Speaker 1: But you know, as a firefighter you're dealing with stressful
Speaker 1: situations all the time. When I got to eighteen, I
Speaker 1: started applying for the fire service. I applied myself and
Speaker 1: it took me six attempts and I got in on
Speaker 1: my sixth go, so I was twenty four. Firefighters do
Speaker 1: a range of different things, not just put out fires.
Speaker 1: We put out fires, we also do rescue hazardous materials,
Speaker 1: ladder rescues and so on. That's pretty pretty magical knowing
Speaker 1: that there's people around this earth right now that are
Speaker 1: alive from the efforts that we did as firefighters.
Speaker 2: That's Trent Maxwell, better known as Maxie. He's a firefighter
Speaker 2: and also a lifeguard by the way, and he's an
Speaker 2: expert in putting out fires as well as rescuing people
Speaker 2: and pets from all sorts of danger. Welcome to Growing Up,
Speaker 2: the Lingo Kids podcast that encourage his kids to dream
Speaker 2: big and discover who they were to be. Join us
Speaker 2: on an epic adventure to uncover the secrets behind awesome skills,
Speaker 2: cool hobbies, and the incredible journeys of people who followed
Speaker 2: their dreams.
Speaker 3: Oh I can't wait to tell Emily all about our
Speaker 3: school field trip today. Okay, this is my stock. Thanks
Speaker 3: school boss.
Speaker 4: Welcome to go forward Lands where sparks, dreams and fireworks.
Speaker 3: Emily, Emily, Hey there lose Hey Maxy, good boy, good boy.
Speaker 3: Thanks for taking care of Maxie while I was on
Speaker 3: my field trip.
Speaker 2: Emily, Oh, no worries. We had the best time, didn't we, Maxie.
Speaker 2: So how was the field trip, Luise.
Speaker 3: We went to a fire station.
Speaker 2: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got on a fire truck and honked the horn.
Speaker 3: It was so loud I couldn't even hear my own
Speaker 3: voice when I did it. Honk Okay.
Speaker 2: Sounds like you had some fun.
Speaker 3: It was the best thing ever. I also got to
Speaker 3: wear a firefighter's jacket and a helmet. It was huge.
Speaker 3: It dropped all the way down to my eyes.
Speaker 2: Ooh, that sounds like fun, so much fun.
Speaker 3: And something else happened.
Speaker 2: Oh what was it?
Speaker 3: They had an actual, like a real along going woo whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, sounds like an emergency.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but my heart was beating so fast,
Speaker 3: and all the firefighters put on their suits and helmets.
Speaker 3: They were super ready for action.
Speaker 2: They must have left because of a fire somewhere in
Speaker 2: the city.
Speaker 3: Yes, they were so fast, but I had a few
Speaker 3: questions I wanted to ask them. I didn't gets a
Speaker 3: chance to do it.
Speaker 2: It's okay, Louise, you're actually in luck. Just before you
Speaker 2: got here, I was talking to someone very special on
Speaker 2: the phone, really who someone named Maxy.
Speaker 3: Wait a second, Emily, I want to talk to Maxi too.
Speaker 3: Come on, say something, boy. If you can talk to Emily,
Speaker 3: you can talk to me. Please.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't actually mean this Maxie. I meant somebody else.
Speaker 2: A real life firefighter. His name is Trent Maxwell, but
Speaker 2: everyone calls him, well, Maxy. That's so cool, and Maxy
Speaker 2: our guest. Maxie is amazing.
Speaker 3: There's so much I want to learn about being a firefighter.
Speaker 3: Can I say hi to him before the show?
Speaker 2: Well, he'll actually be joining us all the way from Australia.
Speaker 3: Australia that's on the other side of the world, Emily,
Speaker 3: Yes it is.
Speaker 2: Maxie has to stay at the fire station where he works,
Speaker 2: but he'll be joining us with this, a very.
Speaker 3: Large mirror like the one my mom has in her bedroom.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing is, that's not just any mirror, Louise,
Speaker 2: it's one of the go forward labs. Amazing creations. Take
Speaker 2: a closer look at it.
Speaker 3: Let's see. Oh wow, I can see Maxi right through it.
Speaker 3: Not you, Maxy, the trend Maxwell, Maxi exactly, Hello Maxi,
Speaker 3: can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Listen off, everybody, I'm Maxie, a professional far fight up.
Speaker 3: What's he doing, Emily?
Speaker 2: Oh, it looks like he's in a training session or something.
Speaker 1: I'll be giving you useful tips on how to become
Speaker 1: a Firefighter's not at the Growing Up Game Show. We'll
Speaker 1: also have a super fun interview.
Speaker 2: Oh he's asking folks to tune into our show.
Speaker 1: Yay see there, don't miss it. Trent Maxwell out.
Speaker 3: Where'd he go?
Speaker 2: He'll be right with us. We just have to bring
Speaker 2: this mirror to the studio. Can you help me carry it?
Speaker 3: Louise Sure? One?
Speaker 2: Two, three, Oh, Welcome to our growing up talking game show.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: We're joined from Australia by the one and only Trent Maxwell,
Speaker 2: also known as Maxie.
Speaker 3: Not you, Maxie, but you can't stick around.
Speaker 2: Maxi is a professional firefighter. He was one of the
Speaker 2: superstars on a famous TV show called Bondai Rescue and
Speaker 2: he has educated over thirty thousand children all over Australia
Speaker 2: on how to become superheroes in real life emergencies. Hi, Maxy,
Speaker 2: Louise and I are excited to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Yes we are. Oh I see you're at a fire station.
Speaker 3: Wait does that mean that if there's a fire you
Speaker 3: might have to leave?
Speaker 1: If there's a full emergency, one of the guys will
Speaker 1: come in and grab me.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Well, hopefully everything turns out. Okay, let's get started.
Speaker 2: Thank you for talking to us so early in the morning.
Speaker 2: For you, does your day usually start really early?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: As a firefighter, we do twenty four hour shifts, and
Speaker 1: that means all day and all night we're at the
Speaker 1: fire station. So we start early in the morning and
Speaker 1: we go all the way through the day, into the
Speaker 1: night into the next morning.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, so firefighters are working all day long. Yep.
Speaker 2: Think about it. An emergency can happen at any time.
Speaker 2: Imagine if a fire starts at three am, somebody has
Speaker 2: to be able to put it out in time.
Speaker 3: Right, that makes sense. Oh, Maxy, I have a question
Speaker 3: for you. I went with the school to see a
Speaker 3: fire truck today and it has all the clockspells lights
Speaker 3: attached to it. It was so cool and now all
Speaker 3: my friends want to be firefighters. How old were you
Speaker 3: when you started to be a fireman.
Speaker 1: When I was two, I remember dreaming of becoming a firefighter,
Speaker 1: and I was very lucky enough that I had an
Speaker 1: uncle and a cousin that were involved in the fire service,
Speaker 1: and they used to give me some of their old clothing.
Speaker 1: So when I was two, three, four, or five, I
Speaker 1: used to have some of their old firefighter clothes and
Speaker 1: I used to pretend. I used to visualize and play
Speaker 1: around being a firefighter.
Speaker 3: I played pretend too. Sometimes I'll pretend to be an astronaut,
Speaker 3: or a chef, or a ninja, but my favorite one
Speaker 3: is a firefighter. I'd run around with my dog MAXI
Speaker 3: saving ants from imaginary fires.
Speaker 1: When I was quite young, I remember having the uniform
Speaker 1: next to the bed. I remember having a garden hose
Speaker 1: under my bed as well, and if I had a
Speaker 1: bad dream, I was ready to respond and help if
Speaker 1: someone in the community needed help.
Speaker 3: Wow, you're a real hero. You can even see people
Speaker 3: in your dreams?
Speaker 2: Yes, he can, And now, of course you save people
Speaker 2: in real life all the time. How does it feel
Speaker 2: when you save someone?
Speaker 1: MAXI most magical experience is probably saving someone's life where
Speaker 1: they've been unconscious, not breathing, and we use the defibrillator
Speaker 1: and we do CPR, and that person was not good.
Speaker 3: Oh no, but hold on, what's a a defibrillator?
Speaker 2: You know? And TV shows about doctors when someone brings
Speaker 2: in a machine with these two paddles to start a
Speaker 2: person's hard after it stops beating.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, where one of them, you know, is clear?
Speaker 2: Exactly. Well, that machine is called a defibrillator, and it
Speaker 2: can save people's lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that person taking a breath and been alive.
Speaker 1: It's definitely more magical moments, definitely, And we've been very
Speaker 1: fortunate that people have made a full recovery and they're
Speaker 1: living their best life. Yeah, that's pretty pretty magical. Knowing
Speaker 1: that there's people around this earth right now that are
Speaker 1: alive from the efforts that we did as firefighters.
Speaker 2: That must be such a beautiful feeling.
Speaker 3: Oh but Maxie, on a field trip today, a firefighter
Speaker 3: told us, you guys don't just rescue people, you sometimes
Speaker 3: rescue animals too.
Speaker 1: Yep, So I've got a quick story to share about
Speaker 1: a cat rescue. I've rescued a few, but sometimes cats
Speaker 1: get a bit adventurous and there's been times where we've
Speaker 1: had to rescue kittens between the two walls. So people
Speaker 1: that live in the house don't know that there's kittens
Speaker 1: in the wall, but they just hear this, well well,
Speaker 1: and they call the firefighters, and then we come and
Speaker 1: we try and locate where they are within the wall.
Speaker 1: So I've done a couple of rescues like that where
Speaker 1: they do get stuck and they're only a couple of
Speaker 1: days old.
Speaker 2: These kittens, Oh, poor little things. Well, I'm glad the
Speaker 2: people who live there heard the kittens, and glad you
Speaker 2: were able to rescue them too, of course.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's official wearing an awesome uniform, driving an awesome truck,
Speaker 3: rescuing people and cats. Firefighting is officially the most exciting
Speaker 3: job ever. It is.
Speaker 2: And hey, speaking of exciting jobs, should we move on
Speaker 2: to our game show?
Speaker 3: Oh, you're right, I almost forgot Maxy. We have a
Speaker 3: few questions for you to learn more about being a firefighter.
Speaker 3: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Ye?
Speaker 3: All right? The game today is two truths and a lie.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say three things about firefighters and you
Speaker 3: have to guess which one is not true? Ready, MAXI, yep? Okay?
Speaker 3: Round one. First, firefighters are the coolest people in the world. Second,
Speaker 3: firefighters rescue both people and animals. And third, it only
Speaker 3: takes a few days to become a firefighter.
Speaker 1: I think it is the third one. It takes a
Speaker 1: few days to become a firefighter.
Speaker 2: That's not true, correct, Exactly, it takes years to become
Speaker 2: a firefighter. You have to learn so much about how
Speaker 2: to put out fire safely and how to rescue people
Speaker 2: without harming them. Oh and you have to train a
Speaker 2: lot too to be strong and fast.
Speaker 1: You have to be eighteen years old to have become
Speaker 1: a firefighter here in Australia. So from the age of eighteen,
Speaker 1: I applied myself and it took me six attempts and
Speaker 1: I've got in on my sixth go, so I was
Speaker 1: twenty four.
Speaker 3: Wow, you mean it all right? Okay? Round two. First,
Speaker 3: firefighters have awesome tools to see through smoke. Second, firefighters
Speaker 3: are also doctors. And third firefighters need to know first Aid.
Speaker 1: But firefighters do know first day, which is correct. And
Speaker 1: firefighters have awesome tools to be able to locate people
Speaker 1: and things in smoke and in hot environments. So everyone
Speaker 1: playing at home, the law is firefighters are doctors.
Speaker 3: Correct, you're doing great, MAXI you might even say you're
Speaker 3: on fire.
Speaker 2: Oh I see what you did there, Louise. But yeah,
Speaker 2: even though firefighters have to be able to rescue people
Speaker 2: and use some of the same tools and knowledge as doctors,
Speaker 2: firefighters don't have to be doctors to do their job perfect.
Speaker 3: Now on to our last question round three. First, firefighters
Speaker 3: only put out fires. Second, firefighters can also write books.
Speaker 3: In third, firefighters can handle toxic stuff.
Speaker 1: I think it is number one. Like we said at
Speaker 1: the start, firefighters do arrange of different things, not just
Speaker 1: put out fires. We put out fires, we also do
Speaker 1: rescue hazardous materials, ladder rescues, and so on. So I
Speaker 1: think that I'm going to go with option one here.
Speaker 1: Firefighters only put out fire, but firefighters do write books.
Speaker 1: On a testament to.
Speaker 2: That, Yes, we love your children's books. I think they're
Speaker 2: a great way to teach kids to be safe. So
Speaker 2: we'll leave in the description of this episode the info
Speaker 2: about your book, and with that, I think our time
Speaker 2: is up.
Speaker 3: Oh no, really, but I want to talk more about fires.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, Louise, Maxi's got to get back to saving lives.
Speaker 2: But don't worry. I have something very special for us
Speaker 2: to do later. Okay, Maxi, it was so great talking
Speaker 2: to you. We know you have to get back to
Speaker 2: work and be ready in case there's an emergency, so
Speaker 2: we'll leave you to.
Speaker 1: It, no worries.
Speaker 2: So, Louise, what did you think?
Speaker 3: I think Maxi's so cool and he has the most
Speaker 3: exciting job ever. I mean, firefighters are incredible. They can
Speaker 3: heal people with first aid, use tools to see through smoke,
Speaker 3: and I'm superhero to find kittens and walls. They're real
Speaker 3: life superheroes, they are. And did you.
Speaker 2: Know that firefighting has been around as long as well,
Speaker 2: as long as we've had fires, which is why I
Speaker 2: wanted to take you back in time so you can
Speaker 2: see how firefighters used to work years ago.
Speaker 3: Oh that sounds like fun. How long ago are we going,
Speaker 3: like as far back as cave men?
Speaker 2: Well not that far back, but let's head over to
Speaker 2: the go forward cube so you can see for yourself.
Speaker 3: Are you ready, Louise, I'm ready?
Speaker 4: Okay, join Luis and Emily on their time travel adventure
Speaker 4: in the epic part two of the super exciting fire
Speaker 4: bursting episode of growing up.
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