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Speaker 1: into this weeks What are the odds? Let's go believe
Speaker 1: it or not?
Speaker 3: What are the odds?
Speaker 1: You gotta be justhing me.
Speaker 2: Like we were you with Cheryl who married a Hun?
Speaker 4: Who wor was weird?
Speaker 1: The Cheryl married a Hunt as well? Previously on What
Speaker 1: Are the Odds?
Speaker 5: Ten years ago, I decided to take my little child
Speaker 5: to the Grampians who were splicing around in the Little
Speaker 5: Pools area, and my son lost his dummy. Last weekend
Speaker 5: we actually went back to the same fools with another
Speaker 5: son of Morne and Lo and behold, I'm having to
Speaker 5: find my son's dummy.
Speaker 6: I have three brothers, Peter, Greg and Shane. My ex
Speaker 6: husband was Peter, my next partner was Shane, and now
Speaker 6: I'm looking for it Greg.
Speaker 3: I moved to Australia from New Zealand and I had
Speaker 3: to get a criminal check for work and it turns
Speaker 3: out there's a go in Australia with his zo name
Speaker 3: and birthday as me and sure criminal.
Speaker 1: Sure, all right, mape that old chest snap another first
Speaker 1: on the police. I've heard that, little cutie. What are
Speaker 1: the odds? Team? What are the odds? The odds line
Speaker 1: is open right now. Thirteen fifty five, twenty two. This
Speaker 1: is a sweet bit, a sweet one from Ella. She
Speaker 1: just emailed it into in the last half an hour
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate her sharing it with this.
Speaker 4: Christiana.
Speaker 1: What my home? Twenty two years ago? Last Friday, my
Speaker 1: sixteen year old dog passed away. I had to find
Speaker 1: the perfect and beautiful spot in my ear to bury
Speaker 1: my beautiful dog. I asked my four adult and teenage
Speaker 1: kids to come back around out dig the whole. But
Speaker 1: a foot in, my eldest son yelled out, there's a
Speaker 1: bag in the hole.
Speaker 4: Christian. There was a plastic bag in the hole.
Speaker 1: He continued to carefully dig and retrieved an intact, black,
Speaker 1: small plastic garbage bag sealed with a cable tie.
Speaker 4: It was heavy. Oh, whatever was in it.
Speaker 1: We brought it inside with thinking is this cash, valiables,
Speaker 1: jewelry ripped over in the bag?
Speaker 4: It was the body of another dog. Ah buried there?
Speaker 1: Yes, what are the odds?
Speaker 4: Christian? I dug up somebody else's small dog.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's cat. We didn't have time to examine the remains,
Speaker 1: so we dug another hole extra deep, three feet down
Speaker 1: and both dogs are now buried in the same hole.
Speaker 1: A sweet on the other side.
Speaker 4: They're playing together.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're reunited.
Speaker 4: We don't know.
Speaker 1: The souls are back together beautiful anyway. Yeah, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for showing that, and I'm very sorry for
Speaker 1: the loss of your beautiful dog. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for the photo there. Good to see your mankey are
Speaker 1: feet in that photos? The first school of scale, madam,
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, needs to get those bunnions done.
Speaker 1: But listen, thank you. What are the odd scale?
Speaker 4: Christian?
Speaker 1: I recently got back from a road trip around your
Speaker 1: motherland Island or But you're a lovely time girl. I'd
Speaker 1: see during the day and drive in the late afternoon
Speaker 1: to arrive at the next destination. I hadn't preplanned my trip,
Speaker 1: just stopping at places that interested me. I stopped at Waterford,
Speaker 1: Waterford's Stunning. One night, I decided to go to a restaurant.
Speaker 1: It was late. I was shown to my table. I
Speaker 1: looked out from the table diagonally opposite me, who were
Speaker 1: waving at me frantically. It was the family from the
Speaker 1: school my teach hat Oh my god, what side of
Speaker 1: the world in a place called Waterford.
Speaker 4: It's not very big.
Speaker 1: And the family you teach in Australia are the other
Speaker 1: souther at the same time, in the same restaurant, in
Speaker 1: the same part of Western Island. That is crazy.
Speaker 2: There has to see a word that explains that phenomenon
Speaker 2: of people seeing other people.
Speaker 1: In the You need to find the word that is phenomenonon.
Speaker 1: It explains that phenomenon, phenomenon, phenomenon. No, Caitlin can't say
Speaker 1: the word phenomenon, phenomenon. Now I've got it from you.
Speaker 1: You've cursed me because I said, what about if you
Speaker 1: have bad luck this Friday? Head?
Speaker 4: Are you wedding?
Speaker 1: You're throwing up. I can't say phenomenon, phenomenon, phenomenon, phenomenon.
Speaker 1: Have I said it right?
Speaker 2: No, phenomenon phenomenon.
Speaker 1: That's just nailed that.
Speaker 4: That's a journalist. It's a phenomenon. No, No, you're not
Speaker 4: saying it wrong. What do you know the word?
Speaker 1: I struggle with and I noticed a lot of people
Speaker 1: do tell me that you've just edited.
Speaker 4: It a video.
Speaker 6: Can you do it edited?
Speaker 1: You nailed it.
Speaker 4: I can't say I've just edited it? What am I
Speaker 4: doing this?
Speaker 1: About eighty seven? In there?
Speaker 4: Go into a remix?
Speaker 1: A mash up? Perhaps? Can you tell me that you've
Speaker 1: just chopped up a video edited? But Cattlery is my.
Speaker 4: Honey. We'll have these little glitches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cuttle guys, I believe it all right. The odds
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Speaker 1: fifty five twenty two. How we got here?
Speaker 4: Ruth? Good morning, Ruth, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Oh, good morning, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good?
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. You give us a call with
Speaker 4: this story? Off you go, Ruth.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 7: I've been married to my husband twenty five years. My
Speaker 7: name is Ruth Angela and he was previously married to
Speaker 7: another Ruth Angela. How many times do you meet Ruth Angela?
Speaker 7: Lit alone? Marry them? He begame with an if for
Speaker 7: Fred the same as mine.
Speaker 1: This is a big one. Both of his wives exactly
Speaker 1: exactly the same name.
Speaker 7: Ruth Angela, that their last names both started with F.
Speaker 7: But there were different surnames.
Speaker 5: Still impressive.
Speaker 4: It's still very very impressive.
Speaker 7: So my second my surno now begins with Tea. So
Speaker 7: I'm the second rat Rat.
Speaker 1: That's were you the love rat? Ye? All right, Ruth,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for going us skill my have
Speaker 1: a good day.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: Bye, Liz, come on and Liz, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Thank you for having me my pleasure.
Speaker 1: Now, Liz, what is your story? What are.
Speaker 2: What are theys?
Speaker 1: You got? My friend?
Speaker 2: Fourteen years ago, I had my beautiful daughter and sadly
Speaker 2: I ended up with postnal depression and ended up in
Speaker 2: a mother and baby unit in Melbourne for five weeks.
Speaker 2: We're seeing a psychologist there beautiful support staff. And had
Speaker 2: mentioned to him that I was reading a particular book
Speaker 2: helping her settle. And he said, yes, I've heard of
Speaker 2: this book. Many of my patients have told me about
Speaker 2: this book. I don't agree with the book. If you
Speaker 2: ever happen to see this lady the author throw the
Speaker 2: book at her. Fourteen years later, kids and I are
Speaker 2: at the shopping center. My daughter, like I said, is
Speaker 2: now fourteen. I've got a son that's eleven. This lady's
Speaker 2: screaming out to us. Excuse me, excuse me. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: believe it. It happened to be the author of the book.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. If I had the book in my
Speaker 2: you know, carried it for fourteen years, I would have
Speaker 2: thrown it at her as directed. But yeah, she said
Speaker 2: to me that she recognized my face. In Geelong, we
Speaker 2: had the corpse flower blooming. I'm not sure if people
Speaker 2: remember that. Oh, like and I late last year, kids
Speaker 2: and I, yeah, correct, Kids and I were sitting there.
Speaker 2: Happened to be sitting on a park bench there, just
Speaker 2: in front of the flower, and they were live streaming it.
Speaker 2: She said to me, you're the lady that was sitting
Speaker 2: in front of that flower blocking my view. Because I
Speaker 2: was overseas at the time, so she was trying to
Speaker 2: sort of say to me, you're that lady, whereas I
Speaker 2: want to say to her, hang on a minute, you're
Speaker 2: that lady.
Speaker 4: It's a battle of that lady.
Speaker 2: It was the battle of that ladies. And I still
Speaker 2: to this day cannot believe that fourteen years later, I
Speaker 2: actually cross paths with the author. I didn't say anything
Speaker 2: to her, but yeah, but what are the odds are
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what, I don't think that your
Speaker 1: mum us get enough support for post natal depression.
Speaker 2: Oh look, I agree.
Speaker 1: You felt like you had to say that sadly you
Speaker 1: got that.
Speaker 4: There's nothing for you to say sadly about that. My wife.
Speaker 1: No, you're exactly right, and there's not enough support. There's
Speaker 1: way too much shame. Women have so much shame about
Speaker 1: things that happened to them. Us guys have got no
Speaker 1: idea what it's like to go through. We don't have
Speaker 1: no idea. And I think it's really really sad that
Speaker 1: people feel like they have to almost apologize or feel
Speaker 1: awkward saying that this happened to me when there's so
Speaker 1: much going on physically, emostly absolute bodies.
Speaker 4: It's an incredible thing you go through.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree and look as funny as it sounds,
Speaker 2: and say to people it was the best thing that
Speaker 2: ever happened because I managed to get the most amazing,
Speaker 2: amazing support, right, And like you say, you just don't know.
Speaker 2: It could be you know, the lady next door, you know,
Speaker 2: if she's having problems or you're not seeing her as often.
Speaker 2: You know, she's had a baby, reach out, reach out,
Speaker 2: reach out to a sister. Honestly, it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's very important.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of mums I guess if they if
Speaker 1: they they're wired that if they say I've got post
Speaker 1: natal depression, what it is because everyone goes.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's the best, You're so lucky America, both and all.
Speaker 1: That's true, but what it does is to create this
Speaker 1: terrible pressure. Imagine around you mums where very don't feel
Speaker 1: they can moan about anything because everything's amazing, very lucky
Speaker 1: to have a healthy baby. And that's true, but it's
Speaker 1: like so many women I guess struggle silently where they
Speaker 1: don't feel that they could speak out about it. They
Speaker 1: feel a shame.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And if I heard I remember thinking to myself,
Speaker 2: if I heard one more person say to me, just
Speaker 2: rest when the baby rest, oh, I wanted to slap
Speaker 2: them with that.
Speaker 1: Damn what if they don't sleep or they say for
Speaker 1: three minutes?
Speaker 2: Correct? Correct? Absolutely absolutely?
Speaker 1: And also what a lovely way to reframe something that
Speaker 1: would have been really tough for you as actually it
Speaker 1: was buried in there. It was a gift as well,
Speaker 1: that gave you something.
Speaker 2: It was definitely a gift that the support that I
Speaker 2: had because it was very sort of you know, scary,
Speaker 2: you don't you don't realize that, oh, this isn't normal,
Speaker 2: and that the support I had, you know, at the
Speaker 2: facility was truly amazing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the people that do support women with
Speaker 2: you know, mental health and postn ol depression. They do
Speaker 2: a fantastic job, a fantastic job.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much for reminding us actually to.
Speaker 1: Look around with Thank you for your kitty. No, it
Speaker 1: was a lovely chat to you Liz as well. Thanks
Speaker 1: to corn I have a lovely day.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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