Speaker 1: It's Lucky Dip with Malan Marti. Yeah. Hi, Mons's got
Speaker 1: a question for you. Have you ever had any weird
Speaker 1: coincidences happen in your life? Not that I can really think,
Speaker 1: not big enough that I'm like, whoa, but I feel
Speaker 1: like I have said, oh my god, what a coincidence? Yeah,
Speaker 1: neither neither. Although my daughter's initials are the same as
Speaker 1: the number plate of my first car. Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I think is interesting. Once I was on the same
Speaker 1: flight as the kids school principal. That's a coincidence that
Speaker 1: we're on the same flight to Bali. Yeah, I got nothing. Yeah, no, Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: these are gobsmacking lies. I'm going to start from like
Speaker 1: least impressive. It takes me a bit like Caitline Brook
Speaker 1: used to do these on air, and I used to
Speaker 1: be a joke because I was so unimpressed. O, no, no,
Speaker 1: these will okay, Okay, well the first one may not.
Speaker 1: But there was this American novelist called Anne Parish, and
Speaker 1: back in the twenties, she's in Paris with her husband
Speaker 1: and she's looking through this book stall on the Street
Speaker 1: and she sees this book that was her favorite book
Speaker 1: as a kid, called Jack Frost and other stories. And
Speaker 1: she sees it and she's like, oh my god, and
Speaker 1: she picks it up and she's like, this was my
Speaker 1: favorite book as a kid. I loved this book. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they were American. So then he opens the book and
Speaker 1: starts looking through it, and on the inside cover it
Speaker 1: had her name and her childhood address, right coincidence, it
Speaker 1: was her good strong start. Oh well, if you're impressed
Speaker 1: with that, fuck this is okay, tits off? Okay. Do
Speaker 1: you know what the Hoover Dam is? So it's like
Speaker 1: this massive damn but it's a big sort of man
Speaker 1: made thing that supplies power and water storage and stuff
Speaker 1: between like Arizona and Las Vegas. Anyway, it was one
Speaker 1: of these things where there were lots of fatalities back
Speaker 1: in the day because the planning started in the early
Speaker 1: twenties and was finished in like nineteen thirty five or something.
Speaker 1: There were one hundred and twelve deaths of workers there
Speaker 1: during the construction. But back in the planning days, the
Speaker 1: first person to die was this guy called John Tierney,
Speaker 1: and he fell and drowned there on the twentieth of
Speaker 1: December nineteen twenty two. So then there are like all
Speaker 1: these other people died during the construction. The last person
Speaker 1: to die at the Hoover Dam was a young guy
Speaker 1: who fell from one of the huge towers on the
Speaker 1: twentieth of December nineteen thirty five, which was thirteen years
Speaker 1: to the day that John Tierney died. And that was
Speaker 1: Patrick Teerenney. John Teerney's son whoa so John was the
Speaker 1: first guy to die there and his son Patrick thirteen
Speaker 1: years later to the day, wow as the last person.
Speaker 1: How's this? On a winter's day in two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: at around nine thirty am, a seventy year old man
Speaker 1: was riding his bike across this Maine road near Helsinki
Speaker 1: in Finland, gets hit by truck and dies tragic. At
Speaker 1: two seventeen pm on the same day, same road, about
Speaker 1: a kilometer up, another seventy year old man is riding
Speaker 1: his bike and gets hit by a truck. It was
Speaker 1: the first man's identical twin brother. And they hadn't even
Speaker 1: informed the family yet that he died. That you would think, oh,
Speaker 1: my god, like maybe he wanted to go out the
Speaker 1: same way as his brother or whatever. Isn't that amazing? Right?
Speaker 1: And that's two thousand and two fairly recent. Really okay,
Speaker 1: this is really good too. This is so good. Okay.
Speaker 1: King Mberto in Italy, right, this is back in nineteen hundred.
Speaker 1: One night he goes out to dinner in Monza and
Speaker 1: he gets there with his people and they sit down
Speaker 1: and he spots this guy that looks exactly like him,
Speaker 1: Like it's uncanny, so he calls him over and the
Speaker 1: guy says, ah, my name is also Umberto. They get
Speaker 1: to chatting. Listen to this. They find out they were
Speaker 1: born on the same day in the same town. Both
Speaker 1: had married women named Margarita. Both had had sons named
Speaker 1: Vittorio and Umberto. The restauranteur opened his restaurant on the
Speaker 1: same day as King Umberto his coronation. Wow, hold on,
Speaker 1: save you well. They had made an arrangement to meet
Speaker 1: up the next day, but that never eventuated because on
Speaker 1: that next day, July twenty ninth, King Umberto was assassinated. Wow,
Speaker 1: and Umberto the restauranteur was involved in some sort of
Speaker 1: shooting and he died. So they died on the same
Speaker 1: day in the same way. My nipples are hard. I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. Isn't that unbelievable. That's wild, Like so
Speaker 1: full on that it's almost unbelievable. I know, okay, And
Speaker 1: this is the last one, very tragic. So in Bermuda
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five, a seventeen year old boy was
Speaker 1: riding his moped when he was accidentally hit and killed
Speaker 1: by taxi. The following year, another seventeen year old boy
Speaker 1: was killed while riding his moped on the same road.
Speaker 1: It turns out that that boy that died the year
Speaker 1: later was the brother of the first boy that had
Speaker 1: died the year before, so there was a year between them.
Speaker 1: So the first boy died when he was seventeen, the
Speaker 1: second boy was also seventeen. He was the brother, right right,
Speaker 1: This is the amazing bit. He was riding the same
Speaker 1: moped that his brother who'd been killed was riding. Hang on,
Speaker 1: it was the same fucking taxi driver carrying the same passenger.
Speaker 1: I can you can you believe? Firstly, like, just forget
Speaker 1: even the trauma of the parents, right like you're using
Speaker 1: these two kids a year apart in such horrible ways
Speaker 1: taxi driver and the passenger, And I feel like it
Speaker 1: must have been a time where maybe like this passenger
Speaker 1: I don't know, got the same taxi to work all
Speaker 1: the time. We just had a guy because that's odd.
Speaker 1: Any Yeah, because there would have to be something, because
Speaker 1: that's odd that the like to get the same taxi
Speaker 1: driver is a massive coincidence in itself. Well, this is
Speaker 1: why it's a massive coincidence, Lucky dip. Wow, great job there.
Speaker 1: You know what I love when I've got you, because
Speaker 1: sometimes I can see I haven't got you that I
Speaker 1: have you with those all right, we're out of here.
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