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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Sam Well, after four years, three hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: six ninja runs and one hundred and six Grand Final attempts,

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Speaker 2: Australia's first Ninja Warrior was finally crowned on the edge

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Speaker 2: of our seats. Last night. Three made it to the

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Speaker 2: top of Mount Madoriama. The fastest man was Ben Poulsen.

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Speaker 2: Here's him winning it now, Madam, he's almost done.

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Speaker 3: Gets up through the hole, he's done to a basic

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Speaker 3: he hits it.

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Speaker 2: Four hundred thousand dollars is what Ben has won. And

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Speaker 2: he's taken time from his Bahama's retreat to join us

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Speaker 2: this morning. Hello Ben, but it.

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Speaker 4: Would be nice right now. That's good Mony, thanks for

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Speaker 4: having me.

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Speaker 3: Man, look at you. That is just extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, Ben, and I know that everyone trains for

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Speaker 1: this and now everyone knows what the game involves, but

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Speaker 1: how how do you actually find yourself being able to

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Speaker 1: win it?

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Speaker 2: Do you train? Have you got a Mountain Madori armor

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Speaker 2: at home?

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Speaker 1: What have you done?

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Speaker 4: It's funny you say that one of the person ninjas

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Speaker 4: actually literally does have a Mount Madori armor, the trading Ninja. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: I'm not that lucky to have that, So we just

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Speaker 4: make do with whatever we can. I mean, we have

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Speaker 4: one of the best gyms in the whole of Australia,

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Speaker 4: which is Ninja Academy, and so we'll just hang up

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Speaker 4: a rope there and just climb up and down it

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Speaker 4: for as long as we can until we're absolutely exhausted.

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Speaker 4: And that's I mean, you know, my biggest regret in

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Speaker 4: life would be to get to mount Madori Armor and

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Speaker 4: just think, oh, I should have trained a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: You know, the twenty meters of rope in twenty five seconds,

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Speaker 3: and that is an extraordinary height, Like twenty meters is

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Speaker 3: our We're in a four story building, that's twenty meters. Said, yeah,

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Speaker 3: so have you got to rope out our window right now?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 3: And you climb that in twenty five seconds. That's in

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Speaker 3: one second. You beat poor old Charlie by one second.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, it's While it's a great success for

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Speaker 4: me and it's happy days, it doesn't come without you know,

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Speaker 4: a bit of a sore spot as well. You know,

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Speaker 4: I just love Zach and Charlie so much. You know,

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Speaker 4: those guys are legends and maybors of just as much

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Speaker 4: love and attention as myself, so to win it it

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Speaker 4: is one thing, but it's a little bit bittersweet taking

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Speaker 4: it away from Charlie with only one second. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's good, but it's tough.

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Speaker 2: We could see in that final bit, you know, you

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Speaker 2: guys sort of punching your arms to try and get

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Speaker 2: the lactic acid moving around. Do we have any idea

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Speaker 2: of what it actually feels like to be on that course?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I think you know, a lot of the

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Speaker 4: people see the physical side of the course, that's very obvious,

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Speaker 4: but the hardest parts of me, and I think a

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Speaker 4: lot of the other ninjas is the mental side of it.

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Speaker 4: So you know, by the time we actually got to

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Speaker 4: Mount Macdoriama, it was about five thirty in the morning

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Speaker 4: and the sun was just about coming up, So you know,

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Speaker 4: to do stage two, then three, then a small break

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Speaker 4: and then have to try and accomplish thing. This thing

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Speaker 4: I was I was either going to have a panic

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Speaker 4: attack or accomplish my life goal. You know. It was honestly,

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Speaker 4: those two edges of the sword.

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Speaker 3: Do you think it was your Olivia, your partner Olivia

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Speaker 3: Vivian on the sideline using ben Kenobi advice to you.

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Speaker 4: Trust in your training. It worked, it did, It did

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Speaker 4: work it very much, did you know? I'm super super

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Speaker 4: grateful to have her on the sideline. I mean, she

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Speaker 4: had a phenomenal season herself, and while it was extremely

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Speaker 4: setting to see her fall on stage two, I know

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Speaker 4: she could have made it to Mata majory Ama with me.

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Speaker 4: It was still really nice to have her there and

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Speaker 4: cheering me on. I I don't think I could have

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Speaker 4: done it without her.

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Speaker 2: Very interesting from the outside looking at a relationship between

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Speaker 2: two ninjas. Do you ever go out and have pizza

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Speaker 2: or and a bottle of red or are you always training?

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Speaker 4: It's funny, I don't know. We were very much last night.

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Speaker 4: You know, Olivia had a big snuggie on and we

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Speaker 4: were there having red wine and ninja chocolate cake. So

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Speaker 4: don't we were just like everyone.

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Speaker 3: Else, right, So when the Biggest Loser comes back, you'll be.

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Speaker 4: On that.

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Speaker 3: For the next Well, congratulations to you, Ben. That is extraordinary,

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Speaker 3: our first Ninja wor and that that's going to be

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Speaker 3: worth something surely.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, thank you so much, guys. I really do

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Speaker 4: appreciate it. It's been it's been quite a journey.

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Speaker 2: It's good to be here, Thank you, congratulations, Join the

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Speaker 2: and Amanda in the morning one at one point seven,

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Speaker 2: Tell you