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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Viral video is going out about some of the huge

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Speaker 2: paypackets that ossie traders are getting at the moment, which

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Speaker 2: is great, which we need. We need people to go

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Speaker 2: into trades in the industry. It is struggling a little

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Speaker 2: bit as well. There's certain areas, but there is some

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Speaker 2: good money to be made. But it's unbelievable. These girls

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Speaker 2: just went around the street and were just asking people

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Speaker 2: what they got paid. A majority of them were trades.

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Speaker 2: Have I listened to this.

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Speaker 3: I'm a plumber.

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Speaker 1: I get paid about forty to forty five bucks an hour.

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Speaker 2: I'm a second year carpentry apprentice after tax about eleven

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Speaker 2: hundred a week.

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Speaker 3: I'm a concrete pumper and I make about thirteen hundred

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Speaker 3: a week.

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Speaker 1: I'm a scaffolder and I make one point five kre week.

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Speaker 4: I'm an auto electrician and a diesel fitter.

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Speaker 1: I make about one hundred and twenty a year.

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Speaker 2: I'm a diesel fitter by trade, work on heavy earth

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Speaker 2: moving equipment, one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty.

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Speaker 1: Hour feeding and machining in the mind and between one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one hundred and forty thousand.

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Speaker 3: I'm a scaffolder and I make about three grand a

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Speaker 3: week after attacks. I am a coleminer and I make

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Speaker 3: about one hundred and sixty thousand a year.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about the scaffolder because I didn't

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Speaker 2: know scaffolders make that much.

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Speaker 3: So he loaded.

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Speaker 2: That guy went on to say, I was working at

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Speaker 2: Macas and a made of mine who was a scaffolder,

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Speaker 2: got me involved and he goes, I love the physical work.

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Speaker 2: Now he takes home three thousand dollars a week.

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Speaker 5: Kate, I've got to.

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Speaker 3: Know what you're doing. A lot of regulation in scaffolding.

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Speaker 5: Yes, you can be quite dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Someone said why putting Why does putting up some metal

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Speaker 2: framing pay so much? And another one replied because it's

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Speaker 2: a horrible job that destroys your body. It's a tough

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Speaker 2: job all it is. And there's a lot of trades

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Speaker 2: out there. You look at brick layers as well. I

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Speaker 2: mean they get paid good money back though back, but

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Speaker 2: see they this is the thing now I think coming

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Speaker 2: in at top spot. Boiler makers get an average income

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Speaker 2: of one hundred and twelve thousand. Electricians get ninety six

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Speaker 2: thousand and plumbers are right behind him on ninety five.

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Speaker 2: That's just average. Now if you go out on your own,

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Speaker 2: there's more money to me. What you want to focus

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Speaker 2: on this morning, and that's great, it is thriving. I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about people over quoting and did you

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Speaker 2: receive a ridiculous quote? Because the reason I was watching that.

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Speaker 2: So how's this the other day? We need to get

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Speaker 2: a little there's a wall that we found out a

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Speaker 2: couple of people have been jumping, so we need to

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Speaker 2: get a tiny little fence that needs to be put

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Speaker 2: on the top of the wall cape so people can't

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Speaker 2: jump this wall next to our house.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so it's a bit higher. You're erasing the height

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Speaker 6: of it.

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Speaker 2: It would be I reckon around about three to four

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Speaker 2: meters long. Now, obviously it's a little fin It doesn't

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Speaker 2: have to be a big one. We just needed deter

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Speaker 2: people getting over the walls.

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Speaker 5: A brickwork or timberwork.

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Speaker 2: No, it's just a steel fence. So it'll be slats

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Speaker 2: of steel. We'll go there and it will deter them

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Speaker 2: jumping the fence. It needs to be custom made. I

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Speaker 2: understand that. But when you get a quote for twenty

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Speaker 2: eight pow.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, I honestly know it's fitzy.

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Speaker 2: So I then asked around and this is the best

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Speaker 2: thing about trades, because everyone has friends that would know

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Speaker 2: someone or went to school with someone who is in

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Speaker 2: a trade. Finally got to a guy who looked after me.

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Speaker 2: He came and quoted it and he did the job

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Speaker 2: for three thousand.

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Speaker 6: That is unbelievable, from twenty to three thousand.

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Speaker 3: Did you call the guy that gave you the twenty

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Speaker 3: eight quote and go can you explain this?

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Speaker 2: I was fuming because and then at the moment we're

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Speaker 2: we're in a tough spot at the moment as well,

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Speaker 2: because they can put these quotes out there. They don't

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Speaker 2: want to do the job, No they don't. It's a

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Speaker 2: bonus if they get it. And it's unfortunately that everyday

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Speaker 2: Australians need some of these jobs done and the elderly

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Speaker 2: would just usually go okay, well you can take my

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Speaker 2: life savings and I need to get this done.

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Speaker 3: That's the thing. It's like, if you want a job

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Speaker 3: done prior to Christmas, all the traders will just price

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Speaker 3: themselves out of it unless you pick up the job.

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Speaker 3: So you go, well, if they want it, they're going

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Speaker 3: to have to pay for at.

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Speaker 6: A time, and then they will come and do it

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Speaker 6: on a Saturday or a Sunday if they're getting paid

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Speaker 6: ten times as much as.

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Speaker 5: They usually, because that's what that is. Fits. This is

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Speaker 5: a twenty eight thousand from three.

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Speaker 3: Mate. I've got a block drain pipe downpipe at the moment,

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Speaker 3: and I rang one of.

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Speaker 5: These feeling okay, yes, is that what the grumbling is?

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Speaker 3: Musil as well, so soundblocks, that's what it is. So anyway,

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Speaker 3: I rang one of the well known plumbing games. I

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Speaker 3: won't mention their name, and they sent me a quote

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Speaker 3: which was over five hundred dollars. Now, what they said

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Speaker 3: was we'll stick a camera down the downpipe so we

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Speaker 3: can have a look down and I went, that's great news.

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Speaker 3: I don't like from a consumer's point of it. I

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Speaker 3: don't care how you fix it. Fix it. They then said,

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Speaker 3: the great news is once we've cleared it, we can

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Speaker 3: then put the camera back down there to show you

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Speaker 3: it's cleared and give you a copy of that. Guys,

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Speaker 3: I'm in my spare time. I will not be sitting

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Speaker 3: at home to see what the camera look like going

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Speaker 3: down the downpipe.

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Speaker 2: Well, you just showed us a video that you kept

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Speaker 2: from sicily over overlooking some yachts and eatings.

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Speaker 5: That's completely it's so different.

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Speaker 6: But what are you going to do it comes to

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Speaker 6: Saturday night? Are you going to watch saltburn again?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 5: Watch the video of the empire the camera up down?

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Speaker 3: My god? Do you know what? I went and bought

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Speaker 3: a harness for twenty seven dollars from Buddings and I

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Speaker 3: went and did it myself.

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Speaker 5: No, you did it Tommy.

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Speaker 2: You got a harness for his fortieth day as well.

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Speaker 3: Mum wasn't leather.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about trade's at the moment, and obviously you

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Speaker 2: can earn some good corning coin, but there are some oath,

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Speaker 2: there's some overquoting that's going on in the industry at

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Speaker 2: the moment. What was the koait that you received, Rachel

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Speaker 2: and Snives?

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Speaker 5: What did you get? Roach?

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Speaker 1: Hey?

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Speaker 4: Guys, we got a quote for two new jip rock

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Speaker 4: walls in our apartments for five and a half grand

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Speaker 4: and that was a discounted quote through my husband's building company.

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Speaker 3: Two walls, so just jip rock studded.

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Speaker 1: Walls, yep, eight pieces.

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Speaker 2: Did you work out how much the eight pieces of

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Speaker 2: jip rock was Earth and how much they are slinging

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Speaker 2: you for the labor.

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Speaker 4: Well, my husband reckons he could have done it for

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Speaker 4: two two and a half.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Rach, get it. I mean unless it's something like

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Speaker 3: you know, electrical work, where you need to have somebody

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Speaker 3: that's registered to do it. I reckon you jump on

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Speaker 3: YouTube and actually.

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Speaker 5: That is such an insult to training.

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Speaker 3: And next thing, you know, Now.

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Speaker 6: Do you know what I want to call Rach, what

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Speaker 6: I want to ask Rach about those If your husband

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Speaker 6: saying he could have done it for two and a half,

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Speaker 6: then why didn't.

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Speaker 4: He Well he did the framing and the demolishing, but

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Speaker 4: he didn't want to do the standing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah and a half? Lynn in Sylvania, have you been

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Speaker 2: ripped off by tradey?

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Speaker 6: Lynn?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look my parents and it's really quite sad. My

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Speaker 1: parents have been married for sixty six years. And you

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Speaker 1: know the double story house, you know, the dream home.

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Speaker 1: And I just happened to be going passed one day

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Speaker 1: after work. I'm an early child, and I say a

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Speaker 1: guy in their roof and I put it in. I say,

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Speaker 1: where's the guy in the roof? Oh, you know, you

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Speaker 1: just happened to be going past. And he said, we've

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Speaker 1: got practice some of our tiles and he's up there

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Speaker 1: and he's six to them and I said, well, what

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Speaker 1: how much you pay? Only five thousand cash? I was

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Speaker 1: paying five thousand dollars cash and I went and I said, Mum,

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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. That's one of those cans to get it

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Speaker 1: getting down. You know, you don't know about that. No,

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Speaker 1: he's fine anyway, So he did the job, got the

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Speaker 1: little five thousand dollars at a little kid. And they're

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Speaker 1: not doing it easy, doing it tough. And I'm a

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Speaker 1: bit emotional because I've got a dad in the hospital

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Speaker 1: at the moment. You need to look after your parents

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Speaker 1: when you know things are getting tough, and you need

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Speaker 1: to put him in the homes and needs the money.

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Speaker 1: That could have been, of course a long story thought,

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Speaker 1: is it not do anything? He actually damaged tiles and

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Speaker 1: then we had to get someone else out because the

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Speaker 1: possum got in the roof. Because he actually damaged tiles.

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Speaker 1: Then we had to get some back in the child

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Speaker 1: more money.

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Speaker 2: On top of that, the Irish rufers they've been going

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Speaker 2: around doing that quite a bit as well.

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Speaker 1: Now are trade and they would never do anything like

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Speaker 1: that people, So there's good tradinges out there. Believe me.

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Speaker 6: Maybe just don't ant and never answer the knock on

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Speaker 6: the door. But you're right, people like you, Mum and Dad,

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Speaker 6: they just they wouldn't because their own grandsons would never

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Speaker 6: do anything like that. They just wouldn't imagine that anyone

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Speaker 6: else would.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't get their grandsons because they think they're busy

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And I'm busy, but it's just

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Speaker 1: so annoying, you know, and the money that you know

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Speaker 1: they need.

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Speaker 3: Now, of course, what you do there is you you

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Speaker 3: organize some some concrete and you go and dump it

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Speaker 3: in the block. Strive your horsehead.

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Speaker 2: That starts a war house, isn't that?

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Speaker 3: Sorry about that? Bad advice. Kate Ritchie is an over

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