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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast. Now, at the other day

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Speaker 1: I mentioned we were going to do this phone because

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Speaker 1: we were talking about what hit you in the head,

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Speaker 1: And I got an email from Pat Birch and she

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Speaker 1: was saying how she got hit in the head with

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Speaker 1: an exploding brick. You know, they were blowing up an

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Speaker 1: old chimney once and she got hit in the back

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Speaker 1: of the head with a two hundred pounds lump of bricks.

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Speaker 1: Obviously lucky to be alive. She was just a seven

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Speaker 1: year old kid. But the way she ended an email

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Speaker 1: gave me an idea for a phone in Christian and

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Speaker 1: I still have the paper clipping to prove the story.

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Speaker 1: It just wasn't my time to go. This is what

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Speaker 1: people say who've been through a near death experience. They

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Speaker 1: all say, well, it wasn't my time to go. If

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Speaker 1: you have one of those stories, now is your chance

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Speaker 1: to share it with us. Have you got a story

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Speaker 1: that will end with you going, well, it just wasn't

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Speaker 1: my time to go. That's what we're looking for, those stories,

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Speaker 1: those near their stories where you walk away somehow unscathed

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Speaker 1: what you shouldn't have do and it just wasn't your time.

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Speaker 1: To go. Let's take some calls right now, let's go

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Speaker 1: to the lines. Sean, here you go on. What is

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Speaker 1: your story? Then? Was it my time to go?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Thirty years ago I was driving my Volkswagen beat

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Speaker 2: Down along the highway with my best mates sitting beside me,

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Speaker 2: and I fell asleep behind the wheel and left the highway,

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Speaker 2: driving right over the top of a Colvit which would

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Speaker 2: have flipped the car, and my mate screamed at me,

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Speaker 2: and I woke up, and we were driving in thick grass,

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Speaker 2: couldn't see, went straight through a whole row of really

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Speaker 2: big gum trees which you could have hit there only

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Speaker 2: a couple of inches either side of the car, And

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Speaker 2: after a couple hundred meters the car spun out and

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Speaker 2: we stopped. We got out of the car, and we

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Speaker 2: were less than a meter away from a tree which

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Speaker 2: we would have hit head on, which was as wide

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Speaker 2: as the car. And it just wasn't my time to go.

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Speaker 1: Sure, And so when you say you and your body

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Speaker 1: got out of the car, were you unscathed?

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Speaker 2: Unscathed? The car was pretty badly beaten up, but we

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Speaker 2: were unscathed, that.

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Speaker 1: Is, you know, you can only describe that as a miracle.

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Speaker 2: Well, God was looking for me that night, because, as

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Speaker 2: I said, the car spun out, we were less than

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Speaker 2: a meter away from a tree which was wide in

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Speaker 2: the car. If we'd hit that head on, we would

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Speaker 2: have been killed outright.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so he said, this happened thirty years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty years ago.

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Speaker 1: So there's no air bags and a lot. I don't

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Speaker 1: even think seat belts were mandatory, were they?

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Speaker 2: They were mandatory then, but it was a Volkswagen Beetle

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Speaker 2: and we had a pretty full tank of fuel and

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Speaker 2: the fuel tanks right in front of the car with

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Speaker 2: the Yeah. So yeah, we got out of the car.

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Speaker 2: We were laughing. We were following my brother in his car,

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Speaker 2: and he came back after about ten minutes wondering where

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Speaker 2: the hell we were. He was very angry with us,

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Speaker 2: and then you saw we were laughing and saw that

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Speaker 2: we survived, so he could see the funny side of it,

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Speaker 2: but he wasn't very happy at.

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Speaker 1: The incredible All right, Sean, thank you very much for story.

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Speaker 1: It really wasn't your time to go. No, have a

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Speaker 1: good run, all right, and yet thank you for sharing

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Speaker 1: that with us. It wasn't my time to go. Graham

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Speaker 1: is went to talk to us.

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Speaker 3: Now, good day Christian.

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Speaker 1: Now am I I'm good buddy? So it wasn't your

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Speaker 1: time to go? What's your story?

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Speaker 3: This actually happened just on Tuesday night. I was up

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Speaker 3: cutt and would help the bush and had this big

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Speaker 3: long but I would there at the ear plugs in

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Speaker 3: and just cutting away, day dream and sort of and

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Speaker 3: this boy sawt in my head said check the oil

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Speaker 3: in the floor, and I just sort of ignored it.

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Speaker 3: Then something yelled at me and checked the oil. I

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Speaker 3: walked over to you under the oil, and then I

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Speaker 3: just this massive bang. So I'm just shaking a because

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you because still a bit raw. And I

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Speaker 3: looked up and the massive branch landed right where I

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Speaker 3: was standing five seconds earlier. So just here. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: my time to go, was it?

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Speaker 1: That's income This only happened two days ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Tuesday night. I'm still a bit a bit nervy

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Speaker 3: about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They say when you have something that you have

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Speaker 1: this a drenal dump and for days and that you know,

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Speaker 1: it's why animals you see sometimes after they have a

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Speaker 1: need that the experience were a fight, they when they

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Speaker 1: walk away, they shake it off is literally to get

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Speaker 1: your body moving again, because you will that that would

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Speaker 1: have really affected you. When you say branch, I get

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Speaker 1: the feeling you're describing, You're you're under describing it. Do

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Speaker 1: you mean like a great big tree trunk fell where

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Speaker 1: you were a couple of seconds before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty solid like branch. Probably I would have owned

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Speaker 3: probably ten inches in diameter, you know, and probably thirty

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Speaker 3: foot long or some climb me up.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that incredible when you say I've always told you

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Speaker 1: to go and check the oil, isn't that amazing?

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Speaker 3: I can't believe. It's my favorite past on me. I'll

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Speaker 3: probably be checking the Oil's go.

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