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If nothing changes, nothing changes.
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Our last podcast before we fly across the planet to the UK & Ireland. We talk about the 5 community events that we can’t wait to do as we are so passionate about education being accessible to everyone and finally how will Maxi go in a sunrise swim against the legend that is Professor Greg Whyte.
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Introduction and Podcast Origins
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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 both want to welcome you to our Live, Learn, Survive podcast.
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Since 2018, Lee and I have traveled the globe and met face-to-face with over 14,000 children.
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We've created a series of children's books and Max's Rescue Squad where teens and young adults can learn life skills online that will not only help themselves but help others too.
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We take what we do very seriously, ourselves not so much, as you assume we'll hear.
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So let's spend the next half an hour together with some fun, inspiration, and kindness, and we'll also try and learn something too.
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How are you this week, Lee?
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It's been a big one.
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Maxie, it's been another biggin'.
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It's been a whopper.
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But I'm here.
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I'm here.
Tour Preparations and Anecdotes
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We've got it.
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You know, we're keeping the plates spinning.
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The plates are spinning.
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Just, just.
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We're hanging on and we are.
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Ready for tour.
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Ready for tour.
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We're supposed to be, the last few days, we're supposed to be, you know, getting foot massages, going for nice long walks, getting ready for 28 days on our feet, doing crazy, amazing things.
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Look, I am here for all of that.
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But, you know, I'm going to skid into Brisbane Airport and meet you.
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I'll roll out the cab or whatever, looking like a hot mess of a...
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It's like, Maxie, help me out.
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I've got it all going on.
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All the plates have been in.
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We're six days away.
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And when we do this again and play this music, we're going to be.
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We'll be in England.
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We're going to be in England.
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Yeah.
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Not the UK.
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Just England.
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We'll
Personal Growth and Interruptions
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be in England.
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We're going to be in England.
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We're going to be in greater London and somewhere near Heathrow, probably somewhere near the Queen.
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We might stop at, we might go and see the Queen again.
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And we'll be in the, yeah, be like, how crazy is that going to be?
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You know how quick these turn out?
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Like another one, we'll be jet lagged.
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We'll be like, who are you?
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What's your name?
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Where'd you come from?
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As we always, this is our fourth tour.
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We'll be hitting the ground running.
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I'm very excited to catch up with a few of the squad members.
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Also, on the first couple of days, we're there.
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It's very exciting.
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But we'll get to that because that's under the good news and all that sort of stuff.
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But the quote of the week this week is, if nothing changes, nothing changes.
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It's easy.
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It's simple.
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If there's something you're not happy with and you don't change it, well, it's just going to keep happening, isn't it?
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Again, again, if nothing changes, comma, nothing changes, full stop.
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Yeah, that's my phone ringing now.
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That's your phone going off the background, so someone must know.
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Someone's ringing in, phone a friend.
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Yeah, final friend.
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We'll just ignore that in the background and I won't be answering it.
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So that just sums my week.
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Barney from the complaints department has been run off his feet all week.
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There's been complaints left front and centre.
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There's investigations.
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You know, we can't, yeah.
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You know what's going to happen?
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No, you don't.
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This is somebody, I'm on the, you know, my house phone is on someone's call.
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You know, it just keeps ringing and ringing and ringing.
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And ringing.
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Okay, let's see how many times it rings back in the next.
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you know, next 30 minutes.
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So it'd be someone trying to tell me that my broadband's not working or something and I'm talking to you, so I know it is.
Podcast Music Debut and Library Talk
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So hey-ho, that was the phone.
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So, right, what have we got next?
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What are we going to talk about?
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We've got some new music this week, so we're going to change it up.
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So can you remember when?
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Here we go.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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Yeah, it just eases into the podcast.
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You know, thousands of listeners each week, you know, we've got to ease them into it.
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Thousands.
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That's nice.
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You've been playing with all the tunes, haven't you?
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I have been.
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Yeah.
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See, this is what happens when we didn't talk about that in the meeting.
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Yeah.
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You know what?
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Full of surprises.
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You're full of surprises.
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So can you remember when we're going to talk, this was quite funny, the first library talk.
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We might have talked about this before, but I can't remember.
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But I don't think we did too much.
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So we went to a library.
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The reason I brought this up is because a little bit later on, we're going to be talking about another library that we're going to.
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So yeah, first library talk.
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We didn't know a lot about library talks, did we, Maxi?
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Yeah, because we'd done a few school talks before the libraries, and a lot of the time it was about water safety, a little bit about fire safety, because I was only a fresh firefighter then.
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And yeah, obviously not every day we write books and we publish them, so...
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It was all new to me.
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So I wasn't sure.
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I was a bit of a crossroads not to talk about, sorry, to talk about either the water safety or talk about personal growth or talk about books.
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So we had to kind of find common ground of actually what people wanted to listen to.
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It ended up it was really cool because people, we actually did it as a Q&A, didn't we?
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Because we thought we can help each other.
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And it was really cool because people wanted to know why the books, how they came about, how did the characters, were the characters real?
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Did you, what bits of the story is true?
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Because obviously the books, there's a lot of it in there that's true.
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Why the lessons?
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Did you really have a dog called Bones?
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You know, it was like, so it was really cool of how did the illustration start?
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What did you want it to look like?
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You know, the whole thing.
Good News and Lifeguard Academy
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sort of process of putting a book together so um yeah that was our first one and it ended up being really cool and we've done a few since so we're going to talk a bit later in the quick five of um yeah one we're going to do a long way away so that's going to be pretty cool so um so yeah first library talk it was great and um we met our um dear mate mel there as well so um we did yeah it was a great day mm-hmm
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Cool.
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Well, yeah, so we can move on.
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Good news.
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We must have some good news.
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Come on, Maxie.
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All right.
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Oh, my fingers keep sleeping.
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Oh, come on, DJ.
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What's going on?
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Come on.
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Good news for this week, random acts of kindness.
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We all want to hear this sort of stuff.
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We do, we do for sure.
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So good news is...
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I had an online meeting last night because obviously we're still very heavily organising the trip, even though it's only six days away because we've literally smashed it together in about six weeks.
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So we found out yesterday we met an amazing guy last trip, which, Maxie, it was three years in May.
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That's insane.
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I can't believe it was three.
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You know what?
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It's actually starting to spin me out that I was having this thought just before.
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Actually, we haven't left the country or you haven't as well.
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We haven't left the country in a couple of years.
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Two years.
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Yeah.
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Last time I left the country was for my honeymoon back in 2020.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But it feels like yesterday.
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It's really weird how quick two years can just –
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kind of disappeared.
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I kind of thought that that last trip to England was kind of around like the August kind of time.
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But when I went back and looked at it, I think it was actually May.
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It was the trip before.
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That was August.
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So it's actually, by the time we leave, it's going to be two years and 11 months.
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That has flown by.
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It has.
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It has.
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Going back to where we were on that trip, we met a guy called Graham who drove from Cork to Dublin to come and meet us, brought some books.
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We knew that he was a lifeguard and all the rest of it.
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Anyway, we are going to Cork and Graham in that time, I had the meeting with him last night.
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He has now just started a business called the Cork Lifeguard Academy.
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He's now actually a firefighter as well.
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It's a lot of similarities, I think.
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And Graham is sponsoring the community event in Cork.
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and i am a champion absolute champion and you know what a real change maker and you know sees opportunities thinks things can be done a little bit different and a little bit better and a little bit smarter and he's just gone for it and he's using our trip to cork as a catalyst and you know what hats off to you graham and i said to him last night i said you know i'm gonna i can't wait to tell maxi about all of this and i did i put the
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I finished the meeting and I rang you straight away, didn't I?
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And I said, you know what?
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We are going to have a great day in Cork.
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Graham is going to be with us.
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There's going to be young lifeguards come along.
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We'll talk later.
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We're going to be in the library.
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The whole community are welcome.
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And yeah, hats off to Graham for not sitting on the side and being a passenger.
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And you know what?
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If nothing changes, he's made a change.
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So, Graham, you are one of our kind of people.
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And I said to him yesterday, whatever you ever need, we are in your corner, mate.
Swimming Adventures and UK Plans
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So, so excited.
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That was great news.
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And Cork is going to have a lifeguard academy.
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Brilliant.
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It's awesome.
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It's great news.
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So, yeah.
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And then also we've got here too next week we'll be swimming with Professor Greg, Greg White, which is very exciting.
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This is a bit exciting.
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Exactly.
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So Professor Greg White is a bit of a, you know, he's a national treasure in England.
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He's an ex-Olympian, Mr. You know, super scientist, sports scientist.
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And I think probably what most people in Britain would know him for is
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He's like the elite trainer when they do the comic relief challenges.
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So over the years, I think David Walliams swam the Thames.
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It was Professor Greg White that was alongside him.
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And John Bishop, who is a very famous English comedian,
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ran three marathons, rode the channel and cycled to the Eiffel Tower.
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Professor Greg White was alongside him.
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So we are going to throw you in the lakes with Professor Greg.
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Yeah, I mean, it might hit 10 degrees.
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Yeah.
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The wetsuit's packed.
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I've been training.
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I've been in the pool all this week.
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I've been training, swim training.
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I've been getting ready for it.
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Well, you'd want to be because Professor Greg, you know.
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And I've been doing the cold water stuff as well.
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So I've been sitting and laying in four-degree water.
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So I'm just trying to get the body climatized for that, which is exciting.
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But, yeah, like I'm just very fortunate to be given the opportunity to swim with a legend like that and to keep the tour off of the UK island tour.
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To do that will be awesome.
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It's going to be amazing.
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And you're hitting the water at sunrise.
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So it's going to be a bit of fun.
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I think a few things have changed since last time we were over in the UK too, and that being I tried to swim and do demonstrations in majority of the places that we went through or we visited.
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Yeah.
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I really want to get in the ocean, in the lakes, in the rivers, in the dams, in these areas, and just really, you know, just enjoy the surroundings, get to know how people do their sorts of rescues or their sorts of drills and techniques, and try and share some common knowledge.
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I'm really looking forward to getting more hands-on this trip more than ever.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's going to be a great time.
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And hopefully things that I've accumulated over the last few years as a lifeguard and a firefighter, I'll be able to give back to local
Shane Warne Tribute
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communities.
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So it'll be good.
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It's going to be brilliant.
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So, yeah, so we've got Greg White.
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And then what else has been happening this week?
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What have we got?
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I've got here something a bit left field, but the Shane Warne Memorial thing that they did on TV last night.
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It was really good, really well put together.
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Oh, I watched that.
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How good was it?
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Yeah, they reckon a billion people across the world tuned in and I think they did really well with it.
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You know, it's not your cheesy memorial service.
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I thought there were some really good acts, some really good nostalgia and, you know, it was quite emotional.
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It was very emotional.
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I sat and watched it.
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I couldn't, you know, I couldn't move away from it really.
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I was going to be potting around and have it on in the background but I actually sat and watched it and
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I loved his mates talking about him.
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Yeah.
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How good was it when he wanted to be in Peaky Blinders?
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That is just classic warning.
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That is classic warning.
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The phone thing, that was quite funny.
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Make sure someone seizes the phone.
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Yeah.
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And a round of golf took four and a half hours because of all the photos and the stories.
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And like, you know, how do you match want to warn his stories?
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He was just a unique character.
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And I think the thing that's come out for me has been like,
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people talk about him, his generosity, his generosity of time, you know, what he did for kids, never shouted about it.
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I just, oh, gone way too soon.
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In a weird way, like,
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Like I can't, I think more of the charity stuff that he does, I was kind of watching and I was kind of, you know, something in common with, obviously with Shane, obviously I'm not a cricketer or a person as amazing as him, but,
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there were some similarities of seeing the stuff that he does behind the scenes.
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And it always kind of makes you wonder like, you know, what sort of legacy and what you leave behind.
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Well, you know, I actually thought that when I saw him with the kids, I actually thought that did remind me of you actually.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I know his generosity because one of my friends like knows of the family and I know –
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something for a fact, I'm not going to say, say all on here, but I know for a fact, something that he did and looked after a family, but honestly beyond you would ever expect.
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And he was just worn.
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He wasn't he?
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He was just like, um, just a naturally warm guy.
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And I think people were just so, um, there's just something about him.
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I actually saw him a few times that I saw him in a hotel in Nottingham,
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I saw him and actually just three weeks before he died, I stood next to him when we were in Melbourne.
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I stood next to him for about 10 minutes at the baggage carousel.
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Given now how he loved to chat and he was so welcoming to everybody, I would have said hello because he was with his son.
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He was with Jackson.
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Well, he did say when he was having that bad day, he said to a fan, what do I look like, Mr. Squiggle?
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Mr. Squiggle, yeah, something like that.
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And his assistant said, I'd never go anywhere without a Sharpie.
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Well, what is always in my handbag, Maxie?
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Yeah.
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A Sharpie.
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So I would have said hello.
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That was a missed opportunity.
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I would have said, you know, but he was stood with his son and I respected his privacy and his time.
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But, oh, gosh, what a loss.
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So many people.
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That is a big void to fill for those kids and, you know, old warning.
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And I saw the best thing.
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I think Piers Morgan said today, you know how everyone will go rest in peace.
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Piers Morgan said, Warnie, rest in fun.
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And I thought, I love that.
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That is so appropriate.
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So he will be causing shenanigans somewhere.
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No doubt about it.
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So rest in fun, Warnie.
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That's pretty cool.
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So, yes.
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So, yeah, that was what we all watched last night.
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Most of the planet, Warnie.
Viral TikTok and Knot Fame
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So, job of the week.
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Oh, yeah.
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So have we been to the action station since we last year?
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Yes, yes, yes, we have.
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No, no, we haven't.
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I've been off for a couple of days.
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Who are we?
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What's your name again?
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You've been captain.
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You've been captain, Max, this week.
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Yeah, I've been doing the rescue stuff on the Navy ships because there's been really bad weather the last week.
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So there's been not much lifeguard work.
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So there's like a skeleton crew working on the beaches.
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And, yeah, just because I know I'm going away for a month, you know, just getting a few extra hours in on the boats, which has been good.
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But the funny thing is I was kind of a bit of a big thing on TikTok at the moment.
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One of my videos we posted last week.
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TikTok famous, Maxie.
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Yeah.
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One of the videos I posted last week with the one-handed bow lines had close to 3 million views.
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And, yeah,
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got hit up by certain companies like TikTok Australia and Lad Bible, the world thing.
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And, you know, everyone's just mesmerized by this movement, the, you know, movement and motion of my hand doing these knots.
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But the funny thing is, right, because it's such a unique knot, you know, and it's one-handed, all this week at work, people have been coming up to me, can you teach me, can you do this?
00:18:09
Speaker
So I'm pretty much the knot guy.
00:18:12
Speaker
And, yeah, I'm just getting around society as the not guy now.
00:18:15
Speaker
So, Maxie, we got like 24 hours on a plane.
00:18:20
Speaker
Do you reckon you can teach me?
00:18:22
Speaker
Easy.
00:18:23
Speaker
And you know what?
00:18:23
Speaker
I'm actually going to take a piece of rope with me.
00:18:26
Speaker
I feel like this bag that I'm taking over there, it's only 25 kilos I can take, but I feel like I'm telling them I'm going to take the whole wardrobe over with me.
00:18:35
Speaker
But I'm going to try and bring a piece of rope and play around with it as well and just show some cool little techniques and stuff for just the public.
00:18:45
Speaker
Okay, mid-flight then.
00:18:46
Speaker
We're going to have a go.
00:18:47
Speaker
I'll try and do the 100 somewhere over Asia, wherever, I don't know where we might be.
00:18:55
Speaker
I'll have a go.
00:18:56
Speaker
We'll have a crack.
00:18:57
Speaker
We've got 24 hours.
00:18:58
Speaker
See if I can master the 100 bowline.
00:19:02
Speaker
before we land in London.
00:19:03
Speaker
Now we're good.
00:19:04
Speaker
Done.
Social Media and Commuting Challenges
00:19:05
Speaker
What else was I going to say?
00:19:08
Speaker
So, yeah, you are no longer, you are the not guy.
00:19:11
Speaker
The not guy.
00:19:13
Speaker
You've only got to not look at TikTok for a day, and it's like gone another million or something.
00:19:18
Speaker
That's correct.
00:19:18
Speaker
It sounds crazy, yeah.
00:19:20
Speaker
But it's actually been really good for us, for Live, Learn, Survive, for the rescue squad, for everything that we do because it shines light.
00:19:28
Speaker
Because when people find your profile, they see the video and they go, oh, what other videos has he got?
00:19:34
Speaker
And, you know, on TikTok is pretty much a little bit of lifeguarding, a little bit of firefighting, and just the rescue squad.
00:19:41
Speaker
So people are seeing all around the world what I do, what we do.
00:19:46
Speaker
yeah um you know with the weekly videos so you know if it just helps one person watching those videos for a couple of seconds or a couple of minutes exactly um you know we'll be saving lives left right and center so exactly it's just yeah so that's why that's why we do it so exactly right so yeah tiktok tiktok famous not going um yeah well done so well we do have someone i do have someone unfortunate news though oh no
00:20:12
Speaker
So not everyone on TikTok loved you.
00:20:14
Speaker
Is that what it is?
00:20:15
Speaker
No.
00:20:16
Speaker
You know, the funny thing is, this is a tip that everyone, I actually, I have this thing where I don't read comments.
00:20:22
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I don't read comments.
00:20:24
Speaker
I actually do not read comments.
00:20:26
Speaker
It's such a weird thing where I shouldn't say it on here because, you know, sorry, I do see the odd comment, but on TikTok, for some reason, I do not read the TikTok comments.
00:20:36
Speaker
Like I don't look at them or see them.
00:20:38
Speaker
So I think the last time I shared, there was like 1,500 comments there.
00:20:41
Speaker
Well, it's hard to go through 1,500 comments.
00:20:43
Speaker
Yeah, but it's like, but I just, yeah, I don't, I don't know.
00:20:46
Speaker
I just, it's a bit rude of me.
00:20:48
Speaker
I should.
00:20:49
Speaker
I should go for it and like.
00:20:51
Speaker
Well, you post the thing and then you're busy and you're at work and all that's like, you know, kind of forgiven.
00:20:56
Speaker
Yeah, I just kind of lose track.
00:20:57
Speaker
I lose track of it.
00:20:58
Speaker
You know, it's called social media for a reason, Maxie.
00:21:00
Speaker
There's clues in the title, social.
00:21:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:03
Speaker
No, it is hard.
00:21:05
Speaker
I'll be honest.
00:21:06
Speaker
Even me with my following.
00:21:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:11
Speaker
I can't keep up with all the things.
00:21:12
Speaker
So honestly, I'm not going to beat you.
00:21:15
Speaker
Seriously.
00:21:15
Speaker
It's like, um, I don't know even now you would manage.
00:21:19
Speaker
I can't keep up with mine.
00:21:20
Speaker
That's not the unfortunate event.
00:21:22
Speaker
I love people.
00:21:24
Speaker
I love people getting in touch and we do see a lot of cool things, um, that people write to us and we, you know, uh, cute and funky.
00:21:33
Speaker
And we got, um,
00:21:35
Speaker
Rob and we've got all the great people that we talk to all the time that we see their comments and we love it.
00:21:42
Speaker
Yeah, we do.
00:21:42
Speaker
We always try and be better.
00:21:44
Speaker
But, yeah, I keep going ahead of myself.
00:21:46
Speaker
Oh, sorry.
00:21:47
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:21:48
Speaker
Sorry.
00:21:49
Speaker
Okay.
00:21:51
Speaker
So it's got
Safety Tips and Community Events
00:21:52
Speaker
to do with the scooter again, the motorbike.
00:21:54
Speaker
Oh, not the scooter.
00:21:56
Speaker
Is it on the road?
00:21:57
Speaker
Yeah, it's working, it's riding, everything's good.
00:22:00
Speaker
Is it a station?
00:22:02
Speaker
No.
00:22:02
Speaker
All this week, right?
00:22:04
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:22:05
Speaker
I've been on the seven o'clock starts and on the Navy base, you're allowed to take a bike onto the Navy base and we've pretty much covered this before, but the car park, if I drive my car, then you have to get there at like 5.30 to get a car spot.
00:22:19
Speaker
So you drive at 5.30, I only live five minutes away from the Navy base.
00:22:23
Speaker
You get there, you sit in the car park, you sleep for an hour, not good.
00:22:26
Speaker
So, you know, no matter what, rain, hail or shine, hail or rain,
00:22:35
Speaker
So yeah, basically what I'm trying to get to is every day this week, I've been getting saturated before work.
00:22:40
Speaker
So anyone that can relate, sitting there in an office, freezing cold.
00:22:47
Speaker
Wet?
00:22:47
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:49
Speaker
And, you know, because we're on a Navy ship, you know, have well ventilation with air conditioning.
00:22:55
Speaker
It's always so cold.
00:22:57
Speaker
So I'm just shivering there every morning, just cold.
00:23:00
Speaker
Oh, are your socks wet?
00:23:01
Speaker
No, my socks isn't wet.
00:23:02
Speaker
But in saying that, though, it is getting me ready for England.
00:23:07
Speaker
Yes.
00:23:09
Speaker
Well, I was going to have a top tip for you there, but I was going to have a tip for you with you getting wet on the scooter.
00:23:16
Speaker
Because, you know, Andrew, when we were like very, very young at school, and obviously he used to push bike to school in the rain all the time because, you know, it was England-ish.
00:23:30
Speaker
He used to put plastic bags over his shoes.
00:23:31
Speaker
I mean, he didn't look very cool, but it kept his feet dry.
00:23:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:35
Speaker
Yeah, well, I've got boots on, so the boots are pretty resistant.
00:23:38
Speaker
The boots are good?
00:23:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:39
Speaker
That's all right, because nobody gets wet socks all day.
00:23:42
Speaker
The unfortunate event is like literally it's raining sideways, could hardly see because it's still dark here in daylight savings, nearly finished.
00:23:51
Speaker
So like I can't wear sunglasses in the morning.
00:23:55
Speaker
I don't wear glasses, so I'm squinting, getting these pellets of water in my eye.
00:24:00
Speaker
I've got my head down.
00:24:01
Speaker
I'm just trying to get there, just trying not to fall off my scooter.
00:24:05
Speaker
And then again, you know, I still have the troubles of it starting and not starting.
00:24:08
Speaker
So, you know, it's, it's, you know.
00:24:11
Speaker
We need to get you away, mate.
00:24:12
Speaker
We need to get you away.
00:24:14
Speaker
Look, you know, just a change is as good as a rest.
00:24:17
Speaker
But, you know, so what have you got?
00:24:19
Speaker
A few more, a couple of days left of the scooter in and...
00:24:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:24
Speaker
Then you'll be gone.
00:24:24
Speaker
Well, moving on anyway.
00:24:27
Speaker
All right.
00:24:27
Speaker
Tip of the week.
00:24:29
Speaker
What have you got for us?
00:24:30
Speaker
Have we got music for this?
00:24:32
Speaker
Oh, we do.
00:24:37
Speaker
Tip of the week is burns, and we cover burns, not just your typical burns.
00:24:43
Speaker
We talk solely about being in the kitchen, so hot water, pots and pans, kettles, ovens, and what to do.
00:24:54
Speaker
So we talk of what to do if you get burnt, how to treat it, how to avoid it, and what the best practices are.
00:25:00
Speaker
So I think it's really good.
00:25:02
Speaker
It's a really good tip this week.
00:25:04
Speaker
Again, we say it every week.
00:25:05
Speaker
It's a really good one.
00:25:06
Speaker
Hot drinks, things like that, boiling drinks.
00:25:09
Speaker
If you're not familiar with the Rescue Squad, jump over and have a look.
00:25:15
Speaker
It's another great video that we both did, and there's still a number of videos to come over the next few weeks before we get to the old England and UK kind of style videos.
00:25:25
Speaker
But, yeah, it's very exciting.
00:25:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:27
Speaker
Good burns.
00:25:27
Speaker
So just be careful.
00:25:29
Speaker
The tip for the week for the burns is 20 minutes of cool running water.
00:25:34
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:25:35
Speaker
And I think that's the thing.
00:25:36
Speaker
It's like the running water is so important, not like the immersing, you know, just let it run, trickle over.
00:25:41
Speaker
That's like, you know, I got burnt many years ago and I don't have any scarring from a hot drink.
00:25:48
Speaker
No scarring because I did exactly that.
00:25:50
Speaker
So there you go.
00:25:52
Speaker
There you go.
00:25:53
Speaker
Good tip, Maxie.
00:25:54
Speaker
Perfect.
00:25:55
Speaker
And moving right along, the playlist this week is We Didn't Start the Fire.
00:25:59
Speaker
Kind of goes hand in hand with the tip of the week.
00:26:03
Speaker
So by Billy Joel, We Didn't Start the Fire.
00:26:06
Speaker
Great song.
00:26:06
Speaker
We'll have that on the road trip.
00:26:08
Speaker
That'll be great.
00:26:09
Speaker
We will.
00:26:09
Speaker
Perfect, perfect.
00:26:11
Speaker
And, yeah, so now we have got the Fast Five, Not So Fast Five.
00:26:16
Speaker
Not So Fast Five.
00:26:19
Speaker
We're already at 24, 26 minutes, 25 minutes.
00:26:26
Speaker
Yeah, so this week, again, we're going to talk about quick five things, and we've got here five community days.
00:26:34
Speaker
Yeah, so basically, sorry, yeah, carry on.
00:26:38
Speaker
Yeah, no, I was just going to say, you know, the five community days just before our trip, so anyone that's listening, just to write down these five sort of places that if you live close to, you can come say hello.
00:26:51
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:26:52
Speaker
And I mean, some of the events are like club events are in the pool and they're closed off.
00:26:57
Speaker
But what I'm so happy about this time is we've got community days, which is basically for everyone and anyone in the town to just come along.
00:27:09
Speaker
and maybe get involved in a club that you didn't previously know about or anything like that.
00:27:14
Speaker
So we're going to go through these.
00:27:16
Speaker
So the first one, we are going to Aberavon.
00:27:21
Speaker
Oh, gosh, I said that wrong.
00:27:23
Speaker
Aberavon Surf Lifesaving Club, which is in Port Talbot in South Wales.
00:27:28
Speaker
And this is a bit of a community day for many of the surf lifesaving clubs along that stretch of coastline are all coming together and we're having one big day together.
Gratitude and Tour Excitement
00:27:38
Speaker
in um in south wales so um shout out to surf lifesaving wales and the crew over there that have organized that so that is going to be can't wait to get over to wales last time we're in wales we went to swansea we did yeah swansea um so yeah if you're in wales come and say hello
00:27:59
Speaker
So I'm just going to give you a date for South Wales.
00:28:01
Speaker
It's the 12th of April, and that is a Tuesday.
00:28:03
Speaker
So we're going to be there from late morning.
00:28:06
Speaker
So that's the great one.
00:28:08
Speaker
The next one, this is awesome, Polseth.
00:28:11
Speaker
We've spoken about Polseth before.
00:28:13
Speaker
So we're first stop down there in beautiful Cornwall.
00:28:17
Speaker
Can't wait to get there.
00:28:18
Speaker
So this day is Saturday, April the 9th.
00:28:22
Speaker
And it's going to be on the beach.
00:28:25
Speaker
There's going to be loads of activity.
00:28:26
Speaker
The Coast Guard's going to be there.
00:28:27
Speaker
There's going to be all sorts of people going to be around.
00:28:30
Speaker
And this is being sponsored by their little local community magazine, which I think is absolutely incredible.
Social Media Plans and Motivation
00:28:37
Speaker
So that is called the St.
00:28:39
Speaker
Minvalink.
00:28:41
Speaker
So hats off and a shout out to all of the crew there.
00:28:45
Speaker
Thank you, guys.
00:28:46
Speaker
So they're going to be coming along and everyone's going to be involved down in Polzeth.
00:28:50
Speaker
That's exciting.
00:28:52
Speaker
Then we've got our friends over at County Wicklow, so Greystones Beach.
00:28:59
Speaker
This one is actually on, let me get this right, Monday, April the 18th.
00:29:04
Speaker
So we're going to be just south of Dublin in County Wicklow at Greystones Beach.
00:29:10
Speaker
And this is a community event put in on by the Island Branch of Royal Lifesaving.
00:29:16
Speaker
So we can't meet to meet all the locals and everything there.
00:29:20
Speaker
And I think likewise the same.
00:29:21
Speaker
Lots of all the different community people are coming to get involved in stuff.
00:29:25
Speaker
So that is amazing.
00:29:28
Speaker
And then staying in Ireland, we are, as we mentioned earlier, we're going to Cork City.
00:29:35
Speaker
And this is really cool because it's actually going to be our only library event of this tour.
00:29:42
Speaker
So we're going to be there for the full day.
00:29:45
Speaker
We're going to be in the library.
00:29:46
Speaker
We're going to be in the plaza outside the library.
00:29:50
Speaker
We are, the local community groups are being invited.
00:29:55
Speaker
The sports development people are involved.
00:29:58
Speaker
And as I said earlier, this has all been made happen by our friend Graham, who now is, who is part of the Cork City Fire Brigade, but he is also now Cork Lifeguard Academy.
00:30:12
Speaker
So,
00:30:13
Speaker
That's going to be an incredible day because he was just so determined that we were going to Cork.
00:30:18
Speaker
Yeah, I look forward to meeting this gentleman.
00:30:21
Speaker
He's really looked after us and he's doing so much great for the community.
00:30:24
Speaker
I can't wait to trade a few fire stories.
00:30:26
Speaker
So, yeah, it'll be good.
00:30:27
Speaker
Exactly, exactly.
00:30:28
Speaker
And then the last one, further as we could get from the south, we're off to Aberdeen to Inverurie, and this has been put together by the Scottish Northern Branch of Rural Lifesaving.
00:30:42
Speaker
And it's going to be at the Inverroority Community Campus.
00:30:45
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it's very warm up there.
00:30:48
Speaker
Well, it could be beautiful, but just quietly I heard that there's a bit of snow around yesterday.
00:30:55
Speaker
Uh-oh.
00:30:57
Speaker
Uh-oh.
00:30:57
Speaker
So this one in Aberdeen, Sunday, April the 24th.
00:31:02
Speaker
So Inverurie community campus, you know, so excited to get to North Scotland and hats off to the community up there that have pulled all this together.
00:31:14
Speaker
And it's really going to be a special day.
00:31:17
Speaker
So how great is that?
00:31:19
Speaker
People doing good for the community.
00:31:22
Speaker
I love it.
00:31:23
Speaker
That's what we do.
00:31:24
Speaker
What we can get everyone excited for too is be nice to us too.
00:31:29
Speaker
As we all know, we sometimes have technical difficulties, but over the next four weeks when we do deliver this podcast, we'll be on the side of the roads at truck stops, in parks, in lakes and rivers and dams and
00:31:42
Speaker
all sorts of things.
00:31:43
Speaker
So I'm sure people that listen in each week, you have some laughs, you get to probably share some tears.
00:31:50
Speaker
And it's going to be, you know, hopefully we can bring a bit of our tour to your ears or your screens and just be a part of it.
00:31:59
Speaker
If you can help in any way,
00:32:02
Speaker
by seeing us or spreading the word or helping us, we're forever grateful because while we're over there, we can't talk about too much, but there could be even more amazing news while we're on tour that we have been working on for a long time.
00:32:15
Speaker
And if we pull that off, then we are going to go from
00:32:21
Speaker
from zero a hundred real quick.
00:32:23
Speaker
And yeah, you know, we don't forget the people from the start that, that supported us and helped us and believed in us.
00:32:28
Speaker
And yeah, that's the same vision that we do.
00:32:31
Speaker
So again, from on behalf of myself and Lee, you know, who you are, um, old listeners, new listeners, families, friends, thank you for all your support.
00:32:41
Speaker
And we love, um, you know, what we're going to be bringing to the future, future generations.
00:32:47
Speaker
Um,
00:32:47
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:32:49
Speaker
And you know what, as well, I think, you know, we're going to really try.
00:32:54
Speaker
I'm going to get, once we get on the road, it's going to get easier for me and we're going to really try and document as much of this as we can on social media.
00:33:04
Speaker
So we're going to go on Live and Survive.
00:33:06
Speaker
We're going to go live lots.
00:33:08
Speaker
We're going to talk people through it.
00:33:09
Speaker
We're going to record the podcast.
00:33:11
Speaker
It's going to be crazy and hilarious.
00:33:13
Speaker
And we hopefully you can all laugh along the road with us.
00:33:17
Speaker
And, you know, we'll really, really spread a bit of joy and fun around the UK because that's basically, that is the one, that's number one of why we're coming.
00:33:28
Speaker
Spread the lessons.
00:33:29
Speaker
But, oh, people, we just need to have some fun and spread some joy.
00:33:33
Speaker
So that's what we're coming for.
00:33:35
Speaker
Exactly right.
00:33:36
Speaker
Exactly right.
00:33:37
Speaker
But we've got one more thing before we wrap up.
00:33:39
Speaker
And that is rule for the rule book.
00:33:41
Speaker
Rule book.
00:33:47
Speaker
It's very serious.
00:33:48
Speaker
That's almost like a drop roll, Maxie.
00:33:52
Speaker
All right.
00:33:53
Speaker
Rule for the rule book.
00:33:54
Speaker
Rule for the rule book.
00:33:55
Speaker
Go, Maxie.
00:33:56
Speaker
Be brave, take risks.
00:33:59
Speaker
Again, be brave, take risks.
00:34:03
Speaker
Full stop.
00:34:04
Speaker
Because that's what the next four weeks are going to be for us.
00:34:10
Speaker
So if we can do it, so can you.
00:34:13
Speaker
We've gone out on a limp.
00:34:15
Speaker
And we're going to be brave and we're going to take a risk and we know we're going to meet some amazing people.
00:34:20
Speaker
We can't wait.
00:34:21
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:22
Speaker
So that's it, Maxi.
00:34:23
Speaker
It is.
00:34:24
Speaker
So next time we'll be speaking to you, we'll be thousands of kilometers away from Australia and we'll be in the Northern Hemisphere.
00:34:31
Speaker
Yeah, so that's it.
00:34:33
Speaker
We've got a pack of bags, Maxie.
00:34:35
Speaker
We've got to get rolling.
00:34:37
Speaker
So I will see you.
00:34:38
Speaker
You're flying into Brisbane.
00:34:40
Speaker
Yep.
00:34:40
Speaker
I'm going to meet you at Brisbane International Airport.
00:34:44
Speaker
Do you need me to write a name badge?
00:34:46
Speaker
It's been a while.
00:34:46
Speaker
Will you recognize me?
00:34:48
Speaker
We'll be right.
00:34:48
Speaker
We'll be good.
00:34:49
Speaker
No, you know you'll recognize me, won't you, because I'm the girl with about 60 kilos of luggage.
00:34:53
Speaker
Exactly right.
00:34:54
Speaker
Well, there's a lot of books and there's a lot of things coming over there.
00:34:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:57
Speaker
They'll be like looking at it and thinking, there is a girl that knows how to travel.
00:35:01
Speaker
Look at the stuff that she's got.
00:35:03
Speaker
She's all over it.
00:35:04
Speaker
Oh, my life.
00:35:04
Speaker
Look at it.
00:35:05
Speaker
I'll be there with my two drollies.
00:35:07
Speaker
So, yeah, I will see you at Brisbane Airport.
00:35:10
Speaker
We'll see you soon, Lee.
00:35:12
Speaker
And we'll get this show on the road.
00:35:13
Speaker
And we hope everyone enjoyed this podcast.
00:35:15
Speaker
And, again, we can't wait to get on the road.
00:35:17
Speaker
We'll see you all soon.
00:35:19
Speaker
Take care.
00:35:19
Speaker
Bye.
00:35:20
Speaker
See you.