Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian no Common Show podcast. This time
Speaker 1: yesterday on the show, I was playing you this terrible
Speaker 1: noise that my washing machine was making. It was broken.
Speaker 1: Guy comes around yesterday afternoon. He fixes about the hour
Speaker 1: they're taking it apart. I made the situation a lot worse.
Speaker 1: One of our listeners yesterday gave me advice, saying, it
Speaker 1: might just be this. I tried to fix it myself, right,
Speaker 1: don't put this in a podcast. My wife can't hear
Speaker 1: this because it costs notes one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: What would have been an easier fix. I've made a
Speaker 1: lot complicated because I tried to remedy it myself. My
Speaker 1: guy over here someone said, oh, it might be this
Speaker 1: inlet thing. Just give that a tap. I gave it.
Speaker 1: When I got back, I thought, tap, you need to
Speaker 1: have great A tap isn't going to mend this, So
Speaker 1: I gave it a real like punch. Something disappeared and
Speaker 1: shut up into the guts of the washing machine. That
Speaker 1: took the man that came out of yesterday, Richard, How
Speaker 1: did this get in? The bloody kids? Were they five teenagers? Actually?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Anyway, this guy yesterday came out and he repaired it. Afterwards.
Speaker 1: We're in my little narrow utility room that you get
Speaker 1: in a lot of houses, right, it's quite a narrow
Speaker 1: little space. We're having a little bit of chat. He's
Speaker 1: about an extra eight or nine years older than me.
Speaker 1: He's got four kids, three daughters. We start talking about daughters.
Speaker 1: His daughters are a couple of years ahead of mine.
Speaker 1: We were talking about what happens when they leave them.
Speaker 1: We suddenly for half an hour, just like you do
Speaker 1: sometimes in life, you find yourself stumbling into an actual, deeper,
Speaker 1: very real, intimate conversation.
Speaker 3: But you had it all in the laundry.
Speaker 1: Yep, all in the utility too. I might put microphones
Speaker 1: in there and start doing a podcast in there. It
Speaker 1: got real very quickly between us, so much so right,
Speaker 1: we're getting on so well. Then we're talking about guys.
Speaker 1: Do we start to like the Ashes? He's talking about
Speaker 1: growing up when during the eighties when he used to
Speaker 1: watch the actually Ashes and players like Ingle, players like Ian,
Speaker 1: both of them. I didn't play without a head guard.
Speaker 1: So you know what we're going on really well? And
Speaker 1: then I say, what do you live? Where's home for you?
Speaker 1: He's not that far from me. We've swapped numbers. We're
Speaker 1: meeting up for a beer next one. A friendship has
Speaker 1: come out of patronize, don't it's nice. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing Richard. I feel like I made a new
Speaker 1: friend yesterday. So sometimes it works. Normally, is a lot
Speaker 1: of your friends, okay, are the ones you've had since child?
Speaker 1: All right? And then what happens when you become a
Speaker 1: parent is some of your friends then are you know,
Speaker 1: maybe for a parenting group or kids at the school.
Speaker 1: So that the only other way then is that there
Speaker 1: are no unusual ways that sometimes you strike up a friendship.
Speaker 1: So for me it's it's my washing machine engineer. We're
Speaker 1: going out for beers next week and I think we'll
Speaker 1: probably become mates. I really like this guy.
Speaker 3: Well, I've been out for a few beers with by physio.
Speaker 1: Was this after a physio session? Normally drinks lead toy
Speaker 1: and lying down Jackie boy does it separately?
Speaker 3: I was. I saw him maybe three or four times.
Speaker 3: His name is Joss. They've gone along really well with him,
Speaker 3: and then one time I was the last client that
Speaker 3: he had for the day.
Speaker 1: After this little ruby, don't we put some clothes on.
Speaker 3: We went around the corner for a beer.
Speaker 1: That's so nice. I wonder how he is.
Speaker 3: That was a few years ago. Now I miss him.
Speaker 1: Reach out to him.
Speaker 3: You've just reminded me about that.
Speaker 1: He's now probably wondering. Was he not good enough with
Speaker 1: the conversational band?
Speaker 3: He was great, and he was a great physio. He
Speaker 3: used to over the beer. He told me this. He
Speaker 3: listens to physio podcasts for fun.
Speaker 1: I wish i'd been not that beer. It must have
Speaker 1: been a really amazing chat. I can get the feeling
Speaker 1: that he did never called you again, or change his
Speaker 1: mobile or move to Bolivia. Okay, do you know what? Though?
Speaker 1: Next week, let's ask find out about what podcasts we
Speaker 1: will listen to. How much can you get into on
Speaker 1: a physio podcast? How much rolfing chat or deep tissue
Speaker 1: chat can there be on a podcast?
Speaker 3: But isn't that the kind of guy you want being
Speaker 3: your physio? He didn't just learn it at school.
Speaker 1: It's constantly up taking. There's another episode here, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It happens most breaks. So it's nice for you for them.
Speaker 1: You have one today, perhaps you can have one in
Speaker 1: the eight hour. All right, So how did you you
Speaker 1: too meet? How do you to meet. How did you
Speaker 1: meet your friend? This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast,
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Speaker 1: this weekend right now, asking you how did you meet
Speaker 1: your mate? Most of you've got friends from childhood or
Speaker 1: maybe if your parent, they're your friends with the other
Speaker 1: the parents of your kids. Sometimes you meet your friend
Speaker 1: in a different way. Christian, I'm a pet. One of
Speaker 1: my clients and I used to talk so much during sessions.
Speaker 1: I suggested that we go for a wine. She's now
Speaker 1: my best friend. These are amazing sort of stories like that.
Speaker 1: Karenin's on the line. You want in Caroline?
Speaker 2: Hi, Yes, everybody, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 1: Good, Welcome to the show. So how did you meet
Speaker 1: your mate?
Speaker 4: Well, it wasn't myself meeting my mate but ended up
Speaker 4: being friends of the family. It was actually my father
Speaker 4: meeting his best mate and they almost killed each other.
Speaker 1: What do you mean.
Speaker 4: Well, Well, before I was born and I'm nearly forty
Speaker 4: eight now, and just before mum and dad got married,
Speaker 4: my father was crossing a bridge in Queensland, and oncoming
Speaker 4: was a semi trailer that ends up jackknifing and turning over,
Speaker 4: nearly hitting my father, who swerved, and in swerving he
Speaker 4: ended up head on in a very serious accident with
Speaker 4: his best mate who had to pull him out as
Speaker 4: the wreckage. They didn't know each other before then, but
Speaker 4: have been lifelong friends ever since.
Speaker 1: Oh, my beautiful story. Goosebumps. What an amazing story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so his best netmate's name is Ernie and
Speaker 4: the way, Yeah, his old old Australian cowboy travels across
Speaker 4: the lands and growing up as kids, his wife we
Speaker 4: didn't and didn't know her by her name. We just
Speaker 4: used to refer to them as Ernie and Bert. Used
Speaker 4: to run into the house and say.
Speaker 5: Ernie and Er.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, they've been lifelong friends and buddies ever since.
Speaker 1: So Ernie just does a good deed. He's obviously coming
Speaker 1: to rescue of an accident that's happened right in front
Speaker 1: of him. Paul's your dad out of obviously some kind
Speaker 1: of wreckage. And they they then were not that moment,
Speaker 1: but eventually they become friends. Just give me CPR and
Speaker 1: then I'll get my phone out.
Speaker 4: Well, he was, he was pretty badly injured as well, because,
Speaker 4: like I said, they head on each other.
Speaker 1: So I missed that bit. I was so anaya about
Speaker 1: they become friends. It was a head on collision between
Speaker 1: the two of them, Ernie and the old man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is even more remarkable. Yeah, Ernie did almost killy
Speaker 1: your dad. That I understand.
Speaker 4: Yes, they practically almost killed each other. The boat cars
Speaker 4: were right off and but yeah, Journie pulled Dad out
Speaker 4: of the wreckage.
Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing? What a great way once you bond
Speaker 1: in a moment like that. Years LATERY go, hey, remember
Speaker 1: that time? How many years ago is now where I
Speaker 1: was killed?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: That is a great story. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: sharing that with us.
Speaker 4: No worry. If you guys have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1: I have a nice you can't count in. Loretta. Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 6: How are you today?
Speaker 1: I'm good, Loretta. So what's your story? How did you
Speaker 1: meet your mate?
Speaker 6: Okay, So I catched a train to work every morning,
Speaker 6: like a lot of people, and about ten twelve years
Speaker 6: ago I started to just chat to some ladies on
Speaker 6: the train. You get to see the same people every day,
Speaker 6: and now we're friends. So they're my eight trained friends
Speaker 6: that I have, and we go out for dinner quite often,
Speaker 6: and we celebrate Christmas and Easter and births and deaths
Speaker 6: and marriages and everything. So you knowend eight Yeah, eight
Speaker 6: of us.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you now right, Women meet friends so easily.
Speaker 1: I could be on that train seeing those same if
Speaker 1: it was men for thirty or forty years. I don't
Speaker 1: ever say anything to any of them. We're dying as strangers.
Speaker 6: We chatted all the time all that we were the
Speaker 6: lunds of the carriage every morning and every evening on
Speaker 6: the way home as well, we all meet up as well. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so all eight.
Speaker 1: So did you start a conversation with one of them
Speaker 1: and then somebody else joined in and overtime you all
Speaker 1: start to form a little Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, they would get on the train a few stops
Speaker 6: before me and then they we just started chatting, so
Speaker 6: they would just start saving me a seat. So that's
Speaker 6: how we sort of got chatting. Yeah, so it's really good,
Speaker 6: good to hand friends like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's amazing. Lovely story, Loretta, have a
Speaker 1: nice week, gamel Brighter. You're listening to the christ you
Speaker 1: know Carl's show podcast, Rob.
Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, Hell are you.
Speaker 1: Good right, Welcome to show, Rob. So how did you
Speaker 1: meet your friend?
Speaker 2: About twenty years I was going to Perth and we
Speaker 2: come across a truck accident and ended up pulling my
Speaker 2: mate Russell out of his burning truck. He was pinned
Speaker 2: over the steering wheel and pulled him out and had
Speaker 2: to sit there waiting for the for the Saint John's
Speaker 2: ambulance in him for four odd hours. And a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks later, on our way back from Perth, went
Speaker 2: in and saw him sitting up in a hospital bed.
Speaker 2: I thought he was I thought he was breeding his
Speaker 2: last breaths on the side of the road pretty much.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so about twelve months later he and his
Speaker 2: partner got married, so I drove her to their wedding
Speaker 2: and they have been friends ever since.
Speaker 5: Wow, an incredible story, it was, but it was it
Speaker 5: was a it was an interesting, interesting morning when it happened.
Speaker 2: And yeah, sometimes had nightmares still over it. But it's
Speaker 2: something that's brought to people together that or a group
Speaker 2: of us I suppose together out of adversity and they
Speaker 2: have been friends episodes.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. I'm sorry about the nightmare. Do you have
Speaker 1: holt with that? Rob?
Speaker 2: I've spoken to a few people a little bit about it.
Speaker 2: It just yeah, occasionally you sort of have something that
Speaker 2: triggered it, and but it's like crawling into a burning
Speaker 2: truck in the middle of it, in the middle of
Speaker 2: anotherbor is not something you want to do every day.
Speaker 1: So yeah, d you say to guy's life, you gave
Speaker 1: him his life and doing that, it's incredible act of
Speaker 1: self discourage.
Speaker 2: Like it's one of those things like you see on
Speaker 2: some of the shows on TV, like where they're in
Speaker 2: the in the city where you've got all the ambulance
Speaker 2: and paramedics and all that sort of thing there with
Speaker 2: the fieries, and that I did the same sort of
Speaker 2: thing where I was hours from any sort of help.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I think you said you don't have
Speaker 1: to wait for like six six hours or something happened to.
Speaker 2: The accident happened about eight o'clock in the morning, and
Speaker 2: the St. John's ambulance turned up about midday, and yeah,
Speaker 2: there was a there was a story behind that as well.
Speaker 2: The ambulance broke down on its way back to the
Speaker 2: to Sguina Hospital and that sort of thing. I found
Speaker 2: out later on, And there's there's quite a few things.
Speaker 2: It was a bit of a comedy of errors with
Speaker 2: the ambulance side of things, and.
Speaker 1: You get the right to call it a comedy of errors.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: I'm not on the back of a stretcher. This is
Speaker 1: the thing.
Speaker 3: This is the next one feral movie.
Speaker 2: They sent two ambulances out and both of them broke down.
Speaker 2: Getting from Siguina to Nullibor where the accident happened, and
Speaker 2: back to it. He actually ended up being transferred from
Speaker 2: one ambulance back into the other one, and then back
Speaker 2: into the other one again as each of them broke down.
Speaker 1: A barely believable story.
Speaker 2: Put it this way. When I heard that, I just
Speaker 2: thought I had got to be kidding, like I would
Speaker 2: have like when it actually happened. I was expecting the
Speaker 2: Flying Doctor Service to turn up because we're un a
Speaker 2: nullable highway.
Speaker 1: But well, they may have tried to fly that. And
Speaker 1: who knows what that broke down. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We can't rule it out.
Speaker 2: They ran out of fuel and got stuck up there.
Speaker 1: Rob. I still think it's an amazing thing you did.
Speaker 1: We never know. We always like to think you do
Speaker 1: some of that, but we can never know until you
Speaker 1: really tested at a moment like that, but it's an
Speaker 1: incredible thing you did. You're right as well, but thank
Speaker 1: you for sharing your story with us this morning.
Speaker 2: Rob, Yeah, that's that's fine. Thank you, thank you for listening,
Speaker 2: and thank you all the listening listeners for listening.
Speaker 1: All right, take care, have a lovely weekend. The Christian
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