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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with jen Zy Well.

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Speaker 2: Our next guess is one of Hollywood's biggest stars and

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Speaker 2: equally is important. She's the ambassador for McHappy Day, which

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Speaker 2: of course helps to raise funds for Ronald McDonald House,

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Speaker 2: which helps keeps family together while their child undergoes medical treatment.

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Speaker 2: We are so thrilled to welcome to the show the

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Speaker 2: incredible Ava Mendez.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Thank you Hi.

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Speaker 3: It's great to have you back. And of course you

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Speaker 3: told us about the personal story that you had with

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Speaker 3: Ronald McDonald House last time you're on, And that's such

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Speaker 3: because I think it's easy to forget what they actually

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Speaker 3: do and the good that they do.

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Speaker 1: Oh they do, They do so much. And like you said,

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Speaker 1: I know from personal experience. My cousin's little boy was

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Speaker 1: diagnosed with neuro blastoma when he was only one. He's

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Speaker 1: about eight now almost nine, and he's in remission. But

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Speaker 1: during his treatments, which were many for many years, the

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Speaker 1: goal was to keep the family together and that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what my cousin Lindy did through the Ronald McDonald House charities,

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Speaker 1: so they would stay at various Ronald McDonald House across

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Speaker 1: the country and in the United States, and that's when

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Speaker 1: I first learned about I mean, I've always heard about

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Speaker 1: Ronald McDonald house charities, but that's when when you have

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Speaker 1: a personal relationship to something, you realize it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's real value. So I'm so excited to physically

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Speaker 1: be here this year.

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Speaker 2: Well that's wrong. That's what's different this time around that

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Speaker 2: you've have been living in Australia while your husband, Ryan

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Speaker 2: Gosling is filming The Full Guy. Are you enjoying your

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Speaker 2: time here?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, how can you not? I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just the most beautiful country. I've always said it's one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite places in the world, Sydney specifically, but

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Speaker 1: like just the country of Austria. There's so much I've

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Speaker 1: explored in the past, Like you know, I've done the

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Speaker 1: you know, I've done Ularu and the Great Berier Reef

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Speaker 1: of course, and like you know, all the hits. But

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Speaker 1: right now we're actually just living in Sydney and that's

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Speaker 1: just that's not nothing. It's been so beautiful.

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Speaker 3: That's and you know, I just when you speak to Ryan,

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Speaker 3: can you just say thank you from Jonesy for The

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Speaker 3: Fall Guy, because this that is so in my wheelhouse

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Speaker 3: that movie way well. As a kid, when that show

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Speaker 3: came on TV, I couldn't believe because the DUTCHA Hazard

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Speaker 3: had just finished and I thought, what what will my

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Speaker 3: life become now? And then all of a sudden, suddenly

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Speaker 3: and Heather Thomas, yeah, and I just said, this is

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Speaker 3: this is what my life was meant to be, so bravo.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh really, I will definitely pass it on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a really it's a fun one. It's a real

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Speaker 1: fun one. So yeah, we're happy to be here, beyond happy.

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Speaker 2: How are your kids going with the Australian accent? Are

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Speaker 2: they they managing to master.

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Speaker 1: Real c Yeah, well no, but they're just getting They're

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Speaker 1: just getting it and little like little things like the

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Speaker 1: way they say yeah is like really something and then uh,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's coming through and I want to keep

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Speaker 1: it and I want to hold onto it and bottle.

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Speaker 1: It's so cute, because you know with kids, the moment

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Speaker 1: you say you love something, then they don't do it anymore.

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Speaker 1: My kids anyway, Yes, no, I can't even say anything

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Speaker 1: about it. I'm just like, oh my god, dying on

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Speaker 1: the inside.

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Speaker 3: If you get them, you.

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Speaker 1: Have my first experience with that. No, now, you go.

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Speaker 1: I had my first experience with a huntsman about five

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Speaker 1: nights ago.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate that they completely harmless, but they look terrible.

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Speaker 1: Don't give me that they're harmless. Everybody says that the

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Speaker 1: psychological trauma has been it's it's full of fight. That

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Speaker 1: thing was crazy.

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Speaker 2: How did you get rid of it?

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Speaker 1: I'd rather not disclose those decas it's you know, it

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Speaker 1: took you know, I mean nothing was huge. It was

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Speaker 1: wearing a top hat. I was like, get out.

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Speaker 2: But if you do see another huntsman, the trick is

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Speaker 2: you put a jar over the top or a container,

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Speaker 2: slid a piece of paper up between it and the wall,

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Speaker 2: and then you can take it outside and chuck it

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Speaker 2: away so you don't have to see it anymore.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you make that sound real, real nice. Can I

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Speaker 1: just call you Amanda, I'll talk you through.

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Speaker 3: And if you're doing it, Ava, can you get someone

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Speaker 3: to film it? Because it always fails And do you

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Speaker 3: end up running out of the room.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Okay, so mahappy day or helping hand

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Speaker 1: and you know, it's a great excuse to get yourself

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Speaker 1: that big back, you know too. Absolutely, it's my one

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Speaker 1: go to the charity.

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Speaker 3: It's my one cheat day. Ava. It's so great to

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Speaker 3: talk to you again. So high to the little family

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Speaker 3: for us. I will and visit a McDonald's restaurant tomorrow

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Speaker 3: to support mcabby day. Do you know exactly where you'll

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Speaker 3: be tomorrow? You probably they'll be probably sending you to

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Speaker 3: everyone for top secret.

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Speaker 2: I'll bring my pet huntsman to say hello, Oh my.

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Speaker 1: God, Amanda, but so craepy. Yes, that thing really got

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Speaker 1: under my skin. It was.

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Speaker 2: You're Australian. Now you've had your first You've had your first.

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Speaker 1: I've had my first hunt. I have a feeling it

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Speaker 1: won't be my last.

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Speaker 3: And if one of your kids can say truth, then

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Speaker 3: you know we're doing well and.

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Speaker 2: It's not truth.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to sell that truth truth.

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Speaker 3: A w T yes, truth, yeah, truth.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit like a truth.

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Speaker 3: Bloody hell O, bloody is strength.

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Speaker 1: Strength. Maybe I'll throw it away since I don't have

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Speaker 1: like maybe I could be like it's truth, yeah, perfect.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise it looks that's perfect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Otherwise, yeah, I don't read it's fake exactly.

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Speaker 2: We've loved talking to you again and hopefully we'll do

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Speaker 2: it again.

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Speaker 1: Next to you so much lots of love and thank

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Speaker 1: you for being. Can I just say thank you to Sydney.

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Speaker 1: They're just you guys are the best. It's just like

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Speaker 1: it's such a warm, beautiful place and the people have

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Speaker 1: been just incredible. And you know, even the Huntsman he

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Speaker 1: was he was kind of sweet won over at the end.

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Speaker 1: I was like, come come back, fella, well we love

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Speaker 2: You over and thank you you guys, Thanks, thank you,

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Speaker 2: Bye bye