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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now. I believe that

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Speaker 1: I have got Bob and Bob is from Calvs mowing

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Speaker 2: Get a Bob, Yeah, I get Akatie. How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Good mate, Thank you so much for getting in

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Speaker 1: contact with us this morning. Now I understand that the

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Speaker 1: young fellow used to work with.

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Speaker 2: You absolutely well. His father approached me. He was only

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Speaker 2: fifteen at the time and illegal school aging leave is

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Speaker 2: sixteen years old, and he wasn't doing the best at school,

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Speaker 2: probably getting up to a bit of mischief, and he said,

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Speaker 2: would I have a job for him? Yeah? I said, yeah, sure,

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Speaker 2: you know, and so we had to go through the

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Speaker 2: right potopolts for him to actually be able to legally

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Speaker 2: leave school and start work. And yeah, he did quite well.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately people have probably read on social media and it

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Speaker 2: was during the first COVID lockdown he did get up

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Speaker 2: to a bit of mischief involving me, and he's he's

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Speaker 2: carried that with him ever since. Really he's a good kid.

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Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't dismiss him after the incident, and well,

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Speaker 2: later on our work sort of dried up and he

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Speaker 2: did have to move on and I saw him at

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Speaker 2: his next place of work quite a few months later,

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Speaker 2: and he couldn't he couldn't look at me. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's carried that with him all his time. Well, I

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Speaker 2: received a call from his father this morning saying that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he wants to make it up to me, he wants

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Speaker 2: to repay me.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, oh bo mate, Look, how are you feeling

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Speaker 1: this morning after hearing from his dad book, It.

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Speaker 2: Gives me goosebumps, as I said, and I said all

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Speaker 2: along he was a good kid. You know, COVID lockdown.

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Speaker 2: These young kids, they're not certainly not used to be

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Speaker 2: him lockdown. He knew there was no one at the premises.

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Speaker 2: I was actually in the middle of relocating to queen

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Speaker 2: Fland now just on you know, so people have probably

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Speaker 2: heard there was Yeah, there was a couple of quad

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Speaker 2: bites involved. Well, I was in Queensland at the time

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Speaker 2: pretty sure it was an inside job. So I followed

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Speaker 2: up on it and it wasn't. It was one of

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Speaker 2: the most difficult phone calls I had to mate, ring

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Speaker 2: his father up and say, look, I think your young

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Speaker 2: fellow's been involved in this, and he got back to

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Speaker 2: me and said, yes he has. He said, it's funny

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Speaker 2: that you say that, though, he said he's been very quiet,

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Speaker 2: so it was playing on him. I actually rang the

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Speaker 2: want to proceed with, you know, police action, and I

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Speaker 2: said no, we'll sort this out ourselves. And I sat

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Speaker 2: back in Katherine and we had to talk about things,

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Speaker 2: and you know, and we kept it out, kept it

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Speaker 2: it was neither of them had any record. I considered

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Speaker 2: them both to be good kids, and I thought, well,

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Speaker 2: everybody makes mistakes. Let's try and make this up to me.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it didn't quite work out how one died.

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Speaker 2: They were supposed to come out and do work, coming

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Speaker 2: over on weekends for quite a perito of the time.

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Speaker 2: We've got a couple of saturdays in but I was

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Speaker 2: I been, I think we could have really made something

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Speaker 2: of it. But you know, I reckon good on your Keegan,

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Speaker 2: I take my hat off to you. He was always fishing.

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Speaker 2: He always had his fishing rod when he was at work,

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Speaker 2: you know, like as soon as work finished, he'd be

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Speaker 2: the fact that he now, like you know, I was Sunday.

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Speaker 2: His father called me this morning. You know, I said, look,

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Speaker 2: Kegan wants to make this up to you.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, Bob, Look, it sounds it sounds like prior

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Speaker 1: you there wasn't a lot, like there wasn't anger between

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Speaker 1: actually think he's he's a good young fellow that did

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Speaker 1: the wrong thing, but he is a he's a nice

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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. You know, I've known I've known

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Speaker 2: his father and Saniy probably for over twenty years. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: quite Yeah. He he was a good kid, and I felt,

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Speaker 2: us they'd probably get up to a bit of mischief

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Speaker 2: they've continued to leave pretty decent lives. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I take my hat off to them.

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Speaker 1: Mate, I'm I'm really pleased to hear that this morning.

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Speaker 1: And look, I'm so pleased to hear this because I think, I,

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Speaker 1: that's brought a smile to everybody's face. And I saw this,

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Speaker 1: and I'll.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what those of us from Captain Yeah, came

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Speaker 2: out of the Catin river, how go?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: We just had one of the seatings we've seen in years.

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Speaker 2: You know, the river was up around sixteen meters, it

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Speaker 2: two hundred meters from where it was released. Me, that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Bob watch him like, what is your

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Speaker 1: message this morning? You know for for for Keganese family,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like there is absolutely no hard feelings between

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Speaker 2: Oh no, look when he's spoken since and yeah, I

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Speaker 2: just say, all the best, spend it widely. Obviously, you'll

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Speaker 2: treat yourself to a two luxuries like probably a boat

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Speaker 2: it off on him. So, yeah, that happened to him

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Speaker 2: going back, It might be a year or so ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so he knew exactly the position I was in, but

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Speaker 2: he still felt terrible for what he'd done for me.

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Speaker 2: He's offering to make it up now, and I say, well,

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Speaker 2: that blew me away, Kegan. I certainly didn't expect it.

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Speaker 1: Good on your boy, Oh Bob, thanks mate. You've honestly

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Speaker 1: I think you've st like you've just given everybody a

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Speaker 1: smile on their face again this morning. So I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you calling and having a chat with me today.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to clear it up because there had been

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Speaker 2: a bit of an end on social media. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, I just I just wanted people to know. Look,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's so easy to brand everybody with the

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Speaker 2: same brush, you know. Well, yeah, I think he's a

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Speaker 2: pretty good kid.

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Speaker 1: Bob, good on you mate. Thank you so very much

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Speaker 1: for your time this morning. I really appreciate it. And

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Speaker 1: and yeah, thank.

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Speaker 2: You, good on you and your family, all of it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Bob good On.

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Speaker 2: You'll catch up with them when I get up there

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Speaker 2: next week.

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Speaker 1: Let us know, let us know how it goes, keep

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Speaker 1: in contact.

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Speaker 2: Good on you, Bob.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.