WEBVTT - TOP GEAR AUSTRALIA - JLP, BEAU RYAN & JOSCELYNE 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.400 TV Reload, the podcast last deep Thereby. Hey guys, welcome 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:07.440 back to TV Reload. I want to thank you for 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.640 clicking and downloading. On today's episode with three of the 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.640 hardest working TV presenters in Australia, which includes Jonathan Mpalia, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.600 Bo Ryan and Blair Jocelyn and we will be unpacking 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.680 the brand new series of Top Tier Australia, which has 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.680 already dropped on Paramount Plus. I have to say I 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.480 don't normally have three people on the pod at once, 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.159 and these guys were pretty rowdy, but I do my 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.640 best to make sure that you can still hear them 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.800 as clear as I possibly could. The eight part series 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.320 c's Blair, Bo and JLP hitting the road in Australia 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.640 and also in places that are Australia from all around 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.320 the world. The highlights include the Trio testing out some 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.000 very expensive various cars on an Italian road trip, tackling 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.560 a coffee run across the Colombian Jungle, racing the new 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.680 LOADUS from Monaco to CenTra Pe against a very expensive boat, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.800 and they also tackle the wintery Alps. The show is 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.760 not just about cars. I have to say, and this 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.320 is a very fresh take on the popular series that's 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.440 been made countless times around the world. I will talk 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.720 about the first two Top Gear Australian seasons and find 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.720 out if the boys watched them to get some tips. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.120 We will unpack the danger of driving some of these cars, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.000 why they mostly dress themselves, and if they all had 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.160 to actually audition for these roles. Bo and JLP will 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.320 talk about their other massive shows, Astray and Survivor and 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.560 the Amazing Race. We'll find out when they're going into 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.600 production and what we know has been planned so far. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.679 You will find out what they really think of each other, 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.600 and you'll hear that in the podcast. I was curious 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.000 to know if they ever met before, and whether or 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.200 not the first time they were together was actually in 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.840 front of the cameras. There is actually so much to 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.200 one pack with the boys today, So sit back and 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.480 relax as we talk about the wonderful world of top 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:55.880 Gear Australia. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.960 Ah hi oo hey, oh is that a real fire 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.680 or is that a flight? Backgrounds. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.520 I'm actually in Warburton, Victoria and if you look at 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.160 the bricks, though, it looks like I've set fire out 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:07.639 of the house. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.040 How are you lighting yourself? 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.120 You've got very even lighting there and you've got like 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:15.400 a yeah, turn around, so we got to see it 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:15.840 all light. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.440 I probably will all over if I try and do that, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.640 but I can tell you there's a skylight that's up 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.160 there which is making me look like quite good. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.639 I said to my ring white man, which you have 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:26.920 a ring? 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:27.840 Can we be sitting this? 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:32.880 I can get the get into this. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:33.440 Guys. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.639 Great to see you boys, and great to see you 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.360 guys all on top Gear Australia. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.320 This is very exciting, great to see. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.320 Thank you very much having us on the podcast. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:41.720 Thank you. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.120 You are existing in the future. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.040 I am in episode two, you all three of you 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.880 get your rigs out. I don't know how many episodes 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:48.520 you've all seen. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.520 But he doesn't. He doesn't, he doesn't, he refuses to. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.639 I keep my rig for podcasts. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.720 Actually, you know, while I was watching a YouTube of 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.840 you doing some chin ups on a tree earlier, so 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.160 I understand the rigs good behind the clothes. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.720 Thank you. What kind of podcast is this? 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:09.639 I think next series you're going to take your shirt 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.280 off a series three three D. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.760 Yeah, anyway, but these boys are for anybody of interest 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.359 in one of the episodes that drops on May the seventeenth, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.880 The boys do take One of the boys removes everything, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.680 and one of them is just in other pants. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.440 And if that's the kind of thing you'd like to see, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:28.239 then check it out. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:29.880 I've seen it. I watched it before. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.480 How did you see it? You got a little pre preview? 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:33.120 He did? 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.320 I did. I got to watch. I haven't seen episode one, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.960 but I watched episode two and man alive this show. Like, 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.880 I'm not into cars, but there's something in this show 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.360 for everybody. I was thoroughly entertained. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.200 Did you see any cars catch on fire? I did. Yeah, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.440 we don't speak about that. A lot of cars were destroyed. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.480 But one thing I just like to clear up who 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.720 was driving the car that hit the car that caused 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.240 one of them to catch on fire. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.840 Okay, so the yellow car was the one that had 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.160 the petrol coming out of it, and that was not 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.600 BeO because Bo was in the jeep. So the mister 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.560 bean yellow car, I think, as you black. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.240 Yeah, yes, and who crashed into it? 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.640 JLP crashed He was trying to help you out. He 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:14.480 was helping to try. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.400 What we discovered today was that he had his foot 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.240 on the brake the entire time, which is why I 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.440 couldn't push him up the hill, which is why we 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.360 had to hit him a little bit harder each time. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.760 So they the way they edit it, they edited out 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.080 the four hits before that. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.680 And we've just learned today that he had his foot 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.680 on the brake. So he was an idiot. He calls 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.000 he caused the fire four months. 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.280 Waiting for the explosion though, like I thought, maybe there 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.159 wasn't enough money in the paramount budget for a huge 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:41.320 car explosion at that point. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.880 Yeah, there's money in the budget. We just we just 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:45.840 got the fight to the fire before the fire got 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.440 too de fuel. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.480 I tried to remove the boys from the fire because 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:50.200 I care about them. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.039 I tried to say their lives, and they didn't listen. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:53.200 They didn't listen at all. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.280 He ran, I mean, I ran all my life and 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.560 I called from a distance, get away from the car, mom. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.400 Yeah, a little bit of that going on as well. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.480 He thought he was on fire for two and a 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:08.159 half weeks. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.560 He's running around in underwear. He's like, is that the fire? 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:13.600 Is that break the star? 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.480 I'm on fire, Jonathan. I was going to ask you, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.200 what was your relationship with top Gia. Before signing onto this, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.840 had you been watching any of the incarnations of this 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.400 series that had happened around the world. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:26.240 Yeah. Absolutely. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.560 I was a huge fan of the show from its 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.840 inception in the early two thousands and. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:32.600 Watched all of it. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.560 I watched the current the current guys, I've watched the 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.200 US version as well. And I've said this before, but 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.880 I was I had this fantasy of being invited onto 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.560 the show as a star and a reasonably priced card, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.719 but I wasn't. He wasn't famous, and I wasn't famous 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.960 enough to be invited. But I always had this fantasy 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:52.800 who being, you know, being invited on. 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.200 So when I finally got the show was dream come true. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.000 And both this is the third time Australia has seen 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.480 or taken a swim at top Gear franchise. What makes 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.000 this series different to what we've seen because it was 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.040 on SPS and I was on Channel nine and then 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.880 now Paramount has it. Do you know what the take 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.640 is and how it's different this time around. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.000 Well, I can't really speak on the first two to 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.159 be honest with you, because I haven't seen much of 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.480 them at all. It's just got an appetite this country 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.080 for it. People love top kre you can talk. It's 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.080 a household name and you can talk to anyone from 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.839 really any error and there is a huge appetite in 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.000 this country. Now, we do some serious traveling in this show, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.120 and I work on a travel show and we do 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.520 just as much, if not more, traveling this series. So 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.840 we showcase parts of parts of the world that I 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.159 hadn't even been to, some places I hadn't even heard of, 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.440 and we drive cars that represent that country. So we 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.360 sort of on the traditional top ki, but we also 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.679 put our own spin on it. We're three completely different 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.320 individuals from different backgrounds, but we remain true to ourselves. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.200 We have our own personalities and we don't waiver. We 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.200 just stick to what we know and that comes through 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.400 from right at the beginning. We all like different cars, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.159 which you'll see very early on for different reasons, and 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.760 that'll appeal to all different markets. I mean, we are 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.600 honest with ourselves and honest with each other the entire series, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.880 and I think that's what you want the audience want. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.120 The audience can see through they smell a rat if 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:14.480 you go out there trying to be someone else, and 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.520 if we try and be Clarkson in the MG guys 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.320 we aren't then we never will be. Those guys are 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.320 another level, but that's not who we're trying to be. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.240 We're trying to represent ourselves to the fullest. We travel 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.120 round Australia. We represent Australia beautifully. We go to some 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.240 red dirt places, we. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.040 Go farming, we go caravanning, Albion Park, we. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:37.200 Go to ave A in Park's Country. Yes, sir, I 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:38.840 couldn't be happy with the series. I mean, I've worked 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.720 in a lot of different TV shows, but this was 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.840 this was long, it was ruling, was tough, and we 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.840 left We left it all out there every day. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.920 What I'd say, also just to support that is what 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.080 was a real like hon it for me. And one 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.240 of my favorite parts is that we had some Australian crew, 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.400 but we were also working with the key like BBC 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.080 crew that have been making the show for the last 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.960 twenty years wow. And so from the sound guys, camera guys, writers, director, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.080 executive producers, these are people that have been making the 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.920 show for decades and so it was a real honor 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.320 to have a chat with these guys and kind of 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.240 work with them because they intrinsically know the show and 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.200 I felt like they're the real stars of the show actually, 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.720 because it looks beautiful. The cinematography is incredible to me, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:17.800 Like I'm a big production guy, that's what I love. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.040 And certainly making YouTube videos, I've had to have my 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:21.880 hand in lots of pots of shooting and then doing 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.840 drone and doing music and doing editing. And what was 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.400 amazing about the crew is that each person really was 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.240 the best at what they may do and seeing them operate, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.960 No one's just sitting on their phones on TikTok or 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.559 wasting their time on YouTube. They're all out there trying 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.480 to make the best videos they can and that was 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.439 supported with some incredible Australian and crew as well. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.480 But it's a big, complicated show, so having that kind 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.360 of level of expertise on board really was It was 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:46.920 huge for. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.120 Us Blair with the success of Mighty Car Mods, which 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:51.880 by the way, I've just been watching a whole lot 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.200 of not my demo. As you could probably see, I 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.320 couldn't get past how good your skin was, and then 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.640 I had to go on Wikipedia to realize that you 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.960 drank once when you were young, and then you never 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.760 drank again and you live a very healthy life, and 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:04.040 I was. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.440 Drinking every day. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.520 You know what one of the producers said to us. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.360 I don't know we did. We had a drink, maybe 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.920 in Columbia or something. But one of the executive producers 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:13.959 who'd been working on. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.120 Top give Ages was quite shocked that us as three 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.320 hosts were kind of the healthiest, non drinking, most boring 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:20.959 people he'd ever met in his lives. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.080 I didn't talk about us. We didn't see that. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.160 Well, maybe not the boring partner, But I. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:28.880 Just wanted to ask you because you'd kind of been 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.320 making a lot of car content for so many years 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.960 so successfully. Was this kind of a dream come true? 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.160 Because it was almost like you were making your own 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.480 Top give for many years, and now here you are 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.959 in the driver's seat. I can imagine you'd have been 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.920 pretty amazing to have on set because you'd be able 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.640 to give them a bit of advice on how to 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:46.520 make good content. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.720 Well, I mean they kept losing me because I wear 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.199 black jeans and a black T shirt. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.400 I just looked like a sound guy. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.640 And as JLP was saying it was a big production, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.600 I think I think there's maybe fifty five people traveling around, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.400 so there was a lot and they were always going 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.920 and I'm right here, I'm right next to you because 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.120 I'm just kind of fitting in. I was a sound 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:04.880 guy for a while and worked in audio posts for 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.040 a while. But I think that the thing with the 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.480 top gear is that you can't you can't buy your 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.480 way in there. It's a really really unique set of 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.840 skills to actually get there. We each audition for it, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.520 and the audition, you know, process requires a bunch of 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.560 different skills, and I think the three of us brought 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.560 that in different ways, and certainly that kind of way 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.360 of making car content on a budget. I've done my 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.400 time doing that, and I really appreciated being able to 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.000 go on set and when a car would break and 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.120 all things would have to change. It wasn't me having 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.160 to do shooting and doing editing with a tiny crew. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.720 There was people that could do that. And so we 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.600 did actually shoot some stuff in a YouTube style. For 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.000 one of the episodes, other boys came over to Supergars, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.120 which is a workshop that I owned with my friend Marty, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.240 and they came over and we did a YouTube style 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.800 episode which which was really cool. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.000 So you'll get to see that as part of the series. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.160 He was saying earlier before he got on he's over YouTube, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.080 he's raced race I think there and a body Carmel, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.440 and he's going to focus on TV. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.600 Now. I'm waiting to see himself on a billboard. That's good. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.679 That's the billiere. That's the big that's when you made it. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.720 That's when your kids, right, kids, you know you're on 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:03.160 the billboard. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:03.599 You've made it. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.960 We've been doing this for a very long time. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:07.960 And he wants to step up, as he calls it, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.400 into first grade, come off the bench, come of that 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.040 instead and step up into the big league instead of 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.559 like a football team, instead of Fantasy Land. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.000 I mean, you know, it's so funny. You kind of stay 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.760 in your lanes because you know, if you leave the 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.200 room while the audio or hopefully the viewers don't do this, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.480 but if you leave the room and you hear you 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.640 guys doing you're presenting JLP, you do sound, you know, 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.000 just like yourself as you do on Survivor and BO. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.280 You do have your presenting style that we've seen on 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.440 television for years, Blaire, were you? Is it hard not 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.480 to mimic their style of presenting? 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.120 Or I don't want to have anything to do with 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:40.920 that style shit. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.120 He wants to be exactly like, Yeah, I'd love to 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.280 be on the vibe. Say that's a ship I'd like 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.000 to sail. To help him out, to help me about here. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.080 We are all so different, right, and you are right, Benny, 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.920 we do. When you go into cars, we can't hear 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:56.640 each other. I mean when we talk on the two 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.839 Ways and we're traveling, we're in convoy and we're working 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.400 together to get to a journey or the nation. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.080 We work together. But when we're doing our. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.800 Pieces and we're testing the cars or we're pushing them 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:06.920 to the limits, we really have no idea what's happening 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.000 in the other car, So he wouldn't. We can't really 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.840 influence them whatsoever. But Blair's been doing what he's been 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.680 doing for a very long time. And when we met 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.800 the first time, he was very interested in how TV 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.720 works and how the system works and what's going to 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.800 happen and how does the show work? And what do 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.240 I do if I come to the table? Do I 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.600 need an agent? And I reminded him early that, you know, 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.679 he might not have done any presenting in terms of 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.320 TV style, and he's done some ads when he was younger, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.160 but he has the most hours experienced by a mile 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.800 in front of camera. So when he did step in 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.760 front of the camera and we were doing introductions together 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.280 and he do his little bits in the cars, he 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.599 did remain true to himself, which was very important to 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.760 him and important to his audience, and I think he 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.319 handled it very well. Then we went to the studio, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.120 which is a whole different ballgame, whole different skill set, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.200 which he wouldn't have done much like anything like that. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.679 Really. He does public speaking, he does. I think he's done. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.200 He's been an auctioneer, he's done a few hyper your 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.160 moment situation where he' jumped up in front of the crowd, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.000 but to do it to a camera webster brief, to 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.520 do it in front of a camera, live audience for 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.560 the first time literally within half an hour, look like 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:12.080 a natural. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.160 So that's very good, bo. Thank you. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.080 That's all that's true. And it's also true that secretly 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.040 he wants to be just like us. Yeah, so I 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:19.880 don't want to be jail p. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.840 Yeah, thank you very much, thank you. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.400 I will what I will say, honestly, because I know 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.199 these guys all kind of try and bunt down anything too. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:28.640 Since here. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.880 When I first found out that these guys were the hosts, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.959 I was nervous because both of them they are considered 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.160 it like they are what I consider the TV host 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.280 because what I've learned in my small time in TV, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.440 it's a very hard business and they are long hours 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:41.920 and there is a lot expected for me and as 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.320 a host, like you've got to be on there's no 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.400 one a bit tired today because there's a massive crew 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:46.880 of fifty five people waiting for you. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.120 These guys have been doing it for years and so 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:50.640 all jokes aside. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.360 I have been looking up to them, and I've been 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.200 looking up to them, how they how they kind of 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.800 do their job. And in fact, I got there's a 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.120 book that I was reading when we're in Columbia. I 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.839 gave a copy of it to Jonathan today and inside 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.760 if he reads inside the cover, I left him a 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.960 very sincere message which basically said, thank you very much 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.640 for showing me how how it works on TV. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.760 Should I decide the kill? There was nothing there? 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.040 Get on right, you get a hug? 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:15.160 Why didn't you get a book? 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:19.960 They've been doing it for a long time, and I 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.760 very much look up to that, and and I him 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.200 not me, like I look up to him a little 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.840 bit more than you, but it's I don't know better. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.360 I'm not learning from the master, I'm learning from the mediocre. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.920 But that's the best I've got. No, but he's the 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:33.680 best in the room. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.040 He is the best in the room. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.000 Three of you, though, have any kind of relationship before, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.720 you know, taking some time to shoot this because the 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.480 bend the three of you is very authentic. Did you 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.880 spend some time together before stepping in front of the cameras? 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:47.000 Like? 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.280 What did you try and do? To try? 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.040 And we went out for lunch once ago. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.280 I tried to revite him over for dinner, but he 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.680 keeps like he doesn't just doesn't turn up. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:56.800 It's too. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:58.280 Up. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.680 Yeah, I invited him over I don't know how many 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.320 times and he never accepts. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.160 That comes up with true bo. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.000 Yeah, we keep trying, We keep trying. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:06.400 I don't know. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.240 Have you invited him over? Yeah? 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.240 Bought to la. Is that where you invited me? 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:10.720 Yeah? 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.720 I'll call see you and see you in twenty hours. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.120 That waits for you to go overseas with your family 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.120 and goes. Hey, mate, if you're around the Inner West night, 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.360 would you like to come over for a barbecue peanut head. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.320 I just landed him player till coming? How am I? 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.480 And you know that I landed there? You saw my 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.200 Instagram store. I keep inviting you want to invite me over? 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.480 I keep inviting them over. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.480 Anyway, I'm going to make them the best bolon as 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.080 they've ever had, that because I'm happy their wives making 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:32.880 better bolinas. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.560 Of course, our wives made better what they do. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.400 It doesn't matter, of course. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:37.600 They make that. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.640 We do what you have this man, Yeah, okay, anyway, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.320 come over tonight. I'll show you some meat sometimes. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.800 Sim There is a hilarious gag in episode two as 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:54.560 well about Granted the fact that you know, Grant d 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.000 you would have loved to have done this show and 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.320 didn't get to do it. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.320 Was that justa was rifted? 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:00.840