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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Well, well, most of us

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Speaker 1: are sitting on our backsides. Our next guest is out

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Speaker 1: there making waves for all the best reasons. In twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, Blakie Johnston smashed the world record for the

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Speaker 1: world's longest surf that was forty hours extraordinary. Well, now

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Speaker 1: he's got his eyes on a prize again, this time

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Speaker 1: for the world's Biggest paddle out, happening this weekend. Blakey Johnston, Hello.

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Speaker 2: Hi guys, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Great to have you on a paddle out. What does

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Speaker 3: that mean, Blakie.

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Speaker 2: Well, typically in surfing culture, we do it as a

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Speaker 2: celebration of life. That's so beautiful. Hey, it's we paddle out,

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Speaker 2: link hands often and celebrate someone who's passed and throw

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Speaker 2: ashes or lays and celebrate the person, say kind few

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Speaker 2: words and it's really a powerful moment. And this is

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Speaker 2: about the opposite of celebrating someone before a tragedy happens.

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Speaker 2: Is about getting around one another while we can and

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Speaker 2: show the value and that we all have for the

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Speaker 2: people around us.

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Speaker 1: And so how many people do you need to make

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Speaker 1: this the biggest?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So there's a Guinness World Record that's five hundred

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Speaker 2: and eleven in Huntington Beach. And then there's a six

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty person record out of Port Macquarie in

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Speaker 2: New South Wales where I was in honor of Zach Young.

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Speaker 2: He was tragedyally taken by a shark and we want

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Speaker 2: to we want to beat that one and honor that one.

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Speaker 2: We have invited his dad down hopefully he can make

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Speaker 2: it and just honor that Australian one. And yeah, we

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Speaker 2: want to smash it there. We want to get a

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Speaker 2: thousand people in the water.

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Speaker 1: And there's a reason behind all this, isn't there.

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Speaker 2: Blaky, Yeah, that definitely is. It's it's to highlight the

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Speaker 2: you know, the positive impact that human connection and community

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Speaker 2: has on our mental health. And it's to raise money

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Speaker 2: and we do it to inspire the youth. You know

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Speaker 2: that it starts conversations. And that's what happened around myself.

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Speaker 2: The best thing other than raising that money last time

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Speaker 2: and an amazing event and experience that we got. It

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Speaker 2: opened the door for conversations the parent to have with

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Speaker 2: like something cool's going on and it's like why's he

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Speaker 2: doing it? Do it? Mama? And it says about like

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Speaker 2: the community came together. I don't know, Jones, you were there,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. On that Friday afternoon, it was a mystical,

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Speaker 2: magical look. Oh, I was cooked, like I was.

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Speaker 1: Well, three hours NonStop. How's your body? Did it take

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Speaker 1: ages to recover from that?

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Speaker 2: I didn't recover. I've been asked that question a lot later,

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Speaker 2: and I didn't recover for about six months. I got

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Speaker 2: a lot of energy. I get up to a light

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Speaker 2: and you know, I ran one hundred k's in the

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Speaker 2: Blue Mountains five weeks after without even bloody training for it,

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Speaker 2: because I was just pumped on and adrenaline and the downside

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Speaker 2: to wanting to challenge yourself. You know, six months later,

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Speaker 2: I really felt the mind and the body not a line,

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Speaker 2: just just really felt like something was missing. And then

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Speaker 2: you know, again, I've got tools that I've learned through

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Speaker 2: my own change. I lost my dad took his own

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Speaker 2: life eleven years ago, and I made my own changes

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Speaker 2: after a few years of you know, not being at

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Speaker 2: my best. And I feel like these things need to

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Speaker 2: be taught to everyone, and it needs to be a

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Speaker 2: conversation that just does not stop and to help without

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Speaker 2: being able to function in day day life. You're not

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Speaker 2: your true self and you're not going to sho up

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Speaker 2: and enjoy your own experience.

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Speaker 4: And all craft to welcome at this paddle out, Blakie.

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Speaker 4: And I'm not just saying that because you know I

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Speaker 4: write a SUP and I know it looks face and

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Speaker 4: a SUP.

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Speaker 3: But if you write a SUP or you're on a

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Speaker 3: on a surf ski or a boogie board.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, any surf craft welcome, any humans welcome. This isn't

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Speaker 2: about representation or anything. This is anyone that wants to

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Speaker 2: bigger than themselves. Up. You might have to lay down

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Speaker 2: and paddle at Jones. You just said you don't fall

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Speaker 2: on anyone when he's trying.

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Speaker 4: Well, Blaki, this would be great. I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: go down there. You should come down, man, I'll put

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Speaker 4: you on a big board.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be Saturday between seven am and ten

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Speaker 1: am at Cronulla, the world's biggest paddle out. Let's make

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Speaker 1: it happen.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it. Thanks guys, it's going to be incredible moment.

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Speaker 2: I think. Just come down on the hill the headland

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Speaker 2: of the point in the beach and you don't have

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Speaker 2: to be in the water to experience something this this

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Speaker 2: this amazing, So it's going to be a beautiful moment.

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Speaker 2: Carla can be proud off.

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Speaker 3: So how do you register Blakie just so you get

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Speaker 3: the numbers and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Just go to the World's Biggest paddle out dot com

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Speaker 2: and there is a registration fee. It goes directly. Every

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Speaker 2: dollar goes directly to the two charities are going to

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Speaker 2: run mental health workshops throughout the shire and beyond to

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Speaker 2: the more moneary ways. The more kids we get through

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Speaker 2: these incredible work and I've sat in on their workshops.

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Speaker 2: They are really powerful and life changing and Luy are

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Speaker 2: looking forward to helping those guys out to the incredible

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Speaker 2: work they do.

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Speaker 3: What if I wore speedos on this up?

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Speaker 1: Oh come on, we want people to go down there, Brendan.

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Speaker 2: We'll bring some vomit bags.

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Speaker 4: The world's biggest pedal had check it out this Saturday,

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Speaker 4: Blaky Johnstond It's always great to see you mate.

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Speaker 2: This guys, thanks having me