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Speaker 1: Blaze who has just had her massive reveal on The
Speaker 1: Mask Singer this week. If you missed Shanea's performance as
Speaker 1: the Singing Blue Bottle, you can check it out on
Speaker 1: ten Play, and you really should because it was fantastic
Speaker 1: to see her smash those songs on Monday Night. Shane
Speaker 1: is an Australian interior design I'm a television personality writer
Speaker 1: and former singer. She's best known for her work as
Speaker 1: a co host on Selling Houses Australia and as a
Speaker 1: judge on the Block. There has been much controversy about
Speaker 1: her time on Network ten singing show, as The Mar
Speaker 1: Singer is on at the same time as her other show,
Speaker 1: The Block, which we all know is on Channel nine.
Speaker 1: I personally am a huge fan of Shana and it
Speaker 1: is a real joy to be able to chat with
Speaker 1: her today. I will ask Shana if she asks Channel
Speaker 1: nine for permission and which co stars from the Block
Speaker 1: have contacted her for congratulations. Shana will discuss her singing
Speaker 1: voice and how she managed to keep this gig a
Speaker 1: secret even from her family and friends. We will talk
Speaker 1: about Shanea's ability to sing and if she plans to
Speaker 1: focus on a singing career now that everyone well and
Speaker 1: truly knows that she has that voice. Plus, we will
Speaker 1: get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes of The
Speaker 1: Mass Singer, which returns next Monday Night at seven thirty
Speaker 1: on Network ten. And if you've fallen a little bit behind,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, before you can catch up on ten
Speaker 1: play anyway, let's bring Shana into the podcast. I absolutely
Speaker 1: loved catching up with Shane, and I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 1: this very interesting episode of TV reload.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 2: Then, Hey, how are you? What a surprise? Dadda Shane?
Speaker 1: I always knew that you could sing, and I knew
Speaker 1: that you could sing well, so that part of it
Speaker 1: wasn't a big shock for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kind of knew because I knew you'd sung at
Speaker 1: pubs and clubs, and I knew you'd kind of been
Speaker 1: in a band because I remember talking to some girlfriends,
Speaker 1: because you're friends with the whole of very famous singers
Speaker 1: like Tina Arena, Danny Minogue, anyone that can sing in
Speaker 1: Australia that's a woman basically, and I knew that all
Speaker 1: of these women that would get together as friends were
Speaker 1: all very good singers. So yeah, it wasn't a surprise
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: Oh well, there you go. Did you know it was me?
Speaker 2: I did? I picked you immediately, you worked it out immediately.
Speaker 1: The first episode that you sung, I picked you straight
Speaker 1: away and I just you, Oh my gosh. And then
Speaker 1: the second episode again and I'm watching it with my partner,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's Shane of Blaze, it has to be.
Speaker 1: But the thing that through me was that I was like,
Speaker 1: you just couldn't be on two networks at the same time.
Speaker 3: That's what was so good about it. I loved it.
Speaker 2: How did this come about?
Speaker 1: Did you need, like in an indemnity form, you know,
Speaker 1: like when you're in school you get an indemnity form
Speaker 1: to go to sports.
Speaker 2: Did you have to get one of those from Channel nine?
Speaker 3: No, it was just a verbal question and answer.
Speaker 4: Really, it was one of those things, Look, you know,
Speaker 4: this is what I want to do, and the way
Speaker 4: my contract was they I was under no obligation not
Speaker 4: to do it. But it is just one of those
Speaker 4: respect things where you go, I want to do Are
Speaker 4: you okay with it?
Speaker 3: Yep, they're cool.
Speaker 4: And I think that's what's so great with what I
Speaker 4: do with Channel nine is they love me to do
Speaker 4: what I love and they won't stop me. So I
Speaker 4: was very proud of being able to do that at
Speaker 4: the same time, but I sort of felt like that
Speaker 4: was my little superpower of people think, oh, I can't
Speaker 4: be she can't be on two networks, So I thought, yeah,
Speaker 4: that one works for me.
Speaker 1: I just assumed you were like, may do it and
Speaker 1: beg for forgiveness later. But I guess that's probably not
Speaker 1: how to have a successful care you're on television.
Speaker 4: No, No, you've got to respect the people that you
Speaker 4: work with, for sure.
Speaker 1: Have you heard from Scotty cam and Shelly Craft? That's
Speaker 1: what people want to know. Did they text you and
Speaker 1: say that they'd seen the performance? I guess they'd have
Speaker 1: to watch it back on ten play.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: No, well, I know Shelley's busy at the moment, and
Speaker 4: Scotty's busy too, and Neil's traveling, so Darren was the
Speaker 4: only one just going what the oh my god.
Speaker 1: Darren would have had to have known that was you.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've had like an after block drinks and
Speaker 1: gone to karaoke at some point.
Speaker 2: He had to have known that voice was yours.
Speaker 4: Well, we actually sing on set half the time, like
Speaker 4: you know, we have a ball doing that.
Speaker 3: But no, he didn't let on that in you.
Speaker 4: But it was only when it was revealed, because it
Speaker 4: was one of those cases where until it was.
Speaker 3: Sort of announced and sort of happening, going what's going on?
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 4: But I was overseas when it was announced at the
Speaker 4: same time, so I wasn't really accessible.
Speaker 1: Well, I love that it's pre recorded because I was
Speaker 1: texting chrisy Swan and I was like, shanea blaze, I
Speaker 1: picked it first week and she was like me too,
Speaker 1: And she was so annoyed that she didn't go with
Speaker 1: her gut instinct.
Speaker 4: She said that to me, and it was just it
Speaker 4: all just threw her because she had texted me going, Hi,
Speaker 4: where are you and I doing the block you know,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah, and so.
Speaker 3: She was just like okay, So you know, she was fishing.
Speaker 4: And I was laughing because I'm in the like, you know,
Speaker 4: in the hardaway cabins out the back when she's texting me, no, no,
Speaker 4: just busy, you know, when he comes back to Melbourne, sunshining,
Speaker 4: lah La going for a walk.
Speaker 2: She was so funny.
Speaker 1: I spoke to quite a few celebrities and all of
Speaker 1: them were talking about it. They were like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this was such a great performance. It was so good
Speaker 1: to what she's singing, and it was really nice to
Speaker 1: hear how many celebrities spoke so highly of you, Like
Speaker 1: Chrissy texted me back and just said, you know, isn't
Speaker 1: Chana just gorgeous? And was the general consensus from so
Speaker 1: many people. That must be really heartwarming to hear.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so lovely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's that's what I'm so happy about doing
Speaker 4: the Ma Singer is because you've got the mask on
Speaker 4: and no one knows who you are, so they get
Speaker 4: to hear your voice and what you're doing before you revealed,
Speaker 4: so that way they're judging your performance rather than knowing
Speaker 4: who you are.
Speaker 3: So that's what I loved about it. But then also.
Speaker 4: Comes with it, like, you know, what if I did
Speaker 4: a really bad job anyway and I take off the
Speaker 4: mask and go, oh, please go back to your day job.
Speaker 2: Not at all an actual fact.
Speaker 1: I went back and I mean, this is how much
Speaker 1: I love you. I went back after watching it to
Speaker 1: find on YouTube different performances of you singing, which there
Speaker 1: are a few of online as the Christmas Carols, which
Speaker 1: was amazing, But like I got performances on the Mask
Speaker 1: Singer under that pressure, you sounded the best that.
Speaker 2: You've ever sounded like.
Speaker 1: It was incredible, like some of those notes that you
Speaker 1: were holding even when you had the mask off. Because
Speaker 1: you know, if you've watched the show before some of
Speaker 1: the slabs, Yeah, take the masks off and they're a
Speaker 1: little bit that they have to sing is always a
Speaker 1: bit atrocious as far as you're that's what I think.
Speaker 2: That's me putting words into people's mouth, but it's atrocious.
Speaker 3: I'd do funny.
Speaker 2: You were the best, Like you just lifted it again.
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
Speaker 3: Ah then you just making me feel so warm. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I was sick as a dog. That's the hardest thing,
Speaker 3: in the fact that.
Speaker 4: I had been training all year because I was doing
Speaker 4: some other music that you know, I just wanted to
Speaker 4: be ready for.
Speaker 3: But you know, before it started, I.
Speaker 4: Was so sick and I'd lost my voice, and so
Speaker 4: the frustration of trying to sing. But the fact I
Speaker 4: could hit those notes while I was while I was
Speaker 4: really sick, actually warmed.
Speaker 3: My heart, going oh okay, yeah, I've got this, I've
Speaker 3: got this. So thank you so much. I really, I
Speaker 3: really absolutely loved it.
Speaker 4: And I think the fact that it was such a
Speaker 4: joyous experience behind the scenes, everybody was wonderful. You sort
Speaker 4: of feel at your best, everyone's encouraging you at the
Speaker 4: same time, and I think, you know that sort of
Speaker 4: lifted me at the same.
Speaker 1: Time, Well, I just want to hear more singing from you.
Speaker 1: I think that you need. This is my thoughts, just
Speaker 1: putting it out. Yeah, hopefully your manager's listening. But I
Speaker 1: just want to see, like SHANEA Blaze cabaret night on
Speaker 1: tour around Australia where you pick similar songs like Dion
Speaker 1: Warwick was a great one for you, but like just
Speaker 1: some of those, there's a real audience out there that
Speaker 1: would love to see you do that.
Speaker 4: Watch this space because I was I'm going to do
Speaker 4: some performances next year.
Speaker 3: They haven't been booked in yet, but definitely. You know,
Speaker 3: I've been writing for a couple of years my own
Speaker 3: music and.
Speaker 4: Then also doing some covers. So it's really warmed my heart,
Speaker 4: you know, wanting to do this. And if the reaction
Speaker 4: has been like what you're saying, just you know, I'm
Speaker 4: taken aback.
Speaker 2: Thank you, it's off tap. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I heard that your daughter in law it's Emma, right,
Speaker 1: I think it's your that's right. Yeah, I heard that
Speaker 1: she was onto you and you, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: had to throw her off. But what about your own kids,
Speaker 1: Carlie and Jest, did they have any idea and like,
Speaker 1: how did you throw them off the Scand.
Speaker 4: The great thing is that I was away overseas so
Speaker 4: they couldn't. We were only texting, so that was really exciting.
Speaker 4: But before it was so funny. So before we even
Speaker 4: started the show, the kids were all at a barbecue
Speaker 4: together and Emma said, right, if Eddie and Mum's going
Speaker 4: to do Master Singer, I reckon it's this year. And
Speaker 4: she said that you know she's up there she went
Speaker 4: to Sydney, and Carly said yeah, but when Mum was
Speaker 4: in Sydney she was so sick. How could she There's
Speaker 4: no way she could have done it. So there was
Speaker 4: those two little battles. And so when I did the
Speaker 4: first song, say a Little Prayer that used to be
Speaker 4: my kid's lullaby song, and so Jess was in the
Speaker 4: other room and so he hadn't even seen the performance
Speaker 4: to start with, and he just ran straight in.
Speaker 3: He goes, oh, that's.
Speaker 4: Mum, that's Mum's boys. And then Emma got thrown and
Speaker 4: then when Chrissy said it's me, and then so Jess
Speaker 4: was just yet, that's it, that's it. And then Emma
Speaker 4: and my daughter in Laura and Carlie my daughter were.
Speaker 3: Both yes no, yes, no.
Speaker 4: So it was just this little battle and it was
Speaker 4: just the text between us while I was overseas was
Speaker 4: just so funny.
Speaker 2: It's so fun.
Speaker 1: But do you know what I love about you as
Speaker 1: well is how involved you are with your adult children's lives,
Speaker 1: Like you have this beautiful relationship. I think that's really
Speaker 1: what's one of my favorite things about you, to be honest,
Speaker 1: and you know, making Country Home Rescuers really good. But actually,
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, didn't you sing a
Speaker 1: song for the fort which was the features you did?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I did. Wrote. I wrote that with Gary Pinto.
Speaker 4: So we wrote that song and it's called Lullaby to
Speaker 4: a Son, so it just shortened it to lullaby.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that one. We've done a.
Speaker 4: Film clip too, so I'm releasing that and yeah, it's
Speaker 4: really exciting. That was part of the igniting, you know,
Speaker 4: when the kids are doing a movie. I said I'm
Speaker 4: going to do a song in the movie. That was
Speaker 4: just sort of the joke to start with, and then
Speaker 4: that really sort of well not anymore, it happened, but
Speaker 4: it was that little thing, well I'm going to do this,
Speaker 4: and so that sort of reignited that the journey to
Speaker 4: be singing again.
Speaker 3: It really did well.
Speaker 1: This is not a secret, but I have always felt
Speaker 1: that there is something about you which is just a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I think it's I think it's your
Speaker 1: signature laugh. It's the ability to not take yourself too seriously.
Speaker 1: But it's also just to get the job done. Where
Speaker 1: did you get that get up and go from to
Speaker 1: be able to do all this? I mean, you've one
Speaker 1: celebrity apprentice. You've done so much. I've always wondered where
Speaker 1: is all of that energy come from?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Like I came from a very quiet house.
Speaker 4: You know, my auntie had lots to get up and
Speaker 4: go and she was always painting and always doing lots
Speaker 4: of things. So I think my energy could possibly come
Speaker 4: from her. But it was my dad that had lots
Speaker 4: of different He always had a finger in some different
Speaker 4: pie and doing a bit of this and something else.
Speaker 4: So it was always there was always this point of
Speaker 4: difference going on at home of like, you know, doing
Speaker 4: a bit of this and doing something that. Try anything
Speaker 4: and give everything a go. You know you may not
Speaker 4: be the best at it, but just why.
Speaker 3: Not give it a go.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if you're not good at it, so
Speaker 4: you don't have to be the you don't have to
Speaker 4: be the best. And I think that's sort of the
Speaker 4: attitude that I've always sort of had in the back
Speaker 4: of my mind.
Speaker 1: I remember my dad saying something similar to me, like
Speaker 1: I wasn't the best at school, Like I was very social,
Speaker 1: had a lot of friends, and I had a lot
Speaker 1: of wins with you know, extracurricular activities. But he always said,
Speaker 1: you know, with your drawing or your singing or whatever,
Speaker 1: the little things that you want to do. He really
Speaker 1: was very proud of that and told me to push
Speaker 1: those things.
Speaker 3: Incorrectly beautiful, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really important to say to children, is you know,
Speaker 1: to collect those things that you are truly good at
Speaker 1: and make something out of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a beautiful dad. That's such good advice. And
Speaker 3: I think that's the thing is that you.
Speaker 4: Know, we're all worried about what other people think if
Speaker 4: we fail. And I'm always it's not a failure. If
Speaker 4: you don't do something, it's better that you gave it
Speaker 4: a go. And you know, regret is something I never
Speaker 4: want to have in my life. So just try and
Speaker 4: if you don't like it, don't worry about it. But
Speaker 4: even if you love something and you're not fantastic at
Speaker 4: it, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: But because it makes you happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's the T shirt. That's the SHANEA.
Speaker 1: Blaze t shirt. No regrets, No regrets.
Speaker 4: Like no regrets, just don't get the tattoos felt wrong?
Speaker 4: Send enough of those.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know we have to very quickly talk
Speaker 1: about the block. I know it's a different network, but
Speaker 1: you know there was a story about you that came
Speaker 1: out about you being a little bit furious with some
Speaker 1: of the contestants behavior this year. Is this season hard
Speaker 1: or has it been hard for you to watch back?
Speaker 1: Is there any truth to that story?
Speaker 3: Well, I think when you hear the words source, you
Speaker 3: know it doesn't come from me. So no.
Speaker 4: But the thing but the thing is, like, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know them, I don't meet they'll meet them
Speaker 4: when the show's over. I don't know any of this drama.
Speaker 4: So I try and stay away from the drama up
Speaker 4: when it goes to air too, because it's one of
Speaker 4: those things they have to work, they have to carry
Speaker 4: that they're the ones in the public that they've done
Speaker 4: what they've done.
Speaker 3: But I just I just feel that, you know.
Speaker 4: I don't really want to give it air, Ben, because
Speaker 4: it's just I'd rather focus on the renovations, because that's
Speaker 4: all the good bits going on, and the more air
Speaker 4: we give to bad situations means that people think, well,
Speaker 4: I'll get attention for it, so now believe alone.
Speaker 1: I think though, the one thing about these contestants is
Speaker 1: that some of them have got kids and they're going
Speaker 1: to watch and then they'll have to explain it. And
Speaker 1: as much as you might think, oh, you know, that
Speaker 1: must be really embarrassing for them, I think it does
Speaker 1: lead to an opportunity for them to own some of
Speaker 1: their bad behavior and talk their kids through it and say,
Speaker 1: Mum and dad have done the wrong thing here. And
Speaker 1: I think there might be something powerful in that. Or
Speaker 1: am I looking for silver linings?
Speaker 3: I don't think you're looking for silver linings. I think
Speaker 3: I think you know.
Speaker 4: The block is a bubble, and people behave don't behave
Speaker 4: how they normally win in life.
Speaker 3: So I think, you know, reflection is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I always think is really sure. I think people
Speaker 1: need to make mistakes. But I guess do you think
Speaker 1: that the drama and house build balance. This is the
Speaker 1: last question I'm going to ask you about the block,
Speaker 1: But do you think that drama versus the housebuilding balance
Speaker 1: is off this season? Do you think it needs to
Speaker 1: be reshuffled a bit next year?
Speaker 4: I think the thing is you don't know what people
Speaker 4: are going to do. That's the hard thing. You can't
Speaker 4: reshuffle it because how people react is how they react.
Speaker 3: It's not part of a script.
Speaker 4: So you know, I think that's a hard one, Ben,
Speaker 4: It's a really hard one.
Speaker 1: It is a hard one. It's the cut undrum. But
Speaker 1: you know it's I think people are thinking about. If
Speaker 1: you're reading the comments on the comment section at the moment,
Speaker 1: you know it would be hard to ignore what viewers
Speaker 1: have to say about it. But look, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to put words in your mouth or put you
Speaker 1: into a difficult situation, or create another or create another
Speaker 1: headline for you that you don't need. But what we
Speaker 1: probably should still quickly tie off is just a few
Speaker 1: fun questions about the master singer. Was there another song
Speaker 1: that you had already planned that we didn't get to see?
Speaker 1: Because I know from some of my friends that have
Speaker 1: done it before that they've usually foreshadowed what's going to
Speaker 1: happen the next week?
Speaker 2: What have we missed out on?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: There was a great Tones and I song I was
Speaker 4: going to do, so I was really looking forward to
Speaker 4: a different mix of that. But I did have a
Speaker 4: beautiful Wendy Matthews song, which was you know, paying honor
Speaker 4: to that. You know you're talking about all these great
Speaker 4: Austronian singers. My next song was going to be Wendy
Speaker 4: Matthews and I was really just like bummed.
Speaker 3: I didn't get to do that one that gave me.
Speaker 1: Chills, That actually gave me chills. I love is it
Speaker 1: the Is it her classic song? Is it you Went Away?
Speaker 4: No? No, I probably wouldn't have been able to get
Speaker 4: through that performance without crying.
Speaker 3: My dad. No, it was I don't want to be
Speaker 3: with that, nobody but you from when she was the band.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if I don't see like a little snippet
Speaker 1: of that being put on your socials in the next
Speaker 1: couple of days, I'll be very disappointed. At least put
Speaker 1: it on your album.
Speaker 3: Maybe in my little cabaret performance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, great, well I'm the first person there. You
Speaker 1: know that. What was I going to say? Oh, well
Speaker 1: being on stage with Tiny. Do you have any guesses,
Speaker 1: because that's what I'm pretty sure everyone wants to know.
Speaker 1: They want to know whether or not you know who's
Speaker 1: inside that suit.
Speaker 4: I have absolutely zero idea, and because we don't hear
Speaker 4: any of their performances, and I was away, so I
Speaker 4: only listened to Chinese performance early this morning, and I
Speaker 4: have absolutely had no idea. It's a very deep, strong,
Speaker 4: verberated voice. I don't think he's a singer. I don't know,
Speaker 4: seems more to be I reckon more somebody in the industry.
Speaker 2: So I think it's Pete Murray, you reckon.
Speaker 1: I think it's And I did text that to Chrissy,
Speaker 1: and you know when she doesn't want to, well, she
Speaker 1: doesn't tell me who anyone is ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I've actually put.
Speaker 1: Together like a little dorser of chrisy Swan emojis because
Speaker 1: he always writes pack emojis, and you know, I've been
Speaker 1: texting her for long enough to sort of try and
Speaker 1: string these together. So I feel like I might be
Speaker 1: onto something with Pete Murray, but he is I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's a trained singer. Is that what you
Speaker 1: say about him? I guess he's just an Aussi surfer
Speaker 1: that loves his guitar.
Speaker 4: I guess is probably where he Pete Murray would be
Speaker 4: beautiful And it's that sort of thing because it's you know,
Speaker 4: he has that beautiful low timber to his voice and
Speaker 4: it's got such a beautiful.
Speaker 3: Slow element to it.
Speaker 4: But you know, and Pete Murray sings in just a
Speaker 4: very short range, and I think that's that's.
Speaker 3: What sort of is part of that. So maybe he
Speaker 3: is a singer, but a different type of singer maybe.
Speaker 1: And then the last thing about those costumes, So with
Speaker 1: this blue bottle outfit, Yeah, is there a reason why
Speaker 1: they gave you that? I mean, sometimes the costumes are
Speaker 1: part of the clue, but I couldn't see how that
Speaker 1: could be a clue for you. What do you think
Speaker 1: was the reason for them to give you that pun,
Speaker 1: to give you the blue bottle?
Speaker 3: Well, I know him.
Speaker 4: Part of it was he wanted to make me sexy.
Speaker 4: So I'm very grateful to Tim about that hard not hard,
Speaker 4: even Chreasy said it, Oh it's sexy.
Speaker 3: It was about the sting.
Speaker 4: And I think it's got to do with me being
Speaker 4: a judge that some of my comments can sting, so.
Speaker 3: Maybe that that could be.
Speaker 4: And also working at night having the LEDs and you know,
Speaker 4: I used to be a singer, so working at night,
Speaker 4: so it's I don't get to choose the outfit, but
Speaker 4: definitely Tim, you know, they go through clues and things
Speaker 4: like that and how it's going to work with it.
Speaker 4: So I'm quite sure they were the mace, you know,
Speaker 4: and that was part of the clues and the sting.
Speaker 4: I'm quite sure it's got to do with you know,
Speaker 4: people say their house judgments, but are't I just telling
Speaker 4: the truth?
Speaker 1: I think because you just say it as it is,
Speaker 1: like you're basically you're You're a bit like me. You're
Speaker 1: the sort of person that walks into the room and says,
Speaker 1: if it's someone's dressed as a frog, you're the first
Speaker 1: person to go, oh, a.
Speaker 2: Frog, you know what I mean. And isn't that the
Speaker 2: best television?
Speaker 1: I mean, isn't that where shows like Google Box and
Speaker 1: You and other contests and other judges on shows have
Speaker 1: become successful is voicing the viewers at home, you know,
Speaker 1: sitting on the couch at home. And I think that's
Speaker 1: why you've been on the block for so long, And
Speaker 1: that's why we love you so much is because you
Speaker 1: are an extension of the voice of the Australian public.
Speaker 4: What in this shows well, I think one of the
Speaker 4: biggest things, thank you, Ben is so beautiful.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of those things that I can't
Speaker 3: hide my facial expressions.
Speaker 4: I wear it on my face, so even if I
Speaker 4: didn't verbally say it, my face would say it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And that's what was so hard being in the masking
Speaker 4: is so I've always got this mask on, so people
Speaker 4: don't even know what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: So yeah.
Speaker 1: So the other people that you were guessed as though
Speaker 1: they reached out to you because I know nat Bass
Speaker 1: got thrown in there at the end.
Speaker 2: Do you know if did any of the other guesses?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, haven't. But I thought that that's was a
Speaker 3: great comparison. I hope she's not embarrassed.
Speaker 2: I don't think she will be. I don't think she
Speaker 2: will be. Knowing her, She'll probably ask you to go
Speaker 2: on tour with her. Oh god, you're in the.
Speaker 1: Roague Traders now. The last question I ask everyone is
Speaker 1: what is something from behind the scenes, something we didn't
Speaker 1: see that we won't see, kind of like a behind
Speaker 1: the scenes secret of the Massinger. You don't have to
Speaker 1: reveal anything that you can't reveal, but maybe just a
Speaker 1: fun SHANEA Blaze moment, something that you thought was fun
Speaker 1: while making the show.
Speaker 4: Oh look, honestly, sitting in the trailer for all that time,
Speaker 4: the fact that you have to knock on the door
Speaker 4: for somebody to take you the toilet, and then you
Speaker 4: have to put your cloak on, I thought I giggled
Speaker 4: the whole time, you know, because and you have to
Speaker 4: be quiet, like you have to move, you can't talk
Speaker 4: so people recognize your voice in between.
Speaker 3: So the fact I had to be quiet then I
Speaker 3: was so hard.
Speaker 1: All I can say is, Shane Blaze laugh is so signature.
Speaker 2: You would have had to have not been. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: have been able to.
Speaker 4: Laugh at as soon as really hard, I know when
Speaker 4: I was on stage on rehearsals, So hard, SHANEA.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being so generous with your
Speaker 2: time and chatting.
Speaker 3: Oh so good chatting.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what you do next.
Speaker 1: I feel like every time I've spoke to you, you
Speaker 1: just level up and do something more and more interesting
Speaker 1: and more and more fun.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you're amazing. Thanks Ben,