WEBVTT - MINI: What Are The Odds

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<v Speaker 3>Hey?

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<v Speaker 2>This is the Christian O'Connell show.

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<v Speaker 4>Podcast Wednesday on this show means what are the odds

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<v Speaker 4>your stories of coincidence and chance?

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<v Speaker 5>I believe it or not? What are the odds?

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<v Speaker 1>You gotta be justhing me.

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<v Speaker 5>Like, were you a cheryl who married a hun who

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<v Speaker 5>works with the cheryl?

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<v Speaker 1>You married a hun as well?

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<v Speaker 2>Ten years ago I decided to take my little child

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<v Speaker 2>to the Grampians who were splicing.

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<v Speaker 6>Around in a little pool's area, and my son lost

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<v Speaker 6>his dummy. Last weekend we actually went back to the

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<v Speaker 6>same pools with another son.

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<v Speaker 2>Of Morne and Lo and behold, I happen to find

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<v Speaker 2>my son's dummy.

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<v Speaker 3>I have three brothers, Peter, Greg and Shane. My ex

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<v Speaker 3>husband was Peter, My next partner was Shane, and now

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<v Speaker 3>I'm looking for Greg.

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<v Speaker 6>I moved to Australia from New Zealand and I had

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<v Speaker 6>to get a criminal check for work and it turns

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<v Speaker 6>out there's a go in Australia with his Etro name

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<v Speaker 6>and birthday as me, and he's a criminal.

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

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<v Speaker 1>We call it what are the odds?

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<v Speaker 2>You got it?

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<v Speaker 1>My friend Mary Lou, is that you? Yes, said Mary Lou,

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<v Speaker 1>what are the odds? What are the odds? Great name

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<v Speaker 1>as well, Mary Lou.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, my lord, this is about a horse as well. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's one hundred to one. So we bought a shack

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<v Speaker 2>down at a beach house about two years ago, speaking

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<v Speaker 2>to the builder to make it Liverpool because it's a

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<v Speaker 2>bit of a bit of a rundown place. Said find

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<v Speaker 2>anything unusual around the house. He said, oh, just an

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<v Speaker 2>old bit of newspaper. My brother had a new racehorse

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<v Speaker 2>that dad bought him when he was fIF fifteen, and

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<v Speaker 2>it won. And I drove off and came back. He said,

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

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<v Speaker 2>I kept it because I like old things. Picked up

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<v Speaker 2>the piece of paper, sixty six years old, as big

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<v Speaker 2>as my hand. At the top of it, it said

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<v Speaker 2>Tally Tim and that was the name of his horse.

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<v Speaker 2>I looked inside. I looked inside the piece of newspaper

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<v Speaker 2>and I had had my mum and dad's name and

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<v Speaker 2>two of their race horses. It was the only bit

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<v Speaker 2>of paper out of the Truth newspaper sixty six years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>I said my brother. I told my brother. He said, Dad,

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<v Speaker 2>I had to lease the horse back to Dad because

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't own it because I was too young. I

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<v Speaker 2>went to that race meeting with Dad and we won

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<v Speaker 2>so much money because light Fingers I don't know whether

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<v Speaker 2>you remember, light Fingers was the other horse against him.

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<v Speaker 2>He was never going to beat light Fingers. So Dad

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<v Speaker 2>put the house on.

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<v Speaker 5>I remember.

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<v Speaker 1>Would have been thirty at the time.

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<v Speaker 2>Pers and this piece of paper was only as big

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<v Speaker 2>as my hand.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, is amazing, incredible story, Mary, I know.

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<v Speaker 2>Also funny that you're gifted fifty a bracehorse. He at

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<v Speaker 2>least effect to Dad because he couldn't iron a race

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<v Speaker 2>horse because he.

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<v Speaker 1>Was too little for reasons.

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<v Speaker 2>Because yeah, yeah, how.

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<v Speaker 1>Amazing story, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, thank you very much for sharing, Mary Louis.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you. Bye.

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<v Speaker 1>Paul, what are hello there?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, sorry, what's the story?

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<v Speaker 4>So?

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<v Speaker 5>I was going to barbers a few weeks ago and

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

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<v Speaker 5>And I said, oh, it's Paul. And there was four

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<v Speaker 5>other people in there, and the guy next to me.

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<v Speaker 2>He goes, oh, my name is Paul. The barber says,

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<v Speaker 2>my name is Paul, and the other guy says, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>my name is Paul.

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<v Speaker 5>So I thought one of the odds, So I took

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<v Speaker 5>a photograph.

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<v Speaker 3>It was just one of the odds.

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<v Speaker 2>It was bizarre.

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<v Speaker 1>So let's just come off. How many pools are we

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<v Speaker 1>talking about?

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<v Speaker 5>Four?

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<v Speaker 3>Four Paulo?

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<v Speaker 5>And there was only four people in the barbers and

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<v Speaker 5>we're all called Paul, one of.

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<v Speaker 1>My favorite ones. What are the odds?

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<v Speaker 4>Christian O'Connell, Show Gone Podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Show, Simon and what's your story? Coincidence and

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<v Speaker 1>chance for us?

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<v Speaker 5>So I had a best friend in the nineties called Paul,

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<v Speaker 5>and Paul was not a large chap but he loved

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<v Speaker 5>heavy metal. He was a Metallica concert and he was

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<v Speaker 5>in the mosh pit and he caught Lars Ulrich's drumstick

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<v Speaker 5>and we celebrated his success for about five minutes before

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<v Speaker 5>an enormous guy next to him pushed him and shoved

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<v Speaker 5>him out of the way and stole the drumstick. And

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<v Speaker 5>all we heard about for the next six months was

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<v Speaker 5>it was in my hot little hands and this guy

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<v Speaker 5>took it from me, so tale of woe. Fifteen or

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<v Speaker 5>twenty years later, I'm hanging out with another best friend

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<v Speaker 5>of mine called Ben, and I'm in his man cave

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<v Speaker 5>and in a box, in a perspex glass box or

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<v Speaker 5>plastic box, is a drumstick. And I said that cool.

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

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

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<v Speaker 5>actually I didn't. A guy did, and I pushed him

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<v Speaker 5>and shoved him and stole it from him, and now

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

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<v Speaker 5>you've got Paul drumstick.

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<v Speaker 1>God, this is one of the all time stories.

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<v Speaker 5>And it's the same drumstick. And I've spoken to both

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

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<v Speaker 5>well exactly, and Paul has demanded an apology over the years.

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<v Speaker 5>An Ben is adamant, But Paul had no business being

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<v Speaker 5>in the moshpit that size.

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<v Speaker 1>No first hands.

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<v Speaker 5>If you caught it, you caught it. Yeah. I think

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<v Speaker 5>it's going to make its way back. So what's Ben

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<v Speaker 5>holding onto the drumstick or what's going on? Ben's holding

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<v Speaker 5>on to it?

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<v Speaker 1>Of course he is of course he's he's got the

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<v Speaker 1>perspect plastic case. And also maybe they share custody six

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<v Speaker 1>months with six months with the other. It goes into

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<v Speaker 1>state it's travel armor.

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<v Speaker 5>God exactly exactly. But I feel like maybe off the

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<v Speaker 5>back of this, we need some sort of reunion between

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<v Speaker 5>the tour of them and maybe they can cut the

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<v Speaker 5>drumstick in half or something.

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

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<v Speaker 5>I just can't. I can't believe. I know this is

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<v Speaker 5>what the whole, this whole concept is about on the show,

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<v Speaker 5>but I literally still to this day can't believe those

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<v Speaker 5>dots got joined.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you know what? Each week we get goosebumps. Sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>you'll get that one corn I thought today it was

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

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<v Speaker 1>The Drumstick is incredible.

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<v Speaker 6>Christian Connell Show Podcast