October 16, 2025 • 10 mins
It's Feel Good Friday and Lisa and Russell had an update from Mel from Eoodbridge about her litter of kittens plus Little Telethon Star Nate and his mum Kellie came in for a visit to tell us how we can make Telethon bigger and better this year and how the money raised has helped their family.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We need feel good Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Seventy years after starting her studies, Marriette McFarland from Londonderry
was finally able to graduate from university seventy years in
the making. She got a degree in English literature. She's
ninety years old.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Her story is one of Determination's patients and a little.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Bit of help from her friends push us.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Started university in Dublin back in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
But then she got married.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Life got in the way and blah blahlah blah blah
blah jumped forward and she went back and at ninety
years old she's a graduate.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That should be inspiration to us because we're learning something
later in life. Yes, you're learning golf. I'm learning to
speak Spanish. No excuses, no.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Soever. Brian in Linwood, what's your good news for the week?
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Morning? Brian, Morning on Birchond like prent Points this morning, yesterday,
few days off work and yes, absolutely George standing here
this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Nice he started his weekend early, right, We're a little envious.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
I had a Wenesday off work as well as the
appointment and touched up to the bosom and could go
next days off and wrangle it, and so looks just
the afternoon and just came down, all his dog down,
and George same here this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh good, Oh you just th stuff and I'm out
of here.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I'm pointing.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Brian. We'll have a good weekend, Brian, Brian, I hope you,
hope you catch turn.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
It into a feel good weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Absolutely, wretch it out, stretch it out.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yes, you know when we started doing feel good Friday
is a wonderful way to wrap up the week.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
A few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think our very first contributor was Melon Woodridge, who
told us the sorry about how the night before she
had rescued a cat who was pregnant, rushed it off
to the vet to have its kittens.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And Mel's on the line now with.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
A full circle moment to the story. Hi Mel, morning, Mel,
Hi rush, Hi Lisa. What's happened with the kittens?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Well, the vet took them off to the cat haven,
the wonderful people at the cat haven, and she had seven,
seven kittens and yeah they have like someone was fostering
them out because I was unable to do it because
I had to have two hourly feeds. Yes, yeah, in
(02:38):
case the mom couldn't keep up with it, and now
they've all been like sterilized and going out to good homes.
And my daughter and her best friend have gone and
picked one up.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And you've said through a photo, she's coious. You were
saying you think dad might have been a Russian blue
because she's definitely.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Got that look about her. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, well like most of them.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I think five out of the seven were the same
color as her, the bluey color, yeah, and the other
two were yeah, like you know, a Shelly Moggie kind
of color.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, So the good news continues.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That's gorgeous. And did you say there's still three left?
I'm not allowed to have one, but yeah, there is
a limit. I've reached mine, but there are three lefts
still if anyone can adopt.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
One, arel thinking about maybe Barrens.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Family might feel like getting a cat.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Might run past.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yes for the suggestion to it, Mal, thanks for keeping
his stuff dated.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Worries.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, it's an extra feel good Friday because it's Telethon weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's a feel good weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It is a feel good weekend, the most feel good
of all weekends in this town.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And we're very.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Support this morning because we've got last year's all Telethon start,
Nate joining us and his mum Kelly.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Good morning, Good morning, how are you, Nate.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You've got the headphones on, you've got your best radio
voice happening.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You're good to go.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
I'm very excited to be on here.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
We're excited to have you. So it's been a year.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
How how was the experience for you at Telephone last year?
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Yeah it was, Yeah, it was awesome. I got to
meet very cool people like Hamilton and uh I got
to meet Rob Palmer. Yes, I got to go on
the panel with Amilton and I I I got to
(04:53):
we got at the end of last year. We have
like concert and me and at Melton were dancing together and.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Clearly and has had a bit of an impression on you.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You're a bit of a super fan of man typed
by the sounds of.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
It, and uh I was.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I went to see the bloom Fat Cat.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And also of course you, with a little bit of
help from the others, raised eighty three million dollars, so
that was a pretty impressive amount of.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Yeah, it was. I've never seen that much money.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That much money.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I hear a rumor that you might be hanging out
with Dr Chris Brown this Sunday? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah? Can you?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Can you get Lisa a meet and great because Lisa
is like a big fan Brown friend.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
I'm sitting on the couch with my dog Roxy from
telsone and Kelpies for Kids. Okay, okay owner Austin.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah and.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Wait, and I'm going to be sitting on the casual
Doctor Chris Brown.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Okay, Well, if there's any more room on the couch,
I can bring my dog to Kelly.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Tell us how Telethon has helped your family.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
We've had a long journey with Nate medically. So originally
we had a lot of in hospital supports from a
lot of the Telethon beneficiaries, and then as our hospital
stays finally became less and we moved down into the community,
we now get the help of a lot of the
Telethon beneficiaries to help Nate with his sort of physical
side of it, which has been amazing just to see
(06:40):
the development from where we've come from to where he's
at now, and also just the things that he's got
to do because of Telethon that we would never have
had the opportunity to do before.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What are some of the goals and dreams you know
that you have for the next few years now that
you've been the little Telethon star and well let's place
it still are.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Dreams.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
What would you like to do?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
I'd like to get out of my wheelchair and walk
around a little bit and like get out of my
physical stuff for a bit.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, a bit of a break.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Yeah yeah, and just act like a normal person.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You are, Like you're the most normal person I've met today.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Look at these people I work with.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Like as in like no, no, no, no disabilitings.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
No, no wheelchair. And that's why that's a drag.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's why people donate to Telethon to help make that
dream come true.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, and you do lots of I mean the being
a Telethon star was just the beginning. You do lots
of work, don't you, with different groups like Healthy Strides
and hard kids.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You're very busy.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, i am. I'm just breathing.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's taking a deep breath.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
When you pointed out how swimming, Yes exactly, I'm just
I've been I've been working to swim and stuff and
have you. I've been working to like make me good
at swim swimming.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah. Yeah, well that's good Nate.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I hear you're an Eagles man. Oh yeah, you're doing
something with them later today, Is that true?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Yeah, I'm getting to uh, I'm going to see them again,
spend some time with them, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Could you give them a little pep talk? Mate?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They need a little need a little boost, they need
a motivation, Come on, Eagles.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Exactly. I think they need some words from you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They need they need a pep talk from you. Note Hey, Nate,
thank you so much and Kelly for coming in this morning.
It is a big weekend, as it has been for
so many years in Perth, the telethon weekend. Let's see
if we can beat that eighty three point three million
dollars that we heard last week. Do you reckon we
can get to eighty four or more?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah? More than that, I reckon.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
I know what you get to one hundred and ninety
three dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
That would be amaz That is a goal.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, one three hundred and seven three seven five o
seven is the number to call anytime over the telethon
a weekend.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You know, from from seven o'clock and through toll whatever.
However late they are.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
They say, eight thirty. But you know they keep it going,
don't they.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Really nice of you to join us, Nate.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's over to you wa to raise that one hundred
and ninety million dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yes, exactly, big expectations and we're there for it.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Thank you for having me
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Welcome, thanks for coming in, and thank you Kelly and
everybody this weekend for telethone, please give
We need feel good Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Seventy years after starting her studies, Marriette McFarland from Londonderry
was finally able to graduate from university seventy years in
the making. She got a degree in English literature. She's
ninety years old.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Her story is one of Determination's patients and a little.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Bit of help from her friends push us.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Started university in Dublin back in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
But then she got married.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Life got in the way and blah blahlah blah blah
blah jumped forward and she went back and at ninety
years old she's a graduate.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That should be inspiration to us because we're learning something
later in life. Yes, you're learning golf. I'm learning to
speak Spanish. No excuses, no.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Soever. Brian in Linwood, what's your good news for the week?
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Morning? Brian, Morning on Birchond like prent Points this morning, yesterday,
few days off work and yes, absolutely George standing here
this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Nice he started his weekend early, right, We're a little envious.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
I had a Wenesday off work as well as the
appointment and touched up to the bosom and could go
next days off and wrangle it, and so looks just
the afternoon and just came down, all his dog down,
and George same here this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh good, Oh you just th stuff and I'm out
of here.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I'm pointing.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Brian. We'll have a good weekend, Brian, Brian, I hope you,
hope you catch turn.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
It into a feel good weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Absolutely, wretch it out, stretch it out.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yes, you know when we started doing feel good Friday
is a wonderful way to wrap up the week.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
A few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think our very first contributor was Melon Woodridge, who
told us the sorry about how the night before she
had rescued a cat who was pregnant, rushed it off
to the vet to have its kittens.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
And Mel's on the line now with.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
A full circle moment to the story. Hi Mel, morning, Mel,
Hi rush, Hi Lisa. What's happened with the kittens?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Well, the vet took them off to the cat haven,
the wonderful people at the cat haven, and she had seven,
seven kittens and yeah they have like someone was fostering
them out because I was unable to do it because
I had to have two hourly feeds. Yes, yeah, in
(02:38):
case the mom couldn't keep up with it, and now
they've all been like sterilized and going out to good homes.
And my daughter and her best friend have gone and
picked one up.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And you've said through a photo, she's coious. You were
saying you think dad might have been a Russian blue
because she's definitely.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Got that look about her. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, well like most of them.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I think five out of the seven were the same
color as her, the bluey color, yeah, and the other
two were yeah, like you know, a Shelly Moggie kind
of color.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, So the good news continues.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
That's gorgeous. And did you say there's still three left?
I'm not allowed to have one, but yeah, there is
a limit. I've reached mine, but there are three lefts
still if anyone can adopt.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
One, arel thinking about maybe Barrens.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Family might feel like getting a cat.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Might run past.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yes for the suggestion to it, Mal, thanks for keeping
his stuff dated.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Worries.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, it's an extra feel good Friday because it's Telethon weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's a feel good weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It is a feel good weekend, the most feel good
of all weekends in this town.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And we're very.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Support this morning because we've got last year's all Telethon start,
Nate joining us and his mum Kelly.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Good morning, Good morning, how are you, Nate.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You've got the headphones on, you've got your best radio
voice happening.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You're good to go.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
I'm very excited to be on here.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
We're excited to have you. So it's been a year.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
How how was the experience for you at Telephone last year?
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Yeah it was, Yeah, it was awesome. I got to
meet very cool people like Hamilton and uh I got
to meet Rob Palmer. Yes, I got to go on
the panel with Amilton and I I I got to
(04:53):
we got at the end of last year. We have
like concert and me and at Melton were dancing together and.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Clearly and has had a bit of an impression on you.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You're a bit of a super fan of man typed
by the sounds of.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
It, and uh I was.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I went to see the bloom Fat Cat.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh okay.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And also of course you, with a little bit of
help from the others, raised eighty three million dollars, so
that was a pretty impressive amount of.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Yeah, it was. I've never seen that much money.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
That much money.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I hear a rumor that you might be hanging out
with Dr Chris Brown this Sunday? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah? Can you?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Can you get Lisa a meet and great because Lisa
is like a big fan Brown friend.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
I'm sitting on the couch with my dog Roxy from
telsone and Kelpies for Kids. Okay, okay owner Austin.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah and.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Wait, and I'm going to be sitting on the casual
Doctor Chris Brown.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Okay, Well, if there's any more room on the couch,
I can bring my dog to Kelly.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Tell us how Telethon has helped your family.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
We've had a long journey with Nate medically. So originally
we had a lot of in hospital supports from a
lot of the Telethon beneficiaries, and then as our hospital
stays finally became less and we moved down into the community,
we now get the help of a lot of the
Telethon beneficiaries to help Nate with his sort of physical
side of it, which has been amazing just to see
(06:40):
the development from where we've come from to where he's
at now, and also just the things that he's got
to do because of Telethon that we would never have
had the opportunity to do before.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What are some of the goals and dreams you know
that you have for the next few years now that
you've been the little Telethon star and well let's place
it still are.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Dreams.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
What would you like to do?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
I'd like to get out of my wheelchair and walk
around a little bit and like get out of my
physical stuff for a bit.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, a bit of a break.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Yeah yeah, and just act like a normal person.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You are, Like you're the most normal person I've met today.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Look at these people I work with.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Like as in like no, no, no, no disabilitings.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
No, no wheelchair. And that's why that's a drag.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's why people donate to Telethon to help make that
dream come true.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, and you do lots of I mean the being
a Telethon star was just the beginning. You do lots
of work, don't you, with different groups like Healthy Strides
and hard kids.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You're very busy.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, i am. I'm just breathing.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's taking a deep breath.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
When you pointed out how swimming, Yes exactly, I'm just
I've been I've been working to swim and stuff and
have you. I've been working to like make me good
at swim swimming.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah. Yeah, well that's good Nate.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I hear you're an Eagles man. Oh yeah, you're doing
something with them later today, Is that true?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Yeah, I'm getting to uh, I'm going to see them again,
spend some time with them, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Could you give them a little pep talk? Mate?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They need a little need a little boost, they need
a motivation, Come on, Eagles.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Exactly. I think they need some words from you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They need they need a pep talk from you. Note Hey, Nate,
thank you so much and Kelly for coming in this morning.
It is a big weekend, as it has been for
so many years in Perth, the telethon weekend. Let's see
if we can beat that eighty three point three million
dollars that we heard last week. Do you reckon we
can get to eighty four or more?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah? More than that, I reckon.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
I know what you get to one hundred and ninety
three dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
That would be amaz That is a goal.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, one three hundred and seven three seven five o
seven is the number to call anytime over the telethon
a weekend.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You know, from from seven o'clock and through toll whatever.
However late they are.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
They say, eight thirty. But you know they keep it going,
don't they.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Really nice of you to join us, Nate.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's over to you wa to raise that one hundred
and ninety million dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yes, exactly, big expectations and we're there for it.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Thank you for having me
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Welcome, thanks for coming in, and thank you Kelly and
everybody this weekend for telethone, please give
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