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Who's Tom & Dick

Not so much a Mini Challenge

Who's Tom & Dick

Patrick Mortimer & Martin Weavers

Cardiac Arrest, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Heart Attack, Medicine, Heart Disease, Hospice, Breast Cancer, Comedy, Stents, Cancer, Anxiety, Heart Failure, Lung Cancer, Comedy Interviews, Depression

5901 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Send us a text Season II - Episode 18 A very special guest today, we welcome a friend of Patrick going back 12 years to their meeting in the Racing Scene. Patrick met todays guest during his racing carer back in the day Pete Diamant a fellow competitor in the popular Mini Challenge national race series. Pete was diagnosed in April 2021 with Stage 4 Renal (Kidney) cancer and started IppiNivo Immunotherapy some six weeks later. Some later complications whilst receiving this treatment ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to Who's Tom and Dick, a weekly podcast with your hosts, Martin Weavers,

0:15.4

fighting states for lung cancer, and Patrick Mortimer, living with heart disease.

0:20.6

Why not grab yourself a cup of coffee?

0:22.7

Sit back and enjoy the chatter as we discuss and share information talking about tough subjects

0:28.7

and offering help, support and motivation with a positive mental attitude. Good morning, Martin.

0:34.8

Here we are. Friday again. I know. They soon come, don't they? You know, you never know. You think one day and think, oh my God, it's podcast day.

0:42.2

And I've learned so much in the last year about subjects I didn't know anything about, including my own, to be honest with you. Yeah. It's helped me, really. Yeah. Well, as I said, you know, we've had a wide variety. Too many to name

0:55.9

right now, but we've got someone who's got an illness very similar to me today, haven't we?

1:01.6

We have. A guy I met during my racing career, racing in the minis years ago, 10, 12 years ago now.

1:08.9

He's a very tall man and he raced a small mini.

1:12.3

It always amazed me how he got in.

1:14.3

But, yeah, Pete Demant.

1:16.9

Pete's joining us today and telling us all about his story with regards to renal cancer.

1:24.2

Ah, good, yep.

1:25.1

So today we've got a friend of mine who we met 10, 12 years ago on the mini circuit

1:31.5

in racing.

1:33.2

It always amazed me because Pete, as a very tall man, I'm not quite sure how tall he is,

1:37.6

but he used to get into this little mini and bomb around his track.

1:41.2

And then watching him get out again, I thought, well, he's sitting in the

1:44.4

back seat driving this car. So today I'd like to welcome to the podcast, Pete DeMant. Good

1:50.3

morning, Pete. Morning, Patrick. How are you doing? Good morning, Pete. Thank you for coming on the

1:54.8

podcast. Thank you very much for the invite. I really appreciate it. We've been doing this

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