An Alabama native whose coverage of the White House has made her prominent enough to be parodied by “Saturday Night Live” says she’d like to be married at a venue better known for bushwackers.

Jon Stewart recently featured CNN anchor and White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins on his “The Weekly Show” podcast. Mostly, the episode focused on the rigors of being both a White House reporter and an anchor, and the general challenges of covering President Donald Trump’s second administration.

But Stewart also gave Collins the chance to salute her native state. “My whole family lives in Alabama, which is where I’m from, born and raised,” she said.

In response to Stewart’s questions, she said she was from “right outside Montgomery, it’s a city called Prattville.”

“It’s like 38,000 people or so,” she said. “Everyone thinks I’m from like a one-horse, one-stoplight town, but it’s actually a fully functioning city and a great place to grow up. I love it.”

Stewart praised Alabama for its comedy scene but hinted that he’d had a little difficulty at a spot “in between Alabama and Florida” when he had a show on MTV in the early ‘90s.

“Do you have a problem with that place?” asked Collins. “Because I have said previously that if I ever get married I want to get married at the Flora-Bama because I love it so much.”

“What I love about the Flora-Bama is that you can be there on a Saturday night listening to some cover band. There’s, like, underwear lining the walls and hanging from the ceilings,” she said. “And then on Sundays they host church. … So you can go and go to the service, get a bloody Mary while you’re there, it’s great.”

Notes: One of the Flora-Bama’s stages, known as the Dome, is in a room festooned with bras donated over the years by visitors. It was the scene of an unexpected but probably inevitable bra avalanche during a performance in 2021. The venue can draw around 1,000 people to its Sunday services and reportedly welcomed more than 10,000 to its three 2025 Easter services, with around 60 baptisms in the Gulf.

Stewart’s recollection of his visit to the Flora-Bama was that “Everybody made it pretty clear that it was basically like being in international waters,” he said. “That when you were in the jurisdiction of this bar, it was like being on Silk Road.”

While Collins was professionally neutral about the ups and downs of the Trump administration, Stewart made no secret of his distaste. His opening remarks, made before Collins joined the program, included reference to another topic tangentially related to Alabama: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s move to remove the name of gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk from a U.S. Navy oiler. (Stewart mistakenly referred to it as a destroyer.) The ship, designated T-AO 206, has spent time docked in Mobile for maintenance at Alabama Shipyard and is the second ship in the John Lewis class, named for the Alabama native who became a civil rights icon and Congressman.

“It just reminds me of what this administration is and the priorities of this administration,” fumed Stewart. “And the ridiculously, just, petty and malicious way in which they go about – I mean, for God sakes.”

The podcast episode can be found on YouTube and other outlets.