E979 - Perfect Match w/ Clayton Echard, Hannah Godwin, The Valley, Bach in Paradise & Special Forces Cast

The Viall Files

Nick Viall

Society & Culture, Relationships, After Shows, Tv & Film

4 • 24.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The Viall Files: Reality Recap!

You heard from Rachel, now it’s time to welcome Clayton Echhard to talk about his “intuition” and experience on Perfect Match! Later, Hannah Godwin joins to give life updates, talk about Perfect Match, Bachelor, and the Valley! Plus, we get into Special Forces casting, Natalie biting Nick and more. You won’t want to miss it!

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Timestamps:
(00:00) - Intro
(05:33) - Special Forces Cast
(15:42) - Clayton Joins
(56:31) - Hannah Godwin Joins
(01:07:18) - Perfect Match and BIP
(01:27:13) - The Valley
(01:47:49) - Outro

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Transcript

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0:00.0	what's going on, everybody.
0:15.3	Welcome back to another episode of the Vile Files reality recap edition.
0:19.7	I am your host, Nick, joined by my wife, lover, and just really my favorite person.
0:27.2	Do you have a voice for Connor?
0:29.2	Do you have a voice for Connor?
0:30.6	Like when you're, let's say you're, you're bickering with each other.
0:35.8	And then Connor says something that maybe you disagree with. And then you repeat back to him. Oh, his mocking voice. You're like your mock. Like when you mock Connor and me like, well, if you would. What does he sound like in your head? Yeah. Like what does he sound like in your head? Oh, no, but we don't mock each other. Never? If he mocks me during a fight, the house would burn down. I don't mean like a fight fight. Yeah, they're just like serious. Just like bickering. Oh, remember when you said and you repeat what he said and it sounds like you have like your own. Yeah, it's probably offensive. Yeah. I'm like, okay, you said that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Thank you. Natalie does smeggle no i don't she's like well when
1:14.3	you said if i wish it's you would just not say i'm like i did not sound like that i like honestly
1:21.1	like this this is how you sound this is how you sound no that's when you're doing an impression of me
1:25.9	but when when we're bickering and i was like, for example, we were, because the lakehouse,
1:32.0	lakehouse is getting close to being done and, you know, we're making some selects.
1:35.9	And we were debating over something stupid.
1:38.7	And Nick was wrong.
1:39.6	Okay.
1:40.9	But you said we were getting limestone.
1:43.6	And I'm like, oh my God. Like, I don't not sound like that at all. Like, I'm not even right. You can't even get into the argument because it's like, what did you? Do I sound like that? No, then now the argument is, does he sound like that? Only when you're angry. Well, Nick took a, Nick, Nick, Nick bit me last night. So what do you mean?
2:01.8	We weren't having sex.
2:03.4	Wait, what do you mean?
2:05.1	An intentional bite?
2:06.1	Oh my God.
2:06.6	No.
2:06.9	It was, I was self-defense.
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