Alex Baskin on the 'Hills' Reboot, 'Vanderpump Rules,’ and the State of Reality TV | 'Speidi’s 16th Minute'

Speidi's 16th Minute

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4.8 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Super-producer Alex Baskin joins Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag to discuss what went wrong with the reboot of 'The Hills' (10:00), what it takes to be a Real Housewife (21:00), and the future of reality TV (40:00). Then, Spencer and Heidi reconvene for a brief hot topics discussion, including clearing the air on a recent TikTok involving former Bravo Housewife Bethenny Frankel (48:40).Hosts: Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Guest: Alex Baskin Producers: Aleya Zenieris, Chelsea Stark-Jones, Amelia Wedemeyer, and Devon Renaldo Theme Song: Heidi Montag Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spidey's 16th minute.
0:04.3	Oh, wait for me, honey.
0:05.8	Okay, go ahead.
0:06.4	You do it then.
0:07.1	No, no, that was great.
0:08.1	I just wanted to look in your beautiful eyes.
0:11.1	Thank you.
0:12.0	Welcome, Spidey's 16th minute.
0:14.4	We are here.
0:15.3	We're going to talk about some hot topics, catch up on life, see what's going on.
0:18.9	We have a great guest today. We have Alex Baskin, who is a very
0:23.5	successful producer. He also did The Hills reboot, so we have a personal connection with him as well.
0:30.8	We have had so many amazing memories with him. Just stay tuned. Let's see if he wants to talk about
0:37.0	any of them because he's also a former if he wants to talk about any of them.
0:37.9	Because he's also a former, he went to law school. So he's very good at, you know, avoiding, he's like talking to somebody in court.
0:48.8	So we'll see what we can get out of him. He also produces Vanderpump rules, housewives. Okay, maybe we can get some
0:59.0	juice out of it. We'll try our best. We'll squeeze. Yeah, well, it's going to be, you're going to have to
1:05.4	wait until the end, maybe the end of the episode, he'll reveal his thoughts about everything that you want to know about.
1:14.1	But let's get down to the most breaking news since we've last talked.
1:20.9	Brandy Spears got divorced or is getting divorced.
1:24.5	No. Did you see that coming?
1:27.8	You know, I follow a lot of conspiracy TikTok and there's been a lot of, you know,
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