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Never a failure, always a lesson.
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It’s National Volunteers Week and we talk about the benefits of volunteering, for yourself as well as others. Maxi has a busy night at the Action Station and we could not be more excited about having an Intern join us for a while.
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Introduction to Live, Learn, Survive
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Hi, I'm Trent Maxwell.
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And I'm Lee Mason.
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And we want to welcome you to our Live, Learn, Survive podcast.
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Since 2018, Lee and I have traveled the globe and met face-to-face with over 17,000 children.
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We've created a series of children's books at Maxi's Rescue Squad, where teens and young adults can learn life skills online.
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They'll 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 try and learn something too.
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Hello, Lee.
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I could see you on the video this morning.
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I am here, Maxie.
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How are you this week?
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I am great.
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I am great.
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It's second week back into the swing of things, into normality.
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It's Friday.
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It is Fri-yay, as they say.
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Fri-yay, 10.36 of the a.m.
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And it gets live in what?
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Five or six hours.
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Five or six hours.
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This is as live as it's going to get.
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Close to the wire.
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Close to the wire.
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I've come off shift this morning.
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I've spent the last hour and a half editing a few of the last few videos we filmed over in the UK and Ireland.
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So, yeah, so everyone that is part of the squad that does listen to podcasts, you're in for a treat over the next few weeks.
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But, yeah, it's been a great week.
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I can't even remember what we did.
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That seemed years ago.
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It does seem like years ago.
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But the exciting thing is there's a lot of cool stuff.
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And obviously, we've got a lot to talk about this week.
Learning from Failure
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But yeah, we'll start off with a quote.
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Go with a quote, Maxi.
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Start us off.
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What have we got this week?
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So I really like this one.
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Never a failure, always a lesson.
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Oh, so true.
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So true.
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So, you know, a lot of people do fail and it's okay to fail because by failing, it makes you stronger and better.
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for the next time.
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And it's a lesson.
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Everything is a lesson in life.
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It's just one big, long journey, the highs and lows, the good, the bad, the ugly.
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Just embrace it.
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And it's all experience.
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If you failed at something, it means you tried.
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And that's why it's important to understand that, you know,
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Failing is such a strong word and it upsets a lot of people when they think they fail.
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But really, like I said, it's a lesson.
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You're learning.
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It's all a learning curve.
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Yeah, and it's like kids aren't, you know, no one wants little ones to have a hard time and stuff like that.
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But you do learn by failing.
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You know, everybody can't win all the time.
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That's just not life.
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I reckon you'll get over winning all the time.
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Well, you wouldn't learn anything.
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Everything would just be the same.
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It would be like Groundhog Day.
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You'd have no sense of achievement.
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You would have no sense of achievement of that, you know what, I got a bit better at that or I got that right this time.
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Exactly right.
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Where would your sense of achievement go?
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And that's where your self-esteem comes from.
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Well, everyone loves the success story, and especially when you watch the old, you know, the movie and the highs and lows in the movie.
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And people watch the movie when they see they're down and out and, you know, the fact that towards the end of the movie, whatever they achieve to do, it's kind of like a feel-good, humbling kind of thing.
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Yeah, exactly,
Pop Culture and Personal Milestones
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exactly.
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I think it's very important.
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Speaking of movies, Top Gun.
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Top Gun's coming out soon.
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Top Gun 2.
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Thursday.
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Happy birthday, Lee.
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Tom Cruise.
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26th of May.
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Are you booked?
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Are you going?
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Birthday week podcast next week, Lee.
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We'll have to organize a bit of a thing.
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I'm going next Saturday.
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Tom Cruise.
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That's awesome.
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I'm booked in.
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Anyway, right.
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Anyway, don't distract.
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What have we got next?
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Can you remember when?
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What are we going to talk about next?
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Have we got some music?
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Come on, music.
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Come on, come on.
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It's Friday.
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Come on.
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Help us out here.
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There we go.
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We've got it.
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Talk about never failing.
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Oh, okay.
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Sorry about that, everyone.
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It's been a long week.
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It's been a long week.
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We're all there.
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Yeah, it has.
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Can you remember when?
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Can you remember when?
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I was driving yesterday and I drove past the little daycare centre that is only probably two or three kilometres from my house.
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And this reminded me, Maxie, of when we got a random message.
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We get lots of random messages.
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And this was about a little girl who I think...
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I think her name might have been Maisie.
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Oh, I might be wrong there.
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Don't quote me on that.
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Anyway, she was four.
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It was dress up day and they were doing fairies and something or else.
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And there was no way she was going as a fairy.
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She was a lifeguard.
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She had the walkie talkie.
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She was, you know, she was in the tower.
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She was like all over it.
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And it just happened that this daycare centre was really close to where I lived.
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And remember, we just popped in and gave this little girl the shock of her life.
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Yeah, I remember that.
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And it was very early on the piece of, that was before Live, Learn, Survive.
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It was.
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That was the sunrise at Bondi days of us just trying to find our feet.
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It was.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I remember that very clearly.
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That was a good day and they were very happy.
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And I'm pretty sure I did a little bit of a water safety or beach safety talk there as well.
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Yeah, in the playground.
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I was fumbling around.
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I was fumbling around.
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Yeah.
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Well, we couldn't get you off the slide, Maxie, if we're honest.
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Truth, the truth.
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You were on the swings.
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It was like, you know.
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I know.
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So I drove past yesterday and it just reminded me.
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I thought, oh, I wonder how she's doing.
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She's probably at high school now, Maxie.
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I don't know.
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No, I know.
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She's probably graduated from Harvard or something.
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Yeah, exactly.
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No, I do know that I see the names pop up on social media every now and again.
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So I loved it that there she was in a little lifeguard shirt.
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She was no way being the fairy.
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She was going to be the lifeguard.
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And it was like, this girl is going to sort it out.
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So, yeah, great family, lovely thing we did, awesome people at the daycare centre.
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And yeah, what a nice thing that the people that ran the centre reached out to us about it.
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So pretty nice thing.
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So nice little memory, just another little nice thing that we did.
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So yes, that's a good memory.
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So what do we got next?
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We must have some good news
Growth and New Beginnings
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this week, Maxie.
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We always got good news.
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We have good news.
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Good news is there's a few things here.
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Yeah, a few things.
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One that makes me incredibly happy.
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We always preach.
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We always preach that Live, Learn, Survive and Max's Rescue Squad and everything that we do is getting bigger and better.
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Yeah.
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And it is.
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Each day we're always kicking goals.
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We're doing things.
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But a lot of people don't realize it's just yourself and me.
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Yeah.
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And when it gets bigger and better.
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When it gets bigger and better.
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When it gets better, it is bigger and better each day.
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We get stretched a little bit bigger and we get stretched a little bit more and worse.
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I feel like every week we're like, oh, we've got some great news.
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Oh, we can't say too much.
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We can't say too much.
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People are going to start asking questions and go, well, what is this good news?
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Well, you just get on with it.
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So I'm not sure we won't mention her name yet.
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because we'll do a proper intro.
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So keep the people on the edge.
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Keep people on the edge of their seats.
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But I've been beside myself in the last 48 hours because I'm going to get some help.
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We're going to get an intern.
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We have an intern.
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How cool is this?
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So we've come a long way from having Nala, my cat, as the intern.
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Yeah.
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And Bonnie in complaints.
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Because, frankly, he's not been up to it.
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Yeah.
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He's not busy enough, to be honest.
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That is very, very exciting news.
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And you know what?
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It deserves a bit of music.
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Oh.
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Oh, yes.
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It stops me getting up at four o'clock, which is the only time my brain is sharp to do some writing and stuff.
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So what it actually means is the stuff, what we're going to get some help is, this is an amazing lady who is part of our rescue squad, who is actually a teacher.
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She is also studying for her master's and part of studying for her master's is a project.
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So she is going to...
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help put some more of our curriculum together.
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And we've got some other really, really cool ideas for the rescue squad.
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So we're going to get an expert in Maxie.
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You know, you and I start off with the vision and we know what we want it to look like, but then we need these experts that like knock it into shape and make it look, you know, as it should.
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And we are going to talk a little bit about more, we'll be at the Racing Squad very shortly.
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But there's some amazing people in that squad and nearly every single, you know, I say nearly every single person in that squad can help us in some way.
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So we really appreciate all the help.
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And the other good news, we had the Zoom this week.
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So we caught up with some of the people we met over in the UK and Ireland, checked in on all of those.
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That was great.
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I think I came out of my hand, we had like eight countries tuning.
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We had England, Ireland, Scotland, America.
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Oh, no, we didn't have Wales.
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Yeah.
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No, we did.
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We did.
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We had the Megan.
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Oh, yeah, of course we did.
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We did.
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Really amazing.
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America.
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Really amazing.
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Yes.
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America, Canada, kind of Poland.
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You would say Poland.
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Germany.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The Netherlands.
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Australia, the Netherlands.
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Some in the Netherlands who told me because you had to dash off and go to work.
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Some in the Netherlands going to be in Brisbane and Sydney in September.
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Awesome.
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We'll have to catch up.
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But, yeah, so, you know, I'll just count it then.
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There's 10 on my hands.
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So it's awesome that, you know, we did the Zoom.
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We had 10 countries represent.
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It's kind of like the United Nations.
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Yeah.
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And we spoke about the videos that we did the last –
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month and a half because it's been a little bit since we have done the live zoom.
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And we spoke about, everyone had a few questions about what, um,
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you know, what they've learned to what they want to learn, continue learning.
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So it was really good.
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It was very productive.
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And we had our youngest rescue squad member join us.
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Yeah, Nico.
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Yeah, he had a special late-night approval to stay up and join the squad, which was amazing.
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And then we also had good news come out of there because as we left Ireland, our mate Noah –
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was waiting to hear if he got the gig and he got the gig.
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He got the gig.
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Beach lifeguard.
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So we have a few aspiring.
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Yep.
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that start their careers in the next couple of weeks, which is amazing to hear.
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So, you know.
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So that was so much good news there.
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And then another thing, we did have a photograph in from our little mate, Ollie, who got his rescue squad shirt on and he's been having some treatment and things.
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So that was great.
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Thinking of your Ollie, it was great to get the photo and see you up and about on your feet, little mate.
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So, yeah.
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That was great.
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So it's been loads of good news.
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And I've been especially happy.
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My physio mate, Lisa, legend.
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I've had a problem with my hip for the best part of three years.
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I've had x-rays.
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I've had this, that, found what it is, Maxie.
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it means I'm going to be fine.
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I'm going to be able to get sorted.
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So I'm very happy.
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Know what I need to do, all the rest of it.
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That is good news.
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Cheeky little, what do they call them?
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Adductor, iliacus, iliacus muscle.
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Very painful.
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So that's made my day very, very happy.
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That's good.
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So yeah, so that's all the good news this week.
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And then we've got a trivia night to organise.
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Yeah, so the trivia night's coming up quickly.
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It's another, I think, well, I'll be in Italy in seven weeks, so it's in six weeks' time.
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It's in six weeks, yes.
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Yeah, and then Cairns is in two or three, yeah, three weeks.
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Yeah, three weeks.
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Which is very exciting.
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Yeah, we've got that booked.
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We're back on the road.
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The flights are booked.
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We're...
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North, northbound.
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Northbound.
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We're off up north.
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We're off up north, lad.
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Yeah.
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And obviously, you know, we don't talk religion, politics or anything too crazy on this podcast.
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It's a feel-good podcast.
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But we do have our Australian election or federal election this weekend.
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Yes.
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So, yeah, it'll be interesting to see what Australia decides.
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But, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Should be interesting.
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That's Saturday night sorted then.
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Yeah, I'm back at the fire station, so I think you'll be on the fire station working it all out.
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We'll all be looking going, what's going on now?
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So good luck to everybody with that.
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And, yeah, so a bit going off this week, Maxie.
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And then you just mentioned the Action Station.
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Action Station.
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Action Station.
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Yes.
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So job of the week.
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On the truck.
Lifeguard Stories and Safety Lessons
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Tell us all about it.
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Yeah.
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So before I worked yesterday, I did a few lifeguard shifts.
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Lifeguard has been good.
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It's just starting to quiet down now.
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The weather's starting to drop.
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It's currently raining outside and it hasn't stopped raining up in Queensland.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, it's been a few lifeguard jobs, which has been busy and there's a lot of work, which is awesome to be back in the blue.
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But
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The job of the week, I just come off shift this morning.
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We had a really high speed car accident this morning.
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And the poor bloke was, you know, he went and picked up his car, his ute, utility from the depot, driving along a main road and a gentleman and his passenger,
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pulled out and they were speeding and they cut across the intersection and, and, um, you know, T-bone.
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Uh, but the problem is they, it was in North side street.
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They took off, um, and left the guy, left the guy in the car.
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Luckily, the guy was okay.
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We got there.
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He was a really big kit.
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So I think the impact was about 8K an hour.
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So I'm not sure that would be in miles.
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But, yeah, a fair bit of damage, a lot of oil and bits and pieces all over the road.
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But he was okay.
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He was okay.
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But the fact that the –
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the people caused the accident and then they drove off.
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It's pretty disappointing.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And then he ended up coming back, the guy that caused the accident.
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But because the police arrived, you can't get breathalyzed if you're eating and drinking.
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So, yeah, so I don't know if he was intoxicated or not, but the fact that he was flirting with the evidence of knowing exactly what caused the accident.
00:15:09
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So, yeah, it was an interesting morning.
00:15:11
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No, it's good, not good.
00:15:12
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So what time was that?
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That was about 5.30 this morning.
00:15:16
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Oh, nice.
00:15:16
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Nice little early alarm then.
00:15:18
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Yeah, nice.
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We had a few runs during the night too.
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So there's always something going on out there.
00:15:23
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Always something.
00:15:24
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Always something going on.
00:15:26
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So, well, I'm glad the action station is, you know, keeping up to its name.
00:15:30
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But I'm glad the guy was okay.
00:15:32
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And the naughty boys will get captured by the police.
00:15:36
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Well, the thing is they did get captured by the police, but I think they got to talk the way out of it, unfortunately.
00:15:42
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Oh, okay.
00:15:42
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But we'll see what happens.
00:15:44
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Anyway.
00:15:44
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Exactly.
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So, yeah, anything.
00:15:47
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What else, Maxie?
00:15:48
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Anything?
00:15:48
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There's always something.
00:15:49
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There's always something going on.
00:15:50
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But, yeah, and I worked a few days on the boats this week and did a few vertical rescue drills in confined spaces, which is good.
00:15:57
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And we had all the Navy staff on the ship come and watch us do our job.
00:16:01
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Yeah.
00:16:02
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And, yeah, it was quite, you know, very technical, you know.
00:16:05
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So is that inside the ship?
00:16:06
Speaker
Inside the ship.
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Or on the outside of the ship, inside.
00:16:09
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Inside.
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So we have all the ropes and the harnesses and all the stretches and stuff like that and we have to be on air and stuff.
00:16:17
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Right down into the bottom of the boat.
00:16:19
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Bottom of the boat, yeah, nice and tight.
00:16:20
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That's why you – I've just realised that's where you went on that ferry.
00:16:24
Speaker
You were not just up on the top deck.
00:16:27
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Did you go right, you know, how far to the bottom can I get?
00:16:31
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Yeah, I know.
00:16:32
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Yeah, exactly.
00:16:34
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But, yeah, no, it's been a busy week, so it's good.
00:16:38
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And you're back on there tomorrow.
00:16:40
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Tomorrow morning.
00:16:42
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Absolutely.
00:16:43
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So, oh, there's always something.
00:16:48
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So I see here you've got something, but I've got three things and they're kind of like just bang, bang, bang.
00:16:52
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So it's not really that bad.
00:16:54
Speaker
Tell me about it.
00:16:55
Speaker
Well, you look okay, so hopefully it wasn't too bad.
00:16:59
Speaker
So I kicked my toe again, but to the point where it was like square.
00:17:04
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So my pinky toe, the smallest toe was like 90 degrees.
00:17:10
Speaker
And it was right on the corner of the bed.
00:17:14
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And then, yeah, because there's been a bit of rain around, I slipped over.
00:17:17
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I had thongs on, slipped over in the wet.
00:17:20
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Not the thongs in the rain.
00:17:21
Speaker
Oh, don't you hate that?
00:17:23
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Yep.
00:17:24
Speaker
Did you recover or did anyone see you?
00:17:27
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I recovered.
00:17:28
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I got straight back up and pretended nothing happened.
00:17:30
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Yeah, just pretended it was just like a da-da-da, yeah.
00:17:35
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Okay.
00:17:35
Speaker
And I was having a conversation with a mate and he was telling me a pretty crazy story of what happened on, you know, in a certain workplace the other day.
00:17:48
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And as I was walking, I didn't realize, and you know, we don't swear on this podcast.
00:17:53
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We don't.
00:17:53
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We always do the right thing.
00:17:55
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No, we don't swear.
00:17:56
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Yeah.
00:17:56
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I'm always doing the right thing when it comes to swearing in public.
00:17:59
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Because we're the good kids.
00:18:01
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We are the good kids.
00:18:02
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But...
00:18:04
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Play the music.
00:18:05
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Come on.
00:18:12
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Yeah, so as he was telling me this story, out loud I didn't realise.
00:18:17
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I said a certain word.
00:18:18
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You thought it and you said it.
00:18:20
Speaker
I said the firetruck word.
00:18:22
Speaker
Oh, not firetruck.
00:18:24
Speaker
And...
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As I looked to my right, there was no one around.
00:18:28
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As I looked to my left, I was right out front of the church.
00:18:31
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Oh, mate.
00:18:32
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And there was a few people there and they heard me and they just had this look on their face like, how dare you?
00:18:38
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So I'm sorry.
00:18:39
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I'm sorry.
00:18:40
Speaker
Well, you should be.
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Like, come on.
00:18:43
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But you know what?
00:18:44
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You're better than that, Maxie.
00:18:45
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After I swore in front of the church, I kicked my toe and I slipped over.
00:18:49
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So...
00:18:50
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Well, there you go.
00:18:51
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There's some karma in there somewhere.
00:18:53
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You've just got to be a good boy.
00:18:55
Speaker
So, well, I did two things this week, actually.
00:18:59
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I've just, as you were saying that one, I've thought of something else and they're both relating to
00:19:04
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to kind of shoes to shoes there you go so I went out on Sunday with the girls we had a bit of a fashion thing my my friend Sasha the um fashion uh dress designer it's our annual international women's day catch-up because we're just like you know busy um and I was walking out and I'd got my heels on I was walking out and I was looking ahead and I missed the step
00:19:32
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And it was one of those that two ladies saw me and I just pretended I was too cool and that didn't happen because I was on my own and it was a very cool room full of cool people.
00:19:43
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And two ladies looked at me and I said, look, there's always one and it's usually me.
00:19:48
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But I said, I stayed on my feet.
00:19:50
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So that got a cheer for that.
00:19:51
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But...
00:19:52
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I'm coming to see you on Sunday.
00:19:54
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I'm on a fly-in, fly-out to Sydney.
00:19:56
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Yes, we've got a Christmas.
00:19:57
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We've got a special day.
00:19:58
Speaker
We've got a special day.
00:19:59
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But this is unfortunate events.
00:20:03
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No, so I was planning my shoes because it's a long day.
00:20:08
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So I'm thinking, what am I going to wear?
00:20:10
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Special day.
00:20:11
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You've got to plan these things ahead, Maxie, if you're a girl, because shoes, I've got to fly in them, got to walk in them, got to all of this stuff.
00:20:19
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Got my shoes out and like I buy stuff and like they're classic.
00:20:24
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I keep them stuffed for a while.
00:20:26
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So I was looking at my little collection of shoes and thinking which pair are going to, you know, come to Sydney for the day.
00:20:33
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Oh, the heel snapped off.
00:20:37
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all the heel snapped off and i left this trail of heel down like you know the the end bit of the heel disintegrated i've left this trail of heel down the house and he goes what's going on with your shoes i'm like so you know out of something bad always comes something good i had to go and buy some new ones awesome i went shoe shopping so that's the good news that came out of the bad so
00:21:01
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Sadly, I had to throw some shoes away, but I bought some new ones.
00:21:05
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That's all right.
00:21:06
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It's all good.
00:21:06
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There you go.
00:21:07
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So we recovered.
00:21:09
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So, yeah, not so bad then for this week.
00:21:11
Speaker
So what have we got then next, Maxie, tip of the week?
00:21:19
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Can't even speak.
00:21:21
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It's Friday.
00:21:22
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Tip of the week.
00:21:23
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Tip of the week.
00:21:24
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Tip of the week this week is boat safety.
00:21:28
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And the video that we made or created, we were in Belfast, Ireland, and we were getting on the ferry, and across from where the ferry dock was is where the Titanic was built.
00:21:38
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I know.
00:21:38
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So I thought it was quite fitting.
00:21:41
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I know it's too soon, 110 years to go.
00:21:44
Speaker
110.
00:21:45
Speaker
But yeah, I thought it was very important to talk about ferry safety because a lot of people just, it's monotonous.
00:21:50
Speaker
People just get on there and don't even really think about the safety side of things and things that could go wrong.
00:21:56
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And over the years, there has been some tragedies.
00:21:57
Speaker
I'm pretty sure there was one in the Mediterranean.
00:22:00
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uh a few years ago there was that ferry disaster yeah just off the netherlands when i was little yeah yeah so you know you never know you never know so it's a very uh cool video i hope everyone enjoys it um and we've got you know it was um it was rather refreshing that we sat waiting to board that ferry and we you know had a moment to think about the titanic yeah yeah
00:22:22
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As we're about to board a boat.
00:22:25
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So, yeah, no, it's a great video, Maxi.
00:22:28
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I had a look at it.
00:22:28
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I watched it.
00:22:29
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And, yeah, it's really, really good.
00:22:31
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So, yeah, you did well there.
00:22:33
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Boat safety.
00:22:35
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And one of those boats we went on was one of the largest passenger ferries in the world.
00:22:40
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Yeah, it is.
00:22:42
Speaker
They're absolutely huge.
00:22:43
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They've got like 10 decks of lorries, trucks.
00:22:47
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Freight, passengers.
00:22:48
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Freight, everything.
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Speaker
They're huge.
00:22:51
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So it is really good to know where your life jacket is and the lifeboat.
00:22:55
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Fire equipment and stuff like that.
00:22:56
Speaker
Yeah, exactly right.
00:22:58
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But, yeah, tip of the week is boat safety.
Volunteering and Community Spirit
00:23:01
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So moving right along, playlist in Spotify, Maxi's Rescue Squad playlist.
00:23:06
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Yeah.
00:23:06
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We have Sophie in South Shields who's newly part.
00:23:10
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She just joined the Rescue Squad.
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I met her in South Shields a couple of weeks ago.
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She's very keen to become a Bono Lifeguard.
00:23:16
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And everyone that joins the squad gets the opportunity to send in their favorite happy-go-lucky, fun, playful song.
00:23:25
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So she gave us two.
00:23:27
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It's Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon.
00:23:29
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Yep.
00:23:29
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And the other song is Heroes by Alesso.
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So we've got a bit of a taste test.
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This is a goodie.
00:23:37
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Not bad.
00:23:38
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It's not bad.
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It's cool.
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Like it, Sophie.
00:23:47
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Thank you, Sophie.
00:23:53
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I'm dancing.
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We're off.
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We're off.
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All right.
00:23:58
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Well, thank you, Sophie.
00:23:58
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That was good.
00:23:59
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Yeah.
00:24:00
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Yeah.
00:24:00
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Perfect.
00:24:00
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And then we've got Heroes by Alesso.
00:24:02
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So we'll put that one in as well.
00:24:04
Speaker
And then...
00:24:05
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Yeah, thanks so much, Sophie, and all the other new people.
00:24:07
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Let us know your favourite songs and we'll stick them in the playlist.
00:24:14
Speaker
So, yeah, so quick five, Maxie.
00:24:15
Speaker
Quick five, not so quick five.
00:24:22
Speaker
Is this new?
00:24:22
Speaker
No, we played it last week.
00:24:24
Speaker
Did we?
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:25
Speaker
Was I here?
00:24:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:29
Speaker
Okay.
00:24:30
Speaker
So, Quick Five.
00:24:31
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So, I've made a thing this week for the Quick Five, Maxie, because it is National Volunteers Week.
00:24:38
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And volunteers are...
00:24:40
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absolute legends.
00:24:42
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So I thought, because volunteers, they're quiet achievers, the silent achievers.
00:24:51
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They just get their head down.
00:24:53
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They get on with it.
00:24:54
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They don't ask for praise.
00:24:55
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They just do it.
00:24:56
Speaker
So I thought it'd be good to talk about five...
00:25:01
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Five benefits and reasons why you should volunteer, because if you can and not everyone can, but if you have capacity to do some element of volunteering, then I absolutely recommend it.
00:25:14
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So these are some of the reasons why volunteering is good for you.
00:25:19
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Yeah.
00:25:19
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So basically your own mental health.
00:25:23
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There is nothing better for your own mental health than if you can take the focus off yourself and help someone else.
00:25:31
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So just the, it makes you feel good to think that you've helped somebody else.
00:25:36
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So it can help yourself.
00:25:38
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It can help your own mental health.
00:25:40
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It reduces stress and you're doing something nice for someone else.
00:25:45
Speaker
There's nothing bad with that, right?
00:25:47
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No, there's nothing.
00:25:47
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And I really like the second one here.
00:25:49
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It's gain professional experience, test out a career and even get a job.
00:25:53
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So that's what I did with lifeguarding.
00:25:54
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You know, I was a volunteer lifesaver at South Maroobo Surf Club.
00:25:57
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Did work experience with the lifeguards.
00:26:00
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Volunteered my time while I was still at school to help out around the tower and clean and do the bits and pieces.
00:26:06
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I know it's a little bit different to what we're trying to say here, but when you do volunteer, you time into a job that you really aspire to become or do or it's for your local community and plus, it's really, really, really, really good for your resume.
00:26:19
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Exactly, exactly.
00:26:20
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So, you know, there's police, special police things.
00:26:23
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You know, there's all sorts of things.
00:26:25
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The fire is, there's so many ways with, you know, with the... Lifesaving.
00:26:30
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Yeah, like with lifesaving.
00:26:32
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You know, it might be scouting, guiding.
00:26:37
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It might be a charity.
00:26:39
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So many good, good causes doing amazing things.
00:26:43
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And if you've got a skill...
00:26:45
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you might do a few things for that charity or organisation and you think, gee, I really like this or I'm glad I tried this because it's just not for me.
00:26:54
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And it'll help you work out which career path you want to go on.
00:26:58
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And as you just said, if there's two people looking for a job and you've got on your resume that you do an element of volunteering for a not-for-profit or for a good cause,
00:27:09
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You're in for a shot.
00:27:10
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Yeah, that gives you a step up the ladder.
00:27:13
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So, yeah, so that's a great one.
00:27:16
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Next one, Maxie.
00:27:17
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We sort of covered this, but on a bit of a different tack.
00:27:21
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Go with it.
00:27:21
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Yeah, so learn a lot, discover hidden talents, and find a new value, maybe.
00:27:25
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Yes, yes.
00:27:27
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So, you know, you might find that you're really good at something.
00:27:33
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It's right.
00:27:33
Speaker
And it doesn't have to, it's okay.
00:27:36
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Like a classic example is you can volunteer time down the local park and then help out with a certain program they're doing.
00:27:42
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And then there might be an exercise or a thing there that you might go, oh, that looks pretty fun to do.
00:27:47
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I've always wanted to do that.
00:27:48
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And you start doing it and then you go, you know, I'm going to try and get better at that certain skill or, you know, what it might be.
00:27:55
Speaker
And let's just say it's skipping, for example, right?
00:27:57
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Yeah.
00:27:58
Speaker
You know, everyone has seen a skipping rope.
00:28:00
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Everyone probably skipped before.
00:28:01
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But, you know, I want to get better at skipping.
00:28:03
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So I want to go fast.
00:28:04
Speaker
I want to go longer.
00:28:05
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I want to see if I can do the crisscross.
00:28:07
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I know it's a bit of a random example.
00:28:08
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It's just because I really enjoy skipping.
00:28:10
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And as I get older, I get more and more into my skipping.
00:28:12
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But just, you know, discover hidden talents.
00:28:15
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You know, everyone's got a talent.
00:28:16
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Yeah.
00:28:16
Speaker
And it might be like, you know, if you're doing something or you're helping out in the park, you might be cleaning up the park or something.
00:28:22
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You might think, I've got to work outdoors.
00:28:24
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:25
Speaker
I don't know what kind of job I want to work outdoors.
00:28:28
Speaker
Or I want to start my own charity with cleaning up a certain park or something.
00:28:34
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Exactly, exactly.
00:28:35
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So, you know, you learn what you like and what you don't like.
00:28:39
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And then equally, you learn a bit about, and we talked on the Rescue Squad a few weeks ago about your values.
00:28:46
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Giving back might be really one of your values and then you may end up working within a charity or something like that.
00:28:52
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So that's the other good thing.
00:28:55
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I really like the next one.
00:28:56
Speaker
The next one.
00:28:58
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You go, Maxie.
00:28:58
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Yeah, no, you go, Lee.
00:28:59
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I was just saying I really like the next one.
00:29:01
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No, this is a great one.
00:29:03
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You can make friends.
00:29:04
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It brings people together and it strengthens the community, which is
00:29:09
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is really, really powerful because it almost comes back to the first one as well in the fact that it's good for you and your mental health.
00:29:16
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If you can do something and you're bringing people together and making friends,
00:29:22
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That's enough with anything else.
00:29:24
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That's enough for a person to do something.
00:29:26
Speaker
It's very similar to with the Rescue Squad.
00:29:29
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You know, we are gathering together every month on a live Zoom with people from all over the world.
00:29:35
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And it's that sense of friendship and community.
00:29:38
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And, you know, it's only getting bigger and better.
00:29:40
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So we're in the process of what we try to do with Live, Learn, Survive and Live, Learn, Survive Limited.
00:29:44
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Yeah.
00:29:45
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is trying to create these communities as well.
00:29:48
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Exactly.
00:29:49
Speaker
And you know what it's as well?
00:29:50
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It's like usually volunteers are good people.
00:29:55
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That's why they're volunteering.
00:29:57
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So the kind of people that aren't, you know, the people you want to be hanging around, and when we always talk about finding your tribe, they're not usually volunteering anyway.
00:30:06
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But the beauty of it is.
00:30:08
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So you are in, you know, finding a really good group of people.
00:30:12
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The beauty of it is, though, it doesn't matter how old you are.
00:30:14
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You can be a teenager, a child.
00:30:17
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You can be a young adult.
00:30:19
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You can be in your midlife.
00:30:21
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You can be elderly.
00:30:23
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It's never too early or too late to be a volunteer, which I really like as well.
00:30:28
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Exactly.
00:30:29
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And the last thing as well, it's good for...
00:30:33
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You know, it saves resources.
00:30:35
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The cost that volunteers save the government in having to put into funding of certain things is absolutely astronomical.
00:30:45
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So, you know what?
00:30:47
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You're actually giving back to your community as well.
00:30:49
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It's just a good thing to do.
00:30:51
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So, you know, hopefully there's a few reasons that if you haven't volunteered or you don't volunteer that you might just think,
00:31:00
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you know what, I might just try something.
00:31:02
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So, you know, give it a go.
00:31:05
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Yep.
00:31:06
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I think it's very, very good, that segment.
00:31:09
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And last thing here we got is rule for the rule book.
00:31:12
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Rule for the rule book.
00:31:20
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So I think it's very fitting what we just spoke about with the volunteering process.
00:31:25
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Rule for the rule book this week is give not to receive.
00:31:29
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Just give.
00:31:30
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And you know what?
00:31:30
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The cool thing is if you don't expect anything, when you do get something in return, it's amazing.
00:31:36
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It's cool.
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And you're like, oh, that's a part of why I do what I do is because there's the off chance that you might get something.
00:31:44
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But if you don't, that's fine.
00:31:45
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You're still giving.
00:31:46
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And that's a beautiful thing.
00:31:47
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Exactly.
00:31:48
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And if you're giving in the anticipation that you're going to receive, you're not giving for the right reasons.
00:31:53
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Exactly right.
00:31:54
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And you know what?
00:31:54
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You'll be waiting a hell of a long time because sometimes people just don't see that you might want to receive something and or people that you're helping might not be able to give you anything because of the conditions or the environment they are in.
00:32:10
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So you should do it for the right reasons and give where and when you can.
00:32:16
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And it's okay if you can't at the time.
00:32:18
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Everyone goes through their struggles and everyone goes through the highs and lows of life.
00:32:21
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But if you're in a position where you can give, please do.
00:32:24
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And you know what?
00:32:25
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This is not giving, you know, we're saying this.
00:32:27
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This is not about money or anything like this.
00:32:29
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This is like, you know, you might give someone 30 seconds of your time having a conversation on the bus.
00:32:36
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It's not about giving something you don't have or it's just about giving good energy.
00:32:42
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If you give nothing else, like, you know, just be kind and share a smile.
00:32:48
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If someone cuts you off on a busy road and, you know, you've been sitting in traffic for the last half an hour and you haven't moved...
00:32:55
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Give the person the opportunity that's just pushed in, the opportunity to push in, and then give them a nice friendly wave.
00:33:01
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If they don't wave back, that's okay, but at least you gave them your spot.
00:33:04
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Exactly, exactly.
00:33:06
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I just had a flashback to the poor bus driver at Heathrow.
00:33:08
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You see, you were lovely that day.
00:33:10
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Like, don't let it ruin your day, mate.
00:33:12
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Yeah, he was in fine form.
00:33:16
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Yeah, exactly.
00:33:17
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So there you go.
00:33:17
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Give not to receive.
00:33:19
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That's our rule of the week.
00:33:22
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And we've got to get around to getting this rule book printed, Maxi.
00:33:25
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And it's going to happen.
00:33:27
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It's going to happen.
00:33:28
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It's on the list.
00:33:29
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We've got help now.
00:33:30
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We've got an intern.
00:33:32
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I'm not going to know what to do with myself.
00:33:34
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Yeah.
00:33:35
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All good.
00:33:36
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It's been a great, great chat again, Lee.
00:33:38
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Yes.
00:33:39
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You know, episode 43.
00:33:41
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We're powering along.
00:33:42
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We're nearly at the year mark.
00:33:44
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Who'd have thought?
00:33:45
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We're still talking.
00:33:46
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We've still got plenty to say.
00:33:47
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Yeah, we do.
00:33:49
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That's never a problem.
00:33:50
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I'll be seeing you in a couple of days.
00:33:52
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Yes, I'll be there.
00:33:53
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I'll let you know what time I'll end.
00:33:55
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Yep, and then we'll be doing the podcast next Thursday, normal time again next week because I'm on shift on Friday.
00:34:02
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Yeah, back at the – and see what next week unravels.
00:34:06
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So, actually, Thursday is my birthday.
00:34:09
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I might be taking the day off, Maxie.
00:34:11
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Exactly right.
00:34:12
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Sorry about that.
00:34:13
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Yeah, maybe we do something Wednesday.
00:34:14
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I put in my annual leave form.
00:34:16
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Didn't you get it?
00:34:17
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Yeah, I did.
00:34:18
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It's in the complaints department.
00:34:20
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Barney, Barney's going with it.
00:34:22
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What did you say?
00:34:22
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You've not earned enough leave.
00:34:24
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You can't have a day off.
00:34:27
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We can't financially recover if you take a day off.
00:34:32
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Okay, so we might be recording this Thursday.
00:34:34
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No, no, it'll be Wednesday.
00:34:35
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We'll do it Wednesday.
00:34:36
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We'll do it Wednesday.
00:34:37
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But yeah, anyway.
00:34:37
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We'll do it Wednesday.
00:34:39
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All right.
00:34:39
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Sounds like a plan.
00:34:41
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We hope you all have a, you know, myself and Lee, I hope you have a great week, great weekend.
00:34:45
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Look after yourselves, take care, and please get in touch with any questions or any advice about the Rescue Squad or anything we do.
00:34:52
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We'd love to hear from you.
00:34:54
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And we will see you all next week.
00:34:57
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Yes.
00:34:58
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Lots of love.
00:34:58
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I'll see you Sunday at the airport.
00:35:00
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Another day, another airport, Maxie.
00:35:03
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We're on.
00:35:04
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Take care.
00:35:05
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See you, everyone.
00:35:06
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Bye.