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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Sam Well, this week is Beanie for brain Cancer. Around

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Speaker 2: of the NRL twenty twenty has been filled with uncertainty.

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Speaker 2: One thing that is certain is brain cancer is stopping

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Speaker 2: for no one and neither of the efforts of the

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Speaker 2: Mark Hughes Foundation, started of course by ex Newcastle Knights

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Speaker 2: star Mark Hughes, who joins us now.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark, Good morning Amanda.

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Speaker 2: So nice to talk to you. I was just saying

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Speaker 2: before you've raised over seventeen million. It's the results are tangible,

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Speaker 2: that's extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing the support, Amanda. And look, particularly this year

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Speaker 1: with the Beanie Round, there's lots of reasons why it

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have been on, but the NRL pushed ahead and

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Speaker 1: they still found time and energy to give us the

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Speaker 1: Beanie Round. And very proud with the Mark Hughes Foundation

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Speaker 1: team because we obviously had a few hurdles with ordering

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Speaker 1: beanies and getting them and all that stuff. Anyway, we

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Speaker 1: got there and I'm so thrilled to say that the

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Speaker 1: support is coming in from everywhere and it sets just

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Speaker 1: because in the.

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Speaker 3: Lead up to you being diagnosed, Mark, you actually had

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Speaker 3: no symptoms used at some headaches and blurry vision, and

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Speaker 3: that was it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it, Jamesy. It hit me right between the

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Speaker 1: levels that one. I was thirty six years of age

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Speaker 1: and three children under ten headaches for a day or two,

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Speaker 1: and before I knew it, I'm in hospital getting a

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Speaker 1: shirmer ormerved having chemotherapy radiation. And then I became this

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Speaker 1: high grade brain cancer patient and there's no cure for

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Speaker 1: brain cancer and nothing's really changed in thirty years with outcomes,

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Speaker 1: and I just realized that we need to try and

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Speaker 1: raise awareness, we need to raise funds and research because

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Speaker 1: this is not good enough for myself and for so

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Speaker 1: many others out there. So that's how it started. Probably

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Speaker 1: couldn't have dreamed of the massive support we got have

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Speaker 1: got since then, but what it has done is made

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Speaker 1: us accelerate and we've got research, you know. I've just

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Speaker 1: the NRL Beanie for Brain cance Cancer Research at the

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Speaker 1: University of Sydney started last month. We've got the Matt

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Speaker 1: Collander Fellowship that's been gone three years. We've got innovation

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Speaker 1: projects right around Australia. So yeah, it's awesome.

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Speaker 2: I was just reading in the paper this morning. I

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Speaker 2: know you fundraised in other ways too. Seventy one thousand

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Speaker 2: was raised on a trek up Mount Kilimanjaro. Was you

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Speaker 2: was Trent Robinson, holl out of other guys. It sounds hideous,

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Speaker 2: rain and lightning and cold, and it was Amanda.

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Speaker 1: It was like another world up there, you know, jackets

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Speaker 1: four gloves, freezing and you had to leave at midnight

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Speaker 1: to get up to the top by ten o'clock in

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Speaker 1: the morning. And as soon as you hit the top,

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Speaker 1: you get a photo and you've got to get off

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Speaker 1: as quick as possible because because of the altitudes and

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Speaker 1: how dangerous, how hard it is up there. Now we

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Speaker 1: raised seven hundred thousand from that track, seven hundred thousand,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand. Now Trent himself, Trent raised seventy one thousand,

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Speaker 1: So we had twenty trekkers. And what happens you all

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Speaker 1: we set everyone up with their page and they all

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Speaker 1: get their friends and family and they raise money. Adam

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Speaker 1: McDougal at the Manshake put in one hundred thousand. So

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Speaker 1: that's that's the magic of you know, there's been some

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Speaker 1: wonderful things. And every year we do a track and

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Speaker 1: we raise a lot of money and I catch up

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Speaker 1: with some old mates and get some bits of new mates.

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Speaker 2: And can't you just go to the gold Coast or something.

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Speaker 1: Grateful? Well, a good pub crawl through the gold Coade.

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Speaker 3: That'd be good. It was great to see Newcastle win

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Speaker 3: last night. What about Nui.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're buzzing up here. It's we've waited a while

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Speaker 1: for a team become good and it's looking that way.

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Speaker 1: So it's exciting times. And I'll tell you when they

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Speaker 1: do open the stadiums, I'd know that there be plenty

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Speaker 1: of Newcastle people ready to go and watch their team.

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Speaker 2: Well, you can grab your NRL beanie for brain Cancer

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Speaker 2: from Mark Hughesfoundation dot com today you is that the

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Speaker 2: best way we can support you Mark.

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Speaker 1: I tell you can go into any Lows venue across

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Speaker 1: Australia and you can grab it at Lows and you

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Speaker 1: can go into selected i GA. So check the market

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Speaker 1: You Foundation website and you can get them on. But also, yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't forget they're in loads. But I'll tell you what

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Speaker 1: they're selling clicks. So if you really want one, I

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Speaker 1: go in this morning and grab one.

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Speaker 3: What's good you mentioned because we're going down to Lows

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Speaker 3: after the show because we've got to get our team fleecy.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've been into a lot of loads shops lately

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Speaker 1: and I've been picking up the odd jump and that.

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Speaker 1: We've got some great warm gear.

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Speaker 2: You'll need it forho Nex trick.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're going to work out where we're going

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Speaker 1: to go. We might just stay local because of the

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Speaker 1: might do a Sydney the Newcastle Walk or something.

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Speaker 2: You know, they do have transport the line Mark.

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Speaker 3: Good on you man, you look at yourself.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the supper. Guys really appreciate it. Thank you, Mike.

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Speaker 3: Mike Hughes there check it out Mark Hughesfoundation dot com

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Speaker 3: dot au. It's a great cause.

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Speaker 1: Joined the and Amanda in the morning at one point seven.

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Speaker 1: Tell you