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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation's guest is a friend of ours

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Speaker 1: who we know is one of the fabulous faces of

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Speaker 1: Channel nine. Sometimes she feels in on Aca taking down

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Speaker 1: the young ultrasound ogre, but now she's going to be

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Speaker 1: watching all the ninja's backflip over the swimming pool on

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Speaker 1: Australia Ninja Warrior. She's one of the new hosts of

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Speaker 1: the show and she joins us now Layla McKinnon.

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Speaker 2: Halla, good morning.

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Speaker 1: How did you pull up after the Logis I called

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Speaker 1: a cold which at least it's not COVID? How did

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Speaker 1: you go?

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Speaker 2: I came home to a house full of chest infections,

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Speaker 2: gastro and nts. I don't know how to get my

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Speaker 2: fingernails or my hair off, so I'm thinking of going

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Speaker 2: down to Bunnings to get some solvent thing that I

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Speaker 2: so I can because they put all this fake hair

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Speaker 2: in it.

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Speaker 1: See everyone puts all that stuff in and then you

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Speaker 1: don't think about at the end of the night. I've

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Speaker 1: had tiny buttons down the back of dresses. I've had

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Speaker 1: that like what's those stick on pad you put under

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Speaker 1: your bosoms to push them up so don't have to

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Speaker 1: wear a brass ripped my own skin off at the

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Speaker 1: end of the night, trying to get them off. So

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen with your hair?

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Speaker 2: Well, I actually I'm going I think I might have

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Speaker 2: to consult a professional because last time I did go

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Speaker 2: to Bummings and I asked them in the aisle there,

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Speaker 2: what have you got to dissolve blue? So then I

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Speaker 2: took it home and put it all through my hair

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Speaker 2: and it went in my eyes and they were burning,

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Speaker 2: and then I suddenly figure I can't see, and then

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Speaker 2: I thought my hair might come No.

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Speaker 3: You know, my favorite story about my favorite story about

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Speaker 3: you is your husband Dave. When he's car he's got it.

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Speaker 3: He's like me, I've got an old toy at the

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Speaker 3: land Cruiser, which my wife and family, my daughter, they

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Speaker 3: all hate it. And Dave was one of the last

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Speaker 3: people that had an old toy at a land Cruiser

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Speaker 3: and it caught fire in your driveway and you set

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Speaker 3: him a picture saying your car's on fire, and that

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Speaker 3: was it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I tried to call him, but he was at

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Speaker 2: the cricket and he didn't answer. So I took a

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Speaker 2: picture of the flames shooting out everywhere, and just and

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Speaker 2: I put your cars on fire?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, funny, so did he because there was one hundred

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Speaker 3: series land Cruiser, which which is great, and I've got

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Speaker 3: an eighty series one as you managed to replace it

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Speaker 3: with another one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, eventually it was. It was twenty years old, I think,

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Speaker 2: and it looked like one of those you know you

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Speaker 2: see on the news on the roadside and a rack.

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Speaker 2: They tried to investigate, but there was nothing left of it,

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Speaker 2: and there's still a creator in the driveway where they.

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Speaker 3: Down, so good away from that Ninja Warrior, you hosting this.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have expected you would be a host of

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Speaker 3: a show like this.

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Speaker 2: No me. I didn't know that. And you know, i'd

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Speaker 2: kind of heard whispers, you know, they kind of keep

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Speaker 2: your hanging, Oh we're considering you for a show, And

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Speaker 2: there was a few factual shows coming up which I

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Speaker 2: just thought would probably be the ones. And then that

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Speaker 2: they came at me with Ninja, and yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 2: expect it, and you know, I might not have done

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Speaker 2: it a few years ago when I took myself too seriously.

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Speaker 2: But I just straight away thought, oh, the kids will

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Speaker 2: love it. You know, we've all had enough doom and gloom.

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Speaker 2: This is fun and I have not looked back. It

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Speaker 2: is the foremost most fun, most young and energetic and

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Speaker 2: supportive community. I've enjoyed being part of the whole scene,

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Speaker 2: and I'm in the show is amazing. I can't wait

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Speaker 2: to watch it with the kids.

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Speaker 3: In your role.

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Speaker 1: I know you're not doing the physical tricks, but you've

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Speaker 1: got to stand up and all of that. I know

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Speaker 1: you had a bad injury on your leg.

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Speaker 2: At each after standing up, He's hard, alor I.

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Speaker 1: Get standing up is very hard. How did you go

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Speaker 1: with your knee injury over Easter? That looks really severe?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, Well, we were lucky in that we had

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Speaker 2: filmed all of the races or the heats and the

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Speaker 2: final and everything. And then you know, we've all had

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Speaker 2: a time, haven't we, and that you know, we had

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Speaker 2: the flood up here as a community that was really difficult,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I had a lot of you know,

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Speaker 2: personal tragedies going on. So we thought, let's just spend

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Speaker 2: the kid's inheritance on the best holiday ever and run

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Speaker 2: away and then worry about everything else later. And the

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Speaker 2: first day we went skiing and I landed straight on

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Speaker 2: my leg and my thigh bone hammered through my knee

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Speaker 2: and punched down the top of my tibier and actually

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Speaker 2: knocked the bone down, so I had to have a

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Speaker 2: bone graft and a plate and everything.

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Speaker 1: So that was the dream holiday, no out out And

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Speaker 1: they're big recoveries, aren't they. Everything?

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Speaker 2: Okay now, yeah, well, you know I've been naughty. I've

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Speaker 2: been more concerned about wearing a fabulous and getting hair

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Speaker 2: extensions and I've left my poor leg to sort of

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Speaker 2: fend for itself.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm getting to did did you leave it

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Speaker 3: back in your room? Behind?

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Speaker 2: You will be doing all these things. Yeah, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: I actually I kind of felt a little bit ninja worthy.

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Speaker 2: They're always getting injuries like that, that's true. There you go.

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Speaker 3: Well, we look forward to watching you on Australian Ninja

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Speaker 3: Warrior A Season six premiers next Monday at seven thirty

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Speaker 3: on Channel nine and nine. Now, I would love to

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Speaker 3: see you chasing someone like the ultrasound ogre or the

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Speaker 3: serial pervert pasta through the course. That would be that's

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Speaker 3: a show.

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Speaker 2: What about the monk that shopped at Sexyland, the Sexy.

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Speaker 3: Sexy Land monk favorite, that's the trifectay.

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Speaker 1: Just put those through their paces on the Ninja Circuit

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Speaker 1: you're what we want. Well.

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Speaker 3: I hope the family all gets better. Laila, it's always

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Speaker 3: great to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: I love your ideas, talk to you anytime.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Leila, your in development