We Changed Everything. Welcome to Season 8.
Pretty Basic with Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz
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4.8 • 36.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Season 8 is here—and Pretty Basic is entering a new era.
Things might look a little different around here 👀 During our break, we worked hard to build a new, improved, and more grown PB set—and in this episode, we’re spilling all the behind-the-scenes tea on how it came together.
We’re also catching up on life lately (it’s been a loooonggg time). From what Alisha’s investing in this year (and no, not just the new set 😉) to Remi’s life updates—plus all the same PB banter you know and love.
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| 0:00.0 | Pretty Basic. |
| 0:10.9 | Hey guys, welcome to season eight of Pretty Basic. |
| 0:15.6 | This set got a full, full plastic surgery. You know, she went under for a few months, actually. She did. This is her big debut and she knows she looks good. Let's just say that. I hope that people clicked on YouTube. This, like, feels so weird right now. It does. Because we've been in that studio since the beginning of shooting in a studio. So this feels so different. I feel like I'm back in New York and we're in that like, it just feels so weird. I agree. You guys, there's so much we need to update you on. Rimm, there's so much I need to update you on with my life. Because we obviously have taken a small little break when it comes to recording the podcast as we do every single year. |
| 0:54.9 | We are starting season eight and we are starting it with a bang. We are. I hope that you guys |
| 1:00.4 | click the YouTube video and are gagged because we did a really good job at keeping this studio |
| 1:04.6 | a secret and hopefully when you're watching this video, it's like the first time you're seeing it. |
| 1:09.2 | We just walked in for the first time today. It looks absolutely insane. We're also going to shoot our season eight cover after this. It's crazy that they already know what it looks like and we don't right now. I know we have no idea. We haven't even done it yet. Also, we haven't podcasted in general in months. I think that Yeah, a month and a half. It's been a little while, right? No, I think it's been almost two months now, yeah. |
| 1:29.2 | Wow. |
| 1:29.5 | Which is crazy. |
| 1:30.7 | But I'm honestly like. months. I think that yeah, a month and a half. It's been a little while, right? No, I think it's been |
| 1:27.6 | almost two months now, yeah. Wow. Which is crazy. But I'm honestly, last night I was like falling asleep and I was like, I'm so excited to get back in the studio. I'm like, I miss them. And it's so different from our other audiences, like from a vlog channel. Like I just missed the pod so much. It's really crazy thing here right now. |
| 1:43.4 | We also can't thank enough everyone who worked on this set, Lexi, Ryan, Ellie, Ollie, |
| 1:50.4 | like the way that this set would not be a thing right now because we, we approved things, |
| 1:56.2 | but we didn't do much. |
| 1:57.2 | No, walking in today and seeing this, I was speechless. |
| 2:00.1 | And as you know, if you've |
| 2:01.0 | listened to this podcast for your ears, I'm very seldomly speechless. This is beyond our |
| 2:06.5 | wildest dreams. It's crazy because it's the same set as before, but we did build up. We have so |
| 2:12.1 | much to talk about regarding the set. So let's start with that. We've been talking about wanting |
| 2:16.5 | to do a set for so long, a new set, |
| 2:19.2 | because again, we've had the old set for like six years now. That's what's crazy because it was |
| 2:23.4 | 20, 21. Five years, yeah. That's crazy. And it was time that she just needed to grow up. And I feel like |
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