1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the show. 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 2: Welcome to Better Than Yesterday, useful tools and useful conversations 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 2: to help make your day to day better than yesterday, 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 2: every single weeks in twenty thirteen. 5 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: My name's Oshi Ginsburg. I'm very glad you're here. And 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: you may. 7 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 2: Hear a difference in how I normally sound because I'm 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: not at home in my studio, nor am I over 9 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 2: at the other. 10 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: Studio that I sit in with Adam. I am on 11 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: the side of the. 12 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 2: Road by the Royal Hall of Industries in Moore Park, 13 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 2: next to the Orden Pavilion, and I've pulled over because 14 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 2: I'm trying to repair a bike chain. 15 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: Now, what has this got to do. 16 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 2: With you? 17 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: And why do I. 18 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 2: Feel this moment it is important enough to record a 19 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: whole podcast about it. I'm recording this on Friday last week. 20 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: That's when you're hearing my voice. 21 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 3: And I had a meeting at ten in the morning 22 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 3: over in Surrey Hills, which is about a twenty five 23 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 3: minute bicycle ride from my house. 24 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 2: I normally ride my bike and I'm going in that 25 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 2: way and I got to ride through the Centennial Park, 26 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: which is a beautiful place. It's gorgeous to be on 27 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: my bicycle anyway. I do try to ride my bike 28 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: if I if I can, because I think commuting under 29 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: your own power is incredibly important. 30 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: And if you can systemize your. 31 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 2: Exercise, you know, just putting the self powered exercise between 32 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: you and where you want to go, You've taken care 33 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 2: of a bunch of really important things for your physical 34 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 2: and mental health in the day. So commuting under your 35 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 2: own power, I think it's really important, and it's something 36 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: that I've done for years. I used to ride my 37 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: bicycle when I did the overnight shift to be when 38 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: I five in Brisbane. I would ride my bicycle to 39 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: work and I would come home across the story bridge 40 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 2: at six fifteen in the morning, which was always gnarly. 41 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: When I did Dancing with the Stars, I was riding 42 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,559 Speaker 2: my bike to the studio every single day to train. 43 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: I've even ridden a bicycle to go and do gigantic, 44 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: multimillion dollar TV format's like Master Singer and stuff like 45 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 2: that through a sound stage where one hundred and something 46 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 2: people are working. So I'm on my way to this 47 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: meeting and I'm riding through the park and I come 48 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: around the corner to the Royal Hall of Industries and 49 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 2: a woman flags me down and she goes, hey, she's 50 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: speaking English with an accent. 51 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: You know, very clearly. 52 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: English is probably not even her second language. I'm guessing 53 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: she was South America or something. She goes, excuse me, 54 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: where is Centennar Park. Ah, no worries at all, it's. 55 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: Just over there. So I stopped my bike. I was 56 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: listening to Chromeo. I was listening to the first Chromeo album. 57 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: It was really fun, and I say, of course, it's 58 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 2: just over there. Good luck, go that way, turn left, 59 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 2: one hundred meters. 60 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: You're there. No worries, Thank you very much. 61 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 2: Now I forgot to shift down when I stopped to 62 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: speak with her, and so I'm starting to try to 63 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 2: take off again from. 64 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: Quite a high gear. So what happens is. 65 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 2: That when I go to take. 66 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: Off, my bike's quite heavy. 67 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 2: As I go to take off, my chain snaps and 68 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 2: a person was walking past and she goes, oh, you've 69 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 2: just dropped the chains. 70 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: Oh yes, I can see that. 71 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 2: So I pull over and I stop and oh, my gosh, yes, 72 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: I've blown my chain completely. 73 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 1: What am I going to do here? 74 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: So pull over the bike and I look down and 75 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 2: it's like, oh my gosh, it's grease everywhere, and you 76 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 2: know it's all happening. 77 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: Standby, I'm just going to change gears. Boy oh boy. 78 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: I'm in a bit of a medication change at the 79 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: moment as well. So it's a moment of stress, like 80 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: really quickly before I even had anything to do about it, 81 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: didn't even. 82 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: Have to do it deliberately. 83 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: It's like bank, I'm in acceptance. Well, I've breakd busted 84 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 2: a chain. So I text a person I'm going to meet, 85 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 2: say hey, man, I've just blown a chain. I'm going 86 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 2: to try and fix it. And when the chain breaks 87 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: on a bicycle, if you never have it happened before, 88 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: sometimes you can repair it. Basically, what happened is the 89 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: link blew apart. And once the link blew apart, I 90 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 2: just had to find the It looks like a it 91 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: looks like a figure ate, a tiny little. 92 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: Figure eate piece of metal, two figure out pieces of. 93 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 2: Metal connected by two other pine of little poles, and 94 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 2: so I knew it would have been back on the 95 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 2: road a little bit on. 96 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: The pathway where I was, the bicycle path. 97 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 2: So I pulled the biker and I start looking down 98 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 2: at the ground, trying to search out of nowhere. There's 99 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: a man who's watching all this happen, and he got 100 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: out of his car and he walked over to me 101 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 2: and he goes, I just saw what happened. You stopped 102 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 2: to help out that woman, and then as you pulled out, 103 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 2: your chain broke. 104 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: He goes, can I help you? Can I help you 105 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: look for that? Thanks man, that'd be really good, and 106 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: he did. So here I am. 107 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 2: Here's me and this bloke I ever met before, looking 108 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,239 Speaker 2: down like we were trying to search for a contact lens. 109 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: And because we're two people looking down, I'm you know, 110 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 2: I've still got my bicycle helmet on. 111 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: He's dressed in a suit, and he was on the 112 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: way to a meeting as well. 113 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 2: He's dressed in a suit and he's now looking down 114 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 2: on the ground. And another person comes from the park. 115 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 2: She's looking like she's walking to work, probably at Disney 116 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: Studios or something like that, and. 117 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: She's like, what are you guys looking for? 118 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 2: So the chain leaf, guess I'll give you a hand, 119 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 2: and so here I am less than forty eight seconds 120 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 2: after going, oh, my chain's blown out. 121 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: I'm going to miss my meeting two people. 122 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 2: I've never met before in my life, and I'm wearing 123 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: a bicycle home, and I've got sunglasses, and I've got 124 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 2: a mustache. Right now, I don't look like me. I'm 125 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 2: wearing a jet or a tall T shirt. You know, 126 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 2: I don't look like me. Two people I've never met before, 127 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: completely different human beings. 128 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: Stop and help me search for this thing. 129 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 2: And why am I telling you this because this morning 130 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 2: I was reading in the news. 131 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: About how much division there is in our country around. 132 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: Something like, you know, something like net zero, something like 133 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 2: climate action, and we may get the feeling and we're 134 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 2: being sold this idea that we as Australians are very 135 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 2: different and that all these people over here they don't 136 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 2: know what they're talking about, and they don't know anything, and. 137 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: We are very different. 138 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: People and the only way to go forward is to 139 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 2: not listen to them, but to listen to me. 140 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:35,559 Speaker 1: There's no there's people on the other side. 141 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 2: They believe something completely different from you, and you're a 142 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 2: very different person to them. And to that, I say, well, 143 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 2: I think that's bullshit, because what we are as Australians 144 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 2: is we are people who see an opportunity to help 145 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 2: see that Ah, here's someone they need my help. I 146 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 2: can help them, let me. 147 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: Help them, and they bloody did. These two people I've 148 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: never met before. 149 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 2: So you might hear a bit of a bicycle chain 150 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 2: rolling up against the phone here as I'm trying to 151 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: thread this thing around, people stop to help the stranger, 152 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 2: and I was really lovely. The feeling of these strangers 153 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 2: I've never before in my life stopping to help me 154 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 2: out was such a wonderful feeling compared to the feeling of, Oh, 155 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 2: I've blown out my chain and I'm going to miss 156 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 2: this meeting that I'm already late for and now I'm stressed, 157 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 2: and da da da dah. We are people who want 158 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 2: to care for each other and help each other out. 159 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 2: Just reminded me once again that maybe one of these 160 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 2: people read the article this morning and went, yeah, that'll 161 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 2: you know, best is the way forward? And you know what, 162 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 2: that's okay because because even though we might think differently 163 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 2: about a pathway forward with something like emissions or energy, 164 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 2: at our core, we are still three people who have 165 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 2: shared value of helping somebody else out. 166 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: Right in front of you. 167 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 2: And I've got this overwhelming feeling that it's going to 168 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 2: be okay. 169 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: But what's even wilder is. 170 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 2: That this is the second time this sort of thing 171 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 2: has happened to me in the last two weeks. 172 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: I'll tell you the other. 173 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 2: Story in just a sec, but I do need to 174 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 2: take an ad break because I've got to pay for 175 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 2: this chain and the tool I bought from the bike shop. 176 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: Hi, thanks for listening. 177 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 2: I'm still trying to fool around with this bike chain 178 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: and battery. And sorry about all the noises like ASMR 179 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 2: or a bike repair. 180 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: Right now, I just got this overwhelming feeling. I've got 181 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: a lot of despair, just a bit of de spair 182 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: this morning of like, oh fuck, here goes the Coalition 183 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,719 Speaker 1: talking about how net zero. 184 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 2: Is the way forward, and here they are trying to 185 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 2: divide us as a nation again. 186 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: But we're actually we have a lot more in common. 187 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: And then we're told because just the other day a 188 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: very very very similar thing happened to me. 189 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 2: So up in Queensland where my in laws are, we 190 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 2: were there for Wolfe's grandfather great sorry, we were there 191 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 2: for Wolf's great grandfather's nintieth birthday. Now that's a beautiful thing, 192 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 2: you know, to go for your great grandfather's ninetieth birthday, 193 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 2: isn't it. 194 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: It's pretty special. 195 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 2: We're up in Queensland, and it used to happen a 196 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 2: lot later in the year, but it's happening earlier and 197 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 2: earlier in the year. Is the kind of storms that 198 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 2: come through Southeast Queensland are starting to. 199 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: Come through already, the ones with a really big hale. 200 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: I'm talking hale. 201 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 2: Big enough to smash your solar panels, that kind of hail. 202 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 2: So we're all we're all kind of sitting around and 203 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 2: it was the day before sorry, it was a day. 204 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: After Grandpas's birthday, and we were still. 205 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 2: There and the. 206 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 1: Everyone had been a big weekend, so most of the. 207 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 2: People were having a bit of a nap in the 208 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 2: afternoon after lunch, just kind of relaxing themselves down a bit, 209 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 2: and the front doorbell ring. 210 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: I was the only one awake, so I walked over 211 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 1: see what's up. And some my in laws live on 212 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: Bribe Island, which is about our north. 213 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 2: Of Brisbane, about forty five minutes south of Mercer, to 214 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 2: give you an idea where it is. And it's a 215 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 2: lovely little community where they live. And one of the 216 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 2: neighbors walks over, so the doorbell rings, and sure enough, 217 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 2: I swear it was the most Queensland moment that I've 218 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 2: experienced probably in my life. 219 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: It was about three in the afternoon, and there's a. 220 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 2: Man standing there in a shiny long sleeve fishing shirt 221 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 2: you know, you know, the one form. It's got a 222 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 2: big fish on it with a hook in its mouth 223 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: and as big graphic on it. And he's holding a 224 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 2: tally seven to fifty four. 225 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: X, so a big bottle of four X. He has 226 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: get a mate, I live just next door here. 227 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,719 Speaker 2: I've just got a call from my my mate who 228 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 2: lives over in Ipswich, and he's got eight centimeter hail 229 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 2: in his backyard that storms coming our way fast. 230 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: And I can see you've got this car in your driveway. 231 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 2: I've already had a chat with the other bloke that 232 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 2: lives between. He lives two doors down. So he goes, 233 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 2: I've already had a chat with a bloke next door. 234 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 2: He said, there's room in his car port if you 235 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 2: want to put your car in there, because that's that 236 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 2: hail's going to come through fast. And while he's telling 237 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 2: me this, a five and a half foot tall Eastern 238 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 2: gray kangaroo is on the front lawn just eating the grass, 239 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: watching his chat. It couldn't have been a more Queen's 240 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 2: Land moment. It was absolutely perfect. And I thought to 241 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 2: myself in that I was just so grateful, And he goes, 242 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 2: I just you know, if you've got everything strapped. 243 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: Down out there, have you got? Is everything okay? 244 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 2: And I was just so freaking grateful in that moment. 245 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 2: And I say this to my mother in law. Is 246 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: where then running around the yard, you know, tying everything down, 247 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 2: bringing everything in because there was one hundred klmeter wins coming. 248 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: And I said to her, that is Australia right there. 249 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: That is what Australia is. 250 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 2: You know, there's a high chance that me and this 251 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 2: person and the person who offered their car port to 252 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 2: me vote very differently on election day. 253 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: There's a very high chance of that. 254 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,479 Speaker 2: You know, I'm just being a little assumptive around demographics 255 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 2: and like how old these men are and where in 256 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:36,559 Speaker 2: the world they live. 257 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: We probably vote very differently on election day. 258 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 2: We probably feel very differently about things like that zero 259 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 2: for example. And yet when push comes to shove, when 260 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 2: the storm is coming, when the hail that as big 261 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 2: as cricket balls, and win that will you know, take 262 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 2: your beach umbrella and turn it into a spear is coming. 263 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 2: None of those things matter at all. What matters is 264 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 2: are you okay? Can I help you? And it was 265 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 2: just so beautiful and such a wonderful reminder that no 266 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 2: matter how often we're told by various media outlets and 267 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 2: various algorithms about how differently we think and how different 268 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 2: we are, and how you can't trust these people, and 269 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 2: if it came out of their mouth, it's got to 270 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: be lies. 271 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 1: All that is bullshit. 272 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 2: That we want to help each other, We're wired to 273 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 2: help each other, and it's important. 274 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: To remember that. It's important to remember that. 275 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 2: Just as I went to go get this chain from 276 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 2: the bike store just then, so I. 277 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: Bought the chain. 278 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 2: I've got the link with me right now, it's all here, 279 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 2: And as I'm leaving, I'd already paid for it. You know, 280 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 2: they've got a it's a big bike shop, the lug 281 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: and carry place, so they've got the mechanics there as well. 282 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 2: So I've got the new chain, I've got the new link, 283 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 2: and I've got a tool to put it all together. 284 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 2: And as I'm leaving, I said, oh, actually one more thing, 285 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 2: could you give me a pair of work gloves? He's like, oh, good, core, 286 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 2: and he walked into the workshop and he grabbed two 287 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 2: of their vinyl work gloves you know, sorry, the you 288 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 2: know the ones because I when I went to my meeting, 289 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's the other thing. I had to 290 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 2: lock my bike up on the side of the road 291 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 2: because the change bus that I had to jump in 292 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 2: an uber. I had a spare pair of socks in 293 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 2: my bag, you know, because I had change gear to 294 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 2: change into it, and I had to put the socks 295 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 2: on my hands like soft puppets so I could get 296 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 2: into the uber and not put grease all over his 297 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 2: beautiful car. I said, I'm sorry, mate, my hands, Mate, 298 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 2: I was trying to fix my bike. I grease all 299 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 2: over my hands. And he goes, hang on there, reaches 300 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 2: into the glove box and he pulls out like the 301 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 2: Morst fuk Off antibacterial super wipes, like the Mega Bunting 302 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: skin strippers. But it was perfect because then I got 303 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 2: to walk into this meeting with that grease all over 304 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 2: my hands. 305 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: He had every It was just perfect. It was just perfect. 306 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: And so I said, can I lend some gloves from 307 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: the mechanic? He said, yeah, good, cor man. Wait one second. 308 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 2: He walked into the workshop, and he walked out with 309 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 2: like four gloves, which means that once during my work, 310 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 2: if I have to pull a glove off and have 311 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 2: something to repair it twice Just the best. People are amazing. 312 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 2: People are great, and people want to do the right 313 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 2: thing for each other. I just wanted to share this. 314 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 2: I know they're anecdotal, but just perhaps we tend to 315 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 2: just only hear stories about how fuck strangers are and 316 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 2: how much we have to be afraid of each other. 317 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a beautiful thing. It's absolutely beautiful, beautiful thing. 318 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 2: Now I've got this final link here to pull together, 319 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: and I to see if you can hear the beautiful. 320 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: Sound of this bike working. 321 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 2: Well, there you go. 322 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for helping me. You have helped 323 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: me repair a bicycle. 324 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: Have an appreciation for the humanity that we live in, 325 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 2: and be grateful that even though we may feel differently 326 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 2: about some things, some things that may seem bleedingly obvious to. 327 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: Half of this, regardless of which side. 328 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 2: Of the line he come down on, that out in 329 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 2: the middle of it, we're here, man, and we actually 330 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 2: care about each other, and that's an important thing to remember. 331 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Extra thanks to Adam Buncher, who found 332 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 2: his way to cut up a field, recorded podcast on 333 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 2: the side of the road, done with an iphinder, not 334 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 2: a proper microphone. I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful 335 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 2: day and that you also get the chance to help 336 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 2: someone out, because on. 337 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: A daylight today I had one, two. 338 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 2: Three, four separate people really helped me out today, people 339 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 2: I'd never met before. 340 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: Bloody amazing. Have a great day. I'll see on Wednesday.