 I feel like I'm living in an air-supply song, I mean here I am playing with those memories again and just when I thought time had sent me free those thoughts of Australia keep haunting me those sorts of you Australia keep haunting me holding you a feeling I never outgrew though each and every part of me has tried only you Australia can fill that space inside so there's no sense pretending my heart is not mending just when I thought I was over you just when I thought I could stand on my own her baby those memories come crashing through and I just can't go on without you on my own I've tried to make the best of it alone I've done everything I can to ease the pain but only you can stop the rain I just can't live without you I miss everything about you just when I thought I was over you and just when I thought I could stand on my own baby those memories come crashing through I just can't go on go on without you it's no good without you it's like I'm living in an air supply song mates oh I don't want to step back there that's a bit steep let's have a look okay whoa living in an air supply song even the nights are better have a good ocean mate like I'm in a big mix but all my sins are going to be forgiven on the way to Marubra found the ocean walk mate let's see what I can do here oh yeah still got the flexibility oh look at that ocean they're thinking back in Oslo even the days are better haven't even been mugged yet like Australia can have nice things because we don't have a bunch of marauding youths destroying everything on the edge of the world on the edge of creation I'm living in an Ann Murray song strong currents unexpected large waves swimming not advised okay maybe I won't go swimming here God everyone in Australia so fit at least in the eastern suburbs I don't think I've seen one fat person on the eastern suburbs had a top up on my data I get 30 gigs for 50 bucks now I got got 80 gigs on my oppo phone but the quality is so bad it's not worth it it's not worth doing any ice streaming on my oppo 15 see that pool down here a lot of people don't swim in the ocean they just swim in these pools so they don't get the stingrays and the nasty bets I air the swimming already some fit she was there mate thinking of writing a book a guide to Australian birdwatching you like birdwatching very wholesome activity endlessly fascinating oh lovely plumage on my sunscreen lotion running down into my eyes so I think I could dig this quality of life here seems like I can build a life here it's a great Jewish community I can making friends here I'd invited him for Shava's lunch talked about rugby league and cricket and the NBA and the NFL and the Rambam most of my monities now it's a little more challenging to lead an observant Jewish life in Sydney compared to Los Angeles you can still do it yeah there's more Torah or concentrated Torah in Los Angeles I've been in LA for 27 years I shouldn't be so selfish and just and just bless Los Angeles jury with my presence I should share the joy with the Sydney Siders why should Sydney Jews not get the full Luke Ford experience should I say Lady Ben Abraham why should I keep all my charm of charisma and good looks just a one major city just a northern hemisphere time to take my skills down south so the Sydney Opera House is about nine miles from here I think Bondi Beach it's about seven or eight miles from here so the burning heart of Sydney Orthodox Judaism in Bondi it's like a good place to start afresh so much to build on down a way it's like starting afresh but in other senses like rebuilding relationships that haven't been much tended to for many decades I've come here with a plan that is to learn what I can from everyone I encounter to figure out why they're right but I can learn from oh mate did you see that beach down there now that's a beach that's a beautiful beach you see that there's so many gorgeous beaches here in Sydney like every weekend you can go exploring and you're not likely to get shot or stabbed or mugged like every stranger you encounter in Sydney is just a mate you haven't made yet that is one great beach Tim Poole called Claire Lehmann a coward for defending Australia's draconian COVID policies whoa noted scientist Tim Poole man like every day I'm seeing new idiocy from the populace and sometimes you need expertise today noted scientist Tim Poole well I don't know if Australia's policies are 100% responsible 90% 80% responsible for Australia's very low COVID death rate but makes sense to me that they played a role they played a significant role Australia's got 150th the per capita death rate in the United States I'd say that speaks pretty well of Australia so I'm going to have to set up my alexander technically practice to be in Bondi or could you once got into a little controversy with the Sydney alexander technique teacher so I don't know how many friends I have in the Sydney alexander technique community FM alexander he lived from about 1880 to about 1960 and yet several major students there was Patrick McDonald who developed a distinctive approach the alexander technique and while there was a lady who went to Nebraska yes it's a title from an air supply so Marj Marjorie Basta I think went to Nebraska and there was Walker Carrington but they created the major approaches to the alexander technique and Patrick McDonald approach generally speaking in the schools in their training schools they discouraged their pupils from taking lessons from non-patrick McDonald's style alexander technique teachers and I mentioned this in a blog post I got so much profit these are things you're not supposed to talk about that was internationally infused within the alexander technique community so I remember encountering a student from a Sydney alexander technique training program and she said oh yeah we're calling them to put them in lessons outside of the Patrick McDonald approach and so just mentioning that boy I got in a big trouble oh so what do I want to do here I want to go down onto the beach walk along the surf get sand in my shoes decisions decisions maybe it's time to turn back to Pidgey Tim Poole is positive pretty frequently on Australian quarantine camps with Alex Jones and Tim Poole sounding me alone about Australian concentration camps well and I was going up in smoke in Australian concentration camps jump in bro start living I don't see any swimmers out there so maybe I'll jump in when I get back to crudgy then it's just a short little walk to my apartment I don't see anyone swimming here they're all surfing they don't want to be swimming among the surfers no lifeguards on duty okay luckily turning around for Pidgey so I'm thinking about how many things in my life I changed my mind so I grew up something Adventist Christian and I just took up a grant that was the only way to go then life circumstances changed my father got kicked out of something Adventist ministry now the SUVs well behaved in Australia yeah it's funny the SUVs are generally very well behaved in Australia I'm not sure why that is not a lot of SUV crime I haven't contacted Dia Beltran voices from down under with Luke Boyle there are lots of blokes out there surfing I want to work for a surfer because surfers tend to be pretty chill and relaxed need to find a boss who's a surfer so when you change your place you start seeing things differently and I was a something Adventist I thought that was the only only way to go then my dad got pushed out of something Adventist church have I considered moving back to Sydney yes mate I've been doing everything I can I'm moving back here so I'm about 80 percent certain I'm going to move back here oh yeah maybe I can build surfboards I'll start a surf shop yeah don't forget to wear your mask get vaccinated don't be racist let's get some air supply singing going Alex Jones is saying Australia is censoring lots of footage of Tiananmen Square political repression no mate very repression like that you can post stuff to social media on blogs now the establishment media in Australia is probably a little bit more politically correct than in America that's a little bit more like Europe but unlike unlike Europe you do have vibrant talk radio community here which tends to be more skeptical of Australia's reigning COVID policies and talk radio they're complaining about masks Australia is going to let in some South Korean and Japanese students mother international arrivals but they've put that off for two weeks to see what the implications of the Omicron variant are so there are two new books out on Scott Morrison the Australian Prime Minister went to the Randwick Library and read one of them so Scott Morrison leads the conservative governing coalition in Australian federal politics he won a shocking 2019 election which gave him dominant control of unruly coalition so he was good at winning an election but will he prove to be a substantive leader so Malcolm Fraser for the conservatives won three elections in the 70s but he didn't do much this is Sydney mate this is Marubra we're in the eastern suburbs beach bum 101 with Luke and Dia Beltran I don't know I have increasingly less you need a fishing license to fish off the rocks mate I don't think so but you might need a license without opinion mate yeah I've increasingly less those patients for the for what seems to me low IQ populist takes on COVID policies I was all I was all excited about populism promoting the Omicron variant hyper equivalent brown shirts want to wholesale gassy on that's insane that's insane we have no idea what the implications are for Omicron so it may prove to be a challenge it may prove to be more contagious than the delta variant may prove to be more deadly than the delta variant may prove to be more resistant to treatments or vaccines than the delta variant we just don't know so it makes sense if you want to be a little bit cautious so to me this is one time when the news media is not overhyping something so Omicron strikes me like a genuine threat new demon leader Omicron Omicron yes so great public facilities here lavish bathrooms lots of drinking fountains got lifeguards on duty this is luxury mate well the beach is only empty because it's rainy so when the weather gets warm the beaches will be packed you won't be up to fine parking for miles drop micron in the water i never get here in the sound of the ocean like even a mile away at night you can still hear the the waves a lot of mariachi bands in sydney drowning out the sound of the waves yeah when i think of Australia i think of lavish bathroom yeah do a new baptism i'll call it a mikva because what Australia surrounded by one giant mikva so that's where the christian practice of baptism came from from the jewish practice of dipping in a mikva ozzie baywatched is wearing luke and beer oh man but yeah when you change your place you you change your mind like you see things differently because you experience life differently and many of your traditional defenses they they break down and your habits protective habits diminish and so this opens you up to new perspectives new people new experiences then that changes and change your ideology what freedom is to america fairness is to australia this is a society built around a fag uh geographic shifts is drugs for the sober mind so i'm not running away from anything when i moved to sydney not running away from any people or community or situation i'm running towards something so doing a geographic to run away from things that you should be facing up to obviously that's not going to work so there's a big difference between running away and running toward i'm running towards my new home here in sydney