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Speaker 1: This is a Will and Woody podcast, Nini.

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Speaker 2: Woodrob Right now, we've got the og Yellow Wiggle, Greg

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Speaker 2: Page City Potato.

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Speaker 1: Greg, Hey, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 3: It's wonderful to have you on.

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Speaker 2: It truly is wonderful to have you on. It's two blocks.

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Speaker 2: He used to groove to you in probably probably nothing

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Speaker 2: to be hones.

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Speaker 3: That's probably nude in our loud.

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Speaker 2: That's a weird That's a weird thing to say to

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Speaker 2: your g first guest, isn't it We used to dance

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Speaker 2: nude to your music.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, that's the first time I've ever heard that too.

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Speaker 4: I must say, there you go.

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Speaker 3: You always remember us.

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Speaker 5: Now, Greg, there's there's a really there's a great reason

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Speaker 5: why you're joining us on the air today, and I

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Speaker 5: think the best way to start talking about it is

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Speaker 5: by asking you about an experience you had made where

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Speaker 5: effectively you came very very close to dying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, tragically that's the case. Yes, But luckily for me,

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Speaker 4: I was resuscitated because people around me had access to

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Speaker 4: all the links in the chain of survival, so they

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Speaker 4: were able to call Triple zero start CPR, and importantly

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Speaker 4: they had access to an AED which restarted my heart.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, tragically, for ninety percent of people who have

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Speaker 4: a sudden cardiac arrest, they don't survive because in most

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Speaker 4: cases they don't have access to all of those links

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Speaker 4: in the chain.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so you were mid gig, so this was a

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Speaker 5: bushfire appeal concert Castle Hill twenty twenty.

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Speaker 4: Well, actually it was right at the end of the gig.

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Speaker 4: Luckily we got through the bulk of the show. I

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Speaker 4: was leaving the show thinking that we were going to

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Speaker 4: come back on and do our en course on, which

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Speaker 4: was hot potato. Well, yeah, we were going to do

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Speaker 4: hot potato, but I didn't make it, and luckily I

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Speaker 4: did make it back in terms of life. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: thanks to people that knew what to do. And yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's a very important message to get out there.

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Speaker 3: How were it? How were you during most of the

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Speaker 3: gig though? Greg? Was it one of those gigs where

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Speaker 3: you're going something's a bit off.

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Speaker 1: No, not at all. It just felt like a normal gig.

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Speaker 4: And this is the other point, right, For fifty percent

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Speaker 4: of people that have a sudden cardiac arrest, they have

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Speaker 4: no diagnosis of anything being wrong with them. So I

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Speaker 4: didn't know I had heart disease and that heart disease

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Speaker 4: caused a heart attack that led to an immediate cardiac arrest.

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Speaker 4: And that sudden cardiac arrest is what kills you know,

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Speaker 4: twenty seven thousand people every year in Australia, twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: four thousand people every year.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 5: You hear stories, Greg, And there's a particular one. It's

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Speaker 5: a wrestling story. A guy called someone heart effectively came

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Speaker 5: into the ring on a flying fox, fell off, the

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Speaker 5: flying fox fell on his head and he actually ended

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Speaker 5: up dying. But the thing was because it was part

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Speaker 5: of a show. The crowd started like thinking it was

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Speaker 5: part of the show. What was there?

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Speaker 3: I know you said it was at the end of

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Speaker 3: the show, Greg.

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Speaker 5: But was there any part of people surrounding you that

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Speaker 5: were going, oh, are you doing a bit?

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Speaker 1: No? Look, I think people just didn't know what was

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Speaker 1: going on. There wasn't a part of the we have

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Speaker 1: enough trouble waking Jeff. Usually it's wake up Jeff.

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Speaker 4: That night it was wake up Greg, and thank goodness

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Speaker 4: they did.

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Speaker 3: Greg.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of Jeff, I met and again I didn't do

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Speaker 5: a background search on this person, but I met a

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Speaker 5: person in Western Australia who told me that she used

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Speaker 5: to manage the Wiggles.

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Speaker 3: I've forgotten her name, don't try, mate, but she told

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Speaker 3: me that there was a big pressure on you guys.

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Speaker 3: So when you were touring all over the world.

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Speaker 5: I mean you're literally the Wiggles are the biggest band

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Speaker 5: to come out of Australia, so you're traveling around the

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Speaker 5: world effectively like rock stars. But there was big pressure

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Speaker 5: on you guys to not celebrate your shows or go

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Speaker 5: out after shows and do things like you know that

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Speaker 5: normal adults would do, like drinking and stuff, because that

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Speaker 5: would ruin the image of the Wiggles.

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Speaker 2: Is that true?

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Speaker 1: Ah, look, not really.

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Speaker 4: I mean we aren't party animals. Let me tell you

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Speaker 4: what you see is what you get with the Wiggles.

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Speaker 4: We're pretty boring guys. But yeah, no, Look, we in

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Speaker 4: America particular, we would do our shows at nighttime, so

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Speaker 4: we'd do a seven o'clock show, we'd get on the

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Speaker 4: bus at nine o'clock and we'd travel overnight. So there

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Speaker 4: was no party in going out to pubs and clubs

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Speaker 4: and that kind of thing. It was a pretty boring lifestyle.

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Speaker 4: We weren't really rock stars.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: So I suppose that kind of ties in with the

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Speaker 2: fact that you suffered this cardiac arrest though, Greg, is

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Speaker 2: that you would have considered yourself, like you know, in

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Speaker 2: terms of this a very healthy fit guy. You're not

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Speaker 2: a party when a club goer and then to have

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Speaker 2: cardiac arrest. It sort of ties in with the message

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Speaker 2: that Heart of the Nation is sort of spreading, is

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Speaker 2: that it really can happen to anyone.

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Speaker 1: That's right. That is the point.

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Speaker 4: It's not that person that you look at and you think, oh,

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Speaker 4: they are a heart attack waiting to happen.

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Speaker 1: It's that's not the case.

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Speaker 4: It can be anyone, anywhere anytime. We've got an ambassador

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Speaker 4: for Heart of the Nation who's a twenty five year

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Speaker 4: old guy. He had a cardiac arrest playing futsal twenty

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Speaker 4: four years old. He was he dropped on the on

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Speaker 4: the fuotsal field and luckily somebody knew how to do

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Speaker 4: CPR and kept him alive till the ambulance got there.

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Speaker 4: So wow, it's really important that people do know what

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Speaker 4: to do when somebody collapse and they're not responding and

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Speaker 4: they're not breathing. So it's call push shock. Heart of

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Speaker 4: the Nation Communities is a program we're trying to get

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Speaker 4: AEDs into residential areas. We're up to eighty percent of

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Speaker 4: cardiac arrests occur in the home, so having access to

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Speaker 4: an ad can be a real game changer in terms

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Speaker 4: of increasing survival rates.

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Speaker 1: So we're on a mission to do that. It's a fundraising.

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Speaker 4: Program where you get together with neighbors, raise the funds

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Speaker 4: for an AD kit to go into your neighborhood and

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Speaker 4: everyone can access it.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's great, great idea, Mate, Heartofannation dot com dot

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Speaker 2: au Ford slash communities if you want more information about that. Greg,

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Speaker 2: It's been wonderful to have you on the show. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for sharing your story and hope it's

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Speaker 2: going to inspire a whole bunch more people to get

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Speaker 2: involved in it and get a DeFi that they can

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Speaker 2: have access to and save lives, which is ultimately what

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Speaker 2: this is all about. Congratulations on all your success made.

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Speaker 2: It's a true pleasure to have you.

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Speaker 1: On the show.

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Speaker 2: I think nude, as I said, one year old me,

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Speaker 2: would be pumped that I am now fully clothed talking

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Speaker 2: to you and having you go here in conversation.

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Speaker 1: That's scary. Yeah, that is that's terrifying.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, Mate on the best Greag gradulations.

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Speaker 3: It is here.

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