WEBVTT - 🕋 ANDY LEE TALKS HONESTLY ABOUT 'THE CUBE!' 🕋 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.840 Welcome back to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris and 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.760 this is another bonus episode taking a look at Channel 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.920 ten's new game show, The Cube. We certainly have a 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.080 special guest in Andy Lee. While you normally would find 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:17.040 him alongside Hamish Blake, today we'll be talking to Andy alone. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.400 Why because he is out on his own hosting the 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.000 newest game show, The Cube, now on Channel ten Wednesdays 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.000 at seven thirty. Andy's been a household name for as 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.880 long as I've been an adult. He has hosted radio shows, 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.960 been on countless television networks, and in this new venture 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.440 you will see a new sign to the comedian that 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.480 will no doubt make you fall in love with him 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.280 just a little bit more than you already did before. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.000 Channel tenn has brought us this new game show from 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.519 the UK and given the format and an Australian makeover, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.559 Andy Lee hosting is a part of that strategy in 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.680 making this program our own. With now biding games and 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.760 an opportunity for every day Australians to win a quarter 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.760 of a million dollars, it's sure to become a staple 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.400 amongst all Australia's looking for some good old fashioned entertainment. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.760 I think we all think Andy Lee is our own 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.920 personal best friend and that's why it's so easy to 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.000 talk to this Ozzie legend. I'd like to welcome you 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.040 to today's guest, the host of The Cube. It's Andy Lee. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.399 People don't know the UK version of The Cube tne 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:18.520 going for quite some time. 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.800 He is the talented TV host, comedian and author. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.120 I had seen the show before and loved it, and 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.040 so that's why I jumped at the opportunity to host 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.200 out I Am a Cube because we didn't want everybody 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.319 accidentally just walking out with a quarter of a million 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.440 Devin games between you and a quarter of a million dollars. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.440 You know who is the ultimate Cube host, Phillip Schofield 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.520 or Andy Lee? The Cube isn't your average skilled teast. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.639 Like it's not like I'm out there on stage missing 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.080 Hamish while it's happening, because I was deeply engrossed in 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.640 the games and kind of consumed by the show. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:56.560 How are you mate, You're well well? 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.080 I will pumped for everyone to see this week's episode 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.160 of the Cube. Last week started really strongly, which is. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.760 Nice and like the Cuba is such a great opportunity 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.040 for Ossie's to watch TV with their family. What shows 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.200 do you remember watching with your parents? 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.320 Oh, well, we had a system at our house bend 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.720 where if you were naughty, very rarely meat, but if 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.920 you were naughty, you've got ticks on the board, and 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.480 three ticks met, you weren't able to watch your favorite 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.000 TV show and you could say at the start of 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.520 the week, what your show is going to be? 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:30.919 And so the ones I would nominate would. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.400 Be the comedy Company that was that was in the 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.400 early eighties, and It's a Knockout, which were yeah, which 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.399 were like very important to see. My sisters was young 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.959 Talent time if she didn't need her dinner, you know, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.000 three nights in a row. There was no young talment 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.040 time for her. And then when I got a little 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.960 bit older, the Late Show, even though it probably was 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.880 not so much family fun, my mom and dad would 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.280 let me stay up and watch the Late Show. So 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.480 maybe mum and dad have got there the DJN guys 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.640 and Mick Malloyd and Tony Martin to blame for me 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:01.519 going down this part. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.560 I think I just realized that we're the same age 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.079 because I watched every single one of those shows. We 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.080 never had ticks on the board, though we were allowed 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.560 to get away with whatever, right, right. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.519 Which is why you're the delinquent you are today. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.839 Did you watch much of the British version to sort 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.240 of get prepared or were you sort of worried watching 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.120 that that you'd feel like you're impersonating it? 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:23.200 Yeah, great question. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.200 So yeah, people don't know the UK version of the 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.240 qu Tine going for quite some time, almost thirteen years, 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.520 I think, not thirteen seasons, they had some time off. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.240 So yeah, I had seen the show before and loved it, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.200 and so that's why I jumped at the opportunity to 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.440 host ours. But what you say is a good question, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.600 because you get myself. I got myself familiar with it, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.320 and then there was a point where I had to go, Okay, 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.440 I don't want to watch any more of this because 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.400 I don't want to parrot it. And Phillip Schofield is 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.200 the host in the UK, and Philip is the Koshi 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.720 really of the UK. He's a breakfast morning host, so 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.480 his style is definitely different to mine. The USU's day 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.200 basketball or Dwayne Wade, who is a huge NBA basketballer 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.920 over there. Once some championships for the Heat so I 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.760 like to think that I'm just the perfect blend of 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:15.280 Dwayne Wade with my athleticism and Phillips Schofield by presenting now. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.919 Somewhere in the middle. Did you send them a message 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.760 and be like, have you got any tips or anything 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.640 like that, or just didn't reach out to them. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.839 No, I didn't reach out to them. I should have. Actually, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.520 I saw someone tweet very earlier you know who. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.360 Is the ultimate cube host, Phillip Schofield or Andy Lee 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.240 and tagged him in that post. So I wrote back, 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.279 Phillip Schofield is always the sense and I'm merely the grasshopper, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.719 and I look forward to meeting him at the top 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.960 of some hill in some temple where he passes on 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.839 all the skills that's required to be the host of 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:48.200 the kids. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.080 And did he ever respond or did you just sit 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:51.960 there waiting for him to respond and it never happened? 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.400 Great question. I haven't actually gone back it out of look. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:55.559 I'll go and look for you. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.039 Yeah, please do. Yeah, you can break it to me. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:00.520 I'll give it a like so that he gets another 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:01.520 opportunity to see it. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:02.680 That'd be nice. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.920 Did you get to help with any of these challenges? 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.840 I mean the best thing about this is that it's 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.680 quite simple, but then the stress of being put in 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.680 this cube and giving you that timeframe and the money. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.400 But did you know you doing the show and say 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.279 I've got a few. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:20.520 Ideas, no, with this format the game, and when they 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.640 purchased it, the game with thirty seven games, which we 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.200 ended up using thirty of them, and there's certainly times 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.560 where I would say, I'm not sure if this game's 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.960 right when we're testing them. And the hard thing is 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.400 because they've been so thoroughly tested the games and they're 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.919 targeting a specific skill set, we didn't get the exact 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.680 props sent from the UK that we built them ourselves, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:47.320 and even down to how a ball might be painted, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.080 or what type of material the balls made out of, 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.599 all the plates made out or something can affect the 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.280 game for balance type games, all that kind of stuff, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.960 because you know, say, if something's a bit more rubbery 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.760 than it used to it's more likely to stick. So 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.240 they had to do those tests. They test them with 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.240 lots of people, different people to see to make sure 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.080 that the stats that lined up with how hard the 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.599 games are with the same as how hard the games 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.600 were in the UK, because we didn't want everybody accidentally 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.680 just walking out with a quarter of a million per episodes. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.400 As much as I'd love that, yeah, ring the network 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:23.400 and half million. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.479 Dollars later, the network might go, Okay, that's the last 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:26.560 time we ever played this guy. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.000 Have you heard that story where they gave away half 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.320 a million dollars on Who Wants to Bear a Millionaire? 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.760 And Eddie maguire was like, got a phone call from 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.680 the network saying, what are you doing? They can't keep 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:36.760 giving away money like this. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.839 Yeah. I also heard that Eddie was convinced that someone 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:42.400 was cheating. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.240 Once you have to ask it about it, but I've 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.880 heard it may be roomor maybe fact that he was 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.760 convinced they couldn't pint on them, but he was convinced 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.040 that someone was cheating one. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.320 You know what was really good about the first episode 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.760 that I liked was that you had like a matship 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.600 with these guys straight away, and you really went with 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.919 them on the journey. Do you spend much time to 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.440 build a relationship with them? Like It was so amazing 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.400 to watch because we don't really see that on these 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.800 sorts of shows, but you really seem to connect and 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.000 go with them on that journey. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:13.080 There you go. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:17.040 Game number one, David just put your arm in there 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.640 that size and displays half the balls. I think, what 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:21.960 are you. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.000 Thinking about this game? 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.560 Got a person in mind that you think might be 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:26.960 better off going in for. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:27.840 This type of game? 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.679 I think, Ellie, you'll you'll do better, honestly, think that. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.800 If you guys are ready, Ellie specifically yes for two 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.240 thousand dollars end of the queue you've got this? 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.600 Is there a time that you spend with these contestants 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.920 before they before it all the magic happens. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.840 We discussed that and we went with no. I didn't 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.040 even meet them until they walk up. So that casting 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.360 is an amazing job because all the different duos were 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.480 really fun and likable, and that it gets intense for 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.600 some of them. There's some bickering that goes on, and 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.120 I kind of played therapist at times, which I understand 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.440 when there's money on the line and this money means a. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:05.920 Lot to people. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.480 But yeah, I really thought Ellie and David were just 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.160 wonderful chaps. If you hadn't seen episode one, you should. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.920 People should go back and watch it. Because a lot 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.040 of feedback I got from friends, family, and even public 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.120 saying these guys are just so nice, so genuine, and 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.960 we entered the show saying, let's not try and change people. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.840 Let's not give them a tag, you know, or a 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.240 headline as to what type of person they are. And 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.640 a lot of shows at the moment almost make character 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.640 to us out of the everyday people that are playing them. Yeah, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.080 and so we were wanted to see them in their 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.400 kind of every day close and present as they would 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.599 And I think that you find a bit more of 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.760 a genuine appeal there because the game, the show's about 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.160 the games, and show about composure more than anything. Yeah, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.440 And you don't really need to know people's backstories, but 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.120 we tend to learn them through add an episode. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.200 You really do. I mean I was watching it and 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.400 just thinking it was great right that. As I said, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.440 you don't really see that journey a lot of the time, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.000 you know, with hosts, they don't really get that opportunity 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.280 to connect like that. And I think it's probably one 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.080 of the most magical things about it. It's such a 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.600 great show. Because Australians last year we spent a lot 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.160 of time in Lockdown. I kind of felt like this 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.200 was a bit of a tip of the hat to 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.199 Ozzie's watching the show, what did you do to try? 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.000 And keep saying throughout lockdown? 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.160 I did invent little skill games around the house. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.600 At one point I was trying to hit a tennis 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.160 ball over the roof of my house and then runs 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.080 through the house and catch the ball on the other 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.440 side of the house, which I was successful. That was 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.920 two hours of next day filming me, which you wouldn't. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.040 She never gets back, but I tell you what she would. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.199 She wouldn't have been that patient if we weren't in lockdown. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.720 I'm imagining that you played board games with Rebecca. I 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.120 want to know, are you a good winner or a 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:54.160 good loser. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:59.280 A bad loser, a ball loser. No, I don't depend 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.640 on play. I've decided that is how I react if 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.040 I playing against someone like with Beck. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.320 I don't mind Beck winning. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.640 She says she's bad at board games and she often 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.080 chokes at the end because of her own nerves. So 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.080 when she actually is triumphant, I get excited for her 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.600 because she just loves it so much. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.240 So I found that across the board. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.840 I'm playing golf against someone or any sports games if 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.200 they are an underdog and they're really nice. I'm not 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.400 not so fussed if they beat me, but if I'm 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.720 up against someone arrogant, I'll do everything i can to 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:31.560 make sure they want. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.079 Well, it's nice that you'll like that with Rebecca. I'm 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.840 sure she appreciates it. A lot of people are asking 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.719 you about you know, what did Hamish have to say 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.240 about you doing this show? What sort of advice did 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.600 he give? But I guess we haven't really heard what 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.800 he thought of the first episode. Did he watch the 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.480 first episode? And what was his feedback? 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:49.120 Great question. 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.000 Haim's away at the moment on holidays, and I think 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.280 he's got very little reception. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.000 I've tried to call him a couple of times. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:59.000 He said, your textback saying mate, very dodgy reception here 0:10:59.000 --> 0:10:59.400 at the moment. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.920 I apologize. So we charded briefly this morning. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:06.120 He was extremely complimentary and he was awesome and the 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.920 leader because I mean, we talk about all our you know, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.960 obviously these are more public facing, high profile solo projects, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.839 but we've always had lots of tiny projects that we 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.560 do on the side that we're passionate about. And he's 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.640 the first and I go to straight away to go, hey, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.640 I think you're doing this, what do you reckon? And 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.200 his advice is always strong, so it was super helpful 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.760 with regards to this as well. And the main time 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.040 I felt like I missed him was in the downtime 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.679 because on all our shows together, you know, when you're performing, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.400 you're performing, so like, it's not like I'm out there 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.640 on stage missing Hamish while it's happening, because I was 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.839 deeply engrossed in the games and the people playing and 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.160 kind of consumed by the show. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.040 But it was when I went back to my little 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:49.719 hut on the. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.960 Side of the stage where Hay would normally be and 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.440 we'd be laughing and mucking about in between in the 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.600 ad breaks, etc. That's where I certainly felt like like, ah, yeah, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:01.160 this is different. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.880 But you know what's so funny about the two of 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.559 you doing like with Hami's doing Lego Masters and you're 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.480 now doing the Cube. It made me think about some 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.360 of the other shows that had been offered to you 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.839 to host over the years, Like I can remember one 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.280 in particular that they wanted you to both do and 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.360 you turned down. Are there any shows that you can 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.120 tell me that you turned down that they asked you 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:21.600 to host? 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.800 It's not really kosher, and the thing to do is 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.520 just to say that the shows you may have. 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.440 Turned down over the run, but I'll give you one. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.240 Look, Hay and I, the main reason for not doing 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.920 Project Is along the run was because we were doing 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:37.800 our own stuff together. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.360 Yeah, it took up a lot of our time. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.960 So it was never a slight on the quality of 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.120 shows that were presented to us to do, although some 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.400 of the times it was sometimes like, I don't think 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.520 this is a good show. Often I was wrong, But 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.680 Hay and I, when Darryl Summons finished up on Dance 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.040 the Stars got asked to host Dance with the Stars 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.440 after Darryl SMS. I don't know when that was. It 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.400 would have been a late two thousands. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.880 Yeah, it's late. I think it's two thousand and nine 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.360 that he walked away, because I think that was two 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.200 thousand and five that it launched and he did four 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.440 seasons of it. He should have done it though, and 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.880 taken his trailer because he had a huge trailer that 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.000 he wanted while he was. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:20.439 Making Yeah, exactly. He went old school with his TV demands. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.720 So yeah, HAYM and I got off of that and 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.720 did not have to think long to say no because 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.000 neither of us dance, so we don't. And I like 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.120 the show just was not the type of show for 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.719 two twenty year old fellows to suddenly do. And I 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.160 think they went with Dan McPherson, which was a much better, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:37.520 much better person to go with. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.719 Oh, I know, he's great and he did a good 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.280 job of that. I think he made it his own. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.000 I mean, the worst thing about going into Darryl Summers's 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.520 shoes is doing that thing that you know, this is 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.120 not good podcasting, but the silence thing that Darryl used 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:50.480 to do. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.800 When he cut the band off, when he yeah, he 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.920 raved his hands in front of his chest to cut 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.200 the band off. That was that was actually one thing 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:58.560 I did want to do. That was the only thing 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.079 that drew me to the projecty to cut in August, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:01.800 We're off with my an. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:03.960 You know what was funny though, the one show that 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.000 I heard about and it might I might be so 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.800 dead wrong with this, and a turn of events meant 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.480 that I ended up on that show. But I remember 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.600 being at the logis that year that it was about 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.040 to be announced who was hosting Big Brother, and there 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.040 was rumors that they'd asked you both to do it, 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.880 and then Sonia ended up doing it. But I was like, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.240 I remember, like, I don't know if you remember this, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.280 but one night I was out with you and Hamish 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.720 and a few other mutual friends and we stayed there 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.000 talking about Big Brother for a while. Oh yeah, I 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.720 do remember this, And then we sat there talking about 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.080 because I remember you were really fascinated with the show 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.080 absolutely at that time. Yeah, and you had so many 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.800 questions about it. And then it was so weird because 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.480 then they rang me and asked me to do that show, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.560 and I was like, that's so bizarre that if you 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.560 guys would have ended up hosting that show after we'd 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.720 had this conversation, you know, like, it was so bizarre. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.440 Yeah, I mean, I still I mean, particularly the early 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.360 season Big Brother, I'm still fascinating, because you know. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.840 It was it's like the early seasons of anything. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.360 People learn the tricks, they learn what they had meant 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.360 to do on television, and they go in and suddenly 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.680 they're preparing it, portraying a very different look and feel 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.400 or often the exact same of look and feel that 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.680 we've seen already. And you know, I would say that 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.440 that's the challenge for a lot of these shows that 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.320 rely on reality contestants doing the same thing is that 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.080 we kind of work our way through all the different 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.200 combinations of you know, how a couple, how a couple 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.240 are going to fight or cheat on each other. It's stuff, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.920 So how do you keep it fresh? But yeah, I 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.080 can't even remember a recall with a Hayman. I were 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.080 asked to do that. But yeah, again, if we were 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.320 would have been a very short conversation because we were 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.520 so keen on making our own shows. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.440 What's a funny story that was kind of like the 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.160 take home like something after working on the show that 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.240 you consider around the dinner table and you know, tell 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:58.200 your friends, I. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.840 Mean everything, I mean, everything went relatively smoothly on set. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:02.880 I must admit. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.720 The part that I've found a little bit funny is 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:09.040 when a contestant is asking for clarification of a rule 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.240 from me, and they need to be really specific because 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.440 you know they might have they might be going fifty 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.280 thousand dollars and risking twenty thousand dollars to do it 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.320 because there's no safe zones in the show. They'd often 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.000 ask and I would just make it up what I 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.520 thought the rule might be, so they might say, hey, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:28.640 am I allowed to hold. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.160 The ball in both hands? And it's like, yeah, you 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:31.680 can do that, and then. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.200 Alex in my ear would be going no, no, no, no, no, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.200 don't say that. Don't And very often during the show 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.680 I'd have to go stop, everyone, stop, I've lied again, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.600 and the audience would laugh, and I say, I've got 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.600 a terrible habit of just making up the rules. If 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.040 someone's asking for parification, now let me actually get the 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.600 right rule, because I want to make sure that we 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.040 don't do someone out of a lot of money. So yeah, 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.600 that would be a trait that I'm not sure I'm 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:02.880 going to be able to fix if we go to 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.879 season two, because it's too tempting when someone asked you 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.520 a question just to answer it start away. 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.959 Have they said much about series two, because you know, 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.560 I guess we're one episode in and I loved it. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.840 I mean, I can honestly show you I don't actually 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.520 bite my nails or I peeled them all off. A 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.800 lot of people talked about the slow mo, people like, oh, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:23.639 there's too much SlowMo and all this sort of stuff. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:25.760 That was the thing that got me. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:27.119 Yeah, and that's good. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.320 I mean, it's always good to get criticism, particularly from 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.800 the public. We looked at that with regards to upcoming episodes. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.720 Did we overdo the intensity or the editors and so on? 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.359 And I think that we can balance that out a 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.119 little bit. But I did have other people saying to 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.119 me that they loved all the slow mo and bullet 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.840 time because it made things super intense. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.280 Just like in Jack Bauer and twenty four. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.359 It's only meant to take place in a day, but 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.119