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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: We're well.

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Speaker 1: Our next guest is the trusted man we all know

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Speaker 1: behind the seven news desk. And when he's not head down,

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Speaker 1: bum up in the newsroom, that's how he gathers his stories.

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Speaker 1: He's the voice for the Sydney Sick Kids Appeal. Mark Ferguson, Hello, get.

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Speaker 2: Out there, guys. I'm sorry, I'm no longer allowed to

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Speaker 2: be up in the news room anymore.

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Speaker 3: Shame Have you managed to forward your career, you know,

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Speaker 3: by not sniffing that pipe pipe?

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Speaker 2: Well, some would say just just a slow and steady pain.

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Speaker 3: That was a lot of people when I came in

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Speaker 3: there to read the news that time, a lot of

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Speaker 3: people were well, they were talking. They're all saying, you know, Ferguson,

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Speaker 3: better watch his step.

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Speaker 2: He does bring that up a lot, doesn't you know.

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Speaker 1: I'd actually forgotten about that, And he's the professional bum

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Speaker 1: sniffer and he.

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Speaker 3: Brips it up a lot. People were saying, And I bet.

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Speaker 1: Next you're going to bring up the roller skating.

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Speaker 3: Well, actually forget our roller skating challenge because I I

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Speaker 3: let you have that. The next challenge I want you

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Speaker 3: to do is the ripstick challenge. You know those ripsticks

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Speaker 3: skateboard only two wheels.

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Speaker 1: Didn't you smash your cocksis?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I can still ripe.

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Speaker 1: Look tell us about it.

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Speaker 2: I'm Marks, I've dot it before. I'll say that again.

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Speaker 2: I wonder roller skating and I'll leave it at that

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Speaker 2: name or at six name more trophy.

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Speaker 1: Today is Sydney Sick Kid's Day. Mark, tell us what

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Speaker 1: goes on today?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really really important day for so many children right

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Speaker 2: across Sydney and right across New South Wales. And today

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Speaker 2: is the day we can all really chip in and help.

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Speaker 2: Every single dollar that is donated today will be doubled.

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Speaker 2: So if you've got to spare twenty bucks, it turns

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Speaker 2: into forties, you've got to spare fifty bucks, it turns

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Speaker 2: into one hundred valuable dollars going to some wonderful, wonderful

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Speaker 2: causes right across the state. The Children's Hospital at Westmead,

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Speaker 2: Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, bear Cottage Newborn Pediatric Emergency Transport

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Speaker 2: Services and Kids Research. So every single dollar raise today

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Speaker 2: will go to help. I think it's up to about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy thousand youngsters that are helped across

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Speaker 2: that network each and every year, And I.

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Speaker 3: Was reading forty nine dollars will cover a childlife therapy session,

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Speaker 3: So what happens with that? That's pretty good value for

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Speaker 3: a session of that.

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Speaker 1: What this does is it helps for pare and distract

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Speaker 1: the kids from any pain or worry that they can

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Speaker 1: experience from treatment. So it makes hospital and treatment a

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Speaker 1: less frightening.

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Speaker 3: Fourteen nine bucks that's nothing, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That's nothing, ye And if you can, if you've got

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Speaker 2: the forty nine bucks, that turns into one hundred dollars,

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Speaker 2: so really big day. Those sorts of treatments, those sorts

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Speaker 2: of operations, that's sort of wonderful care that's done right

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Speaker 2: across that network each and every day. They need every

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Speaker 2: single dollar that we can give them today. And that's

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Speaker 2: what this is all about.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Well, the way you can donate today head to SCCHF.

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Speaker 1: That's Sydney Children's Hospital Fund SCHF dot org dot au,

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Speaker 1: or you can call eighteen hundred seven seven zero one

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Speaker 1: double two.

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Speaker 3: Mark you and I. Dana kmart ripsticks are about thirty bucks.

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Speaker 1: And how much is a neck brace.

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Speaker 2: As cheapest cheap it's going to charity only if it's

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Speaker 2: going to charity.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy oh Jones's out, then, what are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Paint me like that?

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, guys. It's all about raising awareness

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Speaker 2: and I really do appreciate you helping to spread the word.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think enough people are aware of you. I

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Speaker 3: think it's time for my light to shine.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, before he goes disappears into his own pot,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark. We appreciate your time today.

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Speaker 2: Good one you guys, Thank you very much.