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Speaker 1: Now many of you will know my next guest. He's

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Speaker 1: a wonderful Territorian who's been on the show on a

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Speaker 1: early twenty seventeen when he and his wonderful wife Naomi's beautiful,

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Speaker 1: healthy son Max was just nineteen months old. Now, their

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Speaker 1: little Max had been diagnosed with the brain tumor and

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Speaker 1: thirty percent of that tumor. As I understand, they were

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Speaker 1: told another surgery would most likely be possible. Well, it

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Speaker 1: was too risky. Now it did mean that Max would

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Speaker 1: rallied behind the amazing Kirby family and they made The

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Speaker 1: Kirby family made that decision to seek another opinion and

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Speaker 1: went to Professor Charlie Teo. Now Charlie managed to get

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Speaker 1: almost all of Max's tumor removed as safe as possible.

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Speaker 1: It was a huge deal and it bought them three

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Speaker 1: years of clear scans and great health post treatment. Now. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: Max's tumor did return when he was about four and

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Speaker 1: a half years old, and then again at five years old,

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Speaker 1: and sadly, gorgeous, brave little Max passed away on the

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Speaker 1: ninth of May this year at home in his parents' arms.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me in the studio is his wonderful dad,

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Kirby. Good morning to you, Lincoln.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Mate. Firstly, you know on behalf of me in the

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Speaker 1: whole Northern Territory community. We're so sorry for the loss

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Speaker 1: of your little fella. Thanks mate. He was an amazing

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Speaker 2: Sure it was yet we have a proper territory kid.

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Speaker 2: Love fishing, shooting, everything territory.

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Speaker 1: So I love seeing the photos that you and Naomi

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Speaker 1: post of your little family and all the stuff that

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Speaker 1: him on every adventure. I always think, what a dad,

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Speaker 1: what a family. Yeah, we had a.

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Speaker 2: Huge first four months year. We basically, you know, tried

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Speaker 2: and yeah, covered off everything and there's still enough things

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It was great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And he was an avid little fisherman, wasn't he.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he loved it, yep, yep. When he was three

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Speaker 1: He loved it, all right, did he go? All right?

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Speaker 1: Was he a good little like? Was he good at it?

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Speaker 2: I was amazed at how quick he picked up the cars,

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Speaker 2: and he was like a natural. So yeah, and obviously

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Speaker 2: typical fishing. We love to brag about how his biggest

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Speaker 1: He was an awesome little fella. You know when he

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Speaker 1: We managed to get you those those tickets to the Wiggles,

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Speaker 1: ages and ages ago. But you guys are such a

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Speaker 1: he did have to go through through various surgeries, But

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Basically us an extra four years you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Too How important is it do you think, you know,

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Speaker 1: he does do things that some other surgeons I guess,

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Speaker 2: It's huge. Basically, he is the only one willing to

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Speaker 2: And yeah, you know, he tells you all the risks

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we hope he's around for many more years. And

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Speaker 2: that's why we want to keep doing some fundraising for

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Speaker 1: Now, a lot of people don't realize. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Now, you guys want to do something to not only

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so planning a big fishing comp in Max is

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Speaker 2: we're going to do the Max's Cast for Cure Fishing

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Speaker 2: great response from everyone. Everyone's got right behind us. You know,

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Speaker 2: we want to do it in his honor. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be a big fun weekend, I think.

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Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit more about what's planned

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Speaker 2: So yeah, basically we're looking at running a family friendly competition.

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Speaker 2: There's five species involved and basically you just have to

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Speaker 1: For the chance. And so where is it going to happen?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, the plan is we're going to be based

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's going to be awesome, and it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Yep. It's all about, you know, people spending

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Speaker 2: It's always great fishing around that time of year. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think everyone should have a good weekend.

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Speaker 1: I reckon there's going to be businesses listening this morning

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're basically, the Charlie Teer Foundation runs you know,

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Speaker 2: same thing with our competition. We're trying to get everything donated,

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Speaker 2: so we're not actually you know, using any of the

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Speaker 2: towards the Teo Foundation. The Charlie Teo Foundation is looking

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Speaker 2: at all different ways, you know, research for brain cancer research.

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Speaker 2: They're looking outside the box where other areas people haven't looked.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, basically everything's going to go towards them, And yeah.

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Speaker 1: Great thing to do. You guys are a wonderful family,

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Speaker 1: I think this is a fantastic event that you're organizing,

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Speaker 1: If there is a business listening this morning, obviously we

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Speaker 2: We've got over fifty thousand dollars worth of prizes donated,

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, That is awesome, and I think you're going

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Speaker 1: to find that so many people do want to support

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Speaker 1: your fabulous people. I can't say that enough, and I

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Speaker 2: Yep, everyone keep that weekend free and yeah, get in

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Speaker 1: Good on you mate, Thanks Lincoln, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: coming in and we'll definitely talk to you before that

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