1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,719 Speaker 1: The Hawaiian Ride for Youth has been going for twenty 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: plus years now and it's on again next month. You 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: can make donations or get involved by heading to Ride 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: for Youth dot com dot au and to tell us 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: soul about it. The captain of Team Hawaiian Russell Quinn's with. 6 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 2: Us High Russell good a skipper. How Russell tell. 7 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: Us you know, obviously it's for youth, but tell us 8 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: exactly what this amazing ride raises money for. 9 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 3: It is amazing. It's a genuinely terrific cause, and that 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 3: is helping the young people of Western Australia deal with 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 3: and overcome mental health issues which are very prevalent and 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 3: unfortunately increasingly prevalent in our society. Tragically, suicide remains the 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: number one taker of lives for Australian's age between twenty 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 3: five and thirty nine right across Australia, and in twenty 15 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 3: two twenty twenty two alone, thirty nine young West Australians 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 3: passed away through self inflicted har which is an absolute travesty. 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 3: But we're doing something about it. Yeah, and that's what 18 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 3: this event does. So we for Youth, We ride to youth, 19 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 3: We stop at schools along the way from Albany to Perth, 20 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 3: and we spread the word importantly about lifting the stigma 21 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 3: of mental health issues so that young people, the kids 22 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 3: that we speak to at the schools are more comfortable 23 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 3: and confident putting their hands up and asking for help. 24 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 3: And we've seen that across twenty two years. Yeah, they're 25 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 3: increasingly confident and comfortable to do so, which is just great. 26 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: You do hear stories and I'm not you know, it's 27 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: not saying it is the case, but you do hear 28 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: stories that sometimes in more country type towns it can 29 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: be even more prevalent. 30 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 3: It is, it's more pronounced, which is a really sad 31 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 3: situation in terms of the services that are available for 32 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 3: those regional communities. And that's another reason why we do 33 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 3: indeed ride through regional Western Australia and those regional schools. Fortunately, 34 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: Youth Focus has a presence right across our great state, 35 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 3: including those regional centers where there is a greater need 36 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 3: for those services. But there's always and a need for 37 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 3: those services and increasing need as I said, and Youth 38 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: Focus is a specialized, only specialized, non government organization that's 39 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 3: doing this, and thus the fundraising is just so critical. 40 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 2: Good morning skipper. By the way, you're seeing your captains 41 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: of the Hawaiian team mate. 42 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 3: Thank you very much. 43 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 2: This event had fairly humble beginnings and it's come on 44 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: in leaps of bounds, hasn't it. 45 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 3: It has twenty two years going strong, and it started 46 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 3: with twenty four riders way back when, and we're now 47 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: up to about one hundred and sixty each year across 48 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 3: three pelotons, and the twenty three original writers a lot 49 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 3: of them still right to this day. 50 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: Oh, it's really good for consisting and it's a. 51 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 3: Growing diversity in terms of the breadth and depth of 52 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 3: writers as well. Of course there's a lot of guys 53 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 3: like me and the mammals, middle aged men in likea 54 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 3: of course, but there's also a growing number of young riders. 55 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 3: We've got a really strong contingent of under twenty five, 56 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 3: so that we want to continue to nurture and support 57 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: for that longevity of the ride. Lots of women which 58 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 3: is awesome, and again we've got record numbers of ladies 59 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 3: riding this year which is terrific. And that breadth and 60 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 3: depth continues to grow at both ends of the spectrum. 61 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 3: So we've also got a gentleman called Peter Bath. He's 62 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 3: the oldest rider. He's eighty two. 63 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: Oh Pete trooper. Yeah, that's amazing. It's not a short 64 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: ride Albany to Perth. It's always Albany to Perth. Do 65 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: you come up that main Southwest Highway or whatever it's 66 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: called there. 67 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 3: Or We've got three routes. So we've got a coastal, 68 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 3: an inland and a wheat belt. So I'm fortunate to 69 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 3: be rolling in coastal this year. 70 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: Wonder you like the best because that can that you think, 71 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: Oh yes, sea breeze come at me. 72 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 3: Although it can be dangerous. 73 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 2: Absolute. 74 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, So I did wheat Belt a couple of years ago. 75 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 3: Very beautiful country, you know, sunburnt country is today, but 76 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 3: you're really expose the elements. It's windy, it is windy 77 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 3: and if it rains, you're copping it well. And that's 78 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: why we exactly and that's why we train rain Hall show. 79 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: Ok, we can't stop, can you? That's it? 80 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 3: It's right week, as our coaches say, Yeah, you can't 81 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 3: predict the controlled weather. 82 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: March eighteen to twenty three, that's when it's on. That's 83 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,839 Speaker 1: that's a real anything could go week. Completely it could 84 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: be freezing, it could be hot, it could be raining. 85 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 2: He's never know. 86 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,839 Speaker 3: And Albany is a starting point. The Coast Root kicks 87 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 3: off from Albany Senior High School. We've gone out for 88 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 3: thirteen years and it can be rain. Haleer show it's 89 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 3: pretty well, you're going to have it all along the 90 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 3: way and some of the more experienced writers that tells 91 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 3: the stories of having some really harsh conditions during the rise, 92 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 3: like sleek almost sheets of run all day NonStop and 93 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 3: you get off and you are soaked to the bone 94 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: and barely functioning in terms of hypothermia. 95 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 2: Is closer to Perth. It could be forty three degrees mate, 96 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 2: this time is going much. 97 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 3: We're coming from Narriagin to mandar a couple of years ago, 98 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 3: forty three degrees as we climbed the scarp and then 99 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 3: came down into Pinjaro where it was just baking and bacon. 100 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 3: Was a good work because then we hit the Pinjarre Bakery. 101 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: I was about to say, what's your favorite country bakery 102 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: along the way. 103 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 3: It's going to be up there, It's going to be 104 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 3: out there. We're riding to gid you gat Up Bakery 105 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 3: this Saturday. 106 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: So Okay for a practice run like that hundred and. 107 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 3: Forty am mid forty two degrees again. 108 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,239 Speaker 1: Has a good tod grap. 109 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 2: Yeah that's the that's. 110 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 3: A motivating force right there and smashing down a couple 111 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 3: of uys and yeah that's real. 112 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: Well I reckon the Taylor Swifts adding a billion to 113 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: Melbourne's economy, but you guys all clip clopping into bakeries 114 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: and cafes on the way. 115 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's certainly a broader community and economic benefits for sure, 116 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 3: but it's really about that community. And it comes back 117 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 3: to helping the young West Australians and it's obvious, but 118 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 3: it needs to be said. By helping the young kids 119 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 3: around w A, helping to secure their future and then 120 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 3: it's an invest because they are our future. It's a 121 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 3: little bit cleaner us exactly exactly right. So you want 122 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 3: to nurture sport and help them in any way, shape 123 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 3: or form. 124 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 2: A no brainer, isn't it. 125 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 3: And Youth Focus does a fantastic job right across our state. 126 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 3: And it's the world's second biggest state, so that's huge, right. Yeah, 127 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 3: it's a lot of work, massive state. 128 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: Right for youth dot com dot you is that the 129 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: only place p can go to to make their donations 130 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: or is there other ways that they can get involved? 131 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 3: So going to the website would be great if you 132 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 3: want to sling some few bucks towards Team Hawaiian by 133 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 3: all means do that's a shameless plug. But another one 134 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 3: would be we've got a fundraising event coming up in 135 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 3: a few weeks time, that quickly, so Tuesday March twelfth, 136 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 3: claimont Quarter, one of the Hawaiian Group's key property outsets, 137 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 3: of course, but we've got a fantastic line up of speakers. 138 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 3: So Jen Morris is a dual Olympic gold medalist with 139 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,840 Speaker 3: the Hockey Ruse. Renowned professional director and business and sporting 140 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 3: world leader. Bo Waters, former vice captain, Premiership player and 141 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 3: noted hard man of the Eagles, is coming along as well. 142 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 3: And Simon Jones. You may not have heard of Simon, 143 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 3: but he is a former coach of the British cycling 144 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 3: team and now the coach of the Australian Cycling High 145 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 3: Performance Team. And they're going to talk through motivation and 146 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 3: leadership and coping with expectation and performance in life. So 147 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 3: some real valuable insights and lessons learned that we're sharing 148 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 3: with the crowd, and the crowd is going to be 149 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 3: entertained and they will be informed, but they also have 150 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 3: the opportunity to win some cracking prizes from Cable Beach 151 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 3: club Room, overnights at Hilton Hotel, Wise Winery. You've stepped 152 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 3: up and given us a whole bunch of lovely stuff 153 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 3: to enjoy the night and afterwards raffles options all that 154 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 3: good stuff everyone loves. 155 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: That's one of my favorites. Well, it's wisdom, doesn't it. Yeah, 156 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 2: that is a cracking lineupe that is we're very fortunate 157 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: and very appreciative. But that just speaks to that community 158 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: within Ride for Youth. Yeah, but there more broadly across 159 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 2: per cycling community. It's it's second to none and really appreciative. 160 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: All right. So that's just so much. Twelfth at the 161 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: Clermont Quarter and the Ride for Youth is on from 162 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: March eighteen to twenty three. Don't for get Ride for 163 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: Youth dot com, dot you. That's where you get all 164 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: your information, make your donations and I hope you've got 165 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: a good luck responsor. 166 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it'll keep you in pants. 167 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 3: Absolutely. We've got our kids now, we're all matches. You 168 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 3: see us out there, so give us a friendly honky. 169 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 3: You can no one of those my other abrupt ones. 170 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: Whilst honking in a friendly way, think about how much 171 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: their bums are hurting right now.