 It's not to forget your first time when you take a shield to the beach. It's also the first time you visit your family. It's the first time you visit your friends. It's the first time you make love. It's the first time you get a synagogue together. It's not the first time you go to the beach. It's a really vulnerable time. So you expect to end with your family, with your friends, with your community. But it's not about the first time you go to the beach. It's a very vulnerable time. It's not exciting to see each other in all sorts of new situations. Especially against the waves. The beach is the Australian Cathedral, right? It's a little bit of a church. And women want to be able to come to the beach and not be harassed, right? That was the problem with the canola riots. So women here feel safe. Now, look at these rock formations. This is where the early Christians used to hide from the rugmas. Prior to Constantine accepting Christianity. This is where the early Christians used to hide out. They hide here from the Roman hordes. At the first time you take your water to the beach. You may think she looks good on a date. I remember I met this woman in church when I was 18. She looked really good. She invited me over to her place that evening to watch a movie. I got over to her place. I took her back because she wasn't wearing the same makeup that she wore to church. So I remember I met a woman on a Friday night Jewish event. I invited her to a concert next night. But I only saw her at the Jewish event under very dark lighting. At the same time, I picked her up. She weighed over 20 pounds. And the seatbelt in my van wouldn't fit around there. You can take your woman to the beach for the first time. And if it's vulnerable, she may not look good in a bathing suit. Or she may not deal well with the waves. Or she may get in the ocean and her tits fly out right in front of your friends. And it's embarrassing. You might be able to have a girlfriend who fits in with all areas of your life. As much as possible. One thing I've found at 55 years of age, everybody's more vulnerable. I've made an additional thing. We've all got so many vulnerabilities. Some people that's the beach. Some people that's wearing a bathing suit. You know if you're allowed to fish here. There's a lot of fishing going on. Why are they not Chinese fishing? Good question, man. Good question. So, getting to know someone, man. It exposes your vulnerabilities. It exposes your vulnerabilities. The more you interact with people. You wanted to fit in with your friends. You wanted to fit in with your workmates. You wanted to fit in with your family. You wanted to fit in at the beach, right? How could you have a girlfriend who didn't fit in at the beach? It would suck. But you like the beach. Ozzie's live at the beach. I had an American girlfriend who we spent a weekend away at the beach. I think in Manhattan Beach, man. She was so impressed when I went running into the ocean. Just drive through the waves. She said I looked like a doness. I was 40 years of age then, right? So, I think I learned to swim at about age five or six or seven. Something like that. Not real early. Pretty much all Ozzie's have had a swim. Spend us how much of our spare time out at the beach. So, I remember in the Tom Wolf novel of Bonfire of the Vanities as a district attorney, deputy district attorney. He looks up from the floor at his wife. He just sees how enormous a behind is. And it's a reason to want to get a mistress. So, we all have angles by which we're vulnerable. That could be our emotional intelligence and our cognitive intelligence and our physique, our social skills and like they're of. There's always an angle where we look ridiculous. There's always an angle where we look vulnerable. There's always an angle where we look stupid. There's always an angle where we look wrong. It depends on the perspective you take. So, how do you deal with your anxiety? How do you deal when you feel ill at ease in the world, when your life gets unmanageable? You get into the beach. You take a drink. You watch the telly. Play video games. You pray and meditate. Practice yoga. So, I've been watching these documentary series on the ashes. The England versus Australia cricket rivalry. Back in the 1980s, Aussie cricket team would just get smashed on plane flights. So, various Aussie cricketers would drink 40, 50, 50 beers on the 20-hour flight. They didn't do that so much anymore. Now they're more into prayer and meditation. Yeah. It's gorgeous, isn't it? The Aussie cricketers are so vulnerable. They're just like running bikinis down at the beach. They're so fit and they can afford to be so vulnerable because it's safe. Right? And they don't have their guard up. They're perfectly friendly. They don't bite, mate. They don't bite. Times were different in the 80s. That was like sex, drugs and rock and roll time on the cricket. I think we lost the national series in the 1990s, just thrashed England for a decade. Yeah. Why do some people stay distrable? Most of us, we don't have to stay distrable. Why do some people choose to stay suffering? And we're coming up now on Bondi Beach. This is the world famous Bondi Beach, mate. Bondi Beach. That's what you're looking at, mate. That beautiful or what? Why do some people choose to stay in misery? Yeah, Luke needs a might pillow over that might. So we used to despise spirituality, despise the cause. Only when the suffering got bad enough I can't believe that I'm holding the spiritual alignment. It's so contrary to what you used to think about things. When the suffering gets bad enough I'm willing to change my mind. I mean, to admit I had a problem in certain areas of my life and that my trip has gone so smooth. I think it's because I'm growing up. And so I'm thinking about all the time when my sister was right and I was wrong. And then my big sister, my older sister, the times when my brother was right and I was wrong. Just looking around me seeing people doing things better than I have and it keeps me in reality. Why do some people when they've got a problem say I'm watching TV or eating too much food or drinking too much or drugging too much drinking too much pornography or getting too much or under running? Why don't millions and millions of people get help? Why do people choose to stay and suffer? And it's usually unnecessary. Right? Just recognize you've got a problem. You've got a better way of doing things. Let's see if I can make it down these steps. The early Christians, they used to hide out in caves like these right from the run at the Sampdad when it was growing up. How we believed the world was coming to an end. We'd have to go out and hide for the day of judgment. We used to have dreams where like what if a family member or a close friend like that too would go on the run from the law. And where would I hide them? Oh, that's nice. There's been very classy water. Very high quality. Very low levels of pollution. It's radiated into a fire diversity. Sydney is into a fire diversity doing things in a what, renewable way? What is it? But I've been walking along here for hours. I don't think I've seen any trash. Where's the trash, man? So it's been raining a lot. We've had a cyclone on our floor. We've had extreme tides and really high waves and thunderstorms. Like the thunder the water was coming down. The rain was coming down so hard. Yesterday in Nambaka Heads I couldn't even look ahead. Like it put my eyes the rain was coming down so hard in Nambaka Heads. Which is five and a half hours drive north of Sydney. Okay, we're coming up on Bondi Beach, man. Look at that. Here comes the rain again. It's been so great to do this trip emotionally slower. I can still have my my sponsors lined up, though a lot of them get the day in time rock. We settle on it on the time and the day they get confused because we're about we're about 18 hours ahead here in Sydney taking to California time. A lot of my sponsors are missing their appointments. I'm not very happy about that because I have to, like I'm scheduling to talk to them. And they're not even showing up sometimes multiple days in a row, they're not showing up just all too confusing for them that Sydney's on a different time zone. And they're asking me for the time difference. Like why wouldn't people just use Google? So being Australian that office may be safer ground. Take off your shoes, you're on safer ground. So being emotionally sober means that when other people have a valid criticism of me, oh yeah, I could admit it. I don't have to defend myself. I don't have to spend a lot of energy instructing myself. I'm not invested in getting other people to see me in particular. Obviously I've been sleeping in places not my room. Easily to be flexible when they're emotionally sober. On a one-day beach way. And that beautiful viewways out there. Shoes live within 5 miles of here. Kingham beaches are pure and pure places where you can smoke Australia. I think New Zealand's banning smoking. Bondi has become a national icon for its surf history and cosmopolitan culture. Bondi is derived from local Aboriginal languages. You need tumbling water or water breaking over rocks. I want to acknowledge the original people who lived here. They call marijuana provisions. But I haven't seen any marijuana shops any weed shops. Like no they're a walking odor of cannabis. I haven't come down with that. They do have medical marijuana so they don't know about it. But you don't get that stink like you do all the time in Los Angeles in San Francisco. We get to the spot where I'm going to meet some mates for a walkabout. And then I'll walk about home. It's a nice 6 hour walkabout. Oh yeah, people are telling me that my sister looks so much healthier than I did when I arrived. So I think I probably had Omicron before I came here. I've had a sore throat for like 2 weeks before I came here. I tested negative for COVID on the plane. My first week 10 days in Australia I still had a sore throat. Now it's gone. I remember my first time snorkeling in Clevelli Beach. Like how out of breath I would get really quickly. So I think I'm in much better shape. People are telling me I look much healthier. My big walkabout with my mates. It's bigger feeding. The single psychic or tarot reader inside. The blasting mariage is 3 weeks in the summer. So that's for another couple of weeks. So you didn't have one long summer vacation here. Unlike the U.S. I like to get 3 months off so it used to be so that people could work the bomb. But here nice people get about a month off for Christmas. And then school kids get about 6 weeks off. It's about the longest vacation of the year. So the kids train to become lifeguards. Nippers. It's like training for kids. So at Cootie Beach they'd have like one main musician. For a band. Routini ranks in like top 10 most liveable cities in the world. Low Cry and Low Disfunction. Beautiful Sydney Harbour. Great public amenities. Young and old come to the beach. Old Sushilas. They're abandoned children in dojos. They have some pretty beautiful waves mate. Surf's up mate. Here I go.