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🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone, for those of you, no, that's dumb. I'm going to start over. |
0:26.6 | This is Rachel, she's a junior in college, and she's with her big sister Gina. |
0:33.6 | Gina just rolled her eyes at me for anyone wondering. |
0:41.6 | Thank you for opening the door. |
0:44.6 | Just a little bit of background. I am setting a broad in London. I am a physically disabled |
0:50.6 | person, so I use a wheelchair most of the time, and just kind of get stuck in places a lot. |
0:57.6 | So Gina is here helping me out for a few months. It's been really fun. |
1:02.6 | A couple of months ago, I called Rachel and Gina up, and actually I wish I'd made a recording of that phone call, |
1:09.6 | because it was incredibly chaotic. My cousins are the best. |
1:15.6 | Rachel is a journalism student, and I thought that she and Gina might be up for a little assignment, |
1:20.6 | to descend into the London Underground. |
1:23.6 | To this specific tube station called embankment. |
1:28.6 | But I forgot the words I was going to say. |
1:31.6 | Do you want me to jump in? |
1:33.6 | Yeah. |
1:34.6 | So... |
1:35.6 | Actually, I am going to jump in here. Truly classic behavior from all three of us cousins. |
1:42.6 | A few months ago, Rachel heard a story about an elderly woman who used to visit embankment station every day. |
1:49.6 | Sometimes she'd just sit on a bench for a while and then leave. |
1:53.6 | Until one day, she asked a station attendant what had happened to the voice reading the announcement. |
1:59.6 | You know, were they say, mind the gap? |
2:02.6 | They told her it had been re-recorded by a new voice. |
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