Welcome to the Good Place, the podcast. I'm Mark Evan Jackson. I played Sean. Today we bring you the final installment of our special segment. What's good?

Hi.

Hi. What is your name and where are you from?

Good. I'm Mark. My name's Diamond. I live in either file in Victorians. That's about 20 miles southeast of downtown Melbourne.

All right. Cool. And did you are you originally from Australia?

I am. Yeah. Yeah. I grew up here. So I lived in the States for a little while. But I also worked overseas for a long time for medicine, some frontier and I worked for the Red Cross.

That's doctors without borders. Yes. That's right. That's very cool. What do you do for them?

So I don't work for doctors with our bodies anymore. I work for Red Cross. I used to do logistics for doctors with our borders. I did it all over the world. And in some of the worst places in the world, I went to Haiti straight after the earthquake and the Philippines after the cyclone and I went to have any West Afro and

Kenya, a huge refugee camp, about 230,000 people. I did about 16 missions and I loved it. And at the moment, I worked for Red Cross in Victoria and I am the state commander for the Red Cross Emergency Services.

I sort of look after all our responses with my friends and all the volunteers. So we've been extremely busy the last three months, four months. That's amazing.

So for me again, you made reference before we began about the 20 hours of work for 78 days or would have you tell me about that. What was happening and what was your life like then?

Right. So in the far east of our state, just millions of hectares caught on fire. And we have had drought for the last three years and we were going to the summer. We knew it would be a bad fire season, but it just was much, much worse than we thought.

And my job with the Red Cross is to make sure that everybody's looked after and they're safe and they're doing their jobs. And I look after, I look after, I'm the commander of the state and I look after a heap of people and we had hundreds of volunteers. We helped out over 25,000 people that were badly affected by these fires.

We dropped off like 250 tons of food using the Australian Defence Force and Black Hawk helicopters and just an amazing, amazing response. And we worked so hard. We started just before Christmas. And I think I worked 73 days on a truck with six days off in between and there are days where I would finish it two in the morning and be back there at five. And we just, we just had so much to do.

But all of us, I certainly am not special. The people that I work with, they're special. They go out and see these people. And I just make sure that they get out there safely and make sure that my people are looking after them. So I'm, we've seen over 400 volunteers and I was just so desperately proud of them.

Like they just did an amazing, amazing job. And literally we closed down and then we started doing coronavirus response. So now we are making phone calls to people who are affected and who need some psychological first aid.

And we're just a little bit of help. And then also we're running food out to people all over Victoria who have been under mandatory self isolation. And again, my volunteers have stepped up, you know, they just haven't stopped. Nobody has stopped. It's just been, it's been long and hard, but it's been so rewarding.

Like the things that we have done, it's just been so rewarding. And we're all very tired, but we're all very proud. And I think we're really making a difference. So that's wonderful. Thank you for doing what you do.

I'm in a position where I can and I'm just and I'm really proud of what I do as well. And I'm in a position where I can help.

They're very brave people all over the world who do extraordinary things. People who stayed home with their kids, that's extraordinary to me.

Mark, what you do keeping us entertained and smiling and laughing and crying, that's extraordinary. You know, we're all, we're all playing a part.

And all I'm doing is playing my part in what I can do.

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