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🏋️‍♀️ How did Daniel MacPherson get so ripped for "Beast?" · The KIIS Breakfast Wrap with Chris, Amy & Jack

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  Speaker 1: Please welcome everybody. My name is Daniel Ferson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Here he is Daniel McPherson. Beast is available on stan
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  Speaker 3: June four. He is starring in it, looking very ripped,
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  Speaker 3: and he's joining us in the studio right now.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, mate, was.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve months ago. This is the body Fat's gone up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still look at it guard jeez.
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  Speaker 3: So it's all about mma, right, I'm looking at a
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  Speaker 3: photo here.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Jesus, how hard was that to do?
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  Speaker 5: It?
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  Speaker 4: Was?
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  Speaker 2: It was one of the hardest things I've ever done
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  Speaker 2: in my career, to be honest, and thankfully I had
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  Speaker 2: three years to train for it. So I was given
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  Speaker 2: the script way back in twenty twenty two when I
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  Speaker 2: was doing a film with Russell up on the Gold Coast,
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  Speaker 2: and for whatever reason, it kept falling out, and that
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  Speaker 2: finance kept falling out of Russ's schedule kept changing, and
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  Speaker 2: so I ended up thinking I had maybe six or
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  Speaker 2: nine months initially get to get to get ready, and
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  Speaker 2: I ended up having nearly three years. So I just
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  Speaker 2: kept going and kept training and kept yeah, kept improving
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  Speaker 2: over the.
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  Speaker 5: Course of that three years. Because Dan I struggled to
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  Speaker 5: just find the motivation to make it to the gym
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  Speaker 5: once a week, Like, were there times where you faltered
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  Speaker 5: or were you just like, I am going to be
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  Speaker 5: half naked for a movie.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Caffeine and vanity for two things that drive you know,
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  Speaker 2: but also knowing that your bare naked bucket but is
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  Speaker 2: going to be on screen for generations to come, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So and also MMA has got such an incredible fan
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  Speaker 2: base around the world.
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  Speaker 1: You have to get it right.
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  Speaker 2: The entire movie falls over if when someone throws a
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  Speaker 2: punch it doesn't look legitimate.
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  Speaker 1: So but mate, I went off into a theater in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of that.
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  Speaker 2: So in between that, I did a six month tour
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  Speaker 2: with John Waters a Woman in Black through winter, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty shows. I mean, that's not conducive
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  Speaker 2: to sleeping, to exhaustion to and also to staying in
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  Speaker 2: fight shape. So I finished that Woman in Black tour
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  Speaker 2: at the end of August and we started filming this
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  Speaker 2: the end of November.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a really quick quick turnaround.
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  Speaker 6: But if you let yourself go now or is that
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  Speaker 6: what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: I've ebbed and flowed, but I was I was in
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  Speaker 2: pretty sharp shape by the time we got up to Thiland.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we shot in front of ten thousand people
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  Speaker 2: up there in Bangkok, Thailand, and at a real one championship. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we shot at a real one championship event and in
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  Speaker 2: Bangkok to film the sort of the end of the
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  Speaker 2: crescendo of the film.
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  Speaker 6: So, so could you fight anyone then?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I could try. I don't know how how
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  Speaker 1: would go.
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  Speaker 2: But no, there's a huge step up even you know
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  Speaker 2: from from where I got to to there's so many
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  Speaker 2: great martial arts gyms in Sydney and around the country.
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  Speaker 2: And then obviously you know MMA has taken off. But
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  Speaker 2: Brent Foster, who plays my nemesis in the film, great actor,
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  Speaker 2: but also multiple nine ten time world champion black belt
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  Speaker 2: in I think four or five different martial arts himself,
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  Speaker 2: came in and choreographed to fight against So I was
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  Speaker 2: being elevated by the guys in the cage, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're no stranger to dancing when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to the choreography of a fight scene. Dancing that kind
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  Speaker 5: of thing, is it similar or no?
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  Speaker 2: No, Well, there's a reason I hosted that show and
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  Speaker 2: never danced on it because because I was terrifically bad.
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  Speaker 2: But no, that that kind of rhythm and that that
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  Speaker 2: kind of I'd probably be a better dancer now from
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  Speaker 2: the fight.
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  Speaker 1: Training that the thing went the other way around, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So, But no, I had to had to learn all
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  Speaker 2: that had to look authentic and then make it look entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: And then and then when you finish there you turn
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  Speaker 2: around and go have to act opposite Russell krutt Wells.
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  Speaker 3: Another thing you acted in that, I know Georgie wants
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  Speaker 3: to bring up when you.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I would like to say that I've achieved
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  Speaker 5: quite a lot over the course of my life and career,
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  Speaker 5: but I might give it all the way for one
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  Speaker 5: day on the set of this television show.
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  Speaker 4: The Bill.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: When I grew up, my parents always had this playing.
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  Speaker 4: What was that ABC?
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  Speaker 1: Like a thirty Saturday night?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, and it just makes me so happy. And please, please,
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  Speaker 5: You've been so generous with your time, but please just
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  Speaker 5: entertain me here. What was that time in your life?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 5: What was the set like?
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So I I was twenty one when I moved to London.
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  Speaker 2: I just finished Neighbors. It was my second job. I
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  Speaker 2: went I actually I went over to the musical theater.
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  Speaker 2: So I toured God's Spell around the UK, and the
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  Speaker 2: producer of Godspell's brother was the head of ITV Studios
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  Speaker 2: casting in the UK. So listen, we've just we've just
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  Speaker 2: blown up sun Hill. We've sacked twenty three actors and
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  Speaker 2: we need a whole bunch of new faces because there's
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  Speaker 2: these new producers.
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  Speaker 4: Come in and Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: So I went in and I was like, how can
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  Speaker 2: this little pretty kid from Cronulla, from neighbors, you know, somehow,
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  Speaker 2: somehow I end up in phill PC Taates Sierra Oscar
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  Speaker 2: from three five five.
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  Speaker 5: Ye.
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  Speaker 2: They were so they were so gracious, they were so
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  Speaker 2: we welcoming, and they had all like all the originals
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  Speaker 2: like Judy he played True tru Trudy he played June
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  Speaker 2: Sorry Stroke on live radio, and Graham Cole and Des
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  Speaker 2: and all those great characters. They'd done a show out
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  Speaker 2: on Bondo Beach, so that had just done. They've done
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  Speaker 2: a couple of episodes in Australia. They all loved Australia.
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  Speaker 2: So there was just so welcoming. So I was twenty
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  Speaker 2: on twenty two living in London earning pounds when it.
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  Speaker 4: Was a big star.
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  Speaker 3: So like Alec the Pom. Do you recognize Daniel from
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  Speaker 3: the bill.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I'm very starstruck.
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  Speaker 3: You do the two way thing when they say Siera
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  Speaker 3: Oscar receives.
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  Speaker 2: Five over Oscar two five six receiving over copy that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: There's probably four when it was on television.
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  Speaker 5: Ye, it's the impact that you have, the lasting legacy.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we're going to take your calls.
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  Speaker 3: Anything you want to ask Daniel McPherson, give us a call.
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  Speaker 3: Thirteen one oh sixty five more coming up with him
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  Speaker 3: right here on Kiss j Yeah, you're on Kiss. You
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  Speaker 3: got my key, You've got Brooklyn, you got Georgie Tallony.
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  Speaker 3: Hang it out, Daniel McPherson.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, stuck there as well.
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  Speaker 3: We are beast available on stand June four. You look bloody,
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  Speaker 3: ripped in it made. We're getting people calling in there.
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  Speaker 6: I want to have a chat to here on thirteen
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  Speaker 6: six five.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go, Chloe, Hello, Hi, guys, Hi, what do
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  Speaker 4: you want to Chloe?
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  Speaker 5: Daniel? Obviously, Neighbors was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 3: I was just wondering, do you keep in touch with
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  Speaker 3: anyone from the show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Neighbors was a long time ago. That was February
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight was when I started down there. I yes,
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  Speaker 2: I got a really nice message from Brooks Satchwell the
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  Speaker 2: other day after.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing Beast, which was cool. Who was in that? Like
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  Speaker 1: my era?
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  Speaker 2: Just into Stapleton and keep in touch with Jesse Spencer.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it over in Chicago a little bit. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I loved him on him nod bless Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right, how did you feel when it wrapped up?
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  Speaker 6: Were you involved in the hang on they did too?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt a short change.
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  Speaker 2: I had this incredible like outpouring on Twitter when it
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  Speaker 2: was still Twitter, and hey, what that show did for me?
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  Speaker 1: And it meant to me in those years.
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  Speaker 2: And I went back and I did the finale with
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  Speaker 2: Tody and everybody, and then.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we watched it go to air. Oh and
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  Speaker 1: we sort of all walked away from the sunset. Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that amazing sake? Coming back? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's go on again. Well I serves him, right, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: Lauren's got a question. Hello Lauren, Hi guys, Hi dad, Lauren.
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  Speaker 5: So my question is you're obviously a dud to a
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  Speaker 5: really young boy. Do you think that your transformation in
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  Speaker 5: Beast scared him? Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Like physically.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my son.
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  Speaker 2: My son is six and a half now Austin, and
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  Speaker 2: you know he started watching me train for that when
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  Speaker 2: he was three years old. Did it scare him, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's some of some of the stuff in the film
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  Speaker 2: is probably not not.
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  Speaker 1: For for a six year old little brain.
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  Speaker 2: But what he did do was watch me train and
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  Speaker 2: box and fight, so that he has now started kids
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  Speaker 2: MMA class, so he does a little bit of jiu
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  Speaker 2: jitsu and a little bit a bit of a bit
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  Speaker 2: of boxing and with a bunch of other kids his age,
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  Speaker 2: and it's I'm so glad he did, and I'm so glad.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that he was able.
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  Speaker 2: To watch me as a living example of training, of
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  Speaker 2: exercising and of committing to something and he'll get to
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  Speaker 2: watch that for the rest of his life.
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  Speaker 5: Question without notice on that, because obviously sometimes MMA can
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  Speaker 5: get a really bad rap in terms of masculinitymasically, role models,
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  Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. You say it's a great thing
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  Speaker 5: for your son, while.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously structured discipline, and particularly anyone who's got a five
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  Speaker 2: or six year old, all they want to do is
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  Speaker 2: run around, scream, wrestle. They're so physical they're getting understand Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: energy there, so there's a discipline to it. But also
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  Speaker 2: they're growing up in an era, in an age that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't grow up in, which is MMA UFC. Everything
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  Speaker 2: is available twenty four to seven in the palm of
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  Speaker 2: people's hands, It's on screens everywhere. There's a reason Alex
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  Speaker 2: Volkovski is going to be one of the most recognizable
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  Speaker 2: famous faces we have in sports in Australia. So I
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  Speaker 2: believe that this next generation of children has to have
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  Speaker 2: an understanding of physicality and of some sort of martial
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  Speaker 2: arts and understand that the physicality of that kind of
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  Speaker 2: world discipline totally rid.
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  Speaker 4: Here's Sophie. Hello, you're on with Daniel. What do you
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  Speaker 4: want to ask? Hi?
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  Speaker 6: Daniel okay, So must have done a lot of training
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  Speaker 6: in the lead up to the movie.
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  Speaker 5: Did you get any injury?
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  Speaker 1: I did? I did, George Burgess, we were just talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I broke a lot of them were a
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  Speaker 2: lot of my own fault, Like I was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: have my hands in certain places, like you know, covering
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  Speaker 2: my face, and when they weren't there, I would get
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  Speaker 2: cracked in the.
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  Speaker 1: Nose or things like that. So I did. I did
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  Speaker 1: kind of snap my nose in the octagon in Thailand.
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  Speaker 4: But the worst, yeah, I'll show you.
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  Speaker 2: The photos and then but the best one was I
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  Speaker 2: tore my adductor off the my off the bone in
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  Speaker 2: the octagon with the phone. So I turned forty six
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  Speaker 2: on ans a day, just gone. My body doesn't quite
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  Speaker 2: heal as well as it used to in my younger
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  Speaker 2: dancing days. And so yeah, that was probably the best one.
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  Speaker 1: That was. That's been fourteen months of rehab.
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  Speaker 5: When you say you like cracked your nose, right, how
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  Speaker 5: many film execs come running to you and go, oh God,
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  Speaker 5: are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: Where's the insurance? If that was film me, if that
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  Speaker 2: was kind of studio world or network world, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was working one of the TV networks where I
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  Speaker 2: used to work. But in independent film, it's like everything
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  Speaker 2: goes and it's a fight movie and everyone's and literally
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  Speaker 2: in that moment, i'ment oh shit, and I've walked away,
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  Speaker 2: I've straightened my nose, back up, jump back in, all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's go again. And so that's what I love about
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  Speaker 2: where I'm in my career at the moment. There's a
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  Speaker 2: real freedom and independence to independent film. Hence the name,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you really just get to dive in
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  Speaker 2: and do some cool stuff and you know, thanks to
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  Speaker 2: people like Stam, we get to show it to the
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  Speaker 2: entire country.
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  Speaker 3: Well and if you want to watch it, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be available on stand June fourth, so not long
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  Speaker 3: to go to go and check out bet.
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  Speaker 6: Daniel McPherson, thank you so much for comingy that.
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  Speaker 1: It's an absolute pleasure. Great to see you, legend.
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  Speaker 4: All right, hit a celebrity gossip coming up for you.
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