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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's Well. Our next Guesse is living proof

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Speaker 1: that people can do extraordinary things. After an accident left

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Speaker 1: to paralyzed eight years ago, Sam Bloom went on to

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Speaker 1: hold world sporting titles, become a best selling author, and

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Speaker 1: have Naomi Watts play her in a film. It's an

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Speaker 1: incredible story and Sam Bloom Hello.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Sam, Hi, how you going.

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Speaker 3: Last time we spoke, you did, You've done all this

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Speaker 3: and we're just still doing this radio show. Nothing's changed.

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Speaker 1: We do feel like underachievers.

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Speaker 3: You go, now there, Yeah, that was eight of that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and you've done all this ages ago. How

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Speaker 1: was your life? How has your world changed since the

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Speaker 1: film came out, since Naomi Watts portrayed you and the

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Speaker 1: story of your family on the big screen. Has your

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Speaker 1: life changed all over again? I mean, we.

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Speaker 2: Haven't changed necessarily as people, you know, we're still us.

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Speaker 2: But I think I think the biggest things for me

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Speaker 2: is because the film is shown on Netflix like overseas,

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Speaker 2: I'm lack in America, in France and UK, I've been

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Speaker 2: actually getting like hundreds of messages from people all around

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Speaker 2: the world and obviously in Australia, thanks you, saying thank you,

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Speaker 2: you know, they know for so alone and they like

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Speaker 2: how raw and honest it is. Yeah, so that's been

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Speaker 2: the bist thing for me.

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Speaker 1: And were the people who've been contacting you, were they

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Speaker 1: with people who have spine cord injuries themselves?

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Speaker 2: A few, but not necessarily you know they've had a

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Speaker 2: stroke or head injury or yeah, or even like people

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Speaker 2: who have drew that from their husband, And yeah, it

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Speaker 2: should be anything. I think it's really lovely.

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Speaker 1: How have you gone about becoming a parasurfing champion?

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Speaker 2: Was this?

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Speaker 1: Had you been a surfing person before?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've grown up on the Northern Beaches, so I

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Speaker 2: grew up surfing. And so it was after the accident,

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Speaker 2: I think. I it was the first summer and Cam

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Speaker 2: took Cam, my husband took me up to Palm Beach

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Speaker 2: for a swim and a friend of ours was out

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Speaker 2: there on his board and he's like, come on's man

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Speaker 2: got on here, you know, he's the surf and I

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Speaker 2: was like no, no, no, And then eventually he convinced

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Speaker 2: mess I got on. He pushed me in a wave.

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Speaker 2: I was like, that's not surfing because obviously I was

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Speaker 2: just lying down the land. About five years later, I

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Speaker 2: got a letter from Nola Wilson. He's the mother of

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Speaker 2: Julian Wilson. He's a professional surfer, and so she encouraged

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Speaker 2: me to get back out in the water and do

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Speaker 2: what I've always loved. So that's how I should have

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Speaker 2: got back into the surfing. So thankful for that.

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Speaker 3: So you just paddle out and catch the waves.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of cool because cams with me all

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Speaker 2: the time, so he essentially gets me out the back

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Speaker 2: and then pushes me on the waves and then at

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Speaker 2: the surf and then sometimes I can paddle back out

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Speaker 2: if it's not too big and there's your channel.

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Speaker 3: What is if you get dumped?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I get pretty created. Sometimes I love it,

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Speaker 2: but you know it's okay. I've grown up, you know,

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Speaker 2: in the ocean, so I sort of know how to

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Speaker 2: read the waves. And yeah, it's obviously I'm not as

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Speaker 2: confident as it used to be American, but it's still

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Speaker 2: it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: And I imagine the difference this is made to your

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Speaker 1: mental health to have this physical outlet and to recreate

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Speaker 1: something that you had before.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, it's so good for mental health. That's why

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Speaker 2: I always tell everybody, you know, they're like, you know,

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Speaker 2: kind of not what should I do? But how you know,

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Speaker 2: how do I? I guess feel better? And I'm like,

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Speaker 2: you have to find like something that you love doing

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Speaker 2: and so you know that you're passionate about and this

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Speaker 2: is your goal, which makes a chuge difference.

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Speaker 1: Well, tell us about Wings for Life. What's this?

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Speaker 2: So it's a it's a run. It's it's so cool

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Speaker 2: because it's really unique. It's a well run and everybody

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Speaker 2: around the world starts to exactly at the same time,

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Speaker 2: and it's the any husband of the egos towards fine

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Speaker 2: according to research.

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Speaker 1: Mean everyone runs at the same time, so it could

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Speaker 1: be three in the morning for us.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh, Yeah, it's so weird. It's nine o'clock in Australia,

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Speaker 2: so it's nine o'clock on the nighte of me. So

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Speaker 2: I wish it was bit early because I'm living in

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Speaker 2: bed by event.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: No, it's a fun event because everybody you know, really

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Speaker 2: excited and obviously it's for very good calluse.

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Speaker 3: Right, And so everyone starts running the exact time around

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Speaker 3: the world and there's no is there a finish line?

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Speaker 2: No, So there's no finish line. That's the thing. So

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Speaker 2: about half an hour into the run, there's a thing

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Speaker 2: they called catch a car, and so that starts, you know,

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Speaker 2: essentially chasing you. And so once you get caught by

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Speaker 2: the catch car, the race is over. So in some races,

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Speaker 2: though the big races, there is an actual car. But

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Speaker 2: other than that, you you just download the Wings for

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Speaker 2: Life World Run app and you essentially listen to it,

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Speaker 2: like you know, someone commentating and then they're kind of

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Speaker 2: like the catch cars coming to catch you know, almost

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Speaker 2: caught you, and then then you know the right.

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Speaker 1: So it's a virtual car. The most car it's on

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Speaker 1: a real car. Well in some places it were just saying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah there were there are real cars, but that's

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Speaker 2: with a really big run. Wow. Yeah, it's so cool.

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Speaker 1: So for people to you both, has Penguin Bloom come.

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Speaker 3: Either Penguin Bloom had come back?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Have you have you had a revisit from Penguin the Magpie?

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Speaker 2: No? No, I haven't seen penguin for like, whoa gee,

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Speaker 2: since twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 3: It's a long time.

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Speaker 1: What kind of lifespan to penguin do.

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Speaker 2: Around? What about? You know?

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Speaker 3: Cockatoos are extraordinary because I got a bunch of around

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Speaker 3: my house. But they just yell at each other. Is

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Speaker 3: that how they converse normally? But are they just sort

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Speaker 3: of saying, Hi, honey, how are you? How is your day?

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Speaker 3: But they just yell at each other.

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Speaker 1: We've all had neighbors like that.

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Speaker 3: Can't they do it in more of a quieter tone?

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Speaker 2: Maybe was angry.

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Speaker 1: They're always angry. That's why they're ripping the wood.

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Speaker 3: They call them cockatoos for nothing. Well, Sam, it's always

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Speaker 3: great to catch up with you. Wings for Life World

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Speaker 3: run dot com. Get involved in the Wings for Life Run, Sam.

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Speaker 2: Thank you thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Guys, nice to talk to you, Sam, Jonesy

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Speaker 2: And Amanda's Nation