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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Incredible experiences I've ever been part of was taking part

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Speaker 2: in a television show called The Assembly. It's hosted by

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Speaker 2: Lee Sales and it follows autistic journalism students. I was

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Speaker 2: one of six, I think, who got to be interviewed

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Speaker 2: by these students in what was one of the most

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Speaker 2: incredible days I've ever had. Lee's here to tell us

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Speaker 2: more high Lee, Hello, very well.

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Speaker 3: So I know that Love on.

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Speaker 2: The Spectrum has done incredible things for how neurodivergent people

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Speaker 2: are are seen in terms of relationships. This in a way,

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Speaker 2: is that a version of that for employment?

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Speaker 3: Maybe?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: And it was just as you say, I mean, I

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Speaker 5: know I would say this, but it was the most

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Speaker 5: amazing thing to be involved with, and it was surprising,

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Speaker 5: you know, the kind of questions that people would come

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Speaker 5: up with were just so interesting and amazing. I think

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Speaker 5: one of my favorites was when Dylan asked Hamish Blake,

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Speaker 5: how much money do you have? In dollars and cents?

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Speaker 5: And so they'd often ask, you know, stuff like that.

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Speaker 5: It was just fantastic.

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Speaker 1: How long was the show? I don't think there's enough.

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Speaker 3: Time to discuss so much money he's.

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Speaker 1: Just sitting on a big money pot.

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Speaker 2: But the nature of it too, and this is what

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Speaker 2: you'd said to me beforehand, is that each student gets

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Speaker 2: three questions, and the questions won't necessarily be related to

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Speaker 2: each other, but even the lightest whimsical question, it's all

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Speaker 2: asked with the same intensity and integrity, so you can't

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Speaker 2: batter question away really well.

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Speaker 5: And it's fascinating as somebody who's kind of interviewed people

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Speaker 5: for a living to be watching that unfold, because in

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Speaker 5: a normal interview, the person can kind of, if they're

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Speaker 5: very experienced, they sort of know what's going to becoming

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Speaker 5: and the general vibe of it, whereas with this one,

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Speaker 5: because you could be asked in one sort of moment,

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Speaker 5: what's the biggest lesson your parents taught you? And the

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Speaker 5: very next one, have you ever ridden a horse on

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Speaker 5: the beach.

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Speaker 4: At the sunset? Was?

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Speaker 5: The talent has to be really on their toes, you see. Ever,

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Speaker 5: I mean, did you feel like that?

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Speaker 2: I was exhausted, and I saw in the promo I'd

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Speaker 2: forgotten about the question that I was asked, what's the

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Speaker 2: last sound you want to hear before you die? I

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Speaker 2: can't remember how I answered it. Because at the time

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Speaker 2: it's almost overwhelming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it is, isn't it?

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Speaker 5: And it's sort of really like I think you said

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Speaker 5: something like someone telling you.

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Speaker 4: That they loved you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to cry it myself.

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Speaker 2: I cried a lot during that interview, and when I

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Speaker 2: spoke about it on here the next day, I cried, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's so disarming, isn't it so disarming?

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Speaker 5: There was a few times in the One of my

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Speaker 5: jobs on the show is I'm there when the interview happens,

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Speaker 5: like when someone like Amanda comes in just to be

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Speaker 5: sort of a gentle steer, But then I would be

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Speaker 5: working with them before the interview to help them work

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Speaker 5: out what they wanted to ask. And sometimes on those

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Speaker 5: shoot days, I'd feel like I'm.

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Speaker 4: Going to have to just walk out of the sex.

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Speaker 4: I'm just got a ball.

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Speaker 5: Like there was one day where this lovely guy, Dylan,

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Speaker 5: we were prepping for Delta Gudroom and I said, Okay,

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Speaker 5: what do you think you might like to ask Delta?

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Speaker 5: And he goes, I would like to know what does

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Speaker 5: it feel like to be confident? And it was like

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Speaker 5: it was just like the air out of it, doesn't

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Speaker 5: it sucks the air out of me, and I just thought, oh,

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Speaker 5: this lovely boy and just to not just to be curious,

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Speaker 5: like what that feels like, to be confident, you know.

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Speaker 5: And it was just so oh yeah, And they'd often

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Speaker 5: say things like that.

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Speaker 4: It was really full on.

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Speaker 2: So there's Me, there's Delta. These are all separate episodes.

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Speaker 2: There's Anthony Alban Easy, Yeah, there's.

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Speaker 5: Adam Good's Adam Goods, Hamish Blake, sam Neil, Sam Neil.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: When you said Anthony, even Easy reminded me Abby, who's

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Speaker 5: this wonderful girl? Referred to him as Anthony the whole time?

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Speaker 4: Anthony?

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Speaker 2: Anthony didn't someone ask him how many girls he's kissed?

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Speaker 5: You?

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Speaker 3: So good?

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Speaker 1: What happens if you don't answer it truthfully? Say, for example,

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Speaker 1: how many girls have you kissed?

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Speaker 5: Do you know? What?

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Speaker 1: Can you can? As you said before, you can't really

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Speaker 1: back that question.

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Speaker 3: You're not tied up to a light.

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Speaker 1: It's not like.

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Speaker 5: Look, there's such a kind, hard and sincere group of

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Speaker 5: people that if you if you kind of spin a

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Speaker 5: lie or you duck something, they aren't going to pull

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Speaker 5: you up on it. But you just look awful because

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Speaker 5: they're such a sincere, earnest group of people.

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Speaker 4: So it really makes it hard, I.

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Speaker 5: Think, for people to not engage with things in a

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Speaker 5: very sort of deliberate way. Do you know what they did,

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Speaker 5: the cheeky buggers. They tried to set me up on

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Speaker 5: a date with Sam Neil.

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Speaker 3: I'm jealous of you and him. I want to be there.

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Speaker 3: How did that go?

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Speaker 5: So? Dale said to Sam, you know when we did

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Speaker 5: the research on you, we noticed that you used to

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Speaker 5: date an Australian journal journalist. Well, we have got our

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Speaker 5: own single Australian journalists here. Would you consider going on

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Speaker 5: a date with Lisa?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 5: I was like you were supposed to run all these

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Speaker 5: questions perpect Sam and I were just dying. And then,

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Speaker 5: of course every time I ever showed up at work

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Speaker 5: for the next six weeks, as soon as I walked in,

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Speaker 5: they'd all come bounding over and go, have you got

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Speaker 5: a date for Sam? Yet? Now?

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Speaker 3: I want to know have you have?

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Speaker 4: You can't say too much, No, no, I have not.

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Speaker 5: Before the reveal stuff, I have not got to have

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Speaker 5: a big love neck and the logos last night.

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Speaker 1: I like the idea of you and Sam.

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Speaker 3: Don't you get on the band?

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Speaker 1: What I'm saying, I think it'd be nice, I see you.

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Speaker 3: There's a nice now that Anthony's off the market.

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Speaker 1: Well, the Assembly tomorrow night. It's eight thirty on the

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Speaker 1: ABC and all episodes on our ABC I view Lee.

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Speaker 1: It's always great to catch up with you.

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Speaker 4: I love coming in and catching up with you guys.

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Speaker 4: It's fantastic a treat