October 20, 2021 • 30 mins
Hell Week has begun and it's already living up to its name. But while the new recruits suffer, two people are having a great time: Sabrina and Merrick. Listen as they gush over the beastings, pick their favourite recruits and reflect on the best DS sprays so far. Make sure you watch season two of SAS Australia on Channel 7 and 7plus.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Marrick Watts here with Sabrina Frederick and this is
the SAS Australian Debrief. Well we're used to seeing celebrities
being flogged on SAS Australia, but why shouldn't ordinary Aussies
get the chance to life face down in the mud
whilst being screamed at by the DS. Sabrina, great to
see you. First impressions of Hell week?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What are they?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I've loved it all for the CV season. I'm loving
their major amounts of beast things. I was a bit
skeptical about the seven days, but I'm proving to think
that it's actually going to be quite tough.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So much to dissect from just the first two days alone.
But coming up on this episode, we're going to give
you our insights into the small details that the DS
will be.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Looking for from the recruits. We'll discuss the brutal and
yet beautiful beasts.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That have seen so far, and there were some cracking
DS one liners. This week we'll go through all of
our favorites. Let's get stuck into it. So these civilian
recruits are going through the SAS experience, but there's an
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enormous difference they've compressed two weeks of pain into just
one week of challenges beastings, sleep, and food deprivation.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Sabrina, would you prefer to.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Do one week absolutely excruciating or eke it out over
to how do they compare?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I feel like the super horrible one week would be
terrible for the first few days, like it would be
so physically demanding, and pretty much this focus would be
to cut off the week physically, and I don't know
how enjoyable that would be when you can't really do
anything else other than physical tasks.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's great to watch though I've loved the episode so far,
but I don't know if I would have preferred it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's absolutely brutal, and I think one of the things
about a shorter season of just seven days like that
is that you can't really feel to make too many
mistakes because you won't have the time to get it
back to impress them again. So they've got to be really,
really careful. Let's talk about some of the details that
the DS will be looking for, Sabrina to, you know,
to kind of impress them.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, I think, like you said, you don't have as
much time in a seven week season to make up
for mistakes. They're looking for how quickly you can be
immersed into their world. They want to know if you're
taking in the details, if you're listening, actively listening, and
they're trying to see if you can pretty much commit
fully for the seven days. And I think that the
last few seasons, with two weeks, you have a bit
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more time to prove yourself, whereas seven days, one mistake
and that's it for you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, some recruits have made one mistake every single time
they've done something.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So but we'll get to Bassim later. The interesting thing about.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know, the compressed course too, is that it is
so brutal physically that you don't have time to recover,
which also means that you know, it is harder to
recover mentally because your body is just flawed.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So it is.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It is I think, very very impactful on the recruits
minds as well, which is probably why we're basic errors.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, and to be honest, I think these guys have
come in in well, I don't really know why they're here.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They're not here to boost their profile, which is credit
to them. For coming on this course because they really
are here for the right reasons. I think that they
don't have the context maybe bias that comes with having
a profile as well. So I'm interested to see how
the DS go with these guys, because for the first
time ever, fans are really seeing it how these DS
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are seeing it. They don't have any information on these
people when they walk through the door, and you just
have no idea how they're going to go.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, I really I've hats off to them. I really
really respect them.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I really like seeing people with no profile having a
crack because they've got a reason or a purpose to
be there. I think most of them have anyway. I
also think there's a couple of people there who might
be I don't know, for example, an influencer who have
seemingly got no idea what they've signed up for a
properly should have watched SAS Australia before they agreed to.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Do it, because it's become very brutal very quickly, hasn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's become very brutal for a couple I would say,
But you know, you've got to keep it entertaining to
some degree.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So who's standing out for you in the first couple
of days, who's the standout for you?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think for me dancer James. He's an absolute standout
so far. Is not that he's making massive waves or causing,
you know, bringing much attention to himself, but he's just
getting on with it, no complaints and also helping out
his recruit teammates as well, which is a huge one
for me. I also think the stay at home mum Sandy,
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she showed good signs early. I think maybe tripped up
a little bit towards the end, but she's showing some
promise for me.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, Look, she seems quite capable of stuff until the
end of the second episode where she heard a calf
muscle something like that. But I mean that's where James
went back picked her, I put her on her shoulder
and carried her, and I was just like, tick, mate,
huge tick, because if you've done it wrong, the DS
would have yelled at him. He did not, for a
second appear to be doing that to try and win points.
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It looked like he'd made the decision to do the
right thing, and for me, that is absolute Minted Gold
let's talk about he's my favorite. I feel like Basim
has got all of the heart there, Like his heart
is so on that course, but his brain is at
Disneyland on a ride, having a fantastic day eating popcorn.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I love him.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'm the same, Like he's got so much heart, so
you can't put him down for that. He's obviously wanting
to be there. Obviously the DS have picked up. He's
probably trying a bit too hard and maybe that's what's
messing him up. But it just proves in this course,
you know, the braunze over the brains, Like he clearly
physically he can keep up, but right now he's definitely
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not the thinking soldier. And to be honest, I'd be
very surprised if he had a chance at this stage.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh no, oh god, no, Besim is no chance at all,
only because he's made an error so many times and
that will account at the end. But for me, I
want to see him go all the way because he
just loves being there, so he wants so badly to
be there, and for me, that is an awesome thing
to see, you know. I think if he can correct
himself from here and stop making any mistakes at all
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and really switch on, which I don't think he can.
I think he's too much in his own head now,
but he's certainly, you know, he's got all the heart
to be there. He needs to put on a shirt
a little bit more often it's like he's looking around
for mirrors. You know, he's not in a bodybuilding competition now,
but if he can get his mind in the game,
he'll at least, you know, be there at the end
of the seven days. How did you rate Bassim as
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the first judy recruit and his responsibilities?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Oh gosh, I mean, I think the one thing that
you take responsibility for when you become the judu Cup
is listening to instruction and taking responsibility for what your
group needs to do. Especially when you've been asked to
be out on the parade square by a certain time
in certain uniform. You have all the responsibility to make
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sure that that message gets across.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And he just wasn't listening. I don't know where his
brain was.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
The fact that there's a second chance, Sabrina, I was
so surprised by that. When they called back the Dais
called back Mitch and asked him to confirm the right
instructions and give them to him. He got it right,
but then he deferred to Basim and got They both
got it wrong. It's a bit of a fail on
both there, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The fact that they needed to go back and tell
the recruits that is probably a sense of doubt in
their behalf. They felt like they needed to go back
in the first place. So obviously they're seeing what we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, but it led to a beasting where, of course
the two boys Mitch and Basim were out the front
and the parade grand and having.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
To yell at the other recruits.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, oh wow, that was brutal. When they were
come on you, coconut, you've idiots. I was like, oh
my god. He was so clearly Basin was so clearly uncomfortable.
Both of them were with yelling at the other recruits.
But that that is designed to, you know, see not
just their personality traits and how they handle it, but
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how the other recruits will handle being, you know, in
front of those guys yelling at them. Okay, let's stick
with Basim for a second. He in the milling, which
of course is the boxing. Bassim volunteers to fight first,
and he calls out professional dancer James. I have a
feeling that maybe he thought the dancer was going to
be more butterfly and less b and he smashed bass him.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Do you know what, though, it keeps, it keeps coming
back to me.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
My issue with Bassim is I feel like he thinks
he's at the top right now, and maybe in his
world he is, you know, in his bodybuilding way pt world.
I don't know, but it's it's obvious that in this world,
you know, if you don't have the brains, if you're
not the thinking soldier, all of a sudden you are
at the bottom, you know. And I think in that
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in that fight, he's obviously you know, he's backed himself
in and really got a rude of waiting in and
I'm I'm hoping that those days, you know, that in
itself was enough to shake him up and go, you
know what, Okay, I need to reevaluate and I can
get better here.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well, somebody with a bit of experience in a bit
of nous is former federal police officer Gary Now he's
disgraced for federal police officer. Of course, he had a
terrible gambling addiction. But honestly, Sabrina, like when you hear
the term disgraced former police officer, the first thing that comes.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
To your head.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Is gary such a garry thing to do, But as
an ex federal copper, he's got a bit of nounce
about him, isn't he.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, he definitely does. But he came in probably a
little bit undercooked. Like, my biggest issue with this course is,
you know what you're getting yourself into physically, at the
very least, you need to come in with, you know,
the best physical shape you can possibly be in. And
for me, like, I don't know how far he's going
to be able to push himself. Quite clearly, he's struggling
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with the beastings. I don't know how long that's going
to last.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, his grip will only take him so far. But
you know, eventually, if his body's not in shape, you
know that's a given. You've got to be fit enough
to run it through. So after ultra marathon runner Beck
fight's adrenaline junkie Mitch. Unfortunately, I thought she did really well,
but she just seems to lose emotional control very quickly
in the piece, and you just can't afford to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, I mean, you're not always going to win a fight.
Anyone can win a fight, but the emotional control at
the end is so so important and I think that
we've seen that probably twice in her throughout the last
few days, and that is a major, major red flag
and in the end, I think it probably got to
her head and actually ultimately cost her.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I've seen a lot of the recruits very quickly emotions
and self doubt and chins down and body language has
changed after only two days. I don't think they're prepared
for the shock in the ore and maybe that was
you know, from the get go, it was really quite
shocking for them, and I think that they're still kind
of trying to readjust but the thing is they just
don't have time.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
They've got to adapt, not adjust.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So let's talk about the beastings, because that's for me,
that's a great attribute of this season. I really like
seeing the beastings. I know they're not beautiful, you know,
picturesque moments where you know people are hanging from gantries
or helicopters. But it really is the great divide, or
isn't it. Because if you can't pony up in a
beasting and get through it, then you're not going to
get through it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No. I agree, Beastings, I think, show the true determination
and grit that it takes to be there at the end.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
And if you.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Can't, if you can't control that emotion, you know, everyone's
not comfortable. There's no one in there that's thinking, I've
got this is an absolute breeze. But it's how you
handle the situations, how you handle injury, you know, extreme exhaustion,
you know.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
A hell of a lot of pain.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
How can you just basically embrace it, just feel it.
It's not going to get any worse. This is literally
the worst scenario you're going to be in. Just embrace
it and then take on the next challenge.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Do you reckon? We'll see a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I think this is a very good chance we're going
to see a lot of these civilian recruits vw through
the Beastings, more so than the last season, where we
saw people not particularly wanting to be challenged by something frightening.
You know, I just can't do that, That's the thing I
can't do. Whereas these people seem to be keen to
do things, but the Beastings is just going to break them.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, it definitely seems that way, And I don't know
if they thought originally that they were going to be
pushed that physically far.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I'm not sure. I mean, like you said, they probably
haven't even watched the show. Yeah, i'd be surprised.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
In a seven day period, you really need to cut
off the weak quite quickly, and I would say the
beastings are going to be pretty intense, probably for half
of the thing. Then you've got to break away from
those who are the ones that are thinking ahead of
the game.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, that's what I love about the show and what
I love about this season also to really what is
about the idea behind the selection course, which is they
break you down physically so that they can get to
you mentally and emotionally. So I think next week is
going to be really very good viewing. I'm looking forward
to having a look at that. The first people to
v W fashion designer Lena and the minor Kirsten, they
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were out pretty quickly. I don't think either of us
were surprised. I saw that coming pretty early.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, and with Curse and you could see the crack
quite early. And to be honest with Lena, you know
the first beasting straight after the you know, the backwards
for she was struggling in that beasting, and I probably
saw it right there that she wasn't gonna make it,
and with cursed and you know, the self doubt and
the self deprecating talk, that's a major red flag.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
So I can't say I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, I mean, this is, you know, the third season
that you and I have seen or been in, and
I have never seen anybody do negative self talk and
bounce back.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, neither. As soon as you can't convince yourself that
you need to be there, you just have no chance.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's all.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's the same day. It never goes over in even
a twenty four hour periods. Since you start talking negatively, Bang,
you're light.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The fuse up.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Next, the pain just keeps going. We're going to unpack
episode two. Well, it's only day two and as we
mentioned just earlier, the cracks are already showing amongst some
of the recruits. Schoolteacher Kelly and influencer Lisa are clearly struggling.
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Let's get right into the first challenge, Sabrina, the latter
troop extraction, which is, you know, where they climb up
the rope ladder. We saw a similar task in the
last season with the celebrities, but I love this because
it's pitting the recruits against each other on a race.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, I love this because we all know how much
more we can get out of ourselves when we're being competitive.
These are the scenarios where it is time to just
show a little bit more and see if you are
above the person next to you. So I loved it.
It was hard to watch and I would have loved
to have done this on our season.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You know what I love most about it, the sabrina
is the people who got up the ladder second get
pushed back out.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I love that too.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
As soon as you think you're safe, nap you straight
back out.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh what I thought. No, there's no seat.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
For you, there's no second best gone, no God, And.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's what's great about that is it shows you that
there is no concession.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
There's not going to be concession there.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And that's what I think is, you know at the
root of what those ds try to do. No concession,
you fail, you pay. Somebody who did very well though,
was Sandy. She was a standout so far. She's from
a family with military service. Do you think she can
go all the way because at this point, at this
stage in the episode, I was convinced that she was
going to be a real challenger.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, I felt the exact same.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I saw I go up that ladder as quick as anything,
by the way, and Yeah, I felt like in that
moment she really had what it took. And you know,
we were talking about it before that. I may be
with the injury now to the calf, it might be
a different scenario, but up until that point she was
a standout.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
The two worst were pretty obvious. It was Lisa and Beck.
They couldn't even get up the ladder. If you can't
get up the ladder, whatever's coming in the next few
days is just going to break you for sure, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, And to be honest in their world, they say
it is. You can't get up the ladder, you're dead.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yep. It's interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Lisa, who's you know, a fitness influencer. Do you reckon
at that stage when she's in the water, She's gone,
this is not forty five.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Look.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I feel for her because in terms of brand, that
is probably one of the worst moves to come on
this show. If that's what you're known for and you
can't even do a ladder climb, it's yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
What about a comedian who goes on the show and
can't even tell her Joe, what's that?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
What's is that worse?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's why you're doing what you what if you've been
doing for twenty five years telling jokes? Tell us a joke,
I don't have any You're an idiot. So look, I
do feel for her here, though.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I will say this is probably one of my favorite
lines from Foxy. You know, when Beck's out of the
water and she says, believe it or not, I was,
you know, a lifeguard at one stage, and Fox He's
just looked at her and gone, well, thang, I was
not on your beach that day. That is just the
funniest thing.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
How very much God, oh god.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I was like genuinely shocked when she said that, but Fox,
it was stunned. At the end of this episode, we've
got some classic sledges from the ds. They have gone
to town on them. We'll get to those shortly, but
let's have a look at another one of the brutal
moments where recruits have to vote out the weakest person
in the group. It is it's really hard to do,
perhaps less so for civilians who don't know each other.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's a tough one.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
But I think, and I've said this before, it's a
moment of even if you're picked as one of the weakest,
it's an opportunity. Take it as an opportunity to get
firing and prove people wrong and show them what you're
capable of. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing,
and I think in our season a couple got voted
as the weakest, and I actually think that it empowered
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them to go a little bit further.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Of course that led straight into the fact that there
would be the team leaders for the tire drag now
saying that before, it is not it's not an easy
looking task, and they were at the front of there.
They had Kelly Beck and Lisa upfront. Lisa just crumbles here.
There was really no excuse for it. She was just
not being able to focus as well as not being
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able to physically offer anything. So it was a bit
of a double take on her.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I think, yeah, she and to be honest, I probably
saw it in her eyes before she even started the task,
and it's a terrible, exhausting task to do, and I
felt like she knew she was not going to get
through this course. So yeah, it's sad when you see
people go because I actually think maybe she could have
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held in there a little bit longer, but she just
didn't give herself that opportunity. And sometimes your mind just
takes over your body and you just give up before
before you you know, your body does. But with all
three of those, they were voted, you know, the weak,
and given the opportunity to be the leaders, and they
ended up all going.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
That's not a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Nah, you're facing the fire there and you're either going
to push through it or you are going to get
found out. What I found really interesting, and I don't
know if you notice this, but with the Red Team,
they were offered by the DS the option to drop
a tire if they dropped a teammate. If they could
get their teammate struggling to VW that was Kelly, then
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they could drop a tire. And what I found interesting
so quickly was Sandy Yes was straight away onto Kelly
to hand in her number. And I don't remember any
of us telling another person to hand in their number
when they were struggling. You tried to get people through,
everyone through, but she was very quick to drop the
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hammer on Kelly.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
What did you think? Did you recognize that and what
did you think when you saw it?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, I saw it and I was a bit gutted
because that is just not not the person that they
need at the end. You know, I had difficulties with
in our season, but never would I have once told
him to hand in his number during a task because
we needed to carry on as much as it was frustrating,
you know, you give everyone the opportunity to put put
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as much as they can in for the team. And yeah,
it was a major rad flag for me.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It worries me that if the DS clock that at
the end, if she comes to be judged on whether
or not she'll make selection, I think that's the sort
of thing could hold her back.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
We'll wait and see. We don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Maybe that in seed Another night beasting. Oh, this one
I loved. I love watching this. It was eleven pm
this time, and I should I think we should probably
point out to be I mean we had several night beastings, yes,
and they are just that much harder, and they particularly
if you've got into a position where you're relaxed, you're
taking some rest and your body's winding down and trying
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to recover. As soon as you start to recover bank
they drag you out again for an hour or two.
It is absolutely brutal. But the cold water shock really
threw them around.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, and the night beastings that you know, they are
the coldest, and you could tell that at that stage
they were cold, and putting them in cold water.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
It was tough. Honestly, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Though I loved seeing it, I loved the fact that
they actually just got.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
On with it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah. What I like about it, what I look for
is when you see people in the ice, it's actually
look at their eyes, like, what's the intent in their eyes? Are?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Are they shuddering? Do they look scared? Do they look focused?
Do they look calm? I think what you see in
people's eyes at that moment will say a lot about
how far they will go on that course. For me,
Luke the tradey he had it under control. James the
Dancer had it under control. Gary the cop had it
under control. You know, they were facing the cold of
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the water. But then of course once they get out
onto the beasting, Gary looked like he was in a
bit of strife.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, you know, we said it fitness, he's just not there,
and you know, maybe his mindset of his past career,
you know, maybe that might be enough to take him through.
But it is very very hard, especially with the beast
things at night. You know, I genuinely thought he was going.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
To trip up.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
The baby carries the burpies, you know, over the back
the fireman carries.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I know exactly how that feels.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And honestly, if I was carrying any extra weight, I
don't know how I could have done it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well, you you literally carried me, carrying me around the yard.
I remember thinking of the time and going better her
than me. I'm so glad she's carrying me.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I was very careful about it, and he ended up
carrying me right to the very end of the show,
which was mentally and physically all right. So we're halfway
through Hell Week nine recruits remain. There's been a big
peel off in just a couple of days. Who do
you see going all the way from here, Sabrena, I've
got to say Dancer James. I've got to say he
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seems super solid, like I said, not really causing much
of a fuss at all, which I'm a massive fan.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Of Also Sarah the Dating Coach. There's something about her.
I'm not sure yet. We haven't had that much to
do with her, but there's something telling me that you know,
she's going to be real contender. So I'm going to
say her as well, what about you?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, there's a couple of little ghosts in there, a
couple of gray men, isn't there? And it's actually the women.
She's one of them. Isabella will yet to see more
from as well the rappers. So but I think you're right.
You can see in the eyes she's there to play,
she's there for the right reasons. And definitely James the Dancer,
he's fully focused. So too is Luke the Trade. So
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it'll be interesting to see how the next couple of days, because,
as you know, like you can just have one bad
day on that course and you're gone.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, you know, a couple of.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Bad things in a row, two exercises that haven't gone
your way, and you start eating away in your own
mind and people are off. So it'd be interesting. Sandy
the mum of three, stay her mum. I think that
she's injured a calf. That will be very, very difficult
for her to shape up from.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But also I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
How her desire will carry her through. If it's there
strong enough, she could very well. I mean she comes
from a military family, so very possible, but a calf
injury is very tricky.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
At that stage of her hurting her calf, I felt
like if she couldn't walk herself or job herself back
to the accommodation, chances are she probably can't carry on
in the course.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, and as we said, you know, James picking her
up the dancer, picking her up and putting her on
his shoulder was very smart, very team orientated, and that's
what they want. They're looking for people who will think
outside of themselves as an individual and play a team game.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Big tick.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
There no shortage of great moments in the first two episodes,
and we go through our highlights in just a moment. Well,
we often talk a lot about the recruits on this podcast,
but let's be honest, the stars of the show are
the directing staff, and it would be wrong of us
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not to highlight some.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Of their best work. In the first week.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I put together a top four best of moments for
this week, Sabrina.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Here's number four. I have listened to this do you.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Work out my shirt gold work out?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, I do. Thanks for coming out and showing me.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Everyone on the parade square T shirts, numbers, boots, no burgans, yep, ahi.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Guys, everything on. Yeah, bergens included as well.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It sounded like that we're having such a moment like
over dinner and Bassim's gone, oh my goodness, and he's
forgotten about the detail that he was given.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, you know what, he probably he probably cocked up
the detail because he was so he would have been
thinking he complimenting with it. But as you know, like
that's that's Ollie just getting in his head just to
mess with him, and he got it right.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Absolutely So.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Of course that was Basim who was a Judy recruit
and then went on to forget everything in the world.
Number three of my favorite moments happened to be in
episode two. We saw the recruits in the water and
some struggled more than others.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
He's swimming water before everyone.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I used to thank I never got into trouble on
your beach.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Thank you vomiting up.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
On me, don't go bloody vomiting on me. That is
that is honestly the funniest thing Foxy his one liners
are just so funny. But in that moment, she would
have been feeling, I've lost it.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Ear this.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
She had already drunk a whole pond full of water,
and then Foxy just comes in and goes, I can
make it worse than that. Watch this all right, Let's
head to the interrogation and we often hear some of
the most sightful and inspiring moments for the recruits and
the audience, but sometimes not so much.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Tell me something interesting about yourself, because at the moment fars.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
To write song about you, it would be boring. I'm
a teacher.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Now, I teach people, I become bets and education has
been the forefront of my investment for me.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You're a teacher, is that what you said to me? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
And you can't follow basic instruction?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That is honestly what you'd want at the top of
your resume. I wouldn't know what to say to that.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Oh, seriously, I was glad I didn't have a hot
cup of tea at that moment.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Because I would have spat it alonever myself.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Look in terms of like what Aunt Middleton can do
to you, that's pretty up there. That's brutal, but it
just goes to show you can't bullshit the bullshitters.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
They're not They know when.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You're just you know, trying to plicate them with words,
and they're not going.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
To buy it, not at all.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
All right, So the number one moment for the week
I reckon. We head to the parade square where the
best spraying is not given by the ds but instead
the recruits.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Now everyone after me say thank you number one, and
thank you to number six, number one.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The brothers comeing to squat squat. Tem's getting above the heads.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Love your heads, guys, Burgins, No, not.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Guys, Get above your heads.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
You tell him, get above your heads.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
You tell them, get above your head.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
You tell them what idiots you are.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Come on, idiots, love your head? Tell them. So, come on,
your bunch of colcnnuts, get it up, Come on, coconut,
get your heads, get.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
It up, get it above your head, get it above
your head. The rest of you could thank these pair
of clowns. Put your purgons down for fucking you two.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
This is not oh oh my gosh, the coconuts. The
coconuts got me. I lost it because you know you're
expecting them to say everything that they normally say. But
the coconuts one got me.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
It was incredible, Sabrina. In all honesty, would you rather
have been at the top of the parade square shouting
at them or would you rather have been the person
copping the beast?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I honestly I'd rather get bested.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Because I honestly don't know if I could have.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Kept a straight face saying that.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
But also to like ladiis have given them a handful
of salt to throat into an open wound, and that
would really have divided some of those recruits on the
ground eating rubble. They would have been thinking.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Nah, nah, nah, not at all.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Well, I'm very impressed with Brina. In short, I really
really impressed with a lot of these recruits. I really
enjoy watching this series and seeing how they are being
brutalized and still keeping their chins up for the most
of it. So looking forward to next week. Thanks for listening.
The last episode drops next week for SAS Australia.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Hell week. If these first.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Two episodes are anything to go by, it's going to
be brutal personally. I can't wait to see it and
look forward to your company. Then I'll see you next week, Sabrena.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
See then, and of.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Course don't miss a thing. Watch Sas Australia on Channel
seven and seven plus and catch the Essays Australia Debrief
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Till next time,
Hi there.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Marrick Watts here with Sabrina Frederick and this is
the SAS Australian Debrief. Well we're used to seeing celebrities
being flogged on SAS Australia, but why shouldn't ordinary Aussies
get the chance to life face down in the mud
whilst being screamed at by the DS. Sabrina, great to
see you. First impressions of Hell week?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
What are they?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I've loved it all for the CV season. I'm loving
their major amounts of beast things. I was a bit
skeptical about the seven days, but I'm proving to think
that it's actually going to be quite tough.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So much to dissect from just the first two days alone.
But coming up on this episode, we're going to give
you our insights into the small details that the DS
will be.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Looking for from the recruits. We'll discuss the brutal and
yet beautiful beasts.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
That have seen so far, and there were some cracking
DS one liners. This week we'll go through all of
our favorites. Let's get stuck into it. So these civilian
recruits are going through the SAS experience, but there's an
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enormous difference they've compressed two weeks of pain into just
one week of challenges beastings, sleep, and food deprivation.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Sabrina, would you prefer to.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Do one week absolutely excruciating or eke it out over
to how do they compare?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I feel like the super horrible one week would be
terrible for the first few days, like it would be
so physically demanding, and pretty much this focus would be
to cut off the week physically, and I don't know
how enjoyable that would be when you can't really do
anything else other than physical tasks.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's great to watch though I've loved the episode so far,
but I don't know if I would have preferred it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's absolutely brutal, and I think one of the things
about a shorter season of just seven days like that
is that you can't really feel to make too many
mistakes because you won't have the time to get it
back to impress them again. So they've got to be really,
really careful. Let's talk about some of the details that
the DS will be looking for, Sabrina to, you know,
to kind of impress them.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, I think, like you said, you don't have as
much time in a seven week season to make up
for mistakes. They're looking for how quickly you can be
immersed into their world. They want to know if you're
taking in the details, if you're listening, actively listening, and
they're trying to see if you can pretty much commit
fully for the seven days. And I think that the
last few seasons, with two weeks, you have a bit
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more time to prove yourself, whereas seven days, one mistake
and that's it for you.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, some recruits have made one mistake every single time
they've done something.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So but we'll get to Bassim later. The interesting thing about.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know, the compressed course too, is that it is
so brutal physically that you don't have time to recover,
which also means that you know, it is harder to
recover mentally because your body is just flawed.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So it is.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It is I think, very very impactful on the recruits
minds as well, which is probably why we're basic errors.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, and to be honest, I think these guys have
come in in well, I don't really know why they're here.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They're not here to boost their profile, which is credit
to them. For coming on this course because they really
are here for the right reasons. I think that they
don't have the context maybe bias that comes with having
a profile as well. So I'm interested to see how
the DS go with these guys, because for the first
time ever, fans are really seeing it how these DS
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are seeing it. They don't have any information on these
people when they walk through the door, and you just
have no idea how they're going to go.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, I really I've hats off to them. I really
really respect them.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I really like seeing people with no profile having a
crack because they've got a reason or a purpose to
be there. I think most of them have anyway. I
also think there's a couple of people there who might
be I don't know, for example, an influencer who have
seemingly got no idea what they've signed up for a
properly should have watched SAS Australia before they agreed to.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Do it, because it's become very brutal very quickly, hasn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's become very brutal for a couple I would say,
But you know, you've got to keep it entertaining to
some degree.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So who's standing out for you in the first couple
of days, who's the standout for you?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think for me dancer James. He's an absolute standout
so far. Is not that he's making massive waves or causing,
you know, bringing much attention to himself, but he's just
getting on with it, no complaints and also helping out
his recruit teammates as well, which is a huge one
for me. I also think the stay at home mum Sandy,
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she showed good signs early. I think maybe tripped up
a little bit towards the end, but she's showing some
promise for me.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, Look, she seems quite capable of stuff until the
end of the second episode where she heard a calf
muscle something like that. But I mean that's where James
went back picked her, I put her on her shoulder
and carried her, and I was just like, tick, mate,
huge tick, because if you've done it wrong, the DS
would have yelled at him. He did not, for a
second appear to be doing that to try and win points.
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It looked like he'd made the decision to do the
right thing, and for me, that is absolute Minted Gold
let's talk about he's my favorite. I feel like Basim
has got all of the heart there, Like his heart
is so on that course, but his brain is at
Disneyland on a ride, having a fantastic day eating popcorn.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I love him.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'm the same, Like he's got so much heart, so
you can't put him down for that. He's obviously wanting
to be there. Obviously the DS have picked up. He's
probably trying a bit too hard and maybe that's what's
messing him up. But it just proves in this course,
you know, the braunze over the brains, Like he clearly
physically he can keep up, but right now he's definitely
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not the thinking soldier. And to be honest, I'd be
very surprised if he had a chance at this stage.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh no, oh god, no, Besim is no chance at all,
only because he's made an error so many times and
that will account at the end. But for me, I
want to see him go all the way because he
just loves being there, so he wants so badly to
be there, and for me, that is an awesome thing
to see, you know. I think if he can correct
himself from here and stop making any mistakes at all
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and really switch on, which I don't think he can.
I think he's too much in his own head now,
but he's certainly, you know, he's got all the heart
to be there. He needs to put on a shirt
a little bit more often it's like he's looking around
for mirrors. You know, he's not in a bodybuilding competition now,
but if he can get his mind in the game,
he'll at least, you know, be there at the end
of the seven days. How did you rate Bassim as
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the first judy recruit and his responsibilities?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Oh gosh, I mean, I think the one thing that
you take responsibility for when you become the judu Cup
is listening to instruction and taking responsibility for what your
group needs to do. Especially when you've been asked to
be out on the parade square by a certain time
in certain uniform. You have all the responsibility to make
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sure that that message gets across.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And he just wasn't listening. I don't know where his
brain was.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
The fact that there's a second chance, Sabrina, I was
so surprised by that. When they called back the Dais
called back Mitch and asked him to confirm the right
instructions and give them to him. He got it right,
but then he deferred to Basim and got They both
got it wrong. It's a bit of a fail on
both there, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The fact that they needed to go back and tell
the recruits that is probably a sense of doubt in
their behalf. They felt like they needed to go back
in the first place. So obviously they're seeing what we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, but it led to a beasting where, of course
the two boys Mitch and Basim were out the front
and the parade grand and having.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
To yell at the other recruits.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, oh wow, that was brutal. When they were
come on you, coconut, you've idiots. I was like, oh
my god. He was so clearly Basin was so clearly uncomfortable.
Both of them were with yelling at the other recruits.
But that that is designed to, you know, see not
just their personality traits and how they handle it, but
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how the other recruits will handle being, you know, in
front of those guys yelling at them. Okay, let's stick
with Basim for a second. He in the milling, which
of course is the boxing. Bassim volunteers to fight first,
and he calls out professional dancer James. I have a
feeling that maybe he thought the dancer was going to
be more butterfly and less b and he smashed bass him.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Do you know what, though, it keeps, it keeps coming
back to me.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
My issue with Bassim is I feel like he thinks
he's at the top right now, and maybe in his
world he is, you know, in his bodybuilding way pt world.
I don't know, but it's it's obvious that in this world,
you know, if you don't have the brains, if you're
not the thinking soldier, all of a sudden you are
at the bottom, you know. And I think in that
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in that fight, he's obviously you know, he's backed himself
in and really got a rude of waiting in and
I'm I'm hoping that those days, you know, that in
itself was enough to shake him up and go, you
know what, Okay, I need to reevaluate and I can
get better here.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well, somebody with a bit of experience in a bit
of nous is former federal police officer Gary Now he's
disgraced for federal police officer. Of course, he had a
terrible gambling addiction. But honestly, Sabrina, like when you hear
the term disgraced former police officer, the first thing that comes.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
To your head.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Is gary such a garry thing to do, But as
an ex federal copper, he's got a bit of nounce
about him, isn't he.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, he definitely does. But he came in probably a
little bit undercooked. Like, my biggest issue with this course is,
you know what you're getting yourself into physically, at the
very least, you need to come in with, you know,
the best physical shape you can possibly be in. And
for me, like, I don't know how far he's going
to be able to push himself. Quite clearly, he's struggling
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with the beastings. I don't know how long that's going
to last.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, his grip will only take him so far. But
you know, eventually, if his body's not in shape, you
know that's a given. You've got to be fit enough
to run it through. So after ultra marathon runner Beck
fight's adrenaline junkie Mitch. Unfortunately, I thought she did really well,
but she just seems to lose emotional control very quickly
in the piece, and you just can't afford to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, I mean, you're not always going to win a fight.
Anyone can win a fight, but the emotional control at
the end is so so important and I think that
we've seen that probably twice in her throughout the last
few days, and that is a major, major red flag
and in the end, I think it probably got to
her head and actually ultimately cost her.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I've seen a lot of the recruits very quickly emotions
and self doubt and chins down and body language has
changed after only two days. I don't think they're prepared
for the shock in the ore and maybe that was
you know, from the get go, it was really quite
shocking for them, and I think that they're still kind
of trying to readjust but the thing is they just
don't have time.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
They've got to adapt, not adjust.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So let's talk about the beastings, because that's for me,
that's a great attribute of this season. I really like
seeing the beastings. I know they're not beautiful, you know,
picturesque moments where you know people are hanging from gantries
or helicopters. But it really is the great divide, or
isn't it. Because if you can't pony up in a
beasting and get through it, then you're not going to
get through it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No. I agree, Beastings, I think, show the true determination
and grit that it takes to be there at the end.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
And if you.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Can't, if you can't control that emotion, you know, everyone's
not comfortable. There's no one in there that's thinking, I've
got this is an absolute breeze. But it's how you
handle the situations, how you handle injury, you know, extreme exhaustion,
you know.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
A hell of a lot of pain.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
How can you just basically embrace it, just feel it.
It's not going to get any worse. This is literally
the worst scenario you're going to be in. Just embrace
it and then take on the next challenge.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Do you reckon? We'll see a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I think this is a very good chance we're going
to see a lot of these civilian recruits vw through
the Beastings, more so than the last season, where we
saw people not particularly wanting to be challenged by something frightening.
You know, I just can't do that, That's the thing I
can't do. Whereas these people seem to be keen to
do things, but the Beastings is just going to break them.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, it definitely seems that way, And I don't know
if they thought originally that they were going to be
pushed that physically far.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I'm not sure. I mean, like you said, they probably
haven't even watched the show. Yeah, i'd be surprised.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
In a seven day period, you really need to cut
off the weak quite quickly, and I would say the
beastings are going to be pretty intense, probably for half
of the thing. Then you've got to break away from
those who are the ones that are thinking ahead of
the game.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, that's what I love about the show and what
I love about this season also to really what is
about the idea behind the selection course, which is they
break you down physically so that they can get to
you mentally and emotionally. So I think next week is
going to be really very good viewing. I'm looking forward
to having a look at that. The first people to
v W fashion designer Lena and the minor Kirsten, they
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were out pretty quickly. I don't think either of us
were surprised. I saw that coming pretty early.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, and with Curse and you could see the crack
quite early. And to be honest with Lena, you know
the first beasting straight after the you know, the backwards
for she was struggling in that beasting, and I probably
saw it right there that she wasn't gonna make it,
and with cursed and you know, the self doubt and
the self deprecating talk, that's a major red flag.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
So I can't say I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, I mean, this is, you know, the third season
that you and I have seen or been in, and
I have never seen anybody do negative self talk and
bounce back.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, neither. As soon as you can't convince yourself that
you need to be there, you just have no chance.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's all.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's the same day. It never goes over in even
a twenty four hour periods. Since you start talking negatively, Bang,
you're light.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The fuse up.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Next, the pain just keeps going. We're going to unpack
episode two. Well, it's only day two and as we
mentioned just earlier, the cracks are already showing amongst some
of the recruits. Schoolteacher Kelly and influencer Lisa are clearly struggling.
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Let's get right into the first challenge, Sabrina, the latter
troop extraction, which is, you know, where they climb up
the rope ladder. We saw a similar task in the
last season with the celebrities, but I love this because
it's pitting the recruits against each other on a race.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, I love this because we all know how much
more we can get out of ourselves when we're being competitive.
These are the scenarios where it is time to just
show a little bit more and see if you are
above the person next to you. So I loved it.
It was hard to watch and I would have loved
to have done this on our season.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You know what I love most about it, the sabrina
is the people who got up the ladder second get
pushed back out.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I love that too.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
As soon as you think you're safe, nap you straight
back out.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh what I thought. No, there's no seat.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
For you, there's no second best gone, no God, And.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's what's great about that is it shows you that
there is no concession.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
There's not going to be concession there.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And that's what I think is, you know at the
root of what those ds try to do. No concession,
you fail, you pay. Somebody who did very well though,
was Sandy. She was a standout so far. She's from
a family with military service. Do you think she can
go all the way because at this point, at this
stage in the episode, I was convinced that she was
going to be a real challenger.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yeah, I felt the exact same.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I saw I go up that ladder as quick as anything,
by the way, and Yeah, I felt like in that
moment she really had what it took. And you know,
we were talking about it before that. I may be
with the injury now to the calf, it might be
a different scenario, but up until that point she was
a standout.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
The two worst were pretty obvious. It was Lisa and Beck.
They couldn't even get up the ladder. If you can't
get up the ladder, whatever's coming in the next few
days is just going to break you for sure, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, And to be honest in their world, they say
it is. You can't get up the ladder, you're dead.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yep. It's interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Lisa, who's you know, a fitness influencer. Do you reckon
at that stage when she's in the water, She's gone,
this is not forty five.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Look.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I feel for her because in terms of brand, that
is probably one of the worst moves to come on
this show. If that's what you're known for and you
can't even do a ladder climb, it's yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
What about a comedian who goes on the show and
can't even tell her Joe, what's that?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
What's is that worse?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's why you're doing what you what if you've been
doing for twenty five years telling jokes? Tell us a joke,
I don't have any You're an idiot. So look, I
do feel for her here, though.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I will say this is probably one of my favorite
lines from Foxy. You know, when Beck's out of the
water and she says, believe it or not, I was,
you know, a lifeguard at one stage, and Fox He's
just looked at her and gone, well, thang, I was
not on your beach that day. That is just the
funniest thing.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
How very much God, oh god.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I was like genuinely shocked when she said that, but Fox,
it was stunned. At the end of this episode, we've
got some classic sledges from the ds. They have gone
to town on them. We'll get to those shortly, but
let's have a look at another one of the brutal
moments where recruits have to vote out the weakest person
in the group. It is it's really hard to do,
perhaps less so for civilians who don't know each other.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It's a tough one.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
But I think, and I've said this before, it's a
moment of even if you're picked as one of the weakest,
it's an opportunity. Take it as an opportunity to get
firing and prove people wrong and show them what you're
capable of. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing,
and I think in our season a couple got voted
as the weakest, and I actually think that it empowered
(17:57):
them to go a little bit further.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Of course that led straight into the fact that there
would be the team leaders for the tire drag now
saying that before, it is not it's not an easy
looking task, and they were at the front of there.
They had Kelly Beck and Lisa upfront. Lisa just crumbles here.
There was really no excuse for it. She was just
not being able to focus as well as not being
(18:21):
able to physically offer anything. So it was a bit
of a double take on her.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I think, yeah, she and to be honest, I probably
saw it in her eyes before she even started the task,
and it's a terrible, exhausting task to do, and I
felt like she knew she was not going to get
through this course. So yeah, it's sad when you see
people go because I actually think maybe she could have
(18:47):
held in there a little bit longer, but she just
didn't give herself that opportunity. And sometimes your mind just
takes over your body and you just give up before
before you you know, your body does. But with all
three of those, they were voted, you know, the weak,
and given the opportunity to be the leaders, and they
ended up all going.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
That's not a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Nah, you're facing the fire there and you're either going
to push through it or you are going to get
found out. What I found really interesting, and I don't
know if you notice this, but with the Red Team,
they were offered by the DS the option to drop
a tire if they dropped a teammate. If they could
get their teammate struggling to VW that was Kelly, then
(19:26):
they could drop a tire. And what I found interesting
so quickly was Sandy Yes was straight away onto Kelly
to hand in her number. And I don't remember any
of us telling another person to hand in their number
when they were struggling. You tried to get people through,
everyone through, but she was very quick to drop the
(19:46):
hammer on Kelly.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
What did you think? Did you recognize that and what
did you think when you saw it?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, I saw it and I was a bit gutted
because that is just not not the person that they
need at the end. You know, I had difficulties with
in our season, but never would I have once told
him to hand in his number during a task because
we needed to carry on as much as it was frustrating,
you know, you give everyone the opportunity to put put
(20:11):
as much as they can in for the team. And yeah,
it was a major rad flag for me.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It worries me that if the DS clock that at
the end, if she comes to be judged on whether
or not she'll make selection, I think that's the sort
of thing could hold her back.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
We'll wait and see. We don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Maybe that in seed Another night beasting. Oh, this one
I loved. I love watching this. It was eleven pm
this time, and I should I think we should probably
point out to be I mean we had several night beastings, yes,
and they are just that much harder, and they particularly
if you've got into a position where you're relaxed, you're
taking some rest and your body's winding down and trying
(20:48):
to recover. As soon as you start to recover bank
they drag you out again for an hour or two.
It is absolutely brutal. But the cold water shock really
threw them around.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, and the night beastings that you know, they are
the coldest, and you could tell that at that stage
they were cold, and putting them in cold water.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
It was tough. Honestly, I loved it.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Though I loved seeing it, I loved the fact that
they actually just got.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
On with it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah. What I like about it, what I look for
is when you see people in the ice, it's actually
look at their eyes, like, what's the intent in their eyes? Are?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Are they shuddering? Do they look scared? Do they look focused?
Do they look calm? I think what you see in
people's eyes at that moment will say a lot about
how far they will go on that course. For me,
Luke the tradey he had it under control. James the
Dancer had it under control. Gary the cop had it
under control. You know, they were facing the cold of
(21:44):
the water. But then of course once they get out
onto the beasting, Gary looked like he was in a
bit of strife.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, you know, we said it fitness, he's just not there,
and you know, maybe his mindset of his past career,
you know, maybe that might be enough to take him through.
But it is very very hard, especially with the beast
things at night. You know, I genuinely thought he was going.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
To trip up.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
The baby carries the burpies, you know, over the back
the fireman carries.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I know exactly how that feels.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And honestly, if I was carrying any extra weight, I
don't know how I could have done it.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well, you you literally carried me, carrying me around the yard.
I remember thinking of the time and going better her
than me. I'm so glad she's carrying me.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I was very careful about it, and he ended up
carrying me right to the very end of the show,
which was mentally and physically all right. So we're halfway
through Hell Week nine recruits remain. There's been a big
peel off in just a couple of days. Who do
you see going all the way from here, Sabrena, I've
got to say Dancer James. I've got to say he
(22:49):
seems super solid, like I said, not really causing much
of a fuss at all, which I'm a massive fan.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Of Also Sarah the Dating Coach. There's something about her.
I'm not sure yet. We haven't had that much to
do with her, but there's something telling me that you know,
she's going to be real contender. So I'm going to
say her as well, what about you?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, there's a couple of little ghosts in there, a
couple of gray men, isn't there? And it's actually the women.
She's one of them. Isabella will yet to see more
from as well the rappers. So but I think you're right.
You can see in the eyes she's there to play,
she's there for the right reasons. And definitely James the Dancer,
he's fully focused. So too is Luke the Trade. So
(23:31):
it'll be interesting to see how the next couple of days, because,
as you know, like you can just have one bad
day on that course and you're gone.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, you know, a couple of.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Bad things in a row, two exercises that haven't gone
your way, and you start eating away in your own
mind and people are off. So it'd be interesting. Sandy
the mum of three, stay her mum. I think that
she's injured a calf. That will be very, very difficult
for her to shape up from.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But also I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
How her desire will carry her through. If it's there
strong enough, she could very well. I mean she comes
from a military family, so very possible, but a calf
injury is very tricky.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
At that stage of her hurting her calf, I felt
like if she couldn't walk herself or job herself back
to the accommodation, chances are she probably can't carry on
in the course.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, and as we said, you know, James picking her
up the dancer, picking her up and putting her on
his shoulder was very smart, very team orientated, and that's
what they want. They're looking for people who will think
outside of themselves as an individual and play a team game.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Big tick.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
There no shortage of great moments in the first two episodes,
and we go through our highlights in just a moment. Well,
we often talk a lot about the recruits on this podcast,
but let's be honest, the stars of the show are
the directing staff, and it would be wrong of us
(25:00):
not to highlight some.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Of their best work. In the first week.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I put together a top four best of moments for
this week, Sabrina.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Here's number four. I have listened to this do you.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Work out my shirt gold work out?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, I do. Thanks for coming out and showing me.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Everyone on the parade square T shirts, numbers, boots, no burgans, yep, ahi.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Guys, everything on. Yeah, bergens included as well.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It sounded like that we're having such a moment like
over dinner and Bassim's gone, oh my goodness, and he's
forgotten about the detail that he was given.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, you know what, he probably he probably cocked up
the detail because he was so he would have been
thinking he complimenting with it. But as you know, like
that's that's Ollie just getting in his head just to
mess with him, and he got it right.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Absolutely So.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Of course that was Basim who was a Judy recruit
and then went on to forget everything in the world.
Number three of my favorite moments happened to be in
episode two. We saw the recruits in the water and
some struggled more than others.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
He's swimming water before everyone.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I used to thank I never got into trouble on
your beach.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Thank you vomiting up.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
On me, don't go bloody vomiting on me. That is
that is honestly the funniest thing Foxy his one liners
are just so funny. But in that moment, she would
have been feeling, I've lost it.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Ear this.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
She had already drunk a whole pond full of water,
and then Foxy just comes in and goes, I can
make it worse than that. Watch this all right, Let's
head to the interrogation and we often hear some of
the most sightful and inspiring moments for the recruits and
the audience, but sometimes not so much.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Tell me something interesting about yourself, because at the moment fars.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
To write song about you, it would be boring. I'm
a teacher.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Now, I teach people, I become bets and education has
been the forefront of my investment for me.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You're a teacher, is that what you said to me? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
And you can't follow basic instruction?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That is honestly what you'd want at the top of
your resume. I wouldn't know what to say to that.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Oh, seriously, I was glad I didn't have a hot
cup of tea at that moment.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Because I would have spat it alonever myself.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Look in terms of like what Aunt Middleton can do
to you, that's pretty up there. That's brutal, but it
just goes to show you can't bullshit the bullshitters.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
They're not They know when.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
You're just you know, trying to plicate them with words,
and they're not going.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
To buy it, not at all.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
All right, So the number one moment for the week
I reckon. We head to the parade square where the
best spraying is not given by the ds but instead
the recruits.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Now everyone after me say thank you number one, and
thank you to number six, number one.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The brothers comeing to squat squat. Tem's getting above the heads.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Love your heads, guys, Burgins, No, not.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Guys, Get above your heads.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
You tell him, get above your heads.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
You tell them, get above your head.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
You tell them what idiots you are.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Come on, idiots, love your head? Tell them. So, come on,
your bunch of colcnnuts, get it up, Come on, coconut,
get your heads, get.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
It up, get it above your head, get it above
your head. The rest of you could thank these pair
of clowns. Put your purgons down for fucking you two.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
This is not oh oh my gosh, the coconuts. The
coconuts got me. I lost it because you know you're
expecting them to say everything that they normally say. But
the coconuts one got me.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
It was incredible, Sabrina. In all honesty, would you rather
have been at the top of the parade square shouting
at them or would you rather have been the person
copping the beast?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I honestly I'd rather get bested.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Because I honestly don't know if I could have.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Kept a straight face saying that.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
But also to like ladiis have given them a handful
of salt to throat into an open wound, and that
would really have divided some of those recruits on the
ground eating rubble. They would have been thinking.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Nah, nah, nah, not at all.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Well, I'm very impressed with Brina. In short, I really
really impressed with a lot of these recruits. I really
enjoy watching this series and seeing how they are being
brutalized and still keeping their chins up for the most
of it. So looking forward to next week. Thanks for listening.
The last episode drops next week for SAS Australia.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Hell week. If these first.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Two episodes are anything to go by, it's going to
be brutal personally. I can't wait to see it and
look forward to your company. Then I'll see you next week, Sabrena.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
See then, and of.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Course don't miss a thing. Watch Sas Australia on Channel
seven and seven plus and catch the Essays Australia Debrief
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Till next time,
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