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Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian No Common Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Your story is that might make us say wow, like

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Speaker 2: Scott's incredible encounter there with a shark. Judy actually made

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Speaker 2: Jack and I say wow. Earlier we were talking about

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Speaker 2: weird places that you fell asleep. She used to work

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Speaker 2: in the hospital, had a big night out, thought she'd

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Speaker 2: go and find a quiet room in the hospital. She

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Speaker 2: found a very very quiet side room in the hospital.

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Speaker 2: When she woke up in the early hours with the

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Speaker 2: sunlight coming through the blinds, she realized that there've been

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Speaker 2: someone else in the room, asleep in a body bag,

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Speaker 2: dead in this tiny little side room. This is an

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Speaker 2: amazing story, Tom. From Julie all right nine four one

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Speaker 2: four one o four three. What's your story that might

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Speaker 2: make us say wow? Bree, Good morning, welcome.

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Speaker 1: To the show.

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Speaker 3: Hello, how are you well?

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Speaker 1: Good Brie, So you've got a story for us?

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Speaker 3: We're all is okay. So my partner and I decided

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Speaker 3: one weekend we were going to go camping, and we

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Speaker 3: always got up to the Murray River and we were

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Speaker 3: driving in to our camps foot we had My daughter

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Speaker 3: was ten at the time. She was in the back

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Speaker 3: seat and it was winter and there was a bit

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Speaker 3: of water on the road, which is normal. So he

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Speaker 3: got out of the car and had a quick look,

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Speaker 3: and he thought, we can do this. We've got a

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Speaker 3: fall drive. So he started to go in slowly, and

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Speaker 3: then all of a sudden he decided, no, we're not

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Speaker 3: going to try this after all, tried to back out

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Speaker 3: and the car slid and we went completely underwater, fully submerged.

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Speaker 3: The car filled up within ten seconds. I reckon and

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Speaker 3: we had about an inch from between you know where

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Speaker 3: we were and or the top of the water to

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Speaker 3: the roof of the car.

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Speaker 1: The stuff a nightmare. Got your ten year old in

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Speaker 1: the car, had my ten.

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Speaker 3: Year old in the back seat. So he went to

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Speaker 3: try and get out. His window was open, luckily, because

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Speaker 3: you know, if it was closed, all our windows were closed.

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Speaker 3: The cupboard of air locks, so he wouldn't have been

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Speaker 3: able to get out.

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Speaker 1: You can't get the doors open, that's it.

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Speaker 3: So he forced his door open, and then he went

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Speaker 3: to try and get my daughter out, and her door

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Speaker 3: was locked, so her window was opened just the time

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Speaker 3: a little bit. So he tried to pull her window

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Speaker 3: realized the door was locked, so he unlocked her jawer.

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Speaker 3: He put his arm through, got the door open, went

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Speaker 3: so then he had to put her back down under

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Speaker 3: a seat belt. Tried to pull her out again, and

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Speaker 3: her dressing gown got caught, so then he had to

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Speaker 3: put her back underwater, unhooked her dressing gown. He got

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Speaker 3: her out, and he threw her up on the top

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Speaker 3: of the car and he said, wait there, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to go and get mum. In the meantime, I was

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Speaker 3: trying to open my door and I couldn't get it open.

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Speaker 3: And I've got I've got a spinal condition, so my

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Speaker 3: left side doesn't work very well. And I was trying

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Speaker 3: the electric window and I didn't think it was going down,

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Speaker 3: the windows working, so I wound the window down. I

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Speaker 3: around to get me. He pushed me up on top

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Speaker 3: tried to figure out Because neither of us girls can swim,

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Speaker 3: he tried to figure out how to get us out

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Speaker 3: of the water and onto land and he managed to.

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Speaker 3: He took my daughter first, and then he took me across.

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Speaker 3: And then we walked and walked and walked, and I

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Speaker 3: was I'd filled up with water, so I was completely

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Speaker 3: like bomb and you know, really dig Yeah. So we

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Speaker 3: walked for about two kilometers and then we saw a

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Speaker 3: out again. He said, get us, come in, come in.

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Speaker 3: We found this little shack. It had a bed, it

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Speaker 3: had firewood, it had bottled water blankets.

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Speaker 2: From the story, dim light in the distance.

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Speaker 1: Geored listening to this incredible story.

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Speaker 3: Well it doesn't finish there.

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Speaker 1: You make it to the paddock and you get some water.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we didn't. We couldn't find matches, so and

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Speaker 3: everything we owned was in the car. While we're at

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Speaker 3: the car, my handbag floated away and he goes, oh,

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Speaker 3: there goes your handbag. I said, we need that. Your

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Speaker 3: wallet's under the driver's seat, you know. So he had

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Speaker 3: Since wool we closed.

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Speaker 1: In that situation. I'm lucky everyone's that. I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to get you for worrying about the tissues. We'll get

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Speaker 1: you a new go about the wallet. We're alve. Now

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Speaker 1: we've got to get through the night and get out.

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Speaker 1: So what did you do.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'd slept in the shacks, so we'd sort of

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Speaker 3: cuddled up together. We took all our clothes off because

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Speaker 2: You must have been just replaying what happened. You would

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Speaker 2: have been so traumatized by it.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't sleep. I was like, every time I dozed off,

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Speaker 3: I was dreaming about it. So in the morning, it

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Speaker 3: was about probably five thirty, I reckon. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 3: He found like a plastic tablecloth thing in there. So

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Speaker 3: he put his wet clothes back on and wrapped up

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Speaker 3: in this plastic tablecloth and just went walking. And there

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Speaker 3: was a farmer driving down the road on his tractory.

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Speaker 1: As a maatshift. Kate, you're staring up on you.

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Speaker 4: Now, I'll stop after hearing that before the down.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, So the farmer loaned him his mobile phone

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Speaker 1: To say the only number treble zero rather than a four.

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Speaker 3: It's funny because we had a police car drove straight

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Speaker 3: past us in the morning while we're waiting for our friends,

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Speaker 3: and we're waving and waving, and they just kept going.

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Speaker 3: They went down the track where we'd gone in and

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Speaker 4: Even the police have seen the man in the plastic sheet,

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Speaker 4: and guys, it's an amazing story.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, if you wonder why we're so quiet, we're just

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Speaker 2: I think we're just trying to sort of process it all.

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Speaker 1: It's an unbelievable story. You are genuinely all of you

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Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, absolutely we are. If it wasn't for him,

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Speaker 3: there's no way ruled have made it.

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Speaker 4: There's so many moments though. If it wasn't for even

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Speaker 4: finding that shack after you're all completely soaked.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, wow. Well, if we'd had to keep walking,

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Speaker 3: you know, we sort of think hypasamia.

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Speaker 1: I always worried about you out there in the bush

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Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere. You would have gone into like shock.

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Speaker 1: It could have been a really different story.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was horrid. It was horrid. So I took

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Speaker 3: the next day off work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, go back a lookle bit a handbag.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, kept my daughter home. We went to the

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Speaker 3: you know. But yeah, it was pretty traumatic.

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Speaker 4: It's a really necessary warning as well about driving through

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Speaker 4: floodwaters because some people still don't know the dangers of

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Speaker 3: No, that's right. And you know, my partner's been full

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Speaker 3: driving to thirty odd years, Yeah, and has done massive

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Speaker 3: water He's done Kpe York, so he's done some massive

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Speaker 3: beforehand and checks. He's very cautious. Yeah, and this was

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Speaker 3: just you know, we couldn't see in the dark. It

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Speaker 3: was nine thirty ten o'clock at dime, and the road

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Speaker 3: had washed away and we.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't hard to read on it. When it's that dark.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Well Brown, We're lucky you all.

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Speaker 2: You made it, and thank you so much to pick

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Speaker 2: up the phone and sharing it with us. It's an

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Speaker 2: incredible story. It almost feels a small thing to say

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Speaker 2: that we'll send your bries, but thank you for sharing that.

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Speaker 2: There's so much in that story.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I was good to ask what have you been up

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Speaker 2: to the last couple of minutes. You're talking about a

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Speaker 2: genuine near death experience. Well, empty dish washer was stacking it.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've just turned up to work and I'm making

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Speaker 3: my coffee for myself.

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Speaker 1: And look seconds from death.

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Speaker 2: Got to get that coffee on the go. That's a

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Speaker 2: good all right. Well, I'm glad you're okay, Brey, and

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Speaker 2: thanks for giving us a call mate. You have a

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Speaker 2: good day, Enjoy that coffee.

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