Episode 49 – Rick White (Part 2) Front Porch America | Different Countries. Same Mission.

Episode 49 – Rick White (Part 2)

Front Porch America | Different Countries. Same Mission.

What happens when two podcasters from opposite sides of the world realise they’re chasing the exact same thing?

In Part 2 of this powerful conversation, Matthew “Buzz” Fidler sits down again with Rick White, host of the American podcast Front Porch America.

Buzz is in Australia.
 Rick is in Kentucky, USA.

They’ve only known each other 72 hours… yet the connection is immediate.

Because both men believe something the world is starting to forget:

People are starving to be listened to.

Not judged.
 Not labelled.
 Not rushed through life.

Just heard.

In this episode Buzz and Rick go deeper into the heart of storytelling and why podcasts are becoming the modern-day front porch conversation.

They discuss:

• Why people today feel invisible
 • The power of simply listening to someone’s story
 • Mental health and helping people stay another day
 • The danger of labelling people instead of understanding them
 • Addiction recovery and second chances
 • Why kindness still changes lives
 • How podcasting is documenting real human history

Rick also shares how Front Porch America started and why he created a space where anyone — regardless of background — can sit down and tell their story.

Buzz reflects on his own journey with Who Is Your Hero, the global community forming around real conversations, and why sometimes one person listening can save a life.

This episode is honest, raw, and full of the kind of conversation the modern world desperately needs.

Two microphones.
 Two countries.
 One mission.

Real stories. Real people. Real impact.

🎙 Listen now on Buzzsprout, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Alright legends, welcome back to Who Is Your Hero? This part two with Rick White from Front Porch America. And if you call part one, you already know this wasn't just another podcast. This wasn't a bloke from Kentucky jumping on the mic with a bloke from Townsville. It was something deeper. Different country, different accent, different front porch, same mission. Because somewhere along the way in this modern world, with all the phones, the scrolling, the noisy opinions, the division, the fake headlines, the fake smiles, and the bloody endless distraction, we've lost something. We've lost the art of sitting down, we've lost the art of listening. We've lost the front porch. We've lost the campfire. We've lost the rocking chair conversations. We've lost the yarn that goes nowhere and everywhere at the same time. And that's exactly why this chat with Rick matters. Because Rick is building something in America that hits me right in the guts. He didn't start front porch America with a flashy blueprint. He didn't start with a media team. He didn't start chasing fame. He started it the same way so many of us start the real things in life. With heart, with gut instinct, with that feeling in your bones that says people need a place to be heard. And I get that because that's why I started Who is Your Hero? Not to chase celebrities, not to sit across from politicians, not to put polished people on pedestals, but to sit with real humans, people with scars, people with grip, people with stories, people who nearly didn't make it, people who come back from the edge, people who still carry pain and choose to show up. That's the stuff that matters to me. And in this conversation with Rick, what hit me hardest is how much crossover there is between our two worlds. He's in Kentucky, I'm in Australia. He's a firefighter and emergency worker. I'm a bloke who got handed a second life through kidney failure. And I decided I better do something meaningful with it. And yet here we are, both circling the same truth. People are starving to be listened to, not managed, not labeled, not rushed, spoken at, listened to. And in part two, we go there, we talk about what happens when someone says, I never told anyone this before. We talk about the power of sitting face to face with someone and watching the truth in their eyes. We talk about how one act of kindness can save a life. And even if you don't realize at the time, we talk about addiction, trauma, underdogs, front porches, golf cart, storytime, legacy, and why some of the most powerful people in the world are the ones nobody notices. Rick talks beautifully about the forgotten people, the underdogs, the survivors, the ones who show up when nobody else does. And I love that. Because if you ask me, that's where the heroes are too. Not always in capes, not always in posters, not always with applause. Sometimes they're just the person who stayed, the person who listened, the person who came back, the person who chose not to quit, the person who made it through the day and helped someone else do the same. That's hero stuff. And this episode for me is a reminder of why we keep doing this. Even when I'm tired, even when I'm strapped to the dialysis machine, even when the world feels upside down, even when the numbers don't make sense, even when some people don't get it. Because if one person hears this and feels a little less alone, if one person hears this and thinks, bloody hell, maybe I'll stay another day, then every late night, every edit, every upload, every awkward silence, every hard question, every bit of volubility is worth it. So wherever you are right now, driving, walking, working, lying awake, hiding from the world, or just need a real conversation in a fake world, pull up a chair. This is Rick White, part two, Front Porch America. Who is your hero? Different countries, same missions. Let's hero up and pick up where we left off.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

And and a story from someone with an accent. It doesn't matter if I'm telling you a story or you're telling me a story, is so much better than if, hey, my buddy is from Australia. Let me tell you the story. It's always better from their perspective and to hear it from them.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

And quite understanding each other. We talk too fast for you, apparently. I don't know. Someone said that one time to me. Really?

SPEAKER_01 5:32

I I think um, you know, some some of the words may be a little bit, a little different.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

Like I think uh we we make up a lot of words as we go.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Yeah, that man, I do too, though. So I mean uh I'm I'm a country boy redneck, and when I use Siri or any kind of voice texting app, it does not like anything I have to say.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

Let let's guide this this back a bit. I've got a question before going up to Mark. Yeah, but that's a bit of like uh for listeners out there, I'm telling you the absolute truth. We've known each other 72 hours.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

Right.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

So this is all genuine, and I suppose that part of the podcast was a bit of a bit of a get to know each other, but uh, Rick and I are gonna talk about more more about our our why and uh you know why vicinities are so close to this. I got a question here, and it's uh do you think people are starving to be listened to right now?

SPEAKER_01 6:24

I think they are. I think speaking for me here in America, I think our voice is not being heard like we feel it should be. I I think it's overshadowed, maybe on purpose. I I don't know. Um, like I said, I'm not a super political type of guy, but I do feel like people want to be heard, people want to be felt. And it kind of goes back to the phones, internet, social media. People get lost. And and having somebody to sit down and able to talk about, you know, their accomplishments or what's going on in their life is very important. You know, people people need to voice that. People want, like you said, people do want to be heard.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

And there's there's nothing like a I'd like the podcast I did today, it's the first one, second one ever that I've done sitting across the table from someone in the same town. Oh wow. Most most of mine's remote like this, and yours would be too. But to sit across the table, this guy was a very successful man, but he, Tim, as I said, he's coming on Wednesday night, I'll produce him. But to actually sit there and talk to someone, look someone in the eye, and knowing you're asking the right questions because you're getting a read. Yes, was that absolutely amazing. Because I went in into the latter part of the podcast about if your father was still alive sitting next to you, what would he think of you? Now that's a pretty deep personal question, eh? His father passed away probably 15 years ago. Okay. And I knew that, and he knew I knew it. But I went there to for him, and he you saw he sort of had this little shake and this smile on his face. And he goes, you know what, he'd be damn proud of me. And that moment was beautiful, but it was more beautiful being able to actually look at someone in the eye and do it.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:21

If you get what I'm saying, I'll call them ocean.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

100% because you know, I do most of mine is video uh podcasts, and if you ever get that opportunity to set that up, I I like you said, sitting there in front of somebody or having somebody sit across from you. You know, one one of my friends passed away. He had pancreatic cancer, and I had his wife on to talk about his his legacy and his story. And to have somebody sit there and you ask those hard questions or those questions that you know is hard for them to answer, and they answer it with so much truth and honesty. Oh, yeah. Like I could tell you how many times, you know, almost every guest gives me some kind of feelings like uh goosebumps, if you will, you know, chills. And it's such an amazing thing. Uh, I've done I had this is my first um audio podcast that I've actually done. Uh like I said, every one of mine has been video. And even just talking to you, I'm just like, man, this is so crazy on how much we have in common. We're we're so far apart. I mean, you're literally living in the future, and but we're still, you know, we're still connected. And that's I'm telling you, if you get an opportunity to do video podcasting, you you ought to do it. Because even if you just interview local people, you would be surprised. It would blow your mind on some of the stories that people don't know.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

Well, I got a I got a taste of it today, and it wasn't, it wasn't um obviously even video, it was face-to-face sitting across the room. And do you know, um, just on the subject before I move it on, um how many times have you had a person on the other end of the mic and going and and a lot of my people have come out of a hole. I mean, I like a sauri of resilience that yeah, they they contemplated jumping off a bridge, or some people that I've had on have had the had had the noose mate, um, but stayed another day. But how many people have have you had the go? I'm gonna tell you, I've never told anyone this. Have you had that line yet? I have. It's uh and I have um and and they might talk about suicide or grief or something bad, and you know, I I actually have no qualifications in in anything like that, but I have lived a colourful life and experienced a lot of stuff, so I've got most answers to uh uh uh put some compassion into people, but every time someone says to me now, uh, I haven't told anyone this, my heart skips a beat, they go, uh oh.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

Yeah, your your stomach drop, right? Because you don't know what it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

And it's gonna be deep. It's gonna be deep.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

And yeah, you know, I I usually before I start recording, I always ask them, is there anything off limits, right? Because there are some things people don't need to know about. Yeah. Um, whether or not it's directly aligned with how they turned out or their success or whatever. There's some things that people just don't need to know about, you know. So I always ask them, is there anything that's off limits? You know, can we go down this route? If what if I ask you these questions? You know, just kind of things like that. But for the majority of the time, everybody's really honest and open. And that's what I like about my platform, uh, my podcast is I don't care who you are. Uh it doesn't matter. I don't care what you've done, what you've been through. Yeah, I want you to tell your story. Yeah. Because once people know your story, things change. People change. People change their outlook on you. You know, um, a friend of mine who uh I worked at the fire department with was got in some trouble when he was younger. Um, pretty much, you know, basically almost ruined his life. And you want to talk about a change. When people when people say people don't change or can't change, that's a lie. Yeah don't ever believe that because people do change. If they really want to change, they'll change.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

It's quite amazing with some of the stories where we're, you know, I just interviewed Dane Miller and he was he was done. He's done, he's a 47, six-year-old man. Now he was 10 years ago, he was done on the ice. Written off, there was no coming back. He was a real dick and addiction, living in the streets of Melbourne and all that. And it's a Dane Miller podcast two episodes, about two or three episodes ago, and to hear where he is now, just because, and I'll go on to this, his mother said, founding in Melbourne said, darling, come home and I'll help you. Right?

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

One person, this is another point I'd love to get on the Rick. All is you need is is one person to listen to you, and and you're done. I remember when I started this, like I'm I've got 350,000 downloads and 56,000 listeners in eight months. Like, I'm I'm peaching myself. I've always said on my podcast that if one only one person in this big, big bold world is listening and I help them stay another day, I don't care. I've done my job.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

I've heard your story and you've stayed another day. And next time I see you and I get these beautiful text messages after my podcast, or if they're local, they come and give me a cuddle, or I see them behaving after they've spoken to me in a in a golf club thing with people, their confidence just skyrockets, buddy. Yeah. Just to get that off their chest and someone listen to them. You know, albeit now if you come on my show, you've got 350,000 people from America to Australia listening to it. You know what I mean? But to be owe to get that, uh, and now you don't. Do you know what they would tell it? I love you said it before. I I'm I'm learning more every day about this cape, and I'm learning more about people, and it's bloody beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Well, if you if you ever stop learning, then I think I think you're you're you've done all you can do, right? Yeah. Um and it it it always makes me laugh when I go to work or and or anywhere and somebody just you know, you've got those people that know everything but don't know anything, you know. And I'm like, man, just just humble yourself, right? Yeah, humble yourself. And and I'm waiting on a guy to come and who has overcome addiction. Um, and he's got a a wonderful, freaking awesome testimony, right?

SPEAKER_03 15:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Um, and I'm trying to get him on. And do I want a big guest? Absolutely, who doesn't? If if you say you don't, then I, you know, I don't know if you're telling you know 100% truth, because we all want that. We all want that Matthew McConaughey or uh, you know, we all kind of want that kind of thing. Um but if I when I stop this podcast, and if all I have is my followers now and my listeners now, I'm okay with it, right? Because I know the stories that I have allowed people to tell or offered people to tell their stories that it's made a difference. And like you said, if if you can touch one person, if you can help one person live another day, you know. My thing is if I can make one person smile every day, then I'm doing something good, right? Yeah. And and that's you you talk about that little book um that your friend has has written. In my line of work, we have what we call CIT um patients, and and it's risk, high-risk suicidal thoughts, ideations, you know, just mental health patients. And I and in the last five to ten years, that amount, that number of people have increased so much, right? There's not a day that I don't go to work that I don't see at least five to ten people that are coming in for that, right? And I feel like if I could get a stack of those books and just because I like to talk to these people. Yeah, you know, I uh I kind of just I make jokes, try to help make them laugh, make them feel good, and they're and I mean because they're coming in, a lot of them come in on their own, and and it's embarrassing for them, and they don't know where to go, and they feel hopeless, and you know. So if there's something that you and I, as podcasters, can do by allowing people to tell their stories, or me handing out this little book and saying, This came all the way from Australia, you know, this is how I got a hold of this book, and let me tell you what this book is about and and tell them the story that you told me, you know. Um and if they smile or or they say thanks, then hopefully later on that day when something bad enters the mind, they think of us, right? And they think, man, they helped.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

It's kind of sorry to cut you off there, Rick, but you know what one of the one of the hardest things to do, and I think it is probably I was just actually looking back on my message to get the correct name of that book, but I'll put it, I'll send it to you in the um in the messenger, and I'll I'll organise something for you. But I was talking to Tim again today, and it's so because it's it's so poignant on my mind that you you preached on a really great subject then with because this little handbook breaks the ice. Right? Yeah, because it's very hard, no one's trained to when you spot someone that may be doing hard, what do you say to them? Um if you say the wrong thing, you could trigger them. If if if you're not hard enough, you're not gonna do anything, but you've got and this is why this guy wrote it. This is exactly why this guy did it, because it it breaks the ice of saying, hey, have a look at this. And exactly never ever be scared to go and go and and uh call someone out, or if you see them in real trouble and all that sort of thing, because they might hate you for a week, they might hate you for two weeks, the particular person, but once they get over this little sickness they got and stay another day, they'll love you for the rest of their life.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

Yeah, and that's something that they will always take with them. You know, I I've I've known people and I and working in the in the ER in the hospital, I've actually had patients that came back for, you know, they're in there for mental health reasons, and then six, eight months later they come back because they're sick and they're like, hey, I just want you to, I just want to tell you thanks. You know, thank you for talking with me that day. It's it's this is how I'm doing now, and this is what I've done. And to me, that's success. You know, that's that's a that's a legacy that you can leave. Um, you don't need to leave people a lot of money, you don't need to be famous or you know, that legacy that that person reads your obituary and tells his son or his grandson, that guy right there saved my life. Yeah, you know, that guy right there helped me live another day.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Yeah. I I I lived in a small town called Kolak, and it's gonna mean not too much for the the guests in the US, the Australians, and I coached a lot of footy, which AFL footy, which you've probably seen, that mad game. Have you seen that mad game we play over here?

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Yeah, that uh makes our American football look like a bunch of I don't even know.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

New padding, running into each other, knocking each other out. That's that crazy game. And I've watched a couple of games with Americans over there when I've been there, and it's hilarious. They go, you did it.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Well I well, the the funny thing is, man, you know, RNFL now has so many like restrictions and they have these helmet pads for concussion, and you guys down there are just like, give me another Fosters.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Anyway, well uh that's seven or eight years ago, unbeknown to me, I I coaxed a lot of people, and I bought uh this guy into my house, my then wife and kids, and he was in a bit of trouble, and I gave him a roof over his head. Something I'd do for for anyone in need, and seventeen years on he he comes back to me and messy, I hadn't seen him for a while, and he goes, you know, you saved my life. That act of kindness you did that night when I had no roof over my head, and I'm gone. Did it? Did I? Do you know what I mean? And right. I didn't even know I was doing it, but I'd I'd do it for anyone. And I was talking to Tim about it today, and it's you you just mentioned the point there before. If you can make one person smile every day, you can sleep well.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

I mean, look listen, this is how I look at it. They come in and they're they're upset, they're sad, they're mad. If you can make them laugh or smile, that changes their whole direction of the day. Yeah, I've seen it. I I know it works, I know it does. I've seen and it kind of just completely changes their mindset. You know, it's that dopamine release. Uh it's just, it's just, it's laughter and smiles and being nice to people cost nothing. You know, and this goes out for anybody that's listening that may be a jerk off. It costs nothing to be kind. Yeah. Don't expect, if you're expecting something in return, then go on about your business because you're never gonna receive that full blessing, if you will, of enjoying seeing other people happy. You know, and that's what it's all about. There's no reason for us to walk around here and hate each other. Yes, I might there's no reason to offer our hand, our voices.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Yeah, and and as it does again on Who is Your Hero, this podcast is. has moved away from what I'm talking about, but it's great. And that's that's what I love. Yeah. I have a running cheek for every podcast, but I I induls over to the left field in so many questions and where we're at now. But um that uh changing changing a person's whole attitude from go to way. Now I did a few podcasts not so long ago and we discussed this issue. It wasn't making people happy. It was about the medical system in Australia uh labelling people and you would probably see it there. If someone goes in and they go doctor I'm feeling a little unwell you know I'm trying to do something I cried and they go here's some dexiamphetamines here's some drugs you'll go away I'll see you again in sick month. Take three a day and and numb your brain exactly and that person that person goes away saying I've just been to the doctor I've got PTSD or I've got depression or something. They're stuffed. They've been failed 100% and so we and we bit more timing and say hey buddy you you're not you know you might be a little bit sick at the moment but you know why don't you try this tomorrow? Why don't you go for a jog tomorrow morning and get out of bed or something.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Yeah and and I'm not like real versed in the whole medical insurance kind of thing but I I've learned and I've heard and I could be wrong and I'm sure people will correct me if I am that the reason why doctor visits are go the way they do it's almost like your doctor comes in asks you these questions here's some pills and kicks you out you know your 15 minutes is because it's like an insurance limit right yeah it's the amount of time they can charge for their services or whatever. So they're not going to go over that because then they're giving their services away for free or you know however that may be and I could be wrong but I don't think I am but you know I can't say that about every physician every doctor every nurse because you know I I've seen I I work with some really fantastic people and I've worked with people that I'm just like why are you doing this? Yeah go go go be a Walmart reader so no I get it man I I really do and it it it's it's just it's heartbreaking to see our our veterans over here our VA hospitals you know I I'm a huge huge fan of a guy that has a really big podcast and um you know Sean Ryan and he he's giving those those veterans a voice because history is not being documented anymore right uh I I'm kind of curious to see what the history books would be in the next 20 30 years right if if they change you know and and people like him and people like you and I are documenting these people's stories and they'll have them forever, you know, because this is always going to be around you know internet's always going to be around now. This is this is how it's gonna it's just gonna advance more. So if we could just keep doing what we're doing and keep that community growing uh in the right direction and use it for the right purposes you know we we can move mountains.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

We are we're botless again you know I've never thought of I've never thought of that but if we don't listen to the story time like our indigenous you know the Aborigins in Australia 500 years old or whatever they are they got paintings on rocks and story time when you sit down with the elders you know they can tell you what actually happened but there's not a lot of teaching over that going on they just don't choose to teach it where it's such a beautiful it is and and I feel like today's society feels like it's irrelevant but it's not it's not you know you know my favorite thing to do is to sit and watch people and listen to stop at the time yeah I'll be go places I will go places and just stop and just watch and listen to conversations.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

Call me eavesdropping I don't care but just listen to it what people you learn so much right you hear things you don't want to hear sometimes but it's it is just you just kind of get the you know you you feel things out your environment I'm always like uh I have really decent situational awareness and I always like to know what's going on around me and one of the things I do is when I drive down the road and I'm looking at houses I'm thinking what at this exact moment are those people doing in there are they sitting down at the table having having dinner are they fighting you know uh and it's just the it's the I guess my brain I dude I'm ADHD I'm all over the place it's hard for me to stay in a in a in on a certain path and so my mind always wonders I'm just like in the middle of the day at one o'clock or let's just say 10 o'clock in the morning driving down the road there's hundreds and thousands of cars on the road I'm like why aren't you at work? Why is everyone how does everybody just out here it's like there's I don't understand what how can there be this many people yeah on the road at this time you should be at work you know so what do they do? You know where are they going? What have they been through setting a stoplight you look over and you see the person next to you you don't know whether or not they're trying to survive another day. Yeah you don't know if it getting up that morning was the hardest thing for them to do and put their shoes on and go wherever it is they're going, right? We don't know what they're facing. And the best thing that we can do is offer them a chair for I know this is cliche, but a chair on the front porch if you was you know sit down.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

That is beautiful timing Rick. It's like you've got my notes there because I want to talk about the name Front porch America now you you told me how it it came it came up with your son let's call it that but what does that what does that now um represent to you?

SPEAKER_01 28:04

Well so when when my son said let's call it front porch america he he kind of has and he's an old soul um this kid is 18 years old and you would think that he's lived many many lives before um and he works circles around all of his buddies like one of the hardest working kids I know but he was like you know this is why I wanted to be there and it was almost aligned exactly it's it's a place to tell stories whether they're funny they're sad um you know it's a front porch we grew up having a front porch they have you know and you sit on the front porch and you just do that you tell stories my grandpa's and my dads and my uncles and we all sat around in in chairs on a porch or you know kind of figuratively speaking and told those stories. You know most of the stories I heard growing up were about my dad and um his brothers them growing up right so the front porch is a you don't get judged when you come onto the front porch right when you walk onto somebody's front porch and they're sitting there in a rocking chair with a cup of coffee or a glass of tea at least here for the most part in Kentucky you're welcome. You know and that's kind of what I wanted to keep it at I thought about changing it several times but I I keep coming back to that and and and it's it's just it's the right fit for what I'm doing I feel like you know it's an open invitation a front porch is an open invitation to sit down and get to know somebody.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

Yeah you've invited them into your house so to speak anecdotally having a cup of coffee and yeah I love it I I love it as soon as I saw okay well that's uh that's pretty cool. Must have some good marketers on board to come up with that.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

And yeah just at the time I think my son was 14 yeah fifteen yeah so he's the best marketing agent I had so far anyway going name wise.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Some of the names I was thinking of I was just like that's the dumbest thing I'm glad I didn't go with that and I've you know I've started I've started um I've got three podcasts running at the moment who is your hero I've got uh who is your hero next level which is uh my partner Carly's a NPL language programmer uh holistic care and kinesiology trainer around the world so yeah more you know and I think it's helped me more work on the natural medicine than the pharmaceutical medicines and the power of the mind and all that but Carly does one with me I'll do the first interview and and then she she listens or she comes on I mean it's a late one tonight so she's not on with me keeping me under control and then she'll listen to the podcast and then we'll invite the guests back on a bit more serious and and unpack it a little bit more um which is quite interesting. And then I've just started a third one now called golf cart chronicles so okay I hop in the golf cart for nine holes with some member of the golf club and we drive around and we have a yarn for nine holes and that could be 20 year old kids. That's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

You know the funny thing is and I'm gonna tell you this off in once we stop recording because I don't want nobody to steal my deal is it's the whole golf cart interview thing is so cool. I like it and I think you'll like what I'm fixing what I'll tell you here in a little bit. I want it to be a surprise I've actually started working on it and I don't know how in the world you're running three podcasts because I struggle to keep up with one.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

Man it's and for our listeners and there's a lot of and I don't want any kudos for it because this is what I chosen to do and I'm nearly I'm nearly on it full time Rick. I mean I see you mentioned there you'd love to do it full time I'm I'm nearly m having enough um dollars come in um to be full time from from donations and people that believe in me and my my little um payments from Podbeam or Apple or something like that. And then I've just started my local advertising campaigns because I've got like 80-90,000 followers in my home area and I'm I'm taking that to businesses that support the mental health and they're starting to you know there might be vouchers or something that I don't actively see.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

It might be some cash which helps me keep the mic on but this golf cart conicles is I've only done two episodes I'm recording another point I'm getting good at golf well that's that is a sport that I have never been able to even get decent at now I can absolutely drive you around on the golf cart and drink your beer.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

I'm game with that it is it is what happens with and I call it between the shots and you that is all and it is between the shots and I have a list of stories I know well I've got about two weeks in advance but where I'm coming at everyone was afraid to do this at the start and I had to get some mates to do it with me you know some Jovial sort of lads that are really confident. They didn't have any trouble in the world mate that I had I had to have the beep button on though it was this that you know what I mean everything it was quite right. Wreaking deer and hitting golf balls and having a ball but because they did it now people are emailing me from the golf club saying you know what I'll do that um that's awesome and it's not as serious as who is your hero you know I I like get stuck into you or when I say get stuck into you I I love storytelling and I love like you would ask the right questions to get out of the end the person you're interviewing as much as you can while you got them without breaking them. I don't want to break anyone and I don't want to judge anyone I heard you say that before and it's so with my morals and alignment but this golf cart chronicles they seem to tell me more because they're more relaxed. They're doing something they're bloody enjoy they're away from work they're away from the bloody wife or the kids or whatever they got in life they're away from it playing this nine holes of golf and I think they're at their optimum relaxation stage to let it fly to me and um I've only done two episodes I've got my third tomorrow morning at 1040 but it's bloody work and and you know going back I was saying to the missus I probably I record two or three times a day play golf four times a week um yeah you know when living the dream well legends that's where we'll leave part two and what a conversation this has been not polished not overproduced not forced just real from a bloke from Kentucky a bloke from Townsville different countries different accents different fronts but the exact same mission and after listen to Rick I reckon one thing is crystal clear people are starving to be listened to not managed not labeled not rushed through not judged before they even open their mouth listened to heard give it a chair give it a moment give it a front porch to truth and that's what I love about Rick's building with Front Porch America it's not just a podcast it's not just another by the mic trying to fill the internet with noise it's a place a feeling an invitation come and sit down come and tell me the truth come and say the thing you haven't told anyone else if this conversation proved anything it's that one person listening can change everything one person asking the question one person staying in the room one person showing kindness one person refusing to walk past pain. That's all it takes sometimes one person. We talked today about the underdog the attic the forgotten person the bloke or woman nobody noticed the patient sitting in hospital feeling ashamed the person of the traffic lights fighting a wall you can't see and the person who nearly didn't make it but did. That's who this work is for not the polished people of the perfect fighters not the grubby governments that are stealing from everyone the real ones the bruised ones the honest ones the ones still trying the ones still trying just to find one reason to stay. And I think that's what's hit me hardest for this Yama Grick for all the talk of platforms and podcasts and roads and downloads and ideas and golf cards and cameras and all the rest of it it always comes back to stuff example be kind listen never judge too fast and never underestimate a what humanity actually do. Rick's building front building fire over here in Australia somehow across oceans time zones dialysis district emergency rooms golf cars and all the madness of one life the message is the time people really matter stories matter if you can help one person smile one person breathe one person stay another day you have done something bloody seriously so Rick White mate thank you all the way from the land down under thank you for your honesty thank you for your humility thank you for the work you're doing and thank you for reminding all of us that the best conversations in life usually happen when people feel safe enough to tell the truth. Go and support independent storytellers go and have a real conversation this week put the phone down pull up a chair ask someone how they are really doing when they enter listen it's been required to differ countries time meetings time bloody hard until next time ladies coming up the cafe together sign another dice find your own hero and if you cannot find it just let it take it out because it's still in this summer let's hero up this is Buzz Buzz like here all the way from the strider signing off hero up legend love you so five