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December 17, 2024 31 mins

This year we started a brand new segment called What Are The Odds. It was meant to just be a one-time thing but we got so many incredible stories about coincidences and chance that we ended up doing it all year long. Even though we’re on a break we’d love to keep hearing your stories so shoot me an email christian@christianoconnell.com.au

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast
Wednesday morning.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
What are the odds believe it or not? Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:09):
What are the odds?

Speaker 4 (00:11):
You've gotta be justing me, Like why you were Quinn
who married a queen?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
What are the odds believe.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
It or not?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
We don't know, Christian? What are the odds?

Speaker 5 (00:31):
My colleague one morning at work was cracking eggs. She
got six double egg yolks in a row. Wow, we
can believe it. We start filming. This is like good
this I'm not meaning this is a great date work?
Is that genuinely is a great date work? All twelve

(00:51):
eggs in the carton were doublers, and we got the
remaining six bang bang bang bang bang on video.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
What are the odds?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
With each egg that's cracked, you get more and more excited.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, but surely the chances get harder.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, harder and harder. But it must be some kind
of special chicken doing all the same ones.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
You reckonize something like that special chicken.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
One chicken who has a mutation that gives a double
Now it's.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Got a mutation, Christian.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
In the nineties, my mum sold a knitting machine to
a lady in pasco Velle. About ten years later I
meet my now wife. We have our engagement party. By
the way, I haven't fully read this. I just got
excited about the nitting machine. I'm suddenly realizing, Wait, I
don't know if this is any good. I should select
stuff like this. A professional would do that, for example. Well,

(01:50):
was I Pascoville.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
My mum in the nineteen sold a knitting machine to
a lady in pasco Belle. Ten years later, when I
met my now wife, we had our engagement party. When
we were greeting the guests at the door, my mom
was with us, and the lady that my mum sold
the knitting machine walked in. My aum asked why she
was there. She said there was an engagement for her cousin.

(02:12):
My mom said there wasn't. It wasn't my engagement in. Otherwise,
my wife and I could have met years earlier. Twelve
double It's not twelve doubles, is it's it's not mutation,
all right?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
So let's go to Mary Anne here. Good morning, Marianne, Hello,
Good morning everyone. How are we there?

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Were?

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Good?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Mary Anne? Yes? What are.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Sorry? Mary Owned? What's your story for us.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
So I've got a pretty fun story. It's about me
and my partner. So when we first met, as you
do when you first meet someone, you're getting to know them,
we found out that we had a lot of coincidences
between us that were a little bit amazing actually, so
I'll get just to two of them. So for context,

(03:09):
he's a furniture wholesaler and twenty about twenty twenty five
years ago, my brother used to work in a retail
furnisure store, and it turns out that my partner's dad
was actually his supplier at the time.

Speaker 7 (03:24):
Whilst he was.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Working there, he also had a desk custom made by
his dad. Move forward to today, my brother actually still
has this desk in his house. And then so whilst
we're getting to know each other, we you know, we're dating,
I'm actually renovating my house. He's helping me pack up
one of the spare rooms in which I had a

(03:46):
queen bed gifted to me from one of my friends
just to have it, you know, as a spare bed
in the room. So we're packing everything up so we
could start painting the walls, and he's like, Mary.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
When did you get touching it in area. Hello, there
we are.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
I think Marianne's gone. Let's go to We'll try and
get how about later, Peter?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
You there, Hew, you going, guys, I'm good. Peter. What
are the odds? Peter? What's your story? What are the odds?

Speaker 6 (04:11):
When I was a young fellow Gripe and Frankston, I
used to do archery, bought bows and arrows from a
guy up the road. Years later, working construction, I met
a guy where we were renovating walls and things, and
we used to write our names on the back of
the plastic sheets and the date that we put them up.
And then a few years after that, he bought a
house and said, look, I want to pull some walls out.

(04:31):
Can you come and tell me if they're structural? So
when I got there, I said, hey, this is the
same house I've used to buy bows and arrows from,
told him the story. About three years after that, the
last job he was doing was the kitchen. He pulled
a cupboard off the wall and found my father's signature,
dated nineteen fifty three.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wow, right, so your dad was doing the same thing.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yes, well, he built the house in nineteen fifty three.
Unbeknowns to me, wow. So he cut a bit of
plaster and brought it back to me, and I gave
it to my father and he said, oh yeah, I
built that house.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
A family and him now that ripped off behind it.
That is incredible.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (05:13):
So what are the odds are that.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
You don't know?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
You play, Peter friend?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Everyone had a Rodwell today? All right, Peter, thank you
very much your story mate.

Speaker 6 (05:24):
No worries.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
So the Christian Connell Show podcast, What.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Are the odds? What's your story for us? Annie?

Speaker 9 (05:30):
Well, I was standing in the kitchen having a glass
of wine as you do, cooking dinner, but just observing
my three year old just playing around. But she was
in a bit of a bad meat So all of
a sudden I see buck in slow mo. This Barbie
goes through the air. She showed at me. Barbie goes
through the air and landed steak first in my glass
of wine.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Barbie, trick shot.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's a trick shot she got.

Speaker 9 (06:00):
If she can't look like me, I guess like she
was half naked with like messy hair in a glass
of wine. That's not that perfect?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Is this a mirror? Annie? Thank you very much? She
killed I have a good day.

Speaker 10 (06:14):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Lisa, good morning.

Speaker 10 (06:18):
Good morning.

Speaker 11 (06:19):
How are you all?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
We're good, Lisa. So what's your story for us? Lisa?

Speaker 10 (06:22):
Okay, I have two daughters. Mother's Day weekend. Last year,
my older daughter rushed to hospital, had to have her.

Speaker 11 (06:29):
Gall bladder out.

Speaker 10 (06:30):
This year, this Mother's Day weekend, my youngest daughter rush
to hospital, had to have a gall bladder out.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
No way, yes, way, the same day. Yep, yep. That
is incredible.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 10 (06:47):
What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Are the odds the same day? You don't seem.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
As I actually don't know which one the gall bladder is.
That's not right.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
They don't need to you just hear the story.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
He's really interest about flipping. It's incredible, Lisa, is incredible.
All right, Lisa, thank you.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
So you need to get a replacement or can you
just go without?

Speaker 5 (07:15):
No, you can go without it.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, I think you can even do that without a
spleen as well.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
It's not ideal, but if you recommend it, I certainly
wouldn't condone it. Where are we? And that's it on
the radio. What are the odds? Cheryl?

Speaker 12 (07:31):
What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Hi?

Speaker 12 (07:34):
Guys, my name is Cheryl and I was married to
a man called Hunts, and I worked with a Hunt
who was married to a Cheryl. One Christmas, we gave
each other a Christmas card which was exactly the same card,
and it read to Cheryl and hands from Haunts and Cheryl,
that is amazing.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
This is an incredible story, Cheryl.

Speaker 12 (07:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Rio.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
You need to get back in the studio. You know
you were you a twin who married a twin in
your song?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Were you a Cheryl.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Who married Hans who knew married Han who knew Cheryl?

Speaker 2 (08:14):
But or not, we don't know. Cheryl. This is an
incredible story.

Speaker 12 (08:21):
It is, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah? I bet you have to tell people this all
the time.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (08:27):
I kept it feased because I thought that is so
I'm Kenny that you could give the same Christmas card.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah, it is. We don't keep those stories inside. I
say they're too good. They're too good.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I think she meant she kept the Christmas card.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Oh sorry, I thought it was like a revealed party
we've had today. I've always wanted to be a part
of them. Maybe tomorrow, all right, Cheryl.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Story. I love it. Cheryl. You take care now.

Speaker 12 (08:53):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's you. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Uh Tillies Tales yeah, what are the odds?

Speaker 10 (09:01):
What are the ard?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
You got it? Tails?

Speaker 13 (09:06):
I was walking my dog Walter along the dog beach
one day, came across another golden retriever. They were absolutely inseparable.
Wouldn't playing together? Couldn't that was completely inseparable. Asked the
other owner how old her dog was. She said two years,

(09:28):
and that was exactly how old Walter was. I asked
her the data birth, same data birth, go and behold
from the same name, a leader of a leader of
twelve that were brothers.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
And behold, Wow, what you were Walter dog?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (09:52):
Don't come on, no tails, that is that is what.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Are the producers thinking?

Speaker 1 (10:02):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
What are the odds? Your stories of coincidence and chance?
Nine four one four one oh four three Good monitor
Richie Gannon just emailed me listen to the show, Christian.
I was there and I suffer too. That faithful day
Pats told that terrible story about.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
A cup of tea. Not a terrible story. Come on, Richard,
don't do that.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
She said. You made a great cup of tape.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
That punchline probably one of the greatest punchlines ever.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
She said, you made a great cup of tape.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
And it's always nice when someone just yells out the
non punchline at you for impact.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Believe it.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
It happened nine four one four one oh four three.
What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Donna? Good morning, Good morning, What.

Speaker 8 (10:48):
Are the odds?

Speaker 7 (10:50):
I am moved into a new house and my little
two year old at the time ran over to the
neighbor who was out the front. So I thought I'd
better chase him and introduced myself. So I did, and
I went high on Donna, and he goes, I'll get
out of here and started laughing, and I go, well,
it's not funny. And he goes, my wife's name's Donna,

(11:11):
and I went, oh, okay, and then he goes, oh,
my name's Mark, and I went, no way, get out
of here. My husband's name's Mark.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
This is amazing. Donna and Mark meet Mark and Donna. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:27):
And to top it off, we got more neighbors as
the years went on, and next the other side of
me was a Mark and Michelle, and the other side
of them was a Mark and Mussel.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Very French, come Marcel, Marcell was a.

Speaker 7 (11:47):
Mine in the street anymore.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
So, Wow, what a street you know where you lived
on Coincidence Street.

Speaker 7 (11:58):
Yeah it was. And believe it or not, now the
two donors we don't were no longer with the marks,
but we're both still best friends slash adoptive sisters to
this day.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Like, what's the adoptive sisters that?

Speaker 7 (12:16):
Well, we call each other sisters, I thought, because.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
The world changes so quickly, you can adopt a mate
and say's your brother or sister.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Mate, John, I get them really well with them. My
dot him as my brother.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Another Mark lives.

Speaker 7 (12:33):
Away, so we were we class each other as sisters.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Is that lovely? So you're both donors, you're no longer
with the marks? No married? Yeah? Which Donna kicked her
Wich Mark out first.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Me right when you started a trend.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
This story only gets cuter if the two Marks are together. No,
they're not. They're not even trends, Donna. It's a great story,
well told. Thank you very much, No worries.

Speaker 7 (13:04):
Guys, have an amazing day.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
And you producers. Can you click that audio and email
it to Patsy Mary Anne? Good morning, Christian, Okay, welcome
to the show. What are the odds?

Speaker 14 (13:22):
All right?

Speaker 15 (13:23):
The other day I popped on an episode of Friends
then switched gears and moved on to an episode of
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. When I was interviewing one of the cheerleaders,
just pottering around the house and in the background she
had on friends and it was the exact episode.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
I had just what, this is incredible, very spooky, this
is huge. What was the episode, by the way, it
was one.

Speaker 15 (13:54):
It was one where the adoption lady visited Chandler and
Monica's house. Yeah, I can't remember what.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
The or.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
This is incredible, Maria, what a story.

Speaker 14 (14:07):
It was.

Speaker 15 (14:08):
I was like wow, and I was just me and
no one was there to see it.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
So well.

Speaker 15 (14:14):
I told a lot of people this story.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
You told low Moore on the radio, and it needs
to be told. It's an incredible story.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I love it.

Speaker 15 (14:23):
Yeah, all the friendsidents out there, it was amazing.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Thank you very much. Cool.

Speaker 15 (14:37):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Isn't that an amazing story? I love that one. Let's
get one last one, Marissa. Yes, hi, guys, how are
you going with Welcome to the show?

Speaker 13 (14:47):
Thank you, thank you. I listened to it every morning
on the way to work and looks like you have
to fool laughing my head off.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Someone listens every day laughing. It's slim. That's one in
a million. Marissa. You go, what's your story for us? Mate?

Speaker 13 (15:04):
So yeah, look, I actually had This was back in
two thousand and four. I went into to Rio in
Brazil for a church conference and we all had our
name lapels on and sort of where we were from.
And a guy that stepped next to me. He looked
at my lapel and he said, oh, you're from Australia
and I said, and he said, oh, I've got a
cousin that migrated there. And I said, oh, look, Australia's

(15:27):
quite big. Do you know what stayed in his life?
I have no idea. We were actually separated sort of
quite young due to the civil war in Africa. So
they're from Angola, and I said, I'm going, okay, look
I know someone from Angola. So I said, well, what's
his name? So he let me know his name, and
I went, can I show you a photo? And so

(15:49):
I showed him a phone and he goes, no, way,
that's my cousin. So I said, you know what, I'm
going to give him a call because I thought, you know,
let's just concern this. So I gave him a call.
Poor guy, woken up in the middle of the night
obviously because there's a time difference, but sure enough that
was they were reunited and they didn't even know they
had lost contact completely due to the civil wars back

(16:11):
in the day. And yeah, they just got reunited by
a new coincidence of miles and miles away.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
You reunited them, well, I.

Speaker 13 (16:21):
Mean they actually, So he's the guy we know here
in Australia. He goes back and forth to Angola and
the other and his cousin was in Rio also for
the same conference. So when he's returned back to Africa,
they got in touch and exchanged all their addresses and everything.
So they when he went back, they met up again
and they just shared photos with us and everything. So

(16:43):
he lives here with his family, and his cousin is
still back in Africa, but they often now are able
to visit each other and they reunited and also amongst
other family members because during the civil war obviously a
lot of family got groups apart, so they slowly have been,
you know, trying to find family members here and there.
So it's just been a wonderful, a wonderful memory, like

(17:05):
it still sticks with me every time I think about it.

Speaker 11 (17:07):
I get a little bit emotional.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
It's a beautiful story, incredbent and if you hadn't start
talking to that guy and take an interest, it was
to me.

Speaker 13 (17:16):
At the conference and so good night just happened to
look at the lapel and the only thing he knew
about his cousin was that his cousin ended up in
as a refugee. Probably that makes a bit more sense,
ended up in Australia as a refugee. And so he said,
I only know he's in Australia, And I thought, no,
there's no chance that we are going to know, but
let's just try anyway, And yeah, sure enough it was him. So, yeah,

(17:40):
it was I guess nothing short of a miracle.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, absoually, I think we'd say that. Marissa.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Thanks so much for showing that story. It's a beautiful story,
one that will stay with us.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
It's lovely. Thank you so much.

Speaker 13 (17:52):
You're welcome. All right, guys, have a great day an thank.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
You very much.

Speaker 16 (17:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
All right, Richards, welcome to the show. Good morning, Richard.
What have you got for us?

Speaker 16 (18:07):
So preparing my breakfast? Just the other day I cracked
open the egg and had two yolks inside the one egg.
And then I went on to have a banana and
peeled the banana, and there were two bananas inside the
one peel.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Ah of the legend of the double yoke, but not
the double nana.

Speaker 16 (18:25):
I know, I'd never seen that before I heard of it.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
It was quite bizarre.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Surely you could tell from the outside of the banana
there was two boys in there.

Speaker 16 (18:32):
It was a bit wider than usual, but not not
mysteriously so.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
But then you might just think it's a thick one
with extra girls. You know, I wouldn't think there were
two boys. It's usual words waiting in there for me.
But one man's pleasure, another one's a light.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
What are the chances double yoku to the double boy. Well,
I'm rich Richard, Thanks you CoA, have a good day.
Thanks guys, you do good voice. That guy we all
sort of fell into lyne around him. Diane, Good morning,
Good morning, guys.

Speaker 17 (19:03):
How are you this morning?

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Good Diane? So what are don't worry bout it? What
are what are they on?

Speaker 13 (19:14):
So?

Speaker 2 (19:14):
If you go, thank you, I hope you can leave
me hanging what you didn't right?

Speaker 17 (19:19):
If you go, mate, Yes, So I was born on
the twenty sixth of January nineteen sixty eight, Australia Day,
and I work at a call center. When I took
this call, I was working in a very large call
center and so we had to check details and what
have you. So when I asked this go and I
could see it on my screen, I'll watch to day

(19:39):
the first twenty twenty sixth January nineteen sixty eight, I said, congratulations,
that's my birthday. He said, oh, well, how about this.
He said, I was the second baby born in Victoria
on Australia Day in that year. And I said, oh, well,
there you go. You're actually talking to the first because
I was the first baby born in Victoria on Australia
Day nineteen sixty eight.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yes, that's huge, this is a great one.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
But I just got.

Speaker 7 (20:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (20:07):
It was really bizarre because you know when when you're
born on Australia or back there, when you work, you're.

Speaker 15 (20:13):
Given a certificate.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
I had my.

Speaker 17 (20:16):
Paper, You're given a silver spoon. Yeah, so he's got every.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Certificate a silver spoon.

Speaker 7 (20:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (20:27):
I still got it and I bring it out every
year and go on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
You've even got a certificate for being second.

Speaker 17 (20:35):
Yeah, I've got a certificate for being.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, that is incredible. I love that, Diane. This is
genuinely a great one. Thank you very much. You cool.
Thank you.

Speaker 17 (20:45):
Have a good day.

Speaker 12 (20:49):
Ian.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Good morning, Yeah, good morning, Christian.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
Ian, welcome to the show. So what is your story
for us on Believe It or Not? What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
What are the odds?

Speaker 18 (21:00):
My partner's name is Karen, obviously my name is Ian.
We're moving in together soon.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
And congratulations and yes, thank you.

Speaker 18 (21:10):
And we've put my house up for rent and we
had several applicants and the people that are looking like
they're going to get the property are named Ian and Karen.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I love this. It's so much easier for the utility
bills and would pick up the tap from Karen.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Easy for the neighbors as well, Yes, and take.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Away all the locals. It's like witness protection. They can
just drop into your old lives.

Speaker 19 (21:44):
Yeah, well if they can pay the.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Mills for him in the ring typical scotsman.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
But thank you. He like them. Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
You go.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
In The Christian O'Connell Show, Podcast.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
One are the odd Shore Stories of Coincidence and Chance
nine four one four one O four three.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Linda, Good morning.

Speaker 14 (22:07):
Good morning Christian.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Linda.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
What are.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
The odds you got it off?

Speaker 7 (22:13):
You go?

Speaker 14 (22:14):
Well, many years ago my father remarried, and my name
is Linda. My husband's name is Mark. The lady he married,
her son was Mark and daughter Linda. And then both
my father and my stepmother had a brother Leon and
a daughter Leone. So what are the odds of that happening?

Speaker 2 (22:39):
I've got to be honest. Thank you, Linda.

Speaker 20 (22:45):
Good day, Christian.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Bye, Thank you very much, Linda. Now we've got date
you here.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
And all I know from this is I could just
see on the phone system here at the it says
headless cat.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
What are the odds?

Speaker 14 (23:02):
Days?

Speaker 7 (23:02):
The odds?

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Hi?

Speaker 6 (23:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (23:05):
Many momues ago, I was turning twenty one, and it
was a Friday night, and it was midnight, and I
realized I just turned twenty one. I was like, hey,
twenty one. And the lights were out in the street
and I was walking in the middle of a row,
just in the farm mound, and then I heard this
whale and I looked down beside me to see this
black cat. Now it looked like I'm not saying you did,
but it looked like it didn't have her head and

(23:27):
then they just sort of ran off at the bushes
and that was that. I just went home on thinking
anything about it. And the next morning me Mo'm wrong
from Ireland. And you know, she always asks the same thing,
anything strange happened? And I said, actually, this one time,
I actually can't tell you thought it was strange happened.
So I told her and she went dead silent and said,
ring your nan right now, So I'm wrong, Nan, And

(23:47):
she started laughing and said you didn't.

Speaker 15 (23:49):
And I said I did.

Speaker 19 (23:50):
What's going on? And she said, ring your uncle Patty,
so ring Daddy, and Patty says, you didn't, And I said,
what's the gag? What's going on? Well, it turns out
that any man on my mom's side of the family
with the name Patrick in his name. My name is
David Patrick, has seen a headless black cat.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
I love this.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's so good.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
It's one of the best stories we've ever had. It's
like could Irish folklore legend, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yes? Yes?

Speaker 19 (24:19):
And the crack up is is that it happened here,
like in Australia, like I could understand even a little
bit of it happened.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
In Ireland, the Irish Magic Books.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Wherever you are in the world, if you're in that
bloodline and there's a Patrick or a Paddy, it's coming
for you.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
The headless black Cat.

Speaker 19 (24:35):
Well, i'll tell you what I'm tempted to call it.
Be someone if I have one.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
You have to got to keep this going through the
future generations and generations.

Speaker 19 (24:45):
Yeah, pretty pretty Unral anyway, I love that.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Also, I think we should do a weekly feature called
anything Strange Happen? What a great question to ask, Anything
strange happened?

Speaker 1 (24:57):
The Christian O'Connell Show, PODCA.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
What are the odds your stories of coincidence and chance? Debbie? Hello, Debbie, Hi.

Speaker 8 (25:08):
Good morning to him.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
How are you goingmy thanks you calling the show and
what's your story for us?

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Mate?

Speaker 8 (25:13):
Well, of my husband's cousin, her maiden name was bid Good,
and she met a guy and fell in love and
they married and she became missus do Goood.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Wait, he was a do Good, she was a did Good,
a bid Good yep, wow, the past and the present goods,
chicken hands and uniting.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
Yeah, and then they had some little little goods.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Yeah, yeah, all good. Debbie, Thanks, thanks you call mate.
Have a good day you too, Bye Harlem, good morning,
Welcome to the show. What's your story of coincidence for us?

Speaker 11 (25:59):
Matell Basically, this is quite a few year ago and
forty four hours. When I was about twelve, Me and
my mum were in the car flying down the freeway
to Western pot going about one hundred k an hour,
and as a kid, I was like, oh, just put
my finger out the window and feel the rush of
our I put my finger out and I'm like, what
the heck was that? And a bird crapt on it?

(26:20):
One hundred k an hour?

Speaker 2 (26:23):
What are the odds? Huh?

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Just that scize moment, your fingers traveling at that speed.
It's a maths question for year twelve students. All right,
lovely stuff, all right, then, thank you hard thanksually calling him.

Speaker 11 (26:38):
Thank you bbe.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
You won't be surprised to know that our friend Beavis
and butt Head packing him through chat post. Jack goes
to me, this is a potential call of the week.
Get ready to pay that monch.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
All right, if we're thrown behind the stones. I told
Christian the story, and he goes, maybe on Friday we
could do the phone and what crapt on you?

Speaker 2 (26:56):
That is definitely happening.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
We're definitely doing that Friday start to call.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Now, what pooped on you? What pooped on your Friday?
Poop on your Friday? Here we got here, Kathy. Good morning, Kathy,
Good morning, team.

Speaker 20 (27:07):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, we're good, all right? So what are the Odds?

Speaker 15 (27:11):
Okay?

Speaker 20 (27:12):
So I am the sister of the Cheryl on Hands
that check things about Okay, CHERYLN.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Hunt is one of our greatest all time one of
the Odds callers.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Now, before we go any further, Kathy with this, I
feel like I should just replay and relive one of
the greatest stories we've had, not just on this feature
on one of the Odds, just one in terms of
the stories that we're privileged to get every day on
the show. Here's a quick replay of the call we
took a while ago.

Speaker 12 (27:36):
My name is Cheryl, and I was married to a
man called Hunts, and I worked with a Hunt who
was married to a Cheryl. One Christmas, we gave each
other a Christmas card which was exactly the same card,
and it read to Cheryl and Hands from Haunts and
Cheryl just tearing it again.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
It warms the soul, doesn't it? So Kathy, what's she
connection then?

Speaker 7 (27:58):
So you're okay?

Speaker 20 (27:59):
So I'm host And at the moment, she is up
at the Sunshine Coast and on Thursday she is ready
to compete for her fourth world record in weightlifting. She
does deadlifts, and she's seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
What the odds?

Speaker 20 (28:15):
So she is just so excited and to be doing
this and her age is just amazing. She's seventy eight,
seventy eight yep.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
And she says she's going for a fourth world.

Speaker 20 (28:26):
Times, a fourth world record in deadlifts. Yeah, she's up
at the list.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Jack, can I have knack trying them once or twice
them anymore? I say, let's have a deadlift off the
wait she can win.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Now that's inspiring.

Speaker 20 (28:42):
Yep. So her record will be eighty five kilos if
she can pull it off on Thursday, which I don't
doubt any way, that.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
She will be five KOs. And she said seventy nine,
so she'll be lifting more than a body weight.

Speaker 20 (28:57):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Correct, blame me.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
That is nothing but impressive, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (29:02):
Oh, look for what she's gone through to get to
this point. Because it was only when Hans passed away,
because they had been married for fifty years. Yeah, all
that time that she needed something, and that's when she
got into the gym and started weightlifting. And then her
one of my best friends who's a trainer, she started

(29:23):
training her, and then she started competing and she was
just flitzing it. And now she's up Somenstine Coast to
do it all over again.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
What a beautiful story you just told us. I've got goosebumps.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
I love the idea of them re meeting in heaven
one day and goes, hey, what were you up to after.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
You're checked as well?

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, I've got four world records.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
I'll show your dad lifts you hands, lie down, get
you off the floor.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
When is she competing? I want to? I want to.

Speaker 20 (29:54):
I want to Thursday.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
What is it this?

Speaker 20 (29:57):
Thursday?

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Tomorrow?

Speaker 20 (30:01):
Yeah, actually tomorrow I'm thinking of those truth But yeah,
tomorrow tomorrow night she compete.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
We have to call up. It's the spirit of the Olympics.

Speaker 8 (30:09):
Right here, exactly.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
Yep, good honor. Now we've got to call her up tomorrow. Yeah,
I'd love to speak to again. What an amazing story
of finding meaning again in her life.

Speaker 20 (30:18):
Oh yeah, and it is just turned her around and
it's so good because it's giving her an outlet, and
it also for all people sort of her age groups
that are sort of down in the dumps and feel
that they've got nothing. She talks to them and just
puts a step in them just to think, you know what,
if you can do this, then it's given me encouragement

(30:41):
to look to see what I can do.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh my god, what an inspiration.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
She's still gifting stuff to the show, and if you're
listening again, we definitely got to get her on to
my show.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
So I just want to say that she's currently done.
She's already a three time we got.

Speaker 8 (30:54):
Three world records.

Speaker 20 (30:55):
She's going for her for Oh.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
My god, don't you just you just wish this week
she do that. She's competing up on the Sunshine Coast.

Speaker 20 (31:02):
People behind her just cheering her on.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
But yeah, well now she'll.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Have everyone who's isn't this right now? We'll be chewing
on all the Australian athletes in Paris and the megaathlete
we got in her up on the Gold Coast.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Cheryl. What an amazing woman. She's a legend.

Speaker 12 (31:17):
If she certainly is, maybe we need to.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Host our own gold lifter on for the oldies, some
powerlifting event for the oldies.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Help and safety was the first thing that came to
my mind. I don't want to be a web blanket,
but it does feel like a few broken bones.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
Hey, listen, thank you so much. She's giving us a
cool Kathy and telling us about Sharyl.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Okay, no problems. Thank you guys, Thank you. Bye.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
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