Speaker 1: The christ John O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast about you both
Speaker 1: the last couple of days start to really look at
Speaker 1: your life and the one thing about everything that's going
Speaker 1: on around us all over the world and here in
Speaker 1: Australia makes you start to think about re evaluate everything.
Speaker 1: The stuff that brings the joy, the stuff that you
Speaker 1: thought brings you jo a bit doesn't anyway. This week
Speaker 1: it's maybe you think over the weekend, what will I
Speaker 1: never ever take for granted again? Because we will get
Speaker 1: through this, this will pass. I don't know what it's
Speaker 1: going to be like when we re emerge out of it,
Speaker 1: but it will. And what will you never ever take
Speaker 1: for granted again? I started to find a I sorta
Speaker 1: al must make a list over the weekend The christ
Speaker 1: Jian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast. So many things have been
Speaker 1: taken away that have been permanent, we take for granted
Speaker 1: that almost come an ordeal, and now they're not there.
Speaker 1: We can't get them so easily or at all. It
Speaker 1: just changes your appreciation of them and you really you
Speaker 1: feel their absence. For me, I'm someone that I'm not
Speaker 1: really a fan of shaking hands with mates. I know
Speaker 1: some of moment and male friends don't like hugging. But
Speaker 1: I absolutely love hugging my mates and I don't care
Speaker 1: if some of them feel very awkward around it, but
Speaker 1: I love doing that moment.
Speaker 2: You are a hugger.
Speaker 1: I am a hugger. I know sometimes you stand. They're
Speaker 1: not knowing You're still in that. You're at that age
Speaker 1: of life. You'll get their mate, You'll get there one day.
Speaker 1: You're not there yet. You're on the edge. You're almost
Speaker 1: entering in the puberty of hugging. I see it in
Speaker 1: your eyes. You want to break out the shell, but
Speaker 1: you're still You're still in there.
Speaker 2: I'm learning from the best.
Speaker 1: I missed. I miss the hugs. I really really miss
Speaker 1: the hugs. Twenty one thing as well, in all serious
Speaker 1: that I'm really not going to take for granted again
Speaker 1: is the people that we don't even see sometimes, and
Speaker 1: that ow is the people that work in supermarkets, Bunnings, coals,
Speaker 1: you know, warlworst that stack the shelves, that are written
Speaker 1: off and maligned as unskilled or low labor. How we
Speaker 1: ever could even classify a group of people that are
Speaker 1: really essential. You know, we talk about what is essential,
Speaker 1: what isn't essential. Those people are essential doing those jobs.
Speaker 1: We didn't realize how much we actually need them. They
Speaker 1: are essential. So I'm never going to take them for granted.
Speaker 1: And I'm not just going to see through them or
Speaker 1: as a silhouette or I am like a ghost that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me. I'm always going to acknowledge them.
Speaker 1: I really hope. I don't going to promise myself. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do that.
Speaker 2: And you'll start You'll start hugging them when we're allowed
Speaker 2: to touch again. People.
Speaker 1: I know, Okay, I'm not one of those these guys, Jack,
Speaker 1: What are you never going to take for grunted together?
Speaker 2: Just the simple act of going out to see your friends.
Speaker 2: I can I can be guilty of at the end
Speaker 2: of a long week someone trying to organize if your
Speaker 2: friends to catch up and you go can't, can't be
Speaker 2: bothered tonight, or like I'm just going to make up
Speaker 2: an excuse.
Speaker 1: That past tonight. Patsy knows what that's like. Yeah. Still,
Speaker 1: we tried to do.
Speaker 2: You don't realize until it's gone, but we tried to
Speaker 2: do virtual drinks on Saturday afternoon with all my buddies.
Speaker 2: So we had sixteen people on a zoom conference video
Speaker 2: conference and it just is not the same people talking
Speaker 2: over each other. It's like a breakfast, sure, but it's
Speaker 2: you got to imagine sixteen voices. You try to direct
Speaker 2: a question to one person, they don't hear. There's another
Speaker 2: side conversation going on. And then the worst part is
Speaker 2: there's long awkward silences because everybody gets scared to talk
Speaker 2: over each other. So at one, one or two points
Speaker 2: during the drinks, we're just sixteen people looking at each other.
Speaker 1: From the street. How strange, how strange, these are the
Speaker 1: things we're trying to do at the moment. Patsy, what's
Speaker 1: it for you? What are you never going to take
Speaker 1: for granted?
Speaker 3: You know, the biggest thing for me is just human touch,
Speaker 3: just you know, I love cut a little girl and
Speaker 3: getting as.
Speaker 1: You're breaking up there, Yeah, yeah, you have to tell
Speaker 1: Chris again to get offline. I thought we spoke about
Speaker 1: red hot DUTs. Oh no, he's going for session.
Speaker 2: Chris is missing that human touch as well.
Speaker 4: I need at.
Speaker 3: It's the human touch for me because you know, a
Speaker 3: touchy feely person, aren't I Like I have to hold
Speaker 3: your arm if I'm talking to you. I'm a bit
Speaker 3: annoying like that.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The other thing for me is freedom of movement, like
Speaker 3: going wherever you want, whenever you want, just getting in
Speaker 3: the car and going and being. And the other thing
Speaker 3: is for me my job. We're so lucky that we're
Speaker 3: seen as in essential service and that weekend.
Speaker 1: Every day, my kids are worried of the weekend. I
Speaker 1: mean they always are constantly. If your dad was me,
Speaker 1: you'd be worried about surely some day is going to
Speaker 1: get fired. And they were like, are you going to
Speaker 1: be okay? I said, I'm really lucky. I hope so,
Speaker 1: you know, I said, I really hope so, And I'm
Speaker 1: very lucky just by the job that we have, what
Speaker 1: we do here. We're lucky anyway getting to come and
Speaker 1: do this, and I've appreciated it even more because of
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of laughter sometimes during the day
Speaker 1: in our lives right now because it's terrifying. It is
Speaker 1: actually scary. It's like it's like at the moment, you
Speaker 1: know the bit in Toy Story three where they're moving
Speaker 1: the conveyor belts kind of moving, you wonder, what are
Speaker 1: we moving to something which is even worse and we
Speaker 1: nowhere near the worst of it. I don't know, and
Speaker 1: so when we have this hopefully where you know, when
Speaker 1: we hang out together and we laugh together, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm so lucky that this is actually what I get
Speaker 1: to do for a living. So yeah, I really appreciate
Speaker 1: this job. All right, let's go, Let's take some call now,
Speaker 1: know four one four one O four three Charlie, good morning.
Speaker 4: Hey, how are christ And it's Charlie from Black Rocket.
Speaker 1: You going, oh good Charlie. And what are you never
Speaker 1: going to take for granted again?
Speaker 4: Look, I'm actually for everything you guys were just saying.
Speaker 4: A second. Ay, I'm a physio in private practice, and
Speaker 4: the one thing that I can't do now is actually
Speaker 4: see my patients. You know, within that one and a
Speaker 4: half meters, I can't touch them as I normally would
Speaker 4: do is as a treading therapist. And if you take
Speaker 4: that for granted, every time you go to work, it's
Speaker 4: just a patient comes in, You're helping them with the pain.
Speaker 4: Now I'm doing some telehealth stuff where I'm giving them
Speaker 4: advice doing all the things online. But it's just not
Speaker 4: the same. And you know, every day I went to
Speaker 4: work for the last thirty six thirty seven years, you
Speaker 4: sort of do take that for granted, And I can
Speaker 4: tell you when this all changes and I go back there,
Speaker 4: it'll be, you know, very much a different environment for me.
Speaker 1: Brilliant. What an amazing thing to get from it, though.
Speaker 4: Oh look, it's just one of those things that you know,
Speaker 4: we've got a big practice bayside, you're part of the world,
Speaker 4: and it's just one of those things we sit back
Speaker 4: and we go, you know, maybe we should be thinking
Speaker 4: about things a little differently now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you wonder whether we're going to when we do
Speaker 1: come out of this, whether it is actually hopefully going
Speaker 1: to be something better and different and we put some
Speaker 1: different things in place. You wonder whether we're all collectively
Speaker 1: feeding this globally, aren't we And we've never done that
Speaker 1: ever before. What a chance to actually make some changes
Speaker 1: to something different. You have to hope that maybe what
Speaker 1: remains is better.
Speaker 4: Oh look, I agree one hundred percent. You know, we've
Speaker 4: got people coming the door now, and you can see
Speaker 4: the fear on their faces, and I'd like to see
Speaker 4: that less. You know, they're always fearful of pain, Now
Speaker 4: they're fearful of other things. And it's a scary thought,
Speaker 4: scary time we're living through. But yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 4: We're going to get through this. We're all going to
Speaker 4: be better people for it because we've learned to get
Speaker 4: along again, I think, and we're just doing things differently
Speaker 4: and hopefully over the time we'll just stay better.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I think we don't want to go back to old habits.
Speaker 4: That's that's probably the bigger issue that I find is that,
Speaker 4: you know, we resort back to old habits.
Speaker 1: Very clear, Charlie, Well, sir, thank you very much. You
Speaker 1: cool mate, have a good week, stay.
Speaker 4: Safe and you too. Thanks guys.
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