00:02It's amazing to be here, Josh. 16 years. The teams here have done incredibly well over
00:09the last seven days. It's been an extraordinary rally. This team here have got three kids
00:16who have flown up. Their mum doesn't even know they're in Darwin. They're coming welcome
00:20on the cross. It couldn't be more perfect. Beautiful. And so tell us a bit about, as
00:28you greet people there, because that's part of your job as organiser of this. But tell
00:32us a bit about the journey, because it's not, you avoid the bitumen as much as possible,
00:36do you? We do. Yeah, we certainly go on the roads least
00:40troubled. To give you an example, when we left Adelaide all the way up to Alice Springs,
00:44we didn't push the Stewart Highway once. And then yesterday, we were all the way out to
00:50Timber Creek on the Buchanan Highway, which was very rough, full dust, corrugations, never
00:56seen a grater. Just extraordinary. But like magic scenery.
01:00It's just extraordinary stuff. Just we've seen the most beautiful parts of Alpaca
01:06Rimland Australia. We're very, very fortunate that we go where we do.
01:09But with cars, and I don't want to interrupt you from greeting the people, so keep on greeting
01:15them if you have to, but keep on listening to us as well. With cars, cars worth less than
01:21$1,500 bucks. Isn't the towing bill exponential? Well, yeah, it can be. That's one of our support
01:28teams just now that came through. So we have, we now have more car carrying trailers than
01:34I ever thought I'd own. And we have, we're so fortunate we've got support teams like these
01:40guys who come through and pick up some of the dead cars for us as well. Congratulations. Well done,
01:47congratulations. And what's the camaraderie like along the way? And how many people are involved
01:52this year? We have, nice congratulations. Congratulations, mate. We have 243 teams on the 500
02:01people on this road. Wow. At the beginning of the rally, they start, they don't know each other.
02:06But by, within a few days in, and certainly, hey guys, congratulations, congratulations. And
02:12certainly by the time they finish, they're just found in such a unique way, lifelong friends
02:18for forever. They just come together. It's just, it's such a good thing. So James, you started this
02:23after your mum and dad died within 12 months of each other. What do you reckon they're saying
02:28to each other now, looking down on you and what you've done with raising $68 million over 16 or 17
02:36years with this? Um, I think every son or every daughter, uh, wants to make their parents proud.
02:45And I think, uh, yeah, I think mum and dad would be pretty proud of this. Um,
02:51Yeah. Yeah. I think they'd be pretty proud. I miss them a lot. So it's nice to be able to
02:56honour them.
02:57Yeah. It's a beautiful way to honour them. Give us an idea of what that money, all that money you've
03:01raised over the years has gone towards. Yeah. So 100% of that goes to the Cancer Council,
03:06and we put funds into research. So we've now funded over 80 research programs in Australia through some
03:13of the best institutes and research universities all over Australia through across all different
03:18types of, um, cancers. We're very proud of the research to be found. And we spend a lot of time
03:24talking to the researchers and feeding information about the research back into the community.
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