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Speaker 1: Busy.

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Speaker 2: We love this man.

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Speaker 1: You can catch him every morning on the Morning show

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Speaker 1: on Channel seven at nine o'clock.

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Speaker 2: It is the magnificent Larier.

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Speaker 3: Magnificent.

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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Only way to describe it.

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Speaker 6: Lad's great news too, because Francesca around your baby is

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Speaker 6: around six months old, so not too long ago till

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Speaker 6: she can come on your show on the morning show

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Speaker 6: and just start smashing up the light box on the

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Speaker 6: table and everything the kids do.

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Speaker 7: What is it with you, guys? Whenever you come on

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Speaker 7: to the morning show, it is just chaos. It's great TV,

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Speaker 7: but it's a huge mess.

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Speaker 4: Why do you invite their kids on his question?

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Speaker 3: You want the mess time?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 7: No, Well we look at each other afterwards and we

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Speaker 7: just go, well that killed four minutes.

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Speaker 3: That was an easy four minutes and done.

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Speaker 6: Next time we're just going to drop them off unless

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Speaker 6: I will go, but you can look after them.

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Speaker 5: Lad.

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Speaker 2: We've got something series to talk to you about. This

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Speaker 2: is a great initiative.

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Speaker 1: It's from an organization called Rays and it's called Letters

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Speaker 1: to My Mentor. Something that I learned about last year

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Speaker 1: which is really really import in our lives, and that's

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Speaker 1: finding that mentor in your life that you always confided

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Speaker 1: in and that you could talk to. Yes, and you know,

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Speaker 1: they molded you into the person that you are today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And this campaign from raised dot org dot I use

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Speaker 7: the Race Foundation where they're helping match up mentors with

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Speaker 7: young people who need need someone to lean on.

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Speaker 3: I need a little light at the end of the time.

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Speaker 7: And someone's been around the block once or twice, a

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Speaker 7: little bit older, a little bit wiser. So we're looking

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Speaker 7: to find mentors to link them up with young people

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Speaker 7: who need mentors.

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Speaker 3: It's a great campaign, really.

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Speaker 5: It's a great Who was the big mentor in your life?

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Speaker 3: So it was my dad.

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Speaker 7: It was my late dad. And I didn't realize this,

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Speaker 7: oddly enough, because Fitzer, you did it last year. You

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Speaker 7: did this campaign last year, and I was looking at

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Speaker 7: some of the videos from last year and I was thinking,

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Speaker 7: was my first chief of staff who set.

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Speaker 3: Me on the career path?

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Speaker 7: That was my school To the careers advisor, I said,

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Speaker 7: you know, you'll be nothing because you But then I

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Speaker 7: saw your video to your dad and I thought, actually,

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Speaker 7: it was my dad. And I didn't realize it until

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Speaker 7: I saw that, and I thought it was my dad

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Speaker 7: because he did teach me all these really really important

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Speaker 7: life lessons. He never sat me down and said do this,

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Speaker 7: don't do that.

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Speaker 5: It was this stuff, all right.

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Speaker 1: So Larry's father passed away fifteen years ago, but this

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Speaker 1: was a little bit of his letter letter to Dave.

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Speaker 2: You were my dad and my best mate.

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Speaker 7: But it wasn't until after he left us that I

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Speaker 7: realized you're also my mentor.

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Speaker 2: He made me a better.

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Speaker 7: Son, a better husband and father, and a better human being.

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Speaker 5: Oh love it last.

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Speaker 4: Was there something therapeutic about writing it down? Because they're

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Speaker 4: the kind of things you hope in hindsight that they

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Speaker 4: knew you felt, but if you feel like maybe you

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Speaker 4: hadn't had the chance to express it with a parent.

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Speaker 4: I mean we take our parents for granted. Sometimes they're

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Speaker 4: just there and doing stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was like that.

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Speaker 7: It was particularly difficult to write, and when you listen

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Speaker 7: to it's actually not that complicated.

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Speaker 3: It's like, thanks for be a good bloke, and yeah,

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Speaker 7: But I sat down to write it and I had

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Speaker 7: to tear up, and I'd walk away, come back and

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Speaker 7: try again. And then I was very nervous going into

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Speaker 7: the reading process because I thought I'm going to be

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Speaker 7: able to get through this.

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Speaker 3: But yes, it was.

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Speaker 7: It was definitely cathartic experience and it was stuff I

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Speaker 7: never got to say. And at the end of the letter,

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Speaker 7: I say, Dad, I've saved this letter in the cloud.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully it's next to your cloud and you get to

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Speaker 3: see you. I was just stuff.

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Speaker 5: Do you know the things you say that lads?

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Speaker 6: And it's things that you've never You didn't say to

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Speaker 6: your dad, you know, and now that he's pasted, you

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Speaker 6: can't in a sense, but when your dad is still

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Speaker 6: here to say those things is even harder.

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Speaker 5: It.

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Speaker 7: I don't think it ever crossed my mind.

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Speaker 5: To say thanks or I understand it now or I

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Speaker 5: get it.

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Speaker 7: And then I don't think he was actively going I'm

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Speaker 7: going to Bearry's mentor I'm going to teach you that

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Speaker 7: he was just being a dad.

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Speaker 5: The role of you.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you when I wrote mine last year

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Speaker 1: and I said to Dad, and this is another thing

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Speaker 1: that I was disappointed about is that I wasn't with

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Speaker 1: Dad and we didn't watch it together. That's where I

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Speaker 1: was a bit afraid. I didn't want to see his action.

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Speaker 1: So I just said I emailed it to Dad. I said,

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Speaker 1: down and watch this? Mum rang me back and Dad

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Speaker 1: couldn't talk, just crying his eyes out. And this is

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Speaker 1: you know, it's so much more important these days, and

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Speaker 1: especially in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Lass now, right now, right now.

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Speaker 2: And you know what it's it's not a sign of weakness.

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Speaker 1: But if you have a relationship with a parent like

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Speaker 1: this and you've never told them before, they are your mentor.

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Speaker 2: It's really important to have that. Absolutely.

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Speaker 6: The other thing is too you don't realize the impact

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Speaker 6: of the parent, I think, or the impact continues to

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Speaker 6: happen as you get older in life, just because you

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Speaker 6: become wiser and you realize why you're doing things and

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Speaker 6: why you're handling yourself in a certain fashion, and you

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Speaker 6: realize those lessons that you might have got from zero

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Speaker 6: to eighteen are still playing out in your life thanks

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Speaker 6: to your parents.

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Speaker 3: That's right, And there's this.

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Speaker 7: Callback, isn't it, Like, yeah, I remember Dad said this

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Speaker 7: or Mum said That's when I was fifteen years old.

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Speaker 3: I got trouble, but it was the right thing. You know,

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Speaker 3: I was doing the wrong thing, and they'll do the

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Speaker 4: You then parent differently as I think gods and now reflecting.

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Speaker 3: On it, I think I do.

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Speaker 7: And in fact, my kids would tell you that our

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Speaker 7: grandpa would have said that, Yeah, sure like that, but

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Speaker 7: I think we all do that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'd see the other thing as.

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Speaker 1: Well when Larry and I spoke about this outside before.

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Speaker 1: But this is the thing. Kids don't really confide in

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Speaker 1: their parents, Sarah. A mentor is sort of someone it's.

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Speaker 4: The adult figure that's not necessarily a parent that they said.

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Speaker 4: It's so crucially it's.

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Speaker 2: A majority of kids, and I think my kids are

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Speaker 2: going through this now.

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Speaker 1: They're afraid to tell me if they've done something wrong,

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Speaker 1: or you know, if there's a friend at school that

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Speaker 1: they're a bit worried about. They go to someone like

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Speaker 1: a grandmother or a grandfather, or an auntie or an uncle,

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Speaker 1: or like someone that they work with in their lives,

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Speaker 1: and they confide in them. But you know, they also

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Speaker 1: your parents are the people that mould you into the

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Speaker 1: people that you wanted to do.

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Speaker 7: It's worth saying that's exactly the point of this campaign

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Speaker 7: because a lot of kids don't have that relationship with

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Speaker 7: their parents, or they don't have parents in their lives,

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Speaker 7: and that's the point of this campaign. So if it's

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Speaker 7: not your parents necessarily and for you, for you and

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Speaker 7: meet it was our dads. But if it's not that person,

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Speaker 7: this is this aims to provide that person.

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Speaker 2: Exactly and the biggest thing for anyone out there.

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Speaker 1: If you would like to volunteer, go to raise dot

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Speaker 1: org dot au or you can go to letters to

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Speaker 1: my mentor dot com dot a you because Ladz has

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Speaker 1: done it with some great celebrities written this letter. But

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Speaker 1: if you think, and it's as simple as Sarah, like

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Speaker 1: Larry said, there's a lot of kids that don't have

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Speaker 1: parents or even friends in their lives right and they

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Speaker 1: really struggle at school mentally. For you to sit down

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Speaker 1: with these kids, even for ten minutes and just listen.

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Speaker 2: To them, what's your problems?

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Speaker 1: They'll open up to you and you don't know how powerful.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what someone's got going on there.

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Speaker 7: If you were feeling terrible last year or the year

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Speaker 7: before this year as a young person who maybe can't

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Speaker 7: find the way you are having a horrible year.

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Speaker 3: So this is a really really important came.

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Speaker 5: Well, how's the time I would love for you to

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Speaker 5: be my father?

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Speaker 2: You know that?

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Speaker 5: And I hang up.

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Speaker 2: Las you are looking a bit older than this is.

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Speaker 6: This is him trying to organize a log lunch Larry, Yeah, Dad,

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Speaker 6: I want to take you out for lunch to.

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Speaker 3: Tell you son, have you got something to tell me?

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Speaker 3: Say hi to mom for me.

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Speaker 2: You would be so disappointed if I was your son.

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Speaker 2: We love you, ladies. You can go to letters to

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Speaker 2: my mentor dot com dot you or.

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Speaker 1: Raised dot com, raised dot org dot au to find

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Speaker 1: out more details there.

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Speaker 2: Love you buddy. Thanks.

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Speaker 3: You got to go on the morning show.