Best of First Up for Thursday 8 October

Today on the pod: Surf Lifesaving's plea to The Rock to help save men from drowning; we hear from a woman whose decades-old cannabis convictions continue to follow her around today; when Covid-19 grounded international flights, two Kiwi pilots turned things around and started their own flight school; New Zealand's world-beating freediver William Trubridge admits he's terrified of getting Covid-19 as it could end his career and we meet the Mayor of Waikato District