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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast every single day for your

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Speaker 1: holiday from Hell story, you win five hundred dollars and

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Speaker 1: how money safe you win that? You could also be

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Speaker 1: winning a ten thousand dollars holiday on Friday's show and

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Speaker 1: incredible prize. Some emails for us all who we got here?

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Speaker 1: Lorraine Christian. In August, my sister and I flew to

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Speaker 1: Delhi to watch her twenty four year old son compete

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Speaker 1: in the World Power Athletics Championships. Incredible six day trip

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Speaker 1: that quickly became a saga. Just starre canceled our Melbourne

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Speaker 1: Singapore flight, so we missed his first race. Oh that's awful.

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Speaker 1: Our rescheduled flight the next day was today due to

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Speaker 1: a loose seeding panel. Then again in Singapore, we circled

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Speaker 1: for an hour in a storm, which meant we missed

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Speaker 1: our connecting flight to Delhi. When we finally arrived in Delhi,

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Speaker 1: our luggage did not make it.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: The worst part my sister had written all her son's

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Speaker 1: race times in the diary packed in her lost bag.

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Speaker 1: When we checked online, we misread the schedule. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I thought the finals time was the qualifying race. When

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Speaker 1: he realized our mistake when my son texted to say

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Speaker 1: that he had made the final, Oh my work. It's

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Speaker 1: actually just a sad story, sad case. It's just sad.

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Speaker 1: This is not great radio. Deborah's got a better one,

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Speaker 1: I hope.

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Speaker 2: Deborah, Hi, Christian, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm good. Welcome to the show, Deborah. So what is

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Speaker 1: your holiday from Hell story? Your regretation?

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Speaker 2: Well, when I was nineteen, I went overseas on my

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Speaker 2: own and did a tour. When I got to the

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Speaker 2: hotel in London, I found out that my roommate was

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Speaker 2: a lot older than over fifties. Then I found out

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Speaker 2: that I had the right room, but the tour people

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Speaker 2: had booked been to and over fifty five to another

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Speaker 2: undert dirties to us. Oh, I had all these elderly people.

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Speaker 2: That was fine, that work. That did work out, okay, Christian,

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Speaker 2: because I made a lovely friend out of my roommate.

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Speaker 2: Bridge some word puzzles, yeah, crosswords all that. Yeah. But

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Speaker 2: then when we got to Venice, it went pear shaped

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Speaker 2: again because we were getting ready to go on to

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Speaker 2: a gondola drive and all our luggych had to go.

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Speaker 2: Can we go on with us? And then when they

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Speaker 2: threw the luggage into the gondola, mine ended up in

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Speaker 2: the Grand Canal luggage.

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Speaker 1: It's a stinky as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yep, yep. I had photos, all my clothes, everything,

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Speaker 2: so needless to say, I had to then, you know,

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Speaker 2: like try and retrieve whatever I could. But it was

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Speaker 2: absolute chaos.

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Speaker 1: So what did the gondola guy then jump in and

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Speaker 1: get it?

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Speaker 2: Well, no, I know he was there. He just stood

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Speaker 2: there with his blank look on his face, going, oh

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Speaker 2: what do I dote? Absolutely you broke fix it? Yep yep.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so that was my That was my trip

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Speaker 2: and I really like sort of couldn't wait to get

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Speaker 2: home there to tell everyone about it. Because back then

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Speaker 2: it was snail mail, so you know, Mum and Dad

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Speaker 2: had no idea what was going on with Doesn't that.

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Speaker 1: Feel right now when you say that wasn't that long ago, Rudy,

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Speaker 1: But that feels like a century ago? Well? Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: postcards you would send a postcard? Does anyone send postcards anymore?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: You can send an immediate one in your phone photos

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Speaker 1: and that I should love sending postcards. I should bring

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Speaker 1: it back. Yes, yeah, well it's an incredible story. Your

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Speaker 1: are today's winner. You win five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, thank you so much, Christian.

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Speaker 1: That's all right. It's an incredible story or thanks to

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Speaker 1: RACV travel and experiences at Debra. So you win, you

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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars and that's yours. That's safe. You could

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Speaker 1: also win a ten thousand dollars holiday this Friday on

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Speaker 2: Oh that would be great, Christian, that would be lovely.

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Speaker 2: I'd go back to Rome again and do it all again.

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Speaker 2: We might be over fifty five, so you'd be perfect

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Speaker 2: for that. You actually I am over fifty five, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: i'd be I'd be right to that tour. Now.

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Speaker 1: Phew, that works out better than it could have done. Really, yeah?

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Speaker 1: Should I am only thirty three? Just sound older? Hey, Deborah, congratulations.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks for calling so much. Christian measure take care,

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Speaker 1: Bye bye bye. Christian O'Connell show on podcast