Speaker 1: Welcome back to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris and
Speaker 1: this is another bonus episode taking a look at Channel
Speaker 1: ten's new game show, The Cube. We certainly have a
Speaker 1: special guest in Andy Lee. While you normally would find
Speaker 1: him alongside Hamish Blake, today we'll be talking to Andy alone.
Speaker 1: Why because he is out on his own hosting the
Speaker 1: newest game show, The Cube, now on Channel ten Wednesdays
Speaker 1: at seven thirty. Andy's been a household name for as
Speaker 1: long as I've been an adult. He has hosted radio shows,
Speaker 1: been on countless television networks, and in this new venture
Speaker 1: you will see a new sign to the comedian that
Speaker 1: will no doubt make you fall in love with him
Speaker 1: just a little bit more than you already did before.
Speaker 1: Channel tenn has brought us this new game show from
Speaker 1: the UK and given the format and an Australian makeover,
Speaker 1: Andy Lee hosting is a part of that strategy in
Speaker 1: making this program our own. With now biding games and
Speaker 1: an opportunity for every day Australians to win a quarter
Speaker 1: of a million dollars, it's sure to become a staple
Speaker 1: amongst all Australia's looking for some good old fashioned entertainment.
Speaker 1: I think we all think Andy Lee is our own
Speaker 1: personal best friend and that's why it's so easy to
Speaker 1: talk to this Ozzie legend. I'd like to welcome you
Speaker 1: to today's guest, the host of The Cube. It's Andy Lee.
Speaker 2: People don't know the UK version of The Cube tne
Speaker 2: going for quite some time.
Speaker 1: He is the talented TV host, comedian and author.
Speaker 2: I had seen the show before and loved it, and
Speaker 2: so that's why I jumped at the opportunity to host
Speaker 2: out I Am a Cube because we didn't want everybody
Speaker 2: accidentally just walking out with a quarter of a million
Speaker 2: Devin games between you and a quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 2: You know who is the ultimate Cube host, Phillip Schofield
Speaker 2: or Andy Lee? The Cube isn't your average skilled teast.
Speaker 2: Like it's not like I'm out there on stage missing
Speaker 2: Hamish while it's happening, because I was deeply engrossed in
Speaker 2: the games and kind of consumed by the show.
Speaker 1: How are you mate, You're well well?
Speaker 2: I will pumped for everyone to see this week's episode
Speaker 2: of the Cube. Last week started really strongly, which is.
Speaker 1: Nice and like the Cuba is such a great opportunity
Speaker 1: for Ossie's to watch TV with their family. What shows
Speaker 1: do you remember watching with your parents?
Speaker 2: Oh, well, we had a system at our house bend
Speaker 2: where if you were naughty, very rarely meat, but if
Speaker 2: you were naughty, you've got ticks on the board, and
Speaker 2: three ticks met, you weren't able to watch your favorite
Speaker 2: TV show and you could say at the start of
Speaker 2: the week, what your show is going to be?
Speaker 3: And so the ones I would nominate would.
Speaker 2: Be the comedy Company that was that was in the
Speaker 2: early eighties, and It's a Knockout, which were yeah, which
Speaker 2: were like very important to see. My sisters was young
Speaker 2: Talent time if she didn't need her dinner, you know,
Speaker 2: three nights in a row. There was no young talment
Speaker 2: time for her. And then when I got a little
Speaker 2: bit older, the Late Show, even though it probably was
Speaker 2: not so much family fun, my mom and dad would
Speaker 2: let me stay up and watch the Late Show. So
Speaker 2: maybe mum and dad have got there the DJN guys
Speaker 2: and Mick Malloyd and Tony Martin to blame for me
Speaker 2: going down this part.
Speaker 1: I think I just realized that we're the same age
Speaker 1: because I watched every single one of those shows. We
Speaker 1: never had ticks on the board, though we were allowed
Speaker 1: to get away with whatever, right, right.
Speaker 3: Which is why you're the delinquent you are today.
Speaker 1: Did you watch much of the British version to sort
Speaker 1: of get prepared or were you sort of worried watching
Speaker 1: that that you'd feel like you're impersonating it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, great question.
Speaker 2: So yeah, people don't know the UK version of the
Speaker 2: qu Tine going for quite some time, almost thirteen years,
Speaker 2: I think, not thirteen seasons, they had some time off.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I had seen the show before and loved it,
Speaker 2: and so that's why I jumped at the opportunity to
Speaker 2: host ours. But what you say is a good question,
Speaker 2: because you get myself. I got myself familiar with it,
Speaker 2: and then there was a point where I had to go, Okay,
Speaker 2: I don't want to watch any more of this because
Speaker 2: I don't want to parrot it. And Phillip Schofield is
Speaker 2: the host in the UK, and Philip is the Koshi
Speaker 2: really of the UK. He's a breakfast morning host, so
Speaker 2: his style is definitely different to mine. The USU's day
Speaker 2: basketball or Dwayne Wade, who is a huge NBA basketballer
Speaker 2: over there. Once some championships for the Heat so I
Speaker 2: like to think that I'm just the perfect blend of
Speaker 2: Dwayne Wade with my athleticism and Phillips Schofield by presenting now.
Speaker 1: Somewhere in the middle. Did you send them a message
Speaker 1: and be like, have you got any tips or anything
Speaker 1: like that, or just didn't reach out to them.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't reach out to them. I should have. Actually,
Speaker 3: I saw someone tweet very earlier you know who.
Speaker 2: Is the ultimate cube host, Phillip Schofield or Andy Lee
Speaker 2: and tagged him in that post. So I wrote back,
Speaker 2: Phillip Schofield is always the sense and I'm merely the grasshopper,
Speaker 2: and I look forward to meeting him at the top
Speaker 2: of some hill in some temple where he passes on
Speaker 2: all the skills that's required to be the host of
Speaker 2: the kids.
Speaker 1: And did he ever respond or did you just sit
Speaker 1: there waiting for him to respond and it never happened?
Speaker 3: Great question. I haven't actually gone back it out of look.
Speaker 1: I'll go and look for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, please do. Yeah, you can break it to me.
Speaker 1: I'll give it a like so that he gets another
Speaker 1: opportunity to see it.
Speaker 3: That'd be nice.
Speaker 1: Did you get to help with any of these challenges?
Speaker 1: I mean the best thing about this is that it's
Speaker 1: quite simple, but then the stress of being put in
Speaker 1: this cube and giving you that timeframe and the money.
Speaker 1: But did you know you doing the show and say
Speaker 1: I've got a few.
Speaker 2: Ideas, no, with this format the game, and when they
Speaker 2: purchased it, the game with thirty seven games, which we
Speaker 2: ended up using thirty of them, and there's certainly times
Speaker 2: where I would say, I'm not sure if this game's
Speaker 2: right when we're testing them. And the hard thing is
Speaker 2: because they've been so thoroughly tested the games and they're
Speaker 2: targeting a specific skill set, we didn't get the exact
Speaker 2: props sent from the UK that we built them ourselves,
Speaker 2: and even down to how a ball might be painted,
Speaker 2: or what type of material the balls made out of,
Speaker 2: all the plates made out or something can affect the
Speaker 2: game for balance type games, all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: because you know, say, if something's a bit more rubbery
Speaker 2: than it used to it's more likely to stick. So
Speaker 2: they had to do those tests. They test them with
Speaker 2: lots of people, different people to see to make sure
Speaker 2: that the stats that lined up with how hard the
Speaker 2: games are with the same as how hard the games
Speaker 2: were in the UK, because we didn't want everybody accidentally
Speaker 2: just walking out with a quarter of a million per episodes.
Speaker 1: As much as I'd love that, yeah, ring the network
Speaker 1: and half million.
Speaker 2: Dollars later, the network might go, Okay, that's the last
Speaker 2: time we ever played this guy.
Speaker 1: Have you heard that story where they gave away half
Speaker 1: a million dollars on Who Wants to Bear a Millionaire?
Speaker 1: And Eddie maguire was like, got a phone call from
Speaker 1: the network saying, what are you doing? They can't keep
Speaker 1: giving away money like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I also heard that Eddie was convinced that someone
Speaker 3: was cheating.
Speaker 2: Once you have to ask it about it, but I've
Speaker 2: heard it may be roomor maybe fact that he was
Speaker 2: convinced they couldn't pint on them, but he was convinced
Speaker 2: that someone was cheating one.
Speaker 1: You know what was really good about the first episode
Speaker 1: that I liked was that you had like a matship
Speaker 1: with these guys straight away, and you really went with
Speaker 1: them on the journey. Do you spend much time to
Speaker 1: build a relationship with them? Like It was so amazing
Speaker 1: to watch because we don't really see that on these
Speaker 1: sorts of shows, but you really seem to connect and
Speaker 1: go with them on that journey.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: Game number one, David just put your arm in there
Speaker 2: that size and displays half the balls. I think, what
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 3: Thinking about this game?
Speaker 2: Got a person in mind that you think might be
Speaker 2: better off going in for.
Speaker 3: This type of game?
Speaker 1: I think, Ellie, you'll you'll do better, honestly, think that.
Speaker 2: If you guys are ready, Ellie specifically yes for two
Speaker 2: thousand dollars end of the queue you've got this?
Speaker 1: Is there a time that you spend with these contestants
Speaker 1: before they before it all the magic happens.
Speaker 2: We discussed that and we went with no. I didn't
Speaker 2: even meet them until they walk up. So that casting
Speaker 2: is an amazing job because all the different duos were
Speaker 2: really fun and likable, and that it gets intense for
Speaker 2: some of them. There's some bickering that goes on, and
Speaker 2: I kind of played therapist at times, which I understand
Speaker 2: when there's money on the line and this money means a.
Speaker 3: Lot to people.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I really thought Ellie and David were just
Speaker 2: wonderful chaps. If you hadn't seen episode one, you should.
Speaker 2: People should go back and watch it. Because a lot
Speaker 2: of feedback I got from friends, family, and even public
Speaker 2: saying these guys are just so nice, so genuine, and
Speaker 2: we entered the show saying, let's not try and change people.
Speaker 2: Let's not give them a tag, you know, or a
Speaker 2: headline as to what type of person they are. And
Speaker 2: a lot of shows at the moment almost make character
Speaker 2: to us out of the everyday people that are playing them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so we were wanted to see them in their
Speaker 2: kind of every day close and present as they would
Speaker 2: And I think that you find a bit more of
Speaker 2: a genuine appeal there because the game, the show's about
Speaker 2: the games, and show about composure more than anything. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And you don't really need to know people's backstories, but
Speaker 2: we tend to learn them through add an episode.
Speaker 1: You really do. I mean I was watching it and
Speaker 1: just thinking it was great right that. As I said,
Speaker 1: you don't really see that journey a lot of the time,
Speaker 1: you know, with hosts, they don't really get that opportunity
Speaker 1: to connect like that. And I think it's probably one
Speaker 1: of the most magical things about it. It's such a
Speaker 1: great show. Because Australians last year we spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time in Lockdown. I kind of felt like this
Speaker 1: was a bit of a tip of the hat to
Speaker 1: Ozzie's watching the show, what did you do to try?
Speaker 1: And keep saying throughout lockdown?
Speaker 3: I did invent little skill games around the house.
Speaker 2: At one point I was trying to hit a tennis
Speaker 2: ball over the roof of my house and then runs
Speaker 2: through the house and catch the ball on the other
Speaker 2: side of the house, which I was successful. That was
Speaker 2: two hours of next day filming me, which you wouldn't.
Speaker 3: She never gets back, but I tell you what she would.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't have been that patient if we weren't in lockdown.
Speaker 1: I'm imagining that you played board games with Rebecca. I
Speaker 1: want to know, are you a good winner or a
Speaker 1: good loser.
Speaker 2: A bad loser, a ball loser. No, I don't depend
Speaker 2: on play. I've decided that is how I react if
Speaker 2: I playing against someone like with Beck.
Speaker 3: I don't mind Beck winning.
Speaker 2: She says she's bad at board games and she often
Speaker 2: chokes at the end because of her own nerves. So
Speaker 2: when she actually is triumphant, I get excited for her
Speaker 2: because she just loves it so much.
Speaker 3: So I found that across the board.
Speaker 2: I'm playing golf against someone or any sports games if
Speaker 2: they are an underdog and they're really nice. I'm not
Speaker 2: not so fussed if they beat me, but if I'm
Speaker 2: up against someone arrogant, I'll do everything i can to
Speaker 2: make sure they want.
Speaker 1: Well, it's nice that you'll like that with Rebecca. I'm
Speaker 1: sure she appreciates it. A lot of people are asking
Speaker 1: you about you know, what did Hamish have to say
Speaker 1: about you doing this show? What sort of advice did
Speaker 1: he give? But I guess we haven't really heard what
Speaker 1: he thought of the first episode. Did he watch the
Speaker 1: first episode? And what was his feedback?
Speaker 3: Great question.
Speaker 2: Haim's away at the moment on holidays, and I think
Speaker 2: he's got very little reception.
Speaker 3: I've tried to call him a couple of times.
Speaker 2: He said, your textback saying mate, very dodgy reception here
Speaker 2: at the moment.
Speaker 3: I apologize. So we charded briefly this morning.
Speaker 2: He was extremely complimentary and he was awesome and the
Speaker 2: leader because I mean, we talk about all our you know,
Speaker 2: obviously these are more public facing, high profile solo projects,
Speaker 2: but we've always had lots of tiny projects that we
Speaker 2: do on the side that we're passionate about. And he's
Speaker 2: the first and I go to straight away to go, hey,
Speaker 2: I think you're doing this, what do you reckon? And
Speaker 2: his advice is always strong, so it was super helpful
Speaker 2: with regards to this as well. And the main time
Speaker 2: I felt like I missed him was in the downtime
Speaker 2: because on all our shows together, you know, when you're performing,
Speaker 2: you're performing, so like, it's not like I'm out there
Speaker 2: on stage missing Hamish while it's happening, because I was
Speaker 2: deeply engrossed in the games and the people playing and
Speaker 2: kind of consumed by the show.
Speaker 3: But it was when I went back to my little
Speaker 3: hut on the.
Speaker 2: Side of the stage where Hay would normally be and
Speaker 2: we'd be laughing and mucking about in between in the
Speaker 2: ad breaks, etc. That's where I certainly felt like like, ah, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is different.
Speaker 1: But you know what's so funny about the two of
Speaker 1: you doing like with Hami's doing Lego Masters and you're
Speaker 1: now doing the Cube. It made me think about some
Speaker 1: of the other shows that had been offered to you
Speaker 1: to host over the years, Like I can remember one
Speaker 1: in particular that they wanted you to both do and
Speaker 1: you turned down. Are there any shows that you can
Speaker 1: tell me that you turned down that they asked you
Speaker 1: to host?
Speaker 2: It's not really kosher, and the thing to do is
Speaker 2: just to say that the shows you may have.
Speaker 3: Turned down over the run, but I'll give you one.
Speaker 2: Look, Hay and I, the main reason for not doing
Speaker 2: Project Is along the run was because we were doing
Speaker 2: our own stuff together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it took up a lot of our time.
Speaker 2: So it was never a slight on the quality of
Speaker 2: shows that were presented to us to do, although some
Speaker 2: of the times it was sometimes like, I don't think
Speaker 2: this is a good show. Often I was wrong, But
Speaker 2: Hay and I, when Darryl Summons finished up on Dance
Speaker 2: the Stars got asked to host Dance with the Stars
Speaker 2: after Darryl SMS. I don't know when that was. It
Speaker 2: would have been a late two thousands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's late. I think it's two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: that he walked away, because I think that was two
Speaker 1: thousand and five that it launched and he did four
Speaker 1: seasons of it. He should have done it though, and
Speaker 1: taken his trailer because he had a huge trailer that
Speaker 1: he wanted while he was.
Speaker 3: Making Yeah, exactly. He went old school with his TV demands.
Speaker 2: So yeah, HAYM and I got off of that and
Speaker 2: did not have to think long to say no because
Speaker 2: neither of us dance, so we don't. And I like
Speaker 2: the show just was not the type of show for
Speaker 2: two twenty year old fellows to suddenly do. And I
Speaker 2: think they went with Dan McPherson, which was a much better,
Speaker 2: much better person to go with.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, he's great and he did a good
Speaker 1: job of that. I think he made it his own.
Speaker 1: I mean, the worst thing about going into Darryl Summers's
Speaker 1: shoes is doing that thing that you know, this is
Speaker 1: not good podcasting, but the silence thing that Darryl used
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: When he cut the band off, when he yeah, he
Speaker 2: raved his hands in front of his chest to cut
Speaker 2: the band off. That was that was actually one thing
Speaker 2: I did want to do. That was the only thing
Speaker 2: that drew me to the projecty to cut in August,
Speaker 2: We're off with my an.
Speaker 1: You know what was funny though, the one show that
Speaker 1: I heard about and it might I might be so
Speaker 1: dead wrong with this, and a turn of events meant
Speaker 1: that I ended up on that show. But I remember
Speaker 1: being at the logis that year that it was about
Speaker 1: to be announced who was hosting Big Brother, and there
Speaker 1: was rumors that they'd asked you both to do it,
Speaker 1: and then Sonia ended up doing it. But I was like,
Speaker 1: I remember, like, I don't know if you remember this,
Speaker 1: but one night I was out with you and Hamish
Speaker 1: and a few other mutual friends and we stayed there
Speaker 1: talking about Big Brother for a while. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: do remember this, And then we sat there talking about
Speaker 1: because I remember you were really fascinated with the show
Speaker 1: absolutely at that time. Yeah, and you had so many
Speaker 1: questions about it. And then it was so weird because
Speaker 1: then they rang me and asked me to do that show,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's so bizarre that if you
Speaker 1: guys would have ended up hosting that show after we'd
Speaker 1: had this conversation, you know, like, it was so bizarre.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I still I mean, particularly the early
Speaker 2: season Big Brother, I'm still fascinating, because you know.
Speaker 3: It was it's like the early seasons of anything.
Speaker 2: People learn the tricks, they learn what they had meant
Speaker 2: to do on television, and they go in and suddenly
Speaker 2: they're preparing it, portraying a very different look and feel
Speaker 2: or often the exact same of look and feel that
Speaker 2: we've seen already. And you know, I would say that
Speaker 2: that's the challenge for a lot of these shows that
Speaker 2: rely on reality contestants doing the same thing is that
Speaker 2: we kind of work our way through all the different
Speaker 2: combinations of you know, how a couple, how a couple
Speaker 2: are going to fight or cheat on each other. It's stuff,
Speaker 2: So how do you keep it fresh? But yeah, I
Speaker 2: can't even remember a recall with a Hayman. I were
Speaker 2: asked to do that. But yeah, again, if we were
Speaker 2: would have been a very short conversation because we were
Speaker 2: so keen on making our own shows.
Speaker 1: What's a funny story that was kind of like the
Speaker 1: take home like something after working on the show that
Speaker 1: you consider around the dinner table and you know, tell
Speaker 1: your friends, I.
Speaker 2: Mean everything, I mean, everything went relatively smoothly on set.
Speaker 3: I must admit.
Speaker 2: The part that I've found a little bit funny is
Speaker 2: when a contestant is asking for clarification of a rule
Speaker 2: from me, and they need to be really specific because
Speaker 2: you know they might have they might be going fifty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars and risking twenty thousand dollars to do it
Speaker 2: because there's no safe zones in the show. They'd often
Speaker 2: ask and I would just make it up what I
Speaker 2: thought the rule might be, so they might say, hey,
Speaker 2: am I allowed to hold.
Speaker 3: The ball in both hands? And it's like, yeah, you
Speaker 3: can do that, and then.
Speaker 2: Alex in my ear would be going no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: don't say that. Don't And very often during the show
Speaker 2: I'd have to go stop, everyone, stop, I've lied again,
Speaker 2: and the audience would laugh, and I say, I've got
Speaker 2: a terrible habit of just making up the rules. If
Speaker 2: someone's asking for parification, now let me actually get the
Speaker 2: right rule, because I want to make sure that we
Speaker 2: don't do someone out of a lot of money. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that would be a trait that I'm not sure I'm
Speaker 2: going to be able to fix if we go to
Speaker 2: season two, because it's too tempting when someone asked you
Speaker 2: a question just to answer it start away.
Speaker 1: Have they said much about series two, because you know,
Speaker 1: I guess we're one episode in and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can honestly show you I don't actually
Speaker 1: bite my nails or I peeled them all off. A
Speaker 1: lot of people talked about the slow mo, people like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's too much SlowMo and all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: That was the thing that got me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's good.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's always good to get criticism, particularly from
Speaker 2: the public. We looked at that with regards to upcoming episodes.
Speaker 2: Did we overdo the intensity or the editors and so on?
Speaker 2: And I think that we can balance that out a
Speaker 2: little bit. But I did have other people saying to
Speaker 2: me that they loved all the slow mo and bullet
Speaker 2: time because it made things super intense.
Speaker 3: Just like in Jack Bauer and twenty four.
Speaker 2: It's only meant to take place in a day, but
Speaker 2: the last thirty seconds before the bomb went off used
Speaker 2: to do about three hours of television. So there's certainly
Speaker 2: ways to make things feel more intense. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: actually love that about the show. But I think we're
Speaker 2: going to balance it moving forward.
Speaker 1: Maybe balance it out. But you know, it's so weird
Speaker 1: as well if you're looking at social media as being
Speaker 1: like the guide to changing these sorts of things up.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the vox pop that's necessarily that
Speaker 1: accurate that all Australians are thinking that, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, you couldn't necessarily change a show,
Speaker 1: I would say, because you find that that becomes the
Speaker 1: common thing because Twitter and all of these sorts of things,
Speaker 1: as I said, I don't think is the vox pop
Speaker 1: and the general opinion all the time.
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: I mean I think there's ten times more likely to
Speaker 2: have a negative comment about anything on social media than
Speaker 2: a positive one. So yes, you've got to take all
Speaker 2: these things with the grain of salt.
Speaker 3: But I didn't.
Speaker 2: I saw that on social media and wasn't two phased.
Speaker 2: But when there's people that I love and trust in
Speaker 2: the industry who reached out and chatted about it and
Speaker 2: they had a similar note, that's I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: there could be something in that, But.
Speaker 3: Not to the other thing. You've got to hold your
Speaker 3: nerve on.
Speaker 2: With the Car's TV shows, I'm going to know what
Speaker 2: you are, and you certainly don't chase the tale trying
Speaker 2: to please everybody. And we know that that's our show
Speaker 2: that we want to dramatize the intensity of singular games,
Speaker 2: but then keep them real for all the reactions and
Speaker 2: the pressure.
Speaker 1: Well, one thing for sure, though, there was so much
Speaker 1: positivity for you hosting the show like it was. It
Speaker 1: was really quite lovely to watch because social media can
Speaker 1: be quite cruel. But I reckon there was like one
Speaker 1: hundred percent like a ninety nine on Rotten Tomatoes that
Speaker 1: people were so supportive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really nice. I mean, I'm probably a
Speaker 2: pretty unoffensive host though, and I've also had I was
Speaker 2: lucky enough of a very strong format to lean on,
Speaker 2: so if I was in doubt, yeah, throw them in
Speaker 2: the game. But I also feel that, however, however bad
Speaker 2: your host is, you make up with with cameras, and
Speaker 2: so when when Channel ten got one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: cameras to shoot this, I was like, yeah, Okay, they
Speaker 2: know exactly the deficiencies of the babe person they've gotten Chad.
Speaker 1: I just also thought that the thing that was amazing
Speaker 1: from your hosting skills is and no disrespect to anyone
Speaker 1: else hosting a show, but these days people are almost
Speaker 1: parrotying the idea of hosting a show where they're putting
Speaker 1: something on, and I felt like you were so authentic
Speaker 1: not to go and lean into those sort of over dramatizing,
Speaker 1: which I think is hard to do because you know,
Speaker 1: you think I'm hosting a show, I've got to try
Speaker 1: and be like Osha Ginsburg or someone where I think
Speaker 1: you were probably one of the most authentic people I've
Speaker 1: seen hosting a show in a long time, which was refreshing.
Speaker 2: Oh that's nice to hear, because I mustn't mean I
Speaker 2: was a bit worried after it, going have I just.
Speaker 3: Have I not given it enough game show or like
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: Concerned a little bit to go cheap as have I
Speaker 2: undersold the show anyway, because the energy I'm giving is
Speaker 2: probably not up there with the energy a lot of
Speaker 2: other game show hosts do bring their pretty big and
Speaker 2: I didn't really want to do that. So I was
Speaker 2: kind of glad that it came across okay without diminishing
Speaker 2: the excitement of show, the energy of the show. It
Speaker 2: was more just the other thing is I just really
Speaker 2: wanted them to win. I found myself just you know,
Speaker 2: with all the contestants, I'm just real.
Speaker 1: Lying to them, creating your own rules, hoping that they're
Speaker 1: going to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just so, I just yeah, I became pretty
Speaker 2: invested in the in the games and the people pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: And it was more mainly at the end of an
Speaker 2: episode where I'd go shit, Alex, is that alright? Because
Speaker 2: I just I don't remember working at all or doing
Speaker 2: any housekeeping. I feel like I just was barracking for
Speaker 2: them and stepping in through the games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to finish it off. We've seen episode one.
Speaker 1: There's plenty more to look forward to throughout the series.
Speaker 1: Is there something you can tease us with?
Speaker 2: This week is pretty awesome because a seventy year old
Speaker 2: grandmother played to their grandson.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cute. It's the show that has you on
Speaker 1: the edge of your seat.
Speaker 3: I can do this, Hayden. I think you can. Then,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty confident in.
Speaker 2: You, I must admit. When she walked up, I kind
Speaker 2: of like in my head was going, all right, I
Speaker 2: better practice my well done. You gave it a shot,
Speaker 2: but you won nothing speech. But she is good. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I was sitting there thinking she wouldn't be around very
Speaker 2: long and we'd be working on her. I'd be busy
Speaker 2: trying to remember the names of the next contestants. But
Speaker 2: she was just so calm And it's funny the games.
Speaker 2: As we mentioned earlier, the games are moral and the
Speaker 2: show's a test of composure just as much it is
Speaker 2: about the skills.
Speaker 3: And she was parallel to anyone in the camp.
Speaker 2: I reckon on the show with how calm and really
Speaker 2: clear she was and how she attacked all the games,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it was nice.
Speaker 3: To see that. You know, you don't have to be
Speaker 3: young athletic to go really deep. You just have to
Speaker 3: be able to hold your nerve.
Speaker 1: Would you have been able to play with either of
Speaker 1: your grandmothers? Could you imagine being in that situation? Were
Speaker 1: they even? Were they calm nerved?
Speaker 3: Not currently? Because both of the dead. So we were
Speaker 3: very weird.
Speaker 1: Oh god, we've gone to a dark place. We've gone
Speaker 1: to a dark place, abandoned.
Speaker 3: I saw your face. I started to see your reactions.
Speaker 1: Are they dead?
Speaker 3: Are they not dead? They're both dead?
Speaker 1: Well, okay, I'm back at I'm back here. I'm back
Speaker 1: here with the awkwardness.
Speaker 2: My my mom's mom, Nana, she would have been fearless
Speaker 2: and skillful enough to do it. My my my grandma
Speaker 2: on my dad's side. Manie, Ah, she's lovely, but I'm
Speaker 2: not going to back her skills.
Speaker 1: God, rest the what are you supposed to say at
Speaker 1: this point? Anyway? Congratulations made on the show. It's so fantastic.
Speaker 1: I think it's I'm just gonna sit there and watch
Speaker 1: it all. I'm gonna get some some band aids to
Speaker 1: put on my fingernails, just so that just so that
Speaker 1: I don't tear them all off, but congratulations.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much for taking the time, but good to
Speaker 3: see you.