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Speaker 1: All right, we've got your back, guys. Now we're about

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Speaker 1: to meet a very special couple Jody and Tim. So

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Speaker 1: of tragically losing their son Joel a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: Tim has been battling mode and neuron's disease. So let's

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Speaker 2: Jody and Tim, you two beautiful people. How are you

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Speaker 2: going today?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Very well?

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Speaker 4: Thank you there, whip.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what?

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Speaker 2: We love your outlook on life because you know what,

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Speaker 2: you've had a pretty tough over the years, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: But can we just celebrate one beautiful thing that you

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Speaker 2: did and that you brought three beautiful kids into the world.

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Speaker 2: You had triplets, Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: Jody?

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, my gosh, you are a superstar.

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Speaker 3: That's extra Jodes. You did.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately you lost one of those beautiful triplets to cerebral palsy.

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Speaker 2: That was Joel when it was twenty seven. How many

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Speaker 2: years ago was that?

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Speaker 4: That's coming up to three.

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Speaker 2: Years in August, right, and what do you guys do

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Speaker 3: Do you guys get together, do you go down the

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Speaker 5: We go there every Sunday, mate, We don't miss a

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Speaker 5: day or weekend down to go and get our son's

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Speaker 5: graveyard cleaned up with some new flowers and just little things,

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Speaker 5: you know, like whens or Christmas.

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Speaker 4: We put little toys on there.

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Speaker 1: That's beautiful. That's beautiful. And Tim was he a was

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Speaker 1: he a Dragons fan as well?

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Speaker 4: He was my friend?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Dragons.

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Speaker 5: I got him in there. I got him to say dragons,

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Speaker 5: which is good because he was non verbal. And you

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Speaker 5: know it was we'd always watched a football on a Sunday,

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Speaker 4: It was something that we always enjoyed doing.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk through the challenge that you've got

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Speaker 1: at hand at the moment. But Jody, you have had

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Speaker 1: your own issues as well with a brain tune. Was

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I had to have brain surgery about four months before

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Speaker 1: We can hear that your attitude towards life hasn't changed

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Speaker 6: We're very thankful for life, Tim, and I know we

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Speaker 6: the last three years has been really, really difficult, but

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Speaker 6: what we're blessed really, and you know, I just think

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, for everyone listening right now, you would think,

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Speaker 2: But Tim, I mean, this is unbelievable. But you found

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I used to work for Sydney Trains and I

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Speaker 4: Disease. It's been Nelly Nelly twelve months.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, around twelve months. So I had to give up

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Speaker 3: So how have they given you a time framed.

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Speaker 5: Tim Yeah, he gave us eighteen months, mate, you know,

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Speaker 5: so it was twelve to eighteen months, and so it's

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Speaker 1: Like well, you know, you kind of hope too when

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Speaker 5: Know there is no cure for this illness and they

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely a beast.

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Speaker 6: It's in the last in the last twelve months, it's

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Speaker 6: And we're finding it's moving down to Tin's legs. Now

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Speaker 4: The gate and back. But we've got him. We've got him.

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Speaker 6: Some great care workers that have been coming into the

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Speaker 4: Helped me out a groovy little scooter so you can

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And Timmy, you've got a bit of a bucket list

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Speaker 3: Timmy? When me and.

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Speaker 5: Jodie first met ten years ago, I took Grave in

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Speaker 5: New Zealand, you a window bago to do five days

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it was like even before we were married,

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Speaker 4: We're going to be a strong unit, you know. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So we've actually hired a winded bago for the first

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Speaker 4: Tim's always told me that he was the Milky Way.

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Speaker 5: I want to go out west with my wife and

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Speaker 1: You know that's beautiful, Timmy, that's beautiful.

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Speaker 4: That's where we're at.

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Speaker 3: You know, Timmy, you're a beautiful man mate. We look.

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Speaker 2: We know about Mulligan's Barber as well, and you've been

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Speaker 3: I will brother no worries. Well, Mulligan's.

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Speaker 2: It's in in New South Wales, so if you are

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Speaker 2: bucket list. So we've just given you a call about

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Speaker 2: half a fifteen. We just want to say that we've

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Speaker 2: So we've organized a round of golf at Long Reef

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Speaker 2: We're also going to send you to the next Wallabies

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Speaker 3: Going to beat We're going to get your tickets to

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Speaker 2: We want to send you on a holiday you were

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Speaker 2: to go visit your mother's grave while you're there, which.

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Speaker 3: We know that you're very keen on doing, tim Is

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Speaker 5: Yes, I haven't done that in a war.

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Speaker 2: While you're there in Melbourne, we want to send you go.

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Speaker 2: I know how much of a sports fan you are.

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Speaker 2: Why don't we send you down and watch the Richmond

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Speaker 4: Go the Tigs.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, Jody.

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Speaker 2: We want to help you out as well with the barbershop.

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Speaker 2: We're going to help you both out. We're going to

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Speaker 2: give you seven thousand dollars cash to help out with

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Speaker 2: the business.

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Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, thank you man.

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Speaker 3: That's too much.

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Speaker 4: Man, that's great.

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Speaker 1: No, we love your passion for life and we love

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know that, you know.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much, beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Wow what would that mean to you? Jade's that's seven

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Speaker 6: Oh wow, that'll take pure and it just takes so

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Speaker 4: It's amazing. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: After all the treats and the adventures, I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: under the start work stars. Don't worry about that.

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Speaker 5: To me, that's number one.

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Speaker 3: Good.

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Speaker 2: You have a beautiful you have a beautiful outlook on life,

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Speaker 3: We just want to wish you all the best.

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Speaker 5: You to thanks a lot, dear, It means a lot

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Speaker 5: to us, mate, you know that. You know, we are

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Speaker 5: But I'm still trying to maintain that we can still

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Speaker 5: do things. You know as a couple.

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Speaker 1: Of course you can, of course you can. You're a superstars.

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Speaker 2: Love you, guys, love you, Thank you so much, Thank you, guys,

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, take care, thank.

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Speaker 4: You so much. It's in Whipper