Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian No Common Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Sorry little person who actually did go and rubbage and
Speaker 2: in their garage for video cassettes to be told by
Speaker 2: one of our producers. He's moving on now. Email me though,
Speaker 2: Email me, I have an amazing email here. It actually
Speaker 2: came in two days ago, and every time I look
Speaker 2: at it and read it, it kind of blows my mind.
Speaker 2: Got an email from my lista called Phil. He listens
Speaker 2: to the show the podcast in the UK and begins, Hi, Christian,
Speaker 2: strange on this but stranger on this Christian. But my
Speaker 2: car recently broke down and I was fortunate enough that
Speaker 2: it was right outside of your dad's house. Now, you
Speaker 2: need to know that my dad lives in the middle
Speaker 2: of nowhere. The nearest sort of little village is about
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes away. If you break down out there, that's
Speaker 2: about the only house.
Speaker 1: For quite a while.
Speaker 2: This guy listens to this show, breaks down the middle
Speaker 2: of nowhere outside my old man's house. Your dad and
Speaker 2: his partner took me in, and then I told them
Speaker 2: that the car was broken down and that my family
Speaker 2: were waiting for me about half an hour away. My
Speaker 2: dad went and picked up my family and brought them back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he gave us use of his guarding cold drinks, had
Speaker 2: a very long, extensive chat about the perils of Southampton
Speaker 2: Football Club.
Speaker 1: That's my dad.
Speaker 2: Whilst I was waiting the hour and a half for
Speaker 2: the r A CV to turn up, this guy was
Speaker 2: actually asking for my dad's a dress.
Speaker 1: Who he could just write a little thank you note?
Speaker 1: At what point did he realize it was your dad?
Speaker 2: Because after about because we were talking for so long,
Speaker 2: my dad started to sort of say, oh, and then
Speaker 2: we went to Australia last year, and then go went,
Speaker 2: oh wow, how come he went to Astralia and my
Speaker 2: sunny he moved out there? And he said of what
Speaker 2: does he do for business?
Speaker 1: Radio?
Speaker 2: And then this guy feel because I've emailed about going,
Speaker 2: how did it come up? He goes it was only
Speaker 2: an hour into the conversation he done started going about
Speaker 2: Astralia and it's just a question asked on what did
Speaker 2: your son do for what goes? And he moved out
Speaker 2: there to do a radio show. They thought there can't
Speaker 2: be many English people.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there's only one lose you in those forums.
Speaker 1: That's when it came up.
Speaker 2: It is a pretty amazing cod so yesterday, I ring
Speaker 2: my dad and I go, we just have a chat, right,
Speaker 2: I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: Your dad will probably do the same as this, and
Speaker 1: probably yours as well.
Speaker 2: I listened to my dad pratt lot about what he's
Speaker 2: been going up to get doing his guard and stuff
Speaker 2: like this. Twenty minutes the phone call goes on. There's
Speaker 2: no mention of like, oh, by the way, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's re tired. Nothing else happens in his life other
Speaker 2: than doing his garden up and stuff like that, and
Speaker 2: it's voluntary litterpic and he does the end of twenty minutes,
Speaker 2: my dad goes, anyway, let's skype at the weekend and
Speaker 2: we'd love to see the grandkids. And I go, wait,
Speaker 2: are you not going to say anything about the fact
Speaker 2: someone broke down outside your house and you took them
Speaker 2: And he goes, oh, yea, yeah, it happened about yeah,
Speaker 2: that was last week. And then he goes, anyway, I
Speaker 2: see it somebody. No no, no, no, wait, dad, don't you
Speaker 2: think it's remarkable?
Speaker 1: I know about it? Uh yeah, actually how do you know?
Speaker 1: And the guy emailed me. I said, why ain't you
Speaker 1: gonna mention?
Speaker 2: He goes, no, no, no, no, not not really, but
Speaker 2: you took somebody in. It's such a lovely thing to do, dad.
Speaker 2: I was when I read the emails, like it actually
Speaker 2: made me miss my dad, or like it's such a
Speaker 2: kind thing too. I don't even know if I do that.
Speaker 2: Some wrote down outside You maybe offer, you know, to
Speaker 2: get this out, but I actually invite them in for
Speaker 2: an hour and a half. Anyway, It is a remarkable coincidence,
Speaker 2: isn't it. You break down the middle of nowhere and
Speaker 2: it happens to be outside of the dad's house of
Speaker 2: the guy you listen to his podcast. So we're looking
Speaker 2: for your stories about amazing coincidences. We have done these
Speaker 2: before before you call in. We want great stories about coincidence. Okay,
Speaker 2: not marred ones. We want great ones.
Speaker 1: I'm breaking down the middle of nowhere and it's outside
Speaker 1: my dad's house Christian O. Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're looking for your stories of coincidences. Now,
Speaker 2: not all stories are great ones to do with coincidence,
Speaker 2: and not like this. I try to call in, but
Speaker 2: the lines are busy. The producers told me to text you.
Speaker 2: I got paired in an online multiplier game of Call
Speaker 2: of Duty with my brother's boss who lives in Port Augusta,
Speaker 2: South Australia and works on the train lines, and I
Speaker 2: live in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a coincidence, bit of a coincidence.
Speaker 1: It's either it is a coincidence.
Speaker 2: Oh it is, And three times I've read that in
Speaker 2: my mind, going, am I just tired this morning?
Speaker 1: What is the train lines?
Speaker 2: Just to make it more of it, don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to unpack it. Maybe people listening going, oh,
Speaker 1: I get it's like a dog whistle to us.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. So not all stories, but this is
Speaker 2: an amazing story. This is it's actually more than a coincidence.
Speaker 2: This is quite a story. There's a lot going on
Speaker 2: this So what are you doing right now? Just take
Speaker 2: a moment to let this story in because it's a
Speaker 2: beautiful one. Actually, Christian, I've got a story about a
Speaker 2: coincidence back in nineteen ninety four. Now, the nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: four is important to remember that back in nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 2: I was riding my motorbike and I was having a
Speaker 2: great day when all of a sudden I found myself
Speaker 2: upside down in a hedge and watching a plume of
Speaker 2: blood gush from my femoral archery. A few seconds later,
Speaker 2: a fellow biker who just happened to be on that
Speaker 2: road jumped onto me and shoved his elbow hard into
Speaker 2: my grain. That stopped the blood and saved my life.
Speaker 2: I would have only had about another minute or two left.
Speaker 2: I was bleeding out. Apparently this man was called Tommy,
Speaker 2: retired Army medic. After a short while, the ambulance arrived. Lucky,
Speaker 2: I was saved. Tom and I became friends, and he
Speaker 2: convinced me that everyone should have medical training, and I
Speaker 2: became a FPOs. That's her first person on scene responder.
Speaker 2: Time moved on, I had a family, moved away, gave
Speaker 2: up the bike and such. Tom and I lost touch.
Speaker 2: This brings us to two thousand and fifteen. So it's
Speaker 2: eleven years later. I'm walking along a river one afternoon
Speaker 2: and I hear screaming. A young girl has fallen in
Speaker 2: and she's gone under. She's in a really bad way.
Speaker 2: I got that she was being pulled out. She wasn't breathing,
Speaker 2: she was blue. I gave CPR, kept her going until
Speaker 2: the real medics arrived. The lovely young lady responded well
Speaker 2: to the adrenaline and shot, and she came back to us.
Speaker 2: Before she left in the ambulance, her grandmother, who was
Speaker 2: there very concerned, asked for my numbers so she could
Speaker 2: let me know how things went. A few weeks later
Speaker 2: I got the call. Marie, who was the little girl,
Speaker 2: made a full recovery, wanted me to come round for
Speaker 2: Tea to say thank you. This is where it gets amazing.
Speaker 2: On arrival at the house, they were big hugs, and
Speaker 2: then I saw a picture on the mantelpiece. It was
Speaker 2: Tom with Marie on his knee, smiling at me. Marie
Speaker 2: was Tom's granddaughter, and if he had not saved my life,
Speaker 2: not badgered me into learning first aid, I would not
Speaker 2: have been able to save his granddaughter. I don't believe
Speaker 2: completely a coincidence, Christian, but I believe this is a
Speaker 2: lovely line here. I believe that what we we sew
Speaker 2: and if we live our lives with love, it will
Speaker 2: be returned to us. Tom passed away in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: so win away because of his actions. It was him
Speaker 2: who saved his own granddaughter. Isn't that one of those things?
Speaker 2: It's more than a commenced There's so much in there.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much Paul for sharing that. So that's
Speaker 2: a story about coincidence. This is the Christian O'Connell Show
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