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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: All right, so the last three shows have been a

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Speaker 2: lot of coincident stories. I've been looking for coincident stories

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Speaker 2: after the teenage and teenagers said Dad, all coincidence stories

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Speaker 2: are boring art. There are no interesting coincidence stories. And

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Speaker 2: I was hoping to get because every day we get

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Speaker 2: these great stories from you guys, and I was hoping

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Speaker 2: to find a couple of good examples of great coincidance

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Speaker 2: stories to prove them wrong and that this basic white

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Speaker 2: dad has got something right once.

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Speaker 3: However, it's been elusive. Over the last two shows, it's

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Speaker 3: been slim.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have too many. There was a great

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Speaker 2: one yesterday about the guy ripping up a hotel in

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Speaker 2: Paran and he found in the concrete his dad's initials

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Speaker 2: that were put in there twenty years ago to the

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Speaker 2: day that he was ripping up the wardrobe.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty good. And that was a good one. You're

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Speaker 4: your friend with the Italian concerto who had the operation

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Speaker 4: at the Italian.

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Speaker 2: Twenty years later, he's at an opera, an open air

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Speaker 2: opera in Farona. And the surgeon who did a pioneering

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Speaker 2: surgery twenty years earlier happens to also be.

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Speaker 3: On that performance.

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Speaker 4: Pretty good coincer, that was a good one.

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Speaker 2: So this now is the last chance saloon for coincidence stories.

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Speaker 2: So if you sat listen to this thinking, okay, you

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Speaker 2: just haven't heard my one, call us N one four

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Speaker 2: three before that, some emails that come in yesterday after

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Speaker 2: the show saying these are great stories.

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Speaker 3: What about this one? Christian?

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Speaker 2: Back in the late nineties, I went to work in

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Speaker 2: a casino in Adelaide. When I was there, I bought

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Speaker 2: a Skyhook CD and a small concrete pig as a doorstop.

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Speaker 2: I would consider them fairly random items. Meanwhile, back in Melbourne,

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Speaker 2: my then boyfriend, on the same day I bought a

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Speaker 3: What do we think?

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Speaker 4: I mean, it is a big coincidence. You don't see

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Speaker 4: a concrete pig bought every day, but.

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Speaker 3: And a Skyhook CD. Christian, what do you think of

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Speaker 2: This is an amazing Please if you start it with

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Speaker 2: an amazing coincident story, I think it curses it many

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Speaker 2: years ago, probably about fifty again, a lot of the

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Speaker 2: bay they're trying to grease it a bit, this one.

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Speaker 2: They probably about fifty sounds better than forty or thirty,

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Speaker 2: doesn't it? Many years ago, probably about fifty, I got

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Speaker 2: obvious sick dog on our front porch. When my parents

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Speaker 2: got home, they called the SPCA, who came and took

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Speaker 2: him away. They told us that most likely the dog

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Speaker 2: had distemper and wouldn't make it. They need to work

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Speaker 2: on that petside maner to young kids, don't they. Because

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Speaker 2: it was probably fifty years ago this happened a few

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Speaker 2: months later, came home again. There he was, again, sitting

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Speaker 2: seen again. Christian, is this a coincidence or actually, as

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Speaker 2: we believe, a ghost dog who came back to say

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Speaker 2: thanks for trying?

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Speaker 4: I actually thought there was going to be a part two?

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Speaker 3: That is the part too.

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Speaker 2: Yes, stop chat, this happened probably roughly estimated fifty years ago,

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Speaker 2: ghost dog.

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Speaker 3: Don't you want to believe in a ghost?

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Speaker 2: Ortgage? Hey, kids, I know it's probably fifty years ago.

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Speaker 2: I just want to say thanks to trying.

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Speaker 4: Now we're getting dangerously close back to the ghost year.

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Speaker 2: Never crossed the steam streams Michelle Robinson, I'm not sure

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Speaker 3: This one, Christian.

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Speaker 2: My mother in law passed away suddenly, and she always

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Speaker 3: Do you know she wanted that? Or did he say

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Speaker 2: But her last words were, so get yourself a convertible

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Speaker 3: Any witnesses No, No, she definitely said it.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, a few months later, we were looking at cars

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Speaker 3: I not I smelled around. Men will try any old thing.

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Speaker 3: No, I've got no, I went Pats. Actually, I take

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Speaker 2: And I think that is this is an amazing coincidence story,

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Speaker 4: What are the chances it is a coincidence?

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Speaker 3: But it is the car the ghost dog. Thanks for

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Speaker 3: trying the ghost car, all right, give us a caol

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Speaker 3: now nine four one one four three.

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Speaker 2: Only pick up that phone if it's an amazing story

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell breakfast show Hello podcast.

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Speaker 2: So we're looking for amazing stories of coincidence. Day three

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Speaker 2: on this good morning Christian, I have a doozy for you.

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Speaker 2: In the late eighties. Why are these coincidence stories so old?

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Speaker 3: Fifty years ago?

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Speaker 2: Back in the eighties, people is to entertain there are

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Speaker 2: no modern contemporary coincidence stories.

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Speaker 3: Come on.

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Speaker 2: In the late eighties. I made a bloke on a

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Speaker 2: radio station. That's what radio used to just not even

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Speaker 2: make any effort with prizes. You want a bus trip

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Speaker 2: to CenTra Australia, you are lucky. Line nine was that

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Speaker 2: while before I discovered my great grandmother, who was a midwife,

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Speaker 2: sorry we can't be together anymore because my great grandmother

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Speaker 2: it gets better.

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Speaker 3: But does it? And it gets better.

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Speaker 2: When I was at Attacker growing up in Melbourne, my

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Speaker 2: father used to take his father's homing pigeons to work

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Speaker 2: and release them for him. I hope this will satisfy

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Speaker 4: Wait, that's the end. What's the homing pigeon coincidence?

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Speaker 3: Don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm reading this last night, right about half nine, and

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Speaker 2: thanks your email, Robin.

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Speaker 3: Is there any of it that's missed? You know, we

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Speaker 3: got very strong spam filter here. Maybe they took out

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Speaker 3: the key bit here and I heard anything back from Robin.

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna so is it? Are they two joining things? Then?

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Speaker 2: So the guy on the bus from the radio station,

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Speaker 3: And it gets better, and that is a coincident. When

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Speaker 4: Okay, so there's a father father connection. Yes, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You said it wants to take a pigeon as well

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Speaker 4: What a favor to ask a coworker as well, brad

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Speaker 4: Can you take my homing pigeons and let them out

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Speaker 3: Bradley, all right, let's go to the lines.

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Speaker 2: Robin, thank you very much, for I've never had an

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Speaker 2: email twenty radio that featured a home in pitching as

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Speaker 2: the star of it. Pigeon stories tomorrow. All right, Jack

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Speaker 2: is on the line. Good morning Jack.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're good, Jack. So you got a coincidence story

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Speaker 5: ten years ago, and she was the waitress in the gruy.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, last whoa gosh?

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Speaker 2: And when is a Jack actually delivered something good?

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Speaker 3: So many first with this phone call, tell us again,

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Speaker 2: I gonna bless rewind there's no home in Pigeon in

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Speaker 5: Twenty ten, we were sitting in a restaurant in Potayor

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Speaker 2: This is truly incredible. Now, Jack, can you tell us

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Speaker 5: I actually hope my ex wife doesn't find out that

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Speaker 3: Why don't we.

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Speaker 4: I think we've got what we wanted and maybe we

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Speaker 2: Let's not shine any more light on this story and

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Speaker 5: I have a great day.

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Speaker 2: So the bar has been set very highly. An amazing story,

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Speaker 2: but I called it called Jack ten years ago goes

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Speaker 3: There appeared to be a lot more to that story,

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Speaker 3: do we not think?

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Speaker 4: But otherwise it's a great coincidence and it had us shocked.

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Speaker 2: story about coincidences. My brother had traveled to Japan for

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Speaker 2: There in the background of a photo was that my

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Speaker 2: to have seen that the people that had been buried there,

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Speaker 2: it was their birthday on the very day we were there.

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Speaker 2: We wished them a happy birthday and carried on.

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Speaker 3: Is a shocker, It's not what's the chances one?

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Speaker 4: Did you read that out? We're going back, going backwards?

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Speaker 3: I'm holding.

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Speaker 4: That is what the chance are? One in three hundred

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Speaker 4: and sixty five.

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Speaker 3: Damn it, I approved it wrong.

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Speaker 4: We were talking about one in a million. Stuff, all right?

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Speaker 3: What about this? And Pat it's he's spout my name here,

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Speaker 3: Kurtis c HTIs. But it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: He's hurrying this story out. My great great grandfather had

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Speaker 2: been a soldier in the late nineteenth century. These stories

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Speaker 2: are getting older now soon people about cave people.

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Speaker 3: My great great great great grandfather.

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Speaker 2: Uugh, my great grandfather, I've been a soldier in the

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Speaker 2: late nineteenth century. Whilst we're searching family history, I found

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Speaker 2: out that his regiment, the Dublin Fusiliers, had been involved

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Speaker 2: by name in a book, mentioned in dispatches for his

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Speaker 2: book title to my search. Found it on eBay, a

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Speaker 2: first edition copy of this very old book. I bought

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Speaker 2: it when it turned up you're not going to leave this.

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Speaker 2: It was actually his copy of the book.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's cool.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I like that his name, rank, location and date were

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Speaker 3: Isn't that amazing?

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Speaker 4: I really liked that one. That's call.

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Speaker 2: I contacted the seller saying, this was my great grandfather's

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Speaker 2: the book an auction.

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Speaker 3: Pat.

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Speaker 2: That's a great one, a really really great one. Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much for that, Rosie. Yes, all right, yes,

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Speaker 2: snapping at us, Rosie. What's your coincidence story?

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Speaker 6: I'm adopted and my birth mother's married name is exactly

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Speaker 6: the same as my adoptive mother's maiden name, first name,

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Speaker 3: First name, last name and the same. Yes, that is

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Speaker 4: Wait, birthday, first names were the same, both their last

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Speaker 4: names were the same. Yes, that's all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is incredible, this is snap snap.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah absolutely.

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Speaker 3: And then her birthday, my birth mother's birthday is actually

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Speaker 3: the same day as my first born firthday. Yeah, pretty good.

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Speaker 4: You've diluted it.

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Speaker 3: Now you've gone back to the cup. You've gone back

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Speaker 2: Now now that's great. Yeah like that at the moment

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Speaker 2: twenty it's the same with a.

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Speaker 3: Savage haircut, savage, savage, salty nature.

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Speaker 2: Now it comes with a haircut. Grow about the niceness, Jack, Rosie,

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Speaker 2: Thank you how much your story mate, No worries, all right, bye, thanks.

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Speaker 3: Who's this No, never put me through. I was on

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Speaker 3: the line. Now. Oh, Huggy, Hi, Hi, Huggy, you right?

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Speaker 6: How are you going good?

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Speaker 3: Huggy?

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Speaker 2: Listen the email. I can't read out your email. I

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Speaker 2: think this is a good story, a good story about

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Speaker 2: coincidt Huggy off you go, please share.

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Speaker 3: It with us.

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Speaker 6: Well, look as opposed to the other one, your other

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Speaker 6: best one. I didn't actually marry the waitress, but I digress. No,

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Speaker 6: So for my tenth birthday, my parents for me I

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Speaker 6: I love the Sweet, Oh, I love the Sweet anyway,

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Speaker 6: so I took my mate, Scott mcgarran. And at the

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Speaker 6: Scott left our school and moved away from the area,

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Speaker 6: and I didn't see him forever basically, And then thirty

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Speaker 6: years later, the Suite did a reunion tour at Billboard

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Speaker 6: in Burke Street in the city and I bought some

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Speaker 6: next to me? Scott mcgarran hugy.

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Speaker 3: That's good, A light huggy.

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Speaker 2: When you emailed it about ten minutes ago, I said,

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Speaker 2: where have you been a week? I've been looking for

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Speaker 2: these stories anywhere near as good as yours.

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Speaker 3: This is a brilliant one. That's lovely story well.

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Speaker 6: And the upside of a two Christian and guys is

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Speaker 6: that now, as a result of Facebook and us sort

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Speaker 6: of you know, reconnecting, we stayed mates again and we

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Speaker 6: now actually see each other on a regular basis. That's

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Speaker 6: great O.

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Speaker 4: Part of the Sweet fan club on Facebook.

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Speaker 3: What do you say? Parts of they are right?

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