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Speaker 1: Well, yesterday on the show, we spoke to Careflight's chief

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Speaker 1: aircrew officer Kurt Pride about a much loved local family

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Speaker 1: involved in a serious car crash on Australia Day Now.

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Speaker 1: Charles known as Chuck and Mary Lou McGregor Shaw were

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Speaker 1: critically injured in that head on collision, with a couple

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Speaker 1: transferred to the Perth Hospital for specialist treatment. Now, their

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Speaker 1: longtime friend and colleague Kurt joined us on the show

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Speaker 1: and said it is going to be a long road

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Speaker 1: to recovery. And that go fund me page, well, it

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Speaker 1: was set up by Joe Brosnan and Joe joins me

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Speaker 1: on the line right now.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Joe, Good morning Katie. Joe.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling looking at this go fund me

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Speaker 1: page this morning and the volume of support that Territorians

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Speaker 1: have really just jumped around this family or thrown their

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Speaker 1: arms around this family.

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Speaker 2: I know it's been an absolute credit to the territory.

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Speaker 2: It's just wildly unimaginable. The family is just blown away

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Speaker 2: by it. But also in some ways I'm not surprised

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Speaker 2: because while I don't live there now, I lived in

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Speaker 2: the territory for thirty years and I know how amazing

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Speaker 2: that community is. But it's also you know, people from

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Speaker 2: all over Australia have reached out people that don't know them.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's also that feeling you get when

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Speaker 2: you know, even the people who don't know them, that's

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Speaker 2: that realization that no one knows what can happen next,

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Speaker 2: that has really helped them sort of imagine what it

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Speaker 2: might be like for these people right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know, you look at their family photos,

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Speaker 1: you look at this beautiful little family with their three

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Speaker 1: young boys, and you spot on you think, imagine if

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Speaker 1: my family was in that situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think we all go through life just

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Speaker 2: you know, wanting to believe that bad things don't happen

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Speaker 2: to people, but they do. And the best that we

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Speaker 2: can do now is to show them that, you know,

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Speaker 2: all of the all of the kindness that they've showered

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Speaker 2: people with and all of the support they've given to

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Speaker 2: the community in the past is coming back to them

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Speaker 2: in space.

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Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, you're so spot on there and it's at

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty nine thousand, seven hundred and four dollars.

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Speaker 2: Joe.

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Speaker 1: When you set up that go fundb Paige, what was

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Speaker 1: your aim? What was your target.

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Speaker 2: Well, Mary Lou's sister and Laura and I talked about

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Speaker 2: it the day before we set it up and said,

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Speaker 2: what do you reckon?

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Speaker 3: How much?

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Speaker 2: How much do they need and how much you reckon

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Speaker 2: people would really be able to give. So we calculated

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Speaker 2: it at around you know, maybe five hundred dollars a

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Speaker 2: week for a few months. We could potentially ask people

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Speaker 2: to go eight thirty thousand dollars and we were we

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Speaker 2: ummed an art about that because we thought that was

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Speaker 2: a stretch. So you can imagine how his family after

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Speaker 2: the first couple of hours were like.

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Speaker 1: What unbelievable have you?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: You know, I know that the family's in a really

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Speaker 1: tough way at this point. I know that both Chuck

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the boys. I've spoken to the boys

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Speaker 2: a few times over the last week or so. They

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Speaker 2: Willard called me blood our godson. He called me on

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Speaker 2: the house that they're living in at the moment down

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Speaker 2: You know, they're just at the moment, they're just kind

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Speaker 2: And Willard. Willard was telling me that he was trying

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Speaker 3: Be just terrifying for those kids.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, spot on. You know, it would be utterly

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Speaker 1: How are Chuck and Mary Lou going.

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Speaker 2: Well? Kerb was, I think he's back and go. And

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Speaker 3: But just I think they're just so.

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Speaker 2: Blown away by the amount of money that's been raised.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just knows created a sense of shock

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Speaker 2: You know, they never they never do things with.

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Speaker 3: The expectation of reward.

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Speaker 2: They do things because they're good people and things, you know,

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Speaker 2: the sorts of activities they get involved in are the

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Speaker 3: They don't.

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Speaker 2: They didn't understand how embedded they were in their communities

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Speaker 2: known since, you know, short in their days after that,

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Speaker 2: you know, the accident had occurred, but it was so

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Speaker 2: that you know, their home blocking Darwen Rural area just

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Speaker 2: it goes from me. So there's been like four weeks

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Speaker 2: This is just giving people that that opportunity to feel

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's really beautiful to see and I

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Speaker 2: My family, my daughter and grandkids still live up there

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Speaker 2: just feel that warmth of the people there every time.

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Speaker 3: You go go and visit.

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Speaker 2: But also, you know, just the incredible support to look

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Speaker 2: after the practicality during this time. They they've got a

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Speaker 2: and they've got dogs, bees, veggies, turkey, choks, gardens, chuck grows, heliconias, and.

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Speaker 3: Spider.

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Speaker 2: Lily Lou's cousin lived around the corner, and so she

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Speaker 2: And so they have managed all of those things during

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Speaker 2: this whole time, just putting their hands up, I'll do this,

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Speaker 3: They could get a house fit of there just three

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Speaker 1: What a crew, What a phenomenal group of people around

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Speaker 1: them that is so beautiful to hear. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I bet, like, yeah, I cannot imagine how grateful Chuck

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Speaker 1: they do recover. And you know, I know that people

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Speaker 1: don't do that stuff for any kind of thanks or

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know if people think, well, there's

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Speaker 2: no a lot I can give, I'll tell you every

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Speaker 2: as Kurt said yesterday, this is not a short term thing.

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Speaker 2: Mary lou is showing small fines of improvement all the time,

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Speaker 2: but she's not cognizant, so she's not conscious. And Chuck

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Speaker 2: of him. So you know, we were in one sense

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Speaker 2: it's day by day and then another sense it's long

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Speaker 1: And they're going to need support for the down the track.

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Speaker 1: It's not something that you know that they're only going

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Speaker 1: And I'm assuming that that is exactly what this you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the boys, you know, I know, I know

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Speaker 2: that Mary Lou will be fighting really really hard to

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Speaker 2: we can just take out of their little pots of

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Speaker 1: Your spot on, Joe, what a beautiful friend you are,

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Speaker 1: and you know what a beautiful community we have that

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Speaker 1: everybody's gathered around these you know, they just seem like

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Speaker 1: the most lovely territory family. And I think that that

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Speaker 1: is why everybody's just gone, do you know what if

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And they're relatable, you know, they're the people next door,

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Speaker 2: the people at the footy lose, the you know, the

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Speaker 2: three boys all play for the swamp Dogs of the

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Speaker 2: Union team. They played for the Literary Ord Bears Lose.

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Speaker 2: The under fifteen team manager for the Swamp Dogs. Child's

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Speaker 2: no medic. They're always there on the sidelines. They're always

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Speaker 2: helping out the other kids. The boys go to a

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Speaker 2: good Shepherd school in Howard Springs. Loo's always trying to

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Speaker 2: lend a hand at the school. You know, they're just

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Speaker 2: those people that they kind of go under the radar

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Speaker 2: until they don't. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Joe, thank you so much for coming on this

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Speaker 1: morning and having a chat to us, and just a

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Speaker 1: reminder to everybody out there listening. If you do want

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Speaker 1: to support this beautiful family, can go to the go

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Speaker 1: to go to go fund me and you can you

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Speaker 1: can literally search help support the McGregor shaw Boys. Joe Brosnan,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: You're more welcome and thank you Katie for.

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Speaker 3: Your support anytime.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Joe,