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S12:EP1 pt2 - MANNY SINGH KANGs Insane Challenge!!! / Manny Tells The Prime Minister To Do Better Whilst Getting His 2nd Invite To Meet The King!! And Of Course His Friendship With Carol Vorderman!!

April 10, 2026·1 hr 12 min·5 clips

Manny explains he gets through 156-mile walks by celebrating each lamppost as a different lifetime achievement — winning an Olympic gold, sinking the Ryder Cup winner, witnessing the birth of his first child.

1. Endurance fundraiser Manny Singh Kang joins Lee Hagger on Chew the Fat, a UK top-ten-rated podcast, to discuss his forthcoming 156-mile no-sleep walk-and-marathon challenge for Dementia UK. 2. Manny Singh Kang is a Wolverhampton-based charity fundraiser and Pride of Britain award winner who has previously completed a 48-hour no-sleep walk, multiple London Marathons, and a walk to Chelsea; host Lee Hagger describes the show as a high-energy UK podcast. 3. The episode's central subject is Manny's preparation for his most ambitious challenge yet: walking from Molyneux Stadium to the London Marathon start line and running the marathon without any sleep — totalling approximately 156 miles and 66 hours. 4. Manny explains the challenge departs on a Friday at 6am with no fixed route, no pre-booked accommodation, no entourage, no sponsors, and no police escort — he will buy food from shops en route and is 'fluid' about direction. 5. Two ex-RAF veterans from Yorkshire who met Manny during his walk to Newcastle have offered to accompany him on the night sections for safety, despite Manny not asking them. 6. Manny says he will not wear headphones during the challenge because he does not want to rely on music when he already has 'what he needs' internally — a principle he calls being 'born complete.' 7. Manny's grandfather, who died in his nineties, told Manny that a 48-hour no-sleep walk was unimpressive, noting that Victorian farmhands completed 30,000 steps before breakfast while ploughing fields with wooden ploughs and eating meals in a deep squat position. 8. Manny's morning routine after meditation is to look at his hands first, then progressively acknowledge his roof, his bed, his clothes, clean water, and a full fridge — arriving at his car already, in his words, 'on cloud nine.' 9. Manny describes his lamppost-by-lamppost mental framework: he never thinks about the total distance but celebrates each lamppost as a different peak life moment — an Olympic gold medal, the winning Ryder Cup putt, the birth of his first child — and accumulates them across the challenge. 10. Lee confirms that Manny advised him before a marathon not to use his prepared playlist, and that Lee only put in his headphones at mile 23 after holding out for the majority of the race. 11. Manny says he is not worried about failing to complete the challenge — 'if I don't make it it's not a big deal, I'm not refunding the donations' — and frames any failure as simply becoming part of the story rather than a permanent setback. 12. Manny describes separating himself from his own negative thoughts by externalising them as 'Manny over there' — a voice he can reply to with 'courage, determination, resilience' until the negative thought dissolves and becomes part of the journey. 13. In Manny's Sikh faith, death is embraced rather than avoided: birthdays are acknowledged as 'one year closer to the end — do something with your life,' which Manny says is motivating rather than morbid. 14. Manny challenges the idea of waiting for personal tragedy to motivate action, asking why most people do not use the freely available awareness that life is finite as a reason to act now. 15. Manny has visited 497 schools and spoken to approximately 75,000 children; he takes his Pride of Britain award into schools and tells each child 'everything you need to achieve this, you already have.' 16. His youngest son, who left school at 16 without going to university, volunteered with a charity using broadcast equipment from a young age and by 21 had secured a job with Red Bull in Formula 1, travelling to Melbourne, Shanghai, and Japan. 17. Manny describes a conversation with GK Barry at the Pride of Britain awards, asking her why she had 3 million followers and suggesting she use the platform for something powerful — he believes he saw her subsequently joining a Cancer Research event. 18. The episode has a philosophical, motivational tone throughout, with both hosts sharing personal stories about discovering confidence — Lee from being a shy drummer kid told by his mother to 'sell yourself' at a school concert. 19. Best suited for listeners interested in endurance sport, charity fundraising, and practical philosophy about human capacity, resilience, and presence. 20. Listeners seeking sports coverage, comedy, or entertainment-driven content rather than motivational conversation may find the pace reflective and the subject matter too earnest.

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A giant charity challenge told with warmth, grit, and enough noise to keep it human.

Manny Singh Kang takes a huge charity challenge and keeps it simple: a 156-mile walk from Wolverhampton to Greenwich Park for Dementia UK, with his sixth London Marathon waiting at the end and no sleep in the plan. The strength here is not polish but plainness.

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For a 156-mile, no-sleep fundraising challenge that turns stubbornness into a very long walk to Greenwich Park.

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