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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Did you know that in Australia brain cancer is the

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Speaker 2: leading cause of death in children and adults under forty

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Speaker 2: That's staggering and yet so little is known about it.

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Speaker 2: Kieran Neeson hopes to change that. His dad, Doc Neson,

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Speaker 2: front man of the Angels, sadly lost his life to

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Speaker 2: brain cancer in twenty fourteen, and since then Kieran has

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Speaker 2: been advocating and supporting research. Wow two about putting your

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Speaker 2: feet where your mouth is. This month is going to

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Speaker 2: be strapping on his boots and hitting Mount Everest to

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Speaker 2: raise funds for the cause. Kieran High Everest. Can't you

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Speaker 2: just do maybe host a fundraiser in the city.

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Speaker 1: I thought we do something a little bit more challenging

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Speaker 1: for this one, But yeah, have done the Seven Bridges

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Speaker 1: Walk many times todaise funds for for cancer research. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a really good challenge and yeah, so grateful

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Speaker 1: to be aligned with the Marquis Foundation. I've been working

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Speaker 1: with them for several years now, helping them with their

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Speaker 1: Beny for brain cancer round with the NRL, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: just really looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: It's been a remarkable turn of events for Mark Hughes

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Speaker 3: as well, hasn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's such an inspiration James. He was diagnosed in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen and brain cancer has a five percent survival

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Speaker 1: rate post five years. This will be ten years this

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Speaker 1: year and ten years since the foundation started next year,

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Speaker 1: and he goes on all these tricks. He leads from

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Speaker 1: the front. Yeah, amazing foundation to be part of. And yees,

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Speaker 1: super grateful to be going on this trek with the

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Speaker 1: likes of Mark. And Mark's going to be trecking too,

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Speaker 1: Mark's trekking. Yeah, absolutely, he's Yeah, leading from the charge.

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Speaker 1: Danny Bideiris will be there, Trenton Robson from the Roosters,

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Speaker 1: Billy Peden and twenty other trekkers like myself who've been

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Speaker 1: impacted by brain cancer.

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Speaker 2: So Everest, it's not easy. There's strength, endurance, altitude. What

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Speaker 2: kind of training are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a because I live up on the Central

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Speaker 1: Coast and there's an altitude gym in Gosford that basically

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Speaker 1: takes out normal oxygen that we breathe here is about

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Speaker 1: to twenty and in the attitude gym it's about twelve percent.

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Speaker 1: So it just helps you climatize to around forty three

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Speaker 1: hundred meets above sea level, So been doing quite a

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Speaker 1: bit of that interval sprints on the bike, a lot

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Speaker 1: of walking in that sort of environment, and yeah, hoping

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Speaker 1: that would get me over the line.

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Speaker 2: Your life has changed a lot recently. You became a

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Speaker 2: dad to twins earlier this year. Congratulations. I did that

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Speaker 2: make you miss your dad even more?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Becoming a dad yourself?

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Speaker 1: Yeah it does, Yeah, it does definitely. Yeah, tugged in

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Speaker 1: some heart strings because you you know, there's not a

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Speaker 1: day that goes past I don't think about him, and

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Speaker 1: you know how much he would have loved to experience

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Speaker 1: being your grandfather, and you know he would have had

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Speaker 1: the guitar out the first day that they came home,

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Speaker 1: or even in the hospital, considering we spent the better

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Speaker 1: part of three months in there. And you know our

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Speaker 1: little boy Patrick, I mean dad was Bernard Patrick Neeson

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Speaker 1: and he's Patrick Anthony Bernard Neeson. So yeah, try and.

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Speaker 2: Call your daughter, doc.

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Speaker 1: Alexandra. Alexandra Ronesan is our little girl first. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: love that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, your dad, It just the time

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Speaker 3: just passes though, Like it's been almost ten.

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Speaker 1: Years, it'll be ten years next year, and it's just

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Speaker 1: incredible to to think about that. I mean, this year

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Speaker 1: was ten years since we had the Rock for Doc concept,

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Speaker 1: which you guys obviously in Yeah, And I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: sort of looking and starting to sort of map out

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Speaker 1: what a Rock for Doc two point zero to celebrate

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Speaker 1: ten years could look like at the moment. So stay

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Speaker 1: tuned on that front.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'd love to be involved in that. So we

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Speaker 3: get the band back together.

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Speaker 2: How can we help you here? How can people practically

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Speaker 2: help you on your journey?

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Speaker 1: So for those that do want to contribute, now, there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of ways to do it. You can go

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Speaker 1: to the Marcus Foundation website. There is a section on

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Speaker 1: the website about the Everest Trek and you can have

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Speaker 1: a look at all the different people that are participating

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Speaker 1: in the trek, myself being one of them, and you

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Speaker 1: can donate and uh and make a contribution there.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is great, as Doc would say, this is it.

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Speaker 3: Folks over the top.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's a big top.

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Speaker 3: It's a big top. Kieren, it's always great to talk

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Speaker 3: to you. To make a donation, go to Markusfoundation dot com.

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Speaker 3: Doda you Kieren Neeson, thank

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Speaker 1: You, thanks guys, thanks for having me on