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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, yeah, on the cat and room for today.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm going to tell you about a man today called
Frano Selak. He's Croatian man and he's no longer alive.
But while he was alive, he cheated death seven times.
Whoa do you want to hear about them?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Please?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Or we just leave it at this.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's the end of my story.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Well, well, you said you were going to tell me
a story. I thought it was going to be about
a man named Jed.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The poor mountaineer barely kept his family fair.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Do you know the story? And one day he's shooting
up some food.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Up through the ground came some bubbling crude. Next thing
you know, it's oil that is like gold Texas tea. Yeah,
we're raging ourselves.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Next thing, you know, Jeds and me and air, which means.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Get out of there.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
The kinfolks said, Jed, move away from that, said California,
here's the place you ought to be.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Picked up the family, and he moved to Beverly Hills.
That he is wwimming pools are we're don't now I'm
about this Back to my mate, Frano Slak. He cheated
death seven times. He survived some extraordinary incidents in all
kinds of transport. The first one, he was traveling by
a train when it suddenly derailed and fell into an
icy river. Despite breaking his arm, he managed to swim
(01:26):
to shore and was the only survivor of the accident.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A year later, he's on a plane. The door lies
blows open, blow to bleeding doors off. Mid flight, he
gets sucked out of the plane, lands on a haystack,
wakes up in hospital, discovers once again he's the only survivor.
Three years later, he's riding on a bus. It skids
(01:54):
off the road and into a river. Once again, he
walks away unharmed. Insurance com he decided, quite wisely, he'd
avoid public transportation. He buys a car, but twice its
engine catches fire while he's driving. Luckily, both times he
gets out just before the gas tank explodes.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Goodness.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Then he was hit by a bus while walking again,
escaped only with major injuries. And then he had his
biggest one. They were just bingles compared to this. His
most dramatic accident came when his car plunged off a cliff.
He jumped out just in time, grabbed onto a tree branch,
and saved himself from a fatal faur Wow. And then
(02:35):
so he got reborn as it were seven times. Then
he won a million dollars in the lottery.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh how did he pass away? Eventually?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, he was born in twenty nine and died in
twenty sixteen, so I'm assuming that's old age. But it's amazing.
The headline of this story is luckiest man alive. And
I find all this hilarious that surely the luckiest person
alive is the person who none of this happens to true.
It's like if you fall over and break your arm,
people say lucky it didn't break your arm anually, No,
(03:04):
you're lucky because you didn't even break your arm. With
mentality it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Is, I feel that I'm blessed.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
When I was five years of age, I was run
over by a motorcycle in a back alley in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is this like elephant Man didn't his mum when he
was an usual? I get trampled by an elephant and
he grew up to be elephant man. You got run
over by a bike and you grew up to love bike.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It was a genetic disorder yours the elephant.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But then that led to a spade of accidents as
a youth. I got Then after that, I got hit
by a car on my pushbike. Then after that, I
got hit in a hit and run accident. Then I
got hit again by another car. And then after all
of that, each time i'd recover, my friend's mum ran
over my foot as I was getting out of the car.
(03:52):
And then I had a series of motorcycle accidents. So
I've had a lot of and I often think I'm
blessed because.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You look at that, and well, no, I just think.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I know people that have died for less.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
So I always think my guardian angels, going, okay, mate, give.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It a rest. You know, when you got hit by
when you were younger by all those cars, were you
a kid that played in the street, that.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Was back in the days when you would And I'm
a pretty cautious person, i'd like to think now, But
back then maybe I was just a little bit too reckless,
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But it's an interesting You had all those accidents for
other people knocking into you, then you buy a bike
and have all those accidents.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You should wrap yourself in cotton wool and just stay home.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I've often thought that I've been riding motorcycles since I
was nineteen, and I don't drive a car, so the
odds are stacked against me. But having said that, if
I went and got Evolve and wrapped myself in cotton,
I'd probably die in that, So you can't.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
If you sat at home wrapped in nerve, a plane
would land on top of your house and it would be.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Filled with liquid, and that would drown me in the nerve.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm showing you well, I'm glad you're still here.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, I'm glad I'm here too friendly. Okay, that's a day.
Come back tomorrow for more Chelseylanders kind of
Yeah, yeah, on the cat and room for today.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm going to tell you about a man today called
Frano Selak. He's Croatian man and he's no longer alive.
But while he was alive, he cheated death seven times.
Whoa do you want to hear about them?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Please?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Or we just leave it at this.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That's the end of my story.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Well, well, you said you were going to tell me
a story. I thought it was going to be about
a man named Jed.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The poor mountaineer barely kept his family fair.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Do you know the story? And one day he's shooting
up some food.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Up through the ground came some bubbling crude. Next thing
you know, it's oil that is like gold Texas tea. Yeah,
we're raging ourselves.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Next thing, you know, Jeds and me and air, which means.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Get out of there.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
The kinfolks said, Jed, move away from that, said California,
here's the place you ought to be.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Picked up the family, and he moved to Beverly Hills.
That he is wwimming pools are we're don't now I'm
about this Back to my mate, Frano Slak. He cheated
death seven times. He survived some extraordinary incidents in all
kinds of transport. The first one, he was traveling by
a train when it suddenly derailed and fell into an
icy river. Despite breaking his arm, he managed to swim
(01:26):
to shore and was the only survivor of the accident.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A year later, he's on a plane. The door lies
blows open, blow to bleeding doors off. Mid flight, he
gets sucked out of the plane, lands on a haystack,
wakes up in hospital, discovers once again he's the only survivor.
Three years later, he's riding on a bus. It skids
(01:54):
off the road and into a river. Once again, he
walks away unharmed. Insurance com he decided, quite wisely, he'd
avoid public transportation. He buys a car, but twice its
engine catches fire while he's driving. Luckily, both times he
gets out just before the gas tank explodes.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Goodness.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Then he was hit by a bus while walking again,
escaped only with major injuries. And then he had his
biggest one. They were just bingles compared to this. His
most dramatic accident came when his car plunged off a cliff.
He jumped out just in time, grabbed onto a tree branch,
and saved himself from a fatal faur Wow. And then
(02:35):
so he got reborn as it were seven times. Then
he won a million dollars in the lottery.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh how did he pass away? Eventually?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, he was born in twenty nine and died in
twenty sixteen, so I'm assuming that's old age. But it's amazing.
The headline of this story is luckiest man alive. And
I find all this hilarious that surely the luckiest person
alive is the person who none of this happens to true.
It's like if you fall over and break your arm,
people say lucky it didn't break your arm anually, No,
(03:04):
you're lucky because you didn't even break your arm. With
mentality it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Is, I feel that I'm blessed.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
When I was five years of age, I was run
over by a motorcycle in a back alley in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is this like elephant Man didn't his mum when he
was an usual? I get trampled by an elephant and
he grew up to be elephant man. You got run
over by a bike and you grew up to love bike.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It was a genetic disorder yours the elephant.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But then that led to a spade of accidents as
a youth. I got Then after that, I got hit
by a car on my pushbike. Then after that, I
got hit in a hit and run accident. Then I
got hit again by another car. And then after all
of that, each time i'd recover, my friend's mum ran
over my foot as I was getting out of the car.
(03:52):
And then I had a series of motorcycle accidents. So
I've had a lot of and I often think I'm
blessed because.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You look at that, and well, no, I just think.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I know people that have died for less.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
So I always think my guardian angels, going, okay, mate, give.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It a rest. You know, when you got hit by
when you were younger by all those cars, were you
a kid that played in the street, that.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Was back in the days when you would And I'm
a pretty cautious person, i'd like to think now, But
back then maybe I was just a little bit too reckless,
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
But it's an interesting You had all those accidents for
other people knocking into you, then you buy a bike
and have all those accidents.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You should wrap yourself in cotton wool and just stay home.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I've often thought that I've been riding motorcycles since I
was nineteen, and I don't drive a car, so the
odds are stacked against me. But having said that, if
I went and got Evolve and wrapped myself in cotton,
I'd probably die in that, So you can't.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
If you sat at home wrapped in nerve, a plane
would land on top of your house and it would be.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Filled with liquid, and that would drown me in the nerve.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm showing you well, I'm glad you're still here.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, I'm glad I'm here too friendly. Okay, that's a day.
Come back tomorrow for more Chelseylanders kind of
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