Eddie Robertson

5-1-7-0.

Thanks for having me, mate.

I guess it's been a long time coming, but I've only just recently reinserted myself into the social media podcast realm and I'm here to have a yarn and have a few laughs.

Yeah, mate.

Yeah, spread the good word.

Yeah, look, I...

I was pretty lucky.

I had a mate of mine, I won't mention his name, but he encouraged me to go into that.

He'd already gone into that space.

I'm not going to say his name, but guys will know who I'm talking about.

He moved over to the States and he just said, look, man, jump on board.

You've got to tell these stories.

And I did and I followed his advice and I didn't know anything.

I didn't know what a hashtag was or –

or even the like, you know, how to tag someone else or, you know, and I, it was a bit of a learning curve, you know, and, um, but it gained a bit of a momentum and, um, I found that when I started to, um, I wanted to tell the stories of the guys, like, so I started off, you know, like I'd, I'd, you know, put a picture up of one of the guys and who, you know, passed away and I, and I just,

put the date, you know, date of birth, date he was KIA.

And then I'd just write a little sort of a spiel, you know, like, you know, this is who he was, this is how he was KIA, and this is how he was remembered by us and how his family remembered him because, you know, I'd been to a lot of those funerals and stuff.

And it was just a way of just sort of kind of like it wasn't monetised or anything like that.

It was just my way of sort of spreading the word, you know, like telling their stories.

I'd previously been involved in Australian Story, like telling Cam Baird's story, and that was great, you know.