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Speaker 1: Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Christian o'connel show podcast Big News in

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Speaker 2: Melbourne yesterday The Melbourne Star No more. Who on this

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Speaker 2: show has actually been on the Melbourne Star.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I went in June during our survey break.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps one of the.

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Speaker 2: Few people I've met since they moved it three years

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Speaker 2: ago there's ever been on it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was great the view. We went on a

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Speaker 3: really clear sunny day and it was so much fun.

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Speaker 2: But what is the view up there? Because like in London,

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Speaker 2: they've got like the London Eye, so a bigger version

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Speaker 2: same thing right and there it's right on the River Thames.

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Speaker 2: It's right in the middle of London, so your opposite

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Speaker 2: big bend the Houses of Parliament, you know, is an

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Speaker 2: amazing skyline. You're right in the middle of lond you

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Speaker 2: can see bucking in Palis. I'm pretty sure you know.

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Speaker 2: Whenever i'm sort of driven past, it's always that thing

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Speaker 2: you see going to the airport, going back with go

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Speaker 2: Melbourne before you see like the g and feel proud

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Speaker 2: and up that thing and it seems to just mainly

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Speaker 2: be a view of the roof of Costco.

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Speaker 4: And Dare you wanted to never doing rotting? Yes? I

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Speaker 4: never see it moving.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it goes nice and slow, Jack, But you

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Speaker 3: can you can see right out to Rosebud, to the

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Speaker 3: Yu Yang's over in the west, right out way past

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Speaker 3: your way at Thornbride.

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Speaker 2: Jack.

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Speaker 4: The view was quite good to me.

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Speaker 2: It was at night, it was at his peak. It

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Speaker 2: looked nice to look at. I always think it looked

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Speaker 2: great in the skyline, okay, but in terms of actually

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Speaker 2: the viewing experience going on it, I always sort of

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Speaker 2: just seemed to be like in a dreary part of

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Speaker 2: the industrial area. Stick that right outside the G or

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Speaker 2: all the sports precinct is there. That's an amazing beautiful

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Speaker 2: parts of a view over the G or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I think they built it in a time where they

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Speaker 1: were redeveloping all of docklands, and they actually thought we

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Speaker 1: were going to be flocking the docklands every weekend.

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Speaker 2: Remember was it last year on the show and I

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Speaker 2: started moaning about docklands while chatting to Sally Cat and

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Speaker 2: Sally Gat the Lord Mago's I lived there. It's just charming.

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Speaker 2: She'd been taking a big hammer today to that Millennium star,

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Speaker 2: furious furious to us.

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Speaker 4: Melbourne has didn't back the Star.

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Speaker 2: Thirteen years it's been there and then you know, perhaps

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Speaker 2: he must have reported on it. I didn't really know it.

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Speaker 2: So when they when they opened it thirteen years ago,

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Speaker 2: it only ran from about forty days. Shut it for

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Speaker 2: two years because it wasn't good and basically the weather.

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Speaker 4: What have they been doing?

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Speaker 2: What had they been building? When was it based for

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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia or where it can't cope with some rain

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Speaker 2: and some wind. They got it from cheap, I'm guessing.

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Speaker 3: Didn't the pods crack and they had to take some

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Speaker 3: of the pods off.

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Speaker 4: I remember there was a crack in there. They were

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Speaker 4: worried about spinning it around.

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Speaker 2: Really, yeah, we had all this, have you? So you've

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Speaker 2: been on the one in London that's got a nice view.

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Speaker 1: One in London is great. I would never think to

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Speaker 1: go on the Melbourne Star. I didn't, actually, Pat, I'm

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Speaker 1: surprise you went on it because I thought people from

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Speaker 1: Melbourne didn't go on and it was a tourist trap.

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Speaker 1: Only the only person I know who ever even got

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Speaker 1: a ticket for it was my mum got a ticket

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Speaker 1: for the Melbourne Star when it first opened from my

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Speaker 1: brother for Christmas, but he didn't give it like family

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Speaker 1: pass or even a ticket for mom and dad. It

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Speaker 1: was just one single solo ticket for mom to go

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Speaker 1: on the Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Just by yourself in a punishment. Pods kind of share

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Speaker 2: the experience for anyone else. It's more like solitary confinement.

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Speaker 3: They get you, though, don't they, because it's like every

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Speaker 3: other attraction, like you know in New York. You as

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Speaker 3: soon as you get off, you've got the photo opportunity.

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Speaker 3: So you stand in a fake pod and you can

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Speaker 3: get like that.

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Speaker 2: Can't get the photo up there again a truer experience.

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Speaker 2: Who wants a photo of your sav looking over the

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Speaker 2: roof of Costco and thorn in the distance? Why do

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Speaker 2: I feel so miserable right now?

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Speaker 3: Then you wait half an hour for it to develop,

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Speaker 3: so you're standing around, standing around, standing around.

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Speaker 4: Can you guys super impose me on the London one.

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Speaker 4: I want to see.

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Speaker 2: Lots of moabs are around the world. That is so great.

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Speaker 2: On the Millenium Star you can see the times Mahal

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Speaker 2: just seemed to be a deserted sort of wasteland there

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Speaker 2: as well. Yesterday on the TV news, this is a

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Speaker 2: great story for a local TV news, isn't it that

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Speaker 2: the guy was really this is you know, and there

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Speaker 2: was Trump put everything in a COVID thing right now,

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Speaker 2: don't they? It's the backdrom. This is just another bad

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Speaker 2: day for Melbourne. And I'm thinking, how many us really

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Speaker 2: upset that the Millennium Star is going to be put

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Speaker 2: out on hard rubbish? Is it just gonna be sort

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Speaker 2: of lent over and outside of a nature stripped down there?

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Speaker 4: Today we can all get one have your own part.

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Speaker 2: And they were going people here in Melbourne would have

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Speaker 2: stories about the Millenniums and the Melbourne style that they

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Speaker 2: got engaged on it. You know, they met lovers on there,

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Speaker 2: they went on first date. So again, did anyone ever

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Speaker 2: get engaged on that? I'm sure that no one's got engaged.

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Speaker 4: That even people went on it. But Patty's been on.

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Speaker 2: It, had an amazing time.

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Speaker 4: You can check.

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Speaker 2: You can see thorting. This is the Christian O'Connell show

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