Street Talk Debut: A Conversation with Alexandra

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Hello, and welcome to our podcast, Why Is It So? I'm Paul Zanik.

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I have tried on a few occasions to arrange a street talk segment,

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but when I approach people in the street to talk to us on our podcast,

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they either thought I was scamming, or they felt they couldn't possibly do it.

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Well, today I'm presenting my first street talk episode with a typical Australian

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lady who is a little nervous because this is also her first time on a podcast

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and has kindly accepted my invitation to be my guest to discuss what she sees as life in general.

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Her name is Alexandra and I would like to introduce you to her now.

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Good morning Alex, nice meeting you and thank you for giving me the pleasure

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of having you on our podcast.

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Tell us a little bit about yourself. Hello Paul, thanks for having me.

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Well first and foremost I'm a mum of an 18 year old. I'm currently working in NDIS cleaning.

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I have been in several industries throughout my life, sales, car trade, funerals.

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That's about it. Yeah. The funeral ones is interesting, isn't it?

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Very interesting. How long were you doing that for?

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Two years. Oh, great. Okay.

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So, yeah, all right. So, basically, what I want to talk about today,

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what do you think of the current situation of Victoria?

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And by that I'm saying like the amount of debt that we have,

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the way the cost of living has gone up, like the same all around the world,

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but this seems, Victoria, seems to be the worst one at all. How does it affect you?

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How does it affect me? Well, it hasn't really affected me personally.

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I know it's affected a lot of

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people I do know, businesses, those who do have high debts and so forth.

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But we are in a state as you know as much as I'm such a positive person I'd

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like to think that it's going to get better it's going to be good our education

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system's going to get better but it's not it's it's yet to be sorted and I think

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there's there's a lot that's happened over.

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COVID and kind of a reflux after COVID those who were doing well,

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will continue, those who didn't just had to start and rebuild.

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It's a really sad situation, but I just find that, you know,

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from a financial level to schooling systems, to medical systems,

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our medical system, wow, that's just another subject on its own.

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But yeah, look, there's a lot of work to be done and I don't know if it's going to get better.

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I actually feel sorry for our next generation, our kids, you know,

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after us, how they're going to cope, what they're going to do.

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How life is going to be for them.

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Yes, that is the thing that most people are worried about.

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And even, you know, the crime in Victoria is also another problem. It's sad.

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Yeah, we've got these young kids. They're getting younger and younger.

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They're getting their own and whatever have you.

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And, you know, they can't do anything with them. No. It's not that they can't.

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They should be able to, but they just won't. Yeah.

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I've actually heard kids say, oh, you know, I'll do it now before I turn 18

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because when I turn 18, there's consequences after that.

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Before that, it's just a slap on the wrist or, you know, you can get away with it.

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So you've got theft going on. You've got, you know, home invasions.

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And the sad part about it is these kids are arranged between 13 and 17.

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Like they are so young where they should be in schools getting an education

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or doing something that's productive apart from, you know, But maybe they're finding it hard.

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Maybe their parents are finding it hard and they can't give them what they need or what they want.

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Everything's so commercialized these days. They need their brand runners or

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sneakers. They need their phones and just everything labeled.

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So what are you going to do to get it?

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Yeah, that is a point.

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It's very sad, really, the way we've gone.

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Yeah, children are just influenced. Yeah, and I think that social media has

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got a lot to do with it as well.

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They feel that they've got to be macho by, look at me, this is what I'm doing.

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And a lot of these kids are hijacking cars and actually filming it and putting

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it on social media. Of course, yeah.

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So it's just not a good place to do it. They're committing a crime and it's being videotaped.

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Yeah, and the judges sort of say, yep, molly boy, have bail, go out again.

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Yeah. These seven that they just got a couple of days ago, they were all on

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bail and they've just been caught again.

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They're still going to go out again. Absolutely.

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It's unbelievable. Well, just a quick story. When I was in hospitality,

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I was managing a restaurant over in the West and we had about eight,

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six or eight young fellas come in.

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Masks on, machetes. They just ran through the restaurant in afternoon,

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like so broad daylight, and just terrorized the guests in there,

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the patrons and so forth.

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And they did this to a few locations. And as soon as they left this restaurant,

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they went to another venue because they knew the police were going to be on

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their way to this venue. So they went and just did this.

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Now, all these kids were aged under 16.

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So my question was, okay, that's fine. Now, you've just damaged,

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you know, parents and children, families that have been in this restaurant,

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what they've experienced, but then you've gone off and done this. Where are your parents?

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I mean, where are, where's, what's the justice going to be in this?

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Yes. You know, so it's. I believe there's this, isn't it?

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The western suburbs. The western suburbs, yeah. Yeah, this is a while ago.

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It was probably about five years ago.

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So, you know, it's really sad. It's sad to see that.

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It damaged us for, you know, for a little bit. and you kind of think,

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okay, so how old were these kids again when they got caught? Yeah. Sixteen.

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And you just wonder. Well, they probably didn't serve any time anyway. No.

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They just go through the door and walk out the next door. It's kind of a funny thing for them.

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So, you know, and what they get out of it, I don't know, a few dollars maybe, a few iPads.

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I don't think it's what they get out of it. It's just the thrill,

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I think, of getting the cops to chase them And knowing that the cops weren't

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doing anything like they did this time, they actually drove into them to stop them. Yeah.

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Well, they should be giving them some Lunar Park passes to go play and have

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a thrill out there or something, like if they can't, you know.

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Well, that's the other thing, though, because what a lot of these kids are doing,

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like 10-year-olds and upwards,

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They're playing these games where it's shoot them up and kill off all these

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ninjas or whatever they are.

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But the ninjas die at the end of the thing. Oh, but they've won that,

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reset it, and they come back again.

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They don't realise that in real life they don't come back. If you kill somebody, they're dead.

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Exactly. That's the problem. I just don't think they understand that side,

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whether it comes from an upbringing, whether it comes from another country they've come from.

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We don't know. We don't know what makes people tick. Yeah, that's true.

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It's just the thrill of doing something like this and saying,

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look at me, I know what you do.

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When you were, it still fascinates me now about the funeral partners. Sure.

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That fascinates a lot of people, to be honest with you. Sorry?

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I said that fascinates a lot of people.

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Often I get asked, did you hear noises? I said, of course you do.

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But it's probably something that's in our head because once you're...

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You heard the voices while you were working there. Yeah.

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Yeah, no, sometimes you'd be the last to leave or the first to get in and there's

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the mortuary out the back and you come in and you're like, no, I didn't hear that.

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No, no, I did hear that. No, I didn't.

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Okay, so one thing's for sure, like nobody ever answers back to you when you're

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in there, that's it. So it's a very interesting...

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Industry because you kind of, for me, it just made me really appreciate life.

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When I woke up in the morning, getting ready to go to work, I'd just stand at

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my balcony and look out the window and kind of think today, somebody's going

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through a worse day than me.

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You know, I've got this, you know, I'm going to be holding.

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So it was kind of in a weird kind of way, very rewarding because you were helping

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someone through the hardest day of their life possibly, You know,

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so, yeah, it just, it really touches you.

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Some of them can really stay in your mind quite a, you know, quite some time.

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Did you do the makeup on them as well or did they have a special makeup person?

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No, we did makeup for ladies. We did the nail polish.

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We, no, we had, we were all taught to do that. Yeah.

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Well, not everybody. I mean, whoever could handle being in the mortuary.

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Actually, I was in a mortuary one time. I had to go to see this guy selling

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computers or copies or something. I went to see the guy.

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And I said, oh, you should have been through the place. I said, no, no, I haven't.

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So he said, well, you can't take it for a walk around. So he did.

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And we got to this big wall of drawers.

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Sure. Anyway, so he said, this is what we do with them here. And I said, oh, good.

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Anyway, he said, are you worried about them?

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I said, well, I am a little bit concerned. He said, well, don't worry about

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the dead ones. It's an alive bastard. Absolutely.

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People will say, weren't you afraid? I said, I'm afraid of the living, not the dead.

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You know, but it's something that a lot of people, they go, oh, you worked in funerals.

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I'm like, oh, you know, we're all going to go there one day.

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It's okay. It's something you are not going to beat. The only problem is we don't know we're there.

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Well, that depends. I actually believe in there's an afterlife.

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So I believe we do know we're there, but our bodies are just a,

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they're a unit that we get transported in. Our spirit goes elsewhere.

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So whether we come out, look down on ourselves. So what do you think in that

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sense, what do you think happens to us after we go?

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Do you think our spirit just automatically just goes or waits for a few years

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and turns back to earth? I think if you're ready to go. A male or a female, a different... Yeah.

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A dog or... This is my take on it, and this is only my take.

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These are my thoughts, but...

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Being there and just being in the moment on a daily basis in there where you

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just block everything out and you've got to concentrate, there is no room for mistakes in funnels.

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You've just got to be on the ball all the time from the moment. In what way?

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Well, if you're in the mortuary, everything's just got to be spot on.

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You've got to know who you're preparing. You've got to know what's going in, which car.

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Everything's just got to be right, person to name. You cannot get this wrong.

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No. You cannot, from dressing down to the socks, it's got to be right and how

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the family want it to be, not expect it to be, want it to be.

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You're playing, you know, on people who are very highly emotionally run on before it, after it.

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So everything's got to be very much tick every box.

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You can't be late, you know. So it's important that this is all done for the

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family and also for the business.

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So the family I'd worked for have been a very, very long time in the industry.

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They're a very well-known funeral home.

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He was very particular on how things are done in our funeral home.

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So look, at the end of the day, just trying to get it, you know,

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trying to keep focused and know that someone else is having a really,

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really hard time going through something and you're giving out that energy.

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You know, you're supplying them with energy for the day.

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So sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy. You know, you kind of look at it

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and think no death is ever easy.

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The elderly is like, oh, you know, sad, but they've lived a good life.

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Well, that's true. Yeah. They're very good in this. And then you've got children

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or younger people or murders or whatever it might be that weren't ready to go.

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Now, they're the spirits, I think, going back to what you just said,

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they're the spirits, I think, that linger for a little while. No.

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Because they're not ready to leave. Right. So –

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If you're not ready to leave this world, your spirit's going to stop.

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There's no one here. I'm just looking around you just in case I'm...

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That's what I think. They're my thoughts only. So that's why the noises that

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I used to hear, I'd ask, who have we got in here today?

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What happened to them? You know, and it's just kind of weird to see if I'm going

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to feel anything or see anything or connect with anything. And yeah. Okay.

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It sounds very, very interesting. It is interesting. But rail,

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hail or shine, a funeral will take process, no matter what. How do you mean?

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As in like it could be pouring the day we're doing it, right?

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You've still got to go through that. We are going through with it.

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It just, everything goes through. Yeah.

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Yes, no matter what, no matter what. We've been in gumboots in territories. Yes, yes.

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Tell me. Yes. Just to change the subject a little bit, how did you go during Valentine's Day?

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What sort of a day did you have? What did you do?

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We were each other's Valentine's Day. Yeah, so she bought me a beautiful rose

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petal bear and we had a lovely dinner together.

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We just went out to a restaurant and it was lovely.

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So I'd been doing that with her since she was a little girl because her father used to work away.

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Okay. So we'd go to dinners together while everybody's kind of having their

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dinner and I'm here with this little toddler.

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She was my Valentine. She'd have a little sandwich and I'll have whatever it was I was having.

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So she looks forward to Valentine's Day as well. Absolutely.

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We think it's very special.

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Not only, I mean, it's great if you've got a partner and it is the day of love, they say.

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I mean, days of love should be 365 days a year, not just one particular day.

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But it's nice that, you know, it's just like having a birthday.

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Exactly. It can be your birthday every day. You don't need to wait for one day

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to celebrate, to celebrate any time of your life.

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But it's nice. It's nice that people go out and just, you know,

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if it's once a year you get flowers, then it's once a year you get flowers.

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So what happens now if she gets her Valentine? Well, she has got a Valentine.

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This is her first. The outside one.

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Yeah, this is her first. She has got a valentine. Oh, okay. Yeah,

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she's just recently announced a, I have a boyfriend.

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Oh, you're okay then. Which is lovely. So we are very, actually,

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it was quite funny because she did this, she's quite popular on TikTok, this TikTok thing.

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Yeah. So she did a TikTok video. I'm not sure whether she put it up or not,

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but she gave it to me and I posted and I had that many comments coming and that

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was funny. So she thought she was going to get flowers.

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And so she did this video where she's sitting down on the couch and she says,

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I'm just going to get something and her boyfriend's lying down and he's gone

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and, you know, she's gone and got a vase and she said, I'm just going to put

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the flowers in the vase that you bought me.

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I'm rearranging it but there was actually no flowers. She was just doing the

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motions of it and she was like, could you hold that one? And he holds it and

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he's looking at her like thinking, are you crazy?

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Like there is no flowers there and she'll be like, oh, these look beautiful.

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I'm just going to get some water. Are you saying like he didn't realise that she was having him on?

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He realised it, but he was half-hearted. He was like in the video you see him

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looking like she's either like loopy or like what is she doing?

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And it was like, hint, hint, where are the flowers?

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She goes, I'm just going to go put water. But then she got him by turning around

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saying when she came back to the couch, she put the flowers on the table and

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he goes, you forgot the water.

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So I think she just burst out laughing and thought he got me so anyway I think

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Valentine's is beautiful and,

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And it should be, you know, there should be chocolates and flowers and just

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that extra special love going around, even to a stranger. See, I met you, Paul.

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Where were my flowers? Why didn't you give me flowers? It's so Valentine's gone now.

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It's at speed. You have to wait for an action. You did meet.

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Oh, when did we meet? I don't know. When we met. Street talk.

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Yeah, all this is street talk. Next year, you just walk up to someone with a

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rose and say, can I interview you? I think they'd talk to me if I did that.

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Well, I would. But I'm just a different kettle of fish. I am now.

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I went off to quite a number of people and sort of said, like,

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you know, I'm a podcaster. I've got my card and I've given you my card. Sure.

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Would you like to have a five-minute chat?

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Paul, you know what the problem was? You forgot to say your name was Sammy Newman. Yeah.

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I'm his brother. Do I look alike? He's always in trouble. He's in trouble, yeah.

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You need to say, I'm Sammy Newman. They would probably stop and look at you

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for a minute and go, right.

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Then they really would run away. I'll face it. Like they won't talk to you because they're not sure.

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And because I don't have the microphone, I only have a little recorder.

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Yeah, sure, sure. And so with this little recorder, they'd look at me and think.

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Maybe you should carry lollies around or something. Do you think?

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Chocolates? No. Pack of cigarettes?

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I don't. A vape. Yeah. I'm giving away vapes today, if I can interview you. Maybe they might stop.

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Yeah. It'd be interesting to see if it could happen.

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You know, you never know. That's what I think it's possible.

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Well, I thought I had the 100 million. Oh, how's that lady who won it in Sydney? Okay.

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Yeah. Yeah. So, well, Alex, it's been great talking to you and getting a little

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bit of insight, especially the funeral parlor.

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It's very nice for you to give me a little bit of your time for this podcast

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and hopefully we'll have that on board in the next few days.

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Glad I could be of assistance. I'm glad I stopped and didn't walk past you.

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