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Speaker 1: Get a I'm Lola Berry, nutritionist, author, actor, TV presenter,

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Speaker 1: and professional oversharer. This podcast is all about celebrating failure

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Speaker 1: because I believe it's a chance for us to learn,

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Speaker 1: grow and face our blind spots. Each week, I'll interview

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Speaker 1: a different guest about their highs as well as their lows,

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Speaker 1: all in a bid to inspire us to furiously fail. Hello,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the pod. We were meant to have

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Speaker 1: an interview based Monday podcast on today, but there's been

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Speaker 1: a natural disaster where we live and the Bosso Hello Boss, Hello,

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Speaker 1: Matt Sofo and I thought it would be more. We

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Speaker 1: saw it was the right thing to do to a

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Speaker 1: podcast about the floods. It's only going to be really

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Speaker 1: from our perspective, but we're going to give you a

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Speaker 1: list of resources as well ways you can get involved

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Speaker 1: if you're not in the Northern Rivers and we're just

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Speaker 1: what we'll be sharing is just our own personal experience

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Speaker 1: in a bid to help educate people because we're not

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Speaker 1: sure what's getting out to the news and mainstream media

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Speaker 1: and kind of like so we just want to give

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Speaker 1: you it really honest, I guess I don't know what

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Speaker 1: the word is but like depiction of what is going

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Speaker 1: on for us, is that right? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Awesome? And I think also this information does apply for

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Speaker 2: people in Queensland and further north from us, in the

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Speaker 2: Northern Rivers and further south that are also experiencing some

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Speaker 2: level of floods, like you know, Brisbane. Areas of Brisbane

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Speaker 2: and further north definitely copt it as well. So a

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Speaker 2: lot of the bigger charities and stuff that we'll mention

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Speaker 1: Thanks, boss, that's all right, I've spoken so nicely. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So we just wanted to We're going to quickly share

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Speaker 1: our experience of it. To be really clear, we are

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Speaker 1: both super, super lucky in this scenario. We understand there

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Speaker 1: are people that are way worse off than we are,

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Speaker 1: but we're just going to expect share with you what

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Speaker 1: went down for us, and then how we've been able

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Speaker 1: to help and how you might want to help if

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Speaker 1: you want to. If you don't want to help, maybe

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Speaker 1: just sharing this podcast is how you help, because it

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Speaker 1: will help educate people. The concern that we're seeing on

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Speaker 1: Instagram today is that not enough information is getting out

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Speaker 1: to mainstream media and therefore we're not getting enough support

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Speaker 1: from like ah me maybe the places that we need

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Speaker 1: people that have got like human skill sets to help

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Speaker 1: deal with what's going on. So that's kind of the

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Speaker 1: aim of this. Don't feel like, oh I have to

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Speaker 1: put money into a go Fundme page. Yes, we're going

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Speaker 1: to share those details with you, but just sharing information,

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Speaker 1: even on your social media is a huge It helps heaps, right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I think for both of us, that kicked off

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Speaker 1: last Sunday night, so to be about six days years

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Speaker 1: ago now when people will be listening to yes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean it was even probably last Saturday

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Speaker 2: night or last Saturday when a few people were saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of rain, a lot of

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Speaker 2: rain coming, you know, X amount of mills, and we

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Speaker 2: were just all kind of thinking, okay, it's just going

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Speaker 2: little bit of like a severe weather warning, but it's

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Speaker 2: pretty normal here.

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Speaker 1: There's always a text messages that are wear the warnings

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Speaker 2: And then you know, I just looked at the normal

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Speaker 2: like app on the iPhone, no, just like the iPhone thing,

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Speaker 2: and I said, yeah, okay, severe weather and some flood warnings,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, not nothing too bad.

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Speaker 1: Nothing, nothing too far out of the norm. We've been

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Speaker 1: living here every year, now, how often do you think

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Speaker 1: we've had like weather warnings? Oh? Heaps twenty thirty times?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know there are little patches

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Speaker 1: So as we would call this. Now we're six days

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Speaker 1: We our plate, our house was so lucky, did not flood.

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Speaker 1: And meanwhile, I'm in Sydney at this stage of the game,

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Speaker 1: Naturally, I just went straight to their you know, the

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Speaker 1: which a lot of people were doing. But cancelation. And

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Speaker 1: I was like, WHOA, just moveing tomorrow. I'll get on

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Speaker 1: the same flight I was on. So you still, you

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Speaker 1: know there's a storm warnings, but you don't think it's

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Speaker 1: ballin a flight and kind of like called up, called

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Speaker 1: around all my Sydney mates, and I got taken in

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Speaker 1: But when did you lose power? Because did you lose power,

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Speaker 2: No, no, not at all. So where we are, our

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Speaker 2: time here, it's just so natural. The weird thing was

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Speaker 2: It was only two days after that, after the main

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, people know, well, no, No one liked where

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Speaker 1: everyone was like, oh, storm's coming and a little bit

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Speaker 2: Nothing like that. Like, no one was like get your

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Speaker 2: There was no pre warning at all.

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Speaker 1: So when did the so when the so just so

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Speaker 1: you know, the the reception phone reception internet went out?

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Speaker 1: How many days ago? It's already been for four days now,

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Speaker 1: five days, four days. We still haven't got it back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so for us to get it, we have to kind

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Speaker 1: quickly jump on. So there's we've still got none, which

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Speaker 1: is really I know, in the big scheme of things,

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Speaker 1: it's totally fine. But like when when your work is online,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of put a stop on in a hold

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Speaker 1: so we'll share a bit about that too, because I'm

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Speaker 1: sure people might want to support also.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so since since the day of the flight, I

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Speaker 2: have been able to work and my music business and

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Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, and also our coffee business. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we haven't been able to do anything. No orders, no wholesale,

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Speaker 1: That's how much do you think we would have lost

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Speaker 2: Ah, thousands and thousands? Really yeah easy? And you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean obviously it's fine, like yeah, but yeah, money

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that's the thing that

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Speaker 1: I find really hard about, like not having the service

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Speaker 1: you can donate your time and where you can help. Like,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk areas most badly affected. So as far as

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Speaker 1: We had mates getting rescued on boats and stuff. Also

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Speaker 2: But I think just any look, Mullum and Lizmore and

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Speaker 2: All those kinds of things. And just going back to

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Speaker 1: We're volunteering is pretty much the hub for bangs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and like there's big signs now saying please don't drop

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Speaker 2: So I tried. I tried to buy heaps of slabs,

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Speaker 2: another thing that we haven't thought about is that in

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Speaker 1: Totally. You rock up to a volunteer hub. Like even

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Speaker 2: Do you know what as well? I mean that the

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Speaker 2: So but Ballina Airport is actually quite inland, so ten

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Speaker 2: minutes further towards is there's the water, which is I

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Speaker 2: think it's like the Richmond River or something like that

435
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Speaker 2: it's called. But you've also got the beach as well,

436
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,199
Speaker 2: also got the beach on the other side, and that

437
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Speaker 2: river completely overflowed, so the town of actual Ballana was

438
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Speaker 2: completely underwater. And I'm talking meters and meters deep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was that you could just see the tops

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Speaker 1: of buildings.

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Speaker 2: Not And a lot of the stories that I've heard

442
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Speaker 2: is that because the warning did go out at one

443
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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning, people

444
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Speaker 2: aren't checking their phone at two o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 2: They're waking up to you know, knee deep water in

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Speaker 2: their houses and then having to evacuate in the middle

447
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 2: of the night or at eight o'clock in the morning

448
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Speaker 2: or seven when they woke up like there was I

449
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Speaker 2: don't know, maybe is there like a siren or something

450
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Speaker 2: that could have gone off.

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Speaker 1: Apparently a massive siren golf in Bangalore yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear it town siren.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't hear it, did be Andy said that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean we should talk about them like

457
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Speaker 2: they are our friends. But they've literally shut their cafe

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Speaker 2: the last couple of days you've had me talk about

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Speaker 2: woods Heaps, they've literally shut their cafe to just cook meals.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where we've been volunteering. So yeah, big shout

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Speaker 1: out to the woods guys because they I mean, you

462
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Speaker 1: and I talk about losing money with Lola coffee and

463
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: you with music and stuff, but that's a humongous business,

464
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Speaker 1: especially like it's weekend trading would be their biggest time of.

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Speaker 2: The year and they employee ten people, be more like

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Speaker 2: fifteen whatever it is that aren't losing are losing money.

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Speaker 1: But also as well, like while we were yesterday, while

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Speaker 1: we were doing all the meal prep, they were bringing

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Speaker 1: us all smoothies, coffees. They were running to the cafe

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Speaker 1: and keeping all the volunteers fueled and fared, and it's

471
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Speaker 1: like and that famous banana bread that I love. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I think the big shout to the boys. But

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Speaker 1: also so how can people, like if people listening to

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Speaker 1: this going, okay, we feel really really helpless, how can

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Speaker 1: we help? How can people help? So definitely Salvos.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that the major charities are still you kind

477
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Speaker 2: of I think your best bet because overall they're going

478
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Speaker 2: to be able to come in provide longer term support.

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Speaker 2: Right now, what we're doing is just very reactive. So

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Speaker 2: it's very reactive support where these communities, families, these people.

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Speaker 2: It is not going to be something that's done in

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Speaker 2: a week. This is going to take a lot longer,

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Speaker 2: so those bigger charities will be able to come in

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Speaker 2: and give a large amount of support. So like your Selvos.

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Speaker 2: There's also a website called give It so yeah, you

486
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Speaker 2: can you know, make donations or donate gift cards. Definitely

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Speaker 2: if you're not in the area. I know it's great

488
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Speaker 2: to you know, donate clothes and stuff like that, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: money is what people are going to need. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: I mean even you know a friend of ours Beck

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Speaker 2: Rocky and her husband.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I put that all that all over my socials,

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Speaker 1: that's on your socials as well. And then the Woods Boys,

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Speaker 1: I think they're working with Pips Plate and she's set

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Speaker 1: up a gofund me as well, and a lot of

496
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Speaker 1: the foodie people are all getting on board. That's that

497
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Speaker 1: specific one is like feeding people that are stranded in need.

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Speaker 1: And the food is insane, by the way, because Sam

499
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Speaker 1: is so particular.

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Speaker 2: I was I actually was laughing yesterday because Sam loves herbs.

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Speaker 2: You know, he puts a deal and everything in his

502
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Speaker 2: salads and all these salads that were going out yesterday,

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Speaker 2: I was like, this is like some gourmet with like capers.

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Speaker 2: I was like, well, the good thing about say like Beck,

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Speaker 2: Rocky and Joel is that they were on it straight away,

506
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Speaker 2: Like straight away, they set up a gofund me, they

507
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Speaker 2: had people money into their own bank accounts. Yeah, they

508
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 2: were going to Bunnings. They were loading up their cars

509
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 2: with like portable gas stoves, chainsaws, machetes.

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00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: I saw today, like candles, everything, electricity.

511
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 2: So that that is one of the most direct ways

512
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Speaker 2: to donate. There is no staff, they've got nobody to pay.

513
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 2: It's not a charity with expenses. Everything that they're getting

514
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 2: is going straight to the people.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I've put those I have put those links

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Speaker 1: in my Insta. But I might write up a special

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Speaker 1: show note for this boss, and I'll put the different

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Speaker 1: gofundmes in the show notes. So if you're confuse listening

519
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: to this, because we are covering quite a few different

520
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: ways people can support, I'll just pop them all in

521
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Speaker 1: the show notes and you can pick the one that

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Speaker 1: resonates most with you. The thing that we haven't touched

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Speaker 1: on is animal rescue, because I have reached out to

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Speaker 1: a lot of the animal rescue places and they've all

525
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Speaker 1: said to me, no more volunteers got enough. They only

526
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: want medicines or money, and medicines obviously you and I

527
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Speaker 1: don't have access to. I was like, I wish Dad

528
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 1: was still he doesn't have a clinic anymore. I was like, oh,

529
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: I wish he still had access to the veat clinic.

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00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 1: He sold it. So the other thing is like, there

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Speaker 1: are animal ones that will the money will go to them.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is talking about this our. Is it our?

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure.

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00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'll make sure I add that animal rescue

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00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: ones in there as well. But yeah, if you're watching

536
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 1: this from Sydney or Melbourne and you're like, oh, I

537
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: want to help, and I don't know how. I think

538
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: just sharing information. It doesn't all need to be mondatory.

539
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: Is that the right word monetary? Monetary? I think, you know,

540
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: just sharing the word and sharing and helping to educate.

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Speaker 1: Like even you said to me this morning, Oh, there's

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Speaker 1: a video of Kellie Slater saving someone on a jet

543
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Speaker 1: ski or helping someone on.

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Speaker 2: A think he took someone to work. So it was

545
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 2: a pharmacist that needed to get to the pharmacy to

546
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Speaker 2: get medicine, and she I think she put on into

547
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Speaker 2: can someone take me? And he rocked up on a

548
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 2: jet skip it. So many communities like that world the

549
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 2: surf life savers a, you know, paddling food and water

550
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Speaker 2: and supplies to people and they're paddling through dirty, shitty water.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, I'm sure you've all seen all

552
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: the animal stuff. But like this guy got separated from

553
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: his dog because the dog couldn't fit on the canoe

554
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and then four days later he went

555
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Speaker 1: back and got reunited with his new dog. DJ.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of amazing stuff going on, but

558
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: it is pretty full on. I mean the most the

559
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: most confronting thing is though not knowing what's going on

560
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: and not knowing where best to put out time because

561
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Speaker 1: at both locations, both the kind of like hot spot

562
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Speaker 1: in Bangalore and in ry Bar, there is a lot

563
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: of just like people hanging around being like what can

564
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: we do? And so I think we're feeling that true.

565
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: So I will make sure there are links in the

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Speaker 1: show notes so that you feel like you can do something,

567
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Speaker 1: you know, proact.

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Speaker 2: I think as well. I just had a little idea.

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Speaker 2: Is a lot of restaurants and cafes, all of them

570
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 2: are just they're cooking food, cooking as much as they

571
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Speaker 2: can and they're going to need donations as well. So

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Speaker 2: if you're on Instagram and you're like, you know, you've

573
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: used to go to light Years in Byron I.

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Speaker 1: Saw oh Kim came to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw him dropping containers off yesterday. I see,

576
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 2: and they were cooking as well, and like, it's a

577
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 2: restaurant that we love. And yeah, you know, if you

578
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 2: follow their restaurants on Instagram or just look look up

579
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 2: restaurants that you've been to here, go send them some money.

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Speaker 2: If they've got to go fund me, send them ten bucks,

581
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Speaker 2: two dollars one.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't even buy a meal because then you'll know

583
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: that meal will have probably gone to five other people

584
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Speaker 1: in me potentially. Yeah, because the restaurants are going bananas here.

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Speaker 1: One thing that's and I don't know if I should

586
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: say this because it might be totally the wrong thing

587
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: to say, but it is so weird. So you've got

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00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: two ends of the spectrum going on here in Byron Bay,

589
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: You've got the oh sorry, in the northern it's got

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Speaker 1: the people like lending a hand, like we saw our

591
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Speaker 1: mate using a pressure hose to clean their floors of

592
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Speaker 1: somewhere in liz Moore. And you're seeing like people just

593
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: like getting together, grouping together, and the feeling of community

594
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: here is unreal. It is like banning together. But then

595
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Speaker 1: you see the opposite side of it where some people

596
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Speaker 1: are just dining at cafes like without a care in

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Speaker 1: the world, and you know, it just feels weird. Do

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Speaker 1: you feel that too?

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Speaker 2: Totally? I definitely feel that. And I think the first

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Speaker 2: day that I went into into Buyron Town where I

601
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Speaker 2: was like, why are the cafe is so busy? Why

602
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 2: is everyone just and look, you need food, coffee, all

603
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 2: those kinds of things. That's great, but yeah, I was

604
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Speaker 2: really kind I was kind of shocked to see people

605
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Speaker 2: just like chilling, hanging out and stuff like that, when.

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Speaker 1: If you know, if you're able bodied, it means that

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00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: you can probably do something, you know, and that might

608
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Speaker 1: even just be lending an ear to someone that's feeling

609
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Speaker 1: really overwhelmed and anxious about it, because like I noticed

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Speaker 1: that a'd be yesterday at when we were doing food prep.

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00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: Some people thrive in these kind of scenarios and just like, well,

612
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: let's do this. They're almost like these little mini producers.

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00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: Other people feel really overwhelmed and really anxious, probably really

614
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: empathetic people too that are just like, oh, this feels

615
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: bigger than me. How am I going to make a

616
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: difference kind of thing? And I think like just lending

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00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: an ear to people and going down to one of

618
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: those hots, like I keep going the hot swats, but

619
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Speaker 1: like hubs, you know, drop drop drop points and being

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Speaker 1: an ear and going how is there any way that

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Speaker 1: I can help? Like I remember when you and I

622
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: first got to the food drive, we were like, what

623
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Speaker 1: can we do? And they're like, all we need to

624
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 1: do is just move boxes around. Remember the first thing

625
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: is moved boxes, and then we kind of found our

626
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: flow and kind of like started being in their packaging

627
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: food area. But like it does feel weird at first,

628
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: and you kind of feel a bit overwhelmed at first,

629
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Speaker 1: and you feel a bit awkward at first because you

630
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: don't want to be in anyone's way. And that's the

631
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: first feeling you kind of have when you're in these scenarios,

632
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Speaker 1: because there's a sense of urgency, and then you've got

633
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: this urgency where you're packing the food and then there's

634
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Speaker 1: a massive lull while you're waiting for the next food

635
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: to be made and that delivery has already gone off.

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00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: Kind of thing, and so yeah, I think even even

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00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: just going down and being supportive or checking in on

638
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: your friends that live in this area, Like I keep

639
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: thinking of friends that live a little bit further away

640
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: from us. I'm like, let's check in with them. Let's

641
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: check in with them. Like that stuff is important as well.

642
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: And I think the more content you see, whether it

643
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: be on instaff, Facebook, whatever, I just share it because

644
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: the more awareness that we can raise for what's going on,

645
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: the more help that hopefully we can get as opposed

646
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: to like, yeah, it seems like I don't know because

647
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: we have no access to the interet and mainstream media,

648
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: but we really need mainstream media to get behind this too,

649
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: so that hopefully you know, the army and the government

650
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: and there can be support. Yeah, do you want anything?

651
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 2: It's just looking at very good at all of that.

652
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: Have I missed anything?

653
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: No, I think it is. I took notes, think there

654
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: will be there. Yeah, we are sharing so much stuff

655
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: on Instagram to raise awareness, but there are so many

656
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 2: people that are doing so much good work that we'll

657
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 2: just never get to thank you or recognition at all.

658
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 2: And we're just doing our best to us suppose volunteer

659
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 2: where we can and also just raise a bit of

660
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: awareness to everyone else because yeah, it's not it's not

661
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: a five day process, it's not a week process. This

662
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 2: is an ongoing process that that will need support. And

663
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: if your house was flooded five days ago, you're not

664
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 2: moving back in like anytime soon.

665
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: We have heard stories of people like our age but

666
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: with young kidos that bought their first home in Mullum

667
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: and the house and you know, spent their life savings

668
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: on that home and it's gone.

669
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: Well a house that we looked at to possibly move

670
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 2: into when we moved here.

671
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: When I first moved here, that would have been you know,

672
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: totally two meters underwater. Yeah, so crazy. And I think

673
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: as well, like adapting as things go. Like yesterday we

674
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: were doing a lot of I know, we focused so

675
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: heavily on the food side of the food drive. It's

676
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: just because that's where we've put our time. But like

677
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: we were sending out delicious salads and dulls and you know,

678
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: lentil things. But there was feedback from it, says some

679
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: feedback from the cleanup cruise that our volunteers met with

680
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: this afternoon at Wardell. Because you told me Wardell's really

681
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: affected too. Didn't you.

682
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 2: Ah, I don't know how affected WARDEWL is because it's.

683
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: Right you, Lizmoman. We were listening to it on the

684
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: radio today and it says finger food is ideal. Hands

685
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: are dirty, there is no power to reheat anything, something

686
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: quick and easy so they can keep going. Kids need

687
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: food too, zucchini slice, muffin, caishe, sandwiches, wraps, biscuits, cake,

688
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 1: et cetera. Nothing that can go off in the heat.

689
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: That's the other thing. We're in a hot climate. It's sticky.

690
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,240
Speaker 1: There's so much mold at the moment as well because

691
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: it's that like humidity. So it's really like and that's

692
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: just a learning from food prep yesterday to food prep today,

693
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,240
Speaker 1: so it's constantly evolving.

694
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 2: Again, nobody knew they were sending cutlery out yesterday and making.

695
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: Elaborate dressings for salads, and you know, half the people

696
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: were labeling half food and was like big and dairy free,

697
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: gluten free, where people just really wanted sangers and really

698
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: simple stuff that were given quick energy and keep them

699
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: going going. So a lot of like packaged stuff like

700
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: you know, cakes and Bickie's and all that kind of

701
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: thing did go out as well, but you can see

702
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: how important that is. Now.

703
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 2: We just need more food in the area. We need

704
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 2: more fuel in the area. I mean, diesel ran out,

705
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 2: and most cars, like you know, I suppose you trucks

706
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, they're all running on diesel, machineries

707
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 2: running on diesel. We had no diesel at all, you know,

708
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 2: like that that was the first thing to completely run.

709
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: It's still no petrol and Mulum I don't.

710
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 2: Think, well, yeah, there's nothing in Mulament at the moment. Yeah,

711
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 2: they've turned the water off. They've turned everything off. That's crazy.

712
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 2: So what would your advice be to people listening to this, boss,

713
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: I think just a bit of compassion. First of all,

714
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 2: just realize that it is really really bad. And I'm

715
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 2: not just saying the northern rivers. It is further north

716
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 2: and further south as well. There'll be a lot of

717
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: people in a lot of communities. A lot of these

718
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,720
Speaker 2: communities are not wealthy, they don't have a lot of money.

719
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 2: I don't like the regional to their regional towns. I

720
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 2: don't think people in Mulum will be like, yeah, no worries,

721
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 2: like I've lost my house, I have no insurance, like,

722
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 2: but I've got a minion in the bank account.

723
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,760
Speaker 1: People will have insurance on their home, surely, boss, Yeah, rest.

724
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 2: So many people will not be insured. Yeah, no, absolutely not.

725
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: And do you know what, They might have insurance, but

726
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: they might not have flood insurance.

727
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: Because flood insurance didn't Someone says flood insurance is like

728
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars a year or something.

729
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 2: Mental it's if you were in a flood area and

730
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 2: you could get insurance, Yeah, it would be huge, like

731
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars or something like that. Really, yeah, but

732
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 2: a lot a lot of these families wouldn't even have

733
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 2: flood insurance or maybe maybe the insurance won't cover their

734
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 2: car getting flooded and have lost their car, which is

735
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 2: you know, thirty forty fifty dollars.

736
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, so and that's how people then get to work,

737
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you're losing your man transport.

738
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: So I think just a little bit of compassion, a

739
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 2: little bit of understanding, know that this is there's so

740
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 2: much going on in the world and in Australia and

741
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: stuff like that. Just yeah, a little bit of compassion

742
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 2: for people. Help where you can, and I mean, yeah,

743
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 2: go live your life, have fun, all that kind of thing,

744
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 2: but just yeah, understand that there are people struggling and

745
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 2: there are people that will be affected for you know, weeks, months, years,

746
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 2: moving forward.

747
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: And you said kindness, kindness is just a little bit

748
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 1: of kindness. Yeah, ye, love you, Sexy, love you. Thanks

749
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: for sharing, and I promise you you will have it

750
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: next week an interview episode. We just felt that it

751
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: would have been pretty tone deaf to have ignored what's

752
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: going on right now, and so we wanted to address this.

753
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel guilty like I've got yeah, we've

754
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 2: got a business, I've got music out at the moment,

755
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: I've got workout, and I can't mightn't even want to

756
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 2: promote it because it just doesn't seem or feel right. Yeah,

757
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 2: so yeah, next next week, I think we do we

758
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: get back to it.

759
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: But provided we have the internet and right feel like.

760
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 2: We need to get back to life as well, Like

761
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: we still help, but we still need to.

762
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: I think we've said to the Woods Boys if they

763
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: can open their cat because all their staff want to work.

764
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 1: If they op the cafe again, will make sure where

765
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: part of the volunteer team so that their staff can move.

766
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 2: But I also said I'll work at the cafe tomorrow

767
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 2: for free. Did so because they're staff that was meant

768
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: to be working today at the cafe.

769
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: They're all volunteer.

770
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 2: They're volunteering, but none of them are getting paid.

771
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: And we met one of them today who's nine days

772
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: straight because they've gone from work to then straightaway volunteering.

773
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: So people are beyond exhaustion right now, and everyone just

774
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: wants to keep doing the right thing and make a change,

775
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 1: like make some help in some way. So yeah, again,

776
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: if you're listening to this and you want to help,

777
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: just share the word and support the local companies and

778
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: help them get back on their feet.

779
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 2: Okay, love you, love you, bye bye.

780
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: We feel like we need to do a PS after today.

781
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: Do you want to check the levels? Boss?

782
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 2: Or are you happy? It looks awkward?

783
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 1: So we've just got back from liz More, which literally

784
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: looks like a war zone right now and it's pretty

785
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: fullun What how are you feeling?

786
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, very very overwhelmed by what I saw? Yeah, it

787
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 2: was very very confronting.

788
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: Did you honestly see any police, any army?

789
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 2: Any I saw there was? Maybe I saw maybe like

790
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:00,919
Speaker 2: two sees.

791
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: Trucks, but sess local community. So maybe the to fibrigade.

792
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: I think I potentially saw one or two army trucks

793
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: as we were driving out. As we were driving, I

794
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: don't know though. They were just camo. They were just

795
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: trucks with camo on the trail. Doesn't none of them

796
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: had army.

797
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: We don't know, No, we didn't.

798
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's gnally. We just thought because we've been

799
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,399
Speaker 1: working the other end of it, so literally the food

800
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: drive part of it, where it's the food is all

801
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: going out to these areas. But today it was the

802
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: first time where literally we picked up tuna sandwiches from

803
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: the food drive where we've been volunteering, put them in

804
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: the boot of your car, took them to there's a

805
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: hub in liz More with heaps of bottles of water,

806
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 1: and then actually ended up keeping one of the things

807
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: of sandwiches on us. Followed our mate Jamie to a

808
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: house where people there were nine people upstairs working yep,

809
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: and gave those sandwiches to those people that were upstairs working.

810
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 1: And this place was completely it was a two two

811
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: story place. It was completely gutted.

812
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 2: Wasn't it completely decimated?

813
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: And you're just seeing like so much stuff on the

814
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: front lawn was like this is going to sound like

815
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: super My eyes are stinging from probably like the smell

816
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: or someone said it's toxic. Is it toxic?

817
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be. You know, it's it's rubbish, it

818
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 2: is waste water, it is sewerage.

819
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: Old houses too.

820
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 2: Spestoce mold, and then unfortunately, there would be a lot

821
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 2: of dead animals and you know, cats and dogs and

822
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 2: you can wildlife and stuff like that.

823
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: A friend told us that she so we effectively kind

824
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: of did mud army stuff today, but not really. We

825
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: were more sticking to the food delivery, but we were

826
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 1: amongst the mud army today. And a friend of ours

827
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: said when she did the mud army yesterday that they

828
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: had to pull out ten dead cats from under a house. Yep,

829
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: it's mental and you can smell that, like you can

830
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: smell the dead animals. We saw a caravan in a tree.

831
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't even know how it got up there. Yeah,

832
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 2: so the water level would have risen so high that

833
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: it would have would have put it up there.

834
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty gnarly. It's like it's amazing to see

835
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: what the community is doing, and like so many people

836
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: just like like I don't know if you saw, but

837
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: guys rocked up to that house that was gutted with

838
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: a generator, like with a pressure hose to help clean,

839
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 1: and they all just had thongs on with socks. Yeah,

840
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: because like you, if you've got any cuts and stuff

841
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,720
Speaker 1: and that mud gets into your cuts, you're in trouble.

842
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: But it's really, really, really full on. And anyway, I

843
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: just wanted to mention that because when we did the

844
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: recorded this yesterday, the first part of this, we were

845
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: kind of coming from it's more hopeful in the food

846
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: kitchen and you know, you're doing good and it feels

847
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: really good. That might sound really like a really privileged

848
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: wanger thing to say. I apologize if it does, but

849
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: we'd actually never seen the other side of it and

850
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: where it was ending up. And actually, I don't know

851
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: if you know this, but when you and I were

852
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: at the Lizmore Hub, my cousin ran over to me. Yeah,

853
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: and he's a builder by trade, and I go, I

854
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, what are you doing? And

855
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: he said, there's indigenous communities that are trapped. And he goes,

856
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm going in to check all their buildings to see

857
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: if they're safe, and he said, conveyed, is it I

858
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: don't know what the word was, but it's like just

859
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: building inspection, yeah, building to check that they can stay

860
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: there and live there. And I was like text me, like,

861
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: we can drop stuff out there if people are cut off.

862
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: Because as we record this, we're in Bangalore, which is

863
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: pretty unaffected. We still have no reception, no internet, no

864
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, none of that. It's like and that's just

865
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: We're fine. There are people that like all the water

866
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: is contaminated in Mullum, Lizmore and Balana as well. We

867
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: can't even get into Balani yet, can we.

868
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 2: I think I think the main road is open, but

869
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 2: it's it'd be pretty similar scenes to what we saw

870
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 2: today in Lismon.

871
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: So scary. So I sent a video to a friend

872
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: WHI was just like, that is hectic. It literally it

873
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: looks like a war zone.

874
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 2: I don't understand how some of these houses or families

875
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 2: would ever even move back into those houses. They would

876
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 2: just be completely unlivable, to be knocked down, there's no way,

877
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: there's no way, there'd be no electricity, no running water, no,

878
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 2: you know, absolutely everything. I think they potentially just trying

879
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 2: to salvage what they can or or pull things out.

880
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's no way these families would go back

881
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 2: to those houses and live.

882
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: And just so people understand, like a bit of the

883
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: Northern Rivers, like if you're like in our age kind

884
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: of couple and a lot of our friends have got

885
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: little kiddos, if you want to buy in the Northern

886
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: Rivers in like say the Byron region, Byron's really expensive, right,

887
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: Barn's fine with the floods, it hasn't had damage. Suffik

888
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: is also pretty good at Suffolk Park, and Bangalore has

889
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: Now these are really affluent areas. So someone of our

890
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,720
Speaker 1: age group, say we had two little bambinos and a dog.

891
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: You can't afford to buy unless you're really really wealthy

892
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: in these areas, So you buy out and you buy

893
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: in Mullum. Mullem is like so much more affordable. You

894
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: and I looked at nearly moving into Mullum when we

895
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: first got here, and it's like where you can actually

896
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: get into the property market. Now. There would be people

897
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: that would have bought their first home in the last

898
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: six months or year, like after COVID when it's kind

899
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: of like you chase the dream to live in this

900
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: beautiful paradise part of the world, and they would have

901
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: just lost everything because flood insurance is so expensive.

902
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 2: Or you can't get flood insurance.

903
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: Right, and it's just so it's really crazy to think

904
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: how full on this would be for like people of

905
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: our age and fat and obviously of every age, but

906
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: like young families bought their first and maybe like planned

907
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: that to be their life home.

908
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 2: You know, I think as well, Yeah, you know, malam

909
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,240
Speaker 2: is more affordable than these areas, but in the last

910
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 2: six months you're seeing homes millions and millions of dollars

911
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 2: going to homes for still pretty kind of small things,

912
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 2: and they would have lost everything this last week.

913
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

914
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's full of Same with Ocean Shores, same with

915
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 2: South Golden Beach.

916
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I ow, did you notice as we were driving,

917
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: like cars just empty and they were like fully brown

918
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: and all the doors were open because the cars are ruined.

919
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, completely ruined, abandoned mostly.

920
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: And their house that we went and dropped sandwiches off too,

921
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: that was gutted. Apparently they had a cubby in their

922
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: backyard and they found on the railway line like a

923
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: kilometer away.

924
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 2: Yep.

925
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: So full on, and I just so for people wanting

926
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: to know how they can support, we need to get

927
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: really clear on that, because even for us it's so confusing.

928
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: Like I I think that Pit's plate is great for food.

929
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: I think Beck and Joel Rocky are really good at

930
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 1: doing things on the ground and going right. I think

931
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: they go to the hubs and go what do you

932
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: need and they literally run out to Bunnings or Goldie

933
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: get the things and then drop them straight into the

934
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: people's hands. I know right now there's a need for

935
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: fresh underwear because people are like, this is my third

936
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: down the same pair of jocks, you know, So I

937
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: think there's what are you looking at that?

938
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 2: Boss? There was an instagram I found Floods Recovery twenty

939
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 2: twenty two. Sharing a lot of information on that Instagram

940
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 2: page as well, because.

941
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: I'll put as much as I can in the show notes.

942
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: But it is like a moving beast and it's changing

943
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: all the time, so we'll keep sharing as much as

944
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: we can. We just wanted to let you know, like

945
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: it is as bad as you're hearing, and it's potentially worse.

946
00:47:55,400 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 1: And also I think as well, like it is true

947
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: that we weren't seeing like the Lismore Harp is literally

948
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: opposite the police station. There was no one in the

949
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: police station. There was no police officers. People keep posting

950
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: that there are police cars on the m one checking

951
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: people's speed limits.

952
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 2: I saw too when I was driving to the Gold

953
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 2: Coast to pick me out.

954
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: So that means that those police officers could be doing

955
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: because they've got a better skill set than you and

956
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: manage of course.

957
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like they've got more training or whatever they've done. Yeah,

958
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 2: I think I think the biggest thing is there's no

959
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 2: central coordination. No one really knows what is going on.

960
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 2: We're all flying blind. And even with the volunteers, you know,

961
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 2: you rock up to a place and they've got too

962
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 2: many volunteers, then you have to go somewhere else and

963
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 2: it's yeah, the communication is quite bad and no one

964
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 2: really knows what to do unfortunately, and it is just

965
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 2: community spirit and community hard work that they're going around

966
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 2: house to house doing what they can. But as I said,

967
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 2: just seeing what we saw in Lismon today, I don't

968
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 2: understand how any of it will be able to recover.

969
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: And we haven't seen Mohem yet, we haven't seen Alana,

970
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: we haven't seen more Dall. We haven't seen didn't you

971
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: say chin.

972
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 2: Our was a lot better I think they had a

973
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 2: big clean up today, did.

974
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: They full on? So anyway, we just really wanted to

975
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: do the ps so that you know that it is

976
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: as bad as what everyone's saying. It is all that,

977
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: and there needs to be support. There needs to be awareness,

978
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: which is why we're doing this podcast and pulled our

979
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:44,800
Speaker 1: regular interview podcast. We just want people to be sharing

980
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: this so that hopefully media gets on board and eventually

981
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: government and people with skills like you and I are

982
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: too little creative is running around trying to make a

983
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: difference and help. And that's great, but we need people

984
00:49:58,280 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: that are literally trained for this.

985
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 2: They need skills, builders, people with power multicorn pressure washers.

986
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: And another thing, the roads are fucked, like you know,

987
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 2: we've got holes, hot holes everywhere the roads, like sides

988
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 2: of hills and dirt and stuff all that over the road.

989
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 2: It needs to be fixed, you know. And even say

990
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 2: like the petrol stations that we saw, like I don't

991
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 2: see how they're going to be functioning petrol stations in

992
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 2: Lismo or anytime soon. Or grocery stores I know, like

993
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 2: we saw there's the woolies there. I don't don't know

994
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 2: if that's affected. Don't know if that was flooded. I

995
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 2: don't know if. I don't know if that's going to

996
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 2: be able to be like reopened anytime soon. And there's

997
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,959
Speaker 2: so many residents still, you know, living in there because

998
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 2: there are higher parts of Lismore that wouldn't have been affected,

999
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 2: so you know, slightly elevated parts, but yeah, anything in

1000
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 2: the main town of Lismore is completely gone.

1001
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 1: Madd So sad ye, thanks for sharing Boss, because Boss

1002
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: wasn't sure about jumping on for this PS. He was like,

1003
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: I don't think we need to, and I said no, like,

1004
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: we have seen for ourselves and we need to share

1005
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: that so that hopefully this gets shared to people and

1006
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: people can be educated and hopefully support in some way,

1007
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: even if it's just simply sharing education around. So thank you.

1008
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this and you've got this far,

1009
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: please spread the word and hopefully we can really get

1010
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: behind these.

1011
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 2: Just one other quick thing, I'm sorry to interrupt at

1012
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 2: the end, but the amount of rubbish that's going to

1013
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 2: have to be collected and like disposed of if some

1014
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 2: way like it is incredibly huge amounts of waste. Yeah,

1015
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 2: and I don't understand how that's going to be processed

1016
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 2: or taken away or you know. I know the councils

1017
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 2: are trying to organize trucks and all that kind of

1018
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 2: stuff for all the hard rubbish. But this is imagine

1019
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 2: every single house down your street just throwing everything out.

1020
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 2: That's the amount of.

1021
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: Hard stuff like fridges and washing machines and.

1022
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 2: Like piles two meters high plus in front of every house.

1023
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 2: I just, yeah, logistically, I don't I don't understand. And

1024
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 2: that's why we do need someone in the area to

1025
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 2: come in and organize all that.

1026
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: Thanks, boss, I appreciate you sharing, and appreciate you where

1027
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: you were today.

1028
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 2: We just did what we did. It's like I feel like, but.

1029
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: I think the boys are I think the Woods boys

1030
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: have not stopped working stuff from day elevens straight now.

1031
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so the cafe is not open, but they're

1032
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 2: all working at the you know, making at the whole

1033
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 2: making food and they're not getting paid, none of them.

1034
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 2: So yeah, mental just came in an angry look because my

1035
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 2: phone was close to the zoom recorder.

1036
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: Yes, better, it's a producer. You should know better. Love you,

1037
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: bossa Chang. Let's go upload this. We've got to literally

1038
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: go somewhere we can find Wi Fi to upload this

1039
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,879
Speaker 1: podcast so you can hear it Monday morning. So if

1040
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: you hear this, thank you so much. If you've shared anything,

1041
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: thank you so much. We'll share with you as much

1042
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: as we can from what's going on here, Big love,

1043
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: Stay safe. That's a wrap on another episode of Fearlessly Failing.

1044
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 1: As always, thank you to our guests, and let's continue

1045
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:38,600
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1046
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1047
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