Fitzy and Wippa on: Oversharing, Daniel Craig’s pomposity and the end of prank calls?
Fitzy and Wippa in Mumbrella’s live Google Hangout
Nova 96.9 presenters Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli joined Mumbrella for a Google Hangout yesterday.
Interviewed by Mumbrella’s Tim Burrowes, topics included:
The pair discuss:
- How much should you share about your private life
- Why Daniel Craig needs to loosen up
- The changed radio landscape following 2DayFM’s disastrous royal phone prank
- How to break into commercial radio
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Wipfli said: “It’s like someone needed to say ‘Hey Daniel, you’re not James Bond. You’re actually just a British guy, so let’s have a normal conversation’. The guy wouldn’t loosen up at all.” I walked out of that and I knew that at the same time next week I had Hugh Jackman, and I thought, ‘what a breath of fresh air’.”
Couldn’t help but laugh at Fitzy’s answer to the last question – ‘how do i break into radio”…. there he is telling young’uns to record short breaks back announcing songs for their demo…. yet earlier in the same interview he admits that he didn’t have to do any of that because he did reality TV.
Truth is….. if you want to be a radio star – go and make a name for yourself elsewhere and then get your manager to forge your radio career for you. If you want to be a nondescript jock back announcing songs for the rest of your life on a 12-3pm shift, then sure, record a demo as Fitzy suggests.
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why break in to radio? You could focus on cracking the telex big time or steam powered stardom. Or, maybe a print journalist.
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