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Speaker 1: Splash I lost shops. There wasn't just fast Eddies.

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Speaker 2: No to choose from Bernie's.

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Speaker 1: Back in the day or Bernie's. There was also Captain

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Speaker 1: Munch's Captain Munchies now Freemantle. Even if you.

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Speaker 2: Never went there, if you were up late at night

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Speaker 2: like Carlo was on the on the Facebook page here,

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Speaker 2: early morning animated ads were gold. Even if you never

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Speaker 2: went there, you saw.

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Speaker 3: Him somewhere in deep dark Suburbia a Brieven honors Toosnos

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Speaker 3: being attacked. This as a job for lunch on your bait,

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Speaker 3: Tommy rumbles once again. Captain Munchie saves the good faulk

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Speaker 3: of Suburbia from by Rubber because of the incorrigible Tommy Rumbles.

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Speaker 3: Twenty four hours aday, seven days a week. Captain Monkey

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Speaker 3: is ready to serve you.

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Speaker 2: And now back to our black and white movie. That

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Speaker 2: was That was very very high production values, wasn't it was?

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Speaker 2: There was a big budget ad that one.

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Speaker 1: It was for decades.

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Speaker 4: Captain Munchi served as a twenty four hour hub where

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Speaker 4: patrons could find food at any hour. The best known

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Speaker 4: for their greasy, oversized burgers, their hot dogs, their nachos,

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Speaker 4: and of course they're Chips in its final years before

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Speaker 4: it shut down. It was established in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 4: It shut down not that long ago. The site was

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Speaker 4: the subject of community's discussions for potential use as a

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Speaker 4: homeless service hYP or temporary shelter. Those plans didn't come

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Speaker 4: to fruition, though it is now. I believe a car park. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 4: in October last year.

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Speaker 2: Last time I drove past it, I went, oh, that's

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Speaker 2: where the old Captain used to live. They may have

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Speaker 2: been greasy and oversized those burgers, but they were good.

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Speaker 2: They were so good.

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Speaker 4: That's how you want a burger, Isn't it greasy and oversized?

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Speaker 1: I mean you're for hours, especially after hours. You know.

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Speaker 2: I don't go there for the health kick.

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Speaker 4: No, it's oh, it's not tofo Karina in Dayton.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, what are your memories of Captain Munchies?

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Speaker 5: Oh? About twenty five thirty years ago? My brother used

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Speaker 5: to work there, and when we used to go clubbing

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Speaker 5: at Metro's, we used to call in there early hours

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Speaker 5: of the morning and grab a big greasy burger from him.

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Speaker 2: You and many others would he slipping a freebie?

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Speaker 5: Ah? Yeah, sometimes I won't mention his name. No, no,

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Speaker 5: because it wasn't it good discounts there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't a huge establishment, was it. Like, It

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Speaker 2: wasn't a it wasn't like a Fast Eddies or anything

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Speaker 2: like that. It wasn't big.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, nothing like a Fast Daddies. It was pretty small.

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Speaker 5: But it was pretty cool to hang out at that

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Speaker 5: time in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well on the outside of the kitchen. What was

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Speaker 2: it like for him? On the inside of the kitchen?

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Speaker 2: That would have been pretty frantic at times?

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Speaker 5: And well, actually he was pretty stressed. Now I remember

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Speaker 5: one time he's a pretty bad asthmatic. He had to

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Speaker 5: get an ambulance from there to the Freeman of hospital

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Speaker 5: and he's going cost me so much money just get

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Speaker 5: an ambulance because you didn't have Yeah. Yeah, from just

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Speaker 5: Fremantle there to the hospital two minute drive. You got

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Speaker 5: an ambulance one night.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully Munchies copped up for that.

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Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, thanks, bye, thank you, bye, Sia.

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Speaker 2: Well there you go. So there we have a connection

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Speaker 2: to Captain Munchies. It would have been it would have

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Speaker 2: been hard work, it would have been busy, it would have.

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Speaker 1: Been hot as in that little kitchen, and.

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Speaker 2: It would have taken a lot of patients. I'm thinking

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Speaker 2: too at the front desk, because people would have stumbled

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Speaker 2: in from Metros, and even I think they would have

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Speaker 2: had trouble telling you what they wanted.

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Speaker 1: If what do you reckon?

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Speaker 4: Would have been hot at the kitchen at Captain Munchies

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Speaker 4: or trying to cook in the little caravan at Alfred's.

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Speaker 4: About it well out at.

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Speaker 2: Guilford, Well the thing is at Alfred's. Yeah, you didn't

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Speaker 2: get the people wandering over from Metros. So at least

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Speaker 1: The driver friend, Yeah you would, and you know they.

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Speaker 2: Would have they knew what they wanted. But you know,

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Speaker 6: I'll have that one.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, what a Jeff?

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Speaker 2: What eyes on the floor Today we're remembering Captain Munchies.

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Speaker 4: See your memories of Captain Munchies down there in Frio,

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Speaker 4: Julian warnbro.

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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 6: I was a freeo girl from when you first get

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Speaker 6: your license, and just that change between the seventeen and

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Speaker 6: eighteen before you could go to Metro's. Captain Munchies was

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Speaker 6: the place you would do bog laps around around Frio

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Speaker 6: and then you're park in Parry's Carpark and then at

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Speaker 6: midnight you would go over to Captain Munchies. If you

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Speaker 6: were poor you got a bag of just a bag

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Speaker 6: of chip.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: If you were rich you got a bag of chips

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Speaker 6: with chicken nuggets in that.

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Speaker 2: Was there any money left over for the pinball, you know,

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Speaker 2: for the machines?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, never, never, it all went on the food.

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Speaker 6: Always needed it for the fuel.

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Speaker 4: What about a cappuccino Gino's? Was there enough money left?

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Speaker 4: That's a bit.

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Speaker 6: Ten year old free hotel.

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Speaker 2: What were you doing bog laps in Julie?

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Speaker 6: Can I ask anything? Or anyone whoever just got their license?

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Speaker 6: But for me it was a little ELC tarana, which

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Speaker 6: was so embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: Back then the tarana was I reckon. The tarana was

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Speaker 2: all right for bog labs on it.

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Speaker 6: You used to just check out all the guys with

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Speaker 6: the the SLR five thousand, and would.

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Speaker 2: You cozy up to them and go, boy, do you

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Speaker 2: want to do you want to buy me a burger?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: At least never ever, it was just you'd sit next

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Speaker 6: to them in the car park, hoping to God that

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Speaker 6: they'd take you for a lap in it.

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Speaker 2: So Captain Munchies was not just a meeting place, it

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Speaker 2: was a meeting place.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, great memories, Julie.

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Speaker 2: I never knew. I never knew that Captain Munches was

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Speaker 2: the tinder of the thanlie.

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Speaker 6: Thanks, there you go.

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Speaker 2: Another side to Captain Munches that I never really knew.

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Speaker 4: Lionel Richards was the owner of Captain Munchies and his son.

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Speaker 1: Carl worked there too. Carl's with us. Now, good morning, Carl, Carl.

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Speaker 7: Hey you guys, tell good Carl.

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Speaker 1: How did Captain Munches come about?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 7: God, I wasn't around then, but my folks, My folks

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Speaker 7: came to three after Australia won the America up, kind

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Speaker 7: of expecting free to be on the map. Yes, and

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Speaker 7: I think I don't know. They found a sleepy little

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Speaker 7: was the first twenty four hour shop in the state.

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Speaker 7: After probably dat annoying the counsel and god knows who

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Speaker 7: else for years to be able to be able to

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Speaker 7: run all.

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Speaker 2: Night, Thank you for him.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, before servos were opened past twelve.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we know that roster still happened.

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Speaker 4: You were working there with your dad. I guess you

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Speaker 4: were flipping burgers, were you, or maybe on the toill?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was slipping burgers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was open twenty four seven.

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Speaker 1: You must have seen some interesting things late at night.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, most of which I probably shouldn't say on.

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Speaker 1: Air, not even the statute.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've seen a bloke. I've seen a drunk bloke

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Speaker 7: fall over trying to carry a super pig out burger,

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Speaker 7: which is twenty bucks back in the day it probably

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Speaker 7: would have cost about nine hundred in today's Yeah, poor

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Speaker 7: bugger couldn't carry it outside and fell over it.

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Speaker 2: It's fair to say, Carl, you would have seen some

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Speaker 2: people not at their best.

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Speaker 7: Definitely not Carl.

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Speaker 4: Is it true that you have no idea where the

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Speaker 4: money from the business went because your dad didn't trust

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Speaker 4: banks and he buried money all around Frio?

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Speaker 7: Oh maybe not three but yeah, definitely kicked Milo tinge

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Speaker 7: in some of our houses, all right. Oh yeah, still

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Speaker 7: worries me. I'm still challenged to go back to the

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Speaker 7: house that he passed in and kind of rummaged through

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Speaker 7: the backyard. But I'm not sure that he owners would

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Speaker 7: like it.

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Speaker 1: No, I'd be going over that place with a fire

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Speaker 1: to Cove.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely sorry ahead of his game, no one, So, Carl,

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Speaker 2: I mean it was there for a long time, from

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Speaker 2: from eighty four. Why what was why the decision to

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Speaker 2: close it in the end.

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Speaker 7: I mean Dad was pretty occupied with his kind of

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Speaker 7: fathers to write stuff after a long time, I've kind

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Speaker 7: of caught and fighting for us children, and I suppose

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Speaker 7: just I think the gentrification of our Freemantle kind of

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Speaker 7: of town a little bit. So it's just a little bit.

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Speaker 7: So he closed at times. He had a farm in Serpentine,

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Speaker 7: so it was there's a lot of driving backwards and

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Speaker 7: forward looking after that. I think he closed at times

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Speaker 7: for certain for certain times, and we'd reopen up for

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Speaker 7: car clubs or the sailors when they'd come into town

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Speaker 7: or something. But it was just a bit of a

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Speaker 7: shown that that side of Freeman didn't really get the

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Speaker 7: attention that it needed for a while.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I was just going to say it was it

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Speaker 2: was there for the right time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, before were like, you go, Carl, We've got to

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Speaker 4: tell us what was your favorite thing on the menu kitchen?

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Speaker 7: Think probably whenever I actually a burger with v treat

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Speaker 7: on it these days, I'm all over it. Yeah. Then

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Speaker 7: Wed you to always tell people you can beat an

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Speaker 7: egg and you can beat a carpet, but you can't

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Speaker 7: beat a root. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And of course people at that time of the morning

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Speaker 7: Joke any any time.

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Speaker 1: Thank Carl.

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Speaker 6: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Carl, who was part of the families, absolutely part of it.

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Speaker 2: Was part of the staff to captain Munchies.