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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Robin Kit in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Right now, we're getting ready for Valentine's Day. It's Saturday,
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You say that like it's a revelation.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Saturday, everyone sadday. I'm talking to myself. I'm talking to
myself in the car. It's Saturday. Yes, just get ready.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We've got one hundred and fifty dollars flowers for everyone voucher,
and so we want to give it to someone.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And we were talking about, you know, how should we
do this, and you two immediately said, let's.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Get nightmare stories. Can I just tell us about dates.
I'm terribly wrong.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Asked one question.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, they say it's the effort that counts.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yes, So would one flower?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Do?
Speaker 6 (00:38):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
If you thought about it and put a nice note?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm just saying that's effort, yeah. Or how far did
you have to travel to get the flower?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I don't care you picked it from the garden?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
No?
Speaker 6 (00:48):
If one you've got one flower?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Is that enough?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You know what stuns me about you, too, particularly, is
how much effort you put in trying to deny the
fact that you should put in any effort.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Because you know what, if you took a fraction at.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That time and just went, you know what, I'm just
going to go buy some flowers.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Right, let me get the nightmare date stories started then,
and then let me tell you something, because effort, effort
does not always equal results. Okay, and so this is
what I had. I organized the date and I went
to effort.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Which relationship are we talking a while ago?
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay, this is not current creating marriage?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And I and I organized a picnic in the park
a lunch. I'll come and get you at lunch. There's
a park down the road. You're you know, she was
at work and I organized a picnic in the park.
And I went and got her favorite Italian food shair
like this Italian restaurant. Yeah, I got that takeaway. And
then she also like this gelato place down there, so
I went and got little gelato cups. Put him in
(01:45):
a little eski with ice, lovely right, effort.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Effort, that's too much.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What happens.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm putting out the blankets and you know, and we're
all and it's all going fairly well. But this was
in w A and this whatever this park was. The
seagull situation was out of control, right, so there's no
serenity while we're trying to have this conversation. There's just
seagulls and and so eventually I thought, well, here's how
(02:14):
old chased the seagulls off. I've reached into the esk
and I grabbed a block of ice and one, you know,
there's like four or five bits that had stuck together,
and I thought, I just threw it at the at
the pack of seagulls. Now, just by pure chance, I
cracked one of them fair in their head. No, And
so the other seagulls have flown off, and now this
(02:34):
one limp seagull is kicking around on the ground throwing
the ice. I I'm not that hard, but I just
hit it plump. Somehow I got it, and I geez,
I've got a good arm still. And then I've sort
of and you know, and now the conversation's changed about
a wounded seagull. It's the wounded seagull, which I'm trying
(02:57):
to go, no, no, he'll be fine, and I'm like
trying to push him, like he's letting me touch it.
That's not a good side. And I'm pretty sure the
date ended with her with her saying, you've killed it.
My god, you've killed it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And see you again.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And that was that. That's what happens when you put
an effort.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Okay, so now this is why I kip once to
get stories worse than that.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Tom Mada Wilson, what happened?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Good?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Hey guys, how.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
That's to go?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Look similar thing? Put in a bit of effort, went
out on like a nice date along the river in
Brizee and a few beers notice Italian restaurant and all
these lime schooners are getting past. Oh jeez, that looks
fun and.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Schooner along you do?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Are you drinking? As you two on the one scooter.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Like that on their own scooters?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Now?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
And this this old she's getting up ahead, and I'm thinking,
oh geez, she's getting awfully close to that that metal
railing along the river on the boardwalk. And sure enough
the handle bars fixed the rail and don on one
eight she's she's gone us overhead and we were looking
on these things. I don't know what the max feeds.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
On them, but.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yes, we were doing a few knot so long the
board wark and I've gone straight past her. And as
I've gone past, I've.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Heard her hit the deck like come and go back.
I'm oh ship she's really not looking good. Like she's
looking a little bit groggy. I was thinking, oh, geez,
I have to poll the ambos here like at a
recovery position, sure enough, like like the terminator. She's got
up and and all right, well we'll leave these vibscars,
(04:56):
even go back to the car, give her a pen at.
I was like, I, reckon, that's probably the end of
the day.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I've got to take that.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
And this is where it gets really bad, is so
I put her through the door and I'm out of there.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
I shoot down the road, shoot down the road, and
I just shoot her a text, go how'd you go?
Like you're right? And she said as I walked through
the door, my nose started bleeding.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I'm on the way to the hospital.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
And I'm I'm thinking, oh, geez, kriche, this is not
good for me to meet you at the hospital anything like.
So I've shooted off home. And I was living on
the Sunny Coast at the time, so I've gone back
to the Sunny Coast next there she's still an emergency.
Hasn't seen anyone right over? Well, yeah, that's that's what
it is. See how she's going, See how she's going
(05:43):
the next morning, and she's only just left the hospital
as I've gone to work. I've given her a text,
how'd you go? Just left the hospital? Seen the sturgeon
might need surgery, had a fractured fat like fractured her
skull in three different pots.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And did you ever did you say that is? Did
you have a date again? Tom? Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Look, this is bad. This is bad.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I didn't see her again.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Chris well into point. You're one of my favorites, mate,
What do you what's your what's your what's your bad
dating story?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah? Look, next week's actually my twentieth wedding anniversary. I
proposed to my wife on Valentine's Day twenty one years ago.
Beautiful that we got to go back to just before
we actually even met. We went out on our first
date together for the very first time, and you know,
we did the whole dinner and went up to Microbaut
(06:41):
lookout and you know, looked into each other's eyes, and
you know, he did what most young couples do. And
then about three four o'clock in the morning, I decided
to drop a big truth bomb. I was actually engaged
to another woman. And one month away from walking down
the aisle, so everything was paid for honeymoon, you know.
The week we had rallies flying in from overseas and
(07:03):
I told her, I said, this date has actually gone
better than what I thought. I'm going to break off
the wedding. And yeah, so the next morning that's exactly
what I did. I broke it all off and I
told my partner. And then one month later I proposed
to her, and yeah, here we are twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Holy, so much to unpack.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You go, what why are you dating someone else when
you were a month out from being married?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Good question, you know, I guess the whole free wedding
jitters and stuff, and you know, the arming and ring
like this is? Is this how you know things are
meant to be?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
There were little things along the way which maybe I
sort of pushed into the back of my mind, you know,
maybe cold feet or something. But you know, as a guy,
you just sort of pushed through and think everything's all right.
You know, it's just as I said pre wedding jitters.
But after meeting you know, my now wife, I realized
that night that it wasn't and I actually probably didn't
(07:59):
want to go with it, and I just sort of,
you know, ignored the signs.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So yeah, it's an interesting way to make that discis
I mean, twenty years later, you're obviously are properly in love,
but the kids and yeah, your partner, Now that was
she ever worried like, you know, like leading up to
your wedding to her like that, you know previously you'd
been dating a month before the wedding.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, I guess I don't know, because I've never actually
asked that question for the truth, But I guess the
fact that I fell head over heels and you know,
I proposed to were only one month after meeting her. Obviously,
it was literally around the day I was meant to
actually get married to this other woman that I proposed
to my now wife. So everything happened so fast and quick,
and I guess it's meant to be. Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
What happened to the poor jilter engaged woman.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
She's actually married now with like six kids. But I mean,
this is actually the first time I've ever told anyone
this story. She actually doesn't you know, so hopefully she's
not listening.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But yeah, okay, so she doesn't know that you slept
with another woman a month before you would do to
get married and they broke up.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But you know, like things when you're having a great time.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But yeah, okay, he slept with It was four am
in the morning. Look semantic?
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Should you should know that place?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Kisses?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Okay, it's semantics because actually what you were doing were
cheating on your fiance?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And how did she go when.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You I didn't tell my fiance at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So we'll just say I've had a change of heart.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Is that how? Well? Yeah, there's actually another part of
that story, the aftermath, which maybe will say for another day.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But no, no, I'm mean, yeah, we can play a
song and come back with the aftermath. What's what give us?
The give us the aftermath? What I actually hold on?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Want to hang on? Okay, Chris, the aftermath? Come on,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
We just ripped the band aid off.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I guess, yeah, we are.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Okay. So now it comes to the next morning. So
it was actually the bride'smaid and my bride's final fitting
to their dresses.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's the day that you tell her that you're calling
the wedding off.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
That's right, this very next morning, I haven't gone to bed.
I've been on a massive high adrenaline rush and comes
ten am and they knew I was meant to meet
them there. We're going to go out for a bit
of a brunch thing after the you know, the final
fittings and everything. So I've rocked up just as the
(10:45):
whole rival party and my fiance at the time was
walking out of the dress fitters and she runs up
to me and she says, oh, my god, my wedding
dress so beautiful, And the various first words that came
out of my mouth was yeah, about that. Wow, And
basically I sort of pulled it off right then and
(11:07):
there on the side of yeah, the road there, and
her sister sort of who was probably about twenty paces
back behind her, thought when what was happening? In the
next minute, there was shoes being thrown and yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
He was.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, it just all went down like that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So you would have been a hated man for a
bit there.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah. Yeah. I pretty much just went back to the apartment,
packed up a couple of things and left, and I
didn't want anything. When we broke up, I just said, look,
you take it. I guess it's probably, you know, probably
for the best. It was easier to just sort of,
you know, pack up and move on as quick as possible.
But yeah, we've never spoken a word.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Yeah, never spoke no one.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
No one knows that full story. But I mean, she
married a fireman and had some kids, and she's obviously
living a happy life. He's been married for nearly twenty years.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
A self, Chris, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I don't know whether to respect your bravery about being
honest or to kind of I don't want to judge you,
because everyone lives their own life and we all have
to find our own way. But you have some big
cahoonas my family. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, you did it before though. I
married sir, and you both got twenty years twenty year
relationships for the bear.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Because obviously it was obviously worked out for the best
of us.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I looked at it at the time, was it's better
to do it before you get married, because after it's
just so much harder. There's so much more you know,
politics involved. Things get really messy, you know, and it's
not just yourselves that get hurt. It's all family and
friends and everything too that you know, we're they're supporting
you along the way.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So give us just hanging there once their Chris, it's
a three part of Chris. Well, that is one story
I think.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I want to tell the grandkids, I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So if you had your time over, would you do
it like that again?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I probably would because it's probably more in line with
how I am in my nature, Like I don't like
to let things sit. I like to sort of just
pull the band aid off and just deal with the
after month that comes, because I don't believe you should
be you know, just sort of skipping around and just
sort of not you know, telling the truth about different things,
(13:24):
like you know, I know it must hurt at the time,
but it's better to not have that sitting insight and
just you know.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Hey, Chris, did you I know you you met the
love of your life on that date and that's and
that's awesome. Did you go on any other dates with
other people?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
No? No, Okay, so I've been interesting pretty much.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
It's just one of those things where when you know,
you know, like and you know, how did.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You find her? Did you put yourself out there?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
How did that part of it?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I don't understand, Like you could have broken up with
your then fiance and then found this woman like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But at the time I was working in it. So
you know, back in the day yahoo chat, you spent
a lot of time different chat rooms, you know, board whatever,
And that's exactly what happened. You know. I was just
you know, doing some work and jumped on Yahoo Chat
back in the day, and yeah, I just happened to
bump into her and just started doing like just general talking.
(14:21):
And she was the one that actually, you know, sort
of said do you want to meet up? And I
probably should have said no if I was you know.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I'm unhappy with that first lag.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Obviously, otherwise you wouldn't have done it like I did.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I wish I didn't propose.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's all I do.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Do you think that the better option would have been
just not proposed to the person you weren't fully happy with?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I guess probably, like I could have gone about doing
things differently. But at the same time, looking back, I go, well,
obviously I made the right decision. Things happened for a reason,
and that's exactly why I've been married for twenty years
for two kids. Like you know, I've made a great
life for myself, and so I was my ex So
you know, I can't. I can't look at the negatives
and say, you know, there's no positives out of it. So, yeah,
(15:05):
you can't.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Argue with the results.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You can't argue with the results. But it was. It
hurt a lot of people in the process.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It does. But you know everyone's happy now, so that's
all that really matters.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
But yeah, you know, I'd love to find her and
ask her that.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yeah, I guess maybe not.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
How would you feel about it, Chris, if we try
to get her on for a chat.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Oh, that's really opening up a can of worms.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, you think about it, because like we could do it.
We could reach out to her and see how she
feels and see if she's if it all is forgiving.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're brave. It's she may be
totally fine. I mean, look, if she wants to have
a chat about I guess that's something we maybe could do. Okay,
that she doesn't and she's happy to let the past
(16:02):
be in the past, then that's fine.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Okay, Well let us let us let's send you back
to our producing team and let's see what we can
find out.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh man, have you am of Logan Holme? What happened?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Well, guys, this is a big one. So I went
on a date with this guy. The activity of choice
was hiking. So as I was on the way to
the hike with him in the car, I found out
that he was a suspect in a major murder case.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh my lord, let's go, let's go hiking in the bush.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
How did you find that out?
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Well, yeah, a bit of a weird thing to just
admit to. But we kind of knew each other from
a place kind of back home, and this big kind
of case happened. And then I found out that's why
he left, because he was a suspect in this case.
And yeah, he kind of went into say some details.
(17:01):
And let's just say it was the quickest damn hike
I'd ever been one.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Did you see you're dropping things and telling people that
come fu, Can you.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Just come from me?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
What what you went through?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It that you still you still liked I?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Did you know what?
Speaker 7 (17:18):
I made sure I didn't stand me any cliff edges?
And I literally was pretty much running.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Isn't that fun? Like that's what they say, though, we're
so afraid of hurting someone's feelings that will put ourselves
in grave danger. Suspected murder go along with it because
I don't hurt his feeling.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Did he get was it? Did it end up being him?
Or did he was he?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Well, I had a little bit of a peace of
mind in knowing that there was another major suspect.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
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we are that bad. You're the one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 7 (18:00):
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Speaker 2 (18:03):
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Robin Kit in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Right now, we're getting ready for Valentine's Day. It's Saturday,
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You say that like it's a revelation.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Saturday, everyone sadday. I'm talking to myself. I'm talking to
myself in the car. It's Saturday. Yes, just get ready.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
We've got one hundred and fifty dollars flowers for everyone voucher,
and so we want to give it to someone.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And we were talking about, you know, how should we
do this, and you two immediately said, let's.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Get nightmare stories. Can I just tell us about dates.
I'm terribly wrong.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Asked one question.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know, they say it's the effort that counts.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yes, So would one flower?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Do?
Speaker 6 (00:38):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
If you thought about it and put a nice note?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm just saying that's effort, yeah. Or how far did
you have to travel to get the flower?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I don't care you picked it from the garden?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
No?
Speaker 6 (00:48):
If one you've got one flower?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Is that enough?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You know what stuns me about you, too, particularly, is
how much effort you put in trying to deny the
fact that you should put in any effort.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Because you know what, if you took a fraction at.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That time and just went, you know what, I'm just
going to go buy some flowers.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Right, let me get the nightmare date stories started then,
and then let me tell you something, because effort, effort
does not always equal results. Okay, and so this is
what I had. I organized the date and I went
to effort.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Which relationship are we talking a while ago?
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Okay, this is not current creating marriage?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And I and I organized a picnic in the park
a lunch. I'll come and get you at lunch. There's
a park down the road. You're you know, she was
at work and I organized a picnic in the park.
And I went and got her favorite Italian food shair
like this Italian restaurant. Yeah, I got that takeaway. And
then she also like this gelato place down there, so
I went and got little gelato cups. Put him in
(01:45):
a little eski with ice, lovely right, effort.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Effort, that's too much.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What happens.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm putting out the blankets and you know, and we're
all and it's all going fairly well. But this was
in w A and this whatever this park was. The
seagull situation was out of control, right, so there's no
serenity while we're trying to have this conversation. There's just
seagulls and and so eventually I thought, well, here's how
(02:14):
old chased the seagulls off. I've reached into the esk
and I grabbed a block of ice and one, you know,
there's like four or five bits that had stuck together,
and I thought, I just threw it at the at
the pack of seagulls. Now, just by pure chance, I
cracked one of them fair in their head. No, And
so the other seagulls have flown off, and now this
(02:34):
one limp seagull is kicking around on the ground throwing
the ice. I I'm not that hard, but I just
hit it plump. Somehow I got it, and I geez,
I've got a good arm still. And then I've sort
of and you know, and now the conversation's changed about
a wounded seagull. It's the wounded seagull, which I'm trying
(02:57):
to go, no, no, he'll be fine, and I'm like
trying to push him, like he's letting me touch it.
That's not a good side. And I'm pretty sure the
date ended with her with her saying, you've killed it.
My god, you've killed it.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And see you again.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And that was that. That's what happens when you put
an effort.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Okay, so now this is why I kip once to
get stories worse than that.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Tom Mada Wilson, what happened?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Good?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Hey guys, how.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
That's to go?
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Look similar thing? Put in a bit of effort, went
out on like a nice date along the river in
Brizee and a few beers notice Italian restaurant and all
these lime schooners are getting past. Oh jeez, that looks
fun and.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Schooner along you do?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Are you drinking? As you two on the one scooter.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Like that on their own scooters?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Now?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
And this this old she's getting up ahead, and I'm thinking,
oh geez, she's getting awfully close to that that metal
railing along the river on the boardwalk. And sure enough
the handle bars fixed the rail and don on one
eight she's she's gone us overhead and we were looking
on these things. I don't know what the max feeds.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
On them, but.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yes, we were doing a few knot so long the
board wark and I've gone straight past her. And as
I've gone past, I've.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Heard her hit the deck like come and go back.
I'm oh ship she's really not looking good. Like she's
looking a little bit groggy. I was thinking, oh, geez,
I have to poll the ambos here like at a
recovery position, sure enough, like like the terminator. She's got
up and and all right, well we'll leave these vibscars,
(04:56):
even go back to the car, give her a pen at.
I was like, I, reckon, that's probably the end of
the day.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I've got to take that.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
And this is where it gets really bad, is so
I put her through the door and I'm out of there.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
I shoot down the road, shoot down the road, and
I just shoot her a text, go how'd you go?
Like you're right? And she said as I walked through
the door, my nose started bleeding.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I'm on the way to the hospital.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
And I'm I'm thinking, oh, geez, kriche, this is not
good for me to meet you at the hospital anything like.
So I've shooted off home. And I was living on
the Sunny Coast at the time, so I've gone back
to the Sunny Coast next there she's still an emergency.
Hasn't seen anyone right over? Well, yeah, that's that's what
it is. See how she's going, See how she's going
(05:43):
the next morning, and she's only just left the hospital
as I've gone to work. I've given her a text,
how'd you go? Just left the hospital? Seen the sturgeon
might need surgery, had a fractured fat like fractured her
skull in three different pots.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And did you ever did you say that is? Did
you have a date again? Tom? Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Look, this is bad. This is bad.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I didn't see her again.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Chris well into point. You're one of my favorites, mate,
What do you what's your what's your what's your bad
dating story?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah? Look, next week's actually my twentieth wedding anniversary. I
proposed to my wife on Valentine's Day twenty one years ago.
Beautiful that we got to go back to just before
we actually even met. We went out on our first
date together for the very first time, and you know,
we did the whole dinner and went up to Microbaut
(06:41):
lookout and you know, looked into each other's eyes, and
you know, he did what most young couples do. And
then about three four o'clock in the morning, I decided
to drop a big truth bomb. I was actually engaged
to another woman. And one month away from walking down
the aisle, so everything was paid for honeymoon, you know.
The week we had rallies flying in from overseas and
(07:03):
I told her, I said, this date has actually gone
better than what I thought. I'm going to break off
the wedding. And yeah, so the next morning that's exactly
what I did. I broke it all off and I
told my partner. And then one month later I proposed
to her, and yeah, here we are twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Holy, so much to unpack.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You go, what why are you dating someone else when
you were a month out from being married?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Good question, you know, I guess the whole free wedding
jitters and stuff, and you know, the arming and ring
like this is? Is this how you know things are
meant to be?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
You know?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
There were little things along the way which maybe I
sort of pushed into the back of my mind, you know,
maybe cold feet or something. But you know, as a guy,
you just sort of pushed through and think everything's all right.
You know, it's just as I said pre wedding jitters.
But after meeting you know, my now wife, I realized
that night that it wasn't and I actually probably didn't
(07:59):
want to go with it, and I just sort of,
you know, ignored the signs.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So yeah, it's an interesting way to make that discis
I mean, twenty years later, you're obviously are properly in love,
but the kids and yeah, your partner, Now that was
she ever worried like, you know, like leading up to
your wedding to her like that, you know previously you'd
been dating a month before the wedding.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, I guess I don't know, because I've never actually
asked that question for the truth, But I guess the
fact that I fell head over heels and you know,
I proposed to were only one month after meeting her. Obviously,
it was literally around the day I was meant to
actually get married to this other woman that I proposed
to my now wife. So everything happened so fast and quick,
and I guess it's meant to be. Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
What happened to the poor jilter engaged woman.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
She's actually married now with like six kids. But I mean,
this is actually the first time I've ever told anyone
this story. She actually doesn't you know, so hopefully she's
not listening.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But yeah, okay, so she doesn't know that you slept
with another woman a month before you would do to
get married and they broke up.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But you know, like things when you're having a great time.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But yeah, okay, he slept with It was four am
in the morning. Look semantic?
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Should you should know that place?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Kisses?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Okay, it's semantics because actually what you were doing were
cheating on your fiance?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And how did she go when.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You I didn't tell my fiance at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So we'll just say I've had a change of heart.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Is that how? Well? Yeah, there's actually another part of
that story, the aftermath, which maybe will say for another day.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But no, no, I'm mean, yeah, we can play a
song and come back with the aftermath. What's what give us?
The give us the aftermath? What I actually hold on?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Want to hang on? Okay, Chris, the aftermath? Come on,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
We just ripped the band aid off.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I guess, yeah, we are.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Okay. So now it comes to the next morning. So
it was actually the bride'smaid and my bride's final fitting
to their dresses.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
That's the day that you tell her that you're calling
the wedding off.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
That's right, this very next morning, I haven't gone to bed.
I've been on a massive high adrenaline rush and comes
ten am and they knew I was meant to meet
them there. We're going to go out for a bit
of a brunch thing after the you know, the final
fittings and everything. So I've rocked up just as the
(10:45):
whole rival party and my fiance at the time was
walking out of the dress fitters and she runs up
to me and she says, oh, my god, my wedding
dress so beautiful, And the various first words that came
out of my mouth was yeah, about that. Wow, And
basically I sort of pulled it off right then and
(11:07):
there on the side of yeah, the road there, and
her sister sort of who was probably about twenty paces
back behind her, thought when what was happening? In the
next minute, there was shoes being thrown and yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
He was.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, it just all went down like that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So you would have been a hated man for a
bit there.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah. Yeah. I pretty much just went back to the apartment,
packed up a couple of things and left, and I
didn't want anything. When we broke up, I just said, look,
you take it. I guess it's probably, you know, probably
for the best. It was easier to just sort of,
you know, pack up and move on as quick as possible.
But yeah, we've never spoken a word.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Yeah, never spoke no one.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
No one knows that full story. But I mean, she
married a fireman and had some kids, and she's obviously
living a happy life. He's been married for nearly twenty years.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
A self, Chris, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I don't know whether to respect your bravery about being
honest or to kind of I don't want to judge you,
because everyone lives their own life and we all have
to find our own way. But you have some big
cahoonas my family. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, you did it before though. I
married sir, and you both got twenty years twenty year
relationships for the bear.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Because obviously it was obviously worked out for the best
of us.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I looked at it at the time, was it's better
to do it before you get married, because after it's
just so much harder. There's so much more you know,
politics involved. Things get really messy, you know, and it's
not just yourselves that get hurt. It's all family and
friends and everything too that you know, we're they're supporting
you along the way.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So give us just hanging there once their Chris, it's
a three part of Chris. Well, that is one story
I think.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I want to tell the grandkids, I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So if you had your time over, would you do
it like that again?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I probably would because it's probably more in line with
how I am in my nature, Like I don't like
to let things sit. I like to sort of just
pull the band aid off and just deal with the
after month that comes, because I don't believe you should
be you know, just sort of skipping around and just
sort of not you know, telling the truth about different things,
(13:24):
like you know, I know it must hurt at the time,
but it's better to not have that sitting insight and
just you know.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Hey, Chris, did you I know you you met the
love of your life on that date and that's and
that's awesome. Did you go on any other dates with
other people?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
No? No, Okay, so I've been interesting pretty much.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
It's just one of those things where when you know,
you know, like and you know, how did.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You find her? Did you put yourself out there?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Like?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
How did that part of it?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I don't understand, Like you could have broken up with
your then fiance and then found this woman like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But at the time I was working in it. So
you know, back in the day yahoo chat, you spent
a lot of time different chat rooms, you know, board whatever,
And that's exactly what happened. You know. I was just
you know, doing some work and jumped on Yahoo Chat
back in the day, and yeah, I just happened to
bump into her and just started doing like just general talking.
(14:21):
And she was the one that actually, you know, sort
of said do you want to meet up? And I
probably should have said no if I was you know.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I'm unhappy with that first lag.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Obviously, otherwise you wouldn't have done it like I did.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
I wish I didn't propose.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
That's all I do.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Do you think that the better option would have been
just not proposed to the person you weren't fully happy with?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I guess probably, like I could have gone about doing
things differently. But at the same time, looking back, I go, well,
obviously I made the right decision. Things happened for a reason,
and that's exactly why I've been married for twenty years
for two kids. Like you know, I've made a great
life for myself, and so I was my ex So
you know, I can't. I can't look at the negatives
and say, you know, there's no positives out of it. So, yeah,
(15:05):
you can't.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Argue with the results.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You can't argue with the results. But it was. It
hurt a lot of people in the process.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It does. But you know everyone's happy now, so that's
all that really matters.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
But yeah, you know, I'd love to find her and
ask her that.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yeah, I guess maybe not.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
How would you feel about it, Chris, if we try
to get her on for a chat.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Oh, that's really opening up a can of worms.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, you think about it, because like we could do it.
We could reach out to her and see how she
feels and see if she's if it all is forgiving.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're brave. It's she may be
totally fine. I mean, look, if she wants to have
a chat about I guess that's something we maybe could do. Okay,
that she doesn't and she's happy to let the past
(16:02):
be in the past, then that's fine.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Okay, Well let us let us let's send you back
to our producing team and let's see what we can
find out.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh man, have you am of Logan Holme? What happened?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Well, guys, this is a big one. So I went
on a date with this guy. The activity of choice
was hiking. So as I was on the way to
the hike with him in the car, I found out
that he was a suspect in a major murder case.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh my lord, let's go, let's go hiking in the bush.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
How did you find that out?
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Well, yeah, a bit of a weird thing to just
admit to. But we kind of knew each other from
a place kind of back home, and this big kind
of case happened. And then I found out that's why
he left, because he was a suspect in this case.
And yeah, he kind of went into say some details.
(17:01):
And let's just say it was the quickest damn hike
I'd ever been one.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Did you see you're dropping things and telling people that
come fu, Can you.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Just come from me?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
What what you went through?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It that you still you still liked I?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Did you know what?
Speaker 7 (17:18):
I made sure I didn't stand me any cliff edges?
And I literally was pretty much running.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Isn't that fun? Like that's what they say, though, we're
so afraid of hurting someone's feelings that will put ourselves
in grave danger. Suspected murder go along with it because
I don't hurt his feeling.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Did he get was it? Did it end up being him?
Or did he was he?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Well, I had a little bit of a peace of
mind in knowing that there was another major suspect.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So there's only two fifty chance you're taking that where
we are that bad. You're the one hundred and fifty
dollars at Flowers for everyone, for you and well done.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
That is what.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
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