Matt's big news: How to give up something you love

Short & Curly

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

As a kid, Matt, our resident ethicist, was always flat out. He juggled volunteering in the school veggie garden, playing sports, sibling duties, music practice, and chores around the house. After a while, it started to feel overwhelming, even though they were all important responsibilities that he cared about! But do humans try to do too much and is okay to just simply do nothing when there are so many important things the world needs?

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0:00.0	ABC Listen.
0:03.4	Hear ye, hear ye. All rise for the weekly, short and curly meeting.
0:08.4	Stop talking in that weird voice.
0:10.9	Carl, why do you have a gavel?
0:13.6	I found it on the side of the road. It's kind of sticky and it has this worm on it. Look.
0:18.0	Oh, okay. First order of business is to throw that gavel out the window.
0:22.4	On it.
0:24.3	Second order of business, the window on level four needs to be repaired.
0:28.6	Third order of business, we need to figure out when we're going to record the next season of short and curly.
0:34.7	Yay!
0:36.0	Okay, I can do the first week of March.
0:39.9	Yeah, cool, cool.
0:41.0	Uh, same, that which is me.
0:42.3	Sorry, team.
0:43.7	I have an ethics convention in Perth that week.
0:46.3	How about May?
0:48.0	I'm going to stop you right there.
0:49.3	The whole of May is out for me.
0:51.1	I'll be on tour promoting my new book.
0:53.2	How about Matt?
0:54.1	How about Matt indeed? Okay, Matt, why don't you put forward some dates then?
0:58.0	Yeah, great idea, Carl. Let's see.
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