WEBVTT - David Genat - RUSH - TV Persoanlity 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:03.520 TV Reload the podcast. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:04.040 Pat deep that line. 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.600 Welcome back, guys to TV Reload. As you may know, 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.240 my name is Benjamin Norris and this is your podcast 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.680 to get all the insight goss of the popular TV 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.960 shows you may be watching from around the world. Undeniably, 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.680 our TV sets are a major part of our home entertainment, 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.279 and yet very little is known about how our favorite 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.560 shows get made. So each episode I've been finding guests 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.479 the wann to dive just that little bit deeper to 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:27.920 the shows they're currently making, so that you can hear 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.800 all the exclusive stories and gain access to some of 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.519 the biggest names in Australian television. I want to thank 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.080 you for downloading, all subscribing to this podcast however you 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.640 found it. I love hearing your feedback, so make sure 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.760 you leave a review or a comment on your chosen 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.440 podcast platform. On today's podcast, I have reality TV Golden 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.440 God slash modeling superstar David Jennet ready to talk about 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.640 his hosting duties on Channel nine's new series Rush. David 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.440 has certainly become a familiar face on television from his 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.680 appearances on Australian Survivor and Celebrity Apprentice, amongst a few 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.160 other things. He also has a large resume of international modeling. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.840 After appearing on Austrainan Survivor, though twice taking home the 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.880 winner's title and five hundred thousand, he has gone down 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.760 as one of the greatest most popular players in Australian 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.400 Survivor history. However, David is here today to unpack the 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.720 first week of Rush, which is an electrifying new adventure 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:24.000 series where twelve contestants traveling teams through nine incredible countries, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.839 placed in the middle of festivals with no idea where 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.600 they are, they must work out where they are and 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.399 find their way to the finish line. I will find 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.720 out how this job came about and I vander mool 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.160 Schine had earmarked him for our hosting job. We will 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.560 unpack his hosting style and who he was influenced by, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.600 and what he thinks of the team so far. David 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.039 will explain why he didn't watch the last series of 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.400 Australian Survivor, if he would ever return to being a 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.080 contestant now that he's been a host, and what he 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:57.080 thinks of his alumni George taking on Amazing Race plus 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.440 we will get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.200 of Rush, which will continue this week on Channel nine. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.120 And if you've fallen just that little bit behind, you 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.080 can catch up on nine. Now. Anyway, let's bring David 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.919 into the podcast. It's kind of like a carpool karaoke 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.680 interview as he is driving around the streets of Perth. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.880 But I hope you enjoy this episode of TV reload. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.079 Hey David, it's Ben. How are you hi, Ben? 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:18.560 How you doing? 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:19.160 I'm good. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.040 There was that fun little lapse where we kind of 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:22.560 wonder whether we're being connected or not. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.680 And it happened to me recently with Ali Langdon and 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.480 I was just chatting away to thinking I was talking 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.640 to the publicist. I was like oh, and then eventually 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.600 I was like, what the fuck, I've been talking to 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.480 Ali Langton's like five minutes about garbage. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.560 I got into one with Gold Coast Radio the other 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.760 day with the Lady cap On and I was like, yeah, 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.280 She's like, okay, I'll just think you through the heavy 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.680 and Sally in like two minutes. I was sorry. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.320 And also the weirdest thing about doing those regional radio 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.680 ones is you do the live cross and then Once 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.440 the interview's over, they don't really say anything. They just 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.480 hang up on you, and you're like, I gave you 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:04.480 got content my friends weird land, I. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.639 Know, exactly so funny you get that kind of like 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.240 a little bit of static on the line. I guess 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:10.640 went up. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.480 Yeah, no, no, I don't even get Sometimes it's total science. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.160 So I think I'm waiting for a producer to come 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.840 back on and say thanks Ben, that was good, and 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.799 then all of it. After five minutes the phone goes dead. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.760 Just wander out onto my belt and put my hands 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.400 in my head and cry. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.120 That is hilarious. That is actually really funny. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.239 Anyway, I have to say thank you so much for 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.480 chatting with me. I want to ask you straight away, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:35.040 where are you? 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.480 Where are you right now? I'm in per finishing up 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.080 a bit of voice over work that it go and 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.160 doing all that fun stuff and spending some time with 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.520 family and watching it back, and yeah, it's been really good. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.880 I just always think of you as like a global 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.560 citizen of the world. I just, for some reason just 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.480 think of you as a secret agent. That could be 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.440 like completing a mission in Peru. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.720 I don't know, You're unlucky. Some defeated fantasies here. What's 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:03.680 going on with you on that? Oh? That was been 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.640 an interesting one because I lived in New York for 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.240 so long. But we've actually just sold our house so 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.360 we're signing a contact, got it this week and we're 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.640 fully we'll be back in Australia full time. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.320 So does that mean all happen reality TV out of 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:15.920 you over here? 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.279 I mean I really hope so, man. I like, I've 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:23.000 really enjoyed hosting like I was. It was something I 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.640 wanted to do and then actually getting to experience here 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.600 and doing it on the big stages. I mean, I 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:31.000 loved it. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:31.200 Man. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.120 I can't get enough. So it makes me nervous because 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.080 you know when you want something too much Now, then 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.360 you're like, oh, it's like that little puppy. You're giving 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:39.120 too many hugs too. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.320 You'll end up with your own podcast talking to contestants. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.719 I really like doing that. I love the podcast. But yeah, 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.440 it's been great, man, it's been really good. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.240 I want to see you do something where I get 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.840 to know you a little bit more and I feel 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.760 like I want to know more about you. Like even 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.320 on Celebrity Apprentice, you still seem like a bit of 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:56.159 an enigma to me. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.040 Yeah, I guess, I guess for the those like so 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.080 I was, I was an actor. I'm am an actor. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:03.960 I actually I was acting in the States for a 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.960 couple of years before Survivor and Apprentice came around, and 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.680 and I guess, like for those shows, I kind of 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.200 looked at it as as character work, like you know 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.240 what I mean, Like I just had Especially Survivor, I 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.239 looked at who the big characters were, and I wanted 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:22.880 to be a villain, and I developed like in my 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.800 head it's kind of that Golden God character that I 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.600 wanted to. I wanted to I wanted to play. And 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.640 then for Apprentice, like I was there for a very 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.920 specific reason, so that was even more fun, you know, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.840 there to like roll stuff up. And I feel like, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.960 I guess I've been playing those roles and then now 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.600 I'm hosting, I'm playing even more of a role. But 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.279 maybe I need like some kind of Kardashian style, But 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:45.559 it would probably be super boring. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.200 I could put it on Mutue. It would still be good, mate, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.200 It'd still be good. They had they been asking, like 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.240 end of Old Shine must have been thinking, what can 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.279 we use you for? Had they been talking to you 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.560 about doing your own show for a while or was 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.159 this a bit of a surprise when it came up. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.359 No, yeah, we've been talking for a while. So I 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:06.400 auditioned for you so last year and there was a 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.440 couple of things that thought we thought might be a fit, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.880 and then and it didn't work out, And yeah it was. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.719 You know, that's a struggle of like auditioning for stuff 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.240 and going for things not getting them. You're like, oh man, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.839 it's like really disappointing. But then when you get a 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.719 show like Rush, you realize why all those other shows were, Right? 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.800 Can I try and guess what those other shows were? 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.000 Yes? I think you can. I talk about it, right, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.440 I don't think I talk about it. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.120 I just thought it would create a guess is it? 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:33.400 The balloon one? 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.760 Wasn't the balloon one? But I am glad. I am 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.480 glad that you credit me with the balloon one. But no, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:40.920 it wasn't. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.039 I thought it would have been that one only because 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:45.680 I thought we could have had like a really amazing 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.160 backstory with you. You know, with your childhood you're obsessed 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:49.480 with balloons, you know. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:50.960 Not far from the truth. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.680 Okay, So I feel like I feel like, I'm crap 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.039 at this, So you're just gonna have to tell me, 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:56.200 you're gonna, You're. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.800 Gonna it's gonna make sense. It was traded, so I 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.719 died for I additioned for the Traders to hope the Traders. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.159 And initually when that kind of came about, I thought, man, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.240 this is such a great fit. There's a bit of 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.920 Survivor style gameplay, you know, it really fits what I 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.360 was into. And I watched that, you know, they sent 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.040 me all the seasons, seasons and I watched them that's 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.200 where it was a rhythmly from and loved it. I mean, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.440 the accents hard to listen to, and I still loved it, 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.320 So got through all of those. But then in the 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.240 end it went to Roger, and I was I was 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:29.800 really disappointed because it was quite a bit of a 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.679 lead up for that, you know, like we were working 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.880 on it and it seemed like a great fit. And 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.320 thank goodness, I did him get it. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.560 Because now that you're saying that, I feel like you 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.640 are very suited to the Traders. 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.960 All right. I quite like Roger in there. I think 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.520 he's a bit more suave than me, like I'm a 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.600 bit more I don't know, I'm a bit more like Shaggy. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.960 I like comedy in stuff, and that's what I loved 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.160 also about getting to do Rush. It's like it's some 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.600 really funny moments in there, and I got to play 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.920 with the contestants a bit. I don't have to be 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.760 super staunch with them. Were obviously times were at serious, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.320 like people are getting voted out, but we could have 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.440 fun and like tease them a little bit, and I 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.480 could eat all these weird snacks in front of them 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.320 and you know when they haven't been eating. And I 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.200 really liked that element, like where you can just play 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.240 a little bit as having to be quiet, daunch and serious. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.280 Not that I wouldn't do that, but it just seemed 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.760 like such a better fit when Rush came around. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.920 And also, think about all the stamps in your passport. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.520 I think that's that's you know, oh mate. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.640 We did the whole thing and filmed over eight weeks, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.960 nine weeks. It was a super intense travel schedule, but 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.959 it was just great to get back out into those 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.280 a lot of them I visited before in my with 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.320 my facting career, just to be able to go back 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.920 there and reconnect and on a couple of my Russ 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:42.640 day off, I had the caught up with a couple 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.520 of buddies of mine or connecting that I had in 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:48.120 the countries, and it was like it was just dream job. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.679 See this is exactly right. I was on the money 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.920 with this whole. I just visualize you just being this 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.080 you know, international travel god that just travels around the world. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.960 I mean, when you have knockoff drinks while filming this 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:00.840 in every different country, you've got friends to go and 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:01.280 hang out with. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.480 The crew definitely was kind of making fun of me 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.760 at some point where the wait, where are you going? 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.760 But it's just I've been so privileged with my career 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.840 to have been able to travel so much previously, and like, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.240 I love meeting people, man, Like, I'm such a people person. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.280 So I've just tried to make friends wherever I could, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.720 and usually people I work with become friends of mine. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:24.920 And yeah, it's just it's just really nice to have 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.800 those connections when you travel, especially in places where it 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.720 might be a bit uncommon. So even even in Turkey, 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.960 in Issembol, I've got a really great friend of mine. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.920 I've we've been friends for fifteen years and I hadn't 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.920 seen him in a decade, so to be able to 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.959 get to go there for work and film it kind 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.880 of it's nice to just come out of that bubble 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.480 for a second and be like, oh, yeah, I'm a 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.720 real I'm a real human being. It was it was 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:48.200 really nice. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:49.920 I'd love to live your life. You know, I've just 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.160 got friends, and every got friends in every report. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:53.640 I don't know if that's stating. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.120 It's that saying of you know, I've got I've got 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.559 a sheielder in every report or whatever makes you last 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.959 time captain. Well, I know that's not the case. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.120 I've already got their reputation for not snowing with Survivor. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.480 We don't want that happening. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.360 I want to ask you questions about that show a minute, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.800 but I want to stay on this. Just how are 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.360 they managing to keep these people having it a surprise 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:17.880 when they turn up at these festivals? 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.080 What happened? They do know which country they're going to, 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.959 they don't know where in that country, so we had 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.640 to we had to fly them into certain locations, and 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:33.480 there are customs and security protocols, right, so they did 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.880 have an idea of where they would be once we 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.080 hit that country, and we were in buses and stuff. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.319 They had no clues. They were in blackout vans, they 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.440 were in blackout hotel rooms where we were taking the 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.480 TVs out of the room, any kind of information out 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.280 of the room. So once they were in the country, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.840 that's when they were completely lost. So sometimes we'd fly 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.120 into a local airport, you know, mix it up, and 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.760 so they were confused about where they were going. And 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.760 then there was a lot of travel. So that's where 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.360 all the confusion and the sensory deprivation really came to play. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.160 There's not really a way you can not to ruin 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.000 the TV magic. I know people have asked asking about this, 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.120 but there's not really any way you can make international 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.680 fable work without putting people through customs. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.239 Because like an unfortunate producer just standing on the sideline, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.240 you know, like on the plane when it's landing, and 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.120 just saying, can you please here, I'll give you fifty 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.840 dollars if you don't mention where we're landing. I don't know. Well, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.720 I was wondering whether or not someone had been bribed 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.080 not to do any announcements in the landing process. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.679 I mean, wherever it could be done, it was done, Okay, 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.040 So They also were completely removed from being able to 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.320 like there's no smartphone access, computer access so they can 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.520 research where they are. And then they were allowed to 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.600 have a call home, but the PA had to sit 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.600 in the room basically and listen to what they were 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.640 talking about. So they couldn't they say they landed in Istanbul, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.959 you know, they couldn't then call home and be like, 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.160 I mean is Stanbul, what are the landmarks? And da 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.840 da da da da. So it was enough to it 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.199 was enough. There was enough lockdown to keep the confusion 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.840 for them happening, which is why they you know, I 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.400 mean we Jordan was crazy. We're on a ten hour 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.440 bus ride. There's no way humanly possible they could have 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.320 known where they were for that drop. But there's some 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.120 drops where they would have had a bit of an idea. Brazil, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.160 they came in a cargo place, so again, you know, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.480 there's just different There was different ways to get them 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.960 in places where they had that confusion, but anytime we 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.560 had to clear customs, yet they did know the country. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.680 Did you imagine how boring it would be for those 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.679 minders that have to listen to those boring phone calls 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.319 to home like that is my night one that is 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:35.959 my nightmare. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.160 Well, and it's also it's also not like they get 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.080 to hear fun stuff either. It's actually that boring stuff 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:43.960 because they're not There's so many things they're not allowed 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.480 to talk about. And of course their family or the 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.520 family member only like where are you how it going? 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.440 And that's one thing they can't talk about. It was 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.640 just proof of life and proof of sanity for the contestants. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.120 But it was really tough man for them, like they was, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.240 but they were just so gay and because it was 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.160 really impressive, especially the way, like pre Drop, they were 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.600 being held with sensory deprivations for a long periods of time, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.680 so it would be it would be a bus ride 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.480 that was blacked out into the goggles and the headphones 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.880 for X amount of hours before the event was happening. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.120 So it was it was intense. But they, you know, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:22.599 they really tackled it at head on. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.079 And we love a bit of food deprivation in these 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.040 sorts of shows, but not really seeing these people eat 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.880 that much, I mean, nothing compared to Survivor, But are 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.959 these people are being allowed to eat? We not seeing 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.760 them being fed snacks by you know casting I mean 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.600 by the crew that's following them along, like there. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.319 Was no that was part of their budgeting, but they 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.840 needed to. They needed to. We wanted the budget really 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.760 really tight, you know, obviously to create that jevity of 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.840 the of them movie through countries, but they did. They 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.640 were supposed to eat with that with that budget of money. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.480 Now that being said, there's days where they're traveling on planes, 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.880 there's days where they're rock the days off, so they 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.839 being fair on those days. But when the competition was 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.240 happening when we were filming, they were having to pay 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:05.840 for their inffort. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.480 I have to ask as well about the hosting. You know, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.720 like you were talking about you were very excited about 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.920 taking on this hosting role. You know, your audition for 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.400 other things, but when it came to like what you 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.959 wanted to bring to the show, did you borrow anything 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.560 from other like Australian television presenters that have been hosting 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.480 shows like this. I mean obviously you would have seen 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.480 Lapalia doing a very good job on Survivor. Did you 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.840 borrow anything from him? Like what were you thinking? 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.400 Like for me, John is the pinnacle of hosting. Like 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.760 what he does, he's so impressive and he's commanding a 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.000 lot of people in front of him, and he sets 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.080 the tone for that and it's one of my favorite shots. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.080 So there was definitely some influence coming from what he'd does. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.560 But I also I'm a different person to John, like 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.520 I'd known him a bit personally, and I wanted to 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.080 give it my own skin. So I kind of looked 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.320 at how he was doing stuff, especially you know, I 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.040 loved traveling. I mean, that was somewhere I felt like 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.680 I was. I thrived on that go and he just 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.960 he was, I mean, flawless. So I would watch what 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.640 he kind of did and how he commanded attention from contestants, 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.000 and I tried to put that into what I was doing, obviously, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:20.520 because I think emulation is a sincereous form of flattery, 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.920 and to see how well John was doing that, like, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.640 you know, I wanted to stand on the shoulder the giants, man. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.920 I wanted to do what John was doing and better 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.400 because I put my spin on it. I don't befully 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:32.240 that's what I've done. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.200 And then you know, like you can interact with I 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.320 don't know how much interaction you had with the contestants 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.240 on this show. I know that with John, you know, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.040 he tries to keep it quite limited to anything of camera. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.160 I noticed in this series. So you slapped someone on 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.000 the bum at one point, if I'm not or maybe 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:49.440 that's good. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.480 Imagine John the Old the hind Quarters rile up John. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.200 Never doing that. You know at the end of the 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.400 Tribal Council, you know it would probably Yeah, well. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.800 I think probably the difference is is like I've been 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.720 on the other side. Yeah, so I get it. I 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.440 get why they do do that. Why because it needs 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.840 to be almost like a reverence when the when the 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:16.120 people people come up. But for me, having been on 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.840 the other side and having experienced that, yeah, that's great. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.280 But I also yearned to kind of like feel like 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.200 I'm a part of the show as well, even though 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.760 I was a contestant, Like I felt like my what 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:28.880 I was doing in my performance was adding to it. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.200 And I wanted to make sure our contestants felt like 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.480 a part of it, not just like a cog in 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.600 the wheel. And so having that empathy for them seeing 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.280 what they're going through, even though they're kind of coming 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.680 to me at some dark times where someone was going 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.720 to get sent home, I wanted them to feel like 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.800 what they were doing mad it wasn't just like a 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.600 throwway thing, and so that's what I tried to I 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.440 tried to relate to them as much as possible. There 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.480 were times where yeah, camera was off and I did 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.320 talk to them or give them some a vite, But 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.000 you can test them is a roller coaster, right, man, 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.040 Like you actually have some really down days, and that's 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.040 why you see these contestants have these big emotional swings 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.639 because it's a really intense experience. So I wanted to 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.040 tell them, like, listen, this is the roller coaster you're on. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.159 You're going to have some seriously amazing up days, and 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.000 you're gonna have some bad down days, but you just 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.400 keep right in that coaster and then hopefully you get 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.760 off and you know you're one hundred grand richer. So 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.480 whatever experience I could give them, I gave them. I 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.880 also wanted to make sure they treat the production well, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.480 because that's something up in all my seasons is that 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:41.440 sometimes it gets a bit and batters between production and contestants, 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.439 and I don't like that, and I think sometimes they 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.520 just need a bit of a reminder that, like, these 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.080 guys are actually working just as hard as you are, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.399 if not harder. They need to be respected, so I 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.200 tried to, you know, impart some of that from them 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:54.560