Speaker 1: Are you ready to do some detective work?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll get it you just click play for a
Speaker 2: nice and easy listener. Now you have to do work.
Speaker 2: Just kidding, I'm doing the hard work.
Speaker 1: I'm utsimone and very.
Speaker 2: Soon I will be introducing you to someone seemingly normal,
Speaker 2: but they are concealing something peculiar, weird or a little
Speaker 2: freaky from us side. But don't worry, I will uncover
Speaker 2: what that is. This is concealed with me artsimone. Time
Speaker 2: for the announcement from our guest roll the tape.
Speaker 3: Hi, my name's Lawrence.
Speaker 4: I'm from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. I've lived
Speaker 4: in Melbourne for seventeen years. I'm in a Melbourne band.
Speaker 4: I'm a staunch union rep. I've had one haircut in
Speaker 4: thirteen years and I'm concealing my day job.
Speaker 1: Holli, Lawrence, how are you?
Speaker 3: I am very well?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: You've really throwed me on the one haircut in thirteen years.
Speaker 2: To give context, you have a luscious mane in front
Speaker 2: of me. It is giving full rock star. So you
Speaker 2: are in a band as well? What do you play?
Speaker 3: I play guitar, piano and I sing.
Speaker 2: You do a lot of their banging, a lot of
Speaker 2: head bangs, a lot of momentum in with it.
Speaker 3: Do what a bangover is?
Speaker 1: Oh? Okay, well, I guess I can assume what a
Speaker 1: bangover is.
Speaker 4: The bangover is what happens when you're thirty five and
Speaker 4: above and you've been headbanging your favorite band. The next
Speaker 4: day you wake over with a very, very very sore neck,
Speaker 4: which is not something that happens in your twenties.
Speaker 3: So you bangover gets worse. When you hangover gets worse.
Speaker 2: Now we know why you're a union rep, because you're like,
Speaker 2: you got to stop moving your next you know you
Speaker 2: doing that. But now so you're you're sitting but in
Speaker 2: front of me, you've got a big, luscious maine. You've
Speaker 2: got a big chops. They're called chops.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so good.
Speaker 2: I haven't been to have facial hair ever since because
Speaker 2: I'm am a cross dresser, so the beer doesn't really
Speaker 2: go with the look. You know, maybe one day, maybe
Speaker 2: one day and we've got cut off flannel. Now I'm
Speaker 2: back to the haircut, right, white haircut in thirteen years?
Speaker 1: What are you afraid of?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm afraid of barber's.
Speaker 1: Oh Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a fun experience as a kid, just bitten,
Speaker 4: mashed down to the barbers, wanted to have long hair,
Speaker 4: and then I turned eighteen, had long hair, and then
Speaker 4: never went back.
Speaker 2: Look, I can relate to you because I don't have
Speaker 2: long hair, but I always wanted to color my hair,
Speaker 2: and then sow, I was eighteen and out of high school,
Speaker 2: I colored my hair and I've had crazy colors ever since,
Speaker 2: and I won't stop. I'm going to do it until
Speaker 2: this four hairs left. I'm just going to just going
Speaker 2: to die those four. I'm really hoping I go gray
Speaker 2: early because I'm sick of bleaching. That'd be amazing. Then
Speaker 2: I could just chuck the color on. Would that beautiful?
Speaker 4: I was starting to get a little bit self conscious
Speaker 4: about turning gray. They're starting to come out the front
Speaker 4: because under the on the sideburns they're all like blasting
Speaker 4: the gray. And my partners are very excited for the
Speaker 4: silver fox period.
Speaker 1: Bring it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, okay, So I'm going to ask you
Speaker 2: three questions, and from the answers to those three questions,
Speaker 2: I'm going to try and work out what you were
Speaker 2: concealing from me, which you said is your day job?
Speaker 1: Okay, mysterious.
Speaker 2: First question for you is what was your favorite TV
Speaker 2: show growing up?
Speaker 3: Thomas the Tank Engine?
Speaker 2: Okay, train. Oh, he's not called the fat Controller anymore.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: But no, he's just like mister Controller or something, you know,
Speaker 2: which is which is fine? What was your favorite engine
Speaker 2: out of the Thomas and the Tank Engine?
Speaker 3: It was Henry?
Speaker 1: Henry? Was he the angry one?
Speaker 3: No, the angry on was Gordon?
Speaker 1: Are you really?
Speaker 3: God? Am I so good at this?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: Question number two? What physical feature do people recognize first
Speaker 2: about you?
Speaker 3: It's not so much a physical feature, it's the it's
Speaker 3: my voice.
Speaker 1: Your voice.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought they'd say, like your hair. No, it
Speaker 2: used to be oh so your voice.
Speaker 1: They like you. Okay, they know your voice too. Choo okay, beautiful.
Speaker 2: And the third question I have is what Ozzie landmarks
Speaker 2: should be added to the list of Wonders of the world.
Speaker 3: Flint the Street Station.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I got this one. I feel like
Speaker 2: I got so let's put it together, all right. First
Speaker 2: of all, Thomas the Tank Agent. Wonderful choice. We're all
Speaker 2: going about trains, and then you say a voice. You
Speaker 2: know this, You know this is only one thing that
Speaker 2: comes to mind, which kind of comes back to, you know,
Speaker 2: talking about the fact control of bat Do you like
Speaker 2: announce things on to the platforms? Are you the platform
Speaker 2: announce it? Person that goes the three forty two Lily
Speaker 2: Dale will now be departing from platform two.
Speaker 4: Is it? Good morning and welcome to Flinda Street Station.
Speaker 4: My name is Lawrence Houson, or if some of you
Speaker 4: know me better as the voice of Flinda Station. I
Speaker 4: went viral in November twenty twenty three four making obnoxious
Speaker 4: train announcements at Flinda Station, and I've been doing it
Speaker 4: ever since.
Speaker 2: You just popped up on my instant stories. I swear
Speaker 2: like two weeks ago. Ah, it was you. You weren't dressed
Speaker 2: like this, so.
Speaker 3: It's very not allowed to be dressed like this. I
Speaker 3: got a tip of hair back then.
Speaker 1: Well that's that thing too.
Speaker 2: I did not reckond go pah. I don't know what
Speaker 2: to tell you, but I'm actually really good at this.
Speaker 2: Who would have thought after three seasons I got it
Speaker 2: right here? Lawrence is that man at the train station.
Speaker 2: He's the voice of Linda's Street. Isn't that amazing? What
Speaker 2: a good voice. Not as good as mine though. All right,
Speaker 2: So we're here with Lawrence, who is the voice of
Speaker 2: Flinder's station in my presence. Ah, and what a perfect
Speaker 2: format to have you here on we get to listen
Speaker 2: to your beautiful tones direct into our ear holes.
Speaker 1: Isn't that beautiful?
Speaker 3: Somewhat more conversational announced and style.
Speaker 1: That is true, Actually, that is true.
Speaker 2: You could actually branch out a little bit more, but
Speaker 2: I feel like you kind of do that a little
Speaker 2: bit within your job. So maybe let's explain if people
Speaker 2: don't know exactly what it is you do. You work
Speaker 2: at Flint the Street station. Do you just do the announcements?
Speaker 2: What else do you do? Like did it just how
Speaker 2: that happen? Because people may not know, but usually along
Speaker 2: the train line it's just some lady who's like a
Speaker 2: computer generated aay, I have.
Speaker 1: Avoiced that goes the next station is glen Ferry.
Speaker 3: That is on the internal on the inside of the trains.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because the drivers have to concentrate on what they're doing,
Speaker 4: so they can't make all the announcements all the time.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they do, but not all the time.
Speaker 4: So I was hired as an LSA or what's known
Speaker 4: as a leading station assistant, So we could be on
Speaker 4: the barriers, we could be roving, we could be making
Speaker 4: platform announcements. I just kind of hinted at work a
Speaker 4: lot that I'd like to be on platform announcements because
Speaker 4: I've spent more than half my life in front of
Speaker 4: a microft.
Speaker 1: What was the position that they already had.
Speaker 4: It used to be an official position, and then it
Speaker 4: was absorbed into LSA's in general, so you know, we're
Speaker 4: a little bit more flexible in what it is that
Speaker 4: we do. But I just sort of let work know, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm quite good at this.
Speaker 3: Can I do this?
Speaker 4: And I'd actually enjoy turning up to work more. And
Speaker 4: they were like, if this would make work more enjoyable
Speaker 4: for you, then let's make it happen.
Speaker 3: And that had it happened, which is nice.
Speaker 4: So the important bit is like just the safety announcements,
Speaker 4: making sure that kids aren't you know, running into the
Speaker 4: pit or prams are rolling towards the you know, making
Speaker 4: sure people aren't skateboarding up and down the platforms. And
Speaker 4: then secondarily it's just letting people know when trains are
Speaker 4: coming in.
Speaker 1: Just listening to you. Now, you'd be really good at
Speaker 1: telling people off.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you'd be I'd have a good teacher voice.
Speaker 3: I laid into someone today. You know what it is.
Speaker 4: It's this constant bothersome issue that happens on the network
Speaker 4: where you've turned up too late for your train, but
Speaker 4: you keep sitting there trying to open the door and
Speaker 4: hitting the button and the driver can't.
Speaker 3: Leave until you step back.
Speaker 4: And today I employed what a partner of mine is
Speaker 4: called the dad voice get back. It just goes way
Speaker 4: deeper and really resonant and really rule and it gives
Speaker 4: people that jold and they take a step back in
Speaker 4: the train can leave. So I'm starting to employ that
Speaker 4: more and more.
Speaker 3: As the days go on.
Speaker 1: You're very qualified.
Speaker 2: I usually just hit at them, which usually works well
Speaker 2: because I feel like we have a lot in common.
Speaker 2: We have to facilitate a lot of things. On a microphone,
Speaker 2: you're dealing with a lot more people and a lot
Speaker 2: of a variety of people. And you know, Dore, I say, actually,
Speaker 2: maybe you know keeping people safe.
Speaker 1: I don't tend to do that.
Speaker 2: I probably make them unsafe because I but I have
Speaker 2: to go higher in my voice the people to pay attention.
Speaker 2: You get to do the opposite yes, I do. I
Speaker 2: blend in if I.
Speaker 1: Got a low, which I won't do today anyway.
Speaker 2: So were you just always interested in trains? Are you
Speaker 2: just like, oh, I'm I'm just going to pick up
Speaker 2: a job there. I've wanted something to do.
Speaker 4: I from a very young age obsessed with trains. That's
Speaker 4: not why I went to Metro. I've worked a series
Speaker 4: of jobs over the years and I had just left
Speaker 4: Australia Post and was looking to do something with a
Speaker 4: much more customer facing role, because yeah, I wanted something
Speaker 4: a bit more engaged with people, and so I went
Speaker 4: to Metro and.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to do a customer service role.
Speaker 4: Didn't even know that platform announcing was a thing that
Speaker 4: you could still be done on a manual level and
Speaker 4: then bang found.
Speaker 3: A way in.
Speaker 2: So when did you start to add your own flare
Speaker 2: to this? Because I don't I feel like you were
Speaker 2: you inditially you just you know as you do the
Speaker 2: basics ago, it's the five forty five city loop.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't caught a trade in a
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 3: I'd like to say I was that humble at the start,
Speaker 3: but I.
Speaker 4: Really I no, no, no, no, So you do you
Speaker 4: do three weeks at the Metro Academy, which is their
Speaker 4: educational facility.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I graduated from the Metro Academy. You'd be.
Speaker 4: It's actually like a registered educational facility, like you get
Speaker 4: a cert three or four in rail customer service, specifically
Speaker 4: rail customer service.
Speaker 3: But I've been a class with seventeen people. Oh nearly.
Speaker 1: I haven't finished reparation yet.
Speaker 4: You know, the training goes for three weeks and then
Speaker 4: they do the platform announcement section of the training, and
Speaker 4: so someone who's been doing it at Flinder's for sixteen
Speaker 4: years comes up and gives you a pep talk and
Speaker 4: takes you down to the station. And I'm sitting in
Speaker 4: a class of people who you know, very nervous, they
Speaker 4: never even heard their voice. Come by and get them
Speaker 4: on exactly system before I'm trembling, going let me add it, watch.
Speaker 1: Give it to me, give give, and I just dropped straight.
Speaker 4: Was like, come to Flinder Street station like I've em
Speaker 4: seed weddings, I've seen gigs.
Speaker 3: I was just like, you know what, this is where
Speaker 3: I live, this is my home.
Speaker 1: I want to see you do a football game next.
Speaker 3: Something would love to do.
Speaker 2: That's a whole other art to it, or.
Speaker 3: An auctioneer, which i'd love to give a crack.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, the whole time we've been talking, I've had
Speaker 2: ideas for you because I think also they should let
Speaker 2: you do a rock concert on the platform.
Speaker 1: I think they should let you do.
Speaker 3: That issues without whatsoever they could use.
Speaker 2: They could use the ballroom upstairs, Yeah they can what
Speaker 2: you should let them. You're famous now you're you're Flinder
Speaker 2: Street famous in the.
Speaker 1: Card Little Be Good, Please go on, go on.
Speaker 2: So maybe rock show or at auction Okay, that's gonna
Speaker 2: be fun as well, so many things you do with
Speaker 2: your voice. Oh maybe they'll let you re record that
Speaker 2: lady on the train. I feel like it's still the
Speaker 2: same lady that when I was in high school going
Speaker 2: up and down the train line. Maybe I was a
Speaker 2: little I.
Speaker 1: Was a little our line. Oh no, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: a little our line.
Speaker 2: But I got from a real buck to stop before
Speaker 2: the little dye, yes, queen, a little lord line. But
Speaker 2: now I'm a Geelong girl, so I'm on the very line,
Speaker 2: which you know was you don't have to deal with do.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 4: I was on platform six and seven today and go
Speaker 4: and Bansdale trains come through.
Speaker 1: I don't have to go to something across everyone, right,
Speaker 1: which I hate see it.
Speaker 4: But the train brings a little piece of Southern Cross
Speaker 4: with it because it pulls up at the platform. It's
Speaker 4: just like, smells like Southern Cross. How's that dense stench
Speaker 4: of diesel? Fantastic Metro trains don't smell like that, but
Speaker 4: Eline trains.
Speaker 2: Alright, I'll see how it is. Yeah, but we have
Speaker 2: twins on our train and we have water dispenses.
Speaker 3: Take that. Yeah, I can't argue with you.
Speaker 4: At least they don't get off the train with black lungs.
Speaker 1: We have a quiet carriage, so that's nice as well.
Speaker 1: You would not do well with a quiet.
Speaker 4: And I get a victim from probably just straight me
Speaker 4: to the roof instead.
Speaker 2: So you were going at it, you were, you were
Speaker 2: being vivacious and vibrant from the beginning. How did your
Speaker 2: Flinders Station account start?
Speaker 4: It started off with a few people taking videos and
Speaker 4: putting them on the TikTok and stuff. But this one
Speaker 4: particular girl, Lucy, got really into it and she's worked,
Speaker 4: she worked in the city and so she.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't even behind it.
Speaker 4: No, No, I didn't, No, No, this this, this popped
Speaker 4: up organically. Wow, yeah, I know never thought that's not
Speaker 4: the first time I've been stalked either.
Speaker 2: And let's well, let's get into We'll finished this and
Speaker 2: then go into the stalking after It's all right.
Speaker 4: So Lucy would come to go through the station on
Speaker 4: the way to and from work in the city, and
Speaker 4: then this captured her imagination and she starts filming it.
Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of Peple would have been
Speaker 2: filming it regardless, because it's definitely breakout of the norm
Speaker 2: that people are used to.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, I probably would be like this cap.
Speaker 4: I still like just scroll through Instagram and find like
Speaker 4: random recordings of me just popping up everywhere that I
Speaker 4: didn't even know about.
Speaker 3: So yeah, lots of people do it, ye.
Speaker 4: She made a concerted effort to document that this is
Speaker 4: a tribute to this guy.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Wow, So she she's made the account.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you've something's taken away from you,
Speaker 2: a bit of ownership over like your own I don't know, identity.
Speaker 1: No, it's like a fan account.
Speaker 3: It's kind of public property, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Like you're out there, I belong to Melbourne, dedicated, I'm
Speaker 4: part of furniture now Gallant Gallant.
Speaker 1: I guess it's a fan account.
Speaker 2: But in a day, in an age where people want
Speaker 2: to pivot off everything to become superstars themselves. Have you
Speaker 2: ever wanted to be like, right, how can I use
Speaker 2: this to advertise my band?
Speaker 1: Or do this or do that?
Speaker 3: I have been doing a bit of that recently. Ish.
Speaker 4: She has since stepped back from it. I don't think
Speaker 4: she expected it to blow up as big as it did.
Speaker 4: It started off as just you know, oh, maybe a
Speaker 4: few hundred people like this, not one hundred and ten
Speaker 4: thousand people. So she handed it over to one of
Speaker 4: my partners who now runs the account and sort of
Speaker 4: accepts all of the submissions that come in from people
Speaker 4: and uploads them.
Speaker 2: Oh great, okay, fabulous. So other time you were talking about.
Speaker 3: Right, I came. So it's an era of my life.
Speaker 4: I was working at a backpacker hostel on Elizabeth Street,
Speaker 4: right next to Flinders Station. In fact, it was called
Speaker 4: the Flinders Station Hotel at the time, just above a
Speaker 4: bar called the Joint Bar?
Speaker 1: Are you always? Is everything centric around Flinders Street?
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened.
Speaker 4: I'm not even from Melbourne, Like, I just moved down
Speaker 4: here and all of a sudden, but I feel like
Speaker 4: a lot of things like center around the CBD and
Speaker 4: in particular Flinders for people like you move here as
Speaker 4: an e pat from the country and it's the it's
Speaker 4: the first major landmark you've become aware of that and
Speaker 4: Urica sky Deck or something, not even Parliament House, like
Speaker 4: you just this stationed, this iconic, big yellow bastard of
Speaker 4: a thing.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, I don't know, it is kind of sent.
Speaker 2: With the flint the street station steps because I was
Speaker 2: a station rat emo when I was a god. I
Speaker 2: wasn't one of the really good ones because I was
Speaker 2: a nerd anyway, but I just felt like I was.
Speaker 1: I'd just go to Dangerfield across the road.
Speaker 4: But that was a time and place that was Melbourne
Speaker 4: right there, Like people used to come into the city
Speaker 4: and go check out thee just hang out. You guys
Speaker 4: were doing like occupy Wall Street before by Wall Street,
Speaker 4: but it was you know, Emo, Pye Flinda.
Speaker 2: Street exactly, and it's it's beautiful. I think that's stunning.
Speaker 2: Actually I thought it was great. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 2: all looked amazing. I think you talking all right.
Speaker 4: So I'm working at this backpack, soscal in the city
Speaker 4: and I'm just going about my life, going out with
Speaker 4: my friends.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: I turned thirty five years ago and on my thirtieth birthday,
Speaker 4: I get this message in my DMS and it's like, Hey,
Speaker 4: you don't know me, but it's your birthday and so
Speaker 4: on this your birthday. I want to tell you that
Speaker 4: for a period of your life from two thousand and
Speaker 4: nine to twenty thirteen, there were a group of kids
Speaker 4: from Melbourne UNI who used to spot you out in
Speaker 4: public and we started a Facebook group where we would
Speaker 4: contribute photos of where we would see you out and
Speaker 4: about and I want you to have it.
Speaker 1: So they gave me your birthday.
Speaker 2: You got a weird digital version of this is your life.
Speaker 2: You're like, all right, welcome, Yeah, here's the little time
Speaker 2: capsule for you to enjoy.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was intense and so they gave me access.
Speaker 1: Is that just because you looked too unique?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Is that it?
Speaker 3: I think that was it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going through this was going for like four
Speaker 4: or five years. I'm seeing photos of me with like
Speaker 4: ex girlfriends' best maids, people who have It's moved to
Speaker 4: the UK and it's all here and they've documented like
Speaker 4: this whole period of my life and I'm like, wow, the.
Speaker 1: People want't you.
Speaker 2: I've got no idea, that's what That's what I'm getting
Speaker 2: from this. The people want you. And I think that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: You're a magnet of attraction and you've got to use that,
Speaker 2: all right, You've got to use that bit. So speaking
Speaker 2: of do people just come to Flinness Street just to
Speaker 2: see you do the announcements?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite platform? Oh?
Speaker 4: Actually yeah, I do Platform one and Platform four and five.
Speaker 1: Better acoustics, just.
Speaker 3: More intense, like a lot busier, Yeah, bigger audience.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well that too. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I was on platform six and seven
Speaker 4: today and six and seven is the most bone boring
Speaker 4: platform in the whole station.
Speaker 3: Can't stand it.
Speaker 4: Like by the time the trains come through, they've already
Speaker 4: done the city loops, so no one gets off and
Speaker 4: I'm just sitting there going, oh awesome, another trickle of
Speaker 4: six or seven people just got off to the Flinders.
Speaker 1: Have an artist, people to see my work.
Speaker 3: And I'm jealously looking at like four and five.
Speaker 4: Thousands of people moving across it and I'm just like
Speaker 4: this is garbage.
Speaker 2: So what has it been like the response from you know,
Speaker 2: the upper bubs and your colleagues with the attention and
Speaker 2: popularity that you have gained, they've.
Speaker 3: All enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: The upper above like the I got to meet the CEO.
Speaker 4: I mean what, I'd worked there two months and the
Speaker 4: CEO came down to say hi, and you know, that
Speaker 4: was a really nice chat. And my managers have been
Speaker 4: very supportive and yeah, actually, like you know, it's still
Speaker 4: a valued skill.
Speaker 3: I'm getting deployed now.
Speaker 4: I get deployments like I'm going to wind up an
Speaker 4: Adelaide station or Perth at some point making a guest appear.
Speaker 1: That I do a tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who would have thought? It's not the music that's
Speaker 2: going to get you touring. You're going to be doing
Speaker 2: from station to station?
Speaker 3: Did I slog my guts out in a rock bend
Speaker 3: for ten years? I could have just joined Metro?
Speaker 1: Oh well that's okay.
Speaker 2: You know, you live in your learn, So when you're
Speaker 2: putting together one of your announcements, what is a little
Speaker 2: bit of extra info that you like to throw in?
Speaker 1: Is their rules?
Speaker 2: Is there dos and don't to the things? No, there's
Speaker 2: the basics you have to follow yet, which is what train?
Speaker 2: It's safety and what time?
Speaker 3: Tray trag jo give me trade that too, Definitely safety pose.
Speaker 4: It's just like, you know, make sure everyone's doing the
Speaker 4: right thing, staying behind the yellow line, you know, not writing, Yeah,
Speaker 4: don't do anything, don't start bouncing up and down, gym up.
Speaker 2: And down the yep ye your dad's step, Yeah, beautiful
Speaker 2: step number one.
Speaker 4: And then it's just what the train needs, the schedule
Speaker 4: when it's leaving, and then you know, letting people know
Speaker 4: if there's delays and stuff. It's pretty bread and butter stuff.
Speaker 4: That's I think that's why I jazz it up.
Speaker 1: How do you do get any info? You just literally
Speaker 1: look at the screens radio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a play by play of what's going on.
Speaker 4: As soon as it starts crackling, it's just like pause
Speaker 4: what you're doing, listen in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've just got intel, spoken to big brother and
Speaker 2: we're going to have a three minute delay. Sorry everyone,
Speaker 2: but thirty seven degrees today? How do you all feel
Speaker 2: about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I just start dropping in weather reports. I start
Speaker 4: you know, making comments like you know, when poies are
Speaker 4: in town. Like, hope you guys have a cracking time
Speaker 4: at Fooies tonight.
Speaker 1: Do you have bored talking to yourself? What do you
Speaker 1: get to kind of I'm.
Speaker 3: Talking about all my friends on the platform, the hundreds
Speaker 3: and thousands.
Speaker 1: Of because of the conversation, you're still kind of like
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: A bit one sided.
Speaker 1: It's another train surprise, it's a train today.
Speaker 3: It's a challenge to get the reaction out of people.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So sometimes, like you know, everyone's had a bit
Speaker 4: of a dead day from time to time. They file
Speaker 4: into a platform, one glue to their phones. It's when
Speaker 4: you say the thing that gets them to look up,
Speaker 4: or you watch that crack in the in the edge
Speaker 4: of someone's face as they begin to smile.
Speaker 2: It's like, gotcha, So you know you're a star. Now
Speaker 2: you're you know, you're famous. Is there any situations where
Speaker 2: people like come up to you and like do the voice?
Speaker 1: Do the voice? Do it? Do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, show me a comedian in this city.
Speaker 4: Who hasn't someone come up and going, you know, oh,
Speaker 4: you're a comedian, say something funny, tell us a joke,
Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, the worst one is when
Speaker 4: I've just clocked on maybe I've run open mic night
Speaker 4: the night before. Maybe i was at banm Brackets till
Speaker 4: eleven pm. Maybe I'm running on fumes a rock up
Speaker 4: at five minutes past seven and I get onto the
Speaker 4: platform and someone comes up and going, you're the guy
Speaker 4: from Tiktoks say something funny like they got yeah, but.
Speaker 3: You're I can't, I'm incapable.
Speaker 4: Well you do you say something funny?
Speaker 1: Get away from the line. That's your safety.
Speaker 3: Now, how'd you like that?
Speaker 1: For human? But the same thing.
Speaker 2: People come to me when I'm out of drag and
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, You're not very exciting, are you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not working. God, they're not.
Speaker 3: It's not a twenty four hour job. I'm human too,
Speaker 3: I'm a yuman.
Speaker 1: It's what we do now.
Speaker 2: I I've actually got a lot of training in this position,
Speaker 2: because one, I've caught a train before. Two I used
Speaker 2: to work at cafscene run the drive through. So so
Speaker 2: I think I'm very qualified. And you've already given me
Speaker 2: a bit of the format. So we've got your dad's safety,
Speaker 2: then we've got your train time, and then we've got
Speaker 2: fun fact essentially. Yeah, I'll say fun fact could be
Speaker 2: boring fact, like I'm thirty one. What I try to
Speaker 2: get is I want to do a platform announcement. So
Speaker 2: what platform am I on?
Speaker 1: Tell me?
Speaker 3: You're on platform one?
Speaker 1: Platform one? What no?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: No, we're gonna we're going into your origin story. You're
Speaker 4: on platform two and three?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, Can I have a lilard our line?
Speaker 3: You are on the lid line.
Speaker 2: I hated Belgrave because I had to change it ring
Speaker 2: good and it was a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So what platform I're on? Two and three?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 1: Loward a line? Okay.
Speaker 2: But outside of that, I think I need a good intro.
Speaker 2: So can you give me a tip for a good
Speaker 2: intro at Flindustreet Station.
Speaker 3: You've got to make it personable.
Speaker 4: It's got to be you like say hi to people
Speaker 4: like someone elnces just crack straight into the next train
Speaker 4: to arrive is like no, no, no. Welcome them to where
Speaker 4: they are, Welcome them to these hallowed halls. So greet
Speaker 4: them like when they get off the train, wish them
Speaker 4: a good day. But do it as you so.
Speaker 5: You sing ye ma'am, good morning Flinders Stream, Hello to all.
Speaker 5: I'm fabulous to see extinguished gets coming off the train.
Speaker 5: Don't you look beautiful here on this hallowed morning here
Speaker 5: at Flinna's Threat station. Now I want to let you
Speaker 5: know that you better have a good day and you've
Speaker 5: had a wonderful Trivin.
Speaker 1: But this train's about to leave, all.
Speaker 2: Right, so make sure you're back away from the doors
Speaker 2: and they're closing because this one is going back to
Speaker 2: Ludale at am.
Speaker 1: Okay, so have a good day.
Speaker 2: It's actually gonna be thirty three degrees part the cloudy,
Speaker 2: and I'm just shining because I see all your beautiful
Speaker 2: faces here.
Speaker 1: Okay, bye, that was beautiful, Thank you lovers.
Speaker 2: Lawrence the voice of Flinders Street. Ah, what amazing talent.
Speaker 2: But what chitis Lawrence? Because someone may be coming to
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