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Speaker 1: This is the Fitzy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Ned Brockman has just crossed the line after sixteen hundred

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Speaker 1: and ten kilometers. Thirteen days ago he started his challenge

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Speaker 1: to break the record for one thousand miles. The record

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Speaker 1: hasn't been broken, but the completion is just extraordinary in itself.

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Speaker 1: I went out there last night to give you a

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Speaker 1: sense of the atmosphere. Have a listened to this something.

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Speaker 2: The chants were allowed.

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Speaker 1: There are thousands of people there.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes I try to decipher why how people are wired,

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Speaker 3: like someone like a Ned Brockman. I look at Ned

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Speaker 3: Ryan and a lot of people say it's silly, what

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Speaker 3: he's doing is silly and what he's doing to his body,

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Speaker 3: But this guy, he is just wired. That pain is

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Speaker 3: something for him that he then transports over into his charity,

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Speaker 3: which is homelessness, and he wants to look after homeless paper.

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Speaker 3: But he feels like he gets so much joy out

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Speaker 3: of putting his body through that pain so other people

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Speaker 3: can feel better for themselves. Do you know what? I think?

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Speaker 3: It's such an amazing trait to have. It's such an

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Speaker 3: amazing trait to have. And there was an article that

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Speaker 3: was written an opinion piece. I can't remember what it

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Speaker 3: was yesterday.

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Speaker 2: It's not even worth referencing.

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Speaker 3: Well, a woman was saying that it's toxic masculinity and

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Speaker 3: what Ned's doing, and it's a form of But you

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Speaker 3: know what, people are different and this is the thing.

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Speaker 3: You've got to find the thing in your life that

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Speaker 3: excites you that you are passionate about. And Ned's found that.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, You've got to look at the

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Speaker 3: positive side of this. You've got it, really and what

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Speaker 3: needs done for a lot of people. And the money

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Speaker 3: that he's raised is he is such a courageous bloke.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, we're very proud of your Ned. I mean

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Speaker 3: you're not hearing this right now, but a world of pain,

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Speaker 3: he said.

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Speaker 1: I want to cross the line early so I can

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Speaker 1: jump straight onto the live stream. Its here, We're okate Ritchie.

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Speaker 1: He talking to his mum and dad last night. I

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Speaker 1: mean to paint a picture is from Forbes Parks and Forbes.

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Speaker 1: His dad's a farmer. He came to the big smoke

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Speaker 1: of the city Sydney, couldn't believe the lights as a

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Speaker 1: doing his apprenticeship as an electrician, so he only started

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Speaker 1: running four years ago.

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Speaker 2: Fits.

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Speaker 1: You know, running wasn't a big part of his life

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Speaker 1: as a young athlete. He didn't even bother but naturally

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Speaker 1: he's built to run. He just has that framework. The

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Speaker 1: pain behind the scenes has been extraordinary. We're spoken about

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Speaker 1: the shoes going from a size nine and a half

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Speaker 1: to a twelve and a half, you know, his massage table,

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Speaker 1: and the racks of shoes and the lubricants to stop

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Speaker 1: any chafing, and the fresh pairs of socks and everything.

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Speaker 1: But he said he was saying that the one thing

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Speaker 2: Is impossible, impossible to.

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Speaker 1: Prepare for, is the mental load of going round and

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Speaker 1: round and round and round.

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Speaker 2: Almost like a rat in a cage.

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Speaker 1: It's got a torture feel to it, and there's sort

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Speaker 1: was standing next to him another mate Falcon, and he said,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I can get one around here.

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Speaker 1: And I thought, I thought, I feel like a chocking milk,

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Speaker 1: And I thought, how can we be doing this? It

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Speaker 1: almost had that Anzac feel where you go along to

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Speaker 1: the other people have contributed and achieved.

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Speaker 3: Tell me it was what it was? Sixteen hundred and

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Speaker 3: nine kilometers? Is that correct? Can you find out how

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Speaker 3: many laps? Divide that by foive hundred?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think.

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Speaker 1: It's around two thousand and seven hundred. But what he

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Speaker 1: does fits you'll see the eight tracks that he has,

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Speaker 1: so he calls it like a mega lap or a

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Speaker 2: What he'll do is he'll do.

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Speaker 1: Two laps in lane one, then he'll do two laps

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Speaker 2: Out to eight and then come back in.

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Speaker 3: Gotcha, And that's just to change things up.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's a super set, so that's about twelve kilometers

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Speaker 1: and then he goes back the other way. So he's

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Speaker 1: done this for thirteen days. Now, do you know in

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Speaker 1: the past five days they've been wheeling him in a

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Speaker 1: So the average per day since day one is one

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Speaker 3: It's crazy, just unheard of Brock's given us a call

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Speaker 3: from kernw you were out with Ned Brockman last night.

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Speaker 3: What was the atmosphere like, Brockie.

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Speaker 4: Oh mate, it was amazing. Every time he comes flying

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Speaker 2: Do you know what was interesting too?

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Speaker 1: Brock at the end there as you just would have

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Speaker 1: seen him cross the line, it was only his team.

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Speaker 1: His mum was saying, the extra energy when the crowd

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Speaker 1: going is taxing on him. So as he's there the

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Speaker 1: best he could do last night. As he's there with

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Speaker 1: because they don't really have a proper job. Hamish just

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Speaker 2: And as he ran.

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Speaker 1: Hamish yelled out as he went past and said here

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Speaker 2: Like this is a man broken.

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Speaker 3: Maddie and Blackslen, what do you want to say to

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Speaker 4: You are the greatest person in Australia. You are proof

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Speaker 4: that one person can make the biggest difference in so

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Speaker 4: many people's lives. How many times have we all said

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Speaker 4: Like what I do doesn't matter. This guy when I

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Speaker 4: million dollars. He is changing the lives of so many

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Speaker 4: comparing him to toxic masculinity, It's just the cruelest thing

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Speaker 4: I've seen. I'm an angry feminist every day of the week,

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Speaker 4: and I think that if more men were running around

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Speaker 4: Like more neds, please not less. Let's give all this

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Speaker 1: It moving also that you know there was a lot

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Speaker 1: the end as recognition, to the point of over two

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Speaker 1: point seven. And you know, I was saying to his mum,

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Speaker 1: what happens when he crosses the line which he just has.

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Speaker 1: Does he go straight to hospital? Is he put on

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Speaker 1: a drip? Is he carried out of there? Where does

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Speaker 3: It's amazing, World done, Thank you very much for your

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Speaker 3: calls and world under need.

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Speaker 4: This is the City with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 3: They need to celebrate this momentous effort by Ned Brockman.

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Speaker 3: He's finished up this morning. He only had his closest

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Speaker 3: people around him, his team, and one man who has

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Speaker 3: spent the last couple of weeks trying to get Ned's

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Speaker 3: body up every single morning is Alex, his physio, and

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Speaker 2: Now, good morning, Alex.

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Speaker 5: Hello Jim, Alex, Hi welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you on the show. Great to meet

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Speaker 2: you last night.

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Speaker 1: Seeing Ned complete the final stage just before this morning

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Speaker 1: rounding it out, he was quite particular about just the

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, Mane, I think with you would have seen

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Speaker 6: So although it was such an amazing opportunity to have

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Speaker 3: Alex, I'm really nervous now. It's unbelievable at what he's

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Speaker 3: be in a bit of trouble, Alex, I think long term.

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Speaker 6: I think he'll obviously have some wounds there that need

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Speaker 6: a bit of time, but I don't think he'll be

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Speaker 6: But we'll assess sorts zone on his body over the

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Speaker 6: But most of the injuries he suffering a ten and

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Speaker 6: terrible blisters on the feet from day through. That rain

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Speaker 6: So no, I don't think it'll be long term. He'll

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Speaker 5: And where is he and what is he saying now?

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Speaker 5: Because it feels as though, I mean, he's had a

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Speaker 5: all talking about him. But where is ned right now?

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Speaker 6: We saw the track currently, Yeah, we saw the track

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Speaker 6: we finished maybe an hour and a half ago and

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Speaker 6: just shared the moments with that close team and pretty

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Speaker 6: trying to. He's actually in a wheelchair right now with

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Speaker 1: That's what we were trying to work out last night.

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Speaker 1: Does he finish, does he cross the line and goes

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Speaker 1: straight to hospital? I mean, obviously the next step is

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Speaker 1: some form of medical assessment. If you were to describe

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Speaker 1: what he's feet and his legs have gone through, could

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Speaker 1: you do that for us?

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Speaker 6: Alex Oh, punishment would be the short answer. You know,

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Speaker 6: everything's pretty sore at the moment. I think if you're

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Speaker 6: if you're going to run, you know, the sixteen hundred kilometers,

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Speaker 6: it's it's an absolutely wild number to think about doing that,

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Speaker 6: you know, over a cold one period, let alone twelve days.

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Speaker 3: And that I saw him. I saw him smash a

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Speaker 3: vanilla slice the other day, Alex, what's what's the one

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Speaker 6: Oh mate, he's been he's been enjoying a few calories

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Speaker 6: I think that's a big thing that people probably or

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Speaker 1: Of that raft do you know what I was fascinated

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Speaker 1: One little things you don't consider of the mental fortitude

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Speaker 2: That's a mental challenge.

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Speaker 6: There is mental fortitude. It's absolutely massive that the mental

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Speaker 2: Oh man, it's just extraordin. Alex, well done to you

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Speaker 5: Please keep him out.

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Speaker 6: And don't touch him too much, don't touch him too hard,

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Speaker 5: Him know that we're here and he's ready to fill

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, thanks Alex. God anybody enjoyed the celebration

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Speaker 1: thirty kilometers. Yeah, I just can't comprehend that.

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Speaker 2: I will never understand what that is like, I never

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Speaker 3: And even though it's over today, if you haven't done

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Speaker 3: for him to raise this much money for homelessness is

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Speaker 1: So that is I've just been breaking it down for

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Speaker 1: how many city deserves he's doing.

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Speaker 2: Because they've done the fourteen k's.

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Speaker 1: So each day he was doing around eleven city deserfs eleven.

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Speaker 3: Or you did one city of the surf and then

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Speaker 3: you did eleven Bondai icebergs. That would be right.

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Speaker 5: Whatever you do today, do not complain about having sore

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Speaker 5: feet or being tight Sits.

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