Speaker 1: Now we have such a feel good story for you today.
Speaker 1: There is a woman. Her name is Betty Woodhams, and
Speaker 1: she has just recently turned one hundred years old.
Speaker 2: She actually looks incredible, she doesn't she undy given sixty
Speaker 2: five draconck it. I don't know great.
Speaker 1: She's definitely been punching some vittom, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: She always wears a hat, she said.
Speaker 1: So I really love this. I read this article like
Speaker 1: just the other day, and I thought it was very sweet,
Speaker 1: because often you get some real batty advice from people
Speaker 1: who have made it to the old century. But I
Speaker 1: think Betty's advice around how to live life and how
Speaker 1: to lean into like the really great moments of life
Speaker 1: is something that we can all take a bit of
Speaker 1: advice from. One of the quotes that she had to
Speaker 1: say was her happiness in life over the last century
Speaker 1: has been about great friends, a balanced diet, no regrets,
Speaker 1: and always wearing a hat. She says, try to stay
Speaker 1: happy even when things may seem like they are getting
Speaker 1: the better of you. There really is something good in everything.
Speaker 1: Relaxing with a glass of wine at dinner, or enjoying
Speaker 1: the odd champagne with a friend or two always helps
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: Sounds like she's really lived alive. Like she's just saying friends, wine, chocolate.
Speaker 2: That sounds brilliant, but she always she said, she has
Speaker 2: like really good food too. So she said, I eat everything,
Speaker 2: more chocolate than I should. I drink full cream milk
Speaker 2: as well, and wine with dinner every single night. Go Off, Betty, Betty,
Speaker 2: go off. I have not had full cream milk. Do
Speaker 2: you know this is my problem? I'm going to diet fifty.
Speaker 2: I've not had full cream milk my entire life. I've
Speaker 2: never drunk milk.
Speaker 1: I don't think full cream milk is the elixa to
Speaker 1: whether you make it to a hundred or not bread.
Speaker 1: It gives you gastro So I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 2: Calcium for strong bones. That's really important for aging.
Speaker 1: The reason why I liked this is because I think
Speaker 1: often we get so caught up in stuff as we're
Speaker 1: like in our thirties or our forties or our fifties,
Speaker 1: and the things that you worry about are not the
Speaker 1: things that matter when you make it to ripe old age,
Speaker 1: if you're lucky enough to make it to that age.
Speaker 1: And like her talking about how she's enjoyed all different
Speaker 1: kinds of food, how she's been able to enjoy her
Speaker 1: life without it being about the certain way that she
Speaker 1: looked or how she presented to other people. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're in your thirties, you look back on your
Speaker 1: twenties and you go, God, I wish I appreciated how
Speaker 1: hot I was in my twenties, And when you're in
Speaker 1: your forties, you no.
Speaker 2: But it's true because like, have you seen me in my.
Speaker 1: Twenty When you're young, you can never appreciate like how
Speaker 1: lucky you are to be the version of yourself that
Speaker 1: you are then, And it's only with the beauty of
Speaker 1: hindsight that you go, oh wow, Like, you know, I
Speaker 1: wish I had the ability to appreciate those years more.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember some advice that I heard from somewhere.
Speaker 2: I think of someone famous. I don't think anyone told
Speaker 2: it to me. It's like, if you're not going to
Speaker 2: care about it or remember it, or it's not going
Speaker 2: to be an issue in five years, don't let it
Speaker 2: be an issue now. And I think that that is
Speaker 2: really rings true when you think of the things that
Speaker 2: get you down, Like sometimes think of how much getting
Speaker 2: stuck in traffic in the morning or road rage. You
Speaker 2: think of how much I can throw you off your
Speaker 2: whole day. It's such a stupid little thing when you
Speaker 2: think about it. Are you gonna think about it next
Speaker 2: week or in five years? No, but we do let
Speaker 2: ourselves dwell on it.
Speaker 1: But also imagine getting to one hundred years old and
Speaker 1: being able to confidently say that you don't have any
Speaker 1: regrets about how you live life. It's like, what a
Speaker 1: joy that is. I had a really interesting conversation recently
Speaker 1: with Dave hughes who so many of you will know Hughesy.
Speaker 1: He was just an I'm a celebrity, get me out
Speaker 1: of here, and when I was over there in Africa,
Speaker 1: we were on a bus trip on the way back
Speaker 1: from shooting one day and he said, like, one of
Speaker 1: the best things about him doing comedy is that it's
Speaker 1: given him this incredible sense to be able to really
Speaker 1: appreciate when life doesn't go to plan and when life
Speaker 1: is actually a little bit shit, because great things can
Speaker 1: still come from it, like whether it's funny content or
Speaker 1: turning it into a skit. There's always moments from every
Speaker 1: single thing that you experience in life that you can
Speaker 1: look at from a positive way, even if it is
Speaker 1: totally not what you had planned for your life, and
Speaker 1: even if it's not in any way a good experience,
Speaker 1: but there's often this little silver slither lining in there
Speaker 1: as well. You know what else I love or other
Speaker 1: quota I love, oh God, eat, pray love.
Speaker 2: No, he's just on the edge of my tongue. Oh
Speaker 2: we're we're all waiting, or you threw me hang on
Speaker 2: one's risk it for the biscuit. But that's not what
Speaker 2: I was thinking.
Speaker 1: No, I've got it. Great.
Speaker 2: Life isn't a dress rehearsal. It's the show. This is
Speaker 2: the show. Now, there's no dress rehearsal. There's no second chance.
Speaker 2: It's like, you got to live your life. But before
Speaker 2: we wrap this up, I do want to say the
Speaker 2: best part about this for me is when you think, like,
Speaker 2: how would I spend my hundredth birthday? She went and
Speaker 2: did her favorite thing to do in the world, which
Speaker 2: is go plant shopping at Bunnings. And I just think
Speaker 2: that that is the most wholesome, beautiful thing, and so
Speaker 2: I think that's what you would do if you're a
Speaker 2: hundred long.
Speaker 1: I do it now, Yeah, I mean I'll do that
Speaker 1: for my fortieth it's coming up next year.