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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Sam Well, our.

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Speaker 1: Next guest has certainly earned himself the title of a

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Speaker 1: super dad. Jason Setius is a trade father of three

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Speaker 1: who founded the Super Tea. This is a medically designed

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Speaker 1: garment that helps sick kids feel like superheroes while they're

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Speaker 1: in hospital. This is after his daughter, Angela was diagnosed

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Speaker 1: with a rare cancer like disease. You guys have been

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Speaker 1: absolutely through the works, but you've come out fighting fit.

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Speaker 1: Angela's fabulous now that Jason, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so glad to be here. This

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Speaker 2: is awesome.

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Speaker 1: So tell us about the Super Tea and how this

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Speaker 1: came about for your family.

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Speaker 2: Well, as you mentioned, my daughter was diagnosed with a

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Speaker 2: rare cancer and the day she was diagnosed, I made

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Speaker 2: her two promises, and one was that he's going to

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Speaker 2: take you to Disneyland the moment we're allowed to leave

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Speaker 2: the hospital. And the second is Daddy's going to find

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Speaker 2: a way to keep the invisible monster away. And I

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Speaker 2: didn't know how I was going to do it. I

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Speaker 2: just remember how during that whole ordeal, I was just

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Speaker 2: hating myself for being so stupid, so dumb, so useless.

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Speaker 2: So here's my little girl. She's fighting through everything, and

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Speaker 2: all I'm doing, I'm being a spectator. There's not much

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Speaker 2: I can do. Until one night she received chemotherapy and

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Speaker 2: the chemo that they give the kids, some of it

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Speaker 2: is really harsh. It causes the hair to fall out

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Speaker 2: and for them to get sick off. And she woke

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Speaker 2: up and she, like a lot of kids do that,

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Speaker 2: she threw up and here I am, I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: change her and she was just wearing a normal T

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Speaker 2: shirt like a lot of kids do. And as I

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Speaker 2: was trying to move her because she was so weakened

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Speaker 2: by the chemo, the more upset she got. And I'm

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Speaker 2: thinking to myself, it shouldn't be like this. This is

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Speaker 2: too hard. She had wires, tubes, I mean, heart monitor,

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Speaker 2: central line, all these awful but necessary things that these

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Speaker 2: kids are attached to, and I just remember how traumatic

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Speaker 2: it was of an experience for me to try and

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Speaker 2: keep her clean. So that's where the idea sort of

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Speaker 2: originated from. Or wanted to find a way to help her,

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Speaker 2: and what progressed was, well, I think this is something

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Speaker 2: that we can apply to other kids as well, going

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Speaker 2: through similar battles.

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Speaker 1: Because it's a T shirt. And we'll get to what's

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Speaker 1: on the T shirt shortly, but it's a T shirt

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Speaker 1: that undoes very easily at the neck and down the

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Speaker 1: side easily removed.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So, as you mentioned on the trade so, I

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Speaker 2: have no prior experience of being in the textile industry.

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Speaker 2: So we tried everything velcro, zipper's, shoelace, ties, buttons. We

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Speaker 2: opted for small little plastic press studs on both sides

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Speaker 2: as you pointed out, and over one shoulder, a very

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Speaker 2: simple system.

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Speaker 1: So tell us about what's on them and the significance

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Speaker 1: and importance of that.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a superhero thing, and the superhero theme was

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Speaker 2: inspired by my son. My son's been a lot of

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Speaker 2: time away from Angela. She was going in and out

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Speaker 2: for treatments and scans and checkups. And one day as

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Speaker 2: I was watching him at home. He is a superhero fanatic,

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Speaker 2: and he came out of his bedroom dressed as Batman,

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Speaker 2: but he had this fierce look on his face like

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Speaker 2: he was he was you know, he meant business. And

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Speaker 2: I remember just jokingly saying, oh, you know, what are

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Speaker 2: we doing today, Batman? You know, cleaning the room or

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Speaker 2: you know who are we fighting, who we're saving today?

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Speaker 2: And he mentioned his sister's name, and that was so touching.

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Speaker 2: And the more I looked into that, there's something known

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Speaker 2: as the superhero effect, which is when a child dresses

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Speaker 2: feel like it. I mean, I didn't know how to

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Speaker 2: encourage Angela into believing that you know, she's strong and

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Speaker 2: that she's how to motivate a child, how to tell

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Speaker 2: the child to be brave when they've got no concept

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Speaker 2: of that. They're too young, they're too little, but they

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Speaker 2: can watch a superhero cartoon and they can understand, well

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Speaker 2: that superhero and brave dress that child up as a superhero,

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Speaker 2: they adopt that personality. They're now looking at things differently.

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Speaker 1: And this is where I hope we can help out,

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Speaker 1: because what Jason isn't saying is that he's not making

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Speaker 1: a cent from this either. Of course, this is all

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Speaker 1: what your mission to get these to the kids, And

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Speaker 1: what happens is that people donate to give these to

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Speaker 1: the hospital, or to give them to a family they know,

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Speaker 1: or just an anonymous donor. I'd like to buy ten

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Speaker 1: of them, distribute them as you can It's that kind

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Speaker 1: of thing, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely so. The point that we've reached now since launching

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Speaker 2: in June twenty eighteen is we help roughly about thirteen hospitals.

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Speaker 2: We are trying to reach fifteen thousand children, So there's

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Speaker 2: fifteen thousand super teas we want to get to every year.

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Speaker 2: That's that's the dream.

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Speaker 1: And you've got storage in your house which I know,

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Speaker 1: the living room sorting out.

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Speaker 2: You didn't come to me. I'm going to knocking out

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Speaker 2: and knock stuff up as well.

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Speaker 1: Go three kids? All right, Well, head to super dot

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Speaker 1: com dot au. If this touches your heart and if

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Speaker 1: this is something you'd like to help Jason with Jason,

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Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing the renovation when all that's complete. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, thank you so much for coming in today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Join the and Amanda good morning at one point seven.

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Speaker 2: Tell you