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Chapter 1: What insights does Davo Davidson share from his mining experiences?
You go back underground the next day like the earth didn't just remind you who's the fucking boss.
how are snipers this is not for radio we are your host duncan hyde j reeve we have our believe it or not for the first time ever three war stories from one person this week monday tuesday and again today davo davidson from the mines in australia keep them coming we absolutely love them also it's your last chance to get in the draw
or basically we give you the last opportunity to get yourself in the frame to come to Bathurst with us and 39 are the absolute legends. One of the greatest races that motorsport has ever created.
We've also got a bloke that used to play rugby in the 90s in New South Wales that basically had a team full of blokes that weren't referred to by their real names. They all had nicknames including the front row was called the Zoo. Wait until we hear why.
And after all of the messages of support, after a little bit of a wobble that I had a couple of weeks back, or Monday a couple of weeks back, I figured that I'd give you a bit of a breakdown. If you are like me and you are feeling a little bit in the weeds at the moment that the clouds have rolled in, how to get yourself back to a good baseline of mental fitness.
What I did, what I do, and as a result of that I'm feeling Fucking brand new, baby.
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Two completely uncensored episodes every single week. Mondays are behind the scenes, talking about our actual lives as opposed to, you know, the normal Not For Radio content. Our weekends, the stuff we can't say on air as well, and a little bit of family chat and just like Jay, talking very candidly about the mental health struggles, the fitness wobble that he had.
Sort of tripped himself up about one metre into the marathon of life.
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Chapter 2: How did Jay handle his recent burnout episode?
Yeah. So the great race, the supercars, V8 supercars in Australia, the Bathurst, a Bathurst, everyone keeps slamming us on that. Bathurst 1000, which is a thousand kilometre race on one day up and over a mountain that's normally a local road. It is hectic. It has been going since like the 60s. and now the cars have got better and better and better, and the track's barely changed.
So what used to be a hectic race in the 60s, racing fucking Morris Miners or whatever it started with.
Racing Model T Fords.
And they would have been wringing their tits off doing 115 kilometres an hour down Conrad Street. They now do 300 kilometres an hour.
Chapter 3: What strategies can help reset your nervous system?
Yeah. And they're fucking door to door. Like, it's so sick, and I cannot wait. I've seen it a million times for Jay to see it in the flesh, and potentially for you to see it in the flesh.
Yeah.
that is the the sniper elite if you haven't already done so by signing up to that you get up you get access to a whole bunch of other episodes that we've done but the whole point and behind it was we wanted to use the funds that were generated from the sniper elite episodes to then pay for these experiences so it's kind of like a shit version of mr beast if you will where you just get the cash put it back into cool shit which you know will either bring you to us or us to you uh
Man, I don't know. Oregon is a better version of Mr. Beast. I watched a clip yesterday because the boys are watching him on YouTube, and he's just seen if a fucking cheetah can beat various things. What do I get out of that? Fuck all. I don't go to Bathurst. Fuck your cheater, motherfucker.
Okay, so it's a slightly better version of Mr. Beast.
He blew all that money on the set of his last buddy, Beast.
Yeah, it was pretty sick, though. It was quite good. I actually quite like Beast Games. Very good program.
But we're going to do basically something similar at Bathurst. Bathurst. We have Bathurst Beast Games. Yeah. I don't know what you call it. We'll have to change something up.
We're going to go over with 39, 40 people, 39 return. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: How does mental fitness relate to daily life challenges?
They get the fans closer than anybody else.
No pretensions, which is good because you'll be sitting on that start-finish line, basically, looking into the pits, and then you'll go...
up and you'll fucking go for a little bit of a meander round with us and the rest of the crew and we'll go through the Penrite Garage which is the home of Matty Pay and Kai Onan and Matty won it last year he's a Kiwi lad that entire team is awesome Stretch who stole a bunch of shit off the cast got a sign for us and Christchurch will be there and all the other team members Showboss Teagues will be there running around I tell you what she's going to fucking love more than just seeing me is seeing fucking 40 of us
We'll be like the most annoying game of lemmings ever. We'll just keep popping up.
Shit, it's going to be good. It's going to be outstanding. So not only that, all your accommodations. So your bedding, your transfers to and from the track out of the airport in Sydney, depending on how you're getting in and out of there. And then there's the driver's dinner. Your breakfasts are all included. You get the photo with a trophy. There's a bit of a steam up last night.
Oh, yeah, the last hurrah. which is good. And that's just what's on the package. Willamette is going to be there to basically handhold us through the whole process.
You can get like a helicopter flight for like 200 bucks. You go up and it flies you up and you go like sort of around the mountain. It can be while they're racing and then land you back down, which looked epic. They were going the whole time last time.
They buzz and buzz and buzz and buzz and buzz. So it's going to be awesome. So best of luck. If you aren't Sniper Elite already, I suggest you do so. Just jump in, have a little bit of a deli on so you won't be disappointed. And off the back of this trip, Thank you. We've got some other very exciting announcements coming up as well.
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Chapter 5: What role does sleep play in managing stress and burnout?
Yeah, we always buy this.
It's bloody good. That's what it started. For those listening, it's just a carbonated water. This is a Fijawa sparkling water.
Which, if you're not in New Zealand, you won't even know what a Fijawa is. What? Are they native? They're nowhere else in the world. Really? Yeah. Cool. Crazy. The closest thing to them is Guava. I think they may have them. I mean, someone will correct me because fucking everyone loves to correct someone when they're wrong at the moment. I was going to do it.
But I'm pretty sure, yeah, Fiji is pretty much endemic in New Zealand only. They would be shipped somewhere else too. But once again, people don't like them. Fuck. How is this car lost?
You know how we stole the Chinese gooseberry and called it the kiwi fruit?
They should steal the feijoa and call it the... Do you know how that came about? The quick name change? No. So the Chinese gooseberry was basically brought to New Zealand. The climate was infinitely better for growing them. And as a result of that, we grew them in prevalence, predominantly through the Bay of Plenty where I'm from. It is the fucking absolute fruit basket for kiwifruit globally.
Zespri's there, which is the one that are advancing. There's different types of kiwifruit anyway. They do look like a red one now, right? Yeah, which is delicious. The Chinese gooseberry was then exported as a Chinese gooseberry to the States, but because they didn't like, they were having dust-ups with the Chinese. The Americans didn't like anything with China written in it.
weird sounds similar to something that's happening today yeah so then yes so if there was a fruit called the iran fruit they'll be fucking that off as well because that's just how they operate so at the time they're like this is not a good fit so they changed it because all the kiwi fruit were coming through new zealand or the chinese gooseberry were coming through new zealand they changed them to kiwi fruit and then shortened it to kiwis and that's how they became a kiwi fruit or kiwis
Crazy. It's just basically, long story short, they changed it because of racist reasons.
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Chapter 6: How can nutrition impact mental health and well-being?
Nobody really knowing what's going on except the one instruction that matters. Don't move. Just wait. Then three hours later. All clear. Just like that. No ceremony. No explanation. No fanfare. You walk out of a refuge chamber that felt like the end of the world and go straight back to tagging off like it's just another overtime shift.
Back at camp that night, the mess was serving roast, beef, pork, veggie, gravy, the works. Everyone's in there like nothing had happened. Same table, same plastic chairs, same bloke complaining the potatoes are undercooked, like he didn't just spend the afternoon sitting in a steel box hoping the air holds out. I'm sitting there thinking, how fucking weird is all this?
In the morning, you can be 1,500 metres underground thinking, hmm, this might go bad. And then by dinner, you're arguing about whether the crackling is crispy enough. Wally looks at me funny and says, funny day. I go, yeah, funny is one word for it. Then we both just go back to eating. Because that's the thing about mining.
Chapter 7: What are the benefits of cold exposure and breathing techniques?
You don't really process it. You just clock it and store it. And you go back underground the next day like the earth didn't just remind you who's the fucking boss. Oh, David. Do you remember the dozers of Fraggle Rock? you're slightly older than me it's crazy the amount of stuff that you remember and i'm only three years younger than you or even two how old are you i'm 43 Yeah, I just turned 41.
I'm only two years younger, and you remember stuff that, mind you, I was a bit of a special kid, so maybe that's why I think my dad dropped me.
I can remember stuff up to about the age of 14, at which point I just wholesale fucking torched my brain with anything I could put into it. It's a real dead patch there of about two decades. You know when you lock up... And then you drive again, there's a real flat spot. Fucking, that is the soundtrack to my life.
Fiddick, fiddick, fiddick, fiddick, fiddick, fiddick, fiddick, fiddick, fiddick, fiddick.
Anywho.
Which would probably be part and parcel of the reason how I arrived at fucking Monday last week.
Okay, is that what we're going into, or do you want to bring the reference back round to those weirdos?
Oh, have we got a reference? Have we got a reference? Atomic? No, well, you didn't ask him. Oh, okay, sorry about that. I thought he was fucking, I thought he was working magic out there. No, he's just on Tinder. Okay. Can't you see his right thumb swiping? Fucking hell. Got high standards, I can tell by the amount of times he's swiping away. I thought he was speed reading a book then.
He's a talented savant. So basically, this is off the back. There's so many people that checked that on me, which I totally appreciate. Thank you so much. It was a bit of a recap. I've been burning the candle at both ends and in the middle and then lobbing whatever's left into the furnace of life.
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Chapter 8: How can sharing your struggles with others aid in recovery?
There's always changes. Exactly. You know what? That's a very small part of the puzzle, I reckon.
Totally.
An important part that was there, but Benny Boy's fucking great. Yeah. But there's just been a lot on, and it kind of feels like this year we've been walking forward at like a reasonable click, but there's been wobbles the whole way along, and the guardrails possibly haven't been there the whole time.
Yeah, so this was a combination of me just probably taking on classically too much. And I just kind of, I felt pretty swamped early on in the piece and was like, fuck, I'm just, we moved house and I haven't really got, you know, haven't really got on top of the house. Like, mate, the garage is still a fucking pigsty. My bikes are still in different parts of the city.
And I just haven't felt on top of my shit. Nothing's felt done, you know? Everything's in a state of half fucked. And so in order for me to kind of carry on, I just basically give myself these nitrous bursts of fueling into the weekend and rewarding myself with these things. This is kind of, I've gone through and broken it all down. So this is semi-written.
Before we get into that, this is the state that Jay was in when chatting about on the Sniper Elite episode. Not Monday, just been Monday before. Yes.
I had, I was telling Benny beforehand, which is kind of not, and this is probably a little bit of open honesty as well, because we always talk about it and about fucking checking in and making sure that you're doing the right things to your mental health and that.
And I felt like probably, we talk about it often, felt like I've been kind of drowning for the longest time, probably a couple months now. And then the weekend was just a fucking proper win under it, which was... Not a shock to feel, but it was a weird experience. Like I'm a positive, happy guy.
And so last, by every measure of, by every measurable metric in my life, nothing could be going better at the moment. Like it literally couldn't be going better, which is the most, the confusing part about it when your head just starts to fuck with you. So, The week last week consisted of Tuesday night dinner with a buddy of mine. We're kind of going into a business partnership with him here.
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