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Speaker 1: We know that. Yesterday in the local news we'd heard

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Speaker 1: about a truck fireing Catherine. That fire started in a

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Speaker 1: set of brakes, as we understand it, spreading to a trailer.

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Speaker 1: The driver managed to unhitch that trailer from the cabin,

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Speaker 1: escaping unharmed. But by the time I got off air,

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Speaker 1: we learned that the fire had impacted a number of

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Speaker 1: local businesses, some of them with goods being transported. One

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Speaker 1: damage on the main street as well of Catherine. As

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Speaker 1: we understand it now, one of the businesses that was

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Speaker 1: impacted is owned by my dear friend and former producer,

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Speaker 1: a name and a voice that I know you'll all recognize.

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Speaker 1: Now broad again. Good morning, now, Jesus, it's been a

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Speaker 1: while since you've been in the studio window. I'm actually

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Speaker 1: never how funny you know, I like to have you

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Speaker 1: back in here.

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Speaker 2: I know it's a beautiful studio, isn't it. Carpet on

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Speaker 2: the used to have no dogs pewing under my desk

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Speaker 2: like we used to have no Maddy Hepworth.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fun time, we certainly did now look Unfortunately, yes, Dida,

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Speaker 1: a pretty ordinary situation for you. You had fifteen thousand

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Speaker 1: copies of the new Territory Savvy Kids magazine on the

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Speaker 1: back of that truck when these fires started in Catherine.

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Speaker 1: What was your reaction when you found out what had happened.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was pretty pumped. Yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I was excited because delivery days always exciting, you know.

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Speaker 3: We everyone's waiting for the magazine to arrive. So I

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Speaker 3: had rung my printer in the morning and they were like, Yep,

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Speaker 3: no delays, it's all good. Ten minutes later, I spoke

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Speaker 3: to the transport company and they were like, oh, no,

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Speaker 3: the trailer it's burnt to the ground.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like what So I actually thought it was

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Speaker 2: a joke. I didn't. I thought it was a scam.

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Speaker 2: I was like, no, no. Ten minutes ago I was

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Speaker 2: told it was all good.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, unfortunately, you know, for their company as well,

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Speaker 3: the poor trucking company lost their whole truck, everything that

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Speaker 3: was on it, including our fifteen forty copies. I don't

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Speaker 3: know why, but that was on my doc yeah slipp

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Speaker 3: But yeah, unfortunately, the truck did have break problems and

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Speaker 3: I think it caught on fire. But I spoke to

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Speaker 3: Intersport Catherine yesterday because it actually happened within meters of

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Speaker 3: their front door and their wall on their outside of

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Speaker 3: their building has actually melted. So they have said that

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Speaker 3: the police had told them yesterday, had it gone one

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Speaker 3: more meter, their whole building would have been up and plays.

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Speaker 3: So realistically, my fifteen thousand copies of the magazine, it

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Speaker 3: is what it is. Thankfully, I thought it was the

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Speaker 3: end of me. I thought, oh, like, I was a

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Speaker 3: love project. I didn't earn any money from it. It

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Speaker 3: was all about promoting local business and really talking up

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Speaker 3: the territory's family life. I guess I was reading a

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Speaker 3: lot on Facebook that mums were really unhappy about living

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Speaker 3: here and raising their kids here.

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Speaker 2: So I thought, no, I've was born and bred here.

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Speaker 3: You know you've been here forever. We've both raised our

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Speaker 3: kids here. It is an awesome place. So it was

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Speaker 3: a bit of a love project to put a bit

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Speaker 3: more positivity back in the community. It's a really cute magazine.

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Speaker 3: We use local designer Brook from Studio b Design and

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Speaker 3: her staff Stacey and Sofa, and they were amazing with

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Speaker 3: getting it. It's bright, fun, colorful, bite size, perfect for

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Speaker 3: little hands, schools, no parents to find out what to do,

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Speaker 3: where to go, some free offers and deals and stuff

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Speaker 3: like that in there, So it's just a positive.

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Speaker 2: A positive, Well, this is it.

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Speaker 1: I would have, mate, you would have been absolutely devastated

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Speaker 1: when you found out and I spoke to you, you know,

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Speaker 1: when I got off air and you said that You've

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Speaker 1: been a bit of a mess yesterday morning, really upset

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Speaker 1: as you would be. You know, you do these things

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Speaker 1: off your own back to try and promote the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: You and I have lived here for such a long time.

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Speaker 1: You're a territory girl. But you know, even on this show,

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Speaker 1: and you know from when you produced it, we hear

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Speaker 1: so many different stories every single day. But the thing is,

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Speaker 1: even despite those sad stories that we hear, you and

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Speaker 1: I are so passionate about the Northern Territory, and I

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Speaker 3: Look, and you know, you know my story I'm going through,

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Speaker 3: you know, trauma within my own family and life is

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Speaker 3: But this is a project that keeps me busy, keeps

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Speaker 3: me It's completely like if anyone looked at it and go, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's not a business that's a hobby.

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Speaker 2: Because it doesn't pay me.

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Speaker 3: So my husband's like, go get a real job, which

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Speaker 3: I think I'm going to have to go do soon.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, that's another story. But yeah, look it is.

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Speaker 3: It's a positive piece. We just I want you know,

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Speaker 3: the government, the new government that have come in are

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Speaker 3: really focusing on big business, but small business gets left behind.

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Speaker 3: And it's you know, ninety nine percent of businesses in

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Speaker 3: So we're just trying to put out you know, where

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Speaker 2: Guys and it's amazing. It's so cool when I hear

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Speaker 2: these stories back.

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Speaker 3: And that's the whole point of me doing it right,

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Speaker 3: is to try all of these guys that are you know,

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Speaker 2: They're doing really good.

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Speaker 1: So well on the actual truck fire, do you know

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Speaker 1: who else had Have they given you any detail about it?

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Speaker 2: I'm but I'm guessing one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: I was told because the actual delivery was delayed, and

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Speaker 3: they I was told yesterday the reason it was delayed

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Speaker 3: is because they wait for the truck to be full.

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Speaker 2: So the truck was full.

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Speaker 3: So I can only assume that there's plenty of other

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Speaker 2: It was only because, you know that I really knew

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Speaker 3: Was because I was so excited that they were arriving

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Speaker 3: of phone calls to okay, we're ready, let's go, and

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Speaker 3: then found out that they had actually burnt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, poor buggers. I mean, you feel sorry.

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Speaker 2: For company as well, you know, And I, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I was a mess.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it. I thought I rang the Catherine Police.

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Speaker 3: I was crying to them.

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Speaker 2: On the phone.

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Speaker 3: I was crying, crying to the trucking company, my poor printers.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if you could understand what I

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Speaker 3: That was pretty much on my knees, going, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: my mechanic to say my car is going to cost

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Speaker 2: Comes in threes. I got smashed again this afternoon so

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Speaker 2: that's it. I'm done.

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Speaker 1: I'm like smiling, Oh you gotta smile, and absolutely you

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Speaker 2: You're really just brutal, It truly is.

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Speaker 1: But it's you know, it's a beautiful life that we've got. Now,

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Speaker 1: when when do you think these your magazines are now

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Speaker 3: My printers were amazing. They I paid for a service

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Speaker 3: where it was delivered, you know, door to door. So

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Speaker 3: thankfully they cover all costs. They put in the insurance

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Speaker 3: claim and they were back on the printing yesterday yep.

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Speaker 3: So they will do it as fast as they can

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Speaker 3: and they should be backing down within two weeks, so

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Speaker 3: we'll be back out there and spreading all that.

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Speaker 1: Well, let us know when they are. I'd love to

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Speaker 1: see it. And and as you see, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it is such a wonderful place to raise your kids.

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Speaker 1: And I know that sometimes we will go through, you know,

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Speaker 1: various different issues. I speak about them every single day

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Speaker 1: on the show. But all you got to do, who

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Speaker 1: is go to some of the different kids' sports in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon, some of the other activities. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: so much and there's so many great families.

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Speaker 3: So many free things to do for you. Yes, we

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Speaker 3: don't realize how lucky we are. Free events, free you know,

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Speaker 3: going to libraries or whatever that are putting on amazing

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Speaker 3: shows and amazing activities. But yeah, just the you know, waterfront,

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Speaker 3: aquas Park, acquisine, you know Crop Cove, all of those guys,

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Speaker 3: they're unreal, So there is so we just need to

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Speaker 3: keep pushing those guys so that you know, locals get

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Speaker 3: out and support when they're bored and their kids are

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Speaker 3: being rap bags, you need to get them at the house.

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Speaker 3: Came and support these guys, which is on a daily

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Speaker 3: basis for many people.

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Speaker 1: Good on your mel I'm so pleased to hear that

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Speaker 1: everything's going to be okay. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: having a chat with me this morning. Thanks, thank you,