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Speaker 1: Heather duples La. Turns out there is now actually significant

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Speaker 1: international interest in the story of Tom Phillips and his

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Speaker 1: three kids, who've been missing since twenty twenty one around

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Speaker 1: Marta Corper. The Daily Mail has even gone as far

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Speaker 1: as sending one of their journalists here to cover the story.

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Speaker 1: That journalist is Charlotte cap It was with us now, Charlotte, Hi,

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Speaker 1: are they really that interested? Where are they? Is this

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Speaker 1: UK interest or Ozzie interest?

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Speaker 2: It's a bit of both, but most of it comes

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Speaker 2: from the UK. Yeah, why, I think the UK are

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Speaker 2: really into missing people's stories, and they really like a

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Speaker 2: survivalist story, and I guess this is the ultimate survivalist story.

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Speaker 2: You've got a dad and three kids living off the land.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's just I think that's unheard of over there.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, So why did you guys decide that

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Speaker 1: the people helping them out? Because clearly there are people

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Speaker 1: in the area helping them out. That that cookers.

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Speaker 2: I just wrote to a lot of people and that

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Speaker 2: was what they had to say. They gave me a

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Speaker 2: couple of reasons about why that would happen made sense

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Speaker 2: to me, So yeah, enough people said.

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Speaker 1: It that but that that cookers like that. It's it's

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Speaker 1: like a conspiracy theory thing that's going on here. Ah?

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Speaker 1: Or is it just that you're just using that term

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Speaker 1: like they're just a bit weird? Ah?

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Speaker 2: I mean I think yeah. I mean I definitely had

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Speaker 2: a mix of opinions when I spoke to people. Some

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Speaker 2: people were saying conspiracy theoriers. Others were saying not. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, I can't say.

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Speaker 1: For sure, have you got any I mean, look, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what, Charlotte. If I had to put my

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Speaker 1: money on, who's going to find them? It's the Daily Mail?

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Speaker 1: So how close have you got?

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Speaker 2: Oh, they're walking past right now now that you mentioned.

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Speaker 1: How close do you reckon? You've got to them?

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Speaker 2: I've been here since Monday, So that's anyone's guess. Probably

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Speaker 2: not super close, but you know, I keep an eye

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Speaker 2: out like everybody does. I guess.

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Speaker 1: Was it was it the image of them in the

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Speaker 1: Camo gear walking through the bush that really got the

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Speaker 1: people in the UK Phisn't I think it did? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because it is just it's such a wild thing to

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Speaker 1: see a dad doing with their kids. Yeah. Absolutely, would

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Speaker 1: you pay for info.

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Speaker 2: If it was genuine?

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Speaker 1: How much would you pay Charlotte.

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Speaker 2: It depends what it is. It depends what the information is.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that there's a news outlet in Australia

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't do that, so right kind of information.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what's your theory Having spent some time on

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Speaker 1: the ground, having talked to a lot of people, what's

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Speaker 1: your theory about where they are? Are they being helped

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Speaker 1: out by a lot of people or just a few?

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is just my opinion from talking to people.

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Speaker 2: I think that they're being helped out by a few people,

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Speaker 2: for sure. I don't think it's a whole you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's the whole of this area of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. But yeah, I think that there are people helping.

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Speaker 2: I've had people say that they would help if they

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Speaker 2: came knocking.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, because what they feel sympathy for him?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah they do. Why do they feel sympathy for him?

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Speaker 2: They say, he's just a dad who loves his kids

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Speaker 2: and he wanted to protect them from whatever is going on.

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Speaker 1: In the courts. Ah, So it's a running from a

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Speaker 1: custody thing, is it?

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Speaker 2: I think? So?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? And do you do you think the people helping

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Speaker 1: are just like an extended family and friends. Or is

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Speaker 1: there some sort of an organized thing going on here,

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Speaker 1: like a church group or something.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't say. You know, it could be a mix,

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Speaker 2: but I can't say.

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Speaker 1: For how long are you sticking around for Charlotte?

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Speaker 2: Probably just the end of the week.

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck, he's running out of time. You need

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Speaker 1: to find them fast. I really appreciate your time. That

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Speaker 1: Charlotte carp Daily Mail, Australia senior reporter who's been sent

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