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Speaker 1: live on the Free I hard.

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Speaker 2: This is pretty hard to conceive.

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Speaker 3: Jess and Miriam rode eight thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.

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Speaker 3: It's almost fifteen It seems like ten hours and one

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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five days, starting in Peru and finishing

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Speaker 3: in cans.

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Speaker 2: And they join us right now, safe and sound on

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Speaker 2: willing would.

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Speaker 1: He Hey, guys, Hello, thanks for having us on.

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Speaker 4: Of course, now this is probably a pretty immature question.

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Speaker 1: There's so many questions we could ask you, but I

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Speaker 1: do want to ask you first and foremost, toilet while

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Speaker 1: you're on the boat, what was that mirror?

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Speaker 4: Bucket?

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Speaker 5: Bucket and chuck it?

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Speaker 4: But bucket, bucket and chuck it.

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Speaker 1: So what I was, what I was envisioning, is the

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Speaker 1: thing you used to do when you were like a

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Speaker 1: kid and you just kind of like dangle half your

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Speaker 4: But it wasn't that.

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Speaker 6: No, you'd end up getting just like a the wed

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Speaker 1: Very good, okay, cool, And a question there for I

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Speaker 1: guess a question for how close you guys are shared

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Speaker 1: bucket or different bucket.

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Speaker 7: We had the same bucket, but we'd always clean it.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, actually the most comfortable seat on the boats.

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Speaker 3: Guys, what what does the day look like? Because I

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Speaker 3: because you're in the middle of the Pacific, Like.

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Speaker 2: How are you? How are you? How are you doing this?

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Speaker 2: Like what what does the day look like? Is one

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Speaker 2: of you always rowing? I mean runs through.

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Speaker 6: We're rowing day and night. We've got to keep the

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Speaker 2: No anchoring, no, no, not there's.

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Speaker 6: A sea anchoror parachute anchor in case the window was

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Speaker 6: in the wrong direction or something like that. But in

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Speaker 6: the beginning, our routine was two two hours off with

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Speaker 6: and we were basically just rowing all day, and then

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Speaker 5: And those off bits we could sleep.

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Speaker 6: But you never get the four two hours off because

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Speaker 6: by the time you got into the cabin and you

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Speaker 6: maybe had a bit of a wash or sorted out

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Speaker 1: Oh sorry when you say you were going down there

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Speaker 1: and doing emails.

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Speaker 2: No, well we are cleaning yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah sorry, I thought you were like, well, better pay

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Speaker 1: the bills.

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Speaker 4: Returns Like.

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Speaker 2: No, why, why? Why?

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Speaker 3: I keep going back to that, Why why are you

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Speaker 3: doing this? This is insane?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we So we both met when we

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Speaker 7: So there's a there's a race called the Telescooske Atlantic Challenge.

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Speaker 7: It's been renamed for the world's toughest row and it's

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Speaker 7: And I was wearing as a team of four, and

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Speaker 4: Wow, bloody hell.

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Speaker 3: And what was the hardest thing about being on the

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Speaker 6: I think probably the sleep deprivation we did pass There

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Speaker 7: Arown and also like you try and eat snacks to

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Speaker 5: This is wild?

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Speaker 7: To be honest, I mean we did so much rowing

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Speaker 7: Yeah, just I've turned into our feet almost feet are

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Speaker 4: So what was so physically then?

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Speaker 1: What was the hardest part about rowing just so much

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Speaker 5: It's a tricky one. It's very mental.

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Speaker 6: Our boat is like, because it's such a big boat

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Speaker 6: Closer to this side, the ozon layer was getting thinner,

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Speaker 5: It's pretty pretty Yeah.

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Speaker 3: This food part of it, so you you five thousand

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Speaker 2: Is that age?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so we were trying to consume that many, but

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Speaker 2: It's just so, was there a support boat at any stage?

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Speaker 4: Is there a boat.

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Speaker 2: Following you along here or anything like that?

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Speaker 3: You took all your food for six months and you've

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Speaker 3: both got to eat five thousand calories a day.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's all.

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Speaker 2: Wow, what is that just powdered milk?

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Speaker 7: Well, it's actually meals like curries and like pasta, bolonnaise

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Speaker 4: It's just mush taking all your water on there.

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Speaker 2: How does that work?

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Speaker 5: So that was god as well.

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Speaker 1: You never had one of those Big Rills moments on

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Speaker 4: Do you know who Big Grills is and what he's famous?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you never had a moment like that with the bucket. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm asking you if you ever drank your own urine

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Speaker 5: Oh no, that point.

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Speaker 4: That's good. Good to confirm, good to confirm.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about first meal when you get back

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Speaker 7: So we had we had pizzas and beer when we yeah,

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Speaker 5: That's so good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that is that thing you're missing. Those just

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean we would spend most of our day

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Speaker 6: And oh god, and then we start messaging around all

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Speaker 5: Like what their favorite cake was.

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Speaker 6: Answers were just annoying everybody with all these stupid food questions,

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a riot.

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Speaker 3: And guys, I also heard before you got on them

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Speaker 7: Like quite webbly and yeah, we could not believe how

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Speaker 6: It was just it was crazy.

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Speaker 4: Cool, awesome. What about sleep? Was sleep? Weird? Back in

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Speaker 4: Do you have a wake up thinking you're still on

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Speaker 6: Not yet, Yeah, I think that'll come. We did just

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Speaker 3: Rowing, Oh I can't, I just I just I don't

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Speaker 3: you know, this is God enough now, like this is

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Speaker 3: this is not is not the fun that we thought

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Speaker 7: We definitely didn't have any moments where we were scared,

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Speaker 7: We had parishes throughout, so we're pretty much dead ship.

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Speaker 7: We also the water maker pipes burst nine times, and

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Speaker 5: A lot of problem solving throughout were we argued.

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Speaker 2: Did you argue at any point?

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, there's nothing to argue about.

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Speaker 3: We were just not when you're talking about your favorite cake,

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Speaker 3: I suppose I could find about that.

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Speaker 4: I don't find about that.

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Speaker 3: Well, guys, it's seriously impressive. Congratulations for both of us.

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Speaker 3: Is just one of the best things that I've ever heard.

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Speaker 3: I just can't believe you did it.

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Speaker 4: You're done with rowing there? Or what's next?

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Speaker 5: Oh no, we'd love to do it again. To be fair, I.

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Speaker 3: Didn't get out more go and do something fun in

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Speaker 3: can's something fun? Go?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know. Just stay at the beach, just chill,

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Speaker 2: just for a second.

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Speaker 6: It can't be good Yeah, were very good at chilling out.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting that sense. All the guys have been loving

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Speaker 2: to meet you.

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Speaker 3: Jess and Miriam free go off rowing across the Pacific Ocean.

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Speaker 3: That is just an extraordinary sentence from Peru to Cans

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Speaker 3: in five point four months, on hundred and sixty five days. Guys,

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Speaker 3: congratulations again, thanks so much joining us with them, Wary