WEBVTT - Julia Zemiro: Rockwiz - TV Personality 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.000 TV Reload the podcast last week Airline. Welcome TV Reload listeners. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.799 My name is Benjamin Norris and this is your podcast 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.440 to get all the inside goss on the popular TV 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.920 shows you may be watching from around the world. Undeniably, 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.560 our TV sets are a major part of our home 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.600 entertainment and very little is known about how our favorite 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.320 shows get made. 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Rock Quiz airs Fridays at seven 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.840 thirty pm on Foxtel and if you want to catch 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.039 up on those episodes, you can do that on demand. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.800 If you've never seen the show before, make sure you 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.160 check it out. Julia is phenomenally entertaining and a joy 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.319 to watch, and if you're a music fan, there really 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.480 is something in this for you as well. We will 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.920 discuss her influences and find out who particularly she looked 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.720 up to in her early days. I will ask how 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.600 Rock Quiz got rebooted for Foxtel. Julia explains how the 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.640 role came about and how her relationship with co host 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.600 Brian Nankervis has evolved over time. Plus, we will get 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.959 some exclusives on the new series Rockquiz, which includes some 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.360 tidbits regarding the guests like Ben Ley, Tina Arena and 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:54.120 Jimmy Barnes. What a list of music legends. However, let's 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.920 bring Julia into the podcast as I'm sure you're gonna 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.720 love this chat. Hi, Julia, thanks for coming on podcast. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.040 It's my pleasure. Ben how are you I'm. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:04.720 Doing very well. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.480 You know, you are actually someone who is often on 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.240 my mind, and that is because you know, I have 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.079 a lot of respect for you as you know who 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.400 you are as a comedian, presenter, actor and all rounder 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.160 and always have done like I've always looked up to you. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.840 Thank you. Look you know you. Look when you graduate 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.120 from acting school like I did years ago, you have 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.680 no idea where your career is going to take you 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.280 if you even had the you know, the wherewithal to 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.000 use the word career back then about it? You just 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.040 think am I ever going to get paid for a job? 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.800 And then when you do, it's really exciting and you 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.200 start to think, oh, maybe this can work. So I've 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.680 been around a long time. So Ben, if I've been 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.440 an influence or a guiding light in the darkness of 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:46.959 our times, I'm delighted. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:47.520 You know. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.560 I've had friends in the industry say at times, you know, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.040 I'm not exactly sure who I am or where do 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.079 I fit in, and I always use you as an example. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.000 I think what's quite amazing about you is that you 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.040 kind of know who you are and you don't really 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.040 apologize for that. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.000 Look, Ben, do you want to get married that's such 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.760 a lovely thing to say. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:11.960 You're still with Carton. Am I going to get in 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:12.359 trouble with you? 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.440 No? I am still with Carston absolutely. You know. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.760 I'm actually going to just tell you something that last night, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.480 as I was going to sleep, I put on a 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.560 podcast of you being interviewed. It started off with one 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.080 and then I didn't realize that they would roll into others. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.600 So I've literally listened to every podcast that you have 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.799 ever done whilst I've been asleep, So I know facts 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.920 about you that I probably don't even really I wasn't 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:36.600 even awake for. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.000 Oh my god, that is like some subliminal level stuff 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.760 right there. Oh god, I think too though, in terms 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.320 of playing your natural game. You know, any industry, and 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.200 it's a shame that we have to call the arts 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:52.640 in industry anyway. But whatever world you're working in artistically, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.320 you can tell the people who want to do you 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.160 wrong or have your worst interest at heart, or you know, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.520 aren't going to take you in the right direction, and 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.880 you can just say no, I'm not saying that you've 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.520 got to do anything for work or you sometimes you 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.600 can't turn down work because you need the money or whatever. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.840 But there are times when you can say that doesn't 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.560 suit me, and I won't do it, And I think, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.400 you know, you kind of have to have some kind 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.360 of say in what you do in your career. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:19.800 But were you always like that? 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.720 I mean, I mean people get like that in their 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.960 career later on and they can then pick and choose. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.320 But were you always in control and thinking, I'm going 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.719 to say no to the things that just didn't suit you. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.080 So for example, you know, I came out of acting 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.080 school and I did Shakespeare in high schools with Bell Shakespeare, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.799 where you got a regular paycheck every week. I could 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.760 not believe what was going on. And then I auditioned 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.960 for an AD for a sanitary pad AD and it's 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.280 probably one of the better ads about sanitary pads that 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.800 you'll ever see, sure in natural ultra thin MAXI shields. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.279 And I'd never got an AD before or gone for 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.480 an AD, and it was unbelievable to get it and 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.760 get that kind of money at that time, and couldn't 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.800 believe it. And over the next few years, I did 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.640 seem to do an add a year and I got 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.680 offered things like McDonald's and said no, I did do 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.200 pizza hut. I mean, you know, one monologue as as 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.200 bad as the other. But you know, I've been offered 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.480 gambling ads, I've been offered racing. I don't do Melbourne 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.440 Cup events. You know, they're all things that you can 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.920 actually say no to. Had a woman once come to 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.320 me in an event saying, every year we asked for 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.080 you and your agent, I'm sure she doesn't even put 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.120 offer through. And I'm like, well, no, she shows me everything, 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.599 so no, no. I just think she decided and I 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.920 just said, okay, what's the gig. What do you ask 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.000 me every year to do? She said Melbourne Cup? And 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.040 she went on this whole thing about Melbourn Cup and 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.440 I said, well, I'm just going to stop you there. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.640 Don't believe in it, so that's why it never comes back. Yes, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.640 And she looked at me like I slapped her in 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.159 the face and said it's not personal, not saying I 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.279 don't like you. I just will not do that event. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.360 So you know, and it might not sound like much 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.839 to say no to her. You know. At one point 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.680 I stopped am seeing austraighted events. You know, I was 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.919 really I was really ignorant about indigenous issues in my 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.480 twenties and I'm ashamed of that. And when I started 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.520 to understand what was going on, I went, well, that's 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.600 a no brainer. I'm just not going to do anything anymore. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.320 I'm not going to see anything on Australia Day anymore. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.159 And I might be involved at all. So you can 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.480 make those kinds of decisions just to make you feel 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.720 like you have agency in the work that you're doing. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.200 And no, I think we're always evolving as well. And 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.760 you're the sort of person who is absorbing, you know 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.440 what I mean. Like when you say I might have 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.720 been ignorant, you know, I think a lot of people were, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.200 and then once you found out that information, you stopped 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.200 doing it, you know, And I think. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.120 A lot of who you are. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.040 I mean, I love you because I think you have 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.200 a great understanding of social commentary, and I think that's 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.680 what your humor is. Like, I think you understand people well. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.240 You know, I think too. You know, I did a 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.120 lot of training as an improviser and in improv. The 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.839 I mean, you know, the cliche is that you always 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.920 say yes and and you don't block and all of that. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.280 But the best thing I ever heard about training in 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.680 improv when you're in a scene with someone. All you 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.479 need is who's in front of you. So there's no 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.040 point trying to invent something that's out there. You don't 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.760 need to make the scene interesting by pretending there's a 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.240 planet coming to hit the earth, or you know, dog's 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.440 just walked in or whatever. All you need is the 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.600 person in front of you. And I would say that 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.160 works in relationships. It works on home delivery when I'm 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.440 interviewing people and taking them back to their childhood home 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.360 to a rock with contestant who has been dying to 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.520 be on the show for years finally gets through, and 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.880 my job is to kind of go okay. In my head, 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.040 I'm always like, you need to have people laugh at 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.200 something you say and make you feel warm inside before 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.120 we get going. So that little warm up we do 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.560 where I say, first album, first concert, When they hear 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.160 the audience clap them or go or laugh straight away, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.760 they relax. Why is that good? Because I'll get the 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.760 best out of them for the next half hour, you know. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.560 It's so whoever's right in front of you is what 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.120 you need to kind of concentrate on and just listen 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.000 and take in what you're getting back. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.160 But I think that's I think that's the importance of 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.600 going to drama. Like, I don't think everyone needs to 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.640 be a drama student, but I think the things. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.400 That you learn in that is powerful. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:14.920 And you know, I've got a lot of friends who 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.320 have anxiety now, and there's a lot of social anxiety 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.440 coming out of COVID and I and they get really 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.440 stressed about going out and I'm like, well, who. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:21.960 Are you going to see? 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.160 And they're like, I'm going to see my friend Carla 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.040 or you know whoever. And I'm like, you don't need 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.240 to worry about, you know, everything else, you know, just 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.440 you're going to see that person, and you don't even 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:31.840 need to worry about what you're going to say. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.880 You just need to sit down and ask how are they? 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:35.560 You know? And it helps me. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.320 Yeah, it's so funny how that happens. And I think, look, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.199 I grew up in a different time with a different 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.480 set of circumstances, no social media, you know, I was 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.400 well known before you know, Instagram, Twitter, so I've never 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.160 had to use it to get where I need to go. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.679 So I feel like I've grown up in a world 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.839 that was a bit more I don't know, you could 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.679 kind of understand it more or something you kind of 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.240 knew where you stood. Things didn't go as fast, so 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.760 that anxiety. I don't have that kind of anxiety. But 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.400 I think you're right if you just say breathe, go 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:11.080 in there, have no expectations, you know, then the world 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.120 is tricky, so you've got to be ready for the 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.840 trickiness around it. I mean, it's it's been a tough time. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.079 I still don't think people are really I really processed 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.559 that weird COVID downtime, where on the one hand you thought, Wow, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.840 what a great holiday, and on the other hand thinking 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.120 the world is ending. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.240 I don't think we're out the other side of it. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.280 I mean, I still see the little signs in people 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.840 and I'm like, that has to be those Melbourne lockdowns, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.520 you know what I mean, Like that has to be this. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.840 And I wasn't anti any of that. I was, you know, 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.439 whatever the government told me to do. It was fine 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.400 and I rolled with it. But then I probably wasn't 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.640 aware of how much it was going to affect people anyway. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:47.960 This is a completely different conversation. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.400 I mean, we could be doing the whole of the 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.720 world's problems. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.920 Then I really could, and I could unpack this with you, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.400 but people will want to know things like, you know, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:58.880 who are your influencers? 0:09:59.080 --> 0:09:59.320 You know? 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.400 And that's what I I would love to know, because 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.839 I mean, you know, you were born overseas, you know. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.480 But I guess you moved here when you were two? 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:06.679 Is that? I think that's right? 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.160 But you would have absorbed a lot of I guess 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.880 as you know the Australian entertainment industry, who was it 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:13.920 that influenced you? 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.520 Look? For me, the first person comes to mind is 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.600 Noline Brown, okay, because she was in the Naked Vicar 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.120 Show and I would turn that would come on at 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:28.199 night on the TV and you'd see this brilliant, glamorous 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.840 woman sitting between two men being hilarious and then next 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.760 minute she'd be in a beanie being a hilarious character 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.400 or playing a man. And I just thought she was gold. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.080 And when my dad first came to Australia, my mum's Australian, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.320 so of course she spoke English, but dad didn't. He 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.720 was French. And in the kitchen that he used to 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.440 work in in his restaurant, when he was getting stuff 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.000 ready for the evening, he would listen to the Naked 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:56.960 Vicar Show on the radio to understand jargon, slang, Australian sayings, 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.559 get used to the accent because it was tricky, and 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.160 when we Noline for home delivery, it was just a 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.400 beautiful circle of a moment to be able to say 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.080 to her. You probably thought you were making comedy and 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.440 just TV, but for some people were learning English offer 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.200 and learning all these different things from it. So she 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.320 was a real model. But then in my teens it 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.240 was French and Saunders, those two women. I'm a big 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.080 English humor fan, and those two women just he just 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.040 felt like they could do anything and it was all 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.000 character based, which I loved. And look at the careers 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.280 they've had since then. They're women who just did what 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.040 they wanted to do, is all. And I'm sure they'd 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.840 probably say it wasn't always like that. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.839 But I see those stories though from you know, even 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.000 Jane Turner and Gena Riley, you know, they really believed 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.080 in the Kath and Kim characters and they kept trying 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:47.640 to take it to the networks and the networks kept 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.640 dropping it. But they believed in those characters and that 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.760 their influences are from England. And then I was talking 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.240 to Jimmy Reese the other day on the podcast, and 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:00.199 his dad was into English humor, and so you grew 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:01.400 up watching all of it. It's kind of like a 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:05.400 masterclass growing up. If you understood English humor, then you 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:06.520 got it, you know what I mean. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.080 The ABC was on in our house all the time, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.520 so of course you got the two Ronnies, and you've 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.959 got Dave Allen at large, and you've got Morcam and 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.120 Wise and you know, I mean a lot of blokes. 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.720 So that's a but I got what I understood and 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.960 loved that sort of sense of humor more than the 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.560 Americans definitely. And then with French and Saunders, it was 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:29.480 just the friendship of them, the sweetness of them. They're 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.880 doing a caricature, not really doing it, but sometimes doing it, 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.880 Jennifer actually really nailing it sometimes and going wow, I 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.400 mean you've almost been a serious actress, but Dawn always 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.720 undermining it. I mean, yeah, it's so playful, playful, you know, 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.760 And that's what improv is. It's about being playful and 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.520 that's what that was my background too. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.120 What a gig Rockuiz has been for you? And hasn't 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.199 this show been on an amazing journey. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.600 It's opened every door. I was thirty seven living in Melbourne, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.320 having a nice enough but poor life and going, okay, 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.360 you've done lots of things in your life, but if 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.560 by the time you're forty you haven't got that gig, 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.720 then that's going to sort of pay rent in a 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.840 more serious way. And not that I got paid a 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.199 lot of money for Rock was the first series, but 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.720 when we got renewed and renewed and then we went 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.360 on tour, and then all of a sudden, you know, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.400 SBS went, oh, Julia, right, well this is a bit 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.440 we're going to be doing eu Vision. Do you want 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.600 to do the commentary on that? It was like, what, yes, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.360 I do? It opened that door. And then you know, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.960 when I was interviewing people backstage at Eurovision, which was 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.560 such a popular part of the show because Sampang and 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.440 I would always kind of do research on the people 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.560 and try and find things that people didn't know about them. So, like, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.840 you know, Robin from Sweden was a wrestler, and so 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.480 when Sam went in with those wrestling questions, it really 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:47.959 took him by surprise and he loved it and he 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.720 ended up flipping Sam in. I mean, it was gold. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.000 You know, So these moments that were golden. The home 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.240 Delivery people saw those interviews and said, you really can 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.480 talk to anyone even when you don't have the language. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.400 Would you like to do an interview show? And they 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.400 came up with the concept of Julie Zimiro's I'm Delivery. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.920 Then I did radio with beautiful John o'cleman as well, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.960 and things just kind of they started to roll. So 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.679 I really feel that Rock was an SBS opened every 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:13.400 door in that way. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.720 How did the show come along to you? Because the 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.760 question I have with this is, you know, did you 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.600 work with a production team on how you wanted to 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:21.960 be included in this show? 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.440 Because you know, I just rewatched an old episode before 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:26.520 interviewing you. This morning. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.640 I got up and was watching old episodes and I 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:33.080 just was thinking, really just suits you, you know, the improvisation, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.120 the comedy, the relatability with people, the music, you know, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.920 your passion for music, all of it just culminated. You know, 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.680 did you work with them before the show rolled on 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.200 the first episode with how you wanted to be included 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.360 or did they just had someone been watching you. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.640 I've been auditioning for a lot of hosting jobs for 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.560 really shit things like dating shows. Dog shows before dogs 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.920 were you know popular now shore, but they were kind 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.320 of demeaning shows with the dogs being dressed as things. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.280 I mean, you know, And I remember going every audition's experience. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.560 It's always good to do them. But anyway, my age 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.680 rings goes, I've got another audition for you. I'm like, oh, no, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.560 what is it now? Shit's music? I went, oh, great, okay, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.560 can do so go to the audition and Brian and 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.400 Kervis is there, and two other producers are there, and 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.320 I do all the kind of auto Q stuff and 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.640 then they seek we give you a quiz. So they 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.120 gave me the quiz. I got seventy five percent. I 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.000 think they were pretty delighted. I got a callback and 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.119 at the callback there were two teams of professional comedians. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.120 Colin Lane was there, Ross Daniels the band was their camera, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.080 and I remember thinking, right, it's now and ever. What 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.000 the Rock Quiz production team did though, is they never 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.320 got in my way. Now, if you're a real creative, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.000 if you understand how things work and you get the 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.240 right people, when you do that callback with someone, you say, 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.840 be free, go for it. And in fact, they didn't 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.760 need an expert on music. I mean, I love music, 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.440 but they didn't need an expert. They needed someone who 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.040 could improvise, who could control two teams of people, who 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.320 could turn on a dime, who could think on a 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.240 feet all that, and when they saw me really take 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.400 control of the space, that's when I think they thought, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.880 we've got our person. And they have never given me 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.640 any direction to change. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:21.880 What I do. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.880 The only thing that was said to me the only 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.240 real nighte they've ever even and it's ironic because you 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.400 trained active for three years, you get notes all the time. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.560 It's fine, give me notes, it's fine. Was because we 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.480 filmed at the SB Hotel in the Gershwin Room, which 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.840 is a real pub, and there were three hundred people 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.760 in that pub and the camera. I would sometimes play 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.720 too much for the crowd and yell instead of just 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.000 doing it for camera. So they would just say can 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:47.640 you not yell? And I used to stick it on 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.000 my lectern, little handwritten notes saying don't yell, don't yell. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:51.680 It's hard to. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.560 Do that with a live audience, though, And I remember 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.800 once thinking with Rove, someone needed to tell that to 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.520 Rove because Rove, I felt, with these monologues he would 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.040 always be, you know, just yelling it at you. And 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.240 then I remember meeting him and talking to him about 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:05.800 it and he just was like, I just was so 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.879 excited to do this show. He'd start every episode with 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.720 that passion and he was like just you know, and 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.000 the audience was there. So it's a hard footnote to learn, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.840 I think when you are a television slash live entertainer. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.800 And when people said it was you know, oh, rockquiz, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:23.800 you're going on the road, God, how will you do that? 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.600 Do you all know how to do theater? And we're like, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.600 we all started in theater, like none of us started 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.760 in TV. The band didn't start on TV. Brian died 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.200 that we were all doing improv or stand up or gigs. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.240 So in fact, we all had to learn how to 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.080 bring it to television when we go out on the road. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.320 I mean, you've got this huge stage where you can 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.400 be as big as bold as you like and take 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.560 up all the space you like. So TV is a 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:51.399 very it's you're right, it's a tricky. It's a whole 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.200 other kind of skill. And that's why you know, some 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.720 people are it's really their forte and that's why CRUs 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.920 certain crews that work together well, and we've basically almost 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.520 brought back most of the crew that were at SBS. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.879 That says something about the people that are in the 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.560 show that make the show. You know, you read about that, 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.720