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Speaker 1: health insurance, build up your own fund. YEA for you. Cheers, Carol, Carol,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Nineteen passport Darcy Watergrave was with me. Hello

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Speaker 2: I thought that the text said heither you bang on?

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Speaker 2: But no, no, no, is that why you agree? You do?

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Speaker 1: Be your head? Hi Heather, Hello Darcy. So Shane Christy,

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Speaker 1: what's happened here?

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Speaker 2: Unreported as to exactly what the cause of death was

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Speaker 2: suspected by his own hand, but we don't know.

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Speaker 1: Had he taken some head knocks a lot really.

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Speaker 2: He retired from the game a few years ago. He's

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Speaker 2: doing a lot of work with Billy Geison, was a

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Speaker 2: friend of his who also took his own life, who

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Speaker 2: was examined for CTE and he had it. And he's

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Speaker 2: been in this space for a long time. Shane Christy

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Speaker 2: trying to educate people and understand exactly what it meant.

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Speaker 2: He had headaches. It showed the classic signs of it.

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Speaker 2: It was really he's only thirty nine years of age.

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Speaker 2: And now previously he had said he's actually told the

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Speaker 2: Herald that once he'd passed, he would actually like his

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Speaker 2: brain studied to see if indeed CTA was part of

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Speaker 2: the problems that he had with his continued headaches and

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Speaker 2: hurt all the time he walked. It just a devastating disease.

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Speaker 1: To have to live with it, that would be so debilitating.

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Speaker 2: Impossible, not even close. I can cast myself a few

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Speaker 2: years ago, and I found that quite stressful, and there

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Speaker 2: was no pain. It was just the loss of thoughts,

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Speaker 2: that concentrating thought. You accelerate that more so when you've

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Speaker 2: taken repeated head knocks. It's terrifying. That's what it is.

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Speaker 2: Maybe a couple of decades ago, it wasn't really considered

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Speaker 2: it very much is now, and even though some in

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Speaker 2: world Rugby are trying to distant themselves from the connection,

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Speaker 2: it's there and it's irresponsible not to say.

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Speaker 1: Are you talking about this on the show this evening.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking to get the services of a couple of

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Speaker 2: people who specialize in CTE. Plainly, it's pretty raw for

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Speaker 2: a lot of these people who would have had a

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Speaker 2: lot to do with Shane, so we are waiting to

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Speaker 2: get that connection.

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Speaker 1: Great hey, thank you Darcy, best of like with that

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Speaker 1: and looking forward to hearing it. That's Darcy water Grave,

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