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Speaker 1: Bond I Rescue returns seven thirty to night on Channel ten.

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Speaker 1: Bruce Hopkins is the head lifeguard, but in true was

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Speaker 1: he lifeguard style, we know him better as Hopo.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Clericy and deleasaway.

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Speaker 4: It was the last time someone called you Bruce?

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Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, I think Mammay does that.

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Speaker 4: In Real Strife.

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Speaker 2: Can you believe it's the eighteenth season?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I can't believe it. It's it's been a crazy ride

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Speaker 3: and it just keeps on going. And yeah, eighteen seasons

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Speaker 3: and for a show like that, it's it's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: And not only that, but it is huge here and

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Speaker 1: also overseas. Why do you think it's so big overseas?

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Speaker 1: I guess it's our beautiful beaches, our beautiful lifeguards.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, only it's the bit of all that, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and the characters. I think the characters we've got over

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Speaker 3: the years on Bondo Rescue sort of makes it as well.

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Speaker 3: And when you're throwing the rescues and the drama that happens,

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Speaker 3: but without the characters, there's no real story lines behind it.

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Speaker 3: So I think I'll give a lot of credit to

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Speaker 3: all the lifeguards have been on the series over the years.

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Speaker 2: They what makes it.

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Speaker 4: That's the funny thing though.

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Speaker 6: The two biggest shows overseas that come from Australia Bondo

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Speaker 6: Rescue on Maths.

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Speaker 4: You're right up there in good company.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 2: If you see any of them out there, leave them.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, there have been an amazing array of

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Speaker 1: celebrity people that have appeared on the beach. David Hasselhoff

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Speaker 1: of course, the King, Hugh Grant, Zach Efron, Rowan Akinson,

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Speaker 1: Russell crokna O'Brian Snoop Dog, Paris Hilton.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the list goes on and on.

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Speaker 1: Who's the most famous person you've ever spotted on the beach?

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Speaker 3: Oh jeez, it's a tough one. There's been plenty over

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Speaker 3: the years. I mean directly Prince Harry when he comes over,

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Speaker 3: he jo.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he jogged along with a hoodie on a Cutley's

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Speaker 7: minders so no one knew who he was and he

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Speaker 7: knocked on the door and covering the tower to be

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Speaker 7: he actually grew up and he actually watched bond I

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Speaker 7: Rescue over.

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Speaker 3: There in the UK a bit of a fan for it,

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Speaker 3: and that one. And Paris Hilton turned up one time

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Speaker 3: years ago with as Kim Kardashian, I think it was

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Speaker 3: with before she sat in the buggy next to me

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Speaker 3: and I didn't know it was looked across. It was

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Speaker 3: a paras sit next to me the buggy and realized

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Speaker 3: once the paps all came around, I couldn't have moved

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Speaker 3: the buggy to do any rescues. I was stuck there. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I suppose there are two to stand out over Monsury.

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Speaker 6: So four people got in a real peril in the

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Speaker 6: surf because of a celebrity there and.

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Speaker 4: All the paps.

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Speaker 6: It's not good, mate, But you're a couple of years

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Speaker 6: younger than me. But what's training like these days?

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Speaker 4: Have you have? You tape it off a little bit

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Speaker 4: and you still do as hard as ever.

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Speaker 2: The body just.

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Speaker 3: Lets me do what I can do, but the unblows

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Speaker 3: try and keep me out there and up with them

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Speaker 3: all the time. So yeah, they always bagged me. They

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Speaker 3: say dating seasons, we're just going to wheel hopo out

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Speaker 3: again and rolling back into it. So yeah, I'll get

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Speaker 3: a good bagging these days. But yeah, I may try

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Speaker 3: and keep fit, but obviously you can't do what I

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Speaker 3: used to be able to do.

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Speaker 2: Did you start as a Nipper. Did we've been doing

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Speaker 2: this all we life?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, funny you say that. I mean I

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Speaker 3: started Bronting in nineteen seventy four and they're having a

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Speaker 3: fifty year anniversary coming up for the Nippers that started.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's been around it pretty much my whole life.

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Speaker 1: Yes, what's the most non emergency that you've ever had

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Speaker 1: to deal with, because we do see some funny stories sometimes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, non emergency has been a few as well over

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Speaker 3: the years. And I suppose people coming up with crazy

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Speaker 3: with the show. Now, I suppose they come up and

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Speaker 3: ask knock on the door for photos and we've got

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Speaker 3: emergencies only on the door, but they keep knocking in

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Speaker 3: the photo. They might have come from wherever overseas the

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Speaker 3: only time they get the bondo and they sort of

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Speaker 3: just demand to get a photo from one of the lifeguards.

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Speaker 3: So the ones that constantly happened now they're probably up

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Speaker 3: there with the first age of the day and then

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Speaker 3: you get the photos as well for the day.

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Speaker 4: That's funny.

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Speaker 6: Hop. We had some of the team over last year.

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Speaker 6: They were doing the Rotto Channel swim and on the

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Speaker 6: radio with Lisa and I. They're talking way too much

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Speaker 6: about sharks the day before the event. Boys, what are

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Speaker 6: you doing? Freaking out some of the boys. But then

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Speaker 6: it got canceled, so they must have been pretty annoyed

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Speaker 6: by that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mentioned that was I was meant to go

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Speaker 3: over as well. It's a good year to miss. I

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Speaker 3: suppose it was canceled, but yeah, said it's got a

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Speaker 3: bit a bit crazy over there that they enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: And I think they've got three quarters away to cross.

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Speaker 3: I think the race got canceled. They're over halfway. They

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Speaker 3: were saying, Yeah, disappointing, disappointing parts. They wanted to finish it,

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Speaker 3: of course.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they ended up in the pub of course.

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Speaker 1: Is it true or is it a myth that if

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Speaker 1: you have a blue bottlesting you should get someone to

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Speaker 1: weigh on it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an old one, been around for a long

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Speaker 3: long time. And oh look it depends. It's a bit

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Speaker 3: of a myth, I think, but I'm sure many people

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Speaker 3: have tried it over the years, and it may work.

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Speaker 3: It may work for some people.

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Speaker 2: Just in case it may Okay, now it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it is a great show and it's good

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Speaker 1: fun to watch, but at the heart of it is

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Speaker 1: really serious stuff.

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Speaker 2: You are rescuing people from the surf.

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Speaker 1: What is the one swimming tip that you would give

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Speaker 1: any newly arrived tourist or immigrant or for some reason,

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Speaker 1: someone who hasn't learned to swim, even though we're girt bussy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean we've been testing it for a

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Speaker 3: while now in the ribs and if people float and

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Speaker 3: don't do anything in when they get themselves into trouble,

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Speaker 3: generally the rip will pull them across the sandbank where

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Speaker 3: they can stand up, you know, ninety percent of the time.

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Speaker 3: So it's by floating, it reduces your panic and your

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Speaker 3: breathing better. You're not going to that stressful situation. And

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Speaker 3: the longer you can float, the more chance you've got

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Speaker 3: my lifeguard to be able to come and rescue as well.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's probably the biggest tip if you're in

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Speaker 3: the water and get yourself into.

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Speaker 2: Trouble, and it usually is it usually is because of

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Speaker 2: a rip.

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Speaker 1: But it is the first thing we learned to just

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Speaker 1: not try to swim straight.

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Speaker 2: In, go with it.

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Speaker 4: People get exhausted, don't, They start cramping.

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Speaker 5: Up and not good panic every time, the panic and

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Speaker 5: as soon as you get fatigued, that's when you start,

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Speaker 5: your head starts going underwater, and you start.

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Speaker 3: Swallowing water because you obviously got to breathe. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: something that we found has really been working over here

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Speaker 3: the last few years, and people are starting to get

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Speaker 3: that education on what to do when they're actually in

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Speaker 3: a rib.

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Speaker 4: So it has boom crash, offer said hand up in

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Speaker 4: the air and try and float.

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Speaker 3: Perfect. We more use that one.

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Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on the eighteenth season and it only had

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Speaker 1: the hiatus due to COVID. It must have been weird

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Speaker 1: to see Buondo Beach rests empty.

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Speaker 3: It was the crazy time I've never seen it obviously.

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Speaker 3: I think we were looking back at photos back in

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Speaker 3: on this World War two where there was that was

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Speaker 3: probably the last time no one was on the water

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Speaker 3: on the beach and it was barbed wide all the

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Speaker 3: way along and this was a similar sort of situation.

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Speaker 3: It was fenced off all the way on the promenade

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Speaker 3: and spence now I can get on the onto the sand. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the real, real last range feeling and something that probably

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Speaker 3: only sees one once in my lifetime hopefully.

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Speaker 4: Yeah again. Yeah, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Seven thirty tonight, Bondo Rescue is back. Thanks Hoppo, great,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having