April 29, 2025 • 7 mins
After hearing about an University student in Japan who climbed Mt. Fuji and needed to be rescued, but ended up needing to be rescued 4 days later when he realised he left his phone up there we couldn't help but ask our listeners for their best What Are The Chances? stories!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the fits In and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
One of the Chances.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
If you've got what are the Chances story thirteen twenty fourteen,
don't forget anyone that gets on air as well. We're
giving away a brand new fifty five inch television every day.
State of Origin kicks off tomorrow night. That's the reason
why we're doing that. But if you've got a story,
I'd love to hear from you. How's this one? And
I mean, you've just got to be careful. And I
know people want to go, you know, bushwalking and hikes
(00:29):
and trails and it's great to get out there and
get some fresh air. Whimp. But a twenty seven year
old Chinese national student, a university student, decided to climb
the slopes of Mount Fuji.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I got that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The thing is, he went quite far. He was three
thousand meters above sea level, but unfortunately got altitude sickness,
was found by another hiker and he was in such
a bad place that they had to call in the
rescue chopper.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
To flew him out.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Did they lucky to be alive? Survived? Because I mean
there's fair bit of snow up there as well, it's
freezing cold.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The same hiker that found him four days later does
this route, you know, quite regularly found someone else four
days later, same spot, struggling altitude sickness. Had to call
in the chopper again. The chopper arrived to pick up
the same bloke they rescued four days earlier.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
His excuse was.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I left my phone up there, kidding me out. I
had to go and find it, he would one of the.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Chances quite high because he's obviously an idiot. Hang on
a minute, so he the same guy has gone back
to the same points, and the same other mountaineer has been.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Rescuing has been rescued again, and his excuse was I
left my phone up there and he was looking around
for it and had altitude sickness once again, you twice.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, what are the chances? That's great.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I mean we've we've had some great calls over the
years with what what what? What are the chances?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
In this Centennial park? And I was going for a
walk and the skeleton key of Motyota fell out. Didn't
know where it was. One of my sons, about a
week later, was riding in Centennial park. He's actually ridden
over the skeleton key and that had made him fall
off his bike. He came home crying with the key.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And I was in London coming home back to Sydney,
catching a fly and just walking through the airport and
I've run into a friend from UNI.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Six years later.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I was on my honeymoon walking through Venice, randomly popped
into a souvenir store and then the same friend was
in the souvenir store.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Jeez, it's what what are the chances?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Does anybody know what angel numbers are? Anybody across angel numbers?
For some reason, I'm getting served a lot of stuff
on angel numbers and.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The amount of times angel appeared on home.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They're meant to be like one or two two two either,
like signs in numbers where if you see them, it's
meant to be that there's angels talking to your fits.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I don't think so, mate.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And that's like what they talk about with chance and
coincidence is that they're actually meanings, their messages from past
lives that are actually trying to tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
So if you get if you get two to two,
if you see to.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It means harmony and positive relationships what.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
About your hotmail account, Tom hotball sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's the devil's number. He's looking to be rescued more
like the devil numbers. Oh my god, I just said
that exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Love to know what your chance and coincidence story, Daddy,
Allen Rudy Hill.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
What are the chances?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
What do you got for us?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
When I was first pregnant, we got new neighbors. They
rented the property next door, and she, the woman, was
also pregnant, and we were sort of due around the
same time. Like I went late and she kind of
went right on time, and our first borns were born, sorry,
on the same exact day and in the morning. Years later,
(04:27):
about seven years later, they moved away. There was a
new couple bought the house. They were pregnant, and she
gave birth to her first child on the exact same day.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
As our Something in the water in the houses I
think was it around.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
The same time. It was in the morning as well.
Done he l around the same time.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
I'm not I think she was induced, so it could
have been he was induced the day before, so like
came in the morning. Yeah, we were all sort of
in the morning on the fifth April.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Great story.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Thank you, Page and Penrith, what are the chances?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Hey guys, So I got a bit of a local
hectic story. My friend in Penrith, she was in a
park car yesday with the storms, and as she drove away,
she looked behind her to say if there was any
cars coming, and a tree branch had fallen exactly where
her car was passed.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh my god, what you.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That is that is freaky, Like to the point page
that like it would have completely crushed the whole car
or wasn't a massive tree.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
No, it was just a tree branch, but it definitely
would have made some damage for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That is freaky man. Awesome page, Great story, Cameron. And
on the Central Coast, what are the chances, came.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Morning, boys, What are the chances of wearing that jacket?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Quite high?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I have bit about ten shirts in my wardrobe and
two of them a shackets.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
To having a dinner for two emails.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Dog, he's filthy as and he can grub.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
What is but traveling overseas in Paris, yep, bunch of baits.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Boys decided that enough he was going home last night
before we were due to go home. So you got
a cab went back to the hotel. About three or
four hours later, we go getting a cab and one
of the boys looks on the floor and it's his passport.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You're kidding, could have been any cat. What are the
chances that's wild man?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That was that was meant to be because so we.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Sicked him up in the morning obviously, and he's freeing
it like where's the past.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Him?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
A beauty?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Thank you, buddy. Love the story Kate and Bill Gowler.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
What are the chances?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
What are the chances that I was working as an
executive assistant for a man for five years. I did
an ancestry DNA test and find out that he was
my uncle that was adopted out as a baby.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
No way, no, why what did you to do that?
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Like a lot of my family and friends were doing.
And I was like, oh, you that'd be cool find
out what my background is. And then you see like
the whole family tree, and I saw his name on there,
and then he got an alert that I was attached
to him, that he got the family tree alert that
a new family member there is, And it was a
very I had, like it was a very touchy subject.
I spoke to my dad who didn't know anything about it.
(07:23):
The family didn't know, like all the other siblings didn't
know that there was a child that was adopted out.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And thank god you didn't hook up with the boss.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Thank god? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That is wild. Since Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a
Nova podcast walk great shows like this. Download the Nova Player,
find the app store, or Google Playing.
This is the fits In and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
One of the Chances.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
If you've got what are the Chances story thirteen twenty fourteen,
don't forget anyone that gets on air as well. We're
giving away a brand new fifty five inch television every day.
State of Origin kicks off tomorrow night. That's the reason
why we're doing that. But if you've got a story,
I'd love to hear from you. How's this one? And
I mean, you've just got to be careful. And I
know people want to go, you know, bushwalking and hikes
(00:29):
and trails and it's great to get out there and
get some fresh air. Whimp. But a twenty seven year
old Chinese national student, a university student, decided to climb
the slopes of Mount Fuji.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I got that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The thing is, he went quite far. He was three
thousand meters above sea level, but unfortunately got altitude sickness,
was found by another hiker and he was in such
a bad place that they had to call in the
rescue chopper.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
To flew him out.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Did they lucky to be alive? Survived? Because I mean
there's fair bit of snow up there as well, it's
freezing cold.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The same hiker that found him four days later does
this route, you know, quite regularly found someone else four
days later, same spot, struggling altitude sickness. Had to call
in the chopper again. The chopper arrived to pick up
the same bloke they rescued four days earlier.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
His excuse was.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I left my phone up there, kidding me out. I
had to go and find it, he would one of the.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Chances quite high because he's obviously an idiot. Hang on
a minute, so he the same guy has gone back
to the same points, and the same other mountaineer has been.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Rescuing has been rescued again, and his excuse was I
left my phone up there and he was looking around
for it and had altitude sickness once again, you twice.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Okay, what are the chances? That's great.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I mean we've we've had some great calls over the
years with what what what? What are the chances?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
In this Centennial park? And I was going for a
walk and the skeleton key of Motyota fell out. Didn't
know where it was. One of my sons, about a
week later, was riding in Centennial park. He's actually ridden
over the skeleton key and that had made him fall
off his bike. He came home crying with the key.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And I was in London coming home back to Sydney,
catching a fly and just walking through the airport and
I've run into a friend from UNI.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Six years later.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I was on my honeymoon walking through Venice, randomly popped
into a souvenir store and then the same friend was
in the souvenir store.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Jeez, it's what what are the chances?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Does anybody know what angel numbers are? Anybody across angel numbers?
For some reason, I'm getting served a lot of stuff
on angel numbers and.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
The amount of times angel appeared on home.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They're meant to be like one or two two two either,
like signs in numbers where if you see them, it's
meant to be that there's angels talking to your fits.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I don't think so, mate.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And that's like what they talk about with chance and
coincidence is that they're actually meanings, their messages from past
lives that are actually trying to tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
So if you get if you get two to two,
if you see to.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It means harmony and positive relationships what.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
About your hotmail account, Tom hotball sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's the devil's number. He's looking to be rescued more
like the devil numbers. Oh my god, I just said
that exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Love to know what your chance and coincidence story, Daddy,
Allen Rudy Hill.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
What are the chances?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
What do you got for us?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
When I was first pregnant, we got new neighbors. They
rented the property next door, and she, the woman, was
also pregnant, and we were sort of due around the
same time. Like I went late and she kind of
went right on time, and our first borns were born, sorry,
on the same exact day and in the morning. Years later,
(04:27):
about seven years later, they moved away. There was a
new couple bought the house. They were pregnant, and she
gave birth to her first child on the exact same day.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
As our Something in the water in the houses I
think was it around.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
The same time. It was in the morning as well.
Done he l around the same time.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
I'm not I think she was induced, so it could
have been he was induced the day before, so like
came in the morning. Yeah, we were all sort of
in the morning on the fifth April.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Great story.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Thank you, Page and Penrith, what are the chances?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Hey guys, So I got a bit of a local
hectic story. My friend in Penrith, she was in a
park car yesday with the storms, and as she drove away,
she looked behind her to say if there was any
cars coming, and a tree branch had fallen exactly where
her car was passed.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh my god, what you.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That is that is freaky, Like to the point page
that like it would have completely crushed the whole car
or wasn't a massive tree.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
No, it was just a tree branch, but it definitely
would have made some damage for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That is freaky man. Awesome page, Great story, Cameron. And
on the Central Coast, what are the chances, came.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Morning, boys, What are the chances of wearing that jacket?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Quite high?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I have bit about ten shirts in my wardrobe and
two of them a shackets.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
To having a dinner for two emails.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Dog, he's filthy as and he can grub.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
What is but traveling overseas in Paris, yep, bunch of baits.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
One of the.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Boys decided that enough he was going home last night
before we were due to go home. So you got
a cab went back to the hotel. About three or
four hours later, we go getting a cab and one
of the boys looks on the floor and it's his passport.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You're kidding, could have been any cat. What are the
chances that's wild man?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
That was that was meant to be because so we.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Sicked him up in the morning obviously, and he's freeing
it like where's the past.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Him?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
A beauty?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Thank you, buddy. Love the story Kate and Bill Gowler.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
What are the chances?
Speaker 8 (06:45):
What are the chances that I was working as an
executive assistant for a man for five years. I did
an ancestry DNA test and find out that he was
my uncle that was adopted out as a baby.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
No way, no, why what did you to do that?
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Like a lot of my family and friends were doing.
And I was like, oh, you that'd be cool find
out what my background is. And then you see like
the whole family tree, and I saw his name on there,
and then he got an alert that I was attached
to him, that he got the family tree alert that
a new family member there is, And it was a
very I had, like it was a very touchy subject.
I spoke to my dad who didn't know anything about it.
(07:23):
The family didn't know, like all the other siblings didn't
know that there was a child that was adopted out.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And thank god you didn't hook up with the boss.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Thank god? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That is wild. Since Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a
Nova podcast walk great shows like this. Download the Nova Player,
find the app store, or Google Playing.
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