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Speaker 1: The show was quite the institution back in the day

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Speaker 1: on Saturday Night with Mike Whitney. Now it's back or

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Speaker 1: new new new hosts, new Gladiators, and one of them

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Speaker 1: is Viking.

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Speaker 2: He's joining us now, Jack Kenny, good.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Good morning guys.

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Speaker 2: How are you well? We're fine, but how are you?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, look look I've been better, but I can't

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Speaker 3: really complain, can I? My shoulders still attached my health,

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Speaker 3: So yeah, look it was it was a bit of

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Speaker 3: a hit. I took into my gladiator's debut, you know,

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Speaker 3: big scary Viking come down fifty seconds into power Ball,

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Speaker 3: he hurts himself. Did really well for myself.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you got the green whistle.

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Speaker 3: Yearly a little bit though, but.

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Speaker 1: When you couldn't Dad, I mean, what's the point now

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Speaker 1: you are Viking on the show?

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Speaker 2: Did you get to pick your own name? How does

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Speaker 2: that work?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Look, so that we had a bit of a bit

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Speaker 3: of push with what we wanted to be called. But look,

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Speaker 3: I opted for like sloth or shadow because I spend

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Speaker 3: a lot of my time gaming, and inside I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: kind them all my vibe. But then uh yeah, found

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Speaker 3: out I had Viking and I was like, oh, that's perfect.

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Speaker 3: So very happy with the character that I got to play.

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Speaker 3: And I mean Vikings typically just sort of grunt and

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Speaker 3: the moment stuff, and that's not most of my personality.

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Speaker 3: But it was fun just going out there and people

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Speaker 3: talking to.

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Speaker 2: Shadow would have been cool.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure Sloth makes a good you never know.

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Speaker 3: It's very unsuspecting. I was just laying around.

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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, dam actually should have gone

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Speaker 1: with gamer, very modern day gladiator Gamer.

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Speaker 4: What about some of the other things you've done, Like

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Speaker 4: I said australiaha is just compare because that's pretty physical too,

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Speaker 4: isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was, And look, this is this is a

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Speaker 3: different level because I mean I haven't tackled anyone since

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Speaker 3: two thousand and five when I was playing school sport,

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Speaker 3: So going into that, I was like, oh, this is

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Speaker 3: sort of bit out of my depth. I'm just a

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Speaker 3: surf lifesaver from the Sunshine Coast and yeah, look open

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Speaker 3: to a new challenge. And it was fun going out

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Speaker 3: the first time sort of tackling people again. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 3: this is this is exciting and hard, but yeah, then

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Speaker 3: hurt myself, but yeah, the bullet came back three days later.

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Speaker 3: And did what I could there, And yeah, it's just

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Speaker 3: a great show. It's very physical. We all had to

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Speaker 3: get tested and put through the ring and to even

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Speaker 3: be able to become gladiators, and the contenders have to

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Speaker 3: go through testing as well, so they're not people just

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Speaker 3: coming off the streets. They actually have to be sort

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Speaker 3: of well ready for the kind of events that they

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Speaker 3: go through.

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Speaker 1: So that audition process was quite the rigorous exercise I imagine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so there was about seventy five eighty people who

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Speaker 3: sort of applied to be gladiators, and then we had

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Speaker 3: to go through all the testing and then in the

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Speaker 3: end there was only twelve of us pick. So pretty

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Speaker 3: happy to be one of the one of the ones

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Speaker 3: who was picked in the end. And yeah, looking forward

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Speaker 3: to another big season next year this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, about the outfits, Jet, do you have any saying

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Speaker 4: those matter? Is it just all taken care of?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't get too much saying that, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think some of the outfits, the white and gold

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Speaker 3: and the black and gold on a few of them,

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Speaker 3: Like you look at Maximus in the white and goal

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Speaker 3: and you look at Raven in the black and gold.

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Speaker 3: There the contrast is really cool. There. So the costumes

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Speaker 3: of the outfits, they're very different to the originals, as

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Speaker 3: you know, but they're trying to trying to be in

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Speaker 3: line with the character sort of perspectives. And yeah, I

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Speaker 3: don't know sort of what things are going to come,

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Speaker 3: but it's very exciting that it's even back to begin with.

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Speaker 1: You were born to the King and Queen of fit,

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Speaker 1: I means.

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Speaker 2: The great grand Kitty's son. Is there an assumption?

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Speaker 1: Do you find there's always an assumption upon you that

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to get through things other people can't potentially?

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Speaker 3: I mean I like to be fit and healthy myself.

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Speaker 3: I mean my diet doesn't mean anything because I eat

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Speaker 3: quite poorly, but that sort of comes with the fact

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Speaker 3: that I do a lot of training and it's all

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Speaker 3: in moderation. But I do like to just be fitting

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Speaker 3: healthy anyway. So I do like to approach most things

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Speaker 3: as a new challenge and see what I can do.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, you can't. You can't be the best

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Speaker 3: at everything, And yeah, you just give it a give

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Speaker 3: it a red hot crack.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you realize it's dangerous saying that jet that you

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Speaker 4: say you eat unhealthily and you look.

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Speaker 3: At you look but that's that's why I run it

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Speaker 3: back with all in moderation. Yeah, of course, it's like

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Speaker 3: a gentle disclaimer at the end.

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Speaker 1: Now, there is one big difference about this show to

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Speaker 1: the original. There's no live audience this time around. Is

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Speaker 1: there a reason for that?

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Speaker 2: Do you know? Jet?

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Speaker 3: Well, there was there was actually a live audience. So

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Speaker 3: there's friends and family of the contenders who are there,

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Speaker 3: so there's not a there's not a massive live audience

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Speaker 3: used to be. Yeah, I mean, who knows. Next year

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Speaker 3: it might be a little different in that sense where

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Speaker 3: it's it's brought around to different towns and goes back

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Speaker 3: a bit old school. But the live audience obviously adds

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Speaker 3: to the atmosphere that's hidden in the arena itself, cheering

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Speaker 3: and all of that. So yeah, look, it's different not

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Speaker 3: having people there cheering, but you've got all your gladiators, yes,

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Speaker 3: sort of standing beside you and behind you. You can

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Speaker 3: hear them cheering over the walls and all that. Every

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Speaker 3: time someone doesn't hear that, oh from the other side

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Speaker 3: of the other side of your arena, So it is.

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Speaker 3: It is a little different. But I will say with

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Speaker 3: the quarterfinals starting tonight, we've got the introduction of a

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Speaker 3: new Gladiator Dragon, so that's very exciting. New new events

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Speaker 3: are on tonight as well for the quarterfinals, and obviously

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Speaker 3: this stage of the game or of Gladiators, everyone has

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Speaker 3: qualified through the heats and now things are starting to

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Speaker 3: get serious. People starting to see the finish line basically

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Speaker 3: to become a winner. So things are going to really

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Speaker 3: heat up in the next couple of hour.

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Speaker 4: So it's okay, now you're talking and you've got to

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Speaker 4: look after that cholder, mate. Do you want to be

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Speaker 4: ready to go for season two?

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Speaker 3: Yes? I know, I know, but you know what, I

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Speaker 3: can't really complain it works all right.

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Speaker 1: Well, as you said, quarter finals kickoff tonight, seven thirty

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Speaker 1: tonight on ten.

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Speaker 2: Gladiators, Jack Kenny, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me be careful. Well,

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Speaker 3: I'll leave it out with a grunt. He's not a

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Speaker 3: grunty kind of guy, is he.

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Speaker 2: I can't know.

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Speaker 4: He's very sweet. It's yeah, grueling, yeah, absolutely grueling, grooling

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Speaker 4: on the body and very very highly competitive beasts to

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Speaker 4: go and head to head in regular contests. Yeah, what

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Speaker 4: I saw last week was absolutely brutal