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Speaker 2: Believe it or not?
Speaker 3: What are the odds?
Speaker 1: You gotta be justhing me.
Speaker 4: Like, were you a Cheryl who married a Hun?
Speaker 1: Who worked with the Cheryl who married a Hunt? As well?
Speaker 1: Every Wednesday morning we are blessed with some of the
Speaker 1: most incredible stories from you guys. To see what we
Speaker 1: get today, first emails, come on listen, John Christian. I'm
Speaker 1: sending you this email tonight because when what are the Odds?
Speaker 1: Is on in the morning, I'll be on the road
Speaker 1: delivering nuclear medicines to various hospitals around the city. A
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, I attended a speed dating event. Now
Speaker 1: I stor did that speed danger was the thing. I
Speaker 1: tended the speed dating event having to meet an age
Speaker 1: appropriate woman who might be interested in her little You
Speaker 1: didn't need to say all that. I just presumed it.
Speaker 1: But so that's clarifying. I'd some one people listening to
Speaker 1: whim and go, wait is he if he's fifty? Is
Speaker 1: he with a fifty or a forty eight year old?
Speaker 1: On arrival, I spotted a familiar face. It was the
Speaker 1: ex wife of a former boss where I worked until
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Thankfully we were not matched up.
Speaker 1: Then I was paired up with another woman attending. She
Speaker 1: turned out to be the cousin of a guy I
Speaker 1: worked with a few years earlier. As we've seen each
Speaker 1: other a couple of times since Christian, What are the
Speaker 1: odds of meeting two different women who are related to
Speaker 1: two former bosses on the same night. You're right, Johnny boy,
Speaker 1: you're right now participating him has got a story for
Speaker 1: what are the odds? Is it a good one?
Speaker 2: It's a yesterday?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm seeing Oh you probably had an echo.
Speaker 1: Then then there's chuckle sisters, Tina Juice. Tina's next to
Speaker 1: it just went.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, she was right next to me, so she
Speaker 2: can attest that this is fantastic. I was sitting there
Speaker 2: on my phone and I'm on Instagram and my best
Speaker 2: friend Taylor was first on my story. So I watched
Speaker 2: it and I was like, ah, that's really funny. It
Speaker 2: was just a little quote and it just said, let's
Speaker 2: call it a week, guys. We did our best.
Speaker 1: And I had a little laugh.
Speaker 2: I showed Tina it was really funny. I go on
Speaker 2: to the next story, and this.
Speaker 1: Is doing work. You say, let's seeking hard on the show.
Speaker 1: Not one Instagram story. And the second one, as I said, it.
Speaker 2: Was towards the end of the day. It was just
Speaker 2: a little I don't.
Speaker 1: Care if it's at the start of the day, end
Speaker 1: of the day. She should be no tongues of the
Speaker 1: day going on your instant stories.
Speaker 2: Well, look at the content it gave us. Because the
Speaker 2: next story.
Speaker 1: I'm still looking for it. Where is it? It's threadbare
Speaker 1: at the moment.
Speaker 2: So the first one was my best friend Taylor. The
Speaker 2: next story another friend of mine, Taylor. They're not friends,
Speaker 2: they don't know each other. Exact same quote and exact
Speaker 2: same name, exact same name.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: I mean, the quote sharing isn't that good, But the
Speaker 2: fact that they're both the same name Taylor, yeah, j Taylor,
Speaker 2: same quote, exact same day. The first two stories, I
Speaker 2: didn't go any further. It was already good enough.
Speaker 1: We did our best wisdom. What if the hokey pokey
Speaker 1: is all there is in life? My wife still shows
Speaker 1: me that one like once a week. Is that even me?
Speaker 1: I don't don't, don't, don't, don't I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: I can never hear enough funny stories about people's Instagram stories,
Speaker 1: loving people memes, memes. Oh, mi's so funny. What is
Speaker 1: the oki kokie? Is all? What it's about? My wife
Speaker 1: loves that one? So profound? Is she got it? It's
Speaker 1: a sign in our kitchen as well. Loves me, loves me?
Speaker 1: All righty Linda, Hello, Hey, Linda, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good now, Linda, what is your story about coincidence
Speaker 1: and chance for us?
Speaker 5: Okay, so many years ago I gave my husband a
Speaker 5: glass of scott okay, and as you do, you know,
Speaker 5: here you go, here's a Scotch. Now I did not
Speaker 5: know at the time and that there was a chip
Speaker 5: in the glass. So here goes he's he's glass. So
Speaker 5: he drinks the Scotch. Blah blah blah blah. Many years
Speaker 5: later he goes and has you know, turned fifty, goes
Speaker 5: for the tests. Blah blah blah blah. Oh yeah, well
Speaker 5: she's got a tumor. Okay, all right, no worries. So
Speaker 5: it goes and has it, has his tumor removed. Now
Speaker 5: they've removed this tumor and then they've discovered there's actually
Speaker 5: glass in the tumor itself.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 5: This is apparently a miracle, medical miracle. And they've ever
Speaker 5: been or in their lives, and you know how you
Speaker 5: can get glass at the tumor. He got asked all
Speaker 5: the questions, what have you been doing? You know, have
Speaker 5: you done this? Have you in said any blah blah
Speaker 5: blah blah blah, No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Big question to ask, story is fifty what have you
Speaker 1: been doing? Well, when do you start? Let's go back
Speaker 1: to ninety eighty four and then get me up and
Speaker 1: then get.
Speaker 5: Me up to up to date to he didn't he
Speaker 5: didn't drop and break the glass. And anyway it turns out,
Speaker 5: and it turns out he is. They use the tumor or.
Speaker 5: Everything is absolutely fantastically and there's no problems with him.
Speaker 5: He no longer has a tumor because the glass have
Speaker 5: been removed.
Speaker 1: And yeah, happy days, happy days, lovely stuff, Linda is.
Speaker 5: But mind you, it is now all my fault because
Speaker 5: I put the craft, gave him the glasses.
Speaker 1: But you kind of also saved his life.
Speaker 5: Well this is true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Linda, thank you very much. His story
Speaker 1: all right, thank you. Bye bye, bye bye. I found
Speaker 1: like a snow globe. You know, it's been shaken up. Yes, Mary,
Speaker 1: good morning, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Mary, thank you very much. How are you this morning, Christian?
Speaker 1: We're good? Are you good? Mary?
Speaker 4: I'm good? Thank you?
Speaker 1: All right? Mary, what's your story?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: My story is thirty eight years ago tomorrow I married
Speaker 4: my husband, whose name is Peter. I also have a
Speaker 4: brother named Peter. He has a brother in law named Peter,
Speaker 4: and his best man was Peter. So when I walked
Speaker 4: up the aisle, there was Peter, Peter, Peter.
Speaker 1: Peter, It's Walter or Pete. That was it.
Speaker 4: And when they said, Peter, do you take Mary as
Speaker 4: for your wife? They all said I do.
Speaker 1: I love this story. It's BRITTI Mary. That's a great one.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sharing.
Speaker 4: Thanks, guys, I have a great one.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Now do you remember I think
Speaker 1: it's last year similar to that. That one was like
Speaker 1: a load of Peters. Do you remember the Paul Paul
Speaker 1: Paul Oh this cool? Yes, the Paul at the barbers
Speaker 1: going to.
Speaker 3: Barbers a few weeks ago to me, He goes, oh,
Speaker 3: what's your name?
Speaker 1: And I said, oh, it's Paul, and there's four other
Speaker 1: people in there, and the guy next to me, he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: my name's Paul.
Speaker 3: The barber says, my name's Paul, and the other guy says, oh,
Speaker 3: my name is Paul.
Speaker 1: So I'm what what the odds do?
Speaker 5: I took a sug off four pouls and there were
Speaker 5: twenty four people in the barbers who.
Speaker 1: Pol so there are four pools in that story. Now
Speaker 1: by my counting, was it five peters? Now four peters?
Speaker 1: One day we need to see we can get what
Speaker 1: are the odds? Involved? The same name but over four?
Speaker 1: Simone joins us. Now, good morning, Simoon, and welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Christian love the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Simian, thanks for listening. Now, Simone,
Speaker 1: what are the odds?
Speaker 3: What are the odds?
Speaker 6: Okay, so footy tickets for AFL upcoming AFL matches went on,
Speaker 6: sal My husband and I dividing conquer the games that
Speaker 6: we need tickets for. So we're in the virtual que
Speaker 6: credit cards at the ready, two o'clock rolls around, Bang,
Speaker 6: we're in. We both get tickets to the games that
Speaker 6: we need, and then we share the tickets with each
Speaker 6: other via the app. And it's at that point we
Speaker 6: realize we've been randomly allocated the exact same seats for
Speaker 6: two different matches. Oh wow, two tickets at the ends
Speaker 6: to two different games at the MCG, in the same bay,
Speaker 6: the same row, and the same two seats.
Speaker 1: I mean, over one hundred thousand seats at the MCG.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yep, this is huge. And also it's our first ever
Speaker 1: sporting What are the odds? I believe that's incredible.
Speaker 6: That's that's a takeaway from me for today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, love it. Thank you very much. Brilliant story, Simon,
Speaker 1: Thanks for sharing.
Speaker 3: Thanks, have a great day and you mate.
Speaker 1: Donna.
Speaker 3: Donna, Yeah, hi, christ.
Speaker 1: Hey Donad Sorry you sound up. Somebody's very busy and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Free up time to call the show.
Speaker 1: You at work or what are you up to?
Speaker 3: No, I'm at home this morning. I'm at home. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: oh good. My boy is my mum. She won tickets
Speaker 3: to Paris and she was very excited about buying my
Speaker 3: little daughter a French beret. When we got home, they
Speaker 3: loved a little bag, you know, Parree Paris beret shop,
Speaker 3: and I opened it up and it was all lovely
Speaker 3: in tissue paper, beautiful redsalvet beret. And I looked inside
Speaker 3: and I said, Mom, where'd you get this from? She says,
Speaker 3: you're not where I got it. I got it in Paris. Yes,
Speaker 3: And I said to her, Mum, it's made in Australia
Speaker 3: in Paris by a French berete that was made in Australia.
Speaker 1: The Parisians are shipping in Assie made berets. There'd be
Speaker 1: a scandal.
Speaker 3: Over this, I'm sure. As she walked out, the staff
Speaker 3: of sales person that sold it, or I thought, looked
Speaker 3: at her and thought, oh, she's going to get a
Speaker 3: surprise when she gets home.
Speaker 1: This is Thunderberg berets, Australian berets sold in Paris. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. What a great story. Yeah, John, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for sharing. Enjoy your day.
Speaker 3: I'm very welcome. Have great day.