1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: But last week we spoke to the amazing Jack who 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: obviously works on Hot one hundred here in our building 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: about the Lakeimia Foundation, World's Greatest Shave Now. She's a 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: blood cancer survivor. She spoke about the impact of living 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: with the illness as a teenager and the support and 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: the research that's undertaken by the Lakemia Foundation, and why 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: it is so important to get involved in the World's 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: Greatest shave. Now around Australia, I know that there's some 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: very brave people shaving their heads for this worthy cause. 10 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: And I know one of the amazing Territorians who's actually 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: shaving her head for a cause. 12 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 2: She's a very. 13 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: Well known Territorian and a friend of mine. It is 14 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: the beautiful Kate Killner joining me in the studio. Good 15 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: morning to UK. 16 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 2: Katie, Thank you so much and what a gorgeous studio. 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: I know, a nice news studio that we've got now. 18 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: It is amazing. Now, Kate, when I saw that you 19 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: were shaving your head for a good call, I thought, 20 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: do you know what? You're such a wonderful person who 21 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: does so many nice things for others that I you know, 22 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: I thought, what a legend? What made you decide to 23 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: do it. 24 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 2: Well, a family member in Perth had a week between 25 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 2: being sick and the diagnosis. So it's really hard because 26 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 2: you want to do something, you know what I mean? 27 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 2: And I think, if I'm out there wants to do something, 28 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 2: and what do you do? Like, it's that kind of 29 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 2: do you phone them? Do you what do you offer them? 30 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 2: You know, if there's anything you need, let us know. 31 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: And it's that kind of anyway. So I decided what 32 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: I'd do was shave my hair. Now I thought it 33 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: was just a really simple decision, and then I thought, 34 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 2: oh gosh, what's my head gonna look like without any Yeah, 35 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: that's my biggest concern is that I'll have. 36 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: Strange well and who knows, Kate, we're having a bit 37 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: of a laugh about that offair, weren't we, And I 38 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: was saying, yeah, I wonder if my head's covered in 39 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: freckles like my faces. I don't know, and you won't 40 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: know until that head is shaved. But how's your how's 41 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: your family member feeling in Perth about the fact that 42 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: you are shaving your head? And do you want to 43 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: tell me who that family member is? I don't, you know, 44 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: I don't expect you to tell me anything you're not comfortable. 45 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: With a Trent and Emma, so that's his wife there, 46 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 2: And it's funny because they're the ones that are affected 47 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: the most. Yeah, but they're so humble that Territorians are 48 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 2: actually reaching into their pockets and donating and they can't 49 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 2: express what that does for them that nothing else can. 50 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 2: A simple phone call can't do that. And at the 51 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 2: moment we're beating act and Tasmania in regards to how 52 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 2: much we've that's awesome and so you kind of go, 53 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 2: you know, Territorians really know how to dig deep. Yeah, 54 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 2: and I'm humbled by it. Like people keep saying, oh, 55 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 2: you're a legend and everything. I think, oh, look, I've 56 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: made the decision. They didn't get to make the decision. 57 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: Yeah. 58 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have to worry about what Lakeema is 59 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: doing to my hair. And I've got six weeks. Like 60 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 2: my hairdresser says that my hair grows while she's cutting it, 61 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 2: so sort of grow fast, so it'll grow fast. Yeah, 62 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: and gosh is that a small sacrifice? 63 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: It is? And it's you know, it's really interesting the 64 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: point that you'd made. And I think that this happens 65 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: often is that when you have a family member or a 66 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: loved one, a friend who is impacted by cancer, blood cancer, 67 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: any other kind of of terminal illness, you know, you 68 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: don't quite know what to do to support them, and 69 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: you don't quite know how to act sometimes or what 70 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: to say to them. But I know myself when my 71 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: dad passed away that when I used to see then 72 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: every year how many people would turn up for run 73 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: with Dad, it just gave me great comfort that other 74 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,679 Speaker 1: people care. And I think that even with you shaving 75 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: your head, it's not only the beautiful gesture of you 76 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: doing that to support you know, to support them, but 77 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: it's also then the beautiful gesture of everybody donating money 78 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: and you go. It means so much that people that 79 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: maybe aren't part of your everyday life actually care and 80 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: they want to try and help, and they want to support, 81 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: and they want to find a cure. 82 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 2: The message is that Lakemia Foundation hopes to and hopes 83 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 2: to their goal is by two thousand and thirty five, 84 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: so ten more years that there will be no lives 85 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 2: lost because of it. And so I think for all 86 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 2: of us with donations, the hardest part is is you 87 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 2: don't want to donate to a black hole. Yep. This 88 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: money goes specifically to help, and we've been given targets. 89 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 2: And I think that's the difference is that I can 90 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 2: actually see it's a tangible fundraiser that I can truly see. 91 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: Kate, you've already raised an absolute bucket load. What are 92 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: you at? 93 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm nearly at seven and a half thousand. 94 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 2: So for anyone out there who has some spare change, 95 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 2: we'd appreciate it. I was going to lift it up 96 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 2: to ten thousand, because ten thousand gives two people who 97 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 2: haven't had traditional treatment work. It gives clinical research for 98 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 2: two people. And that's at ten thousand, but that might 99 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 2: be next year. Yeah, well, see how we go on thousand. 100 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: Let's see how we go. So people can head to 101 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: the Lakemia Foundation website the World's Greatest Shave. They can 102 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: search Kate Killiner. It's Kate with a C. Now, Kate, 103 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:52,799 Speaker 1: when is the hair coming off? 104 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 2: The hair's coming off on Friday at three and one 105 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 2: of our five grandchildren is in charge of doing the 106 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 2: first shave. And she is so nervous. She said, Grandma, 107 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 2: I really like your I said, what's the worst it 108 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 2: will happen? 109 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: So, Kate, how old is this? Grandpa six? What's her name? 110 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 2: This is Olivia and Charlotte, the three year old who 111 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 2: can't wait to get the raiser. We'll do the second shave. Yeah, 112 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 2: I'm not getting I'm not getting like. It's not a cutthroat. 113 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 2: It's one of those. It's a number one yea yeah, yeah, 114 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: yeah yeah yeah, So she can't yeah, where the twelve 115 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 2: year old wants to do? Raiser? 116 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: You know, wants to give your wiping bolts. 117 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 2: On the side of my head. First, let's leave for 118 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 2: pony at the back. Have you seen those rat style? 119 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: Don't do that. 120 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 2: I just will not be walking past him. I won't 121 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,559 Speaker 2: be doing anything for six weeks. 122 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: Kate, you're so beautiful from the inside out that I 123 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: have no doubt that you are going to rock that 124 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: shaved head. 125 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 2: No. 126 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: I think it's wonderful what you're doing. Yeah, thank you 127 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: so much much for joining me on the show this morning. 128 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: It's lovely to see you, lovely to talk to you. Thanks, 129 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 1: thank you.