Speaker 1: La la La La La la la la Lucky dip time.
Speaker 1: It's mel Monty.
Speaker 2: Hello Monty, Hello, everybody. Oh hello, then mauthe like a
Speaker 2: play school presenter, Hello everybody. Okay, I've got a quick
Speaker 2: story for you today. Very very coincidental. But like so
Speaker 2: like on the record, there is no disputing Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, because you like a coincidence. But some they're very
Speaker 1: far fetched sometimes.
Speaker 2: But yes, but you know some of them, like when
Speaker 2: someone is meant to be somewhere and then these circumstances unfold.
Speaker 2: Like Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg were both meant to
Speaker 2: be on American Airlines Flight eleven, the first one to
Speaker 2: hit the World Trade Center. Seth McFarland was hungover and
Speaker 2: missed the flight by ten minutes because his assistant put
Speaker 2: the wrong time on the itinery. Mark Wahlberg got an
Speaker 2: invitation at the last minute to go to the Toronto
Speaker 2: Film Festival. What a fucking douche that guy.
Speaker 1: Isn't he the biggest douche of all time?
Speaker 2: Listen to what he said. This will make you want
Speaker 2: to fucking rip your eyeballs out. It'll be God related. No, no,
Speaker 2: he said. About five years after September eleventh. If I
Speaker 2: was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have
Speaker 2: went down like it did. There would have been a
Speaker 2: lot of blood in that first class cabin and then
Speaker 2: me saying, Okay, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.
Speaker 2: Like those people didn'tvite for their lives or whatever. He
Speaker 2: would have fucking saved the day. He's so table, he's
Speaker 2: oh I hate him. Oh I hate strong. Anyway, ok
Speaker 2: moving moving on, Okay. So at the West Side Baptist
Speaker 2: Church in Nebraska, fifteen locals would meet every Wednesday night
Speaker 2: for choir practice. It was this small town on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: March the first, nineteen fifty so they're meant to meet
Speaker 2: at seven twenty At seven twenty five pm, there was
Speaker 2: this massive explosion inside the church and the church was
Speaker 2: just destroyed. It was like so big that the windows
Speaker 2: of all the surrounding houses blew out, like the local
Speaker 2: radio station went dead. Like it was massive. So people
Speaker 2: in the town are freaking out because they also know
Speaker 2: it's a small community. There's fifteen people in there who
Speaker 2: were doing their fucking choir practice. Devastating Except by some
Speaker 2: weird coincidence, every single one of those choir members had
Speaker 2: a different reason for not making it there on time.
Speaker 2: None of them were.
Speaker 1: In there, not one of the fifteen.
Speaker 2: Not one. I'm going to run through some of the
Speaker 2: reasons that stopped them from them there. So the reverend
Speaker 2: had actually gone into the church earlier in the day
Speaker 2: and put on the furnace because it was winter. What
Speaker 2: had actually happened was there was a there was a
Speaker 2: gas pipe that had leaked, and because the furnace had
Speaker 2: been on at court fire right anyway, his reason for
Speaker 2: not being there was he goes and puts the furnace on,
Speaker 2: he goes home, he has dinner with his wife and
Speaker 2: his eighteen month old daughter who used to go with him,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, to the choir practice as well. But
Speaker 2: while I know, but while they were having dinner, the
Speaker 2: little girl spilt something on her dress, so the mom
Speaker 2: had to change her and like it's the fifties, she
Speaker 2: ironed a new dress for her to wear. So they
Speaker 2: were running late. That's why they weren't there. The choir
Speaker 2: pianist who was like the head honcho, her name was Marilyn,
Speaker 2: and she was very strict about everyone being there on time,
Speaker 2: but just by some ass. She also had dinner and
Speaker 2: very uncharacteristically fell asleep after dinner, and the mum, who
Speaker 2: was also part of the choir, tried waking her a
Speaker 2: few times, and she's like, we're going to be late.
Speaker 2: We're going to be late. By the time they got
Speaker 2: up and got ready to go, they were late enough
Speaker 2: that they missed the explosion. Okay. A high school student
Speaker 2: named Ladona was always early to choir practice, but had
Speaker 2: been doing homework and she was stuck on this geometry
Speaker 2: problem and lost track of the time trying to figure
Speaker 2: it out. That's why she was late. Another high school
Speaker 2: student name Rowena got into her car to head to practice,
Speaker 2: but the car wouldn't start, so she called Lodona, the
Speaker 2: girl on the geometry question, and said, can you give
Speaker 2: me a lift to choir practice? So she was late
Speaker 2: because Ladona was late because she was stuck on the
Speaker 2: geometry question. Right. Herbert, who sang bass in the choir,
Speaker 2: he'd been writing a letter that night. He said, he
Speaker 2: can't explain why, but he had this real impulse that
Speaker 2: that letter had to be mailed like that night, put
Speaker 2: in the postbox anyway, So he took his time to
Speaker 2: go and put it in the mailbox, and he was
Speaker 2: running late, which is why he wasn't there. And there
Speaker 2: was a man named Harvey who was at home with
Speaker 2: his two young sons. His wife was away and he'd
Speaker 2: planned on taking the kids with him, but they got
Speaker 2: stuck talking and probably you know, put your fucking shoes on,
Speaker 2: hurry up at the front door. They were late, and
Speaker 2: that is why they were not there. And a lady
Speaker 2: named Joyce who lived across the road from the church,
Speaker 2: and she said that night she was just sitting there
Speaker 2: and she said she just, I mean, in our language,
Speaker 2: had a case of that can't be fus And she's like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, it's so cold outside. I can't be bothered.
Speaker 2: She got up, she put her coat on, and she
Speaker 2: opened the door just in time. She was facing the
Speaker 2: church to see the church explode and like just collapse
Speaker 2: in on itself. I mean, that is remarkable. Fifteen PD
Speaker 2: is scheduled to be somewhere and for separate reasons and
Speaker 2: not there. But also they would have made it that.
Speaker 1: God had put do you know what I mean? That
Speaker 1: would have been their reasoning for sure. If you're from
Speaker 1: a church and you're religious and you all did I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe there is a higher power at play with that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. My thought around that is I always
Speaker 2: think to myself, Yeah, but you know, like if someone
Speaker 2: like let's say, Seth MacFarland and Mark Wahlberg, Right, but
Speaker 2: what about all the other people on that planet?
Speaker 1: I know, but there was no one in this one
Speaker 1: for this explosion.
Speaker 2: Maybe that was God saying well done, lovely voices.
Speaker 1: Well done, Herbie on your bass, singing good one. All right, everyone,
Speaker 1: we are out here, We are out here. Let's see
Speaker 1: you soon. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2: Love you,