December 18, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I four
point three podcasts playlist and listen live on the free
iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything, gag Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast Now.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Over the last couple of days, as we get to
know you and introduce the show to you, guys, we've
been beginning the show with stories of hope because I
think we really need them. There's something nourishing about them
in such a tough and trying week. This week, Patsy,
what is Ahmed's gofund me campaign up to now? Is
that the guy's a millionaire. It's such a beautiful story
(00:48):
out of such pain and sadness. On Sunday night, we
didn't even at this time last week, we didn't know Armored. Yeah,
it was in the community doing good. Is this one
of those people? Now we do know who he is?
And Patsy, what's it up to now? This incredible go
fund me page which is raising money for armed from
all over the world.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
It's incredible, Christian. It's over two and a half million now,
so two million, one hundred and fifty seven thousand, nine
hundred and fifty four dollars. It's gone up by about
two hundred k, which is just phenomenal and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And he still goes back to work. He's still going
to have a couple more surgeries and I get the things.
Someone like that is someone who wants to be part
of a community, and he will.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Be going back to that tobacconist.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, I lovet Shanie's going to be doing a Monday
to Saturday shift anymore. It might be you know, sporadic hours.
It might have Bef traveling.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Around the world again. But what a lovely thing this
has been.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh, it's just so heartwarming. William Markham has written, Ahmed,
I don't know how much a coffee would cost at Bondai,
but the next ten are on me, mate, And if
you're ever in the Northern Territory, find me and I'll
take you to the best fishing spots in the world.
You're a fair Dinkham legend, he is. And Beth Schmutter
has also written, Ahmed, do you save many lives? Thank
(02:00):
you for the heroic actions. I also want to acknowledge
your parents for raising such a special person. Healing thoughts
to you and happiness to your family.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, his mom and dad spoke so wead about their son,
and his mum just said at one point this is
who our son is.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Incredible thing. Rio. There were some special scenes down at
Bondai yesterday.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, down at the Bondai Memorial there's this beautiful vigil
full of mountain essentially of beautiful flowers, and it's obviously
very quiet, very somber. And then this legend Matthew Hayes
just started singing. Just a regular guy, not a singer,
just a regular bloke just started singing, I Am you are,
we are Australian, which is a gutsy move to just
suddenly start, you know, start breaking out in song. But
(02:45):
then the rest of the crowd slowly, bit by bit
joined him until they were in you know, this full
chorus singing this beautiful Australian iconic song.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let's ever listen.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We are one, but we are.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Androm the lands on Earth we come, we share, try
and sing with one voice.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You Oh my god, that is incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Don't he find through this week you feel connected more
to each other?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Definitely?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Definitely?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I do.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I feel deb connected to you guys, to this city,
to the people who I don't even know, who've done
these incredible acts of courage this week, and also just
the acts of kindness people all over the world seeing
what Australia is growing through at the moment, and also
just so many great stories of hope that really will
last longer than what happens Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's what's been really really lovely.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You know that's singing down there last night, That's going
to stay with me more over the weekend than the
scenes on the bridge on Sunday night. If there are
any stories of hope that you know about that we're
not talking about, please let me know. You can email
me Christiana Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Every Friday on our show we do a thing called
our Friday Recommendations where if you're looking for a new
TV show or movie or a book it might be
somebody want to get into over some of the Christmas break,
We've got you covered and you can share this morning
as well. What are you really enjoying at the moment,
might be your favorite TV show or movie of the year,
or a book that you love that you'd love us
who talk about four seven five, three one oh four
(04:31):
three Ria, What are your Friday Recommendations.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
You guys have to watch a Moody Christmas. It is
maybe the most underrated Australian show ever. Matt, have you,
I'm surprised you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yes? What's his name?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The guy from Patrick from Patrick Bramble. Yes, frost Bey,
a young Patrick Bramble from Colin from mccaiy is a
very young Patrick.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Love that show. Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
It's also written by Trent O'Donnell, who's written probably Australia's
best like TV writer. He's written for Hacks Brooklyn ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh one Girl.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, he's incredible and it is It's only one season,
which is such a shame because it is the perfect
TV show. It is set in It's one Christmas, one
family Christmas every single year, the Moody family.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So it's six episodes and it's year after year after
year after a great idea. And you never see in Australia.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
We never get Christmas shows or movies that are actually
set in Australia.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's always a white.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Christmas, it's always snow, it's home alone, and this is
such such a it's an Aussie Christmas. Yet it's set
in this backyard every year. This Dad's promising to build
this pool that he never gets around to, and it's
just this amazingly ozsy dysfunctional family.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I just sat down and watched that with my family
this year because yeah, when we obviously for us that
Christmas you talk about, which is every Christmas movie that's
always just how it's been, right, So she moved to
suddenly Australia and now Christmas here is completely different. Yes,
you're in thonged shorts. You look at it going Happy
Christmas and there's a barbecue one yeah yeah, yeah, there's
(06:05):
no great there's no mark, there's no snow. It's different
and so yeah, I feel like I want to embrace
an Aussie Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I will watch that.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah you should, and all Australians should. I think everyone
will love it. It's a real dry Australian humor. I
cannot believe it hasn't got more seasons. It's so it's
on ABC I view.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Then one of the writers is from my hometown of Cannable.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So every time I say him, I'm like, mate,
well done.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That is one of the greatest things you've ever written.
So have you got have you both seen it past? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Ri?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Are you say dysfunctional, but I say quite normal.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Right, there are no functional families. When you get your
own one and you think, well, I'm going to do
it's so much better than my marriage as a dad
with nineteen and twenty one year old daughters. I think
I've improved it by three percent. It's good and it
turns out so much harder. You think it's so much
than you think. All right, we're going to take a break.
(07:00):
We'll come back with your recommendations. Share yours with us.
On four seventy five O three one oh four three.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The Christian O'Connell Show by gust we're.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Doing our Friday recommendations. TV showings, books and movies. So
we've enjoyed might be something you want to get into
over the weekend or over Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I just suddenly.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Realized when you get up early in the morning, your
brain is not fully awake, and suddenly a couple of
hours later you're like, oh my god, what did I
do that?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
For today?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Is that we're leaving the airbnb flat we've been in
all this week, and obviously my wife is still asleep,
and so I had to leave early this morning. And
because I haven't been sleeping very well. I slept in
the spare room last night, and so I suddenly thought,
I haven't read the details. You know, they all have
different protocols of what you're doing on checkout. So I
just stripped the bed, fold it all up and throw
(07:47):
it in the bath. I'm just suddenly working up. Now
my wife is going to think did an even accident.
I didn't know why they stripped them best fine stripp
the bed. I think it outs the cleaning team. Okay,
I'm like part of the cleaning team. I think it's
a nice gift. Stripped the bet Okay, but rolling I've
been putting in the bath is expressed.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I've never heard of that. And this is why my
wife is going to wake up at some.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Point the next half an hour and go, oh my god,
maybe that age where it had a litlex last time.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's a bit embarrassed. It just doesn't want me to
see the mess, mummy. Can you clean the sheets? Don't
check them all? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Our Friday recommendations. There's a movie I watched the last
weekend right and before I before I recommended it, just
joined up Paul Kelly song. I went online to see
what kind of critical reaction. It's gott I'm afraid to say.
It's been critically panned on Rotten Tomatoes twenty one percent.
That's pretty low. A major newspaper in this country said,
it's a dumb movie that thinks you're dumb. Oh, I
(08:42):
have to say, I loved it, well you. I don't
know what that says about me and my dumb kids,
but we just loved our asters off for an hour
and a half is a relentlessly silly, playful movie.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's called Playdate. It's Kevin James. Oh, I want to
see this. I want to say absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I made my daughter, made my nineteen year old daughter
Lowis watch it with me.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I tried all the emotional bribery that I had. Okay,
I said she could pick takeaway, but she needs to
watch us movie for at least half an hour. Since youd, dad,
this is brilliant. It's for let me see funny. There's
enough of a plot. Okay, there's enough of a plot
to sustain it. It's got Kevin James, who I will
watch in anything, and also he co stars some on
I didn't know could do comedy. Is actually funny than
(09:25):
caj in it. Alan Richardson, who is the Matt Mountain
that is Reacher the TV show Reacher better than Tom
Cruise's Reacher.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
He's in it and is very funny.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I didn't want to see he's very gifted at physical comedy.
So she got the two of these. They're like two
cartoon men. We really really loved it. I thought, if
you just want some of these, that's unpretentiously silly and
it's going to make you laugh for an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I think we all need that right now. Watch Playdate.
It's on Amazon Prime. And the other thing that I
found actually of great comfort this week. It's a book
I've read many times before. It's a book I've gifted
to other people before as well. It's Called's got a
lovely title, is called What Matters Most. It's written by
a guy called James Hollis. James Hollis is been a psychotherapist,
(10:09):
a counselor, I think for about fifty years. He's in
his eighties, he's still a counselor. He's written about twenty books.
This book is him just talking about actually, at the
end of the day, here's what matters in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It's a lovely book.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It is about happiness, but it's removed of any of
the bs and psychobabble cliche you get in too many
books and a self out stuff when they talk about happiness.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
This isn't a very different way. I wouldn't say it's
for a fainthearted.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But whenever I read this book, even a couple of
chapters this week, I find myself deeply more connected to myself.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And I think that when we.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Come back towards ourself and actually what does matter most,
you find that, actually you find that you in other people.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I think we really need that this week. I
really need it this week. I cannot recommend this book enough.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It's such a beautiful it's funny, it's got grace, it's
got light and joy.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It is a lovely book. It's a very easy book
to read.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It's called What Matters Most by James Hollis, and he
also wrote a great book that really helped me in
my mid forties called Finding Meaning in the Second Half
of Life. It was such a powerful book for me.
After three chapters, I turned to my wife and went,
that's it. I think we should move to Australia. Oh now,
James Hollis does not recommend that it's not a book
(11:22):
about emigrating and blowing up your life in your mid forties.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
But that was the we.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
They said that we bring you know ourselves to any book.
You could read a book rio and they have a
completely different meaning. Three chapters into that book about finding
me your second enough, like I get it, James, no
more gout to the chase.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'm booking one way fights.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm quitting a successful, easy job and moving to Australia.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast
iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I four
point three podcasts playlist and listen live on the free
iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything, gag Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast Now.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Over the last couple of days, as we get to
know you and introduce the show to you, guys, we've
been beginning the show with stories of hope because I
think we really need them. There's something nourishing about them
in such a tough and trying week. This week, Patsy,
what is Ahmed's gofund me campaign up to now? Is
that the guy's a millionaire. It's such a beautiful story
(00:48):
out of such pain and sadness. On Sunday night, we
didn't even at this time last week, we didn't know Armored. Yeah,
it was in the community doing good. Is this one
of those people? Now we do know who he is?
And Patsy, what's it up to now? This incredible go
fund me page which is raising money for armed from
all over the world.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
It's incredible, Christian. It's over two and a half million now,
so two million, one hundred and fifty seven thousand, nine
hundred and fifty four dollars. It's gone up by about
two hundred k, which is just phenomenal and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And he still goes back to work. He's still going
to have a couple more surgeries and I get the things.
Someone like that is someone who wants to be part
of a community, and he will.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Be going back to that tobacconist.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, I lovet Shanie's going to be doing a Monday
to Saturday shift anymore. It might be you know, sporadic hours.
It might have Bef traveling.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Around the world again. But what a lovely thing this
has been.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Oh, it's just so heartwarming. William Markham has written, Ahmed,
I don't know how much a coffee would cost at Bondai,
but the next ten are on me, mate, And if
you're ever in the Northern Territory, find me and I'll
take you to the best fishing spots in the world.
You're a fair Dinkham legend, he is. And Beth Schmutter
has also written, Ahmed, do you save many lives? Thank
(02:00):
you for the heroic actions. I also want to acknowledge
your parents for raising such a special person. Healing thoughts
to you and happiness to your family.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, his mom and dad spoke so wead about their son,
and his mum just said at one point this is
who our son is.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Incredible thing. Rio. There were some special scenes down at
Bondai yesterday.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah, down at the Bondai Memorial there's this beautiful vigil
full of mountain essentially of beautiful flowers, and it's obviously
very quiet, very somber. And then this legend Matthew Hayes
just started singing. Just a regular guy, not a singer,
just a regular bloke just started singing, I Am you are,
we are Australian, which is a gutsy move to just
suddenly start, you know, start breaking out in song. But
(02:45):
then the rest of the crowd slowly, bit by bit
joined him until they were in you know, this full
chorus singing this beautiful Australian iconic song.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let's ever listen.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We are one, but we are.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Androm the lands on Earth we come, we share, try
and sing with one voice.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You Oh my god, that is incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Don't he find through this week you feel connected more
to each other?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Definitely?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Definitely?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I do.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I feel deb connected to you guys, to this city,
to the people who I don't even know, who've done
these incredible acts of courage this week, and also just
the acts of kindness people all over the world seeing
what Australia is growing through at the moment, and also
just so many great stories of hope that really will
last longer than what happens Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's what's been really really lovely.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You know that's singing down there last night, That's going
to stay with me more over the weekend than the
scenes on the bridge on Sunday night. If there are
any stories of hope that you know about that we're
not talking about, please let me know. You can email
me Christiana Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Every Friday on our show we do a thing called
our Friday Recommendations where if you're looking for a new
TV show or movie or a book it might be
somebody want to get into over some of the Christmas break,
We've got you covered and you can share this morning
as well. What are you really enjoying at the moment,
might be your favorite TV show or movie of the year,
or a book that you love that you'd love us
who talk about four seven five, three one oh four
(04:31):
three Ria, What are your Friday Recommendations.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
You guys have to watch a Moody Christmas. It is
maybe the most underrated Australian show ever. Matt, have you,
I'm surprised you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yes? What's his name?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The guy from Patrick from Patrick Bramble. Yes, frost Bey,
a young Patrick Bramble from Colin from mccaiy is a
very young Patrick.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Love that show. Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
It's also written by Trent O'Donnell, who's written probably Australia's
best like TV writer. He's written for Hacks Brooklyn ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Oh one Girl.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, he's incredible and it is It's only one season,
which is such a shame because it is the perfect
TV show. It is set in It's one Christmas, one
family Christmas every single year, the Moody family.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So it's six episodes and it's year after year after
year after a great idea. And you never see in Australia.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
We never get Christmas shows or movies that are actually
set in Australia.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's always a white.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Christmas, it's always snow, it's home alone, and this is
such such a it's an Aussie Christmas. Yet it's set
in this backyard every year. This Dad's promising to build
this pool that he never gets around to, and it's
just this amazingly ozsy dysfunctional family.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I just sat down and watched that with my family
this year because yeah, when we obviously for us that
Christmas you talk about, which is every Christmas movie that's
always just how it's been, right, So she moved to
suddenly Australia and now Christmas here is completely different. Yes,
you're in thonged shorts. You look at it going Happy
Christmas and there's a barbecue one yeah yeah, yeah, there's
(06:05):
no great there's no mark, there's no snow. It's different
and so yeah, I feel like I want to embrace
an Aussie Christmas.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I will watch that.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah you should, and all Australians should. I think everyone
will love it. It's a real dry Australian humor. I
cannot believe it hasn't got more seasons. It's so it's
on ABC I view.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Then one of the writers is from my hometown of Cannable.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, So every time I say him, I'm like, mate,
well done.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That is one of the greatest things you've ever written.
So have you got have you both seen it past? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Ri?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Are you say dysfunctional, but I say quite normal.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Right, there are no functional families. When you get your
own one and you think, well, I'm going to do
it's so much better than my marriage as a dad
with nineteen and twenty one year old daughters. I think
I've improved it by three percent. It's good and it
turns out so much harder. You think it's so much
than you think. All right, we're going to take a break.
(07:00):
We'll come back with your recommendations. Share yours with us.
On four seventy five O three one oh four three.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The Christian O'Connell Show by gust we're.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Doing our Friday recommendations. TV showings, books and movies. So
we've enjoyed might be something you want to get into
over the weekend or over Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I just suddenly.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Realized when you get up early in the morning, your
brain is not fully awake, and suddenly a couple of
hours later you're like, oh my god, what did I
do that?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
For today?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Is that we're leaving the airbnb flat we've been in
all this week, and obviously my wife is still asleep,
and so I had to leave early this morning. And
because I haven't been sleeping very well. I slept in
the spare room last night, and so I suddenly thought,
I haven't read the details. You know, they all have
different protocols of what you're doing on checkout. So I
just stripped the bed, fold it all up and throw
(07:47):
it in the bath. I'm just suddenly working up. Now
my wife is going to think did an even accident.
I didn't know why they stripped them best fine stripp
the bed. I think it outs the cleaning team. Okay,
I'm like part of the cleaning team. I think it's
a nice gift. Stripped the bet Okay, but rolling I've
been putting in the bath is expressed.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I've never heard of that. And this is why my
wife is going to wake up at some.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Point the next half an hour and go, oh my god,
maybe that age where it had a litlex last time.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's a bit embarrassed. It just doesn't want me to
see the mess, mummy. Can you clean the sheets? Don't
check them all? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Our Friday recommendations. There's a movie I watched the last
weekend right and before I before I recommended it, just
joined up Paul Kelly song. I went online to see
what kind of critical reaction. It's gott I'm afraid to say.
It's been critically panned on Rotten Tomatoes twenty one percent.
That's pretty low. A major newspaper in this country said,
it's a dumb movie that thinks you're dumb. Oh, I
(08:42):
have to say, I loved it, well you. I don't
know what that says about me and my dumb kids,
but we just loved our asters off for an hour
and a half is a relentlessly silly, playful movie.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's called Playdate. It's Kevin James. Oh, I want to
see this. I want to say absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I made my daughter, made my nineteen year old daughter
Lowis watch it with me.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I tried all the emotional bribery that I had. Okay,
I said she could pick takeaway, but she needs to
watch us movie for at least half an hour. Since youd, dad,
this is brilliant. It's for let me see funny. There's
enough of a plot. Okay, there's enough of a plot
to sustain it. It's got Kevin James, who I will
watch in anything, and also he co stars some on
I didn't know could do comedy. Is actually funny than
(09:25):
caj in it. Alan Richardson, who is the Matt Mountain
that is Reacher the TV show Reacher better than Tom
Cruise's Reacher.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
He's in it and is very funny.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I didn't want to see he's very gifted at physical comedy.
So she got the two of these. They're like two
cartoon men. We really really loved it. I thought, if
you just want some of these, that's unpretentiously silly and
it's going to make you laugh for an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And I think we all need that right now. Watch Playdate.
It's on Amazon Prime. And the other thing that I
found actually of great comfort this week. It's a book
I've read many times before. It's a book I've gifted
to other people before as well. It's Called's got a
lovely title, is called What Matters Most. It's written by
a guy called James Hollis. James Hollis is been a psychotherapist,
(10:09):
a counselor, I think for about fifty years. He's in
his eighties, he's still a counselor. He's written about twenty books.
This book is him just talking about actually, at the
end of the day, here's what matters in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It's a lovely book.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It is about happiness, but it's removed of any of
the bs and psychobabble cliche you get in too many
books and a self out stuff when they talk about happiness.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
This isn't a very different way. I wouldn't say it's
for a fainthearted.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But whenever I read this book, even a couple of
chapters this week, I find myself deeply more connected to myself.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And I think that when we.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Come back towards ourself and actually what does matter most,
you find that, actually you find that you in other people.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And I think we really need that this week. I
really need it this week. I cannot recommend this book enough.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It's such a beautiful it's funny, it's got grace, it's
got light and joy.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It is a lovely book. It's a very easy book
to read.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It's called What Matters Most by James Hollis, and he
also wrote a great book that really helped me in
my mid forties called Finding Meaning in the Second Half
of Life. It was such a powerful book for me.
After three chapters, I turned to my wife and went,
that's it. I think we should move to Australia. Oh now,
James Hollis does not recommend that it's not a book
(11:22):
about emigrating and blowing up your life in your mid forties.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
But that was the we.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
They said that we bring you know ourselves to any book.
You could read a book rio and they have a
completely different meaning. Three chapters into that book about finding
me your second enough, like I get it, James, no
more gout to the chase.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'm booking one way fights.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'm quitting a successful, easy job and moving to Australia.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
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