Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 3: The SECN. We're starting to be charity drive on the show.
Speaker 3: It's called Adopted Jack. He's going to be home alone,
Speaker 3: him and his little two year old son.
Speaker 4: I'll be fine, would you be?
Speaker 1: Have you got stuff planned?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean just looking after him in general?
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: On Saturday, that's a tick for that parent task Bomber's
Speaker 4: first game on Saturday afternoons. Be invited to.
Speaker 3: That r Yeah, I mean it's what every two year
Speaker 3: old wants to do. Go and see that underwhelming team
Speaker 3: back in action.
Speaker 4: But yes, I will be looking for suggestions of what
Speaker 4: to do with a toddler when it's just your son
Speaker 4: and you. But it's b Anchor. I'm worried about it
Speaker 4: because she's doing this hike three night overnight hike camping.
Speaker 4: She never really camp before, and she.
Speaker 1: Walking with all the camp on her back.
Speaker 4: She's got the proper pack, she's got a tent. Did
Speaker 4: she brow from a neighbor, she got a new sleeping mat,
Speaker 4: new boots.
Speaker 3: Now, yesterday when I asked you where was she hiking,
Speaker 3: you had no idea other than a state. So she's
Speaker 3: she's traversing New South Wales.
Speaker 1: Have you narrowed down a location?
Speaker 4: Minimurah It is on the south coast of New South Wales.
Speaker 1: Beauty in Nara.
Speaker 4: So she's doing like a coastal walk camp situation for three.
Speaker 1: Nights, having a couple of buddies.
Speaker 4: Yep, her work colleagues.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's an amazing thing to do.
Speaker 4: I'm just worried about her preparation because three months out
Speaker 4: she was saying, I'll be doing a lot of you know,
Speaker 4: the StairMaster at the gym. I'll carry Gordy on my
Speaker 4: back around the park so I can get these used
Speaker 4: to the way on my back. I haven't seen any
Speaker 4: of that. And she leaves on Saturday. You're kidding. This
Speaker 4: woman runs marathon.
Speaker 5: I reckon.
Speaker 4: She's all right, she is fit. She ran a marathon
Speaker 4: eight years ago. You can't hold onto that for training
Speaker 4: for a free day hike.
Speaker 3: Yeah wow. And so what about like boots walking boots?
Speaker 3: Has she warned those in otherwise you've got blisters first.
Speaker 4: Time last night, that was just around the park, Like, oh,
Speaker 4: my toad's a bit squished. This has not even been
Speaker 4: twenty minutes. Twenty minutes, you're going to be wearing these
Speaker 4: for three days.
Speaker 3: Plus you've got all that camping get and plus whenever
Speaker 3: you go like camping, you don't sleep very well.
Speaker 1: The moment it's.
Speaker 3: Light, you have to wake up because it's beaming through
Speaker 3: that little tent and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: She's going to be wrecked.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's got all this confidence that, Ah no, I'll
Speaker 4: be fine. Everyone else said, I'm over prepared.
Speaker 1: If how how.
Speaker 3: Well you're alive, your heart's beating, you're good to go.
Speaker 4: So did honor to do lesterdays? Go get new boots
Speaker 4: or size up the boots because she.
Speaker 1: Felt that when did she start hiking?
Speaker 4: Saturday?
Speaker 1: She flies.
Speaker 4: We drop her off at the airport eight o'clock on
Speaker 4: Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: Boots all take time to wearing.
Speaker 4: In the wilderness by Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 3: Notice that like the socks, and that needs to be
Speaker 3: warning when you buy new socks on that walking.
Speaker 4: I need people to say, like, if you are a hiker,
Speaker 4: is she underprepared?
Speaker 3: People will be listening to this. They can know she's okay,
Speaker 3: she's all right. Nine four one four one o four three.
Speaker 3: And if you ever been in a situation where you
Speaker 3: were just terribly, terribly awfully underprepared, where you just had
Speaker 3: no idea what you're taken on. This is the Christian
Speaker 3: O'Connell show podcast. It's Jack Swife, Bianca under prepared. Three
Speaker 3: day hike, three nights, yeah days, zero preparation would you say.
Speaker 4: None besides the walk around the oval last night in.
Speaker 3: A new late too late, don't even bother late, not
Speaker 3: doing anything, is it? And then getting brand new.
Speaker 4: Boots today that's going to today?
Speaker 3: This comes from Caitlyn Wallace listened to a show right now,
Speaker 3: Monicaid and Christian. I'ma as a Scout who's gone on
Speaker 3: many night hikes and day hikes. The anchor is definitely
Speaker 3: under prepared. I don't know the trials she is doing.
Speaker 3: It doesn't sound for miniar, so maybe the distance per
Speaker 3: day isn't too bad.
Speaker 1: But wearing boos you never won before is one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things you should never do. This comes from Scouts.
Speaker 3: She also needs to make sure that she's got lots
Speaker 3: of plasters for her feet. She will get cuts and
Speaker 3: blisters if they are brand new boots.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be agony for her. Let's get a Maddie here,
Speaker 1: Maddie underprepared.
Speaker 5: I'm a little bit underprepared. Yeah, I mean I've been
Speaker 5: hiking for about seven years now and also a Scout leader,
Speaker 5: So if she were to have been wearing her boots
Speaker 5: for about maybe a week prior, then that would have
Speaker 5: been perfectly fine. I mean, as long as she wears
Speaker 5: them within this week, then I reckon she'll be okay.
Speaker 5: It's honestly just a matter of making sure that she
Speaker 5: brings a lot of blister pads and she brings a
Speaker 5: heap of band aids as well. Fitness wise, I reckon
Speaker 5: she's perfectly fine. If she goes for runs, then she
Speaker 5: should be.
Speaker 1: She is healthy. She is.
Speaker 4: Maddy Rio suggested in the studio that you can buy
Speaker 4: new boots and then wear them into the bath to
Speaker 4: help them mold your foot. Have you ever heard of that.
Speaker 1: You've never heard of that.
Speaker 5: Personally, I've never done that. I've a pair of leather boots,
Speaker 5: so don't really you want to do that. But honestly,
Speaker 5: back in the day, I bought a pair of boots
Speaker 5: last minute because mine was falling apart, wore them that
Speaker 5: week for the hike, and I didn't get any blisters.
Speaker 5: If you double socks, there's one pair of skin socks
Speaker 5: and one pair of hiking socks. Then that will actually
Speaker 5: reduce the amount of blisters to get as well.
Speaker 4: That's actually very helpful, Thank you, Mare.
Speaker 1: Maddy.
Speaker 3: Do you recommend using Marino socks. That's what someone recommended
Speaker 3: to me once. When you go hiking.
Speaker 1: Don't wear the hiking feet in anything else.
Speaker 5: Yeah. No, don't wear bamboo socks. Don't wear cotton socks.
Speaker 5: Always stick to the natural fibers. They dry faster, they're breatheable,
Speaker 5: They'll keep you warmer even when you get wet in them.
Speaker 3: And Maddie, you can't buy these boots that are don't
Speaker 3: take as much wearing in. I got some last year
Speaker 3: when I went in Ireland. We were not walking eight
Speaker 3: hours of day and the guy saw me boots that
Speaker 3: said they were pre broken in.
Speaker 1: I bought them.
Speaker 3: I don't know if someone in that sweatshop, but you
Speaker 3: know the little to run around in the mature the
Speaker 3: London bring or something, he said they were broken.
Speaker 1: It's so you're the greatest salesman I've ever heard.
Speaker 5: That brings alarm bells for me. If some shoes already
Speaker 5: broken in, then that tells me that the shoe is
Speaker 5: not going to be appropriate for your fo.
Speaker 1: We don't want to scout alarm bells.
Speaker 4: That's one of the badges they got, get alarm and
Speaker 4: read what words?
Speaker 1: Maddie, thank you very much your help. That's okay, all right? Andy?
Speaker 1: When were you under prepared? Mate? Good morning and yeah,
Speaker 1: good morning. Yes.
Speaker 2: We went on an eighteen week trip board to wet
Speaker 2: western Australian Northern territories last year and I will very
Speaker 2: well prepared with the crocs. And and we the through
Speaker 2: the national parks were in minimum high did with about
Speaker 2: three kilometers maximums about ten kilometers. And the parks over
Speaker 2: there are not flat, they're all over rotten.
Speaker 1: Boarding, bloody lazy w way where they flat? When these
Speaker 1: was something for us.
Speaker 4: Now I like to be an advocate for crocs, but
Speaker 4: even imitation.
Speaker 2: Hiking where they are great, you know. And there was
Speaker 2: one or two people looked at me a bit strange.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, because I had my shopping bag
Speaker 2: as well with me water.
Speaker 1: What do you mean a shopping What do you mean
Speaker 1: a shopping?
Speaker 3: Back?
Speaker 1: Are your bag for lying for someone?
Speaker 2: Andy took a photograph of me without me. I forgot me.
Speaker 2: I love me backpack in the caravan that particular day,
Speaker 2: had a shopping back with the watering.
Speaker 3: You're the type of guard they have to send one
Speaker 3: of those rescue missions, aren't they? The English guy lastly
Speaker 3: wearing crocs and shopping bag.
Speaker 1: Well, a lovely day for it, very flat down. They're like, hey, wait,
Speaker 1: have you got the phone? Must flask? I mean I've
Speaker 1: got hanky on my head, darling.
Speaker 3: Come now, Andy, what what happened in the end with
Speaker 3: this this epic trek?
Speaker 1: Then in your crocs with a shopping bag.
Speaker 2: Oh well no, no, I did the ten cads So
Speaker 2: there was no Yeah, there was no dramas, but it
Speaker 2: was quite ironic. Two weeks before we finished our trip,
Speaker 2: we're calling it alex Springs and there was a sail
Speaker 2: on and I bought a beautiful play of walking shoes.
Speaker 1: Why did why didn't he use? Didn't you use them?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, there is two weeks as.
Speaker 3: Good idea to buy them after a trip, isn't he.
Speaker 1: I've not been to alex Springs. It must be. It
Speaker 1: must be a tribute to as well. And he loved
Speaker 1: in the chat to you mate, you've got a great accent.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I can say, Jack, please get your wife to get
Speaker 2: some crop.
Speaker 4: He loves crust just so much.
Speaker 1: Croc and trek and the thanks the corner may take care.
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