John Safran
speaker
891 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
John Safran’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I could see, you know, this Klan guy there and he had these military guys there.
But do you know what I was really thinking is that I was thinking about my commissioning editor back at SBS who had given me the money –
to kind of come here and do this and I just can't chicken out.
I was scared of her.
I was scared of Debbie Lee, my commissioner of SBS and her sitting there in her little office in Sydney.
And, like, I just could not face the shame of going, oh, you know what, Debbie, after all of that, and after you gave the money to ask and not some other documentary people and, like, you're just kind of chickened out or whatever like that.
And that's what pushed me through the door because, yeah, I'm always more scared of that.
Yeah, more scared of Debbie Lee from SBS than the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
It's kind of somewhere in the middle where like I totally am a version of myself and
But I think when I'm a version of myself, it's more like I kind of whittle off all these other layers of myself or dimensions to myself.
But it's just for the storytelling.
And like, for instance, I'm whiny like other people.
Like, why wouldn't I be whiny?
But I'm just kind of like...
In the context of my shows or my books, like obviously I can be whiny, but it has to be like this kind of like self-aware whininess.
Like for instance, even you're probably too young, my child, but there used to be this man called Ray Martin and he was the host of A Current Affair and I did this thing where I –
because his show used to come and like doorstop people and make them look really guilty because it's like... And then I... And he was doing this thing where he was making a big fuss about these unemployed people who were these young people who were still in bed at 11am when everyone else is at work and blah, blah, blah.
So I turned up to his house with my crew and was like, well, Ray, you're still here at 11am.
And like, what?
And he's like...
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