Dean Burgess

They wouldn't be so easily to admonish somebody in the media, you know, a bit more respect.

Australia has too much freedom.

Well, that's what I've enjoyed about it.

It's because you speak to them how they understand too, man.

Because you were a young boy once just like I was.

And, you know, it's funny you say that.

And a couple of teachers at my children's school have said, you know, like,

And they obviously can't comment publicly because it's a private school, but they align with what I'm saying because it's a nice change of pace, they say, because you get the mainstream media to death, you don't actually hear anything.

It's just noise.

It's just a talking head.

And I'll go on to what you just mentioned there with young men.

Many of them have come to me and just been grateful for just hearing a different perspective, because for what it's worth, the special operations community is pretty tight-knit and we don't talk too much.

A couple of blokes are writing books now, so they'll obviously get their stories that way.

But what I find lacking in society these days is...

male role models of high quality male role models because as you know there's a lot of single mums out there there's a lot of broken families xyz and a lot of the problems with young men is they don't have anybody to follow and they don't have any real

People that they can get in touch with, not so much in touch with, but just having like that commonality, you know, being real about where you're from.

And man, I'm from Nowheresville and I've done a lot, man.

I'm 42 this year and I feel like I've lived two lives.

And I can't see, it's all speed and no brakes for me, man.

You know, I'd rather come in sideways, bruised, broken and torn than having a perfect body that I can look back on and go, I didn't really do much.