Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload the podcast last week.
Speaker 2: Theyby welcome back guys to TV Reload.
Speaker 1: My name is Benjamin Norris and on this podcast I
Speaker 1: go behind the scenes with the biggest players in television.
Speaker 1: Each episode you will get a front row seat with
Speaker 1: content makers like executive producers, writers, editors and casting agents.
Speaker 1: What's the talent that we see on our screens? TV
Speaker 1: Reload reloads the shows that we are all currently watching
Speaker 1: and gives you a better insight into our television industry
Speaker 1: and our streaming services. Today on the podcast, I have
Speaker 1: a very special chat with the latest big name at
Speaker 1: Prime Video Australia. Following a three week search, Prime Video
Speaker 1: has found Australia's biggest content junkie and her name is
Speaker 1: Alex Bain. Originally from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Alex has
Speaker 1: snagged the highly coverted Prime Video buff roll with her
Speaker 1: creative entry, which was stacked with entertaining personalities and puns
Speaker 1: that proved to the judges that she's the right girl
Speaker 1: for the job. During the next three months, Alex will
Speaker 1: be paid forty thousand dollars to stream an unbelievable amount
Speaker 1: of film and TV and recommend us as the audience
Speaker 1: the best content, as well as a whole lot of
Speaker 1: other perks, which include access to red carpet events, exclusive
Speaker 1: viewing of prime video content, and so much more. I
Speaker 1: will ask Alex how she managed to win the gig,
Speaker 1: what shows and films make her qualified for the role,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you will get a snapshot of her
Speaker 1: fabulous personality that I'm sure Amazon Prime are going to
Speaker 1: be talking about for years. However, let's get started on
Speaker 1: today's episode as I welcome Alex Baine to the podcast
Speaker 1: TV Reload.
Speaker 3: I mean there's a little bit of like Imposters intern
Speaker 3: there as well.
Speaker 2: Tell me that you've built a time machine kind of
Speaker 2: a Galorio.
Speaker 3: You know you already do this. Give it a go
Speaker 3: on like a bigger level bomb extremes. Bon I just
Speaker 3: love discussing, you know, film and TV. I love when
Speaker 3: someone disagrees with me. I love hearing their their opinions.
Speaker 1: I came here to save you, Oh yeah, and who's
Speaker 1: going to come to save you?
Speaker 3: I remember seeing ET and remember being as a young
Speaker 3: girl being brought to tears in this way. Oh I
Speaker 3: do do a pretty okay. Jennifer Coolidge. Hi there, Alex Bain, Hello,
Speaker 3: Hi Ben, I'm very well, thank you. How are you?
Speaker 1: That is a celebrity name, if ever I've heard one.
Speaker 1: As soon as I read Alex Bain, I was like,
Speaker 1: who is this punny to speak to her?
Speaker 2: She sounds amazing.
Speaker 3: Oh well, thank you. I didn't even give it to myself,
Speaker 3: so thanks mom and dad. And I like it though.
Speaker 3: I never really saw the worth in my name until
Speaker 3: The Dark Knight Rises was released in around twenty twelve,
Speaker 3: I think, and it became a running joke. That was
Speaker 3: Gotham's recording, so that was that was a bit of fun.
Speaker 3: But that's where my nickname Bane comes from. Everyone calls
Speaker 3: me Vaines.
Speaker 2: Well on brand that.
Speaker 1: We've already got a popcorn for reference in this chat
Speaker 1: to The Dark Knight Rises, which was my least favorite
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan Batman film.
Speaker 3: No, I love to hear this. I love. I love
Speaker 3: a discussion about movies, especially when someone has a different
Speaker 3: opinion to me. I didn't love the first one he
Speaker 3: made with I think it was called The It was
Speaker 3: just before The Dark Knight Men begins, Batman begins, thank you,
Speaker 3: who's the video buff here? I really and then of
Speaker 3: course The Dark Knight just blew everyone out of the water.
Speaker 3: But I love to hear that. I do feel like
Speaker 3: Baane did a lot of the heavy lifting in that.
Speaker 3: I feel like he was probably the best part of
Speaker 3: The Dark Knight Rises, which was weird for.
Speaker 1: Me because I'm a really big fan and it annoys
Speaker 1: my friends. I'm a big Anne Hathaway fan, and so
Speaker 1: I was so excited about Anne Hathaway being Catwoman, and
Speaker 1: all my other friends were like, no, she's poorly cast.
Speaker 1: And then when I watched the movie, she did an
Speaker 1: amazing job, but it still didn't stay in the zeitgeist
Speaker 1: of like Michelle fire for as Catwoman in Batman.
Speaker 3: I completely agree, and even like I love Zoe Kravitz,
Speaker 3: I think she's just incredible. She was actually very very
Speaker 3: well cast, but in the Newest Batman. But I met
Speaker 3: Michelle Pfeiffer, and it's probably a bit of nostalgia as well.
Speaker 3: She was I think with these nineties movies, she was
Speaker 3: allowed to be so camp and that's what I loved
Speaker 3: about it. She just she just bought it, like she
Speaker 3: went from that, you know, the damselnd of stress, and
Speaker 3: she was just allowed to be super camp and silly,
Speaker 3: and I think that that's like these new incarnations with
Speaker 3: Anne and Zoe, that they're a little bit more, a
Speaker 3: little bit more of the time, a little bit more modern,
Speaker 3: and a little bit more you could see these people
Speaker 3: existing in some alternate universe Gotham. But oh my god,
Speaker 3: the Michelle Michelle Phiper as Catwoman is just iconic to me.
Speaker 1: So congratulations on your winning of the Prime Video buff role.
Speaker 1: This must be quite exciting for you.
Speaker 3: I think the best way to describe it, it's like
Speaker 3: a I mean, an alternate universe. You know, there's it's
Speaker 3: a timeline when I've woken up and everything's like what
Speaker 3: I was preparing myself to not win when I when
Speaker 3: I found out, But then I just left a job.
Speaker 3: I'd pretty much been made redundant at a job, and
Speaker 3: I had given myself a month to find something and
Speaker 3: a lot of the day after the last day at
Speaker 3: my job, and I was a bit stressed and bit teary.
Speaker 3: The day after I get I get a call telling
Speaker 3: me I'm short listed, and it's just since then, I've
Speaker 3: just been living in this alternate reality. But it's wonderful,
Speaker 3: and I mean, you know, as well of like feeling like,
Speaker 3: you know, you're plucked out of this this group of
Speaker 3: people and you know sort of given this this opportunity,
Speaker 3: and I mean there's a little bit of like imposter
Speaker 3: syndrome there as well. For me.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, you know who me, you know, like
Speaker 1: you want it, and people go, oh, you wanted it.
Speaker 2: You know, you applied, You've entered the competition.
Speaker 1: At the same time, it's still you know, we all
Speaker 1: still have our insecurities, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And you know you're wanting to sort of deliver because
Speaker 3: you know, I mean these visiting these cool offices and
Speaker 3: meeting these amazingly talented people and it's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: I mean, it's wonderful. I can't complain about anything. I'm
Speaker 3: almost I'm too excited to sleep this week, but it's yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been a whirlwind.
Speaker 2: How did this come about? Like, how did this?
Speaker 4: How did you find out about the competition?
Speaker 3: I had actually seen it online. I can't remember if
Speaker 3: I saw it by an email, I think, And I
Speaker 3: was thinking about it and I was kind of running
Speaker 3: over in my head what I would do because I
Speaker 3: thought that it was a two minute video, which is
Speaker 3: more time than I normally give myself to make silly
Speaker 3: tiktoks or you know, because it's mostly sixty seconds or
Speaker 3: reviews and stuff like that. So I was thinking in
Speaker 3: my head, what would I do if I applied for that,
Speaker 3: you know, the kind of way you'd think, you know,
Speaker 3: what would I say if I want an Oscar? It
Speaker 3: was just out, you know, out there in your mind,
Speaker 3: what would I say if I land on the moon.
Speaker 3: And then and then I a friend of a friend
Speaker 3: of mine at the accounting firm I used to work out,
Speaker 3: so shout out to Mac, the accountant. He messaged me
Speaker 3: the link and he said, you should apply for this,
Speaker 3: And I hadn't. I hadn't mentioned it to anyone, so
Speaker 3: I just sort of took it as a confirmation and
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, yeah, and we'd become friends, and
Speaker 3: I'd become friends with a lot of people at this
Speaker 3: place because I realized that if I was posting these
Speaker 3: like there were really low budget one minute videos. In fact,
Speaker 3: Christopher Nolan's Interstellar was the very first review I posted.
Speaker 3: But it started conversations with like people in my you know,
Speaker 3: thirty person accounting office where I was the receptionist. So
Speaker 3: I liked just having conversations with people, and he must Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maca just was like, oh, you know you already do this,
Speaker 3: give it a go on like a bigger level, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I took it as confirmation. And I'd already kind of
Speaker 3: been thinking over some ideas. So I just made the video,
Speaker 3: hoped for the best, applied in a lunch break on
Speaker 3: like my last week of work or something, my last
Speaker 3: fortnight of work, and then and then didn't think of
Speaker 3: it until I got the call, because it just, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was It was out of the realm of possibilities
Speaker 3: that someone would call me, you know, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. You know, you enter competitions and you're just like,
Speaker 3: you know, see how it goes. But yeah, as you
Speaker 3: would know, sometimes yeah it works out.
Speaker 1: It does it does? I think you know, once you've applied,
Speaker 1: you've got to leave it alone. I know lots of
Speaker 1: people who apply for shows these days, and because I
Speaker 1: work as a journalist, I often interview a lot of
Speaker 1: the casting people, a lot of the executive producers. I
Speaker 1: then have my friends ringing me and saying can you
Speaker 1: ring them? Can you ask them and say that my
Speaker 1: audition's there, And I'm like it's not like that, you know.
Speaker 1: And it also also when you push people like that,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to work out.
Speaker 2: I just think.
Speaker 1: TikTok and making short, sharp videos is a real skill.
Speaker 1: And then when I went back and was able to
Speaker 1: look at some of the work that you've done and
Speaker 1: you know, with your reviews and your things on TikTok,
Speaker 1: and I was like, it's a real art form and
Speaker 1: I've got no ability to do that whatsoever, because I
Speaker 1: can't edit and censor myself down to that sort of level.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's my age, maybe it's because I'm in my forties,
Speaker 1: But you have a real skill at that. Where does
Speaker 1: that come from that? Where does that creative side of
Speaker 1: you come? Then you can do tiktoking that sounds so old,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: What's really funny, Like you speak beautifully and you can
Speaker 3: you can get things across in it in a really,
Speaker 3: really good way. I do need to edit myself down.
Speaker 3: I've always felt more comfortable, I guess writing and pre
Speaker 3: recording and editing it down because I tend to have
Speaker 3: a lot of thoughts and they go all over the place.
Speaker 3: I've always been told like I waffle a bit, which
Speaker 3: I do, and I'm trying to like mid the Budded,
Speaker 3: but I need to edit it down. I started doing
Speaker 3: like YouTube reviews, and I was just adding all these
Speaker 3: thoughts in, like this was like, I don't know, twenty
Speaker 3: thirteen or something, and I was adding all these thoughts
Speaker 3: in that just weren't really necessary, you know. By the
Speaker 3: third joke, it was starting to get a bit old,
Speaker 3: and so I realized I could make a greater impact.
Speaker 3: It was actually before reels that I started doing the
Speaker 3: reviews on Instagram, so I just put them as like
Speaker 3: you know, those like landscape one minute videos that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was I think before the carousels as well well,
Speaker 3: So I just, you know, you could only make them
Speaker 3: a minute long. So being forced to condense it down,
Speaker 3: I had to get to the point it had to
Speaker 3: be sort of short, shorter, and sharper. And I feel
Speaker 3: like it just had more impact that way because I waffle.
Speaker 3: I feel like, but that's a part of.
Speaker 1: Your charm, Like listening to you now, like you know
Speaker 1: a little bit of is kind of on brand for you,
Speaker 1: which is kind of endearing.
Speaker 2: I actually think that.
Speaker 1: We need more people to waffle and be, you know,
Speaker 1: more people on television talking with their real voices. You know,
Speaker 1: we're so nice old and you know we're told to
Speaker 1: be word perfect, where a lot of the nuances and
Speaker 1: a lot of the ways in which we relate to
Speaker 1: people is by the mistake in our language. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: why they say don't not to say you know, when
Speaker 1: you're a presenter, never say um. However, arms are really
Speaker 1: it's a pivot in a conversation. It's where you are
Speaker 1: listening and you are taking what they're saying on board
Speaker 1: and it's still evolving in your mind where you might
Speaker 1: be saying something you think and then you can pivot.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's the worst in the world
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: Especially really nice, because I remember as a receptionist one
Speaker 3: time my boss overheard a conversation with me and she said,
Speaker 3: you need to stop saying um and like. And I
Speaker 3: was so I was so ultra aware of it that
Speaker 3: I think I ended up saying it more.
Speaker 1: And you do the more you say it to people,
Speaker 1: you know, in the auditions. I can't remember the original
Speaker 1: reality shows being made in Australia. They used to get
Speaker 1: the people who'd been shortlisted and they they'd say tell
Speaker 1: us in you know, three sentences why you would be
Speaker 1: good to be on this show, but you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to say the word. As soon as you said that
Speaker 1: to them, it was hilarious because they just would go
Speaker 1: and it's like, that is nervousness. That's nervousness. That's implanting
Speaker 1: it into you.
Speaker 2: But you know, Alex, just.
Speaker 1: Talking to you today, you know you're you're very engaging
Speaker 1: because of those nuances. So I'd be careful not to
Speaker 1: lose a lot of the waffles.
Speaker 3: Thank you, you know, thank yeah with reviews because I'm like,
Speaker 3: I've got sixty to ninety seconds. I think it helps
Speaker 3: because yeah, I guess you can incorporate the waffle in.
Speaker 3: I just think it helps to get there, you go.
Speaker 3: I just think it helps to get to the point sometimes.
Speaker 3: So that's why it's a platform that works for me.
Speaker 3: I've seen it. I've seen a reaction video I posted
Speaker 3: for Stranger Things a few years ago, and it just
Speaker 3: it just evolves into a bit of a mess. So
Speaker 3: if I've got some sort of a structure, it tends
Speaker 3: to work, like like talking with yourself and how you
Speaker 3: lead a conversation. So well, I do I do enjoy that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, now I'm saying because I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting though, you know, with the podcast, I enjoy
Speaker 1: the arms and the hours from people. However, when the
Speaker 1: editing happens at the podcast, they often take out the
Speaker 1: arms and the arts, and I often fight for the
Speaker 1: arms and ours to be left in there because I
Speaker 1: genuinely believe that some of the relatability, that's some of
Speaker 1: the ways in which people enjoy listening to people as
Speaker 1: much as it's true because it's authentic ry, Absolutely, it's authentic.
Speaker 1: People want to have real people these days are listening
Speaker 1: to podcasts, listening to conversations with people because it's a companionship.
Speaker 1: A lot of these people, a lot of the podcasts
Speaker 1: that they're listening to are their friends, and so they
Speaker 1: want them to sound real.
Speaker 2: They don't want them to sound like you know.
Speaker 3: I noticed it with my mum, who's a super excitable
Speaker 3: primary school teacher. She's super cute, and sometimes I'm like,
Speaker 3: just get to the point. So if there's a there's
Speaker 3: a point to a video, because I know I'm like
Speaker 3: that sometimes like instead of a to B or a Z,
Speaker 3: it's like a f y J fack to a you know,
Speaker 3: So it's it can help to have a bit of
Speaker 3: focus and direction. But I'll remember that. That's really nice advice.
Speaker 3: That a bit of a bit of waffles. Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1: Don't beat yourself. Yeah, that's the thing. Don't beat yourself
Speaker 1: up over it. You know, you have to lean into
Speaker 1: who you are. You know, we all have to lean
Speaker 1: into who we are, because if we beat ourselves up
Speaker 1: for all of these things that we don't have, trying
Speaker 1: to make ourselves like somebody else, then we're just like
Speaker 1: everybody else, you know what.
Speaker 3: I mean, Like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And you build an audience better by just leaning into yourself.
Speaker 1: But I was going to ask you, you know what,
Speaker 1: why do you think you want? You know, what makes
Speaker 1: you Australia's biggest content junkie.
Speaker 3: I don't know I'm the biggest. I feel sometimes like I'm
Speaker 3: the biggest because I spend so much time consuming you know,
Speaker 3: film and TV, and I love discussing it with people.
Speaker 3: I love opening up that line of conversation. But I'm
Speaker 3: also super excited about it. I remember I was out,
Speaker 3: you know, having some drinks with friends in Melbourne a
Speaker 3: few months ago, and somebody mentioned yellowjackets at another table
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, my god, that ses. I
Speaker 3: just I just love discussing, you know, film and TV.
Speaker 3: I love when someone disagrees with me. I love hearing
Speaker 3: their their opinions. I love hearing how something because of
Speaker 3: someone's history or how they've grown up might be really
Speaker 3: triggering for them, or as something like you really comforting
Speaker 3: for them. You know, my little sister at the moment
Speaker 3: is obsessed with Gilmore Girls, and she says it's like
Speaker 3: she's she lives in Berlin, and she says it's because
Speaker 3: she's like she's homesick and it reminds her of being
Speaker 3: with Mom and I and whereas I just I like
Speaker 3: Gilmore Girls, but it's not something I'd be switching on
Speaker 3: at the moment. I love how people associate with things
Speaker 3: and why a certain movie means, you know, so much
Speaker 3: to someone. You know, I was just talking to a
Speaker 3: lovely girl, Hannah here, and she was telling me just
Speaker 3: you know how the Lion King was just like part
Speaker 3: of her like formative years, and it made her feel
Speaker 3: better about herself and you know, the challenges you face
Speaker 3: your life. Just I mean, I know that sounds a
Speaker 3: little bit wishy washy, but you know, I remember where
Speaker 3: I was when I first saw The Godfather and what
Speaker 3: I was studying and how it made me feel, which
Speaker 3: was in love with young Appucino and obsessed with Yeah,
Speaker 3: obsessed with Coppler's work. But it's like when a big
Speaker 3: world event happens, right like, where were you when this happened?
Speaker 3: My my mom the best stories about when her and
Speaker 3: my dad, who aren't together anymore, but when they were dating,
Speaker 3: going and seeing Star Wars and how to her it
Speaker 3: seems like magic. They've never seen anything like that before.
Speaker 3: And to this day she's still, you know, obsessed with
Speaker 3: Harrison Ford and talks about it. She said, it was
Speaker 3: like it was like magic, And she said, can you
Speaker 3: imagine what the Wizard of Oz would have been like
Speaker 3: for people who are used to seeing black and white
Speaker 3: and it starts black and white and suddenly it's color.
Speaker 3: You would it would feel like witchcraft.
Speaker 1: You know. My grandfather was originally from Bendigo but moved
Speaker 1: to Melbourne with his family, and we have an old
Speaker 1: theater in Melbourne called the Astor you know, which is
Speaker 1: still in operation.
Speaker 2: Which is brilliant.
Speaker 1: Yes, But he saw Wizard of Oz at the Astore
Speaker 1: Theater for the first time and he remembers going to
Speaker 1: Lunar Park and riding the Big Dipper for the first
Speaker 1: time and then going and watching The Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 1: And that was one of my favorite stories for my
Speaker 1: grandfather to tell me. And he said something really interesting
Speaker 1: about it, and that is that films they're nostalgia. You know,
Speaker 1: you could be transported back in time to the first
Speaker 1: time that you'd seen it. And he said, whenever he
Speaker 1: watched Wizard of Oz, he could smell the popcorn and
Speaker 1: the ferry floss at Lunar Park. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the same for us. I think, you know, some
Speaker 1: of those movies that we grew up watching, like you know,
Speaker 1: Et and Indiana Jones and Star Wars, a lot.
Speaker 4: Of those favorite those films.
Speaker 1: In particular, were so so impressive they left a timestamp.
Speaker 3: I remember seeing ET and remember being as a young
Speaker 3: girl being brought to tears in this way. But I
Speaker 3: remember thinking, like, you know, oh my gosh, like a movie,
Speaker 3: I can emotionally feel feel something that makes me like physical.
Speaker 3: I remember I was like six or something when Mum
Speaker 3: like put it on in the you know, the VHS player,
Speaker 3: and I remember just thinking, oh my gosh, like how
Speaker 3: can how can like this affect me so much? I
Speaker 3: think in my little brain, my little kid brain, I
Speaker 3: was just sort of like, I didn't know how to
Speaker 3: voice it, but it was just such an emotional experience
Speaker 3: to me. I was in love with this little creature
Speaker 3: and the way that that had been constructed to make
Speaker 3: us feel was just like the most special, special feeling
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: I was gonna also ask you about you know. I
Speaker 1: was looking at your entry video and it was hilarious
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed your impersonations and you know your
Speaker 1: puns that you were able to put into it. But
Speaker 1: who is your best? Like this is terrible because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make you do it, so just prepare yourself. But
Speaker 1: who's your best impersonation?
Speaker 3: I can do one. Many many people can do a
Speaker 3: better version than me. But I do do a pretty
Speaker 3: okay Jennifer Coolidge.
Speaker 2: Oh brilliant. I love it.
Speaker 4: Alrighty, you're gonna have to what do you need?
Speaker 2: What do you need?
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do a three
Speaker 3: two one county.
Speaker 1: All right, let's Alex and Canning in alright three two
Speaker 1: one scene?
Speaker 3: Oh you look like July makes me want to I
Speaker 3: dug real bad. That wasn't That wasn't my best.
Speaker 1: Sorry, but she's amazing. It doesn't work out on the
Speaker 1: red carpets. If it doesn't work out as a journalist,
Speaker 1: I think you have a career as Jennifer Coolidge. Whenever
Speaker 1: she's sick.
Speaker 3: Oh, Jennifer Collidge would I would be I would be
Speaker 3: Jennifer Coolidge as anything she is. She is Queen Coolidge
Speaker 3: to me, do.
Speaker 1: You have any reporters or journalists or media personalities that
Speaker 1: you look up to, like, you know, this is such
Speaker 1: an exciting opportunity for you, and obviously in these roles,
Speaker 1: you know you can let people influence you. You know,
Speaker 1: do you have any influences on the style of I
Speaker 1: guess reporting that you're going to do.
Speaker 3: As far as like way back, and I'm talking like
Speaker 3: twenty years ago, I was actually such a huge Osher
Speaker 3: fan and I met him on Monday, and I was
Speaker 3: just really sort of fangirling and screaming internally because I
Speaker 3: remember him from Channel V and he had the long hair.
Speaker 3: He was so lovely. He was just so lovely and
Speaker 3: he's such he's such a fan. I knew he was
Speaker 3: a music fan obviously, but he's such a film and
Speaker 3: TV fan and was talking about these great adaptations and
Speaker 3: and had these amazing recommendations. And I love talking to
Speaker 3: a family, like the story you just had about you know,
Speaker 3: your grandpa, what you remember about movies and stuff like
Speaker 3: he he was he was telling me about the experience
Speaker 3: of watching a movie after reading the book and how
Speaker 3: it was just such a strong adaptation. And I love that.
Speaker 3: I love a great adaptation because you don't see it
Speaker 3: all the time, and it was it was It was
Speaker 3: sort of unreal because I grew up watching him, and
Speaker 3: how how easy it was for him to bring out
Speaker 3: you know, like like what you can do to bring
Speaker 3: out good answers from people, and how at ease he
Speaker 3: was just talking to anyone and and and I remember
Speaker 3: I remember watching when Umi and Jane Mathis but selected
Speaker 3: as like the TV presenters. And Bomb took to me
Speaker 3: when I was fifteen to the Channel B studios and
Speaker 3: took a photo of me outside of it. And it
Speaker 3: was like two thousand and one, and I had a
Speaker 3: one shouldered chop on with an American flag And what
Speaker 3: was I thinking?
Speaker 1: But the best we were all wearing that. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe not mad, you know, but I wanted to. I
Speaker 1: love all of those people. I love all the inspirations
Speaker 1: that we pick up along the way. But before you go,
Speaker 1: I have to ask you, what are we watching for summer?
Speaker 1: What is your picks for what I need to watch
Speaker 1: for summer.
Speaker 3: Hunter season two is coming out, and I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: like this is I literally called my mom last night
Speaker 3: and I'm like, have you seen Hunters? Because I get
Speaker 3: mad that she's seen everything before me, and she's just like, oh,
Speaker 3: of course, She's like that came out years ago, and
Speaker 3: I'm already like, so season two of that is coming out.
Speaker 3: It's like, have you seen it?
Speaker 2: No, I've never seen it before.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, and I feel like I'm the ultimate
Speaker 1: pop culture person.
Speaker 4: But we've failed. We've failed Ali, I know.
Speaker 3: I know, I've got exactly the same. And Mary from
Speaker 3: blad Bible's like, no, it's it's good. It's really good.
Speaker 3: And to hear her say that because she and I
Speaker 3: don't disagree on everything, so she and I don't agree
Speaker 3: on everything, like, yeah, she's not a fan of the boys.
Speaker 3: Love I love the boys, and pretty much everyone I've
Speaker 3: spoken to loves the boys, but it's very much it's
Speaker 3: like the boys only they're Nazi hunters and it's just satisfying.
Speaker 3: It's got our Pacino and it's so good to see
Speaker 3: al Pacino doing something that he's like, super worthy of him.
Speaker 3: It's got a great cast. I just am absolutely hooked.
Speaker 3: I'm about to manage the first season and the second
Speaker 3: season is coming out so just in time. And we
Speaker 3: talked about we talked about Coolidge before, but and I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to I've done a little you know, sneaky
Speaker 3: squirrel watch of it one of the purpose of the job.
Speaker 3: But Shotgun Wedding, which is like a j LO fun
Speaker 3: time rom com. I didn't I didn't realize what it
Speaker 3: was about. And I didn't realize that Coolidge is in it,
Speaker 3: and she's just so hilarious and I cannot wait to
Speaker 3: watch it with my friends and a bottle of wine.
Speaker 3: It's the best.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that when I that's right up, my Alliwell,
Speaker 1: I need to ask you quick story. What's something from
Speaker 1: behind the scenes of you getting this amazing opportunity kind
Speaker 1: of like a behind the scenes secret. Everyone who comes
Speaker 1: on the podcast has to reveal something, So is there
Speaker 1: a funny story? Is there any kind of mishap that
Speaker 1: happened along the way.
Speaker 3: Probably like Colin Gosha Andrew G was up there. I
Speaker 3: didn't call him that, but I was like, I reme
Speaker 3: you was G, and I'm like, oh, I don't know
Speaker 3: if I was like disrespectful. He was very cool with that,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I hope he was.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on the podcast and
Speaker 1: having this chat. You were so fantastic and you're so
Speaker 1: full of life and I can't wait to watch to
Speaker 1: see what you do with this opportunity, because I think
Speaker 1: you'll do an amazing job.