In this bonus episode, Jim speaks one on one with creator, writer, director, and more often than not, star of the Bad Ben movie series, Nigel Bach.
In the interview, Jim talks to Nigel about his eight movie series that began with the original 'Bad Ben'. For those not familiar, Bad Ben is a series of found-footage horror/comedy movies available on Amazon Prime.
Nigel discusses his time before the movies and what led him to make the first with a few hundred dollars, a couple thousand dollars in cameras, and his iPhone, and how he ended up starring as the series' accidental protagonist Tom Riley. Jim and Nigel discuss how the character of Tom, an average guy from New Jersey trying to flip a house won at auction, became a fan favorite as well as the movies that didn't focus on Tom and their place in the Bad Ben universe, the Tom Riley animated series, and a bit about the future of the franchise.
If you came here for something political stay tuned until the last few minutes where Nigel and Jim talk about Amazon's creator platform that gets independent movies like Bad Ben into the Prime catalog and reimbursing the creators. This system has gone through several changes in the past few years to reduce payouts, and while you can, and should, still see Nigel's movies on Prime, he also explains why he's now an official martyr in TLiD canon for being the first person we've spoken with to be permanently banned from using the review feature on Amazon.