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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning one point seven w Satham.

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Speaker 1: You may have seen this story on the news the

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Speaker 1: other night. At home workouts are becoming the new normal.

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Speaker 1: But how about an at home marathon. A Sydney dentist

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Speaker 1: has completed a forty two kilometer run to support healthcare

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Speaker 1: workers on an eight meter balcony in Manly. The thirty

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Speaker 1: two year old I had to do more than five

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Speaker 1: thousand laps, finishing the unorthodox course in five and a

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Speaker 1: half hours.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Wow. The man himself, this Sydney dentist Mark Bennett,

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Speaker 2: joins us. Now, Hello, Mark, how are you? Good morning guy?

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Speaker 2: I found me on very well. Thank you, thank you

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Speaker 2: very much for having me on.

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Speaker 1: It's good to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Mark.

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Speaker 1: You're a dentist and you're a marathon man.

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Speaker 2: What are the chances? Yeah? I mean, to be honest

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Speaker 2: with you all, this is a bit unexpected and a

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Speaker 2: bit different from my usual staring into people's mouth. But

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Speaker 2: it's yeah, for good cause, So no complaints from Mayenn

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Speaker 2: So just took us through this. I mean, how big

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Speaker 2: is your balcony? Yes, it's about eight minutes lot. It

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Speaker 2: was actually my brother's about balcony. My housemates had just

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Speaker 2: come back from South Africa from all wedding, so they

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Speaker 2: were in full quarantine. So I got kicked out of

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Speaker 2: the apartment. So yeah, I landed at my brother's place

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Speaker 2: and we were sitting there having a few beers on

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Speaker 2: Friday night and shouting to some friends over a virtual

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Speaker 2: house party, and they sort of said they had no

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Speaker 2: sport to watch on Saturday, and I was like, well,

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Speaker 2: I heard about this guy in France who'd done this

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Speaker 2: marathon in six hours forty eight minutes. And I was like,

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Speaker 2: I reckon, I can go a bit quicker than that,

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Speaker 2: and they all thought I was an idiot and got

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Speaker 2: stuck into me. And then yeah, we had a look

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Speaker 2: out at the balcony and I was like, it's not

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Speaker 2: so it's probably only about a meter or two wide

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Speaker 2: and then obviously eight meters long, and I thought, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll give that a crack. So yeah, that was all

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Speaker 2: the challenge that we needed to get out there, and

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Speaker 2: obviously then we thought we did something for a good

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Speaker 2: cause as well, so we beat the border it five

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Speaker 2: thousand laps to be honestly, did we didn't really? It

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Speaker 2: was quite cool. We had the Facebook life feed going

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Speaker 2: obviously we're trying to raise money as we were doing it,

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Speaker 2: But my brother was sitting there commentating the whole time

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Speaker 2: and sort of getting stuck in probably listening to his

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Speaker 2: chat for the whole five and a half hours, so

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Speaker 2: that was in him. Trying to be funny was probably

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Speaker 2: the hardest part about it.

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Speaker 1: So he commentated, He commentated for five and a half hours.

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Speaker 2: He got Yeah, he was hilarious. He got stuck in there.

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Speaker 2: He was obviously he was having a few beers to

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Speaker 2: help him along the way, but he was dancing and

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Speaker 2: singing and chatting along, and we had friends from all

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Speaker 2: over the world that was sort of tuning in leaving comments,

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Speaker 2: and we had a bit of a Spotify playlist going

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Speaker 2: where people were adding all their songs, adding songs to it,

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Speaker 2: all their self isolation songs like you know, don't Stand

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Speaker 2: so close to Me, Can't Touch This, like we was

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Speaker 2: just funny track. So it was it was a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a laugh, to be honest with you, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's what made it a lot easier because

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Speaker 2: obviously when you're you know, the kind of the ill

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Speaker 2: atmosphere that we had go on, people calling in that

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Speaker 2: you know, life crossing on the phone that it all

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Speaker 2: just came a bit of fun, so I didn't really

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Speaker 2: have to focus too much on the running, just put

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Speaker 2: him back and forth and making sure I didn't fall

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Speaker 2: over or get dizzy and trip off the balcony. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's right, getting dizzy. And tell me about your neighbors.

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Speaker 2: They were involved too, won't they. Yeah, the neighbors were classic,

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Speaker 2: they were. It was quite funny. After about an hour

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Speaker 2: of you know, back and forth and hearing my footsteps

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Speaker 2: on the balcony, they started popping their heads out and

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Speaker 2: asking what was going on. And the neighbors directly across

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Speaker 2: from us were actually supposed to get married on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: but because of all the you know, obviously the new

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Speaker 2: restrictions and stuff, they pushed the wedding forward to Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: and so they could get married in front of a

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Speaker 2: couple of friends. And they were doing like a live

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Speaker 2: virtual cross to all their friends right that were supposed

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Speaker 2: to be at the wedding. So they were doing like

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Speaker 2: a big cheers. I don't know if they saw on

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Speaker 2: the news article, but he was dressed in his full

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Speaker 2: tuxedo on the top and a pair of bodies on

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Speaker 2: the bottom to do the live cross. So he was, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they were, they were. They were really supportive and now

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Speaker 2: coming out cheering as one and event one of the

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Speaker 2: one of the neighbors downstairs there, the husband who's actually

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Speaker 2: is an anethssis so he's one of the frontline healthcare

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Speaker 2: workers we were raising money for. So they were, you know,

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Speaker 2: they were really cool about it. They were cheering as well.

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Speaker 2: And then we finished, we had a knock on the

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Speaker 2: door and noticed they'd actually left the bottle of moee

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Speaker 2: and a roller toilet paper on the front door steps.

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Speaker 2: It was brilliant.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, I still remember some famous

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Speaker 1: marathon footage where a woman voided as she crossed popish.

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Speaker 2: That's like golden moment at the moment, right, so you'll

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Speaker 2: take all the paper. So yeah, it was. No, they're

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Speaker 2: really good about it.

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Speaker 1: But if you're gonna avoid, it's good to avoid in

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Speaker 1: your well, actually your brother's apartment as well, in your

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Speaker 1: own apartment.

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Speaker 2: That's great. I mean it's handy having everything close on hand.

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Speaker 2: It was that. Yeah, we didn't have to worry about that. Fortunately. Well,

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Speaker 2: good on your mike.

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Speaker 1: You're a good man and you've given us inspiration to

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Speaker 1: do our own things, so keep safe.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. I'm pleadre you got to you enjoy

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Speaker 2: join the end Amanda in the morning one at one

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Speaker 2: point seven, Tell You Film