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Speaker 1: Well, sorry to see a Facebook post today put up

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Speaker 1: who has passed away at the age of ninety three.

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Speaker 1: Now do you remember Bob being on a late night

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Speaker 1: TV Bob Pachetti? Who was It was mid dawn, so

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Speaker 1: I think he was here on five Double A. There's

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Speaker 1: the old premises in Pulteney Court. Can't quite see the mic.

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Speaker 1: In fact, yes I can if I zoom in. No,

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Speaker 1: up a piece of paper that seems to have our

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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties nineteen nineties. His son Chris on the line, Chris,

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Speaker 1: but Jenny, good evening to you. Thank you for your

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you for that, Matthew. It's been a difficult

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Speaker 2: so many people remembering my dad. And he was a

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Speaker 2: major character in South Australia. And I'm actually talking to you.

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Speaker 2: You're calling me from his old stomping ground there at

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Speaker 1: It does look like our old studio, the old desk

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Speaker 1: but definitely is our old panel. So Chris, how did

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Speaker 2: Now, I was born. Our whole family was immigrated from

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Speaker 2: of eight and we're all still around. Two of them

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Speaker 1: So okay, from San fran how to hear what brought

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a different time of course, San Francisco

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how wonderful. Not many Americans here at that time,

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Speaker 2: Years, I don't I don't think there probably was a lot.

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Speaker 1: Good Italian Catholic, so exactly. Yeah, okay, so the media,

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Speaker 2: He was he was in real estate in the US,

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Speaker 2: And and the interesting thing is my dad, after working

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Speaker 1: How cool is that it was? So he did mid

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Speaker 2: A lot of people have been remembering listening to him,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he was on. Now I seek to recall

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. And you know what, if you'd said the

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Speaker 2: He loved people, he did, and he could talk to anyone,

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Speaker 1: Bob Bacchetti passing at the age of ninety three,