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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and with with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what we like to do on this show.

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Speaker 2: We like to celebrate heroes. Oh thank you, they don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't mean you what?

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Speaker 3: It was only a fortnight ago and we spoke to

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Speaker 3: the guy from a newcastle, a digishman who was out

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Speaker 3: out past the heads rescued the god off.

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Speaker 2: The cruise ship.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the Vietnamese guy, yeah, chumpiship. And he had his

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Speaker 4: ID strapped to him as well.

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Speaker 2: That was a packet of cigarettes, all the essentials.

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Speaker 3: And now we're going across to Queensland because we've got

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Speaker 3: another heroic story. A father and son has been have

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Speaker 3: been saved at Marcoola in Queensland, and the guy that

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Speaker 3: saved them is Matthew Neil.

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Speaker 2: He's on the line. Now, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Good are Mattie.

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Speaker 2: Can we go back to the beginning.

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Speaker 4: Can you take us to the moment you realize that

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Speaker 4: there was a father and son in trouble in the

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Speaker 4: water the picture you know for sure?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I am. I rocked up a day early thinking

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Speaker 1: it was Saturday, but it was Friday morning and nobody

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Speaker 1: ran and I said, okay, I've got them. My time's wrong.

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Speaker 1: Let alone the day. And so I went down. I

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Speaker 1: put I'll go down the beach and practiced my beach assessment,

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Speaker 1: you know, rips and ways.

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Speaker 3: That's right, you've been training for the bronze medallion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you were there for.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Like, and the only deepest time I've ever

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Speaker 1: been in the water is up to me. Wated to

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Speaker 1: do a pig and so during the course I was,

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Speaker 1: I learned how to swim and all that stuff. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm on the beach doing my risk assessment

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Speaker 1: and out in the distance, I'll see your dad waving

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Speaker 1: and I said, oh, okay, this is on me. Run

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Speaker 1: back to the club ause everything's locked up, you know,

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Speaker 1: pretty early in the morning. Yeah, And the corner of

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Speaker 1: the eye a kid on the side of the of

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Speaker 1: the club.

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Speaker 2: Here, I've grabbed that and empty empty one, empty.

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Speaker 1: One, yeah, empty one, thank god, and I hold it

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Speaker 1: down to the shoreline. I've got a three hundred meter

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Speaker 1: run and get in the water. Then then the game

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Speaker 1: was on, you know, Like I got myself into the

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Speaker 1: rip because they teach us to get into the rip

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Speaker 1: and that's the quickest way to get out. So I'm

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Speaker 1: holding onto this keg and if anybody knows kegs sit

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Speaker 1: on top of the water, you know. And I was

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Speaker 1: getting smashed by the wives. It was like a tug

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Speaker 1: of war. Was full in the air. But the wives

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Speaker 1: will pull on the back.

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Speaker 2: You're trying to hold onto the keg.

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Speaker 1: I had the desk groop on it. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: on a strong swimmer.

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Speaker 2: PI pint matter.

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Speaker 4: You'd never let go, do.

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Speaker 2: You just go?

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Speaker 1: It was like a Christmas present, you know. I was

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Speaker 1: on letting go of it. And we're about fifty minutes apart,

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Speaker 1: and I was. By this time, he's out of the

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Speaker 1: rip and he's getting rolled in by the suit with

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Speaker 1: the wasking machine. If his boy yelled to him across,

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Speaker 1: I just hang on, Mike, I'll get to here. I'll

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Speaker 1: get to here. And that you consider release in his face.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: But I can get out of the rip because I'm

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Speaker 1: still getting smashed with the keg in the way.

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Speaker 4: If the keke would hurt, if the wives coming over

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Speaker 4: the top and hitting me as well could.

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Speaker 1: Knock you out me more, left shoulder is bugger.

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Speaker 2: It's gone. So then you get the keg to the bloke.

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Speaker 4: He holds onto the keg do you are you still

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Speaker 4: holding onto the keg or you're just looking after yourself now?

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Speaker 1: Well, so he's heading back to the shore now behind

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Speaker 1: the break, and I can't say anything. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he's under or where he's at this present and

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Speaker 1: now to try and get back in. So yeah, all

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Speaker 1: the stuff and anyways, I brought the keg to my

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Speaker 1: chest and I rode it like a boogie board, and uh,

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Speaker 1: finally caught after about five minutes off the sand. By

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Speaker 1: the time, we sort of bumped into each other and

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Speaker 1: the wash pushed us up onto the beach, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure the little fella, he's only four, didn't take

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Speaker 1: any water in his dad.

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Speaker 4: Scary.

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Speaker 1: And then we stood up and we had a father

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Speaker 1: and father moment, you know, we just held each other.

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Speaker 1: I had a bit of a tear.

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Speaker 2: Close. Did you say the kid was four? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's really scary.

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Speaker 4: Mad Maddie, have you got a you you got a

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Speaker 4: phone call from a beer company yet or something?

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Speaker 2: You've got to get sponsored at some.

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Speaker 1: Stuff they jumped on. They were really good, you know,

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Speaker 1: they gave me a couple of pieces. Yeah, and I'm

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Speaker 1: a non drinker and anyway, but you know, they said,

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Speaker 1: well we can fix that. They just bought had a

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Speaker 1: new zero. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Would you support a movement to have more kegs stationed

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Speaker 3: on beaches?

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Speaker 1: You know A lot came that, mate, a lot came

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Speaker 1: out of that. I'm hoping that they a nationward, you know.

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Speaker 2: Just.

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Speaker 1: Public.

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Speaker 3: You should just be giving you bronze medallion now, don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you need to do the assessment.

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Speaker 1: If you thought I'd get a waiver, but no, they're

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Speaker 1: pretty hard.

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Speaker 4: What a great you're a hero mate? Yeah, we love it.

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Speaker 1: Well, all the teammates, all the training and they it

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Speaker 1: all kicked in on that in the time we need.

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Speaker 2: You know, he just did you get your bronze medallion?

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Speaker 1: Matey?

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Speaker 2: You have to.

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Speaker 1: I've got my uniform mate, and I'm wearing it. Cont

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Speaker 1: control this Funay. The blesten here, guys is I guess

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Speaker 1: between the flags and if they're not, don't go in

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Speaker 1: the water.

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Speaker 4: The best thing you've said all day, Neil, you're an

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Speaker 4: Australian hero.

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Speaker 1: Mate.

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Speaker 2: Well down here, I have a great Christmas. Wow, thanks thanks,

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Speaker 2: thanks many legend. What a story? What should get some

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Speaker 2: fitting me with Richie m b Kekes together. I just

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Speaker 2: I just bought the other stuff. You're doing a lot

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Speaker 2: on large. It's the end of the year here, I thought,

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Speaker 2: But it's just a scope for it. Merch do you

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Speaker 2: guys are the only ones coming up next your merch ideas. Third,

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Speaker 2: we are not doing that.

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