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