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The Steve Austin Show

Phil Keoghan on Nude Awakenings, Dining on Erupting Volcanoes, & the set of The Amazing Race | SAS CLASSIC

The Steve Austin Show

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Sports, Wrestling, Talk Radio

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Phil Keoghan returns to talk about The Amazing Race! Find out how he got the gig, what other reality show host was up for it too, and what it really takes to film the incredible race around the world. Phils also talking about his bungee jumping world record, the Nude Awakenings TV show he hosted and how that may have indirectly inspired the Austin Powers movies, and the scuba diving accident that nearly took his life when he was 19. Plus, Phil reveals some of the crazier items on his bucket list, and gives a little 411 on his new Smithsonian Channel series, Flying High.

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0:09.2

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0:13.0

I'm rolled up down on part two of Phil Kogan and before we talk about the amazing race, I got a couple more questions about the documentary,

0:20.0

Larride. There's one point where you guys going through some extreme heat. How did your body

0:25.8

deal with that because that looked like pure hell?

0:28.8

It was hell. It was 110 degrees where we were there was no wind and the south of France during the summer

0:37.2

at the time that we were there there was a heat wave

0:40.6

You can't drink enough you can't get enough in you're just drenched this humidity.

0:45.0

I'm not a great athlete in the super hot. I just I don't you know some people really think they actually function quite well. I don't operate that well.

0:57.0

Yeah, some people are more suited. I'm not a yeah, I really struggle in the heat when it gets really crazy and

1:04.8

there's that maximum exertion and you're just really pushing I find that tough

1:09.6

what was worse the heat or the climate the altitudes with the lack of oxygen?

1:14.0

I don't remember.

1:17.0

I mean I hallucinated and Ben and I we both really lost it

1:21.0

a couple of times where we lost track of time. I think it got to the

1:25.1

point where some of those climbs in the middle of the night when you when you've

1:28.6

been riding for 23 hours. There's a part of your brain that says never quit.

1:34.4

And then in a way, I think it's easier when you're so out of it

1:37.9

that you've already programmed your brain to say, I'm never going to quit.

1:41.6

I mean, both of us would have fallen on the ground

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