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

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Speaker 2: Podcast Superhuman Efforts. I love to hear your stories. Actually,

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Speaker 2: there was an amazing man by the name of Jim

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Speaker 2: Steins who was an AFL footballer from Ireland and he

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Speaker 2: started the Reach Foundation. Actually he wrote a book which

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Speaker 2: was called Whatever It Takes. But you hear Jules Lon

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Speaker 2: talk about this, who was very close to Jim. But

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Speaker 2: he used to ask a question to people. He used

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Speaker 2: to talk to people who's sort of like a life

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Speaker 2: motivation coach as well Kate. But he used to say

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Speaker 2: to people who in the room he thinks they can

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Speaker 2: swim fifteen kilometers and no one would really put their

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Speaker 2: hand up. He said, well, what if you were in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the ocean, fifteen kilometers from shore and

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Speaker 2: your boat goes down. It's actually when you think about it,

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Speaker 2: in a situation like that, could you a superhuman effort

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Speaker 2: like that? Could you actually do it to survive? Well,

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Speaker 2: you you've got to, It's your only choice. This is

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Speaker 2: an amazing story over in Wa. Have a listen.

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Speaker 3: Family four have been khaiking and boarding near Jig Cafe

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Speaker 3: in Wa, Southwest when rough conditions swept them out to see.

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Speaker 3: About six o'clock on Friday night, thirteen year old Austin

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Speaker 3: Applebee started to head to shore, but then his kayak

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Speaker 3: took on water. He was forced to swim more than

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Speaker 3: four kilometers by himself to get help, raising the alarm

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Speaker 3: for his family. He says he was thinking of his

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Speaker 3: family to push him through the swims.

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Speaker 2: He's an amazing effort, isn't it like four kilometers for

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Speaker 2: a thirteen year old kid? Last time as an adult,

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Speaker 2: you swam four kilometers. I probably have never swum.

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Speaker 4: He then reached the shore and had to run two kilometers.

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Speaker 2: Well, have listened to man? Have her listened to him? Here?

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Speaker 5: I just said, all right, not today, not today, not today.

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Speaker 5: I did breaststroke, I do free started to bibble backstroke.

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Speaker 5: I hit the bottom of the beach and I just collapsed.

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Speaker 5: And then after add the sprit two filometers to go

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Speaker 5: get to the.

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Speaker 2: Phone, someone get him a bike, and he's done the triathlon.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that is an amazing effort. And knowing in

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Speaker 2: the back, how was this kid? Sorry, he's thoteen. Austin

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Speaker 2: Applebee is his name, which is a great stage name

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Speaker 2: in itself, isn't it so?

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Speaker 4: Imagine that moment. And it's a great question because you

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Speaker 4: never know what you could actually do unless you had

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Speaker 4: to survive and it was a situation. That's what I

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Speaker 4: always talked to Need Brockman about how did he do

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Speaker 4: that when it wasn't all on the line like this kid,

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Speaker 4: it was all on the line and he had his

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Speaker 4: family on the line.

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Speaker 2: Life or death, really life or death thirteen twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear about superhuman efforts, but it is

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Speaker 2: it's I mean a majority of people, the everyday person.

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Speaker 2: You'd never take yourself out of your comfort zone knowing

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Speaker 2: that there's a I think there's you know, one percent

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Speaker 2: of the population in the world of people that actually

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Speaker 2: push their bodies to the limit. We never really do that,

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Speaker 2: but in a situation like this, where you've got no

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Speaker 2: other choice, you've just got to do it. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you hear the story is of people that have been

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Speaker 2: driven over or trapped, a sort of lands on them

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Speaker 2: and someone else arriving and they have the superhuman strength

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Speaker 2: to actually lift it a little bit to get their

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Speaker 2: leg out or something like that. I mean that moment,

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Speaker 2: I mean, in that moment you into superman. Kate, are

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Speaker 2: you asking me, I mean thanks to adrenaline.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's amazing to think about, Like, how fast could

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Speaker 4: you run if there was a line chasing you?

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Speaker 5: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Not very fun. I'd be up there with you saying Bolt,

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Speaker 2: I've run against Usain Bolt once. Remember the power aide.

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Speaker 2: Of course we did the real emotion. You wouldn't get

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Speaker 2: tracked done and they'd been right on the end. You

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Speaker 2: start eighty meters back from me.

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Speaker 4: But I'd love to know if you've got a superhuman

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Speaker 4: story where something came out in you or you know.

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Speaker 2: Somebody, Lisa in Gray's Point, what do you got for

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Speaker 2: as lace?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when my daughter was three months old, I was

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Speaker 1: changing her nuppy and she swallowed the wrong way and

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Speaker 1: stuff choking, and I managed to pick her up with

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Speaker 1: one arm and hold her in my arm while I

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Speaker 1: was patting her chest. And I tried doing that a

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Speaker 1: week later and couldn't physically do it. The adrenaline was

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Speaker 1: just pumping. It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, because that would be quite hard to do

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Speaker 2: to balance and hold it. But Lisa, you didn't have

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Speaker 2: the strength to do it a week later?

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Speaker 5: Correct?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I tried it because what happened was the next day,

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Speaker 1: my whole body was aching. My back was sore, my

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Speaker 1: muscles were sore. And then when the mud like the

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Speaker 1: pain went, I tried to lift my daughter up in

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Speaker 1: the same action and I couldn't physically even lift her

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Speaker 1: off the changing table.

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Speaker 6: Very scary, Lisa, very scall. Did you tap on the

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Speaker 6: chest till the back of how did you just lodge? Whatever?

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Speaker 5: The well?

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Speaker 1: No, really is you know when you swallow the wrong

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Speaker 1: way and you have that flap. When babies they don't

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Speaker 1: have that flap doesn't work properly, so you have to

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Speaker 1: they start choking. I ended up phoning the ambulance as

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Speaker 1: well because I had them on the phone. So I

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Speaker 1: had the phone in one year holding her in the

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Speaker 1: other hand, and literally when the I started breathing a

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Speaker 1: game when the ambulance arrived at the door, but she

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Speaker 1: was losing color.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what do you what do you do on

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Speaker 2: the save lace? There's an old piano here at Nova

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Speaker 2: that we need to get down to the bottom level.

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Speaker 2: Did you help us?

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Speaker 1: It just says what's in front of.

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Speaker 2: Me whippers choken most days in the kitchen, So that

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Speaker 2: might help.

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Speaker 6: You if you can look at me with one arm

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Speaker 6: and tapped me on the chest. Lease, So that would

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Speaker 6: make for a great video we could recredit. I'd put

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Speaker 6: a nappy on. Thank you for your call. Let's chat

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Speaker 6: off you're pegging since.

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