Lossie. It is good to have you back.
It's good to be back. I did leave quite quickly last week because we got a really awful phone call. Sorry, on Tuesday, we got a really awful phone call that no one ever wants to get and no one should ever get, and that was that one of our best
friends had gone missing. And so we took off on Tuesday up to Byron Bay and one of our great, great friends, Jay, who has been one of my fiance Paul's best friends for the last twenty years, went for a surf on Tuesday and never came back and he surfboard washed up on the beach, but he hasn't returned
to us yet. So we spent last week up there with out with some of our friends and the police and to rescue and everyone that could possibly get their hands on deck trying to find him, and unfortunately, unfortunately he hasn't been found. But yeah, we spent the week walking the beaches and the nights walking the beaches trying to find him, and it's been a really tough week. He was a friend who is one of the just the best people you could ever meet in your life.
He's a police officer, and we are so lucky to have him as a friend, and so we knew if the shoe was on the other foot, he wouldn't give up looking for us, and we don't really want to give up looking for him either. But at this point, we don't know where, we don't know, we don't know what's happened. It's how he's had a surfing accident.
Well, the am we don't cry on the phone together, yestaffter that how's PAULI doing?
He's okay. It's been an awful week for for all of Jay's family and friends. And I think it's I don't know when when you you lose someone you love, you sort of just in a bit of a bit of a bubble for a bit, I think, And and when you don't know where it is, it's sort of harder to move on to that next stage of understanding as well. So it has been a really big week for a lot of our friends and family and Jay's
friends and family. And I'm so grateful you guys just picked up for me here and let me go and we got to have time together up there. But God, it's just such a reminder that life is just so so.
Appreciated and I was saying that last night. I just thinks can just change?
The sea is just such a dark and can be a dark and lonely place, can it come? And it's just he was a surfer, he loved surfing, and and you know he was out hopefully catching a really good wave. But we were lucky that we we actually spoke to Jade on the night before and you know, we had Chad and you know, it's always we always tell our friends when we hang up on the phone, love you mate, And so I'm so glad that we got to tell
him that. But it is just such a reminder to just just love your friends and tell them that you love them. And because you really just don't know when the last time you might see someone is. And this has been a real and sobering reminder of that. It's been yeah, horrendous, hideous week.
Like I said, you on the phone last night, don't yourself this week. You and Paul then take care of yourself if you just need to take time out from the show here and there by all means just go thank you because I know you're still living it, yeah, and where we're here for you, but always thank you.
But yes, just a reminder to everybody to tell the people that you love that you love them at every opportunity you get.