WEBVTT - Don't Miss... Find and Tell

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<v Speaker 1>Hello. I'm Jamilla Risby. I've been a journalist for oh god,

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<v Speaker 1>too long, maybe ten years now. But growing up as

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<v Speaker 1>an Indian Australian, I heard and I read and I

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<v Speaker 1>watched stories being told by people who didn't look like me,

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<v Speaker 1>whose experiences weren't like mine. Whether it's our first people's

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<v Speaker 1>or our most recent arrivals, Australia is full of diverse storytellers. Enter,

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<v Speaker 1>find and tell. This is the search for the next

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<v Speaker 1>generation of Australian storytellers. We've taken four diverse Australian storytellers,

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<v Speaker 1>We've trained them up, and then we've set them loose

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<v Speaker 1>to find and tell weird and wonderful stories from all

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<v Speaker 1>around the country. Every episode, our storytellers are going to

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<v Speaker 1>go head to head, competing to give you the best

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<v Speaker 1>story to get one step closer to taking home the

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<v Speaker 1>grand prize. Think of it like a TV talent show,

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<v Speaker 1>but for poker. In the first episode, you will hear

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<v Speaker 1>it from Ben and Kate. They're going to match up

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<v Speaker 1>to find and tell the best story they can on

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<v Speaker 1>the theme of silver linings. In our first story, Ben

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<v Speaker 1>investigates a mysterious teddy bear invasion in the small country

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<v Speaker 1>village of Neith.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's a taste.

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<v Speaker 3>Welcome to Neath, a small country village on the outskirts

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<v Speaker 3>of Cesnok in the Hunter Valley region, Duckward Young Country.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a real blink and you'd miss it. Top of town,

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<v Speaker 3>one rode in and one rode out. It has a

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<v Speaker 3>population of four hundred and ninety people, a bus stop,

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<v Speaker 3>a servo and in true blue Australian country town fashion,

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<v Speaker 3>one pub. You'd be forgiven if you've never heard about Neath.

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<v Speaker 3>Not many people have. But for a short period of time,

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<v Speaker 3>Neath was the talk of the region. All unknown country

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<v Speaker 3>town became home to a mind boggling mystery. This story

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<v Speaker 3>begins a few years ago at the peak of covid

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<v Speaker 3>Lockdown in New South Wales. Morale was at an all

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<v Speaker 3>time low and there was nothing to look forward to, work, home, work,

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<v Speaker 3>and back home again. But that's exactly how this story starts. See.

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<v Speaker 3>I would have to drive on that one lonely road

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<v Speaker 3>through Neath on my daily commute to work, and that's

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<v Speaker 3>when I first encountered the teddy bears. That's right, teddy bears.

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<v Speaker 3>And I wasn't the only one.

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<v Speaker 2>Would someone tell me the significance of the teddy bears inneath.

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<v Speaker 2>They're all over the place, and some are even sitting

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<v Speaker 2>in chairs now, so the road to neath has become

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<v Speaker 2>a gallery of hanging teddy bears. I dig the kindergarten

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<v Speaker 2>lad the impaler aesthetic, but does anyone know the deal?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's disgusting.

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<v Speaker 1>Hopefully they get pulled down soon the place look filthy.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a beautiful gesture to make kids, and us big

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<v Speaker 2>kids smile.

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<v Speaker 1>People who get upset by them must have had very

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<v Speaker 1>sad childhoods.

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<v Speaker 3>In the following weeks, the teddy bears began to multiply,

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<v Speaker 3>and what started as five or six soon turned into twenty,

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<v Speaker 3>then thirty, then not before long, there was too many

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<v Speaker 3>beers to count inhabiting the village. Beneath the trees, the parks,

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<v Speaker 3>the benches, the telegraph poles, the signal boxes, the bus stops.

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<v Speaker 3>The teddy bears had even infiltrated the pub. Then one

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<v Speaker 3>day they all vanished. Where did the beers come from?

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<v Speaker 3>Who put them there? And where did they go? This

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<v Speaker 3>local mystery has perplexed me for far too long, and

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<v Speaker 3>it's about time I figured out some answers. So starts

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<v Speaker 3>my investigation to unravel the Mystery of the Neath Teddy Bears.

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<v Speaker 1>And in our second story, Kate poured over voice notes

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<v Speaker 1>she sent to a friend following a devastating breakup. She

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<v Speaker 1>enlists the Elizabeth Day to craft a love letter to

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<v Speaker 1>the friends who hold us together.

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<v Speaker 2>I consider my romantic breakups some of the most visceral

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<v Speaker 2>periods of grief in my life. But the mere act

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<v Speaker 2>of living through that and surviving it had made me

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<v Speaker 2>understand I was so much stronger than I thought I was.

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<v Speaker 2>It taught me a lot about my capacity for resilience.

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<v Speaker 4>That's author and podcaster Elizabeth Day in her book Friend

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<v Speaker 4>of Hollick. It's had such a big impact on me

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<v Speaker 4>this year. My copy is underlined and tabbed like a textbook,

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<v Speaker 4>because I think that breakups, they really often, shine a

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<v Speaker 4>light on all of our relationships a bit, in particular

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<v Speaker 4>our friendships.

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<v Speaker 2>One of the most momentous breakups in my life was

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<v Speaker 2>three weeks before my thirty ninth birthday. I remember so

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<v Speaker 2>vividly that breakup happening and me opening the window of

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<v Speaker 2>my rented flat and smoking a cigarette. I don't smoke,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, but it felt like the only appropriately

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<v Speaker 2>tragic thing to do.

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<v Speaker 4>When your life gets unexpectedly turned upside down, like Elizabeths did,

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<v Speaker 4>like mine did. The balance in the scales of everything

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<v Speaker 4>kind of skews, including in your friendships. All of a

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<v Speaker 4>sudden you become that friend who is kind of a miss.

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<v Speaker 4>But there's also something so beautiful about friendship that is

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<v Speaker 4>born out of a time when there's no expectation of

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<v Speaker 4>anything in return.

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<v Speaker 2>I do not know what I would have done without

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<v Speaker 2>my friends after that breakup, literally to the extent that

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<v Speaker 2>the first person I called was Emma, my ex was

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<v Speaker 2>still in the flat, and I said, this has happened,

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<v Speaker 2>and she was right, but he doesn't mean that I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>because it seems so ludicrous to her. She's like, right,

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<v Speaker 2>but he's joking, isn't he. I was like no, and

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<v Speaker 2>she said, Okay, my darling, this is what we're gonna do.

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<v Speaker 2>And she basically gave me a plan of action.

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<v Speaker 1>That's just a little taste of Find and Tell. If

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<v Speaker 1>you love hearing stories told by people from all walks

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<v Speaker 1>of life, then search and follow Find and Tell in

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