1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to fearlessly Failing hot Seat. 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 2: In this app, I fire rapid. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 1: Questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests. Ps, I'm 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: gonna be answing you. I'm not so good at the 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: rapid part. I get too intrigued by the awesome answers. 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: Now a new EPP is going to drop every Wednesday, 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: so enjoy this shortest style episode of fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. 8 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to the hot seat. Full name, Well, you don't 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: need to say middle if you don't. 10 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 3: Want to, Okay, let's just keep it short. Luke McLeod. 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 1: Nice, Now I want to know what your middle name is. Okay, 12 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: do you have a favorite city. 13 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 3: I've got two middle names? 14 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 2: Actually, thank you? 15 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 3: Christopher Daniel Oh nice, Luke, Christopher Daniel McLoud? 16 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 2: Is that from both family site? 17 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 3: Well, Christopher came from Christmas because I'm born on Christmas Day. 18 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 2: Oh that's nice. 19 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 3: And then Daniel's my pop's name. 20 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 2: Oh that's really nice. 21 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, look at you, little crimbo baby, little Christmas babe. Okay, 22 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: favorite city? 23 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 3: Favorite city? Oh my god, Florence. 24 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 2: Oh wow? Can I ask why what it is you love. 25 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 3: The history? How you just going to get lost in 26 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 3: this these little alleyways and then you pop out to 27 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 3: the square and it'd just be buzzing cafes and little 28 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 3: bars and all that. And then you nip off into 29 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 3: another little alley way and go and explore. Then it 30 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 3: would pop up to it like a whole new, little 31 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 3: vibrant community. It was just little wonderland. 32 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, like discovering all the time. I love it. 33 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: What about nature Spot? I know you're a surfer. Do 34 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:30,559 Speaker 1: you have a favorite beach? 35 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 3: Hmmm yeah, right now, it'd be my local, which is okay, 36 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 3: I'm kind of giving this away. It's a secret, but 37 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 3: it's not really act. You can see another Catherine Hill Bay. 38 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: Is it amazing? 39 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah, because it's five minutes from my 40 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 3: place and it's surf. Surf's amazing. It's hardly anyone there. 41 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 3: It's just magic. 42 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 2: I have a weird thing. 43 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: I have to ask every single surfer that comes on 44 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: this podcast. Have you seen sharks? 45 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 3: Not there but out? Yeah? 46 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: Baddies, not baddies, but big ones. 47 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 3: Uh actually kind of one up. It's not it's about 48 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 3: halfway between Newcastle and here. Yeah. Yeah, a place called 49 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 3: Treachery Beach which is near Seals Rocks. 50 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. 51 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh yeah, like it swum underneath me, which came 52 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 3: from behind and went over to the right, looked back 53 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 3: at me, and then took off. It was probably better. Yeah, 54 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 3: I didn't know what quite like what type it was, 55 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 3: but it was probably about two meters So is it 56 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 3: big enough? Yeah, it was big. 57 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: I have this weird thing I just have to ask 58 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: that comes on it first about sharks. I'm saying with 59 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: whale sharks, that's about as like clos as I've got to. 60 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: And they're like golden retrievers. 61 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, good ones. 62 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: If you could have a superpower, what would it be? 63 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 3: Oh my god, superpower? Uh, oh my god, I would 64 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 3: probably that sounds really basic. But is that flying shape shift? 65 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: Oh that's not basic at all, Like animals and stuff anything? 66 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 2: Oh what animal? If you could do one? 67 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 3: If you could, I could go into and I do 68 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 3: all the different types. 69 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 2: Oh, you'd be like, I'm a shark today, leopard tomorrow. 70 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 3: I've an eagle the next day. 71 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 2: I got to get that run around. Yeah, yeah, I'm down. 72 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 3: And then you could turn into other people. 73 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: Oh no, that is scary. No, that's like Game of Thrones. 74 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: That could change faces. 75 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, the man of many faces. Yeah, wouldn't that be 76 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,679 Speaker 3: just like wow, like if you could just yeah, I 77 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 3: could just. 78 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: Turn into you and okay, well that is that not 79 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: freaking No, I don't agree with it. 80 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 2: Do you have a fear? Ah? 81 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 3: If a deeper fear would be not living life to 82 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 3: its fullest And that sounds a bit cheesy, but it's. 83 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: Your whole jam, that's my jam. 84 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 3: So that's one that I remind myself of quite frequently. 85 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 3: It is like yo, are we yeah, we are we 86 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 3: squeezing this? 87 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: Or yeah, you say that quite a lot in the 88 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: book to the listener as well. Every Day Enlightenment is 89 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: officially out now at all Good bookstores. 90 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 2: Good, You're very welcome. Do you have any regrets? 91 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 3: Ah, that's always a funny question. I've got been asked 92 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 3: that a couple of times because there are things that 93 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 3: I've done which I've been regretful of, but they've been 94 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 3: a part of the journey. Yeah, so, and they've led 95 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 3: me to where I am and who I am. So 96 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,239 Speaker 3: it's one of those things like is that a regret 97 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 3: or is it actually something like because you know, like 98 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 3: a lesson that's yeah, that you. 99 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 1: Kind of needed to go through if it meant you 100 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: had shitty behavior exactly. Well, yeah, I agree, it's it's 101 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: I'm a bit believe in not having regret. 102 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 2: Like yeah, big regrets. 103 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean I've done stuff which I've regretted, 104 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 3: but as I said, like, I think there's been growth, 105 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 3: there's been growth, lessons learned from that. 106 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, so I feel I totally feel 107 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: that because my whole thing is like I don't want 108 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: to be on my deathbed. 109 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: And be like I wish I gave that a crack. 110 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like it's in like yeah, like. 111 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: Big career like dreams. 112 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's something I try to 113 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 3: remind myself. Yeah, as well as like, yeah again, coming 114 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 3: back that whole squeezing thing about are you doing it? 115 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 3: Are you living? Are you doing the things you want 116 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 3: to do? 117 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: Here to do big time? These next to are real hard. 118 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite song? It's so hard, It. 119 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 3: Is hard, but I do. Actually, Gang of youths oh 120 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 3: riffer yep. I can't even it's no, it's a bitter. 121 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 3: It's symphony bitter. I can't even know. I don't even 122 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 3: know symphony. 123 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 2: That's different. 124 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 3: No, that's the that's the verb. Yeah, no, but it's 125 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 3: like the greatest of size or the deepest of. 126 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 2: Because I love going that guy that guys. 127 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 3: I don't even look at the the title of it. 128 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 1: The lead guy's voice is like pain but like death. 129 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: But oh I love gang. I think I'll find it Magno, 130 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: you just send it to me and I'll put in 131 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: the show notes and then movie is the other one. Yeah, 132 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: I know not these are not fair questions. 133 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 3: Mmmm. Brave Heart was mine for a long time. 134 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 2: It's a goodie good soundtrack, too. 135 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 3: Amazing sound. I actually used to use the soundtrack of 136 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 3: Brave Heart on the train to meditate too. 137 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it'd be good because it's all composed. 138 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very Celtic, sort of really sort of wispy 139 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 3: like bagpipes and about flutes. And I just I used 140 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: to have to travel on for two hours on a 141 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 3: train to go to work and back each day, so 142 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 3: four hours on a train, and I just put that 143 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 3: on and I'd just be like to get myself. 144 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, love it will You've answered all of these perfectly. 145 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: The last thing is I just want to ask you 146 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: a quick book. Where shouldn't be your hot seat? What's 147 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: your goal with the book, Like, what's your hope that 148 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: people take from this book. 149 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 3: At the very start of it, I dedicate it to 150 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 3: the reader, Yes, and I just say, I just hope 151 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 3: that it brings one of either one of three things, 152 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 3: either a little bit of relief for the person who's 153 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 3: reading it, or a little bit of healing, or a 154 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 3: little bit of happiness. So if it does one of 155 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 3: those three things. 156 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: Then job done, Job done, mate, I guarantee you're going 157 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: to get that. I'm thank you, very honored to be 158 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: sitting here with one of the first copies ever and 159 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: I know the book's going to fly big congrats. 160 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 3: Thank you so much.