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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and whipp A podcast Monday.

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Speaker 2: Night down a Bondi everyone saw the scenes. Twenty three

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Speaker 2: years of age, he traveled three nine hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: two kilometers ran from Perth to Bondi. He raised one

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Speaker 2: and a half million dollars on Monday Night. It's now

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Speaker 2: up to one and a half one point eight million

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Speaker 2: dollars to help those who are experiencing homelessness all across Australia.

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Speaker 2: It is the magnificent neg problem.

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Speaker 1: Hi. Thanks?

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Speaker 3: How does it feel now that you've stopped mate? I

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Speaker 3: mean that moment you cross the finish line of Bondi there,

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Speaker 3: it would have been unbelievable. Now that it's actually sunk

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Speaker 3: in and you've seen how everyone's reacted, how are you

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Speaker 3: holding up?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't actually think it's sunk in yet, but

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Speaker 4: I'm doing good. I've got a lot of reflecting to

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Speaker 4: do and a lot of thinking of how what actually

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Speaker 4: has just gone down?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, to have gone through what I went through.

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Speaker 4: Along that, along the notherbor and along the hate planes

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Speaker 4: and to finally come into bond I was very surreal.

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm buddy grateful to be home.

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Speaker 2: One question I want to ask ned you you had

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Speaker 2: injuries and things happened to your body over the way.

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Speaker 2: What I want to know, could what you did in

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Speaker 2: this feat that you've done, could that do long term

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Speaker 2: damage to your body?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Could?

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Speaker 4: I've done similar things before where I actually have had

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Speaker 4: an injury that last a long time. But I didn't

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Speaker 4: have any injuries along this that have done long lasting.

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Speaker 1: Injuries so to speak. But who knows.

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Speaker 4: But there's always you know, there's always a surgeon there

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Speaker 4: to do knee or hit replacements.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how we going in the later years.

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Speaker 3: You're know what I love about this too. We spoke

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Speaker 3: to you maybe a couple of months ago before you'd

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Speaker 3: actually started saying, you know, fire up, guys, this is

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Speaker 3: going to be unbelievable. So we were like, oh, yeah, well,

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Speaker 3: good luck, may good last and then to see the

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Speaker 3: story continue to build. But now what I'm learning and

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Speaker 3: what I'm seeing and what I want you to tell

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Speaker 3: people about is everyone's just seen this moment. But can

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Speaker 3: you talk about what went into the lead up to

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Speaker 3: this and the year beforehand?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, So two years ago I brought thought of

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Speaker 4: the idea and came up with it, and probably the

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Speaker 4: start of this year we actually put then the paper

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Speaker 4: and started making a plan. But in terms of physically

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Speaker 4: and what I had to go through, it was like

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Speaker 4: every morning, four am, without fail, wake up. The first

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Speaker 4: words and telling myself to get yet the hell after

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Speaker 4: it for two hours in the morning before I went

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Speaker 4: the last thing I saw before I went to bed

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Speaker 4: was that sort of stuff on my roof.

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Speaker 1: And it was just mental, just a mental game.

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Speaker 4: And obviously I had three MRIs for a shin worry

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Speaker 4: prior and I was I was Adam and I was

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Speaker 4: going to do the run, but I didn't have the

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Speaker 1: That I probably should have.

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Speaker 4: So I went from a basically running forty k a

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Speaker 4: the way to look up. But when you've got a

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Speaker 4: mind that won't quit, you'll find a way. And yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's what ended up happening.

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Speaker 2: Tell us some of the things that did happen on

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Speaker 2: the way. We were told that you couldn't straighten your

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Speaker 2: whole time, there was another one somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is true.

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Speaker 2: Maggots there were there was there maggots in your shoes, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: In my toe. Not in my shoes and my toe.

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Speaker 4: It was unfortunately a flight obviously Australia's fight remote and

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Speaker 4: at some point one flew into my toes. I'm quite delirious,

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Speaker 4: I don't really remember, and just nested in there. And

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Speaker 4: I didn't I didn't realize that it was maggots. I

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Speaker 4: and oh, about fifty t to day sixteen, I felt

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Speaker 1: And I looked down and there was about five maggots just.

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Speaker 4: Facing someone to Did you like, do you just for

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Speaker 4: do you just keep running? I questioned all my life

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Speaker 3: Can you take us to the closest you came to

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Speaker 3: pulling the pin what was the moment, What was the moment.

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Speaker 4: I'd never I've ever put I've never said I'm going

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Speaker 3: What was the toughest point?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there was a few.

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Speaker 4: Like Day three was pretty confronting because I was I

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Speaker 4: know when you've been in a bath for too long,

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Speaker 4: and I just it was really really confronting. But to

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Speaker 4: where they treat that as basically a stress fracture but

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Speaker 1: Six weeks in a boot. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: We spoke to Sportstock and we drove fourteen hours to Ayala,

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Speaker 4: which was the nearest MRI, and we saw we put

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Speaker 1: Ran seven hundred k that week.

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Speaker 4: and you know, it's I'd got a dictors band and

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Speaker 1: Lifting my foot up off the floor.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, we got through it and then eventually I

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Speaker 1: So that's yeah, crazy, just pushing through it incredible thing.

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Speaker 1: And when you don't quit it or just find a way. Ned.

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Speaker 2: Can I another thing as well, because my two boys

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Speaker 2: are thirteen and nine, we followed your journey when you

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Speaker 2: to open up about your emotions. We're following you on

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Speaker 2: Was that one thing that you wanted to show to everyone,

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Speaker 2: you know, to be proud about and to get out

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Speaker 4: These things absolutely like there was that obviously the homelessess thing,

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Speaker 4: and then you know the inspiration, but actually just being

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Speaker 4: rawness people really resonated with and like it gives me goose.

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Speaker 4: I'm thinking about it because I, like, mate, I was

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Speaker 4: And my god, it's you know, just showing people that

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Speaker 4: you can be vulnerable, but don't shy away from it,

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Speaker 4: you know, just sack it up and do what you

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Speaker 4: I had great days, you know, I didn't scream at all,

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Speaker 4: but they were very few and far between, where you know,

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Speaker 4: it's just a matter of getting.

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Speaker 1: Up each day. And yeah, I hope a lot of

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Speaker 1: people took a lot of inspiration.

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Speaker 3: For I love the slogan and what's been repeated on

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Speaker 3: social media of you saying become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, I think that's extremely powerful, mate.

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Speaker 1: I love that, Yeah, absolutely, And yeah I live by that. Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're we're in a society where.

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Speaker 4: It's much easier to take the easy way out, you know,

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Speaker 4: and and be happy with whatever, and instant gratification like

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Speaker 4: busting your ass to get to work for something and

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Speaker 4: then finally achieving it.

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Speaker 1: There's just no better feelings. So yeah, it's.

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Speaker 4: Exciting to be able to you know, so I guess

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Speaker 4: motivate people and get it, get them up and about

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Speaker 1: Day lives, and that was it was very exciting to

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Speaker 1: be able to do that.

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Speaker 2: We know how humble you are and you probably don't

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Speaker 2: like talking about this, but there are now calls and

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Speaker 2: everyone there is a petition that we'd love for you

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Speaker 2: to go to. Go to change dot org to find this.

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Speaker 2: There's calls to make Ned or nominate him for Australian

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Speaker 2: of the Year because twenty twenty three is already closed.

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Speaker 2: Ye all right, so nominations have closed, but we want

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Speaker 2: to do it now while Ned has made all this

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Speaker 2: money and changed a lot of people's lives. Please go

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Speaker 2: to the petition at change dot dot org and look

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Speaker 2: for Ned's record run and you can sign it there.

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Speaker 2: But mate, you need to be nominated for this. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's just awesome. It's unbelievable Ned, when, like we said,

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Speaker 2: when we first got you on, we thought, ah, this

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Speaker 2: is just impossible.

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Speaker 1: What he's doing this guy? Do you know what?

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Speaker 3: Though, need Fitz and I can relate a little bit.

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Speaker 3: We had a pub tour last year where we had

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Speaker 3: to try and visit as many pubs as we could

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Speaker 3: in the twenty four hour period. Now, we hit a

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Speaker 3: moment where we thought we can't drink anymore beer and

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Speaker 3: we were broken. It was raw, we were hurting. We

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Speaker 3: moved on. We found a vodka Red Bull and we

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Speaker 3: pushed through that moment, mate.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's great, you know, that's that's really.

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Speaker 3: And we got through it, mate. We ended up doing

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Speaker 3: thirty six pubs. We were so proud.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm proud of you both.

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Speaker 2: We love your need and don't forget. You can still

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Speaker 2: donate the Mobilize. You can go to needs at Record

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Speaker 2: run dot com. You can still donate there one point

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Speaker 2: eight million. You're an absolute You're an inspiration. We appreciate

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Speaker 2: your time, Eddie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. I appreciate it so much. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to The Whip a podcast