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Speaker 2: App Got anything good?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell show.

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Speaker 4: Podcast Wednesday on this show means what are the odds

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Speaker 4: your stories of coincidence and chance?

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Speaker 5: I believe it or not? What are the odds?

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Speaker 1: You gotta be justhing me.

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Speaker 5: Like, were you a cheryl who married a hun who

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Speaker 5: works with the cheryl?

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Speaker 1: You married a hun as well?

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Speaker 2: Ten years ago I decided to take my little child

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Speaker 2: to the Grampians who were splicing.

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Speaker 6: Around in a little pool's area, and my son lost

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Speaker 6: his dummy. Last weekend we actually went back to the

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Speaker 6: same pools with another son.

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Speaker 2: Of Morne and Lo and behold, I happen to find

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Speaker 2: my son's dummy.

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Speaker 3: I have three brothers, Peter, Greg and Shane. My ex

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Speaker 3: husband was Peter, My next partner was Shane, and now

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for Greg.

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Speaker 6: I moved to Australia from New Zealand and I had

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Speaker 6: to get a criminal check for work and it turns

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Speaker 6: out there's a go in Australia with his Etro name

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Speaker 6: and birthday as me, and he's a criminal.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go straight to stories of coincidence chants.

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Speaker 1: We call it what are the odds?

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Speaker 2: You got it?

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Speaker 1: My friend Mary Lou, is that you? Yes, said Mary Lou,

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Speaker 1: what are the odds? What are the odds? Great name

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Speaker 1: as well, Mary Lou.

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Speaker 2: Oh, my lord, this is about a horse as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's one hundred to one. So we bought a shack

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Speaker 2: down at a beach house about two years ago, speaking

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Speaker 2: to the builder to make it Liverpool because it's a

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Speaker 2: bit of a bit of a rundown place. Said find

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Speaker 2: anything unusual around the house. He said, oh, just an

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Speaker 2: old bit of newspaper. My brother had a new racehorse

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Speaker 2: that dad bought him when he was fIF fifteen, and

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Speaker 2: it won. And I drove off and came back. He said,

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Speaker 2: I found an old piece of newspaper, that's all. But

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Speaker 2: I kept it because I like old things. Picked up

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Speaker 2: the piece of paper, sixty six years old, as big

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Speaker 2: as my hand. At the top of it, it said

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Speaker 2: Tally Tim and that was the name of his horse.

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Speaker 2: I looked inside. I looked inside the piece of newspaper

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Speaker 2: and I had had my mum and dad's name and

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Speaker 2: two of their race horses. It was the only bit

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Speaker 2: of paper out of the Truth newspaper sixty six years ago.

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Speaker 2: I said my brother. I told my brother. He said, Dad,

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Speaker 2: I had to lease the horse back to Dad because

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Speaker 2: I couldn't own it because I was too young. I

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Speaker 2: went to that race meeting with Dad and we won

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Speaker 2: so much money because light Fingers I don't know whether

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Speaker 2: you remember, light Fingers was the other horse against him.

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Speaker 2: He was never going to beat light Fingers. So Dad

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Speaker 2: put the house on.

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Speaker 5: I remember.

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Speaker 1: Would have been thirty at the time.

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Speaker 2: Pers and this piece of paper was only as big

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Speaker 2: as my hand.

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Speaker 1: Wow, is amazing, incredible story, Mary, I know.

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Speaker 2: Also funny that you're gifted fifty a bracehorse. He at

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Speaker 2: least effect to Dad because he couldn't iron a race

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Speaker 2: horse because he.

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Speaker 1: Was too little for reasons.

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Speaker 2: Because yeah, yeah, how.

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Speaker 1: Amazing story, isn't it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you very much for sharing, Mary Louis.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Bye.

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Speaker 1: Paul, what are hello there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, what's the story?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 5: I was going to barbers a few weeks ago and

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Speaker 5: the barber says to me, he goes, oh, what's your name?

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Speaker 5: And I said, oh, it's Paul. And there was four

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Speaker 5: other people in there, and the guy next to me.

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Speaker 2: He goes, oh, my name is Paul. The barber says,

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Speaker 2: my name is Paul, and the other guy says, oh,

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Speaker 2: my name is Paul.

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Speaker 5: So I thought one of the odds, So I took

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Speaker 5: a photograph.

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Speaker 3: It was just one of the odds.

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Speaker 2: It was bizarre.

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Speaker 1: So let's just come off. How many pools are we

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Speaker 1: talking about?

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Speaker 5: Four?

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Speaker 3: Four Paulo?

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Speaker 5: And there was only four people in the barbers and

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Speaker 5: we're all called Paul, one of.

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Speaker 1: My favorite ones. What are the odds?

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Speaker 4: Christian O'Connell, Show Gone Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Show, Simon and what's your story? Coincidence and

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Speaker 1: chance for us?

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Speaker 5: So I had a best friend in the nineties called Paul,

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Speaker 5: and Paul was not a large chap but he loved

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Speaker 5: heavy metal. He was a Metallica concert and he was

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Speaker 5: in the mosh pit and he caught Lars Ulrich's drumstick

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Speaker 5: and we celebrated his success for about five minutes before

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Speaker 5: an enormous guy next to him pushed him and shoved

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Speaker 5: him out of the way and stole the drumstick. And

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Speaker 5: all we heard about for the next six months was

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Speaker 5: it was in my hot little hands and this guy

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Speaker 5: took it from me, so tale of woe. Fifteen or

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Speaker 5: twenty years later, I'm hanging out with another best friend

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Speaker 5: of mine called Ben, and I'm in his man cave

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Speaker 5: and in a box, in a perspex glass box or

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Speaker 5: plastic box, is a drumstick. And I said that cool.

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Speaker 5: What's that? He said, Oh, I was in a Metallica

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Speaker 5: concert in the nineties and I caught Lars or Rick's drumstick. Well,

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Speaker 5: actually I didn't. A guy did, and I pushed him

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Speaker 5: and shoved him and stole it from him, and now

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Speaker 5: it's mine. And I sat there and went, oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 5: you've got Paul drumstick.

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Speaker 1: God, this is one of the all time stories.

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Speaker 5: And it's the same drumstick. And I've spoken to both

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Speaker 5: of them. They've Paul and Ben have never met, and yeah,

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Speaker 5: well exactly, and Paul has demanded an apology over the years.

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Speaker 5: An Ben is adamant, But Paul had no business being

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Speaker 5: in the moshpit that size.

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Speaker 1: No first hands.

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Speaker 5: If you caught it, you caught it. Yeah. I think

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Speaker 5: it's going to make its way back. So what's Ben

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Speaker 5: holding onto the drumstick or what's going on? Ben's holding

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Speaker 5: on to it?

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Speaker 1: Of course he is of course he's he's got the

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Speaker 1: perspect plastic case. And also maybe they share custody six

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Speaker 1: months with six months with the other. It goes into

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Speaker 1: state it's travel armor.

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Speaker 5: God exactly exactly. But I feel like maybe off the

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Speaker 5: back of this, we need some sort of reunion between

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Speaker 5: the tour of them and maybe they can cut the

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Speaker 5: drumstick in half or something.

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Speaker 1: You can't you break its powers. It's like a magic lanch.

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Speaker 5: I just can't. I can't believe. I know this is

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Speaker 5: what the whole, this whole concept is about on the show,

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Speaker 5: but I literally still to this day can't believe those

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Speaker 5: dots got joined.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what? Each week we get goosebumps. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you'll get that one corn I thought today it was

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Speaker 1: the four pools at the barbers, but no, it's another one.

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Speaker 1: The Drumstick is incredible.

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