Speaker 1: It's the Christian O'Connell's show on Gold. We love hearing
Speaker 1: your stories. Every single day. We share our stories to
Speaker 1: get your stories. And right now, if you've got a story,
Speaker 1: whatever it is does need to be a big, bombastic thing.
Speaker 1: But you think when we hear it or when you
Speaker 1: tell people about it, it makes them say, wow, that's
Speaker 1: what this is all about. Can you tell us a
Speaker 1: story that makes the three of us say wow? We
Speaker 1: had one last year from Tia.
Speaker 2: My brother Jason passed away many years ago on March
Speaker 2: the eleventh. This year, on March the eleventh, I was
Speaker 2: on the train and I decided to play his favorite album,
Speaker 2: which is No Life to Live by Metallica. Put the
Speaker 2: album on, I closed my eyes and us a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes. I opened my eyes and there's a guy
Speaker 2: sitting in front of me with a No Life to
Speaker 2: Leave a t shirt off, and I said, look, what's
Speaker 2: your name? My name's Tia. He said, my name is Jason.
Speaker 2: His name was the same name as my brother. It
Speaker 2: freaked me out. It was so cool.
Speaker 1: It's such an incredible story. Whenever I hear it again,
Speaker 1: so I'm hearing it fresh. So what's your story? Then?
Speaker 1: Will make me chack comparts say, well, you've got quite
Speaker 1: incredible story to share today.
Speaker 3: Becker and I had one this week. We met up
Speaker 3: with her friend Nina, and Nina's parents are from Iran,
Speaker 3: and I asked, did your parents get together in Australia
Speaker 3: or did they get together when they were still in Iran?
Speaker 3: And she said, well, actually they got married over the phone.
Speaker 3: And what happened was they were kid childhood friends as
Speaker 3: kids in the seventies, her dad moves here to Melbourne
Speaker 3: and they don't see each other again. They're both later
Speaker 3: on traveling the world. They bump into each other through
Speaker 3: a mutual friend at a house party in Portland, Oregon
Speaker 3: in the United States, reconnect, fall in love, plan for
Speaker 3: her to move to Australia and them to get married,
Speaker 3: but first he comes back to Melbourne. She goes back
Speaker 3: to Iran and while they're waiting for her visa to
Speaker 3: come in, the wedding date is coming up. The visa's
Speaker 3: taken much longer than expected. They decide to keep the
Speaker 3: wedding date and they get married over the phone. So
Speaker 3: we watched It's amazing footage you've got of this very
Speaker 3: eighties wedding her mum is in a full white wedding dress,
Speaker 3: all the party guests are in wedding attire, cake, music, dancing,
Speaker 3: and then traveling around the party is an old cream
Speaker 3: landline phone on a big long cord, and her dad
Speaker 3: is in Melbourne on the other end in his suit
Speaker 3: with his best man in his suit, and they have
Speaker 3: the whole wedding like that.
Speaker 1: Wow, I've never heard of such a story. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: And then within two years she gets the visa and
Speaker 3: now they live happily in Melbourne together.
Speaker 1: What an awesome story. So these are the stories we're
Speaker 1: looking for, right, They are those stories that when you
Speaker 1: shout with somebody they do go wow, it's an incredible story.
Speaker 1: So what have you got Give us a call. We've
Speaker 1: got prizes for the better ones. All right, So can
Speaker 1: you make me Jack Apat say wow? Have you got
Speaker 1: a story that's going to make us say wow? Nine
Speaker 1: four one four one oh four three? Jim, good morning? Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you I'm going Jim, Welcome.
Speaker 4: To the show. All right, We're all it air.
Speaker 1: Is what's your story?
Speaker 4: Mate? Well, it was last night in Scotland and we
Speaker 4: were arranging to meet my brother the pub was packed,
Speaker 4: and this lady invited us to sit and share a
Speaker 4: table with them, and we got talking and it turns
Speaker 4: out her husband's grandfather and my grandfather were brothers.
Speaker 3: Okay, pretty good coincidence.
Speaker 1: It's not coincidence. It's more than that, it's fate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just happy to go.
Speaker 1: Hey, you want to sit here? I sit there and
Speaker 1: suddenly awareness they've got so much more in common. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when strangers become family. Well, it's a wow for me.
Speaker 1: I'm wowing. Only went well. No, well, I say cool, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jimmie's so well for me, my friend, that's an incredible story. Thanks, buddy,
Speaker 1: have a good day. Okay, right, Susie, good morning.
Speaker 5: Hi, helly you Susie.
Speaker 1: We are desperate to hear this story. I know for
Speaker 1: my very excitable Truosa cans. Is it involved a chimpanzee.
Speaker 5: Yes, my oldest auntie is a chimpanzee. Was she's dead now?
Speaker 1: Sorry all right, sorry, just in case they all went
Speaker 1: under a bridge at that key moment there was My.
Speaker 5: Oldest aunt was a chimpanzee. My grandparents when they got married,
Speaker 5: they're German. They spent twelve months on safari in Africa
Speaker 5: and When they went back to Germany, they took back
Speaker 5: with them as their first child, a baby chimpanzee.
Speaker 3: Wow, wow, I mean you're not meant to do that anymore.
Speaker 3: The animals, I.
Speaker 1: Would even just carry out that, not even not meant
Speaker 1: to do it anymore. Shouldn't done it? Then then it
Speaker 1: was fine. Yeah, if you know what have you said
Speaker 1: out to any of these animals whore in Africa? Ta
Speaker 1: at the moment to Germany?
Speaker 5: No? No, this is pre World War one right all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't try and recruit those. I spang out
Speaker 1: of order, Hitler. Okay, that is really bad. You can't
Speaker 1: be using the.
Speaker 3: Chimps live in the house, does it? And have its
Speaker 3: own bedroom?
Speaker 5: That sort of thing that I don't know. By the
Speaker 5: time my mother came along, she was the youngest of
Speaker 5: their five human children.
Speaker 1: There's something wrong with Kevin. We need to talk about Kevin.
Speaker 1: He's bloody, Harry, does he hit puberty? He's so strong,
Speaker 1: He's not terrible. We go out, Susie, this is incredible.
Speaker 1: When did you find this out?
Speaker 5: Oh, I've known all my life. Yeah. My grandparents were
Speaker 5: known as Raja and Rannie. They had actually planned to
Speaker 5: move back to Africa. That of course Germany lost their
Speaker 5: rights in Africa East Africa during the First World War,
Speaker 5: so they'd already bought a blockhill of land on the
Speaker 5: foothills of killingman Jaro and were going back.
Speaker 1: Wow, and have you seen like photos of like the
Speaker 1: family with Yeah.
Speaker 5: When I passed my first piano exam, at said, and
Speaker 5: I was given my grandmother's gold blocket and inside was
Speaker 5: a photo of Agustian Sorry, what was its name? A
Speaker 5: Gustian Christian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's either like it was the whole family or
Speaker 3: just the chimp.
Speaker 5: Just the chimp. And what was you doing?
Speaker 1: Was you on attire or just giving a thumbs.
Speaker 5: Just sitting in on a Sunday chair? Yeah, no, cocktail.
Speaker 5: I think it would have been a bit dangerous.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, you're quite right. This this is incredible
Speaker 1: mm hm. And how did they have the chimp for
Speaker 1: in the family?
Speaker 5: Look as normal. When chimps grow up, they get really
Speaker 5: vicious and violent. So by the time my mum came along,
Speaker 5: she was already living in the zoo, the German version.
Speaker 5: She wasn't the only one that they brought back. They
Speaker 5: brought back some animals for the locals who in Kinnicksburg.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I want to know what other animals. There's
Speaker 5: a photo of my grandmother bottle feeding a very small
Speaker 5: antelope on the deck of the ship. That's in the
Speaker 5: family albums. I don't know one of the animals they
Speaker 5: brought back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is where it was bottle feeding. Otherwise that's
Speaker 1: a photo.
Speaker 5: Sadly there's only I think one or two photos is
Speaker 5: creatable stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing stuff. Well listen, Well it feels smaller to
Speaker 1: send you a cup of prizes, but thank you so
Speaker 1: much for sharing that incredible moment in your family's history.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got an incredible family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I bet this is only the surface of it. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: we listen, we're here all yere Susie and many Maybe
Speaker 1: there's a few more chapters in the story of your
Speaker 1: incredible family's life.
Speaker 5: Not an issue at all.
Speaker 1: Good to hear. All right, Susie for now, Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, and goodbye, speech you.
Speaker 5: Soon, Okay, bye.
Speaker 1: That everything we just heard. That's like, where's Anderson's next movie.