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I’m curious about everything, even subjects that don’t interest me.
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Showing kindness is nice to do, but it really is a win win as there are so many more benefits to the giver as you will hear in our fast facts this week. Maxi had an action-packed day at the beach with some serious situations and the tip this week is all about safety around jetty’s and piers. So valuable as the weather heats up and storm season gets started, which led to quite a day for Leigh trying to see Take That, enjoy this week's catch up with Maxi and Leigh.
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Introduction to 'Live, Learn, Survive' and its global mission
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G'day, I'm Trent Maxwell.
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And I'm Lee Mason.
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And we want to welcome you to our Live, Learn, Survive podcast.
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Since 2018, Lee and I travel the globe, met face-to-face with over 33,000 children in six countries across three continents.
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We created a series of awarding children's books, the global online education program, and the founders of the Live, Learn, Survive charity, all focused on teaching children and young adults life skills that will not only help themselves, but help others too.
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We're on a mission to spread awareness about fire, water and first aid education to inspire the next generation of first responders.
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So join us for the next half an hour with some fun, inspiration and kindness and we'll try and learn something too.
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How are you this week, Lee?
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Welcome aboard.
Weather update from Brisbane
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Maxie, I am fine.
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Welcome, luckily, to a stormy Brisbane.
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Stormy Brisbane.
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That's all I can say about the week that's been, it's been wild, weather-wise.
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So, um...
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Yeah, crazy time.
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Literally, I think, what are we, November?
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We're not actually supposed to be in summer yet.
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So we're still in spring.
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We're in it.
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We're in it.
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The storm season has started.
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So more of that will prevail.
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It's actually quite lucky I'm here.
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But you'll hear about that in the unfortunate event.
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I look forward to hearing the unfortunate event.
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But, yeah, the quote this week.
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So let's start with the quote.
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Let's get off on the positivity.
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What have we got?
The importance of staying curious and lifelong learning
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Yeah, so the quote this week is, I'm curious about everything, even subjects that don't interest me.
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I love it.
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Stay curious, honestly, about everything your whole life.
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Especially in the last couple of years, you know, me personally, like, you know, I'm reading a lot more.
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I'm trying to do different things and do different hobbies and different things.
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And I'm a really big believer in you're always learning.
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Every day is a school day, as we always say when Live, Learn, Survive.
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Every day.
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Stepping out of your comfort zone, doing things that really excite you, challenge you, get the mind thinking and moving.
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And you don't know what people you meet along the way that align with your values and what you want to do.
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So it's a really good start, really good quote.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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Just, you know, stay curious.
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Just always have that curiosity because it will just, you know, it will serve you in good stead.
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So love that quote.
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Really, really good.
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So right.
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Okay, Maxie.
Launch of 'In Deep Water' and other book-related updates
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Good news.
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What have we got this week?
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We have some good news.
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Yeah, so good news this week, Lee.
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In Deep Water is now available to purchase, which is very exciting.
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It is.
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I'm surrounded by them.
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I've got them everywhere.
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They're all over the place.
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And I love finding them.
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They're great.
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Yeah, they're a great book and all the pre-orders have been sent out.
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So thank you everyone for supporting and jumping on early.
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But in saying that, though, all the books are now available just before Christmas.
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So get in early.
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There's plenty of books there and support a good cause.
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Yeah, and we've got new photos as well, new bookmarks.
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Yeah, just saying.
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You know, it's got some new stickers, so it looks good.
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Yeah, like the new bookmarks look amazing, the stickers, the pictures, all updated and all on brand with the book and the new illustrations that we have in deep water.
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So, yeah, I hope you all enjoy.
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And another bit of exciting news.
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Brilliant.
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His book two cover, The Rough Draft, is coming along nicely.
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What a superstar, Paul.
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We've got the draft of, which people will know it as the Stormy Protest.
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So the new cover, oh, so I can't wait to see it in colour.
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So we've had like the draft is what's like the black and white little sketch.
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And then when we know we've got all the detail correct, Paul says,
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Actually, people might not realise Paul hand paints this.
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This is not something that's created by, you know, computer or what.
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This is a skilled hand painted artwork.
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So we are so, so lucky to have Paul.
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And yeah, can't wait to see that get coloured in and come to life.
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So that's going to be very exciting and not too far into 2025.
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I've got too bad.
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Yeah, really, really exciting.
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So that's good.
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And yeah, we get to catch up.
Road trip to Newcastle and book giveaways
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We're back on the road next week.
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We're going up to Newcastle for two days and we've got a couple of schools up there.
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We're going to be doing some important meetings moving into the back end or tied up their last bit of 2024 into 2025.
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We're going to be recording some new videos and planning.
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for 2025, which is very exciting.
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Yeah, a lot of good different formats and video ideas and we look forward to sharing.
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And I'm road tripping, so I'm not going to fly this time.
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I'm doing a little road trip and I'm bringing you some more books.
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I've got boxes of books in the hall.
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I'm bringing you some more.
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Awesome.
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So, yeah, so I'm going to load the mini and hit in the road.
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So I'm actually excited about that.
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I'm going to go and find some beaches that I didn't –
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know about and you know what i might do maxi i might you never know i might drop in a book on the way if i find somewhere i might drop in a book on the way i could actually maybe think about that maybe we can come up with a different way of um giving back just before christmas where i can do maybe that remember i did that run and dropped all the books in all the strategic places again something something fun maybe we can do something if i come across a little school if i come across a little school i might just you know
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do a couple of goodie bags up and drop them in.
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That would be cool.
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Yes, exactly.
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So, yeah, excited.
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We're back on the road next week and back in a school, which will be fun.
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Very exciting for that.
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Excellent.
Concert experiences: Coldplay and Take That
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What else have we got?
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Have I missed something?
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Yeah, and I was lucky enough to see Coldplay last Sunday.
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What a show.
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It was amazing.
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I've never really been a big Coldplay fan.
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I know.
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I've struggled getting on the Coldplay bandwagon on many a road trip.
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You've not been feeling the Coldplay album on the road trip, but it turned you to the light side.
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It's a bit of a family affair.
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We had tickets about a year ago, or we got tickets when they come out, and we had pretty good seats.
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And, yeah, I'm a changed man.
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I think he's a Chris Martin, brilliant performer.
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You know, the vibe was high.
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The love was all around.
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It was an amazing show.
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And that leads us into your unfortunate event, Lee, and we may as well kick into that.
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I'll just find the music, stand by the way.
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do know this is the whole podcast.
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Yes, let's go, let's get it done.
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So we were both excited Sunday morning, we were going out like grown-ups, you were off to Coldplay and I was going to see Take That.
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Now any girl, lady of some of my age that may have grew up in England will
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you know, take that, I like national treasures.
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I've been going to see them longer than I've been married.
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They formed in 1990, so they're as old as my marriage, completely given my age away now.
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And I've been all over the UK to see take that.
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I've been to Manchester.
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I've been to Earls Court.
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I've been everywhere.
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I've nearly missed the last train home from London to Nottingham to see take that.
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Seven years ago, I saw take that in Australia.
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18 years ago...
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Because they had a little break up and then reformed.
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When they reformed, they did a meet and greet in the middle of Queen Street Mall.
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And I actually stood in 40 degrees for two hours to get a CD signed.
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I was actually supposed to be in Sydney at a meeting and I moved my flight so I could be in the Queen Street Mall.
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I was excited.
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It was take that day.
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Got there, got my cheese platter.
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We were with my sister.
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Take that, Sarah.
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who we met in the queue at the Queen Street Mall, and there's been friends ever since.
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All the girls were there.
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Every person in that crowd had an English accent.
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We were all – it was amazing.
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First on was a little group called Darcy from Melbourne, brother and sister.
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Awesome.
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Awesome.
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They'd been playing pubs around Melbourne, did the first thing.
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Next on, Day on the Green, Ricky Lee.
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She was brilliant.
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Didn't, I'll be honest, didn't know lots about Rikki Lee.
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She was brilliant.
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What a voice.
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And she sang with a voice.
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And it was epic.
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Next on, very excited about this one, Sophie Ellis-Bexter.
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If you were there the first time around, she's like the disco queen.
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Everyone knows Murder on the Dance Floor because I think TikTok have found it.
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So that's Sophie Ellis-Bexter, the Murder on the Dance Floor girl.
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She came on stage and said...
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look, people, there's a storm potentially rolling in, but we think it's going to miss us and go south.
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And the people at the event were keeping us updated about the weather.
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We are going to keep going through this.
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And if this storm goes, I'm here until it gets within 10 kilometres of the venue, and then I have to go off stage because that's the safety.
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Because she's on a great big stage with metal, whatever.
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So...
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We're going there.
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Probably she was on for an hour.
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45 minutes in.
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Drop, drop, drop of rain.
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Lightning start to in the distance.
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50 minutes in.
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Get the ponchos out.
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There was a whole rustle in the crowd.
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It's going to rain.
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Get the ponchos out.
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And she's going, we're pushing it back.
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We're pushing it back.
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The storm, we're pushing it back.
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Next thing she goes...
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Last song to do.
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I swear she was ready for Murder on the Dancefloor, the encore.
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She goes, that thing we said not going to happen.
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She said, I'm so sorry, it's happening.
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They're going to drag me off.
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But I'm coming back.
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This was about 7.15.
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5 to 8.
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So 7.15 to 8 o'clock, we sat there and got drenched with lightning all around us.
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Not directly over it, but getting closer and closer.
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Five to eight, five minutes before tape that came on.
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Bear in mind, Maxie, I've been sat in this field since three o'clock in the afternoon.
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Five to eight, cancelled.
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Emergency services have been on.
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And we're all about safety, Maxie.
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We've been told to evacuate the site.
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We're in the middle of the bush.
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There's trees all over.
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Getting to the buses was just not fun.
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Someone fell.
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The ambos were fixing up a smashed face.
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People had gone into that concert in thongs, which is like flip-flops.
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They were skidding around in the mud.
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It was like Gladstonebury.
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It was like whatever.
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Didn't see you take that.
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They were literally, I had the best seats ever.
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They were wonderful.
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200 metres away from the maxi and they didn't even wave they didn't even wave broken broken but I was very relieved when we got onto that bus and I knew I was on rubber tyres because it could have gone very very badly and everyone was safe there's been nothing you know all the rest of it but gutted well
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Well, my unfortunate event's not too bad this week.
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Well, actually, it kind of is, but it's not.
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Tell us, because this doesn't end.
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I've got another book.
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Come on, tell me.
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Oh, sorry.
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Yeah, what have you... No, no, keep going.
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No, no, no.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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The one that I said, when I'm lucky I'm here, was not relating to the Take That concert.
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Okay.
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Because the storm two days later... Oh, carry on.
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Well, I'm on a roll, Maxie.
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Sorry, sorry.
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I'm going to take that.
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Yeah, two days later, the storm took out the NBN.
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Luckily, our internet is a business account and they have this backup.
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So call it the generator.
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So I'm actually on the generator till Sunday.
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We have no NBN.
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We have nothing.
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So the storm took it out.
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Bang.
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storms i'll just i'll just have a sip of my coffee max you you go you go well mine's not as extreme as that mine was more um on a clinical level i worked at bronte beach two days ago and um i rode the scooter down to the beach all well and good 55 get to work
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Six o'clock, start
Beach incidents: Intoxication and scooter troubles
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setting up the beach.
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We get a call from Jackson Doolan, one of the lifeguards on the way to Bondi saying that someone has fallen over and they're intoxicated and she needs some help up on one of the back streets of Bronte.
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So I grabbed the medikit, jumped on the back of the scooter, took off up the road.
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As I get up there, notice that she had two friends with her, which was a relief because, you know, initially I thought she was by herself and she was pretty vulnerable.
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And then we realized that the friends were helping her and the poor girl had vomit all over her.
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She had hit her head.
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She was out of it, right?
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And she didn't take any drugs.
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It was just purely alcohol and she was incoherent drunk.
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And yeah, so I started treating her, making sure that she had some water, she had some gauze.
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I was gonna call an ambulance.
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They'll animate that in one ambulance, but they kept calling Ubers.
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Ubers kept canceling.
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So I'm wrong going with this story.
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We deal with all sorts of different medical stories all the time.
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She ended up being fine.
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Someone ended up coming to pick her up and taking her away.
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So she was safe and she was with her friends.
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So she was good.
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Went to jump on the scooter to head back down to Bronnie and the scooter wouldn't start.
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So...
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So I'm in the lifeguard uniform with the big medikit on the back.
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I was like a motorbike in Italy that rides around and helps people on the medical bikes or ambulances that they have.
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Yeah, I was like where I am.
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So I had the radio and I had me bum bag and I had everything.
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And my bike wouldn't start.
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And it was a busy time of morning.
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So anyone that's around the eastern suburbs, you know, everyone's ceiling up in Queensland.
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You know, everyone's up and about, you know, the sun's out.
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And a lot of people are on the coast.
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So give us a bit of context.
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How far away from the beach are you?
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A kilometre, two kilometres?
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I'm about a kilometre.
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About a kilometre away from Bronte.
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About a kilometre.
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So are people like...
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Yeah, I was between... People giving you directions back to the beach?
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Did they think you got lost?
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Mate, the beach is down away.
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I was playing it down.
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The bike wouldn't start and it was making all these weird noises and I was like, oh, so I'm going to have to just push it.
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So I knew I was on a bit of a hill, so I just...
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So basically I pushed, pushed, pushed, got a bit of momentum and I started rolling down the hill and I just acted like I was like, I was just coasting along the coastal track.
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Um, just checking out the surf maybe.
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Yeah, the bike didn't start.
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So I had to, I had to push it.
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Um, once I got it back up the hill, but yeah, it was an unfortunate event.
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And then I get down to the beach and I was telling the guys about it.
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And, um,
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Yeah, and they were having a laugh.
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But it was just an unfortunate situation because I needed the scooter to get to hospital to go visit Sunny during the day and then also get home to check the letterbox for the new postcards.
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The postcards that you have to sign?
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Oh, sorry.
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I end up, the bike end up kicking over.
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It must have been something to do with the battery or something because I went back up there just before I was going to run home and it kicked over and it's kicked over ever since.
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So maybe because when I did stop to do the medical, I was on a slant.
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So maybe the fuel and the mixture, I don't know, something happened with the bike, but it seems to be working at the moment.
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So it's definitely got 10 miles to the bike.
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We'll take that as a win, Maxie.
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We will absolutely take that.
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See what I did there?
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We'll take that as a win.
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And, you know, and that's off to you because people probably, you know, you talk about like, you know, only dealing like primary focus being in between
Humor break with dad jokes
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the flags.
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There you are a kilometre away looking after the community.
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And I'm sure you've seen many people a bit of a giggle with you, with your bomb bag, your radio, your medikick.
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in your lifeguard uniform, and you look like you've lost the beach.
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So I'm sure you gave a few people a chuckle too.
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So I look forward to hearing this story face-to-face, and I'm sure there's plenty of animations that go with this.
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So I'll look forward to that.
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Way too many unfortunate events.
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All right, give us a dad joke.
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Okey-dokey.
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All righty.
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What have you got for me?
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Okay.
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Never kiss your wife with a runny nose.
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You might think it's funny, but it's snot.
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You might think it's funny, but it's snot.
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I like it.
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I like it.
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But it's snot.
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Yeah.
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It's snot.
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Exactly.
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Good marriage advice there.
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Thank you, Dr. Maxwell.
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So I've got one for you, Maxie.
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The shop assistant.
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Shop assistant says to the customer, how about this one?
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When the customer happens to be a sidekick and the sidekick goes, too small.
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And the shop assistant goes, you didn't even try it on.
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And the sidekick goes, I'm a medium.
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Good one.
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I do like it.
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I know.
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Terrible.
00:19:00
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Terrible.
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Speaker
What sound does a 747 make on a bouncy landing?
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Don't know, Maxi.
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What does a 747 make on a bouncy landing?
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Boeing, Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.
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Love it.
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Love it, love it, love it, love it.
00:19:21
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So, and speaking of 747s, Maxi, yesterday it was 42 years since I first landed as a teenager at
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On a 747 in Australia.
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There you go.
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How good.
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It's a great day.
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Momentous day.
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Momentous day.
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I love the 747.
00:19:50
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Look, I do love an A380, but 747, the queen of the skies.
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Yeah.
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I just went a bit nostalgic there, Maxie, with the bowings, the joke.
00:20:00
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Anyway, right.
00:20:01
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Okay, next joke for you then.
00:20:04
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You know English, Maxie, it can be such a hard language to master.
00:20:08
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Yeah.
00:20:09
Speaker
You accidentally switch two letters and the whole sentence is urine.
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Oh, that's good.
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That's good.
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I do liken to that.
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We won't add it out.
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The pause there is urine.
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It was like ruined.
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You're ruined.
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You're ruined.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I'll try better for next week.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Got it.
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Got it.
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I'm just doing it.
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I'm deleting it as we speak.
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Okay.
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Done.
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Done.
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Do better.
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It was good.
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I liked it.
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I liked it.
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Okay.
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Speaker
Have we done both of them there?
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Yeah.
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I did the sample of seven and the snot.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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We got it.
00:21:03
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Yeah.
Lifeguard experiences and safety tips
00:21:04
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So job of the week this week, I was just speaking about before, doing a few lifeguard shifts.
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I'm actually back at the fly station next Sunday, which I'm excited for.
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No more extra special leave.
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But yeah, so lifeguarding, we had a very big job the other day.
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We had a
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very badly bad or badly bad a broken ankle someone's playing in the park and snapped their ankle playing touch football um and yeah not ideal so antibodies had to give them methoxyfluorane which is our pain relief the green whistle and uh yeah did a little rescue as well a bit of a shore break one of the kids uh got stuck behind the shore break and i was getting swept out to see how to panic and i managed to uh
00:21:46
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Grab him and bring him in.
00:21:48
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So, yeah, it's been a big couple of days on the beaches.
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I'm actually, you know, this is as live as it gets.
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This will be this afternoon when it goes out, but I'm working on it today and I'm at Bronte tomorrow on Sunday.
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So it's a big week, big week of life.
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We'll see what the weekend brings.
00:22:06
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Absolutely.
00:22:07
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And, you know, what we're seeing in the news, there are drownings already happening.
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So, you know,
00:22:12
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So many tips on our socials.
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Just follow along and, you know, like learn something, read the signs, all the things that we bang on about all year around.
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So just, yeah, please stay safe, people, because we're already starting to see things in the news and it's just like not even so many.
00:22:31
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Yeah, exactly.
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So that leads nicely then, Maxie.
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Tip of the week.
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What have you got for us?
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Tip of the week.
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Yeah, tip of the week this week, Lee, is piers and jetties.
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So it's very important to, if you are going to go to a pier or jetty around the rivers, lakes, dams, ocean, you need to make sure that you know where the medical equipment can be, so defibs.
00:22:58
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You need to know where the life rings are, where the rescue tubes are, throw bags.
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If someone was to fall in the water, do not rush into that situation.
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Always assess the situation.
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Ring 000 999 911.
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Get emergency services on the road.
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If you can assist in some way to rescue someone,
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you know, utilize the equipment that you got, but try not to jump into harm's way because far too often rescues do drown as well, especially on peers and jetties.
00:23:26
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You see someone jump in, you're jumping in after them and you might become a drowning victim yourself.
00:23:34
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Yeah, exactly, exactly.
00:23:37
Speaker
And that was a great video that you put out.
00:23:39
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You know, Santa Monica Pier, good time.
00:23:42
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That must be almost two years or three years.
00:23:45
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Yeah, it was two years.
00:23:46
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Two years ago, that's crazy.
00:23:48
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Yeah, it was a great trip.
00:23:52
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I absolutely love that trip.
00:23:53
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So, yeah, great tip, Maxie.
00:23:56
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And, yeah, so what have we got this week then?
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Crazy facts.
00:24:00
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Crazy facts.
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What have we got?
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Well, as everyone knows, we are getting better with our planning with Live and
The power and benefits of kindness
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Survive.
00:24:12
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Each week is leaps and bounds of what we're trying to achieve and we're excited to be working on some good things for 2025 to get even better with our planning.
00:24:21
Speaker
But we did miss, Lee, when you were having a look, that it was World Kindness Day the other day.
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So I thought, you know what, I'm not going to do random facts this week.
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I'm going to just do five tips around kindness.
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So...
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Kindness is a contagious acts of kindness when often inspire others to be kind, creating a ripple effect in communities and beyond.
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Studies show that observing kind behavior encourages people to pay it forward.
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Two, kindness improves mental health being, mental health being,
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releases feel good hormones and which we both know when we do good things for the community, we feel good about it.
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So it releases hormones like oxytocin and serotonin, which helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.
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It's beneficial for both the giver and the receiver.
00:25:14
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Kindness strengthens relationships.
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Small acts of kindness such as compliments or helping out, build trust, and strengthen personal and professional relationships.
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Kindness boosts physical health.
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Practicing kindness has been linked to lower blood pressure, reduced inflammation, and improved heart health due to the release of oxytocin, often called the love hormone.
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And last but not least, kindness.
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Kindness can be learned, although some people might naturally exhibit more kindness than others.
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It's a skill that can be cultivated through conscious effort, mindfulness and empathy.
00:25:50
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Absolutely, absolutely.
00:25:51
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And, you know, it is, it's that sometimes it's the smallest things that, you know, you know,
00:25:59
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Someone smart, you know, you just like you give and you get back tenfold.
00:26:03
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So you think you're actually giving, but actually you're the one receiving because it's like so good for you.
00:26:10
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And, you know, there's the I'm going to say I have the same facts.
00:26:15
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There you go.
00:26:17
Speaker
Wow.
00:26:17
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Exactly the same facts.
00:26:19
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So I've got a statistic that I would say we'll stick with that because that's what I have.
00:26:25
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So it just shows that we don't swap notes and all the rest of it.
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But the thing is...
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People, I've got a stat here that's really important, is people that are kind have actually 23% less cortisol in their body.
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And cortisol is the stress hormone.
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And therefore, they say it slows down aging.
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So whilst you think you're doing for someone else, you are actually reducing your stress and reducing aging.
00:27:01
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Helping you out.
00:27:01
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That's a win-win.
00:27:02
Speaker
Who's the winner?
00:27:04
Speaker
Who's the winner, really?
00:27:05
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Cortisol is the worst thing for people.
00:27:09
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And I think that's like, you know, I know you and I, Maxie, we'll have a couple of days on the road next week.
00:27:15
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It'll invigorate us.
00:27:16
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We'll just love it in the same way that when we go and do a tour, how good do we feel at the end of a tour?
00:27:24
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Yeah, that's great.
00:27:24
Speaker
And what do we always say at the end of a tour?
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I could go another week.
00:27:28
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You could keep going.
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And it's, yeah, it's just the best feeling.
00:27:34
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So just be kind to somebody.
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And it doesn't have to be grand tours of things like that.
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It could be the person that's on our own sitting in the coffee shop.
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Just smile at them.
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Just say good morning.
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Just say good morning.
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Costs nothing.
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You never know.
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You may be the only person that speaks to that person today.
00:27:54
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Yeah, it's very important.
00:27:55
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Simple as that.
00:27:58
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Good stuff.
00:27:59
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So, yeah, so good stuff.
00:28:01
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Excellent, excellent.
00:28:02
Speaker
Do you know, just while we're on that calondness, I'm going to – I've been a bit obsessed this week with –
00:28:08
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Children in Need in the UK is a massive fundraising initiative that helps many, many charities for disadvantaged
Charity ride by Paddy McGuinness and acts of kindness
00:28:16
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kids.
00:28:16
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So Children in Need is like, I think, don't get me wrong, it's like the umbrella that raises the money.
00:28:22
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And then they'll work with charities, say, you know, the mental health charities, disabilities, all sorts of things on initiatives all over the UK.
00:28:32
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And this week, Paddy McGuinness, who is, again, another national treasurer in the UK, has decided to ride from Wrexham to Glasgow on a rally chopper bike, which was the bike, if you were a kid in the 70s, you wanted a chopper.
00:28:49
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And he's similar age to us, so he's got his chopper and he's doing this ride.
00:28:54
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And the kids are coming out in the schools.
00:28:58
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They literally fuel it.
00:28:59
Speaker
The wheels on this bike are like...
00:29:02
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No bigger than a dustbin lid.
00:29:03
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You know what I mean?
00:29:04
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He's like literally... And honestly, he's being carried along on the wave of kindness.
00:29:11
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And you think, oh, that would be great.
00:29:12
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He took the flat road.
00:29:14
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He went through the Lake District, which anyone who knows the Lake District, that's serious hill climbing on a chopper.
00:29:22
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So I'm a bit obsessed with it, but he's doing really well.
00:29:25
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And a lady said to him...
00:29:28
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She threw three pounds in the bucket and she said, I'm sorry, it's only three pounds.
00:29:34
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It's all I've got.
00:29:36
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And he said to her,
00:29:38
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If you have given three pounds and it's all you've got, that is way more to somebody that's got so much and is giving 1%.
00:29:48
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If you're giving all you've got, you're the hero to me.
00:29:52
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And it's those little stories that just, I can't help but watch the videos and feel good about it.
00:29:57
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So, yeah, kindness, absolutely love it.
00:30:00
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So, yeah, good stuff.
00:30:02
Speaker
All righty, Maxie, what have we got next then?
00:30:05
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All right.
00:30:08
Speaker
Reflection.
00:30:10
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Reflection.
Final road trip plans and Coldplay playlist addition
00:30:13
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Yeah, just, babe, we've spoken about it before, but back on the road.
00:30:16
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It's our last road trip for 2024.
00:30:18
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It's going to be action-packed a few days.
00:30:21
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But, yeah, it's looking forward to getting back up to Newcastle.
00:30:24
Speaker
We were up there last year and the year before.
00:30:26
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So it is a good part of the world.
00:30:29
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Yeah, we're going to be doing some good videos and we're going to be seeing some great people at schools and, yeah,
00:30:35
Speaker
It's our last little road trip.
00:30:37
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It's been a big, big year.
00:30:39
Speaker
We had that great trip out Surratt.
00:30:41
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We've done some trips out around Sydney.
00:30:44
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We've done some trips around Brisbane and Gold Coast.
00:30:47
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So, yeah, it's good.
00:30:49
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Yeah.
00:30:50
Speaker
And if you think about it, Maxie, as we were talking, because Nick was with us yesterday, it's hard to believe that our February event was actually only this year.
00:31:02
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I know.
00:31:03
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It's crazy.
00:31:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:06
Speaker
It was like, it was only this time last year that I finished my keynote.
00:31:11
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I didn't start learning it until January.
00:31:14
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So one of the things I'm going to try and get to do this week, I'm going to ask you if you can help me do it, Maxi.
00:31:19
Speaker
We're going to get that whole speech up on our YouTube because we've got some videos.
00:31:23
Speaker
Our Q&A needs to go up on our YouTube.
00:31:25
Speaker
We'll put that on our job list for this week.
00:31:27
Speaker
We can do our road trip and get on a bit of administration.
00:31:30
Speaker
So, yeah.
00:31:31
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So, yes, looking forward to catching up next week and meeting some more amazing people.
00:31:36
Speaker
So, all righty.
00:31:37
Speaker
So, Playlist Maxi, at last, you are converted to the light side.
00:31:43
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yeah bring it on without rubbing it in it's not a take that song this week because we didn't get to see him or you didn't get to see him however coldplay i've added sky full of stars um it's a great song yeah and it's in the playlist and yeah i'm dare say over the next couple of months we can add some take that songs and we can also add some more play songs but yeah um absolutely yeah it's brilliant brilliant love it love coldplay um
00:32:12
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up there with Fix You.
00:32:14
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Fix You is one of my favourites.
00:32:16
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So many good songs after so many years.
00:32:19
Speaker
And when you go back and look at some of their early YouTube stuff, they were young.
00:32:24
Speaker
They were young.
00:32:25
Speaker
It was brilliant.
00:32:26
Speaker
Great, great song.
00:32:29
Speaker
Good stuff.
00:32:30
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
00:32:31
Speaker
What was it?
00:32:31
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Bristol Uni.
00:32:32
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There were four lads at Bristol Uni.
00:32:34
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I think that was where they all met.
00:32:36
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Literally started playing guitars in the dorms.
00:32:38
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And they're all still together, which is amazing too.
00:32:41
Speaker
Yeah, all store, four best mates.
00:32:43
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Love it.
00:32:44
Speaker
Brilliant.
00:32:45
Speaker
All right, so rule for the rule book, my C, perfect.
Closing thoughts and sign-off with a Coldplay quote
00:32:48
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Yeah, rule for the rule book.
00:32:49
Speaker
Another quote from Coldplay.
00:32:52
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Go for it.
00:32:53
Speaker
So the scientists, nobody said it was easy.
00:32:57
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Absolutely.
00:33:00
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Well, on that note, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
00:33:04
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So, yeah, so great quote.
00:33:07
Speaker
And we just got to 33 minutes, Maxi.
00:33:09
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Sensational.
00:33:10
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Rob will be happy.
00:33:11
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Perfect, perfect.
00:33:12
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Rob will be happy.
00:33:14
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And, yeah, so excellent stuff.
00:33:17
Speaker
I hope everyone's had a really, really great week.
00:33:20
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And, yeah, stay safe out there.
00:33:23
Speaker
And we'll see you next week with the Tales of the Road Trip.
00:33:27
Speaker
Yes, see you next week, Tales of the Road Trip.
00:33:29
Speaker
I look forward to it.
00:33:30
Speaker
And hopefully we've got a couple of guests up our sleeve as well that we'll be hopefully talking to soon.
00:33:37
Speaker
So take care, everyone.
00:33:39
Speaker
Yes, absolutely.
00:33:40
Speaker
We've got quite a few guests coming up.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:43
Speaker
And safe drive to Newcastle.
00:33:45
Speaker
I'll see you there.
00:33:46
Speaker
See you there.
00:33:47
Speaker
We'll meet in the middle.
00:33:49
Speaker
Take care.
00:33:50
Speaker
See you, everyone.
00:33:51
Speaker
Bye.