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And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

You know, sometimes people do things and you wonder, wow, why do they do them?

And then, I mean, they tell you, but you still ask the question, why?

I guess congratulations are in order to a British South African endurance athlete who crossed the finish line of his 62-mile multi-day swim around Martha's Vineyard.

Okay, well, he wrapped it up on Memorial Day. Congratulations. He becomes the first person. Yeah, yeah, yeah, congratulations to Lewis Pugh. He becomes the first person to swim all the way around the island. So Lewis Pugh, as I said, is 55 now. And he began swimming multiple hours a day in the 47 degree water on the 15th of May.

Now, he did this because he wanted to raise awareness

about the plight of sharks.

Because we know, man, sharks have been vilified

ever since that damn Jaws movie 50 years ago.

And he wants to change the public perception and encourage protections

for the at-risk animals, which he said the film maligned as villains and cold-blooded killers.

Well, I mean, they kind of are, but especially that one in Jaws.

So he said, we've been fighting sharks for 50 years.

After he completed the last 1.2 miles of the swim before exiting the ocean at the

Egerton Harbor Lighthouse, and man, do I love the Edgar Town Harbor Lighthouse.

That's exactly close to where Jaws was filmed, by the way, just a side note.

We need to make peace with them, said Lewis.

In total, he swam for 24 hours over 12 days.

He said this was among his most difficult endurance swims in an almost 40-year career, which says a lot he has

swum near glaciers, volcanoes, swum on hippos, crocodiles, polar bears. Okay, calm down, Louis.

He's the first athlete to swim across the North Pole and to complete a long distance swim in every one of the world's oceans.

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