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Speaker 2: like I was saying, we had these Christmas hams, and
Speaker 2: last week it seemed like this would be a nice
Speaker 2: way to say hello. It feels like, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: moving into a new neighborhood and going around all the
Speaker 2: local neighbors saying hello, introducing myself and I've got a
Speaker 2: gift for you before Christmas, okay.
Speaker 1: And so now we had it.
Speaker 2: This week everything changed and it says we're all where
Speaker 2: we can't be doing that, it's not right. But look,
Speaker 2: we've got these Christmas hams. Why do we give them
Speaker 2: to the first responders if they'd like them. So yesterday
Speaker 2: a lovely man on the show called Josh You went
Speaker 2: down to Bondi You went to the first responders to
Speaker 2: see if they wanted these just very small gifts to
Speaker 2: say we see you and thank you for your service.
Speaker 1: So what was that like?
Speaker 3: It was a really special moment and one that I
Speaker 3: didn't know was going to be as special as it was.
Speaker 3: But as I went down to Tema Emma Surf Life
Speaker 3: Saving Club, which is now their sort of main meeting
Speaker 3: point to sort of connect, to do debriefs, and so
Speaker 3: I knew I was kind of going to a main
Speaker 3: point for them, and I didn't even know how to
Speaker 3: enter him. Was it the front door, was it the
Speaker 3: back door? How do you enter a stiff life saving club?
Speaker 1: And do you want to get in the way?
Speaker 2: They're also an act of life saving club and he
Speaker 2: don't want to be an inconvenienced. But we wanted to
Speaker 2: go down and say thank you. I'm not just us
Speaker 2: on the team here, but everyone in Sydney absolutely.
Speaker 3: And I met a gentleman by the name of Ben
Speaker 3: there and he was sort of working out already, you know,
Speaker 3: shirt off, ready to go and jump in the water,
Speaker 3: and he met me with so much warmth and straight
Speaker 3: away he was just taken by the gesture and nothing
Speaker 3: more than just a big thank you. And he told
Speaker 3: me straight away that I needed to speak with a
Speaker 3: couple of other people, and one was a man named Rory,
Speaker 3: who actually on Sunday was there when it was all happening,
Speaker 3: In all the chaos, his first instinct was to actually
Speaker 3: run towards the water and to save people.
Speaker 1: And it truly and this.
Speaker 2: Is because obviously people were trying to find a safe
Speaker 2: refuge in the water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people freaking out, not knowing what to do, and
Speaker 3: it just really makes it very very real in that
Speaker 3: moment to hear firsthand just how brave, how incredibly.
Speaker 1: Brave, and the young kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and to not think of yourself and it's
Speaker 3: just a lovely thing to be able to give them something.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I think even now it's it's just to
Speaker 3: your point there, just being able to say a hello
Speaker 3: to people and really almost just that human element that
Speaker 3: people are there and people are being brave. It's quite
Speaker 3: a special thing to actually hear it firsthand.
Speaker 1: What was it like to go down a bond II.
Speaker 3: It's very silent. It's almost like the air and like
Speaker 3: time is like standing still, like everything's slower down.
Speaker 1: There by sacred ground now, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Unwittingly it has, you know, when you sent me your
Speaker 2: photo of it yesterday, already felt just want to photo
Speaker 2: the silence of it, because actually going to Bond that
Speaker 2: is not a place of silence. Normally, it's a place
Speaker 2: of noise, chaos, laughter, people meeting up, you know, life
Speaker 2: happening there vividly and in all the stuff I've seen.
Speaker 2: It's very very quiet. Obviously, it's just so strikingly different.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and you know, nobody speaking, but then there is
Speaker 3: sort of communication with the prayers and the loves and
Speaker 3: the foot.
Speaker 2: Is an act of silent respect, isn't it that? Actually
Speaker 2: they don't need the words. The silence is are the words.
Speaker 2: And so you went also to other first responders. You
Speaker 2: went to the police.
Speaker 3: Yeah, went to Bondo police station and I was wondering
Speaker 3: if they can accept it, like is it in their
Speaker 3: company policy?
Speaker 2: Again, you've been told by the ambulance staff couldn't accept them.
Speaker 2: They're not allowed to accept gifts, which I find extraordinary.
Speaker 1: I think that's a real shame.
Speaker 2: So anyway, you went to the police station and how
Speaker 2: are they Yeah, they grabbed those hands off the.
Speaker 1: Fish were the hams.
Speaker 3: They had to get clear and they asked. I spoke
Speaker 3: with a gentleman named Andrew and he goes, I've just
Speaker 3: got to check check with my sergeant. And he went
Speaker 3: away and came back and came back with the biggest smile.
Speaker 1: On his face.
Speaker 2: What else is that sergeant going to say? Standing in
Speaker 2: at ten seconds to make it at the chip? How
Speaker 2: many ams do you reckon, it's gone, follow him, see
Speaker 2: where he goes, go back to his face, get more
Speaker 2: Christmas hands.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't love a Christmas hand? Right, So they chut
Speaker 1: the hams. They did great, they did.
Speaker 3: And then as I was leaving it really it's stopped
Speaker 3: me because I was leaving and there was a whole
Speaker 3: group of girls walking in all holding flowers and they
Speaker 3: were just going to go the desk after me and
Speaker 3: give flowers to the police. Yeah, it's just so lovely
Speaker 3: because it's like those are the kindness and cares that
Speaker 3: you maybe don't see, and to see it in person
Speaker 3: was it was very.
Speaker 1: Special, brilliant, lovely.
Speaker 2: If there's anyone else you think we need to hear
Speaker 2: about or we should be talking to, please let me know.