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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: That'd be Kevin mill Is here to kick us off

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Speaker 2: for our Saturday again.

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Speaker 3: Kevin, thank you Jack. How many millions did you say?

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Speaker 2: Eighty eighty two?

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Speaker 1: Is?

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Speaker 2: I think is a sort of a rough estimate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he probably your fine mind into working out

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Speaker 3: how you might be able to spend that over on

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Speaker 3: a wedding.

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Speaker 2: I mean you would have to buy half a city. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean I presume that, I presume he's he's I

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Speaker 2: think he's booked out some hotels and accommodation for his

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Speaker 2: for his guests, So I don't think the guests will

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Speaker 2: be paying for their own accommodation. There's a bit of

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Speaker 2: that I can't I can't imagine he'll just be op

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Speaker 2: shopping his suit. But yeah, I mean, yeah.

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Speaker 3: The.

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Speaker 2: Catering, I don't know. It is it does it? When

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Speaker 2: you when you put it like that, it is. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I can imagine it would be quite tricky to actually

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Speaker 2: spend that.

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Speaker 3: It's absolutely obscene in my anyway, you've been you've.

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Speaker 2: Been turning your attention to something that I don't think

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Speaker 2: would have been up besils Early this week you've been

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Speaker 2: thinking about Dead Cow Gully.

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Speaker 3: I've always wanted to compete in the backyard ultramarathon at

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Speaker 3: Dead Cow Gully, eleven k north of Nanango in Queensland.

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Speaker 3: You may have heard of it. It's a last man

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Speaker 3: standing race with no finish line. Runners must complete a

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Speaker 3: six point seven killing me to loop every hour. They

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Speaker 3: can nap between loops. If they run the loop faster

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Speaker 3: than in an hour, the race is over when there's

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Speaker 3: just one runner left. And I wanted that runner to

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Speaker 3: be me Jack, but I didn't get my entry in

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Speaker 3: on time anyway, without me, a field of two hundred

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Speaker 3: and sixty three runners set off at seven am last Saturday,

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Speaker 3: Love Saturday and before we were talking a week ago,

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Speaker 3: and the final two runners were still running on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: One of them was a key we Sam Harvey. He

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Speaker 3: got injured early in the race, which meant instead of

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Speaker 3: getting a ten minute sleep between loops, he was running

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Speaker 3: slower loops and not getting any sleep at all. By Thursday,

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Speaker 3: Sam and a Nossie called Phil Gore were the last

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Speaker 3: two standing. They had run almost eight hundred kilometers and

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Speaker 3: five days. That's Auckland dwellings. By this stage, Sam Harvey

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Speaker 3: had already broken the New Zealand record for the distance,

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Speaker 3: and whoever was going to run the longest was now

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Speaker 3: sure to break the world record. But after completing one

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Speaker 3: hundred and eighteen loops six point seven kay eaight the key,

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Speaker 3: we lost the ability to run. He stumbled down the

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Speaker 3: course before collapsing to the ground, delirious and in pain.

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Speaker 3: Yozzi went on to complete the one hundred and nineteenth lap,

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Speaker 3: winning the race and taking the world record. They say,

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Speaker 3: don't they, Jack Ands, for coming second is worse than

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Speaker 3: coming last. Surely that can't be truer that in the

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Speaker 3: Dead Cow Gully Backyard Ultramarathon, which I mustn't miss next year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well look there's no better time, Kevin, surely

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Speaker 2: than to get in your race entry right now while

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Speaker 2: we're all on there listening to you. You could do

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Speaker 2: it right now.

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Speaker 3: I think that the senior event actually which seems extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: It is just remarkable, isn't it what our species is

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Speaker 2: actually capable of doing. I mean, I personally do not

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Speaker 2: see the attraction in the ultramarrathon, but it is like

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Speaker 2: to think the distance from Auckland to Wellington, that is

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Speaker 2: just absurd that people are able to do that. It

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Speaker 2: reminds me every year in New York they have this

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Speaker 2: thing called the Self Transcendence Race, which is I think

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Speaker 2: it's about five thousand kilometers they race, but they just

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Speaker 2: race around one city block or like a sports field basically,

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Speaker 2: so that the topography never changes. It's just the same thing.

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Speaker 2: But it's not six point seven kilometers long. It's just

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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, a few hundred meters long, and they

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Speaker 2: just go round and round and round and round for

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Speaker 2: weeks on end. They can have we naps and sleeping things,

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Speaker 2: but they just go round around for weeks on end.

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Speaker 2: And as the name the Self Transcendent Race suggests, it's

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Speaker 2: all about self transcendence. But yeah, I don't know. I

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Speaker 3: The energy of these people are not turned to something

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Speaker 3: just slightly more useful, like going out and mowing some

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Speaker 3: old persons lawns, well people's lawns.

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Speaker 2: In a week, you could you could, I prefer to

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Speaker 2: direct my ir at billionaires than these people. I mean,

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Speaker 2: imagine imagine doing something like that. Though you know, good

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Speaker 2: traveling eight hundred kilometers six point seven k's every hour,

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Speaker 2: there surely can be few challenges that come up in

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Speaker 2: life that you wouldn't feel somewhat equipped for. Right if

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Speaker 2: you can get through that, if you can play the

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Speaker 2: mental game to drive yourself forth five days in when

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Speaker 2: you're desperately tired, I mean, imagine what you you know,

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Speaker 2: Imagine that the things that you could achieve.

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Speaker 3: I just to run, Jack. You used to always dream

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Speaker 3: of fitting the tape at the end. But there is

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Speaker 3: no tape and you don't know whether the person running

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Speaker 3: next you could run forever. And I think that must

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Speaker 3: be deeply depressing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well said. Hey, thanks so much, Givin. Appreciate

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Speaker 2: your time this morning, and thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: you for.

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