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[0:00] Patrick Oliver Jones: Well, hello, and thanks for coming back to join me and Remy Germinario for the final five.

[0:06] Patrick Oliver Jones: Now, this is a bonus episode to the conversation that we had on Wednesday, where all season long I'm asking five final questions to each and every guest, covering topics we didn't address on the previous interview.

[0:20] Patrick Oliver Jones: Now, today Remy gives his own thoughts on bucket lists and lessons learned, as well as I'm throwing in a new question just for Remy on this final five.

[0:31] Patrick Oliver Jones: So let's get this started.

[0:39] Patrick Oliver Jones: All right, here we are at the final five questions.

[0:42] Patrick Oliver Jones: All right, and I'm actually introducing a new question.

[0:45] Remy Germinario: On the spot.

[0:46] Patrick Oliver Jones: On the spot.

[0:51] Patrick Oliver Jones: But we'll start with number one.

[0:52] Remy Germinario: Okay.

[0:53] Patrick Oliver Jones: Number one. If you could have any other job outside of the arts or comedy, what would it be?

[0:58] Remy Germinario: Um, I would want to be a truck driver.

[1:01] Patrick Oliver Jones: Really?

[1:02] Remy Germinario: Yes. Um, no, I would never do it, but like in like a world, um, I love road trips and I love seeing the country, and there's something really like weirdly romantic about the open road to me.

[1:14] Patrick Oliver Jones: So would you like pick up random hitchhikers as part of that?

[1:17] Remy Germinario: There's something. I mean, I'm saying that from a fantasy standpoint. Um or maybe like a travel channel host.

[1:25] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yeah, yeah.

[1:25] Remy Germinario: Yeah. I love travel. I have extreme wanderlust. I've wanted to audition for those because I see them every now and then.

[1:30] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yeah, I have those auditions.

[1:31] Remy Germinario: I did once as well. And I actually got to like, you know, so you submit and then you get to like meet with them and talk to the producers.

[1:37] Patrick Oliver Jones: So I thought maybe.

[1:38] Remy Germinario: Yeah.

[1:39] Patrick Oliver Jones: You know, you should again you'd be great.

[1:41] Remy Germinario: Right.

[1:41] Patrick Oliver Jones: So something to do with travel. I love travel.

[1:43] Patrick Oliver Jones: So, number two, what is a bucket list show or a role that you want to do?

[1:47] Remy Germinario: Um, I would love to be Louis in Angels in America.

[1:51] Patrick Oliver Jones: Mm-hmm.

[1:52] Remy Germinario: Um, I love that they're making Amy and company a boy now in this new production.

[1:58] Remy Germinario: So hopefully Jamie down the line I'll audition for the replacement at some point.

[2:06] Patrick Oliver Jones: Good.

[2:07] Remy Germinario: Uh hopefully that's I was when I I love that role and so when I heard they were making a guy I was like so yeah maybe maybe one day that'd be cool.

[2:14] Patrick Oliver Jones: All right, uh number three who do you look up to as a mentor or someone who inspires you?

[2:14] Remy Germinario: I think the person who I think without watching not someone I know, um well I have a lot of great people I look up to, um you know my parents of course, um my best friend is Rachel Brosnahan from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel like she's someone I look up to she's she's such a great friend and mentor to me but I think that without watching this person on TV growing up I don't think I'd have my comedic voice and that is Lisa Kudrow. I do not get starstruck but if I ever meet Lisa Kudrow I will cry.

[2:47] Remy Germinario: I will absolutely cry because she made me laugh so much and I think I get a lot of my inspiration from her and I still look up to her as I mean she was definitely more of the one of the more they each had their own thing but Lisa Kudrow's character was so quirky and so unique and so individual.

[3:03] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yes.

[3:04] Remy Germinario: Her character I think was the one that seemed the most grounded all the other ones played like an archetype of that particular comedic character.

[3:11] Remy Germinario: She was so real with the silly things she was saying.

[3:15] Remy Germinario: She was very serious about it.

[3:17] Patrick Oliver Jones: So yeah, Lisa Kudrow.

[3:18] Patrick Oliver Jones: All right this is the new question.

[3:20] Remy Germinario: Are you ready?

[3:21] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yes and yes and perfect thank you.

[3:24] Remy Germinario: So what is a time in your life where you messed up and had to own up to it?

[3:24] Remy Germinario: I have a good one, I suppose. And I won't go into too much detail. Um, but I was in my college relationship.

[3:41] Remy Germinario: Um, look, we were very important to each other, we're friendly, you know, now, but it was not it was very toxic, a little dramatic, you know, for the years.

[3:51] Remy Germinario: And so we met up a few years after the really terrible breakup, and we both kind of like apologized to each other, being like, hey, we both did some stuff, and like it was just like a nice way to just be like, hey, it's like everything's chill, like we're good now.

[4:07] Remy Germinario: In that there's also another time with a different person where like because I was in a really weird place, I was acting like kind of like crazy and clingy with this other person, um relationship-wise, and I apologized to him as well.

[4:22] Remy Germinario: Our relationships can really bring out the kind of crazy stupid side of us in so many ways.

[4:28] Remy Germinario: Yeah, and I think that's where I've had to own up a lot, just because you're upset, you're exactly right.

[4:34] Remy Germinario: Like love and lust and everything, it makes us it changes us.

[4:38] Remy Germinario: And so I've fully made mistakes there that I would like to think I've owned up to.

[4:43] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yeah, because like being with another person really puts the mirror, and I mean, we don't often see it till as you said, like maybe years later you realized, oh, I really messed that up.

[4:51] Remy Germinario: But it yeah, it really shines the light on us.

[4:54] Patrick Oliver Jones: Same question.

[4:55] Remy Germinario: Oh wow.

[4:56] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yeah.

[4:56] Remy Germinario: You just turned the question on me.

[4:58] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yeah, you answer it, and then you can get back to me.

[5:00] Remy Germinario: Um see now, of course I'm thinking about relationships, but I'm trying to open it up to the other.

[5:04] Remy Germinario: That was just my first thing that came to mind.

[5:05] Patrick Oliver Jones: Right, right.

[5:06] Remy Germinario: But I'm trying to think of uh of other things.

[5:08] Remy Germinario: Um asking me on this podcast.

[5:11] Patrick Oliver Jones: Right.

[5:12] Remy Germinario: You know, I actually the next thing after I kind of pushed through, you know, relationship stuff.

[5:17] Remy Germinario: One of the first things as a child, I remember.

[5:20] Remy Germinario: So basically, back when Kmart was actually like something before there was Target, there was Kmart.

[5:26] Remy Germinario: And so I remember my mom and I we would shop.

[5:29] Remy Germinario: So on this is like seven or eight years old.

[5:31] Remy Germinario: So I remember that I wanted this particular Hot Wheels car, you know?

[5:36] Patrick Oliver Jones: And so I kept out, and she was like, No, no, no, you know, we're not gonna do anything.

[5:40] Remy Germinario: So she went shopping, and I was just gonna meander around the toys or whatever, but I wanted that car.

[5:40] Remy Germinario: I wanted that car.

[5:45] Patrick Oliver Jones: Did you steal it?

[5:46] Remy Germinario: I picked that car, and I'm in the aisle, and I just opened it out of the package and I put it in my pocket.

[5:52] Patrick Oliver Jones: Did you get in trouble?

[5:54] Remy Germinario: The like what I I guess a manager or some store manager like basically stopped me and took me to my mother, and he's just standing there, but he made me say it.

[6:05] Remy Germinario: He was like she was like, What did you do?

[6:08] Remy Germinario: Like, I wanted the car.

[6:11] Patrick Oliver Jones: So I yeah.

[6:11] Remy Germinario: Had he not stopped you, would you have just walked out with it?

[6:14] Remy Germinario: Mm-hmm.

[6:14] Patrick Oliver Jones: I then I really think I would have.

[6:14] Remy Germinario: Then you wouldn't be answering this question.

[6:18] Patrick Oliver Jones: Right, then I wouldn't be answering the question.

[6:18] Remy Germinario: And it's like really did I mean that it's impressionable.

[6:22] Remy Germinario: Tell you the lesson.

[6:22] Remy Germinario: At seven years old, I still remember that lesson.

[6:30] Patrick Oliver Jones: The one thing I've ever stolen was one condom.

[6:33] Remy Germinario: You know, if you're gonna steal something, that's at least something good to have.

[6:37] Remy Germinario: I was nervous, I was like 17.

[6:39] Patrick Oliver Jones: Oh, yeah, you don't want to actually like buy it.

[6:41] Remy Germinario: Yeah, I was nervous.

[6:41] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yeah, but at least now you ordered.

[6:46] Patrick Oliver Jones: Okay, all right.

[6:47] Patrick Oliver Jones: So here we are at the last one.

[6:49] Patrick Oliver Jones: What's the best advice you've ever received?

[6:52] Remy Germinario: Um, the best advice I've ever received personally.

[6:55] Remy Germinario: Okay, so like in acting school, we do all these acting techniques and these exercises and this script analysis and all this stuff.

[7:01] Remy Germinario: And for me, it's helpful, but like in the moment, I never know like what to do with it.

[7:06] Remy Germinario: Like, and so one time I fully said this to my acting teacher whose name is Doug Hall, he's great, and I was like, I've done all this work for it, and like I get it, but I'm not trying to, I don't know how to like let this live in the scene, all this work I've done.

[7:18] Remy Germinario: He goes, You've done the work, now let it go.

[7:21] Remy Germinario: You know what I mean?

[7:22] Remy Germinario: Like it's just inherently there, which I really liked.

[7:25] Remy Germinario: I also really liked so that was like a personal piece of advice that I live by, especially when my brain is getting cluttered with like script analysis and like, oh, what does this character mean here?

[7:34] Remy Germinario: And how do I live truthfully?

[7:36] Remy Germinario: I have to think about this.

[7:37] Remy Germinario: And you know, my grandmother dying, and this time that I had a coffee, you know, like all this like sense memory and everything.

[7:43] Remy Germinario: So that helps there.

[7:44] Remy Germinario: And I really very recent piece of advice that was not told directly to me, but was told to the masses, and a lot of people have been talking about it these days.

[7:50] Patrick Oliver Jones: Okay.

[7:51] Remy Germinario: Andre De Shields' Tony Award speech.

[7:53] Patrick Oliver Jones: Right.

[7:53] Remy Germinario: Slow is the fastest way to get to where you want to be.

[7:56] Patrick Oliver Jones: Loved that.

[7:57] Remy Germinario: Pretty much he could just write a Bible with those three things that he gave, and that's all people need to know.

[8:01] Remy Germinario: Live your life like that.

[8:03] Remy Germinario: And we're all we'll all be better people.

[8:05] Patrick Oliver Jones: Well, especially in this day and age where it's getting harder and harder to lay roots for yourself as an artist because there's so much content, there's so many people trying to do this.

[8:14] Patrick Oliver Jones: Everyone's creating their own work, like it's so hard to actually make an impression these days.

[8:18] Remy Germinario: In theory, yes, there's more work, but because there's so much, things aren't sticking, you know.

[8:24] Patrick Oliver Jones: And so you feel like you have this timeline in your head, but sometimes you just have to let things be.

[8:30] Remy Germinario: And I love I think I really needed to hear that.

[8:32] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yeah, yeah.

[8:33] Remy Germinario: I did a whole episode just about those three things that he gave.

[8:36] Patrick Oliver Jones: I'm gonna have to go back and listen to that.

[8:38] Remy Germinario: Yeah, yeah.

[8:38] Remy Germinario: It was it was it meant a lot to me, like stuck, like arrow through the heart, like listen to this and take it out.

[8:43] Patrick Oliver Jones: Yeah, you're not the first person that's told me that a lot of people really connected to that.

[8:47] Remy Germinario: Yeah, it was amazing.