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Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast

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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 2: What are the odds believe it or not? Oh?

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Speaker 3: What are the odds?

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Speaker 4: You've gotta be justing me, Like why you were Quinn

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Speaker 4: who married a queen?

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Speaker 2: What are the odds believe.

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Speaker 5: It or not?

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Speaker 2: We don't know, Christian? What are the odds?

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Speaker 5: My colleague one morning at work was cracking eggs. She

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Speaker 5: got six double egg yolks in a row. Wow, we

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Speaker 5: can believe it. We start filming. This is like good

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Speaker 5: this I'm not meaning this is a great date work?

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Speaker 5: Is that genuinely is a great date work? All twelve

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Speaker 5: eggs in the carton were doublers, and we got the

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Speaker 5: remaining six bang bang bang bang bang on video.

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Speaker 2: What are the odds?

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Speaker 3: With each egg that's cracked, you get more and more excited.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but surely the chances get harder.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, harder and harder. But it must be some kind

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Speaker 3: of special chicken doing all the same ones.

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Speaker 2: You reckonize something like that special chicken.

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Speaker 3: One chicken who has a mutation that gives a double

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Speaker 3: Now it's.

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Speaker 2: Got a mutation, Christian.

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Speaker 5: In the nineties, my mum sold a knitting machine to

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Speaker 5: a lady in pasco Velle. About ten years later I

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Speaker 5: meet my now wife. We have our engagement party. By

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Speaker 5: the way, I haven't fully read this. I just got

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Speaker 5: excited about the nitting machine. I'm suddenly realizing, Wait, I

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Speaker 5: don't know if this is any good. I should select

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Speaker 5: stuff like this. A professional would do that, for example. Well,

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Speaker 5: was I Pascoville.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 5: My mum in the nineteen sold a knitting machine to

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Speaker 5: a lady in pasco Belle. Ten years later, when I

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Speaker 5: met my now wife, we had our engagement party. When

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Speaker 5: we were greeting the guests at the door, my mom

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Speaker 5: was with us, and the lady that my mum sold

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Speaker 5: the knitting machine walked in. My aum asked why she

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Speaker 5: was there. She said there was an engagement for her cousin.

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Speaker 5: My mom said there wasn't. It wasn't my engagement in. Otherwise,

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Speaker 5: my wife and I could have met years earlier. Twelve

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Speaker 5: double It's not twelve doubles, is it's it's not mutation,

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Speaker 5: all right?

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Speaker 2: So let's go to Mary Anne here. Good morning, Marianne, Hello,

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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone. How are we there?

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Speaker 3: Were?

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Speaker 6: Good?

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Speaker 2: Mary Anne? Yes? What are.

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Sorry? Mary Owned? What's your story for us.

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Speaker 4: So I've got a pretty fun story. It's about me

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Speaker 4: and my partner. So when we first met, as you

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Speaker 4: do when you first meet someone, you're getting to know them,

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Speaker 4: we found out that we had a lot of coincidences

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Speaker 4: between us that were a little bit amazing actually, so

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Speaker 4: I'll get just to two of them. So for context,

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Speaker 4: he's a furniture wholesaler and twenty about twenty twenty five

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Speaker 4: furnisure store, and it turns out that my partner's dad

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Speaker 7: Whilst he was.

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Speaker 4: Working there, he also had a desk custom made by

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Speaker 4: his dad. Move forward to today, my brother actually still

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Speaker 4: we're getting to know each other, we you know, we're dating,

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Speaker 4: I'm actually renovating my house. He's helping me pack up

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Speaker 2: When did you get touching it in area. Hello, there

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Speaker 2: we are.

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Speaker 5: I think Marianne's gone. Let's go to We'll try and

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Speaker 5: get how about later, Peter?

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Speaker 2: You there, Hew, you going, guys, I'm good. Peter. What

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Speaker 2: are the odds? Peter? What's your story? What are the odds?

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Speaker 6: When I was a young fellow Gripe and Frankston, I

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Speaker 6: used to do archery, bought bows and arrows from a

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Speaker 6: told him the story. About three years after that, the

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Speaker 6: dated nineteen fifty three.

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Speaker 3: Wow, right, so your dad was doing the same thing.

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Speaker 6: Yes, well, he built the house in nineteen fifty three.

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Speaker 6: Unbeknowns to me, wow. So he cut a bit of

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Speaker 2: A family and him now that ripped off behind it.

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Speaker 2: That is incredible.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: So what are the odds are that.

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Speaker 2: You don't know?

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Speaker 3: You play, Peter friend?

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Speaker 2: Everyone had a Rodwell today? All right, Peter, thank you

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Speaker 2: very much your story mate.

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Speaker 6: No worries.

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Speaker 1: So the Christian Connell Show podcast, What.

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Speaker 2: Are the odds? What's your story for us? Annie?

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Speaker 9: Well, I was standing in the kitchen having a glass

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Speaker 9: of wine as you do, cooking dinner, but just observing

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Speaker 9: my three year old just playing around. But she was

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Speaker 9: goes through the air. She showed at me. Barbie goes

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Speaker 9: through the air and landed steak first in my glass

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Speaker 3: Barbie, trick shot.

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Speaker 2: It's a trick shot she got.

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Speaker 9: If she can't look like me, I guess like she

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Speaker 2: Is this a mirror? Annie? Thank you very much? She

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Speaker 2: killed I have a good day.

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Speaker 10: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Lisa, good morning.

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Speaker 10: Good morning.

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Speaker 11: How are you all?

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Speaker 2: We're good, Lisa. So what's your story for us? Lisa?

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Speaker 10: Okay, I have two daughters. Mother's Day weekend. Last year,

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Speaker 10: my older daughter rushed to hospital, had to have her.

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Speaker 11: Gall bladder out.

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Speaker 10: This year, this Mother's Day weekend, my youngest daughter rush

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Speaker 2: No way, yes, way, the same day. Yep, yep. That

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Speaker 10: What are the odds?

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Speaker 2: Are the odds the same day? You don't seem.

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Speaker 3: As I actually don't know which one the gall bladder is.

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Speaker 3: That's not right.

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Speaker 5: They don't need to you just hear the story.

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Speaker 2: He's really interest about flipping. It's incredible, Lisa, is incredible.

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Speaker 2: All right, Lisa, thank you.

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Speaker 3: So you need to get a replacement or can you

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Speaker 5: No, you can go without it.

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Speaker 5: It's not ideal, but if you recommend it, I certainly

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Speaker 5: wouldn't condone it. Where are we? And that's it on

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Speaker 5: the radio. What are the odds? Cheryl?

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Speaker 12: What are the odds?

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Speaker 2: Hi?

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Speaker 12: Guys, my name is Cheryl and I was married to

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Speaker 12: a man called Hunts, and I worked with a Hunt

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Speaker 12: who was married to a Cheryl. One Christmas, we gave

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Speaker 12: and it read to Cheryl and hands from Haunts and Cheryl,

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Speaker 12: that is amazing.

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Speaker 2: This is an incredible story, Cheryl.

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Speaker 12: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Rio.

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Speaker 5: You need to get back in the studio. You know

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Speaker 5: you were you a twin who married a twin in

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Speaker 5: your song?

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Speaker 2: Were you a Cheryl.

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Speaker 5: Who married Hans who knew married Han who knew Cheryl?

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Speaker 2: But or not, we don't know. Cheryl. This is an

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Speaker 2: incredible story.

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Speaker 12: It is, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I bet you have to tell people this all

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Speaker 12: I kept it feased because I thought that is so

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Speaker 12: I'm Kenny that you could give the same Christmas card.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it is. We don't keep those stories inside. I

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Speaker 3: I think she meant she kept the Christmas card.

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Speaker 5: Oh sorry, I thought it was like a revealed party

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Speaker 2: Story. I love it. Cheryl. You take care now.

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Speaker 5: Uh Tillies Tales yeah, what are the odds?

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Speaker 10: What are the ard?

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Speaker 2: You got it? Tails?

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Speaker 13: I was walking my dog Walter along the dog beach

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Speaker 13: one day, came across another golden retriever. They were absolutely inseparable.

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Speaker 13: Wouldn't playing together? Couldn't that was completely inseparable. Asked the

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Speaker 13: her the data birth, same data birth, go and behold

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Speaker 5: And behold, Wow, what you were Walter dog?

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Speaker 2: Believe it or not?

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Speaker 5: Don't come on, no tails, that is that is what.

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Speaker 2: Are the producers thinking?

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 5: What are the odds? Your stories of coincidence and chance?

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Speaker 5: Nine four one four one oh four three Good monitor

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Speaker 5: Richie Gannon just emailed me listen to the show, Christian.

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Speaker 5: I was there and I suffer too. That faithful day

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Speaker 5: Pats told that terrible story about.

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Speaker 2: A cup of tea. Not a terrible story. Come on, Richard,

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Speaker 2: don't do that.

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Speaker 3: She said. You made a great cup of tape.

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Speaker 5: That punchline probably one of the greatest punchlines ever.

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Speaker 3: She said, you made a great cup of tape.

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Speaker 5: And it's always nice when someone just yells out the

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Speaker 5: non punchline at you for impact.

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Speaker 2: Believe it.

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Speaker 5: It happened nine four one four one oh four three.

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Speaker 5: What are the odds?

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Speaker 2: Donna? Good morning, Good morning, What.

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Speaker 8: Are the odds?

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Speaker 7: I am moved into a new house and my little

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Speaker 5: The world changes so quickly, you can adopt a mate

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Speaker 2: This is incredible, Maria, what a story.

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Speaker 13: Thank you, thank you. I listened to it every morning

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Speaker 5: It's a beautiful story, incredbent and if you hadn't start

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Speaker 2: All right, Richards, welcome to the show. Good morning, Richard.

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Speaker 2: What have you got for us?

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Speaker 16: So preparing my breakfast? Just the other day I cracked

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Speaker 2: Ah of the legend of the double yoke, but not

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, you do good voice. That guy we all

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Speaker 17: If you go, mate, Yes, So I was born on

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 17: Have a good day.

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Speaker 12: Ian.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Yeah, good morning, Christian.

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Speaker 5: Ian, welcome to the show. So what is your story

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Speaker 2: What are the odds?

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Speaker 18: My partner's name is Karen, obviously my name is Ian.

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Speaker 18: We're moving in together soon.

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Speaker 2: And congratulations and yes, thank you.

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Speaker 18: And we've put my house up for rent and we

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Speaker 2: I love this. It's so much easier for the utility

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Speaker 3: Easy for the neighbors as well, Yes, and take.

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Speaker 5: Mills for him in the ring typical scotsman.

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Speaker 5: One are the odd Shore Stories of Coincidence and Chance

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Speaker 2: Linda.

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Speaker 2: The odds you got it off?

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Speaker 7: You go?

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Speaker 14: Well, many years ago my father remarried, and my name

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Speaker 14: a daughter Leone. So what are the odds of that happening?

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Speaker 2: I've got to be honest. Thank you, Linda.

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Speaker 20: Good day, Christian.

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Speaker 2: Bye, Thank you very much, Linda. Now we've got date

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Speaker 2: you here.

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Speaker 5: And all I know from this is I could just

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Speaker 5: see on the phone system here at the it says

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Speaker 5: headless cat.

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Speaker 2: What are the odds?

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Speaker 14: Days?

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Speaker 7: The odds?

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Speaker 2: Hi?

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 19: Many momues ago, I was turning twenty one, and it

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Speaker 19: was a Friday night, and it was midnight, and I

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Speaker 19: realized I just turned twenty one. I was like, hey,

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Speaker 19: twenty one. And the lights were out in the street

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Speaker 19: and I was walking in the middle of a row,

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Speaker 19: just in the farm mound, and then I heard this

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Speaker 19: whale and I looked down beside me to see this

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Speaker 19: black cat. Now it looked like I'm not saying you did,

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Speaker 19: but it looked like it didn't have her head and

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Speaker 19: then they just sort of ran off at the bushes

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Speaker 19: and that was that. I just went home on thinking

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Speaker 19: anything about it. And the next morning me Mo'm wrong

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Speaker 19: from Ireland. And you know, she always asks the same thing,

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Speaker 19: anything strange happened? And I said, actually, this one time,

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Speaker 19: I actually can't tell you thought it was strange happened.

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Speaker 19: So I told her and she went dead silent and said,

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Speaker 19: ring your nan right now, So I'm wrong, Nan, And

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Speaker 19: she started laughing and said you didn't.

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Speaker 15: And I said I did.

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Speaker 19: What's going on? And she said, ring your uncle Patty,

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Speaker 19: so ring Daddy, and Patty says, you didn't, And I said,

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Speaker 19: what's the gag? What's going on? Well, it turns out

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Speaker 19: that any man on my mom's side of the family

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Speaker 19: with the name Patrick in his name. My name is

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Speaker 19: David Patrick, has seen a headless black cat.

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Speaker 4: I love this.

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Speaker 2: It's so good.

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Speaker 5: It's one of the best stories we've ever had. It's

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Speaker 5: like could Irish folklore legend, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes?

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Speaker 19: And the crack up is is that it happened here,

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Speaker 19: like in Australia, like I could understand even a little

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Speaker 19: bit of it happened.

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Speaker 2: In Ireland, the Irish Magic Books.

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Speaker 5: Wherever you are in the world, if you're in that

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Speaker 5: bloodline and there's a Patrick or a Paddy, it's coming

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Speaker 5: for you.

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Speaker 2: The headless black Cat.

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Speaker 19: Well, i'll tell you what I'm tempted to call it.

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Speaker 19: Be someone if I have one.

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Speaker 5: You have to got to keep this going through the

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Speaker 5: future generations and generations.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, pretty pretty Unral anyway, I love that.

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Speaker 5: Also, I think we should do a weekly feature called

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Speaker 5: anything Strange Happen? What a great question to ask, Anything

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Speaker 5: strange happened?

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show, PODCA.

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Speaker 2: What are the odds your stories of coincidence and chance? Debbie? Hello, Debbie, Hi.

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Speaker 8: Good morning to him.

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Speaker 5: How are you goingmy thanks you calling the show and

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Speaker 5: what's your story for us?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 8: Well, of my husband's cousin, her maiden name was bid Good,

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Speaker 8: and she met a guy and fell in love and

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Speaker 8: they married and she became missus do Goood.

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Speaker 2: Wait, he was a do Good, she was a did Good,

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Speaker 2: a bid Good yep, wow, the past and the present goods,

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Speaker 2: chicken hands and uniting.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and then they had some little little goods.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, all good. Debbie, Thanks, thanks you call mate.

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Speaker 5: Have a good day you too, Bye Harlem, good morning,

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the show. What's your story of coincidence for us?

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Speaker 11: Matell Basically, this is quite a few year ago and

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Speaker 11: forty four hours. When I was about twelve, Me and

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Speaker 11: my mum were in the car flying down the freeway

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Speaker 11: to Western pot going about one hundred k an hour,

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Speaker 11: and as a kid, I was like, oh, just put

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Speaker 11: my finger out the window and feel the rush of

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Speaker 11: our I put my finger out and I'm like, what

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Speaker 11: the heck was that? And a bird crapt on it?

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Speaker 11: One hundred k an hour?

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Speaker 2: What are the odds? Huh?

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Speaker 5: Just that scize moment, your fingers traveling at that speed.

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Speaker 5: It's a maths question for year twelve students. All right,

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Speaker 5: lovely stuff, all right, then, thank you hard thanksually calling him.

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Speaker 11: Thank you bbe.

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Speaker 5: You won't be surprised to know that our friend Beavis

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Speaker 5: and butt Head packing him through chat post. Jack goes

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Speaker 5: to me, this is a potential call of the week.

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Speaker 5: Get ready to pay that monch.

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Speaker 3: All right, if we're thrown behind the stones. I told

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Speaker 3: Christian the story, and he goes, maybe on Friday we

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Speaker 3: could do the phone and what crapt on you?

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Speaker 2: That is definitely happening.

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Speaker 5: We're definitely doing that Friday start to call.

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Speaker 2: Now, what pooped on you? What pooped on your Friday?

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Speaker 2: Poop on your Friday? Here we got here, Kathy. Good morning, Kathy,

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Speaker 2: Good morning, team.

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Speaker 20: How are you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're good, all right? So what are the Odds?

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Speaker 15: Okay?

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Speaker 20: So I am the sister of the Cheryl on Hands

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Speaker 20: that check things about Okay, CHERYLN.

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Speaker 3: Hunt is one of our greatest all time one of

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Speaker 3: the Odds callers.

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Speaker 5: Now, before we go any further, Kathy with this, I

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Speaker 5: feel like I should just replay and relive one of

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Speaker 5: the greatest stories we've had, not just on this feature

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Speaker 5: on one of the Odds, just one in terms of

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Speaker 5: the stories that we're privileged to get every day on

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Speaker 5: the show. Here's a quick replay of the call we

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Speaker 5: took a while ago.

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Speaker 12: My name is Cheryl, and I was married to a

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Speaker 12: man called Hunts, and I worked with a Hunt who

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Speaker 12: was married to a Cheryl. One Christmas, we gave each

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Speaker 12: other a Christmas card which was exactly the same card,

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Speaker 12: and it read to Cheryl and Hands from Haunts and

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Speaker 12: Cheryl just tearing it again.

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Speaker 2: It warms the soul, doesn't it? So Kathy, what's she

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Speaker 2: connection then?

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Speaker 7: So you're okay?

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Speaker 20: So I'm host And at the moment, she is up

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Speaker 20: at the Sunshine Coast and on Thursday she is ready

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Speaker 20: to compete for her fourth world record in weightlifting. She

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Speaker 20: does deadlifts, and she's seventy eight.

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Speaker 2: What the odds?

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Speaker 20: So she is just so excited and to be doing

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Speaker 20: this and her age is just amazing. She's seventy eight,

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Speaker 20: seventy eight yep.

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Speaker 2: And she says she's going for a fourth world.

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Speaker 20: Times, a fourth world record in deadlifts. Yeah, she's up

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Speaker 20: at the list.

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Speaker 5: Jack, can I have knack trying them once or twice

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Speaker 5: them anymore? I say, let's have a deadlift off the

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Speaker 5: wait she can win.

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Speaker 3: Now that's inspiring.

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Speaker 20: Yep. So her record will be eighty five kilos if

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Speaker 20: she can pull it off on Thursday, which I don't

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Speaker 20: doubt any way, that.

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Speaker 5: She will be five KOs. And she said seventy nine,

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Speaker 5: so she'll be lifting more than a body weight.

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Speaker 20: Yep.

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Speaker 1: Correct, blame me.

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Speaker 2: That is nothing but impressive, isn't it.

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Speaker 20: Oh, look for what she's gone through to get to

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Speaker 20: this point. Because it was only when Hans passed away,

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Speaker 20: because they had been married for fifty years. Yeah, all

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Speaker 20: that time that she needed something, and that's when she

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Speaker 20: got into the gym and started weightlifting. And then her

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Speaker 20: one of my best friends who's a trainer, she started

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Speaker 20: training her, and then she started competing and she was

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Speaker 20: just flitzing it. And now she's up Somenstine Coast to

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Speaker 20: do it all over again.

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Speaker 2: What a beautiful story you just told us. I've got goosebumps.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I love the idea of them re meeting in heaven

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Speaker 3: one day and goes, hey, what were you up to after.

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Speaker 2: You're checked as well?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got four world records.

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Speaker 5: I'll show your dad lifts you hands, lie down, get

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Speaker 5: you off the floor.

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Speaker 2: When is she competing? I want to? I want to.

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Speaker 20: I want to Thursday.

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Speaker 2: What is it this?

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Speaker 20: Thursday?

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow?

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Speaker 20: Yeah, actually tomorrow I'm thinking of those truth But yeah,

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Speaker 20: tomorrow tomorrow night she compete.

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Speaker 2: We have to call up. It's the spirit of the Olympics.

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Speaker 8: Right here, exactly.

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Speaker 5: Yep, good honor. Now we've got to call her up tomorrow. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'd love to speak to again. What an amazing story

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Speaker 5: of finding meaning again in her life.

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Speaker 20: Oh yeah, and it is just turned her around and

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Speaker 20: it's so good because it's giving her an outlet, and

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Speaker 20: it also for all people sort of her age groups

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Speaker 20: that are sort of down in the dumps and feel

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Speaker 20: that they've got nothing. She talks to them and just

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Speaker 20: puts a step in them just to think, you know what,

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Speaker 20: if you can do this, then it's given me encouragement

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Speaker 20: to look to see what I can do.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, what an inspiration.

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Speaker 5: She's still gifting stuff to the show, and if you're

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Speaker 5: listening again, we definitely got to get her on to

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Speaker 5: my show.

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Speaker 2: So I just want to say that she's currently done.

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Speaker 2: She's already a three time we got.

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Speaker 8: Three world records.

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Speaker 20: She's going for her for Oh.

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Speaker 5: My god, don't you just you just wish this week

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Speaker 5: she do that. She's competing up on the Sunshine Coast.

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Speaker 20: People behind her just cheering her on.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, well now she'll.

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Speaker 5: Have everyone who's isn't this right now? We'll be chewing

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Speaker 5: on all the Australian athletes in Paris and the megaathlete

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Speaker 5: we got in her up on the Gold Coast.

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Speaker 2: Cheryl. What an amazing woman. She's a legend.

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Speaker 12: If she certainly is, maybe we need to.

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Speaker 5: Host our own gold lifter on for the oldies, some

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Speaker 5: powerlifting event for the oldies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: Help and safety was the first thing that came to

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Speaker 3: my mind. I don't want to be a web blanket,

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Speaker 3: but it does feel like a few broken bones.

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Speaker 5: Hey, listen, thank you so much. She's giving us a

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Speaker 5: cool Kathy and telling us about Sharyl.

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Speaker 2: Okay, no problems. Thank you guys, Thank you. Bye.

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