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Brian Rix

Brian Rix

President of Mencap

May 29, 2026

8:04
We don't jettison stuff, we post it.
8:06
Yeah, but it'll be packing the bike.
8:09
If I pack to go away for four or five days, I'm not taking much more than that when I go for six months, right?

13 MINS LATER

21:41
"How are you?"
21:42
And, uh, to this day, I'm going back, that's 2003, we're still great friends.
21:47
We've been... stayed with them in Germany.
21:48
They've stayed with us here in Australia, um, based themselves here and traveled and, uh, we're old enough to be their parents.
BruceHOST
8:38
Yeah.
8:38
Um, Cheryl's working damn hard as well.
8:41
We're sitting down having a beer in the backyard, um, just about to have... put the barbecue on, as you do in, in Australia, and I remember saying to Chris, "Mate, I'd love to do what you do, but you know, w- I've gotta finish work." And he threw his beer down, and he said, "Well, what's stopping you?" You don't know what's around the corner, and you put that on top of what we'd been through with Fran-

24 MINS LATER

BruceHOST
33:28
... that, that I have along the way.
33:29
Having said that, uh, uh, the, the road going up to China in, um, Pakistan, up the Karakoram Highway, um, we were traveling along that.
33:39
We'd stayed in a village and, um, it was a bit cold.
33:44
Simon was grizzling on the back.

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