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Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell show.
Speaker 4: Podcast Wednesday on this show means what are the odds
Speaker 4: your stories of coincidence and chance?
Speaker 5: I believe it or not? What are the odds?
Speaker 1: You gotta be justhing me.
Speaker 5: Like, were you a cheryl who married a hun who
Speaker 5: works with the cheryl?
Speaker 1: You married a hun as well?
Speaker 2: Ten years ago I decided to take my little child
Speaker 2: to the Grampians who were splicing.
Speaker 6: Around in a little pool's area, and my son lost
Speaker 6: his dummy. Last weekend we actually went back to the
Speaker 6: same pools with another son.
Speaker 2: Of Morne and Lo and behold, I happen to find
Speaker 2: my son's dummy.
Speaker 3: I have three brothers, Peter, Greg and Shane. My ex
Speaker 3: husband was Peter, My next partner was Shane, and now
Speaker 3: I'm looking for Greg.
Speaker 6: I moved to Australia from New Zealand and I had
Speaker 6: to get a criminal check for work and it turns
Speaker 6: out there's a go in Australia with his Etro name
Speaker 6: and birthday as me, and he's a criminal.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go straight to stories of coincidence chants.
Speaker 1: We call it what are the odds?
Speaker 2: You got it?
Speaker 1: My friend Mary Lou, is that you? Yes, said Mary Lou,
Speaker 1: what are the odds? What are the odds? Great name
Speaker 1: as well, Mary Lou.
Speaker 2: Oh, my lord, this is about a horse as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's one hundred to one. So we bought a shack
Speaker 2: down at a beach house about two years ago, speaking
Speaker 2: to the builder to make it Liverpool because it's a
Speaker 2: bit of a bit of a rundown place. Said find
Speaker 2: anything unusual around the house. He said, oh, just an
Speaker 2: old bit of newspaper. My brother had a new racehorse
Speaker 2: that dad bought him when he was fIF fifteen, and
Speaker 2: it won. And I drove off and came back. He said,
Speaker 2: I found an old piece of newspaper, that's all. But
Speaker 2: I kept it because I like old things. Picked up
Speaker 2: the piece of paper, sixty six years old, as big
Speaker 2: as my hand. At the top of it, it said
Speaker 2: Tally Tim and that was the name of his horse.
Speaker 2: I looked inside. I looked inside the piece of newspaper
Speaker 2: and I had had my mum and dad's name and
Speaker 2: two of their race horses. It was the only bit
Speaker 2: of paper out of the Truth newspaper sixty six years ago.
Speaker 2: I said my brother. I told my brother. He said, Dad,
Speaker 2: I had to lease the horse back to Dad because
Speaker 2: I couldn't own it because I was too young. I
Speaker 2: went to that race meeting with Dad and we won
Speaker 2: so much money because light Fingers I don't know whether
Speaker 2: you remember, light Fingers was the other horse against him.
Speaker 2: He was never going to beat light Fingers. So Dad
Speaker 2: put the house on.
Speaker 5: I remember.
Speaker 1: Would have been thirty at the time.
Speaker 2: Pers and this piece of paper was only as big
Speaker 2: as my hand.
Speaker 1: Wow, is amazing, incredible story, Mary, I know.
Speaker 2: Also funny that you're gifted fifty a bracehorse. He at
Speaker 2: least effect to Dad because he couldn't iron a race
Speaker 2: horse because he.
Speaker 1: Was too little for reasons.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, yeah, how.
Speaker 1: Amazing story, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you very much for sharing, Mary Louis.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Bye.
Speaker 1: Paul, what are hello there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, what's the story?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 5: I was going to barbers a few weeks ago and
Speaker 5: the barber says to me, he goes, oh, what's your name?
Speaker 5: And I said, oh, it's Paul. And there was four
Speaker 5: other people in there, and the guy next to me.
Speaker 2: He goes, oh, my name is Paul. The barber says,
Speaker 2: my name is Paul, and the other guy says, oh,
Speaker 2: my name is Paul.
Speaker 5: So I thought one of the odds, So I took
Speaker 5: a photograph.
Speaker 3: It was just one of the odds.
Speaker 2: It was bizarre.
Speaker 1: So let's just come off. How many pools are we
Speaker 1: talking about?
Speaker 5: Four?
Speaker 3: Four Paulo?
Speaker 5: And there was only four people in the barbers and
Speaker 5: we're all called Paul, one of.
Speaker 1: My favorite ones. What are the odds?
Speaker 4: Christian O'Connell, Show Gone Podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Show, Simon and what's your story? Coincidence and
Speaker 1: chance for us?
Speaker 5: So I had a best friend in the nineties called Paul,
Speaker 5: and Paul was not a large chap but he loved
Speaker 5: heavy metal. He was a Metallica concert and he was
Speaker 5: in the mosh pit and he caught Lars Ulrich's drumstick
Speaker 5: and we celebrated his success for about five minutes before
Speaker 5: an enormous guy next to him pushed him and shoved
Speaker 5: him out of the way and stole the drumstick. And
Speaker 5: all we heard about for the next six months was
Speaker 5: it was in my hot little hands and this guy
Speaker 5: took it from me, so tale of woe. Fifteen or
Speaker 5: twenty years later, I'm hanging out with another best friend
Speaker 5: of mine called Ben, and I'm in his man cave
Speaker 5: and in a box, in a perspex glass box or
Speaker 5: plastic box, is a drumstick. And I said that cool.
Speaker 5: What's that? He said, Oh, I was in a Metallica
Speaker 5: concert in the nineties and I caught Lars or Rick's drumstick. Well,
Speaker 5: actually I didn't. A guy did, and I pushed him
Speaker 5: and shoved him and stole it from him, and now
Speaker 5: it's mine. And I sat there and went, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 5: you've got Paul drumstick.
Speaker 1: God, this is one of the all time stories.
Speaker 5: And it's the same drumstick. And I've spoken to both
Speaker 5: of them. They've Paul and Ben have never met, and yeah,
Speaker 5: well exactly, and Paul has demanded an apology over the years.
Speaker 5: An Ben is adamant, But Paul had no business being
Speaker 5: in the moshpit that size.
Speaker 1: No first hands.
Speaker 5: If you caught it, you caught it. Yeah. I think
Speaker 5: it's going to make its way back. So what's Ben
Speaker 5: holding onto the drumstick or what's going on? Ben's holding
Speaker 5: on to it?
Speaker 1: Of course he is of course he's he's got the
Speaker 1: perspect plastic case. And also maybe they share custody six
Speaker 1: months with six months with the other. It goes into
Speaker 1: state it's travel armor.
Speaker 5: God exactly exactly. But I feel like maybe off the
Speaker 5: back of this, we need some sort of reunion between
Speaker 5: the tour of them and maybe they can cut the
Speaker 5: drumstick in half or something.
Speaker 1: You can't you break its powers. It's like a magic lanch.
Speaker 5: I just can't. I can't believe. I know this is
Speaker 5: what the whole, this whole concept is about on the show,
Speaker 5: but I literally still to this day can't believe those
Speaker 5: dots got joined.
Speaker 1: Do you know what? Each week we get goosebumps. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you'll get that one corn I thought today it was
Speaker 1: the four pools at the barbers, but no, it's another one.
Speaker 1: The Drumstick is incredible.
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