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Be fearlessly authentic.
12 Plays3 years ago
Remembering a vision board we created full of images and photos in 2016, fast forward almost 6 years it looks pretty much like the business we have today. We talk about Kye who donated his pocket money to gift a school a book and how he is now joining us for dinner at our upcoming Trivia Night and what ‘other’ book would Maxi and Leigh like to write?
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Introduction to 'Live, Learn, Survive'
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Hi, 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 have traveled the globe and met face-to-face with over 14,000 children.
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We've created a series of children's books and Max's Rescue Squad where teens and young adults can learn life skills online that will not only help themselves but help others too.
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We take what we do very seriously, ourselves not so much as you soon will hear.
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So let's spend the next half an hour together with some fun, inspiration and kindness and we'll try and learn something
Weekly Catch-Up and Fitness
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too.
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I'm joined here with my business partner.
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How are you, Lee?
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Maxie, I am good.
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How are you?
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I am good.
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Another week.
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Another week.
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Another busy week.
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Busy, busy week.
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We've got an actually packed episode for everyone today, which would be fun.
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Yep, exactly.
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So you've had a busy morning.
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You've been bike riding, I saw.
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Yeah, I went bike riding this morning at Sunrise, which was awesome in the bush up on the north side.
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Nice.
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And you've done Pilates.
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Yeah, I was at Pilates and I just had Physio who crushed me.
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But it's all good.
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The amazing Lisa.
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So yeah, now we're here.
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It's like we've got the notes.
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We're good to go.
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Yeah, no, it's good.
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It's good.
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Again, Thursday afternoon, just before our classic Friday post-up.
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But yeah, a lot's happened since last Friday.
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So we're going to be talking a lot of detail and hopefully... Yeah, filling everybody in on our week.
Quote of the Week: Authenticity
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So yeah, so start us off then, Maxie.
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What's that quote this week?
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What have we got?
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The quote this week is, be fearlessly authentic.
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Exactly.
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I think that's really good.
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So you just need to be true to yourself, be authentic.
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Don't let anyone take you for a ride.
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Know what your goals are, know what your drive and your aspirations are and yeah, just stay true to yourself.
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Yeah.
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And be fearless about it.
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Don't, don't worry about it.
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Just be true to yourself and, and don't be afraid not to be because that's the most important thing.
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Yeah, it is.
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And being authentic, as we're always right from the start, when we talk about the can you remember when, it's something that we've tried to do with Live, Learn, Survive and Max's Rescue Squad and just things that revolve around what we do by staying authentic and not, you know, doing anything too off the road, off the path.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, we are who we are.
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People like us or they don't, and that's cool.
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That's cool.
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There's plenty of others out there if they don't like us.
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I think there's more that like us.
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As if they wouldn't.
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What's not to love anyway?
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Well, I've just got to ask Bob Dean, the complaints department.
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Hey, Bob, any complaints this week?
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What, two bags full?
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Sorry, you just said there's no bags.
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No bags, no bags full.
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That's all right.
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He's working through them in the background, Bob, Bob and Complaints.
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That's fine.
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That's fine.
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Send them all back, Bob.
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That's all good, all good.
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So, yeah, perfect.
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Be fearlessly authentic.
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Love it.
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So where are we going, Maxie?
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Memory lane.
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What are we going to talk about today?
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Memory lane.
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Can you remember when?
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Can you remember
Vision Board Reflection
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when?
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Well, we wanted to talk today, not so much about trips we've done in the past, but we wanted to talk about vision and the vision board that we created back in 2016.
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2016, we caught up.
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I flew up to Brisbane.
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You did.
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Went to the back deck of your place.
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Yeah.
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And we got a mood board, like a vision board, a mood board.
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And you had some pins, you had some cutouts, you had some... Yeah.
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pictures and some wording and yeah we sat there and we we just put a vision board where we want this be in you know that time a year five years ten years yeah and the scary thing is and a lot of people probably don't realize this is the
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That's when we checked the vision board, I don't know, what, probably 12 months ago?
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You just, because it's in your office or is it in our office?
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Yeah, and it was like it was sort of stuck behind a couple of other boards of stuff and I was having a bit of sort out.
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Yeah.
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And we noticed, or you met Remy straight away, and we noticed that we've achieved pretty much everything that was on that vision board from 2016.
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So this is before Live, Learn, Survive started.
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Absolutely.
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This is when I remember, like, you know, first meeting you and it was like, you know, well, what's your plan, Maxie?
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What are you going to do with this life?
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Yeah, two years working together.
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So this is before the books.
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This is before...
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the rescue squad everything so um it's pretty crazy to think or see um you know what we've achieved you know in four years it's it's amazing and you know a lot of hard work with yourself and other people that have helped us along the way so thank you for that yeah and uh we just stayed true and i even noticed just looking at it today because i i dragged it out because we said we were going to talk about it and um
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One of the first things that we put on there was a book.
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I actually put book one, two, three, four.
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Wow.
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And we got four books.
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Wow.
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It is, yeah, it gives me shivers.
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It gives me shivers, you know, with the merchandise and bits and pieces that we've done.
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Yeah.
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But we're not done and there's a lot of amazing things that we're doing in seven to eight weeks' time.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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and we'll be talking about good news and random act of kindness very shortly.
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So I think the thing with that is to say to people that if you've got a bit of an idea and you have these little ideas and thought bubbles and things, just collect pictures and stick them on a board.
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You never know because once you see them, they're in your subconscious and then –
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that, you know, when they're in your subconscious, that's you, you work towards them.
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So, um, and we were doing that and we kind of didn't even realize we were saying so true to the path of what some of those first ideas was, but it just shows you we were, we were right with what we were thinking and what we believed in.
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It's like a higher being or something that looks down.
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It's like your path's already set in a way because we'll think it out and we'll write it down and we've achieved it subconsciously.
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So yeah, adding on to what you're saying, just if you have got some ideas or you want to
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visualize and have a mood board, do it and yeah, just put it away for a couple of years or just try and keep looking at it along the way and tick it off.
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And you'll be surprised how much you achieve in such a small amount of time of your life.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Can you remember when this week?
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Yep, there we go, the vision board.
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So yeah, good one, good exercise to do.
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And it can be anything.
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It can be about a business.
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It can be even about your life.
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So any goals you've got, stick them down and see if yours evolve.
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What are we now?
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What's that, four, six years later?
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Still going.
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Still kicking goals.
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The foundations.
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Oh, you were so young then, Maxie.
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You were so young.
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I've aged.
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I run the whole way uphill barefoot with bindies on.
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Yeah.
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Into a headwind.
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Yeah.
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Uh-oh.
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You look younger than me.
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Benjamin Button, me.
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I'm going backwards.
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Yeah, I'm getting around like Benjamin Button.
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I reckon 15 years' time, we'll look the same age.
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Yeah, I reckon five.
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Thanks, I'll take that.
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All right.
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Anyway, moving on.
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All right, moving on.
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So what good news?
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What have we got this week?
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We must have some good news.
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So good news this week.
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As always, we always have good news and random act of kindness.
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But I've got here.
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The book's got to Dubai.
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So that's the good news.
Books in Dubai and Educational Impact
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The good news is the book's arrived in Dubai and we were talking about this last week on the show.
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But yeah, the book's got there and within five minutes,
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hours of the gentleman landing in Dubai airport.
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They're already on the beach in the kids' hands and we're getting videos and photos sent from the Viking Sports Club.
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So, you know, it's amazing to see the smiles on the kids' faces and, you know, they're doing such an amazing job on the sands there of Dubai teaching the, you know, the local children.
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or the people that are visiting children and adults, life-saving skills.
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And these books are filled with life-saving skills.
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So hopefully we can keep adding to their goal of getting everyone, you know, skilled up.
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And they barely, you know, I'd barely got home and, you know, unpacked my shop in.
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from my little time in Brizzy and the books were already in Dubai on the beach so that was just awesome to you know wake up and get those messages and photos from the kids so yeah so that was great news and yeah we've got some you know the UK it's getting busier it's filling up lots of things happening
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Yeah, I was actually talking and you haven't, one of the families from down Poleseth got in touch with me saying, I just heard the news, you're coming back, so excited.
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So, you know, people that we've met along the way are starting to get in touch and getting very excited and,
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I think you were saying the other day that the first, pretty much the first quarter or the first half of the trip is pretty much locked it, like ready to go.
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Yeah, the first sort of eight, nine days is already, yeah, locked and loaded and pretty much, you know, it's probably 75% we know what we're doing now and, yeah, just like getting next to the finer detail now and find how we're going to get around, mate.
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It'll be a lot of fun.
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So that's been great.
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So, um, and random act
Kindness Story: Kai's Donation
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of kindness.
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I've got a nice random act of kindness.
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What have we got?
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So a few weeks ago when we did, um, another of our gift of book, save a life, um, donations, one of my friends brought me a $5 note, which was from her son, Kai.
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And Kai, um, gave us his pocket money to put towards a book to go to a school.
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So I made a point of keeping that $5 note in my head.
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Anyway, we've got the trivia night coming up.
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So I went and met the amazing people at the Redlands Sporting Club that are helping us get the trivia night together.
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And they gave me five kids gift dinner vouchers.
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So they said, if we've got people with kids coming along to the, we can hand out these dinner vouchers.
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So I've got those up my sleeve, but I thought...
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The random, you know, Kyle gave us, Kyle, sorry, gave us $5.
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So I've given Kyle through his mom a dinner voucher and said, you tell Kyle to come and have dinner with me and Maxie before we do the trivia.
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Ah, that's awesome.
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So there we go.
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So Kyle, you know, what you give, you know, what, what you give away comes back to you.
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At a very young age, he's going to know.
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He did something nice for them, for someone else that's going to get a book.
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So we're doing something nice for him.
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Thanks to the Redlands people.
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And he's coming to have dinner with us.
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5.30, Maxie.
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I think he's got a pass out from sport.
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Don't tell anybody why he won't be at sport that night because he's having dinner with Maxie.
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That's awesome.
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No one will know that.
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Well, I'll make him feel very welcome and I'll make him feel like a star because, you know,
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Kai giving up his pocket money to buy a book for someone else is a great thing.
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And I'm going to make sure I shine a lot of light on that when I see him.
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Yeah, so it doesn't mean we're going to give him any questions and make him, you know, give him any heads up with a quiz, but he's coming for dinner with us.
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So, yeah, we can't wait to meet you, Kai.
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So that's that.
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So that's the random act of kindness.
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One deserves another.
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So what have we got next, Maxi?
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It's been so busy, I'm almost frightened to ask.
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Come on, we got any music for this?
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Jobs of the week.
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I'm glad I'm set now.
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And another busy week at the Action Station.
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I know, because I got a couple of texts that explained it a bit.
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Yeah, it was like far out or something like that.
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So tell us, what's been going off at the Action Station?
Fire Station Experiences
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Okay, so before I speak about the fires, I did two lifeguard shifts, which was good.
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Good to be on the sand over the last few weeks.
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I've had a couple of weeks off, so it's good to be on the sand.
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But in between my fiery days, our last shift, we had two car accidents, persons trapped.
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Not good.
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We had a house fire, a bin fire, concern for welfare, medical access emergency,
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We had, what else did we have?
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We had the deputy commissioner come right along with us, which was awesome experience.
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You know, someone that's high up along the chain that, that do a lot of thing for the, for the brigade and everything we do.
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We had him right along with us.
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So there's a lot of, a lot of action for him.
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And you know, it was, it was, he was really accommodating.
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We,
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pretty much do everything what you do at Fire Station throughout the day.
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And, you know, we look forward to hopefully having him back again for more action.
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But, yeah, it was really good to have someone with rank come and spend the day with us and just see how the day-to-day stuff it.
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So you looked after him.
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Yeah, we did.
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We sure did.
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Absolutely.
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No messing around on the team when you've got to look after the boss.
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Exactly right.
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So, yeah, it was good, but it was such a busy day.
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We didn't eat dinner until 9.30 at night.
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Oh, my word.
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So it was just from call to call to call to call to call.
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And, yeah, but, you know, I love it because it's so busy and it's always something going on.
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And, you know, I do miss the city, but, you know, where I am at now, it's, yeah, action.
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It's the action.
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It's the action station.
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So, well, hopefully none of those were too serious and everyone was okay.
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Yeah, everyone survived.
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Good.
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The car accidents were pretty decent, but, yeah, we got them out.
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The house fire, we knocked it down pretty quick.
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So, yeah, it was a good result all around.
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But I do have some – it's not an unfortunate event because we always used to have a little bit of fun with that.
Bondi Beach Shark Attack Discussion
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Yeah.
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But before we go to the actually unfortunate event, this is pretty sad though.
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Just yesterday, the first shark attack in 60 years happened about 10, 15km south of Bondi.
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Unfortunately, the gentleman passed away.
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But yeah, the thing, it was a four-metre great white that took him from the fishermen that saw the attack happened.
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And unfortunately, there was footage of the attack.
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And that's horrific.
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So, you know, my thoughts are with him, his family, and everyone that was involved.
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And it's never easy.
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But, yeah, first shark attack in 60 years here in Sydney where it's been a fatal one.
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So there's a lot of people on their toes.
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But, yeah, I just want to shine light on that.
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It was very unfortunate.
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Very unfortunate.
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Hopefully, yeah, he's at peace.
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I think as well, Maxie, that's like, you know, so, so sad.
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Someone going into the ocean just to have a swim and doing what everyone, you know, does all around Australia every day of the year.
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But as we always say, when we get asked questions about sharks and you always tell kids around schools and things like that,
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Is it only, correct me if I'm wrong, only two that you've seen working?
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I've only seen three over the years working.
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Yeah.
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But I know that I'm not naive to know that they're not out there.
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It's just every time I've worked, I've just only seen a couple.
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Yeah.
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Well, hopefully it doesn't make people too anxious, you know, going at them.
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I think you just need to have the respect of the ocean and know that –
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you know, there's potential that you could be attacked.
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And, you know, it's scary to think, but it is the ocean and, you know, it doesn't matter if it's sharks, powerful waves, currents, you know,
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The ocean's the ocean and you need to respect it.
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Yeah.
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Respect it and all those that live in it.
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Exactly right.
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Exactly
Plover Bird Encounter
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right.
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So that was sad.
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Yes, very sad.
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But we still have some unfortunate news.
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Well, this was me.
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Yeah, there it is.
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The music's here.
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Oh.
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So what's happened?
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Well, this started about three weeks ago, if I'm honest.
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We had another family move into our place.
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We weren't invited.
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like a little family of plovers.
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Now, anyone that doesn't know what a plover is, it's an Australian native bird.
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They're quite noisy.
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They've got a bit of a, you know, anyway, this, you know, mum and dad plover decided to settle down and lay their eggs on our front garden, right near the post box, right near the drive.
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So, you know, for four weeks, there's been about a, you know, because what people won't realise in Queensland at the moment, in the height of summer, you have to cut your grass and like, you know, mow your lawn about every 10 days because that's like, it's crazy time.
00:18:28
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So we haven't been able to cut, you know, we've got, they've got this sort of square of jungle to themselves now because they've been there making their little family.
00:18:37
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Yesterday morning, first chick was born.
00:18:42
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So we got the fluffiest, fluffiest little chick.
00:18:45
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And within the last hour, as I'm speaking now, the second has hatched.
00:18:51
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So we've got two little chicks.
00:18:53
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So, you know, we're taking care of this little family.
00:18:57
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Everyone in the street know they're there.
00:18:58
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We're all looking out for them.
00:19:00
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But last night, things turned a bit ugly because Andrew and I, we went out for a walk.
00:19:05
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It was almost, we went out just before sunset.
00:19:08
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It was still light.
00:19:09
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But by the time we got home, it was just about almost dark.
00:19:13
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Dad decides to claim our place and not let us.
00:19:19
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back onto our driveway and he swooped Andrew three times we couldn't get home we couldn't get to the front door so obviously I let Andrew go first because I don't want to be the one that's sweet I've been sweet by a magpie before that's not nice and he was
00:19:37
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He was flying and just doing like got within like half a meter and peeled off.
00:19:42
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Feared you off, yeah.
00:19:44
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And then Andrew got to the front door and he shouts, you know, you'll be right, Lee.
00:19:48
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Good on you.
00:19:49
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So I had to like hug the hedge.
00:19:52
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So now I don't know what for the next three weeks.
00:19:55
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Well, you'll be up here by then.
00:19:57
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I think we can only leave the house in a car and come back in a car straight into the garage.
00:20:03
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Bring up some boxing gloves.
00:20:06
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I'm only joking.
00:20:07
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So the plovers have claimed the house.
00:20:10
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They've moved in and we're not allowed to leave.
00:20:13
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Yeah, well, I'm sorry to hear.
00:20:16
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That's unfortunate.
00:20:18
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It is unfortunate because I can't fetch my mail for three weeks.
00:20:22
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I don't know if anyone's written to me.
00:20:23
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Anyone that's sending Lee mail, yeah, just send an email instead.
00:20:28
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Yeah, exactly.
00:20:29
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No post because there's no one brave enough to go to the post box.
00:20:32
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You take your life in your hands.
00:20:34
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I'll send you when you get here.
00:20:36
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For me this week, I stubbed my toe.
00:20:43
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And stubbing your toe hurts and it's not good and you have to walk it off or try to walk it off.
00:20:47
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Every time you kick your toe, you think you've broken your toe, but it's just your body going up.
00:20:52
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And you did that walk again, didn't you, that pretended you hadn't done it.
00:20:55
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You like made it into a bit of a hop and it's not hurting.
00:20:59
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Anyway, that's all good, but it wasn't that unfortunate.
00:21:02
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Just a little bit of a kick.
00:21:03
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But...
00:21:05
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In saying that, though, I'm glad that nature's chosen your place.
00:21:11
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They obviously know.
00:21:12
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There must be something about us because my dad's got a family of curlews that are about on their fifth lot of, you know, family generations.
00:21:21
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So it must be something about my family.
00:21:23
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We obviously look like a nice place to hang out.
00:21:26
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Nice place.
00:21:27
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Exactly right.
00:21:28
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Awesome.
00:21:29
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All right.
00:21:30
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So what have we got next, Maxine?
00:21:31
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Tip of the week.
00:21:31
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What are you going to tell us?
00:21:37
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All right, tip of the week this
Lake Safety Video
00:21:39
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week.
00:21:39
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We are still in Victoria with the videos that we made, but it's safety at the lake.
00:21:45
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So we talk a five to seven minute video about lake safety and what to do around the lake.
00:21:51
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So it's the first time we've actually done that at a lake.
00:21:53
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We've done rivers, we've done beaches, we've done pools.
00:21:57
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We have not done a lake, so...
00:22:00
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People are part of the rescue squad.
00:22:02
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You'll be seeing a video about lakes and how to be safe around a lake.
00:22:05
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So I hope you all enjoy.
00:22:06
Speaker
There's still another three weeks of Victoria kind of themed videos.
00:22:12
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But the beauty of it is when we do catch up, I'm back up in Brisbane in two weeks.
00:22:15
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We're going to be filming a whole bunch more videos.
00:22:18
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And then when we're in England, we're going to be filming a whole bunch more.
00:22:21
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So...
00:22:22
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You know, you get the drift.
00:22:24
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So over the weeks or months, there'll be a set theme of maybe the parts of Australia that myself and you are at least.
00:22:32
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So yeah, safety of the lakes this week.
00:22:35
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And moving right along, the playlist this week, we got Rob, one of our Polish lifeguards.
Music Addition: 'I Bet My Life'
00:22:41
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It's a valid member of the rescue squad.
00:22:44
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He's always in touch with us, big supporter.
00:22:46
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He sent me a song request, I Bet My Life,
00:22:50
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We buy Imagine Dragons.
00:22:53
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So I've already added it to the Rescue Squad.
00:22:55
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It's already in there.
00:22:56
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I think we've got 64, 65 songs now.
00:22:59
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So if you want to listen to the playlist, Spotify, Max's Rescue Squad, you cannot miss it.
00:23:06
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You know, especially if you listen to this podcast regularly,
00:23:08
Speaker
on Spotify, you know, just add the playlist of Max's Rescue Squad.
00:23:12
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You never know when you might need some upbeat, some inspiration from people from all over the world throwing in their favourite songs.
00:23:19
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So, yeah, I bet my life by Imagine Dragons.
00:23:23
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Thank you, Rob, for that.
00:23:24
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Awesome, awesome, awesome.
00:23:26
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And he's probably listening to it as well as listening to this as well because he'll be doing it while he's running because we know that's what he does.
00:23:32
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He's a good man, Rob.
00:23:33
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He's a good man.
00:23:35
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So, fast five, not so fast.
00:23:38
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Fast five, not so fast.
00:23:46
Speaker
All right.
00:23:47
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You've been in charge of this this week, Maxie.
00:23:50
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Yes, I have.
00:23:51
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I have.
00:23:52
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So, first question.
Book Writing Jokes
00:23:54
Speaker
If you were to write a book, what would it be about?
00:23:59
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Right.
00:24:00
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Now, I haven't had very long to think about this, but obviously we've written a couple of books, but I was thinking if I was going to do a different kind of book, I think I'm going to do Working with Maxie.
00:24:16
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behind the scenes, what you really want to know.
00:24:21
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Yeah.
00:24:22
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All, all these, all these habits.
00:24:24
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Yeah.
00:24:25
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Grumpiness before coffee.
00:24:27
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The truth.
00:24:28
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Yeah.
00:24:28
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The truth.
00:24:29
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Yeah.
00:24:29
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The truth, but nothing.
00:24:30
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That's what I'm going to call it.
00:24:31
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Working with Maxie.
00:24:33
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The whole truth.
00:24:34
Speaker
The whole truth.
00:24:35
Speaker
The whole truth.
00:24:36
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I'm just going to.
00:24:37
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No, no.
00:24:38
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Working with Maxie, nothing but the truth.
00:24:40
Speaker
Nothing but the truth.
00:24:41
Speaker
I'm just writing that down actually.
00:24:43
Speaker
So you answer yours while I write that down because that's a working title.
00:24:48
Speaker
What was it called?
00:24:49
Speaker
Working with Maxie, nothing but the truth.
00:24:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:55
Speaker
Well, if I was to write a book, I've already done four, but it's, you know,
00:25:00
Speaker
fiction kind of kids' books.
00:25:02
Speaker
But if I was ever to write an older book, I'm tossing up between a history sort of style of book of just like what I've, you know, what I've kind of gathered along the way and or a philosophy book with, you know, everyone thinks differently and everyone acts differently and everyone is different but always kind of wonder what I feel and what I think and what my –
00:25:30
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My aura is I'll put a pen to paper of my thoughts.
00:25:34
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It would be interesting to see or my outlook on life.
00:25:37
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I should say thoughts.
00:25:38
Speaker
It would be more of a diary then.
00:25:40
Speaker
But just philosophy.
00:25:42
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I reckon that would be pretty cool.
00:25:43
Speaker
Maxi the philosopher.
00:25:44
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I'm just writing that down as well.
00:25:45
Speaker
Maxi the philosopher.
00:25:48
Speaker
Actually, Maxi, my phone is ringing.
00:25:50
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That's the publisher just wants to talk to us about a couple of ideas.
00:25:53
Speaker
Maxi the philosopher.
00:25:54
Speaker
Maxi the philosopher.
00:25:56
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Yeah.
00:25:59
Speaker
Anyway.
00:26:00
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That's like a few nights in the pub right there.
00:26:04
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Love it.
00:26:05
Speaker
So, yeah, that's all right then.
00:26:06
Speaker
So, right, what have we got next then?
00:26:09
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Number two, what dinner dish is your best?
00:26:11
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So dinner, I understand in the UK dinner it means lunch, but tea.
00:26:16
Speaker
What's your dinner, tea, best dish that you cook at home, that you would cook?
00:26:24
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Well, as you know.
00:26:27
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I've got my one recipe.
00:26:29
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It's obviously going to be veggie lasagna.
00:26:30
Speaker
It's delicious.
00:26:32
Speaker
It's delicious.
00:26:34
Speaker
But over the last month, I've made a veggie cottage pie.
00:26:43
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Yummy.
00:26:44
Speaker
You would probably be a bit horrified at the thought of a veggie cottage pie.
00:26:48
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No, no, no.
00:26:49
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I reckon it would be good.
00:26:49
Speaker
It was delicious.
00:26:51
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I reckon it would be good.
00:26:53
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But my go-to, my veggie lasagna, never disappoints.
00:26:56
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Never disappoints, Maxi.
00:26:58
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Veggie just, yeah.
00:26:59
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So, yeah.
00:26:59
Speaker
What about you?
00:27:00
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Have you got a new or a year?
00:27:02
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Yeah.
00:27:03
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So, obviously, the chicken mushroom risotto I've mastered.
00:27:07
Speaker
I've perfected it.
00:27:08
Speaker
Every time I've cooked at the Fire Station or for Talia or for other people, they love it.
00:27:13
Speaker
But...
00:27:14
Speaker
Recently at the fire station we made pasta, our own pasta, homemade pasta.
00:27:19
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So I wouldn't mind doing my own beef ragu homemade pasta, slow-cooked beef ragu one day.
00:27:27
Speaker
Oh, nice.
00:27:28
Speaker
So maybe I'll have to, yeah.
00:27:29
Speaker
Well, you're here in two weeks.
00:27:31
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I've got a pasta maker.
00:27:33
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Yep.
00:27:34
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We'll get into it.
00:27:35
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There you go.
00:27:36
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Okay.
00:27:37
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We cook along with Maxie.
00:27:39
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Cook along with Maxie.
00:27:42
Speaker
All right.
00:27:43
Speaker
So number three, street smarts or book smarts?
Street Smarts vs Book Smarts
00:27:50
Speaker
Can I go a bit of both?
00:27:53
Speaker
Is that allowed?
00:27:56
Speaker
No.
00:27:56
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Probably not.
00:27:57
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You're going to say no, Lee.
00:27:57
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You're not having your cake.
00:27:58
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No, no.
00:27:59
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You have to pick one.
00:28:05
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Probably street smarts.
00:28:08
Speaker
Locking it in?
00:28:09
Speaker
Locking it in, street smarts.
00:28:11
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What about you?
00:28:13
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Me will be street smarts because I know that is me, street smarts.
00:28:16
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Yeah.
00:28:18
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I reckon if I put my mind to it, I could be book smarts.
00:28:20
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But for me and my personality and, you know, just the work that I do, it has to be street smarts.
00:28:27
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Yeah, I think me too.
00:28:29
Speaker
Like exactly the same.
00:28:32
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I would love to read more books and all the rest of it.
00:28:35
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But I do have to really concentrate and challenge.
00:28:39
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And I just think street smarts, you learn so much from watching other people, watching people that are older than you, watching mentors and like, you know, so I think street smart can get you a good audience.
00:28:51
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good long way and do you well in life that's just my opinion so that's a good question good question maxi so um so yeah so um next one then what was your last impulse buy
00:29:08
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You know what?
00:29:09
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You've got me on this one.
00:29:10
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I was trying to think because I was in the city last week and I was trying to think what I bought.
00:29:20
Speaker
And really, it was for Andrew's birthday.
00:29:23
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And I probably can't say what it is because...
00:29:26
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um oh he's gonna hear this before his birthday um but yeah i i i i'm not very good with that one i can't think i can't think what other but oh i know the the thing before that is when um oh this is it yeah my last impulse buy um was i was on hold to an airline and
00:29:49
Speaker
And Andrew said to me, you're going to be there ages, try and do, just put it on speaker and, you know, do something else at the same time.
00:29:57
Speaker
And I ended up buying a ice bucket that doubles as a table as a mini bar for outside.
00:30:03
Speaker
And it came two days later and it was lovely.
00:30:05
Speaker
So, yeah, that was a bit of an impulse buy.
00:30:07
Speaker
So what about yourself?
00:30:09
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Yeah, bought a mountain bike.
00:30:11
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Yeah, just went on there, bought it, bikes online and come two days later.
00:30:16
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It was awesome.
00:30:17
Speaker
So for me, it was a brand new mountain bike.
00:30:20
Speaker
So was that the bike that I saw on the stories this morning?
00:30:22
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Yes, that's it.
00:30:24
Speaker
That's it.
00:30:25
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Nice.
00:30:26
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Nice.
00:30:26
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There you go.
00:30:28
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Well, you are using it, so that's good.
00:30:29
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Yeah, I am using it.
00:30:30
Speaker
I am using it.
00:30:31
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I'm going to be using it a lot.
00:30:32
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So yeah, so...
00:30:35
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Cool.
00:30:36
Speaker
So right, what's the last one then, Maxi?
00:30:38
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So number five, what is the punchline to your favourite joke?
00:30:43
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Well, my favourite joke, I might have even said this on here before, so there's going to be a silence because I've got to say it in my head.
00:30:52
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Yep.
00:30:54
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And the punchline is half an hour.
00:30:57
Speaker
Half an hour.
00:31:02
Speaker
So what's the joke?
00:31:05
Speaker
So that's the punchline.
00:31:07
Speaker
Oh, no, is that the answer?
00:31:08
Speaker
No, well, yeah, that's the answer.
00:31:09
Speaker
So you've got to say the joke, the punchline.
00:31:11
Speaker
Oh, the punchline.
00:31:13
Speaker
So, for example, mine would be, I've got a few, but why can't a bicycle stand on its own?
00:31:20
Speaker
Right, why?
00:31:21
Speaker
And you say why.
00:31:22
Speaker
Why, Maxie?
00:31:23
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Because it's too tired.
00:31:24
Speaker
Oh, right, okay, okay, sorry.
00:31:28
Speaker
I should have let you go first.
00:31:29
Speaker
I misunderstood the question.
00:31:31
Speaker
I misunderstood the question.
00:31:32
Speaker
So my then is?
00:31:35
Speaker
What do the donkeys at Blackpool have for lunch?
00:31:40
Speaker
What?
00:31:42
Speaker
Half an hour.
00:31:46
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I've got one more for everyone.
00:31:48
Speaker
Did you hear about the guy who invented the knock-knock joke?
00:31:54
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No, I didn't.
00:31:55
Speaker
He won the Nobel Prize.
00:31:58
Speaker
Oh, Maxi.
00:31:59
Speaker
Like, seriously.
00:32:01
Speaker
Joke book.
00:32:02
Speaker
How could we have missed it?
00:32:03
Speaker
How could we have missed it?
00:32:04
Speaker
My favorite all-time one is, did you hear about the fire at the circus?
00:32:07
Speaker
It was intense.
00:32:08
Speaker
It was intense.
00:32:09
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That's my favorite.
00:32:09
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I've said that one before.
00:32:10
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:11
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Well, sorry I messed that up.
00:32:13
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If we'd have edited this, you would have said, back up the truck, Lee.
00:32:18
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It's fine.
00:32:19
Speaker
It's fine.
00:32:20
Speaker
Totally fine.
00:32:22
Speaker
It's been a massive week and I could tell, you know, we're winding down into this weekend.
00:32:27
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But, you know, what we're doing, the work that we do, we don't sleep or we don't stop.
00:32:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:32
Speaker
But I appreciate all the hard work you've done this week, Lee, and I've told you countless amount of times.
00:32:37
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You have, you have, you have.
00:32:38
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It has been a bit of a crazy one.
00:32:41
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I've been working a lot on the boats and a bit of life getting firefighting just to get ahead for having the month or five weeks over in UK just to be comfortable.
00:32:52
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So, yeah, I appreciate all the work that you, Tiff, Simone, you know, we've got a full team now.
00:32:57
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Yeah, we've got the squad backing us up and bobbing complaints.
00:33:02
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He's like, you know.
Rule of Engagement: Exceeding Expectations
00:33:04
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Seriously.
00:33:04
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I feel like we're wrapping this up, but as in we should do the rule for the rule book.
00:33:10
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So I'll do that first.
00:33:12
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Oh, I like this.
00:33:13
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All right.
00:33:14
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Rule for the rule book.
00:33:15
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Yes.
00:33:23
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Under promise, over deliver.
00:33:26
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Exactly.
00:33:27
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So under promise, so don't promise the world, and then over deliver, over, you know, overachieve what you're trying to do.
00:33:35
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So then you'll always exceed people's expectations.
00:33:38
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Exactly right.
00:33:39
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And that's a better place to be because there's nothing where no one wants to be the over promiser and the under deliverer.
00:33:47
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No.
00:33:47
Speaker
Because that's just like you don't want to be in that one.
00:33:49
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So always under promise, over deliver.
00:33:52
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Over deliver.
00:33:53
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And then you'll always be on the right side of people.
00:33:55
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Yeah.
00:33:55
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No, I love it.
00:33:56
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I love it.
00:33:57
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And I thought, yeah, that's a good rule.
00:33:59
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Good rule for the rule book.
00:34:00
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So, yeah.
00:34:02
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Sensational.
Episode Wrap-Up and Future Plans
00:34:04
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Well, like I said, it's been a busy week.
00:34:06
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Now, I like to think you've got the afternoon free.
00:34:11
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I'm on night shift tonight from 4 till 2 in the morning on the Navy ship.
00:34:16
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So, I'm going to go do some hot and cold therapy, go to the sauna, get ready for that.
00:34:22
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You put your feet up, have a cup of tea.
00:34:24
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Yeah.
00:34:25
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You are hilarious.
00:34:26
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Absolutely hilarious.
00:34:28
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Well, I'm going to go and have my lunch and then I'm going to start on the next wave of England and all the people that have messaged me that I owe replies to.
00:34:39
Speaker
I'll be speaking to you throughout the afternoon anyway.
00:34:42
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Yes.
00:34:42
Speaker
So I've just had my little physio and self-care.
00:34:48
Speaker
So now you go and look after yourself and
00:34:51
Speaker
because then we'll be tour fit.
00:34:54
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I'm getting ready for England's water.
00:34:56
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I'm jumping into a four-degree pool this afternoon.
00:34:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:59
Speaker
Anyway.
00:35:01
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Then we'll all be tour fit and we'll have the strength and stamina to get around the UK.
00:35:11
Speaker
because as we know Maxie there ain't no entourage it's me and you mate that luggage needs lifting you're lifting it or maybe me anyway but it's been a great episode once again I hope everyone enjoyed it please send your complaints to Bob if you have any complaints but if everything's good we'll see you all next week exactly have a good week everyone bye take care everyone