never watched it either i feel like everyone on those shows are on such tight somehow enforceable ndas that i mean like well you know i don't know if you guys know the story but like so he gets down on one knee chooses someone but then like has this like crazy epiphany

And then calls up the producer and tells him, like, I made the wrong decision. And it was, like, one of the craziest, like, you know, then they do, like, The Bachelor, like, real time. Like, they all come together. And it was, like, not with the person that he proposed to. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I mean, like. Yeah, that would have been fun. So how long were you out there? Can you say that? A couple weeks. Yeah, yeah. So we were in, like, the.

you know, um, the Hills of Scotland. Yeah. And, um, Inverness is where we flew into, which I mean, like, I'm not even joking. It's like just rolling Hills and locks and ocean. And, um, I, um,

did not pack accordingly i was freezing the whole entire time it was actually freezing cold okay but but i do have this is like may i do have to say that the flannel that you're wearing in the first episode i'm a huge fan of and i was like i'm gonna ask kyle well you might recognize it from winter house because i did not shop oh really i was gonna say was it the same wardrobe wait yeah

I remember you coming in fresh and people, when I tell you that, you know, Kyle kind of like you hinted to us, but really didn't tell us shit. And maybe that's because like, you know, we didn't ask because, you know, we were just so kind of focused on. Well, no, you're so centered. Don't worry about it. No, because one night he like went to tell us and then was like, but I wasn't supposed to tell you that and like walked out of the room and I was like, all right, I'm

I'm not going to push on this. Yeah, yeah. I think that he told us that he was in Ireland and Craig was like, what are you doing in Denmark, dude? And we're like, Craig wasn't paying attention to shit. Well, also, the ending is so good that even my family members, I didn't tell them anything because I'm just like, this is, I think it's going to be TV gold. I think it's going to be addicting. I think people are going to watch it in two days. And sure enough, even my EVP,

on the production side for Summer House was like, I just binged the whole thing. And I'm like, you have 16 shows. How, how,

How do you even do that? Well, you're right. Like the finale is out. So like, that's gotta be kind of weird doing this and stuff. Cause you're like, am I supposed to talk about like the totality of it or like the beginning? By the way, because this show, just like Kyle said, it's so built, it's all built on like the cliffhanger-ness of it all. Right. So like the end of every, like every, you know, fricking commercial break is just like,

Right? And if I had to wait

Every week, Kyle, I'd be kind of pissed, right? Because when I finished one, I was like, no, no, no. I get it. That's how people consume shows. Who got voted off, though? Because they didn't tell me who got voted off on the first or who got murdered on the first episode. I was like, this is bullshit. So immediately it was like next, next, next, next. Like, let's see. And then I had to like fast forward because I was like, quit giving me the fluff and just tell me who got voted off. That first episode tries to set it up because –

You need to understand how it works. And then every single episode after that, you're basically losing two people. One person gets banished. One person gets murdered. Anyway. So it's the same thing. Getting banished. We can focus it, focus on, on it as much as you guys want. But honestly, it was kind of fun to get out of the Bravo sphere. I, the second, the first vote happened.

Or sorry, the first murder, basically the traders decided who to kick off. They took out like a big personality and I was like, Ooh, I'm going to temper down my, right, right, right, right. They, they fly under the radar. They fucking took out Reza first for the first one, right?

Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess we can say that. Yeah. Resonance is like so loud. He had so much energy and then boom, he got Mert and like, and I'm like, okay, that too. You know, they said that in like,

In the decision process, they're like, look, man, one of these like freaking three headed monster has got to go because it's such a big personality. And so, yeah. Well, I even so funny thing is. Reza got freaking no scoped, Craig. Yeah. Well, like he it was kind of brutal because like, boom, you fly to Scotland and you're going home. I know. It's like we had the Bravo. We had the biggest contingent. So I was a little worried. You know, all right. Like, yeah.

half the people might not know who I am. They might not like understand me. They might not understand like that. I'm trying to like bring light to situations and have fun. So I just kind of, I went into reserve mode first couple of episodes because I was just like trying to calculate and understand and strategize. And then I started putting together my plan and sure enough, not trying to toot my own horn.

I pretty much figured out the game by, by episode five. Did you have a cleaning crew or did you have to? Yeah. Greg's like, I just want to know who cleans the castle. Did you have to wake up and clean? Or could you focus on playing? Greg's like, I'm not cleaning this damn castle, but I will play your game. Yeah. Greg's like,

I am not here to clean. I'm here to play. I'm here to play the game. And here's $1,000 in cash to show you that I'm serious. The next challenge. Well, what's funny is in Survivor, if you got kicked off, there was kind of a purgatory. You didn't leave because they couldn't, like, spoil the show. So did you leave Scotland when you got kicked off or did you stay and, like? I wouldn't. I'd go until you.

I go to the town of Loch Ness and party for a couple days. The crazy thing was when we went off camera, we were completely secluded. We could not engage or interact with anybody. We were just confined to our room. And then when we did leave the show, it was in...

It was basically like, you don't even get a chance to say goodbye. It's just like, boom. Yeah. And so I think, I think they were less worried about, I mean, back in the day, there was no social media. Like, you know, I don't think they're as uptight about that type of stuff anymore, but, um,

But yeah, it's a bombshell ending. Like, you know, if, if you're watching it, I don't want to spoil anything. I can see you smiling. I can't wait to see it. Well, look, I've always wanted to do a like crossover competition show. And I think it's awesome that you got to do it. And I know that people are really loving it. So the only other thing I was going to say was, did you get to use the fan card at all with any of the people that came that weren't on TV or were they like, I have no idea who you are.

Uh, you know, it's kind of funny that some people did know who I was, but like, I mean, they're like, Siri was on survivor for seasons, like technically speaking, forget like social media and followers and all that stuff. There are like some absolute legends that were among us. And, um,

you know, there was really any time for that. But if anything, I was actually just worried that being on TV would work against me and against us just because, you know, that could be seen as like an advantage. Maybe we're already in a click. There's already an alliance among people on TV or people on Bravo. So I was like, yeah, I'm a man of the people. You're like, I don't fuck with that. Yeah.

Well, Austin's already hooked, and I can't wait to watch. Everyone watch Traitor on Peacock. We're going to take a quick commercial, and then we have so many more questions for this. Yeah, we're just getting started. Yeah. Well, we'll be right back.

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Kyle cook. I like that segue. I was drinking a lover boy right now and he's making me a little antsy. He's making me kind of want to, and I can't wait for the lover boy update, but tell us where that you are wearing a mullet shirt. And I don't think I've ever asked you and the mullet looks beautiful. So, so Luke gave me this on my 40th birthday. We were, we were filming obviously at the house and,

It's kind of a legendary shirt. It's the only second time I've ever worn it. And I just like, I was getting ready. So I went for a run before this, before I, you know, you got to detox before you retox. And it was just staring at me. So people are asking though, what the hell people, people like Kyle, it doesn't look good. I'm like, I know, I know.

I'm not trying to like, I'm not trying to like win, like best looking, like this is not a high school superlative contest. I know, man, but some people, no matter how overtly obvious it is that you're being funny and even that you have been

rarely taking yourself fucking seriously on TV and however many years that you've been doing it, people still are like, can you believe that Kyle has a mullet? And I'm like, I'm more shocked that you're shocked that he grew. And that's, and that's where I'm at. I mean, clearly one of these days I'm going to screen record. Like when I post something, when I'm at my like,

you know, getting a little trim, just people like puke emojis, trim it, cut it, like jump off a ledge. Like, I mean, it's like by the hundreds and I'm like, where'd it come from? Cause you used to wear a wig and now you have a real thing. I mean, where, where did it all come from? I've just realized that like, you don't choose the mullet. The mullet chooses you. It's a, it's a lifestyle. Um, I I've always worn it.

as like an alter ego. And then I'm like, well, I just got to embrace, you know, the nitro inside of me. If you, if you're a fan of gladiator from the nineties, a hundred percent or, or,

Malibu? Please, Bravo. Yeah, Malibu. Dude, what's up, bro? Thunder, you took a lick in and you're still ticking, Kyle Cook. Please, Bravo, bring back Gladiators and put us all on it. I think that that would be amazing. That show was incredible. It was the best show ever. It's like wrestling meets...

Like MTV challenge. I don't even know. I mean, Kyle basically is a fucking glad. Yeah. You do look like it's a guy because he obviously has like every pair of shades under the sun. Let's go with doing it. Laser was like one. Of course, the laser and blazer systems, lasers. Don't worry about it. Guys. Sound system. And then, and then the thing that I always wanted to do too, was just wear like a,

like a onesie, a singlet, a singlet. Thank you. Thank you. A singlet and get behind that, you know, machine where you're like, you know, the tennis ball thing. And then you have to, Oh yeah. Yeah. That's challenge. Oh my God. Would that be to launch those at your friends? Dude, I feel like I've been to like a Dave and Buster's where they had one of those. I've been somewhere where they had it. And I was like, this is the best thing ever. You should set that up in the backyard next summer.

American Gladiator Party. Austin, would you come back to the house if we had a gladiator party? If Kyle had a gladiator party?

Wait, we should just literally recreate gladiator from the nineties on summer house as a theme party. You're welcome. Just wallop people. That's, that's, that's, that's what we're saying. We'll just get in tackle and like nowhere. Yeah. You're just like, you know, taking out guests left and right. You're like, you have to leave now. You have to leave my house now. And guys, we're going to need a big budget. Yeah.

I don't think that that budget would be, yeah, I guess you got to get those cannons. I mean, congratulations, though. So you have Trader out now. Summer House comes out when? Because the trailer just dropped. Summer, the day before Valentine's Day. So I think it's a Monday. I think we're on Mondays now. Or maybe we were last year. I don't know. That was quite an explosive trailer. Is there anything you want to talk about or –

Can you clear up? I don't know. I mean, it was a good trailer and look, but the Vanderpump trailer and y'all's trailer was awesome. And that was like, yo, back to back weeks. Well, let's, let's start with V. Let's just start with pump rules. Okay. Okay. I love those guys. I kind of feel like it's back.

I couldn't agree more. I couldn't agree more. Yeah. Like old school, old school. Of course it's like to the detriment of our friends, like lives. We were in the middle. I mean, remember like winter houses, right? When it was happening. Oh, I know.

I mean, it's kind of wild. I didn't. Yeah, I'm excited for you guys. Did you watch the trailer, Craig? I did. This is the first thing I've watched in several years. So what did you think of the trailer? Let's get back. That was like a 10-minute tangent. It's okay. We all need it sometimes. I think it's important that people kind of know that and realize that because it's an interesting part of it.

But yeah, I, I texted Paige and I was like, I think it's going to be a great show. It was, it was exciting. And I think they did a good job of it. And again, I think with Vanderpump rules and hopefully other shows out there, it's going to take a turn for like, you know, we all need some new stuff. You guys have been doing it a long time. You know, the formula has got to change. And what season is this? Seven or eight or six? Yeah, this is seven. February 13th. It's, yeah.

I mean, it's a doozy and summer house on at the same time. Even, yeah. Even watching, um, the trailer, I'm like, they always like find somehow some way to kind of drop the trailer and give it a different look. Um, the format, like they were like, basically it's like us walking into the confessional. That's really cool. New for, and there's cool. They let you guys. And,

And I'm bringing, well, we can't say that, but I love that. Yeah, I love that they show it because at this point, when we've been doing it for so long, you just got to. You can't hide from it that much. You mean Carl is walking away being like, no fucking cameras. And I was like, oh, back to, it was an interesting format, right? It was an interesting format, especially for the trailer. And then we just saw. Yeah, I mean like, hey, the cameras are,

a big part of our lives at this point we've all been filming for god knows i mean we all like know the cameraman like for carl to just be like fuck you i'm like oh shit that's ricky don't say yeah ricky come on man he said his family had a christmas card last year you can't tell him no kyle did you actually show everyone your dick on your 40th yeah i was

That was kind of my fault. I'm going to see how it looks on camera.

You're like, I don't want you to bleep this out. I just want everyone to see it raw. Did you guys know this, by the way? So all the blurring, there's a lot more blurring on my show than yours, you know, and I take that. It's debatable. No, we don't have any on Southern Charm. I saw Corey having like full-on sex. No, on Charleston, Southern Charm. Oh, there's more blurring? No, we don't have any blurring.

Austin, keep up, bro. Okay, sorry. I love that you associate your show as Winterhouse now. No, no, no, no. That's not what I was saying. You're like, I mean, it is, but... No, listen, like, Austin, for what it's worth, I'd recognize your mushroom head from a mile away. I recognize your mushroom head. I can't believe you just said that. No, but like... Craig's like, fine, dude. Here's my dick right now. Did you guys know that they have to...

like tv still shot frame by frame even though it's all digital so some poor chap has to like go and edit our dick and our butts and our that's and our you know private parts take some time to do it too they like try to not have to kyle dude like it's like when you see a weird blur in the background it's like it's covering up some art someone's doing that frame by frame yeah respect

My first season, Kyle, in season four, God, God, God. So I got, I didn't realize, right? Like they came over. No, but this is even worse. They came over and I thought I was like, oh, you know, whatever. And I was just walking around after I showered and stuff, just ass naked, like dick right in the camera, like somewhere there is footage of

like lots of it, right? Because everyone like in, you know, video village. Don't worry, dude. It's in the cloud. How did that happen? They were just like, we're going to watch you shower. And you just did. No, no, no, no, no. Like, like I got in the shower, but then when I was like, you know, changing, like I dropped my towel and then they were like,

Got it. And someone is sitting back there in like the back room, like, and that's Austin's dick, like right there. And he's not even, how well manscaped were you at the time? Dude, I probably wasn't even, you know, I probably was just like, he's Bush little twig.

Big Bush fall hard. The new celeb leaks that comes out is awesome. Yeah. Well, the thing that they tricked him on was they were like, all right, Austin, like it's time for your like butt shot. And they're like, everyone's done it before you. And he called me and he's like, so I just did my like butt shot. Well, they didn't call it a butt shot or whatever. That sounds super weird. And I was like, wait, what? And he's like, yeah, like, you know, like I got in the shower and you know, they filmed it. And I was like, press it up against the glass, dude.

I was like, I never did that. I was just soaping my ass for like, you know, five minutes. It's like, did you get the shot? You know, I'm thinking like Titanic, just like...

Paint me. Just, you know, soapy ass cheeks on the glass. No. I had a curtain, and so I got in, but there's like a very clear shot of my white behind getting into the shower. But, you know, man, that's not bad. Hopefully you had incredible tan lines. Oh, yeah, definitely. Of course. Well, Kyle, tell us, give us your...

a big, big old, not plug, but story for a lover boy. You're in all 50. Well, I was just in Oregon and I sent you that video and I was like doing something for sewing down South. And all of a sudden people like brought up lover boy for me. And I was like, Oh my God, you guys are in the Northwest too. So it looks like you guys are everywhere. Yeah. I mean like, look, I'm filming three shows last year was a true Testament to like how psychotic I am because I

I did not have a minute for myself. We were expanding, you know, and each state sometimes requires anywhere from like five to 25 distributors. So I had to like strike all these agreements. And, you know, at this point, we're basically just trying to be an incredible independent brand. We haven't,

you know, sold out to anybody. We're just trying to like fight the good fight. So it's basically like a David and Goliath type situation. I was at a conference, um, the hell is today? Monday last week. And like the Titans of industry of beer, wine, and spirits were there. And I'm up on the stage with like a mullet. And I'm just like,

Y'all don't understand what today's consumer, like millennials, Gen Z's want. Because alcohol is the one category of food and beverage where the big guys have way more control. And Austin knows this because of the regulations and the challenges of getting your product on the shelf. And so we've been grinding. We're now in...

like 45 States in a couple of months. I hope it's like 49 and Utah can, you know, fuck off because they have dumb laws, but, um, I think you'll survive. Congratulations, man. Utah doesn't know what a hard T is. They're just like, it's either beer, wine, or spirits. And I'm like, well, um, I'll see you at Sundance and I'm going to smuggle in my lover boy on, um, not a private plane, but one of these days, um,

I mean, even hearing you just talk about it, Kyle, just makes me sweat a little bit. I mean, the alcohol business is not particularly fun, is it? I mean, it's like, you know, it's fun to go to parties and stuff. You don't know what you don't know. And when you get into it, you're like, oh, shit.

You're like, oh, shit. Well, it seems like a good idea without you two. I should have made pillows. Yeah. I mean, people always are like, Craig, you should like white label a wine or do a wine. And I was like, before knowing you two. Yeah. That's I that was my dream. And now I'm very. Well, that was like textile company. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm super jealous of the textile company. I give you respect for doing something original because like how many wines have been white labeled on Bravo? Yeah. Right.

That's true. It's probably in the 20s, 30s. I don't even know. Well, we all have to buy a vineyard one day or throw in- The Vanderpump girls did it at one point, didn't they? They named it something WeHo. Witches of WeHo. Yeah. But again, that was just some company that ran it for them, and they just came in and selected. I love those girls, but you can do it. It's so easy. It's kind of, quite frankly, it's like tequila. A lot of people don't know. I don't even know what freaking-

kardashian jenner it was was it kylie that did it the 818 or yeah and i think kendall kendall thank you see i don't even know so people did a little homework because she did this whole like riding a horse in a fucking you know uh agave you know agave vineyard whatever the hell they're called turns out that distillery does 60 other brands tequilas jeez

It's like there was no originality. There was no nothing. She was just like, oh, yeah, I'm going to slap an area code on the bottle. And they made a lot of money. Right. And it worked. Right. It's actually mind-boggling because most people don't even know what a good tequila tastes like.

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it's made from like um like malted rice or something you're talking about the

They had a booth that was next to mine. Remember the booth? Yeah. I actually think what they're doing is cool because it's different. It's actually not a tequila. It's like, it's called like soju or something like that. I don't even know. Yeah. Where's lover boys events going next? Can anyone that hears this podcast, like catch a party? Yeah, we're doing, um, we're going to Arizona, but after the super bowl, because the super bowls, absolute shit show. Um, aren't you guys going to, uh, Mohegan sun? Yeah.

Oh, shoot. Yeah. We're going to Mohegan Sun in two weeks. They might be sold out. Good. And then we're going to come to... I think we're going to go up to Boston in between those events. So Mohegan Sun's on the 27th of January. I'm going to Scottsdale area towards the end of February. We're going to go Boston...

for a weekend in between that and probably somewhere else. I don't know. A little town called Charleston, maybe. That would be phenomenal. Hey, so there's a story that we tell all the time, but it just never airs. So we've actually told each other on camera before, but the difference is we know it will air here and we're going to tell that story. What's the story? It has to do with the FBI and Kyle.

Oh. Because I just realized it's never aired in Winterhouse or Summerhouse, and I want to hear about it. I'll give you guys a little sneak peek because it is kind of a full circle. All right. Well, we will be. Yeah, yeah. Hold on. Hold on. Let's go to commercial break. Then when we come back, Kyle's going to give us the female body inspector story. Yeah. Welcome to Pillows and Beers and Lover Boys. Yeah.

It's your favorite three-legged stool. It's your favorite piece of stool. We have now joined Kyle by pouring.

Yeah, these guys were like, what is it, a Waterloo, Austin? Are you fucking kidding me? That's exactly what it is, man. Yeah, I know my cans, bro. I know my cans. It's printed, too. So are mine, dude, by the way. I know more about cans and sweeteners and shit between the two of you and wraps and aluminum or tin or whatever the cans are made of.

made of aluminum shortages. Definitely aluminum. Definitely aluminum. Definitely aluminum. As I say, I know a lot. Aluminium. Aluminium. And, oh, Kyle, also...

I am switching to boxing. So I'm finally boxing my six packs, you know, just like you box. What boy, your four packs. I am boxing my sixers. I'm six packs. You have six packs. And then, and next thing you know, we're going to have abs. It's going to be, it's all we're going to, where do you guys source your cardboard from? Whoa. How do you ask? Yeah. I like cardboard. Don't, don't ask questions. You want the answers to Craig.

Where do you get your cardboard from? Well, how much lithium do you need? Greg's like, stop everything. Where'd you, is it recycled? Well, I have a guy. And, uh. How much mining goes into your cardboard? Oh, great. Well, I have to frack for, uh, for my aluminum. Kyle's been flying his dogs private, actually, on tour with them recently, I've found. Yeah. By the way, when people talk about carbon footprint, I want a big one. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.

I'm going to be the first to say I want a large Garvin footprint. Well, you had a large footprint in the FBI, actually. You had a very large footprint. Oh, yes. Your FBI file. That was 45 minutes ago that we were talking about this. To our knowledge, well, on the radio, it's not been. To our knowledge, your FBI folder is bigger than ours.

I mean, probably my local police file as well. I mean, like my hometown of Manchester, New Hampshire. I mean, if you weren't in protective custody on the weekend, you're doing it wrong. Well, for those that weren't at our show in New York, when Kyle really enjoyed our beverages in the green room, which was amazing, so did we. He came out on stage and told a story about when he was raided by the FBI. Oh, right. As a college student.

Was it? Yeah. You're making fakes. I think I, I think I pregame the pregame to your show because I came in with an empty stomach and I don't even know what I said on stage, but I just wanted to show you guys a good time. Forget the people in the audience.

It was the three of us. You were supposed to be a surprise, and you were yelling from the balcony as the show started. Kyle was actually heckling us from the top balcony, being like... It was amazing, though, because then Amanda came and picked him up. Guys, I'm going to hold you to a higher standard, particularly when it's a standard that I am not paying close attention to. Kyle was up top at our live show in the city, and...

I was like, who is heckling us? Kyle up there with like a steady stream of insults, like telling us to do better kind of thing. Little did I know that I just divulged my dirtiest and darkest secret on stage. And you guys didn't even have to pry it out of me. It just jumped. Yeah, I didn't even, I don't even know. What were we talking about? So where Kyle went to the FBI talking about him being a little, you know, fake ID. Pretty sure he just was. Was that what it was, Kyle? Was that used to make fakes?

yeah so very innocently um my form of protesting the drinking age in this country which is ridiculous uh I just started a fake ID business and um you know at age 16 I was 21 and it um 16 kind of you started this oh yeah I mean I'm like dude do you have a printer and like I and then I like finally can I was like mom dad we should get a scanner

And they're like, okay. Let's start scanning mom and dad. Like the funny thing is it's like $300 back in like 1999. It's a lot of money. And meanwhile, my parents never saw a single thing scanned. They're like, why is this thing taking up counter space? And I'm like, don't worry. Trust the process. Making t-shirts.

Yeah. No, but like in all seriousness, let me get your credit card. I never once thought about the ramifications, the seriousness of it all. I really think the drinking age in this country is whack and pushes people towards quite frankly, harder drugs. And well, that's proven that's proven with every other country that the drinking age is lower. Also wait, say it again.

You think that the drinking age being at 21, in fact, just makes people do harder drugs because I think. Think about every college campus. You have the responsibility of the college now to do something with this underage drinking problem. And what happens is they drive it into the dorm rooms and then people just get hammered. Forget drugs for a second. They might get so hammered.

in their dorm room that they might like vomit and die yeah the alcohol abuse is is definitely right it encourages alcohol abuse because you're basically driving it underground and then if people can't buy alcohol it's actually easier to buy drugs you just hop on like fucking you know snapchat and your next thing you know you're you're buying fentanyl so in all no i'm

I'm talking about what I'm hearing, not obviously what happened in 2001. The next thing you know, man, you're all hopped up on fentanyl. Kyle's running Parrot Bay in his spare time. You've heard of Silk Road? Silk Road, that's what it was. What about the tropical airstream? Oh.

Yeah, no, I agree with you. I mean, anyone that you, like, we used to, you know, work in food and bed with people from, like, Europe, and they're like, yeah, we got our tolerance up when we were that age. But anyway. During this whole thing, Craig, when he's just been talking, I'm looking directly at Kyle's mullet. No, this whole time that you're talking. Yeah.

I just love when you try to talk serious and I'm like, I just see like, that's why your dad named you Joe Dirt. Okay, so for everyone listening, they're like, well, tell us a story. Tell us a story real quick. Here's the story. So it started in high school because I'm from New Hampshire and yeah, a lot of underage drinking and we were struggling to find like a way to make fake IDs. So I'm just like, I'll figure this out.

I slowly but surely perfected my Photoshop skills. So fast forward to 2001 when I'm going into freshman year of college, I think I nailed it. I mean, I basically could, someone could give me their information. I would create a template where I would, I'm like, who do you want to be? Like someone was like, I want to be Christopher Wallace. Yeah.

that's notorious big's real name okay i'm like are you sure you're a big white guy are you sure he's like absolutely okay um so i i created a template it was all digitized it wasn't like oh let me fudge the numbers like i actually was in photoshop i could you know i basically you know created a template that you know could print out anything um

And I had two states that I made IDs for, New Hampshire, where I was from, because I scanned it and perfected it, and Illinois. Because when I got to college, I looked at my friend's Illinois ID, and I'm like, I could fake this. Like, I could make actually a better, better than New Hampshire. I think that I can make this, like, work at any bar in Hartford, Connecticut. I went to Trinity College. It's a liberal arts school in Connecticut. And lo and behold,

Like no one had access to fake IDs. So I came in with like this like wealth of knowledge from New Hampshire. And I told my buddies, I'm like, here's what we're going to do. We're going to set up a satellite operation hub and spoke. You are amazing.

The informants, if you will, you have to go out and solicit business in exchange. I will make you a free fake ID. You have to bring business to me, but there's a degree of separation. You do not use my name. My buddies are like, absolutely. So I buy this super expensive laminator and it's game on. How did you? Did you have a card printer? What's that? What kind of printer do you have? So literally a fucking inkjet.

Like this was inkjet meets laminator. Okay. Because there was a little bit of a metallic thing, but like if you scuffed your ID up enough, the thing, you know, like he misses it. My IDs look so good. This is like, this is like 2003, 2002. So like the technology was pretty primitive. So anyway, how much did they cost?

50 bucks. What? That's all you charge? $50? $2,002. Yeah. Yeah, but you had 200 bucks for a good fake. Yeah, it's kind of true, but... Look, guys, the price went up to about 100 before I got busted, but like, we're jumping the gun. So anyway, my buddies, they get their IDs. They get into bars. They're buying beer. And then when it comes down to recruiting...

They're like, oh, just go see Kyle. I'm like, guys, what happened to the fucking degree of separation? Do not use my name. You needed a code name. Yeah, but what was their code name? I'm like, for all the consumers concerned, I am not a student here, you freaking income. Like, it was just set up to fail from the get-go. But fast forward, like, about a year and a half. I had...

friends from others. By the way, this is like so early on, people didn't have reliable digital cameras. So they would send passport photos to my school mailbox, my physical mailbox. That's how old I am. And you'd go to Kinko's, you'd get a fricking passport photo, and then you'd send it to my mailbox. I had people's mail from 50 different colleges and universities around the country. Yeah.

And so I'm like, people are just sending cash through the mail. It was absolutely ridiculous. So I was completely naive to think that this would all come crashing down. And that's exactly what happened. And I sold an ID to a guy on campus that was like the biggest pot dealer in Connecticut. And he got busted immediately.

and ratted me out because they found his my id in his wallet and everyone was wondering where these ids were coming from at the time so how long did i watch you did they start watching you or did they immediately come question you uh so basically i came home from lunch one day this is like i had like a an apartment but it was owned by the college this is sophomore year and

I walk in and the Dean's there in my doorway. And, um, and I knew who he was because I, I was actually the rush chair at my frat and I had to like get some signage approved by him like a month prior. What fraternity? Oh, this is a weird way to respond to an email, but like, Hey, it's 20, it's 2002. It's not that weird. So, um,

What fraternity? Upcoming. It was called Sayyub Salon. Upcome, like all these cop cars as if I was going to flee the scene. And I'm like, yeah, I'm wearing Sperry's. I don't have like running shoes on. You got me. Okay. You got me. Yeah. So like, honestly, and then one thing led to the next and I just realized how screwed I was. I really,

you know, it was like a classic idiot in the sense that I never took into consideration, you know, what I could be charged for. And my God, thank God, you know, this is a situation where like, I felt very lucky. I had all my earnings from my, uh, for my fake IDs. I went and hired a lawyer. Everyone's like, how much did you make? I'm like negative 10 grand. Uh,

Yeah. Well, you're false. What did they charge you with? Falsifying a government document? Technically speaking, these were like very serious. You're lucky it was before 9-11. Was it before 9-11? No, it was two years after and that was the problem. Oh, wow. Yeah, dude. This is like a conspiracy to fucking overthrow the government.

Yeah, my uncle was like, can you imagine if you weren't some, you know, blonde-haired preppy shit from, you know, at a liberal arts school in Connecticut, how dire this situation would be? Because my mom, she's like, you ruined your future! And quite frankly, that was a legitimate conclusion to what I had just done. When did you get booked? Did they take you to the station? I got thrown in jail. You

you know, at a, at a local level to go to a hearing. And that's actually when, um, finally, uh, I got, um, what do you call it? I got bailed. I actually know my, so I give my, my credit, my, my like ATM card to my roommates. I'm like, dude, guys come for me. Yeah. You're like an empty my account. I'm like, I don't want to go to jail. Yeah.

I got transferred to a different jail so they couldn't find me. Come for me. That's when they called my parents. So like, come for me, brother. Mr. and Mrs. Cook, we lost Kyle. My $400 max a day. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Put some money in my commissary and then... You're like, guys...

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20. Sophomore year. My mom gave me the harsh yelling in my face that I ruined my future when I was... Two years old. The moment she pushed me out, Kyle. When I was like 16, 17.

I got busted with pot and she was like... The devil's lettuce. And she ripped down the posters in my room. She was like, you have ruined your future. Who caught you with pot? Awesome. How many Grateful Dead posters did you have in your room? Oh my God. So I had one Grateful Dead. It was like find...

100 Grateful Dead songs hidden in this poster. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I had a Bob Marley poster. Meanwhile, there's none and the joke's on you. Yeah.

The Bob Marley's. I had the Bob Marley poster and a Jim Morrison poster. My mom was like, this kid died at a young, like you have ruined your future. Did your mom ever have one of these? You're so crunchy, Austin. I was so crunchy as like a 16 year old. It was, it's like yellow. It was correct. Correct.

Craig was full emo. Craig's fucking hair was here. And he was like, get out of my room, dad. Craig has like guy liner on. He's painting his nails. I was in a tank top. Well, I miss listening to music with you, Kyle. I really do. Loudly. Guys, I have one volume level and it's...

All the way turned up. I just remember the first Winter House. And it's a thousand. It was like the second night or the first night we all pulled into a restaurant parking lot and you were playing...

Our song, you know, became our song. No, we were pulling back into the house and they were holding us before they let us back in the house. I pulled up next to you. Yeah. I pulled up next to you. Craig and I were like passed out in our car and you and Luke were like raging. Oh, that's right. And it gave us a second win. And then you were like, hello there.

Hello there. I want with them. We actually were pulling into the, we were pulling into our house and we were just like, oh my God, everything's going to be okay. Like everything's going to be okay. Season one of winter house was unmatched. And I did watch that Kyle season one of winter house was unmatched. All right. So fun. Hey, I think there's some degree of self-awareness that you can gain. You just watch it and take it for what it is.

I encourage both you to, you know. Come hold my hand and I'll watch it with you. I will hold your hand. Oh, I'll watch it live. Invite me to the next party. How about I start lights and I watch your season of Summer House. I'm going to watch this season and then I'm going to watch our season when it comes out. But you have to live watch with us.

Absolutely. Oh, wow. All right. Love you, Kyle. Kyle, watch Trader on NBC's Peacock. Watch Summer House in February. Watch reruns of Winter House or don't. And watch reruns of all seasons of Southern Shore. And drink Loverboy. Yeah, and drink lots of Loverboy. And drop off. And buy STS Pillars. Put a lumbar pillow behind you. What's your social media, Kyle, for Loverboy? At Drink Loverboy.

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