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Hugh: Do you think it is important with influence or people with the ability to use their influence as a means for good, actually do it?
Alby: Well, yeah, I think money, you know like I said...my experience with it and how wonderful the people are that haven't got it (not that I don't wish them to have it) but it just happens to be that the money always seems to, especially later in life, I've seen it so much that I am convinced that money is not the answer. If you've got enough for yourself, don't go out hoarding more or if you do, give it to the more unfortunate. Whether it is with animals or third world people that are really battling and you know you get great pleasure out of helping. It's like...I know where all my money will go. One day I will probably be more beneficial dead than alive. You know, when I go...just go to the right...I've made sure of that. A lot of that to the gorillas, the mountain gorillas, and a lot to the people in different countries that I have been helping - villages and orphanages and things like that.
Hugh: Do you think people in Western society these days, with a lot of money, do you think they do enough?
Alby: Well, I think it is probably hard for a lot of people because they have family and children and naturally they are going to give it all to their children and their family (and they probably don't need it). And in a lot of cases they are probably spoiling them by giving it to them instead of them having to get out and earn it themselves. So I don't have anybody really...no family to leave it to so....and if I did I probably wouldn't give it to them either, I would probably give it...knowing what I know now, I would still give it to what I am giving it to.
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► About Alby Mangels
Alby Mangels is an Australian hero widely known for pioneering the adventure documentary genre. With no training in filmmaking and just $400 in his pocket, he travelled to over 50 countries on an unplanned adventure capturing amazing footage along the way. His first film, World Safari 1, became a surprise hit when released in 1977. And six years later, he did it again with World Safari 2 which instantly shot him to all-time legend status. He released World Safari 3 in 1988, finishing the trilogy which changed the way Australians saw the world and paved the way for others like Steve Irwin and Bear Grylls to follow.
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►About The Thread
Two mates sit down with 10 iconic Australians to figure out how they broke away from the pack. Hugh and Jack seek out leaders of wide-ranging fields: adventure, sport, business, philanthropy, medicine, law and literature to uncover the common thread that binds them.
The interview subjects are household names famed for remarkable and well-told stories, but rarely have they been asked how they did it, how they define success and whether anyone can do what they've done.
Armed with meticulous research and uncomfortably simple questions, we elicit intriguing, inspiring and often unexpected insights from an eclectic bunch of trailblazers.
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