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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Harrison, into the jungle you go, we dedicate this episode to you. We are back and welcome to 2025 everyone and haven’t we started at a sprint, so much to celebrate in the first few days of this New Year. Over the next 3 weeks we will be following Harrison’s journey on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here as it he goes all out to become King of Jungle, as his nominated charity we could not be prouder so let's all get behind him and vote!!!
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Introduction to Hosts and Podcast
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G'day, I'm Trent Maxwell.
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And I'm Lee Mason.
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And we want to welcome you to our Live, Learn, Survive podcast.
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Since 2018, Lee and I travel the globe, met face-to-face with over 35,000 children in six countries across three continents.
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We created a series of award-winning children's books, a global online education program, and are founders of the Live, Learn, Survive charity, all focused on teaching children and teaching children.
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and young adults' life skills that will not only help themselves but help others too.
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We're on a mission to spread awareness about fire, water, and first aid education to inspire the next generation of first responders.
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So join us for the next half an hour with some fun, inspiration, and kindness, and we'll try and learn something too.
Celebrating 2025 and Reviewing Past Achievements
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First podcast back for 2025.
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How are you this week, Lee?
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Welcome to Born.
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I am...
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Fabulous.
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Happy New Year.
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Are we still saying that on the 22nd of January?
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I think so.
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Are we just on the, you know, we're just on the cusp.
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Happy New Year, people.
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Welcome back.
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This is number one of 2025.
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Number one.
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What a six, seven weeks it's been.
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I hope everyone's enjoyed the guests.
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It's been some amazing special guests over the Christmas break.
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Some great guests.
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And, yeah, this is an action-packed podcast.
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We're going to be talking all the stuff that happened while we're off and the current stuff, which is very exciting.
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Well, you know, it's always nice to have a bit of a slowdown and a shutdown over Christmas, Maxie.
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It is.
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It is.
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We haven't really stopped considering.
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But that doesn't happen in Live Learn Survive Land.
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So as people may know or are starting to find out.
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So, yeah.
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So...
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As ever, hanging on by the fingertips, let's go.
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So start the year.
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What was the first quote?
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And I think, you know, when I picked this quote out, Maxie, I kind of knew I had someone in mind that I was dedicating it to, but we couldn't share it.
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But now we can.
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So there you go.
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Off goes the quote.
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Okay, the quote this week, Lee, is only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve success.
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Greatly.
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Amazing.
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So, yeah, only those that ever... Here we go.
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Dare to fail greatly will ever achieve greatly.
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And we're kind of dedicating that to our man, Harrison, who we're going to be talking about soon.
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But Harrison, Harrison, Harrison, so good they named him three times in our world at the moment.
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So what a legend.
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Yeah.
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And we'll talk about it, yeah, very, very shortly.
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But yeah, what a great start to the year.
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You know, everything's going good on my end.
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Sunny's growing, which is amazing.
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Yeah, Live Learn Survive is thriving.
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Been still managing to go exercise most days, which is good for the body and good for the mind, as we always talk about.
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And a couple of lifeguard shifts in between, a busy period on the beaches.
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So we're going to be talking a lot about that as well.
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Well, you're smashing it, Dad.
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I mean, you don't look like, you know, disheveled and all the rest of it.
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You know, Sonny is just thriving.
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And, yeah, you know, hats off to you and Mum.
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And, you know, here we go.
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So, yeah, so let's start then, Maxie.
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Good news.
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Good news.
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What have we got?
Charity Milestone: Achieving DGR Status
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Yeah, plenty of good news this week, Lee.
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But first and foremost, our charity has gone up in the world.
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It's top tier these days, very top tier, and we have got DGR status.
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Can you explain to everyone at home what that means?
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I absolutely can.
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So not every charity has DGR status.
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So you can, you know, the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission,
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assess charities and and the first step is you become a registered charity which is what we have been for the last couple of years or so um to get to be a dgr charity basically you have to be classed what is called a pbi lots of acronyms today a pbi is a public benevolent institution which means the the the predominantly the majority of our work
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is basically focused on the children that need it most, so that no child gets left behind.
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And we've always had this in our vision and our mission, and it's always how we've targeted any funds that we've had.
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And by assessing all of that work, we have now been able to be declared a PBI, Public Benevolent Institution,
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The kids most in need are the ones that we're going to be focusing on with educating and helping.
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So they basically get a better chance at life, which is what we're all about.
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So when you are a PBI, you can have a status called DGR, which is given to you by the Australian Tax Office, which means any donations –
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We're classed as a deductible gift recipient.
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So any people that donate us money can actually offset that against their tax, which is a massive incentive for a company that may want to make us a donation because technically they're getting 30%, 40% more back.
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So huge, huge...
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step forward for us, for the people that we might be a more attractive proposition to work with and really focusing on those kids that need it most.
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So unbelievable.
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I was dancing around the garden when we got the news.
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It was just like a massive day.
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And to have that come at the beginning of a new year, it's just almost like...
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Oh, here we go.
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So that is what it all means if people have been seeing us with those DGR things.
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So yes.
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It's very exciting.
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And it's a big achievement.
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And again, not every charity gets this opportunity.
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Absolutely.
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And a big shout out to our lawyers for...
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for helping us out over the last years.
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100% because it is incredibly, you know, it's not an easy thing to do as well.
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You have to, you know, the level of compliance with this is, you know, very detailed.
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So McCulloch Robertson, the lawyers in Sydney and other great cities are just our kind of people and we love them and are very grateful.
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So good stuff, good
Harrison Reid's Support on 'I'm a Celebrity'
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stuff.
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So as if that wasn't enough.
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Yes, we've got a special guest in the jungle for I'm a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here.
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Does this sound like rooms?
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Yeah, we've known for a little while because we're under NDA and we couldn't talk about it, but through the charity.
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But Harrison Reid, one of the lifeguards, you might know him from Bondi Rescue, is in the jungle currently.
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Today is day two, day three for him.
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And he's chosen Live, Land, Survive as his charity of choice.
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And what that means is if he wins the crown of the jungle, the king of the jungle, then $100,000 gets donated to our charity.
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And let me tell you, everyone at home, that $100,000, we'll turn that into millions of dollars because how we've worked over the last...
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15 years um we've we've you know by selling books we've squeezed every juice out of it um we will be able to get
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100,000 lemons and really make a lot of lemonade and orange juice.
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There's a really good analogy there.
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But it's going to help us a lot if we get him over the line.
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So because this is on YouTube and Spotify, YouTube, if you just go here, Lee, if you point over your shoulder.
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Oh, can we do this?
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Yep.
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Make sure if you are listening to this and you are in Australia.
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Oh, yeah.
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10play.com.au, vote for Harrison.
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You're allowed to vote for him up to 10 times a day or per trial or to keep him in the jungle.
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Tell your friends, pass it on.
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The more votes he gets, keeps him in the jungle and it gives him a chance to win the $100,000 free charity of Live, Learn, Survive.
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Yes.
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And while we're on the YouTube, what do the cool thing?
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What do the cool people say?
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Like something, subscribe?
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What's the thing?
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Like.
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subscribe and tell your friends.
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That's it.
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We made our own up.
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That's it.
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Just do it.
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Just subscribe.
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Where's the subscribe button?
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Do we do that as well?
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Yeah, somewhere.
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Anyway.
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Brilliant.
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We're super stoked.
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And Harrison's doing so well.
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And when he mentioned to me and you, Lee, that he was going to choose our charity,
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I'm not gonna lie, I got a little bit of a tear because a lot of people don't realize that I've worked with Harrison for the last 10 plus years.
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We also lived together for about three years back in the day.
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And I'm very close with Harrison.
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And I train with him most days down at the gym.
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So I spent a lot of time with him.
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Yes.
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And the fact that he pulled me aside, he goes, why wouldn't I support Live Learn Survive?
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I see what you guys do behind the scenes and in the public eye.
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So he's honored to do it for us.
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And we're so that he's in there representing us.
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And we didn't take it one bit, like, you know, we were almost like that, well, we're not big enough, we might not be eligible or whatever, but we have been.
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So, you know, I don't think we, until we literally had to hand over our logos and things, we kind of were thinking, this is not going to happen, but it did.
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Yeah.
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And it has.
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It's been great to watch.
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Over the years, I've watched it a little bit, and I'm sure people that listen to this podcast from over in the UK and stuff, it's a pretty big show over in the UK.
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Huge.
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It's just good seeing a familiar face on your telly, even though I see him on Bono Rescue here and there.
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But he's doing really well.
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His first challenge was pretty crazy.
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He actually got bitten by a snake five times.
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Five times.
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And I anticipate maybe tonight or over the next few days he's going to be doing a trial and be up against it.
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We are doing our best to get him in those trials.
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But you know what?
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The loveliest thing for me was like seeing him.
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I actually think I shared it on my story.
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Just seeing him walk through the
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tunnel into the jungle was like, oh, you know, it was just so exciting to see him.
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And last night talking about his teddy bears on his surfboard.
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His teddy bears on the surfboard.
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Like, you know, that sort of stuff melts the heart.
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And it reminds me a lot of my people that know my background with wanting to become a firefighter.
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I used to sleep with a gun hose and my uncle's fire gear under the bed.
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So I know exactly exactly.
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where he's coming from, where he used to sit and watch the toys in the pool.
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I am so.
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Before he gets home, I'm getting him a teddy bear with a little Lidl and Survivor T-shirt.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, perfect.
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So, yeah, Harrison.
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And the other good news, this is literally, I mean, this is going to go out on Friday.
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We're recording it Wednesday morning.
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So, really, the story has only been out 36 hours.
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Mm-hmm.
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Our phones have been blowing up.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you to everybody who is messaging us saying, how can I help?
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What can I do?
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What can I share?
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What can I help?
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And realise the importance of what we're doing.
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it really humbles me how many people that we forget we've got in our corner and that just like warms your heart.
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So, you know, it's gold, gold, gold.
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So, and then like you've, like we just said here, Maxi, first podcast back, we get to share this news.
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I know.
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And yeah, it's what a way to start the year.
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Yeah.
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So moving right along.
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From good news to bad news.
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What have we got, Lee?
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Oh, Maxie.
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Obviously, it's all about social media, this like, you know.
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And, you know, I did actually tag you.
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I was laughing.
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Lady Julia Morris has put a couple of stories off that made me really laugh because she was telling Robert Irwin how she was going to try and be cool this year.
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And with that, I tried to get back on TikTok this morning.
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All I've done is a talk to TikTok.
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um but oh man it's a young person's game maxi um i'm trying i'm trying i'm like you know just another thing so um that was my kind of unfortunate event it was almost like a oh welcome back who are you and where have you been we've moved we've moved on a bit since you were last here so um
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So, yeah, so Lee on the tickety-tock.
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So excellent.
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Thank you, guys.
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Now what have you got?
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Yeah.
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It's a little bit more of a natural event.
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So I'm not sure if people are aware, but last week or Friday, this goes out Friday, but last Friday I worked at Bondi and we had a windstorm come through and it was the windy, it's a massive call, but it's the windiest Bondi has ever been for me witnessing in 18 years as a lifeguard.
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I've never seen so much sand get moved in six hours ever.
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um the wind gusts were up to 90 to 100 kilometers an hour uh we couldn't close the lifeguard door we had to use two or three lifeguards to push the door closed um we had sand literally get blown up the beach up the promenade into the parker up into the um into the pavilion my bike got absolutely decimated uh i got sand in all all through it all through the gears all through the
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Oh, no.
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Oh, no.
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Not more scooter issues.
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The scooter is still alive.
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This could be the end.
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But it's still going strong.
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But, yeah, it was just a crazy event.
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And the unfortunate part was is when I parked my
Bondi Beach Sandstorm Experience
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scooter that morning for that shift,
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I parked it pretty much exposed and at that time there was no sand.
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So when I walked up to the bike at seven, five past seven, the bike was surrounded by like a sand dune and, yeah, it wasn't ideal.
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Do you know what?
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Doesn't this show you that nature knows best?
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We're all just players in whatever's going on because – It used to be a sand – sorry –
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Before roads and parks and buildings and houses was there, it was naturally a sand dune for hundreds or thousands of years.
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And it's just reminding you of that every now and again.
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Exactly right.
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With that said, could you just get it sorted out?
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Because I'm on my way on Tuesday and I've come to Bondi way too many times and it's rained.
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So I'm coming for a little.
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So I need to go and look at the weather before I start thinking about what I'm going to expect.
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I did check yesterday.
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There's about 30 workers in each given section pushing the sand back.
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So it's literally...
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You know, guys using shovels and brooms and pushing it all back onto the beach.
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So it's pretty cool.
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So 100 guys to get the sand back on the beach and Mother Nature just goes, I'll stop that.
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Give me a couple of hours.
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I can do it on my own.
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Exactly.
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So, yes, and that's why she's a woman.
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Anyway, didn't say that.
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Anyway, moving on.
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All righty.
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So what have we got?
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Job of the week.
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Job of the week.
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Yeah, so I'm still on paternity leave with the Fireys.
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I go back in February, which I'm very excited for.
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I'm looking forward to getting back into the Action Station.
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It's been a whirlwind few weeks of not being on the truck, but the boys are ripping in.
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They're flying the flag high, and, yeah, I look forward to getting back in a couple of weeks.
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I bet you keep trying your uniform on, don't you?
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Yes, I do.
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I keep trying on.
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I have been doing a few lifeguard shifts in between, in between this leave.
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And yeah, I've had a couple of little jobs over the summer that I could talk about.
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I had a really decent dislocated knee and a very painful guy was playing soccer on the beach, knocked, dislocated his knee and,
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It was really cool to work with the paramedics to be able to help them put it back into place and kind of showed me how to do it.
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So if I do ever do come across some of the dislocated knee, I'll have a crack at maybe trying to put it back into place.
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We're not really trying to do that.
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But if someone, you know, if it's a family member or myself, then yeah, I'll be able to pop it back in.
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We had some big rescues, some big summer's days.
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We've had a few doozy storms come through as well, but it's been a lot of rescues.
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They're not filming the show this year.
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Yep.
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But in saying that, the crowds are big, the rescues are solid.
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We're doing a lot of first aids.
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We're getting amongst it.
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Yeah.
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But, yeah, there's talk that the show might be coming back again next year.
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So we will see.
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So over this year, when I say next year, sorry, this year.
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This year.
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Whoa, crazy.
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So in December this year, the show may be coming back.
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There still talks about that, but I'll keep everyone posted over the next couple of months.
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Cool.
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But, yeah, it's been an interesting summer.
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Mm-hmm.
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We had a lifeguard race last week, which was really good.
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Yeah, how did that go?
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Who took it out?
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Give us the deal.
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Joel Belusky won it.
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The young guys got second and I can't remember who got third.
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But, anyway, it was a really good race.
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How did you get that?
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How did you go, Dad?
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About 20 of us did it, and I come around 8th.
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So I was pretty happy about it.
00:18:20
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So people at home, at 7 o'clock at night, just after all the guys finish, we paddle from Bondi to Bronte, which is about a 2-kilometre paddle, and then we swim from Bronte to Tamarama, and then we run from Tamarama back to Bondi.
00:18:35
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Huge.
00:18:35
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And the other day we did it just before that mega, mega, mega storm rolled through.
00:18:40
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Huge storm.
00:18:41
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Big storm, probably one of the biggest storms that's hit Sydney this year or the last few years.
00:18:47
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But we're so glad that we finished the race before it kicked in because, you know, the winds were wild, the lightning, thunder, all in between.
00:18:55
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And unfortunately someone did pass away in that storm.
00:18:57
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Yeah, they did.
00:18:58
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I saw that.
00:18:59
Speaker
Wasn't it a tree or something?
00:19:01
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Yeah, so, you know, it's Mother Nature, again, up to its tricks of making sure, showing everyone who's boss.
00:19:08
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But, yeah, we love the race.
00:19:10
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Considering I did the race two years ago, but when I did it two years ago, I come last because I went the wrong line with the swim at Tamarama for the –
00:19:20
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for the, there was a massive fire and I went the wrong way and I got stuck.
00:19:23
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And so it was good to kind of get midfield again.
00:19:26
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I have been training a fair bit.
00:19:28
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So it was good to kind of test out and see and, you know, um, jungle edge.
00:19:34
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Adventure racing, we're back in April this year.
00:19:37
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So I'm going to start doing a bit of the longer stuff, a lot of the more endurance stuff.
00:19:41
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So hopefully, you know, I build a big base for the three-peat of Jungle Edge doing the Terra Nova down the south coast with Piers.
00:19:49
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I'm looking forward to it.
00:19:51
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I had a thought about this, Maxi.
00:19:52
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What have you had a thought?
00:19:53
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Jungle is becoming a bit of a theme for the year.
00:19:56
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It is.
00:19:57
Speaker
Jungle.
00:19:58
Speaker
Jungle Edge.
00:19:59
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Yeah.
00:20:00
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Jungle Edge, Jungle Harrison.
00:20:03
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Jungle Harrison.
00:20:04
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I was like, Jungle, Jungle, like, anyway.
00:20:09
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Anyway, so we've started really, really well, Maxie, because I just realised what we missed.
00:20:14
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That jokes.
00:20:15
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That jokes, of course.
00:20:16
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Look at us, as slick as ever.
00:20:19
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Slick as ever.
00:20:20
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Here we go.
00:20:21
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Yeah.
00:20:21
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What have we got?
00:20:22
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All right.
00:20:22
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Well, you go.
00:20:23
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You tell me what you've got.
00:20:24
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Stand by.
00:20:27
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You go first, Leah.
00:20:27
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I'm just getting mine up.
00:20:29
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Okay.
00:20:29
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So I'm just going to share with all the people on YouTube.
00:20:32
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Look what Maxie got me for Christmas.
00:20:35
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So if my dad jokes are rubbish all year, it's on you.
00:20:41
Speaker
Is this how you want to win the dad joke thing because you're just giving me, like,
00:20:46
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below par.
00:20:48
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So I've picked the first two off.
00:20:50
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All right, here we go.
00:20:51
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Here we go for the year.
00:20:54
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Courtesy of Max's Christmas present.
00:20:57
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Why did the ghost ride the elevator?
Adding Humor with Dad Jokes
00:21:02
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Why did the ghost ride the elevator?
00:21:04
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Sorry, I'm going to cough.
00:21:07
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The ghost rode the elevator to lift his spirits.
00:21:11
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Blomp, blomp, blomp.
00:21:15
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That's a good one.
00:21:17
Speaker
Exactly.
00:21:18
Speaker
What's a tiger's favourite holiday?
00:21:21
Speaker
Oh, jungle orientated.
00:21:22
Speaker
What's a tiger's favourite day, I should say.
00:21:27
Speaker
What's a tiger's favourite day?
00:21:32
Speaker
I don't know, Maxie.
00:21:33
Speaker
What's a tiger's favourite day?
00:21:35
Speaker
Friday.
00:21:35
Speaker
Friday.
00:21:41
Speaker
Ah, there's some bad ones here.
00:21:42
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Sorry.
00:21:43
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Ah, okay.
00:21:43
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All right.
00:21:44
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My second one, courtesy of the dad jokes.
00:21:48
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Did you hear the joke about peanut butter?
00:21:54
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No, I didn't hear about the joke.
00:21:56
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Not telling you.
00:21:56
Speaker
You might spread it.
00:21:59
Speaker
Excellent.
00:22:03
Speaker
I did a snake go to school.
00:22:08
Speaker
Oh, I don't know, Maxie.
00:22:09
Speaker
Why did the snake go to school?
00:22:11
Speaker
To improve his s-history.
00:22:19
Speaker
I am so impressed there.
00:22:21
Speaker
You got two jungle orientated.
00:22:23
Speaker
You brought the snake in.
00:22:25
Speaker
I did.
00:22:26
Speaker
We're looping people through this story.
00:22:30
Speaker
We started off with Harrison being bitten by the snake and now you've got the snake.
00:22:34
Speaker
Dad joke.
00:22:35
Speaker
We're all over this.
00:22:36
Speaker
I don't even, who even are we?
00:22:38
Speaker
Anyone think we plan this?
00:22:40
Speaker
Anyway, so tip of the week.
00:22:43
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Give us what we've got.
00:22:44
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Let's love this lesson.
00:22:52
Speaker
Yeah, tip of the week this week, Lee, is floating.
00:22:55
Speaker
About a year ago, I did a video in the back of your pool about how to float and some of the tricks and tips and to explain that everyone can float if they're taught how to, which is a very important skill to learn.
00:23:07
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Absolutely.
00:23:07
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And recently when we were up in Newcastle, we filmed a little 10-second grab.
00:23:13
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So that goes live today.
00:23:15
Speaker
People are going to start seeing on our socials little grabs in our new...
00:23:20
Speaker
Sorry, a new polo and like a new kind of style of videos that we're recording.
00:23:25
Speaker
We're a little bit more sophisticated these days with a bit more planning, which is good.
00:23:31
Speaker
And we're getting the real hard key facts out there for people at home that like to kind of scroll through Insta or TikTok and that or YouTube shorts.
00:23:41
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And then they've got five or 10 seconds to kind of get the message across.
00:23:44
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So, yeah.
00:23:45
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:23:46
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This week is floating.
00:23:47
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Absolutely.
00:23:48
Speaker
And while we talk about that and the tip of the week, last chat yesterday, 67 drownings since the beginning of summer, which is December the 1st.
00:23:59
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So considering what?
00:24:00
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I think we're seven or eight in front last year.
00:24:03
Speaker
And we're up on the 10-year average.
00:24:05
Speaker
So what are we now?
00:24:07
Speaker
That was like literally 24 hours ago.
00:24:09
Speaker
So that's 31, 22, 33, whatever, 53 days, 67 drownings, more than one a day this summer.
00:24:17
Speaker
And Australia Day weekend coming up is always a key weekend.
00:24:23
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Please stay safe, people.
00:24:25
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It's going to be 37 degrees in Brisbane today.
00:24:29
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Just stay safe, people.
00:24:30
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Make sure.
00:24:30
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Stay safe.
00:24:31
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Look after yourself.
00:24:32
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Yeah, look after yourself.
00:24:34
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So, yeah, there we go.
00:24:36
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So, excellent tip, Maxie.
00:24:38
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If you just do nothing else and you've got little kids, teach them how to swim.
00:24:43
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Start of water.
00:24:43
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And they'll teach them how to float.
00:24:45
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So, perfect, perfect.
00:24:47
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All righty.
00:24:48
Speaker
So, facts.
00:24:49
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What have we got, Maxie?
00:24:57
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Yeah, again, I'm keeping to the jungle theme.
Amazon Facts and Jungle Theme Discussion
00:25:01
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The Amazon produces 20% of Earth's oxygen.
00:25:05
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Known as the lungs of the planet, the Amazon rainforest generates a massive amount of the world's oxygen through its vast canopy of trees.
00:25:14
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There are more species in a jungle than anywhere else on Earth.
00:25:18
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Rainforests are home to over 50% of the world's plants and animals, even though they cover less than 7% of Earth's land surface.
00:25:25
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Wow.
00:25:25
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Wow, that's impressive.
00:25:27
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It rains a lot, like a lot.
00:25:29
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Tropical rainforests can receive up to 400 inches of rain each year.
00:25:33
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That's more water than most cities get in a decade.
00:25:36
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Ooh, that's huge.
00:25:37
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Ooh, massive.
00:25:38
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Some jungle plants can eat insects.
00:25:41
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Carnivorous plants like the pitcher plant and the Venus flytrap thrive in the jungle using clever traps to catch their meals.
00:25:51
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Jungles have rivers hidden in trees.
00:25:55
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In cloud forests, water vapor from the clouds condenses on leaves forming a miniature stream that trickled down creating unique ecosystems.
00:26:04
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Wow, that's pretty cool.
00:26:06
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I tell you what, there's some incredible stats on trees in there and how trees talk to each other and the roots and things underground.
00:26:15
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Blows your mind some of the stuff on that.
00:26:17
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So, yeah.
00:26:19
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Insane.
00:26:19
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Insane.
00:26:21
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So I've got a few things on jungles and I went to South Africa.
00:26:26
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So what we've got in South Africa, so Africa's largest national park is the Kruger National Park.
00:26:34
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It covers 2 million hectares.
00:26:38
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So given what you were just saying about, you know, only 7% of the planet covering the planet, but 50% of the species, that's insane.
00:26:48
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It's home to the big five, lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, and cape buffaloes.
00:26:57
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It's also home to the big six bird species, and they are lappet-faced vultures, martial eagles, saddle-billed storks, quarry bustards, and pelz fishing owls, and grounded hornbills.
00:27:16
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Wow.
00:27:16
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I've never even heard of some of those names.
00:27:20
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It also serves as a sanctuary for endangered species.
00:27:24
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:27:25
Speaker
So many of them on the planet, including the African wild dog.
00:27:29
Speaker
Again, never even heard of it.
00:27:32
Speaker
And also, the park protects about half of the world's black and white rhino population.
00:27:39
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Yeah, yeah.
00:27:42
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93% of the world's black and white rhino population, and half of them are in the park, and the park is home to about 12,000 rhinos.
00:27:50
Speaker
That's not a lot, is it, when you think of numbers?
00:27:53
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No, considering.
00:27:54
Speaker
Incredible, incredible wildlife.
00:27:57
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So, yeah, there's just a little bit.
00:27:58
Speaker
Don't exactly know which bit of the – where in the jungle Harrison is, but.
00:28:05
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The big five is now the big six.
00:28:07
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They've got Harrison too.
00:28:10
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Happy days.
00:28:11
Speaker
I wonder if anyone's on a safari.
00:28:13
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There's a Harrison.
00:28:15
Speaker
Spotted.
00:28:16
Speaker
Spotted.
00:28:16
Speaker
Ticket on the list.
00:28:17
Speaker
Brilliant.
00:28:18
Speaker
All righty.
00:28:18
Speaker
So enough of that rubbish reflection.
00:28:29
Speaker
Yeah, reflection, you know, on the head, Lee, how crazy this journey is.
00:28:34
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You know, the support that we've had the last couple of days, you know, getting the DGR status for the charity.
00:28:41
Speaker
There's some really good ideas for fundraising and ideas for this year.
00:28:47
Speaker
Basically, just going from strength to strength and trying to, you know, people that have been following the journey for a long time, we'll see how far we've come.
00:28:54
Speaker
And it's a crazy ride, but we love it.
00:28:57
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Yeah, it never, ever ceases to blow my mind.
00:29:01
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And, you know, with what I think still, like, you know, people will not believe how still tiny we are from a point of, you know, hands-on doing the work.
00:29:13
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And, you know, it just goes to show what you can do if you just have got enough passion and drive and don't ever think you can't.
00:29:22
Speaker
I could not believe that, you know, there's only...
00:29:27
Speaker
12 charities nominated for that tv show which is on tv every night i am so grateful that we are in that mix there wouldn't be a charity in australia would not want to swap position with us and we are not going to waste it we are going to do everything we can so crazy
00:29:46
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hang on for the ride and just whatever your crazy may be, just go for it.
00:29:52
Speaker
Go for it.
00:29:53
Speaker
You might surprise yourself.
00:29:54
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100%.
00:29:55
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Exactly.
00:29:56
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Yeah.
00:29:58
Speaker
And, yeah, for the playlist, the Spotify playlist, people that listen to our Spotify playlist, Live, Learn, Survive, Lie and Sleep Tonight is the song that we're going to be adding to it.
00:30:09
Speaker
So it is very jungle theme this week, but, yeah, it's a good song.
00:30:13
Speaker
It's a classic and it's added to the playlist.
00:30:15
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We're excited.
00:30:16
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It's like, you know, so we hope our little lion out there is sleeping well on his camp bed.
00:30:23
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You know, we can't wait to see him getting a trial.
00:30:28
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I actually want to see him doing one of the hike things.
00:30:32
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Yeah.
00:30:33
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Yeah.
00:30:34
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I'm really hoping.
00:30:35
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I want one of them.
00:30:35
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I'm actually, you know, that's like, you know, one of the things I really want to do.
00:30:40
Speaker
We've still got another three and a half weeks to go.
00:30:42
Speaker
So we'll see.
00:30:42
Speaker
Yeah, I think so.
00:30:44
Speaker
I think so.
00:30:44
Speaker
So, yeah, great song for the playlist.
00:30:47
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And then, yeah, you wrap us out, Maxie, with Rule for the Rulebook.
00:30:56
Speaker
Yeah, Rule for the Rulebook this week, Lee, is just go for it.
00:30:59
Speaker
What are you waiting for?
00:31:00
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Just have a crack.
00:31:01
Speaker
New year, new you.
00:31:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:03
Speaker
You know, just be positive, be kind, give back and just go for it.
00:31:08
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Be the best version of yourself.
00:31:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:11
Speaker
If you had a thought that what you were going to do on January 1st and like, you know, now we're in the third week of January, you're starting to talk yourself out of it.
00:31:20
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Don't.
00:31:22
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My calendar today says don't hide the madness.
00:31:25
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And I said that when I did a little story this morning.
00:31:32
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If you've got three weeks in and you're starting to doubt yourself, don't.
00:31:35
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Keep going.
00:31:36
Speaker
Have a crack.
00:31:37
Speaker
This is your message and sign to get back on track and go for it.
00:31:42
Speaker
So, you know, that's what we're trying to do.
00:31:45
Speaker
And, you know, we don't know everything.
00:31:49
Speaker
Just work it out as you go along.
00:31:50
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Just have a go.
00:31:51
Speaker
Just chipping away.
00:31:52
Speaker
Exactly.
00:31:53
Speaker
So, yeah, so next week I'm going to be with you.
00:31:56
Speaker
Bondi, baby.
00:31:57
Speaker
We'll be down at Bondi and we can hopefully find a good little spot to get it done.
00:32:02
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So it'll be good.
00:32:03
Speaker
We'll give you a Harrison update and we'll give you an update of everything else in between of what Live, Learn, Survive is doing.
00:32:09
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Yeah.
00:32:09
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And what we're trying to do is, um, I think we're going to go live on Instagram tonight, which is, well, hang on, that's irrelevant because this is Friday.
00:32:17
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People won't know that, but we will be going live again and we're just trying to be out there a little bit more present.
00:32:23
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Um, um, you know, not just while Harrison's injured, we're going to make a bit more of an effort through the year to just, um, you know, um, give people a bit more regular updates.
00:32:34
Speaker
So thanks for listening.
00:32:35
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Thanks for being here.
00:32:36
Speaker
Have a great week.
00:32:37
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And, um,
00:32:38
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We'll see you all soon.
00:32:40
Speaker
Take care, guys.
00:32:41
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See you.
00:32:42
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Vote for Harrison.
00:32:44
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Vote for Harrison.