Hey, good morning. We're back. It's the Christian O'Connell show. Back from my island trip.

Somebody want you going, wait, I heard the show yesterday and Friday, what did you go over the weekend?

Mother's Day and Ireland. I'm back. The mystery and wonder and magic of radio can put me in two places.

Live in Dublin and then, uh, on the radio Live in Dublin.

And then,

on the radio here in Melbourne.

So anyway, I'm back at an amazing time in Southern Ireland, Western Ireland, where there was a

week hiking, had a fantastic time there with a group of

30 people from all over the world. Some people that

I will keep in touch with and some people who

have some interesting people from California. That's, that, it really, of the world. Some people that I will keep in touch with and some people who, there's some

interesting people from California. It really is La La Land. Some of the people there I met were like,

Owry, that's an interesting way to live your life, isn't it? And there's more of you who think

and feel like that. There are, well, you must be very happy together there. Um,

the other thing is, uh, I had a weekend in Dublin when I first, uh, got there and I was lucky enough

to see Springsteen with my oldest friend on the Friday night. There was unbelievable, right? He's 73.

He did three hours of presence and power and passion and it was just, uh, it's like when you go and see if it's your favorite band but i always find

you know haven't seen been lucky enough to see lots of different music shows springsteen is a special

thing what he it's this communal spiritual coming together it's unbelievable and i was very surprised

it with a lot of 20 year olds 30 year olds 40 year old middle-aged people like me if it or maybe

growing up at springston over the years There was a lovely spread of ages there.

And the amazing thing was, the next day I was, you know,

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