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Speaker 2: So got back early yesterday morning from Ireland. I've been
Speaker 2: for the last two ten weeks ten ten how many
Speaker 2: pre recorder shows we.
Speaker 3: Do check lack?
Speaker 2: Sorry, very confusing at the moment I was there, I'm
Speaker 2: here now, but me still back in Ireland. But I'm
Speaker 2: right here in Melbourne at ten minutes past state Tuesday
Speaker 2: morning while someone's so, you know, two flights to get
Speaker 2: back from Dublin senters the UK so changed that.
Speaker 3: I had a fifteen minute turnover in Dubai. I actually run.
Speaker 3: I had to run. They were calling my name and
Speaker 3: it went. That plane only landed.
Speaker 2: I've not been like in duty free shopping running through it.
Speaker 2: Then they changed the gate and I'm like, is someone
Speaker 2: screwing with me?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: And you're the type of person who gets to the
Speaker 5: airport five hours early Channel flight.
Speaker 2: For the Dublin flight, right, because I didn't know how
Speaker 2: busy it would be. I was there six hours early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I sat there in that main course of two hours.
Speaker 3: There's there. The lady was like, literally.
Speaker 2: Checked two hours, there's no rest, what's there?
Speaker 3: They're the other side two.
Speaker 2: Hours hanging around and even security people are like what's
Speaker 2: that staring at me?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: And we checked out this suite here I kept repacking
Speaker 2: a suit you know, person just in front of me,
Speaker 2: one like unpacking.
Speaker 3: Their suitcase on the floor.
Speaker 2: Do you know while someone's on the the flight coming
Speaker 2: back from Dubai to Melbourn. Right anytime we want to
Speaker 2: watch a movie, and there were quite a few movie
Speaker 2: I watched. You had to put up this twenty second
Speaker 2: advert right basically saying move to Costa Rica in just
Speaker 2: twenty seconds. And it was just a load of slide
Speaker 2: shows started with move to Costa Rica.
Speaker 3: They've got you okay.
Speaker 2: Twenty seconds later after a load of slide shows, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that looks funny. Nice move to Costa Rica. I don't
Speaker 2: her website you can go to? And I'm thinking, who
Speaker 2: the hell? While she's sat in his stale farts right
Speaker 2: on a big old, long old flight to Australia, is.
Speaker 3: Thinking, do you know what? That's it? That turn the
Speaker 3: plane around? We're going to Costa Rica?
Speaker 1: Kids?
Speaker 2: Why I watched a twin second advert You can't even
Speaker 2: google to find out more about it. It was just
Speaker 2: twenty seconds moved to Costa Rica. I thought, that is
Speaker 2: such a big life decision. But the point is this
Speaker 2: about life decisions. Sometimes people must just make a snap
Speaker 2: decision a moment ago.
Speaker 3: That's it. We're not we're leaving this suburb, or we're
Speaker 3: leaving the state. That's it.
Speaker 2: I want to know people have actually made a life
Speaker 2: changing decision. But it really was a snap one. It
Speaker 2: wasn't like weeks and months of thinking about it, researching.
Speaker 3: You went, you know, I've had enough. This is it
Speaker 3: for the ad said to do it.
Speaker 6: Turn the plane around.
Speaker 5: Biank told me she's just come back from Italy on
Speaker 5: a big, hot holiday with her family. She said, there's
Speaker 5: a small village there that is losing residents and they
Speaker 5: want to keep the village alive, so they're offering people
Speaker 5: to fly into Italy and live there for one dollar
Speaker 5: a health.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder what you say.
Speaker 2: I thought they were inviting people to go and basically
Speaker 2: have sex with the Tonian lectis bin.
Speaker 3: You version of El Farmer? So WiFi. I'd do that
Speaker 3: for a dog what had.
Speaker 2: Become a mum? Oh, just a crystal clear. If you
Speaker 2: get a Donna house in Italy.
Speaker 6: It's so You'm going to send you this article. It's
Speaker 6: so picturesque.
Speaker 2: It's a stunning Italian village in the hills.
Speaker 4: Where's everyone going though, If it's so stunning, why they
Speaker 4: leave it?
Speaker 5: You must have an aging population, aging population, and it's
Speaker 5: in the middle of nowhere, still in Italy, in the
Speaker 5: middle of nowhere Italy.
Speaker 3: But that's like saying move.
Speaker 2: To Australia and they're like, where we buy the Harbor Bridge?
Speaker 3: And no, you an a chuka.
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Speaker 2: Have you ever made a snap life changing decision? If
Speaker 2: you have, we want to hear about it. You can call
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Speaker 3: Yes. Soon.
Speaker 2: On the flight back from Ireland, just saw a twenty
Speaker 2: second advert urging people, urging people to move to Costa
Speaker 2: Rica and said there was just a couple of lines
Speaker 2: like it was just like pretty obvious. Here's this shabby
Speaker 2: slide show right with some bland lift music. It literally
Speaker 2: what it said was move to Costa Rica.
Speaker 6: Usually a country or at least go visit Costa Rica.
Speaker 2: Come.
Speaker 3: This was a system.
Speaker 2: It had a lot of flex going on, and then
Speaker 2: there's twenty seconds of beautiful beaches and then come to
Speaker 2: Costa Rica. So and I thinking, who is making a
Speaker 2: big life changes in that from a twenty second advert
Speaker 2: on a flight when all your emotions and energy levels
Speaker 2: are screwed up. Anyway, let's go to Matt then, So
Speaker 2: we're talking about snap life changing decisions.
Speaker 3: Morning Matt Hey, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 4: Living in New Zealand, twenty years old. Towards the end
Speaker 4: of one nine, the old man goes to when I
Speaker 4: was your age. No, I was in Australia and I
Speaker 4: know something switched. I went to the travel end a
Speaker 4: couple of days later booked the one way ticket to Melbourne,
Speaker 4: so I couldn't afford a return flight, had about seven
Speaker 4: hundred bucks. Yeah, and and here I am still here
Speaker 4: for kids, rider and two wives.
Speaker 2: So wow, you got all that when you landed. That's incredible.
Speaker 2: I mean ten pound bombs. You know they got that
Speaker 2: TV show now and stand and you when you get
Speaker 2: that it's two wives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't muck around.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Australia. Take and pick of these ladies at
Speaker 2: the harbor here. That's incredible. And even the story there
Speaker 2: where you said you went to the travel agents. This
Speaker 2: was in a day before we can book a holiday
Speaker 2: now all over the word anywhere, just you know, on
Speaker 2: your on your phone. You had to actually go to
Speaker 2: a travelations where do you know when we were book
Speaker 2: an entire holiday based on off photo in a magazine
Speaker 2: and I'll go to that photo.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And the funny thing, Christian was on the particular day,
Speaker 4: I just said, look of that's going to fly out
Speaker 4: of New Zealand. You know, you know on this day,
Speaker 4: where would I begun? Travel agent goes to Melbourne and
Speaker 4: I said, what's that? They go, yeah, it seems to
Speaker 4: be all right, and I'm going, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Went Travelation of the Year. That seem like, yeah, right,
Speaker 2: isn't that incredible? So you could have ended up anywhere
Speaker 2: depended on what the flight.
Speaker 3: Was that day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Amazing And obviously this is now.
Speaker 4: Home absolutely certainly is great.
Speaker 3: Matt. Thank you very much. You cool.
Speaker 2: Mat, have a good day, you do, Natalie, good morning,
Speaker 2: Hi Christian. I'm good Natal, and I hope you will.
Speaker 2: So your snap life changing decision, what was it?
Speaker 7: My husband came home from work because he just looked
Speaker 7: at me. She didn't say anything, and I said where
Speaker 7: and he said Melbourne and I said cool. And a
Speaker 7: few days later I saw at the house to my
Speaker 7: friends on the school run. My brothers bought a cars
Speaker 7: and then like a month later on the plane and emigrated.
Speaker 2: I mean, I wish Actually my marriage has a bit
Speaker 2: o this because we have to talk and plan everything,
Speaker 2: even really what supermarket we're going to today?
Speaker 6: Which car.
Speaker 3: Coming home? Going Guatemala? Okay, Darling, here we go.
Speaker 4: Oh well.
Speaker 7: The funny thing was my brother rang a few days
Speaker 7: later to say ask if he could borrow my mom
Speaker 7: and dad's camping fridge, and I was like, I really
Speaker 7: don't care. I'm about to move to Australia, and then.
Speaker 4: That to him.
Speaker 7: He was just like, okay, you just make your decision. Fine. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it was huge, but it was awesome.
Speaker 3: Look back, how many has you been here?
Speaker 7: Ten years?
Speaker 3: This year?
Speaker 7: I mean it became citizens.
Speaker 3: Congratulations.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been very cool.
Speaker 3: Lovely Natalie, thank you very much.
Speaker 7: You cool, Thank you? Okay, fine, that is a.
Speaker 3: Very posh lady.
Speaker 2: You know, I'd imagine that there was a gin in
Speaker 2: his hand and hers. It's like someone now with Richard
Speaker 2: Curtis movie, Hugh Grant, Bill Knight, somewhere like that Melbourne.
Speaker 3: Okay, Darling.
Speaker 2: When she said Vica comes around, Bring you off to
Speaker 2: now Melbourne, whatever next.
Speaker 6: We sold our cars to our brothers.
Speaker 2: Brothers take the Volvo and the Jaguar and the hes
Speaker 2: not needing these.
Speaker 3: Another Gin Vicker
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