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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nason.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I like to quote the great lyrics of Paul Kelly
from little Things, Big Things Grow and just organizing a
showbag for someone that's really not out about grasp, that's
something we can do.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Well, that's what we did.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
We got Debbie Ellis, got in touch with her with us.
She said her husband had been diagnosed with cancer not
that long ago, and he passed away on the seventeenth
of March, which is just a month ago. While he
was in hospital, she missed these to show obviously, and
her son, Christopher, he's thirty one, but he has autism
and has probably the middle age for about a five
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year old, wanted a showbag, and we said, of course
we can do that for you. In fact, we'd sold out,
but you guys stepped in and helped us, and we
got a showbag organized.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We've got two for Debbie and his line.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We've got pristine showbags as well. They're not some sort
of like secondhand show.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
No no, no, brand new showbags that hadn't been opened.
But we thought we can do more for deb and
we heard more of Deb's story, and so the story began.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And Debbie joins us right now. Hello, Debbie.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Oh, good morning, guys.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
We're great. This is easy for us to do.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And I know that you're the sort of person you
said you don't want to make a big deal about this,
but sometimes we're like the Amish without the barn and
the funny beard and the hat.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I've got a beard.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We know people.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
The thing that really touched us to Debbie because you
said that, in the midst of all of this, Christopher
and Michael are your step sons, but you've lived with
them and you've raised them, and now Christopher's sole Cara.
How hard that must be. And in the midst of
all your grief and all the stuff that comes with that,
you're trying to arrange NDIS help for him. So I
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don't know if you're listening to the show yesterday, but
Peter from Insight Care has called to say she's going
to get you into the NDIS, lift that weight from
your shoulders. She's got all the specialists involved and it's
going to be okay.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yes, thank you, I heard that. Yes, that was very
very touching. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
It must be such a relief and I can only
imagine what your household's been like in the last month,
with everyone's grief, trying to cook meals for everyone, trying
to arrange this and that, we thought we'd try and
do something nice for your deb.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
What are we going to do? Well, why don't you
send it to a fancy hotel.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Well, that's what we thought we'd do. You and the boys.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
We've got rooms for you at the Softoatel Darling Harbor
in Sydney, so the whole family can have a break,
get out of the house, maybe have a bit of
an energy shift.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know what else?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You know, you know where you've got to go and
eat at, because I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Cafe Sydney just over there near Customs House. You know that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
That's what we're doing for you.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We've got a five hundred dollar out of a Cafe Sydney,
one of Sydney's best restaurants. The three of you can
sit there, clink a glass and maybe smile a little
bit and just just have a meal that you haven't
had to cook yourself, and just shift things.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
A goop for your faces.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well of three hundred dollars in dough to s bar
voucher for you two.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Dead Thank you now.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Also, well, I know how hard it is, and I
know you are the sole care for Christopher. But down
the track when you feel you can take some respite
care and Christopher's okay and someone can look after him.
We've got a Hunter of Vlley trip away for you
and a friend, accommodation dinner pass for two to the
Hunter Valley Gardens, visit two hundred dollars put in a
visa card to spend up. So I know how important
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respite care can be. And I think you're going to
need some.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
It's quite the show back, but you're you're having a
tough time deb and if we can help in any way, we.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Will think of us as the Amish.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And also we know that Christopher is a big fan
of Lego, so we Hamish. Blake is going to be
joining us in a minute because he's got a surprise.
He's got a surprise for.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Christopher, So keep Christopher near the phone, so just hang
on the come back to you shortly put.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Your surprise pants on. To put your surprise pants on
stand by. You know what's great about a radio station.
You get to play hooters and you get to do
radio shows with your friends.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But from time to time to do good things.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well, we've just been talking to Debbie. We've been following
her story this week. All she was after was a showbag.
Her husband had passed away. She was in the hospital
during the Easter show. She wanted a showbag of ours.
When we drilled down a little bit on Deb's story,
she has two step children, one of whom is Michael,
who's thirty one, who has the mental age of like
a five year old. So she is his primary care
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doing all this on her own, and how tough that
must be. So we've been putting together a few bits
and pieces. We've taken the NDIS, we've provided her with
INDIS services, got sort of broken through the system for her,
which is great.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You've got full Ray Hadley on it by.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, this story has really touched me and I can
imagine how hard it is for deb So we've arranged
an energy shift for the family to stay in a
hotel to have lunch and then when time's right and
deb needs a respite care and she's got some look
after Christopher, she's got a weekend in the Hunter Valley
with a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, Debbie's still with us as well. And Debbie Christopher
is a huge, huge Lego.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Fan, isn't he Absolutely? He just loves it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Go and what does he build? Predominantly?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Oh, anything and everything. He's done the Big Ben, He's done, opera,
house piano, a music piano that plays. He's very very
twlever very good.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Amanda's son Jack was about ten. He was presented with
a Lego death Star.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He was obsessed with Lego. The death stary nearly killed him.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And I was tasked to help him build it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It was Gray on Gray on.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Gray twenty one in a couple of weeks, and the
Death Star has not been completed.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It is not a fully operational battle stage.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You still nag him about that. He's moved on, but
you haven't.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
You know who else loves Lego is Hamish Blake, who
happens to be the host of Lego Masters, and Hamish
joins us. Now Hello Hamish, Hello, good morning, I am hey.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Yeah, Hi Hi.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
If anyone knows a Lego it's you, Hamish. Meet deb
who is the mother of Christopher.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Debbie.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
How high?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
How are you? Good things?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
I'm lovely, I mean, I'm just I've got idea I
have had have a little bit the heads up about
your situation and Christopher's. I've got to say, admirable love
for Lego. May I commend you on?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Is there something in particular, Hamish that you might be
able to do for Christopher?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I appreciate that, am a good alleu. There is actually
as I said that, we yes, we heard about we
heard about the situation, we heard about Christpher's love and
the people. I mean, I can't take all of the
for this, although I'll try to take the lion's share.
But everybody at Lego Master's and Lego at Australia, we
we thought, is there something we can do? Is there
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something special we can get Christopher? And we know he's
a fan of the architect type Lego of the architecture
sets that that stream of Lego. So we have got
something exclusively from Lego coming his way.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Oh my god, you will love that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
What is it, Hamish? You're allowed to give us a peak,
sneak peek.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
I look, it's going to depend with something Brickman in
hand selecting it may even it may even come with
the Brickman signature. If that's something, well, that's something.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That well you know what I reckon to be really cool.
I saw that Harry Potter Castle thing. Have you seen that?
That thing is amazing?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yeah? Yeah, let's just try and change it that he's
coming from the architecture things if you want.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
We can.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Not often in these moments. Do you have That's great? Hey?
Actually because I might just change it over. But we
do have something come with the architecture range. But if
there's something else that he's got his heart set on,
we can also sort that out.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So something from the architecture range, don't nderstamble what kind
of thing like would he make the Eiffel Tower? Is
that what the architecture range is?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
I mean you can there is an Eiffel Tower, There's
there's everything from you know, like basically every famous building
in the world. You're able to you're able to recreate it.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, I reckon he's going to love that.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Hamish, thank you, particularly if it can be signed from Brickman,
that'd be brilliant.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
And I can sign it to.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Don't worry just brick Can you sign every brick of it?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Such a big probably won't be room for me.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now you've heard Hamish mate, can you sign every brick
for us with that? That would be nice. I know
you're not that busy.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I'm not that busy, you mate.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We really appreciate it because Lego Masters is going so great.
We've been watching that, Debbie, the Australia versus the World, Hamish,
I wanted to ask you, how good are we versus
everyone else when it comes to Lego Are we that good?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
We're good? I mean the Australian Lego Masters is regarded
as the hardest in the world. So in the sense
that we've got the harvest show, I would say our
contestants the best, the best show in the world. But
having said that, some of the finational teams they're also
very good. I mean, that's all we're doing.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, well, I imagine the Germans would be good because
they're very methodical.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Germans are amazing. I mean, I love all our international teams,
but I do have a particular sweet spot, a soft
spot for Felix and an Alna because A they're hilarious.
B they're very very good at building and kind of
like the fact that they sometimes just barely tolerate me.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Well, they're known for their sense of humor.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
The Germans, I mean, I just in their eyes when
I'm over at their bench, like trying to muck around
with them. They're like, all right, funny man, we're kind
of busy.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Dumkoff is not a compliment, it's not, but I'm getting
a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I've just heard that we have a thousand dollars voucher
from when they go certified stores coming for Christopher. So yes,
you're going to get something from the architecture range. Please
give Christopher our best a thousand dollars voucher for him
to go and pick whatever you'd like as well.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And make sure.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Everyone is watching Lego Masters is Ravers of the World
this Sunday at seven only on nine and nine Now, Hamish,
thank you for joining us.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Thank you, You're a legend.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Carry on.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Thank you Hamish and Deb. I know you contacted us
just for a showbag, but our hearts. Everyone has responded
to your story and I hope this puts a smile
on your face and Christopher's too.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
It has so much immensely you wouldn't believe it. Thank
you all w S FM and joining Amana and the
Showbags show.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That is our other name. Well, Deb, we'll keep in touch, Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Thank you very much, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Thank you that's what it's about.