Speaker 1: Hey everyone, I'm Anissa Ferrera and I am Davon Rogers,
Speaker 1: and this is MTV's official Challenge podcast. The Challenge World
Speaker 1: Championship is a finally here. Who I'm so excited. I'm
Speaker 1: excited too. This qualifier seems nasty. I don't want to
Speaker 1: drink it. I don't want to eat it. I don't
Speaker 1: want from the stadium. It was a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's musty for show. I love it because it gives
Speaker 1: the MVP's an opportunity to show the legends like you here,
Speaker 1: but we're here too, Like no, we earned our way
Speaker 1: to be able to get here. I thought it was
Speaker 1: so dope, and I thought it was so cool how
Speaker 1: I played out as with me too, Me too. So
Speaker 1: this season, we have a brand new segment for you guys.
Speaker 1: This is the World Championships. So we're gonna be discussing
Speaker 1: the King or Queen of the World and also who
Speaker 1: was on another planet Anissa this episode episode number one,
Speaker 1: come in hot, right, was your king or Queen of
Speaker 1: the world for this episode? I mean Kiki went in
Speaker 1: there and said all right and just fucked it up.
Speaker 1: I mean she was angry, she did the leg thing.
Speaker 1: I love it. And she looks like I love when
Speaker 1: they look like all pretty and done up and then
Speaker 1: they go in there and they shut it down. She
Speaker 1: showed did. I wouldn't bet at all. I was super impressed.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Keiki yeah, and shout out to Claudia
Speaker 1: for putting up a fight. She sure did. And you
Speaker 1: know what, she had such good sportsmanship. Yeah, like it
Speaker 1: was all right. I wasn't nasty. Yeah, she was like,
Speaker 1: see you guys. It was an amazing experience, like yes,
Speaker 1: on another planet though um obviously the Legends were on
Speaker 1: another planet. Literally they were off to the side during
Speaker 1: this qualifier, not participated, just cheering people on. Didn't have
Speaker 1: to do anything. But you know, I don't even think
Speaker 1: I can say that because they did. They cheered for everybody,
Speaker 1: like I've never seen them cheer like that in the
Speaker 1: main show ever. Right about us, but people on the
Speaker 1: Championship they're cheering in dicky suits. I know they were
Speaker 1: hot to shit out there. Anywo today, I can't wait
Speaker 1: any longer. We have an interview with one of the
Speaker 1: winners from this episode. Mister Grant Crap will be with
Speaker 1: us to kick off our first interview for the world championship. Yes,
Speaker 1: so excited to do this interview with mister Grant. Sir Grant, crap.
Speaker 1: But before we get into it, don't go anywhere. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break. Come back today we have
Speaker 1: the winner of the first challenge and I guess used
Speaker 1: to be lover boy on a dating show once upon
Speaker 1: a time, mister Grant. Crap? What thank you for having
Speaker 1: me as stallion? Oh wow? Is that so proclaimed? So proclaim? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a married man now, so it was once a
Speaker 1: love of boy winning the first love all in Australia,
Speaker 1: but now I'm a I'm a good boy. My father two,
Speaker 1: so you can say I'm probably getting used to the
Speaker 1: dad bod. You don't even have one, that's one they
Speaker 1: didn't you just have another baby? Yeah, just recently. Um
Speaker 1: Laby was born into the world about nearly five weeks
Speaker 1: as of five weeks as of today. He's been so good,
Speaker 1: he's um. You know, my daughter Charlie, she's adjusted to it, thankfully,
Speaker 1: and you know we've had her ups and downs. But
Speaker 1: as long as they're healthy, that's all that matters, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they are adorable. Actually, was doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of what we call research last night and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's some cute kids. Congratulations to you and your babies.
Speaker 1: I love I love kids. They good. So how was
Speaker 1: it leaving your first child? Because your second child hadn't
Speaker 1: been born yet, So how was it leaving your first shot?
Speaker 1: You get the call about going to do the World Championship,
Speaker 1: are you like, all right, Chile, I'm out? Or are
Speaker 1: you like, oh my baby? Um? Now, look was very
Speaker 1: exciting I got the call to go. You know, I
Speaker 1: was over the moon. I was like, yeah, shit, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got this opportunity. But like when I was doing
Speaker 1: a challenge Australia, Charlie was only very young and over there.
Speaker 1: When I had the FaceTime called back to home my daughter,
Speaker 1: she ended up getting a hand put in mouth. I'm
Speaker 1: sure if you guys familiar with handput mouth for kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was very very difficult to say that. My partner,
Speaker 1: Lucy was struggling with it. But um, so, you know,
Speaker 1: I was very very excited. I was keening to guy
Speaker 1: that represented strive. At the same time, leaving my family
Speaker 1: is very very hard thing to do, very hard. Well,
Speaker 1: shout out to your amazing wife for holding it down. Yes,
Speaker 1: shout out to you, Lucy, Happy, shout out to you. Um,
Speaker 1: so you want to tell us a little bit about
Speaker 1: your background, a little bit about the Love Island, how
Speaker 1: the love Boy came about before you turned into the
Speaker 1: husband Stallion. We would like to know about that, Daddy,
Speaker 1: stay out now, that doesn't work. No, No, that's definitely
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Sorry, I'll work on it. Grant. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: my name's Grant. Crap. Obviously my last name is one
Speaker 1: of the you know, it's obviously a crap last name
Speaker 1: to you get me. Um. I wouldn't say it's unfortunate
Speaker 1: because everyone remembers my last name, but yeah, crap, like
Speaker 1: you going on the toilet is basically how I explain it.
Speaker 1: If you know what, ladies, if I have a share
Speaker 1: in toilets, I would I'll be because I have the
Speaker 1: last name. Um. But yeah. My first introduction to reality
Speaker 1: TV was Love on Australian, the first season one that
Speaker 1: with another lady. So yeah, that was full on and
Speaker 1: from there I had a few years off. I just
Speaker 1: went back and started my Builder in Australia year so
Speaker 1: I do all sorts of fancy renovations in bathrooms throughout
Speaker 1: the houses and everything, and then um, yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: that's my passion. That's what I absolutely loved. I want
Speaker 1: to love using my hands, absolutely love using my hands,
Speaker 1: like to get a bit dirty. Um yeah, you know
Speaker 1: that explains how you ended up here on the Challenge. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh god, yeah, the Challenge is right up my alley.
Speaker 1: But then yeah, I've got a phone call one day
Speaker 1: and then yeah it just rolled on to the Challenge
Speaker 1: Australia and look where I'm at, you know. Wow, So
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about Team Australia. I think
Speaker 1: Team Australia is the team debate. We've got an Olympic
Speaker 1: champion in Emily Sebom and she's one of my home girls.
Speaker 1: You know, she's such a lovely, lovely girl. I've got
Speaker 1: like we've got each other's back, especially in the game. Um,
Speaker 1: we've got Troy Boy. T Roy he's a little weapon.
Speaker 1: As most people would know if you watched the Challenge Australia.
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys that just he's an all rounder.
Speaker 1: He's basically good at everything. Um is he the one
Speaker 1: that did Ninja Warrior? Yeah, yeah, he's rowing it. He's
Speaker 1: very like I believe you should be very respecting the game.
Speaker 1: He's just he understands it well. And then you've got Kiki,
Speaker 1: and kikiS just a bowl of energy. Yeah, and well,
Speaker 1: you know, the funny thing at Cake is what a
Speaker 1: lot of people done now is she's actually very very intelligent,
Speaker 1: very intelligent. I didn't believe it, trust me, when I
Speaker 1: first met. I was like, this girl cap have like
Speaker 1: two cents in ahead. But she's smart. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: You can tell. You can tell she when she got
Speaker 1: her mind into it with this elimination. I'm jumping ahead,
Speaker 1: but you can tell she got in there with the
Speaker 1: strategic part of it first. Oh, I might very very smart.
Speaker 1: Cake is very smart. So like if you look at
Speaker 1: it from the outside, our team on paper, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got the strength, we've got the endurance, and we've
Speaker 1: got the smarts. So like Tavis Dry would have to
Speaker 1: be the team to beat I reckon. I want to
Speaker 1: know more about this qualifier though, um, because there's not
Speaker 1: a big introduction about like what you're about to eat.
Speaker 1: I need to know what you drank and what you
Speaker 1: ate or was there like a block of cheese in
Speaker 1: the middle, Like I need to know what that was?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Oh my god, I'm sorry. If you can't
Speaker 1: swim it, fuck me, No, we do it all. It's
Speaker 1: different with your accent actually, so yeah, fuck it was terrible.
Speaker 1: Whatever was So we rocked up on these podiums and
Speaker 1: these two drinks and god, you could smell for a
Speaker 1: hundred miles away, hey, like it was that pony. And
Speaker 1: one drink was this green smoothie air had I don't
Speaker 1: even know. It's like had dog's balls chopped up with
Speaker 1: dog shit and just off cheese. Man, and you know what,
Speaker 1: some people said it was really yummy, But as soon
Speaker 1: as I smells, I was like gage, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it looked like there was like a blue cheese of
Speaker 1: sorts in there. Yeah, I couldn't tell. I tried to
Speaker 1: find actually what was in it, but we didn't know.
Speaker 1: And then there was another drink that looked like a
Speaker 1: curdled off milk mixed with you know, rice bubbles. Every
Speaker 1: rice bubbles over there, like bubble tea. It's like a
Speaker 1: cereal that looks like little bubbles. It's like white anyhow,
Speaker 1: it's it's disgusting. Um people was like all blended up
Speaker 1: with like wheat backs, and I was disgusting. Did you
Speaker 1: have to eat the thing or were there just too Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then we had the sayos and um, they was
Speaker 1: like a seven layer sayo with sabi in between each layer. Right, wait,
Speaker 1: what was it say so say the biscuits? Right, biscuits?
Speaker 1: Let me sience what a science? Let me paint a picture, foyer.
Speaker 1: You're sitting at you, you're sitting at your kitchen bench.
Speaker 1: You've got two smoothies either side. In the middle, you've
Speaker 1: got seven layers of those sayos. So they're a biscuit.
Speaker 1: They're like a crisp biscuit. Right in between each layer,
Speaker 1: you have a smeer of wasabi. I'm not talking. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking like a little smear. I'm talking like a
Speaker 1: massive smear of a sabcause I'm telling you there was
Speaker 1: some nasty smells going around. How long did it take
Speaker 1: you to finish to finish the drinks? M Oh god,
Speaker 1: I reckon. I would have nearly knocked it off in
Speaker 1: about ten minutes. Wow, because yeah, justum, mind you. I
Speaker 1: was doing a lot of spewing and re eaten as
Speaker 1: soon I took my first ship. Man, I was gagging
Speaker 1: like and I remember seeing either side of me Ben
Speaker 1: from the USA dude, that where's the cowboy? He was
Speaker 1: like full on projectile spear and I reckon you would
Speaker 1: have spewed two or three meters in front of him,
Speaker 1: and then he just kept motoring. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that dude's impressive. Wow. Yeah, he was really going. He was.
Speaker 1: Do you think it was fair that the legends got
Speaker 1: to sit out and watch you guys compete or do
Speaker 1: you think they should have been down there in the
Speaker 1: ground too. Look, I don't know much about the dudes,
Speaker 1: but I think coming into the competition and going against
Speaker 1: obviously the MVPs, I thought it was okay. Like those
Speaker 1: guys obviously been doing in respective I've been doing for
Speaker 1: years and years and years, so they've had happened to
Speaker 1: eat shit countless of times, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They've had all sorts of ships. So for them to
Speaker 1: sit back and get a gauge on it, I think
Speaker 1: it was fair. Some people will say otherwise, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: look I thought it was okay. I wasn't too I
Speaker 1: wasn't too bust up about it. Was it intimidating having
Speaker 1: them watched like stare you guys down as it was going,
Speaker 1: like basically scout you guys out. Fuckna think I think, um,
Speaker 1: I can watch what I can do. You know, say,
Speaker 1: if anything, you'd be sitting there, if you're a true
Speaker 1: competitive you'd be scratching your balls to try and get
Speaker 1: in there and have a crack. You know, you said,
Speaker 1: I want to know said yeah, you said. Other people
Speaker 1: who said otherwise, Oh, I think I heard a lot
Speaker 1: from um, from the UK's from all the palms. A
Speaker 1: few of the girls, like Zaza, I think would have
Speaker 1: she said a little bit. But mind you, Zaza, she
Speaker 1: can carry her away. She goes good. Um, she really can.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable that girl, you know for ring and wet Ye, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's just strong. Um, yeah I can't. There's definitely a few.
Speaker 1: I think a few of the other Americans probably would
Speaker 1: have said the same thing. But yeah, look it is
Speaker 1: what it is, mate. They've done it for so long
Speaker 1: and um, yeah do you respect? And they can watch
Speaker 1: us eight ships. How long would you say the entire
Speaker 1: day was like with all the checkpoints? How long do
Speaker 1: you think that was? Oh god, I reckon, that was
Speaker 1: this five or six hour stint. So after eight, after
Speaker 1: you eight did all that stuff, you have to do
Speaker 1: a lap of that at the stadium. So as you
Speaker 1: can imagine, imagine running on a full gut full of
Speaker 1: stuff that you don't yea, yeah, yeah, and you smell
Speaker 1: it the whole time. You know, I'm burping it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what's up? Oh my good and pretty bad.
Speaker 1: So you run the lap and then you guys have
Speaker 1: to go to the weekly point, right yep, oh no,
Speaker 1: the tire, the tire. Yeah. So we do the first
Speaker 1: lap and we go to the ties. Now, the ties
Speaker 1: with the heaviest things known to man. I lift concrete
Speaker 1: bags on the rag and we had ties on this
Speaker 1: this um like a platform, right that was you know,
Speaker 1: this a timber platform. So that had like a red
Speaker 1: line at the end. We had a sledge hammer. We
Speaker 1: had to hit this tire to this to this red line.
Speaker 1: So if you imagine us all that shit stuck in
Speaker 1: our guts and you're going to try and physically hit
Speaker 1: this thing, it would be about. Yeah. It looked horrible,
Speaker 1: and it looked like they weren't moving at all. I
Speaker 1: wanted to pick it up. I wanted to pick it up,
Speaker 1: push it, like hitting it with the sledge hammer, like
Speaker 1: I remember, I got there. I think I got their
Speaker 1: second and By the time I was getting it to halfway,
Speaker 1: everyone was there, you know, as you can imagine if
Speaker 1: drenalin was pumping and you're like, holy shit, like everyone's
Speaker 1: caught up, but you know people are hitting and it's
Speaker 1: only moving yeah big every time. So it was the nightmare.
Speaker 1: Some of the legends were speculating and they were saying
Speaker 1: that the weight of the tires were equivalent to your
Speaker 1: each each person's body weight. Is that true? Fat do
Speaker 1: you feel it was that heavy or how how heavy
Speaker 1: do you think it was? Now? I think I think
Speaker 1: it has to be nearly more than that. Like I
Speaker 1: swear you know you can move your own body weight
Speaker 1: pretty well. But um, I think a lot of the
Speaker 1: like the friction of the tire on like the timber board,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like the rubber like
Speaker 1: it's griffin when you're hitting it, like you know, Actually,
Speaker 1: let me tell you on a little secret or saw
Speaker 1: bend do it, smart, smart bug of Ben you are
Speaker 1: the sand when he was sitting he had he was
Speaker 1: hitting his tie and it busted up. Well might venture?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. I do remember sand kicking the sand
Speaker 1: in front of the tire, right in front of the tire,
Speaker 1: So when it was when you're hitting it, you're sort
Speaker 1: of getting that little bit of a movement because the
Speaker 1: sand was underneath the edge of the tire. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense, Yeah, a little slippery. So like in the challenge,
Speaker 1: there's things where opportunities like that can happen. You got
Speaker 1: to think outside of the box sometimes. But that was
Speaker 1: just one of those moments you know where you go, oh,
Speaker 1: you're a smart fella throughout this process. As far as
Speaker 1: the other MVPs, who was your biggest competition, Ben or somebody?
Speaker 1: Was there someone else who had your eyes on um
Speaker 1: throughout the competition? I think Danny would be one. Definitely
Speaker 1: on the fellow from the US side. He was you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's an all round it. He's very I
Speaker 1: really liked Danny. He's a good fellow. I think he
Speaker 1: was a competition threat massively. Also agree with Troy. Troy
Speaker 1: was Troy's like a sleeping weapon that people underestimate because
Speaker 1: he's only a short fellow. Mum. You know, Nathan definitely
Speaker 1: Nathan wowed me in that competition. He was fit, like
Speaker 1: from someone who drinks peace on the rag, you know,
Speaker 1: to get out there and just absolutely carve up like
Speaker 1: he was unbelievable. So I drink drinking alcohol regularly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah he doesn't have drink piss. Yeah you drink the alcohol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do want to know. So, so you get to
Speaker 1: South Africa, beautiful South Africa. So this amazing house. When
Speaker 1: you walk in the house, Oh, mate, this house was
Speaker 1: a dream. It was like, yeah, I had a swimming pool,
Speaker 1: like three swimming pools, had a slide. We had it
Speaker 1: like a cinema which obviously we couldn't use. It had
Speaker 1: a downstairs like games area. Mate, Like I'm talking from
Speaker 1: a builder's perspective, this was like a builder's dream. Wow,
Speaker 1: best house I've ever been into, hands down, I reckon
Speaker 1: the house. If we're talking US dollars, I reckon. I
Speaker 1: have to be at least fifteen or ten million US
Speaker 1: dollars in this jointing. It's when you're up there, you're
Speaker 1: looking over the whole of Cape Town. The home kid
Speaker 1: you not, you know, you think like a famous actor
Speaker 1: would have owned this house. It was just fantastic. And
Speaker 1: you know, I had about thirty beds, so it was
Speaker 1: like a massive sleepover. But yeah, stick a big old
Speaker 1: slumber party. Yeah, those twin beds unfortunately, but I don't
Speaker 1: you know, the typical challenging everyone runs in and puts
Speaker 1: their bags down this and I ain't Kim, and I
Speaker 1: end up sleeping out of the hallway. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: used to coming from Australia, you can sort of sleep
Speaker 1: on the ground anyway. Really, yeah, I was in a hallway,
Speaker 1: you know, like because ever I gets private rooms. All
Speaker 1: the rooms had most post about on suites with the
Speaker 1: little bathrooms rong. I am up camping out with m
Speaker 1: with Emily and the hallway idea and the on the
Speaker 1: ground floor. So I was like, yeah, shit, but it's right,
Speaker 1: you know what. The house seemed extremely friendly. This was
Speaker 1: after the first daily after you and Zara one. The
Speaker 1: house seemed extremely friendly as you guys were getting to
Speaker 1: know each other so you can ultimately pick your partners. Right,
Speaker 1: How was that time period basically the calm before the storm?
Speaker 1: How was that time period? That is the best way
Speaker 1: to describe that, the calm before the storm? And I
Speaker 1: like I felt it like was very like fake and
Speaker 1: surreal because you know you're in there. It's a competition
Speaker 1: in everyone's buddies with everyone, you know, a gapping about
Speaker 1: you know, life back at home and um, different cultures
Speaker 1: obviously got Argentinians in there and stuff, so everyone was
Speaker 1: just blended in. It's just it feels very crazy that
Speaker 1: everyone's giving you that time before it really starts to
Speaker 1: knuckle down. Yeah, you know, winning the first challenge it
Speaker 1: uh you know, I got to essentially meet everyone. So
Speaker 1: there was speculation between boys are gonna be partnered up
Speaker 1: with boys and girls will be with girls, and it
Speaker 1: was back and forth, and as you can imagine, there's
Speaker 1: just everyone's pitching these crazy ideas. Yeah, of cour were
Speaker 1: you aying, like which legend were you aying? Girl? Girl
Speaker 1: or guy? All right? Um, so when I winning, you
Speaker 1: felt like you got the biggest hammer in the house.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's after you. Everyone's like, I want a
Speaker 1: piece of grand I want a piece of grant. You know.
Speaker 1: So I sort of I sort of was sitting there,
Speaker 1: sitting back and everyone was coming up to me. I
Speaker 1: had Killy and I had I was having Yarn to Amber,
Speaker 1: I had john A have a chat to me. I
Speaker 1: had Jody. You know, I had all these girls come
Speaker 1: out of the yard, but one blog that I was
Speaker 1: because this whisper of a boys with boys were gonna
Speaker 1: partner one blog I was really wanted to get to
Speaker 1: know was, um was where this blow? Now he's got
Speaker 1: a he's got ginger, beardy, redhead feller. Um, he was
Speaker 1: a very interesting blow. I got to know him and
Speaker 1: he was you know, he gave me the whisp and said,
Speaker 1: may if you get to pick, you're gonna pick me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, right, man, I'll pick you like I
Speaker 1: Not knowing much about him, I got clut up from Troy.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, you gotta watch out in that fellow.
Speaker 1: But working working with him it would be good. But
Speaker 1: in regards to the ladies, like the women too. If
Speaker 1: we're going to choose girls, I was sort of I'm
Speaker 1: gonna up in the air about it all to be
Speaker 1: honest with your really, no, no one of the challenge
Speaker 1: women stood out. The legends stood out to you. Um,
Speaker 1: oh look, I'd like Casey was the first. One. Reason
Speaker 1: why I say cases because everyone says that she's got
Speaker 1: real determination, grit and just does not give up. So
Speaker 1: I was I'm gonna Casey for a while. And then
Speaker 1: there was Amber as well, because she apparently won one.
Speaker 1: She was coming off as like a rookie winning one.
Speaker 1: And then there was John A. Yeah, John A won
Speaker 1: two All Stars, and I was like, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I felt grateful because I had all these people, Like
Speaker 1: if the opportunity was to pick someone, you know, I
Speaker 1: have a few to choose from. But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: one of those ones where I was like, I was
Speaker 1: like a kid in the canny shop. I was like,
Speaker 1: who gonna choose? You know, I want to make sure
Speaker 1: to choose the right one. We stuck with him throughout.
Speaker 1: So what was your first impression of West? I know
Speaker 1: you said he's someone you wanted to be partnered with,
Speaker 1: But what wasn't about him that made you say, you
Speaker 1: know what this is? It? Um? I don't know. He's
Speaker 1: a fella is very smooth, and I get that snaky
Speaker 1: vibe from ways, like I could read him like a book.
Speaker 1: And he's trying to me through the game. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: I respect he's done a lot in the game, and
Speaker 1: he was trying to explain things to me, and you
Speaker 1: break it all down, and and I or in my
Speaker 1: email and he's thinking, if I can't get this fellow
Speaker 1: on my side, it'd probably be a good thing, because
Speaker 1: why would he try and screw himself up? If I'm
Speaker 1: with him. You know what I mean is that bananas fella.
Speaker 1: I didn't really want to bar with. I think he's
Speaker 1: just a bit of a Peter Pan dude. I think
Speaker 1: that dude's like, did you say Peter happy? Yeah? What
Speaker 1: mid forties fifty? Wouldn't he far? Yup? Mate? Like I
Speaker 1: was looking at him or I'm like just the Troy.
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, like, I know, this guy is
Speaker 1: probably one of the better ones, but far out, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's had too much boats or
Speaker 1: you're trying to live like a this single bachelor life.
Speaker 1: Like that's what I get from that guy, you know,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know what I mean almost fella
Speaker 1: fucking store. Did you think you would clash or did
Speaker 1: you see him or were you intimidated by fuck him?
Speaker 1: Like he's um he tries to rule the roost and everything.
Speaker 1: You know, that dude, I'd haven't got for him. Who
Speaker 1: you know, everyone has their own their own opinion of
Speaker 1: people and what I do like And this is this
Speaker 1: is no shade to Johnny, but like when newcast members,
Speaker 1: that's why I love spies, lies and allies. All these
Speaker 1: kids came from all over the world and it was
Speaker 1: just like fresh eyes on an old game. And I've
Speaker 1: been playing this for twenty years, so it's like I
Speaker 1: know all of these people already, have played with all
Speaker 1: of them. We've been at odds, we've been best friends,
Speaker 1: we've been on different teams, the same team, whatever. But
Speaker 1: it's always interesting that it can take some of us
Speaker 1: a decade to figure out what these people are like.
Speaker 1: And you guys come on, You're like in two seconds,
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, well he's a snake, Like why, It's
Speaker 1: just it was everyone what do I look at it?
Speaker 1: Johnny ban Is everyone wants to leaving Johnny Beanan as well,
Speaker 1: and like that just doesn't got to be on with me.
Speaker 1: I think the dude like he spied the game for Silo.
Speaker 1: He's like, I should William out in a rhetirement village
Speaker 1: for the challenge now, you know, like let's get the
Speaker 1: fresh blood in there. Like never gets eliminations as far
Speaker 1: as I know, And everyone's intimidated by this guy. I'm
Speaker 1: like far at night, like, do you mean that you
Speaker 1: could take Johnny Bananas in a hall bra Buck? Yes,
Speaker 1: put me in there against you in a whole ball
Speaker 1: put me in there, Okay, I love. I love all
Speaker 1: the confidence, the whole ball man. I wish we had
Speaker 1: that in Australian one. You know, I've never got to choose.
Speaker 1: I'll come from a rugby lake background, so I enjoyed
Speaker 1: the people up, honest, lock, I enjoyed the collision. I'm
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say I'm a very smart fellow, but I
Speaker 1: don't mind doing the real brawls. You know, let me
Speaker 1: put my hand. I love rugby is so fun. We
Speaker 1: played in South Africa? Was great? Yeah, no, we didn't
Speaker 1: play in South Africa. We played? Oh no, we did.
Speaker 1: Did you played in New Zealand? You got rock? I
Speaker 1: was taking girls out by their next because I know
Speaker 1: you could do that because it's very different than football.
Speaker 1: So I could do just the passing, passing and pacing
Speaker 1: down h Yes, yes, I was putting everybody on a
Speaker 1: fucking hanger, all of it. Okay, So before we go
Speaker 1: any further, we need to take a quick break, but
Speaker 1: we'll be right back after this. How does this challenge
Speaker 1: the World Championship? How does it compare to the challenge Australia.
Speaker 1: Do you think one is tougher than the other or
Speaker 1: how how did they compare? Um definitely. The Challenge World
Speaker 1: Championship was tougher in all aspects, um probably more importantly
Speaker 1: in the political part. Like I got in there and
Speaker 1: you know, let's say, after the first challenge, I won
Speaker 1: the qualifier. Um, the way people scramble, right, I've never
Speaker 1: seen people scramble and make bullshit up in my life, Like,
Speaker 1: and I've been a love lion all that, and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of bullshit there. But Jesus, people run through
Speaker 1: the hills and they make up all stuff, and people
Speaker 1: go in turning to themselves and there's lies and stuff
Speaker 1: being said. And I'm like, oh shit, man, this is
Speaker 1: like a mad house if people coming to me, and
Speaker 1: I said, I haven't heard it with my own ears,
Speaker 1: so I don't care. I mean, you know, I remember
Speaker 1: having this conversation. This is a shout out to Durrell.
Speaker 1: Durrell come to me, goes, oh, man, you're gonna put
Speaker 1: me in. I'm like, what are you talking about? He goes,
Speaker 1: are you gonna put me in? I'm like no, he goes,
Speaker 1: I just heard from someone that you're going to stick
Speaker 1: me in there. Like I don't think I think he
Speaker 1: heard it from thinking it from Tristan I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put you in. He was full
Speaker 1: stressing man, like it's just panicked. He's really stressed. Though,
Speaker 1: Durrell gets really stressed, blessed heart stressed. Yeah, that he's
Speaker 1: a good fellow girl. Did you think that, because we're
Speaker 1: only on episode one and we've only conquered the first
Speaker 1: daily in the first elimination, did you think it was
Speaker 1: going to turn so quickly, so fast? Like I mean,
Speaker 1: the heat came very fast with this nomination ceremony and
Speaker 1: then Kiki's in there with yeah, right, I know, I
Speaker 1: actually did not expect that that was That was one
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour, Like that was really an eye
Speaker 1: open thing. And I was talking to I think I
Speaker 1: was actually talking to Kelly Ann and she's like, she
Speaker 1: goes to me, this is the game, you know, like
Speaker 1: this is exactly what happens, and it can go really
Speaker 1: really quick and being tense, right, And from that point on,
Speaker 1: I sort of I was expecting that, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like if as soon as it comes to
Speaker 1: nominations to go in like I could, I could really
Speaker 1: feel as though the house is like walking on eggshells,
Speaker 1: you know, people sucking up bombs, and you know, just
Speaker 1: doing weird odd things like you get people walking the
Speaker 1: corridors and trying to listen in it said, I look
Speaker 1: looking at it now, I really really enjoyed it. It It
Speaker 1: was just funny to see because people go and do
Speaker 1: some weird shit, you know. Yeah, give us some of
Speaker 1: those weird examples that were happening. Um, So you'd always
Speaker 1: get someone like we were. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: I can explain into it, but when I was with
Speaker 1: Danny and Sarah and like Emily, we'd be talking game
Speaker 1: and you always get someone like where's where's we'd walk
Speaker 1: past up the corridor and then you'd get like Kas
Speaker 1: walking around and you know, Kelly and be snipping around
Speaker 1: right around the door entry like it's clear as day,
Speaker 1: you know, and then someone would be like, you know,
Speaker 1: you go out in the living room, for example, I'm
Speaker 1: we're going and living in clear as day in Jordan.
Speaker 1: We'll be sitting there with a few of the other
Speaker 1: people will be talking all of a sudden, be silent,
Speaker 1: and you just keep walking. You know. At one point
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, guys, what's seven up to it? You know?
Speaker 1: And I know they're talking about me, but Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like it's almost like high school, isn't it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a very unnatural environment like it, but it is
Speaker 1: so amazing at the same time. Oh ideas, it's like
Speaker 1: you're gonna try and separate, You're to try and separate,
Speaker 1: you know, the personal feelings with it being the game
Speaker 1: as well. A lot of people got really emotional and
Speaker 1: got felt like it was very personal. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: once you let that get that personal feeling, you've lost,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. How do you think you were able
Speaker 1: to stay grounded without taking things personally? Um? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: sort of one of those blokes I prefer you know,
Speaker 1: if someone comes said into my face, it would get
Speaker 1: sorted out then and there. Um that's how I like it.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't say I was very grounded most of
Speaker 1: the time because my name was thrown around heaps and
Speaker 1: it started to get under my skin. And you go
Speaker 1: and talk to someone and all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about so like I started to
Speaker 1: get a little bit annoyed. Um, but look, you can't
Speaker 1: really do too much. Is one of those things that
Speaker 1: like if someone's talk to you about they can and
Speaker 1: or you'd go and chat to someone That changed the
Speaker 1: whole conversation. So I don't know, it's yeah, it's pretty
Speaker 1: pretty hectic. Do you believe that you have a social game?
Speaker 1: Did you try to play a social game or were
Speaker 1: you just like, I'm just here to win some stuff
Speaker 1: like I don't have to talk to you all, I
Speaker 1: just want to play. Oh I m hundred percent. I
Speaker 1: was there to fucking win, Like I wanted to win,
Speaker 1: for sure, But the social game is so important, and
Speaker 1: I was trying to. I've had a feel around for
Speaker 1: the clicks and stuff, and I really got along with
Speaker 1: a few people, like Danny. He's such a legend, that bloke.
Speaker 1: I really like him. I got along with Sarah, who
Speaker 1: won the American One as well. Yeah. Um, and I
Speaker 1: feel as we could trust I had it. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I really like Ben until there was a situation. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if I explain that yet. No, we're gonna
Speaker 1: wa Yeah, I put that in our notes now to
Speaker 1: look for it. Yeah, anyhow, I liked Ben until that happened.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that another day, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: Your social game is very important for people who just
Speaker 1: play the game. I think you just go, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it is what it is, and this and that they're
Speaker 1: the ones just get booted pretty quick. You know. The
Speaker 1: Challenge is such a well known, legendary, iconic show. Right,
Speaker 1: So before you came over here to do the World Championship,
Speaker 1: how much research did you do, Like, like did you
Speaker 1: study the challengers or were you like if this person's here,
Speaker 1: I'm born for this person, Like how did that go? Well?
Speaker 1: You know, with another child on the way and anyone
Speaker 1: who obviously has children. I was very busy building, Like
Speaker 1: that's what career, being a builder, and I didn't really
Speaker 1: have much time went out to be a downtime. I'd
Speaker 1: watch a lot of like the highlights, so I had
Speaker 1: to gauge on a few people didn't look right into
Speaker 1: their backgrounds. But at the end of the day, right, ladies,
Speaker 1: the Challenge is such a such a good game because
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter your fitness stuff, it doesn't matter your
Speaker 1: mental level, like you, that's sort of part of it.
Speaker 1: It's so even and there's always equalizers, like you can
Speaker 1: put the best sprinter, like the theo as fast as shit, right,
Speaker 1: real quick, fella, you put the best sprint and we
Speaker 1: might have to do like a puzzle halfway up and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's stuck on the slowest person.
Speaker 1: Get to the puzzle, do the puzzle, and keep moving.
Speaker 1: You know, so regardless of who rocks up in this game,
Speaker 1: it's um the game can even out to anyone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, there's there's a lot of physical things,
Speaker 1: like you're horball so you've got to run over the
Speaker 1: top of people and like there's their balls in Like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of other physical things. But yeah, most
Speaker 1: things that it's just the game's amazingly is it's such
Speaker 1: a good game and I wish it really exploded in
Speaker 1: Australia because it's an unreal concept of a TV show,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, yeah, well I want to know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you won the first one with Zara. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like now you have a target on your back? Do
Speaker 1: you feel like people are going to come free you?
Speaker 1: I mean, because this episode ends with you know, we're
Speaker 1: at elimination, Kiki wins and now you guys have to pick.
Speaker 1: But then it goes to like a to be continued tulation,
Speaker 1: so we don't know what's going to happen. But do
Speaker 1: you feel like winning the first challenge is going to
Speaker 1: help you or hurt you. I think winning the first
Speaker 1: challenge is definitely going to hurt me because it gives
Speaker 1: especially the legends. It's just that little bit of insight
Speaker 1: to say, because the qualifier had all the aspects of
Speaker 1: the challenge. You know, I had everything it covered, all
Speaker 1: bases covered, and you know I straying away. I think
Speaker 1: I had a massive target on my back. I can
Speaker 1: sort of feel osburn in the back of my head,
Speaker 1: you know, So it's sort of like it's a bitter sweet.
Speaker 1: That's why, you know, winning the game, winning the challenges
Speaker 1: can really be like a double edged sword, so to speak. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then if you throw someone in all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're coming for it, and you know the nature of
Speaker 1: the game, you gotta put someone in. Yeah, but if
Speaker 1: you keep winning, Yeah, nice to be in power a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you said you felt eyes burning in the back of
Speaker 1: your head staring you down. Right, Which challengers do you
Speaker 1: think were the most intimidated by you? Oh? Shit, good question.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know. But I felt as though that um,
Speaker 1: that bananas fellow didn't like the lawnlight to bell may
Speaker 1: I sucked it to him, but um um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think most of the lives. They're all all want
Speaker 1: to be in the lawnmar So I'd say i'd pretty
Speaker 1: much all of them were wanting to win. They wanted
Speaker 1: to be the stallion that wanted to be. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: do you want it hard to understand by accent, No,
Speaker 1: I can understand. I can understand you. There are just
Speaker 1: words that it's just ankle biters. Just that took me out.
Speaker 1: And then that's that's took me out too, because I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, is we literally your call
Speaker 1: dry When you first came on and we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: waiting for Grant, he'll be here at some point, and
Speaker 1: you were like, yeah, these little ankle bites. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm looking at Dave Bon, I'm like, does
Speaker 1: he or is he talking about his kids? I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I don't know. Yes, But those of you,
Speaker 1: of you listening, we had no idea that there was
Speaker 1: a difference out here in America. Ankle biters for us,
Speaker 1: our dog, tiny dogs, little but form, they can't reach
Speaker 1: anywhere but the ankle right. For him, it means the children,
Speaker 1: the children just crawling around. Yeah, they're out there. My kids,
Speaker 1: especially my y little one, my little toddler night, Charlie.
Speaker 1: She comes at me whenever I can. She were always
Speaker 1: trying to grab the daddy side ankle bodies. How so
Speaker 1: proud of it's a few different terms. How proud of
Speaker 1: Kiki are you when she wins the elimination? How proud
Speaker 1: are you? Oh? Look, I was really proud of Kakey.
Speaker 1: I think I was really really impressed with kak and
Speaker 1: proud of it for that Paul Russell, Okay, he's gonna
Speaker 1: bom back. Yeah, and for her to go in there
Speaker 1: and give it a crack mate, that was that was
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. You know. I remember chat before she went
Speaker 1: in and I was like, you know, you can do it,
Speaker 1: You'll be right, and she was like, great, I can't
Speaker 1: I backs busted like this and that I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can do it, you know. And
Speaker 1: then she's had a bit of a rebb up, she's
Speaker 1: went and gave it all and she she blitzed it.
Speaker 1: So you know, all I was standing up there, We're
Speaker 1: all really proud of her because obviously it's a number
Speaker 1: in the game and it's someone to um, you know,
Speaker 1: and we know her personally. So no, I was really
Speaker 1: proud of her. You know what, you were very firm
Speaker 1: about not backing down from your vote. You were not
Speaker 1: backing down that budget. Were you prepared to go into
Speaker 1: elimination if possible? Yeah, like if I had to at
Speaker 1: that point of the game. You know, it was early days.
Speaker 1: Like I made it very clear. I said to Zaza
Speaker 1: and mate, she didn't want to budget as well. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm picking this, this is what it is.
Speaker 1: And then like, yeah, so I was not backing down
Speaker 1: in Zaza. I was not backing down either, well, locking
Speaker 1: horns flat out, like we just couldn't come to a deceit.
Speaker 1: And there was that TJNN there was a time breaker
Speaker 1: and then obviously kake you out to go in. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if I had to go into the elimination, I would
Speaker 1: have come in Australia. I went in there five tims, yeah,
Speaker 1: four or five tims. Yeah, Like I went pretty hot
Speaker 1: in there. And elimination sicks Damn they were after you welcome.
Speaker 1: I was getting smashed. You sort of got on a
Speaker 1: bols to the wall Diane when you're down there and
Speaker 1: make it everything. So for that elimination, the Paul Wrestle elimination,
Speaker 1: if you did have to go into the elimination because
Speaker 1: you love Davon, you messy friends, because you Zara couldn't
Speaker 1: come on an agreement, right, Yeah, who would you have
Speaker 1: wanted to compete against in the Paul Wrestle? Yes, oh,
Speaker 1: come on night easier, do you reckon? Yeah? I love
Speaker 1: how there was some big there. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: find out what that was there. There was some beef brewing.
Speaker 1: Oh like, there's nothing face to face, but I know
Speaker 1: he's gotten behind my back and teaching me up that
Speaker 1: that prick so so but um, yeah, look, the pol
Speaker 1: wrestle is a hard one like that would have been
Speaker 1: if anyone who's banging that wine like respect that. It's
Speaker 1: a ni ni eliminated too, you know. Yeah, Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'll give us a taste of what we can expect
Speaker 1: from the rest of the season from you without spoilers, though,
Speaker 1: tell us what we other Australians like, because you guys
Speaker 1: seem like a mighty for us to be reckon with,
Speaker 1: so tell us about it. Well, what what you guys
Speaker 1: can expect? Mate? It's crazy, Like, firstly, the challenges are unreal.
Speaker 1: The where that we've done all our challenge absolutely phenomenal. Like,
Speaker 1: it's just the way that they designed. The sets are crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, with a lot of locking horns, people blew
Speaker 1: in like everyone's arguing. There's lots of lots of drama
Speaker 1: and fights for sure. No one can agree to anything. Um,
Speaker 1: you think it would be a happy family, but we're not. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: not at all, definitely not. Like yeah, and then we'll
Speaker 1: imagine putting full of people from different countries altogether. Do
Speaker 1: you think we're all going to get along? Not for
Speaker 1: sh not for shit. It's crazy. So yeah, you just
Speaker 1: gotta wait and say it's gonna be I reckon one
Speaker 1: of the best challenges coming to Dake. Wow. Well until
Speaker 1: that happens, until we get to see what Sir Grant
Speaker 1: Crap has to offer us, we need to know, thank
Speaker 1: you one. We need to know what your socials are.
Speaker 1: Even though I just started following you, let me go
Speaker 1: and follow Grant. Yeah it may not get followed back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just follow me on my Instagram. That's really the thing
Speaker 1: I use. I don't I'm not that active as you
Speaker 1: can imagine. I'm pretty full on with like trying to
Speaker 1: be a family man and all that. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: post things here and there so we can find you
Speaker 1: on Instagram at grant on the School crap. I'm actually
Speaker 1: trying to say grant crap scenes so down I don't die. Yeah,
Speaker 1: grant on the school crapp And yeah, just give us
Speaker 1: a fallow. Um. Look, I'm excited to say how these
Speaker 1: challenge guys and for the rest of it's, um, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be good. Thank you all. Well, thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on here. I know you have a busy home
Speaker 1: life and it's really early over there, but I really
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Thank you for kicking off this season first.
Speaker 1: You are so excited to watch it. Yeah, I hype
Speaker 1: it was good. Yeah, you're great. You got plenty, plenty
Speaker 1: of content. Yeah. Yeah, No, I'm really excited about this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope. I hope everyone that comes on here from
Speaker 1: like the MVP section, like all the new kids, just
Speaker 1: just say because it really makes it so so wonderful.
Speaker 1: It just may be an honest thoughts. I think you
Speaker 1: should fall on that with most of you strines. I
Speaker 1: hype that I should just voice what I think because
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that's just what you think.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to be putting shit on
Speaker 1: and be fight you know what I mean. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I look forward to interviewing your whole squad. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna let you be back to your beautiful wife. I'm
Speaker 1: actually heading for Best Night's wedding tomorrow. I'm gonna get leave. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: enjoy that. Thank you very much. All Right, that was
Speaker 1: such a great interview with Sir Crap mister Grant. That
Speaker 1: was amazing. I'm so glad that he was able to
Speaker 1: take time out of his day and hanging out with Mead.
Speaker 1: Thank you for following me back, even the ankle biters.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Shout out to Grant. That was
Speaker 1: definitely fun. Speaking of Instagram, Davon work, if they follow
Speaker 1: you over there on Instagram, you can follow me at
Speaker 1: Davon Diane, or you can find me on Twitter at
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