Weirdest Phobias! A fear of the M1?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I discovered something about Live And I've known you for
what would.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It be twenty five years? It would be it is
it even longer? Thirty years?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Thirty years?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thirty years? We met Live and I at.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
A radio conference conference training to be a boss.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah, we were a program director.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Didn't we make it?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Not?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Didn't become bosses?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Training to be a boss?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
There we were.

Speaker 5 (00:25):
We did like this course had some success.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
The businesses believed in us. Then then they woke up
to themselves. But anyway, so we've known each other for
a long time, but I didn't know this. On Monday,
everyone was heading out to Movie World and you were paneling,
and I thought, well, and Christo did two shifts in
a row.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
He did your shift in his shift because you stayed back.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
To panel I did and I was like, Oh, is
this like cost cutting or whatever?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
What's going on? And then I discovered it's because you
don't want to go on.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
The m one.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Do you have a phobia?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
One?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yes, I do, very embarrassed.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
How long when did this happen? You did? You used
to go on it? Okay, change, no problem at all,
it's just changed.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
I used to drive on it like thirty years ago.
My little dat's a mon twenty Why Devin Slice dies?
When it was two lanes, no problem at all? And
then probably about ten years ago, I don't know. It
was a gradual thing that I started getting more nervous
and more nervous and merging and merging children in the
car when I had young children, and I just kind

(01:24):
of and then it got in my head, and it's
all in my head. I'm pretty sure because I've I
don't think I'm a bad driver, and I'm not normally
a nervous driver. But get me on that N one
even motorway entrance. I'm like, and I do. I start shaking,
and yeah, it's one thing that actually makes me very nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
So you don't go on the M one.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I do.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
I don't drive on it, Okay as a passenger, it's
even so bad that I sit in the backseats.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, So talk about what you do to get around
being on the M one.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
How is it affecting your life?

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Well, someone always has to drive me, or I have
to get the train if I have to.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
What about this? Every now and again?

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Live might have a chat to me and she says,
if I want to get here, is there another way
other than the end one, and we can just work
out how to.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Go the back. Why, that's what I want to know.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
You might go up you know, you might go upst
you know what I mean, go to Sanctuary Cove Inland.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
So getting down the coast is easy.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
You can just sw Gold Coast Highway. But it's just
getting up to brizzy. You have to have an action
plan to get you there.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
So my hairdresser, Hello, Mel, She's at helens Vale. So
from here, if I go from work to my hairdresser,
I could easily just go Smith Street and one to
Westfield Helensville.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
No, I go down through Runaway Bay, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Pretty much to Yeah, just be around the block. That's
the biggest block.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Barkward like right, okay, past Gold Coast Hospital, et cetera,
et cetera.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, So, and you don't know why this happened.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I don't know why there was no accident. And I mean,
I guess the other thing. What happens every fifteen minutes
on this station's traffic? And where is it in one
and one in one? And I don't know if being
on radio and.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Always okay, we cover work.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
On the end one and I think the speed as well.
For so long, it's like I wasn't going on it
very often either, and I think the speed of suburbia
sixty k's and then suddenly boom, you're one hundred and
everyone's flying trailers.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's too much.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Okay, opposite to me. I'll get on there. Okay, we
want to open the phone.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's weird? What's weird about you? What if you've got
a phobia? Is there a phobia or is there just
something like live it just grew over time and maybe
there's someone else who can't go on the EN one.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I reckon?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
He true?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I reckon?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, So is this what's weird about you? Or should
we do the one?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Can you not drive on the M one but you
can drive everywhere?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yes, exactly, double.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Five, one, two nine.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
Have you got M one induced anxiety?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
What if we find your people and then we'll get
them all together at one. If you're trivia nights.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
You can train you know what, It would be funny
get a gathering organized, But you can only travel the
M one.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
To get there.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
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out driving on the m one

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh, here we go, It's traffic,