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Speaker 1: Are you ready to do some detective work?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll get it you just click play for a

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Speaker 2: nice and easy listener. Now you have to do work.

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Speaker 2: Just kidding, I'm doing the hard work.

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Speaker 1: I'm utsimone and very.

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Speaker 2: Soon I will be introducing you to someone seemingly normal,

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Speaker 2: but they are concealing something peculiar, weird or a little

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Speaker 2: freaky from us side. But don't worry, I will uncover

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Speaker 2: what that is. This is concealed with me artsimone. Time

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Speaker 2: for the announcement from our guest roll the tape.

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Speaker 3: Hi, my name's Lawrence.

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Speaker 4: I'm from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. I've lived

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Speaker 4: in Melbourne for seventeen years. I'm in a Melbourne band.

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Speaker 4: I'm a staunch union rep. I've had one haircut in

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Speaker 4: thirteen years and I'm concealing my day job.

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Speaker 1: Holli, Lawrence, how are you?

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Speaker 3: I am very well?

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 2: You've really throwed me on the one haircut in thirteen years.

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Speaker 2: To give context, you have a luscious mane in front

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Speaker 2: of me. It is giving full rock star. So you

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Speaker 2: are in a band as well? What do you play?

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Speaker 3: I play guitar, piano and I sing.

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Speaker 2: You do a lot of their banging, a lot of

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Speaker 2: head bangs, a lot of momentum in with it.

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Speaker 3: Do what a bangover is?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Okay, well, I guess I can assume what a

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Speaker 1: bangover is.

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Speaker 4: The bangover is what happens when you're thirty five and

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Speaker 4: above and you've been headbanging your favorite band. The next

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Speaker 4: day you wake over with a very, very very sore neck,

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Speaker 4: which is not something that happens in your twenties.

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Speaker 3: So you bangover gets worse. When you hangover gets worse.

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Speaker 2: Now we know why you're a union rep, because you're like,

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Speaker 2: you got to stop moving your next you know you

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Speaker 2: doing that. But now so you're you're sitting but in

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Speaker 2: front of me, you've got a big, luscious maine. You've

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Speaker 2: got a big chops. They're called chops.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so good.

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Speaker 2: I haven't been to have facial hair ever since because

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Speaker 2: I'm am a cross dresser, so the beer doesn't really

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Speaker 2: go with the look. You know, maybe one day, maybe

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Speaker 2: one day and we've got cut off flannel. Now I'm

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Speaker 2: back to the haircut, right, white haircut in thirteen years?

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Speaker 1: What are you afraid of?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm afraid of barber's.

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Speaker 1: Oh Okay, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't a fun experience as a kid, just bitten,

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Speaker 4: mashed down to the barbers, wanted to have long hair,

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Speaker 4: and then I turned eighteen, had long hair, and then

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Speaker 2: Look, I can relate to you because I don't have

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Speaker 2: long hair, but I always wanted to color my hair,

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Speaker 2: and then sow, I was eighteen and out of high school,

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Speaker 2: I colored my hair and I've had crazy colors ever since,

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Speaker 2: and I won't stop. I'm going to do it until

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Speaker 2: this four hairs left. I'm just going to just going

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Speaker 2: to die those four. I'm really hoping I go gray

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Speaker 2: early because I'm sick of bleaching. That'd be amazing. Then

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Speaker 2: I could just chuck the color on. Would that beautiful?

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Speaker 4: I was starting to get a little bit self conscious

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Speaker 4: about turning gray. They're starting to come out the front

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Speaker 4: because under the on the sideburns they're all like blasting

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Speaker 4: the gray. And my partners are very excited for the

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Speaker 4: silver fox period.

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Speaker 1: Bring it up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah all right, okay, So I'm going to ask you

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Speaker 2: three questions, and from the answers to those three questions,

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Speaker 2: concealing from me, which you said is your day job?

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Speaker 1: Okay, mysterious.

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Speaker 2: First question for you is what was your favorite TV

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Speaker 3: Thomas the Tank Engine?

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Speaker 2: Okay, train. Oh, he's not called the fat Controller anymore.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 2: But no, he's just like mister Controller or something, you know,

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Speaker 2: which is which is fine? What was your favorite engine

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Speaker 3: It was Henry?

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Speaker 1: Henry? Was he the angry one?

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Speaker 3: No, the angry on was Gordon?

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Speaker 1: Are you really?

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Speaker 3: God? Am I so good at this?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 2: Question number two? What physical feature do people recognize first

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Speaker 3: It's not so much a physical feature, it's the it's

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Speaker 3: my voice.

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Speaker 1: Your voice.

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Speaker 2: Oh I thought they'd say, like your hair. No, it

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Speaker 2: used to be oh so your voice.

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Speaker 1: They like you. Okay, they know your voice too. Choo okay, beautiful.

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Speaker 2: And the third question I have is what Ozzie landmarks

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Speaker 2: should be added to the list of Wonders of the world.

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Speaker 3: Flint the Street Station.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think I got this one. I feel like

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Speaker 2: I got so let's put it together, all right. First

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Speaker 2: of all, Thomas the Tank Agent. Wonderful choice. We're all

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Speaker 2: going about trains, and then you say a voice. You

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Speaker 2: know this, You know this is only one thing that

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Speaker 2: talking about the fact control of bat Do you like

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Speaker 2: announce things on to the platforms? Are you the platform

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Speaker 2: announce it? Person that goes the three forty two Lily

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Speaker 2: Dale will now be departing from platform two.

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Speaker 4: Is it? Good morning and welcome to Flinda Street Station.

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Speaker 4: My name is Lawrence Houson, or if some of you

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Speaker 4: know me better as the voice of Flinda Station. I

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Speaker 4: went viral in November twenty twenty three four making obnoxious

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Speaker 4: train announcements at Flinda Station, and I've been doing it

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Speaker 2: You just popped up on my instant stories. I swear

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Speaker 2: like two weeks ago. Ah, it was you. You weren't dressed

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Speaker 3: It's very not allowed to be dressed like this. I

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Speaker 1: Well that's that thing too.

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Speaker 2: I did not reckond go pah. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: Who would have thought after three seasons I got it

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Speaker 2: right here? Lawrence is that man at the train station.

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Speaker 2: He's the voice of Linda's Street. Isn't that amazing? What

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Speaker 2: a good voice. Not as good as mine though. All right,

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Speaker 2: So we're here with Lawrence, who is the voice of

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Speaker 2: Flinder's station in my presence. Ah, and what a perfect

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Speaker 2: format to have you here on we get to listen

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Speaker 2: to your beautiful tones direct into our ear holes.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that beautiful?

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Speaker 3: Somewhat more conversational announced and style.

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Speaker 1: That is true, Actually, that is true.

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Speaker 2: You could actually branch out a little bit more, but

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Speaker 2: I feel like you kind of do that a little

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Speaker 2: bit within your job. So maybe let's explain if people

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Speaker 2: don't know exactly what it is you do. You work

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Speaker 2: at Flint the Street station. Do you just do the announcements?

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Speaker 2: What else do you do? Like did it just how

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Speaker 2: that happen? Because people may not know, but usually along

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Speaker 2: the train line it's just some lady who's like a

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Speaker 1: Avoiced that goes the next station is glen Ferry.

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Speaker 3: That is on the internal on the inside of the trains.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because the drivers have to concentrate on what they're doing,

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Speaker 4: so they can't make all the announcements all the time.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes they do, but not all the time.

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Speaker 4: So I was hired as an LSA or what's known

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Speaker 4: as a leading station assistant, So we could be on

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Speaker 4: the barriers, we could be roving, we could be making

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Speaker 4: platform announcements. I just kind of hinted at work a

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Speaker 4: I've spent more than half my life in front of

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Speaker 1: What was the position that they already had.

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Speaker 4: It used to be an official position, and then it

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Speaker 4: was absorbed into LSA's in general, so you know, we're

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Speaker 4: we do. But I just sort of let work know, hey,

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Speaker 4: I'm quite good at this.

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Speaker 3: Can I do this?

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Speaker 4: And I'd actually enjoy turning up to work more. And

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Speaker 4: they were like, if this would make work more enjoyable

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Speaker 3: And that had it happened, which is nice.

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Speaker 4: So the important bit is like just the safety announcements,

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Speaker 4: then secondarily it's just letting people know when trains are

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Speaker 1: Just listening to you. Now, you'd be really good at

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you'd be I'd have a good teacher voice.

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Speaker 3: I laid into someone today. You know what it is.

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Speaker 4: It's this constant bothersome issue that happens on the network

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Speaker 3: Leave until you step back.

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Speaker 4: And today I employed what a partner of mine is

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Speaker 3: As the days go on.

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Speaker 1: You're very qualified.

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Speaker 2: I usually just hit at them, which usually works well

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Speaker 2: because I feel like we have a lot in common.

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Speaker 2: We have to facilitate a lot of things. On a microphone,

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Speaker 2: you're dealing with a lot more people and a lot

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Speaker 2: of a variety of people. And you know, Dore, I say, actually,

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Speaker 2: maybe you know keeping people safe.

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Speaker 1: I don't tend to do that.

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Speaker 2: I probably make them unsafe because I but I have

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Speaker 2: to go higher in my voice the people to pay attention.

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Speaker 2: You get to do the opposite yes, I do. I

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Speaker 2: blend in if I.

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Speaker 1: Got a low, which I won't do today anyway.

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Speaker 2: So were you just always interested in trains? Are you

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Speaker 2: just like, oh, I'm I'm just going to pick up

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Speaker 2: a job there. I've wanted something to do.

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Speaker 4: I from a very young age obsessed with trains. That's

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Speaker 4: not why I went to Metro. I've worked a series

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Speaker 4: of jobs over the years and I had just left

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Speaker 4: Australia Post and was looking to do something with a

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Speaker 4: much more customer facing role, because yeah, I wanted something

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Speaker 4: a bit more engaged with people, and so I went

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Speaker 4: to Metro and.

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to do a customer service role.

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Speaker 4: Didn't even know that platform announcing was a thing that

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Speaker 4: you could still be done on a manual level and

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Speaker 4: then bang found.

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Speaker 3: A way in.

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Speaker 2: So when did you start to add your own flare

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Speaker 2: to this? Because I don't I feel like you were

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Speaker 2: you inditially you just you know as you do the

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Speaker 2: basics ago, it's the five forty five city loop.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't caught a trade in a

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Speaker 1: long time.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to say I was that humble at the start,

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Speaker 3: but I.

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Speaker 4: Really I no, no, no, no, So you do you

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Speaker 4: do three weeks at the Metro Academy, which is their

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Speaker 3: But I've been a class with seventeen people. Oh nearly.

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Speaker 4: Was like, come to Flinder Street station like I've em

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Speaker 3: I was just like, you know what, this is where

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Speaker 3: Something would love to do.

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Speaker 3: An auctioneer, which i'd love to give a crack.

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Speaker 3: That issues without whatsoever they could use.

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Speaker 2: They could use the ballroom upstairs, Yeah they can what

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Speaker 2: So maybe rock show or at auction Okay, that's gonna

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Speaker 2: But I got from a real buck to stop before

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Speaker 4: I was on platform six and seven today and go

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Speaker 1: I don't have to go to something across everyone, right,

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Speaker 4: But the train brings a little piece of Southern Cross

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Speaker 4: just like, smells like Southern Cross. How's that dense stench

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Speaker 2: Alright, I'll see how it is. Yeah, but we have

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Speaker 3: Take that. Yeah, I can't argue with you.

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Speaker 4: At least they don't get off the train with black lungs.

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Speaker 4: And I get a victim from probably just straight me

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Speaker 2: So you were going at it, you were, you were

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Speaker 4: It started off with a few people taking videos and

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't even behind it.

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Speaker 4: No, No, I didn't, No, No, this this, this popped

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Speaker 2: And let's well, let's get into We'll finished this and

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Speaker 4: So Lucy would come to go through the station on

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Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of Peple would have been

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Speaker 1: So, I mean, I probably would be like this cap.

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Speaker 4: I still like just scroll through Instagram and find like

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Speaker 3: So yeah, lots of people do it, ye.

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Speaker 4: She made a concerted effort to document that this is

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Speaker 4: a tribute to this guy.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Wow, So she she's made the account.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like you've something's taken away from you,

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Speaker 2: a bit of ownership over like your own I don't know, identity.

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Speaker 1: No, it's like a fan account.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of public property, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Like you're out there, I belong to Melbourne, dedicated, I'm

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Speaker 1: I guess it's a fan account.

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Speaker 2: But in a day, in an age where people want

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Speaker 2: to pivot off everything to become superstars themselves. Have you

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Speaker 2: this to advertise my band?

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Speaker 1: Or do this or do that?

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Speaker 3: I have been doing a bit of that recently. Ish.

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Speaker 4: She has since stepped back from it. I don't think

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Speaker 4: It started off as just you know, oh, maybe a

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Speaker 4: my partners who now runs the account and sort of

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Speaker 2: Oh great, okay, fabulous. So other time you were talking about.

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Speaker 3: Right, I came. So it's an era of my life.

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Speaker 4: I was working at a backpacker hostel on Elizabeth Street,

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Speaker 1: Are you always? Is everything centric around Flinders Street?

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Speaker 3: I don't know what happened.

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Speaker 4: I'm not even from Melbourne, Like, I just moved down

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Speaker 3: And then yeah, I don't know, it is kind of sent.

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Speaker 2: With the flint the street station steps because I was

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Speaker 1: I'd just go to Dangerfield across the road.

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Speaker 4: But that was a time and place that was Melbourne

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Speaker 4: were doing like occupy Wall Street before by Wall Street,

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Speaker 4: but it was you know, Emo, Pye Flinda.

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Speaker 2: Street exactly, and it's it's beautiful. I think that's stunning.

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Speaker 2: Actually I thought it was great. Yeah, I think you

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Speaker 2: all looked amazing. I think you talking all right.

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Speaker 4: So I'm working at this backpack, soscal in the city

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Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 4: I turned thirty five years ago and on my thirtieth birthday,

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Speaker 4: I get this message in my DMS and it's like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: So they gave me your birthday.

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Speaker 2: You got a weird digital version of this is your life.

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Speaker 2: You're like, all right, welcome, Yeah, here's the little time

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was intense and so they gave me access.

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Speaker 1: Is that just because you looked too unique?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 1: Is that it?

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Speaker 3: I think that was it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going through this was going for like four

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Speaker 4: ex girlfriends' best maids, people who have It's moved to

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Speaker 1: People want't you.

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Speaker 2: I've got no idea, that's what That's what I'm getting

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Speaker 2: You're a magnet of attraction and you've got to use that,

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Speaker 2: see you do the announcements?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite platform? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Actually yeah, I do Platform one and Platform four and five.

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Speaker 1: Better acoustics, just.

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Speaker 3: More intense, like a lot busier, Yeah, bigger audience.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I was on platform six and seven

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Speaker 4: Like by the time the trains come through, they've already

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Speaker 1: Have an artist, people to see my work.

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Speaker 3: And I'm jealously looking at like four and five.

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Speaker 2: So what has it been like the response from you know,

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Speaker 3: All enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: The upper above like the I got to meet the CEO.

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Speaker 4: I mean what, I'd worked there two months and the

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Speaker 4: CEO came down to say hi, and you know, that

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Speaker 3: I'm getting deployed now.

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Speaker 4: I get deployments like I'm going to wind up an

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Speaker 1: That I do a tour.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who would have thought? It's not the music that's

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Speaker 2: going to get you touring. You're going to be doing

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Speaker 3: Did I slog my guts out in a rock bend

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Speaker 3: for ten years? I could have just joined Metro?

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Speaker 1: Oh well that's okay.

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Speaker 2: You know, you live in your learn, So when you're

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Speaker 1: Is their rules?

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Speaker 2: Is there dos and don't to the things? No, there's

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Speaker 2: the basics you have to follow yet, which is what train?

448
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Speaker 2: It's safety and what time?

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Speaker 3: Tray trag jo give me trade that too, Definitely safety pose.

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Speaker 4: It's just like, you know, make sure everyone's doing the

451
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Speaker 4: right thing, staying behind the yellow line, you know, not writing, Yeah,

452
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Speaker 4: don't do anything, don't start bouncing up and down, gym up.

453
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Speaker 2: And down the yep ye your dad's step, Yeah, beautiful

454
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Speaker 2: step number one.

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Speaker 4: And then it's just what the train needs, the schedule

456
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Speaker 4: when it's leaving, and then you know, letting people know

457
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Speaker 4: if there's delays and stuff. It's pretty bread and butter stuff.

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Speaker 4: That's I think that's why I jazz it up.

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Speaker 1: How do you do get any info? You just literally

460
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Speaker 1: look at the screens radio.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a play by play of what's going on.

462
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Speaker 4: As soon as it starts crackling, it's just like pause

463
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Speaker 4: what you're doing, listen in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've just got intel, spoken to big brother and

465
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Speaker 2: we're going to have a three minute delay. Sorry everyone,

466
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Speaker 2: but thirty seven degrees today? How do you all feel

467
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Speaker 2: about it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's it. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I just start dropping in weather reports. I start

470
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Speaker 4: you know, making comments like you know, when poies are

471
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Speaker 4: in town. Like, hope you guys have a cracking time

472
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Speaker 4: at Fooies tonight.

473
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Speaker 1: Do you have bored talking to yourself? What do you

474
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Speaker 1: get to kind of I'm.

475
00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,439
Speaker 3: Talking about all my friends on the platform, the hundreds

476
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Speaker 3: and thousands.

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Speaker 1: Of because of the conversation, you're still kind of like

478
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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 3: A bit one sided.

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Speaker 1: It's another train surprise, it's a train today.

481
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Speaker 3: It's a challenge to get the reaction out of people.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

483
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So sometimes, like you know, everyone's had a bit

484
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Speaker 4: of a dead day from time to time. They file

485
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Speaker 4: into a platform, one glue to their phones. It's when

486
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Speaker 4: you say the thing that gets them to look up,

487
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Speaker 4: or you watch that crack in the in the edge

488
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Speaker 4: of someone's face as they begin to smile.

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Speaker 2: It's like, gotcha, So you know you're a star. Now

490
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Speaker 2: you're you know, you're famous. Is there any situations where

491
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Speaker 2: people like come up to you and like do the voice?

492
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Speaker 1: Do the voice? Do it? Do it?

493
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Speaker 3: Yeah, show me a comedian in this city.

494
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Speaker 4: Who hasn't someone come up and going, you know, oh,

495
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 4: you're a comedian, say something funny, tell us a joke,

496
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, the worst one is when

497
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Speaker 4: I've just clocked on maybe I've run open mic night

498
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Speaker 4: the night before. Maybe i was at banm Brackets till

499
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Speaker 4: eleven pm. Maybe I'm running on fumes a rock up

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Speaker 4: at five minutes past seven and I get onto the

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Speaker 4: platform and someone comes up and going, you're the guy

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Speaker 4: from Tiktoks say something funny like they got yeah, but.

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Speaker 3: You're I can't, I'm incapable.

504
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Speaker 4: Well you do you say something funny?

505
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Speaker 1: Get away from the line. That's your safety.

506
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Speaker 3: Now, how'd you like that?

507
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 1: For human? But the same thing.

508
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Speaker 2: People come to me when I'm out of drag and

509
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, You're not very exciting, are you.

510
00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,119
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not working. God, they're not.

511
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Speaker 3: It's not a twenty four hour job. I'm human too,

512
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Speaker 3: I'm a yuman.

513
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Speaker 1: It's what we do now.

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Speaker 2: I I've actually got a lot of training in this position,

515
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 2: because one, I've caught a train before. Two I used

516
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 2: to work at cafscene run the drive through. So so

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Speaker 2: I think I'm very qualified. And you've already given me

518
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Speaker 2: a bit of the format. So we've got your dad's safety,

519
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 2: then we've got your train time, and then we've got

520
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,639
Speaker 2: fun fact essentially. Yeah, I'll say fun fact could be

521
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 2: boring fact, like I'm thirty one. What I try to

522
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 2: get is I want to do a platform announcement. So

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Speaker 2: what platform am I on?

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Speaker 1: Tell me?

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00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 3: You're on platform one?

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Speaker 1: Platform one? What no?

527
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Speaker 4: Wait?

528
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 4: No, we're gonna we're going into your origin story. You're

530
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Speaker 4: on platform two and three?

531
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, Can I have a lilard our line?

532
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Speaker 3: You are on the lid line.

533
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Speaker 2: I hated Belgrave because I had to change it ring

534
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Speaker 2: good and it was a nightmare.

535
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, So what platform I're on? Two and three?

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 1: Loward a line? Okay.

538
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Speaker 2: But outside of that, I think I need a good intro.

539
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 2: So can you give me a tip for a good

540
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Speaker 2: intro at Flindustreet Station.

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Speaker 3: You've got to make it personable.

542
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 4: It's got to be you like say hi to people

543
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 4: like someone elnces just crack straight into the next train

544
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Speaker 4: to arrive is like no, no, no. Welcome them to where

545
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 4: they are, Welcome them to these hallowed halls. So greet

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Speaker 4: them like when they get off the train, wish them

547
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Speaker 4: a good day. But do it as you so.

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Speaker 5: You sing ye ma'am, good morning Flinders Stream, Hello to all.

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Speaker 5: I'm fabulous to see extinguished gets coming off the train.

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Speaker 5: Don't you look beautiful here on this hallowed morning here

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Speaker 5: at Flinna's Threat station. Now I want to let you

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Speaker 5: know that you better have a good day and you've

553
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Speaker 5: had a wonderful Trivin.

554
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: But this train's about to leave, all.

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00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 2: Right, so make sure you're back away from the doors

556
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 2: and they're closing because this one is going back to

557
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Speaker 2: Ludale at am.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so have a good day.

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Speaker 2: It's actually gonna be thirty three degrees part the cloudy,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just shining because I see all your beautiful

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Speaker 2: faces here.

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Speaker 1: Okay, bye, that was beautiful, Thank you lovers.

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Speaker 2: Lawrence the voice of Flinders Street. Ah, what amazing talent.

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00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 2: But what chitis Lawrence? Because someone may be coming to

565
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Speaker 2: take over a platform two and three now me, you've

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