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

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Speaker 1: What are the odds? Amazing coincidence and chance?

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Speaker 2: Believe it or not?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: What are the odds?

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Speaker 1: You gotta be justhing me like why you were twin?

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Speaker 5: Who married a twin?

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Speaker 1: What they.

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Speaker 5: Believe it or not?

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Speaker 1: We don't know, we don't we don't know. Every week

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Speaker 1: we don't know what am nine to four four one

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Speaker 1: oh four three? Last year had a great one from deb.

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Speaker 6: When I was sixteen, I was going to do my

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Speaker 6: deb and I didn't have a partner, so one of

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Speaker 6: the ladies there said, oh, my son will do it.

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Speaker 6: Turned out the next Sunday for practice and he didn't show,

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Speaker 6: so they ended up partnering me with someone else. A

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Speaker 6: few years later, I got asked by a friend if

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Speaker 6: I wanted to go on a blind day. He was

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Speaker 6: actually the person that was supposed to do my deb

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Speaker 6: with me and dich me. We've now been married thirty years.

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Speaker 1: What are the odds?

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Speaker 3: Gregory guy living in the same suburb as me, had

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Speaker 3: exactly the same first, middle and last name as me,

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Speaker 3: and his wife had the same middle and first name

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Speaker 3: as my wife.

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Speaker 1: Shot, what are the odds? Now? I have not one,

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Speaker 1: but two, Stuart, what are the odds? What are the

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Speaker 1: odds to have two in the studio right now?

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Speaker 7: Jack, you've been teasing this for a couple of Days's

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Speaker 7: got a good one about the mailbox.

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Speaker 4: I have a very unique mailbox. It's a tree stump

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Speaker 4: looking thing made out of concrete. I've in my thirty

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Speaker 4: six years, never seen anything like it. It was at

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Speaker 4: the house when we moved in. We went to Philip

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Speaker 4: Island a few weeks ago and started a holiday house.

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Speaker 4: What's this? The holiday house has the same unique mail box.

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Speaker 8: That is so lame.

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Speaker 1: It is this series. If someone comes in with this finished,

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Speaker 1: he would let them in. That is so bad.

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Speaker 4: Let me guess it's the same street number as you all.

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Speaker 1: A tree stump.

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Speaker 4: It's a tree stump, but in mirror image. Isn't that

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Speaker 4: weird to our It's a mirror image of our one.

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Speaker 4: It's not the exact one, so it's not like he

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Speaker 4: came from the exact same mold. It's a mirror image

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Speaker 4: of our one. I'm afraid now it was.

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Speaker 1: This isn't called what's the uniqueness? It's called the odds?

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Speaker 1: But this is mold, not gold. What have you got rio.

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Speaker 5: I will save this segment Christ the Odds. When I

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Speaker 5: was about eight years old, we're at a family holiday

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Speaker 5: in Coffs Harbor. The family was having a hit of tennis.

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Speaker 5: I got bored and then wandered off on my own

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Speaker 5: throughout the streets of Coffs Harbor. I got very, very lost.

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Speaker 5: Nightfall happened. I was screaming. Someone helped me.

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Speaker 1: I'm lost.

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Speaker 4: This is terrible story.

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Speaker 5: A very nice man came and got out of his

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Speaker 5: car said, oh, do you know where you're staying? I said,

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Speaker 5: I think I'm staying here. Took me back home or

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Speaker 5: was great. Four years later, we're in Bali, off out

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Speaker 5: in the markets again. I sort of lose track from

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Speaker 5: my parents. I get lost. What ah, well, that's not sorry,

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Speaker 5: I'm playing ahead. But it's not the same guy who

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Speaker 5: spoiler Now it's all premature to.

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Speaker 4: Hear you're lost in Bali.

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Speaker 5: Four years lost in Bali, another man comes and brings

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Speaker 5: me home. Get back to the resort.

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Speaker 1: You look familiar.

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, no, familiar and goes.

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Speaker 5: Mum's talking to him, and he goes, oh, yeah, you

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Speaker 5: know I grew up in Coffs Harbor.

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Speaker 1: It's the same that's amazing.

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Speaker 4: That will never be been. That's the best one we've

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Speaker 4: ever heard of.

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Speaker 1: Genuinely is an incredible good what you brought him.

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Speaker 4: You should be ashamed.

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Speaker 1: Do not charge that station with today's show.

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Speaker 4: Compared to that, true incredible.

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Speaker 1: The odds is it's a beautiful story as well. The

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 7: What are the odds Your story is of amazing coincidence

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Speaker 7: and chants On nine four one four one oh four

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Speaker 7: three U two beautiful day, Rebecca was in the middle

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Speaker 7: of Kuala Lumpur with her now husband. We were getting

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Speaker 7: off a train and going up a set of escalators

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Speaker 7: coming down the low Is that coming down the escalators

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Speaker 7: at the same time?

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Speaker 1: Was my uncle? Pretty good?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: He lived in Hong Kong at the time.

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Speaker 7: This is not Kuala Lumpur and it would sometimes commute

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Speaker 7: to work in k l which stands for Kuala Lumpur.

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Speaker 1: We were just there or yeah, we're in Kuala Lumpur.

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Speaker 7: Hong Kong's not exactly around the corner, is it, Uncle,

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Speaker 7: I come down your respirator, stay.

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Speaker 1: There, Uncle, That's what would have happened there.

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Speaker 7: Hey, you know you uh, this is a good one

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Speaker 7: as Gloria became good friends with the guy during an

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Speaker 7: aged care course. I invited him to our home for

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Speaker 7: dinner with my husband and I. Oh the odds, that's

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Speaker 7: sort of sorry.

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Speaker 1: Sorry.

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Speaker 7: Later in the evening, during conversation, why hadn't he suddenly

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Speaker 7: realized this is incredible him and this guy may years

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Speaker 7: ago when they were younger, that my husband had been

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Speaker 7: engaged to his sister and then broke it off. Oh wow,

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Speaker 7: that's awkward. They had not recognized each other. We were

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Speaker 7: all stunned. That is quite that glory. That is quite

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Speaker 7: a story, Chris.

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Speaker 1: My dad was very ill. We cancel and we were.

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Speaker 7: He was undergoing treatment at the Peter Max sent about

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Speaker 7: six years ago. Mum was there with him, and who

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Speaker 7: should be volunteering making tea and coffee by the patients

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Speaker 7: and family. But my mum's best friend from high school

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Speaker 7: they had lost touch, hadn't seen each other for over

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Speaker 7: forty years. Mamri Nita's old friend then as well. Mama's

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Speaker 7: now in regular contact with her and they even started

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Speaker 7: regular muchley catch ups as well, and started a new

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Speaker 7: high school reunion every month for a book club.

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Speaker 1: Joe, that's a lovely story, all right, Let's get a

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Speaker 1: Nikki here. Nikki, Hello, Niki, what are the odds? Thank you? Nikki.

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Speaker 1: Off we go, Let's go.

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Speaker 9: So when I was a girl, I worked at the

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Speaker 9: Maya trend shop back in the nineties and Adelaide. One night,

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Speaker 9: this guy came in and he took a three piece

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Speaker 9: He came out, he shoved the suit back in my

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Speaker 9: he'd stolen the waistcoat. And I was so crossed with

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Speaker 7: That day.

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Speaker 9: We did not take our eye off him all night.

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Speaker 9: He was dancing to Madonna and he took it off

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Speaker 9: My boyfriend watched out for me. I snuck over and

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Speaker 9: I stole the waistcoat back.

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Speaker 8: This is.

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Speaker 1: The story. You got the waistcoat back.

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Speaker 6: I got the waistcoat back.

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Speaker 9: I took it to work. The next day.

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Speaker 6: I showed my boss.

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Speaker 9: He said, Nikki, we cannot put it back on the rack.

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Speaker 9: I said, it doesn't matter. Nobody steals from me.

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Speaker 1: WHOA.

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Speaker 7: This is like an origin story of a superhero movie.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 9: I was bloody proud of myself.

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Speaker 1: What are the odds? Amazing scenes, Nikki, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Here let's go to almost Brian. Good morning, Good morning Brian.

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Speaker 2: What are the.

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Speaker 1: Odds you got it? Be man off you go.

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Speaker 2: Well, many years ago, Second World War, my grandfather was

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Speaker 2: and so obviously he survived because I'm here, and many

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Speaker 2: many years later, my mum and aunties were at Bingo

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Speaker 2: and they overheard some people talking about that very incident

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Speaker 2: and they were the guys that rescued him.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, God's that is unbelievable.

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Speaker 7: From the battle film to Bingo it is an incredible story, Brian.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and they even managed to meet up and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was pretty unreal apparently, so yeah.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine Brian. Wew, lovely story. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for sharing it, Brian, have a good day, all right.

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Speaker 1: I squeeze one last one in before Patsy's news. Julia,

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Speaker 1: what ha the odd Yeah, let's go Judio. Okay, what

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Speaker 8: Okay? So in twenty fourteen, I went to a fortieth

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Speaker 8: birthday party and I didn't really know anyone, and the

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Speaker 8: is Maya. You've got a lot in You've both got

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Speaker 8: a lot in common. You both worked in Madrid. And

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Speaker 8: because Australians working in Madrid are like are as.

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Speaker 1: Rare as hint teeth are the odds?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 8: So anyway, and I said, oh, where did you work?

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Speaker 8: And she said, oh, I worked at the International College

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Speaker 8: of Spain and I said so did I. She said

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Speaker 3: You take over?

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Speaker 8: And I told her what the role was and she

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Speaker 8: said where did you live? And I said I lived

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Speaker 8: in a place called Rios Rosas. She said, I lived

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Speaker 8: in Rios ros That's what freak did you live in?

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Speaker 8: She said, it's from I should get out of here.

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Speaker 8: I said, I lived in apartment five B, number thirty front.

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Speaker 8: She said that was my apartner.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Case Saradi odds on the edition.

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Speaker 7: It's almost like the movie Single White Female, you see

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Speaker 7: that where she became somebody else.

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Speaker 8: Yes, I'm still on the edge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is incredible. The Madrid connection. Yeah, ye

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Speaker 1: as well, big r de Rosa. I can't believe.

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Speaker 8: I'm losing here.

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Speaker 1: You We're gonna let you go.

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Speaker 7: What are the back to Madrida. This is the Christian

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Speaker 7: O'Connell Show podcast