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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda gam.

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Speaker 2: Nation Jones, I know you spend a lot of time

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Speaker 2: in the surf. You are, will you like to think

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Speaker 2: a proficient stand up paddle border?

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Speaker 3: Do you have to say with such a do you

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Speaker 3: have to say with such a sneery voice, Yes, I done,

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 2: Have to Could you, though, be out in the surf

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Speaker 2: for forty hours straight? Surfer Blake Johnston is going to

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Speaker 2: be doing this all for a good cause. Blake joins

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Speaker 2: us now to tell us about it.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Blake, Hey, okay, going well, forty hours on a

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Speaker 3: stand up would be a long long time.

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Speaker 2: But forty hours in the surf before we get to

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Speaker 2: why you're who you're doing it for. Are you physically

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Speaker 2: going to be in the surf for forty hours?

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Speaker 1: That's the plan that The current world record is thirty

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Speaker 1: hours and eleven minutes, set by a sat uping guy

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. And I saw that, and and after

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Speaker 1: a few experiences I've heard with some endurance challenges, I thought,

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Speaker 1: I can do that in my own natural element out

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Speaker 1: in the water, I could do that.

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Speaker 2: And here we are, but I just can't believe this.

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Speaker 2: You'll be out there at night with sharks and things

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Speaker 2: you can't see. We have a little lamp on your forehead.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be lit up from the beach we

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Speaker 1: got from support with I'm sure high that they're going

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Speaker 1: to be lighting it up for us as well. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: everything that's out there's always out there, daytime or not.

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Speaker 1: We don't see most of it when we're on the

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Speaker 1: surface gliding across the waves, so it's nothing new. It's

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Speaker 1: those thoughts and those things, they're always there and it's

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Speaker 1: part of nature.

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Speaker 3: What's the longest you've been out in the surf blake.

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Speaker 1: I've had plenty of nine and ten hours, you know,

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Speaker 1: inoptimal conditions when you just don't want to get out,

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Speaker 1: you know in Figi and in Indonesia when I'm on

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Speaker 1: surfing trips or camps, and that's pretty taxing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, how fruity will your fingers go?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, there's a lot of unknown and I think

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Speaker 1: that's the scary part. We don't know anything about what

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Speaker 1: the conditions are going to be like, and that will

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Speaker 1: play a vital part in in how we plant it out.

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Speaker 1: How many ways I'm willing to catch im I'm going

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Speaker 1: to aim for five hundred, but going to come down

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Speaker 1: to the conditions and really working with you know what

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Speaker 1: we've got, trying to get the nutrition and hydration everything

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Speaker 1: on point as best we can, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: work with nature.

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Speaker 2: So you say nutrition, I'm guessing on a supboard, you're

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Speaker 2: not going to be eating a soup.

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Speaker 1: I guess not. Well. Part of the record is for me,

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Speaker 1: and a part of why I'm doing as mental health

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Speaker 1: is being involved in the community and getting people to

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Speaker 1: come out share the experience with me. So every hour

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Speaker 1: we're going to have you know, some sponsors or some

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Speaker 1: groups of local fitness classes and people from my sur

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Speaker 1: school that I run come out and join and be

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Speaker 1: a part of the experience. So we'll be able to

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Speaker 1: get food and water out to me pretty accessively, and

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Speaker 1: those brave enough to sign up for the hour sessions

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Speaker 1: at night or we'll get a good experience and be

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Speaker 1: able to challenge themselves in that respect.

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Speaker 3: And you partnered up with the Chumpy pull And Foundation,

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Speaker 3: which is raising money for youth mental health. And you

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Speaker 3: had your own personal dealings this with your father, the

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Speaker 3: loss of your father. So this is a real, real

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Speaker 3: admirable project that you're undertake.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel a lot of responsibility as my role

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Speaker 1: as someone who coach has spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: with kids and people, and my dad took his own

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Speaker 1: life ten years ago, and I've learned a lot through

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Speaker 1: my own personal development in the last five years about

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Speaker 1: how important it is looking after yourself. And I want

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Speaker 1: to share that with as many people as they can

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Speaker 1: and teach the kids tools that they can have like

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Speaker 1: breath work and mindfulness and gratitude that they can take

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Speaker 1: with them through lives and manage their emotions and live

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Speaker 1: a better quality life and be ready to deal with

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Speaker 1: loss of challenges and diversities.

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Speaker 3: You'll be eating and drinking out in the surf. Where

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Speaker 3: will you go to the toilet?

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Speaker 2: Blake, I didn't want to ask.

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Speaker 1: The traditional wetty warmer will come into play. It can

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Speaker 1: be handy. I have to get out for that, and

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Speaker 1: I guess number twos, I'll have to be some five

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Speaker 1: minute blocks that will have to come in and.

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Speaker 2: Get the bad so you come in you won't have

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Speaker 2: to take your wetsuit off in the water and deal

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Speaker 2: with there.

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Speaker 1: I think I'll be sprinting up the beach. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was trying to make it as authentic as as

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Speaker 1: as true to all as forty our surf can be

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Speaker 1: that I I don't want to sew it on myself

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Speaker 1: in my went. We're making you.

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Speaker 3: Amanda will be down there paddling out with a copy

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Speaker 3: of the New Ideas.

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Speaker 2: And this is just sprinting up this surf. I'll say,

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Speaker 2: I'd like to read you War in Peace right now.

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Speaker 1: I'll be rushing.

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Speaker 2: What a fantastic thing you're doing. Congratulations, I think this

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Speaker 2: is wonderful.

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Speaker 3: It is great work. The World's Longest Surf Session March

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Speaker 3: sixteen to seventeen at the Alley and Cronulla. Head to

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Speaker 3: Worldslongest Surf dot com for all the details. Blake Johnston

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Speaker 3: will catch up with you as you get closer to

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Speaker 3: the event.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely awesome, Thanks few times guys.

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Speaker 3: Good on your Blake