But yeah, if you could share a, a snapshot of your story, I think it would be really important.

Well, as I said, I was living in Barker College.

My dad was the headmaster.

In 1990, I was in year four and my mother got sick.

She developed a brain tumor, and sadly later that year we lost her.

She died at the age of 37.

I saw the school community wrap itself around us and how powerful that was.

And just share about what you found talking at Barker recently in front of all those year 9 and 10 students, literally almost 30 years to the day of the accident.

So for our Radio Northern Beaches listeners, let's start off with how you got into horse racing.

Well, it's, it's funny.

I, I suppose it began, it really began with the Melbourne Cup and of course, the annual tradition of putting a bet on and the families.

Ever- it's the race that stops the nation.

And as a kid, every year I looked forward to the Melbourne Cup, and I'd have a look in the form guide and see who was running, and I'd, I'd try and pick the winner.

And I enjoyed...

I didn't have too much [laughs] luck until 1995 when I was 15 years old, and I backed a horse called Doriemus.

Tell us about that.

One of Lent's demonstrations of Chabad chutzpah came not long after Simon met the Lents.

The concept of a public menorah lighting caused a huge discussion within the community.

I was quite nervous about it, but I remember he was just absolutely dogged and determined that, nope, this is what we're going to do, and we're going to be proud, and we're going to be loud, and we're going to go out there.

And I went, and it was fantastic.

But Simon says Jewish Dubliners really began to come together when the Lents opened their Chabad house a few years

ago.

It seemed like no matter how many people went, the space grew to accommodate.

Chairs would come from nowhere.

So how did it come about and what led up to all of this in a brief way?

Well, gee, where do I start with this one? Oh, no, it's a shocker.

I know it is.

I have come back into fishing, and after a let-up of nearly 30 years, it's been three decades in the making, and people will be listening right now thinking, well, How on earth did so much time go by before you picked up the fishing rod again? And what happened was, to sort of cut a long story short, as a kid, I had an idyllic childhood.

Loved my fishing, loved my sport, loved riding the bike and everything like that.

And I was born privileged, good family.

able-bodied and I used to love fishing as a kid and I studied up on all the fish and I'd always be having my dad to take me down to Bobin Head on the weekend or go to the Hawkesbury or take a trip down south and I was always keen to get my line in the water and it was something that I imagined would be with me throughout my whole life as a hobby and as an interest and a passion that I'd always had.

And Simon, also, if somebody say in Melbourne or Queensland, and obviously they can't get to the northern beaches of Sydney, would you have some advice for them to have how they could get involved or who should they go and see to set up perhaps a rival club and you could have fish offs and stuff like that? What would you suggest they do to try and get actively involved in this?