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Hope in the Face of Rejection · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Typically my experience being out on the road is a liberating, creative,
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  Speaker 1: like great experience. It gives me hours of possibility to
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  Speaker 1: pick up the phone, well, not pick up the phone
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  Speaker 1: because that's illegal in Australia, but like call through the radio,
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  Speaker 1: through the Bluetooth, call a friend, reach out. If a
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  Speaker 1: friend's name just, when I'm driving, if a friend's name
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  Speaker 1: pops into my head, do you know what I do?
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  Speaker 1: I tell Siri to call them. Oh, wow. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if they answer, but I'm always like,
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  Speaker 1: like last night, A mate of mine, I haven't spoken
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  Speaker 1: to him in a few months, he popped into my head.
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  Speaker 1: So I just told my phone, call that person. He answered.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, hey, how are you doing? He goes, yeah, yeah, good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not calling for anything other than the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you popped into my head. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You good?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And so being on the road gives me that ability
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  Speaker 1: to do that. If I'm at home or in an office,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have the ability to just call up a friend.
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  Speaker 1: So I think being a truck driver has really cemented
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  Speaker 1: some like lifelong friendships, especially with other truck drivers because
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  Speaker 1: we all just got all this time on our hands.
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  Speaker 1: You can speak for three hours with a mate and
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  Speaker 1: it's gone like that, you know, and you're just chatting away.
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  Speaker 1: You're pondering the world with that person. My social media
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  Speaker 1: was born, the idea of my social media was born
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  Speaker 1: in my head from driving and seeing scenarios and being like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Or like seeing a sunset and be like, imagine a
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  Speaker 1: drone shot with this truck going through here. Oh, imagine that.
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  Speaker 1: Or like I'd be listening to music and be like,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd just like start creating these like movie scenes
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing, you know, with this music in the background.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where Chopping With DJ was really born because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I want to capture this beauty that
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  Speaker 1: no one gets to see. Like no one understands that
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  Speaker 1: this is our existence. We do this every day. We
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  Speaker 1: get to see these gorgeous landscapes continuously changing I would
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  Speaker 1: love to share that with others. So most of the time,
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  Speaker 1: like right now, I'm chomping at the bit to get
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  Speaker 1: out of here. I can't wait to get in my
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  Speaker 1: truck and go for three weeks. It's just going to
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  Speaker 1: be great because if I'm sitting in my office and
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  Speaker 1: trying to curate content, it won't happen. I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: content creator who can plan and schedule content. For me,
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  Speaker 1: it's like I'll go trucking, I'll film, I'll have my
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  Speaker 1: cameras on, and from that I'll create content organically it's
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  Speaker 1: just going to be things that i come across nothing's
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  Speaker 1: staged nothing's planned it just is what it is and
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  Speaker 1: i'm just bringing people along for the ride so again
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  Speaker 1: you can have a negative experience you could be doing
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  Speaker 1: night shift in the middle of the outback with no
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  Speaker 1: frame reception for 10 hours and you can get really
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  Speaker 1: dark yeah or you can have an experience where like
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  Speaker 1: your mindset is in a different you've got a different
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  Speaker 1: lens on you've got the pink lens or you've got
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  Speaker 1: the red lens you know um but also i heard
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  Speaker 1: i don't know who said it i think it's like
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  Speaker 1: a monk a monk saying of like um loneliness is
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  Speaker 1: is only like uh i'm i butchered it already but
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  Speaker 1: you could think of it as loneliness or you could
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  Speaker 1: think of it as um solitude you know isolation loneliness
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  Speaker 1: or is it solitude for me i see it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's time for me to reset my nervous system reset
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  Speaker 1: my brain, get creative, reconnect with people who have been
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  Speaker 1: too busy when you're in this city sphere to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with and just can reconnect and have those moments.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, it's typically a really beautiful experience. But
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  Speaker 1: if your mental wellness is struggling, like it can spiral.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to a mate and he's going through
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  Speaker 1: a lot and I said, I don't think this is
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  Speaker 1: the time for you to go back on the highway
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  Speaker 1: because you're just going to have too much time to
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  Speaker 1: ruminate on these thoughts. You need to, get everything sorted
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  Speaker 1: at home before you go back out on the highway. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to spiral and it's dangerous to be out
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  Speaker 1: there if you're not in the right mindset. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And also, I mean, that can happen for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of jobs, not just trucking. So it's true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, if you're in retail and you're in a good mindset,
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  Speaker 1: your experience is going to be great. If someone looks
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  Speaker 1: at you a bit weird, you'll be like, are you okay? Like,
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  Speaker 1: how can I help you? If someone looks at you
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  Speaker 1: in a bad way, you'll be like.
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  Speaker 2: my God, they hate me.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're an, you know, like you could just like
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  Speaker 1: completely take the same situation and have completely different reactions
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  Speaker 1: to it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, can I ask, do women have a different experience
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  Speaker 2: protection safety wise than men do on the road? Like,
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  Speaker 2: is it, do it, does a woman need to be
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  Speaker 2: more cautious or careful when she's truck driving as compared
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  Speaker 2: to if a man was truck driving?
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.