Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload, the podcast last deep Thereby. Hey guys, welcome
Speaker 1: back to TV Reload. I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: clicking and downloading. On today's episode with three of the
Speaker 1: hardest working TV presenters in Australia, which includes Jonathan Mpalia,
Speaker 1: Bo Ryan and Blair Jocelyn and we will be unpacking
Speaker 1: the brand new series of Top Tier Australia, which has
Speaker 1: already dropped on Paramount Plus. I have to say I
Speaker 1: don't normally have three people on the pod at once,
Speaker 1: and these guys were pretty rowdy, but I do my
Speaker 1: best to make sure that you can still hear them
Speaker 1: as clear as I possibly could. The eight part series
Speaker 1: c's Blair, Bo and JLP hitting the road in Australia
Speaker 1: and also in places that are Australia from all around
Speaker 1: the world. The highlights include the Trio testing out some
Speaker 1: very expensive various cars on an Italian road trip, tackling
Speaker 1: a coffee run across the Colombian Jungle, racing the new
Speaker 1: LOADUS from Monaco to CenTra Pe against a very expensive boat,
Speaker 1: and they also tackle the wintery Alps. The show is
Speaker 1: not just about cars. I have to say, and this
Speaker 1: is a very fresh take on the popular series that's
Speaker 1: been made countless times around the world. I will talk
Speaker 1: about the first two Top Gear Australian seasons and find
Speaker 1: out if the boys watched them to get some tips.
Speaker 1: We will unpack the danger of driving some of these cars,
Speaker 1: why they mostly dress themselves, and if they all had
Speaker 1: to actually audition for these roles. Bo and JLP will
Speaker 1: talk about their other massive shows, Astray and Survivor and
Speaker 1: the Amazing Race. We'll find out when they're going into
Speaker 1: production and what we know has been planned so far.
Speaker 1: You will find out what they really think of each other,
Speaker 1: and you'll hear that in the podcast. I was curious
Speaker 1: to know if they ever met before, and whether or
Speaker 1: not the first time they were together was actually in
Speaker 1: front of the cameras. There is actually so much to
Speaker 1: one pack with the boys today, So sit back and
Speaker 1: relax as we talk about the wonderful world of top
Speaker 1: Gear Australia.
Speaker 2: Ah hi oo hey, oh is that a real fire
Speaker 2: or is that a flight? Backgrounds.
Speaker 1: I'm actually in Warburton, Victoria and if you look at
Speaker 1: the bricks, though, it looks like I've set fire out
Speaker 1: of the house.
Speaker 2: How are you lighting yourself?
Speaker 3: You've got very even lighting there and you've got like
Speaker 3: a yeah, turn around, so we got to see it
Speaker 3: all light.
Speaker 1: I probably will all over if I try and do that,
Speaker 1: but I can tell you there's a skylight that's up
Speaker 1: there which is making me look like quite good.
Speaker 2: I said to my ring white man, which you have
Speaker 2: a ring?
Speaker 4: Can we be sitting this?
Speaker 5: I can get the get into this.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 1: Great to see you boys, and great to see you
Speaker 1: guys all on top Gear Australia.
Speaker 4: This is very exciting, great to see.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much having us on the podcast.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You are existing in the future.
Speaker 1: I am in episode two, you all three of you
Speaker 1: get your rigs out. I don't know how many episodes
Speaker 1: you've all seen.
Speaker 4: But he doesn't. He doesn't, he doesn't, he refuses to.
Speaker 2: I keep my rig for podcasts.
Speaker 1: Actually, you know, while I was watching a YouTube of
Speaker 1: you doing some chin ups on a tree earlier, so
Speaker 1: I understand the rigs good behind the clothes.
Speaker 2: Thank you. What kind of podcast is this?
Speaker 4: I think next series you're going to take your shirt
Speaker 4: off a series three three D.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, but these boys are for anybody of interest
Speaker 3: in one of the episodes that drops on May the seventeenth,
Speaker 3: The boys do take One of the boys removes everything,
Speaker 3: and one of them is just in other pants.
Speaker 2: And if that's the kind of thing you'd like to see,
Speaker 2: then check it out.
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I watched it before.
Speaker 2: How did you see it? You got a little pre preview?
Speaker 5: He did?
Speaker 1: I did. I got to watch. I haven't seen episode one,
Speaker 1: but I watched episode two and man alive this show. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not into cars, but there's something in this show
Speaker 1: for everybody. I was thoroughly entertained.
Speaker 2: Did you see any cars catch on fire? I did. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't speak about that. A lot of cars were destroyed.
Speaker 3: But one thing I just like to clear up who
Speaker 3: was driving the car that hit the car that caused
Speaker 3: one of them to catch on fire.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the yellow car was the one that had
Speaker 1: the petrol coming out of it, and that was not
Speaker 1: BeO because Bo was in the jeep. So the mister
Speaker 1: bean yellow car, I think, as you black.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, and who crashed into it?
Speaker 1: JLP crashed He was trying to help you out. He
Speaker 1: was helping to try.
Speaker 5: What we discovered today was that he had his foot
Speaker 5: on the brake the entire time, which is why I
Speaker 5: couldn't push him up the hill, which is why we
Speaker 5: had to hit him a little bit harder each time.
Speaker 5: So they the way they edit it, they edited out
Speaker 5: the four hits before that.
Speaker 4: And we've just learned today that he had his foot
Speaker 4: on the brake. So he was an idiot. He calls
Speaker 4: he caused the fire four months.
Speaker 1: Waiting for the explosion though, like I thought, maybe there
Speaker 1: wasn't enough money in the paramount budget for a huge
Speaker 1: car explosion at that point.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's money in the budget. We just we just
Speaker 6: got the fight to the fire before the fire got
Speaker 6: too de fuel.
Speaker 3: I tried to remove the boys from the fire because
Speaker 3: I care about them.
Speaker 2: I tried to say their lives, and they didn't listen.
Speaker 2: They didn't listen at all.
Speaker 3: He ran, I mean, I ran all my life and
Speaker 3: I called from a distance, get away from the car, mom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of that going on as well.
Speaker 4: He thought he was on fire for two and a
Speaker 4: half weeks.
Speaker 2: He's running around in underwear. He's like, is that the fire?
Speaker 2: Is that break the star?
Speaker 1: I'm on fire, Jonathan. I was going to ask you,
Speaker 1: what was your relationship with top Gia. Before signing onto this,
Speaker 1: had you been watching any of the incarnations of this
Speaker 1: series that had happened around the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I was a huge fan of the show from its
Speaker 5: inception in the early two thousands and.
Speaker 4: Watched all of it.
Speaker 5: I watched the current the current guys, I've watched the
Speaker 5: US version as well. And I've said this before, but
Speaker 5: I was I had this fantasy of being invited onto
Speaker 5: the show as a star and a reasonably priced card,
Speaker 5: but I wasn't. He wasn't famous, and I wasn't famous
Speaker 5: enough to be invited. But I always had this fantasy
Speaker 5: who being, you know, being invited on.
Speaker 4: So when I finally got the show was dream come true.
Speaker 1: And both this is the third time Australia has seen
Speaker 1: or taken a swim at top Gear franchise. What makes
Speaker 1: this series different to what we've seen because it was
Speaker 1: on SPS and I was on Channel nine and then
Speaker 1: now Paramount has it. Do you know what the take
Speaker 1: is and how it's different this time around.
Speaker 6: Well, I can't really speak on the first two to
Speaker 6: be honest with you, because I haven't seen much of
Speaker 6: them at all. It's just got an appetite this country
Speaker 6: for it. People love top kre you can talk. It's
Speaker 6: a household name and you can talk to anyone from
Speaker 6: really any error and there is a huge appetite in
Speaker 6: this country. Now, we do some serious traveling in this show,
Speaker 6: and I work on a travel show and we do
Speaker 6: just as much, if not more, traveling this series. So
Speaker 6: we showcase parts of parts of the world that I
Speaker 6: hadn't even been to, some places I hadn't even heard of,
Speaker 6: and we drive cars that represent that country. So we
Speaker 6: sort of on the traditional top ki, but we also
Speaker 6: put our own spin on it. We're three completely different
Speaker 6: individuals from different backgrounds, but we remain true to ourselves.
Speaker 6: We have our own personalities and we don't waiver. We
Speaker 6: just stick to what we know and that comes through
Speaker 6: from right at the beginning. We all like different cars,
Speaker 6: which you'll see very early on for different reasons, and
Speaker 6: that'll appeal to all different markets. I mean, we are
Speaker 6: honest with ourselves and honest with each other the entire series,
Speaker 6: and I think that's what you want the audience want.
Speaker 6: The audience can see through they smell a rat if
Speaker 6: you go out there trying to be someone else, and
Speaker 6: if we try and be Clarkson in the MG guys
Speaker 6: we aren't then we never will be. Those guys are
Speaker 6: another level, but that's not who we're trying to be.
Speaker 6: We're trying to represent ourselves to the fullest. We travel
Speaker 6: round Australia. We represent Australia beautifully. We go to some
Speaker 6: red dirt places, we.
Speaker 4: Go farming, we go caravanning, Albion Park, we.
Speaker 6: Go to ave A in Park's Country. Yes, sir, I
Speaker 6: couldn't be happy with the series. I mean, I've worked
Speaker 6: in a lot of different TV shows, but this was
Speaker 6: this was long, it was ruling, was tough, and we
Speaker 6: left We left it all out there every day.
Speaker 3: What I'd say, also just to support that is what
Speaker 3: was a real like hon it for me. And one
Speaker 3: of my favorite parts is that we had some Australian crew,
Speaker 3: but we were also working with the key like BBC
Speaker 3: crew that have been making the show for the last
Speaker 3: twenty years wow. And so from the sound guys, camera guys, writers, director,
Speaker 3: executive producers, these are people that have been making the
Speaker 3: show for decades and so it was a real honor
Speaker 3: to have a chat with these guys and kind of
Speaker 3: work with them because they intrinsically know the show and
Speaker 3: I felt like they're the real stars of the show actually,
Speaker 3: because it looks beautiful. The cinematography is incredible to me,
Speaker 3: Like I'm a big production guy, that's what I love.
Speaker 3: And certainly making YouTube videos, I've had to have my
Speaker 3: hand in lots of pots of shooting and then doing
Speaker 3: drone and doing music and doing editing. And what was
Speaker 3: amazing about the crew is that each person really was
Speaker 3: the best at what they may do and seeing them operate,
Speaker 3: No one's just sitting on their phones on TikTok or
Speaker 3: wasting their time on YouTube. They're all out there trying
Speaker 3: to make the best videos they can and that was
Speaker 3: supported with some incredible Australian and crew as well.
Speaker 5: But it's a big, complicated show, so having that kind
Speaker 5: of level of expertise on board really was It was
Speaker 5: huge for.
Speaker 1: Us Blair with the success of Mighty Car Mods, which
Speaker 1: by the way, I've just been watching a whole lot
Speaker 1: of not my demo. As you could probably see, I
Speaker 1: couldn't get past how good your skin was, and then
Speaker 1: I had to go on Wikipedia to realize that you
Speaker 1: drank once when you were young, and then you never
Speaker 1: drank again and you live a very healthy life, and
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 4: Drinking every day.
Speaker 2: You know what one of the producers said to us.
Speaker 2: I don't know we did. We had a drink, maybe
Speaker 2: in Columbia or something. But one of the executive producers
Speaker 2: who'd been working on.
Speaker 3: Top give Ages was quite shocked that us as three
Speaker 3: hosts were kind of the healthiest, non drinking, most boring
Speaker 3: people he'd ever met in his lives.
Speaker 4: I didn't talk about us. We didn't see that.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe not the boring partner, But I.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to ask you because you'd kind of been
Speaker 1: making a lot of car content for so many years
Speaker 1: so successfully. Was this kind of a dream come true?
Speaker 1: Because it was almost like you were making your own
Speaker 1: Top give for many years, and now here you are
Speaker 1: in the driver's seat. I can imagine you'd have been
Speaker 1: pretty amazing to have on set because you'd be able
Speaker 1: to give them a bit of advice on how to
Speaker 1: make good content.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean they kept losing me because I wear
Speaker 3: black jeans and a black T shirt.
Speaker 2: I just looked like a sound guy.
Speaker 3: And as JLP was saying it was a big production,
Speaker 3: I think I think there's maybe fifty five people traveling around,
Speaker 3: so there was a lot and they were always going
Speaker 3: and I'm right here, I'm right next to you because
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of fitting in. I was a sound
Speaker 3: guy for a while and worked in audio posts for
Speaker 3: a while. But I think that the thing with the
Speaker 3: top gear is that you can't you can't buy your
Speaker 3: way in there. It's a really really unique set of
Speaker 3: skills to actually get there. We each audition for it,
Speaker 3: and the audition, you know, process requires a bunch of
Speaker 3: different skills, and I think the three of us brought
Speaker 3: that in different ways, and certainly that kind of way
Speaker 3: of making car content on a budget. I've done my
Speaker 3: time doing that, and I really appreciated being able to
Speaker 3: go on set and when a car would break and
Speaker 3: all things would have to change. It wasn't me having
Speaker 3: to do shooting and doing editing with a tiny crew.
Speaker 3: There was people that could do that. And so we
Speaker 3: did actually shoot some stuff in a YouTube style. For
Speaker 3: one of the episodes, other boys came over to Supergars,
Speaker 3: which is a workshop that I owned with my friend Marty,
Speaker 3: and they came over and we did a YouTube style
Speaker 3: episode which which was really cool.
Speaker 2: So you'll get to see that as part of the series.
Speaker 6: He was saying earlier before he got on he's over YouTube,
Speaker 6: he's raced race I think there and a body Carmel,
Speaker 6: and he's going to focus on TV.
Speaker 4: Now. I'm waiting to see himself on a billboard. That's good.
Speaker 4: That's the billiere. That's the big that's when you made it.
Speaker 4: That's when your kids, right, kids, you know you're on
Speaker 4: the billboard.
Speaker 2: You've made it.
Speaker 4: We've been doing this for a very long time.
Speaker 6: And he wants to step up, as he calls it,
Speaker 6: into first grade, come off the bench, come of that
Speaker 6: instead and step up into the big league instead of
Speaker 6: like a football team, instead of Fantasy Land.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's so funny. You kind of stay
Speaker 1: in your lanes because you know, if you leave the
Speaker 1: room while the audio or hopefully the viewers don't do this,
Speaker 1: but if you leave the room and you hear you
Speaker 1: guys doing you're presenting JLP, you do sound, you know,
Speaker 1: just like yourself as you do on Survivor and BO.
Speaker 1: You do have your presenting style that we've seen on
Speaker 1: television for years, Blaire, were you? Is it hard not
Speaker 1: to mimic their style of presenting?
Speaker 2: Or I don't want to have anything to do with
Speaker 2: that style shit.
Speaker 7: He wants to be exactly like, Yeah, I'd love to
Speaker 7: be on the vibe. Say that's a ship I'd like
Speaker 7: to sail. To help him out, to help me about here.
Speaker 7: We are all so different, right, and you are right, Benny,
Speaker 7: we do. When you go into cars, we can't hear
Speaker 7: each other. I mean when we talk on the two
Speaker 7: Ways and we're traveling, we're in convoy and we're working
Speaker 7: together to get to a journey or the nation.
Speaker 4: We work together. But when we're doing our.
Speaker 6: Pieces and we're testing the cars or we're pushing them
Speaker 6: to the limits, we really have no idea what's happening
Speaker 6: in the other car, So he wouldn't. We can't really
Speaker 6: influence them whatsoever. But Blair's been doing what he's been
Speaker 6: doing for a very long time. And when we met
Speaker 6: the first time, he was very interested in how TV
Speaker 6: works and how the system works and what's going to
Speaker 6: happen and how does the show work? And what do
Speaker 6: I do if I come to the table? Do I
Speaker 6: need an agent? And I reminded him early that, you know,
Speaker 6: he might not have done any presenting in terms of
Speaker 6: TV style, and he's done some ads when he was younger,
Speaker 6: but he has the most hours experienced by a mile
Speaker 6: in front of camera. So when he did step in
Speaker 6: front of the camera and we were doing introductions together
Speaker 6: and he do his little bits in the cars, he
Speaker 6: did remain true to himself, which was very important to
Speaker 6: him and important to his audience, and I think he
Speaker 6: handled it very well. Then we went to the studio,
Speaker 6: which is a whole different ballgame, whole different skill set,
Speaker 6: which he wouldn't have done much like anything like that.
Speaker 4: Really. He does public speaking, he does. I think he's done.
Speaker 6: He's been an auctioneer, he's done a few hyper your
Speaker 6: moment situation where he' jumped up in front of the crowd,
Speaker 6: but to do it to a camera webster brief, to
Speaker 6: do it in front of a camera, live audience for
Speaker 6: the first time literally within half an hour, look like
Speaker 6: a natural.
Speaker 2: So that's very good, bo. Thank you.
Speaker 4: That's all that's true. And it's also true that secretly
Speaker 4: he wants to be just like us. Yeah, so I
Speaker 4: don't want to be jail p.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 3: I will what I will say, honestly, because I know
Speaker 3: these guys all kind of try and bunt down anything too.
Speaker 2: Since here.
Speaker 3: When I first found out that these guys were the hosts,
Speaker 3: I was nervous because both of them they are considered
Speaker 3: it like they are what I consider the TV host
Speaker 3: because what I've learned in my small time in TV,
Speaker 3: it's a very hard business and they are long hours
Speaker 3: and there is a lot expected for me and as
Speaker 3: a host, like you've got to be on there's no
Speaker 3: one a bit tired today because there's a massive crew
Speaker 3: of fifty five people waiting for you.
Speaker 2: These guys have been doing it for years and so
Speaker 2: all jokes aside.
Speaker 3: I have been looking up to them, and I've been
Speaker 3: looking up to them, how they how they kind of
Speaker 3: do their job. And in fact, I got there's a
Speaker 3: book that I was reading when we're in Columbia. I
Speaker 3: gave a copy of it to Jonathan today and inside
Speaker 3: if he reads inside the cover, I left him a
Speaker 3: very sincere message which basically said, thank you very much
Speaker 3: for showing me how how it works on TV.
Speaker 4: Should I decide the kill? There was nothing there?
Speaker 2: Get on right, you get a hug?
Speaker 4: Why didn't you get a book?
Speaker 3: They've been doing it for a long time, and I
Speaker 3: very much look up to that, and and I him
Speaker 3: not me, like I look up to him a little
Speaker 3: bit more than you, but it's I don't know better.
Speaker 3: I'm not learning from the master, I'm learning from the mediocre.
Speaker 2: But that's the best I've got. No, but he's the
Speaker 2: best in the room.
Speaker 4: He is the best in the room.
Speaker 1: Three of you, though, have any kind of relationship before,
Speaker 1: you know, taking some time to shoot this because the
Speaker 1: bend the three of you is very authentic. Did you
Speaker 1: spend some time together before stepping in front of the cameras?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What did you try and do? To try?
Speaker 2: And we went out for lunch once ago.
Speaker 5: I tried to revite him over for dinner, but he
Speaker 5: keeps like he doesn't just doesn't turn up.
Speaker 2: It's too.
Speaker 1: Up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I invited him over I don't know how many
Speaker 5: times and he never accepts.
Speaker 2: That comes up with true bo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we keep trying, We keep trying.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Have you invited him over? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Bought to la. Is that where you invited me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'll call see you and see you in twenty hours.
Speaker 6: That waits for you to go overseas with your family
Speaker 6: and goes. Hey, mate, if you're around the Inner West night,
Speaker 6: would you like to come over for a barbecue peanut head.
Speaker 4: I just landed him player till coming? How am I?
Speaker 4: And you know that I landed there? You saw my
Speaker 4: Instagram store. I keep inviting you want to invite me over?
Speaker 2: I keep inviting them over.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm going to make them the best bolon as
Speaker 3: they've ever had, that because I'm happy their wives making
Speaker 3: better bolinas.
Speaker 2: Of course, our wives made better what they do.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, of course.
Speaker 2: They make that.
Speaker 3: We do what you have this man, Yeah, okay, anyway,
Speaker 3: come over tonight. I'll show you some meat sometimes.
Speaker 1: Sim There is a hilarious gag in episode two as
Speaker 1: well about Granted the fact that you know, Grant d
Speaker 1: you would have loved to have done this show and
Speaker 1: didn't get to do it.
Speaker 4: Was that justa was rifted?
Speaker 1: Or was that? It's true? Good?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 2: None, None of this stuff is scripted.
Speaker 3: But Grand Daniel is a fast, superior driver to all
Speaker 3: of us in here. I have been alongside him in
Speaker 3: a lotus down the straight of Bathist. He breaks even
Speaker 3: later than jail p does. Incredible driver, lovely bloke. Actually
Speaker 3: the other week family, I think this is the part
Speaker 3: where these guys wanted me to check their genitals for fish.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Grant Daniel would have one hundred percent swam.
Speaker 4: Yeah he went. At that moment we knew we should
Speaker 4: have had Grant Daniel. He made a mistake. We made
Speaker 4: a mistake, but we're going to do you know what.
Speaker 4: I got to keep going what you asked.
Speaker 6: And Grant would have wanted too much money to start.
Speaker 6: Maybe it would come right down, but at the start
Speaker 6: he would have been one.
Speaker 1: Of Well, Jonathan and Bow, you know you both have
Speaker 1: your super sized own reality TV franchises that everyone in
Speaker 1: Australia loves. Had you both been watching either of your shows?
Speaker 1: I mean they're very iconic. Austrain and Survivor is massive
Speaker 1: and so is Amazing Race. Did you have you both
Speaker 1: been watching each other's shows for years or have you
Speaker 1: never watched them at all?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, we haven't seen Blair's YouTube channel yet.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 4: No get all seriousness.
Speaker 6: I am a fan of Jail Pet you know, I
Speaker 6: know we joke about it, but the bloke is is
Speaker 6: you know, we work with a lot, you know, Bennie,
Speaker 6: the cruise are so the world is so small, This
Speaker 6: industry is so small. You'll bumpy to people that work
Speaker 6: on surviving a bumpy of people who work on the
Speaker 6: race or batch. Everyone moves around, so you hear stories,
Speaker 6: and I'm always inquisitive about other hosts, what they're how
Speaker 6: they prepare, what their techniques are with their diets. Like
Speaker 6: I'm very inquisitive to see what other people like, whether
Speaker 6: you pick up a tip from them, or whether you
Speaker 6: try and even get a competitive edge, because you know,
Speaker 6: obviously everyone's in the same game. But I'd always been
Speaker 6: very inquisitive about him because the show is very silly.
Speaker 6: As you're away for a long time, you're away from
Speaker 6: your friends and family. Conditions are hard, conditions are hard,
Speaker 6: conditions are humid, and you get tested on so many levels.
Speaker 6: And he stood the test of time absolutely And you
Speaker 6: could watch an episode, whether it's one or twenty four,
Speaker 6: Jail penill still give you the same the exact same
Speaker 6: team boring shit say, performance Jari is so high. So
Speaker 6: I was always very inquisitive. But I didn't really have
Speaker 6: much to do with him. I didn't I never really
Speaker 6: seen him. I bumped into him once when I just
Speaker 6: finished the Australian series of Amazing Race about three or
Speaker 6: four years ago, and he just finished the Australian Survivor,
Speaker 6: which in my opinion, the Aussie one was probably the physically,
Speaker 6: but I think I spoke to you just after it
Speaker 6: was the physically, physically and mentally, probably the hardest thing
Speaker 6: I've ever filmed, and he said the same thing. So
Speaker 6: outside of that, until we saw each other on the
Speaker 6: first day, we didn't really have much to do with
Speaker 6: each other, but we knew that when we stepped in
Speaker 6: front of camera we both respected each other and our
Speaker 6: preparation and techniques, and I feel like we learned a
Speaker 6: little bit from each other as well.
Speaker 1: Would you ever do Australian Survivor?
Speaker 4: No way, There's no food. Yeah, food, men, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm like with no food, no food.
Speaker 1: I think you walked out. I think Alex Medvodikas once
Speaker 1: told me you left I'm a celebrity, get me out
Speaker 1: of here because there was no food.
Speaker 6: No food. Yeah, I mean look a few weeks in
Speaker 6: for me. I spoke to you after that as well.
Speaker 4: Food look like it's a torture technique.
Speaker 6: And I thought got in the jungle that they look
Speaker 6: ast me. You know, he's a cupcake, He's a couple
Speaker 6: of bit of chicken. I s little cake zero he
Speaker 6: you want a little bit of banana? No, no, no,
Speaker 6: there was none of that. I was tread like everyone else.
Speaker 1: But Jonathan, would you ever do the Amazing Race? Because
Speaker 1: I mean there guess there's going to be another celebrity
Speaker 1: version this year. Is it too late for you to
Speaker 1: go on Bow's show as a contestant.
Speaker 2: That's a good idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're doing another stuby one.
Speaker 2: You didn't tell me that.
Speaker 4: I don't see it. I would have played a partner.
Speaker 4: You and I do it together. Yeah, and that's good.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 2: It's a good Actually think can you do that?
Speaker 4: That's a good angle you want to see If you'd
Speaker 4: be too expensive, No, I'll do it for cheap. I'll
Speaker 4: do it really how much? It's too expen way too much.
Speaker 4: See we bleue. We only get grant grant it. He
Speaker 4: did it last year. He did want Yeah, well that's shot.
Speaker 2: You travel around the world and I got sick.
Speaker 4: But if he, if he had another opportunity, he would
Speaker 4: go great at it. Him and his watch.
Speaker 2: I love to see.
Speaker 3: This is the problem with grand You could do your
Speaker 3: show better than you, my show better than the top.
Speaker 2: I'll be a better than all of us. How would
Speaker 2: he go on Survivor?
Speaker 4: He pressed himself down to market book. Yeah, Survivor. Yeah. Good.
Speaker 1: Well though, if you had to choose between their shows though,
Speaker 1: you know, if a push came to shove, would you
Speaker 1: pick Survivor or Amazing Race? Like? Which one is your
Speaker 1: cup of teams?
Speaker 2: I have to watch one of them Survivors everybody.
Speaker 3: I've seen the promos of Survivor and it looks like
Speaker 3: everybody has no food and is running around on the beach.
Speaker 3: And so because of that, I think I do the
Speaker 3: Amazing Race because they get food, right, yeah, food, Amazing Race.
Speaker 4: You get more money on the thing, and you know
Speaker 4: we don't need that, we don't.
Speaker 2: He doesn't he No, no, no, it's not about that
Speaker 2: about how we like you.
Speaker 4: We like your We watch mighty camos, right, we leave
Speaker 4: comments like when you.
Speaker 6: Tell us subscribe, which he does, does he?
Speaker 2: I just you don't even have a YouTube because I.
Speaker 8: Get I've got my daughter like subscribe subscribe, which is
Speaker 8: at home right now for three different friends over every
Speaker 8: They've got to like subscribe your channel.
Speaker 2: And then we just many of them. Afternoon tea I.
Speaker 3: Started, I said to j LP, I said, I need
Speaker 3: to break into the survivor mindset, and he recommended one
Speaker 3: to start watching and I started.
Speaker 2: Watching it, and this is cute.
Speaker 3: Bo and I have been watching it synchronized at home,
Speaker 3: and then we send each other messages because we have
Speaker 3: a special WhatsApp.
Speaker 2: Group just the three of us, none of the producers.
Speaker 2: And and then yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, well, well you know what that the LP is
Speaker 3: quite an attractive fellow.
Speaker 4: I know what exactly did she say. I can't remember
Speaker 4: the words. She said. He was hot mom.
Speaker 2: That was my mom that said that.
Speaker 4: Give me fifteen?
Speaker 2: That was that was you getting two stories confused?
Speaker 4: Give me twenty.
Speaker 3: My mom and a lot of other more mature women
Speaker 3: are big Survivor fans.
Speaker 1: I raally do a podcast with three people, so I
Speaker 1: have no idea.
Speaker 4: Isn't it to come up?
Speaker 5: And you'll never get twenty minutes of your life is gone.
Speaker 1: I actually was quite distracted by the way by all
Speaker 1: of the clothing. Did they kick you out on all
Speaker 1: of that or is some of that your clothing? Because
Speaker 1: jailp the amount of commentary that's there for Australian survivor
Speaker 1: about whether or not your clothes for that show or
Speaker 1: they're your own clothes is quite interesting.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 5: I did not know that that was an online discussion.
Speaker 5: That's an online discussion that people's wondering about.
Speaker 1: I read this today on one of those one of
Speaker 1: those websites which is like a fan site for Astra,
Speaker 1: and someone was claiming that you bring your own clothes
Speaker 1: to host that show that they don't actually address you
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 6: We actually met her, one of the great duo of
Speaker 6: the Survivor thing, and there's an amazing race but the
Speaker 6: surviv one's massive come to watch some of the studio.
Speaker 6: We had a studio, a large studio audience, and she
Speaker 6: actually got to meet obviously brothers, but jailp and top
Speaker 6: at top Gear. Oh yeah yeah in the flesh Okay,
Speaker 6: in the flesh she was fantastic.
Speaker 4: Security Facebook Facebook.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's the supposal thing. It's what're you gonna wear?
Speaker 4: Is he gonna be? Is he going to be clipped?
Speaker 2: Which glasses and you've got on? You got the h
Speaker 2: I set bigger?
Speaker 4: Which two pains?
Speaker 2: You gonna wear? Excess? Yea?
Speaker 4: Where the black way? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know he's still three percent body or is he
Speaker 3: gonna does he still have a pierce Perennium.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 1: We got to the end of that one.
Speaker 4: Did.
Speaker 1: Do we work out whether or not you're styling yourself
Speaker 1: or you know, whether Channel ten's doing that for you?
Speaker 5: I actually, well, because I live in the US, I
Speaker 5: actually do buy a whole bunch of my own.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do there we go. But for top here, guys,
Speaker 1: are you all being kitted out for this show? You're
Speaker 1: wearing your clothes.
Speaker 6: We're got a great I've got a great department. I
Speaker 6: wear the matching you know the ones.
Speaker 4: He's the double.
Speaker 2: I wear my own stuff for this. Yeah, same thing.
Speaker 1: I am so worried about the insurance on this show.
Speaker 1: With the three of you being together filming this thing.
Speaker 1: It must be extremely expensive to have you guys all together.
Speaker 1: And also are you in any real danger? Like how
Speaker 1: close to death do you get while doing some of this?
Speaker 4: The death thought are like injured bad just injured badly?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: A couple of times an episode I reckon the all
Speaker 3: dogs aside. Safety crew did an amazing job making sure
Speaker 3: that everything like roads are closed. We did lots of training,
Speaker 3: did lots of safety, lots of performance driving. But still
Speaker 3: you're in fast cars in foreign environments, places you've never
Speaker 3: been before, on the wrong side of the road. Just
Speaker 3: having here's the thing that's tricky, presenting the camera and
Speaker 3: going like, you know, tell us what you see and
Speaker 3: you're trying to drive fast, but then also do that
Speaker 3: is quite a specific skill, and I think a lot
Speaker 3: of people are like, how do I get into TV?
Speaker 2: What do I do?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: First of all, you've got to be able to talk
Speaker 2: a lot of shit. I guess that's how I got here.
Speaker 3: To prepare and then and then some people prepare and
Speaker 3: some people are professional.
Speaker 4: Some people can follow a script, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Some people don't have one and.
Speaker 6: Set goals, research, manifest and then have a plan in
Speaker 6: progress of how you want to get there.
Speaker 2: I like together and sometimes it's dangerous the other.
Speaker 4: See, we're gonna have a massive audience and just getting
Speaker 4: Friend of the Keys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do we know there's going to be another series
Speaker 1: at this point if they to see how this goes,
Speaker 1: or they're already signed you.
Speaker 6: A bit more of another series. I've got to go
Speaker 6: and talk to the bosses of Paramount. Now they're yelling
Speaker 6: out to me. Can't here I'm doing a podcast.
Speaker 2: I mean, your pieces are like that, tell them to
Speaker 2: shut up telling.
Speaker 6: Every time you every time you start, especially a franchise
Speaker 6: on these I remember the first day when I started,
Speaker 6: amazing much. You don't step in probably like Survivor, you
Speaker 6: don't step in someone. I'm going to do one one
Speaker 6: episode of one series. It's there's a long term goal
Speaker 6: there obviously, but we left everything out there every day.
Speaker 6: But the plan is obviously to go again. We had
Speaker 6: so much fun. But even watching back now, there's parts
Speaker 6: in voiceoverall when we're watching even some of the studio
Speaker 6: stuff come together where we can improve more So, even
Speaker 6: though this series has been incredible, we're still looking at
Speaker 6: ways we can improve for next season. Different places to go,
Speaker 6: different cast to drive, and the show is only going
Speaker 6: to get better and better and better.
Speaker 1: How far away actually are you both, Jonathan? How far
Speaker 1: away you do doing another Australian Survivor? Are you only
Speaker 1: a few away from doing doing another Survivor? Like do
Speaker 1: we know? We all like to talk about that.
Speaker 5: It's it's not official yet, but we typically start if
Speaker 5: we do shoot, we typically start like August, like end
Speaker 5: of July August.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've got a bit of time that one
Speaker 1: okay to do amazing race with bo because he's about
Speaker 1: to start shooting that soon on you.
Speaker 4: That's that's true. Already got your back. What didn't even
Speaker 4: unpacked from you? Should a lot of your stuff. I
Speaker 4: want you and he likes I want.
Speaker 2: Here with you the whole time that show we got
Speaker 2: six years?
Speaker 4: What he ring? Six years?
Speaker 2: I don't know the TV.
Speaker 5: He doesn't drink coffee, he doesn't swim, can't swim, he
Speaker 5: doesn't have a TV.
Speaker 4: Never played cricket, never played cricket. I mean, he's not
Speaker 4: an It.
Speaker 1: Takes up a lot of time to make digital content though,
Speaker 1: you know, so he's busy man. He doesn't have time
Speaker 1: to TV.
Speaker 3: But I'm about to have time because I'm going to
Speaker 3: be checking out Top Year on Paramount past on later
Speaker 3: to seventeen where.
Speaker 1: You gang Boom? Okay, guys, before you go, the same
Speaker 1: question I ask everybody and if you could be, if
Speaker 1: you could do me a favor, because everyone wants to
Speaker 1: know about the Stig what's to do with him? So
Speaker 1: I'll ask you a question. Anything about that is good?
Speaker 1: What is it? What is something from behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: something of a behind the scenes secret of what it
Speaker 1: was like to make top top Gear Australia.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the first question, can I take the first one?
Speaker 4: Please take it?
Speaker 5: Okay, the Stig for the first time in the franchise,
Speaker 5: I believe is female.
Speaker 4: Is that yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh wow? Yeah, because it was like a rumor that
Speaker 1: went around for years that the Stig was someone very famous.
Speaker 1: Did they ever reveal who that famous driver was?
Speaker 3: It's been It's been a number of people. Ben Collins
Speaker 3: who have been who came out now as that he
Speaker 3: perceived me most of the time and has a YouTube
Speaker 3: channel now, so we went from TV to YouTube.
Speaker 2: So no, no, it's cool.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and I believed for the first time seeing
Speaker 3: his female. Yes, and fast, very fine fast.
Speaker 1: That's an exclusingly fast guys. I've run out of time,
Speaker 1: but can I just say I'm such a fan of
Speaker 1: all of yours, you know, Blair, I've just so much
Speaker 1: of your content over the last couple of days, knowing
Speaker 1: I was talking to you today. So it's well to
Speaker 1: talk to you and all three of you are. Wish
Speaker 1: you the best of luck with it. I hope we're
Speaker 1: watching Top Gear Australia for many years to come.
Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you very much for having us on the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you all right,