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Speaker 1: Welcome back, guys to TV Reload. As you may know,
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Speaker 1: podcast platform. On today's podcast, I have reality TV Golden
Speaker 1: God slash modeling superstar David Jennet ready to talk about
Speaker 1: his hosting duties on Channel nine's new series Rush. David
Speaker 1: has certainly become a familiar face on television from his
Speaker 1: appearances on Australian Survivor and Celebrity Apprentice, amongst a few
Speaker 1: other things. He also has a large resume of international modeling.
Speaker 1: After appearing on Austrainan Survivor, though twice taking home the
Speaker 1: winner's title and five hundred thousand, he has gone down
Speaker 1: as one of the greatest most popular players in Australian
Speaker 1: Survivor history. However, David is here today to unpack the
Speaker 1: first week of Rush, which is an electrifying new adventure
Speaker 1: series where twelve contestants traveling teams through nine incredible countries,
Speaker 1: placed in the middle of festivals with no idea where
Speaker 1: they are, they must work out where they are and
Speaker 1: find their way to the finish line. I will find
Speaker 1: out how this job came about and I vander mool
Speaker 1: Schine had earmarked him for our hosting job. We will
Speaker 1: unpack his hosting style and who he was influenced by,
Speaker 1: and what he thinks of the team so far. David
Speaker 1: will explain why he didn't watch the last series of
Speaker 1: Australian Survivor, if he would ever return to being a
Speaker 1: contestant now that he's been a host, and what he
Speaker 1: thinks of his alumni George taking on Amazing Race plus
Speaker 1: we will get plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes
Speaker 1: of Rush, which will continue this week on Channel nine.
Speaker 1: And if you've fallen just that little bit behind, you
Speaker 1: can catch up on nine. Now. Anyway, let's bring David
Speaker 1: into the podcast. It's kind of like a carpool karaoke
Speaker 1: interview as he is driving around the streets of Perth.
Speaker 1: But I hope you enjoy this episode of TV reload.
Speaker 1: Hey David, it's Ben. How are you hi, Ben?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 2: There was that fun little lapse where we kind of
Speaker 2: wonder whether we're being connected or not.
Speaker 1: And it happened to me recently with Ali Langdon and
Speaker 1: I was just chatting away to thinking I was talking
Speaker 1: to the publicist. I was like oh, and then eventually
Speaker 1: I was like, what the fuck, I've been talking to
Speaker 1: Ali Langton's like five minutes about garbage.
Speaker 2: I got into one with Gold Coast Radio the other
Speaker 2: day with the Lady cap On and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: She's like, okay, I'll just think you through the heavy
Speaker 2: and Sally in like two minutes. I was sorry.
Speaker 1: And also the weirdest thing about doing those regional radio
Speaker 1: ones is you do the live cross and then Once
Speaker 1: the interview's over, they don't really say anything. They just
Speaker 1: hang up on you, and you're like, I gave you
Speaker 1: got content my friends weird land, I.
Speaker 2: Know, exactly so funny you get that kind of like
Speaker 2: a little bit of static on the line. I guess
Speaker 2: went up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, I don't even get Sometimes it's total science.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm waiting for a producer to come
Speaker 1: back on and say thanks Ben, that was good, and
Speaker 1: then all of it. After five minutes the phone goes dead.
Speaker 1: Just wander out onto my belt and put my hands
Speaker 1: in my head and cry.
Speaker 2: That is hilarious. That is actually really funny.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I have to say thank you so much for
Speaker 1: chatting with me. I want to ask you straight away,
Speaker 1: where are you?
Speaker 2: Where are you right now? I'm in per finishing up
Speaker 2: a bit of voice over work that it go and
Speaker 2: doing all that fun stuff and spending some time with
Speaker 2: family and watching it back, and yeah, it's been really good.
Speaker 1: I just always think of you as like a global
Speaker 1: citizen of the world. I just, for some reason just
Speaker 1: think of you as a secret agent. That could be
Speaker 1: like completing a mission in Peru.
Speaker 2: I don't know, You're unlucky. Some defeated fantasies here. What's
Speaker 2: going on with you on that? Oh? That was been
Speaker 2: an interesting one because I lived in New York for
Speaker 2: so long. But we've actually just sold our house so
Speaker 2: we're signing a contact, got it this week and we're
Speaker 2: fully we'll be back in Australia full time.
Speaker 1: So does that mean all happen reality TV out of
Speaker 1: you over here?
Speaker 2: I mean I really hope so, man. I like, I've
Speaker 2: really enjoyed hosting like I was. It was something I
Speaker 2: wanted to do and then actually getting to experience here
Speaker 2: and doing it on the big stages. I mean, I
Speaker 2: loved it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I can't get enough. So it makes me nervous because
Speaker 2: you know when you want something too much Now, then
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, it's like that little puppy. You're giving
Speaker 2: too many hugs too.
Speaker 1: You'll end up with your own podcast talking to contestants.
Speaker 2: I really like doing that. I love the podcast. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been great, man, it's been really good.
Speaker 1: I want to see you do something where I get
Speaker 1: to know you a little bit more and I feel
Speaker 1: like I want to know more about you. Like even
Speaker 1: on Celebrity Apprentice, you still seem like a bit of
Speaker 1: an enigma to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, I guess for the those like so
Speaker 2: I was, I was an actor. I'm am an actor.
Speaker 2: I actually I was acting in the States for a
Speaker 2: couple of years before Survivor and Apprentice came around, and
Speaker 2: and I guess, like for those shows, I kind of
Speaker 2: looked at it as as character work, like you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like I just had Especially Survivor, I
Speaker 2: looked at who the big characters were, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to be a villain, and I developed like in my
Speaker 2: head it's kind of that Golden God character that I
Speaker 2: wanted to. I wanted to I wanted to play. And
Speaker 2: then for Apprentice, like I was there for a very
Speaker 2: specific reason, so that was even more fun, you know,
Speaker 2: there to like roll stuff up. And I feel like,
Speaker 2: I guess I've been playing those roles and then now
Speaker 2: I'm hosting, I'm playing even more of a role. But
Speaker 2: maybe I need like some kind of Kardashian style, But
Speaker 2: it would probably be super boring.
Speaker 1: I could put it on Mutue. It would still be good, mate,
Speaker 1: It'd still be good. They had they been asking, like
Speaker 1: end of Old Shine must have been thinking, what can
Speaker 1: we use you for? Had they been talking to you
Speaker 1: about doing your own show for a while or was
Speaker 1: this a bit of a surprise when it came up.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, we've been talking for a while. So I
Speaker 2: auditioned for you so last year and there was a
Speaker 2: couple of things that thought we thought might be a fit,
Speaker 2: and then and it didn't work out, And yeah it was.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a struggle of like auditioning for stuff
Speaker 2: and going for things not getting them. You're like, oh man,
Speaker 2: it's like really disappointing. But then when you get a
Speaker 2: show like Rush, you realize why all those other shows were, Right?
Speaker 1: Can I try and guess what those other shows were?
Speaker 2: Yes? I think you can. I talk about it, right,
Speaker 2: I don't think I talk about it.
Speaker 1: I just thought it would create a guess is it?
Speaker 1: The balloon one?
Speaker 2: Wasn't the balloon one? But I am glad. I am
Speaker 2: glad that you credit me with the balloon one. But no,
Speaker 2: it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I thought it would have been that one only because
Speaker 1: I thought we could have had like a really amazing
Speaker 1: backstory with you. You know, with your childhood you're obsessed
Speaker 1: with balloons, you know.
Speaker 2: Not far from the truth.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I feel like I feel like, I'm crap
Speaker 1: at this, So you're just gonna have to tell me,
Speaker 1: you're gonna, You're.
Speaker 2: Gonna it's gonna make sense. It was traded, so I
Speaker 2: died for I additioned for the Traders to hope the Traders.
Speaker 2: And initually when that kind of came about, I thought, man,
Speaker 2: this is such a great fit. There's a bit of
Speaker 2: Survivor style gameplay, you know, it really fits what I
Speaker 2: was into. And I watched that, you know, they sent
Speaker 2: me all the seasons, seasons and I watched them that's
Speaker 2: where it was a rhythmly from and loved it. I mean,
Speaker 2: the accents hard to listen to, and I still loved it,
Speaker 2: So got through all of those. But then in the
Speaker 2: end it went to Roger, and I was I was
Speaker 2: really disappointed because it was quite a bit of a
Speaker 2: lead up for that, you know, like we were working
Speaker 2: on it and it seemed like a great fit. And
Speaker 2: thank goodness, I did him get it.
Speaker 1: Because now that you're saying that, I feel like you
Speaker 1: are very suited to the Traders.
Speaker 2: All right. I quite like Roger in there. I think
Speaker 2: he's a bit more suave than me, like I'm a
Speaker 2: bit more I don't know, I'm a bit more like Shaggy.
Speaker 2: I like comedy in stuff, and that's what I loved
Speaker 2: also about getting to do Rush. It's like it's some
Speaker 2: really funny moments in there, and I got to play
Speaker 2: with the contestants a bit. I don't have to be
Speaker 2: super staunch with them. Were obviously times were at serious,
Speaker 2: like people are getting voted out, but we could have
Speaker 2: fun and like tease them a little bit, and I
Speaker 2: could eat all these weird snacks in front of them
Speaker 2: and you know when they haven't been eating. And I
Speaker 2: really liked that element, like where you can just play
Speaker 2: a little bit as having to be quiet, daunch and serious.
Speaker 2: Not that I wouldn't do that, but it just seemed
Speaker 2: like such a better fit when Rush came around.
Speaker 1: And also, think about all the stamps in your passport.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's you know, oh mate.
Speaker 2: We did the whole thing and filmed over eight weeks,
Speaker 2: nine weeks. It was a super intense travel schedule, but
Speaker 2: it was just great to get back out into those
Speaker 2: a lot of them I visited before in my with
Speaker 2: my facting career, just to be able to go back
Speaker 2: there and reconnect and on a couple of my Russ
Speaker 2: day off, I had the caught up with a couple
Speaker 2: of buddies of mine or connecting that I had in
Speaker 2: the countries, and it was like it was just dream job.
Speaker 1: See this is exactly right. I was on the money
Speaker 1: with this whole. I just visualize you just being this
Speaker 1: you know, international travel god that just travels around the world.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you have knockoff drinks while filming this
Speaker 1: in every different country, you've got friends to go and
Speaker 1: hang out with.
Speaker 2: The crew definitely was kind of making fun of me
Speaker 2: at some point where the wait, where are you going?
Speaker 2: But it's just I've been so privileged with my career
Speaker 2: to have been able to travel so much previously, and like,
Speaker 2: I love meeting people, man, Like, I'm such a people person.
Speaker 2: So I've just tried to make friends wherever I could,
Speaker 2: and usually people I work with become friends of mine.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's just it's just really nice to have
Speaker 2: those connections when you travel, especially in places where it
Speaker 2: might be a bit uncommon. So even even in Turkey,
Speaker 2: in Issembol, I've got a really great friend of mine.
Speaker 2: I've we've been friends for fifteen years and I hadn't
Speaker 2: seen him in a decade, so to be able to
Speaker 2: get to go there for work and film it kind
Speaker 2: of it's nice to just come out of that bubble
Speaker 2: for a second and be like, oh, yeah, I'm a
Speaker 2: real I'm a real human being. It was it was
Speaker 2: really nice.
Speaker 1: I'd love to live your life. You know, I've just
Speaker 1: got friends, and every got friends in every report.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's stating.
Speaker 1: It's that saying of you know, I've got I've got
Speaker 1: a sheielder in every report or whatever makes you last
Speaker 1: time captain. Well, I know that's not the case.
Speaker 2: I've already got their reputation for not snowing with Survivor.
Speaker 2: We don't want that happening.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you questions about that show a minute,
Speaker 1: but I want to stay on this. Just how are
Speaker 1: they managing to keep these people having it a surprise
Speaker 1: when they turn up at these festivals?
Speaker 2: What happened? They do know which country they're going to,
Speaker 2: they don't know where in that country, so we had
Speaker 2: to we had to fly them into certain locations, and
Speaker 2: there are customs and security protocols, right, so they did
Speaker 2: have an idea of where they would be once we
Speaker 2: hit that country, and we were in buses and stuff.
Speaker 2: They had no clues. They were in blackout vans, they
Speaker 2: were in blackout hotel rooms where we were taking the
Speaker 2: TVs out of the room, any kind of information out
Speaker 2: of the room. So once they were in the country,
Speaker 2: that's when they were completely lost. So sometimes we'd fly
Speaker 2: into a local airport, you know, mix it up, and
Speaker 2: so they were confused about where they were going. And
Speaker 2: then there was a lot of travel. So that's where
Speaker 2: all the confusion and the sensory deprivation really came to play.
Speaker 2: There's not really a way you can not to ruin
Speaker 2: the TV magic. I know people have asked asking about this,
Speaker 2: but there's not really any way you can make international
Speaker 2: fable work without putting people through customs.
Speaker 1: Because like an unfortunate producer just standing on the sideline,
Speaker 1: you know, like on the plane when it's landing, and
Speaker 1: just saying, can you please here, I'll give you fifty
Speaker 1: dollars if you don't mention where we're landing. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: I was wondering whether or not someone had been bribed
Speaker 1: not to do any announcements in the landing process.
Speaker 2: I mean, wherever it could be done, it was done, Okay,
Speaker 2: So They also were completely removed from being able to
Speaker 2: like there's no smartphone access, computer access so they can
Speaker 2: research where they are. And then they were allowed to
Speaker 2: have a call home, but the PA had to sit
Speaker 2: in the room basically and listen to what they were
Speaker 2: talking about. So they couldn't they say they landed in Istanbul,
Speaker 2: you know, they couldn't then call home and be like,
Speaker 2: I mean is Stanbul, what are the landmarks? And da
Speaker 2: da da da da. So it was enough to it
Speaker 2: was enough. There was enough lockdown to keep the confusion
Speaker 2: for them happening, which is why they you know, I
Speaker 2: mean we Jordan was crazy. We're on a ten hour
Speaker 2: bus ride. There's no way humanly possible they could have
Speaker 2: known where they were for that drop. But there's some
Speaker 2: drops where they would have had a bit of an idea. Brazil,
Speaker 2: they came in a cargo place, so again, you know,
Speaker 2: there's just different There was different ways to get them
Speaker 2: in places where they had that confusion, but anytime we
Speaker 2: had to clear customs, yet they did know the country.
Speaker 1: Did you imagine how boring it would be for those
Speaker 1: minders that have to listen to those boring phone calls
Speaker 1: to home like that is my night one that is
Speaker 1: my nightmare.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's also it's also not like they get
Speaker 2: to hear fun stuff either. It's actually that boring stuff
Speaker 2: because they're not There's so many things they're not allowed
Speaker 2: to talk about. And of course their family or the
Speaker 2: family member only like where are you how it going?
Speaker 2: And that's one thing they can't talk about. It was
Speaker 2: just proof of life and proof of sanity for the contestants.
Speaker 2: But it was really tough man for them, like they was,
Speaker 2: but they were just so gay and because it was
Speaker 2: really impressive, especially the way, like pre Drop, they were
Speaker 2: being held with sensory deprivations for a long periods of time,
Speaker 2: so it would be it would be a bus ride
Speaker 2: that was blacked out into the goggles and the headphones
Speaker 2: for X amount of hours before the event was happening.
Speaker 2: So it was it was intense. But they, you know,
Speaker 2: they really tackled it at head on.
Speaker 1: And we love a bit of food deprivation in these
Speaker 1: sorts of shows, but not really seeing these people eat
Speaker 1: that much, I mean, nothing compared to Survivor, But are
Speaker 1: these people are being allowed to eat? We not seeing
Speaker 1: them being fed snacks by you know casting I mean
Speaker 1: by the crew that's following them along, like there.
Speaker 2: Was no that was part of their budgeting, but they
Speaker 2: needed to. They needed to. We wanted the budget really
Speaker 2: really tight, you know, obviously to create that jevity of
Speaker 2: the of them movie through countries, but they did. They
Speaker 2: were supposed to eat with that with that budget of money.
Speaker 2: Now that being said, there's days where they're traveling on planes,
Speaker 2: there's days where they're rock the days off, so they
Speaker 2: being fair on those days. But when the competition was
Speaker 2: happening when we were filming, they were having to pay
Speaker 2: for their inffort.
Speaker 1: I have to ask as well about the hosting. You know,
Speaker 1: like you were talking about you were very excited about
Speaker 1: taking on this hosting role. You know, your audition for
Speaker 1: other things, but when it came to like what you
Speaker 1: wanted to bring to the show, did you borrow anything
Speaker 1: from other like Australian television presenters that have been hosting
Speaker 1: shows like this. I mean obviously you would have seen
Speaker 1: Lapalia doing a very good job on Survivor. Did you
Speaker 1: borrow anything from him? Like what were you thinking?
Speaker 2: Like for me, John is the pinnacle of hosting. Like
Speaker 2: what he does, he's so impressive and he's commanding a
Speaker 2: lot of people in front of him, and he sets
Speaker 2: the tone for that and it's one of my favorite shots.
Speaker 2: So there was definitely some influence coming from what he'd does.
Speaker 2: But I also I'm a different person to John, like
Speaker 2: I'd known him a bit personally, and I wanted to
Speaker 2: give it my own skin. So I kind of looked
Speaker 2: at how he was doing stuff, especially you know, I
Speaker 2: loved traveling. I mean, that was somewhere I felt like
Speaker 2: I was. I thrived on that go and he just
Speaker 2: he was, I mean, flawless. So I would watch what
Speaker 2: he kind of did and how he commanded attention from contestants,
Speaker 2: and I tried to put that into what I was doing, obviously,
Speaker 2: because I think emulation is a sincereous form of flattery,
Speaker 2: and to see how well John was doing that, like,
Speaker 2: you know, I wanted to stand on the shoulder the giants, man.
Speaker 2: I wanted to do what John was doing and better
Speaker 2: because I put my spin on it. I don't befully
Speaker 2: that's what I've done.
Speaker 1: And then you know, like you can interact with I
Speaker 1: don't know how much interaction you had with the contestants
Speaker 1: on this show. I know that with John, you know,
Speaker 1: he tries to keep it quite limited to anything of camera.
Speaker 1: I noticed in this series. So you slapped someone on
Speaker 1: the bum at one point, if I'm not or maybe
Speaker 1: that's good.
Speaker 2: Imagine John the Old the hind Quarters rile up John.
Speaker 1: Never doing that. You know at the end of the
Speaker 1: Tribal Council, you know it would probably Yeah, well.
Speaker 2: I think probably the difference is is like I've been
Speaker 2: on the other side. Yeah, so I get it. I
Speaker 2: get why they do do that. Why because it needs
Speaker 2: to be almost like a reverence when the when the
Speaker 2: people people come up. But for me, having been on
Speaker 2: the other side and having experienced that, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2: But I also yearned to kind of like feel like
Speaker 2: I'm a part of the show as well, even though
Speaker 2: I was a contestant, Like I felt like my what
Speaker 2: I was doing in my performance was adding to it.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to make sure our contestants felt like
Speaker 2: a part of it, not just like a cog in
Speaker 2: the wheel. And so having that empathy for them seeing
Speaker 2: what they're going through, even though they're kind of coming
Speaker 2: to me at some dark times where someone was going
Speaker 2: to get sent home, I wanted them to feel like
Speaker 2: what they were doing mad it wasn't just like a
Speaker 2: throwway thing, and so that's what I tried to I
Speaker 2: tried to relate to them as much as possible. There
Speaker 2: were times where yeah, camera was off and I did
Speaker 2: talk to them or give them some a vite, But
Speaker 2: you can test them is a roller coaster, right, man,
Speaker 2: Like you actually have some really down days, and that's
Speaker 2: why you see these contestants have these big emotional swings
Speaker 2: because it's a really intense experience. So I wanted to
Speaker 2: tell them, like, listen, this is the roller coaster you're on.
Speaker 2: You're going to have some seriously amazing up days, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna have some bad down days, but you just
Speaker 2: keep right in that coaster and then hopefully you get
Speaker 2: off and you know you're one hundred grand richer. So
Speaker 2: whatever experience I could give them, I gave them. I
Speaker 2: also wanted to make sure they treat the production well,
Speaker 2: because that's something up in all my seasons is that
Speaker 2: sometimes it gets a bit and batters between production and contestants,
Speaker 2: and I don't like that, and I think sometimes they
Speaker 2: just need a bit of a reminder that, like, these
Speaker 2: guys are actually working just as hard as you are,
Speaker 2: if not harder. They need to be respected, so I
Speaker 2: tried to, you know, impart some of that from them
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? You know? It's one thing that I
Speaker 1: don't think I've talked about a lot, but you know,
Speaker 1: being on that out of it where you are a contestant,
Speaker 1: and for me, I was always such a big fan
Speaker 1: of the show that I was a part of, and
Speaker 1: so I just felt like I just said yes to
Speaker 1: everything that they did. I almost felt like Stockholm syndrome,
Speaker 1: you know, like I felt I fell in love with
Speaker 1: the people that were controlling me. Yeah. It was just
Speaker 1: and it was wrong. And I actually got treated for
Speaker 1: Stockholm syndrome after Big Brother because I yeah, because I'm
Speaker 1: obsessed with the the voice of Big Brother, but my
Speaker 1: brain also knew who the EP was. And it still
Speaker 1: happened this day, Like whenever I still speak to that producer,
Speaker 1: I still feel the Stockholm syndrome that I was worked
Speaker 1: on coming back, and I'm like, wow, it's very very
Speaker 1: very strange and very odd weird. You know, now that
Speaker 1: you have actually crossed, you know, the line and you
Speaker 1: are now being a host, would you go back to
Speaker 1: being a contestant?
Speaker 2: Oh, Ben, I mean never say never, would would you
Speaker 2: do it? I mean, I think I think for me,
Speaker 2: posting is where I want to be, So whether it's
Speaker 2: on another season of Rust or other shows, that for
Speaker 2: me is my career. But you know, the story of
Speaker 2: being in contestant, there's something amazing about it. You don't
Speaker 2: have to worry you're not fitting thing to go on.
Speaker 2: They'm worrying about rating or any of that stuff. You've
Speaker 2: had this incredible experience, You've made the money and it's
Speaker 2: and it's quite easy. And I do really enjoy that,
Speaker 2: like Survival was once, well twice in a lifetime for me.
Speaker 2: But those those bonds that you've formed during the show
Speaker 2: of just like they're incredible. But that being said, I
Speaker 2: absolutely love the other side, Like I love being a
Speaker 2: part of production, seeing the story unfold, following those threads
Speaker 2: and those stories, what's going to be going, what's not
Speaker 2: going to be on, how our intestants are doing, and
Speaker 2: then the adrenaline rust of getting to talk to these
Speaker 2: guys that hostfully and it's day though, So I think
Speaker 2: it would be kind of hard to go back after
Speaker 2: seeing how the sausage is made.
Speaker 1: You know, of course, obviously the fan forums though that say,
Speaker 1: you know, if there's going to be a World Survivor
Speaker 1: that everyone You're at the top of the list every time.
Speaker 1: I mean you and George now I think I think
Speaker 1: George is trying to take your mantle on the most
Speaker 1: recognizable Australian Survivor player. But you're always at the top
Speaker 1: of the list of who people want to see if
Speaker 1: Australia goes against you know, South Africa or America or
Speaker 1: you know wherever it is.
Speaker 2: Oh man, look, I'm not going I wouldn't do it,
Speaker 2: but they'd have to be a comparable paycheck, which you know,
Speaker 2: I go, all right.
Speaker 1: Then the time comes, because they're going to ask you
Speaker 1: to do that, whether it's now or in ten years,
Speaker 1: very old David stumbles into Survivor like.
Speaker 2: You know, I know that's I'm almost there. I just transformative.
Speaker 2: I have crossed over there from teacher either days. But
Speaker 2: if I've still got anything left in the tank. But
Speaker 2: it would be really fun. It would be really fun.
Speaker 1: This point now would just be hearing that though the
Speaker 1: vision of you turning up ten years later, like you
Speaker 1: know Bruce Wayne's Batman, you know, stumbling.
Speaker 2: Out you knowman one underdo it? You know, what I mean, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So week one is done and this podcast comes
Speaker 1: out on Sunday, so people be getting ready to watch
Speaker 1: the next three episodes. At this point, I personally feel
Speaker 1: like I'm I relate and have loved Team Gold and
Speaker 1: it's really awful of me to do this to you
Speaker 1: as a host, because you shouldn't do it. But who's
Speaker 1: your favorite team? Are you Gold, Scarlet or Navy?
Speaker 2: Look, I definitely I'm not viased at all, but I
Speaker 2: had a soft spot for Nate just because every host
Speaker 2: location they kind of came up, they were so enthusiastic,
Speaker 2: given me hugs and they were just happy to be there.
Speaker 2: And but that kind of energy carries through. I love
Speaker 2: Scarlet obviously because Fiona was hilarious, like her dynamic and
Speaker 2: with Adam cracked me up the whole time. But the
Speaker 2: the guys all had their own like little unique thing
Speaker 2: they bought, but it was just like Maybe's energy whenever
Speaker 2: they came up to a host location. Definitely, you know,
Speaker 2: I had a bit of a stuff, but I couldn't say.
Speaker 1: That, but like Madeline when she left, like Madeline seemed
Speaker 1: a bit missed, Like I felt like she left and
Speaker 1: was like, guys, you're not going to do well. And
Speaker 1: was there some drama between that group that we weren't
Speaker 1: seeing or am I just reading into something a.
Speaker 2: Little bit like I think I think she was just done,
Speaker 2: but that she'd had a really rough couple of days.
Speaker 2: The night they had to spend in the desert didn't
Speaker 2: sit well with Maddie and so, you know, I mean, man,
Speaker 2: travel is stressful at the best time. And then to
Speaker 2: add on top of that, you know, you've got this
Speaker 2: competition and you know they know now because they're a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks in, they know someone's going home. And
Speaker 2: then you can probably feel those you can probably feel
Speaker 2: the sift in the group. That was probably starting to
Speaker 2: happen a bit early. And I think that was more
Speaker 2: just her response to like, oh, this is it's going
Speaker 2: to be me if I had to get so I
Speaker 2: think he just wanted to get ahead of it as
Speaker 2: opposed to you know, going go down swinging. He was
Speaker 2: like that's done and yeah, So I think I think
Speaker 2: it was just a case of that and that's breast
Speaker 2: that kind of was happening. He started to start to
Speaker 2: go through the cracks a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, I felt like you were going to say
Speaker 1: team gold because you're a golden god whatever, and I thought.
Speaker 2: That little I did have I did have said that
Speaker 2: was a good set up, but you said team Gold,
Speaker 2: so I thought I was going to go the other
Speaker 2: one man. Lol. Is amazing. K is hilarious.
Speaker 1: As he's so funny, like I.
Speaker 2: Just and for still you know, like and like Saxon.
Speaker 2: They're a great team as well. But yes, K always
Speaker 2: came up to host location with something stratty to say
Speaker 2: to me and it was hilarious, Like he just was
Speaker 2: a really really fun.
Speaker 1: We know if Saxon is is that his real name?
Speaker 1: Because I mean, I don't think I've ever revealed this before,
Speaker 1: but there was some confusion about me being Ben on
Speaker 1: my series A Big Brother, and they offered me five
Speaker 1: different names that I could be instead, and Saxon was
Speaker 1: on that list. And then I found years later who
Speaker 1: was not really Saxon. His name is Daniel. And then
Speaker 1: there's all these Saxons on reality TV shows, Like do
Speaker 1: you get born as a Saxon and then go on
Speaker 1: reality TV? Because that's your point, I would have to
Speaker 1: ask him.
Speaker 2: I don't actually know the problem I had standing to
Speaker 2: like so I've got this. My wife's an American, I've
Speaker 2: got American founded kids, so I've generally had a pretty
Speaker 2: strong American pulp to the way I speak. But for
Speaker 2: this I really needed to Aussie it up as much
Speaker 2: as possible. And that was part of you know, like
Speaker 2: my wasn't wasn't pronouncing words wrong, but for some reason
Speaker 2: I could not say Saxon. I was saying Jaxon with
Speaker 2: kind of a z e found and it just it
Speaker 2: just was eluding me. And at one point we wrapped
Speaker 2: filming and he comes up to me and he's like, hey, hey, Dave,
Speaker 2: I love what you're doing, man, really great. But my
Speaker 2: name is actually Saxon, not Zacton. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that was hilarious in the accent.
Speaker 1: Did you said, did you try and defend yourself or
Speaker 1: did you just get away from me? You peasant contestancy?
Speaker 2: I I got American real quick. I was like, my bad,
Speaker 2: that's so funny. Well you actually, like I felt a
Speaker 2: bit cold off. I was like, all right, all right,
Speaker 2: how are you mate?
Speaker 1: Go over there and walk your dog and ride yourself.
Speaker 1: We'll play guitar.
Speaker 2: If you you're not allowed to, it's not allowed it's
Speaker 2: in the comeback. Nah even really cool. It's a really
Speaker 2: cool cat.
Speaker 1: It was you were kind of a breakout star from Survivors,
Speaker 1: So like, do you think if there was a breakout
Speaker 1: star from this season of this show? And that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean that you win, because I mean, you didn't
Speaker 1: win the first time you're on Survivor, but you still
Speaker 1: want a breakout person that everyone remembered. Is there someone
Speaker 1: that you think of this show of Rush that's going
Speaker 1: to be the breakout start?
Speaker 2: Oh man, it's fricky. I think they're all getting a
Speaker 2: pretty even run of it at the moment. I thought
Speaker 2: Tommy was hilarious in God, like doing the whole desert
Speaker 2: seat stuff, like anything where you can kind of see
Speaker 2: black as their personality. I love that. I think c
Speaker 2: K is hilarious. I'd love to seek actual play Survivor.
Speaker 2: I think we can do well outside. I don't think
Speaker 2: you can make it better on the sand. But I
Speaker 2: did great, And then the fear is like, oh you
Speaker 2: need and not yet. I mean, I mean, they're they're
Speaker 2: all great. I can't really pick a standout, Like, give
Speaker 2: me a couple more fs and more and we'll see.
Speaker 2: But I think I think the cast is fantastic, and
Speaker 2: as we're seeing more of those little quirky, funny touches,
Speaker 2: they get better and better.
Speaker 1: You know what about week one? So what is your
Speaker 1: favorite moment? So I just want to know what in
Speaker 1: that first week you thought was maybe the best to
Speaker 1: make or you know that you enjoyed watching on screen.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is going to be a random one, but
Speaker 2: there's a there's a scene where there's a there's a
Speaker 2: scene where the guys had been checking up like nine
Speaker 2: thousand steps in Jordan, and they're just like dying walking
Speaker 2: up these steps, and you got that that lady just
Speaker 2: playing that that whistle at the top of the steps
Speaker 2: that scene, but they're all just like dying and she's like,
Speaker 2: I thought that was so funny. It reminded me of
Speaker 2: like if you see that MGM grand intro where it's
Speaker 2: and then they play that crappy whistle over the top.
Speaker 2: I was like crying laughing when I that it was
Speaker 2: such a short scene, but also knowing what those guys
Speaker 2: are going through, it looks a little like I think
Speaker 2: a couple of people have been like why are they
Speaker 2: why are they moving quicker? And like they're basically doing
Speaker 2: a marathon every day like they're in it. So it's
Speaker 2: like they're doing like insane physical tasks. And I saw
Speaker 2: it kind of comes across like that. Like even Brazil
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, that hikes them five hours due they
Speaker 2: were like really hiking, having a climb on their hands
Speaker 2: and knees in vertical spots like it's not just like
Speaker 2: you can quickly run through it. Like they're really like himself.
Speaker 2: But they did like forty five k's or something in
Speaker 2: the desert. It was like nuts, nuts not nuts.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you've probably heard George is doing amazing race,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, I wonder how George is going to
Speaker 1: go with like you know, he was a bit of
Speaker 1: a mastermind and Survivor just you know, manipulating everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: both locations, but like you know, having to make him run.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't look like a runner to me.
Speaker 1: Like do you think he's.
Speaker 2: I heard he I didn't see the last season, but
Speaker 2: I heard he got he got a pretty good skaye.
Speaker 2: But something didn't in that way.
Speaker 1: Are you telling me you didn't watch that season of
Speaker 1: Survivor the last one that just was.
Speaker 2: I was filming, man, I was, I was filming.
Speaker 1: You need to go and watch that. You need to
Speaker 1: watch that series. I actually tell people that all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm like that season of that show. Whilst it got
Speaker 1: a little bit boring towards the end, super soorry to
Speaker 1: anyone listening that some of the tribal councils between Simon
Speaker 1: and George are some of the best television I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I have heard I do need to get.
Speaker 1: Well when you get to per Us to live, once
Speaker 1: you've packed up your house and you've moved here, I
Speaker 1: think that's going to be the prime viewing for you
Speaker 1: to some of the men. Yet absolutely, before you go,
Speaker 1: I just want to ask you something and ask everyone
Speaker 1: who joins the podcast, and that is what is something
Speaker 1: from behind the scenes of Rush, something that we won't see,
Speaker 1: maybe kind of like a behind the scenes secret of
Speaker 1: how the show is made.
Speaker 2: So we're going into week two, so Russell, lets is
Speaker 2: this concept you're about to find out about next week?
Speaker 2: And basically, when if it was a deadlock vote or
Speaker 2: if there's only two contestants, we needed a way to
Speaker 2: kind of separate them, I'd like to see who keeps
Speaker 2: moving through through the through the competition, and the original
Speaker 2: concept was flare gums, which I thought was so thick.
Speaker 2: They find off a flare gum, whoever's got a red
Speaker 2: one's dumb, whoever's got the green ones keeps going, but
Speaker 2: you can't move byworks through different countries because they're banned
Speaker 2: in a lot of places. So we went through all
Speaker 2: the different things. I'm like, how you could, like, what
Speaker 2: were we going to and we ended up on these
Speaker 2: smoke grenades.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Thank goodness. Our security team were like X Navy Field
Speaker 2: because without them some of those snow bomb moments would
Speaker 2: have been at all darker. It's like very visually stunning
Speaker 2: when the smoke bombs go off, but there was multiple
Speaker 2: times relating they were lit and I burned my hand,
Speaker 2: or they were like not the right color or flaring
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But it was a really fun
Speaker 2: part of the process and you'll see vigually it comes
Speaker 2: across amazing. So that wasn't as smooth as it's going
Speaker 2: to look.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good tasting pleas for people listening to this,
Speaker 1: who they're going to watch Week two.
Speaker 2: Which is very good, was a little something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, I just want to say Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your generosity with your time. I've absolutely loved
Speaker 1: chatting with you. Real bucket listening for me. But good
Speaker 1: luck with everything, Enjoy the rest of the series. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll get a series two and hopefully get some more
Speaker 1: work here in Australia so we can see more of you.
Speaker 2: Most definitely thanks Dan, it's a pleasure getting too