Jack

performing arts really.

So, that's what started my obsession with it.

There was a number of people that pointed me in the right direction in Tasmania.

But as far as good coaches, they were really all came out of the interstate and from New Zealand as well.

The Human Calculator, it's a name that's been passed on from a number of people.

Originally, my first auction coach, which was Harry Lee, he won the competition back in 2015.

He was known as the Human Calculator.

And then his prodigy, Luke Beniziosis, who won the competition last year, was the Human Calculator.

And now that's been passed on to Greg Brydon, who is my training partner up here in Victoria.

So it's just a, it's a number of techniques, but it really comes down to repetition.

So we were training the couple of weeks, leaning up to it at least once a day.

And if not multiple times a day, either in person over Zoom and also through applications like an app called Mental Maths, which is just aimed at high school students to improve their addition skills.

But for auctioneer, it's kind of our secret tool.

Oh, I used to do a card trick where I'd make all the cards disappear very quickly and then one of the cards would appear in a participant's pocket.

So that always used to get a good laugh when it worked.

When it didn't, it was very embarrassing for a 12-year-old Jack.

A magician never reveals his secret.

Jack, let's hit our three stories.

15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm.

They had an idea to cause a cultural storm.