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

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Speaker 2: Good on into you. Nina. Hello, good morning Nina. You

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Speaker 2: lying on the show. Nina watched your story for us.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, my sister was working up at Mainridge and

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Speaker 1: someone had pinched her wallet out of her car at

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Speaker 1: the blueberry farm she was working at. And unfortunately, two

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Speaker 1: weeks after that, her cat went missing. And about two

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Speaker 1: weeks after that, as she was driving back to work,

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Speaker 1: she found saw a cat on the side of the

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Speaker 1: road in main Ridge and when she got out to

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Speaker 1: get her cat, there was a wallet on the side

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Speaker 1: of the road.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, oh my god. Now that has given me goosebumps. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean all the money was gone, but she

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Speaker 1: got both things.

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Speaker 2: Back, so the cat as well.

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Speaker 1: The cat as well, that's why she stopped.

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Speaker 2: The cat was dead, a bit of.

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Speaker 1: A road cat, and it was about ten kilometers from

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Speaker 1: her house because she lived in Rosebud but was working

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Speaker 1: at main Ridge.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. That is incredible. So do you think the

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Speaker 2: cat nicked the wallet? I can't carry Then the money

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Speaker 2: ran out and I was like, as well, yeah, well

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Speaker 2: it was good one. It lasted short shut cat.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: That amazing is two two hours from me? Yeah, me too? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Three three wells three corner of the week. You just

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Speaker 2: want Sorry, we're just probably confusing you. Don't you know

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Speaker 2: what's going on because they came very happy sometimes on

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Speaker 2: that show. We just made you call the week, which

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Speaker 2: means you win one thousand dollars. Unreal shut down in

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Speaker 2: the water. Sorry, a bit aggressive have that for the

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Speaker 2: lost money? Ah, there you go, you won one thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars Sancum of Sades Benz. Very great story, Nina, Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much. Enjoy spending your money with your sister.

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Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Dan, morning crew, how are you damn?

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Speaker 2: What's your story for us? Mate?

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Speaker 3: So, when my grandfather died, we found out he had

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Speaker 3: a false identity and two families. What So when he

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Speaker 3: passed away, we were cleaning out the house and our

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Speaker 3: family was in the middle of doing our family tree,

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Speaker 3: and we found a whole bunch of letters underneath a

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Speaker 3: false cavity in his house and there were letters between

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Speaker 3: the two wives which had both passed away, and it

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Speaker 3: was explaining where he was and everything like that. And

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Speaker 3: then the two families lived literally less than five kilometers apart,

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Speaker 3: but the kids went to One set of kids went

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Speaker 3: to a private school, one went to a public school,

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Speaker 3: so they never crossed paths. And we actually didn't meet

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Speaker 3: the family, the other part of the family until the

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Speaker 3: funeral arrangements were being started, and we didn't about them

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Speaker 3: until then.

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Speaker 2: Dann, this is one of most incredible stories we've ever heard.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, literally we started doing funeral arrangements and then

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Speaker 3: we had all these other contacts and it's like, we

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Speaker 3: don't know who this is and I was the half

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Speaker 3: brother and half sister.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, and how do your family feel about

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Speaker 2: all this?

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Speaker 3: It took a lot to comprehend because we were going

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Speaker 3: when we started doing funeral arrangements and we actually contacted

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Speaker 3: at the local cemetery. It gets weirder than this. He

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Speaker 3: had assumed his older brother's identity and moved to Melbourne

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Speaker 3: because he'd been made to leave New South Wales and

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Speaker 3: he ran two social security numbers stuff like that. But

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Speaker 3: he literally had two names. But when we went to

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Speaker 3: the funeral arrangements for the cemetery, his older brother had

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Speaker 3: come down to Melbourne looking for him and died, and

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Speaker 3: he was buried in the same cemetery.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is unbelievable. So he really was

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Speaker 2: leading a double life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for pretty much, we estimate around forty five years.

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Speaker 2: It's so risky to have them five k's away that

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Speaker 2: you think you'll never bump. There's stories of people in

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Speaker 2: America who found this out, you know, when it's different states,

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Speaker 2: and even in Australia, different states away, five CA's. It's

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Speaker 2: so easy to your other wise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, literally three or four suburbs across from each other.

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Speaker 2: It's nothing, is it. No, But you're.

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Speaker 3: Talking way back nineteen forties, nineteen fifties through to the

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Speaker 3: I think they'd all left home by the mid seventies,

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Speaker 3: mid mid sixties. So yeah, but the kids, one said,

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Speaker 3: of kids went to the private school, one went to

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable, wasn't it? And so what was the impact

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Speaker 3: Oh it was, well, the inheritance had to be split

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Speaker 3: four ways instead of two ways, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Other than the financial a lot more sort of

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Speaker 3: It was really really strange because obviously my dad and

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Speaker 3: his sister had never never even knew and there was

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Speaker 3: a whole hard to deal with it in a family

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Speaker 3: that we didn't even know about.

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Speaker 2: Because you must have so many questions that you want

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Speaker 2: to ask that person, but they're not there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was. Literally my dad spent a good couple

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Speaker 3: of months just talking to his half brother and half

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Speaker 2: So your your dad and his sister didn't know anything

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Speaker 1: Did the other family know there was a second family?

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Speaker 3: No, I didn't know anything about each other.

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Speaker 2: Amazing that. So sister, your dad's sister wanted no part

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Speaker 4: Put all the he's is together, but your dad did. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: start you look at each other. We're kind of similar,

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Speaker 4: and maybe you start talking about dates. Were you there?

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Speaker 3: And so it was totally bizarre. So there's a whole

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Speaker 3: set of cousins everything like that. Yeah, it was totally bizarre,

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Speaker 3: like and this is over, well, this is over thirty

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Speaker 3: years ago that this happened, but yeah, it was just

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Speaker 3: absolutely totally bizarre.

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Speaker 2: That is an incredible story, Dan. It really did make

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Speaker 2: us say, well as well, it's a Yeah, the whole

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Speaker 2: thing about the double identity and taking on his brother's name.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because his brother lived in New South Wales back

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Speaker 3: in that time. When he moved down to Melbourne was

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Speaker 3: during the depression. Yeah, and it was easy to do

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Speaker 2: So Dan, thank you very much for sharing that with us.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if today I'll get other emails of people

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Speaker 2: have found out stuff like this, But Dan, incredibly well told,

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Speaker 2: and it isn't. It's a series of like four or

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Speaker 2: five incredible stories and I'm sure there's many more as well.

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Speaker 2: But thank you very much for giving us a call

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Speaker 2: and sharing it with us today as well. No, I

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Speaker 2: have a good day. The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast