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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Will and Woody podcast that fighte sized.

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Speaker 2: And have asked people to call for one six y

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Speaker 2: five if you've ever been saved by a celebrity. Now,

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Speaker 2: look that might seem like a ridiculous question, but right

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Speaker 2: now seems like celebrities saving punters. There are dime a

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Speaker 2: dozen woods. We had Patrick Danger for RFL superstar, Yes,

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Speaker 2: rescuing somebody out in the surf YEP. Mick Fanning, former

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Speaker 2: surfer yep also rescuing people up in New South Wales,

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Speaker 2: and he's jet skip and today we've got an Olympia.

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Speaker 2: He's rising back from one more Dear you across the line.

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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon, near Bullock Beach on the Sunshine Coast, the

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Speaker 2: Olympic gold medalist was about to add hero to his regime.

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Speaker 2: Steve Bradford joins us. Welcome back to the show, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Can I guys crazy afternoon up the Sunny Coast on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and the emotions I was still feeling from it are

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Speaker 1: pretty incentive, mate.

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Speaker 2: Can you just can you just spell out for everyone

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Speaker 2: exactly what happened, because from what I'm reading, you've saved

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Speaker 2: some lives. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was teaching my son to surf in a pretty calm,

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Speaker 1: little reform of what was a two plus meter swell,

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Speaker 1: and there were some girls swimming a bit further down,

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Speaker 1: and I just happened to glance out the back into

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Speaker 1: what was two meter waves breaking, and I saw a

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Speaker 1: head out there in the water, and I thought, I

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Speaker 1: think that's one of those girls that was swimming a

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Speaker 1: bit further down. And I said to myself, get the

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Speaker 1: board off, give it to me, and you go get

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Speaker 1: the lifeguards as quick as you can. And I've paddled

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Speaker 1: out and got over the first few waves and found

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Speaker 1: that it wasn't just her. There was her and her

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Speaker 1: three friends were all out there, and the three friends

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Speaker 1: were right in the impact zone, just getting smashed by

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Speaker 1: two meter aways. She was about thirty meters further in

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Speaker 1: the girl that I'd seen, and I don't know, the

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Speaker 1: adrenaline kicked in and instantly I decided, well, there's only

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Speaker 1: one of me here. I can't say four of them

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Speaker 1: all at once. So I got her on the board,

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Speaker 1: turned around, paddle back in, and then there was two

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Speaker 1: kids swimming on the beach near the edge, and I said, mate,

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Speaker 1: I need help, And I spotted another guy on the

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Speaker 1: beach with the surfboard. I said, can you get into

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Speaker 1: paddle out? I can't say three of them all once,

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Speaker 1: So I paddled back out. And when I got back

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Speaker 1: out to the impact zone, one of them was hyper ventilating.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I had taken on water. The other

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Speaker 1: two were okay, just but they were trying to calm

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Speaker 1: her down, and the rip was pulling them out, but

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Speaker 1: the waves were pushing them in, so they were stuck

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Speaker 1: in the impact zone, just getting smashed. They all got

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Speaker 1: onto the board, and then all of us were getting smashed,

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Speaker 1: and I couldn't get all three of them in at

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Speaker 1: the same time. There was too many of us on

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Speaker 1: the board. Yeah, it was pretty intense. And yeah, not

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Speaker 1: long after that, the lifeguards showed up with the rubber

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Speaker 1: ducky right, and they picked up two of the girls

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Speaker 1: off the surfboard and got them into shore as quick

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Speaker 1: as they could. The other one I got on the

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Speaker 1: board with and we paddled together and called a wave

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Speaker 1: into the shore and that was sort of the end

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Speaker 1: of the intensity. But the faces of those girls and

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Speaker 1: the complete terror on their faces is something that I

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Speaker 1: won't be able to unsewe for a while.

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Speaker 2: You are You're a humble bloke.

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Speaker 1: Mate. They have all said that.

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Speaker 2: They one hundred percent would not have survived if it

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Speaker 2: wasn't for you, So mate, incredible mate, amazing work. Gee whiz.

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Speaker 1: It's just one of those situations where you have to

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Speaker 1: go yeah, yeah, you know. For me, I'm not as

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Speaker 1: sit as I used to be when I was an Olympian.

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Speaker 1: So it was kind of nice to know that if

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Speaker 1: called upon and it's an emergency situation, that I can

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Speaker 1: still draw on that sort of power. And it all

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Speaker 1: went away. The power went away after one of the girls,

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Speaker 1: after we're all on the beach, one of them come

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Speaker 1: running up to me and hugged me so hard it

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Speaker 1: almost took my breath away, and she said, she said,

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Speaker 1: thank you for saving my life. That was where all

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Speaker 1: the adrenaline went away, and I kind of went weak

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Speaker 1: at the knees and I was like, geez, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think I think this is something pretty cool that I've

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Speaker 1: just done. But at that moment, I didn't even realize

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Speaker 1: that that I didn't even know. I didn't even contemplate

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Speaker 1: what I was doing. I just went into autopilot.

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Speaker 2: Honest question, honest question.

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Speaker 1: What was the better feeling crossing the line and winning

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Speaker 1: a gold medal or saving the lives of four girls.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to say which one was better, but definitely different.

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Speaker 1: You know, when I went the gold medal was all

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Speaker 1: elation and emotions to the max. But you know, in

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Speaker 1: this situation, whilst I'm incredibly proud that I did it,

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Speaker 1: it was really gut wrenching to see the looks on

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Speaker 1: their faces and the girl on the option afterwards, and

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Speaker 1: she couldn't walk so they had to cut her off

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Speaker 1: in the ambulance, and it was It was an intense situation,

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Speaker 1: but you know, one that I suppose I'll be carrying

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Speaker 1: the memories from for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, absolutely hero. Stephen Badrie, well done, mate, can

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Speaker 2: go like just brilliant, really brilliant stuff mate, well spoken

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Speaker 2: as well, Steve, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: On Will and Woody and I appreciate it, guys.

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Speaker 2: Great stuff mate, genuine hero there. Stephen Bedby, how about it? Superstuff?

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Speaker 1: Here more of the boys on the Full Show podcast.

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