1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Well, as I mentioned a moment ago, the Kid's Cancer Project, 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Australia's largest independent funder of childhood cancer research, is in 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: Darwin tomorrow and they are going to be with one 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: of the biggest fundraisers arriving later this week, well actually 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: tomorrow as I understand it, as part of his walk 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: around Australia. So Captain Australia, also known as Simon Harvey, 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: he's going to be arriving in Darwen as part of 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: his Lap of Australia, walking over fifteen thousand kilometers across 9 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: two years to help to raise money for childhood cancer 10 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: research through the Kid's Cancer Project. Now he is a 11 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: cancer survivor himself, and he joins me on the line 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: right now. Good morning to you, Captain Australia. 13 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:51,639 Speaker 2: Good a, good a, my friend. How are you doing 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: on the show. 15 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: It is lovely to have you on the show. Now, 16 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: I understand right now you are near the turn off 17 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: to Humpty Dewey. Is that right? Yes? 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 2: Mate. So I've been following the Stuart Highway for I 19 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 2: know almost a week now, just up from Catherine and 20 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 2: Well on the way to Diet Darwin, which for me 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 2: is a major milestone. It's sort of the beginning of 22 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: the final bit of the lap to get home to Brizzy. 23 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: Oh, how long have you been walking for? 24 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 2: Well, it's a little bit complicated, but the long story, 25 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: the long and short of it, is three hundred and 26 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 2: seventy six days boots on the ground? 27 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: Wow, mate, how are the thief? How are the toenails? 28 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: How are the legs? 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 2: Mate? The toenails, don't ask because it's a bit growth. 30 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 2: I've probably lost about ten of them on the road. 31 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 2: They just they just tend to peel off after a 32 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 2: certain amount of juice. Nasty mate, But yeah, honestly, Okay, 33 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 2: So I'm an old man. I'm a cancer survivor, like 34 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 2: a stage four head and net cancer. I was given 35 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: six months to live. I've got a bunch of problems 36 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: subsequent to that, and I shouldn't be able to do 37 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: any of it. But it's righteous. I'm trying to earn 38 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: my survival. I'm trying to do something good with the 39 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 2: extra time that I been given. And because it's a 40 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 2: good thing, I'm able to transcend all of that physical stuff. 41 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 2: The boots don't matter, my feet don't matter, the pain, 42 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 2: the suffering doesn't matter because it's a privilege to be 43 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: a service to such a wonderful charity. Mate. 44 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: Oh, you've got your why, that is for sure. You 45 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: know why you're doing it, and you've got a big 46 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: reason why you're doing it's mate, that is so admirable. 47 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, I thank you. Yeah. I think if we all 48 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: just turned our mind towards doing some sort of concrete 49 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: good in the world, everything starts to get better. It 50 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 2: just has this ripple effect, mate, and I think in 51 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 2: these wobbly times it's more crucial than ever. 52 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: You know, what do you think about when you have 53 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: some of those challenging moments when you are sort of 54 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: traveling along and you're on those massive stretches of road, 55 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,239 Speaker 1: It like it'd be tough going. 56 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 2: Mate, Honestly, no, never there's whatever happens, whether it's a 57 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 2: wheel that bloody snaps or any problem that comes in 58 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: front of me, it's just pivot, adapt, move forward. And 59 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 2: it's through that mentality that I've been able to get 60 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 2: past all of my problems because I started just in 61 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: urgent need at healing. I was broken after my fight 62 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 2: with cancer, stage four six months to live, so coming 63 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 2: back from that isn't easy. And I think that through 64 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 2: tackling the adversity, through surrender and just knowing that you're 65 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 2: going to do the best with the tools that you have. Suddenly, 66 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: any obstacle it's something that toughens you. It's something that 67 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: betters you and makes you stronger. So whether it's the 68 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: big old steep old hill and I'm huffing and puffing 69 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 2: my way up or some other problem, I just push forward, 70 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: and that pushing forward makes me stronger. 71 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: Captain, what kind of supplies have you got with you? Like, 72 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: you know, what are you traveling with? 73 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've got this trolley down the East coast. 74 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 2: It was just a backpack because I could get water 75 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: every few days, so I just had to load up 76 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 2: and carry it on my back. But since Adelaide, I've 77 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 2: got this big old trolley. So I look like the 78 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: world's oldest, weirdest timeless toddler, really dressed as a superhero. 79 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 2: So it's green, gold and grubby. Mate. When before they 80 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 2: put me through, they they've made a mistake and said 81 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 2: I'm Captain underpants. I look a bit like him too. 82 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 2: But the trolley, oh, it's got so that it's got 83 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: starlingk attached to it. It's got a battery, soul of 84 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 2: power coming in on the world's first high tech hobo. 85 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 2: But it's also got like a bloody swag strapped on 86 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 2: there on the dag with the bag and the swag 87 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 2: and the flag, there's a big charity slag. I look, 88 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 2: I must like people driving down the highway. They just stare. 89 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 2: You know, those clowns at the side show hourly that 90 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: he just turns with the mouth wide open. I've seen 91 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: that look so many bloody times. 92 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 1: You've got it. You're gonna have to send us. 93 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 2: We're gonna need to I will, Yeah, no worries. 94 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: I'm glad you're not doing it in your underpants. 95 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 2: Oh mate. Sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the wee 96 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 2: hours of the morning, and I have to do a 97 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,239 Speaker 2: little bit of a toilet, a truckle will go past 98 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: with his lights blaring, and he must think he saw 99 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: a yow in Captain the Cants or some sort of 100 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:07,119 Speaker 2: weird natural bush you know. But yeah, if you wanted 101 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 2: to have a picture of it, we go up on Facebook. 102 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 2: We were always video uploading. 103 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,239 Speaker 1: Oh, we'll make sure we do. Now tell me, Captain. 104 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: In terms of raising money for the Kids Cancer Project, 105 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 1: why did you decide that that was who you wanted 106 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: to raise money for. 107 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 2: Well. So back in COVID Time, I was broken after 108 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 2: my fight with cancer. I couldn't come back. I was 109 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 2: just slipping away. I was like a ghost in my 110 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 2: own life and I needed to repeat a walk I 111 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 2: took as a child to heal. It was just an 112 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 2: inspiration that came to me, so that the helping of 113 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 2: the charity was just an ad on. I figured, if 114 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: I'm going to walk from Brisbane to Melbourne, I might 115 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 2: as well as tell the charity. So I researched because 116 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 2: I couldn't abide seeing kids wait for the same treatments 117 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 2: that I had gone through. Yeah, and I thought, Kids 118 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 2: Cancer Project, what a wonderful charity. I looked at the numbers, 119 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 2: the efficiency score, everything beautiful charity. But it was just 120 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 2: a bolt on. I was for healing, and very soon 121 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: it flipped mate. I learned how integral and important being 122 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 2: of service was. So that's surrendered to a greater cause 123 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 2: is what gave me the healing that I needed to achieve. 124 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 2: So when I got to Melbourne after that first COVID 125 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 2: Time walk, I realized I needed to do more. So 126 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 2: that's when I set out on the big laps. So 127 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 2: I've walked from Brisbane and Melbourne twice, as bonkers as 128 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 2: that sounds, but this time I kept going. I've crossed 129 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 2: the continent, I've crossed a nuther board. I've got to person, 130 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 2: I've walked up the West coast forty five degree days 131 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 2: into port Headlands and here we are going up into 132 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 2: Darwin and it's just the Kids Cancer Project. It's such 133 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 2: a beautiful charity. I've gone through it. I know how 134 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 2: much devastation it can inflict on a human life, and 135 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 2: not just your life, for people who love you exactly, 136 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 2: the three families, three families every single day that here 137 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 2: your child has cancer and the weight of that, you know. 138 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 2: So if I can do something righteous to help, bloody 139 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 2: hell I wanted, I'll ultimate the rest of my life, 140 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 2: you know. And so yeah, it's a wonderful cause and 141 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 2: that's the way of it. And anybody who wants to 142 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 2: look at it, dub dub dub dot taps big lap 143 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 2: dot au. It's tax time, tax deductive. We'll get in there, 144 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 2: chucks of money in there, get amongst. 145 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: It, Get amongst it. Mate, how much money have you 146 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: raised so far? And what are you hoping to get 147 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: to well. 148 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 2: The first Big Walk was one hundred and sixty five 149 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. The Big Lamp so far has raised like 150 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 2: one hundred and eight or one hundred and nine thousand. 151 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 2: First Big Walk was only eighty four days and the 152 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 2: Big Lap so far is over a year. So I 153 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 2: really we're not doing so great with the money side 154 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: of things. So if Darwin could rally up and tuck 155 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 2: a few bucks on their bloody wonderful stuff because the 156 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 2: goal is to raise a million dollars pick out to 157 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 2: cancer it. 158 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: Oh, good on you well, Captain Australia, Simon Harvey. It 159 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: is so good to speak to you this morning. Mate, 160 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: what an inspiration. Good on you and good on you 161 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: that you're doing this. I just think it's phenomenal. 162 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 2: Thank you. It's been such a pleasure and I'm glad 163 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: you got a good giggle out of it. Much I did. 164 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: And one of my friends has just sent me a 165 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: couple of photos of you so that I so that 166 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: I could see how you're looking, and you look like 167 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: you're having a great time. As tough as it is, 168 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: you look like you're having a good time. 169 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: I've found joy in my life after I thought I 170 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 2: was completely broken by sorrow and the final lesson of 171 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: it all is that's available to all of us. Mate, YEA, 172 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 2: be strong, stand tall, and you can you can live again. 173 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: You know how. Good Good on you. Thank you so 174 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: much for talking to us this morning, and all the 175 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: best with the rest of your journey. 176 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 2: So grateful, Thanks a lot, Thank you.