Speaker 1: Already and this is this is the Daily This is
Speaker 1: the Daily OS.
Speaker 2: Oh, now it makes sense.
Speaker 3: Good morning, and welcome to the good News edition of
Speaker 3: the Daily OS. It is Saturday, the twenty second of March.
Speaker 3: I'm Sam, I'm Billy, and what a special edition this is.
Speaker 3: It was International Day of Happiness on Thursday, and we're
Speaker 3: coming at you with some stories to make you happy
Speaker 3: in a week where it's all about celebrating happy. And
Speaker 3: how many times I can say happy.
Speaker 2: I just feel happy hearing you say happy.
Speaker 4: I love a good international day.
Speaker 2: We do love a good international day.
Speaker 1: Last week we talked about International Day of the Pie
Speaker 1: or National Day of the Pie.
Speaker 2: I can't quite remember, but it was a big day.
Speaker 1: And now we're celebrating International Day of Happiness, which there
Speaker 1: could not be a more fitting podcast for Sam. Let's
Speaker 1: start with some big news from the International Olympic Committee
Speaker 1: that came out yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well they have a point Kirsty Coventry to be the
Speaker 3: new President of the International Olympic Committee and that means
Speaker 3: she is the first woman and the first person from
Speaker 3: Africa to be appointed to the role. And it's a
Speaker 3: really big deal. And we're already thinking about the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight Games in.
Speaker 1: La and then the twenty thirty two Olympics in Brisbane.
Speaker 3: In Brisbane, and I'm hoping that the weather really behaves
Speaker 3: itself for the couple of weeks that everybody in the
Speaker 3: world will be looking at that city and perhaps Kirsty
Speaker 3: Coventry will be still the IOC president when we come
Speaker 3: around to Brisbane. They tend to stay in the positions
Speaker 3: for quite a while, and she's the youngest ever. She's
Speaker 3: forty one, so she has set a number of records
Speaker 3: with this position, and she defeated a field of seven
Speaker 3: other contenders at the recent IOC meeting in Greece this
Speaker 3: week to land what many call the most powerful job
Speaker 3: in world sport. So it's pretty amazing. We have a
Speaker 3: forty one year old woman from Africa in the most
Speaker 3: powerful job in world sport.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 3: So she will officially take the role on June twenty four.
Speaker 3: Thomas Buch who has been in the position for twelve years,
Speaker 3: he'll step down and it's a massive year. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's not going to be an easy job for her.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of big issues for sport to face,
Speaker 3: particularly in the areas of doping and in gender classifications,
Speaker 3: in ensuring that the Paralympics have a really bright future.
Speaker 3: So it's definitely not a walk in the park. But
Speaker 3: Kirsty Coventry is an Olympian herself, and she seems to
Speaker 3: be outlining a really optimistic vision for world sport, and
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to.
Speaker 4: Watch what she can do.
Speaker 3: And why don't we stick with sport now, Billy, And
Speaker 3: there was a world record you really wanted to talk
Speaker 3: to us about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, last time we did the Good News podcast together,
Speaker 1: I spoke about the free diving documentary that I watched
Speaker 1: on Netflix, and I became obsessed with the sport and
Speaker 1: how fitting that was because this week Russian free diver
Speaker 1: Yakatarina Nekrasova is believed to have set a new world
Speaker 1: record for swimming under ice without a wet suit and
Speaker 1: just a pair of flippers. The video of her doing
Speaker 1: this is absolutely insane. Is literally just wearing a normal
Speaker 1: one piece that you would wear at the beach.
Speaker 2: And she's in freezing, freezing water.
Speaker 1: It made me feel bad that this morning I was
Speaker 1: meant to go for an ocean swim and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: too cold, and she's literally in ice cold water. She
Speaker 1: swam one hundred and twenty two meters under the frozen
Speaker 1: surface of a lake in Russia, and after the swim,
Speaker 1: she said, when I looked at the distance yesterday, it
Speaker 1: was very scary. But when you swim and see just
Speaker 1: the distance you have to overcome, it's not scary. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not as scary as I imagined. It would be
Speaker 1: such a brilliant attitude. And now they just have to
Speaker 1: wait for the officials to confirm that it was indeed
Speaker 1: a world record, but Russian state media is reporting that
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: And what's amazing about that feet is there are two
Speaker 3: really difficult factors there that anyone would struggle with. The
Speaker 3: first is the temperature of the water. I mean, can
Speaker 3: you imagine doing one hundred and twenty two meters in
Speaker 3: essentially an ice bath.
Speaker 2: Have you done an ice bath before?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I've sat there for eight seconds and gotten out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Your body literally is in so much physical pain
Speaker 1: in those first few seconds. I can barely do anything,
Speaker 1: let alone swim. Putting your head underwater even it's just insane.
Speaker 3: But then the other part of this that really amazes
Speaker 3: me is the fact that it's under ice. If you
Speaker 3: think about what that would mentally do to you, the
Speaker 3: idea that you can't you can't bail out, right, and
Speaker 3: so they would have, I assume, kind of cut the
Speaker 3: circle of ice one hundred and twenty two meters away
Speaker 3: from where she started, and the only way was straight.
Speaker 1: To keep going. If you got halfway and decided actually,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I can do this, there aren't really
Speaker 1: any options.
Speaker 2: You just have to keep going.
Speaker 3: It's a really amazing story in pushing through discomfort. I
Speaker 3: think that one yeh and congratulations to your Cutterina for
Speaker 3: setting a world record. However, however, yes, yes she swam
Speaker 3: under one hundred and twenty two meters a device, but
Speaker 3: when it comes to world records, I needed to respond
Speaker 3: to your story with a big shout out.
Speaker 2: To David Rush for those listening.
Speaker 1: Sorry, just before you get into this story, Sam and
Speaker 1: I had a conversation off Mike where I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that this world record that he's about
Speaker 1: to talk about beats the Russian free diver who is
Speaker 1: swimming under ice.
Speaker 2: But the listeners can tell us.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the difference between people like David and myself
Speaker 3: and the rest of the population is that sometimes it's
Speaker 3: hard to know when greatness is thrust upon you.
Speaker 2: Okay, tell us what the world record was that he set.
Speaker 3: He has set a new world record for the fastest
Speaker 3: time to juggle in all sixty three national parks in
Speaker 3: the US.
Speaker 2: And how many people will have that's sinking? How many
Speaker 2: people have done that before him?
Speaker 3: Slight caveat to that. He doesn't know, and so he's
Speaker 3: applied for the world record, saying, well, I did this.
Speaker 3: It took him five years.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is my question. Why did it take him
Speaker 2: five years? Surely you could do that?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, sorry, if.
Speaker 1: There are sixty three national parks in the US. I mean,
Speaker 1: technically you could probably do this world record in sixty
Speaker 1: three days.
Speaker 3: There's nothing more infuriating I think for you know, the
Speaker 3: great visionaries amongst us than people like you sitting there.
Speaker 3: I mean, that is the equivalent of you walking into
Speaker 3: an art gallery and going I could paint that. I mean,
Speaker 3: we're talking about a great man. But you need What
Speaker 3: you need to understand about David is that this is
Speaker 3: already somebody who had the world record for the most
Speaker 3: world records. So he got to the top of Everest
Speaker 3: metaphorically and he said, I'm at the top. I am
Speaker 3: officially the greatest world record breaker in world record history,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to go again by juggling in all
Speaker 3: sixty three national parks. It's amazing. I mean, he's now
Speaker 3: investigating whether his son's he's passing him this down through generations.
Speaker 3: He's now investigating whether his sons have also broken a
Speaker 3: world record for being the youngest brothers to all visit
Speaker 3: all sixty three national parks.
Speaker 1: What a job, professional world record holder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's had, I mean, he's had an amazing twelve months.
Speaker 3: He set the world record last year for fifteen world records,
Speaker 3: including the most bites taken from three apples while struggling
Speaker 3: in one minute one hundred ninety eight bytes, the most
Speaker 3: hits of a table tennis ball against a wall in
Speaker 3: one minute, three hundred and ninety eight hits, and the
Speaker 3: fastest time to fold and throw a paper aeroplane in
Speaker 3: five point one two seconds. Oh and just by the way, sorry,
Speaker 3: just by the way. He also set those records amongst
Speaker 3: fifteen world records that he's set on the same day
Speaker 3: to set the world record for the most world records
Speaker 3: broken in a day.
Speaker 2: I'm obsessed.
Speaker 1: I am sorry that I undermined his many, many achievements.
Speaker 3: This is somebody, I mean, seriously, somebody we should all
Speaker 3: be looking to. As I mean, ignore the one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty two meters under ice. This is where progress happens.
Speaker 1: I love your passion for it. And if David Rush
Speaker 1: is listening, which I'm sure he is, he doesn't have time.
Speaker 1: He is.
Speaker 2: He has a number one fan in Sam Kozlowski.
Speaker 3: He's called record Breaking Rush is his internet name.
Speaker 1: Okay to finish, in case you missed it, Sam. It
Speaker 1: was the twenty twenty five Vet Shop Australia Surfing Dog
Speaker 1: Championships in Noosa last weekend in Queensland. They had fourteen
Speaker 1: teams consisting of humans and their talented dogs showing off
Speaker 1: their surfing talents. The photos and videos literally show the
Speaker 1: people surfing just with their dogs on the board. It's
Speaker 1: impossible to look at the photos and not just have
Speaker 1: the biggest smile on your face.
Speaker 2: Is it's just so cute. It's impossible to not make
Speaker 2: you happy.
Speaker 1: And this year's winners were Red cattle dog Bear and
Speaker 1: he's sixteen year old owner. A win for the young people,
Speaker 1: Isaac Wow.
Speaker 3: Congratulations to Bear. And Isaac for surfing only a matter
Speaker 3: of weeks after a cyclonic event off the coast. I
Speaker 3: mean to get in the ocean, pop and all is
Speaker 3: pretty amazing, now, Billy, I.
Speaker 1: Was going to add one, Yeah, you go, I wanted
Speaker 1: to add I love the community stories like this surfing
Speaker 1: dog competition, and I just wanted to.
Speaker 2: Really quickly add that.
Speaker 1: Last Saturday, when I was doing my run, I came
Speaker 1: across a competition that was happening in a local park.
Speaker 2: It was called Last.
Speaker 1: Man Standing and the people competing had to do six
Speaker 1: point seven kilometers every single hour and you just had
Speaker 1: to be the last man's standing. When I came across it,
Speaker 1: there were twenty eight hours in Oh my gosh, and
Speaker 1: there was ten people remaining, and then the winner eventually
Speaker 1: went on. I wasn't still there, but they did forty
Speaker 1: hours of running six point seven kilometers every single hour.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. I mean, it reminds me of Actually, there
Speaker 3: was one time this week that there's steps that go
Speaker 3: up my apartment blocked my apartment. I went up two
Speaker 3: at the time. So I mean, no matter where you look,
Speaker 3: there was progress this week.
Speaker 1: This is really your podcast about incredible human perseverance.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's about finding the beauty in the
Speaker 3: every day and that's beautiful.
Speaker 4: Billy.
Speaker 3: Do you have a recommendation for us to take us out?
Speaker 1: I have a very random recommendation. You would see if
Speaker 1: you have been in your local supermarket recently that there
Speaker 1: is a lot of Easter food about. And my recommendation
Speaker 1: is to get a hot Cross bun and get a
Speaker 1: caramelk Easter egg and put the Easter egg on the
Speaker 1: hot Cross bun, put it in in the oven, let
Speaker 1: it cook.
Speaker 2: The chocolate will become.
Speaker 1: Nice and melted, a little bit crusty, and it is
Speaker 1: just the most delicious thing in the world. It's amazing,
Speaker 1: very random, but highly recommend What is your recommendation.
Speaker 3: My recommendation is a very quick story. So I was
Speaker 3: listening to a podcast by a kind of like psychologist philosopher.
Speaker 2: I like listening to is It mel Robbins.
Speaker 3: No, Simon Sinek. He talks a lot about optimism and leadership,
Speaker 3: and he told this story about these two guys who
Speaker 3: went out every single day to go chopwood in the forest,
Speaker 3: and they both left at the same time, and then
Speaker 3: at lunchtime, one of the guys would leave and have
Speaker 3: a long break and then come back, and the other
Speaker 3: guy would stay there and just chop as much.
Speaker 4: Wood as he could.
Speaker 3: After a couple of weeks, the guy who was doing
Speaker 3: all day chopping realized that the other guy was chopping
Speaker 3: more and he couldn't work out why. He was like,
Speaker 3: what the hell, You're taking breaks through the day and
Speaker 3: I'm here slaving away, chopping as much as I can.
Speaker 3: And so he said to him, what do you do
Speaker 3: when you go and take breaks?
Speaker 4: Like you?
Speaker 3: Like? How what's going on? And the guy who took
Speaker 3: breaks said, he goes and sharpens his blade. And I
Speaker 3: thought that was a beautiful story about reminding everybody to
Speaker 3: take a break and that taking a break actually helps
Speaker 3: make the work that you're doing when you're on better.
Speaker 3: I love that it's a beautiful story.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 4: It's well obviously not.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I did like these stories are always like, you know, fables,
Speaker 3: like it's a nice example. I'm sure we can find
Speaker 3: a guy who's chopping faster than the other guy. True,
Speaker 3: let's pretend it's true. But I think to hear that
Speaker 3: for everybody listening on a Saturday, it's a good reminder
Speaker 3: to make sure that you've got a sharp blade and
Speaker 3: that you're looking after yourselves and you had a good
Speaker 3: International Happiness Day, International Happiness Week. And that's all from
Speaker 3: us on the Good News podcast of The Daily Odds.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to TDA this week.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday with another deep dive, but
Speaker 1: until then, have a beautiful weekend, have a break, sharpen
Speaker 1: your blade, eat some hot cross buns, and we'll see
Speaker 1: you on Monday.
Speaker 2: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda
Speaker 2: Bunjelung Calgodon woman from Gadighl Country.
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Speaker 1: all Aboriginal and Torrestrate island and nations.
Speaker 2: We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,
Speaker 2: both past and present.