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Strive for progress, not perfection.
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If we are moving forward, then that is progress and a win in these crazy times for any business. We talk about the random act of kindness when we surprise Maggie by stopping to have a cup of tea with her in Manchester and how we have dived straight in doing something positive with a High Tea Fundraiser which will donate books to school libraries. What news will Maxi have for us this week from Sydney’s frontline? Thank you so much for stopping by to listen.
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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 introduce you to our new Live, Learn, Survive podcast.
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Since 2018, Lee and I have traveled the globe and met face-to-face with over 13,000 children in four different countries, created a series of children's books, and sent them all over the world.
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Not traveling in this pandemic, we created Maxi's Rescue Squad, a fun, safe place online where teens and young adults can learn life skills that will not only save themselves, but help others too.
Podcast Format and Expectations
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In this podcast, we'll share some inspiration, a good news story.
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I'll give you my tip of the week, and we'll tell you what happened at work this week as well.
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We'll finish off with some fun questions, so bear with us.
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We don't edit anything here.
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It's time to welcome Lee.
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How are you, Lee?
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Maxie, I'm good.
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How are you?
Maxie's Busy Life
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I am very well.
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It's been a busy week.
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It's been such a busy week.
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I have literally had no time to shower.
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I'm only joking.
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I have had time to shower, but it has been a really busy week.
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I have not stopped.
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I've been in and out of the fire stations.
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I had literally one day off, which was Monday, and then I've been on the boat as a rescue tech the last four days.
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It's been flat out.
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I can't believe that it's been seven.
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It's been so busy.
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I've been worried.
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I haven't caught up on the scooter.
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Yeah, the scooter's healthy and fine.
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It cost me $580 cash.
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Cash.
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Cash.
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But yeah, it's perring like a kitten.
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Myself and Talia went for a ride on it the other day and it's good.
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It's ready for summer.
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It's ready for the harbour beaches in the summer.
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After this lockdown, we'll be down at Nilsson Park and all those nice harbour beaches, zipping around, getting a good car spot on the old scooter.
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The scooter is good to go.
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It is good to go.
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Such a relief, such a relief because, you know, you sprung that on me last week.
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I know a lot of people have been hanging on the edge of their seats all week waiting to hear what happened.
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But, yeah, it's fine.
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All I needed was a new battery, a bit of an oil change, and, yeah, she's good.
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Good to go.
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So we'll start the week off.
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So what is the quote this
Motivational Insights
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week?
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So what we've got this week,
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Appropriate again for the times, strive for progress, not perfection.
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Yes, I really like that one.
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I found that one on the phone.
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I've got a little app on my phone that gives me quotes each day and that was when we knuckled down each at the start of the week to work out what quote we were going to do for the squad and for the Live, Learn, Survive and that one popped straight in my face.
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Absolutely because the thing is it's like, you know, it's never going to be perfect.
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You've just got to start and in these times if you're just moving forward even a little bit, as long as you're moving forward, then that's okay.
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Yeah.
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Exactly right.
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If you try and do too much, it's just not going to happen.
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I think the world's just going a bit slower.
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So that's okay.
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As long as we're going forward, that's all right.
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That's all that matters.
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So that's what's keeping us going.
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So yeah, so can we remember when?
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What are we going to talk about?
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Well, I've got it here in my notes.
Memorable Visit to England
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We're going to talk about Maggie and how we, it's nearly three years to the day.
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And anyone doesn't know who Maggie is.
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It's a little girl that we went and visited over in England three years ago.
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This was a great story.
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It is a great story.
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And I didn't really know much about it, but Lee and Maggie's mum were in contact and she was devastated.
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Yeah, this is... So we got a message, another of these messages, Maxie, that said, you know, they knew that we were going to England and Maggie...
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loves Bondi Rescue, but the only episode that she will never watch and fast forwards is the one where you left to be a firefighter.
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And if I had a pound or a dollar for everyone that says, is Maxie still at the beach?
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Yes, Maxie is still at the beach.
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I'm still there.
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So Maggie wanted to come to one of our events, but she was in Manchester and we didn't do any events near Manchester.
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But I did know that we were going to be on the M6 and passing through.
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And I had this idea and I said to her, mum, don't hold me to this because things could change and go wrong.
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But we've got to stop for a cup of tea somewhere, haven't we?
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So we pulled up and we actually, because the pubs in England are like lounges and coffee lounges and things.
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So we pulled up in this pub car park and you said to me, if this goes wrong, I get it.
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I'm going to kill you.
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Well, there's a few random people we did meet that, not when I say random people, just people we've never met before face to face.
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And, you know, we delivered a few books when we were in Scarborough.
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And, you know, this was just another thing, random act of kindness that you might want to say.
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Exactly.
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And it could have been great and it could have been terrible, but it was great.
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You filmed me walk in and it's one of those videos where you look back, it's a bit of fun.
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Maggie and her mum were sitting in the cafe, but as you walked in, of course, I had the clear white chinos.
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I think I had a mark on them.
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Yeah.
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And all you can see on my backside is a coffee stain or some sort of stain on the back of me pants, but...
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I was trying to keep my phone hidden.
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I was trying to keep my phone hidden.
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Well, you know, sorry for filming that.
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No, it's all right.
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It's good to show the people that we do do random acts of kindness.
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And it was a good surprise for Maggie.
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It was.
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She absolutely did not know what to say when you sent him.
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Hello, Maggie, I've come for a gabardee.
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And it was great.
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And a year later, Maggie came back and caught up with us in South Shields.
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And yeah, we still, you know, she wants to be a rookie lifeguard.
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She was killing her rookie lifeguard until...
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um covid so that's the story of maggie and you'll see maggie crop up in some of our stuff sometimes she's a little legend yeah she is a little legend and i know that her and her mom and uh the family will be listening to this pod or they've been listening to this podcast so um yeah hello
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Hello, Manchester.
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Exactly.
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All right.
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So we are moving on to good news and random act of kindness.
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Yeah.
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Well, we sort of discovered the random act of kindness.
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Yeah, well, we did.
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Sorry.
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Like I said, this is all off the cuff.
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Yeah.
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But we do have the music for it.
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So bear with me.
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Here we go.
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Oh, yeah.
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Forgot, Maxie.
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Yeah.
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Wait for it.
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Oh, here we go.
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I can't whistle.
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I can't whistle.
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Sorry.
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All right.
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Okay.
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So what have we got this week?
High Tea Event for a Cause
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Well, you know, I told you to, were you free on a date in October, which, and you said, yeah, I'm free.
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And I had this idea because I, you know, I have crazy ideas every now and again that I thought, you know what, we need a high tea.
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And you and I, we've pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact that we're not going to meet face-to-face.
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Probably, what do you reckon?
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Christmas?
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Not till January, I don't think.
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January, whatever.
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So I had this great idea that I can have a high tea in Brisbane because –
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I can get you to attend this IT on a screen.
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Exactly right.
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It's a great idea.
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Nothing could go wrong.
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Nothing could go wrong.
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So I've booked the most beautiful venue, the courthouse in Cleveland, which you know the courthouse.
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You've driven past it a couple of times.
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When you drive up to the point there, it looks out over the bay.
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Beautiful.
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I've booked a table for 50 friends.
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There you go.
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So do you reckon I'm going to find 50 friends?
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I don't know.
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You might have 50 acquaintances.
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I think I've got like five friends maybe if I count the, you know, my English friends as well.
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So I think...
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I don't know what it's going to look like yet.
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I know there's going to be sandwiches, scones.
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It'll be good.
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But it's not just about the high tea.
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It's also what we are aiming to achieve from doing the high tea.
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That's exactly right.
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It's not just us drinking tea with our pinky fingers sticking up in the air.
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Do you want to tell us what the end result is for the high tea?
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So the high tea is going to basically –
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get people to come and donate a book that we are going to donate to schools in their name and hopefully as well raise um and and get some kids into the rescue squad so yeah that's that's our end goal exactly so it's all about education because we've got a pretty cool thing we're going to start next week with with books um when we get to september the first day of spring and
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And this high tea is going to be part of that.
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So everyone that comes along is going to donate a book to a school, a regional school, a school where maybe the library doesn't have as many books as they'd like.
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And these books will be donated in the name of a guest that came here.
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to have some fun with us.
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So I think I'm going to do a raffle, Maxie, and we'll, you know, I'll work it out.
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I'll work it out.
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It's going to be a lot of fun.
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And, you know, we're going to obviously tell you all more about what we are doing with the books next week.
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I can't give too much away.
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But, yeah, it's exciting.
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Coming into summer, I know that is going to be a busy summer this summer, excluding COVID.
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But if COVID, if COVID,
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If COVID does kind of slow down a bit, people are going to be flocking to the beaches and trying to travel to where they can.
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And I think it's very important to talk about the water safety messages and get the awareness out in the books as well.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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A lot of exciting times coming.
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So if you're in Brisbane, you could come to the high tea.
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And if you're not in Brisbane, don't worry, because you're going to be able to buy a virtual seat and the seat will still give you a book that we donate.
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So when we look it out, next week's meeting, Maxie, we'll put a bit more planning on it.
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I'll make sure I wear my birthday suit.
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I mean...
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I'm only joking.
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This is a G-rated podcast.
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Hang on.
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I think I might get 100 friends in there.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We can organise a few of the fires and a lot of guys that come up.
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We can do, you know, you can leave your hat on.
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Oh, no.
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No.
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No, but it's good.
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It's a really good idea.
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And I think during these tough times, I think what we have been doing and what we continue to do is not let all these lockdowns and restrictions restrict us from getting the word out there about what we do or what we've done.
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And, you know, I can't wait for 2022.
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No, that'll be great.
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I'm just writing that.
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Maxie's birthday suit.
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Hi, T. That's my working name.
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Birthday.
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Okay.
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So what have you been doing?
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Job of the week.
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You've been working all week.
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I want to know
Maxie's Rescue Tech Adventures
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all about this.
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What's been happening?
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Yeah, so people were saying before the last few weeks, I've got three pretty much three jobs at the moment, lifeguarding, firefighting, and I've been given a job on the Navy ships as a rescue tech.
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And basically, I do confined space rescue, vertical rescue, working at heights,
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all sorts of different things.
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And this week the boats come in and, you know, we're busy, busy, busy.
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And they need people to go in to do the gas detecting and make sure the tanks are safe for other people to go into.
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So literally I get in all my gear, getting a harness, getting like a suit kind of thing that protects my skin.
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And then I go in with a gas detector and make sure in these confined spaces, which is very tight and very small and very dark.
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Yeah.
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And, yeah, just go and make sure they're all safe and well and obviously practice in case a contractor wants to get in trouble in these spaces and the quickest way of getting the casualty out.
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So it's quite interesting.
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This is on the inside of the boat right down in the – Right underneath.
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So, okay.
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How do I explain it?
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So inside a boat, right on the bottom.
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Yeah.
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Under engines and fuel tanks and, you know, all sorts of different tanks, ballast tanks.
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Yeah.
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And, yeah, we go down there because obviously, you know, being a big ship in the ocean, they do corrode and erode and all that sort of stuff.
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So they always need to make sure that –
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The tanks aren't rusted and dirty.
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So before they go in and clean them, we have to go in there and make sure they're nice and safe.
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And then while they do the work, we stand by in case something must happen.
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So confined space, what kind of, you know, like how much is above your head and either side of you?
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Oh, it's very tight.
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Probably 15.
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Each compartment, probably a metre or just a little bit more than a metre, metre wide and probably a metre deep.
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Yeah, like I'm crouched down.
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I'm laying – like I have to crawl through it.
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I can't stand up.
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I can't crouch.
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I have to – And is it dark?
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Yeah.
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If it was – it would be pitch black, pitch black.
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And then obviously some tanks I go into is, you know, a bit of fuel residue and stuff like that.
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So you've got all that sort of stuff to worry about.
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But it's, you know, it's interesting type of work.
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Are you quite near the waterline?
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Are you near the waterline?
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We're underwater.
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No, I know that.
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Can I, can I?
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But like, you know, in the bottom of the boat, are you like right down to it where the boat's at the water?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Past that, past that.
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I'm trying to illustrate what I'm saying.
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Yeah, so, you know, when it's sitting in the water, it's only probably halfway along the water line.
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So basically where I am in the tanks and that is underwater probably, you know,
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10 meters and a whole boat and whole ship on top of me.
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But it's interesting what sort of work.
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It's good.
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Only firefighters and people with special rescue qualifications can do the work.
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So, you know, people that listen or people that aspire to become firefighters or ambos or coppers or whatever, you've got all these different jobs that you can do externally without even noticing the tickets that you do get as a first responder.
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So I'm very fortunate that
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The work on the beach has slowed down.
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Obviously, during COVID, there's hardly any tourists around.
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So all the full-timers are getting work.
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I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to work.
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On the rescue.
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Yeah, it's amazing.
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On the rescue, yeah.
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So it's good.
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It's a different type of work.
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And then, for example, today I was in tanks and then this afternoon I was on top of the mast at the top of the ship where all the –
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radars and stuff are for the military where they do all the military combat, all that sort of stuff.
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So, you know, I'm up there on hooks and on ropes and, yeah, it's good.
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It's just different type of work.
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Yeah, typical maxi kind of work.
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Yeah, it's good
Humorous Fire Truck Story
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fun.
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It's good fun.
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But –
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Like I said, everyone's been waiting for this moment and we forgot to edit it this week, but it's Maxi's Unfortunate Events.
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Don't tell me there's been one.
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Is this going to be a regular slot?
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It is.
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Have we got the music for it?
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Did we sign off on the music?
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Yeah, we do.
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Actually, no, no, no, we don't.
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Sorry, that's for the end.
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Oh, okay, okay, that's all right.
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Look, we'll sort it out in editing.
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Oh, that's all right, we don't edit.
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That's okay.
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We don't edit.
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Well, I'm sitting down again.
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sitting down so what happened was um it was another break you look all right again it was another breakdown it was another breakdown oh no maxi tell me but this time it wasn't my flimsy scooter or the the 2011 jeep wrangler that i drive yeah it was the million dollar fire truck oh no but i wasn't driving so it's kind of okay
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Technically, it wasn't your fault.
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Technically, it wasn't my fault.
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But still, we had to, you know.
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Not ideal.
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Wait or stay on the side of a road at a petrol station for three and a half hours waiting for the mechanic.
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With all your lights going.
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Yeah, we're in the service.
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We actually went and got fuel and then the starter motor went on the truck.
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So we're stuck at this service station for three and a half hours.
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Stuck at a service station for the second time.
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For the second time.
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Two weeks running.
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Second time in a week, really.
00:16:44
Speaker
Well, I know, but please don't tell me it was the same lady going, oh, not old mate back again.
00:16:49
Speaker
No, this time.
00:16:50
Speaker
Well, actually it was a BP.
00:16:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:16:55
Speaker
It was a VP.
00:16:57
Speaker
It was a VP.
00:16:57
Speaker
But I didn't go inside because I know that, you know, all those groups, they all talk to each other, probably going, here's this black cloud.
00:17:04
Speaker
This guy's just trouble.
00:17:06
Speaker
Here he is again.
00:17:07
Speaker
But, yeah, it was interesting.
00:17:08
Speaker
You know, we had police come and try and help us.
00:17:11
Speaker
We had tow trucks and all different types of services, which we think.
00:17:15
Speaker
So you were looked after a little bit better than old mate the week before.
00:17:19
Speaker
Yeah, I was going, what lockdown?
00:17:21
Speaker
There was people coming out of the woodwork.
00:17:22
Speaker
People coming out of the bowser is trying to help us and everyone should be in lockdown.
00:17:26
Speaker
Yes.
00:17:27
Speaker
But, yeah, no, it was an unfortunate event.
00:17:31
Speaker
Maybe it wasn't something that, you know, more personal, but it was another breakdown.
00:17:36
Speaker
I was at a BP.
00:17:37
Speaker
I'm sorry to hear that two weeks running BP have had to, you know.
00:17:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:42
Speaker
And actually, an unfortunate event this morning, my alarm did go off.
00:17:47
Speaker
And it's one of the questions later, but I try and never be late.
00:17:51
Speaker
I hate being late.
00:17:52
Speaker
But my alarm went off this morning and I just fell back to sleep.
00:17:57
Speaker
And then I woke up at 6.35 and I was meant to be on the boat at 6.30.
00:18:03
Speaker
So that was a bit unfortunate response.
00:18:06
Speaker
Oh, Maxi, that was unfortunate.
00:18:08
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:18:08
Speaker
There's too many.
00:18:10
Speaker
Maybe we do have to wrap this segment up because it's going to take up the whole podcast.
00:18:17
Speaker
We haven't got – good job we didn't find the music.
00:18:19
Speaker
We've not got time for it.
00:18:20
Speaker
We haven't got time for it.
00:18:22
Speaker
So, well, we'll hope that we don't go for three weeks running and we've canned that.
00:18:27
Speaker
So, you know, what tip of the week have you got?
00:18:31
Speaker
We've got to do the education tick.
00:18:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:18:32
Speaker
What have we got for the tip of the week?
Knot-Tying Tutorial
00:18:34
Speaker
Tip of the week.
00:18:35
Speaker
And everyone that has been listening, we know that it kind of unlocks.
00:18:40
Speaker
aligns with Max's Rescue Squad with the episode for the week or kind of what theme that we're doing.
00:18:46
Speaker
And this week I was pretty flat out, but we did – it's our fourth theme this week and it's skills and first aid.
00:18:52
Speaker
And because I haven't been at the fire station in the last few days, it was a bit hard to do the first aid side of things.
00:18:58
Speaker
So –
00:18:59
Speaker
We're going to do knots.
00:19:01
Speaker
And today when I got back from work, I did eight minutes of tying knots to show everyone at home how they can do different rescue knots and different sort of knots that they can do.
00:19:12
Speaker
Such a good skill.
00:19:13
Speaker
You know, that's the kind of thing that you learn that you do a little bit as a kid and then you just never do it again.
00:19:18
Speaker
It's kind of different.
00:19:19
Speaker
It's kind of different.
00:19:20
Speaker
You know, there's not many...
00:19:22
Speaker
You know, there's not many 29-year-olds that just come home and just do an eight-minute tutorial on how to do knots.
00:19:29
Speaker
So, you know, it's either you think I'm crazy or it might be the, you know, kind of like the new challenge or the new thing.
00:19:37
Speaker
That's why you're Maxie, Maxie.
00:19:39
Speaker
Exactly right.
00:19:39
Speaker
And that's why because it's like, you know.
00:19:41
Speaker
Yeah, but the tip is try and learn some new knots.
00:19:45
Speaker
Don't be one of those people walking around society saying, if you don't know knots, tie lots.
00:19:50
Speaker
It is important to, you know, you might not think it's important to tie knots, but, you know, you never know when you might need to use it in a rescue situation or tie something down or, you know, kind of show off to someone that you have a crush on.
00:20:03
Speaker
Who knows?
00:20:03
Speaker
But, yeah, it is pretty cool to know how to do knots.
00:20:07
Speaker
So, yeah.
00:20:08
Speaker
If you are listening and you are a big fan and you're not a part of the rescue squad, join up to the rescue squad, Max's rescue squad, and the video will be live.
00:20:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:17
Speaker
So enjoy.
00:20:18
Speaker
Perfect.
00:20:19
Speaker
Perfect.
00:20:20
Speaker
So, um, so that's, um,
00:20:21
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:22
Speaker
Great skill to have.
00:20:23
Speaker
And, um, like I say, things you do as a kid and you don't do it when you're an adult.
00:20:27
Speaker
So, um, that's also good.
00:20:29
Speaker
So exactly right.
00:20:30
Speaker
So playlist, our playlist is getting better by the week.
00:20:33
Speaker
We've got another one today.
00:20:34
Speaker
We've got another one and it's Avril Lavigne.
00:20:38
Speaker
Keep holding on.
00:20:40
Speaker
Yep.
00:20:40
Speaker
So this is from Katie.
00:20:41
Speaker
So, um, thank you for this, Katie.
00:20:45
Speaker
Um, we did get the message and, um, we'll be talking to you next week on the zoom anyway, but, um,
00:20:51
Speaker
Yes.
00:20:51
Speaker
So this is Avril Lavigne.
00:20:52
Speaker
Keep holding on.
00:20:53
Speaker
And are you adding that into the playlist now, Maxie?
00:20:56
Speaker
Right now, I just added it because this is all live or off the cuff.
00:21:00
Speaker
So it's all added.
00:21:01
Speaker
So it's all done.
00:21:03
Speaker
It's kind of, you know, this is our meeting, working meeting, record it, make the podcast.
00:21:09
Speaker
That's how efficient you've got to be when there's two of you.
00:21:11
Speaker
You have to.
00:21:12
Speaker
You have to.
00:21:13
Speaker
We're just double busy.
00:21:14
Speaker
Double busy.
00:21:15
Speaker
Yep.
00:21:16
Speaker
So we've got a few quick questions then.
00:21:18
Speaker
So we'll have a bit of a chat about these.
Favorite Movie Quotes
00:21:22
Speaker
Yep.
00:21:22
Speaker
Favourite movie quote.
00:21:25
Speaker
What's your favourite movie quote?
00:21:28
Speaker
Favourite movie quote.
00:21:29
Speaker
Well, there is a few movies that, you know, spring to mind.
00:21:36
Speaker
Any that you say every now and again.
00:21:39
Speaker
I'm watching all the Harry Potters at the moment.
00:21:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:41
Speaker
So...
00:21:43
Speaker
Maybe one of the spells that they say with the wand or something like that.
00:21:48
Speaker
I don't know any of them.
00:21:49
Speaker
I don't know.
00:21:50
Speaker
I've never seen one of the movies and I've never read the book.
00:21:52
Speaker
I'll just ask Talia.
00:21:53
Speaker
What is it?
00:21:56
Speaker
No, she's just shaking her head at me.
00:21:58
Speaker
La Vista Riosa, I think.
00:22:00
Speaker
La Vista Riosa.
00:22:02
Speaker
Oh, my life.
00:22:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:03
Speaker
I think, yeah, my favourite movie quote, there's too many to think of.
00:22:07
Speaker
I can't really think of one off the cuff at the moment.
00:22:09
Speaker
I've got one for you then.
00:22:12
Speaker
I feel the need, the need for speed.
00:22:17
Speaker
The need for speed.
00:22:20
Speaker
Top Gun.
00:22:21
Speaker
Top Gun.
00:22:22
Speaker
And then the other one that I've got that I like is Back to the Future.
00:22:27
Speaker
Roads, where we're going, we don't need roads.
00:22:30
Speaker
We don't need roads, yeah.
00:22:32
Speaker
Great movies, great movies.
00:22:33
Speaker
Yeah, great movies.
00:22:34
Speaker
Well, I just remember, Tali just yelled, you're a wizard Harry.
00:22:37
Speaker
That's a movie quote from Harry Potter.
00:22:40
Speaker
Okay, you're a wizard Harry.
00:22:41
Speaker
Okay, we'll take that one.
00:22:42
Speaker
We'll take that one.
00:22:43
Speaker
We'll add it in.
00:22:43
Speaker
So keep going with your Harry Potter movies.
00:22:47
Speaker
So we just touched on this earlier, five minutes late or five minutes early?
00:22:52
Speaker
I'm definitely five minutes early, but sometimes I can be five minutes late like this morning, which is out of my control because I just fell straight back to sleep.
00:23:02
Speaker
It must be knackered.
00:23:04
Speaker
But yeah, I try and really be places early and I'm sure I could already answer for you, Leigh.
00:23:10
Speaker
You're an early bird too.
00:23:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:12
Speaker
Five minutes early.
00:23:14
Speaker
That's what I love.
00:23:15
Speaker
You know, when we travel, neither of us are ever late anywhere because it drives me insane, people that are late.
00:23:21
Speaker
So that's why we don't fight when we travel.
00:23:24
Speaker
Anyway, so next thing, what was cool when you were young but isn't cool now?
00:23:31
Speaker
Now, your answer is going to be very different to mine now.
00:23:33
Speaker
Yeah, well, I want people to listen to this to kind of visualize this.
00:23:38
Speaker
So when you were younger, you know, you stand on the side of the road and you could hear the big trucks coming from a distance and you start cheering them on to hit the horn.
00:23:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:53
Speaker
I used to think that was really cool as a kid.
00:23:56
Speaker
Because, you know, sometimes they see you and, you know, you're just, you know, doing the horn signal.
00:24:03
Speaker
And, you know, usually sometimes you hear them.
00:24:09
Speaker
You know, they go past and you're jumping up and down really ecstatic.
00:24:12
Speaker
Well, the other night when I was at the BP in the Broken Down Fire Truck, I thought it would be a bit funny to lift the team morale up and, you know.
00:24:21
Speaker
We were pretty close to Port Botany where all the ships are and all the trucks coming in and out.
00:24:27
Speaker
And I thought it'd be quite funny to reenact that.
00:24:30
Speaker
And nothing.
00:24:32
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:24:33
Speaker
Nothing.
00:24:34
Speaker
So maybe it's not cool anymore.
00:24:36
Speaker
Or maybe the truck drivers don't care.
00:24:37
Speaker
Or maybe I'm just too old for it and they would just...
00:24:41
Speaker
knowing that I really wanted to hear the horn, but they gave me nothing.
00:24:44
Speaker
You know what?
00:24:45
Speaker
It's maybe nice when you're being waved up by a 10-year-old.
00:24:48
Speaker
It's maybe not.
00:24:50
Speaker
So, you know, when you're being waved up by a 29-year-old firefighter thinking, where is it?
00:24:55
Speaker
You know, like it's not.
00:24:57
Speaker
I'll tell you what.
00:24:58
Speaker
If I was in a police uniform, they wouldn't be doing it.
00:25:01
Speaker
They'd probably be pulling over going, what do you want?
Nostalgic Trends Discussion
00:25:07
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, like seriously.
00:25:09
Speaker
Maybe it was a uniform.
00:25:10
Speaker
Maybe it was a uniform.
00:25:11
Speaker
I don't know.
00:25:11
Speaker
But maybe we got a secret thing that we only do that for kids, mate.
00:25:14
Speaker
Like seriously, back in your truck and off to work.
00:25:18
Speaker
So, well, mine's a really simple answer.
00:25:20
Speaker
What was cool when you were young, but isn't cool now?
00:25:23
Speaker
Leg warmers.
00:25:26
Speaker
Leg warmers.
00:25:27
Speaker
It was the 80s, Olivia Newton-John.
00:25:29
Speaker
Come on, help us out.
00:25:31
Speaker
So, yeah, that was my simple leg warmers.
00:25:33
Speaker
You don't see anyone strolling about with leg warmers anymore.
00:25:36
Speaker
You don't.
00:25:37
Speaker
You don't.
00:25:37
Speaker
But you know what?
00:25:38
Speaker
Very quickly, they could be back.
00:25:41
Speaker
They could be.
00:25:41
Speaker
And then I'll be able to dig them all out.
00:25:43
Speaker
Happy days.
00:25:45
Speaker
Back to it.
00:25:46
Speaker
All righty.
00:25:47
Speaker
So what's the hardest you've ever worked?
Challenging Work Experiences
00:25:50
Speaker
The hardest I've ever worked is on the busy day at Bondi with 40,000 plus people.
00:25:56
Speaker
But as a firefighter, something that springs to mind as soon as I hear that question is the 2019 bushfires.
00:26:04
Speaker
One of the days...
00:26:06
Speaker
You know, we're out trying to save a town, a row of houses in a street and, you know, we'll just go all day for 12 hours straight just going from house to house to house to try and save them or just try and put them out or go to another suburb that's impending on fire.
00:26:22
Speaker
And, yeah, so that's probably one of the hardest days.
00:26:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:26
Speaker
You know, with seeing loss of –
00:26:28
Speaker
or actually, yeah, environment, lots of trees and stuff like that and obviously lots of houses.
00:26:37
Speaker
And unfortunately, that day when we were there, two firefighters died that night from a truck rollover.
00:26:42
Speaker
So it was just one of those full-on hard days both physically and mentally.
00:26:47
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:26:50
Speaker
And either way, whether it's at the fires or like a big day at the beach,
00:26:54
Speaker
Physically, mentally, just draining.
00:26:57
Speaker
So they're both really, really, they're not jobs that you can just, you know, rock up to and have a cruisy day.
00:27:04
Speaker
You're on, you're on 100%.
00:27:05
Speaker
So hats off to you for that.
00:27:08
Speaker
Mine's nothing in comparison.
00:27:11
Speaker
I've worked in fashion, but probably the hardest I've worked is one of my first jobs when I used to literally sew for eight hours a day.
00:27:19
Speaker
And one of my things is that the fashion industry probably doesn't get taken as seriously as a skill as it is actually at the machine end.
00:27:29
Speaker
But if you've sat on a show machine going full belt for eight, nine hours a day,
00:27:34
Speaker
That's working hard, not compared to yours, but it's a tough job.
00:27:40
Speaker
So yeah, so you win that by a mile, Maxine.
00:27:44
Speaker
You know, you take that one.
00:27:46
Speaker
So yeah, and then the next thing, what's the coldest that you've ever been?
00:27:52
Speaker
It's been a few times I've been quite cold, but probably when I was in the UK the other year, you know, swimming in the Lockdown.
00:27:58
Speaker
Oh, Lockdown wasn't that cold.
00:27:59
Speaker
Maybe up in Newcastle.
00:28:00
Speaker
Newcastle, seven degrees.
00:28:03
Speaker
Yeah, that day when we were doing the stuff with the kids at the surf club, South Shields.
00:28:09
Speaker
It was freezing.
00:28:10
Speaker
It was windy and surf and it was cold.
00:28:13
Speaker
Maxie, that was summer.
00:28:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:18
Speaker
So I'm going to win this.
00:28:19
Speaker
I'm taking this out.
00:28:20
Speaker
No problem then.
00:28:21
Speaker
So, yeah, digging snow off your car to be able to go to work.
00:28:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:28
Speaker
That's gold in the morning when you have to take the kettle out to de-ice the lock to be able to unlock the car.
00:28:36
Speaker
And you allow 15 minutes to get the ice and the snow off the windows to be able to start the engine.
00:28:43
Speaker
That's cold.
00:28:44
Speaker
That's cold.
00:28:45
Speaker
That's cold.
00:28:46
Speaker
So, yeah, so that's some of the questions.
00:28:50
Speaker
And one of the ideas we had that we might bring into next week, and we might ask this on the rescue squad, actually, we'll get some.
Community Rule Book and Conclusion
00:28:58
Speaker
I thought we should have a live, learn, survive rule book.
00:29:01
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:02
Speaker
And if we have some rules, what would the Live, Learn, Survive rules for life be?
00:29:08
Speaker
So we're going to park this.
00:29:10
Speaker
We'll get all the people to help us and join in.
00:29:12
Speaker
That's like the radio show, Maxie.
00:29:16
Speaker
So rule book.
00:29:17
Speaker
So we'll work on the rules for the Live, Learn, Survive rule book.
00:29:21
Speaker
That'll be a bit of fun.
00:29:22
Speaker
Yeah, that would be fun.
00:29:24
Speaker
I think –
00:29:25
Speaker
one of the major rules that I would say is, you know, positivity and, you know, have a good, be persistent.
00:29:33
Speaker
And, you know, if you do have a dream, you need to follow it.
00:29:36
Speaker
Yep.
00:29:37
Speaker
Positive.
00:29:38
Speaker
Be positive.
00:29:40
Speaker
Stick with your guns and, you know, if you really, one of the rules is if you say it, achieve it.
00:29:46
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:47
Speaker
So that's it.
00:29:48
Speaker
Be positive.
00:29:49
Speaker
Number one rule.
00:29:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:29:52
Speaker
We'll start that.
00:29:52
Speaker
We'll add a rule every week.
00:29:54
Speaker
Yeah, I like that.
00:29:55
Speaker
That's great.
00:29:55
Speaker
That'll be a bit of fun.
00:29:57
Speaker
That'll be a bit of fun.
00:29:58
Speaker
It would be.
00:29:59
Speaker
But literally right on the 30 minutes.
00:30:01
Speaker
We're getting good at this.
00:30:02
Speaker
We were.
00:30:03
Speaker
We were.
00:30:03
Speaker
I didn't want to think, you know, and like, you know.
00:30:07
Speaker
You know, it's been such a busy week.
00:30:08
Speaker
The meeting was very quick.
00:30:10
Speaker
The planning was very quick.
00:30:12
Speaker
It is very quick.
00:30:13
Speaker
But you know what?
00:30:14
Speaker
That's some of our best work is off the cuff and off the fly stuff.
00:30:18
Speaker
So, you know, I did the episode for the Ressy Squad this afternoon.
00:30:23
Speaker
We've done the podcast.
00:30:26
Speaker
Life's good.
00:30:26
Speaker
We're coming to the weekend.
00:30:27
Speaker
Yeah, we've got a high tea to plan and we're going to put some awesome books out to some awesome kids.
00:30:33
Speaker
So stay tuned.
00:30:35
Speaker
That's amazing that we're going to wrap the week up with something positive.
00:30:40
Speaker
Exactly right.
00:30:41
Speaker
That's awesome.
00:30:43
Speaker
So you're back at the fire station tomorrow, Maxie?
00:30:46
Speaker
No, I've got one more day on the boat, but I'm back at the fire station on Saturday.
00:30:49
Speaker
Of course, that's why we're Thursday night again.
00:30:52
Speaker
So we're Thursday night.
00:30:53
Speaker
This will go out on Friday afternoon and, you know, just literally next week, stay out of the servos, will we?
00:31:00
Speaker
I will.
00:31:01
Speaker
I will.
00:31:01
Speaker
I'll hopefully have some more stories for you next week.
00:31:04
Speaker
Alrighty.
00:31:05
Speaker
So thanks, everyone.
00:31:06
Speaker
Thanks for the lovely comments.
00:31:07
Speaker
Thanks for listening.
00:31:09
Speaker
And, yeah, Maxi, roll the music.
00:31:11
Speaker
Roll the music.
00:31:12
Speaker
See you, guys.
00:31:13
Speaker
Bye.
00:31:13
Speaker
Bye.