Eddie Robertson

Like that was a big production though, like ABC, and took a number of months to put that together and a lot of moving parts and, you know, but this was my way of kind of just sort of,

very easy to find a good picture um write a bit of a blurb um you know honor them in my own way and then just press upload and and boom it's out there and um look you know for the most part like it got a really good response you know there was a lot of people would um like anything man you're gonna get like you know trolls or whatever and and that's fine man if people enjoy doing that that's their prerogative but um a lot of people would you know like

write comments and it would just be like oh you know it's nice to hear that that side of the you know i heard about when he was killed and i read about it in the telegraph or the sun or whatever and um but i didn't know that you know he liked to he was into um restoring furniture or he loved fishing or you know whatever i included in these little spiels and

I really enjoyed it, you know, but it wasn't all about that.

And then I'd, like, you know, find some crazy picture of, you know, like a burned-out vehicle or something and I'd tell a story about what happened there and I started using emojis and I think that's what appealed to a lot of the younger people because, like, you've got this –

I mean, I'm 47 now and this was 10 years ago.

So I'm this guy in his late 30s who's using these fucking – I thought they were just cool little pictures that helped tell the story.

Not until my own kids are sort of saying to me, like I still send them to them in their text message.

I've got teenage kids and they're like, Dad, that's so lame.

You know what I'm saying?

Stop using them.

But, yeah, but at the time I think, you know, a lot of people sort of thought, oh, you know, it's funny.

Like, well, he's not trying to be funny but he's just sort of – I'd use the Australian flag, the crossed swords, the, like, raised yellow fist so it wasn't like a white fist or a black fist.

It was just the yellow to denote, you know, like everyone, you know, like a fist up.

Um, I'd use like the, the, if it was about a guy that was cool, I'd use the dove, you know, like, and I'd brought like, you know, blue skies, like blue skies to the fallen.

And I didn't like to use rest in peace, but I just wrote blue skies and I'd use the dove and to symbolize, you know, peace and all that.

And, um, yeah, look, it was great.

And, and as, as we were talking to Scotty earlier, um, um,

It became a bit of a juggernaut and I can't remember how, I think at one stage I ended up getting close to 20,000 followers and like I wasn't buying the followers or anything like that.

It was just another guy that'd shout me out and help me boot and then I did a few podcasts and they'd shout me out and then it was building up.