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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is a podcast from Rover.
Well, well, well. Hello, friends. Seven comedians, six escape rooms, all vying for one completely worthless trophy. I'm so chilled. You know there's an answer there and you just can't see it. OK, OK. My strategy is to pick up something important and just walk around with it. I'll take myself out of this situation for a bit. Just wait till they see what I have in store.
That is Rove McManus. There he is.
What a wicked laugh that is.
Evil man. Dangerous.
He's got it in him. This whole nice guy facade. What a monster though. He can be himself on TV now. Deep down.
Yeah, my true self comes out in this show for sure. Celebrity Escape, which is on Tuesday 3, 3 now as well, 7.30. You're back on the TV, Rove. You're back in the studio. You've got a great memory. You and I apparently had a push-off, a pull-up competition or something.
We did a push-up competition.
A press-up competition, yes.
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Chapter 2: What is Rove McManus's new show about?
It was a different time. We'd fill breaks by doing pull-off competitions. It was sponsored too. That was the weird part. We filmed it.
It was for charity, for a children's hospital. It was wrong on so many levels.
How about that? Celebrity pull-off for your next program. What do you think? How do you get eliminated?
Roger's in the corner, pulling himself off, and you have to get out of the room.
Chapter 3: How does Rove describe his experience on Celebrity Escape?
Imagine that's the first room that people walk into.
That's on the dark web. Just Rog on his own. Everyone's like, how do we get out? Why is Rove here? Where did he come from? Why is he watching? Why is he watching in the other room? Anyway, been great, Ted.
Thanks, Rove. So do watch, everybody.
So you've got these comedians. They're not pulling off. I haven't seen it. You tell us.
Have any of you three done an escape room before? But funny you say that. It is funny I say that. Because obviously it's based on the program. But we were just having this conversation. We wanted to put either all of our show or some of our show into it just to see how they would handle and what it showed about their personality.
So we were discussing it before we'd seen the ad and knew that we were having you in for it.
Well, it's usually nowadays it is done as a team building thing. So a lot of people listening might know what they are. But it's essentially... It usually has a theme of some kind and you walk in and it's immersive like if it was like, oh, it's a doctor's surgery. It's made to look like that.
But then hidden in the room are clues to other parts of the room where there will be a puzzle which gives you the next clue that you will need to eventually find your way back out of the room because we lock you in. Yeah. And you have to do what you can to find the code to find the lock to get yourself out.
And the clues can be staring you straight in the face and you have no idea that it's obvious.
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges comedians face in escape rooms?
Get out.
You're fired. You're fired.
Be honest. Did you ever watch Rove? Rove Live. No. There we go. So great honesty, though. I respect it.
I respect it.
This is the great thing of a younger generation. I used to watch it every Friday. Boom. Seven years difference, maybe an eight.
all it takes it was like a bit of a pilot wasn't there like 2000 and yeah so started in 99 uh did one year on a network in australia then we we moved across the road and then did 10 years yeah and then moved the show to the states for three years yeah unreal so yeah it was a a good run and then obviously we had the the aussie version of the the project that was running as well from time to time yeah
So, yeah, I've been keeping busy, but it's nice to be back to doing something here as well, especially because this is an original Kiwi idea. And so to be asked to be part of it was an easy yes for me.
Were there any nerves going back into doing the TV after you've had that much experience and doing it for that many years?
No, because I love it. I miss it. And the fact that I don't get to do it as much. Yeah. means that when an opportunity like this comes up, I just leapt on it. And I'm very grateful to the producers because they let me muck around. So I'm in a room.
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Chapter 5: How do comedians interact in a competitive escape room setting?
I grew up in WWF.
No chair shots being thrown at this point.
No, no, that was my life. What do you need to know? Who do we like? We've all watched the Hogan documentary on Netflix. Oh, yeah. Okay, so that was interesting. It's really good.
It's really sad.
So I grew up in that era of absolutely loving that wrestling. And then throughout different ages of our audience, you know, through different generations.
Well, you can go through from the very, very, almost, you know. when I was into it, but I know of Bruno Sammartino and I know of Andre the Giant. And then, of course, I came through Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage. And don't tell me about the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be, Bret Hitman Hart. And now, of course, I love CM Punk.
I will raise my ones in the air for our tribal chief, Roman Reigns. Rhea Bloody Ripley, Australian, one of the biggest names in wrestling, not just in WWE, not just in women's wrestling, in all of wrestling. And she's from Adelaide, South Australia. Amazing. I know nothing about wrestling. So you've gone through all the different eras. Oh, yeah.
I am a real tragic. That's awesome. So who have you interviewed or met?
I have met Bret Hart.
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Chapter 6: What memorable moments does Rove share from his career?
He was the first wrestler we ever had on the TV show, and I had to push very, very hard to get Bret Hart on the show. People didn't want a wrestler. Why do we want a wrestler? And I said, trust me, the fans are diehard fans, and they will switch on for a wrestler. We happened to have Bret Hart booked on a very particular date. It was September 11, 2001.
So we finished the episode, and then, of course, we go backstage, and suddenly, oh, my gosh, there's a travesty unfolding in New York City. We sat and we watched the rest of that play out. After the show. This is now going to air because we're on the East Coast. Due to time zone differences, the show starts in my hometown of Perth, Western Australia. They're now two hours behind.
So instead of just going to an ad break where we would go, we'll be back with more after this and you get ads. I say to the Perth viewers, for what they get going to air, we'll be back with more after this, and then they get a little snippet of news, and then they come back to the show that we have done two hours before.
It gets to the point where it's now caught up live to what we are watching unfold, where we're going, oh, my gosh, this is a big deal, and the show cuts out and goes live to the news. Of course. The next day... Because the show was cut before Bret Hart made it out on air in Perth, my hometown of Western Australia. The next day, potential World War III is blowing up.
And suddenly we get more complaints than we have ever had for any other episode with all the wrestling fans in Perth going... I didn't get to see the wrestler. I stayed up all night. Where was Bret Hart? You're like, can you see what's happening? Oh, my goodness. And that even made it into Bret Hart's autobiography. That's my claim to fame. So, yes, Bret Hart. Nature boy Ric Flair.
I've met The Undertaker. I have met his brother Kane. I have met Mick Foley, Mankind. Lots of them. That's so good. I'm sorry to everyone who's not listening anymore. We've lost every... No, no, we've got wrestling fans. We've got a bunch of wrestling fans. Absolutely. What about yours? Who are some of your favourites? Oh, well, I was in the era of The Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan.
Oh, okay, sure, sure, sure. And Macho Man, Randy Savage. But then I dropped off after that. And so for you to go through, I find that awesome.
You're a dedicated fan. I think Bryce can do quite a good Macho Man impersonation.
No, that's got to be it. Yeah. Get in there. Come on.
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Chapter 7: How does Rove feel about returning to television?
A pleasure. Thanks very much, everybody. Say hi to Pete for me.
I will. Thank you, Jason, Statham. Thank you, Pete.
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