1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with jonesy Well, jonesy U. I 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: died this a couple of years ago. Drive July and 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: I've ever thought of being I mean, I know, sober 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: curious is a new phrase people are thinking. You know what, 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind having a month off the booze. Now 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: is a great time to do it. Drive Your Ly 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: is an extraordinary charity raising money for kancer since two 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: thousand and eight, So if you want to have a 9 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: crack at it, now is the time. Ambassador Adam Spencer 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: is here to tell us more. Hello Adam, Now we. 11 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 2: Going, Yeah, just a few weeks out getting pumped for 12 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 2: another might would be my fifteenth consecutive drivee A lie. 13 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: I can't wait. 14 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: What to you are the health benefits? I know we're 15 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: raising money and that's all great, but what are the 16 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: health benefits for you of giving up booze for that month? 17 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? Look on, I'm sure there are longer term health benefits, 18 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: but in the short term, make you sleep so much better, 19 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. You just wrack up a good few good 20 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: eight to ten hour nights sleeping around. You feel completely fresh, 21 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 2: You're more energetic and during the day and you're more 22 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 2: clear about things. I like to joke, but I've got 23 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: to think we got the Sydney Swans. And I'll watch 24 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 2: a game and it turns out the umpires are trying 25 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 2: their hard as they make the occasional mistake, it tends 26 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 2: to even out. And that's not the reason you lost 27 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 2: the game. You just keep this whole new sort of 28 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 2: view on your world that comes from not being a 29 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 2: little bit frazzled every now and then. And if you 30 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 2: want a pair of it, a little bit of exercise, 31 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 2: you get your morning's back. So if you choose to 32 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 2: not drink for a month, and I will get up 33 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: an hour earlier and go for a walk or a run, 34 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 2: or go to that yoga class I've wanted to go 35 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 2: to or whatever, that this incentive of I just feel awful, 36 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 2: I might roll over and go out to bed. That's gone. 37 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 2: So if you want a pair of it, a bit 38 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 2: of health and fitness, it's a perfect time to do 39 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 2: it in the middle of the. 40 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 3: Year, and you don't have to worry about getting the 41 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 3: cab anymore. 42 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: Exactly. In fact, you can if you're keen, you could 43 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: become other people's caps and ubers over the course of. 44 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 3: Your we have done that, We've done that before. 45 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: And that was that was hideous, that bit at the 46 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: end of the month, because I remember feeling guilty about 47 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: going back to having a few occasional drinks that do 48 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: you ease your way back in or do you go 49 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: hard the minute August rolls around. 50 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, we advise people if you have a drive life, 51 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: please don't have a saturated September or anything like that. 52 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 2: You know, to take your time. But it's interesting because 53 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 2: what happens is, I think, Amanda, regardless of how much 54 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: you drink, whether you drink actually drink moderately, medium or 55 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 2: a bit too much, I think most people underestimate how 56 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 2: much they do drink and drive. You li guse you 57 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: that great sort of window on your own relationship with drinking. 58 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: You'll be in an event and you'll realize now in wow, 59 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 2: I've said no to this waiter seven times for a 60 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 2: drink and you realize. So you get that little snapshot. 61 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 2: So if you choose, and we're not a tea titling 62 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: evangelist movement and then demand to do xosit. But if 63 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 2: you choose with that knowledge at the end of July 64 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 2: to wind it back a bit a month's worth of 65 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 2: knowledge is a really good snapshot to then operate on 66 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 2: and realize I can actually have dinner with my wife 67 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 2: on Wednesday night when the kids are I've already gone 68 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: a bit. We don't there to get title yourself, so 69 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 2: we can still have a great time. Maybe you take 70 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 2: that as a lifestyle have it going forward. Yeah. 71 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 3: I found that it changed my attitude to alcohol because 72 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 3: when I went on drive July, I thought to myself, 73 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 3: I don't think I've had a weekend where I haven't 74 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 3: had a drink since I was about eighteen. So to 75 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 3: have that month off, I found it. Really I learned 76 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 3: a lot about myself and it was when it finished 77 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 3: I thought, oh, yeah, okay I can. It's actually changed 78 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 3: how I drink now. I don't think I drink as much. 79 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 2: And the same way that if your structure around them 80 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 2: and going, oh but I've I've got to have a 81 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 2: drink on this, We've got to get an over there 82 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 2: and account. It's going to be so inconvenient. Actually, you 83 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 2: can go to things and not drink and have a rollicking. 84 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 2: You can go to a wedding and not drink and 85 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 2: still have a great time. You can do all sorts 86 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 2: of things and not drink and still enjoy yourself. And 87 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 2: maybe it's the experience of drives your line, realizing that 88 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: that also lets people sort of recalibrate once they get 89 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 2: around to August and beyond. 90 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 3: Imagine if you didn't drink at your own wedding, not 91 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 3: a lot of people don't. 92 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: Maybe people don't. I think this is this assumption in 93 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: our society that you know, people drink everywhere interesting times, 94 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: Adam so. And also the great charity that you are 95 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: raising money for. So if you're interested in this, you 96 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: head to drive July dot com. 97 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can nominate one of forty different cans adult 98 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 2: cancer this is. It might be a local hospital, it 99 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 2: might be a local serviceship, an experience with or just 100 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 2: give money into a drive Joly foundation and then sponsor 101 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 2: other things. You get your mates to hit you up 102 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: as a well done you for your discipline, your absence. 103 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: We've raised seventy million dollars in the fourteen of them 104 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: we've done so far, and we're looking to break the 105 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 2: record again this year. 106 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 3: Bring seventy million dollars. Good on you, my man. Have 107 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 3: a drink of not in July. 108 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll have a ginger beer to celebrate that. Don't 109 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 2: you worry, my friend 110 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 3: Good on you, ad expensive, Thank you for joining us.