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Speaker: G'day, I'm Trent Maxwell.
Speaker: And I'm Lee Mason.
Speaker: We want to welcome you to our Live, Learn, Survive podcast.
Speaker: Since 2018, Lee and I have traveled the globe and met face-to-face over 36,500 children in six countries across three continents.
Speaker: We created a series of award-winning children's books, a global online education program, and the founders of the Live, Learn, Survive charity, all focused on teaching children and young adults life skills that will not only help themselves, but help others too.
Speaker: We're on a mission to spread awareness about fire, water and first aid education to inspire the next generation of first responders.
Speaker: So join us for the next half an hour with some fun, inspiration and kindness and we'll try and learn something too.
Speaker: How are you this week, Lee?
Speaker: Welcome aboard.
Speaker: Maxie, I am good.
Speaker: How are you?
Speaker: And for the YouTube people, you're outdoors today.
Speaker: Yes, we're outdoors.
Speaker: We're actually at the back of the Bondi Pavilion and we've got a special guest with us today.
Speaker: One of our favourite days.
Speaker: Yeah, it's going to be a really good chat.
Speaker: Look forward to speaking to Mishko.
Speaker: Mishko.
Speaker: Mishko, yeah.
Speaker: And Leigh, do you want to introduce Mishko the correct way?
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: I am proud to do the intro.
Speaker: So,
Speaker: Maxie, today, as I said, one of our favorite days, we are welcomed and joined by
Speaker: I'm going to try and really get this right for him.
Speaker: Mieszko.
Speaker: So he is the general manager and one of the founders of Baltic Rescue, which we have spoken about before.
Speaker: A lifeguard association established in 2020 on the initiative of Polish lifeguards.
Speaker: The aim of the organization being to promote lifeguarding in Poland and around the world.
Speaker: Incredible work these guys do.
Speaker: So Mieszko is a passionate lifeguard, has been since 2009.
Speaker: He's a diving instructor, a jet ski operator, and also a swimming instructor.
Speaker: He's worked all over the world, Poland, the USA, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Bulgaria, and New Zealand.
Speaker: And for him, life-saving and lifeguarding isn't just a job.
Speaker: It's a way of life that he carries with him as he goes around beaches all around the world.
Speaker: So Mieszko,
Speaker: It is absolutely our pleasure and honor, Mishko.
Speaker: Welcome.
Speaker: And I am so sorry.
Speaker: Welcome everybody.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Welcome everybody.
Speaker: Thanks for having me here and let's have some podcasts.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's just for the record for everyone at home.
Speaker: This is his first podcast in English.
Speaker: So, you know, not only you're in a different country,
Speaker: We're doing a podcast in a different language that you usually don't speak.
Speaker: So that's off to you to understand and listen.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: So for all those people that are listening and, you know, maybe not brave enough to do their first.
Speaker: have a go at doing your first in a second language.
Speaker: So massive respect.
Speaker: And as we said, this is your time to shine the light on the work that you do.
Speaker: So shall I roll into question one?
Speaker: Yeah, roll in, Lee.
Speaker: First question.
Speaker: So you're involved in one of the founders of Baltic Rescue.
Speaker: What is your role within it?
Speaker: And tell us more about it.
Speaker: So like you mentioned before, Baltic Rescutes Polish Lifeguarding Association established 2020.
Speaker: Our main goal is to reduce the drowning around the world, especially in Poland by training high qualified lifeguards, educate the public and provide first aid courses.
Speaker: We also trying to develop like network connection between the lifeguard association around the world.
Speaker: and help our members to get the work abroad.
Speaker: Amazing.
Speaker: Incredible.
Speaker: We've been so fortunate to now speak to you, but around this time last year, we spoke to Rob, who is your co-founder as well.
Speaker: And Rob had a brilliant interview
Speaker: And I'm sure you can have a competition to see if he takes out the best podcast.
Speaker: But you guys are doing amazing work.
Speaker: And Rob's a really good friend of ours now from Keeping In Touch.
Speaker: And I'm sure you'll be on the same page.
Speaker: Yes, Rob is a great friend, great business partner.
Speaker: And my role in the Baltic Rescue Team, actually I'm a general manager.
Speaker: So I can say I'm a little bit involved with everything, but my main responsibility, it's like recrutation process, onboarding process, and also help the lifeguards to be in touch with our partners.
Speaker: When I'm in Poland, I'm responsible for the lifeguards training.
Speaker: just to prepare them before they're going to work abroad just to make everything smooth.
Speaker: Amazing.
Speaker: And was, was the, just going off track a little bit before you founded it in 2020, was it, what was the need that you started it for?
Speaker: What was the, what was lifeguarding like in Poland before you started Baltic Rescue?
Speaker: Basically,
Speaker: The lifeguarding in Poland a little bit is changing now.
Speaker: When I'm going back to the days, I remember like we didn't have any jet skis, any quads, any drones.
Speaker: We've been carrying everything on our back.
Speaker: Right now it's way better than it was before.
Speaker: Most of the beaches, they have jet ski quads, even drones.
Speaker: So yeah, lifeguarding in Poland, it's changed a lot, but it also has to be changed a lot, especially with the low regulation.
Speaker: It's constantly changing.
Speaker: Yeah, like the training and fitness test before the summer is going to start.
Speaker: So we're trying to force that and I believe step by step and slow we can do this to just increase the level of lifeguarding in Poland.
Speaker: Yeah, that's those, what do we call them?
Speaker: I see those 1%, the 1% better like every day.
Speaker: 1% better every day and if it's not one thing, you achieve one thing and then there's something else, you just got to keep chipping away.
Speaker: It's never ending and it's never a dull moment, but you know you're going in the right direction and you're creating a path for future lifeguards in Poland and around Europe to be able to pick up where you guys might leave the situation and then they can just keep going and take it to another level.
Speaker: It's all about giving back and legacy and you guys are doing a great job with that.
Speaker: It's awesome to see what Baltic Rescue have done.
Speaker: in the last couple of years.
Speaker: Yeah, if I can add something, I think like what we changed by establishing Baltic Rescue, I think there is like more information about the lifeguarding in social media.
Speaker: So I'm going to say like we start to creating like real content on Instagram, on YouTube and then in other agencies
Speaker: I can say they follow us, but it's like the good following.
Speaker: They can spread more knowledge and more information about the lifeguarding, which is really cool.
Speaker: It's awesome.
Speaker: Amazing.
Speaker: Incredible.
Speaker: Mate, I'm going to skip question two because we kind of covered that in your bio.
Speaker: But how many lifeguard services have you worked for?
Speaker: And I know after here you're going back to a certain country.
Speaker: So you want to explain that?
Speaker: So I started 2009.
Speaker: working as a junior lifeguard and after 10 years working in Poland I decided to try something new, something different.
Speaker: So I decided to work in the US.
Speaker: Then after a few years I worked in Bulgaria.
Speaker: In 2022 we went with my friend Robert to work as a volunteer lifeguard in Costa Rica.
Speaker: That was once 2022.
Speaker: 2023 I repeat the same.
Speaker: I work in States, then I work in Costa Rica and I went to work in Nicaragua for Niko Hard Week.
Speaker: There is a foundation, there is some lifeguards at the beach.
Speaker: And this year I've been working in New Zealand.
Speaker: Also, I had really short episode in Germany and...
Speaker: and columbia so in general i was counting yesterday so uh since i worked as a lifeguard i've been working in 18 different 18 different beaches that's amazing universal lifeguard universal lifeguard it's pretty cool yeah yeah it's such a pleasure to work around of the world and gain experience and develop myself
Speaker: as the lifeguard and also follow the good practice.
Speaker: All the good stuff across all the 18 different beaches and you can implement your own systems in place for Baltic rescue and future.
Speaker: So with all of those different lifeguard services
Speaker: What sort of training do you, is there a common theme of training amongst all those different services or have you seen lots of differences?
Speaker: So let's start from the states.
Speaker: So basically the first thing is that the new lifeguards or candidates, they need to send to the Baltic rescue 500 meters swim in the pool under 10 minutes.
Speaker: It's the first requirement.
Speaker: and then after that they need to pass the test on the pool whenever they're gonna come and there is like three days of training which is called like a surf school so there is a beach part of the training like running, swimming, entering, spinal injuries
Speaker: etc., which is important for the beach lifeguards.
Speaker: To work in Costa Rica, you already have to be a certified lifeguard.
Speaker: There is also some recruitment like 50 meters, 100 meters, 500 meters.
Speaker: To work in New Zealand, there is like 400 meters under 7 minutes 30 seconds and 3 kilometers run under 20 minutes.
Speaker: It's pretty solid.
Speaker: Basically in Poland there is also like 400 meters but under 8 minutes.
Speaker: So different country, different requirements but first it's like a physical test and then they train you if you show up and it's like additional training.
Speaker: Adding on to that with the sort of training, because you're constantly moving and traveling, do you have a set in transitions to different countries, do you have your set training that you do to make sure that you stay fit and healthy?
Speaker: Basically, I'm trying to train every day.
Speaker: Even it's like short training, just taking the rescue board, go for a small paddling, or I'm doing like run-swing-run, I can go to the gym.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: Basically for me lifeguarding it's a lifestyle and no one needs to push me to train because I'm aware that I have to be ready to get rescue and if I want to travel and I want to work in different countries I'm aware that I represent Baltic Rescue and I represent Polish lifeguard so I want to be on top of the game.
Speaker: with my fitness.
Speaker: Well, I did see you with your shirt off out the front of the promenade, mate.
Speaker: You're hard to spot.
Speaker: You're looking pretty good.
Speaker: You're looking pretty fit.
Speaker: So you could definitely... You might be... Your afternoon might be sorted.
Speaker: You could be on the team with Maxie.
Speaker: He's off to work.
Speaker: Yeah, coming to you this afternoon, mate.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: It's been a swell out there today, actually.
Speaker: Yeah, it's a bit busy.
Speaker: So... Yeah.
Speaker: Do you have a lifeguard story that you could share with us from your travels?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So since I travel and work as a lifeguard with many stories, but I'm going to say about my craziest 15 minutes in my lifeguarding career.
Speaker: Oh, we love to hear this.
Speaker: 19 in America.
Speaker: After hours, we've been patrolling with my friends, the beach, just to make sure like everyone is safe.
Speaker: Then we saw like two people drifting straight to the, to the pier.
Speaker: So I jumped to the water, I made a rescue and everything was okay.
Speaker: I didn't even wear my t-shirt and then we received a radio call that was CPR a few hundred meters behind us.
Speaker: There's an unconscious person in the water.
Speaker: So we drove there.
Speaker: We started the CPR and the firefighters, they just came to us for the support and during that time, some random woman, she just came to us and she was screaming, hey guys, there is another CPR, someone drowned over there.
Speaker: So, during the evacuation, it was another CPR.
Speaker: And we just came to that place.
Speaker: It was another CPR.
Speaker: We started the CPR.
Speaker: First patient on the CPR, he didn't survive because it was a heart attack.
Speaker: and now they are survived, but it was like 10-15 minutes, like three rescues with double CPR.
Speaker: Sounds like a day at Bondi.
Speaker: But yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker: There hasn't been many double drownings on the beach at the same time, especially here.
Speaker: So the fact that that was all going off at the same time, I can only imagine what your spanner control and your critical factors were.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Everything kind of goes out the window.
Speaker: Yeah, like the first day, like oxygen, everything, it's not even ready to start another restaurant.
Speaker: Yeah, same as if your defib is used with another patient, then you have to either go get another defib or take it off that patient.
Speaker: Yeah, like, that's crazy, man.
Speaker: That's a crazy story.
Speaker: Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: You just said something as well that I hear you say so many times, Maxi, after hours.
Speaker: After hours, yeah.
Speaker: In summer gear, right up into autumn, before winter, you know, we get late rescues here after 7pm and then in winter after 5pm.
Speaker: A lot of people do get into trouble.
Speaker: So, you know, crazy.
Speaker: Two resuscitations, two drownings after hours goes to show that, you know, do not swim after the patrol beaches are closed.
Speaker: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker: And also, make sure you know your swimming abilities and limits.
Speaker: Do not go on the water around dust time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or even dawn, you know, before the lifeguards get there because...
Speaker: Drownings do happen and a bit to say there's a heart attack, that's sometimes a medical episode you can't control.
Speaker: But actually rescues were drownings, you can control that by you as an individual not going into the water if you're not a strong swimmer, you don't understand the currents and you need to watch the water.
Speaker: Yes, sir.
Speaker: I agree with that.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: So just taking you a little bit back towards, you know, before you started on this career, did you know what you wanted to do and did you get good career advice at school?
Speaker: Actually...
Speaker: I have a degree, my engineer and master as a logistic and transfer manager, which is completely different that I'm doing right now.
Speaker: I was going to say, you know, you could be organizing beach logistics, but, you know, that's slightly different.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, but I get to the point that I ask myself a question.
Speaker: Do I want to work from the desk or I want to work at the beach, fill the
Speaker: feel the sun on my skin, help the people.
Speaker: Maybe lifeguarding is not the best paid job, but for sure it's really rewarding job.
Speaker: And it keeps me in shape.
Speaker: I have great friends as the lifeguards.
Speaker: And I'm more happy with being at the beach, helping people, than working from the desk.
Speaker: Even I can be less.
Speaker: I can make less money.
Speaker: And the good thing with that is for now, you're young, you're fit.
Speaker: Obviously, over time, things change, but then you could always fall back on what your degree is and or turn Baltic Rescue, which it is, into this mega machine where the operations manager making sure that the whole thing's going well and the skills you learn from your degree, you could take into Baltic Rescue and...
Speaker: You can do the desk job for Baltic Rescue.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Basically, yeah.
Speaker: After hours at the beach, I'm opening up my computer and just taking care about everything.
Speaker: Like, Robert, he's doing absolutely amazing job, but he's also neat me and... Yeah, you both need each other.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Amazing.
Speaker: Best piece of advice you've been given?
Speaker: During my lifeguarding career?
Speaker: It could be lifeguarding career, it could be for life, it could be anything.
Speaker: Okay, so the best lifeguarding advice, it was from one of my friends.
Speaker: He said to me like, what is the difference between the lifeguard and the random person?
Speaker: And he said like, the difference between us as a lifeguard and the random people is that we have to stay calm, even in the situation it's really bad.
Speaker: And we have to be focused on the things that we can control in that critical moment.
Speaker: And we need to do our best to solve the problem.
Speaker: 100%.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, that's good advice.
Speaker: Where was that from?
Speaker: It was from Poland.
Speaker: One of my first mentors, he was a really tough dude, training twice a day, preparing himself to become a lifeguarding instructor.
Speaker: And he was like,
Speaker: Yeah, you can be a good swimmer about the lifeguarding.
Speaker: It's a little bit more than just swimming.
Speaker: It's not just swimming and being the best ballpark, right?
Speaker: It's actually understanding, having situational awareness, knowing the job and being patient because it's not always people are drowning, not always people are doing silly things.
Speaker: Sometimes there is a lot of sitting around.
Speaker: I spend a lot of hours on this beach, even Bondi.
Speaker: It's a busy beach, but I spend a lot of time just looking at the horizon, making sure that everyone's safe and
Speaker: You have days where nothing happens and that's great because, you know, everyone goes home safe and well.
Speaker: And same at the fire station, you have your good and bad days.
Speaker: But, yeah, it's important to have that patience as well.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Incredible, incredible.
Speaker: So, like, you know, lifeguarding, you know, it's a stressful, it can be a stressful job.
Speaker: What has been the most stressful part of the journey so far for you?
Speaker: Maybe lifeguarding or even starting Baltic Rescue, what's been the stressful part for you?
Speaker: Besides when the days are crazy and it's like big waves, strong currents and it's full people on the beach, I guess the most stressful part so far is get the visa and get permission to work abroad.
Speaker: For me, for our members, you just apply, you just pay for visa and you did everything correct and there is always a small chance that you're not gonna get visa.
Speaker: you know your plan it's not gonna happen so that's that's the most stressful part and for me and for the people who i talk yeah and he's working abroad um an important part for you how long is your season in the in in your in poland at the beaches what is it so is does is the length of your season make the
Speaker: the ability to be able to work abroad a key part of choosing lifeguardian as a career is that why it's so important to work abroad?
Speaker: So basically the summer in Poland is just two, two and a half months start in July
Speaker: and two months and like half of the summer it's like really cold and rain half of the summer it's it's a good weather basically the last time when i was working in poland was 2018 so long time ago but it will be nice to back to the polish coast as a baltic rescue team to have our own beach service yeah
Speaker: So you're learning all these skills elsewhere as well around the world to bring them back to your summer season to help improve lifeguarding in Poland.
Speaker: So inspirational.
Speaker: That's the goal, to gain experience, to gain best practice and just put into life on the Polish coast.
Speaker: Amazing.
Speaker: Incredible.
Speaker: You're doing some great stuff you and Rob and what's a great thing?
Speaker: Visas should not be a stress, should they, when you're going to do that for that, you know, it's just like, you know, stamp the passport, people.
Speaker: Yeah, stamp it.
Speaker: You don't need to get these people in.
Speaker: It's the community.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Talking about stress, how do you deal with stress?
Speaker: If you have a stressful day at work or in your personal life, how do you deal with that stress?
Speaker: What do you do?
Speaker: Since this year, I'm always starting my day to do a breath exercise.
Speaker: Wim Hof?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's like 30 breaths, then break, 30 breaths, break.
Speaker: And I'm repeating this like three times.
Speaker: And then I'm doing small meditation.
Speaker: So actually it's a good setup for me to prepare myself mentally to being capable with the stress.
Speaker: Whenever I start to work, I'm always checking everything, starting with the first aid, starting with checking my ATV, checking all of the gears just to make sure I know where it's everything and everything works.
Speaker: Whenever we have like,
Speaker: stressful day, a lot of rescues or someone just gonna drown.
Speaker: We're doing like cold debriefing meeting.
Speaker: So everyone just can say like how long is the day or rescue with his perspective, what we've done, what we can maybe improve for the future.
Speaker: And I guess it's really work when you have good people
Speaker: and you can share your emotions in the team and also since this year we have cooperation with psychologists so everywhere I've got from Baltic Rescue can call for the special doctor and discuss, have a chat like what's happened and how to handle that situation.
Speaker: That's amazing.
Speaker: That's fantastic.
Speaker: It's so important to implement those things because you don't know something that might affect someone in the team.
Speaker: It might not affect you or Rob or anyone else, but it's important that everyone knows that they can get help when they need it.
Speaker: And it's a safe place too.
Speaker: So if you are not feeling 100% talking about it, getting help, it's so important.
Speaker: I know in America, in Australia, in New Zealand, they do a lot of competitions.
Speaker: And I know you do some competitions in Poland as well.
Speaker: Do you do any life-saving competitions?
Speaker: If so, how often?
Speaker: Yes, I was doing the competition in the past and doing the regional competition in Poland.
Speaker: Also, I've been a few times in the national championships in Poland, but basically in Poland, it's like twice during the summer, some competitions.
Speaker: So it's not that much like you guys have here in Australia and New Zealand.
Speaker: We've been also a few times in Bulgaria on the competition with the local loveguards.
Speaker: It was really good.
Speaker: We feel there like at home.
Speaker: Always great atmosphere, good racing, great athletes.
Speaker: So yeah, that's all of my history about the competition.
Speaker: And in America do they do a lot of competition as well?
Speaker: They do, but the agencies, what we've been working, they've been working under American Red Cross.
Speaker: Most of the competitions, they are from United Life Saving Association.
Speaker: So probably in this year, we're going to work for the new beach service and it's going to be possible for our members to join the competition in the US.
Speaker: Cool.
Speaker: Amazing, amazing.
Speaker: So lifeguarding, you know, it's very obviously this is a big, huge part of your life.
Speaker: Do you have time, any other hobbies, anything else that you like to do?
Speaker: Yes, lifeguarding, it's basically taking 80% of my time.
Speaker: About my hobbies, I really love the nature.
Speaker: So whenever I have a chance to go to do some hike, to go to the mountains,
Speaker: I really love to do.
Speaker: My second passion is scuba diving.
Speaker: So I really love to.
Speaker: I realized my dream a few years ago.
Speaker: I went to Egypt to do a dive on the coral reef.
Speaker: And I can say about myself that I'm pretty handy.
Speaker: And in this year, when I was in New Zealand, I built all my self-containment car.
Speaker: And it was really cool.
Speaker: Awesome.
Speaker: Amazing.
Speaker: Have you got any plans to do any scuba diving while you're in Australia?
Speaker: I guess it's too short time to do everything with you guys here.
Speaker: So basically I'm focused right now on Bondi Beach and I want to explore as much as I can this place.
Speaker: Maybe next year on the way back.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, what I was going to say with that, if it's your first trip to Australia,
Speaker: it's never ever your last because it gets in your blood and I can tell you that like, you know, you'll be back.
Speaker: And if you want to see every bit of Bondi, there's the perfect man that will show you.
Speaker: No one knows Bondi like him.
Speaker: So there you go.
Speaker: That's like, you know, that's, uh, I'll be able to show you a couple of bits and pieces.
Speaker: Amazing.
Speaker: Amazing.
Speaker: So, um, yeah.
Speaker: Next to you, Maxie.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, Lee.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: I've just got to hear next career goal.
Speaker: You mentioned that you've got a fair bit going on with Baltic Rescue, but is there any next career within Baltic Rescue or things that you want to do to keep raising the bar?
Speaker: Oh, yes.
Speaker: So I want to extend news about Baltic Rescue round of the world.
Speaker: My goal is to have more
Speaker: good lifeguards in the United States.
Speaker: In this year we're going to cooperate with two different agencies and I hope in the future it's going to be more of them.
Speaker: My personal goal in the future I would like to
Speaker: maybe try here myself in Australia, it will be possible to work as a lifeguard.
Speaker: I would love to work in the UK, maybe west coast of the United States, maybe South Africa.
Speaker: And also in the future, I would love to...
Speaker: become a paramedic to raise my skills in the first eight services and that's pretty much all it's cool man that's a good good list there's a fair few career decisions and goals there i was gonna say that's a pretty comprehensive list and it's so often you've you know we've said it so many times maxi lifeguarding led you to firefighting
Speaker: you know lifeguarding take you to like so it opens so many opportunities so um you know being a paramedic amazing write your goals down and you watch them just tick them off as you go through it's it's it's a pretty cool thing absolutely so you may have just answered this but there may be something else if you weren't a lifeguard what do you think you would be oh that's a really hard question um
Speaker: I think I really enjoy to work as a first responder.
Speaker: So being a paramedic, firefighter, maybe a soldier, because I already did some military training also in Poland.
Speaker: It will be super cool, but basically I don't think so I will enjoy that while enjoying to work at the beach.
Speaker: Maybe that goal of becoming a paramedic one day when you're happy to get off the beach just a little bit, you can use those skills that you've learned from all over the world and help your local community wherever you decide to rest up and spend the rest of your days.
Speaker: We're nearly at the end, mate.
Speaker: What advice would you give to your 16-year-old self?
Speaker: So if you're in front of you at 16, what are you telling them?
Speaker: Great things.
Speaker: takes time find the right people leave the comfort zone and just believe in yourself great words that sums it all up perfectly many of the things that we speak about many many times and I think if you keep those at the front of your mind you're never going to go far off
Speaker: Yeah, so important, man.
Speaker: It's been great.
Speaker: And Leigh, do you want to finish off the… Yeah, so what we have is a playlist.
Speaker: So we've got a Live, Learn, Survive playlist on Spotify and every guest that comes along, we ask them to give them their upbeat song, you know, like you're just going to go for a run or you just put a bit of music on and you just know it's going to lift your mood.
Speaker: What would you like to add to our playlist so that we can share it with all the other songs that are around the world?
Speaker: Rob's is in there.
Speaker: So tell us what it is.
Speaker: And unfortunately, we can't play them anymore because the YouTube people don't like us.
Speaker: But, you know, we get in trouble with the YouTube people.
Speaker: But tell us the song and we'll make sure it's added to the list.
Speaker: This song is actually from New Zealand.
Speaker: This song doesn't have any words, but it's great background.
Speaker: And we've been listening this song during our patrol.
Speaker: The name of the song is Soul Miner.
Speaker: Soul Miner.
Speaker: Soul Miner.
Speaker: And who is the artist?
Speaker: There we go.
Speaker: Tommy Guerrero.
Speaker: That's adding to that right now, mate.
Speaker: There we go.
Speaker: Happy days.
Speaker: Yeah, you can listen to the Live, Learn, Survive Spotify playlist and you can have that song in there.
Speaker: I occasionally put it on in the fire truck.
Speaker: I occasionally put it on when I'm doing road trips or going to school talks.
Speaker: It's always chill.
Speaker: It's always upbeat.
Speaker: And, you know, occasionally you get some songs that are not English and not from...
Speaker: not from the generic genre of what we're used to around Australia and in other parts of the world.
Speaker: So it's cool to listen and have a bit of a dance and a bit of a good vibe.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Is there anything else that you would like to add?
Speaker: This is your platform to share.
Speaker: Anything else that you would like to say that we can, you know, the floor is yours.
Speaker: Okay, so first of all, I want to say thank you guys for having me here.
Speaker: You guys do an absolutely amazing job because I'm saying like we prevent the drowning by education.
Speaker: Whenever we're going to start early, that's the first step of saving people by education.
Speaker: It's been a honor for me to be here, especially after my friend Robert.
Speaker: I want to say for the people who is going to listen us and watch us that there is a Polish lifeguarding association and if someone is interesting to find a job abroad, we're going to do our best to help you guys to connect with our partners.
Speaker: And in the end, I want to send greetings for all of the Santa Teresa lifeguards.
Speaker: Nika Heartbeat, KNG servers from the guards who I work in New Zealand.
Speaker: And special thanks for my dear friend Robert, who was first here, who met you guys, and he actually created that relation.
Speaker: And the last wish, what I want to say, it will be super cool to see you guys one day in Poland.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: We have, it's framed in the office, I just moved office, but it's framed in the office our certificate of our collaboration that Robert sent to us.
Speaker: So it is absolutely, the pleasure is all ours.
Speaker: And, you know, what I think is so cool that we couldn't be further apart, but
Speaker: We always cheer each other on and for the greater good, which is ultimately keeping people safe.
Speaker: So I am absolutely thrilled that you have got to meet Maxi and be in Bondi, which I know is iconic for any lifeguard all around the world.
Speaker: So thanks for hunting us down and making this happen.
Speaker: We are really, really grateful.
Speaker: Thank you for your time mate.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: No worries.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: I'm going to get a photo while we're all still on because this has just got to send it to Robert.
Speaker: So smile guys.
Speaker: Yay.
Speaker: And yeah, I think we wrap it up there because we don't need to be talking.
Speaker: You're on Bombay Beach Mishko.
Speaker: You need to be getting out there in the surf man.
Speaker: 100%, 100%.
Speaker: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker: I've got to get him that cam-am and buggies and boards to paddle and people to save.
Speaker: We'll get him out there.
Speaker: We'll get you out there.
Speaker: Nice to be here.
Speaker: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker: No worries.
Speaker: We'll see everyone soon.
Speaker: Thank you for listening.
Speaker: And, yeah, remember Baltic Rescue to follow more.
Speaker: So keep up the good work.
Speaker: We'll put the links on and everything to make sure that people follow you.
Speaker: So thank you for coming to Australia and safe onward travels.
Speaker: I sound like the flight captain, don't I?
Speaker: See you later, mate.
Speaker: See you guys.
Speaker: Take care, guys.
Speaker: See you later.
Speaker: Bye.
