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Speaker 1: The City and with with Kate Ritchie podcast.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what last night it kicked off on

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Speaker 2: Channel seven Million Dollar Island. This is going to get really,

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Speaker 2: really brutal. They're all up for the million dollars. They're

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Speaker 2: all playing for it. And the man behind it, the

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Speaker 2: man that's hosting it, is the magnificent Middleton. How are you, brother, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Always good, guys, and you know, it's really good to

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Speaker 3: see you guys as well.

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Speaker 1: I've you guys.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, with this show, I mean, can you now finally

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Speaker 4: say this is a game instead of this is not a.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So one hundred people get thrown on the island. And

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Speaker 3: when I'm thrown on the island, literally thrown on the islands,

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Speaker 3: we're ten thousand dollars bracelet on. So there's a million

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Speaker 3: dollars on the island. To forget about the contestants for

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Speaker 3: a moment. There's a million dollars on the island. Yes,

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Speaker 3: And when the contestants leave, they have to leave their

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Speaker 3: bracelet on the island. Now, they might lose it during

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Speaker 3: a challenge and then go, or they might want to

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Speaker 3: leave their volunteers. They can leave at any stage because

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Speaker 3: they have to survive there for a whole month.

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Speaker 4: And can I ask because I know the picks us

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Speaker 4: a big thing in a lot of these There's the

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Speaker 4: physical and then there's the mind games and the tactics.

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Speaker 4: Can you by the rules of this show? If someone

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Speaker 4: was fast asleep, can I sneak up and try and

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Speaker 4: take their bracelet?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a rule you can, but you have you

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Speaker 1: have to knock them out.

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Speaker 3: They have to be clean out for ten seconds before

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Speaker 3: you can take the place.

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Speaker 5: No, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Hunger games.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god.

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Speaker 6: I want to ask one quick question though, about food

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Speaker 6: and supplies. Are the people on the island well looked after?

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Speaker 6: And do they are because they're on an island, Are

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Speaker 6: they kind of having to forage for their own food

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Speaker 6: and make their own sleeping you know arrangements?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know this isn't again. The survival element of

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Speaker 3: it just alone is savage. You know, they get a

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Speaker 3: couple of greats at the very very beginning, So once

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Speaker 3: that buns out, then they they have to hunt, they

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Speaker 3: have to forage, they have to survive, and that's where

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Speaker 3: the desperation comes in because you start to see a

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Speaker 3: bit of a vindictiveness goes on along with a bit

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Speaker 3: of sleep, deprivation and starvation, you get a whole different

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Speaker 3: personality and a whole different society.

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Speaker 2: What I want to know, Right, Let's say you get

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Speaker 2: to a month, like a couple of days out from

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Speaker 2: the month, and there's only a few people left on

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Speaker 2: the show. Can you challenge someone? Let's say someone's got

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Speaker 2: five hundred thousand dollars on their arm, right in ten

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars bracelets? Can you go throw everything in and

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Speaker 2: throw in the pot and and go I challenge you

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Speaker 2: for all your wristbands on your arm.

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Speaker 3: Yes, if it comes down to the final challenge and

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Speaker 3: you get that number, you can you can win it all.

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Speaker 3: But if you're the richest person on the island, the

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Speaker 3: richest playing on the island, that you cannot be nominated

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Speaker 3: for the next arena challenge.

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Speaker 2: Right, gotcha.

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Speaker 3: But it pays to be the richest because you've got

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Speaker 3: a lot of power. But also if someone but it's

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Speaker 3: one more bracelet than you, then you're the next target.

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Speaker 1: You've realized it.

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Speaker 3: So you've got to stay on top of your game

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Speaker 3: all the time, which doesn't happen. You know, it fluctuates

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Speaker 3: and it's an emotional roller coaster. But yes, at the

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Speaker 3: end if your number falls on and you know, you

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Speaker 3: can literally chuck it all in the pop bar bar one.

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Speaker 2: We're really excited about this, but before you go, we

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Speaker 2: need to we need to probe you a little bit

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Speaker 2: about essays and you've done a few essays Australia's now

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Speaker 2: you've had a lot of controversial figures here in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Go on that show. Do you probe pretty hard with

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Speaker 2: this one? Everyone seems to be talking about Craig McLoughlin

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Speaker 2: quite a bit. Do you get a bit out of

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Speaker 2: him on the show? Is it going to be quite brutal?

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it is brutal.

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Speaker 3: There's some very interesting characters on this one, more so

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Speaker 3: the psychological side of how people work. You know, there's

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Speaker 3: some real psychological sort of undoings and rebuildings.

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Speaker 1: Shall we say, where.

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Speaker 2: Did you film this one? It wasn't in Australia, was it.

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: It was in the Middle East. I can't say, but

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get into trouble.

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Speaker 2: No conditions were.

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Speaker 3: Tougher, Yeah there were, they were brutal. Yes, you know,

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Speaker 3: there's a couple of people on this one where they

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Speaker 3: wanted a quick quite early and I'm like, list, I'm not.

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Speaker 5: Fin some great television to make and can we also say,

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Speaker 5: and you know, we could probably cut this out of

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Speaker 5: the interview and keep it sort of behind the scenes,

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Speaker 5: but Kate would like to audition for.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny. No.

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Speaker 6: Look, it's one of those shows though that even when

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Speaker 6: the first series started, I have to say, the talkability

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Speaker 6: around it and everyone chatting about whether they could whether

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Speaker 6: they could do it. I even received text messages from

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Speaker 6: my dad, who was an ex police officer here in Australia, saying,

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Speaker 6: I reckon, you could do this, Kate, you need to

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Speaker 6: do the next one.

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Speaker 1: Can you can you do ten pressed up state? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't do pull up. I don't do requests. No

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Speaker 1: way you can. Well, I quite certainly won't.

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Speaker 6: I won't past the psychological test.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure one million dollars Onland continue seven thirty Tuesdays

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Speaker 2: and Wednesdays one Channel seven seven plus. It's good to

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Speaker 2: see your face again, buddy, and can't wait to have

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Speaker 2: you back in Australia.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, guys, Love your cheers and Wiper

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Speaker 3: with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast.

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