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Speaker 1: Jason Lauren, I'm wondering you're on the air with Jason

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Speaker 1: Lawren Clinty from the newsroom as well. Also, do we

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Speaker 1: have to stand for I suppose he doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: job just yet. Please welcome the potential new Lord Mayor

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Speaker 1: of Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Cuer.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Great to be everybody, Anthony to me, and so they

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Speaker 4: don't have to stand.

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Speaker 2: Do you know when I know that somebody's up for

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Speaker 2: the task, up for the challenge, they've got two phones, Anthony,

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Speaker 2: that's the sign of somebody ready to get into politics.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple of guys going up and down

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Speaker 1: Chapel Street on a Saturday night that are ready to

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Speaker 1: get into politics.

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Speaker 5: Then have you got a family fund in a business line?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: I do, yes, yes, so the business fan I've had

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Speaker 4: for a long time now since retiring from football.

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Speaker 3: The other one is more of a private one. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: right mate. First question, why.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a good question. It's a love of

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Speaker 4: the Melbourne, the city. I mean, we can all see

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Speaker 4: what's going on there right now. And got introduced and

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Speaker 4: got spoken to. I thought me politics.

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Speaker 5: I don't know when someone came to you. This wasn't

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Speaker 5: your idea.

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Speaker 4: Correct, yes, but like I've seen what's been occurring in

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Speaker 4: the city and yeah, it's not a good thing. And

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Speaker 4: we're talking like city Docklands is a ghost towns around

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Speaker 4: Logan Street, the place that I grew up, and they're

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Speaker 4: all screaming down there of what's going on. So there's

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Speaker 4: a lot of work to do. I don't know over

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Speaker 4: the years how it's slowly unfolded to this the most

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Speaker 4: livable city in the world, to what it's become now.

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Speaker 4: It's very sad to see. We don't want it to occur.

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Speaker 4: Like I think Caldon football club culture right at the seventies, eighties, nineties,

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Speaker 4: I get there in the nineties, unbelievable. But you can

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Speaker 4: lose culture overnight like we did at Carlton. It's been

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Speaker 4: thirty almost thirty since our last premiership and if we

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Speaker 4: take our city for granted, this is what can happen.

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Speaker 3: And so there's a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 4: And I'm no politician, as you know, but I feel

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Speaker 4: like the team that I've got now and the team

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Speaker 4: we're building who have a passion and love for this

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Speaker 4: city to be able to do things and bring people

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Speaker 4: back really exciting.

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Speaker 5: Well it's good. Yeah, he's good about this mayoral election

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Speaker 5: because there's obviously there's a few people in the running.

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Speaker 5: Is that everyone is so passionate about our city, which

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Speaker 5: we are to like, I love Melbourne and we've got

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Speaker 5: friends who have restaurants in the city and they're struggling

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Speaker 5: so desperately because we're not going into the city anymore.

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Speaker 5: How are you going to get people back into the CBD.

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Speaker 4: Look, I've had numerous amount of fune course, I mean

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Speaker 4: there's restaurants that have been there for thirty years that

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Speaker 4: have closed down. I think there's a lot of people

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Speaker 4: that have probably got six to twelve months left before

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Speaker 4: they just go. I can't do this anymore. People in

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Speaker 4: South Bank reaching out to me as well, and so

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Speaker 4: it's a really difficult time. The car parking is a mess.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, well, we're going to after six

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Speaker 4: thirty you don't have to pay for car parks to

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Speaker 4: get in. We're bringing back the way that people want

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Speaker 4: to come in. I mean, why should families have to

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Speaker 4: pay to come in later on?

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Speaker 3: Because park in the city is a nightmare and it's

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Speaker 3: a fortune. Yeah it is, that's right.

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Speaker 4: I mean we're reviewing the bike lanes because the bike

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Speaker 4: lanes have been there, But like you sit there in

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Speaker 4: traffic and you wonder how many people are actually utilizing.

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Speaker 4: A big advocate for health and fitness, I want it.

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Speaker 4: I'll do things for PTA and get the people.

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Speaker 3: Out there to train. But we've got to look at it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if it's affecting businesses, it's affecting flow.

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Speaker 5: The bike line stopped some parking as well, right correctly.

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Speaker 4: And it's dangerous too. Sometimes when you want to turn

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Speaker 4: left or you aren't sure.

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Speaker 1: There's no bikes, where do you sit on the scooters?

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Speaker 3: Well that's the other one too.

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Speaker 4: The thing I don't like about is when I walk

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Speaker 4: around the city and seem trashed. I don't think that's respectable.

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Speaker 4: I grew up in a time where we respected people

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Speaker 4: and respected things that were given to us, and if

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Speaker 4: we take it for granted, I don't like it.

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Speaker 2: Pulled the pin on the scooters. Nick Grease being the

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Speaker 2: current mayor, what he's done.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: The thing is I speaking in the other network before.

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Speaker 4: I mean in Europe, everything's done in an orly matter

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Speaker 4: and if we can do that, I would look at it.

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Speaker 4: We need to put some guidelines and rules but I

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Speaker 4: think of the elderly people too, and how often they've

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Speaker 4: spoken to megun. You know, there's hooligans just zooming past

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Speaker 4: them and things like that.

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Speaker 3: It's not good for the city.

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Speaker 1: Put in because we were saying last week Lauren and

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Speaker 1: I like, what's working in every other country around the world.

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Speaker 1: Are we turning into Nana's here in Melbourne? Well, rather

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Speaker 1: just saying no, just implement harsher penalties.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's the thing, and that might be the

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Speaker 4: thing that actually stops them from happening, you know.

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Speaker 1: So it's just back on hospital. Are we going to

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Speaker 1: see any of these pop up around the city hungry?

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Speaker 3: Do you want something to eat? I've got something boyer,

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Speaker 3: there you go, what you want?

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Speaker 4: So lucky?

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Speaker 1: Are we going to see curdis sub lucky huts popping

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Speaker 1: up on street?

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Speaker 3: You never know? You never know, certainly not.

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Speaker 4: I haven't thought about it.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's one of the things that you know, you

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Speaker 5: when you enter politics and you enter this kind of

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Speaker 5: part of your life. People dig things up, people get

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Speaker 5: skeletons out of the closet. Is there anything that you're like,

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Speaker 5: I'm just going to put my cards on the table

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Speaker 5: and say, hey, guys, don't worry about digging this up.

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Speaker 5: I'm already giving.

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Speaker 4: It to a gladiators was one regrets of luck he had.

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Speaker 3: He is the other one.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I didn't know you're glading.

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Speaker 4: He was glad out of here back in two thousand

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Speaker 4: and eight eight Greek god touched by the gods.

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Speaker 3: He very good. I probably shouldn't have said that, but.

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Speaker 1: Are we're talking g gladygators.

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Speaker 3: Lords that didn't go well? I wasn't quite as good

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Speaker 3: as the original name.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so as the skeletons, or if you paid people off?

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Speaker 3: No, no, all good or good?

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Speaker 5: What do you think your chances are? Because it is

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Speaker 5: quite competitive. I know Aaron Wood, he's got erin daring

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Speaker 5: is his depulent deputy Lord Mayor. And I love her

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Speaker 5: and I think a lot of women are like who

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Speaker 5: really like having her in a leadership position. What do

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Speaker 5: you think your chances are? Who's in your team?

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Speaker 2: And what is Chris?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Well, unfortunately has gone over time for it, but Angel

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Speaker 4: is always around in touch can He's one who's led

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Speaker 4: that Windham Council for eight years and glad us lose

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Speaker 4: the other one. She's been around for a long long time,

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Speaker 4: and I love the fact that she's part of the

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Speaker 4: team now too.

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Speaker 3: She's just that rule.

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Speaker 2: Like, let's go Gladys as a local member out in

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Speaker 2: the east. Wasn't she a liberal member out of there?

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Speaker 3: She's been in the politics for a long long time.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I love that people are talking about the Lord Mayor, Like,

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Speaker 5: I don't ever remember a year where I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 5: we're going for a new Lord mayor.

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Speaker 3: John So he was our bro.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember, and then there was some dude that

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Speaker 1: took advantage of the council bar and I remember.

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Speaker 2: There was a few issues with Robert Doyle that I love.

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Speaker 5: That people are talking about it again because people aren't

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Speaker 5: quite passionate about bringing our city back to life. Which look,

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Speaker 5: COVID killed Melbourne CBD, There's no doubt about it. People

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Speaker 5: aren't working back in their offices in the city as much.

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Speaker 5: It's it's tough in the CBD.

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Speaker 4: It is, and I think, you know, if it continues

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Speaker 4: on this pathway, who knows where we'll be in another

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Speaker 4: year or two.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's got to be a lot of changes.

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Speaker 3: It's not going to be easy.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be a slow process, but things have

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Speaker 4: to be done asap. And if you don't do it

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Speaker 4: then you know, it just gets worse and worse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we've got you. What's going on with the

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Speaker 1: Blue Baggers?

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Speaker 3: We thought it was there. They're back.

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Speaker 2: They're going to sneak into September. It looks like it, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but they sort of are they making up the numbers?

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Speaker 4: Couder Well, it's funny because football, what what a year

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Speaker 4: it's been right up and down.

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Speaker 3: Stranger.

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Speaker 4: There will be one quarter that a team will play

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Speaker 4: well that then it progresses him onto the next week

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Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, there.

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Speaker 3: Stars like you. Look at Carlton last year around fifteen

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Speaker 3: I wrote him off.

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Speaker 4: They had one good game against gold Case and almost

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Speaker 4: went on to play in the ground. Everything is open

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Speaker 4: right now, I'm going to say because the Carlton man.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, everyone who's in a chance, But you didn't.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't very convinced.

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Speaker 2: Would Christian Petrarca look good in navy blo pencils pencil

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Speaker 2: us and then for a premiership?

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Speaker 3: For sure he was to come across wonderful play.

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Speaker 1: Bee bloody drive down there and pick him up. He

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Speaker 1: needs a list.

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Speaker 5: Luck ever, please get our city back to expose.

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Speaker 3: I'll do my best good in the road, wouldn't he

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Speaker 3: cur he would?

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Speaker 1: You know what you speak very well.

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Speaker 3: You're on the right track, like Laurence.

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Speaker 5: If you have been the King of Momber, haven't if

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Speaker 5: you lose the mayor, all that colorful hat. Jason Lauren

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Speaker 5: Jason Lauren wake up feeling Good on number one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Jason Lauren on socials,