How concerned should Aussies be about the bushfire outlook heading into spring and summer?

Yeah.

Hi, Nat, and thanks for having me on.

I think the really key message is that, uh, Australia gets bushfires in summer, and, uh, as per any year, it's really important to take the appropriate precautions.

The, uh, bushfire season can sometimes, uh, strike early, and as, as it develops over time, it just makes good sense to prepare early and make sure that you don't wait for the day the fire's on the horizon.

So, uh, the, the, the main thing is not...

We're not panicking about the season, but we're just making sure that every year Australians make, take those, uh, precautions, sit down around with their families, have a bushfire plan.

Is it, uh, how early is it, um, and what's the load on the ground?

Yeah.

And then I went, uh, to get an echocardiogram and a, a, a ...

With a consultant, um, cardiologist.

And, uh, so I'm sort of lying on my side facing a wall, and he's doing this, and he's got the technician in there as well, and I just hear the words, "Oh, that's, that's severe.

That, that is severe." [laughs] And I'm like ...

So that was, oddly enough, that was the scariest bit.

So between that moment, there was a half-hour period between that, and then I went into a CT scan, and then finally I'm in his office and he tells me, "Uh, you have a prolapsed mitral valve.

Yeah.