1 00:00:09,685 --> 00:00:12,485 Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I four 2 00:00:12,485 --> 00:00:15,965 Speaker 1: point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the free 3 00:00:16,165 --> 00:00:17,005 Speaker 1: iHeart app. 4 00:00:18,165 --> 00:00:27,085 Speaker 2: Got anything, dag Hey, This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. 5 00:00:28,285 --> 00:00:30,685 Speaker 1: We love doing this every Wednesday. It's called what are 6 00:00:30,765 --> 00:00:34,485 Speaker 1: the Odds? Your stories of coincidence and chance? I believe 7 00:00:34,565 --> 00:00:38,845 Speaker 1: it or not? What are the uds? You gotta be 8 00:00:39,245 --> 00:00:40,125 Speaker 1: justhing me. 9 00:00:42,045 --> 00:00:46,245 Speaker 3: Like, were you with Cheryl who married a Hun? Who 10 00:00:46,644 --> 00:00:52,685 Speaker 3: was with the Cheryl who married a Hunt as well? 11 00:00:53,205 --> 00:00:56,045 Speaker 4: My dad was born in nineteen sixty eight and he 12 00:00:56,165 --> 00:00:58,685 Speaker 4: was adopted when he was a baby. In his forties, 13 00:00:58,885 --> 00:01:01,765 Speaker 4: he found his birth mother and learned that she'd had 14 00:01:02,005 --> 00:01:05,285 Speaker 4: kids not long after him, and they had all gone 15 00:01:05,285 --> 00:01:07,685 Speaker 4: to the same high school together and had been in 16 00:01:07,765 --> 00:01:10,885 Speaker 4: the same sporting settings and group parties and all that 17 00:01:10,965 --> 00:01:13,205 Speaker 4: kind of stuff. I had a new guy start at 18 00:01:13,285 --> 00:01:15,845 Speaker 4: work and he goes, hey, did you ever go out 19 00:01:15,885 --> 00:01:17,085 Speaker 4: to this. 20 00:01:17,005 --> 00:01:18,525 Speaker 5: Bar a bit half an hour away? 21 00:01:18,685 --> 00:01:20,325 Speaker 4: I go, yeah, yeah, I did. 22 00:01:20,565 --> 00:01:21,485 Speaker 2: What are the odds of this? 23 00:01:21,725 --> 00:01:24,165 Speaker 5: I had invited him back around to my house in 24 00:01:24,245 --> 00:01:26,485 Speaker 5: the group of our party. Wouldn't know this guy from 25 00:01:26,485 --> 00:01:27,165 Speaker 5: a bar of soap? 26 00:01:27,325 --> 00:01:29,805 Speaker 6: Look back at my snapchat and I'll find a video 27 00:01:29,845 --> 00:01:30,365 Speaker 6: of this guy. 28 00:01:30,565 --> 00:01:33,285 Speaker 1: It's incredible that one, isn't it. Has you never heard 29 00:01:33,325 --> 00:01:34,645 Speaker 1: that phrase? By the way, wouldn't know hi from a 30 00:01:34,685 --> 00:01:35,245 Speaker 1: bar of soap? 31 00:01:35,405 --> 00:01:35,645 Speaker 7: Yes? 32 00:01:35,885 --> 00:01:39,525 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'ren't known from Adam or Eve, but never from 33 00:01:39,525 --> 00:01:40,205 Speaker 1: a bar of soap? 34 00:01:40,285 --> 00:01:43,205 Speaker 3: I've never heard would have known from Adam or Eve? No? No, right? 35 00:01:43,405 --> 00:01:44,285 Speaker 7: But barsoap? 36 00:01:45,365 --> 00:01:46,045 Speaker 3: Yeah? 37 00:01:46,125 --> 00:01:48,565 Speaker 1: So it give me a context then, because what are 38 00:01:48,565 --> 00:01:51,045 Speaker 1: you asking to identify Barrasoak from a load of episodes 39 00:01:51,125 --> 00:01:52,245 Speaker 1: That doesn't make Adam. 40 00:01:52,525 --> 00:01:54,285 Speaker 7: I wouldn't know Adam or Reeve. I can understand me. 41 00:01:54,445 --> 00:01:56,765 Speaker 7: You don't know who's who. I don't know who's Adam. 42 00:01:56,765 --> 00:01:57,525 Speaker 7: I don't know who's Eve. 43 00:01:57,725 --> 00:01:59,885 Speaker 3: I know him so little that if you put a 44 00:01:59,885 --> 00:02:01,725 Speaker 3: bar of suit next to him or him, I couldn't 45 00:02:01,725 --> 00:02:02,005 Speaker 3: even tell. 46 00:02:02,205 --> 00:02:03,045 Speaker 7: Want someone do that? 47 00:02:03,485 --> 00:02:04,165 Speaker 3: I don't know. 48 00:02:04,325 --> 00:02:09,765 Speaker 7: Welcome to Australia anymore? What will we used like gel 49 00:02:09,805 --> 00:02:10,244 Speaker 7: in the show? 50 00:02:10,285 --> 00:02:15,165 Speaker 1: And who even washes anymore? 51 00:02:16,765 --> 00:02:17,045 Speaker 7: Please? 52 00:02:17,085 --> 00:02:17,165 Speaker 1: Do? 53 00:02:19,445 --> 00:02:26,885 Speaker 7: Okay? What are the odds? Past doesn't wash? 54 00:02:26,965 --> 00:02:27,325 Speaker 3: All right? 55 00:02:27,365 --> 00:02:28,205 Speaker 7: What are the odds? 56 00:02:28,245 --> 00:02:30,325 Speaker 1: This is a lovely email I got this week from 57 00:02:30,565 --> 00:02:31,605 Speaker 1: Danny Christian. 58 00:02:31,645 --> 00:02:32,565 Speaker 7: What are the odds? 59 00:02:32,845 --> 00:02:36,005 Speaker 1: My beloved mum Zora passed away after a strong battle 60 00:02:36,285 --> 00:02:38,484 Speaker 1: with cancer. She was loved by many. I'm sorry to 61 00:02:38,485 --> 00:02:42,045 Speaker 1: hear that, Danny. However, she had one clear request, no wake. 62 00:02:44,245 --> 00:02:46,445 Speaker 1: Many people came to a service. Afterwards, we decided to 63 00:02:46,445 --> 00:02:49,565 Speaker 1: gather for some light refreshments in her honor, not classed 64 00:02:49,765 --> 00:02:50,285 Speaker 1: as awake. 65 00:02:50,445 --> 00:02:52,204 Speaker 7: You're right, you don't, you don't, you don't want to, 66 00:02:52,245 --> 00:02:53,005 Speaker 7: you don't upset? 67 00:02:53,605 --> 00:02:56,685 Speaker 1: Stay with me? What are the odds? My brother was 68 00:02:56,725 --> 00:03:00,365 Speaker 1: born on March to twenty second. When we ordered an 69 00:03:00,445 --> 00:03:04,525 Speaker 1: uber after the gathering to head to the not wake, 70 00:03:04,845 --> 00:03:07,805 Speaker 1: the car pulled up, stopped us in our tracks. The 71 00:03:07,965 --> 00:03:12,925 Speaker 1: number play read oh Wow, Zora twenty. 72 00:03:12,605 --> 00:03:15,525 Speaker 3: Two, shut offingles. 73 00:03:15,605 --> 00:03:19,245 Speaker 1: This is Danny's as a photo of Danny rhyme by 74 00:03:19,445 --> 00:03:23,165 Speaker 1: next to the car plate the red Joe wow we 75 00:03:23,885 --> 00:03:27,325 Speaker 1: Zora twenty two. Talk about a sign. It literally is 76 00:03:27,445 --> 00:03:30,805 Speaker 1: a physical sign. You know, people see feathers and rainbows 77 00:03:30,845 --> 00:03:33,565 Speaker 1: sometimes and stuff like that, but Zora twenty two, this is. 78 00:03:33,565 --> 00:03:35,125 Speaker 7: One of the most incredible ones we've ever had. 79 00:03:35,405 --> 00:03:36,765 Speaker 1: I can see if the Danny we let us put 80 00:03:36,805 --> 00:03:40,285 Speaker 1: the photo up on our socials as well. It's incredible 81 00:03:40,525 --> 00:03:41,965 Speaker 1: because you know, when he felt like Mum was having 82 00:03:41,965 --> 00:03:42,925 Speaker 1: a cheeky laugh with us. 83 00:03:42,965 --> 00:03:44,085 Speaker 7: She knows you want to like no wake. 84 00:03:44,205 --> 00:03:47,565 Speaker 1: She said to you, you don't mess with the Zora. 85 00:03:47,765 --> 00:03:50,045 Speaker 1: You can mess with the Zohan, but not the Zora, 86 00:03:50,685 --> 00:03:53,565 Speaker 1: making sure she still had the last word, right and rightly. 87 00:03:53,645 --> 00:03:57,005 Speaker 1: So Mum should always have the last word, Danny, beautiful, 88 00:03:57,045 --> 00:03:59,925 Speaker 1: beautiful story. All right, let's leave it there when we 89 00:03:59,965 --> 00:04:01,965 Speaker 1: come back after it would take your stories. Give me 90 00:04:01,965 --> 00:04:07,005 Speaker 1: a call thirteen fifty five twenty two, what are the odds? 91 00:04:09,805 --> 00:04:10,765 Speaker 1: Oh no, she's not good. 92 00:04:11,085 --> 00:04:13,245 Speaker 3: God from that to Caitlin, No, she's not got another 93 00:04:13,285 --> 00:04:13,685 Speaker 3: one and she. 94 00:04:13,685 --> 00:04:15,085 Speaker 7: Was trying to avoid her eye contact. 95 00:04:16,085 --> 00:04:20,844 Speaker 1: Listen, last week, bad thing happened and paducer Caitlyn told 96 00:04:20,925 --> 00:04:22,845 Speaker 1: us a story she promised me was ten out of ten, 97 00:04:23,005 --> 00:04:26,404 Speaker 1: barely a one out of ten. She's back with another story. 98 00:04:26,484 --> 00:04:29,365 Speaker 1: She wants to be put back in the ring again, and. 99 00:04:29,325 --> 00:04:32,164 Speaker 3: She's got to follow Zorra. Yeah, good luck. 100 00:04:32,964 --> 00:04:35,565 Speaker 1: Alright, all right, Uness, a load of you call with 101 00:04:35,645 --> 00:04:38,205 Speaker 1: great stories. I have to go to producer Kitland. Please 102 00:04:38,325 --> 00:04:41,924 Speaker 1: please thirteen fifty five twenty two, give me ten and 103 00:04:42,005 --> 00:04:44,565 Speaker 1: also give me a story for what are the odds? 104 00:04:45,205 --> 00:04:45,604 Speaker 7: Please? 105 00:04:46,565 --> 00:04:53,044 Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Shaft Gone Podcast, Christian, just you know. The 106 00:04:53,125 --> 00:04:55,885 Speaker 1: saying wouldn't know them from a bar of soap originated 107 00:04:55,885 --> 00:04:59,724 Speaker 1: in Australia around nineteen thirty eight, appearing first in print 108 00:04:59,804 --> 00:05:05,525 Speaker 1: in a cartoon by Stan Cross for Smith's Weekly Patty. 109 00:05:05,565 --> 00:05:07,205 Speaker 1: You've got that issue, haven't you? Probably in the other 110 00:05:07,284 --> 00:05:09,844 Speaker 1: day you showed me. Actually, she said, it's almost done. 111 00:05:09,885 --> 00:05:12,005 Speaker 1: A cross word. It's been working on a few years. 112 00:05:13,404 --> 00:05:18,525 Speaker 1: Just two words sure, the phrase which means to not 113 00:05:18,645 --> 00:05:22,245 Speaker 1: recognize someone at all, suggest a person is unfamiliar as 114 00:05:22,284 --> 00:05:28,564 Speaker 1: a blank unrecognizable bar of soap. A really me put that, Peter, 115 00:05:28,765 --> 00:05:31,085 Speaker 1: thank you very much. I'm actually I've always thought that 116 00:05:31,125 --> 00:05:33,325 Speaker 1: we should do this right, is have a weekly feature 117 00:05:33,364 --> 00:05:36,844 Speaker 1: on the show oz Slang where we actually make a 118 00:05:36,924 --> 00:05:39,844 Speaker 1: note because there's so many of these, and when I 119 00:05:39,924 --> 00:05:41,645 Speaker 1: moved here, I did start to put a note of 120 00:05:41,685 --> 00:05:43,885 Speaker 1: them in my phone because it was like learning a 121 00:05:43,924 --> 00:05:46,924 Speaker 1: new language, because all these phrases that I had never 122 00:05:46,964 --> 00:05:48,564 Speaker 1: heard before. That is a new one for me. I've 123 00:05:48,565 --> 00:05:51,365 Speaker 1: never heard that one before. But maybe tomorrow we open 124 00:05:51,445 --> 00:05:54,445 Speaker 1: up for the first time ever the oz Slang where 125 00:05:54,484 --> 00:05:57,765 Speaker 1: we can actually keep these great sayings, because otherwise some 126 00:05:57,804 --> 00:06:00,044 Speaker 1: of them will just they just fade out, won't they 127 00:06:00,125 --> 00:06:01,085 Speaker 1: they need to be preserved. 128 00:06:01,125 --> 00:06:03,005 Speaker 3: Rio, and it's good to learn a history of them, 129 00:06:03,044 --> 00:06:04,924 Speaker 3: because I mean, we say them our whole last we 130 00:06:04,924 --> 00:06:07,804 Speaker 3: actually never know where they come from, what they mean. 131 00:06:07,924 --> 00:06:11,844 Speaker 7: Really, Christian, I've just had a live. What are the odds? 132 00:06:12,245 --> 00:06:18,844 Speaker 7: Sound the collects and we don't have one live? What 133 00:06:19,044 --> 00:06:24,205 Speaker 7: are the odds? Believe it? What are the odds? 134 00:06:24,325 --> 00:06:28,964 Speaker 1: I work at Maya Southland. That's not what are the odds? 135 00:06:30,284 --> 00:06:33,724 Speaker 1: I just total to sell that means added up. I've 136 00:06:33,765 --> 00:06:36,284 Speaker 1: worked in the cells and was let my customer know that. 137 00:06:36,325 --> 00:06:38,604 Speaker 1: It came to nineteen ninety nine. 138 00:06:39,364 --> 00:06:44,565 Speaker 7: Just as I said, this came on the speakers. 139 00:06:45,164 --> 00:06:49,485 Speaker 1: Wow, what are the odds? 140 00:06:54,404 --> 00:06:54,845 Speaker 7: Big one? 141 00:06:54,885 --> 00:06:58,005 Speaker 1: Guys, we've landed the big one. I love live ones. 142 00:06:58,284 --> 00:07:00,205 Speaker 1: I love I said to Rio. Actually kind of me 143 00:07:00,325 --> 00:07:02,724 Speaker 1: to go. We need to start feature real time radio 144 00:07:02,964 --> 00:07:05,445 Speaker 1: where if there's something we're talking about and you see 145 00:07:05,484 --> 00:07:08,525 Speaker 1: it right front of your eyes like a Grace beautiful 146 00:07:08,685 --> 00:07:11,965 Speaker 1: by the way, Grace spot's this alive? What are the odds? 147 00:07:12,005 --> 00:07:12,965 Speaker 1: It's real time radio. 148 00:07:13,005 --> 00:07:13,564 Speaker 3: It's ready to go. 149 00:07:13,725 --> 00:07:16,405 Speaker 7: Thank you. All right, So let's take some stories right now. 150 00:07:16,405 --> 00:07:17,884 Speaker 1: The good news is that we don't have to go 151 00:07:17,925 --> 00:07:22,605 Speaker 1: to producer caating so already today is winning Wednesday, but 152 00:07:22,765 --> 00:07:23,884 Speaker 1: there's always next Wednesday. 153 00:07:24,005 --> 00:07:25,564 Speaker 7: How many more Wednesdays have we got into the end 154 00:07:25,565 --> 00:07:25,965 Speaker 7: of the yew. 155 00:07:25,885 --> 00:07:29,485 Speaker 3: We've got to kill? I think probably about fourteen or it's. 156 00:07:29,364 --> 00:07:31,125 Speaker 7: A long path ahead of us, guys. 157 00:07:31,565 --> 00:07:34,605 Speaker 1: Day by day we fight the good fight. Tim, Good morning, Timmy, 158 00:07:35,364 --> 00:07:38,045 Speaker 1: Good morning, Christian. How I'm good Tim? So what are 159 00:07:38,125 --> 00:07:38,925 Speaker 1: the odds? 160 00:07:39,804 --> 00:07:42,605 Speaker 6: So myself and my wife and my two kids, we 161 00:07:42,685 --> 00:07:45,085 Speaker 6: went on a holiday to italyit to go and meet 162 00:07:45,165 --> 00:07:47,364 Speaker 6: up with my parents. And we got there, they said, 163 00:07:47,885 --> 00:07:49,925 Speaker 6: we'll look after the kids for you. I'm go and 164 00:07:49,925 --> 00:07:52,725 Speaker 6: have a weekend together. So we got on the train 165 00:07:53,085 --> 00:07:57,125 Speaker 6: and went to Venis and we're walking around. We're in 166 00:07:57,165 --> 00:07:59,925 Speaker 6: some Peters Square and we thought, oh, great place for 167 00:07:59,965 --> 00:08:02,525 Speaker 6: a photograph. Let's get someone to take a photograph for us. 168 00:08:02,525 --> 00:08:05,765 Speaker 6: So we turned and stopped the first couple that walked by, 169 00:08:06,205 --> 00:08:08,204 Speaker 6: and who should it be but my child's teacher. 170 00:08:08,325 --> 00:08:14,525 Speaker 7: Yeah, Jan, So Peter's going, what are the odds? 171 00:08:14,845 --> 00:08:17,485 Speaker 1: There's so many people around there, thousands and thousands of 172 00:08:17,485 --> 00:08:19,165 Speaker 1: tourists that you could have selected. 173 00:08:19,205 --> 00:08:19,845 Speaker 2: It was mobbed. 174 00:08:20,205 --> 00:08:20,805 Speaker 6: It was mobbed. 175 00:08:20,845 --> 00:08:29,004 Speaker 7: He does get it's mobbed around there. They mobbed that Pope. 176 00:08:27,765 --> 00:08:29,965 Speaker 3: Jan Happy Joan. 177 00:08:30,205 --> 00:08:34,805 Speaker 1: Yeah, good one, Thank you very much. Jim, have a 178 00:08:34,804 --> 00:08:39,285 Speaker 1: good day, Marty. Good morning, Marty, Welcome to the show. 179 00:08:39,285 --> 00:08:41,724 Speaker 1: What are the odds, Marty, Yeah. 180 00:08:41,605 --> 00:08:42,925 Speaker 2: Morning team. 181 00:08:43,605 --> 00:08:43,765 Speaker 1: Yeah. 182 00:08:43,845 --> 00:08:46,244 Speaker 2: A couple of years ago we were at camping Glen 183 00:08:46,365 --> 00:08:49,444 Speaker 2: El River and the kids are there and they're looking 184 00:08:49,444 --> 00:08:51,124 Speaker 2: at the rope hang off the tree and thinking I 185 00:08:51,165 --> 00:08:52,845 Speaker 2: wouldn't mind having to go of that, And I said, look, 186 00:08:53,525 --> 00:08:55,324 Speaker 2: you've got to be very careful when you do that. 187 00:08:55,405 --> 00:08:58,245 Speaker 2: A couple of years ago or ten or so years ago, 188 00:08:58,365 --> 00:09:02,125 Speaker 2: guy did it, swung out rope wrapped aroundy lot of limb. 189 00:09:03,084 --> 00:09:07,325 Speaker 2: So oh, she was no good. Anyway. The next next minute, 190 00:09:07,645 --> 00:09:10,165 Speaker 2: guys going part in the boat. It's the guy that 191 00:09:10,285 --> 00:09:11,124 Speaker 2: lost the limb. O. 192 00:09:11,444 --> 00:09:23,085 Speaker 1: God, you've got to be kidding me, Marty about your story. 193 00:09:23,645 --> 00:09:24,925 Speaker 7: The producer said. 194 00:09:24,684 --> 00:09:27,925 Speaker 1: To me, Marty's kept is one of the those wild 195 00:09:28,045 --> 00:09:29,765 Speaker 1: stories we're ever going to hear. 196 00:09:30,165 --> 00:09:36,725 Speaker 2: And I wouldn't have seen this guy for ten years more. 197 00:09:36,804 --> 00:09:40,685 Speaker 2: And anyway, the funny thing is he went past the 198 00:09:40,684 --> 00:09:42,645 Speaker 2: boat and I reckon. Two weeks later, I've seen him again. 199 00:09:42,645 --> 00:09:44,885 Speaker 2: He was walking around with his wife pushing the pram. 200 00:09:44,965 --> 00:09:46,285 Speaker 1: But the. 201 00:09:47,885 --> 00:09:48,845 Speaker 5: There was a big story at. 202 00:09:48,725 --> 00:09:51,405 Speaker 2: The time when it happened. And I think mate, his 203 00:09:51,525 --> 00:09:54,885 Speaker 2: mate started having a going and calling him Clock. I 204 00:09:54,925 --> 00:09:56,405 Speaker 2: think it was that he's nicknamed. 205 00:09:57,845 --> 00:10:00,765 Speaker 7: So he lost it, he lost a limb. 206 00:10:01,725 --> 00:10:03,684 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you have to do swing on these. 207 00:10:03,564 --> 00:10:07,004 Speaker 7: Right, remember them? Yeah? From the trees over a river. Yeah, oh, creek. 208 00:10:07,605 --> 00:10:09,684 Speaker 2: Did it many many times. They did it all the time. 209 00:10:09,725 --> 00:10:11,324 Speaker 2: There was a group and they used to always go 210 00:10:11,485 --> 00:10:15,085 Speaker 2: in and yeah, wrapped around he lim and basically ripped 211 00:10:15,084 --> 00:10:17,125 Speaker 2: it off from from the elbow. 212 00:10:17,684 --> 00:10:23,485 Speaker 3: So you hear these stories your parents, those stories, and 213 00:10:23,485 --> 00:10:27,005 Speaker 3: they're always grim one people like losing ahead or something. 214 00:10:28,405 --> 00:10:31,405 Speaker 7: But actually, but then to see him again. 215 00:10:32,165 --> 00:10:34,324 Speaker 2: It was a young yankie. Don't think he's a or 216 00:10:34,365 --> 00:10:37,684 Speaker 2: something like that, but it was not. But and obviously 217 00:10:37,845 --> 00:10:39,325 Speaker 2: went back and tried to play footy and all that 218 00:10:39,365 --> 00:10:42,844 Speaker 2: sort of stuff. And yeah, but yeah, unfortunate action. But yeah, 219 00:10:42,845 --> 00:10:44,885 Speaker 2: I just couldn't believe. I said, oh my god, you know, 220 00:10:45,005 --> 00:10:47,045 Speaker 2: look at that. Look who's going past the boat and 221 00:10:47,084 --> 00:10:49,005 Speaker 2: you Oh my god, it. 222 00:10:49,365 --> 00:10:51,605 Speaker 7: Happened to you. 223 00:10:53,245 --> 00:10:59,285 Speaker 1: That is a crazy story, Martin. Thank you so much 224 00:10:59,324 --> 00:11:01,005 Speaker 1: for giving us a call. Okay, have a great day, 225 00:11:01,045 --> 00:11:02,964 Speaker 1: but wild story. Thanks for sharing it. 226 00:11:03,564 --> 00:11:05,045 Speaker 2: Yeah, No, have a good day. 227 00:11:05,125 --> 00:11:06,564 Speaker 7: Thanks. I need to go and have a couple of teas. 228 00:11:06,605 --> 00:11:09,684 Speaker 1: Anyone else's spinning out with that one? 229 00:11:10,045 --> 00:11:12,045 Speaker 7: Just the speak post. 230 00:11:14,045 --> 00:11:17,165 Speaker 1: Part. I love it when listeners added on an extra 231 00:11:17,204 --> 00:11:19,605 Speaker 1: bit of mayo. It really carry on playing football, you know. 232 00:11:21,885 --> 00:11:23,485 Speaker 1: Incredible story. Thank you, Marty. 233 00:11:24,245 --> 00:11:26,804 Speaker 7: The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast. 234 00:11:28,045 --> 00:11:30,805 Speaker 1: All right, let's take two stories here, particcated, Come on 235 00:11:32,365 --> 00:11:35,484 Speaker 1: second time, Lucky. What is your story for? What are 236 00:11:35,605 --> 00:11:37,245 Speaker 1: the odds will it be good enough to get? 237 00:11:39,045 --> 00:11:43,084 Speaker 8: Alrighty? So on the weekend, it was my partner's birthday 238 00:11:43,365 --> 00:11:46,325 Speaker 8: and her friend shares the same birthday, so we had 239 00:11:46,365 --> 00:11:50,765 Speaker 8: them over for a Mexican fiesta and I was out thinking, Okay, 240 00:11:50,804 --> 00:11:52,885 Speaker 8: I'm going to get some margaritas for everyone to have. 241 00:11:53,365 --> 00:11:56,405 Speaker 8: So looking at the recipe, I was like, I have 242 00:11:56,444 --> 00:12:00,684 Speaker 8: to get contro. And it's the most annoying drink because 243 00:12:00,725 --> 00:12:03,765 Speaker 8: it's just like an orange flavored liqueur and you just 244 00:12:03,804 --> 00:12:06,485 Speaker 8: don't use it for anything else anyway. So I'm looking 245 00:12:06,485 --> 00:12:08,525 Speaker 8: for the three hundred mil bottle because all the other 246 00:12:08,645 --> 00:12:11,444 Speaker 8: ones are ninety dollars for a full bottle. Animal, I'm 247 00:12:11,444 --> 00:12:13,045 Speaker 8: not spending that amount anyway. 248 00:12:13,045 --> 00:12:13,405 Speaker 1: I'm looking. 249 00:12:13,405 --> 00:12:14,045 Speaker 3: I'm looking good. 250 00:12:14,045 --> 00:12:16,165 Speaker 7: Do we get the whole interior monologue with this as well. 251 00:12:16,324 --> 00:12:18,445 Speaker 8: Yeah, And I was like, I'm not going to buy that, 252 00:12:18,564 --> 00:12:21,804 Speaker 8: and I'm looking and looking over an hour I'm searching. 253 00:12:21,485 --> 00:12:25,405 Speaker 1: And I thought, no, come on, I listen, come on, 254 00:12:26,204 --> 00:12:27,885 Speaker 1: No one's looking for a wall of contro for an hour. 255 00:12:27,925 --> 00:12:30,525 Speaker 7: You go through BWS drive through, they got them. Ask 256 00:12:30,645 --> 00:12:34,205 Speaker 7: the assistant an hour, an hour its out. This is 257 00:12:34,365 --> 00:12:35,205 Speaker 7: story is an hour. 258 00:12:35,645 --> 00:12:37,604 Speaker 8: I was trying to find the three hundred mil we 259 00:12:37,765 --> 00:12:38,724 Speaker 8: got that earlier. 260 00:12:38,765 --> 00:12:41,285 Speaker 7: Mate, so always going you called in this show? Would 261 00:12:41,285 --> 00:12:41,885 Speaker 7: you put your on air? 262 00:12:41,965 --> 00:12:43,564 Speaker 1: Know you wouldn't you go? Don't think we go? Oh 263 00:12:43,564 --> 00:12:47,885 Speaker 1: email him in love this? So she does, Alex, No, 264 00:12:48,005 --> 00:12:50,324 Speaker 1: she does. I get these emails when we're all long stories, 265 00:12:50,324 --> 00:12:52,324 Speaker 1: they're going get thanks all right? 266 00:12:52,365 --> 00:12:54,604 Speaker 7: Sorry, okay, yeah come on then yeah, tell you what? 267 00:12:54,605 --> 00:12:58,445 Speaker 7: Why don't you email me? The rest friends are alone? Now? Ben, Ben, Ben, 268 00:12:58,525 --> 00:12:59,205 Speaker 7: what's your story? 269 00:12:59,285 --> 00:12:59,525 Speaker 6: Hello? 270 00:12:59,765 --> 00:13:06,165 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it, saved by the Ben. Yeah, good morning, Ben, 271 00:13:06,245 --> 00:13:07,084 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. 272 00:13:07,525 --> 00:13:10,645 Speaker 5: Oh thank you. When I was a little boy, coming 273 00:13:10,684 --> 00:13:13,405 Speaker 5: up towards Christmas time, I was begging my mum for 274 00:13:13,485 --> 00:13:16,485 Speaker 5: a pet and mouse. I had mice previously, and I 275 00:13:16,485 --> 00:13:20,245 Speaker 5: loved the little things. Now she was Adam and I 276 00:13:20,285 --> 00:13:22,925 Speaker 5: wasn't getting one. I kept begging and begging and begging. 277 00:13:23,645 --> 00:13:26,485 Speaker 5: A few days before Christmas comes around, I'm snooping under 278 00:13:26,485 --> 00:13:28,965 Speaker 5: the tree and I find this little box with the 279 00:13:28,965 --> 00:13:32,365 Speaker 5: corner that looks like it's been chewed out, and I 280 00:13:32,405 --> 00:13:33,844 Speaker 5: take it up to mom. I'm like, no, what's this? 281 00:13:33,965 --> 00:13:34,285 Speaker 3: What's this? 282 00:13:34,525 --> 00:13:36,965 Speaker 5: She goes, oh, look, I got to a mouse for Christmas, 283 00:13:37,005 --> 00:13:40,645 Speaker 5: but it looks like it's escaped. So I spend the 284 00:13:40,684 --> 00:13:46,045 Speaker 5: next few hours pulling the room up. I was pulling 285 00:13:46,084 --> 00:13:48,365 Speaker 5: draws out of cupboards and whatnot. And I get to 286 00:13:48,365 --> 00:13:50,165 Speaker 5: the computer desk and I pull out the bottom drawer 287 00:13:50,204 --> 00:13:52,645 Speaker 5: and lo and behold, I find a little mouse under there, 288 00:13:53,125 --> 00:13:56,045 Speaker 5: and I'll catch a little Buggery wasn't easy to catch, 289 00:13:56,045 --> 00:13:57,405 Speaker 5: but I managed to get him and I put him 290 00:13:57,405 --> 00:14:00,005 Speaker 5: in my mouse cage and I'm playing around with him, 291 00:14:00,005 --> 00:14:01,965 Speaker 5: and my mom walks past and goes, what are you doing? 292 00:14:02,564 --> 00:14:03,885 Speaker 6: I go, I found the mouse. 293 00:14:03,885 --> 00:14:05,965 Speaker 5: I'm playing with the mouse, and she goes, what mouse? 294 00:14:06,405 --> 00:14:08,285 Speaker 5: And I'm like, the one you got me for Christmas? 295 00:14:08,285 --> 00:14:17,165 Speaker 5: And she, who wasn't a messing that to shut you out? 296 00:14:17,645 --> 00:14:25,525 Speaker 5: Just a wild many, quickly got rid of it. 297 00:14:26,045 --> 00:14:29,445 Speaker 7: Incredible. That is great mommy. That is great moment. I 298 00:14:29,485 --> 00:14:32,765 Speaker 7: love that with the perforate edge to make it look 299 00:14:34,765 --> 00:14:40,805 Speaker 7: she had me pulled, but not quite enough though. No Ben, 300 00:14:40,925 --> 00:14:45,685 Speaker 7: great story, Thank you very much. A Christian O'Connell Show 301 00:14:45,805 --> 00:14:46,445 Speaker 7: podcast