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Lisa & Russell - Outback Truckers Live · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: I mean, not. All right. Here we go in three, two,
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  Speaker 1: and one. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Picture this. Outback Truckers on stage. That's what's happening. Outback
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  Speaker 2: Truckers live, bringing a brand new stage show, bringing three
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  Speaker 2: of Outback Truckers' most recognisable personalities together live for the
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  Speaker 2: first time on stage in Perth and Mandurah next April,
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  Speaker 2: and two of them, With us right now, Yogi and Sludge.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: I have to ask.
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  Speaker 1: Lisa, come on. Good morning. G'day. How are you? The
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  Speaker 1: obvious first question.
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  Speaker 2: I have to ask right off the top how the nicknames.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always intrigued by how Australians get their nicknames.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to? Glenn and Paul, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to get official. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Well, mine was first day in Australia, 1986.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: We were down in Fremantle having a few beers.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I didn't realise that everyone's a bit tame over here.
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  Speaker 3: They drink midis. Well, in New Zealand, everyone drinks jugs.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, because it's a Kiwi. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've actually lived here longer than I have in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good. So you've still got the accent.
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  Speaker 3: A little teeny bit. I, um.
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  Speaker 5: Got mine done at Armidale Hospital. They took half my
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  Speaker 5: brain out and I've become an Aussie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God. Can you move to the West All? He's
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  Speaker 1: still a Kiwi.
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  Speaker 4: He's still a Kiwi.
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  Speaker 5: And, yeah, so I was drinking jugs and it started
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  Speaker 5: off the next morning as, you've got that sludge pump
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  Speaker 5: and then the sludge guts. And then it got hyphened
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  Speaker 5: to sludge in the first 24 hours I was in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: So it actually stuck. To everyone's amazement, even my mother
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  Speaker 3: used to call me sludge.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because nobody knew my name.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: No, well, that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, Yogi, what's your excuse? Ah, right-o. Swinging from trees.
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  Speaker 1: Saddle up, ladies and gentlemen. I'm a big bear. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I know you can't see that.
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  Speaker 3: So Yogi Bear.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha. I know it's not good for radio when you're visual.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, in that way.
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  Speaker 1: But I am a big bear-like figure, you know, so, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And, look, I do give a pretty good hug, but
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  Speaker 6: at the end of the day, I was.
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  Speaker 1: Working in the bush. Yeah, big cuddly bear. I am cuddly.
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  Speaker 1: I've been cuddly ever since I was, you know, born.
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  Speaker 6: But, yeah, I grow a beard, work in the bush,
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  Speaker 6: always smile and say they call me Yogi and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I got that at 18. That's nice and tame. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is. It's nice and tame. No drinking, no bad things.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm a family side of the show.
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  Speaker 2: That's nasty. So you spent a lot of time behind
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  Speaker 2: the wheel. What sort of drew you to it?
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  Speaker 3: Because it's isolating.
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  Speaker 2: It's great. That's what drew you to it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So the best thing about the job is the worst
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  Speaker 6: thing about the job is we don't know what's around
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  Speaker 6: the corner, but we don't know what's around the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Literally.
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  Speaker 3: So it's great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a really, really good job to do. It's peaceful.
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  Speaker 1: It is peaceful.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you spend a lot of time by yourself
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  Speaker 3: and people always ask, how.
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  Speaker 1: The hell do you do it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you love your job. It's just an everyday thing.
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  Speaker 3: The solitude, the places we get to go, the sky
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  Speaker 3: we see at night.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I can imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone who's never been out of the city has no
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  Speaker 2: idea what the sky looks like.
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  Speaker 1: I love playing that game.
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  Speaker 6: Where did I have a coffee 23 hours ago?
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  Speaker 1: That's a game.
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  Speaker 4: You play a lot. You guys are on the road
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  Speaker 4: all the time, in town, out of town. Hey, what's
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  Speaker 4: the most scary, being out there or being in town?
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's town. Yeah, in town. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: come into town? Sometimes you've got to. We're outback truckers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're outback truckers.
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  Speaker 5: You know, when I had the tankers and stuff, I
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  Speaker 5: would come into town, go to sleep just out of town,
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  Speaker 5: and come and have three or four hours sleep and
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  Speaker 5: wait from five o'clock to eight o'clock at night and
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  Speaker 5: come in when everyone's knocked off and the roads are quiet.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because the town used to just give you the
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  Speaker 3: shits and drive you mad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So you sort of work around.
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  Speaker 1: This town in particular? No, every town. No, we love
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  Speaker 1: the towns. Yeah. I've slept under the Sydney Harbour Bridge before.
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  Speaker 6: You know, look, it's kind of, yeah, carted freight in
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  Speaker 6: there on the harbour and drop the poles in there,
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  Speaker 6: concrete poles, so you get a chance to sleep under
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  Speaker 6: the harbour bridge.
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  Speaker 1: So you wake up and look out the window. It
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  Speaker 1: must have been a 24-point turn to get it in there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we have skills to pay the bills.
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  Speaker 2: I've never driven, you know, in the really outback, outback.
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  Speaker 2: I've driven to Geraldsham.
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  Speaker 4: And I know sometimes you're.
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  Speaker 2: Driving along and sometimes out of the corner of your
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  Speaker 2: eye you see something and you think, what the?
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  Speaker 6: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a fire truck.
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  Speaker 2: What is the weirdest thing you've driven past?
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  Speaker 3: Like for me, it's just an emu.
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  Speaker 1: Or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Or a goat.
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  Speaker 6: There was a bloke hooking up a road train in
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  Speaker 6: a tanker one day. He was a big, weird-looking bloke. Anyway,
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  Speaker 6: we were snapping through together, and he made a comment
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  Speaker 6: on there. He looked, yeah, I can do a road train.
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  Speaker 1: Sludge.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He's the king of oversize in one trailer. That's how you.
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  Speaker 1: Do it, Yogi. I'm only a little outback trucker.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever felt like, gee, I'm in real trouble here.
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  Speaker 4: How am I going to get out of this?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, walking into a radio interview. We're in strife here.
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  Speaker 6: There isn't a microphone on the UHF.
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  Speaker 4: They're out of their comfort zone, you can tell.
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  Speaker 1: Sweating over here.
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  Speaker 2: Do you talk on the thingy like BJ and the Bear?
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  Speaker 2: You know, hey, big buddy.
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  Speaker 1: BJ and the Yogi Bear. Yogi Bear.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, yes.
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  Speaker 1: We're all over this. We should do it.
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  Speaker 3: The CB. The CB radio.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do. It's got to be a bit of fun.
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  Speaker 5: We do.
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  Speaker 1: It is good. It is a great life. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to understand that you're happy in your own
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  Speaker 6: skin in what we do. So you'll never see us together,
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  Speaker 6: three of us on stage ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So this is a world premiere for it, you know.
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  Speaker 6: We don't ever just stand there. We love people, but
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  Speaker 6: we don't need people as such. So my biggest year
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  Speaker 6: away is 300 nights away from home. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got a wife and two kids.
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  Speaker 6: Which are awesome, you know, and a great understanding wife.
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  Speaker 6: So this is what you'll see with Outback Truckers Live.
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  Speaker 6: So you go to outbacktruckerslive.com, you'll get to log in, pre-register,
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  Speaker 6: you get to see the behind the scenes. Stuff you
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  Speaker 6: won't ever catch on the TV.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: There'll be a lot of stuff on the big screen,
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  Speaker 4: on the stage.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. Telling trucking stories. And you
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  Speaker 1: guys interacting.
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  Speaker 2: I have one more question.
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  Speaker 1: We love questions.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever suffered the consequences of a particularly bad
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  Speaker 2: dim sim or something from a roadside?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure she must have. Do you call yourself a
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  Speaker 1: real trucker if you haven't? Yeah. Have you never gone
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  Speaker 1: into a hot box and go, no, I'll have three
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  Speaker 1: of them? What do you mean you're going to give
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  Speaker 1: them to me for a dollar? No, that'll be fine.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take all six.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to buy some and put chicken salt on them.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to make that happen. I wonder why that's
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  Speaker 6: a problem.
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  Speaker 4: I have one more question that I want you guys
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  Speaker 4: to share with us. What is the one thing? that
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  Speaker 4: you would like the average driver on the road today
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  Speaker 4: to consider when in the vicinity of one of your
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  Speaker 4: big rigs?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's probably....
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  Speaker 5: We need to be teaching the young ones how... Like,
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  Speaker 5: trucks are big things. They don't stop in two seconds.
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  Speaker 5: All of my kids, we've taken them for a ride
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  Speaker 5: to Freo in the truck before they've got their licences,
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  Speaker 5: and they come home freaked out.
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  Speaker 3: Dad, they... The car just cut you off.
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  Speaker 1: The gap, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah. And they've actually become.
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  Speaker 5: Better drivers of it. And I'm a believer we should
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  Speaker 5: be teaching young ones, you know, more about trucks and
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  Speaker 5: stuff so that they understand how big we really are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And we've now just gone to another league in Perth, especially.
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  Speaker 5: We're running three trailers right through the city and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And people just don't understand how big you are.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't stop like a Kia.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: And a truck V Kia, the truck is going to win.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Truck's going to win every time.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, we're not.
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  Speaker 6: Lumps of metal going down the road. The road is
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  Speaker 6: actually our workplace.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: So if you think about your workplace, I won't come
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  Speaker 6: in here and press buttons unless you want me to.
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  Speaker 6: You know, like I can do it and I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to bugger something up. But just be nice out on
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  Speaker 6: the road. Understand that there's a human behind the wheel
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  Speaker 6: that is in charge of a vehicle that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: has unpredictable elements. So just pay attention. Just honestly pay attention.
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  Speaker 6: We lack attention across every driver.
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  Speaker 1: So just pay attention. Too true.
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  Speaker 2: And a thank you wave.
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  Speaker 1: And a thank you wave doesn't mean so. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean so. Yeah, so kids are now.
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  Speaker 6: Coming up to me from being on our back truck
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  Speaker 6: is doing the yogi wave.
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  Speaker 3: The yogi wave.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the yogi wave. We love the yogi wave.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the yogi wave. I do that all day long.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't realise I was doing a yogi wave.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're doing a yogi wave.
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  Speaker 2: Funny as.
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  Speaker 1: It does mean. I love waving. A hell of a lot.
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  Speaker 5: When somebody passes you and they give you a toot
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  Speaker 5: or they give.
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  Speaker 3: You a hug.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: It brings you out of your thoughts. Oh, this is great.
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  Speaker 1: We love this job.
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  Speaker 3: Bring back the Yogi wave.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: 11 seasons this thing has been going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 4: They see it in Slovakia or in Poland and all
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  Speaker 4: over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're huge in Germany.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We were dubbed into German. Really interesting. We were dubbed
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  Speaker 1: into German, right?
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  Speaker 6: So my wife is on the show with me as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I was a trendy, hip, young German bloke, and Amanda
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  Speaker 6: was an older German lady, and it was hilarious. But Amanda,
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  Speaker 6: you've got to come watch this. She wasn't overly impressed.
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  Speaker 3: But that was, I remember the day that somebody sent
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  Speaker 3: us that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Out of nowhere, it just came onto our phones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And that was just.
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  Speaker 4: Hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm talking in German. I don't know bloody English,
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  Speaker 3: let alone German.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, thanks for coming in.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: We look forward to the shows in April.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cool. Thank you. Thank you very much. Beautiful.