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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: Well, we know our next guest as the TV host

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Speaker 2: with the most great friend of both of us. But

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Speaker 2: when he isn't on screen, he is tackling the Simpson

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Speaker 2: Desert on a motorbike. How very casual Live from Birdsville,

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Speaker 2: Great Daniel, Hello.

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Speaker 1: Good morning you beautiful legends.

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Speaker 3: How are we okay? Mate? So you went We're great?

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Speaker 3: So you went across the Simpson Desert, then you went

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Speaker 3: back across. Did you forget your keys again?

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Speaker 1: I've got a change of undies. Yeah, this is a

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Speaker 1: bulletless item for me, mate, one of the most remote

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Speaker 1: places in the world. You know I love my motorbikes?

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Speaker 1: Is you do too? And when a maid of mine

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Speaker 1: came to me and said, hey, do you want to

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Speaker 1: chance it and see if we can make it through?

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Speaker 1: Just you and I just carrying our essentials, the things

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Speaker 1: that we need to survive and give it a go.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, hell no, but I did it anyway.

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Speaker 2: So give us a context for this. How long's the

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Speaker 2: journey across the Simpson Desert.

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Speaker 1: The Simpson is about eleven hundred sand dunes across.

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Speaker 2: You melt every single one of them?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god? If I see another grain of sand,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go crazy. If it's just hard at nighttime,

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Speaker 1: it's in the minuses, but you see that that gorgeous

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Speaker 1: oakh red earth up against a beautiful, endless blue sky.

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Speaker 1: Those two colors together, for whatever reason, just do something

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Speaker 1: magical to you. It's very, very special.

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Speaker 3: I did a bit of a segment there for a

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Speaker 3: while on RPM on Channel ten and we did a

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Speaker 3: bit of sand riding, and I probably write about I

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Speaker 3: think one session five kilometers of sand and that was

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Speaker 3: enough because when you ride on sand on a motorbike,

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Speaker 3: you can't go slow. You've got to gaset. You've got

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Speaker 3: to and then when you come off, it's like you're

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Speaker 3: going fast. And that was on to me. You just

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Speaker 3: got to get sit on the back of the seat

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Speaker 3: and just gas it. It's so scary.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the faster you go, the easier is to ride.

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Speaker 1: But were it does go wrong, you just have bigger accidents.

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Speaker 1: And that's the risk. You know out there there's no

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Speaker 1: mobile service, you know, there could be no one. You

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Speaker 1: might not see anyone in a whole you know, a

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Speaker 1: whole day or two. So if you are stuck and

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Speaker 1: like anything could go wrong, you know, with your motorbike,

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Speaker 1: and like we're talking, some of these sand dunes, you know,

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Speaker 1: forty meters high, so it's a mega, mega effort to

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Speaker 1: try and get yourself up them and then your crest one.

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Speaker 1: It takes every anth of energy you got and then

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Speaker 1: you look off on the horizon, you our garden. There's

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Speaker 1: another one thousand and ninety nine to go.

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Speaker 2: Well, and how's your body? What toll has this taken

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Speaker 2: on you?

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Speaker 1: I'm a walking zombie at the moment, just physically, just

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Speaker 1: just so tired and broken. But you know it's it's

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Speaker 1: we are only carrying like a sleeping bag that's so

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Speaker 1: small that would fit on our motorbike gear, but it's

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Speaker 1: like paper thin. So at night time the temperature and

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Speaker 1: then does it get into the minus so you're not

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Speaker 1: sleeping that well. And when you are sleeping, you wake

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Speaker 1: up and there's like camel hoofs around you, and there's

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Speaker 1: dingo tracks and they've all come and had a little

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Speaker 1: a sniff and a smell of you while you're while

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Speaker 1: you're asleep. But you're just hope in the dark that

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Speaker 1: they see you and they don't stand on you like

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Speaker 1: a little bloke like mander a camel howks wouldn't have much.

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Speaker 2: And I don't let's I don't want to be rude,

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Speaker 2: but how's your bum everything?

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Speaker 1: I copped a rock on the first day into my chest,

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Speaker 1: so I've done some damage to my rips. Oh that

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Speaker 1: was getting to birds will so every time I got

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Speaker 1: the bike in the standing and pain to lift it

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Speaker 1: all back up again.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's you'll be having to know chezy. Your wife

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Speaker 3: has got a bunch of chores for you to do

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Speaker 3: around the farm when you get home.

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Speaker 2: Yay, you've got heaps to do, but you're allowed to

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Speaker 2: have a bath first.

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Speaker 3: You have a radox bath.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The kids won't let me down. Thess that hoes

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Speaker 1: me outside, like with the local fire department.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: Tell me you ware the past. Now you film this adventure,

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Speaker 3: we're going to see it. Can we have you documented it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I have, mate, Yeah, I just I just took

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Speaker 1: some cameras with me just in case I thought I

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Speaker 1: need an insurance claim. I needed well, because it.

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Speaker 3: Worked for you and McGregor and Charlie Boorman. You've got

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Speaker 3: to do this stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I'm going to. I'll whack some stuff

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Speaker 1: up on social soon and they'll knock together just a little,

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Speaker 1: a little doco. We've got We've got some wild stuff,

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Speaker 1: So it should be, it should be. This is a

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Speaker 1: beautiful country, you know, it really is. It's got so

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Speaker 1: much to offer, and even the most remote corners that

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Speaker 1: often get neglected are still stunning and beautiful. And that's

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Speaker 1: why we did it well.

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Speaker 3: I look forward to seeing it, and I look forward

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Speaker 3: to seeing on the mask singer on Sunday night, because

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Speaker 3: you'd have to be in there that the story rumors.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back as the singing sand dune, the singing

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Speaker 1: butt plaster.

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Speaker 2: I think someone else has already done that.

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Speaker 3: Look for the one sitting on an airing well, grant

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Speaker 3: a safe travels.

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Speaker 2: You're still not home, so safe travels. And there's something,

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Speaker 2: as you say, something about the sky and that red

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Speaker 2: dirt that's good for the soul.

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Speaker 3: And if you can, in any way get it up

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Speaker 3: on TV so I can watch it so I don't

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Speaker 3: have to do it for myself, that would be great.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a viewing party at my house. Oh,

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Speaker 1: here we go. There's definitely something cleansing about getting dirty.

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Speaker 1: That's that's I firmly believe that it's good for the soul,

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Speaker 1: good for the head, good for the heart.

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Speaker 2: Good all right, great to talk to you. Take care,

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Speaker 2: Love to the family.