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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's show, It is time for this two week's

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Speaker 2: What are the odds?

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Speaker 3: I believe it or not?

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Speaker 1: What are the odds?

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Speaker 4: You gotta be justhing me, Like, were you with Cheryl

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Speaker 4: who married a Hun? Who works with the Cheryl who

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Speaker 4: married a Hun?

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Speaker 1: As well?

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Speaker 2: Every Wednesday we look for and celebrate your stories of

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Speaker 2: coincidence and chance.

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Speaker 5: I'd lost this tiny diamond from my engagement ring. Didn't

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Speaker 5: know where I lost it, refused to vacuum the house

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Speaker 5: for a whole week, and as my rob back was

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Speaker 5: vacuum me, it stopped and I went to check and

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Speaker 5: sure enough, right under new's my diamond ring.

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Speaker 6: My son is called Jade. He dated a girl called Jade.

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Speaker 5: She lived in Jade Court.

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Speaker 7: A few years ago, when I was like working in

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Speaker 7: a course enter, I went to make a drink and

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Speaker 7: it was like a really clear glass and I said

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Speaker 7: that to myself. I said, wow, this is really a

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Speaker 7: clear loss of water. The next lady that caught up,

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Speaker 7: her name was clear Water.

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Speaker 1: If you were there last week you heard that full story.

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Speaker 1: What a moment, all right? What are the arts?

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Speaker 2: I like this on from Jenny and to kick us off,

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Speaker 2: Christian jumping on the trampoline with a friend. The garage

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Speaker 2: door kept opening and slamming shark. We were kids. We

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Speaker 2: were joking that Freddy Krueger might be in there. I

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Speaker 2: said that in the movie they turned their back on

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Speaker 2: him and he would lose his power.

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Speaker 1: So we did that.

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Speaker 2: As soon as I turned my bat the garage door

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Speaker 2: swung wide open and slammed shut with an almighty bang.

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Speaker 2: We screamed and ran inside and grabbed a couple of

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Speaker 2: fantails from the Lonnie jar.

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Speaker 1: I looked at the wrapper of mine. What are the art?

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Speaker 1: It was? The celebrity was Freddy Krueger on a fan tail.

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Speaker 1: Hello to you all.

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Speaker 2: I've been hanging on to this what are the odd

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Speaker 2: scenario for a little while. Here it goes in October

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety. Myself and my squad mate Tracy. I've almost

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Speaker 2: every other people graduated from the Victoria Police Academy. Over

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Speaker 2: the journey of life, Tracey and I lost contact. Tracy

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Speaker 2: left the force and started family, and I start a

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Speaker 2: family of my own.

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Speaker 1: Nothing overly unusual.

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Speaker 2: Yet, however, we fast forward to the twenty ninth of

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Speaker 2: August twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: I'll do the mask for you.

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Speaker 2: It's thirty four years my son, Tracy's daughter also graduate

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Speaker 2: in the same unit from the Victoria Police Academy as

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Speaker 2: squad mate, just as we did thirty four years ago.

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Speaker 2: What are the chances, Danny Brown? That's a great one.

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Speaker 2: What are the odds? Christians listening to the podcast? Are

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Speaker 2: you talking to? And the wedding celebrant? Yeah, this is

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Speaker 2: from last week on the show. We had Lovely Anna

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Speaker 2: on Friday.

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Speaker 3: I'm a primary school teacher and my side hustle with

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Speaker 3: my husband, husband and wife duo.

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Speaker 8: We are celebrants at the weekend Infinity of Celebrancy.

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Speaker 3: We are a duo.

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Speaker 5: One marriage you. The other one is the roadie and

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Speaker 5: you can choose either of.

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Speaker 6: Us male or female.

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Speaker 2: Well this message here she was actually her husband. She

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Speaker 2: was listening to on the podcast they married her. What

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Speaker 2: are the odds?

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's show. So we're signed for this week's what

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Speaker 2: are the odds? Your story so of coincidence and chance

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Speaker 2: on nine four one four, one oh four three. We

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Speaker 2: haven't given away yet this week one thousand dollars we

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Speaker 2: give away for Call of the Week. Whenever we hear

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Speaker 2: could go John the next course of an hour for

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Speaker 2: your story of coincidence and chance nine four one four

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Speaker 2: one oh four.

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Speaker 1: Three to share it with us. Rochelle, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning team. How are you?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great, Rachelle. What's your story?

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Speaker 3: So I'm a dentical twin and we're mirror twins. And

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Speaker 3: my twin sister was due to her the baby, and

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Speaker 3: her due date was the twenty sixth of October, and

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Speaker 3: her daughter arrived on the thirteenth of September, six weeks early.

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Speaker 3: Past forty year and a bit. I feel pregnant. I'm

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Speaker 3: due on the twenty sixth of October, and my son

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Speaker 3: arrives on the thirteenth of September, six weeks early.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, this is an amazing one. Yeah, what is it, Rachelle?

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Speaker 7: What does mirror twins mean?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never heard of that.

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Speaker 3: So everything's opposite. So she handed up when went on

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Speaker 3: to have two girls, and I went on to have

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Speaker 3: two boys. We have a birthmark on our legs staying size,

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Speaker 3: same shape, opposite leg unless I'm right handed, she's left handed,

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Speaker 3: so everything's mirrored.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is fascinating. We've never heard that phrase. You've

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Speaker 2: educated everyone's listening right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yep.

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Speaker 1: And have you ever met any other mirror twins?

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Speaker 3: I haven't actually personally, no, I'm sure they would be

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Speaker 3: out there. But yeah, and we just we do random

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Speaker 3: things like send each other a birthday present and it's

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Speaker 3: exactly the same gift and we haven't discussed it. Witness.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard I've heard of this before.

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Speaker 2: And do you feel each other's pain, like if someone's

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Speaker 2: having a feeling oh bloody, I should have worn.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we've had episodes where one of us is seen

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Speaker 3: in surgery and the other one has been rushed to

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Speaker 3: surgery for an emergency operations.

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Speaker 1: Incredible.

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Speaker 2: Yep, wow, wow, Rochelle, amazing story. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for sharing it with us Today. I have a good day.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Ginny.

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Speaker 7: Good day, fellows.

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Speaker 6: Fascinated with the last joy in intriguing my ex husband.

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Speaker 6: Teacher at twin Burn Tech. His name John Jiell j

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Speaker 6: a double Elk. Another teacher, the John Dell. Another teacher

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Speaker 6: in the same school, John Bell.

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Speaker 2: John Bell, John Bell, John Dell and John Jill.

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Speaker 1: John Jael your deceased husband, gotcha.

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Speaker 6: Day, mister, Well, oh oh, where's it?

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Speaker 9: Joel, Ole Bell, Well guys have oh no, yeah, sorry, Okay, Diang,

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Speaker 9: good morning, Diane.

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Speaker 8: Good morning fishing teams.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Diana, what's your story for us?

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Speaker 8: I grew up in Melbourne with five siblings. I did

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Speaker 8: a DNA test and found out I had five other

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Speaker 8: that I grew up with went and moved to West Australia,

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Speaker 8: ended up living in the exact same suburb as my

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Speaker 2: So this is before you found out, just before you

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Speaker 2: found out about their being in your family. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: long before, so they would have seen each other before

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Speaker 2: finding out you're connected, you're in the same family.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Yes, the met the new siblings last year and

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Speaker 8: we went around the area where both of them lived

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Speaker 8: and it was remarkable because they lived virtually around the

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, wow, that is incredible. We've never had

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Speaker 2: a storied about that Diane, thank you very much for

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Speaker 2: sharing it.

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Speaker 8: Have a good day, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Look Christian Connall's show podcast, Christian O'Connell's show, What are

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Speaker 2: the Odds? Your story of coincidence and chance. Let's get

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Speaker 2: Paul on now.

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Speaker 10: Good morning Paul, christ to tell you my amazing story.

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Speaker 1: Please if you go, Paul, where all is all right?

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Speaker 10: Well, basically, I've come to live in Australia twenty years

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Speaker 10: ago and I went to play in a snooter tournament

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Speaker 10: in a place called chumby Umbio in Central Coast, which

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Speaker 10: is in the middle of nowhere. I pulled into the

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Speaker 10: car park, A car pools in next to me. An

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Speaker 10: older couple get out and think. He says through his

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Speaker 10: life right love, there are you're going? And I was

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Speaker 10: like wow, I said, I mate, you're from the London,

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Speaker 10: which is the same with me. I'm from East London.

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Speaker 10: And basically I got talking to this guy and after

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Speaker 10: about five minutes chatting, I realized or we worked out

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Speaker 10: that he basically sold the same house that I sold

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Speaker 10: ten years previously to migrate to Australia.

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Speaker 1: Wow, this is incredible.

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Speaker 10: Wow, the same has in the same street, the same number.

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Speaker 10: I even asked him questions. I said to him, what

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Speaker 10: and he went, oh, yeah, that Washurst Road and I went, yep,

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Speaker 10: that was Hearst Road is exactly where I am.

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Speaker 1: And you're in the middle of nowhere a suker tournament

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Speaker 1: and they put up next to you.

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Speaker 10: Yep, in the same in the car park in the

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Speaker 10: front of the club, and I was like, and like

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Speaker 10: I said, I only chatted to him because he sounded

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Speaker 10: like he was from East London. I said, how are

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Speaker 10: you going? He was like, oh wow, where are you from?

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Speaker 1: And basically are from from the same house as you.

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Speaker 10: Yep, exactly. It was just it was funny because his

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Speaker 10: wife went as white as a sheet and just walked

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Speaker 10: off and I was like, I can't believe this.

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Speaker 1: This is just not She didn't have any more questions

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Speaker 1: or anything.

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Speaker 10: I think she was so stunned that just yeah, absolutely amazed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Paul, that's a great story. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for showing at Mete no problem. This is the Christian

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Speaker 2: O'Connell Show podcast