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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks'd be.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five US ten on News Talks, he'd be Chris

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Speaker 2: Schultz is in for screen time this week. He's got

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Speaker 2: three shows to recommend for watching or streaming at home.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, I live and breathe. Great to see you,

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Speaker 2: YouTube and studio. Okay, so we'll start off with the

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Speaker 2: first fiction piece this morning. So this is streaming on

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Speaker 2: Disney Plus tell Us about Alien Earth.

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Speaker 3: Well, everyone knows the Alien franchise. If you're a fan

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Speaker 3: of this series, you're very protective of it. Fans are

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Speaker 3: very vocal if the director gets it wrong. It's always

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Speaker 3: been a movie series and a few video games, but

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Speaker 3: the ones everyone harks back to, whether Ridley Scott original

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Speaker 3: and the James Cameron sequel, the more action focused sequel,

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Speaker 3: they're the basis for this series. This is a TV

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Speaker 3: show based on those movies. It's eight parts and look,

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Speaker 3: everyone was so nervous about how this was gonna go

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Speaker 3: beca These often get watered down. They just they don't

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Speaker 3: look right, they don't feel right. Good news, they nailed it.

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Speaker 3: This is wow incredible. This is my show for the year.

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Speaker 3: Really three episodes in Oh my gosh, they have just

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Speaker 3: gone to this extreme. So they've got characters in here

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Speaker 3: that just look amazing. They've they've introduced new aliens, so

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Speaker 3: it's not just that big metallic hulking anymore. There's there's

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Speaker 3: all kinds of other aliens. They've done it in a

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Speaker 3: really smart way. It's about a research vessel that has

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Speaker 3: crash landed on Earth skilled most of people except for

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Speaker 3: one synthetic droid who's trying to protect these aliens. And

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Speaker 3: so the research the rescue crews going in and they're

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Speaker 3: encountering this new array of aliens. So it's a fascinating setup.

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Speaker 3: There's all kinds of other stuff going on, you know,

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Speaker 3: god like creators with God complexes, this Mai stuff in

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Speaker 3: their two. It's it's reverting that they've just got. It's dark,

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Speaker 3: it's weird. It's almost like David Lynchian, it's it's so straight.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how they were actually allowed to get

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Speaker 3: away with it.

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Speaker 2: But that's great, amazing, Yeah, fantastic. I think we're all

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Speaker 2: expecting you to say, and you know, they've kind of

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Speaker 2: sold out here, but sounds superb. Okay, So that's alien

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Speaker 2: Earth that's on Disney Plus on Netflix. A keenly anticipated

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Speaker 2: documentary fit for TV, The Reality of the Biggest Loser.

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Speaker 3: Huge documentary. It's the number one on the New Zealand

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Speaker 3: Netflix series right now. Everyone's watching us, Everyone's talking about it.

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Speaker 3: I've had so many conversations about it. For very good reason.

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Speaker 3: This was a really problematic reality show. This started in

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Speaker 3: two thousand and four, when reality TV was still in

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Speaker 3: those early stages and the promises obvious. They got overweight

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Speaker 3: people and tried to make them lose as much weight

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Speaker 3: as possible over the course of a season. And so

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Speaker 3: this documentary is going back and just putting that show

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Speaker 3: back in our minds. And it's really quite awkward and

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Speaker 3: confronting watching some of the stuff they put these contestants through.

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Speaker 3: They yelled so much abuse at them. They would take

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Speaker 3: them to these gems and they had these two trainers

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Speaker 3: and they would literally just get in their faces and

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Speaker 3: force them to run on these treadmills until they were

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Speaker 3: throwing up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: One of them claims she died on a run outside

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Speaker 3: on a beach for nine minutes or something. Yeah. So

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Speaker 3: they're talking to the old contestants, they're asking them what

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Speaker 3: they went through on the show, and it's just led

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Speaker 3: to all kinds of things. There are allegations right now

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Speaker 3: of illegal drugs being used to push weight loss, caffeine pills.

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Speaker 3: Some people say that it ruined their metabolisms and they've

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Speaker 3: never been able to keep that weight off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is the thing. A lot of

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Speaker 2: a lot of those people who competed in those shows

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Speaker 2: then put on the weight. I mean, I used to

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Speaker 2: watch The Biggest Loser. It's pretty crazy to think they

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Speaker 2: made that TV show. Remember how in the first episode

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Speaker 2: that introduced the contestants, and then they would have this

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Speaker 2: like buffet that have this huge table laid out kind

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Speaker 2: sort of encouraged to These people were sort of encouraged

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Speaker 2: to go in and stuff their faces as much as possible,

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Speaker 2: and then there were sort of filmed like it was

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Speaker 2: really that's.

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Speaker 3: Not a normal situation any of us encounter in our days.

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Speaker 3: There's another scene where they make them they do that,

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Speaker 3: but they make them build like towers using only their mouths.

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Speaker 3: They can't use their hands. They've got to pick up doughnuts,

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Speaker 3: you know, and jam rolls and lollies and build these

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Speaker 2: Okay, like, no, we didn't really question it at the time.

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Speaker 3: Well yeah, but we are sort of in this moment

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Speaker 3: where we are looking back and reassessing this stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: how we talked about bodies, how the paparazzi treated celebrities,

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Speaker 3: you know, what happened to Princess Diana and David Beckham.

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Speaker 3: And it's actually quite interesting, I think, to sort of

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just just like, I mean, what's acceptable changes

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Speaker 2: over time, right in a society, it's always changing. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean I can imagine that watching this, you look

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Speaker 2: were you know it maybe a moral or whatever else,

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Speaker 2: but also it's kind of telling you a lot about

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Speaker 2: us as an audience at the time as well. You

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Speaker 2: really sort of forced to reflect on your own appetite

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Speaker 2: for want of a better word. So that's fit for TV,

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Speaker 2: The Reality of the Biggest Loser. I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 2: seeing that one also on Netflix. Katrina come Hell or

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Speaker 2: high Water.

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Speaker 3: Disney. Actually this was on Disney five part series on

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Speaker 3: Hurricane Katrina. It's almost twenty years to the day. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think it was August twenty five when the first

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Speaker 3: signs of the storm started rolling in. You know that

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Speaker 3: everyone knows what Hurricane Katrina as it was this Category

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Speaker 3: five storm that built over the Golf of Mexico and

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Speaker 3: then just basically ran straight through New Orleans. This is

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Speaker 3: looking back, it's interviewing. You know this thing. You watch

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Speaker 3: a lot of documentary and you know when you had

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Speaker 3: a good one, right. You can tell when it's a

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Speaker 3: director who really cares and he's gotten everyone to talk

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Speaker 3: and it's there to tell a really gripping story. And

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Speaker 3: they're doing this properly. They've got this guy narrating it

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Speaker 3: who's like a New Orleans resident, and he's sitting on

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Speaker 3: a stoop. He's got the dreadlocks, he's got the accent.

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Speaker 3: He's almost like the spiritual guide for you through the show.

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Speaker 3: Because this is horrifying. Obviously, the footage, it's like watching

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Speaker 3: nine to eleven. You know, it never loses this impact.

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Speaker 3: These hotels with windows that are just completely blown out

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Speaker 3: and the curtains are you know, in the way this.

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Speaker 3: Firefighters just watching their fire station just get demolished by

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Speaker 3: this hurricane. Like the footage is amazing, amazing and harrowing

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Speaker 3: at the same time. You know, we've just been through

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Speaker 3: this with Cyclone, Gabrielle. There'll be people in New Zealand

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Speaker 3: who can't watch this for that reason. But they've just

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Speaker 3: done it right that you know, the footage in the

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Speaker 3: Superdome as well, and the roof starts on the up

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Speaker 3: and the rain comes in and all of that. So

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Speaker 3: I'm only two episodes in right, absolutely riveted. It's just

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Speaker 3: so compelling, it's so well told, and they've got everyone

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Speaker 3: please yeah, firefighters, victims, all of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds amazing, sounds really compelling. That's been of

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Speaker 2: me as well. So that's on Disney Plus. Alien Earth

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Speaker 2: is also on Disney Plus and Fit for TV. The

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Speaker 2: Reality of the Biggest Loser is on Netflix. Don't forget

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Speaker 2: you can find Chris Schultz on a substack. Boiler Room

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Speaker 2: with Chris Schultz. Will make sure there's a link to

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Speaker 2: that up on our News talks eb website as well.

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