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Speaker 2: Sometimes your text messages I get them like a reverse.
Speaker 2: So sometimes people might send me a message or story
Speaker 2: and then they might think of an extra bit of
Speaker 2: detail and they send me another message. And sometimes I
Speaker 2: just get the punchline without knowing what the setup is.
Speaker 2: I've just got this text here from you, Carmen Stevens.
Speaker 2: All I've got is sucked my bumming Now. I hope
Speaker 2: to God this is story or context before that, or
Speaker 2: you just thought this is how I want to speak
Speaker 2: to Christian today and just say sucked my bummin'.
Speaker 3: This is what he wants.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm hooked. I want to get part one.
Speaker 1: What do we think I got a season for me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm or a SPA SA suction and jets are
Speaker 2: involved and above being sucked in.
Speaker 1: Maybe's new game on the show. You tell us how
Speaker 1: the story ended.
Speaker 2: Actually I'm serious, and we try and work out what
Speaker 2: got's fu No, not that no.
Speaker 1: Had a very.
Speaker 2: Big email came in yesterday. It's almost like a novella.
Speaker 2: It must have been about two thousand words and involves
Speaker 2: a lady that met a man at the airport last
Speaker 2: week and they got on very well. And you noticed
Speaker 2: like this doesn't happen these days now dating is all
Speaker 2: conducted swipe left, swipe right. No one has any stories
Speaker 2: these days about how they met some sort of a
Speaker 2: favorite story. We'll ask a couple, is that had you
Speaker 2: to me? I've never heard of boring answer to that. Anyway,
Speaker 2: this lady hasn't been on a date in eight years,
Speaker 2: and she met a guy at the airport terminal last
Speaker 2: week and they had a connection. Some flirting happened and
Speaker 2: numbers were not exchanged. She wants to try and track
Speaker 2: him down.
Speaker 1: This is old school miss connections and that.
Speaker 3: Yes, there used to be a like a newspaper that
Speaker 3: came out on public transport called I don't have the
Speaker 3: head it down in Victoria, but now.
Speaker 2: We had and it was all stuff like you were
Speaker 2: wearing the hat, I was a lady in the powder
Speaker 2: blue trouser suits.
Speaker 1: The four three zero going to Coburg.
Speaker 2: We need to bring that back on the radio. So anyway,
Speaker 2: this is from Lisa Christian. I need your help. I
Speaker 2: know this sounds crazy, and trying to find someone at
Speaker 2: Sydney Airport last Wednesday, the first of October, before JQ
Speaker 2: five one night to Melbourne game fifty five two ten pm.
Speaker 2: Was heading back to Melbourne. He was in his early thirties.
Speaker 2: Red cap brackets backwards, cool, go get eminem Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was thinking more Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the new kids. Yeah, you don't see the baseball
Speaker 1: cap look backwards much the No, it's gone out of fashion.
Speaker 2: Red cap brackets backwards, dark hair, beard, tattoos on his hands,
Speaker 2: gray trackies, businessmen, cream runners, cream runners, with his two
Speaker 2: little boys and his mum. More brackets knitting. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what this lady, Lisa is very observant. She's got
Speaker 2: the detail. I mean, should she'd be working for the police.
Speaker 2: We chatted and laughed. I even't said to him, you're
Speaker 2: a good dad. I meant to give my number, even
Speaker 2: wrote out a message to give him on the flight,
Speaker 2: but by the time we'd landed I lost him at
Speaker 2: the carousel. If you are red cap Dad or no
Speaker 2: red cap Dad, please get in touch with Christian. I
Speaker 2: know it's a long shot, but I just cannot stop
Speaker 2: thinking about this mischance. I haven't been on a date
Speaker 2: in eight years. I felt really good chat to him.
Speaker 2: I think there was something between us. Maybe there was.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you know, you know, are you Red Cap
Speaker 1: backwards dad?
Speaker 3: And if you see anyone in Melbourne anywhere with cap
Speaker 3: tap them on the shoulder, or.
Speaker 2: With his mom who's knitting with all wearing TRACKSI pants
Speaker 2: cream runners, I'd say, Lisa is looking for.
Speaker 1: You, you know what I mean? So what do we
Speaker 1: do if you are that? We need him to come
Speaker 1: to us. We need to you know, we need a hotline.
Speaker 3: Basically, oh, we.
Speaker 2: Need a love life, the love line Red Cap Backwards
Speaker 2: thirteen fifty five, twenty two.
Speaker 1: You just don't get a lot of this anymore now
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's all You're right, Like you said, online dating.
Speaker 2: People just don't bother to risk asking somebody out, I
Speaker 2: guess these days, or asking for a number, because see,
Speaker 2: it's been a bit creepy or odd. Now. I was
Speaker 2: talking to my daughters of the day about this and
Speaker 2: they were like.
Speaker 1: So, god, ugh, what you're saying. It was better when
Speaker 1: men like.
Speaker 2: You would just come up to someone in the bar
Speaker 2: and ask for a phone number. Went that system There
Speaker 2: are lots of happily married people who met that way.
Speaker 1: People did meet up before phones relationship. Also, not all
Speaker 1: men are creeps.
Speaker 2: There are lots of good men that met lovely women
Speaker 2: and have families now that met asking for a phone
Speaker 2: number at work or at that So anyway, if you
Speaker 2: are red baseball cap backwards dad, you know what, I've
Speaker 2: got a feeling we're going to find this dude, me too.
Speaker 1: Do you think he's one of our listeners? I reckon,
Speaker 1: I think he is. He's in the target demo.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, tattoos in the hand, baseball cap backwards.
Speaker 1: He's stuck in the eighties and nineties. He's our guy.
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