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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Every Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: This time we look for your stories of coincidence and chance.

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Speaker 2: What are demods?

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Speaker 1: Believe it or not?

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Speaker 2: What are the odds? You gotta be justhing me.

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Speaker 3: Like, were you with Cheryl who married a Hun?

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Speaker 2: Who worked with the Cheryl who married a Hunt?

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Speaker 1: As well?

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Speaker 2: What are the radio odds? I can say, no more,

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Speaker 2: so much to say, so many songs to play? What

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Speaker 2: are the odds? My friend friends, we're going to barbers

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Speaker 2: a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 4: To me, he goes, oh, what's your name? And I said, Oh,

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Speaker 4: it's Paul. There was four other people in there, and

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Speaker 4: the guy next to me goes, oh, my name's Paul.

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Speaker 4: The barber says, my name's Paul, and the other guy says, oh,

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Speaker 4: my name's Paul.

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Speaker 5: Oh cool, Paul.

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Speaker 6: I had an iPad stolen from my home and months

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Speaker 6: later I get a phone call the police have identified

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Speaker 6: my iPad. One of the police officers recognized photos from

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Speaker 6: my brother's wedding. He'd been to primary school with him,

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Speaker 2: Prayed my broakfast.

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Speaker 7: Just the other day I cracked open the egg and

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Speaker 7: had two yolks inside the one egg. And then I

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Speaker 7: and there were two bananas inside the one peal.

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Speaker 1: And that there is why you make the big switch

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Speaker 1: to us Champagne Radio every single day. Call Christian for

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Speaker 1: a good time. I only watch this all right, So

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Speaker 1: what are the odds?

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Speaker 2: Now? First of all, we've got Kim. What can I

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Speaker 2: tell you about this person? Kim?

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Speaker 1: Is that Tina and our very giggly producer could bear

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Speaker 1: Please speak to me about the allowancey we're about to get.

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Speaker 2: She went, Christians the rest Kim, Christian, Kim off you go.

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Speaker 2: So it's a lad's tour.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Back in the nineties, mate, we'd hire a mini

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Speaker 4: we got through Aubrey, a couple of the boys that

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Speaker 4: police just outside of Aubrey. Ah. He comes to the

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Speaker 4: He goes, okay, we've got some smart asses here. And

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Speaker 4: his mate goes, mate, nice, here is his name is Aubrey?

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Speaker 4: What's going on? He goes, what's your name? His name

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Speaker 4: was Cidy, goes Sydney. He goes, righty oh, boys, we'll

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Speaker 4: sort this out of the station and Aubrey, no, check

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Speaker 4: me laws and he goes get in the car. He

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Speaker 4: that I'll pull a butt up in Aubrey? The driver's

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Speaker 2: The police odds? Never live that down? You can't couldn't

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Speaker 2: show Shenanigan's had happened. Rio, That is a crazy story.

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Speaker 4: Kim, Oh, we had a good laugh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you couldn't make it up.

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Speaker 4: You couldn't make that up much.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't. You couldn't if you try. Kim, great story.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for sharing.

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Speaker 4: Have a great show.

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Speaker 1: Guys, thank you very much for trying. Uh carry, Good morning, good.

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Speaker 5: Morning, good morning. How are you, Christian?

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Speaker 2: I'm good. Carry. So what's your story for us on

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Speaker 2: what are the odds?

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Speaker 5: Well, my mom was traveling to Scotland to look after

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Speaker 5: So part way through the flight, as you would expect,

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Speaker 5: Super cool, super cool, really super cool.

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Speaker 2: Let me guess midwife get ready reassured?

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Speaker 5: Are you you know?

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Speaker 1: Incredible carry beautiful story. I'm going to give you two

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Speaker 2: Love that story. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks you for sharing your story. Incredible story, Kerrie, thank

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Speaker 2: Stephanie, Hi, how are you guys? We're good, Stephanie. Thanks

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Speaker 3: That's all right. So my story. So my fiance James

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Speaker 3: a great setting for a Scooby Doo mystery, like tumbleweeds everywhere,

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Speaker 1: What some dodgy care take it. It was always a dodgy

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Speaker 3: We could not stop laughing.

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Speaker 2: It was what are the Scooby odds? What was the

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Speaker 2: what's the deal with the van? Though? What was Did

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Speaker 3: No, we didn't, but it was just the funniest thing.

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Speaker 3: We just could not stop laughing. It was so funny. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's just like it's going on with the would inspect

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Speaker 1: to lodge it there? What actually happened? I'd like to

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Speaker 2: What else is, well, what we like is a mystery,

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Speaker 1: Well we ever know what we didn't have At the

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Speaker 1: end of Scoop there was Listen, guys, actually, just let's

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Speaker 2: You know, don't you.

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Speaker 3: Want to know why there was a mysterious mystery?

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Speaker 2: It's a mysterious van.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow on the show, Rea is running his own feature

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Speaker 1: Our Stories of logic that can be easily explained and categorized.

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Speaker 2: Who he got here? Kim?

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Speaker 8: Good morning, Christian, Hi guys, how are you this morning?

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Speaker 2: We're good Kim.

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Speaker 1: Now, Kim, you're the person as a story about the

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Speaker 1: patron Saint Anthony.

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Speaker 2: I do great so love a Patron Saints story.

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Speaker 1: Normally we take patron Saints on a Thursday, but I'm

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Speaker 1: happy to take a confession now.

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Speaker 2: For the Christians.

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Speaker 8: So this was back in the eighties and I was

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Speaker 8: playing competition netball and as I went on to the court,

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Speaker 8: I gave my friend a cross in chain that was

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 8: So we decided to go back. The gates of the

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Speaker 8: our bellies and climbed underneath the gate, went with torches

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Speaker 8: looking all over the oval for this tiny little cross

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Speaker 8: that anybody could have picked up. And anyway, after I

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Speaker 8: in my schooling, I just said, oh, St Anthony, patriot

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Speaker 8: of lost thing, how would you let me know if

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Speaker 8: I was looking in the wrong spot? And I shone

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Speaker 2: Oh love this story. That's incredible. You found it, you

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Speaker 2: got it.

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Speaker 8: I could not believe it, Christian. Honestly, I just was

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Speaker 2: There for us.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was pretty amazing. I thought you were pretty

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Speaker 8: pretty against me.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I got it, Kim. I love your story. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for calling up and sharing it with

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Speaker 1: us this morning.

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Speaker 4: Have a good day, Thanks Christian.

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Speaker 8: Thanks guys, could.

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Speaker 2: You google who the patron saint of our ratings is?

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Speaker 4: Christian O'Connell sh on Podcast