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Podcast with Rabbit. I'm Rabbit.
I record this podcast inside a cute little retro caravan from
1967 that I've tore around all over the place.
Fan podcast with Rabbit OK so the weird thing is we're in
competition with ourselves at the moment because we are a
podcast I. Quite often feel that.
Do you? I think it's a psychological
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thing, yeah. It's called self sabotage.
Oh my God, I'm the king of self sabotage.
I mean, I don't want. The Queen, Oh my Lord.
Melody at the point where I and I know you are quite keen to
talk about weight loss, but. My God, because you are right.
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The record of disaster, my friend.
What I just gave. To you headline.
Oh, that's right, you can generate those yourself.
Oh, so look, but when I, yeah, when I'm on my my, which I am at
the moment, like a real light. Look, let's sort this out mate.
Stop all the, all the rubbish and everything and then I, you
know, at some point I'll jump onthe scales and I'm, I'm doing
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great. It's on for tonight with the
chips and chocolate. I don't know.
That's why I'm the king of self sabotage.
Yeah. OK.
So is that what we're doing here?
We're we're cannibalising our own.
Yes. So we are currently, I mean
depending on when you're listening to this, yes, here we
go. Again, here we go again, being
beholden. Today's I've been warning you
about this. From episode 1, yeah been
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warning about being. What did I say?
I did. I only said one thing to you,
I'm pretty sure. Yeah.
All this time. That's all I remember.
And so if it's December 22nd, right now, between the hours of
seven and 9:00 AM, we are currently live on the radio
doing the Rabbit and Julie Goodwin Breakfast show on Coast
FM Wow. It's very specific.
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It's quite. Specific SO.
Yeah, that's exciting though. Yeah.
We're probably having a lot of fun over there.
We're. Probably having so many laughs
or we're we're. Or are we?
Or it's 7:10 and they've gone. That'll do, guys.
Yeah. Desi, you could take your shit
and your giggles and just nosey on out.
Go do your little podcast. We're a Sirius radio station.
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Don't know what you 2 are doing.Oh, so good that it's, you know,
so, I mean, this is being released.
Yes. 20 seconds. So it's, we're three days out
from Christmas. I have the greatest idea for a
Christmas present. Yeah.
Tickets to Julie Goodwin. Your time starts now.
The live stage show tour. Ohh.
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Let's do that, hmm? So because I was, I was thinking
about on the drive here, which Ishould say, we're sitting in the
Doylo car park, right? Yeah.
We're going to film outside. Yeah, it's kind of rainy.
Because that's where the CentralCoast show is in February is at
the Doylo. Thank you, Doylo.
Yeah, you're legends. So we're going to go and film
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some some promo stuff on the wayout here.
I was just thinking when this comes out 22nd of December,
perfect timing for a last minutegift because my mom is in
Melbourne. And so when you've hit the 20
seconds too late to get a present down, I can't get a
present to her. It sure is.
But a digital 1. Digital Tickets Tickets in the
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inbox. I mean, it's a long way for her
to come to go to the show. I did not think of that in the
slightest. I presume you're also buying
plane tickets? Hotel room.
OK, I've set up a new thing and I haven't told you about this
for the show. What?
I'm selling, thank you, Register.
It's a deep cut. I like that.
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I think I'm the only one laughing at that.
Yeah. Oh, that's pretty neat.
Are you please comment on this episode if you got that, the
thank you register. That's one of my funniest things
from radio ever. And I've got the video from when
it happened as well. You can see the moment where my
heart breaks. Yeah, because.
You're cold witted heart. 'Cause I thought it was the
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greatest idea. I thought it was really
brilliant. And Julie just goes.
So let me just check, I'm getting this right and you just
see my face going, what's happening, what's happened?
And but it happened so many times where I'd think I've got a
great idea and. Then it was not.
No. And then?
Listener, it was not a great idea.
It's not. And I just.
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I'm shocked by it. Yeah.
But yeah, so I'm gonna be selling tickets.
I'm selling side tickets. What do you mean?
Are you scalping? Yes.
So. What's your margin?
Well, it's 100% because I'm I'm creating this thing from scratch
so I'll have a camera on stage and it'll live stream it and you
can buy tickets to the live stream.
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Oh, what was that boxing match where you had to?
It was to pay and it was this massive, like boxing it.
Was all of them. No, but there was a big one.
It was, and it was like coming on and you had to go to a like a
registered place to watch it or you had to pay to view it.
Yeah. But people were streaming it
from like they would put a camera on their telly.
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Yeah. And I think it was Foxtel.
Yeah. That were, they had people on it
and they had some sort of uniquecode coming up on people's
screens. So they knew whose boxes it was
coming. It was streaming on.
And I was shutting their boxes down in the middle of the fight.
And it was. Oh wow.
Do. You remember that?
No, not to look at all. Because it sounds like you're
about to. I'm gonna have people yeah on
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your. Well, this is the great.
Thing down your box. Your name is on the show, so oh.
Yeah, it might be good. No, I mean any dramas straight
to you. Oh no, I don't like that.
Wow. No, I don't want no ownership or
accountability for drama. Well, as far as the selling of
the tickets, you have no ownership or or like a tie in
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whatsoever, that's all. People who who know what they're
doing are doing that. Can you imagine if I was the one
selling the ticket? No, I mean my ticket, the you're
the the live stream. I'm that so you're not.
You're selling the tickets yourself to.
The live stream. Some things you can't DIY.
No, I'm doing it. I'm doing it through a GoFundMe
page. Oh my God.
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Straight up, I love the name of that site actually.
Like that's literally what it is.
Go Fund. Me, fund me and then I'll I'll
send you a link to a a live stream from my phone on the
stage. Rabbit people are gonna take
this seriously. And they're no, Surely not.
Come on, come on, everyone who'slooking for a little bargain.
I mean, is it a bargain or are you selling it for?
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It's more. OK, that's all right.
How's my business? You'll be like, oh, that's all
right. You're not gonna sell a single
one. That's right.
No, I guess it's a numbers thing, isn't it?
Yeah. So now I'll sell them for 10
bucks or something. Stop it.
And then we'll be sitting in, we're sitting in an empty
theatre as everyone's watching. At home, you're making it.
Make it sweet. You're rolling.
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In it I just thought of a name for it and I'm crying for my
live stream. Your time starts whenever it
suits you. That's gonna be the name of your
autobiography, Yeah. Your time starts whenever I'm
turn up. If I get around to it whenever I
turn up, that's great. So yes, as of now, you know,
we've got this show coming up. I'm sitting here looking at
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Julie in the pod van and we're in the car park of the Doylo and
there's this giant digital screen out on the side of
whatever Rd. This is that we're on right now.
It's the big one, the. Big one and Julie's face just
keeps coming up on this. Does it?
What are you talking about? Have you not seen it?
No, I saw somebody took a photo of it, but it was done.
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It's. Not that one that says Christmas
crack. Christmas cracker.
I'll show you me Christmas cracker.
Tickets. Tickets cracker, not cracker.
Here we go. There's you.
Oh no. No, that's a handful half hand.
I'll show you me half hand. You've got the byline for the
show sorted. Shake me up and.
Saturday. Variety raffle I'll show you me
variety raffle is. Baby, I'll show you me variety.
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This is I don't know if this hasever been done in the podcast
before. Gaslighting me.
New Year's Eve. You just got me looking out the
window. Pineapple Crush jugs.
I'll show you me. Oh hang on, you gotta go to my
only fans most about. This it's Jake and Joshua.
I look like none of those. This is one of those big fights.
That's Jake Paul and day. Yeah.
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Joshua, not Paul. ADHADHD.
Summer timetable. AHQ.
Oh, is it? Yeah.
Oh, you need your glasses on? God, imagine the things you'd
get done in 30. Days for 100 bucks.
Oh, that's looks like reformer Pilates.
I'll show you me down with dog I've.
Never been done in a podcast. Zoo versus Velazquez.
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Bra. This is, we've just spoke about
this. Well, this is like a live
stream. Bolos, electronic cypod.
Then can you come and film some promos with their board?
Not visible. Shave.
Yeah, he's cooked like a specky kick.
But it's a good shot of him I'm.Just yeah, I'm on there, but not
very, not very much. And they prefer boxers to me it.
Comes once every six days. Your face.
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And Kim drag Bingo. I mean, I'd be in that.
It's nice. It's different.
I'll tell you next time it pops up because obviously there's
40,000 side. Of my head it's not you blow
party. Yeah, so anyway, I get tickets
to the show. The Central Coast show is the.
Friday the 13th, yeah, that's the 4th.
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It's. Our 4th show we've done yeah.
So we'll really be hitting our. Strides.
I hope so by then. You know by then.
It's not ideal to let the first 3.
Show, look at look at the big one.
I'm like, Oh no, yeah, look at I'm.
Wearing the same outfit. Yeah, well, you only got one set
of clothes. Yeah.
Oh, look at the time. 8:30 till 10/30/30.
Till 10:30 no one ran that past me.
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It's a late 1. It's gonna be interesting.
So I'll be asleep for the last half of that.
Don't worry, I've got it. Jules just had to prop me up
and. I'll do.
Play clips from MasterChef. Weekend at Bernie's style.
I'll just wheel you around on the stage.
Wait for Julie. Toy Story.
Hi, guys. Oh, look.
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Oh, that show is going to be so much fun.
I'm really looking forward to it.
I didn't know. I wouldn't, certainly wouldn't
think it'll be lit. Why?
Because obviously we start in Wagga Wagga.
Wagga Wagga is the first. Show yeah.
Bathurst, Dubbo. That's the first three and then
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Central Coast and then Tamworth and then something else and I
don't know from there. Remembered more than me.
Yeah, yeah, I'm across it. So yeah, tons of fun.
If you don't know about the show, like it's this chance set
up on the stage. We sit, we have a chat.
There's a kitchen we'll be cooking.
There's a screen, there'll be clips from all sorts of things.
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Bit of a walk down MasterChef memory lane.
Some of those moments, some of our S&G.
Nonsense, nonsense. And yeah, bit of bit of chat.
It's, I mean, we've done a lot of planning on it and we have
just doesn't. Sound like it 'cause there's
gotta be some room for, you know, just whatever's happening
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in the room, there'll be audience chat, yeah.
Audience chat to you see my thing is when I look at 8:30
till 1030, I think 10:30 maybe 1:00 or so.
I'd say that. Who knows, eh?
We'll, we'll get on a roll. We'll be having a laugh and.
Yeah, OK. Yeah.
Like when you're at the casino and you just don't even know
what the time is. You know, someone told me a
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story yesterday about how, you know how comedians are told when
you're on stage, you got 3 minutes, a 3 minute set, and
they'll put their phone on the stool and they start the timer.
Yeah. And it's like it's 3 minutes and
then you get off where that all sort of started.
This is the story I was told yesterday is Rosie O'Donnell was
doing a stand up show in a casino in Vegas and she had a
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certain length for her set that right that it was meant to go
for the show was meant to finishat this time.
Yep, she went over, she was having a blast with the
audience. Everything's going great.
And afterwards, the promoters and the casino came to her.
And when you ever do that again,you will never perform here ever
again. And she's like, what?
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Everyone's having a great time. Anything they said her running
over cost them $3,000,000. Hell, that was what I was
wondering. And it's because those people
are meant to go out of the show and back to the slots, Oh my,
and to all the tables and everything.
They're at the casino, they see the show, then they go out, they
have some drinks, they play the all the things.
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Because the show went longer, itcost them.
It's true. I want to make friends with the
people in her audience. If it's $3,000,000 for a few
extra minutes, pretty amazing friends with me.
I'll I'll show you my slots. You'll show this year for you
has been like a a massive setup for next year.
Yeah, there's been a lot of stuff bubbling, a lot of
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preparation. Next year I'm going to move
house, I'm going to go on tour, I'm going to start my prison
program for real. It's rolling out in multiple
sites. I'll be continuing the keynote
speaking stuff. So yeah, next year's gonna be
wild, yeah. And this year has been very much
a sort of setting up towards that, yeah.
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Funny how because I, I don't know, I like to look at
everything and go you can, you can find a positive and, and
everything. Some people call that what was
it called toxic positivity. I hated that term.
I was like. Yeah, I I get it.
I don't like it, but I also get that if you're trying to uptalk
everything, then actually you'reyou.
Yeah, Yeah. You're actually sort of
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discounting when someone comes to you and says I've got a
problem with something, you're like, it'll be right, She'll be
fine. Yeah.
Actually, yeah. Reinforcing the idea that don't
come to me with your problems because I'm gonna positive all
over you and. It's tough, I actually have to
hold myself back from that sometimes 'cause I instantly can
say I'm positive and I've trained my brain to do it.
Yeah, and that's they should, itshould all work in concert.
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You should be able to say I'm struggling without somebody
going, oh, you're fine, you know, But you also need to be
able to say to someone, well, let's have a look at this and
maybe see where there's some areas that aren't as dark as
others and all that sort of stuff.
So exact example of it was when.Oh, geez.
Almost, almost two years to the day when I was standing on the
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side of the road talking to you on the phone and you said, ah,
there's something I just want tosay to you right now, but you're
not ready to hear it. And I went, Nah, go on.
And then we said, yeah, this could be the greatest thing to
ever happen to you. Yeah.
And I, I accepted. I went.
I get it. Yes.
It may be right now. No, But that's kind of a way of
doing it. It's not just, like just
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dismissing it. Yeah.
Yeah, it's going to. I want to say something but I
don't, you know? Well, it's kind of the same sort
of messages I give now when I goout on my keynote speaking.
It's like without, without minimising the depths that
people can go to in their mentalhealth, I can still say, I
promise you it gets better. Yeah, you know that That to me
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is not the toxic positivity. That is a glimmer of hope.
It's hope. So.
So there's finding that glimmer of hope.
Rather than that, let's just smash you with the idea that
there's nothing wrong. So the reason I just brought all
that up was exactly because of like this is all this keynote
speaking you're doing and the the whole tour, the book, all of
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that came out of your mental health breakdown.
Yeah, really like it. It actually has.
Yeah. All of this has come from that.
And again, that's not to, you know, dismiss that or anything,
but it I think it is a like a glowing example of from the
darkest of darkest of times. Yeah.
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Well, to me, yeah. It takes a lot of work.
It's helpful to me to know that there's a silver lining to
something like that. In fact, it's it's critical for
me to know that there's a reasonbehind something like that
happening. But helpful to everyone else as
well. I think everyone that's going
through those kind of thing, youcannot see it at the time.
No, you just can't say anything.Yep.
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But there is good, there is hope, there is life, there is
beautiful things and and the most beautiful things aren't the
the sort of the busyness that comes from it.
It is really learning to appreciate my little
granddaughter screaming at the top of her lungs when I arrive
at daycare and she sees my car pull in and she's at the fence
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jumping up and down in wild excitement and I can hear her
from the car park screaming bye.That is here.
That's like, that's life. That is, that is, if that's the
only thing I aspire to for the rest of my life, it's to make
that little girl so excited to see my face.
One of the podcasts that I produced, Richly told there was
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an episode came out couple of weeks ago, that it was Lee by
herself. Richard's often in Amsterdam, so
she had to sit and do a solo one.
It's a video one. She was so uncomfortable doing
it 'cause she's got no one to bounce off.
Yeah, but one of the things. She was saying, I mean, you're
pretty bounced. No, I'm not in it, No.
So I'm producing it, editing. It God so.
She's sitting there at the desk at their in their studio they've
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set up at home. Why he's not there?
It's normally the two of them. Yeah, talking.
Talking. All their lessons from business.
Cardboard cut out. Yeah, she's had the kids on
before she got. The kids on.
But she was saying about it was around those, you know, the
cooluong fires and all of that all that time.
And I'm sure it brought stuff back for you as well, 'cause I
remember what that time was likewith the big fires back 19 going
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into 2020. But she, yeah, she was going to
this real stress state over it all.
And Richard from over in Amsterdam was going all right.
Well, if it does spark up aroundour area, what's your plan?
You know, we have the plan. She was going through it.
Yeah. We turn off the gas bottles.
We do this, we do this. I grab, I grab this, this, this.
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And she kind of realized after it that because she got herself
into such a state like worrying about it and really stressing,
but the thing she was stressing about were it was like, grab the
kids, grab the pets, the documents, and that was kind of
all that really mattered. So long as you've got those
things, we'll be OK. You can rebuild a house, you can
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rebuild a business, you can rebuild all of these other
things. You it's tough, but you can get
through all of those things. What are the things that really
matter? Yeah.
It's at a time like that where you go it.
It's family. It's family A. 100% it is.
I, I had AI had a slightly different realization than maybe
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some others would have had during that those cool long
fires. And I think a lot of people
would have had a trauma responseto that because, you know, that
time when everything was on fire, Well, for me, I was in the
depths of my mental breakdown. And so I just felt like the
outside world was matching my inside world.
Everything was burning to the ground.
When I heard that all those homes are lost just the other
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day, I, I was just devastated because of course, this close to
Christmas, it's just a poignant time of year to lose your
things. But I'm in the process of
downsizing and I know like I've gotten rid of a lot of stuff out
of my house. The considered decisions that
you make and how much thought goes into that process and to
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have everything you own and thatdecision taken from you.
It what I realized is, of course, if your people and your
pets are safe, nobody's going toargue that that is the main
thing and the only thing. But the rest isn't just stuff,
it is a lifetime of memories that you have put into a
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tapestry, stitch by stitch. Yeah, I would be devastated
'cause I now I know that the things that remain in my home
are things that I've mindfully. Kept there, you know, and I've
collected over years of travel and my children have made for me
and all that sort of stuff. And it's there mindfully now.
It's not just clutter that's built up over years.
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Yeah, it all has a purpose in mylife and that's why I've chosen
to keep it. So to have that taken away with
no permission and with no consideration and with no
process behind it, that's it's own kind of trauma.
Yeah, sure, it's not your familyand perspective is important,
but I wouldn't underestimate thetrauma of a lifetime of
memories. Yeah, ripped.
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Actually, that, yeah, that couldcome across as dismissive of
that. Like, I mean, for those like the
families who have lost everything to go, as long as you
got your your family and everything, that's all that
really matters. It's not all that really
matters. I think I've explained it wrong
actually, because as you were talking there, I was thinking,
yeah, is that what Lee was saying in there?
No, she was more coming at it from a, there's, there's real
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stress and there's kind of, Richard calls it manufactured
stress, which is the stress you just create for yourself.
And she was looking at it arounda business, Like she was really
stressing over this business where they've got where they,
they make leather goods and things.
And there was this one particular client, and it just
wasn't working with what she's doing and just this massive
amount of stress, whereas she had to stop and just tell us.
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Just stop. Yeah, calm down.
Walk away from it. Come back, talk to that client,
explain this is what we're gonnahave to do.
Yeah. It's at a whole other level from
family and possessions and the fire and.
Yeah, and all that. It's all perspective, isn't?
It it's all perspective, yeah. You've got to have perspective
around these things. And I think, yeah, what she was
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saying is things like a businesswhen you you think that's
everything. Yeah.
And if this were to go, I don't want to do those kind of things.
You can rebuild all of your household positions, your
family, you know, pets, all those kind of you can't you
can't rebuild those things, correct.
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Had to. The elderly lady come into the
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(22:32):
she didn't know how to get it towork.
And we opened it up and saw thatshe just needed new batteries.
And then she told me that her husband had recently passed
away, so he was the one that didall that stuff for her and she
didn't have anybody around to dothat, so she needed us.
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I got a big dose of perspective and I, you know, I don't want to
take us down a terribly dark path because it's almost
Christmas. But in terms of of perspective,
I've got AI had a beautiful friend who had brain cancer and
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she spent quite a lot of her time trying to make sure her
business sold to the right people so that her clients were
looked after and, you know, making sure that all of that was
looked after. Everyone else is OK.
Cost her quite a lot of stress and it cost her quite a lot of
time. And when that cancer came for
her, that's what she said. She said.
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I wished I'd just let it go well.
Do you know what my wife is doing right now?
She flies into Queenstown in NewZealand today and then she's
staying the night at her mum's place.
Yeah. Out in Glenorchy, which you've
been to. I have out there, Dad's place,
the, the red. Yep.
Barn. And then tomorrow they're
picking up their. It's not juicy.
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It's one of those though, a camper.
Yeah. They're picking up their little
camper van thing, which I went on and I booked it all.
It's it's, it's got shower and toilet and cool.
It's, it's quite a, it's a big one for a small one, yeah.
And they're going. The two of them are going up the
West Coast of New Zealand, whichneither of them have ever done.
How lovely. Mum and daughter.
Yeah, just for a week. Oh, how wonderful.
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Travelling along, doing this thing.
And she sent me a message this morning just saying, you know,
thank you so much for all of this because I've got to step up
and be a parent this week. Oh, I know.
I mean. Thank God they're not babies.
It's day one she's she's only just getting on the plane.
They're not home from school yet.
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Everybody up to the door load hang out with you.
So do. You think this is going things?
Change. She's left a note on the fridge.
Please remember to feed the children.
That's a note she's left many, many times in the past.
But I sent her a message just going.
This is living. Yeah.
This is life. Yeah, what you're doing right
now. Yeah, absolutely.
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So good. And it's the stuff you put off
and put off and put off until it's convenient.
It's never convenient. No, it's.
Never. You've got to it's.
Expensive yeah, it's you gotta take the time out, time out.
It can put other people out and good like Yep be be selfish, do
things for yourself. We'll see.
Our family, I did a really similar not, I didn't go up the
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West Coast of New Zealand with my mum, but I took a chunk of
time off to go down and stay on the South Coast because it's my
mum's 80th, you know, and what she wants more than anything in
the whole wide world is her family around her.
And so I just said to make I'm just going, I'm just gonna go.
I'll hang there. We'll have dinner together.
It's it's you know, I'll, we'll go shopping together.
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We'll just have time, you know, time.
But was that for her or for you both?
It was for both. It was for both.
I'm, I'm critically aware that both of my parents are beyond
the life expectant. Their life expectancy, the
average life expectancy, really,they're going great, but there's
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a time coming. Yeah, I know.
The time is coming and I don't know if I can count on one hand
how many years I've got or whether it's two hands and two
feet. And my mother allowed live us
all, which I kind of suspect shewill.
See, I'm lucky my parents going to live forever.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And Harley Doggersen. Yeah, it's so good.
Yeah, that's that's where I'm at.
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OK, well we might need to get Heather back in for this.
Nope. No thank you.
I enjoy denial. Yeah, it's a great Little River.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah, you know, it is. Those things are the important
things. But you actually do have to
muddle your life around a littlebit.
And I can tell you, when you take that time out of your
ordinary life, you get back and ordinary life is put stack upon
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stack upon stack. And then you gotta manage that.
Yes, you know that. But it's worth it.
Yeah, it's worth it. Yeah, yeah, One of my favorite
things from this year actually is going to Thailand with
Savante. I'm I'm gutted Jay wasn't able
to come with us but he was at uni that.
Is also life. They grow up.
They can't be at everything. Yeah.
And you just what that does, it makes you really treasure the
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times when they can be. Yeah.
You know, I'm about to have my first Christmas since my babies
were born without one of my babies.
Oh wow, he's. In on the other side of the
planet. Yeah.
So I hear you about Thailand. I will miss his presence.
I do miss him everyday. And it's mainly just the crap he
leaves in every room of the house.
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They don't miss the. Yeah.
There's no crumbs all over the bench.
I don't know exactly what snack he had when he got home or what
clothes he wore as he walked through the front hallway out to
the back deck. You know, I I miss him.
I miss his presence. Yeah.
But it's funny, the the everyday, the going to work
they're doing or the running thekids around, although you don't
remember any of that stuff. You remember it was months ago.
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But the beach in Thailand, the hotel where we stay, oh, it cost
us a fortune. Yeah.
God, when I found out and I was the one who booked it at one
point, I was like, how we even like this, The hotel is crazy.
And then I looked it up and went, oh, that's why it's crazy.
That's very expensive. But you only live once.
Yeah, you. Only.
Live once you got to do the everyday stuff, right?
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You got to pay the bills. Absolutely, you know, and that's
why that's one of the filters I put everything through.
Does it give me a sense of purpose?
Does it bring me joy or, or, and, or does it pay the bills?
If you can strike all three of those, you're living life large,
But sometimes it's got to be just one and sometimes it's got
to be just paying the bills, butyou got to make sure you're
finding joy and you've got a sense of of meaning in what
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you're doing. Was it you that had the?
3 legged table or 4G lagging table, which most are or
something. Someone was telling me something
about that, about the because ifI think about those what?
It's three things for you, right?
Yeah. What is it?
It chase the bill. Joy purpose.
Joy purpose pay or pays the bills.
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Oh, I'm really trying to remember how it goes there
because it's good. It's around.
Basically you take one of those away.
Hey, listen, I'm getting there. They taking one of those away?
For over 10 years of nine years.Shut the front door, right door.
I'm trying to explain something it's.
None of us knows what, but we will eventually.
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Part of me wants to just Noddy in the story.
Now most of the audience wants me in.
The story You never let me in one, so let's go.
It's to do with if you don't have like, you take one of those
away and things get wobbly. Yeah, if you take it away
permanently, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, it still doesn't work. Maybe it's the things that you
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need in your life. Yeah, it's more them.
It's not the like for a gig. It either pays the bills or
yeah, joy or whatever. It's the things you need in your
life. And if those are family.
Yep. And what?
What else? What else is there?
Family. Well, I mean, making, making a
living. It's got a living.
It's got we we all have to do that.
At some level, I mean, I think of it like the your, your things
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that you have, right? Yeah.
Painting, Yep. And going for a swim, Yep.
And the gym? Yep.
And cooking? Yeah.
Sleep. Yep.
Meditation. So you've got like 6 legs to
your. Table.
My table is a centipede, yeah. Yeah.
But is that taking any of those away?
And it gets wobbly, Yeah. So.
If you take well with a centipede, if you take one or
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two legs off, it's fine. It's OK if you.
Take 3 or 4 legs off, it's OK. But if you take all the legs off
on one side, it topples over. Yeah.
I mean, taking the centipede as a table analogy, which is not
quite what you were going for, but we're not quite sure what
that was. So I think centipede is yeah, is
is appropriate. Yeah, I think it's it's a step
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up. It's a lot of steps up.
It's a lot of. Lot of shoes and socks.
Ah well, listen, enough about you, my year.
I should do that on stage. Enough about you.
No one's here to see you. Shut up.
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Anyway, let's go back to page 178 of the book where I come in.
That's. Where I kick it this year.
Honestly, I was thinking about it driving out here today
because we've got our staff Christmas party coming up, the
Holden today's, but it's this coming Sunday, which is last
Sunday. Yep, if you're listening.
To this Sunday before right Man I.
Don't even know. And is it really?
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What's the date now? 12th it's last Sunday.
No, because this is coming on the 22nd last Sunday.
It'll be yesterday's. Ago Yeah, yeah, anyway, I think
because I'm I'm actually I'm useless at giving speeches
you're so good at you can just get over to oh you are so good.
I've always like, it's been an awe and.
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Saying I'm not good, I'm saying that you're not useless.
No, I'm useless. Just let's get right what I'm
arguing with. You.
No, I agree. I'm good.
Yeah. You're not terrible.
No, I am. No.
I, I I. Why do you talk so much then?
I just I I constantly in the hope that something good will
come out at some point. Or maybe.
You'll. Just.
Stitch it together over all the years, there'll be a speech.
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I don't know, maybe it'll just be the same shit over and over
again. But I really, I, you know, last
year I did speak there at the Christmas party and say thanks
to everyone. And there's always things I
forget. There's things people I forget
to mention, there's. No.
You know what would be good for that?
Notes. And that's what I've been doing.
So in the lead up this time, andas part of that, then I've been
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kind of looking back on the year.
Yeah. So this time last year, Pod Van
Media didn't exist. Yeah, at all.
Hadn't even thought of it. It was not a plan.
It was just podcast. Yeah.
All I was doing, make it as big as possible.
And then when it gets really big, then the money from the
advertising, that's how I get paid.
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Yep, that's the model of like, you know, fire of the CEO.
It's all the massive podcast thethe the top, not even 1% point
something percent that are huge.Yeah, they make money that way
and they make incredible money. Then for my birthday in December
last year, I got given a hippo experience thing at Dubbo Zoo.
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That's right, yes. I went out there in January.
That's where I met the zookeeper, Bobby Jo.
She jumped on the podcast. She said she'd always wanted to
do 1. I started emailing back and
forth, just giving tips and tricks of buy these microphones
and things. And then she said.
How'd you do? It if I paid you, is this
something you'd look at? Yeah, like doing it.
I went, Oh yeah, I mean, yes, I could do all of that and I'd
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love to. And then so that started.
She was the first podcast. And then I had the meeting at
Grumpy Ginger Yanco in Wyong where they wanted me to just do
a podcast episode outside the business.
During that meeting, I kept on throwing around ideas and you
should do this, you guys should do this.
And knowing nothing about Yan and I still don't.
But in in that meeting, they looked at each other.
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They had a spin one. Yeah, I can spin it on.
Yeah. And they, you know, could you go
away and come back with a It's normally just could you go away?
Yeah. Surprised there were.
People attacking on and come back with a proposal come.
Back of how you could work with us on this stuff.
And so I did. I came on board, I do
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consultancy with them and they that was the launch of Pod Van
Media. Amazing.
And then King Cumber Mitre, 10, signed up for a year as well and
all these other and that's now Simon at the point producing 6
podcasts. I've got a bunch of clients on
board that I work with, ones that have come and gone as well
that I've worked with for a little bit a year ago.
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This, this just absolutely. I would not have believed it.
Yeah. It just wasn't on the radar.
No, it's amazing, isn't it? And I think that a lot of that
comes from, you know, closing the doors on what you know and
what's comfortable for you. Yeah.
And just and without necessarilyhaving other doors open yet, but
just having a belief that something will will happen that.
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Being open to it, yeah. Yeah.
And seeing what happens and thenyou come along and go, Hey,
gonna be doing the show next year.
Yeah. Wanna come?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Sure, I'll fit that in.
Somehow I. Don't know how you're fitting it
in so you can fit it. I can fit it in Joy.
I don't know either, but let's let's go through that door when
it opens, shall we? So we'll just go barging through
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it and next year will be the biggest year of my life.
I already know. It's gonna be huge, right?
Yeah. And so thank you to you and
especially like right from the start of now, even before the
pod van obviously, and and you've been part of it all the
way through and you know, you promote it through your socials.
You you come on the podcast too many times.
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Some are saying for your audience.
And yeah, I, you know, it's not lost on me at all.
You even Kyla, you know, with all her support and, and that
she's got a big audience, these kind of things, when you're
starting out, it's hard to reachpeople.
And I know 100% it's through thesupport of people like you and
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and so many others. Through the community that
you've built on the Central Coast as well, though, so that
the community that that we had on the radio and that you
fostered for all the years that you were there, that those guys,
that community has jumped on board as well.
And without that, it's a much harder road to hoe.
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Yeah. So that, you know, those guys
and their enthusiasm, their willingness to get involved in
your social media side of things, their willingness to
turn up to the Christmas party, their willingness to, you know,
shoot ideas and all that sort ofstuff have been really pivotal.
And you know, that whole idea ofconnection and community, that's
as I rebuild my life from the ground up and my career from the
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ground up, from when I sort of tore it all to the ground a few
years ago. That idea of connection and how
important it is in the human experience and how it's actually
probably the most crucial thing in our lives is the centerpiece
of everything that I'm doing now.
The centerpiece of it. Centipede.
Centipede of it. It's the centipede of this tour.
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It's the centipede of my dinner club in the prisons.
It's the centipede of everythingI believe in and do.
That's where I find my purpose. Yeah, OK.
Is. Is fostering connection.
Yeah, yeah, look. It's been a awesome year.
Yeah. Next year's gonna be even
better. Yep.
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I'm also aware that, you know, things are gonna go wrong on
this tool. We're on the road.
It's, I mean, it's you and me. Yeah, I'm.
Glad you didn't leave it at it'syou if things.
Don't go wrong. What are we even doing?
We there's gonna be. Catastrophes.
There's gonna be I'm gonna get on a quad bike at some stage and
get through the audience and knock a few people down.
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We know that's. Well, that's in the show plan,
so. Yeah, it's gonna, it's gonna go
fairly haywire at at moments. But you know what I think that's
where you and I operate best is on the high wire.
Yeah, it's it's. Thrive on chaos.
I think that's where we operate best, so that's where the fun's
gonna come in. Yeah, to it, you know.
Cannot wait. It's gonna be awesome next year.
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That'll be awesome. We would love to see you at the
Doylo. Like, not now.
We're not there anymore. This was a couple of weeks ago,
Yeah, but we will be soon. On the days.
Friday the 13th, Yeah, which I don't know if we'll theme the
show up there on that one. I'll come out dressed like the
Grim Reaper. Ohh great, just for a fun vibe
holding a big sickle. A sickle?
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Yeah, there's not enough sicklesin live stage shots.
I. Could help you chop the onions
with a sickle. Can you bring a cowbell too
'cause I'm I always feel like there should be more cowbells in
everything. IA 100% agree.
It wasn't John Mellencamp that was the real peak of you know,
yes. What was that?
All I can hear is the cowbell. It's.
So good. What's the John Mellencamp one
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with the? All I can hear is the cowbell.
Cherry Bomb? Oh, I got there.
Thank goodness. So yeah, cowbell and a sickle.
Yeah, and then we're all set andwe're away Friday, February 13th
at the Doyleo. You can get tickets from
juliegoodwin.com dot AU and we would love to see you there.
Would You ought to be my absolute highlight if the if the
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Doyleo was the first venue to sell out.
Well, they're on track. Yeah, they are on track.
Get your tickets because my beautiful coast easier all
jumping on board. Yeah, we're gonna have a great
night there. So there'll be a real special
one, that one, because it's. It's the home ground.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like we'll actually go home and
sleep in our own beds that night.
That'll be the best. It could be great.
All right, Hey, listen, have yourself a fantastic Christmas.
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Yes, and. Whatever that means for you, it
means a lot of different things for different people, some
people by themselves. Yeah, hopefully there's a way
for you to connect with with someone, whether someone via
technology, whether it's over the back fence, hopefully
there's something nice for you to eat and and someone for you
to to say I love you too. And yeah, wishing you all the
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best for the most beautiful Christmas and the most beautiful
start to a new year. Merry Christmas and we'll catch
you. Oh, I guess there's one more
episode left in the year. I don't know.
I've not been invited to Merry Christmas this.
Is when you find out podcast with Rob.