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So talking about today's episode, we're talking to Rob Hutchings, and Rob does a really cool thing.

He does, first of all, he does all kinds of adventures, but the one we're talking about today

is along the Clutha River in New Zealand, which is where he's joining us from.

He's not from New Zealand, as we'll hear, but he decided to move there and jump headfirst

into the adventure scene and do something that no one had ever done, which is swim almost five

days down a river with rapids and basically backpack, like a trail or or bike tour but on a river where you're

swimming down the river you get out and you camp and then you go back in the next day and keep

going obviously he's not carrying all that gear on his back he has someone helping him

coordinate the gear but nonetheless it is a really cool concept. And also, if you're

interested in his entire adventure story, he's a really good writer and wrote a book recently

called Down River Nomad, colon, triathletes adventures and adversities into the rapids. And I bought it myself.

So I don't always buy the book of the guest, but I bought this one and I've been reading

it and I've really enjoyed it.

He goes into his story, some of the adventures he's done.

Because, you know, with this show, we have so many people who've done tons of adventures,

but I like to focus on talking about one on the episode. It makes a really good

episode when you can focus on one adventure. But frankly, a lot of these people probably have

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