WEBVTT - Alex Bain: PRIME VIDEO BUFF - TALENT 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:03.760 TV Reload the podcast last week. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.000 Theyby welcome back guys to TV Reload. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.640 My name is Benjamin Norris and on this podcast I 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.800 go behind the scenes with the biggest players in television. 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.680 Each episode you will get a front row seat with 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.400 content makers like executive producers, writers, editors and casting agents. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.000 What's the talent that we see on our screens? TV 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.959 Reload reloads the shows that we are all currently watching 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.960 and gives you a better insight into our television industry 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.240 and our streaming services. Today on the podcast, I have 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.239 a very special chat with the latest big name at 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.880 Prime Video Australia. Following a three week search, Prime Video 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.559 has found Australia's biggest content junkie and her name is 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.440 Alex Bain. Originally from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Alex has 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.599 snagged the highly coverted Prime Video buff roll with her 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.360 creative entry, which was stacked with entertaining personalities and puns 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.840 that proved to the judges that she's the right girl 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.440 for the job. During the next three months, Alex will 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.400 be paid forty thousand dollars to stream an unbelievable amount 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.759 of film and TV and recommend us as the audience 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.120 the best content, as well as a whole lot of 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.199 other perks, which include access to red carpet events, exclusive 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.040 viewing of prime video content, and so much more. I 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.679 will ask Alex how she managed to win the gig, 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.520 what shows and films make her qualified for the role, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.800 and I'm sure you will get a snapshot of her 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.200 fabulous personality that I'm sure Amazon Prime are going to 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.120 be talking about for years. However, let's get started on 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.319 today's episode as I welcome Alex Baine to the podcast 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:33.399 TV Reload. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.959 I mean there's a little bit of like Imposters intern 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:38.560 there as well. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.120 Tell me that you've built a time machine kind of 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:41.800 a Galorio. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:43.840 You know you already do this. Give it a go 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.840 on like a bigger level bomb extremes. Bon I just 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.800 love discussing, you know, film and TV. I love when 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.080 someone disagrees with me. I love hearing their their opinions. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.600 I came here to save you, Oh yeah, and who's 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:58.600 going to come to save you? 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.920 I remember seeing ET and remember being as a young 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:11.480 girl being brought to tears in this way. Oh I 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:16.720 do do a pretty okay. Jennifer Coolidge. Hi there, Alex Bain, Hello, 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.320 Hi Ben, I'm very well, thank you. How are you? 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.480 That is a celebrity name, if ever I've heard one. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.040 As soon as I read Alex Bain, I was like, 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.680 who is this punny to speak to her? 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:29.840 She sounds amazing. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.560 Oh well, thank you. I didn't even give it to myself, 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:40.160 so thanks mom and dad. And I like it though. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.280 I never really saw the worth in my name until 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.640 The Dark Knight Rises was released in around twenty twelve, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.800 I think, and it became a running joke. That was 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.960 Gotham's recording, so that was that was a bit of fun. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.600 But that's where my nickname Bane comes from. Everyone calls 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:57.320 me Vaines. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.200 Well on brand that. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.840 We've already got a popcorn for reference in this chat 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.240 to The Dark Knight Rises, which was my least favorite 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.320 Christopher Nolan Batman film. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.720 No, I love to hear this. I love. I love 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.600 a discussion about movies, especially when someone has a different 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.320 opinion to me. I didn't love the first one he 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.240 made with I think it was called The It was 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.359 just before The Dark Knight Men begins, Batman begins, thank you, 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.640 who's the video buff here? I really and then of 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.000 course The Dark Knight just blew everyone out of the water. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.440 But I love to hear that. I do feel like 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.160 Baane did a lot of the heavy lifting in that. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.720 I feel like he was probably the best part of 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.520 The Dark Knight Rises, which was weird for. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.480 Me because I'm a really big fan and it annoys 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.040 my friends. I'm a big Anne Hathaway fan, and so 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.320 I was so excited about Anne Hathaway being Catwoman, and 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.480 all my other friends were like, no, she's poorly cast. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.440 And then when I watched the movie, she did an 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.560 amazing job, but it still didn't stay in the zeitgeist 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.400 of like Michelle fire for as Catwoman in Batman. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.120 I completely agree, and even like I love Zoe Kravitz, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.680 I think she's just incredible. She was actually very very 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:11.000 well cast, but in the Newest Batman. But I met 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.520 Michelle Pfeiffer, and it's probably a bit of nostalgia as well. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.200 She was I think with these nineties movies, she was 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.359 allowed to be so camp and that's what I loved 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.479 about it. She just she just bought it, like she 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.880 went from that, you know, the damselnd of stress, and 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.799 she was just allowed to be super camp and silly, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.800 and I think that that's like these new incarnations with 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.920 Anne and Zoe, that they're a little bit more, a 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.839 little bit more of the time, a little bit more modern, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.240 and a little bit more you could see these people 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:43.080 existing in some alternate universe Gotham. But oh my god, 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.680 the Michelle Michelle Phiper as Catwoman is just iconic to me. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.360 So congratulations on your winning of the Prime Video buff role. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.800 This must be quite exciting for you. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.400 I think the best way to describe it, it's like 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:00.360 a I mean, an alternate universe. You know, there's it's 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.320 a timeline when I've woken up and everything's like what 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.840 I was preparing myself to not win when I when 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.359 I found out, But then I just left a job. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.839 I'd pretty much been made redundant at a job, and 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.760 I had given myself a month to find something and 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.920 a lot of the day after the last day at 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.880 my job, and I was a bit stressed and bit teary. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.960 The day after I get I get a call telling 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.719 me I'm short listed, and it's just since then, I've 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:28.080 just been living in this alternate reality. But it's wonderful, 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.680 and I mean, you know, as well of like feeling like, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.280 you know, you're plucked out of this this group of 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.400 people and you know sort of given this this opportunity, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.719 and I mean there's a little bit of like imposter 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.599 syndrome there as well. For me. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:42.440 I remember that. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.960 I remember thinking, you know who me, you know, like 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.120 you want it, and people go, oh, you wanted it. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.680 You know, you applied, You've entered the competition. 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.800 At the same time, it's still you know, we all 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.880 still have our insecurities, do you know what I mean? 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.760 And you know you're wanting to sort of deliver because 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.200 you know, I mean these visiting these cool offices and 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.760 meeting these amazingly talented people and it's like, yeah, it's 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.560 I mean, it's wonderful. I can't complain about anything. I'm 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:16.120 almost I'm too excited to sleep this week, but it's yeah, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.360 it's been a whirlwind. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.080 How did this come about? Like, how did this? 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:20.960 How did you find out about the competition? 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.760 I had actually seen it online. I can't remember if 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.240 I saw it by an email, I think, And I 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.559 was thinking about it and I was kind of running 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:30.919 over in my head what I would do because I 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.760 thought that it was a two minute video, which is 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.560 more time than I normally give myself to make silly 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.640 tiktoks or you know, because it's mostly sixty seconds or 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.520 reviews and stuff like that. So I was thinking in 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.560 my head, what would I do if I applied for that, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.479 you know, the kind of way you'd think, you know, 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.120 what would I say if I want an Oscar? It 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.160 was just out, you know, out there in your mind, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.560 what would I say if I land on the moon. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.000 And then and then I a friend of a friend 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.760 of mine at the accounting firm I used to work out, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.479 so shout out to Mac, the accountant. He messaged me 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.240 the link and he said, you should apply for this, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.240 And I hadn't. I hadn't mentioned it to anyone, so 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.680 I just sort of took it as a confirmation and 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.880 I was like, okay, yeah, and we'd become friends, and 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.320 I'd become friends with a lot of people at this 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.040 place because I realized that if I was posting these 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:21.080 like there were really low budget one minute videos. In fact, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.840 Christopher Nolan's Interstellar was the very first review I posted. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.720 But it started conversations with like people in my you know, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.200 thirty person accounting office where I was the receptionist. So 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.560 I liked just having conversations with people, and he must Yeah. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.560 Maca just was like, oh, you know you already do this, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.080 give it a go on like a bigger level, and yeah, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.600 I took it as confirmation. And I'd already kind of 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.440 been thinking over some ideas. So I just made the video, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.960 hoped for the best, applied in a lunch break on 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.280 like my last week of work or something, my last 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.360 fortnight of work, and then and then didn't think of 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.760 it until I got the call, because it just, yeah, 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.520 it was It was out of the realm of possibilities 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.840 that someone would call me, you know, you know what 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.840 I mean. You know, you enter competitions and you're just like, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.560 you know, see how it goes. But yeah, as you 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.440 would know, sometimes yeah it works out. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.080 It does it does? I think you know, once you've applied, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.520 you've got to leave it alone. I know lots of 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.680 people who apply for shows these days, and because I 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.600 work as a journalist, I often interview a lot of 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.280 the casting people, a lot of the executive producers. I 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.280 then have my friends ringing me and saying can you 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.120 ring them? Can you ask them and say that my 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.080 audition's there, And I'm like it's not like that, you know. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.600 And it also also when you push people like that, 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:32.760 it doesn't seem to work out. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:33.680 I just think. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.600 TikTok and making short, sharp videos is a real skill. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.560 And then when I went back and was able to 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:41.920 look at some of the work that you've done and 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:43.920 you know, with your reviews and your things on TikTok, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.320 and I was like, it's a real art form and 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.000 I've got no ability to do that whatsoever, because I 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.360 can't edit and censor myself down to that sort of level. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.600 Maybe it's my age, maybe it's because I'm in my forties, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.000 But you have a real skill at that. Where does 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.439 that come from that? Where does that creative side of 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.160 you come? Then you can do tiktoking that sounds so old, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:04.000 you know. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.640 What's really funny, Like you speak beautifully and you can 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.560 you can get things across in it in a really, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.720 really good way. I do need to edit myself down. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.600 I've always felt more comfortable, I guess writing and pre 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.360 recording and editing it down because I tend to have 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.160 a lot of thoughts and they go all over the place. 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.920 I've always been told like I waffle a bit, which 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.959 I do, and I'm trying to like mid the Budded, 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.679 but I need to edit it down. I started doing 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.160 like YouTube reviews, and I was just adding all these 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.720 thoughts in, like this was like, I don't know, twenty 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.600 thirteen or something, and I was adding all these thoughts 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.800 in that just weren't really necessary, you know. By the 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.880 third joke, it was starting to get a bit old, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.800 and so I realized I could make a greater impact. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.400 It was actually before reels that I started doing the 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.320 reviews on Instagram, so I just put them as like 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.520 you know, those like landscape one minute videos that. Yeah, 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.200 it was I think before the carousels as well well, 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.720 So I just, you know, you could only make them 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.880 a minute long. So being forced to condense it down, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.440 I had to get to the point it had to 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.400 be sort of short, shorter, and sharper. And I feel 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.640 like it just had more impact that way because I waffle. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:16.600 I feel like, but that's a part of. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.080 Your charm, Like listening to you now, like you know 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.000 a little bit of is kind of on brand for you, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.200 which is kind of endearing. 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:24.520 I actually think that. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.120 We need more people to waffle and be, you know, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.680 more people on television talking with their real voices. You know, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:36.240 we're so nice old and you know we're told to 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.280 be word perfect, where a lot of the nuances and 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.080 a lot of the ways in which we relate to 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.679 people is by the mistake in our language. Sometimes it's 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.880 why they say don't not to say you know, when 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.240 you're a presenter, never say um. However, arms are really 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.439 it's a pivot in a conversation. It's where you are 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.400 listening and you are taking what they're saying on board 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.480 and it's still evolving in your mind where you might 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.600 be saying something you think and then you can pivot. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.640 So I don't think it's the worst in the world 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:07.080 to say. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.679 Especially really nice, because I remember as a receptionist one 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.240 time my boss overheard a conversation with me and she said, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.560 you need to stop saying um and like. And I 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.680 was so I was so ultra aware of it that 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.199 I think I ended up saying it more. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.840 And you do the more you say it to people, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.800 you know, in the auditions. I can't remember the original 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.440 reality shows being made in Australia. They used to get 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.000 the people who'd been shortlisted and they they'd say tell 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.719 us in you know, three sentences why you would be 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.600 good to be on this show, but you're not allowed 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.560 to say the word. As soon as you said that 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.160 to them, it was hilarious because they just would go 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.280 and it's like, that is nervousness. That's nervousness. That's implanting 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:47.680 it into you. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.120 But you know, Alex, just. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.920 Talking to you today, you know you're you're very engaging 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.240 because of those nuances. So I'd be careful not to 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.120 lose a lot of the waffles. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:03.520 Thank you, you know, thank yeah with reviews because I'm like, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.280 I've got sixty to ninety seconds. I think it helps 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.880 because yeah, I guess you can incorporate the waffle in. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.400 I just think it helps to get there, you go. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.120 I just think it helps to get to the point sometimes. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.280 So that's why it's a platform that works for me. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.080 I've seen it. I've seen a reaction video I posted 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.000 for Stranger Things a few years ago, and it just 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.600 it just evolves into a bit of a mess. So 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.439 if I've got some sort of a structure, it tends 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.880 to work, like like talking with yourself and how you 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.480 lead a conversation. So well, I do I do enjoy that. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.679 But yeah, now I'm saying because I'm thinking about it. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.200 It's interesting though, you know, with the podcast, I enjoy 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.320 the arms and the hours from people. However, when the 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.040 editing happens at the podcast, they often take out the 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.080 arms and the arts, and I often fight for the 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.040 arms and ours to be left in there because I 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.360 genuinely believe that some of the relatability, that's some of 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.760 the ways in which people enjoy listening to people as 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.560 much as it's true because it's authentic ry, Absolutely, it's authentic. 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.040 People want to have real people these days are listening 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:15.679 to podcasts, listening to conversations with people because it's a companionship. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.920 A lot of these people, a lot of the podcasts 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.280 that they're listening to are their friends, and so they 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.600 want them to sound real. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.320 They don't want them to sound like you know. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.280 I noticed it with my mum, who's a super excitable 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.280 primary school teacher. She's super cute, and sometimes I'm like, 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.560 just get to the point. So if there's a there's 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.920 a point to a video, because I know I'm like 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.880 that sometimes like instead of a to B or a Z, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.480 it's like a f y J fack to a you know, 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.160 So it's it can help to have a bit of 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.319 focus and direction. But I'll remember that. That's really nice advice. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.280 That a bit of a bit of waffles. Okay, it's okay. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.480 Don't beat yourself. Yeah, that's the thing. Don't beat yourself 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.480 up over it. You know, you have to lean into 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.320 who you are. You know, we all have to lean 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.800 into who we are, because if we beat ourselves up 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.720 for all of these things that we don't have, trying 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.720 to make ourselves like somebody else, then we're just like 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.000 everybody else, you know what. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.520 I mean, Like, yeah, yeah. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.600 And you build an audience better by just leaning into yourself. 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:13.959 But I was going to ask you, you know what, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.240 why do you think you want? You know, what makes 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.680 you Australia's biggest content junkie. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.240 I don't know I'm the biggest. I feel sometimes like I'm 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.200 the biggest because I spend so much time consuming you know, 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.640 film and TV, and I love discussing it with people. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.440 I love opening up that line of conversation. But I'm 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.600 also super excited about it. I remember I was out, 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.360 you know, having some drinks with friends in Melbourne a 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.920 few months ago, and somebody mentioned yellowjackets at another table 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.480 and I was like, oh, my god, that ses. I 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.200 just I just love discussing, you know, film and TV. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.480 I love when someone disagrees with me. I love hearing 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.360 their their opinions. I love hearing how something because of 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.840 someone's history or how they've grown up might be really 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.840 triggering for them, or as something like you really comforting 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.720 for them. You know, my little sister at the moment 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.240 is obsessed with Gilmore Girls, and she says it's like 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.760 she's she lives in Berlin, and she says it's because 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.920 she's like she's homesick and it reminds her of being 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.520 with Mom and I and whereas I just I like 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.680 Gilmore Girls, but it's not something I'd be switching on 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.320 at the moment. I love how people associate with things 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.160 and why a certain movie means, you know, so much 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.640 to someone. You know, I was just talking to a 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.320 lovely girl, Hannah here, and she was telling me just 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.240 you know how the Lion King was just like part 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.320 of her like formative years, and it made her feel 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.040 better about herself and you know, the challenges you face 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.680 your life. Just I mean, I know that sounds a 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.120 little bit wishy washy, but you know, I remember where 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.920 I was when I first saw The Godfather and what 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.760 I was studying and how it made me feel, which 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.480 was in love with young Appucino and obsessed with Yeah, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.480 obsessed with Coppler's work. But it's like when a big 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.960 world event happens, right like, where were you when this happened? 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.160 My my mom the best stories about when her and 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.920 my dad, who aren't together anymore, but when they were dating, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.800 going and seeing Star Wars and how to her it 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:13.200 seems like magic. They've never seen anything like that before. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.440 And to this day she's still, you know, obsessed with 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.680 Harrison Ford and talks about it. She said, it was 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.480 like it was like magic, And she said, can you 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.400 imagine what the Wizard of Oz would have been like 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.080 for people who are used to seeing black and white 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.560 and it starts black and white and suddenly it's color. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.440 You would it would feel like witchcraft. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.280 You know. My grandfather was originally from Bendigo but moved 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.360 to Melbourne with his family, and we have an old 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.800 theater in Melbourne called the Astor you know, which is 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.080 still in operation. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:42.680 Which is brilliant. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.080 Yes, But he saw Wizard of Oz at the Astore 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.080 Theater for the first time and he remembers going to 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.000 Lunar Park and riding the Big Dipper for the first 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.280 time and then going and watching The Wizard of Oz. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.360 And that was one of my favorite stories for my 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.600 grandfather to tell me. And he said something really interesting 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.359 about it, and that is that films they're nostalgia. You know, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.840 you could be transported back in time to the first 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.280 time that you'd seen it. And he said, whenever he 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.399 watched Wizard of Oz, he could smell the popcorn and 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.479 the ferry floss at Lunar Park. And I think, you know, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:18.959 it's the same for us. I think, you know, some 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:20.960 of those movies that we grew up watching, like you know, 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.960 Et and Indiana Jones and Star Wars, a lot. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.280 Of those favorite those films. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:31.920 In particular, were so so impressive they left a timestamp. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.840 I remember seeing ET and remember being as a young 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.520 girl being brought to tears in this way. But I 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:44.680 remember thinking, like, you know, oh my gosh, like a movie, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.720 I can emotionally feel feel something that makes me like physical. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.280 I remember I was like six or something when Mum 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.440 like put it on in the you know, the VHS player, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.560 and I remember just thinking, oh my gosh, like how 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.200 can how can like this affect me so much? I 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.520 think in my little brain, my little kid brain, I 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.560 was just sort of like, I didn't know how to 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.200 voice it, but it was just such an emotional experience 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.240 to me. I was in love with this little creature 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.760 and the way that that had been constructed to make 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.959 us feel was just like the most special, special feeling 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:14.280 for me. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.879 I was gonna also ask you about you know. I 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.480 was looking at your entry video and it was hilarious 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.200 and I really enjoyed your impersonations and you know your 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:24.879 puns that you were able to put into it. But 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.800 who is your best? Like this is terrible because I'm 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.760 gonna make you do it, so just prepare yourself. But 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.000 who's your best impersonation? 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.800 I can do one. Many many people can do a 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.919 better version than me. But I do do a pretty 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:40.840 okay Jennifer Coolidge. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.639 Oh brilliant. I love it. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.920 Alrighty, you're gonna have to what do you need? 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:45.480 What do you need? 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.239 Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do a three 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:50.040 two one county. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.480 All right, let's Alex and Canning in alright three two 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:55.600 one scene? 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:00.200 Oh you look like July makes me want to I 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:05.439 dug real bad. That wasn't That wasn't my best. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.159 Sorry, but she's amazing. It doesn't work out on the 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.040