Latest / 360 with Katie Woolf / Katie Woolf spoke with 9 Year Old Alice Herraman who will be shaving her head for a cure!
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf thanks to Joyce Main dowin
- 0:04Speaker 1: homes Own Stuart Highway, Berrima.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Well, you are listening to Mix one O four point
- 0:08Speaker 2: nine is three sixty. And I tell you what, I
- 0:12Speaker 2: absolutely love hearing about Territorians doing great things. And I
- 0:17Speaker 2: am so excited because my next guest this morning is
- 0:21Speaker 2: a young lady who's doing something that I think is
- 0:25Speaker 2: absolutely amazing. She's nine years old. Her name is Alice
- 0:31Speaker 2: Harriman and she joins me in the studio right now.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Good morning, Alice, Katie.
- 0:37Speaker 1: It's so good to have you in the studio.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Now.
- 0:40Speaker 1: You're nine years old, aren't you.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, can you tell me what you've decided to
- 0:47Speaker 2: do for a good course.
- 0:49Speaker 3: I'm doing the world's greatest shave for the Laquina Foundation.
- 0:55Speaker 1: That is amazing.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Now, Alice, you have got utiful blonde, curly hair.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Are you going to be shaving that hair off?
- 1:05Speaker 3: Yes?
- 1:05Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that is so cool. Why have you
- 1:10Speaker 1: decided to do that?
- 1:12Speaker 3: Well, it shouldn't be fair that they have to have
- 1:17Speaker 3: like a cancer. They didn't really do anything wrong. And
- 1:21Speaker 3: my papa has licinia and my poppy has lymphoma, which
- 1:26Speaker 3: are both types of blood cancer.
- 1:28Speaker 2: They are both types of blood cancer. And what's it
- 1:32Speaker 2: like for you knowing that your poppy has well? That
- 1:36Speaker 2: so is it both of them? Is it your pop
- 1:38Speaker 2: and your poppy?
- 1:39Speaker 3: Well, my poppy doesn't have it anymore, and my papa's
- 1:42Speaker 3: doing really well. He just needs to watch what he eats.
- 1:47Speaker 2: That's I'm so glad that they're doing really well. It
- 1:50Speaker 2: must have been hard for you knowing that they've got
- 1:53Speaker 2: those types of blood cancer. Yeah, and is that why
- 1:56Speaker 2: you thought to yourself, do you know what, I'm going
- 1:58Speaker 2: to shave my head to support them? Yes, you're such
- 2:03Speaker 2: a legend. That is such a good thing to do.
- 2:06Speaker 2: How are they both feeling about you shaving your hair?
- 2:10Speaker 3: And they really pattern mean they are supporting me?
- 2:14Speaker 1: Did they make a big donation?
- 2:16Speaker 2: Did they?
- 2:19Speaker 1: Now?
- 2:19Speaker 2: We actually want other Territorians to donate to you as well,
- 2:22Speaker 2: don't we. So I'm guessing that they can probably jump
- 2:26Speaker 2: on the World's Greatest Shave website and we might get
- 2:29Speaker 2: all those details off mum after we finish this interview. Now,
- 2:33Speaker 2: are you frightened about shaving your hair at all?
- 2:36Speaker 1: A bit?
- 2:36Speaker 3: Because I have a little substantion might forget who I am?
- 2:40Speaker 1: Oh, how could she ever forget who you are? I reckon,
- 2:43Speaker 1: she'll remember.
- 2:44Speaker 2: She could never forget that beautiful face and that amazing
- 2:48Speaker 2: voice that you've Gosh, can you make sure you send
- 2:51Speaker 2: me some photos when you do this, Akay?
- 2:54Speaker 1: I would love to see them.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Are you going to be shaving your head at school
- 2:58Speaker 2: or where are you.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Going to do it?
- 3:00Speaker 3: I'm doing it at school, are you?
- 3:03Speaker 1: How are all your classmates feeling about this?
- 3:06Speaker 3: They're supporting me as well.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Oh, this is so cool.
- 3:11Speaker 2: You're seriously the coolest person I've spoken to today, if
- 3:14Speaker 2: not all week, if not all ye are I'm so
- 3:17Speaker 2: proud of the fact that you're doing this. I reckon,
- 3:19Speaker 2: it's just amazing. Now, how much money have you raised
- 3:23Speaker 2: so far?
- 3:24Speaker 3: I've raised one thousand and seven hundred and sixty and
- 3:29Speaker 3: twelve cents.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that is so cool. How much do
- 3:34Speaker 1: you want to get to?
- 3:35Speaker 3: I'm aiming for two thousand by this Friday.
- 3:39Speaker 1: That is amazing. Now, when is the big shave happening?
- 3:42Speaker 3: It's this Friday.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait to see.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Now, you've got to make sure that you get mum
- 3:48Speaker 2: to take a video and take some photos as well,
- 3:51Speaker 2: because I really want to see how this goes.
- 3:53Speaker 1: But you should be so proud.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Of yourself doing this, and you know, raising money and
- 3:59Speaker 2: raising a wienner for the Lakemia Foundation.
- 4:02Speaker 1: They do an incredible job, don't they.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so excited to see how your hair looks.
- 4:09Speaker 1: I think you're gonna look so cool. Do you reckon?
- 4:12Speaker 1: You could color it as well, put a bit of
- 4:13Speaker 1: pink in there or something?
- 4:14Speaker 2: Well, yeah, maybe, Alice, thank you so much for coming
- 4:21Speaker 2: in and talking to me today.
- 4:23Speaker 1: I really appreciate it.
- 4:24Speaker 2: And I bet that both of your granddads are so
- 4:28Speaker 2: proud of you, and they must just think that you're
- 4:31Speaker 2: an amazing kid.
- 4:33Speaker 1: What do you reckon?
- 4:34Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 4:35Speaker 2: Oh?
- 4:35Speaker 1: Good on you. Is this your first time on the radio?
- 4:38Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh, I think you might have a career in radio.
- 4:41Speaker 2: What do you want to be when you grow up?
- 4:44Speaker 3: A manual?
- 4:45Speaker 2: Religious, a meteorologist and mineral Oh my goodness, that sounds
- 4:50Speaker 2: like a cool job.
- 4:51Speaker 1: So you're going to study science maybe?
- 4:53Speaker 3: Yeah? Look, and minerals?
- 4:55Speaker 2: That is so cool. Good on you. Well, I have
- 4:58Speaker 2: loved speaking to you this morning. Thank you so much
- 5:01Speaker 2: for coming in. We're going to share that link so
- 5:03Speaker 2: that other people can donate as well. For what is
- 5:06Speaker 2: an incredible cause that I know so many people here
- 5:09Speaker 2: in the Northern Territory get impacted by. Thank you, Alice
- 5:13Speaker 2: wel Ken. Good to see you in this studio and
- 5:16Speaker 2: all the best. I can't wait to see how your
- 5:18Speaker 2: hair looks.
- 5:20Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 5:21Speaker 1: That's all right, what a little legend, I tell you.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Wash. Like I said, I love meeting great Territorians and
- 5:30Speaker 2: hearing from little Alice this morning is just amazing. Nine
- 5:33Speaker 2: years old and she is shaving her head for an
- 5:36Speaker 2: amazing cause, one which impacts so many Territorians.