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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Imagine being stripped of modern possessions of comfort, contact with

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Speaker 2: other people and dropped in the remote worlds of western Tasmania,

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Speaker 2: completely isolated from the world. Our next guest is one

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Speaker 2: of the brave or crazy people who are doing this

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Speaker 2: on a new series Alone. Australia Alone is an extraordinary series,

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Speaker 2: and I've watched them filming various ones overseas. The things

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Speaker 2: that these people go through are extraordinary. Now, this contestant

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Speaker 2: is a wildlife biologist with a military career with the

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Speaker 2: Australian Navy. She got a PhD, which has made her

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Speaker 2: doctor Kate Kate.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Gety, how are you great?

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Speaker 3: I like saying doctor Kate, though, Kate, this.

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Speaker 2: Is an extraordinary series, Kate, because it's not like Bear Grylls.

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Speaker 2: Everyone makes jokes that he's climbing a mountain but the

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Speaker 2: camera crew had to climb above him and Urine Well

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Speaker 2: and everyone else's because you're your own camera crew, you

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Speaker 2: set up your own cameras and you are actually alone,

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Speaker 2: aren't you.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely Yeah, it's a pretty crazy series.

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Speaker 2: The ones I've seen overseas. A lot of the people

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Speaker 2: who do well in this are people that a little

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Speaker 2: bit crazy that live off the grid. You don't seem

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Speaker 2: to be that kind of person.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you've got to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: crazy to do something like this. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: guess maybe I'm hopefully people can see me and you know,

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Speaker 1: see a little bit of themselves in that and think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe I could do that.

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Speaker 2: Well, the ones I've seen, there's a woman in the

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Speaker 2: episode I saw that well. I think she was in

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Speaker 2: northern Canada and it was frozen and everyone's trying to

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Speaker 2: catch squirrels and rabbits and tiny bits of lichen to eat.

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Speaker 2: She found a porcupine or a wolverine, cut it open,

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Speaker 2: and half of its innards were poisoned, and she was

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Speaker 2: at desperate states had to work out which of the

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Speaker 2: poisoned things she could risk eating. What kinds of people

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Speaker 2: who have to cut holes in the snow and the

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Speaker 2: ice to fish? What were the hardships that you had

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Speaker 2: in Tasmania.

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Speaker 1: Look, you know, the name of the series gives it

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Speaker 1: away alone where pack animals and you know, there's only

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Speaker 1: so long you can see out there on your own.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're you have a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: And I found that very hard. I knew it, always

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Speaker 1: knew it was going to be hard. It's incredible. But

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Speaker 1: also I'd say that, like you know, when in our

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Speaker 1: lives we get that moment to step outside of it.

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Speaker 1: It's turn off the phone notification, stop going to work

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Speaker 1: and sit there and ponder your life and and income

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Speaker 1: and I'm living the way I want to live my life,

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Speaker 1: and that that is incredibly powerful.

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Speaker 3: I think it'd be amazing where you've set up, you're

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Speaker 3: by yourself, and you've got to set up all the

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Speaker 3: cameras around you and then just film yourself doing stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And also the stuff you have to film yourself doing

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Speaker 2: is killing killing animals to eat them. I mean, what

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Speaker 2: did you eat?

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's a really good question. And I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, I guess super strategy is different. I'm certainly aliphiologists,

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Speaker 1: and I think going into this, I said to myself,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be in a rush to kill

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Speaker 1: our native animalism. So that certainly made my strategy, I

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Speaker 1: guess a little bit more difficult. But yeah, yeah, looks,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously they had to be careful. We've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of beautiful threatened specters in Australia to make

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Speaker 1: sure we were, you know, doing any damage the environment,

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Speaker 1: so there certainly were restrictions. So I think this series

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Speaker 1: will actually be a very difficult series, even though there's

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Speaker 1: no polar bears and round bears coming to Edith in

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Speaker 1: the night. Simply food procurement is quite difficult in the

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Speaker 1: western Tasmania.

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Speaker 3: Imagine if you came across a Thila scene and they're extinct,

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Speaker 3: and then you were starving to death. You were so hungry, Kate,

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Speaker 3: and then this Thila scene came along and it was

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Speaker 3: looking a little bit weak, and you that, you know

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Speaker 3: what I could It's turning to a giant steak, and

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Speaker 3: you think, and I could eat that.

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Speaker 2: No one's going to know, and you know you're in

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Speaker 2: the free up the road.

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Speaker 1: The discovery of a Thila scene would be enough of

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Speaker 1: like to know shame and fortune, I think to Warrant

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Speaker 1: not seating him.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're going to give us great entertainment seven point

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Speaker 3: thirty to night on SBS and SBS on demand. I

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Speaker 3: spent some time in the Tasmanian wilderness of Cradle Mountain.

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Speaker 3: But they've got a great track and you just walk

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Speaker 3: around the track. It's really easy. So you should have

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Speaker 3: looked for that, Kate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah to Sala markets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, go to Salamca Markets and buy one of those

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Speaker 3: little doily things. They're always good. Doctor Kate, thank you

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Speaker 3: for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,