March 11, 2026 • 14 mins
Tommy DiDario reveals the real secret behind getting celebrities to open up in interviews.
Plus the one rule great interviewers always follow.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Put your hair us together and we're going to start
to party.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm ready to party.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
The Elvis Duran After Party.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The After Party Podcast. The party's over. We're kind of,
you know, picking up ash trays.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Piling off the sticky floor and what I hate.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
Clean that one up over there, Danielle, it's over by you.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Someone put the cigarette out in a wine glass full
of wine. The party Tommy to Dario is here. Talk
about your podcast. Tell them about how great your podcast is.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh my god, well I love it. It's a lot
of fun. It's called I've never said this before. Every Tuesday,
I drop a celebrity interview. Every Friday I drop Tommy
Talk where I take on a hot to beat and
we talk about it based on something I've gone through
and it's been wild. I just had Anna camp on.
You might know her from Pitch Perfect. She also played
the twins in You, and she's in Scream seven and
(01:04):
she has a very big role in Scream seven. And
I got the first interview post release of the film.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So she also said something that she would never say
anywhere else on your podcast.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
She did.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
She revealed for the very first time that, at forty
three years old, she has come out as bisexual. Oh,
and she is proud and wants it to be out
there to show other people it's never too late to
figure out who you are. And we just had a
beautiful conversation about it. And I woke up yesterday and
it was everywhere, and I texted her and I said,
are you okay? Like this is? This is everywhere? Like people?
Speaker 6 (01:39):
You didn't take anyone listen right?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And no, she said, you know what, I had a
feeling this bite will get picked up. And I was
okay with it. So it's nice that she came on
and felt safe enough to drop that, and it took
on our life of its own. So that's why I
love the show. People come on and share things they've
never said before, which is really cool. And then on
Friday's which has become a favorite, which Andrew Pulici told
me to start, I take on a topic. So I've
talked about everything from like when it's time to tell
(02:04):
your friend their partner sucks, to when it's time to
let go of a friendship you know too. I think
next week is nineties Nostalgia's back, and we're talking all
about that. So it's just fun little ten minute episodes
that you can listen to when you're getting ready.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
You know what, Nate will be listening to the nineties
nostalgia episode because he's a fan of the eighteen nineties.
Oh yeah, yeah, of course, of course, some of that
language you use back in the eighteen nineties.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Oh, you know, Tommy's not going to horn swoggle me horning.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
I noticed that Tommy becomes friends with a lot of
the people he interviews, like I know, Jennifer Love HEWITTT
was like one of his celebrity people that I loved
and be obsessed over growing up, and now he's at
her house sleeping over.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's like crazy, Yeah, you know, we just well that
was a really fun interview and yeah, we just hit
it off. And it's funny because I think a lot
of people feel after a long conversation with me safe,
and you know, I don't. I'm not close like that
with everybody. That's a very rare occasion, but I do
keep in touch with a lot of people, and I
think it's because they know I don't want anything from them,
like just come out, let's have a good time. I
(03:10):
want to make you look good. Yes, I want an
interesting interview I'm not trying to get you though, Like
it's just a I don't know. You just can pick
up on that with someone, trust me. Well, there are
also people who sometimes won't get the hint, and I'm like, okay,
I'm not a therapist. I don't need to I don't
need to hear all the problems in your life.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Give me something you've never said before. Right on, giving
you a moment to be interesting on our podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Let's just say some very hot young Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
People, are they trying to get a piece? No, they're
not trying to know you're married?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Right, Yeah, we'll do Half the people care about that
out there in the world.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Yeah, everyone wants to do someone.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I mean, but no, they're not trying to get
a piece.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
But it's fun.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's really fun.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I love the people, I love the show. I'm grateful
for you for giving me the platform. It's just been
it's been awesome, and I really do think it's something
different out there. A lot of the stuff you listen
who is the same old, same old, And this is
a fresh, different perspective.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
That's awesome, exciting.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Congratulations, thank you, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Let's talk about your interview style, and I've look, I'm
a student when it comes to watching people's interview styles
because everyone's different.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You're a pro.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Well, I think I've become great at it because I
am fans of people who do great interviews.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
You do great interviews. Gandhi does fantastic interviews on her podcast. Yep.
And you know, but we all have a different way
of doing it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
What is your go to I don't want to say trick,
but Tommy, what do you do to like pull the
trigger and go boom? And you know, every single time
they're going to come back in, they're going to talk,
They're going to let it all out.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
They're going to tell you things that they would not
say otherwise.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
This is going to sound really basic and probably like duh.
But I make it about them. I think there are
so many people who do what we do, especially in
the day and age of you know, non students of
the craft and influencers who just want to get up
and have their moment and go viral and make it
all about them. They don't like that, they could see
(05:03):
right through that, they can smell a fake. And I
genuinely want to listen to who I'm talking to and
like I'm interested. That's why I do what I do.
It's not bs, it's like, I want to hear your story.
So I give them the space to say what they
want to say without jumping in every five seconds, without
cutting them off. Yes, still steering the conversation to where
I want it and need it to go. But it's
their time and I think they pick up on that.
(05:24):
So from the beginning, from question one, they could breathe,
and they can they realize like, oh, he's not trying
to make this about the Tommy Show and you know,
make this all crazy and be swinging from the ceiling
and like it's like, no, no, come on my show,
Come in my space. It says, we're in my living room,
Like let's have a conversation and let's make it about you.
So that for me, like the number one thing I
feedback wise I get is you're a really good listener.
(05:46):
And I pride myself on that because I want people
to feel that.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Well, I'm a good listener because I'm hearing what you're saying. Tommy.
All the things you say you don't do I do.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You are masterful at what you do to.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Make all interviews about me.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No, you don't.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
We had Joe Caught the comedian on not too long ago,
and he's like, every time I come in to talk
about me, Elvis, it's you talking about you.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
To counteract that. There's a reason why you've been doing
this so long and people keep coming back. It's because
you make them feel a certain way. You make them
feel special, you make them feel heard, you make them
feel like they can be themselves, and I think that's
really important.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
And you don't look for the salacious stuff either. You're
very You have this protective nature where they feel safe
coming in here and talking to you.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Hold on, do you see what I did? I just
did it right there. I saw I made this interview
with Tommy and about me, And see what I did?
I made it about you. That's what I do. You
are a master. Yes, yes, I don't know what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But that's what it is, right though. It's about listening
to people what you heard. It's about listening to people
because sometimes you have a train of thought and it's
going somewhere, but then they say something that you have
to react to. Just got to drop what you were
going to. I've worked with people in the past that
they have I want to say itis and they barrel
(07:05):
over something that somebody just said that is very interesting
and deserves a follow up because they had the thought
in their brain of I want to say this right.
And it's so painful to listen.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
To and it's too scripted, like you got to give
space for a conversation to breathe, like, I have my ideas,
but it's gonna go where it's gonna go. You know
what you all do?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Well? It's Larry King. Familiar with that guy. Yeah, he
was runner for many many years, passed away. It was
on CNN.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I think that was his last gig. Great interviewer. He
would go into the interview with one question. He would
start with that question, they would answer, and that answer
they gave would lead him to his next question.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
That's the ultimate in listening.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Who would your one question be to Tomy? Oh boy? Why
would your one question be to Elvis? Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Why are you gay.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
With the guy?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You all the favorite questions? Who hurts you as a child,
that's a good one. That's a good one. Tells you
a lot about somebody. No, No, Larry would walk in
and go okay, I've got I've got Tommy to do.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I have retalked and I listened to your interviews all
the time.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Tommy and I always find that you really get to
the heart of the matter out of the shoot. You
don't save the good stuff for later. In the podcast
questionnaires list, you go right for the gusto, why do
you do then?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Why does it work for you?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And you would answer that and from your answer he
would come up with and he would do that for
an hour with one question.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Nowadays, a lot of teams and publicists and managers say
can I get the questions ahead of time?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
And I'm like, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
When you're covering carpets for extra How has this changed
over the last few years? With celebrities, you find them
that they're more guarded or.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
One hundred percent because they don't need to do that anymore.
They can open up their phone and say something for
three minutes and probably say something even better than what
they want to say on a carpet. It's different with
the podcast because it's a long form, so no one's
going to open their phone and talk for forty minutes.
That's awkward and weird. So that's why people love doing
this format, and in my opinion, this format is eventually
going to surpass broadcast one.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Hundred percent already is I think?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
I was saying to Nate the other day that a
lot of the artists that used to come on our
show are now going on the Call Her Daddy podcast
and the other podcasts instead, and they're not coming to Zias,
which is very strange to me, but that's that's how
it's going.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Well, that's wild to me because you guys still crush it.
Like I'm talking about the broadcast entertainment nighttime.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
How do you get the gold in thirty seconds? Somebody's
walking by and you got to flag somebody down. How
do you get to it right there?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Luckily? This is why I say, like, God bless everyone
out there who wants to do what they want to
do and open their phone and create a career. I
respect it and appreciate it. But it's a relationship business.
So I know a lot of their teams now from
being in it, and I'll say I'm like, like Jonathan
Bailey a Jurassic World talk to nobody. He came late,
he had to go introduce the movie. He had two
minutes to do it. He talked E News because they
(10:00):
are NBC sponsored to the carpet, and then he started
leaving and then he saw me and I know him
from doing something else with him, and he cut everyone
on the carpet and came right to me. And his
pr was like two questions. He's got introduced a movie.
That's a relationship, right. He didn't have to stop for me.
He likes me. We know each other. Cut everyone else off,
cut extra off who I wasn't even with that was
with IMDb that night. And that's just what it's about.
(10:22):
So like you have to form genuine, real connections and
not fake ones either. You all know that, Like there's
so much fakery in our business.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
No, it's like Rihanna, Rihanna will only do hair. It
comes back to Elvis again, Rihanna will only do Elvis.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I know, but she hasn't done anything.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Last time we were a place, they were like, she
will only do Elvis.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Only did that's a big deal that was recently did Ryan.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
But you know what I mean, there's you.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Know a lot of times they do the circuit, right,
I go to this person, that person. A lot of
people when they get to a point of the career.
They're doing two people.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
May I tell you a story, something that happened once.
And going back to these entertainment shows that are on
what do you call them?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Like the magazine shows.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
For yeah, the nighttime entertainment shh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Those.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
So I was doing an interview with Justin Bieber in
my apartment. They brought, you know, they tore my apartment apart,
putting all the lights up, and they turned it into
a studio. I had catering everything, bought him some shoes,
he took a nap on my bed whatever. He comes
out and does the interview and they said, well, we
need for you to ask Justin Bieber these questions. And
I look down the questions and said that this is
really not what I would ask Justin Bieber. They were
(11:35):
very very very very pointed questions about salacious and his
delicate relationship with his mother, this and that. And I said, guys,
I feel uncomfortable, she said, And they said, well, that's
what we need for this interview. And I did it,
and I could see him just crumble up, and I'm like,
this guy's never going to trust me ever again. So
(11:57):
I've never did another entertainment tonight another et after that. Wow,
I'm not going to play their game. You got to
be true to yourself. For instance, Gandhi is fantastic at
her interviews selections for her podcast. She only interviews people
she's interested in.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
True, but that's what a podcast should be. Yeah, so
why we're interviewing you, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I know, the greatest mystery of all the greatest mystery.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
But it's true.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You have to like who you're talking though, I mean
for your own show. Like when you work for another show,
you do what you have to do, but when it's yours,
of course.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I So Bill Ny is one of my favorite people.
I know he's got a lot of mixed reviews out there,
but I think he's fascinating. And he said, everyone you
will ever meet know something that you do not, And
I think it's sort of our jobs as interviewers to
find something like that and find the thing that they
know that we don't know about and explore that. I'm
just kind of curious and I enjoy asking a lot
of questions.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah, she's the best at it.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Annoying, but you know, no, sometimes in our business, on
our show, we are asked to interview people that were
not really all that interest, but we bring them in
and we make it interesting, you know, and that's easy
to do.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Some people make it easy though. Some people make it
easy I for you just have fun with them and
you know whatever. And then some people it's like pulling
a you know, I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
What exactly I agree exactly with what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, you know what we should all investigate at some point.
Remember we got those like seven Laws of Interviewing. Yes,
those were great, and I think that it was incredibly important.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I don't know if I got that.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Yeah, it's from a good friend of ours in the podcast.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Business, and it made me stop and think about the
way that I talk to people and engage with people.
And you know, a big one is when they're answering
a question, don't cut them off. Let them finish their question,
even if something pops into your head, let them finish
their answer. And then if your question is relevant, ask
your question, because it might not be, and you might
completely throw them off the track of what they were
talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Sort of goes back to what Nate was saying earlier.
You're so busy thinking about where you're going to ask
them next in your head that you're not listening to
what they're saying.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, so there, Yeah, I'm bored. Okay, interview over. Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So Tommy in closing, why do we want to listen
to your podcast? I see, I know why I listen,
But someone out there may not even know what your
podcast is about.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Go sell yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You can't find these interviews anywhere else. There's nowhere else
they exist. I'm talking to the A and B plus
players of your favorite shows and movies, and they're opening
up and giving us access in a way that you've
never seen or heard from them before. So it's truly
a special interview. And if celebrity is not your thing
on Fridays, like I said, a really fun episode. That's
a small episode about me giving you advice on life.
(14:35):
Should you trust it, that's up to you. But I've
lived a very colorful and interesting life and I think
they're pretty relatable and we've gone through a lot of
the same things.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Tommy to Dario everyone, thank you guys, thank you
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Help us to ran after party
Put your hair us together and we're going to start
to party.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm ready to party.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
The Elvis Duran After Party.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The After Party Podcast. The party's over. We're kind of,
you know, picking up ash trays.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Piling off the sticky floor and what I hate.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
Clean that one up over there, Danielle, it's over by you.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Someone put the cigarette out in a wine glass full
of wine. The party Tommy to Dario is here. Talk
about your podcast. Tell them about how great your podcast is.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh my god, well I love it. It's a lot
of fun. It's called I've never said this before. Every Tuesday,
I drop a celebrity interview. Every Friday I drop Tommy
Talk where I take on a hot to beat and
we talk about it based on something I've gone through
and it's been wild. I just had Anna camp on.
You might know her from Pitch Perfect. She also played
the twins in You, and she's in Scream seven and
(01:04):
she has a very big role in Scream seven. And
I got the first interview post release of the film.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So she also said something that she would never say
anywhere else on your podcast.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
She did.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
She revealed for the very first time that, at forty
three years old, she has come out as bisexual. Oh,
and she is proud and wants it to be out
there to show other people it's never too late to
figure out who you are. And we just had a
beautiful conversation about it. And I woke up yesterday and
it was everywhere, and I texted her and I said,
are you okay? Like this is? This is everywhere? Like people?
Speaker 6 (01:39):
You didn't take anyone listen right?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And no, she said, you know what, I had a
feeling this bite will get picked up. And I was
okay with it. So it's nice that she came on
and felt safe enough to drop that, and it took
on our life of its own. So that's why I
love the show. People come on and share things they've
never said before, which is really cool. And then on
Friday's which has become a favorite, which Andrew Pulici told
me to start, I take on a topic. So I've
talked about everything from like when it's time to tell
(02:04):
your friend their partner sucks, to when it's time to
let go of a friendship you know too. I think
next week is nineties Nostalgia's back, and we're talking all
about that. So it's just fun little ten minute episodes
that you can listen to when you're getting ready.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
You know what, Nate will be listening to the nineties
nostalgia episode because he's a fan of the eighteen nineties.
Oh yeah, yeah, of course, of course, some of that
language you use back in the eighteen nineties.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Oh, you know, Tommy's not going to horn swoggle me horning.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
I noticed that Tommy becomes friends with a lot of
the people he interviews, like I know, Jennifer Love HEWITTT
was like one of his celebrity people that I loved
and be obsessed over growing up, and now he's at
her house sleeping over.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's like crazy, Yeah, you know, we just well that
was a really fun interview and yeah, we just hit
it off. And it's funny because I think a lot
of people feel after a long conversation with me safe,
and you know, I don't. I'm not close like that
with everybody. That's a very rare occasion, but I do
keep in touch with a lot of people, and I
think it's because they know I don't want anything from them,
like just come out, let's have a good time. I
(03:10):
want to make you look good. Yes, I want an
interesting interview I'm not trying to get you though, Like
it's just a I don't know. You just can pick
up on that with someone, trust me. Well, there are
also people who sometimes won't get the hint, and I'm like, okay,
I'm not a therapist. I don't need to I don't
need to hear all the problems in your life.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Give me something you've never said before. Right on, giving
you a moment to be interesting on our podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Let's just say some very hot young Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
People, are they trying to get a piece? No, they're
not trying to know you're married?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Right, Yeah, we'll do Half the people care about that
out there in the world.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Yeah, everyone wants to do someone.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I mean, but no, they're not trying to get
a piece.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
But it's fun.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's really fun.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I love the people, I love the show. I'm grateful
for you for giving me the platform. It's just been
it's been awesome, and I really do think it's something
different out there. A lot of the stuff you listen
who is the same old, same old, And this is
a fresh, different perspective.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
That's awesome, exciting.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Congratulations, thank you, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Let's talk about your interview style, and I've look, I'm
a student when it comes to watching people's interview styles
because everyone's different.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You're a pro.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Well, I think I've become great at it because I
am fans of people who do great interviews.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
You do great interviews. Gandhi does fantastic interviews on her podcast. Yep.
And you know, but we all have a different way
of doing it.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
What is your go to I don't want to say trick,
but Tommy, what do you do to like pull the
trigger and go boom? And you know, every single time
they're going to come back in, they're going to talk,
They're going to let it all out.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
They're going to tell you things that they would not
say otherwise.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
This is going to sound really basic and probably like duh.
But I make it about them. I think there are
so many people who do what we do, especially in
the day and age of you know, non students of
the craft and influencers who just want to get up
and have their moment and go viral and make it
all about them. They don't like that, they could see
(05:03):
right through that, they can smell a fake. And I
genuinely want to listen to who I'm talking to and
like I'm interested. That's why I do what I do.
It's not bs, it's like, I want to hear your story.
So I give them the space to say what they
want to say without jumping in every five seconds, without
cutting them off. Yes, still steering the conversation to where
I want it and need it to go. But it's
their time and I think they pick up on that.
(05:24):
So from the beginning, from question one, they could breathe,
and they can they realize like, oh, he's not trying
to make this about the Tommy Show and you know,
make this all crazy and be swinging from the ceiling
and like it's like, no, no, come on my show,
Come in my space. It says, we're in my living room,
Like let's have a conversation and let's make it about you.
So that for me, like the number one thing I
feedback wise I get is you're a really good listener.
(05:46):
And I pride myself on that because I want people
to feel that.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Well, I'm a good listener because I'm hearing what you're saying. Tommy.
All the things you say you don't do I do.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You are masterful at what you do to.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Make all interviews about me.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No, you don't.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
We had Joe Caught the comedian on not too long ago,
and he's like, every time I come in to talk
about me, Elvis, it's you talking about you.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
To counteract that. There's a reason why you've been doing
this so long and people keep coming back. It's because
you make them feel a certain way. You make them
feel special, you make them feel heard, you make them
feel like they can be themselves, and I think that's
really important.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
And you don't look for the salacious stuff either. You're
very You have this protective nature where they feel safe
coming in here and talking to you.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Hold on, do you see what I did? I just
did it right there. I saw I made this interview
with Tommy and about me, And see what I did?
I made it about you. That's what I do. You
are a master. Yes, yes, I don't know what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But that's what it is, right though. It's about listening
to people what you heard. It's about listening to people
because sometimes you have a train of thought and it's
going somewhere, but then they say something that you have
to react to. Just got to drop what you were
going to. I've worked with people in the past that
they have I want to say itis and they barrel
(07:05):
over something that somebody just said that is very interesting
and deserves a follow up because they had the thought
in their brain of I want to say this right.
And it's so painful to listen.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
To and it's too scripted, like you got to give
space for a conversation to breathe, like, I have my ideas,
but it's gonna go where it's gonna go. You know
what you all do?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Well? It's Larry King. Familiar with that guy. Yeah, he
was runner for many many years, passed away. It was
on CNN.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I think that was his last gig. Great interviewer. He
would go into the interview with one question. He would
start with that question, they would answer, and that answer
they gave would lead him to his next question.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
That's the ultimate in listening.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Who would your one question be to Tomy? Oh boy? Why
would your one question be to Elvis? Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Why are you gay.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
With the guy?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You all the favorite questions? Who hurts you as a child,
that's a good one. That's a good one. Tells you
a lot about somebody. No, No, Larry would walk in
and go okay, I've got I've got Tommy to do.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I have retalked and I listened to your interviews all
the time.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Tommy and I always find that you really get to
the heart of the matter out of the shoot. You
don't save the good stuff for later. In the podcast
questionnaires list, you go right for the gusto, why do
you do then?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Why does it work for you?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
And you would answer that and from your answer he
would come up with and he would do that for
an hour with one question.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Nowadays, a lot of teams and publicists and managers say
can I get the questions ahead of time?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
And I'm like, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
When you're covering carpets for extra How has this changed
over the last few years? With celebrities, you find them
that they're more guarded or.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
One hundred percent because they don't need to do that anymore.
They can open up their phone and say something for
three minutes and probably say something even better than what
they want to say on a carpet. It's different with
the podcast because it's a long form, so no one's
going to open their phone and talk for forty minutes.
That's awkward and weird. So that's why people love doing
this format, and in my opinion, this format is eventually
going to surpass broadcast one.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Hundred percent already is I think?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
I was saying to Nate the other day that a
lot of the artists that used to come on our
show are now going on the Call Her Daddy podcast
and the other podcasts instead, and they're not coming to Zias,
which is very strange to me, but that's that's how
it's going.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Well, that's wild to me because you guys still crush it.
Like I'm talking about the broadcast entertainment nighttime.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
How do you get the gold in thirty seconds? Somebody's
walking by and you got to flag somebody down. How
do you get to it right there?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Luckily? This is why I say, like, God bless everyone
out there who wants to do what they want to
do and open their phone and create a career. I
respect it and appreciate it. But it's a relationship business.
So I know a lot of their teams now from
being in it, and I'll say I'm like, like Jonathan
Bailey a Jurassic World talk to nobody. He came late,
he had to go introduce the movie. He had two
minutes to do it. He talked E News because they
(10:00):
are NBC sponsored to the carpet, and then he started
leaving and then he saw me and I know him
from doing something else with him, and he cut everyone
on the carpet and came right to me. And his
pr was like two questions. He's got introduced a movie.
That's a relationship, right. He didn't have to stop for me.
He likes me. We know each other. Cut everyone else off,
cut extra off who I wasn't even with that was
with IMDb that night. And that's just what it's about.
(10:22):
So like you have to form genuine, real connections and
not fake ones either. You all know that, Like there's
so much fakery in our business.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
No, it's like Rihanna, Rihanna will only do hair. It
comes back to Elvis again, Rihanna will only do Elvis.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I know, but she hasn't done anything.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Last time we were a place, they were like, she
will only do Elvis.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Only did that's a big deal that was recently did Ryan.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
But you know what I mean, there's you.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Know a lot of times they do the circuit, right,
I go to this person, that person. A lot of
people when they get to a point of the career.
They're doing two people.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
May I tell you a story, something that happened once.
And going back to these entertainment shows that are on
what do you call them?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Like the magazine shows.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
For yeah, the nighttime entertainment shh, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Those.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
So I was doing an interview with Justin Bieber in
my apartment. They brought, you know, they tore my apartment apart,
putting all the lights up, and they turned it into
a studio. I had catering everything, bought him some shoes,
he took a nap on my bed whatever. He comes
out and does the interview and they said, well, we
need for you to ask Justin Bieber these questions. And
I look down the questions and said that this is
really not what I would ask Justin Bieber. They were
(11:35):
very very very very pointed questions about salacious and his
delicate relationship with his mother, this and that. And I said, guys,
I feel uncomfortable, she said, And they said, well, that's
what we need for this interview. And I did it,
and I could see him just crumble up, and I'm like,
this guy's never going to trust me ever again. So
(11:57):
I've never did another entertainment tonight another et after that. Wow,
I'm not going to play their game. You got to
be true to yourself. For instance, Gandhi is fantastic at
her interviews selections for her podcast. She only interviews people
she's interested in.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
True, but that's what a podcast should be. Yeah, so
why we're interviewing you, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I know, the greatest mystery of all the greatest mystery.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
But it's true.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You have to like who you're talking though, I mean
for your own show. Like when you work for another show,
you do what you have to do, but when it's yours,
of course.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I So Bill Ny is one of my favorite people.
I know he's got a lot of mixed reviews out there,
but I think he's fascinating. And he said, everyone you
will ever meet know something that you do not, And
I think it's sort of our jobs as interviewers to
find something like that and find the thing that they
know that we don't know about and explore that. I'm
just kind of curious and I enjoy asking a lot
of questions.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah, she's the best at it.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Annoying, but you know, no, sometimes in our business, on
our show, we are asked to interview people that were
not really all that interest, but we bring them in
and we make it interesting, you know, and that's easy
to do.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Some people make it easy though. Some people make it
easy I for you just have fun with them and
you know whatever. And then some people it's like pulling
a you know, I don't even know.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
What exactly I agree exactly with what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah, you know what we should all investigate at some point.
Remember we got those like seven Laws of Interviewing. Yes,
those were great, and I think that it was incredibly important.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I don't know if I got that.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Yeah, it's from a good friend of ours in the podcast.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Business, and it made me stop and think about the
way that I talk to people and engage with people.
And you know, a big one is when they're answering
a question, don't cut them off. Let them finish their question,
even if something pops into your head, let them finish
their answer. And then if your question is relevant, ask
your question, because it might not be, and you might
completely throw them off the track of what they were
talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Sort of goes back to what Nate was saying earlier.
You're so busy thinking about where you're going to ask
them next in your head that you're not listening to
what they're saying.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, so there, Yeah, I'm bored. Okay, interview over. Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So Tommy in closing, why do we want to listen
to your podcast? I see, I know why I listen,
But someone out there may not even know what your
podcast is about.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Go sell yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
You can't find these interviews anywhere else. There's nowhere else
they exist. I'm talking to the A and B plus
players of your favorite shows and movies, and they're opening
up and giving us access in a way that you've
never seen or heard from them before. So it's truly
a special interview. And if celebrity is not your thing
on Fridays, like I said, a really fun episode. That's
a small episode about me giving you advice on life.
(14:35):
Should you trust it, that's up to you. But I've
lived a very colorful and interesting life and I think
they're pretty relatable and we've gone through a lot of
the same things.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Tommy to Dario everyone, thank you guys, thank you
Speaker 3 (14:48):
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