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Speaker 2: When I was a kid, right well, of the highlights
Speaker 2: to go and do something my dad. Obviously this is
Speaker 2: going to date this to a very different time. Were
Speaker 2: simply going to the tip.
Speaker 3: Oh best way to bond with your father, Yeah.
Speaker 2: To go and look through some mankey, old rat infested rubbish.
Speaker 2: I absolutely loved them. When my kids were younger, they
Speaker 2: also used to love. When I saw it, I need
Speaker 2: to go to tip, They go, please can we come?
Speaker 2: And you would go and rummage around, and you would
Speaker 2: come back.
Speaker 3: With stuff you were searching for treasure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We used to bring old ball home, soccer balls, foot
Speaker 3: that sort of thing, not like now where it's all
Speaker 3: very clean. You back your car up and dump it.
Speaker 3: You could walk around it, couldn't you. Well, Sadly now
Speaker 3: our local tip has no rummaging sign, not even the
Speaker 3: fun out of it, exactly.
Speaker 2: I also remember are One. They had their own sort
Speaker 2: of shipping containing. You know the people, the tip people,
Speaker 2: they're like their own sort of you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: They run it tight, don't they. The tea people they
Speaker 2: don't like muggles turning up. They never used to like
Speaker 2: us rummag around because they where my local world want
Speaker 2: to grow up. They had their own shipping container right
Speaker 2: where they would have their tea breaks, and they wouldn't
Speaker 2: like you peering in because they had like computers in
Speaker 2: and that they found the primo stuff they kept for themselves,
Speaker 2: like sofas and stuff of that really good stuff. The
Speaker 2: rest of it was up to us.
Speaker 3: So you think it's they're stopping us from rummaging now,
Speaker 3: not for safety, but because they want all the goods
Speaker 3: for themselves.
Speaker 2: They want all the good stuff. Yeah, so this morning
Speaker 2: we want to know what did you find at the
Speaker 2: tip on nine four one four one four three. This
Speaker 2: is a brilliant story from Emma Christian. My brother used
Speaker 2: to drive an excavator to the tip. It was unbelievable
Speaker 2: to think, so, well, did you just used to just
Speaker 2: shove it all home and then go through it at home?
Speaker 2: That's insane hashtag straya. Most of it was brand new.
Speaker 2: His prize possession, This is incredible. His prize possession he
Speaker 2: came home from the tip with was a red velvet
Speaker 2: recliner chair from gold class.
Speaker 3: Oh oh well, what was that? Even in the tier?
Speaker 2: Was throwing that away? All right? So what did you
Speaker 2: bring home from a tip? What did you find?
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Speaker 2: What did you find down the tip? Melissa? Hi, Melissa,
Speaker 2: what did you find down the tip?
Speaker 1: It's not myself, it's my husband.
Speaker 4: He's the garbage truck man.
Speaker 5: You know, he drives the truck.
Speaker 1: He comes home with.
Speaker 5: A lot of things all the time. He's come home
Speaker 5: with smokers.
Speaker 1: Tools, basketballs, bikes, fish, tak bikes. Yeah, just push bikes.
Speaker 2: This is like inside of trading, isn't it. He's getting
Speaker 2: the early sort of stuff before us.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that the bike has been put out for
Speaker 3: being collection from.
Speaker 2: The back people. So he's like a serial offender in
Speaker 2: this then.
Speaker 5: Oh definitely.
Speaker 1: This week he came home.
Speaker 4: With a mulcha?
Speaker 2: Now do you are you looking for a mulcha? Melissa?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I tell him to stop, no more.
Speaker 4: I've had enough.
Speaker 5: And it's just he's a regular offender.
Speaker 2: So it's like the scene out of the Castle, I think, Melissa,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much you call. I have a nice weekend. Cheers,
Speaker 2: thank you, Steve. Good morning, Hello about Steve. What have
Speaker 2: you found at the tip?
Speaker 6: Well, we backed up our trailer to throw the rubbish
Speaker 6: in and looked down and there was an electric guitar case,
Speaker 6: and the guy there said, oh, you can have it
Speaker 6: if you want, because my son's guitar might have fitted
Speaker 6: in it. So the son jumped down and grabbed it
Speaker 6: and came back up and said, no, there's something in it.
Speaker 6: And when he opened it up there was a Washburn
Speaker 6: electric guitar copy in it.
Speaker 2: What a great find.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we still play it, still got it.
Speaker 3: What if I someone was thrown out a way, or
Speaker 3: if it was an accident.
Speaker 5: No idea all our game, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great find, Steve, thank you very much
Speaker 2: to call him. I have a nice weekend. Now we've
Speaker 2: got Dawn here. This is an interesting one, Dawn.
Speaker 4: You find at the tip, I found a box of
Speaker 4: old letters and stamps and things from World War Two,
Speaker 4: but recently, during COVID, I've tracked down the family that
Speaker 4: wrote these letters and I sent them back to their
Speaker 4: family in Scotland.
Speaker 2: This sounded like the intro to a sort of podcast
Speaker 2: that I would listen to. This that was perfectly delivered.
Speaker 2: You told the story so.
Speaker 5: Well there, Oh, because I'm nervous.
Speaker 2: No, you did it really well. So what happened then?
Speaker 5: How did you track them down on Facebook, would you believe? No?
Speaker 5: W on Facebook?
Speaker 2: Did it take long?
Speaker 5: About a month? But there was this family, there was
Speaker 5: six of them. Some didn't talk to the others, so
Speaker 5: they said, you have to contact them, And then I
Speaker 5: finally found the one whose mother it was.
Speaker 2: The have been so emotional to be reunited with some
Speaker 2: of all those artifacts.
Speaker 5: Oh well, let's face it. If I had letters from
Speaker 5: my mum written to her sister, I'd love to read
Speaker 5: what they used to say. And that's what I thought
Speaker 5: i'd do, and that's what I'd done. It was about
Speaker 5: forty letters in total.
Speaker 3: How long had you kept the letters for.
Speaker 5: Fifty years?
Speaker 3: Fifty?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Because they were just they had beautiful stamps on
Speaker 5: them and they were beautifully written. And I'm a bit
Speaker 5: of an order and a collector. But now they've gone
Speaker 5: back to their right plone.
Speaker 2: I'll tell us this. Obviously you read through them.
Speaker 5: Right, we all would, Oh I did I did?
Speaker 2: What did you? What did he learn? What did they say?
Speaker 5: They were one sister really missed the other one? But
Speaker 5: the most what the part that really got me was
Speaker 5: during World War Two because my dad was also a
Speaker 5: pilot during World War Two and how the bombs were
Speaker 5: hitting and killing people, and she said, you are so
Speaker 5: lucky in Australia that you're not getting what we're getting
Speaker 5: over there.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's like a moment in history that was covered that.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 5: It was, and that's what I thought. You give back
Speaker 5: to your family, you do.
Speaker 2: But fifty years later, as say, you can have it
Speaker 2: on the next like a hundred times now thinking most
Speaker 2: of the family died out the next generation better than never.
Speaker 2: You're quite Yeah, Dawn, thank you so much your story.
Speaker 2: I love that. Dawn, have a nice wee can.
Speaker 5: God bliss bye, Thank you.
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