1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jones and Amanda. 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 2: Oh, some of it I find I'm hard to watch. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 2: I'm talking about Sas Australia. It is the most brutal 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 2: physical and psychological test that I think a celebrity could 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 2: put themselves through. This is taking reality shows to a 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 2: whole new level. Isn't it beating each other up, jumping 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 2: out of helicopters, drownproofing yourself. That's just the logis. Merrik 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: Watts has been flying through this course. But we saw 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 2: a vulnerable side to you that we could all relate 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 2: to last night. 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 3: Hello Merrick, how it's great to be Thanks for having 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 3: me in the studio. 13 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 4: This is I don't think we've had you on the 14 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 4: radio since since you were with Tim doing the radio 15 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 4: show a few years ago. When you left what was 16 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 4: that two thousand and nine, When you guys, when you 17 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 4: go to stop. 18 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 3: Broke up, we can call the word the break. 19 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: It's a breaker that would it was at two thousand 20 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: and ten? I think it was two and nine. No, 21 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: you're right nine. Well you know my career bitter than 22 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: I do. 23 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 3: Well done, well. 24 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 2: You said last night, And as I said, we saw 25 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 2: this vulnerable side to you where you said that you'd 26 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 2: had this huge success and then vulnerability crept in and 27 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: a bit of depression too. 28 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened is for me, it was like so 29 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 1: much of my personalities based around personal confidence and personal 30 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 1: self Everyone has got a self image of themselves, right, 31 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: so and we. 32 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 3: Default to that. 33 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: And what had happened with me Probably when I left radio, 34 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: I was fine. I was loving being out of radio 35 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: twenty years NonStop. I needed to have a pin put 36 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: in that grenade and just walk away from it for 37 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: a while. And for the first couple of years I 38 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: was loving it. And then there was a moment last 39 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: year where you know, I was about to do some 40 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: really good work and it fell through, as is the 41 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: nature of show business, and it started to just kind 42 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: of chip away, and I felt myself coming down incrementally, 43 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: just feeling a little less inspired each day, a little 44 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: less motivated each day, sleeping in a little later. And 45 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: I went, hang on a second, I know I've got 46 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: a good enough awareness about self awareness that I can 47 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: see how this would go right down. This is how 48 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: people would fall down. And I went, I'm not going 49 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: to do that. I'll take things into my own hands. 50 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: So I went and saw a GP. I saw a psychologist, 51 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: I spoke to them openly about it. 52 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 3: I went and. 53 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: Did meditation course. I was looking for things that would 54 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: reinstill It's not about mental health as much. For me, 55 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: it was about mental strength and mental fitness. I believe 56 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: massively in mental fitness, and because the brain is a muscle, 57 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: so you just got to train and so I did meditation, 58 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: I did some other things, and then last year I 59 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: made I was aware of this show of the Essays Australian. 60 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 3: I went, that'll be for me. 61 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 4: I'll do that and you actively sort this out. I 62 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 4: get the feeling A lot of people say, for Asderani 63 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 4: on the show, he had no idea what he. 64 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 3: Was getting on. 65 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: I don't think he'd seen the show, like legitimately, I 66 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: don't think it's in the show. Whereas I watched every 67 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: perisode and you'd actually done training. You're walking around Sydney 68 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 1: with a giant backpack on your back, around your bay 69 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: run and. 70 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 3: All your toes fell, your toenails. 71 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: Four toenails on one day. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty brutal. 72 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: I did six hours with forty kilograms in my back, 73 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: so that was thirty one kilometers NonStop and only with water, 74 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: no food, and it was that's what you do. You 75 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: punish yourself so that when you go on the ASO 76 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: you just get. 77 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 3: This is not that bad. 78 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: But you said it's a meant you needed to be 79 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 2: mentally fit. A bit on the show they yell at 80 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: you saying, you know, for example, you're holding a rock 81 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 2: above your head. They're saying, come on, it's mental. It's 82 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: a mental task. Lift it higher. It's for me. I 83 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 2: physically don't have the arm strength. How can that be 84 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 2: a mental task. 85 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: There's always twenty percent more. Whatever you think you've got, 86 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: you will have more in the tank. It's about getting 87 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: your What happens is it? And I discovered this from 88 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: doing SAS Australia. Before I didn't really understand the concept 89 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: of it. 90 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 3: I just thought it was about just going, you know, 91 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 3: just push harder, push hard. It's not. 92 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: It's actually about switching the way your brain works. So 93 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: what happens is when you're under massive physical dress, your 94 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: body goes into a survival mode. It says, it says 95 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: to the brain, this is too much. 96 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 3: We don't want this. This is bad for your health. 97 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 3: You need to stop. 98 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: So it's actually your body telling your mind to stop 99 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: doing that as a way to preserve yourself. So then 100 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: what you have to do is have the dexterity of 101 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: your mind to say from a conscious decision from your 102 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: brain brain to your body, Sorry, shut up and hold 103 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: that rock longer. So you know, there's times there was 104 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: a seven minute plank that we all had to hold. 105 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: I didn't didn't flinch the rock. I didn't flinch in 106 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: the water. I don't flinch. It's because I trained my 107 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: brain that way. 108 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 3: How good are you? Look at you begging yourself up? 109 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,039 Speaker 3: But do we And it was just from training. It's 110 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 3: just training. Anyone can do it. 111 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: I wouldn't suggest that put the rocks in the garden. 112 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 4: I watched Rambo and I'm pretty well trained. You know, 113 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 4: because I've watched Rambo. 114 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 3: I can tell because you're wearing a bandanna. He can't. 115 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 3: I can't speak with any elocution. Anyone take you. 116 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 4: But on the show with Faraz Darani, there's a bit 117 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 4: where you had to fire up and get stuck into 118 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 4: him because he was wrecking for all of you guys, 119 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 4: you have to keep getting dunked in the cold water. 120 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, look, the thing is what the reason why I 121 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: got upset? About that, and I stand by what I said, 122 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: and for Us knows this, and for Us sent me 123 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: a text message yesterday, and I see anyone this morning 124 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: about catching up. But the reason why is because when 125 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: something goes wrong on that course, if we get beasted, 126 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: you know, where they make us do some sort of 127 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: brutal physical exercise. It can go for hours, and we 128 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: saw it very early with Chappelle and even with Roxy. 129 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: A beasting can be enough to just drop somebody out. 130 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: It can be and it will break people. And that's 131 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: what it's designed to do. It's designed to get you. 132 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 1: When the group is weak and tired and exhausted, one 133 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: more level will snap people. So if we're in a 134 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: position where we've already had a tough day and somebody, 135 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: like for us, gobs off at the DS and then 136 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: we all copper beasting, we're all looking at each other, 137 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: going somebody will go here. Somebody's time is going to 138 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: be cut short, not because they weren't capable on the 139 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: course going to do it, because the PT exercise is 140 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: so brutal that they are not going to recover physically 141 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: and mentally in time for the next task. 142 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: Do you think, as a viewer, we have any sense 143 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 2: of actually how cold it is freezing? 144 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: Did you see what nipples? A lot of tiny diamonds. 145 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: I don't cut glass. I understand that Ali Ochin's nipples 146 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: have got their own show. 147 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 3: Now they've got their own postcode. It. 148 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 4: It's a treat to talk to you and it was 149 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 4: great to see you on the Telly Sas Australia is 150 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 4: back tonight, seven thirty on seven. 151 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: You stay in tonight. You know tonight it's a big 152 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: an not VW tonight. Tonight's Tonight's the intervention too. There's lots. 153 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: It's a really physical, physically demanding task tonight. But this 154 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: is where we sit down with for us and we 155 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 1: address the issue amongst the group. And it was not orchestrated. 156 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: It was not part of the I think the producers 157 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: would have been watching, going is this really happening? And 158 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: the DS would have been watching, going this better not 159 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:50,239 Speaker 1: be happening. 160 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 3: But we did. We had to. I did. 161 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: I was elected to go and speak to the DS 162 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 1: about the FRAS situation. So that's that's going to be, 163 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: you know, a piece of drama that has never been seen. 164 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 3: I don't think on any of the other essays. 165 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 2: Show to chop him up and eat him. 166 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 3: We did discuss that it was I didn't get a 167 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 3: bit Lord of the Fliers. At times you don't want 168 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 3: to be on LD. What's that latrine? 169 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 2: You know, the human but no. 170 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 3: The latrines. I don't miss that. 171 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: That's for another sixty seconds, Meric, thank you, pleasure, thanks 172 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: for having 173 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 4: Me with join Z and Amanda.