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Speaker 1: Jam Nations The past our next guest. You know him,

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Speaker 1: you love him. He's one of Australia's most recognized TV

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Speaker 1: and radio voices. He's been bringing us the latest in

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Speaker 1: Sydney traffic for over twenty five years. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: the great Vic Laruso. Vic Hello here.

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Speaker 2: He is a Jones Love you guys, and that is

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Speaker 2: our og traffic. I remember intro that we had for

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Speaker 2: you when you first started.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember that?

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Speaker 2: Yep? And people said to me, he said, what are

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Speaker 2: you playing that for it? I said, because it's always

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Speaker 2: banded down. That's what Vic Glaruso is doing.

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Speaker 3: That'll be five am. You'd play that and everyone would

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Speaker 3: know and you'd get on air and that was where

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Speaker 3: we go.

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Speaker 1: I was just talking to you before, just off air,

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Speaker 1: and you were saying that you started your whole run

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Speaker 1: here when you were doing your hscneen. You're in year

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Speaker 1: twelve nineteen and now you're the big boss of the

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Speaker 1: whole business. What an incredible right. Sydney traffic must have

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Speaker 1: changed enormously over.

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Speaker 3: This time unbelievably changed, especially in Sydney Southwest Northwest. It's

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Speaker 3: just the expansion of the residential property market out in

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Speaker 3: those areas is really dictated where the government was spending

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Speaker 3: their money on expanding the roads that you look at

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Speaker 3: the M five out through now it's Picton and Bargo

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Speaker 3: where the traffic starts in the morning. So we've seen

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Speaker 3: the evolution of Sydney and how much it's grown over

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Speaker 3: those time. Definitely, I was lucky one time when I

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Speaker 3: first started here a thousand years ago.

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Speaker 2: You remember that, why don't you come up in the

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Speaker 2: choppera in the holidays? I'm yeah, rereaddy, I'll do that.

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Speaker 2: I had a raging hangover. I get into the chopp

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Speaker 2: with Vic. Vic sits in the back of the chopper,

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Speaker 2: so he's got all the stuff and I'm in the front.

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Speaker 3: It's the negotiations. We take him up in the helicopter

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Speaker 3: and we have a chat with it.

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Speaker 2: And for the first first forty minute it was great.

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Speaker 2: But after three hours, where.

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Speaker 3: Do you live, Jones, He will fly you over here.

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Speaker 3: I remember that day.

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Speaker 2: And I zoomed it on my house. Yeah, I remember

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Speaker 2: with the camera, I looked like one of those siege houses.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 3: Massive, it went for hours having is it a zero?

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Speaker 2: Did you know when you're zoom in on a house

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Speaker 2: and the siege has been going for two hours now

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Speaker 2: and you can zoom in and out on the house.

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Speaker 2: It was pretty cool. But I'm going to sish we

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Speaker 2: have but the toilet.

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Speaker 1: Situation, well, that was going to ask you that.

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Speaker 3: Well, twenty two thousand hours of flying I have ha

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Speaker 3: a Sydney in a helicopter, so twenty two over twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty plus years. Yeah, we pretty much work it before

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Speaker 3: you take off, You go to the bathroom and you

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Speaker 3: kind of manage how much water you had before.

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Speaker 1: I bet have you ever been taken ill in the chopper?

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Speaker 3: No, but we've had reporters that have come up for

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Speaker 3: a fly and to learn the shift, and it's been

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Speaker 3: messy in the machine.

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Speaker 1: Yes. My youngest son, Jack is in his final year

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Speaker 1: of UNI. He's doing media and he's working at Are

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Speaker 1: you going to.

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Speaker 3: Say, absolutely amazing, that's a fantastic reporter.

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Speaker 1: He gets up very early on a Saturday morning. That

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Speaker 1: shows you how hard.

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Speaker 3: That's very very keen. So he sounds great. I'll put

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Speaker 3: him on replacing me'd.

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Speaker 1: Be great, you're wear in his suit. There's never got out.

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Speaker 2: But your favorite road in Sydney, what is it? You know,

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Speaker 2: there have to be one that you really love.

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Speaker 3: I think the M four expansion, that the M four

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Speaker 3: East that's connected you know, every every part of Sydney

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Speaker 3: and you've got orbit or you've got them. Every link

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Speaker 3: in Sydney at the moment is working, so you still

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Speaker 3: get your bottlenecks on the M five out through Campbelltown

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Speaker 3: in the morning. But I think my favorite corridor of

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Speaker 3: traffic would have to be at the moment the M

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Speaker 3: one from Gospord to Sydney. I think the expansion of

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Speaker 3: the M one's working well, which is the old F three? Yep?

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Speaker 2: What about that raid King George's.

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Speaker 3: That's your favorite?

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Speaker 2: King Now? Well, when we were at North right after

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Speaker 2: you have to go on those those the eternal road works.

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Speaker 3: It's near the just to tie up up just north

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Speaker 3: of the King Georgie's Road, Roselands area.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just there near Herstville. It just goes. It's been

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Speaker 2: going for what five years forever, but.

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Speaker 3: They're expanding the roads, they're making it better.

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Speaker 2: Jones given they employed the Romans to do it like

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Speaker 2: they would have had it done by now.

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Speaker 1: Well, everyone in Sydney thinks traffic's getting worse. You're you're

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Speaker 1: here to say you don't think it is.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of Esmond into the road

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Speaker 3: infrastructure across Sydney at the moment. And there's parts that

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Speaker 3: roadworks go on like you just mentioned there and you're

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Speaker 3: pulling your hair out, like the freeway, a freeway where

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Speaker 3: your traffic's off. But once it's done, go through a

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Speaker 3: bit of pain and it'll be fine if.

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Speaker 2: You could get rid of one piece piece of infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: And it's the Waycers Parkway versus the orderly weir. Well,

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Speaker 2: if a spit of rain they both closed, are orderly

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Speaker 2: we has got to be worse, surely, definitely when it

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Speaker 2: rains both both of the same, they're on par sprinkle

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Speaker 2: of rain on the beaches.

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Speaker 3: The Wakers parkways done for days.

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Speaker 1: Do you have friends that say, I'm going out to

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Speaker 1: blah blah today, tell me the.

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Speaker 3: Traffic and they blame me if they're stucking Always I

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Speaker 3: love working with you guys twenty years. I remember the

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Speaker 3: day too when Gray Midwood's the old the program floating

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Speaker 3: that he that he employed Jonesy out from Triple M

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Speaker 3: and then he was even more excited when he signed

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Speaker 3: A man.

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Speaker 2: It was like Planet of the Apes here. When I

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Speaker 2: first came here, I said, oh God, look at this place.

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Speaker 2: So I planeted the apes and then I got a

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Speaker 2: Manda to come along and join.

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Speaker 3: The Apes were part of this company. Is so lucky

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Speaker 3: to have you. They really are going to drive. Next

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Speaker 3: year is going to be so exciting for Sydney really is.

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Speaker 2: And the Promised Land that's where we're going to, the

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Speaker 2: fruited fields.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and this medium being radio, you guys are just

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Speaker 3: nailing it. So local, so intimate. Got together just as a.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, thank you, Vic, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: bringing the most delicious donuts the screen.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of kissing an ape.

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Speaker 1: What eating a donut?

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Speaker 2: Vic?

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Speaker 3: It's always great to talk to you, you guys. Thank

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Speaker 3: you