Two In The Think Tank - 182 - The Barkley Marathon

Episode Date: April 17, 2019

This week we talk about the INSANE marathon. This event is full of secrets, rituals, gruelling climbs and is one of the most physically and mentally challenging events ever. But somehow, this is still a very funny episode! Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSubmit a topic idea directly to the hat: http://bit.ly/DoGoOnHat Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] and further reading:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAThOmpYqA8https://www.businessinsider.com.au/barkley-marathons-what-the-race-is-like-2018-8?r=US&IR=Thttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_MarathonsThe Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDZdsqbcGTU Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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with Jess Perkins, Massachusetts and Parker for the Dreams. Oh, which Parker? Now, have a look. Empty him out. Let's see what those dreams are. What dreams do you pack? You're wearing jeans, so there's two Parker's in front. Two in the back, front row. Oh, which pocket now look empty out. Let's see what those dreams are what dreams you're playing gene So there's two pockets of the front to the back front row. Oh, this is brutal. That is an empty pocket. Oh Sorry wrong pocket Oh Yeah, pulled out the middle finger the rudest of all fingers. Yeah, I think it is yeah I mean, let me just go through

not Not pretty rude pointing at someone hey because you remember when you're pointing at someone I think it is yeah, let me just go through them not Not pretty rude pointing at someone hey because remember when you're pointing at someone Four of your fingers are pointing back at you Actually only three right the thumbs pointing up to God I'm done a finger gun anyway lost track there. Yeah, we did we did anyway. Anyway, how are you? Look, fine. Thanks. All good. You're sick, Jess. Yeah. Let the people know. They love to hashtag pride. Yeah, we have been praying for a bubble day long. Yeah, you made like a lifelong. Yeah. I didn't think I had a lower moon system or anything, but I do tend to get sick.

I reckon that you do have a lower moon system. I think that's your thing. Do you reckon? Do you reckon it's a bit cool? Yeah, it's a bit quirky. Oh! Yeah, I put that on your CV. Yeah, I reckon.

Because people love to hire people that are always sick. Yeah. My last job, my last like proper job before I decided to be a full-time, piece of shit, creative person, was they had unlimited sick leave. How stupid is that? Smart, bad choice. That's real smart because I was the one who people that have to go to work when they're sick.

Yeah. And then they infect all the other worker bees who they're just using there to make money in this ringing them out These worker bees. Yeah, that's right. I'm a communist Wow, I read a pamphlet yesterday. Oh, and it's all changing Let's pamphlet's are pretty convincing. Yeah, there they are What did say said oh, we wake up sheep all whoa I would say. Said, oi, wake up, sheeple. Whoa.

I feel like I've been dreaming. And then I said, now that I've got your attention. I said sorry to call you a sheeple. I didn't mean that. I really, that, I was out of line. And that's page one. Then it says pto, which means,

per, per, please. What does the page, please turn over? Is that what it is? Wow, okay? So what I did was I please turned over and on the other side it says boy Can we wrap for a bit? I just want to chat with you. Is that cool?

I'm like yeah pamphlet really change on me really changed tactics. Yeah, they're yelling, trying to get down. That was a picture of a guy with a sitting on a chair back to front, hat back to front. I was like, what is this topsy-turvy world going on here? Everything's up to the stand and black is, why, what's going on? And they said, yeah, down with the capos, those capo scum dogs, they're ringing your drawer.

And it said, I don't mean to get too angry. cabo, scum, dogs, they're ringing your dry. And it said, I don't mean to get too angry. But I'm sorry again, that I raised my voice. This is a different pamphlet. Same pamphlet. Different page. Different page. Okay, you've burned it over again. I've burned it one more time.

Yeah, it's a three-sided pamphlet. I think it's a dead sense. Anyway, look, I wanna live with you. We're all in this together. Sign up today. And yeah, that was it. And I'm a commie for life now. I probably should look into more what it means.

I know that there's something to do with like having like some sort of a sigh. Is that right? Mastina wrote? Scythe? Sickle. Sickle. What's a scythe? Is that the thing that the death has? Yeah. Yeah. They're different. Matt. I've just realized that now. Anyway, what are we doing?

I have so many questions about your newfound faith, but Dave, could you tell people what this show is? Well, can I, before we do that, I don't want, I mean, maybe the communists will object to this, but I think we've still got some tickets to sell for our final Melbourne comedy festival podcast. We're given a mouth for free. We're in absolute no. Hey, if you're there in the room, we'll give you. You have to work for it. I'm going to give you some beige clothes, as I understand it, we all wear beige now, okay?

And we all work for the common good, which is podcasting. Oh, that's right. What do we eat? Slops. Of? Slop. Slops of slops. Slops of slops.

What do you mean, in slops, is that like a, is that meant, is that the equivalent of a bowl or something to you? One slops of french fries, please, is that what you mean? No. Slops of what? I mean, slops, you just like left overs. Yes, everything.

The common good. I can't handle this. Everyone empties their fridge into one big fridge. Yeah, and then we slop it up. Big blender, the communal blender. That's what communism is. It's everyone has a shared bathroom. So yeah, tickets available to our Melbourne

International Comedy Festival show at the European beer cafe. Right, it's the final one we've done three now. Oh, I've been absolutely great fun. And yeah, we actually have a special guest, this Saturday, oh, Mark's. And he's gonna, no. Sadly, he canceled.

He's unreliable. Yeah, it's a little bit flaky. Yeah. We're actually, it's the car marks of the podcasting world. If you can compare, be it for be it. And that is Nick Mason and Wigglyhead podcast. The internet celebrity himself.

He's such a good get. I can't believe we're gonna sit near him. Yeah, wow. Oh, I'm too nervous. People are gonna look at us and go, are they all friends? Well, I don't know, we should tell people that he will be there in hologram form.

Oh, I see. That makes me more comfortable. He's driving a tram that day, so he couldn't make it. So we'll hear it in to minute. Ding ding, he's in, you live streams in. That can be fun. Yeah, that sounds like great fun. That sounds like a good idea one day.

I don't think his bosses would like that. Oh yeah, that's on the download. Don't tell the tram authorities. Yeah, never. And remember to touch on an out gig. Yeah. That's got to be a local dialect thing there. No, I think people just touch on across the world.

Yeah, communism. Oyster card mate. They've got that yelled at him one time in London. In London now. Yeah, a very busy two station in London, Victoria station, one of the busiest ones I have there, and now going down to the underground train, and everyone just scans the oyster card,

which is the card that gets you through a gate, and there's thousands of people going through, and I get to the front, and it's not opening. It's not opening, I'm looking at the lady like, what the hell, what the hell, and she yells at, oyster card, mate, use your oyster card. I was using my hotel room And somehow it wasn't working sounds like a like a Yoda or something Because I was looking around like I was pissed off that it was like

Can't look into the person behind me can you believe this mate? Can you buddy believe this and my hotel rooms that I Who are all these people lining up and get in there? I need to shit I'm in there. I've been in I've been preta-monjuring all more Big prep your bread head. I love it. I probably had a grig snossage roll Snossage yeah I love it. I probably had a Greg's, Nosey Droll. Nosey. Yeah, love his, nice. Whoa.

Yeah, okay, well. Anyway, in summary, come this out, everyone, hang out with us in Nick Mason at the live podcast. That's right, and it's also the last week of my show, Bone Dry, and it's been going so well. I've met a lot of listeners.

Most nights there's a one or two or three or even four. Well, we've broken four for you. Maybe not. I just want to try to make it sound cool. Has also turned from a very good standup show into more of a kind of lecture. Yeah, that's right. On the semi-ideology.

Hi guys, underneath you, you'll see it's your all-find of pamphlet. Yeah, look, burn it over and have a quiz. Seems to be a bit of a running theme with shows this year is a few that are kind of presentations, you know, and that's good that you're up there with them. That's right. I smell a berry!

Talking about communism and the life of a soy boy, right? Yeah. How to be a soy boy in communism. Yeah, it's hard. And that shows on a Chinese beauty day, it's seven o'clock. Last year, so was it? It's a Friday Saturday. So far, the show's left. It's been real. I'd be great to see you there. And most of the shows are getting close to

our mouth. So get on it. Do go on for discount code. Oh, I'll be there. And you can come along by a little pin of my head or a bit of primate's beanie. No, thank you. All right. We've got match to you, mate, but we're not pushing on the people you non-comy dog. But if you do come to our live shows, we do have t-shirts for sale. Yeah, they're sick t-shirts of the globe. And you know, what we could do if we all came together. Yeah, and board a t-shirt.

Yeah. One for the greater good. Yeah, it's the uniform. It's like our version of beige. Yeah, beige, beige. Bage. Anyway, let's start the show. Hmm. Probably added all that out just. So what this show is, is it's three friends, obvious friends, getting together, chatting, rapping, keeping it real.

What's wrong with you today? I've done too many gigs tonight and I feel weird. You're on. Yeah, I really needed to tap off. We're doing this at the gig. Oyster card, mate. Go out. So each week, one the key? Oyster card, mate. Is it? Go out. So each week, one of us does a report on a topic. This week, Jess is doing the topic. Dave and I don't know what it is.

We normally get on to the topic with a question. Jess, what is the question tonight? The question is, which sporting event is named after a farmer from Tennessee? Oh, Tennessee Joe. Oh, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe Sting. Yeah, Joe Sting. Jockies.

Okay, wait, so how, what give me his name again? I haven't given you his name. Okay. Named after a farmer from Tennessee. Okay. It's named after his name. Frisbee. Ultimate Frisbee.

His name was Greg. Sporting. Ultimate Frisbee. Sporting event. So it's not a sport. It's like a... Was it... it wasn't Bill de Cathlon? You're not gonna know it. Okay. The row... Mitch Rose Bowl. Oh, is it some sort of a bowl man?

No. Okay, super bowl. If I say he's named, do you want to have a guess? Yeah, okay. His name's Barry Barclay. Oh, the Barclay, that's names Barry Barkley. Oh the Barkley that crazy long race. Yes. The Barkley marathon. Marathon. He sure is not the Barry jig. Yeah, named off to Barkley. Or is it not Barry Barkley? Barry Barkley. Is it really Barry Barkley?

That's great. Is his name really Barry? Yeah. Barbar. For sure. No, I reckon figures call it Barry. Distant relative of the round mound of three-bounds. Hit the first three letters of both of his names of bar. Okay. That's weird. Mystery episode. Yeah, that is the theme of this episode. Well, I mean, I've, and now you've said it, I've heard of it, but I don't know if I would have got there. That's interesting.

Yeah, it's a little tidbit there, just a little fun fact, and I thought this will throw them. Right, but is the topic of today's episode that marathon? Yeah, the Barclay marathon. Cool. And it's wild. And I do want to say as well, I have been sick for the last few days, so writing this, I wasn't a lot of cold and flu stuff

So I'm pretty sure it's fairly coherent. It's got a good flow. You know, but Oranako for? Obviously. Thank you. So we'll see. So bit of a backstory here for you. In 1977, a good year. James Earl Ray, the man convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr, escaped from Brushie Mountain State Penitentiary in Petrus, Tennessee, along with six other inmates. They were recaptured three days later, and despite having been out of prison for 55 hours, James Earl Ray had only made it about 8 miles or 13 kilometers due to the thick and rugged woods that surround the prison And upon hearing this story a man named Gary Lazarus Lake, can trail. Sorry hang on what is that like Gary Lazarus Lake yes, okay, right because otherwise his parents were smoking some goods. He's he goes by las

Upon hearing this story, he said, I could do at least a hundred miles. Mocking James L. Ray's low mileage. He only got eight miles away, 55 hours. That is low mileage. I would buy that car. Yeah, big time. And thus, the Barclay marathon was born.

Along with his friend and running partner, Carl Hen, who goes by Raw Dog, they decided to put on the race in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee. Where'd Barclay come from? It was just a friend of Lazus. Huh, a friend of Raw Dogs. Raw Dog, he sounds like a kind of guy drink a few mother cans, right?

He'd be in a crusty demons and sort of stuff. Rolodog. Sounds like he's on the got track here. Sounds like he's on the got one eye. And the other one was lost in some sort of extreme accident. Yeah, plain darts. With himself. With firecrackers.

Rolodog. He sounds badass. Yeah, I mean, I have been looking for a new nickname. Well. We're not going to call you Rolodog. He sounds badass. Yeah, I mean, I have been looking for a new nickname. Well, we're not going to call you Rodog. I was thinking Lazarus like. We'll call you something puddle. Yeah, okay. Piss puddle. Piss puddle. Who's a little piss puddle? So, uh, Laz and Rodog intentionally designed the race to be surrounded by secrets. The registration process is largely unknown. The race does not have an official website or an email address or anything to make the process easy. The limit is 40 runners and usually it fills up really quickly the day that registration opens. But you don't know what day it opens.

No. So Matt Mahoney is an ultra runner. He's attempted the Barclay 15 times but never finished it. He explains on his website that if someone wants to enter they must get a person who has run the race before to reveal which day of the year to send an application to less. And I found the link on Matt's website to the entry form for 1995, and some of the details have changed, but the form gives you an idea of the kind of attitude. The whimsy of the race. So this is what it says. This is how it starts. It says, put this down, get away from it. You're holding a one-way ticket through the portals of hell.

One way in and only one way out. The Barclay is-way ticket through the portals of hell. One way in and only one way out. The Barclay is not the most imposing 100-mile-er. Only 2,000 feet separate the highest and lowest points. Yet somehow, year after year, nobody finishes. Why? Because eventually, everybody quits. Maybe it's the endless gut-wrenching climbs. Maybe it's the leg-wrenching descents. Maybe it's the soar breeze and blackberries. Maybe it's the leg wrenching descents. Maybe it's the soar breeze and blackberries. Maybe it's because the barkley is truly man against the mountain. We don't have the cute little glow lights every hundred feet. If you can't find your way, you shouldn't be in the woods. No gourmet stands every half mile. You're lucky we put out water. Where

is the water? There's two water stops. Wow, on how long of a run? 20 miles per loop. I'll get to that. So the Barclay, this is still on this application form. It hasn't got to the application part yet. It's just a pre-ramble. Okay. It says the Barclay is not for the Pretty Boys. The Barclay takes away your spirit. Where are? Damn it. Sing about joining. Until now, it's so appealing. Yeah.

I like having that time. Put this down. Oh, I won't. I won't. I'm a pretty boy. I won't put it down. It's not for Pretty Boys, well fair enough, then you die. The Barclay takes away your speed

and leaves you a struggling shadow of yourself. The barkley runner must be tough. A thousand foot per mile elevation change exacts a heavy toll. A lot of it's written really well. He must be savvy, finding your way with a map is easy if you know how. Know where you are in a remote mountain side at night requires no little skill. He must be self-reliant. At the barcle we provide a venue

and render it reasonably safe. The rest is between you, the mountain, and that little voice inside you that says, Mommy, it's too hard, I want a queer. Wow. This is fucking mental. How does it know that voice? Assistant, do you have that voice that voice? Existently.

Do you have that voice every day? Yes, I have that. Mummy. And some of these things have changed since, like, in 1995, to the time limit was 36 hours, but that was because, oh, sorry, it was 55 miles in 36 hours or 100 miles in 60 hours as you time limit. The location is frozen head state natural area. Don't ask if you can't find the park on your own,

then you don't belong out there. Like just find us. The requirements, rigorous requirements must be met. No women, they are too soft. This has since changed and lots of women have competed. I just want to point that out now. Physically to soft to the touch. Yeah.

You were just saying off pod. Well, this is going to sound weird. But you've never touched a woman's face. Wow, that was in confidence, Jess. Let me just start with you there. I will not allow you to provide any context. Jess and do go on. Thank you.

No children, they are too small. No Californians. This race is not cool. No soccer fans, soccer sucks. No Marines. They don't biodegrade. No Yankees. We don't want them buried here.

No Wimps, Worms, Slugs, or Wienies. They don't got what it takes. I mean Wienies. Why would W got what it takes. I mean weenies. Why would weenies be entering? I don't know. Until now, the weenies. They're like, get your account myself. We're like, this is great.

Feeling everything. Sign me up. Yeah, I'm not a marine. No worry about that. I reckon the slugs, if you release the slugs, I reckon I'd be able to do this. Yeah. The slugs, not in their time limit, which I'll get to.

Oh, right. Yeah, that's the thing about slugs. They take everybody's time. But they get results. You get the job done. Yeah. It says, most of all, no health fascists. We encourage smoking during the race.

And then all entrants are required to complete an essay on why I should be allowed to run in the Barclay. Oh, OK, so you have to be smart as well. If it's your first time, you've got to put in an essay. And then it also has a little note for what to put in your essay. It says include discussion of all issues involving decorative wood shavings, unnecessary surgery, uninspected poultry, shampoo, duck costumes, reptiles, investment bankers, and unwanted hairs.

You have to reference all these things. All those things. And then you send your entry to Idiot. 233 Union Ridge gives an address there. It's a real hazing sort of procedure. Hmm. You felt your name, age, and it says in brackets in Maccurian years. And a year on Mercury takes 87.97 Earth days. So you're going to put that in.

Okay. Your address, sex, yes or no? Yes, but. So I mean, hat size and favorite parasite? No, thank you. And then it has this little disclosure as well where it says, I know the Barclays are gruelling grim and hazardous event with minimal opportunity for success. I swear to operate strictly within safe parameters.

Responsibility for myself is entirely my own. And then that sounds like a real sell out at the end there. Yeah, yeah, they say the lawyers got involved. Yeah. But the thing is right. So every year hundreds of people apply and only 40 are accepted. And if they're accepted, an intern receives a letter of condolence. And those letters usually tell races that a bad thing awaits. Right, so if you get rejected, you get congratulations, let her. You've been rejected.

I don't think you just don't hear at all, but that would be good. Congrats, you're safe. It tells you to get ready for unexpected periods, extended periods of unspeakable suffering at the end of which you will ultimately find only failure and humiliation. I mean it all does sound fun. Does sound fun. And, cheap, the entrance free to the race is $1.60. Okay. Wow. New entrance? That's $9.95. No, this is still now. Okay. So, new entrance, first time runners or virgins as they're called. First time runners or virgins as they're called. I haven't even had sex.

Yes, please. They said they ticked no. No, thank you. New entrants are required to bring a license plate from their state or country as part of the entrance fee. So at the start of the race, like they sort of set up this little camp area and just all these license plates hung around all over the place from different states and countries.

What are Yankees, by the way? Does that, that doesn't just mean Americans? Well, that means Noreals and Americans are what, because they said no Yankees. What do they mean by that? Yeah, do they mean people from the North, maybe? Right. I don't know. Huh. Or no baseball, no New York Yankee. Yeah, maybe it's no New York Yankee.

Right, okay. Return or veteran races are required to bring another item as part of their entry fee, which changes fairly often based on what Laz needs. So for a while, it was the had to bring a white shirt and then he had heaps of white shirt so that it was a pair of socks or a flannel shirt or whatever he needs, they have to bring that. So yeah, the entry fees started to go up $1.60 plus a white shirt. Yeah.

I mean, you'd rather get the socks than a white shirt. Yeah. Yeah, how many white shirts do you need? Yeah. But then one year, so I watched his documentary which was followed the 2012 race and that year it was flannel shirts, which meant he got 40 new flannel shirts. And did they interview the LAS? Yeah.

Does he say, what's he like? He's, and I actually have, I've painted this more like it's insane, and it is insane. It sounds like a joke. Obviously it is a little bit of a tongue in cheek, but it's incredibly tongue in cheek. But people actually enter.

It's not like this is actually impossible. No, no, no, people enter and people do it. It's incredibly tongue-in-tune. But people actually enter. It's not like, this is actually impossible. No, no, no. People enter and people do it. It's crazy. But he is quite endearing. And he was like an ultra-runner in his youth. Like, has done all sorts of runs all over the world. Or definitely all over America.

And yeah, interviews with him. It's quite funny. Like he's talking about why the entrance fees on the $1.16, he's like, you know, if anybody complains that I can just laugh at them. Like it's, you know, you come here, you wanna do it. If you've previously finished the race, done all five loops, and I'll get to that in a sec,

if you're a prior finisherisher and you return to run again, you have to submit a packet of camel cigarettes as part of the registration fee. Oh. And so they're given different race boobs and race boobs number one is always given to the person deemed to be the least likely to finish one lap. And they are called the human sacrifice.

So number one, I was going to the human sacrifice. You're still accepted, but they are very confident that you're going to fail. And usually they do. Why do they, why, I missed that, why do they are confident you fail? Generally, it's just because you don't have enough experience. Right.

So they're like, I'll pick someone who's definitely not going to finish. Yeah. That's funny. But some have finished. You said usually's funny. But some have finished. You said usually they don't. People have finished. I don't think the human sacrifice has ever gone to win it.

Right. So since 1986, which was the first race, only 15 runners have completed it. Wow. And they consistently do this every year. Yeah. Wow. They consistently do this every year. Yep. Wow. There wasn't one in I think 20 2002 or something? The glass not needed anything that you know. The park was closed. I don't remember what year it was now actually. I think it was 2002 but yeah pretty much every year.

No GPS devices if any kind are allowed on the race, just a map, a compass and a watch, so that you can keep track of your 60-hour time limit. So, runners have to carry their own food, water, lights, other necessities with them, and depending on how much water they bring with them, they generally have to wind up drinking from streams and stuff as well, just filling their bottles from streams. Since there's no official rulebook, nothing tells runners what they should or shouldn't

do leading up to the race, but they're informed that within Frozen Head State Park, races are only allowed to train on the trails. That means participants can't prepare for how rough the full experience will be. Because and I think I get to it later, but the part of I think it's about a third of the actual race track that they use is on a trail and the rest is just like through the bush. Yeah. It's not marked at all. Yeah. Yeah, it feels kind of impossible. Well, it's a lot of luck involved. Well, the races arrived the day before the event and they get to see one official course map that marks the route for the year and then everybody else has to just

copy it onto their own maps. Right. So when you say it's impossible because there's one map that you just have to copy and copy perfectly or how are they tracking that they stick into this route? It sounds like you just go compass Compass. But how, how did you know if you've actually stuck on the route or are they being watched? No. So they pass through different checkpoints? Yes. The race begin, I'll get to that in two seconds. The race begins and ends at this large yellow gate, which is the only place runners can receive

aid, tape up blisters, replenish food, take a nap, whatever they need. And the race can start anytime between midnight and midday on the Saturday. They don't know what time it's gonna start. So, Lars will blow a conch shell. Oh, that is so great. At any time between midnight and midday,

he'll blow that and it means that the race is gonna start in an hour. And Matt, man of a thousand oz is can you just remind us what a conch sound sounds like yeah I blow conches all the time. Doesn't normally signify the start of a race though. What do you usually signal normally that just means that I'm I got something to say. And it sounds like Wow, that would wake me up get me running. Well, I've got something to say I of course go back to bed. What are you doing up? Just practice practicing my conscience. I did this every night at 1 a.m. Yeah, I've got something to say

Practicing my conscience back to bed. Cons practising starts now. So it could be when I am that it starts, I could start in the dark, it could be 10 a.m. could be anytime. So a lot of them and in every documentary I saw, a lot of them do not sleep well the night before because they're just waiting for. So after you wake up and everyone's already left, you slept through the conch. Yeah, that would be... How do you miss the conch? Oh, no.

That's a treat, because you also don't know how early you want to sleep, because you wouldn't want to... You wouldn't want to be up all day to midnight. And then the race starts when you haven't had a sleep. So you want to sleep early, but how early? If there's going to be a midnight run, you probably want to sleep at six. But it's tricky.

You've got to roll the dice there. It's a big advantage if you pick that rod. Or if you're good friends with Lars, yeah, that's right. I'm suggesting he's dodgy. I don't know why you're doing that. He picks his favorite and he goes, kicking off at three. Is there another one that's not his favorite and he lies? Yeah. Don't worry.

Midday, don't worry about it. Yeah, it's a good. Go back to the show. We'll see you tomorrow. Yeah. Get here about nine-ish. Yeah. Dismissed.

Cool. Call back into your tent and pretend you were there all night. And then we'll kick off. Right midday. That's it's you. That's what I'm about you. That's what you should do. Now the race, like so many official marathonsons starts with lads lighting a cigarette.

That's the official start. The Boston Marathon, New York Marathon. He's always there lighting that cigarette. And now I'm starting to understand why women are not allowed. This is like men being made. Yeah, a conch. Wow. Conch and a cigarette.

Or no, lady. Fellas, we weren't finalish. Just the board. I don't know what year women were allowed in. I'm not sure. Anyway, so the course itself, which has changed distance, route and elevation many times since it's inaugural run. It currently consists of a 20 mile or 32 kilometer unmarked loop with no aid stations except water at two points along the route. And in the mountainous area, weather can also be very volatile, so there can be intense winds, hails, snow, ice, and lads recalling one year when the water stations were just massive blocks of ice, that's all they could get.

So the first two loops are run clockwise, then loop three and four are run counterclockwise. Then on the final loop, the first person to start the loop chooses which way they want to go, and every runner after them alternates between clockwise and counterclockwise. Now I know it's an American thing, just like counterclockwise. Yeah, we're going counterclockwise. Yeah, and we're going counterclockwise. Yeah, okay, what we're going to do, is we're going to go counterclockwise here today. Thanks so much for joining the race here.

Where are you from? I'm from America. Yeah, but where about? I think you know where I'm from. I'm going to answer any more questions. I think you're so much for coming along here today for the race. So we're going to be going counterclockwise. First two clockwise, then we're going to go. Does he sound like Owen Wilson?

Counterclockwise. He does that almost. And also when you're saying counterclockwise, you're mostly in your hand in the clockwise way. And when you say the clockwise, you went and any clockwise. Well, I see what you're mistaken there. To you, I'm see what you're mistaken there.

To you, I'm a mirror, okay? Yeah. I'm in America, it's all backwards there. Here. Here or there? Yeah. Cabbage? Yeah.

Thank you. I think Matt's had a breakdown again. I'll just continue. If you manage to complete the third loop that's referred to as a fun run, it's a pretty big deal if you may get to seeing as so few people have completed the whole marathon. So the loops are said to be 20 miles, which is about 32 kilometers, but most will tell you that it's actually more like 26 miles. Oh God, if you're doing that multiple times, I'm just saying, that's...

Yeah. Yeah, but still, you think that they would factor... But then measure it. Oh, well, I mean, they don't really factor anything in. Do they even walk the route themselves before when they just go, then you go on that bush? No, they walk it before. They don't have to route. They route the route. They're real man, they walk it before. That I'm going to route. They route the real man, eyewitness.

Is routing an Australian thing? Yeah. We route a lot of you. We do a lot of route. So if it, because they say it's 20 minutes more like 26, which actually means that if someone completes the whole race, they've actually covered distance more like 130 miles, rather than 100, which is about 210 kilometers. That is so insane.

That's a big jump. And the fun run alone, so the three loops would be about 78 miles or 126 kilometers. So it's huge. And you have a time limit of 60 hours to complete all five loops, which is an average of 12 and a half or something. Per loop.

And this answers your question from a format. So in addition to running at competitors have to find somewhere between nine and 14 books along the course, the exact number varies each year. And they have to remove the page, the corresponded, the corresponds to the running the race bib that they're wearing. And they have to have that, they have to present those at the end of the loop, Lars counts. So that's proof. That's proof that they've done on every fuck someone else's over by getting number 10, halfway through and just throwing it into a book.

Oh yeah. Imagine that. You get to the book and someone's already ripped your number. You okay, just go on. I feel like this is a gentleman's race stage. Yeah. Does feel a bit like that. I mean, these people are very trustworthy.

I bet your Lars is a big fan of Hemingway. He's got a real Hemingway vibe about him, right? Real man, books, sugar, rates. Right, this is a big, sugar, rich. That's good stuff. Yeah. You're going to revive this country. Yeah. And God's country. They get a new race number at the start of each lap. So they have to then get a different page from the books. So you're not just written, you can't just have the same 10 pages and be like, see, I did it. Did it again. Did it again. You look just sticks really for the lads to set up here. Yeah. It's quite a bit. A lot of the books also have titles that last finds funny for the lads to set up here. Yeah. Yeah. It's quite a bit a lot of the books also Have titles that last finds funny for the event titles like what did I do wrong and the end and a lot of mountain related titles

That is funny. It is a good. It's good for a matter of late. It's not The funny easy. He's a real card this last He's a cook But also you're ruining good books. Yeah. What are you doing? So I'm ripping out the page. Just don't do any of them. Get a bookmark. He might be a big Kindle guy. Yeah. He strikes me as a big Kindle guy. If you saw a picture of him, he'd be like, oh yeah. He's got, and I've had many. I mean, that has 40 flannel shirts. Yeah. My nearly wanted Kindles. He's never looked back.

No, he's got so many. He's got ten in each room in his house. Wow. He's got four rooms in his house. That's all I have. That was doing well. How many rooms have I got in my house? We're not, no, room doesn't mean Butler's pantry.

Well, room is just any four-wheeled part of it. Hey, not my parents house, okay? I'm out on my own now. Oh. Okay. Yeah, her buttless pantry is slightly smaller this way. Yeah. And the size of the buttler.

Yeah, I've got a little buttler. Yeah. It's a puppy dog. Oh. Puppy dog buttler. It's real cute. That's a sitcom. That's a sitcom.

Nobody steal that. That's cute. Matt, we're gonna be rich. a sitcom. No body steal that. That's cute. Matt, we're going to be rich. Bopping the Beagle Butler. Stop it. So the course, Loot, runs through terrain features that Lars and others have given nicknames like Ratjaw, Testicle Spectacle, and checkmate hill.

And the course changes every year. So even if you've done it before, you can't really remember exactly how it is. Is it always a testicle spectacle? Yes. Because once you come up with that, you're not giving that man. Stop making a spectacle of your testicles.

So, or is it like glasses? Like someone's dropping their balls on some of the nose, so it's like they're wearing someone's balls like glasses. Is that what it is? It's all done that. And that, but only it's a tree that looks like someone's putting their balls on someone's eyes. That is cool. This is so badass. It's pretty rad.

Yeah, and like I said before, there are some trails through the park, but at least two-thirds of the course is off trail so there's a lot of climbing involved and Like it's it's mostly uphill right I have a like a pretty wild fun fact that I'm saving till the end. Yes Sizzle. Oh, maybe it's not that good. It's pretty interesting anyway In an article that I read on business insider. she goes, no, that's a thing. Yeah, I've been in there.

They interviewed a woman named Amelia Boone, who works as an attorney for Apple, and is a three-time champion of the world's toughest mother competition, and a Spartan race world champion. So she's pretty badass. She competed in the race last year with the goal of becoming the first woman to complete the Barclay. And she said, of the people that tend to run it, everyone's really smart. There's lots of scientists and lots of really big data geeks. It's all these people who really haven't failed that much if at all. And they come to this race that has a 99% failure rate. And that's backed up by Lars as well in a docker that I watched. He said the same thing that these people are all quite successful. Many of whom have won championships in various events. And the appeal is then that they'll most likely not make it through this race.

So it's like it's the ultimate challenge. They're almost getting bored with success. Yeah, like, oh, just keep winning. So they're just failure tourists. Yeah. I wonder what it's like. They're going and everybody starts sort of hoping that they'll make all five, but like most people don't make it past one. Right. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like a even distance distance wise, it's brutal. It's dude. It sounds like a fucking nightmare. It's like the last thing I could ever think to do for fun Yeah, go to the movies

For 210 kilometers Like read a book. It's funny. It's all the side of some high-chabers like I've achieved everything I want this weekend What do I do the death race or watching when Harry met Sally watch when Harry met Sally? Okay, order a pizza oh this is gonna great I'll have what she's having I was watching the docker and I was pretty good as a good bit pizza that's a line from a movie called Harry met Sally when would you know if you just fucking lived a little and watched a movie Yeah, I'm gonna be a culture Oh, I love to be outside. Outside is cold or hot or sticky

Are you outside watching a driving movie or like a floating movie then okay maybe a Dive in I think they're called a dive in or a driving sure Mm-hmm But if we're talking Oh So is that Turkey? Take a guess I'm gonna say. Oh, what does that mean?

Was that about me? Have I done something to offend you, Turkey? Is that about me? Oh, God. So yeah, they're all these incredibly successful people who are just wanting to finally see what failure feels like, which is cute. It's like come talk to me if you want to know about failure.

Just find me around for an afternoon. You'll see. My card gets declined when I try and buy milk. I go, whoa. What is this? Why is he stole the card? Driving out the driver. Watch my partner leave.

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Okay, this comes back with a pack of smikes. These are real bloke. Okay. Yeah, I don't think he has a job. Um, it just needs a bit of time. It just needs, I know. That's the guy from me. Home blaming.

A guy called Ed Fertor. That's a good name. Good name, yeah. Who goes by the Monica Frozen Ed. It's Frozen Head National Park, whatever. So Frozen Ed. He was the first runner to finish a three-loop race in 1988. So it took three years before anybody even got to three.

When it first started, I think it was only three. In fact it was. My next sentence explains. Before Les decided the race should be five loops. Is that because someone did it and he was like, it's meant to be impossible. Kind of. Yeah. Right. Not that it's meant to be impossible, but he was like, okay, well, it's possible. Somebody did three. Let's make it a hundred miles because at that stage, it was like 55 miles or something. Does this guy ever do it himself? No, he's never done it. Yeah, that's... To be fair, when he started it, he was like older already. He'd be and he's like, oh fuck, it's hard to tell how old he is.

He's one of those guys who just hasn't really moisturized much, so... Okay. He doesn't have a lady-like face. And then I'm soft-womanly. Doesn't have a soft-looking face. He's asked for 40 moisturizers next year. But he's an older bloke now, so I'm guessing when it started, he was probably towards the end of his running career.

Right. Maybe you could ask for 40 pamper packages. Yes. 40 in Do2S bar vouchers. He's going to get a weekly massage and facial. That is what he should be asking for. He is not using it. Flannel shirts. Come on, mate. Come on, mate.

Come on, last. Come on, last. What are you doing? Come on, last. That's like, what is that? What does that mean? Lazarus. Lazarus, like.

Rose from the dead, like. No, you're writing bits in there. No. Lazarus rose from the dead, Ulysses Lake. Yeah, that's a meme. What is he, there's a look out on there. Nothing. Ed Fertor, frozen Ed, he wrote a book about the race titled

Tales from Out There. He wrote, unlike other altars in which race management and volunteers do their best to help as many runners finish as possible. He's like picking up an alarm and driving them. Hey, go. Barkley is intentionally set up to minimize the number of finishes while still trying to keep it within the limits of possibility. And Laz says, if you're going to face a real challenge, it has to be a real challenge.

You can't accomplish anything without the possibility of failure. That's why on the final stretch, the last hundred yards, he's standing there with a shovel. He will swing it at you. Yeah. And you have to dodge him. If you don't dodge him, you don't win. Because there's got to be a possibility of failure, slash

getting hit with a shovel. Thank you. And if you get just passed him and then you get cocky, you start to walk again. You get the back of your. Yeah. OK? It's a long shovel. I'll make a spectacle of your testicles.

Flack. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay, so just to follow the thwack, was obviously the noise of shovel noise. And he got an erection. Drew didn't want. Oh, okay. Bad timing.

Oh, very good timing. I'm on the way up. Boy, you're all right. So in the middle of her second loop, Amelia Boone realized that her group wouldn't make it back to camp in time to start a third. They could either give up or finish anyway. So Boone no crew finished a loop, even though it wouldn't count. And out of 44 starters last year, she

was one of just 21 people who even began the course's second loop. Right. So who, who, who are in her crew, getting you bring a crew? No. So more often than not, especially in the first four loops, people tend to work together. Right. They might not necessarily know each other before that, but they kind of form groups or peers or whatever, and they do help each other navigate through and find stuff. On the fifth loop, first of all, you're not really allowed to help each other, but also you tend to go in different directions anyway. Yeah.

Let's say you had 10 people, which has never happened on the fifth, but you know, five gone one way, five gone the others, and at different times, it's quite scattered. Right. So in the first one Especially everyone leaves together, so you probably do end up in little clumps. Yeah, and you kind of help each other out Like that Eddie Murphy movie Still got it three and a half years later Tracks the third That'll do don't he

That'll do is is Boone at all related to the great David Boone. I can only assume yes It does feel like Boone you'd be up for this challenge great Australian cricketer Yeah, and also the record holder for most beers drunk on a flight from England to Australia Was it 52 days? Yeah, some 54 or some cans. Some ridiculous amount of beers. And unhealthy amount. For an elite beer.

Yeah. Was it on the way back? Yeah, maybe. I assume it wasn't the way over for this series. Well, you never know though. No. They didn't eat great back then. So a lot of people sort of like to say that

Lars is a sadistic man that race is a bit cruel but contrary to the way that it seems. He says that he wants people to finish the race. He says, pretty much everybody we see go out there, you really want them to succeed. You know that most of them won't. There's kind of maybe a dark humour to all the things that go on. Some of the failures are spectacular and really of maybe a dark humor to all the things that go on some of the failures The spectacular and really funny But you like to see people have the opportunity to really find out something about themselves Beautiful bit of a journey. It is a journey of discovery. What is that?

Who am I? You know find out in a hundred miles. What am I doing? Why have I done this or I reckon you'd ask a lot of questions in a race like that. I think mine would be, ow, ow. I saw one guy in this docker that I watched. He had like headphones in like he was ready to listen to music and I was like, what device

is gonna last 60 hours? Give up. He might have a little battery charge pack. That seems like a waste of your space. He's got seven iPads. Yeah, there you go. The whole, his whole backpack is full with one generator.

He's just got a computer on his back. With a really long extension leak. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Really long, really long. So 130Ks worth. I don't want to spoil anything, but has anyone ever gotten really injured or died doing this?

I'm amazed that no one has died. Because like if there's no, if there's only help at the start and the finish of the loop, if you're halfway in there and you follow and break your leg in a blackberry bush, what are you going to do? Well, eventually people would be like, well, they haven't come back and they'd go look for you. I guess we'll close the gate. The big yellow gate.

But yeah, nobody's died miraculously. And I didn't even really see anything about any serious injuries. Like, their legs are all cut to shit. There's like, I've forgotten what they called it in the docko. There's like a certain kind of shrubbery. There's shrubbery. It's really sharp.

It's got like really sharp little, what do roses have on them? Thorns. And yeah, so their legs are all kind of scratched, but none of them look like nobody got injured or, it's crazy because some of the things I have to climb and stuff, you're like, if you mistake one bad step, you're fucked. But they're the best of the best at analyzing data.

I love the same things. It honestly blows my mind that that lady you mentioned before from Apple. Yeah. She's an attorney. She's the world champion and it's something like that. And that's not even a full-time job. I thought to be the world champion of something like this, like we know when people are like, they do an Iron Man. I think it's just a full high-achieving people. Yes. It's just like non-stop. They wake up at 4am, they run a marathon, then they go to work at Apple and they're the boss of Apple and then they go home and they get up again almost instantly. Yeah. They get home at 3.45. They're intense people. Wow. Yeah, it's fascinating. And there's a couple, like, there's one guy in the docker

who I'll talk about in a sec actually. He was kind of returning to do it again. He'd completed the year before. And I just didn't like him. I was like, you suck. There was an arrogance around him. He took it very seriously, which is fair. Like you've got to take it seriously,

but like it was almost out of the spirit to me. Yeah, they wanted to have a smoke. We don't want to be. Yeah. Sounds like it's all trying to be a bit silly, but it's... But he was just like, this person's going to be my biggest threat. Right. But then they end up working together most of the time.

He's like an episode of Survivor or something. Yeah, yeah. And just the way he was just quite, he was like way too serious and his wife and like his kid and his mum were there like trying to help him. They were sort of his support team. And it's the way he spoke to them and stuff.

I was like, oh, you're hate you. Yeah, it feels like the kind of people who are the Uber at high achievers are probably often not the nicest people to be around. Maybe, but that's why they achieve so much. But that's why we the nicest people to be around. Maybe, but that's why they achieve so much. But that's why we're so lovely to be around. Maybe they're trying to achieve being nice. Manas don't cost the world. Kindness is free. Yeah. So, yeah, you piece of shit. How about that? Yeah, yeah, we cut them down because you achieved him

That's why that's why I found a beautiful middle ground of being a higher chief But who's also a really nice great person And I don't think a lot of people do that. I reckon that's what I'd do if I was them be more like me Do you want to tell you? Oh, you're always the middle ground there. We can have to get the trigonometry out again Yeah, also which which thing are you saying that I haven't done? It's both isn't it? Hey, you are a I was gonna say lower chiever but average achiever and a bit of an asshole. Okay. I was gonna say you're okay Yeah middle ground. Yeah, I'm saying you're only a bit of an asshole. Oh, okay, right average achiever average

And Biss Van Assault. Oh, okay, right. Average Achiever, average, Nastas. Yeah, you're an average Joe. That's why we're beige. We're all in a weird beige. You're wearing black. You always wear black. We're all gonna wear beige in the future.

Once I learned what the color beige is. So it's not black, okay. I'm gonna start eliminating what it is before I've learned what it is. So many ways you can find out. Base is another word for another color. You just don't know which one you're So many ways you can find out. Bas is another word for another color. You just don't know which one. Is it orange? Is it orange?

What is it? Dave's telling me, is it orange? Come on. It's green, isn't it? Hey, no clues. Is it like the color of a dirty thing? Dirty communist. Hi.

I'm not even going to talk about you, King, mate. All right, so the full five-loop race has been completed 18 times by 15 runners. So a couple of people have done it multiple times. I mean, you've done it. Don't go back. Exactly. That was as of 2019, so this year. I was first completed by Mark Williams in 1995, almost 10 years since the race began and Mark Williams came over from the UK. So that doesn't include the first guy that did it the three-lead?

He did the three. I saw the four five. And then, the organizer was like, actually, he'd feel so real. Reset the record books. No, he's still the first person to have completed it. But the start of this sentence was the full five loop race. Yeah, but I'll just be pissed off. You'd be like, well, he could have come back and done the five. I couldn't complete the race. He gave. I could have done another two that day. Yeah. Well, it still means, I mean, like if you win the 100 meters and then you find out there's another event called the 200 meters, you still won the hundred meters. Different events. But if you're Michael Johnson, you go and win them both.

And then, we're golden shoes. Am I thinking the right guy? Please, the drug cheat one, allegedly. I have no idea. A lot of 90s athletes went down to 90s and 90s and 90s. So yeah, Mark Womens did in 1995, almost 10 years since the race began. And Laz said that once Mark completed the race, it made people believe that this was possible. Because before there's people aimed for the fun run. They aimed for three loops and thinking that the full 100, the full five loop was impossible. So they just do the three and they'd be like, I'm good. I need to keep going. I've done it. But once marketed it was like, oh shit, this could actually be done. But it was another

six years after that before anyone else finished it again. And two guys finished it. That year with Blake Wood and David Horton and David Horton said a new record. And the documentary that I watched, which was the Barclay Marathons, the race that eats its young follows the 2012 race, which was a pretty mementos event. It was the first time that three competitors finished all five loops.

Whoa, that's basically, I suppose, two of them are chasing each other because the last one are in different directions. Yeah, that's true, I suppose two of them are chasing each other because the last one are in different directions. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So Brett, Morn, M-A-U-N-E. Mown. Mown. Mown. Mown. Mown. So here's the guy I was talking about before who I didn't particularly like. He had already won it in 2011. Oh, bugger. But he came back to complete the race again, becoming the first to complete the race twice,

and also beating the record time and finishing in 52 hours, three minutes and eight seconds. So 210 K, well, basically equivalent of that in 52 hours. Yeah. Do they, do they have sleep at all, or do they? They can. But do you think most people, the tactic is just to keep going So a lot of them get back to the camp or get back to yeah the camp basically and their support crews We've got food and stuff ready for them. They'll change clothes if they need to

Um at pit change Ballroom camp. Well, I mean like they're slipping to something more comfortable especially it's often raining So they're getting into dry clothes or waterproof or they've got their little headlamps They restock their backpacks with food some of them sleep, but never for long But it also sort of depends like if you've Done your first lap in like eight hours and your second one maybe takes a bit longer 9 or 10 You've still got a little bit of time up your sleeve so some of them will sleep for an hour and then go again But there's definitely cases where people do not sleep the entire time.

So they're awake for 60 hours. And running for all of it. It's insane. It's crazy. So yeah, Brett beat the record 52 hours, which I think might still be the record. So he's the worst guy in the best runner. Yeah, he's really good. Well, actually, I think he is the best. Oh, because Jared Campbell came in four hours later, it was his first time competing. And he returned two years later to complete the entire loop once again in 2014 and 2015, becoming the first man to complete it three times. Right. So I think Jared might actually be the best runner.

But he didn't know it fast, but he's done it the most. He's done it three times. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, I guess, and once you figure out you can do it, I guess it's like scary and you're just... Yeah, maybe, yeah. And you'd learn from mistakes.

There's a different documentary that I watch that just follows one runner, Gary Robbins. And he gets to the fifth loop his first time. And he, like he's so sleep deprived, he struggles so much. This is in 2016. And so he sort of taps out halfway through the fifth loop. So he nearly makes it not quite. Comes back the next year and has like the same problem.

He gets, he got lost and it was raining really heavily and he just ended up sort of coming to turn around and come back the wrong way. Right. And then he was like, I'm going back next year, which would have been last year and I looked it up and he made it to three loops. Oh, they went back to this year.

Yeah, and I don't think he did it this year. So it's like, I don't know what happened there. What do you, yeah, it wasn't able to quite crack the car. Yeah, but he was a lot more likeable. I was like, I like this guy. Well, yeah. With the camera crew is following him the whole way around. They don't follow him the whole way. A lot of them will have go pros on. So they use a bit of that footage or the camera crew will go to like a certain point, but they can't follow him the whole time. I'm not thinking the guy finished it three times. He's going there to learn what failing is. And he can't even fail it.

He can't do it. He can't do it. On his first go, he came in second. Only four hours. That would have failed our failing name, maybe. Maybe. Just let me fail, please. Body fail on me.

No, just keeps running. Yeah, my legs just won't collapse. So the other person got a bump that won't quit. There was one other person who completed the Barclay in 2012. There's a guy called John Figu Veressi. Figu Veressi. And he was a Barclay Virgin as well. But he made it with just 18 minutes to spare. Oh, see. And so in the docker, they're all kind of like, come on, John, come on, John. Like a lot of things. Oh, no, everyone's super supportive.

And one really cool point that Las makes as well is that when you do get down to like the only being three or four people going, when they get back to camp, it's not just the two or three people they have their supporting them. You've got all of these people who have tapped out, but want someone to succeed. So you've got all these people, all these experts in their field who are like, here, let's do this. Oh, you've got blisters, here I've got this thing for that. So they'll help each other. It's actually a really nice sort of attitude community. I'm picking up a 10-hour real big party. Maybe. They get a bit crazy. Yeah, a bit silly. A bit silly. So as of 2018, about 55% of the races had ended with no finishes.

That happens quite often, 55% of the time. That's almost nearly more than half. Or is that more than half? Nearly. Nearly. Okay. Because it's out of 115% of the time. So close.

Yeah. Couple of little fun facts to finish up. So when a runner drops out of 115% as a whole. So close. Couple of little fun facts to finish up. So when a runner drops out of the race, there's a bugler who plays taps upon their return. And what they play, like, military funerals. They play that. What was that sound like? It sounds like, buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh bu-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-b and it will be the title of one of their books. It starts with a concert end.

It started with a concert, and where they nearly put it and with the bugle. Despite that entry form from 1995 saying, no women, the best women's achievement is Sue Johnston. She made it 66 miles or 106 kilometers in 2001. She made a fun run but didn't progress any further. Still, go sue. Yeah, it's... Well, it's crazy. A cheap man himself. But also, it doesn't really prove that they were running the first place when she's soft. Too soft.

I don't think it proves anything. Thought you were the feminist of the pod. I am the feminist here and that's what made me hurt to say it. Yeah. Well, made me hurt to say it. Yeah, well made me hurt. A couple other things. The course record for the slowest distance covered is held by retired computer scientist, Dan Bagleyone, who got lost for 32 hours after covering just two miles of the course. Oh no.

You did that. I saw an interview with Dan though and he was like, I was going to last for like even he was like, boooo! For 32 hours. He was lost for 32 hours. Took him the 32 hours to do, well he wasn't just like, he didn't go two miles and sit down. He was just sort of wandering around and he got a bit of course.

That would be way worse than anything else. nowhere and taking a tape to do it. If you're looking at your watch going all right, if I get back on track now I've still got 57 hours. If I get back on track now I still have 12 hours. All right, I'm going to have to hammer it home now. At what point is it going? Are they looking for me yet or and this is my final fun fact for you. And I saved this for the end, but I'm really hoping, I mean, even if you're not that impressed, you just give it a big reaction, please.

Okay. So what? I haven't said it yet. Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold that. Give me a pound of dry. Because you, sorry, I've gone early. No, me again.

Because the elevation changes throughout the course mean that finishes experience a total of 120,000 feet of elevation. The equivalent of climbing and ascending Everest twice. Go. Oh, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Well, do you even hear it? Are you just waiting for a reaction? You know, up and down, Everest twice. That's sick. Isn't that crazy? That's crazy. Just without a snow and shit. Yeah, without the, the call that stuff, the high fidelity altitude, altitude, you know, without the actual altitude, but still, yeah. And insane distance. Yeah. And the Barclay,ay was held just earlier in March this year and no finishes. Really? I don't think maybe one person started a fourth loop, but... So not even close really?

Yeah, no finishes this year. 55% of the times. Isn't that crazy? But it is possible, it's very possible. But yeah, the number of people, even in that docker that I watched in 2012, like so many people in the first loop were like, I'm done.

Yeah, right. And they go, are you sure I'm done? He'd be like, I knew it would be hard, but not this time. And then they might do too. There was a guy who came over from Belgium and he was like so lovely and, and he was so excited and he did too

and he just looked completely shattered and he's like, I can't. Like you'd think if you got two, you'd maybe push for a third just to get that fun run and he was like, I can't do it. And when they bugled him out, he had a little tear. And I was like, oh. It feels like the one loop should have a name as well.

Just the one circuit feels like that should be something. Yeah, I agree. Because I think normal people would be able to do a single loop by imagine. No way. I'd die. I'd die out there. I reckon I'd do it, but I'm above average.

No, hang on, I'm average. I know I'd die as well. Yes. I know I'm below average. You'd probably, you'd make it maybe halfway and turn around. Which is basically a full loop. Yeah, exactly. So just keep going.

I know. I know. But that is basically a full loop. Yeah exactly. So just keep going. I know. I know. But that is my report on the Barkley marathon. It's absolutely crazy. It does sound like someone will die one day. Yeah. I agree. So if anybody is wanting to watch anything about it, there's the Barkley marathons, the race of a lady, that's young. That's on Netflix. And it's okay. There's a better or glowing reviews.ons, the writer will leave it to you. That's on Netflix. And it's okay. There's a better or- Clowing reviews. I get fine, but there's also where dreams go to die, Gary Robbins and the Barclay Marathons.

That's just some YouTube. I know where the dreams go to die. Dave's pocket. Yeah. Hey. Sorry Dave. Oh yeah, that one's really good. And also I should thank the people who suggested this topic. Oh yes.

It was suggested by Emma Cougan, jobs.art. Dottie. And Bradley Dark. Ducco. So thank you so much because that was wild. Yeah, thanks for all those people. That is crazy and I love hearing about it but it's something that I have no desire to even. Absolutely not. Yeah. I thought I started out that way and by the end I'm like, it, but it's something that I have no desire to. Absolutely not.

Yeah, I thought I started out that way and by the end, I'm like, one loop, maybe one day one loop. So far as one loop again? Like 32 kilometers. I've never gone that far even in a car. So it would be, it would be a step up for me. You'd be doubling. I think I've run about half that in one go before.

Happy. But that's on like footpaths. So it's a little different. Not, you don't have to climb anything. No, no climbing, no berries at all. It's in fall into a berry bush. The video for you know a berry bush is... Snack. Oh yeah. Beautiful. Snack supplies. Oh enjoy a little snack. Yeah, so that brings us to the end of that report An effentastic report it was thank you. What a journey. Which is what it's all about Yeah, it is a good general. Remember that Jess. No, I remember So that brings us to the moment of the show, which is so many people's favorites the moment I've been waiting for

It is the fact Quotal question on segment of the show. And this is where one of our Patreon supporters gets to ask us a question, tell us a fact or share with us a quote. And in this case, it is from Joe Smith, who's given himself the title, because we're allowed to give yourself a title as well. These are for our Patreon supporters who are on the Sydney Shindburg RIP level.

And this week, Joe Smith has given himself the title of, I ride a MoPed so call me JoePed. I hope that's his whole title, you know what I'm saying. We put that on a little plaque and on his office. Oh hell yeah, one of those plaque and on his office. Oh, hell yeah. One of those little things on his desk as well. Yeah. You walk in there and it's all MoPed related stuff.

And he's like, I mean, yeah, I've said one thing about a MoPed. You guys have really gone with that. We're like, all right, Joe Ped. I didn't think Joe Ped was going to stick, but it did. Not Joe Ped. His title is I Ride a MoPed, so call me Joe Pett was gonna stick, but it did. Not Joe Pett. His title is I Ride a Mo Pett, so call me Joe Pett, okay? If you don't give him his full title, that's a bit disrespectful.

Yeah, I'm so sorry. And I ride a Mo Pett, so call me Joe Pett, has asked a question this week, and his question is, to the three of us, I suppose, I have not read it before. If you, okay, not a good start, read two words, one of them was not the right word. If each of you could create a TV show, what type of show would it be and what parts would you have the other two members of Duke on play? Oh, interesting. I mean is this a genuine question? Cause my answer would be boring to be a light night talk show.

I'd host, you know, I'll be self. Well, no, it's my dream. And? Well, I mean, this is my dream, so now I'm emptying out my pockets here. A bit of a surprise, please. Okay. And I'd have Dave as the band leader.

Jess is my co-host. Well, what's the first one? I'm not your co-host, I'm like your, I'm like your Corinne Grant slash Peter Hellier to your Rove McManus, right? Okay. Like you're the star, but I'm just a recurring person there. Yeah.

Well, I mean, yeah, it depends, like. I don't like the pressure of co-hosting. Okay, well you can, yeah, you can be like, what's Conan's, I keep Andy Richter, you're gonna send the couch. I'll see at the end of the couch away from everyone. Or I like, I like, you could voice the skeleton like... Yes.

...on on the late late show with... ...a person. Craig first. What was that guy's name? That's such a good song. Fuck, I love that show. Such a good show. So you would do a talk show, Dave, what would you do?

Probably some sort of horror documentary. Oh, horror doc. Where I delve into the past of each of you. Ooh. Show you for the fraud you really are. That's horrific, I guess. It's called Doogal Unexposed. Why would you do that to us?

We're just flashing the camera. Yeah, it's also a bonus DVD feature that is a porno. Oh, that sounds fun. Why are you doing? Wait, why was the horror? You're... It feels like you started saying that sentence without really having fun. It's really after me. Right. And that's... I terrific to... There's a few Craig Ferguson skeletons in your own closet. Oh now see I know see where your thoughts process ran Nothing I just conveniently shoehorned that in it was never gonna make that much sense. Okay, I love it. I'd watch that show Find out all this Hey, you got to find out the kind of bad guy you really are pretty squeaky clean

Look don't look in that closet goddamn it. Don't look in there. I'm pretty squeaky clean. Don't look, don't look in that closet. God damn it, don't look in there. I've killed a man. A skeleton man. I've looked in the closet, he's not dead, he's just locked in the closet. Yeah, well. Let him out. He panicked and locked him because he thought he was dead. Yeah. Really, it's been living off mothballs. That's not healthy. I don't know what you think mothballs are they're not moth testicles Dave. They're poison for moths. No, no, I'm not like this. Don't do this to me. And they're the horror documentary turned on its creator. Well, it's do go on exposed. We all get exposed even the creator and just thank you. Fuck him now.

It's waiting. I've already said mine before where it's where Matt, he's like, it's a sitcom. Your life is in shambles. I take you out. I take the documentary sitcom. Sik-com. Okay. You're playing from what you know.

Yeah. I take you out for a drink, because I'm your cookie friend. There's absolutely no sexual tension. I'm just your cookie friend. Just wanted to put that out like that really clean. Well, I'm starting to feel some tension here. It's not sexual. But it is not sexual.

It's not sexual. Right. And so then we go and crash in Dave's pool house. This Dave is doing incredibly well. But I'm just like, I'm just like a little bit of a loose cannon. And I'm like, oh, you're just super depressed. And trying to get my life back on track? I guess.

But Dave lets us live in his two bedroom pool house. He's so rich he's got a two bedroom pool house. That's cool. And nothing but sexual tension from me. Okay. Towards whom? The Butler. Yeah. Okay.

Wait, are we allowed to write a new characters? Do you show? I don't know what I mean. I think I'm just thinking of the Seinfeld show in Seinfeld, wherefield where the court, for some reason the court assigned a butler to Jerry, that was like the set up for the- That's never seen a thing. That was this thing. But he's my butler. Was on the lines in it.

Mm. Yeah, sure, we can have a butler. That's great. Is Dave also play the butler? Oh, kind of like that Eddie Murphy movie. What was it called? Shrek the Third. I think it was Shrek the Halls.

So close, I always get this too confused, you know? The similar, but very different. They are, yeah. Yeah, Shrek too, back in the habit. Could I please move on to the next Patreon segment? Please. We thank some Patreon supporters. And everyone who supports some Patreon,

I think on a certain level, and above, they get a shout out. And thank you so much for all the support of the following people. Just you know, we give us a game to play, something sort of thing related to the topic. So the Barclay Marathons was named after Luz's friend Barry Barclay. Maybe we could use their names to name an event.

Okay, great. That sounds okay. Yeah, that sounds good. Dave. I love it. Oh, Dave. I love you. Thank you so much.

Matt, you're okay. Firstly, I'd love to thank from Kingston on Tario and Canada. Tyler Buller. Buller, Buller. Tyler Buller obviously makes me think of nouns. Yes. Because of Mount Buller in Victoria, but also Buller, the dairy company. Who has a mountain on their table I think.

Okay. Buller, ski resort for cows. That's the event, ski resort for cows. That's the event, ski resort for cows. Yep. Is it how many loops? Three. Three cow loops. All counterclockwise.

What counterclockwise? And they just put little skis on the cows because cows need a holiday as well. You guys, they do. They do. So they move. That's the slogan. They move.

Yes. Oh, it's a catchy slogan. Thank you. I'm gonna say you can't hear me with any ideas. No, it's great. Well, you already did it. We didn't need to. Thanks so much, Tyler.

And congratulations on your new event. It's named after you, the cow resort. On the gray. The great part is, you name the event. It's your event, but you don't actually have to do it. Yeah, it's like a man. You don't have to do it already, be involved in it in any way.

That's great. It's just an honor thing and they give you money. Just make it as hard as you, and you just get to demand whatever you want. 40 buckets. 40 buckets. It's 40 buckets. Buckets of what? Just buckets. 40 buckets. It's 40 buckets. Buckets of work.

Just buckets. Okay. I'd also love to think. From Heavy Bane, Queensland, Australia. Heavy. Brianna, Bonnie, Babs. I guess she's probably going to be. Oh, wow.

Heavy Bane. Oh, is it with an A in his pronounce, Harvey? Yeah. That's weird. They do things a little bit differently up north. Crazy. Brianna. Brianna.

What about the bad bash? Ooh! Bad bash. I love the bad bash. And it's like some sort of, um, one of those races where you've got like $200 to spend on the car. A bad bush bash.

Yeah, that's bush bash. And you have to drive your car through a forest. And if you get to the other side. Oh, you'll find out. That sounds fun. No one's ever completed it. And one of the, one of the quirks of it is you have to have a sheep driving your car. You can navigate, but the sheep has to be driving.

That's right. That's cool. I like Babs Busch Bash. Brianna. Sorry if you don't like being called Babs. That's very possible that you wouldn't. I'm not sure. I like babs, bush bash. Brianna. Sorry if you don't like being called babs. That's very possible that you wouldn't. I'm not sure. I like babs, but.

It's not great. She might be less you love it. And then it is best. It's the best. Well, I mean, the full title is Brianna Barnies, bush bash. But Brianna Barnies, bush bash. Brianna Barnies, bush bash. Holy moly, that feels good. B-b-b- the all my sense sponsored by Baraka give me back a baby bounce

Wow, that's an old slogan yeah from your time I suppose I've not well, I mean you don't see ads much anymore Do you the other day I had the doors plus song in my head? head. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. No fuss. Noysy. I'm a walk. I met someone from New Jersey and I did that voice to them and they were like, we don't talk like that. And they said that like that, they said, we don't talk like that. We don't talk like that. I don't think that is like that. And I was like, can you? Everyone's voice doesn't sound the same when you hear a playback.

Can you? He is. That's what you say. Whenever I made someone from New Jersey, I said, I get you guys, jovy Prispringstein Rutgers. I get it and they say oh he gets us Well somebody that you get is Kyle Anderson Missed Randerson. Yeah, that's what I thought too Anderson's Anderson's aunt venture, right? Oh, adventure with ants. Well, the thing is with this one, they supersize ants,

mechanical supersized ants, and you have to ride them up a pole, but the pole is 10 million feet tall. Wow. So you, but you're not doing anything good. I think you didn't up in space. Yeah. That's what I'm saying.

Sorry. Yeah, that was on me. So all you got to do is the mechanical and gets all the way up itself. It's going to do that no matter what, but you've just got to stay conscious. I'm quite a try-worthy. Conscious. I'm in trouble with conscious. Really? So it's like a real philosophical thing going are you? Conscious. Trouble with conscious.

Really? So it's like a real philosophical thing going on in your mind. You gotta say conscience, you gotta say zen. Wow. The whole way up. Has anybody ever made it? Because all the way up, the ant sense of like, I'll give you a million bucks if you punch that baby

in the face. And you have to say, I won't do that. Not even for a million bucks, that's wrong. Baby's face, this should not be punched. And you gotta answer like that. Not even for a million bucks, that's wrong. Baby's faces should not be punched. And you gotta answer like that. Wow. For a million, however many feet I said. Ten million.

Ten million feet. Feet. How long does it take? Ant feet. Oh. So it's actually only a couple feet high. Right. Hold on.

Yeah, that's right. It's the size of a fly pole. Okay. But you've traveled on the back of an ant. Right. Hold on. Yeah, that's the size of a flagpole. Okay. But you've dropped it on the back of an ant. Yeah, mechanical ant. Oh, cool. Yeah. Any more questions? I think we got this. Yeah, I think we got that down. Pat, so thank you, Kyle. Should I start? So too. Kyle. So, Kyle, hopefully you weren't waiting too long for that. And venture. In're doing good stuff. Well, I would also like to thank from Fairpoint Haber in Ohio. Oh my gosh. Fairpoint Haber sense of love.

Sense of life. Sense of life. That's so good. Well, I mean, just say it high on I think lovely. And I would like to thank Thomas for Zekas. Oh, for Zekas. That's a great name. For Zekas. Thomas for Zekas. That's a sweet name. Yeah, what do you got?

David, what do you reckon here? Uh, the Thomas for Zekas fastball. Uh-oh. So you got to throw, it's the fastest ball wins? Or it's a ball you go to like a dance, but it's over in 30 minutes. Yeah, that's right. It's a speed dance. Whoever can dance with the most partners in 30 minutes wins.

You obviously want to play tactically. You dance with a lot of partners. You don't want to, but you don't want someone else to dance with too many partners. So you've got to be like, you've you gotta be rejecting, but also accepting tactically. Oh. Rejecting and accepting. Mm. So bring together.

Fusekus way. Was that close? Fusekus. Fusekus. The Fusekus fast ball. And let's be saying that right. I feel like it nailed it. Fusekus is also DJing.

Oh yeah. DJ Fusekus. And every second song is really hard to dance to. So, it makes it even harder. It just puts on the Zorba. Yeah. That's easy to dance to. Not at the start, but it's really slow and mentally plays. That once it starts to pick up, it changes it to something else.

Yeah. It changes it to Shenai Twain. You're still the one that I love. The only one I dream. Yeah, it also makes between those 30 songs for 30 minutes. It's still the one I love. The record is 1100 Siffer dances. Whoa.

And it's held by Thomas for seconds himself. Yeah. He was DJing whilst dancing. He's amazing. He's a double threat. Incredible. David, would you like to thank some people? I would love to bring us home.

Thank you by thanking, not one. But two people in one go here. Whoa. This is a big shout out to Brian and Laura from Colchester in Essex. Well, thank you, Brian and Laura. I'm a proud customer. How wonderful.

Oh. Oh. Well, we. Oh, wonderful. Well, we don't have a surname there, so we're gonna have to use Brian and Laura. Hmm, Brian and Laura. Not that that isn't an absolute trait. I don't know, if you're related, if you're just friends, if you're a power couple, perhaps. Yeah, I think this one is gonna be a space race.

Ooh. Brian and Laura space race? Yeah. Trademark. Yeah, yeah. So it's the first one to make it to the Dark Side of the Moon, right? Which isn't a real thing, is it? And what they have to do is get there and then make, they've also got to like bring a big blanket to put make it shadowy. Okay. Is the Dark Spider-Man real thing?

It's a real pink Floyd album. Yeah, yeah. It's one of the top five selling albums of all time. So they've got to get up there. They've got to make an error of the moon dark and then play that record. Record. Backwards are in full.

And not a lot of people can sit through that. No, you're that. That's the hardest part. That's the hardest part. That's the hardest part being like, oh, this is a really classic album, but I'm listening to it back with it. Surely you could just put it on and then put headphones in, you know? No, that's one of the rules you have.

I have to listen to it. Oh, yeah, that would be tough. Mm. Brian and Laura. Well, good luck to Brian and Laura with that. Are you going to be over recruiting people in no time? Thank you. Thank you for your bravery. And finally, I would like to thank

from the Australian capital territory, Ow, capital territory. God bless those boys and girls up there. Inc, including, Reis Elbres. Reis Elbres. Reace, Elbress. Elbress, Ampress. Oh, the Elpress Ampress.

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That triangle into your hand so that it becomes two slusses. That's right. So you have. Your hand becomes a jaffle. I love jaffles. Yeah. Hit me with a jaffle. All right.

Best jaffle. Go. Oh, easy. My high school canteen. Yeah, Dead spaghetti jaffles like tens of tens spaghetti in a jaffle. That does sound pretty gross and good. Oh so gross and so good. I love a baked bean jaffle. Okay, you guys are wild. We love sealing up the canned goods. Yeah, I think I'm out of one can, putting in a bread receptacle. I like cheese, salsa tomato, mushrooms, getting in there with the juices. No, I hate mushroom.

Oh, what a hate you. I'll make you half way. Really, that's what it took. And then, herbs, a lot of herbs. I love the cheesy herbs. Yeah, face, last couple of weeks, you pulled out these looks that I've never seen before. So I think it's exhaustion, but I'm loving it. Festival times weird.

I feel like we've all been a little weird today. What do you mean? That my maybe was mainly me? It was mostly you. That means, maybe? Dave's just been having micro-sleeps. Yeah. He's a tired boy, but we're done maybe it's maybe don't just been having micro sleep Yeah, it's a tired boy, but we're done and it's time for us to get out of here. Thank you every cell breast and the sandwich press Oh, thank you, Ray. Yeah, good. I cannot wait to go home and have it. Why don't have it? I don't have a sandwich press

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