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Expect the Unexpected
13 Plays3 years ago
You have to listen to believe it, the podcast we recorded in a truck stop, mixed with all the usual fun.
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Introduction and Mission Overview
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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 travelled the world and met face-to-face with over 13,000 children.
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We've created a series of children's books and Maxie's Rescue Squad where teens and young adults can learn life skills online that not only help themselves, but help others too.
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We take what we do very seriously, ourselves not so much.
Unusual Recording Setup
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We're currently sitting in a car park.
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So let's spend the next half an hour together in the wilderness for some fun, inspiration and kindness and we'll try and learn something too.
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I really hope so.
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How are you, Lee?
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Lee, you're actually with me in the car.
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Yeah, where are you this week, Lee?
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Well, I'm sat next to you, Maxie.
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We're in the car.
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We are racing the clock because, as you know, four o'clock on Friday is podcast time and it's already 4.15.
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Yes.
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So, not ideal.
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It's not ideal.
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That's a bit of unfortunate.
Expect the Unexpected
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It is.
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We're going to take a photograph of this because if you didn't see this, you would not believe it.
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We were sat.
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So we're in a rest area on the side of, where are we?
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The M?
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We're on the, what was it?
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New England Highway.
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New England Highway.
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So we did something pretty exciting today, which we'll tell a little bit about later.
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But we decided we were going to make the quote for this week is...
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Expect the unexpected.
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Expect the unexpected.
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That explains our week because it's Friday.
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And as we said, we're really nudging this one.
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We're going to be a little bit late.
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And we weren't even supposed to be together.
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Never mind about in a car on the New England highway.
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I was supposed to be home in Brisbane.
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You were supposed to be home in Sydney.
Community Engagement and Contributions
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And we're here in the upper... How did we end up here?
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We're in the upper Hunter region, which is a beautiful part of New South Wales.
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And yeah, we're in Victoria earlier this week, which we'll talk about.
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But before we get into too much, can you remember when?
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Yeah, so what we're going to talk about today, we're going to talk about the high tea, because the result of the high tea was the...
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Awesome people in Brisbane that came along and supported us, people online, resulted in us being able to donate over 250 books to an amazing organisation called The Backpack Venture, who are currently donating backpacks around regional New South Wales.
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Hence why we are in regional now in South Wales, because we got the opportunity to tag along with them today and help them hand some of their backpacks out and some of the books.
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So that was pretty awesome.
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So remembering when the high tea and when you, you know, you put something good out there for people, good things happen back.
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And we had an awesome day today.
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Yeah, it's been a great day and I look forward to it.
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talking a bit more about it throughout this episode.
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But, yeah, if you're joining us now, if you're just joining us, we're currently sitting at a truck stop two and a half hours north of Sydney.
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And we were originally outside, but we're now sitting in the car.
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Outside's about 35 degrees.
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Yeah.
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And there's lots of bull ants.
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Yeah.
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There's a lot going on.
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We would have been rolling in, never mind the podcast, we would have been rolling into Rescue Squad.
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Exactly right.
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Yeah.
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No, this is unique and this is one for the times.
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But, yeah, we'll have a bit of fun with it.
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So bear with us if the music isn't up to scratch because we've got the one microphone between us.
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We're hot spotting off a phone.
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And we don't even know what we might get.
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Exactly right.
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So hit it, Maxie.
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Are we going to get any music or not?
Travel and Community Support
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Here we go.
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We'll see if we can hear it.
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Yeah.
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Good news, Mike.
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Hopefully you can hear that.
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Yeah, so good news this week.
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There's a few things.
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We're obviously in Victoria earlier this week.
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So that was great.
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We were down in Tarragon, rural.
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you know, what would you say, Country Victoria?
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Yeah, Country Victoria.
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So the Gippsland region, the Latrobe Valley and the Gippsland area.
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And again, we went to lots of libraries.
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We went to lots of aquatic centres and just met some awesome, awesome people.
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Yeah, it was a really good time and it's good to be back on the road.
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It's been eight, nine months since we've been stuck in lockdown and not been able to travel.
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So it's good to finally get back face to face.
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Yeah.
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And within the one week...
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Country Victoria, Fire Shift, and then up here in the Upper Hunter Valley region, which is three and a half hours north of Sydney.
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Beautiful part of the world.
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Yeah, and the nice thing as well when we were down in Victoria, because one of the things we always wanted to do with the rescue squad was show different parts of Australia.
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And we were able to get out.
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The weather was just stunning.
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We were able to show some beautiful parts of the Gippsland area and we filmed heaps of things for the squad.
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And then one of the really nice things happened at one of the talks is one of the kids had a rescue squad T-shirt on.
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Yeah, which caught me off guard because I didn't realize.
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I actually said nice hat, mate.
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He had like his Hurley surf hat on.
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Didn't even notice the Maxi's Rescue Squad shirt until Lee pointed out just as we're starting the talk.
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And it looked great.
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It was awesome to see our merchandise slowly creeping out, getting out there.
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We know there's a lot of people that listen to these podcasts that have a bit of the merch.
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So, yeah, keep rocking it.
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You never know when we might see you face-to-face.
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Exactly right.
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Exactly right.
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So we did that.
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And then while we were also down there, we did the Zoom.
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So we checked in with everybody from all over the world who came in on the Zoom.
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And we also, while we were on the Zoom, we got a new person in the squad who was one of the teachers from the online team.
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lesson that we did.
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And what was just awesome for me was she said that the feedback from the school, the kids, the retention of the information, what they remembered from learning how to float, putting the hand up.
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Amazing.
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Amazing.
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It was good to see it, you know, filter through to the kids.
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And, you know, we're told that the kids at this school do, you know, suffer a little bit with special needs.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, it's so good to be able to give back to these communities and teach them some life skills that they will be able to understand and be able to live life, you know, to the fullest and be safe in doing so.
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And it's pretty cool.
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You know, the school was in Birmingham.
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Yeah.
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And while I was teaching it, I had COVID.
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So there's like a whole, you know, bit of a – it was a bit of a –
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It pulled the heartstrings when we read the nice testimony on the feedback.
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Yeah, it was absolutely lovely.
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So that was all the good news this week.
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So it's been a great week.
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It's been great to be back on the road.
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Lots of things to be grateful for.
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We literally are on the side of a road.
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Yeah, we're going to take a photo of this.
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If you're tuning in now, we are on the side of the road.
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Taking it to a whole other level.
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I can't wait for when, we haven't said anything about what we're doing in April yet.
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No, we won't.
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We'll save that for another time.
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There'll probably be many more of this.
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I just realised, Maxi, we've still got these ridiculous hats on that we've just been given because we're sitting outside and we're sat in the car with these hats on there.
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No, if someone drives past us, seriously, it's just like.
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I probably think something's going on.
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The way that I'm hiding this microphone in between us, it's an odd shape.
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It doesn't look kid-friendly.
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But, yeah, no, it's, you know, keep it G-rated, this podcast.
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Oh, yeah.
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Anyway.
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But, yeah, no, it's good.
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It's all for a good cause.
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All for a good cause.
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So hopefully you can hear this music and we're moving on to the next segment.
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What have we got next then?
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Hang on.
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You've been there haven't you, you've been down the action station.
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Yeah, action station.
Life as a Firefighter
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So last week we didn't get a chance but one of the shifts I had a building fire, a unit fire, four car accidents, alarm operating, concern for welfare, medical access emergency, all within the first 12 hours of shift.
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Obviously we do 24s.
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So yeah, it was a busy day and then yesterday we had a car accident
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I don't know how he did it, but it was a guy trapped in his car on its side in the driveway perfectly.
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So I don't know how he did it.
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He reckons he was coming home from a night shift and he must have hit the curb or something, but it literally – Oh, yeah, hit the curb and flipped it off.
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Yeah, it was flipped pretty much –
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Right in the middle of his driveway.
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Yeah.
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Well, he got it in the spot.
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Would he have got a ticket for parking it like that?
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Probably.
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Possibly.
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But he was lucky that he wasn't injured.
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But quick thinking from his neighbours, they managed to jack the car and hold it steady while they pulled him out.
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But when we got there, he was getting treated by the paramedics, and I'm sure he would make a full recovery.
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There was no real major...
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trauma injuries but yeah we pushed the car back and his Lexus is now back on four wheels not two so that's good yeah it's good to hear that busy time at the action station you're back on shift tomorrow back on shift again tomorrow it's a weekend and it's nice weather so who knows what tomorrow will bring yeah but yeah it is currently the 28th of Feb on a Friday it's January oh my god it's been a big day it's been a massive day
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It's been a big day.
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That could be the unfortunate event.
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Maxie doesn't know what month it is.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
Future Plans and Reflections
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Yeah.
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I'm lucky I even know what day it is.
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But in saying that though, I'm working tomorrow and then I've got Sunday, Monday, potentially Tuesday.
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Tuesday's off.
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So I've got three days off coming up.
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That's good.
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And I'm on the last flight tonight.
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So I've got the weekend off.
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So last flight to Brizzy.
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Hope I don't miss it.
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Yeah.
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That'd be an unfortunate event.
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No, I've got plenty of time.
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4.30.
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We've got plenty of time.
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4.30.
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We've got plenty of time.
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So, yeah.
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So it's been mainly smooth sailing.
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We've been okay.
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Speaking of unfortunate events.
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What did I miss?
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Well, we've been pretty lucky this week.
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There hasn't been too many unfortunate events.
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But, you know, just I think the unfortunate event today could be the fact that we're sitting on the side of a truck stop.
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Let me paint the picture.
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It's daylight.
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So you can see what's going on.
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It's daylight.
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That's good.
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You can see what's going on.
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You can see if there's anything dodgy going on.
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But coming here at night, I would not be safe here at night.
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It's actually quite secluded.
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It's quite secluded.
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It's very secluded.
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There's a shed.
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There's about six picnic tables.
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all in the sun.
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How's this?
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Depending tables, they've got shade over them and they're all in the sun, just the way that the sun is sitting at the moment.
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So I don't know.
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I don't know who designed that one.
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They don't give much shade.
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But not one person is at any of them.
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There's only one car here.
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Yeah, and there was another car before right in the corner somewhere.
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So I don't know what was going on over there, but they've gone.
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So we must have scared them off.
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Yeah.
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The unfortunate event, we've had a really good week.
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It's been very productive.
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Yeah.
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You know, I forgot to add, we smashed it with the Rescue Squad this week.
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Oh, yeah.
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We've got new members.
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We have filmed five or six episodes up front.
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So the themes that we're coming up are snake bites, knots, rescue knots.
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We talk about lake rescues and lake safety.
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We talk about the fire blanket.
Safety and Leisure
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uh which is really good because we're out over looking latrobe valley all these places that we did the filming made sure it was a beautiful setting a beautiful spot to show you nice parts of australia yeah and what was the fifth one the fifth one was on oh we went for a walk walk and talk like you know unwind after the day and um yeah we got halfway along and there was a
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massive crack of thunder and we thought we better turn around.
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But yeah, we went for a walk, a little bit of an unwind after the day.
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So yeah, we smashed it this week.
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It's been great to be on the road and do all of that.
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So yeah, so what have we got then next, Maxie?
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What are we on?
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Tip of the week is boat safety.
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We're talking boat safety today.
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And the episode that we launched, I did the little teaser.
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It launched today, but the little teaser on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram.
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And it's pretty much just talking about boat safety, how to place a life jacket on.
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It's very important to know these things because it's relevant not just here in Australia, but all over the world.
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So if you do get a spare minute and you are a part of the rescue squad,
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Make sure you check out this boat safety video.
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It's very important.
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It's a good one.
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And if you're not a part of the squad, join up.
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But if you're not, go check out YouTube or TikTok or our Live, Learn, Survive and Max's Rescue Squad Insta page and you'll be able to see the minute video about boat safety, which is very important.
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Yeah, because we were telling the kids today, obviously we've been inland today.
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There's more drownings in land than there is at the beach and how important it is to
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Be safe around rivers and be safe if you're on boats, on lakes, and make sure you're wearing your life jacket.
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So, yes.
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So, great tip, Maxie.
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A good one.
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Yeah.
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Crazy statistic we talk about as well is 15% of all drowning deaths here in Australia are boat related.
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Yeah.
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So...
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And around the world will be a lot more, I know for sure.
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So just be careful around the water.
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It doesn't matter what month it is.
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It always is relevant to be safe around the boat.
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Exactly, exactly.
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So, yeah, great video, Maxie.
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You did a great job of that.
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So then next thing, we've got the playlist.
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What are we putting in the playlist today?
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The playlist today is a song by the Beatles, The Beatles, and it's Get Back.
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I think it's a really cool song.
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We'll talk about it later in the podcast of things that we've been indulging in of late.
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But, yeah, that song's been getting played a fair bit on my Spotify the last few weeks running and so on.
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So hopefully you all enjoy a bit of Beatle.
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Get back on the road.
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That's been us this week.
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Get back on the road.
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So, yeah, the Beatles get back.
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We'll get that straight in the playlist.
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And yeah, another good, excellent choice, Maxie.
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So yeah, so what have we got next?
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On to the quick five, not so quick.
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Yeah, the quick five.
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That's not so quick five.
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There's just a car turned up.
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We might have to make it quicker.
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There's a couple of cars that have turned up.
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Oh, there's two cars turned up now.
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So, yeah, so the quick five.
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What we thought this week, we'd tell you about some of the five cool places that we've been this week as we've been travelling around Australia.
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So first thing we went to is a beautiful lake just in the Gippsland area called Lake Narrakhan,
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And that's where we did some of the video in.
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And it was Australia Day, such a beautiful setting.
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Everyone on boats, jet skis, they were just enjoying their day.
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Public holiday, so people were off, gone to the water.
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30, what was it, 34, 35 degree day?
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Beautiful, stunning day at Lake Narakan in Gippsland.
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Yeah, and we got some really good footage for the rescue squad there talking about, you know, all the hidden dangers that I could have seen on the day.
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But, you know, in a nutshell, if you're ever in regional Victoria near Tarragon, check out Lake Narakan.
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Narrakan.
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Narrakan.
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And then this whole area is part of a wider area called the Latrobe Valley.
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So it's basically a valley that's to the east of Melbourne.
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So if you know Victoria, Victoria is the southernmost state other than Tasmania.
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on the eastern side of Australia.
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So it's the very southern of the mainland.
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And this Melbourne is the capital city there.
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And then this area is all out towards the east, towards the middle of the state and the coast.
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So the Latrobe Valley, some absolutely beautiful lookouts.
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So we went up and we took a few photos, didn't we, up at the lookouts.
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And yeah, such a really nice countryside.
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And from one of these lookouts,
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we were doing some rescue, how many butterflies were in that, that look out?
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Yeah, there was plenty.
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Um, a lot of our videos that we made, there was some birds, there was some butterflies, really green.
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There's obviously, you know, we were in the bush or in parts of, uh, you know, areas that, that,
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pretty much untouched.
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So it was very beautiful.
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It was very nice.
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I reckon one point I was filming you talking and there would have been 20 butterflies around you.
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It was unbelievable.
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So that's a beautiful Latrobe Valley.
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Yeah.
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And we got a new little country town that's just before Shriargan called Garagong.
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Yep.
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And we stopped there last time we were down there, and then we stopped again this time.
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And there's this really nice bakery that, you know, it's just got all the sandwiches, milkshakes, ice creams.
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Yep, loads of local produce because there's a lot of dairy and a lot of local produce for the Gippsland area.
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And something that caught my eye, and I actually bought the last packet, they had frozen strawberries, Maxie.
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And they were just divine.
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Frozen strawberries covered in chocolate, freeze-dried, frozen, then covered in chocolate.
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chocolates and actually talia and i had them last night but there's one left so when you get home yeah maybe i can you can you can try it well if there are any left so um so yeah so that was our um first first few spots wrapping up of beautiful victoria and then i didn't fly home to brisbane because i'm here now with you in
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Yeah, we're in the upper Hunter Valley, which is like we're saying four, three and a half hours northwest of Sydney.
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It's a bit inland off Newcastle.
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So it's a great part of the world.
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Some really nice scenic drives, especially here in the Great Dividing Range.
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um, yeah, beautiful.
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So we're in Denman, um, went to a few schools in the area, got to meet some locals, went and had a lemon lime bitters at the local country pub.
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Yeah.
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As you do, cause it's, it's been incredibly hot.
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It's like 35 degrees and we've been at, at in pretty much in the sun with our hats on and, um, my face, I look like I've caught the sun.
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So, um, so yeah, we've got our hats on and it's incredibly hot.
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So, um,
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So yeah, we met some amazing people.
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So shout out to St.
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Joseph's School in Denman because the principal was just amazing.
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They managed to get a number of our books as well.
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And we'll be able to share next week's podcast of a couple of other bits of cool things that we did with the schools.
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We just can't talk about it until Monday.
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But hence Mondays after this podcast gets released.
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So next week we'll talk about it.
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Yeah, some good coverage.
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That's all we've got to say.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So great and great people to meet.
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The Backpack Venture people were brilliant because we hadn't actually met them yet.
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And it was just like the stars aligned.
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So great.
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Instead of me flying back to Brisbane on Wednesday night, I changed my flight.
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I came back to Sydney with you.
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You went to the fire station, came home from the fire station at 7 o'clock this morning, and we were on the road by quarter to 8.
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Exactly right.
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And then I dropped you off at the airport.
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Yeah, because I'm on the late flight home.
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We're still about 2 hours and 40 minutes from Sydney.
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Yeah.
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Dropped Lee at the airport, and then, yeah, I'll shoot off home.
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And then, yeah, back on the fire station tomorrow.
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Tomorrow, and I'm on there.
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I don't land in Brisbane until...
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like well it'll be 11 o'clock sydney time so it's going to be a long long day covered a fair bit of australia in the last six days so um we've got eight nine months to make up yeah exactly exactly so um so that's good and then last thing maxi because we've been on the road a lot any other business what have we been watching listening to or reading
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Yeah, so for me, two this week, you know, I've been in a hotel room down in the country of Victoria overnight after a busy day teaching and educating.
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I managed to watch a bit of the new Beatles documentary, the docuseries called Get Back.
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And it's, you know, raw footage, two and a half hours each episode.
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So there's three episodes in total of 18 days watching the Beatles come up with the Let It Be album.
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I thought it was very interesting and it's very raw and I've heard a lot of Beatles songs over the years, but I'm actually quite a big fan of the rock and roll and the kind of the style of music, their last album before they broke up.
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So it's very interesting.
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And also adding on to that, I managed to, I'm only two pages off finishing a book that I got about two weeks ago, which is a world record for me reading.
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It is Ross Elderly, the guy that swam around England.
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Yep.
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champion guy, really knowledgeable, a lot of inspiration for me for my adventure race coming up in 10 weeks.
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But yeah, two pages off and it's a great book.
00:22:05
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Good.
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Well done, Magsie.
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And then I watched on the fly and then I got it on my... I watched my favourite film.
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Switched my brain off after busy days.
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My favourite... One of my favourite films, The Blind Side.
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I can't... I love that film.
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So, yeah.
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And then I'm halfway through and I watch it on the rest of the flight.
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I'm watching it again.
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A Star is Born.
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Lady Gaga and Bradley Kibbe.
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That's a good movie.
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Good movie.
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Good movie.
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So...
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if you are listening, just check out those recommendations because, uh, you know, it keeps us occupied and not, it's hard for us to slow down and switch off.
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So if these, these things are working, maybe, uh, you should try it out.
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And good things should be shared.
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So when we find something good, we'll be promised we'll be the, you'll be the first to know.
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We'll tell you about it.
00:22:52
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So, um,
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So, yeah, so that's been our very crazy, hectic week.
00:22:58
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So what are we going to finish off with this week's rule, Max?
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There's so much.
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Where do we even start?
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There's so much.
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So this week's rule for the rule book is always...
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What have we got here?
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Sorry.
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We've got glass half full, not glass half empty.
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Yeah.
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So glass is always half full, not half empty.
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So it's always, you know, you always got room for improvement.
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You know, you've got always improvement for adding a little bit more water.
00:23:24
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You know, it's when you're looking at the empty, you know, all your hydration and everything's just got to go away.
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So just try it.
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It's how you look at its perspective.
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Just always have your glass half full.
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Yeah.
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And then you can always expect the unexpected.
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as happened with us when, you know, for me, three day trip turned into a six day trip.
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We got to meet some awesome people today that we would never even have done that.
00:23:48
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So, yeah, always keep your glass, look at your glass and think it's half full, not half empty because that's when, you know, good things happen.
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So.
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Exactly right.
00:23:58
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Well,
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You know, a few people aren't going to be happy.
00:24:01
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We're a little bit short today, aren't we?
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We're 24 minutes in.
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But you know what?
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There's more cars turning up, Max.
00:24:07
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There's more cars turning up.
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I think we can be excused a few minutes today.
00:24:11
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Exactly right.
00:24:12
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So, yeah, because we are on the fly, it is, you know, fast paced this podcast.
00:24:19
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But I hope you all enjoyed.
00:24:21
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Make sure that you check out all the socials, keep up to date with everything that we're doing because there's a lot of exciting stuff coming.
00:24:28
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Lots of stuff coming.
00:24:30
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And we know that we have support from not just here in Australia but all over the world.
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So we thank you for that.
00:24:34
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And, yeah, we hope you enjoy the podcast.
00:24:36
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We'll see you all next week.
00:24:38
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Yeah, we will.
00:24:39
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And, yeah, we thank everybody for tuning in.
00:24:42
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This one's going to be a little bit different, but we'll take a photo because if you do not see this, you would not believe it.
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So this is just one that will definitely go in the book, Maxie, the other book.
00:24:54
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The other book, exactly right.
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The final book.
00:24:56
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Exactly right.
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Well, we hope everyone has a great, safe week.
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Look after yourselves and we'll see you all next week.
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See you soon.
00:25:02
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Bye.
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Bye.
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I hope we all get home.
00:25:04
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Yeah, hopefully we get home, but hopefully the music works.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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See ya.