WEBVTT - A Bangover 💥 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.520 Are you ready to do some detective work? 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.680 Okay, I'll get it you just click play for a 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.720 nice and easy listener. Now you have to do work. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:19.960 Just kidding, I'm doing the hard work. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:21.759 I'm utsimone and very. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.760 Soon I will be introducing you to someone seemingly normal, 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.040 but they are concealing something peculiar, weird or a little 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.599 freaky from us side. But don't worry, I will uncover 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.160 what that is. This is concealed with me artsimone. Time 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:42.600 for the announcement from our guest roll the tape. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:44.760 Hi, my name's Lawrence. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.160 I'm from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. I've lived 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.920 in Melbourne for seventeen years. I'm in a Melbourne band. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.159 I'm a staunch union rep. I've had one haircut in 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.400 thirteen years and I'm concealing my day job. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:00.560 Holli, Lawrence, how are you? 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:01.840 I am very well? 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:02.360 How are you? 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.959 You've really throwed me on the one haircut in thirteen years. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.240 To give context, you have a luscious mane in front 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.800 of me. It is giving full rock star. So you 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.880 are in a band as well? What do you play? 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.759 I play guitar, piano and I sing. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.160 You do a lot of their banging, a lot of 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.800 head bangs, a lot of momentum in with it. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.200 Do what a bangover is? 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.319 Oh? Okay, well, I guess I can assume what a 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:24.920 bangover is. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.680 The bangover is what happens when you're thirty five and 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:28.760 above and you've been headbanging your favorite band. The next 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.200 day you wake over with a very, very very sore neck, 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.040 which is not something that happens in your twenties. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.200 So you bangover gets worse. When you hangover gets worse. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.560 Now we know why you're a union rep, because you're like, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.240 you got to stop moving your next you know you 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.880 doing that. But now so you're you're sitting but in 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.000 front of me, you've got a big, luscious maine. You've 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.520 got a big chops. They're called chops. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:50.480 Oh, I'm so good. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.440 I haven't been to have facial hair ever since because 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.880 I'm am a cross dresser, so the beer doesn't really 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.440 go with the look. You know, maybe one day, maybe 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.680 one day and we've got cut off flannel. Now I'm 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.520 back to the haircut, right, white haircut in thirteen years? 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:06.560 What are you afraid of? 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:12.160 Oh, I'm afraid of barber's. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:13.800 Oh Okay, I don't know. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.280 It wasn't a fun experience as a kid, just bitten, 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.200 mashed down to the barbers, wanted to have long hair, 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.200 and then I turned eighteen, had long hair, and then 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:21.440 never went back. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.520 Look, I can relate to you because I don't have 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.720 long hair, but I always wanted to color my hair, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.920 and then sow, I was eighteen and out of high school, 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.639 I colored my hair and I've had crazy colors ever since, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.359 and I won't stop. I'm going to do it until 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.760 this four hairs left. I'm just going to just going 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.280 to die those four. I'm really hoping I go gray 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.320 early because I'm sick of bleaching. That'd be amazing. Then 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.320 I could just chuck the color on. Would that beautiful? 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:45.880 I was starting to get a little bit self conscious 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.760 about turning gray. They're starting to come out the front 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.880 because under the on the sideburns they're all like blasting 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.920 the gray. And my partners are very excited for the 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.840 silver fox period. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:56.760 Bring it up. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:02.120 Yeah all right, okay, So I'm going to ask you 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.040 three questions, and from the answers to those three questions, 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:06.919 I'm going to try and work out what you were 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.520 concealing from me, which you said is your day job? 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:11.440 Okay, mysterious. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.960 First question for you is what was your favorite TV 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.119 show growing up? 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:17.560 Thomas the Tank Engine? 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.720 Okay, train. Oh, he's not called the fat Controller anymore. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:24.880 I don't know what it is. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.720 But no, he's just like mister Controller or something, you know, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.320 which is which is fine? What was your favorite engine 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:33.760 out of the Thomas and the Tank Engine? 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:34.440 It was Henry? 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.160 Henry? Was he the angry one? 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:37.680 No, the angry on was Gordon? 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:39.400 Are you really? 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.160 God? Am I so good at this? 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:41.840 You know? 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.760 Question number two? What physical feature do people recognize first 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:47.280 about you? 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.360 It's not so much a physical feature, it's the it's 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.040 my voice. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:52.400 Your voice. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.840 Oh I thought they'd say, like your hair. No, it 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.800 used to be oh so your voice. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.840 They like you. Okay, they know your voice too. Choo okay, beautiful. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:08.000 And the third question I have is what Ozzie landmarks 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.440 should be added to the list of Wonders of the world. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:12.800 Flint the Street Station. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.960 Okay, I think I got this one. I feel like 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:20.960 I got so let's put it together, all right. First 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.560 of all, Thomas the Tank Agent. Wonderful choice. We're all 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.279 going about trains, and then you say a voice. You 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.320 know this, You know this is only one thing that 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.400 comes to mind, which kind of comes back to, you know, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.960 talking about the fact control of bat Do you like 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.120 announce things on to the platforms? Are you the platform 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.279 announce it? Person that goes the three forty two Lily 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.800 Dale will now be departing from platform two. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:50.680 Is it? Good morning and welcome to Flinda Street Station. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.839 My name is Lawrence Houson, or if some of you 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.400 know me better as the voice of Flinda Station. I 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.280 went viral in November twenty twenty three four making obnoxious 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.080 train announcements at Flinda Station, and I've been doing it 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:02.640 ever since. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.920 You just popped up on my instant stories. I swear 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.760 like two weeks ago. Ah, it was you. You weren't dressed 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:10.320 like this, so. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.240 It's very not allowed to be dressed like this. I 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:14.160 got a tip of hair back then. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:15.680 Well that's that thing too. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:21.200 I did not reckond go pah. I don't know what 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.359 to tell you, but I'm actually really good at this. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.960 Who would have thought after three seasons I got it 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.559 right here? Lawrence is that man at the train station. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.440 He's the voice of Linda's Street. Isn't that amazing? What 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:44.400 a good voice. Not as good as mine though. All right, 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.000 So we're here with Lawrence, who is the voice of 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.080 Flinder's station in my presence. Ah, and what a perfect 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.039 format to have you here on we get to listen 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.200 to your beautiful tones direct into our ear holes. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:56.960 Isn't that beautiful? 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.680 Somewhat more conversational announced and style. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.880 That is true, Actually, that is true. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.080 You could actually branch out a little bit more, but 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.560 I feel like you kind of do that a little 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.359 bit within your job. So maybe let's explain if people 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.160 don't know exactly what it is you do. You work 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.920 at Flint the Street station. Do you just do the announcements? 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.120 What else do you do? Like did it just how 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.040 that happen? Because people may not know, but usually along 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.240 the train line it's just some lady who's like a 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:24.400 computer generated aay, I have. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.760 Avoiced that goes the next station is glen Ferry. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.000 That is on the internal on the inside of the trains. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.240 Yeah, because the drivers have to concentrate on what they're doing, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.000 so they can't make all the announcements all the time. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:36.520 Sometimes they do, but not all the time. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.080 So I was hired as an LSA or what's known 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.520 as a leading station assistant, So we could be on 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.240 the barriers, we could be roving, we could be making 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.960 platform announcements. I just kind of hinted at work a 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.120 lot that I'd like to be on platform announcements because 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.400 I've spent more than half my life in front of 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:52.919 a microft. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.080 What was the position that they already had. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.040 It used to be an official position, and then it 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.920 was absorbed into LSA's in general, so you know, we're 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.440 a little bit more flexible in what it is that 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.240 we do. But I just sort of let work know, hey, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.640 I'm quite good at this. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:08.400 Can I do this? 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.320 And I'd actually enjoy turning up to work more. And 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.840 they were like, if this would make work more enjoyable 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.400 for you, then let's make it happen. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:15.720 And that had it happened, which is nice. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.480 So the important bit is like just the safety announcements, 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.560 making sure that kids aren't you know, running into the 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.800 pit or prams are rolling towards the you know, making 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.360 sure people aren't skateboarding up and down the platforms. And 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.680 then secondarily it's just letting people know when trains are 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:27.960 coming in. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.640 Just listening to you. Now, you'd be really good at 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:31.360 telling people off. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.119 Wouldn't you'd be I'd have a good teacher voice. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.200 I laid into someone today. You know what it is. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.880 It's this constant bothersome issue that happens on the network 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.040 where you've turned up too late for your train, but 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.160 you keep sitting there trying to open the door and 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:48.760 hitting the button and the driver can't. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:49.800 Leave until you step back. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.040 And today I employed what a partner of mine is 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.560 called the dad voice get back. It just goes way 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.040 deeper and really resonant and really rule and it gives 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.000 people that jold and they take a step back in 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:04.880 the train can leave. So I'm starting to employ that 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:06.000 more and more. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:06.720 As the days go on. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.480 You're very qualified. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.000 I usually just hit at them, which usually works well 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:12.880 because I feel like we have a lot in common. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.440 We have to facilitate a lot of things. On a microphone, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.400 you're dealing with a lot more people and a lot 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.880 of a variety of people. And you know, Dore, I say, actually, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.000 maybe you know keeping people safe. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:25.000 I don't tend to do that. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.960 I probably make them unsafe because I but I have 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.360 to go higher in my voice the people to pay attention. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.560 You get to do the opposite yes, I do. I 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:35.360 blend in if I. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.559 Got a low, which I won't do today anyway. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.120 So were you just always interested in trains? Are you 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.680 just like, oh, I'm I'm just going to pick up 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:43.920 a job there. I've wanted something to do. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.000 I from a very young age obsessed with trains. That's 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.000 not why I went to Metro. I've worked a series 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.439 of jobs over the years and I had just left 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.920 Australia Post and was looking to do something with a 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.280 much more customer facing role, because yeah, I wanted something 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.000 a bit more engaged with people, and so I went 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:01.679 to Metro and. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.240 I just wanted to do a customer service role. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.240 Didn't even know that platform announcing was a thing that 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.400 you could still be done on a manual level and 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:08.400 then bang found. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:08.720 A way in. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.200 So when did you start to add your own flare 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.240 to this? Because I don't I feel like you were 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.680 you inditially you just you know as you do the 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:21.199 basics ago, it's the five forty five city loop. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:22.839 I don't know. I haven't caught a trade in a 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:23.240 long time. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.360 I'd like to say I was that humble at the start, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:25.760 but I. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.280 Really I no, no, no, no, So you do you 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.439 do three weeks at the Metro Academy, which is their 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:33.520 educational facility. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.640 Yeah, I know, I graduated from the Metro Academy. You'd be. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.920 It's actually like a registered educational facility, like you get 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.079 a cert three or four in rail customer service, specifically 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.160 rail customer service. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.280 But I've been a class with seventeen people. Oh nearly. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.320 I haven't finished reparation yet. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.719 You know, the training goes for three weeks and then 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.320 they do the platform announcement section of the training, and 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.720 so someone who's been doing it at Flinder's for sixteen 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:01.480 years comes up and gives you a pep talk and 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.520 takes you down to the station. And I'm sitting in 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.840 a class of people who you know, very nervous, they 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.720 never even heard their voice. Come by and get them 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:13.600 on exactly system before I'm trembling, going let me add it, watch. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.520 Give it to me, give give, and I just dropped straight. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:23.600 Was like, come to Flinder Street station like I've em 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.080 seed weddings, I've seen gigs. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.840 I was just like, you know what, this is where 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.120 I live, this is my home. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.880 I want to see you do a football game next. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:31.959 Something would love to do. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.640 That's a whole other art to it, or. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.680 An auctioneer, which i'd love to give a crack. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.600 Yes, well, the whole time we've been talking, I've had 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.200 ideas for you because I think also they should let 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.160 you do a rock concert on the platform. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:47.679 I think they should let you do. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.679 That issues without whatsoever they could use. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.520 They could use the ballroom upstairs, Yeah they can what 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.480 you should let them. You're famous now you're you're Flinder 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:58.560 Street famous in the. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.160 Card Little Be Good, Please go on, go on. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.160 So maybe rock show or at auction Okay, that's gonna 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.640 be fun as well, so many things you do with 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.680 your voice. Oh maybe they'll let you re record that 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.520 lady on the train. I feel like it's still the 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.240 same lady that when I was in high school going 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.400 up and down the train line. Maybe I was a 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:17.959 little I. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.280 Was a little our line. Oh no, yeah, I was 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:21.360 a little our line. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:22.840 But I got from a real buck to stop before 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.160 the little dye, yes, queen, a little lord line. But 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.559 now I'm a Geelong girl, so I'm on the very line, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.959 which you know was you don't have to deal with do. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:32.480 A little bit. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.280 I was on platform six and seven today and go 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.600 and Bansdale trains come through. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.240 I don't have to go to something across everyone, right, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:40.640 which I hate see it. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.800 But the train brings a little piece of Southern Cross 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.520 with it because it pulls up at the platform. It's 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:48.880 just like, smells like Southern Cross. How's that dense stench 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.280 of diesel? Fantastic Metro trains don't smell like that, but 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:53.479 Eline trains. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.080 Alright, I'll see how it is. Yeah, but we have 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.120 twins on our train and we have water dispenses. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.240 Take that. Yeah, I can't argue with you. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.000 At least they don't get off the train with black lungs. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.600 We have a quiet carriage, so that's nice as well. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.240 You would not do well with a quiet. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.800 And I get a victim from probably just straight me 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:18.679 to the roof instead. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.079 So you were going at it, you were, you were 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.960 being vivacious and vibrant from the beginning. How did your 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.680 Flinders Station account start? 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.160 It started off with a few people taking videos and 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.320 putting them on the TikTok and stuff. But this one 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.319 particular girl, Lucy, got really into it and she's worked, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:36.440 she worked in the city and so she. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:37.400 Wouldn't even behind it. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.600 No, No, I didn't, No, No, this this, this popped 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.680 up organically. Wow, yeah, I know never thought that's not 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.120 the first time I've been stalked either. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.160 And let's well, let's get into We'll finished this and 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.000 then go into the stalking after It's all right. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.000 So Lucy would come to go through the station on 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.640 the way to and from work in the city, and 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.400 then this captured her imagination and she starts filming it. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:00.520 I feel like a lot of Peple would have been 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.240 filming it regardless, because it's definitely breakout of the norm 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:04.160 that people are used to. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.480 So, I mean, I probably would be like this cap. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.920 I still like just scroll through Instagram and find like 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.040 random recordings of me just popping up everywhere that I 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:14.880 didn't even know about. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.480 So yeah, lots of people do it, ye. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.400 She made a concerted effort to document that this is 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:21.480 a tribute to this guy. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:22.520 All right. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.560 Wow, So she she's made the account. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.160 Do you feel like you've something's taken away from you, 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:33.679 a bit of ownership over like your own I don't know, identity. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.320 No, it's like a fan account. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:36.839 It's kind of public property, isn't it. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:45.719 Like you're out there, I belong to Melbourne, dedicated, I'm 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.840 part of furniture now Gallant Gallant. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:49.360 I guess it's a fan account. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.400 But in a day, in an age where people want 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.040 to pivot off everything to become superstars themselves. Have you 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.040 ever wanted to be like, right, how can I use 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.560 this to advertise my band? 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.559 Or do this or do that? 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.960 I have been doing a bit of that recently. Ish. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.080 She has since stepped back from it. I don't think 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.640 she expected it to blow up as big as it did. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.439 It started off as just you know, oh, maybe a 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.520 few hundred people like this, not one hundred and ten 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.840 thousand people. So she handed it over to one of 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.400 my partners who now runs the account and sort of 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.800 accepts all of the submissions that come in from people 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:23.560 and uploads them. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:28.120 Oh great, okay, fabulous. So other time you were talking about. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:33.520 Right, I came. So it's an era of my life. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.800 I was working at a backpacker hostel on Elizabeth Street, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.200 right next to Flinders Station. In fact, it was called 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.680 the Flinders Station Hotel at the time, just above a 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:43.680 bar called the Joint Bar? 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.720 Are you always? Is everything centric around Flinders Street? 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:47.800 I don't know what happened. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.080 I'm not even from Melbourne, Like, I just moved down 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.040 here and all of a sudden, but I feel like 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.320 a lot of things like center around the CBD and 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.720 in particular Flinders for people like you move here as 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.320 an e pat from the country and it's the it's 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.200 the first major landmark you've become aware of that and 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.040 Urica sky Deck or something, not even Parliament House, like 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.000 you just this stationed, this iconic, big yellow bastard of 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:12.320 a thing. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.920 And then yeah, I don't know, it is kind of sent. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.760 With the flint the street station steps because I was 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.560 a station rat emo when I was a god. I 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.080 wasn't one of the really good ones because I was 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:23.760 a nerd anyway, but I just felt like I was. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.440 I'd just go to Dangerfield across the road. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.440 But that was a time and place that was Melbourne 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.480 right there, Like people used to come into the city 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:36.320 and go check out thee just hang out. You guys 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.560 were doing like occupy Wall Street before by Wall Street, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.200 but it was you know, Emo, Pye Flinda. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.560 Street exactly, and it's it's beautiful. I think that's stunning. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.360 Actually I thought it was great. Yeah, I think you 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.720 all looked amazing. I think you talking all right. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.680 So I'm working at this backpack, soscal in the city 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.800 and I'm just going about my life, going out with 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:56.160 my friends. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:57.080 Blah blah blah. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:02.600 I turned thirty five years ago and on my thirtieth birthday, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.240 I get this message in my DMS and it's like, Hey, 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.320 you don't know me, but it's your birthday and so 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.640 on this your birthday. I want to tell you that 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.320 for a period of your life from two thousand and 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.640 nine to twenty thirteen, there were a group of kids 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.240 from Melbourne UNI who used to spot you out in 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.800 public and we started a Facebook group where we would 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.240 contribute photos of where we would see you out and 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.160 about and I want you to have it. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.840 So they gave me your birthday. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.360 You got a weird digital version of this is your life. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.480 You're like, all right, welcome, Yeah, here's the little time 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.720 capsule for you to enjoy. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:44.800 Wow. 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.480 Yeah it was intense and so they gave me access. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.000 Is that just because you looked too unique? 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:49.200 Like? 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:49.720 Is that it? 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:50.920 I think that was it? 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.040 Yeah, I'm going through this was going for like four 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.280 or five years. I'm seeing photos of me with like 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.560 ex girlfriends' best maids, people who have It's moved to 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.240 the UK and it's all here and they've documented like 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.560 this whole period of my life and I'm like, wow, the. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:07.199 People want't you. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.240 I've got no idea, that's what That's what I'm getting 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.960 from this. The people want you. And I think that's beautiful. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.200 You're a magnet of attraction and you've got to use that, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:20.680