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If compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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2023, looking back on the year that was, grateful for everyone who has listened, subscribed and to everyone we have met as we carry out the work we are so passionate about. Thanks for joining us, we wish you all a Happy New Year and we'll see you all next year!
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Introduction & Podcast Focus
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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.
Achievements in Safety Education
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Since 2018, Lee and I travelled the globe and met face to face with 30,000 children in six countries across three continents.
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We've created a series of award-winning children's books, a global online education program, and are founders of our Live, Learn, Survive charity, all focused on teaching children and young adults life skills not only help themselves, but help others too.
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We're on a mission to spread awareness about fire and water safety 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 together with some fun, inspiration and kindness and we'll try and learn something too.
Last Podcast of 2023 & Personal Updates
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It is our last podcast of 2023.
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How are you this week, Lee?
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Welcome aboard.
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Maxie, I am great.
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Very relaxed.
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It's what, what are we on there?
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28th of December.
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28th of December.
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It's a, well, what a year.
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Deep breath after a busy old few days.
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So, so.
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Well, you probably noticed that I'm not at home today.
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I'm, I'm, I'm lifeguarding at Bronte.
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I'm on my lunch break.
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So I'm up in the Bronte Surf Club, Clubhouse.
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And I am,
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So you're going to be able to give us the news straight from the beach.
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Yeah, it's a pretty busy day down here today.
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Yeah, busy, busy.
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Stinking hot here in Queensland.
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Got a bit of the beach at home myself.
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I just came in from the pool.
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So, right, let's get into
Self-Compassion During Holidays
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it then, Maxine.
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We've got to wrap up the year.
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Yeah, pretty big episode wrapping up the year and talking about things that have happened the last couple of weeks.
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We've had Christmas, Boxing Day, and all sorts of different things in between.
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All sorts.
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We'll get into it.
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The quote for this week is, if your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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How true is that?
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How true is that?
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And, you know, it's a busy old time and, you know, we're always told to do stuff.
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Christmas, you do for others and all the rest of it.
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But you can't burn yourself out in the process.
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So that's why we put that in.
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And actually, when we posted that, there was a couple of people shared it.
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And one put, this is true.
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So that was kind of for all the people out there trying to fit things together and all the places at once, not let anyone down.
Year Reflection & New Beginnings
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I think it's a great quote to wrap up the end of the year and what a year that it was and I'm sure throughout this episode we'll capture and talk about the high points of the year and yeah, it's very exciting.
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Yes, it's been a busy old year and yeah, so what do we, we must have some good news, Max.
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There's some great news.
In-Flight Medical Emergency
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Yeah, there's some great news, Lee.
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So Merry Christmas to you and everyone else.
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We're coming into a couple more days before the new year.
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So first and foremost, that's good news.
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We made the year.
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It's been good.
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We're still talking, honestly.
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We did well.
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Yeah, it's good.
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It is holiday season.
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You know, you're at the work today.
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I'm at work today.
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You know, some people work all the way through.
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We are having a little bit of a break, you know, with the schools and stuff.
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But behind the scenes, we're still all systems go.
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But, yeah, everyone seems to be having a good time in Sydney that I've seen, enjoying their holidays, you know, staying safe.
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There has been some cracking storms.
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Oh, wow.
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Down in Sydney and up in Queensland, you can talk about that.
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Some cracking storms that have devastated a few suburbs.
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There is, and there is still a lot of, like, literally, you know, storms came through.
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We'll probably talk about this in the unfortunate event because storms came through at 5.30 on Christmas Day in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
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It's not ideal timing.
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Seriously, not ideal.
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And there's still, I just saw, here we are now on the beginning, you know, it's almost lunch on the 28th and there's still over 30,000 people with no power.
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So there'll be all that food, all the leftovers, you know, it's a time of year for the leftovers.
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Well, they didn't even probably get the first one, Powerway, and the 5.30 on Christmas Day.
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Never mind about the leftovers.
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So, yeah, we'll talk about all of that.
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But I've got a great good news story, Maxie.
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Yeah.
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What have you got
Charity Stories & Impact
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for us this week, Lee?
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So, basically, a lady was flying from Manchester to Florida,
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and had a heart attack during the flight.
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It's not ideal.
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You can just imagine that, you know, the flight attendant comes on board, you know, the, is there a doctor on board kind of thing.
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Fifteen cardiologists, yes, fifteen cardiologists put their hands up.
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They were all on the way to a conference.
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There were 15 cardiologists on this flight.
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That's a very lucky flight.
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And basically they
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Like, seriously, this lady got the best care she could ever have.
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She was all fixed up.
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And by the time they got the flight to land, they'd got everything sorted out for her.
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And so, you know, what a chance of luck of, is there a doctor on board?
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We got 15 cardiologists on the way to a conference.
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I was like, that is just like, you know, off to a cardiology conference.
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Wow.
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That's a very lucky flight.
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You want to be on that flight.
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Just
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going by a lotto ticket because like that is it she it was like her day so i thought um that was a good story for us so um they i think they rerouted the flight to north carolina she read retreatment in intensive care and the cardiologist got the drips in it was all going off so there you go that's off to the crew so excellent so mm-hmm so yeah so um
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I've got some random act of kindness stories here, Lee.
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So, you know, through the charity, we give and donate books across the world to people that want to learn and be educated about water safety and so on.
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And I did get a message the other day from little young Evie, who we've spoken to or about before, who's a little bit unwell at the moment.
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And she's not doing the best, but she's
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I was told that Maxie's Beach Rescue is lifting her spirits and there was a photo sent from her on Christmas Day, reading the book with a smile on her face.
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Bless her.
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Oh, beautiful.
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Just a little bit of a shout-out to her and hopefully she feels a little bit better through her treatment and we're thinking of her.
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Yeah.
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Hopefully it's a better 2024.
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And another quick story, little Cooper that come visit me at Bondi the other week, you know, 10 years apart, he had his birthday on Boxing Day and he sent me a nice video with his new books.
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Brilliant.
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Just stoked.
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So, you know, it's good to see the charity and the random act of kindness in full flight, helping out people all across the world.
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Yeah, love it, love it.
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That's a great story.
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And so he was the little guy that was the 10 years apart on the buggy.
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Love it, love it, love it.
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Great story, great story.
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So, yeah, you know, you've got Bronte right behind you.
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Can we have the latest news from Bronte,
Water Safety & Drowning Awareness
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please?
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Yes.
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Yes, job of the week.
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So it's been quite busy on the beaches the last couple of weeks through summer.
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We've had some cracking storms come through.
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We have to clear the beaches when those big lightning strikes come down.
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But I'm working at Bronte today.
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There's probably already, it's midday, there's probably at least 5,000 people on the beach.
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It's quite a small beach, Bronte.
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Probably holds about maybe 8,000 people on a real busy, busy day.
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But yeah, the forest has been busy as well.
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We had a steady couple of shifts, but unfortunately dealt with a couple of cardiac arrests and stuff, especially this time of year around families and that.
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Such a sad, tragic time to lose a loved one.
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So a shout out to people that have lost people around this time of year in the past and people that have been injured or impacted.
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And, you know, talking about the storms and that up in Queensland, horrible situations.
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And there's been a number of drownings, uh,
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you know, in the last 24 to 48 hours.
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It's terrible.
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And, you know, I was actually kind of,
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I was kind of getting ahead of myself.
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Early December, I was thinking there hasn't been that many drownings around Australia compared to last year.
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Last year was terrible.
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There was drownings every day.
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But in the last, since probably Christmas Eve, I've noticed, there's been one, two, three drownings a day all across Australia.
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And, you know, people just need to just...
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know how to swim, swim in safe places, swim between the flags, know what to do in an emergency and be careful boating, drinking, all these sorts of things that factor into accidents.
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You need to really be on the ball.
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Yeah, and I think I was just, and I think when we talk about charity cornering a bit, I've got some more stats on this because I've just been doing some research, but I think it's something like 25% of drownings happening this week between Christmas and New Year.
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It's terrible.
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It's supposed to be such a joyous time a year too.
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Absolutely, and it's been a terrible few days.
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But you know what?
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That's why we do what we do all year round, and I noticed the media getting on
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on board with it today and it's like, you know, hey guys, come and talk to us in June, we'll be here.
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Yeah, exactly right.
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So I think when we get to Charity Corner, I'm going to give some of the statistics.
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We'll talk about February in MSE and we'll talk about why we're doing it.
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Just quickly, it is unfortunate that, you know, a lot of the news and media cycles are very reactive to it happening past tense.
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There's no prevention or getting set up for it.
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So hopefully we can change that.
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And knowing what we've been planning and working on.
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Yes, exactly.
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Yeah, so.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So, yeah, so, right.
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Unfortunate event.
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Unfortunate.
Challenging Christmas Experiences
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What have you got for us, Leigh?
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Christmas Day, Max.
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Christmas Day, give it to us.
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Look, I was entertaining.
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I was the hostess with the leastest.
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It's the one day a year that the kitchen, it's like I brace myself, I go for it.
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Look, I had a couple of, you know, I didn't mind me if you should put a mix early enough, but I've got a recovery then.
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nailed it they were fine then i had like you know my cheese sauce i made my cheese sauce i had it on the wrong setting because i didn't read the instructions properly i was just like but i really i was i was ahead of time so i was able to recover these things and look we got it all there um but we've had
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Not on Christmas Day.
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We had power outages on Christmas Eve and then we had power outages on Boxing Day.
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So it's been, you know, candles at the ready.
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And then I went to find me a torch because I was going to read me book and all, you know, the inside of your torch when all the batteries corrode.
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Terrible.
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Been a bit of that.
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So I'm going to pull me this tomorrow.
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I get some new torches.
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Get some torches, yeah, you need to be prepared for those power outages.
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They're not ideal.
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Three severe storm days, and guess what?
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They forecast three more starting tomorrow, right through New Year.
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We don't need that in Queensland.
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We got, like, you know, a bit of stuff going on.
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Anyway, you were hosting.
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How did your dinner go?
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Yeah, good, good.
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Everything went well for Christmas Day.
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It was really good.
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Yeah.
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But my unfortunate event was like you spend all morning cooking, cooking, cooking and preparing.
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And I always find when I finally sat down to enjoy the dinner or the lunch, I wasn't hungry.
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I wasn't hungry.
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I still ate.
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I still ate.
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Yeah, I still ate.
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But I wasn't as hungry because I have a theory.
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If you cook and you're slaving away and you're smelling and you're tasting and you're making sure everything's kind of
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kind of coming along nicely, sometimes greys, when it comes to actually sitting down and eating it, you're already a little bit full or you're not really hungry.
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No, I'm not sure of the puddings and stuff and all the rest of it because, like, you know, we had a lot of that, a lot of food.
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We had a lot of food too.
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So we're still eating, you know, three or four days later, we're still eating leftovers.
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So I feel sorry for the people that didn't get a chance to cook on Christmas up in Queensland or, you know, have the power outages with the food and that's terrible to hear.
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Awful, awful.
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And you know, and there's still people, like I say, it was actually, the weather people have actually declared it was a tornado that came through in the middle of the Gold Coast.
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It started in Cedar Vale, and I've got a friend who lives in an area, Coomera area, and her street is
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like huge 50-year-old gum trees just picked up.
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Just picked up and snapped, yeah.
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And the jet said the damage was unprecedented.
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And I had messages from England that made the news over there.
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So thinking of everyone on the Gold Coast, and please just...
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Mother Nature, spare those that got smashed the other night, spare them over the next few days because the heat is extraordinary.
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It is.
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That was a fierce storm.
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I have never seen a storm like that.
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So, you know, wish us luck.
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Wish us luck, yeah.
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Like seeing your luck your way.
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Yes.
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Dad, you got some this week?
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Oh, Dad, actually, I've got a couple that's still got, I thought, look, they've still got a bit of the Christmas feel.
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Okay, go for it.
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If you can't do them this week, when can I?
Holiday Humor
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So, Maxie, what do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
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Not sure.
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What do you get?
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Frostbite.
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Frostbite.
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That's a good one.
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That's a good one.
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I like it.
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Okay.
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What do you call a lazy kangaroo?
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Oh, I don't know.
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So what do you call a lazy kangaroo?
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A pouch potato.
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Oh, man, this segment.
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I'll tell you, this segment is definitely getting the last.
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The last Christmas one, okay?
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Why did the elf go to the podiatrist?
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Why did he go to the podiatrist?
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Because he had mistletoe.
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The athlete's foot.
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The athlete's foot.
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That's not good.
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Great.
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Yeah, not good.
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Okay.
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So.
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If you think swimming with dolphins is expensive, you should try swimming with sharks.
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Cost me an arm and a leg.
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Yeah, it's not ideal that.
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Yeah, make sure you don't swim with sharks.
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It could be dangerous.
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Yes, exactly, exactly.
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No, one of them hasn't happened.
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Don't even mention it.
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Like, we're not talking it.
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Don't even mention it.
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So, right, okay.
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Tip of the week.
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Tip of the week.
Water Rescue Safety Tips
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Yes, tip of the week this week is rescue tubes.
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So it's a video of me showing you how to rescue someone with a rescue tube.
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You do see them around pools, piers, jetties, sometimes dams, lakes, rivers.
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If you are confident and you know how to swim, you'd be able to assist someone with a rescue device, with a rescue tube.
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However, if you don't have a rescue tube or you don't know how to swim, do not put yourself in harm's way.
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All too often we hear that rescuers do drown as well.
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So this video is a couple of tips about how to use a rescue tube to rescue you, to rescue someone that you come across.
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Always remember, use a flotation device if you're doing a rescue.
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Excellent.
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Good tip, Maxie.
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And it's a great little video.
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And I love now that we're taking the rescue tubes out to school.
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Yeah, it's great fun.
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It's great fun.
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And the kid's loving it too.
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So it gives them a couple of little tips and tricks of how to rescue someone if they come across someone.
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And rescue tube in the water and using the throw bag and the throw line out of the water.
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It's very important to know different ways to do it.
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Excellent, excellent.
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Right, what have we got next then, Maxi?
Music Recommendation: Ocean Alley
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So we've got the song for the playlist this week and it's been listening a lot of Ocean Alley lately.
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It's a bit of a kind of like Bob Marley kind of semi kind of Bob Marley vibes, you know, Jamaican vibes.
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And so they're a busy band.
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Yeah, a bit of reggae.
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That's the old genre I was looking for.
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Yeah, reggae.
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This one's called Knees, and yeah, it's quite a catchy song.
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And when I was driving to Brighton this morning, it was playing over the radio, and the sun was coming up.
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It was beautiful, and I just think it's a bit of a fitting song.
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So here we go.
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Okay.
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Daydreamer Walking through the clouds It's a streamer Floating from the sky It starts to stream It's time to grow up They're leaders
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Yeah, so it's a very chilled song, good like ocean vibes.
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Yeah, I love it.
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So I'm going to look up Ocean Alley.
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Ocean Alley, yeah.
00:18:35
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Just put it on the Spotify radio and it goes down a treat.
00:18:39
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So, yeah, happy days.
00:18:41
Speaker
Excellent, excellent.
00:18:43
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So, right, okay.
00:18:45
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Facts.
00:18:46
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Random facts.
00:18:53
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What have you got this week, Lee?
00:18:55
Speaker
Well, Maxie, this is where I wanted to introduce the facts about Duranas, putting my serious hat on.
00:19:02
Speaker
So if you've got another fact, do you want to go first and we'll lead my random facts into the charity?
00:19:09
Speaker
Yeah, perfect, perfect.
New Year's Traditions Worldwide
00:19:11
Speaker
So we are coming to the back end of the year, so I thought I'd say a couple of facts about New Year's.
00:19:17
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So the celebration of New Year's dates back over 4,000 years to ancient Babylon.
00:19:25
Speaker
It's pretty cool.
00:19:28
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The tradition of making New Year's resolutions can be traced back to ancient Rome.
00:19:36
Speaker
The New Year is celebrated at different times around the world due to different calendars.
00:19:39
Speaker
For example, Chinese New Year usually falls between January 21st and February 20th.
00:19:46
Speaker
The Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop in New York has been a tradition since 1907.
00:19:54
Speaker
Wow.
00:19:54
Speaker
Yeah, that's a pretty cool fact.
00:19:56
Speaker
That's cool.
00:19:58
Speaker
And last but not least, here we go.
00:20:02
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Sorry, lost it.
00:20:06
Speaker
No, that's it.
00:20:08
Speaker
I actually did, I actually did by five.
00:20:11
Speaker
So yeah, happy day.
00:20:11
Speaker
So what have you got, Lee?
00:20:12
Speaker
Drowning.
00:20:13
Speaker
I've since looking at a bit of the drownings because it's been all over the news.
00:20:19
Speaker
And like I said, it annoys you and I that we only, you know, the news get older this at this time of year, which, you know, as you and I know, we're out there 52 weeks of the year.
00:20:32
Speaker
because no one packs the water away with the Christmas tree.
00:20:36
Speaker
It kind of stays there all year.
00:20:38
Speaker
So basically 25% of drownings happen between Christmas and New Year in Australia.
Drowning Statistics Discussion
00:20:46
Speaker
A combination of recreation, people doing silly things, drinking, maybe the gods down, all those different things.
00:20:54
Speaker
Anyway,
00:20:56
Speaker
There's been 21 drownings since the 1st of December in Australia and this was up to yesterday, the 27th.
00:21:03
Speaker
So there's been 10 in the last 48 hours.
00:21:10
Speaker
There's been six in New South Wales.
00:21:12
Speaker
There's been six in Queensland.
00:21:15
Speaker
And just some of the things that we talk about all year.
00:21:19
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And this is why I wanted the scenarios.
00:21:23
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Rescuers.
00:21:24
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Drownings.
00:21:25
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So, you know, you always say about rescuers drown too.
00:21:30
Speaker
You know, rescuers going in and then the rescuer is the rescuer that drowns.
00:21:35
Speaker
Drownings in rips.
00:21:36
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People not swimming at patrol beaches.
00:21:38
Speaker
Just swim at patrol beach.
00:21:40
Speaker
Swim between the flags.
00:21:43
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tragic down at the beach in Penrith, the dad that managed to save his three kids on the stand up paddleboard and virtually sacrificed himself.
00:21:54
Speaker
The three kids could not swim.
00:21:59
Speaker
Terrible.
00:22:00
Speaker
Learn to swim in Queensland.
00:22:04
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Three guys got caught, grown guys, two of them teachers.
00:22:08
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One of them, my friend's kid's English teacher.
00:22:12
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They're boat cat sized.
00:22:14
Speaker
Granted in a storm, but you know what?
00:22:17
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Our weather warnings were out hours and hours, but for whatever reason,
00:22:22
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They didn't make it back.
00:22:23
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These are not, you know, for whatever reason, slow boat going against the tide, all of the things that just went against them in that moment.
00:22:32
Speaker
You know, 11 people on my boat, eight got rescued, three tragically passed away.
00:22:38
Speaker
And storm water drains.
00:22:40
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two different locations, one in the Mary River in Gympie and then a young girl that climbed over a fence, got into a stormwater drain, so that's three in stormwater drains.
00:22:54
Speaker
these drownings aren't all happening at the beach.
00:22:57
Speaker
They're all of these different scenarios that we talk about and do little videos of all year round.
00:23:04
Speaker
And you know what, we do it for a reason and that's why we're gonna have our event in February.
00:23:11
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so that we can be going out to these regional places in April, in May, in June, and we don't just talk about it on the news between Christmas and New Year when we're giving bad news, because surely prevention and education is way better than having to report on what they're reporting on in the news at the moment.
00:23:33
Speaker
Yeah, 100%.
00:23:34
Speaker
Yeah, well said.
00:23:35
Speaker
It's a terrible time for some people and some families.
00:23:39
Speaker
So just make sure you take care and look after each other.
00:23:42
Speaker
It's supposed to be such a joyous, happy holiday time of year.
00:23:46
Speaker
And not just here in Australia in summer.
00:23:48
Speaker
Over in England and in Northern Hemisphere, you have cold weather and people go swimming in rivers, lakes, dams that are frozen over and so on.
00:23:57
Speaker
So it's not just the heat with the drownings.
00:24:00
Speaker
You can also have drownings in cold water as well.
00:24:02
Speaker
So...
00:24:03
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Just be mindful, be careful.
00:24:05
Speaker
And, you know, moving into 2024, we've got some really cool, exciting things that we're working on that we're going to be launching in February moving forward.
00:24:12
Speaker
So hopefully a few people will jump on the bandwagon and teach a few skills to save you and someone else's life.
00:24:20
Speaker
Exactly.
00:24:21
Speaker
All right.
00:24:22
Speaker
So,
Charity Updates & Future Plans
00:24:23
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okay.
00:24:23
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So, yeah.
00:24:24
Speaker
Charity Corner.
00:24:25
Speaker
Charity Corner then.
00:24:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:34
Speaker
Okay, Leigh, what have you got for Charity Corner?
00:24:37
Speaker
Oh, so we've sent the first emails out for February.
00:24:40
Speaker
Yep.
00:24:42
Speaker
And it's dawned on me.
00:24:43
Speaker
I'm going to put a poster because it's two months tomorrow, which makes me feel... Two months tomorrow.
00:24:48
Speaker
It's coming up quick.
00:24:49
Speaker
I've really got to get my act together in learning this speech now.
00:24:53
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So, yes.
00:24:54
Speaker
So, websites up, events live, tickets are on sale, first emails have gone out.
00:25:01
Speaker
So...
00:25:03
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It's very exciting.
00:25:04
Speaker
January.
00:25:05
Speaker
So that's why, whilst it's, you know, sort of a bit quiet on the top, there's a few things squirrelling around underneath that we can be organised for January and February.
00:25:14
Speaker
So, yes, it's going to be a big time coming up.
00:25:20
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:20
Speaker
And, you know, it's going to be a big year next year, but, you know, it's important.
00:25:24
Speaker
We always tell people, you know, this week it's been, you know, family and friends and having a bit of a breather.
00:25:31
Speaker
I've been working.
00:25:31
Speaker
This is a busy time for lifeguarding and firefighting, so I've just been head down, as they say, bum up.
00:25:37
Speaker
But I've just been, yeah, just chipping away with that.
00:25:41
Speaker
But it's very important to...
00:25:42
Speaker
You know, start fresh into the new year.
00:25:44
Speaker
That just goes for not just Live, Learn, Survive, but everyone else.
00:25:47
Speaker
You know, write down your news resolutions, read some books, listen to audio books, listen to music, get moving, training.
00:25:54
Speaker
And speaking about training, you're back in the pool, Lee, which is good to see, good to hear.
00:26:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's just important.
00:26:02
Speaker
Yeah, it's good stuff.
00:26:04
Speaker
You need to keep moving.
00:26:07
Speaker
That's it.
00:26:08
Speaker
Sorry, you training?
00:26:10
Speaker
Yeah, just training most days.
00:26:13
Speaker
Just trying to keep, like I said, I always tell people you just got to keep moving.
00:26:16
Speaker
If you do one thing a day, it keeps the doctor away.
00:26:19
Speaker
Yeah, so I'm going to, through this break, I'm going to have like, now that, you know, there's a massive effort getting the website live.
00:26:27
Speaker
So now I want to swim every second day until we get back fully into the office kind of thing.
00:26:33
Speaker
Yeah, 100%.
00:26:33
Speaker
I'm doing four hours.
00:26:34
Speaker
So, yeah, it was good to get back in the pool.
00:26:36
Speaker
I could tell I hadn't done one for a while.
00:26:39
Speaker
But you know what?
00:26:42
Speaker
You do get back into it really quickly.
00:26:44
Speaker
Yeah, you do.
00:26:44
Speaker
You do.
00:26:45
Speaker
Muscle memory.
00:26:46
Speaker
300 metres.
00:26:47
Speaker
You just, you know...
00:26:48
Speaker
Especially if you enjoy it.
00:26:49
Speaker
Especially if you enjoy it.
00:26:50
Speaker
You need to enjoy some extent of training and exercising because if you hate it and you don't want to do it, then the habit, it won't be a good habit.
00:27:00
Speaker
You'll become a job or a chore and you'll look for any excuse under the sun to not do it.
00:27:04
Speaker
Exactly.
00:27:05
Speaker
Exactly.
00:27:06
Speaker
So, yeah.
00:27:07
Speaker
So, yeah, good to be back in the pool.
00:27:10
Speaker
That makes me very happy.
00:27:12
Speaker
So, right, what next, Maxie?
00:27:15
Speaker
We've got reflection.
Reflecting on Accomplishments
00:27:24
Speaker
Yeah, you know it on the head before, Lee.
00:27:26
Speaker
I think it's just important to reflect on the year that was.
00:27:29
Speaker
You know, we've done some amazing things, especially in the last three or four months.
00:27:32
Speaker
You know, the way that we plan things, the way that we do our meetings now, our videos are getting...
00:27:41
Speaker
A lot better.
00:27:42
Speaker
You know, we had Ben help us out a couple of weeks ago with the new river and CPR video, which I'll be, I've been editing.
00:27:49
Speaker
The CPR video is pretty much 90% done.
00:27:53
Speaker
I've done the subtitles and I'm just doing one last final edit, but they'll be ready for education purposes next year, which is exciting to launch.
00:28:02
Speaker
And then I just got to get into the river safety one, which is very important as well.
00:28:06
Speaker
Exactly.
00:28:07
Speaker
So I've done a bit of a run through here, Maxi, by month.
00:28:10
Speaker
So let me just take you down memory lane.
00:28:14
Speaker
Let's do it.
00:28:15
Speaker
Let's go back to the beginning of the year.
00:28:17
Speaker
So January.
00:28:19
Speaker
we said, we're gonna do it.
00:28:20
Speaker
We launched the 42 challenge.
00:28:23
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So that was the 42 for 42 challenge.
00:28:27
Speaker
And then in February, remember we, first time remember by February, we had a brand new charity and a bank account with $0 in it.
00:28:35
Speaker
Remember we went down to Sovereign Islands and we were guests at the lunch with the people down there.
00:28:40
Speaker
And we were donated just $3,300 and something dollars
00:28:49
Speaker
that put us in the black, not the red, in the black, in the bank account.
00:28:56
Speaker
So March, we're back on the Gold Coast again, and we showcased our Help Yourself Help Others logo on the Tayshers.
00:29:07
Speaker
And we declared then that you were going to run two marathons, and that's when I said it out loud, I'm going to swim 42 points.
00:29:15
Speaker
What a mission.
00:29:17
Speaker
What a mission.
00:29:18
Speaker
Unbelievable.
00:29:18
Speaker
We did.
00:29:20
Speaker
April, we met the awesome people at the YMCA.
00:29:24
Speaker
We booked the venue for the event in May and we met with all the different people that came on board and actually came along in the day.
00:29:33
Speaker
So like the local SES, the volunteer coast guard, the Coochie Surf Life Saving Club, the police, the Ambos, the Fireys, all those awesome people.
00:29:43
Speaker
that joined us, so we had all of that.
00:29:46
Speaker
And then May, 42 challenge, another $15,000 in the bank.
00:29:55
Speaker
And the opportunity to donate loads and loads of books, which we still have lots to donate.
00:30:01
Speaker
They're going to be donated through this year as well.
00:30:03
Speaker
So we did it.
00:30:05
Speaker
We set the goal, we went for it, and we did it.
00:30:09
Speaker
Great start.
00:30:10
Speaker
We thought we'd better review all this business plan there.
00:30:14
Speaker
Yep.
00:30:15
Speaker
And we did.
00:30:16
Speaker
So we went back to the office.
00:30:18
Speaker
We went back to the office.
00:30:20
Speaker
We got the business plan out and we decided what we were going to keep, what we were going to throw.
00:30:25
Speaker
So that was that.
00:30:27
Speaker
And then in July, remember we went and did the family day for the awesome McCulloch Robertson.
00:30:33
Speaker
Yes, I remember that.
00:30:35
Speaker
You know, we went and met all the staff and the families and we, you know, we, instead of having board meetings with lawyers in their boardroom, we started throwing around throw bags and CPR.
00:30:47
Speaker
That was a really good day.
00:30:49
Speaker
It was a great day.
00:30:50
Speaker
So we had all the lawyers doing CPR.
00:30:52
Speaker
That was good fun.
00:30:54
Speaker
And then August, I finished
00:30:57
Speaker
the speech the creating little superheroes was actually almost nailed so um that was pretty uh pretty cool and then september fail to plan plan to fail we got serious about planning
00:31:16
Speaker
Because if there's one thing that we've been really, it's not our strength, is we plan a little bit, we don't plan enough for the size of the kind of things that we're going through.
00:31:26
Speaker
We've got that.
00:31:27
Speaker
And we also...
00:31:33
Speaker
I just missed, actually, how could I miss in that?
00:31:36
Speaker
We welcomed Jazz to the team.
00:31:38
Speaker
Jazz, what a legend, what a star.
00:31:40
Speaker
She's been a massive, massive help.
00:31:42
Speaker
My lifesaver, literally.
00:31:44
Speaker
So, yeah, we welcomed Jazz to the team.
00:31:50
Speaker
October, we went back out to schools with the new program, with the new PowerPoint.
00:31:55
Speaker
New look, new PowerPoint.
00:31:57
Speaker
That was good fun.
00:31:58
Speaker
With all the new toys, which made it even more fun.
00:32:01
Speaker
And then November, how could we forget the photo shoot?
00:32:05
Speaker
Photo shoot.
00:32:05
Speaker
Great photo shoot.
00:32:06
Speaker
All those photos come out really nice and it's a new look for Live, Learn, Survive moving forward into 2024.
00:32:12
Speaker
Great photos.
00:32:13
Speaker
And we went up into the Hunter Valley and we got back out.
00:32:17
Speaker
Great little trip.
00:32:18
Speaker
A great little trip up there to the Hunter.
00:32:21
Speaker
And then December.
00:32:22
Speaker
Here we are now Maxie, we launched the new website and we launched Creating Little Superheroes, the badge.
00:32:30
Speaker
So good.
00:32:31
Speaker
What a year that was.
00:32:32
Speaker
Bum, bum, bum, drum, drum, drum,
00:32:35
Speaker
What a year that was.
00:32:36
Speaker
So I'll be interested to see what 2024 brings.
00:32:40
Speaker
I think next year's year in review will be something very similar, if not more, which is exciting.
00:32:47
Speaker
Well, we said that this year was the year of establishing the charity.
00:32:52
Speaker
And that is what we've done.
00:32:53
Speaker
That's what we've done.
00:32:54
Speaker
One big green tip.
00:32:56
Speaker
We've had.
00:32:57
Speaker
So, you know, if you're setting your goals for 2024, that's one of ours we can tick off.
00:33:04
Speaker
We are definitely, definitely in the black and we've got Jazz in the team and, yeah, excited for next year.
00:33:13
Speaker
Good stuff.
00:33:14
Speaker
Happy days.
00:33:16
Speaker
The year that was.
00:33:17
Speaker
The year that was.
00:33:18
Speaker
Okey dokey.
00:33:19
Speaker
Okay, so rule for the rule book.
Practicing Gratitude & Positivity
00:33:30
Speaker
Yeah, just this last week is a lot of giving back and random act of kindness and helping and love and so on.
00:33:37
Speaker
But one thing that I want to say for the rule book is practice gratitude.
00:33:42
Speaker
Appreciate the small joys and successes in your life and what this year has brought.
00:33:49
Speaker
And gratitude can also shift your perspective and bring contentment, you know.
00:33:55
Speaker
it's uh yeah it's very important to to just reflect and you know for some people it's a terrible year not a good year and for some people it's been a really good growth year and exciting year so i think it's just moving forward everything you've done your whole life brings this point right now moving forward being in the now and and creating the the the new path leading into the new year and having a positive and happy outlook on life i'm sure
00:34:24
Speaker
you'll get through and be okay.
00:34:26
Speaker
It's okay to have a few bad days and a few storms, but just know that the sun always rises in the morning.
00:34:33
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:34:33
Speaker
And you know what?
00:34:35
Speaker
Being grateful if there's one, if you can just at the end of the day, even finish the day on...
00:34:42
Speaker
In 24 hours, there could be so many things that didn't go right, but there will have been one thing that went right.
00:34:49
Speaker
Even if it was just someone smiled at you walking past you in the street, someone said hello, your coffee was the right temperature, whatever, you know, whatever.
00:34:57
Speaker
Look at this movie.
00:34:59
Speaker
Finish the day on the positive thing and I tell you what, you'll sleep better.
00:35:03
Speaker
It is absolutely worth it because there are all little changes that you can do.
00:35:12
Speaker
And if it has been a shocker of a year, well, you know what, it's nearly over.
00:35:15
Speaker
There's a bright...
00:35:16
Speaker
a bright sparkly one right around the corner we can all have a go and we can always you know rewrite the story so yes so very grateful everyone that's helped us this year everyone that's listened everyone that sent us a message you know we are grateful for every one of you because you know we wouldn't be able to do this without the support so
00:35:42
Speaker
A big thank you to everyone as well.
00:35:44
Speaker
Yeah, really very well said, Lee.
00:35:46
Speaker
So happy New Year, everyone.
00:35:50
Speaker
We are going to have a year off, a week off next week.
00:35:55
Speaker
So there will be no podcast next week.
00:35:57
Speaker
However, we'll be back the week after with guests and normal schedule for the year.
00:36:02
Speaker
So everyone enjoy the New Year.
00:36:05
Speaker
Happy New Year.
00:36:06
Speaker
Stay safe.
00:36:06
Speaker
Look after yourselves.
00:36:08
Speaker
And, yeah, all the best.
00:36:09
Speaker
Yes, and Happy New Year, Maxie.
00:36:12
Speaker
Happy New Year, Lee.
00:36:14
Speaker
I'll speak to you after this.
00:36:16
Speaker
Yeah, I'll speak to you soon.
00:36:18
Speaker
Have a great New Year, everyone.
00:36:19
Speaker
We will see you in January.
00:36:22
Speaker
Stay safe.
00:36:23
Speaker
Bye.
00:36:25
Speaker
Bye.
00:36:26
Speaker
Bye.