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Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: All right. So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Every Wednesday at eight we get these amazing stories, genuine
Speaker 2: some incredible stories.
Speaker 1: We call it What are the Odds?
Speaker 2: And it's a place every Wednesday for you to share
Speaker 2: your stories of coincidence and chance. Stupidly, a couple of
Speaker 2: months ago, I gave into producer Caitlan's incessant, over enthusiastic
Speaker 2: demands that she had a ten out of a ten
Speaker 2: story that involved her and producer Tina, who I referred
Speaker 2: to as the Chuckles sisters, and what are the odds
Speaker 2: involving Patsy and this show?
Speaker 1: Already it felt weak.
Speaker 2: However, I thought, look, she knows the quality controlled on
Speaker 2: the show. Surely she's not as a producer of this
Speaker 2: show for many years. She's not going to stink it up.
Speaker 2: But I'm afraid it got stanky. So this is what
Speaker 2: we call hang a minute. This is what we call
Speaker 2: them not so great apple sticker story. This is one
Speaker 2: minute of time you're never going to get back. But
Speaker 2: this is why you need to understand. She says, she's
Speaker 2: got another one. So hear this, and no, if you
Speaker 2: don't call him enough stories, we're hearing it for a
Speaker 2: second time.
Speaker 1: Play it now. So on the.
Speaker 5: Show, Patsy was talking about how she would find apple
Speaker 5: stickers under the bench at home, and we were thinking, like,
Speaker 5: who would do that? That is no good, crazy Patsy's daughter.
Speaker 5: So then Tina was like, I was telling.
Speaker 2: Her, Tina not going to speak in this break. You
Speaker 2: said it was you and Tina, someone's hogging the mic.
Speaker 5: Well, how are we supposed to both tell the story?
Speaker 5: We were lying each Okay, So then I said to Tina, hey,
Speaker 5: imagine because she also said that there were boogers. And
Speaker 5: I was like, imagine if there are boogers under there, because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't heard a word yet from Tina and.
Speaker 5: Teas Tina will gag at the soundal site or hearing.
Speaker 1: You her interpreter.
Speaker 5: So I said, imagine if there were boogers under the table.
Speaker 6: And then Tina said, I.
Speaker 5: Better go check that there are no boogers on the
Speaker 5: table because that's disgusting. Then Caitlyn, then Tina got off
Speaker 5: her chair and she went and looked under the table,
Speaker 5: and then she goes, oh.
Speaker 3: My god, you're not gonna believe it.
Speaker 6: There's an apple sticker underneath the table.
Speaker 1: No, I said, not a chair.
Speaker 5: So I got on the floor and I looked under there.
Speaker 5: What are the odds? There was an apple sticker under
Speaker 5: our desk?
Speaker 1: Someone else?
Speaker 3: And then I got under and.
Speaker 2: That went out Primetime, Primetime, Pats, You didn't help either.
Speaker 2: You were two warman, receptive an audience, You've got ears
Speaker 2: of leads.
Speaker 1: You're in a neighbor I thought it was quality.
Speaker 2: Caitlyn and Tina like you.
Speaker 1: Know all right?
Speaker 2: Lines are open now, Lines are open now. Thirteen fifty five,
Speaker 2: twenty two. What are the odds? Your Stories of Coincidence
Speaker 2: and Chance? If we don't get great ones, she's back.
Speaker 2: There's nothing you can do to stop it. You've got
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes to find someone else to listen to. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not tune out. Might know myself, So what fox
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Speaker 2: What are the Odds? Every Wednesday? Your Stories of Coincidence
Speaker 2: and Chance? Thirteen fifty five twenty two. Let's play it
Speaker 2: believe it or not.
Speaker 6: What are the odds?
Speaker 3: You gotta be justhing me.
Speaker 6: Like, were you with Cheryl.
Speaker 1: Who married a Hun?
Speaker 7: Who works with the Cheryl.
Speaker 1: Who married a Hunt?
Speaker 2: As well?
Speaker 1: Some of our favorite calls some of the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks.
Speaker 6: My grandmother when she was fifteen, came over from Cyprus
Speaker 6: just by herself. She was here for about twenty odd
Speaker 6: years and was going to church one day and saw
Speaker 6: this woman and she's like, I know there's some connection there.
Speaker 6: Turned out it was her half sister that she didn't
Speaker 6: even know existed.
Speaker 8: On the eighteenth of March two thousand, my husband and
Speaker 8: I went on our first date. Then over the span
Speaker 8: of twenty years, we got engaged on the eighteenth of March,
Speaker 8: married on the eighteenth of March, and then just by
Speaker 8: a pure chance, our divorce finalized on the eighteenth of
Speaker 8: March in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Forgot that last one.
Speaker 2: They say, oh that is lovely that Oh okay, Rio,
Speaker 2: you've got a willady odds.
Speaker 3: Yes, I went yesterday to the butcher near me because
Speaker 3: I needed a chicken pie.
Speaker 1: Good nice, yes, chicken, a leek or just chicken.
Speaker 3: It's a chicken pot pie that they make in their delicious.
Speaker 3: I got all my other meats, but I forgot the
Speaker 3: chicken pie. So I went home my chicken pie, went
Speaker 3: back to the butcher, picked up my chicken pie. But
Speaker 3: the guy before me, as he was leaving, saw that
Speaker 3: I was buying a chicken pie. He said, thank god
Speaker 3: you're here. I forgot to get a chicken pie. We
Speaker 3: both forgot to get a chicken pie.
Speaker 1: Should have gone with kiton story.
Speaker 3: Well, it's hardly groundbreaking, is it.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I forgot.
Speaker 1: Actually worse than the apple sticker.
Speaker 2: Now, I didn't know there's another level of Dante's infernel.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 7: We yeah, I actually think it was a pickup line,
Speaker 7: I reckon.
Speaker 2: He was thinking it was code.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a bit cute.
Speaker 1: It was like a conversation breaker, compeination break, all conversation's
Speaker 1: starter bats. Oh yeah, maybe I mean startup. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: This was a breaker though.
Speaker 2: Gemma, good morning, Jemma, Hey Jemma, welcome to What are
Speaker 2: the Ars? What's your story for us?
Speaker 1: Mate?
Speaker 4: So I've been living in Geelong for the past three
Speaker 4: years and I've been going to the same Statfitness for
Speaker 4: a while and it's just a small stat Fitness and
Speaker 4: so in the gym, you'd never really say hello or anything.
Speaker 4: It's just kind of like a little nod and a smile.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of familiar faces. And last year
Speaker 4: I moved to Sunshine Coast and there's Statfitness all everywhere
Speaker 4: over Australia, and in Sunshine Coast there's about three or
Speaker 4: four in like a small radius. But I chose this
Speaker 4: gym because it was bigger and it was just had
Speaker 4: a sauna and everything. So I went there and I actually.
Speaker 7: Recognized someone as soon as I moved there. I recognized
Speaker 7: someone from the small gym back at home, and it
Speaker 7: was so odd because I didn't know his name. He
Speaker 7: was the same age as me as well, which was
Speaker 7: even weirder, And yeah, I just thought that was really weird.
Speaker 4: But I did go up and I asked him Geelong
Speaker 4: to that are you from Are you from Geelong or
Speaker 4: do you just have a tween or something? Because this
Speaker 4: is wigging me out. Yeah, that's that's my story. And
Speaker 4: he also went to the same university as me and Geelong. Wow,
Speaker 4: and he moved up for university in Sunshine Coast too.
Speaker 2: Now you're wigging me out, anyone else getting a Wednesday
Speaker 2: week Out. Wednesday week Out, Jemma, thank you very much
Speaker 2: for your story.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, Caitlyn, it can't be any worse. Come on,
Speaker 1: come on, do you know what I believe? Do it?
Speaker 3: Alrighty?
Speaker 5: Great? So we went on a weekend away with my
Speaker 5: in laws. We're in the car and we're doing the
Speaker 5: Saturday Quiz. It's a quiz that we get every Saturday
Speaker 5: sent to us via text. Anyway, we're reading a couple
Speaker 5: of the questions and we get it. Zem gets out
Speaker 5: of the car to fuel up the car. A question
Speaker 5: comes up about basketball. It's me and my mother in
Speaker 5: law in the car, both of us useless, have no
Speaker 5: idea about basketball. Anyway, We're sitting there, We're like, ah,
Speaker 5: what's the what's the answer? It was something about a
Speaker 5: center from the LA Lakers being a part of the
Speaker 5: team that won the two thousand and one, two thousand
Speaker 5: and two, two thousand and whatever. And we're trying to guess, oh, well,
Speaker 5: what are the famous Lakers.
Speaker 1: That we know?
Speaker 5: We don't know any The next second, and I Am
Speaker 5: not kidding you, a guy walks in front of the
Speaker 5: car with an LA Lakers jersey on on the back.
Speaker 5: It says O'Neill, So we go. Let's just say Shaquille O'Neill.
Speaker 5: Who you know? We're not going to guess it. I
Speaker 5: hit onto the answer. The answer is Shaquille O'Neill.
Speaker 3: Why not bad?
Speaker 1: Outstanding? Wow outstanding?
Speaker 2: That's crass scales aret that you could play for the matildas.
Speaker 1: Selky smooth storytelling. You're back in the pocket, she's back
Speaker 1: a sticker what I don't remember it?
Speaker 6: It's insane.
Speaker 1: That is a great one.
Speaker 2: I can see it with that. Do you know what
Speaker 2: I'm having on my second Wednesday week out?
Speaker 1: It was insane.
Speaker 5: I couldn't believe it. I couldn't even wa.
Speaker 2: I want to do anyone else listens, I think I
Speaker 2: want to do the Saturday Quiz.
Speaker 6: How do you take serious?
Speaker 2: So good?
Speaker 5: You just sign up? Look up the Saturday Quiz. I
Speaker 5: think it started with a couple. I think they're from Melbourne.
Speaker 5: They just started doing it with their friends and then
Speaker 5: they turned into this bigger, bigger thing. And now it's
Speaker 5: like you can sign up, you pay a little fee
Speaker 5: and every Saturday you get a quiz and it's.
Speaker 2: You know what, let's do arrival for free. We might
Speaker 2: charge anyone went the Friday quiz. No, no, just can
Speaker 2: you get the questions from last Saturday's one?
Speaker 1: We just did on Friday? All right? Back after the ads.
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Speaker 1: What are the Odds Your Stories?
Speaker 2: Every Wednesday of coincidence and chance Jans send me this
Speaker 2: email Christian. In the sixties, my auntie gave me a
Speaker 2: butterfly broach with these beautiful little colored stones. I dored
Speaker 2: it in a secretly walked to school, even though my
Speaker 2: Muma said, don't do that, just in case you lose it. Well,
Speaker 2: I lost it and I never told her. Fast forward
Speaker 2: many many years later to twenty thirteen. I'm back in
Speaker 2: the state of Victoria, caring for my parents who walking
Speaker 2: my dog through my old primary school yard. While waiting
Speaker 2: for the dog to do his business, I scraped my
Speaker 2: foot in the dirt. There it was my brooch, buried,
Speaker 2: semi buried. Fifty five years later. It was filthy, but
Speaker 2: it was unmistakably my broach. I still have it all
Speaker 2: these years later, from twenty thirteen. It is still my
Speaker 2: most prize possession. This is another one of those ones
Speaker 2: where you're like.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's a beautiful story, Jarn, Absolutely amazing. You are
Speaker 2: meant to get it back. Some sort of divine interference there, Christian,
Speaker 2: I met three Aussies in Guatemala. What a great what
Speaker 2: a great intro to a story. I'm all is I'm
Speaker 2: leaning in. You're in Guatemala. Three Aussies are there. I'm
Speaker 2: from Perth. I'm in Melbourne now I live here. Then
Speaker 2: randomly camp next to those three at a small festival
Speaker 2: in country Victoria. A year Latertoria.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then a year after that, I'm driving onto the Spirit
Speaker 2: of Tasmania. They were in the car in front of me.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, that's great.
Speaker 1: Tasmania hasn't just been ausd the Foo Fighters playing there.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're doing nothing nowhere else in Australia except Tazzy.
Speaker 2: You don't reckon. He's seeing some of his babies. You know,
Speaker 2: he's got a few wets, a little ones stopping around
Speaker 2: the world.
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