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September 3, 2024 11 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
All right, let's get into what are the odds?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now. Half an hour ago we were talking about do
you have a transport related surname? And we had this
call from Gina which actually is now only did she
have a transport related surname, but actually was a kind
of an early What are the odds?

Speaker 3 (00:18):
My surname is upward.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
The best thing is my husband's aunt who was an
upward married forward.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
So we've got cousins who are forwards as well.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
What does all this mean? It means this or not know?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
What are the ears?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
You gotta be justhing me like where you went upward?
Who married a forward?

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Award forward?

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Believe it or.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Not, we don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Traveling around Victorian wine country is my father in law
a while ago, the guy who was a winemaker was
serving us. He used to be a carpenter. Turned out
that he was a carpenter who made the rowing boat
that my father in law rowed in the nineteen fifty
six Olympics and one of bronze medal.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
In preparing my breakfast just the other day, I creaked
open the egg and had two yolks inside the one egg,
and then I went on to have a banana and
there were two bananas inside the one. Keel.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
My mum was born in Scotland. She grew up in
two addresses, one in John Street, one in Park. Wrote
many years later my dad was set.

Speaker 7 (01:20):
Up with my mum on a blind date.

Speaker 6 (01:22):
Ended up getting married and my dad's name is John Park.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We also have an early one from our fari own Huggey.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hey Christian, Hi guys, it's Huggy. I've got a what
are the odds for you? As you know, it was
my birthday last week. It was my son's the day after.
But I've got two older brothers and both of them
have got kids that were born the day after their
birthdays as well.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Pretty good, yeah it is, and I guess you want
to so noisy? He roll eskates two work every day,
all right? What are the hots?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
This one comes from Tony to do with one of
the ones we had on last week. We just had
the replay there but the rowing okay and the wine
maker Christian, I'm a lawnmann business and listen to show
each more in between jobs.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Last week I was sister, what are the odds. I
heard the call.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It mentioned that her father in law was talking to
a winemaker. Then they found out that the winemaker's uncle
built the boat to win a bronze medal in the
nineteen fifty six Olympics. One of the rowers in that
eight man rowing boat was Garth Manton, who passed away
earlier this year. This was the oldest medalist from nineteen
fifty six Olympics in Melbourne.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Coincidence. What are the odds is that.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
When I was this in the call, I was on
my way to mow the lawn at Garth Menton's house.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Is brilliant. I get chills. His wife, Sue still lives
there and I mowed the lawn for them.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Just as a side note, Sue Manton was the sister
of the Olympian John Landy, who also won a I
think he won bronze in nineteen fifty six. John Landy
not only one bronze in the fifteen hundred meters, he
was the second man in the world after Roger Banister
to break the four minute mile is Melbourni and then
he went on to become state governor.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I think was governor.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, le Christian, what are the odds.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I was living and working in London back in the
two thousands and I've been given the weekend before i'd
go met a guy. He gave me his phone number.
This is the way it was done back then. I
called the number I was given. The guy answered the
call with Anthony speaking. This was not the guy I
was expecting. But I blusted my way through and must
have introduced myself with my full name. Hearing my name Anthony,

(03:26):
the guy who was not the guy I chatter to
and obviously that he'd just blown me out and give
me a dodgy number. But the guy was spoken to
blurted out, did you grow up in Brisbane? I went yes,
He said, I know your name. I was your back
neighbor growing up. I'dn't seen since the eighties.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
That's inside. This is a huge wow. What are the odds?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Random guy gives me a dodgy phone number and I'm
speaking to my childhood neighbor all the other side of
the world.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Now both of us.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Are back in Brisbane and our ten year old daughters
going to the same school and catch the bus together.
That's alert a lot of that story. Alice lent mey.
Thank you very much for that. All right, Well take
your calls. Next lines are open. What are the Odds
nine four one four one o four three Your stories
of coincidence and chance.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Christian O'Connell Show. We're doing What are the odds? Who
do this every Wednesday? Where you to know your stories
of coincidence and chance on nine four one four one
four three.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Tula, Yes, Hi Christian Tula, Welcome to the show. So
what's your story for us?

Speaker 6 (04:32):
Well, I had lost this tiny engagement diamond from my
engagement ring and I didn't know where I lost it.
Refused to vacuum the house for a whole week, and
I had my robo beck going and as my roboback
was vacuum me it stopped and I went to check,
and sure enough, right under there was my diamond ring.
After turning the house upside there.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's these AI robot They've probably got a special diamond finding modality.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Go meal by three meals. It would like needle in
the haystack.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Well, so he ran out of battery, the robover.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
I thought he got stuck on a corner or something.
So I've gone to check underneath or a fruit pool
or something. And I said, listen that Sure enough, there
it was, and I turned the house upside down.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I've got one of.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
These robot things that tell you what it does, so
it's very needy. It constantly sends me messages I'm going
to need some more.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Water in a minute.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
When you got half a tank in there, mate, okay,
half a tank full, half a tank in empty.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
You know what, I AI just be a bit more update.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I bet I don't like blameing this blinging me right now,
get this bring up out of my ass.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
So you must have been so happy when you found it.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I was so great.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
I was crying. Oh I turned my house upside down,
I turned my workplace upside down, my car upside there,
couldn't silent. I gave up, I thought, okay, just yeah,
one of those things. Yeah, so that was real.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well I'm so happy you were reunited. Thank you very much.
You call no Py, tell you what I get the.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Feeling that house got turned upside down between you and Jessica.
Good morning, Good morning guys. How I jess and have
you having a good morning so far?

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Just pulled up at work?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Is that good or bad? That's not really the answer
to the question.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Little a little from columb okay, bit.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Of both, and so what's your story of coincidence and chance?

Speaker 4 (06:14):
What are the odds? All right? So basically, back in
twenty fifteen, I went back to UNI and was studying
nursing and we were watching a documentary called A Good
Death and it was a gentleman named Herbie who decided
to document his story about having a good death and

(06:34):
a comfortable death. So it affected us all quite a lot.
You know, we're all emotional and upset watching this documentary
while it was white cathartic as well. But on the
way home, I was driving home down tarne Eat Road, Patsy,
so you might know that roy quite well driving down
torne Eat Road, and I was obviously thinking about this documentary,

(06:55):
getting quite emotional, upstir and a car basically up against
right next to me was a v W Bug with
the whole Herbie get up, the number fifty three, the
lines and the number plate Herbie.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Wow, this is incredible. Jack has just given it the
thumbs down. This is a double thumbs up. This is
an incredible story. Herby the love Bug.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, it was. It was literally Herbie the love Bug.
So I went back to university six yeah, gifty six,
fifty three, I can't remember the number, but it was
definitely like a remodel makeup of the hobby car.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, it was such a unique documentary.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
You watch the guys called Herbie.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, it was. It was pretty gave my lecture of
chills when I told everyone the next day, amazing.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
The universe was looking out for you there. We wanted
you to get a message.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah. It was like him saying I'm okay, it's all
good and everything like that. So yeah, it was really
it was really trippy.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
It was cool, lovely love that, Jessica, Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
No problem, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Guys, Why don't you like that?

Speaker 8 (08:03):
No, it's all right.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
But what did you think I thought I had? I've
got about the v W bug. It's about just a
guy named Herbie. No it's not. It's the whole point.
It's a very rare name, Herbie, and then Herbie like that.
It's the universe, these ways of reassuring us. Yes, that's
exactly what was going on. You should be in a
good mood, Jack, You've just had your tie fixed.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
He hasn't eaten since he's fasting today.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
What Are the Odds?

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Every Wednesday, your stories of coincidence and chance.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Tesh. Good morning, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
Morning everyone.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
How is everyone?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
We're good?

Speaker 7 (08:49):
That's good.

Speaker 8 (08:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
So I'll be really quick. So a few years ago,
when I was like working in the cour center, I
was like in my twenty or nineteen, I don't remember.
I went to make a drink and I was like
a glass of water and it was like a really
clear glass of water because there's a nice sunny day.
And then I put it on the window sill and oh, yeah,

(09:14):
I just worked work. Yeah, I worked in golf. And
it was a really clean glass of water. And then
and then the sun was hitting it. It looked really really clear.
And I said that to myself. I said, wow, that's
a really clear glass of water. And then the next
lady that called up, her name was clear water.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
I got goosebutters. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
That was oh my god, this yeah, I'm telling you now,
that was a great story.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Well told my friend. I love that.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
I was really nervous.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
You hear them, you did really well?

Speaker 4 (09:47):
You hear it.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Reminds you.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
When I first started working Jack six years ago, we
had a lot of ones that.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Did I say it to myself and wow.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
You transport us that I felt like I was set
looking in the glass of water on the window sill.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh are your pointings there?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
The cool center, the clear clear what in the sun,
because you you really remind us. It was a very
sunny day, so of course when it's really sunny, the
light comes in and amplifies the light within the water.

Speaker 8 (10:12):
I just still remember that glass of water, and then
was talking. The lady was talking, and I was just dumbfounded.
I was like, Oh, she's thinking like, oh, this guy
he paying attention, and I was, but I was just
really shocked.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah, because you're back the glass of water at No. No,
it's a it's a big moment for you.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
No, I she had no idea.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
She had wa wow oe wow oe wow.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
We now listen, Tesh, We do a thing on the
show that when we get a really amazing call, instantly
we give that person, whoever it is, whenever it is
one thousand dollars. And Tesha loved your story so much.
Maybe we're a little bit nervous at the beginning but.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
You stayed with it. It got better and better. I'm
going to give you one thousand dollars.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
Yeah, taking one.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Glass of clear View water.

Speaker 7 (10:57):
Wow, I can't wait to believe this. Oh that's so cool.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now you're so cool. We love your story, Tesh. So
thanks for hanging in there for us as well. And
thank you so courage to call the radio show. And
I appreciate that. So thank you very much, mate.

Speaker 8 (11:11):
Thanks a lot, Guys, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
What are you gonna do with your money? Tesh? Tell
us about yourself? What do you think you do with it?

Speaker 7 (11:16):
I don't know. I'm thinking I was going to get
some like I don't know. I think about that.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, well, come back to me tomorrow. I'll be here Friday, actually,
you know, anytime the rest of the years, to be honest,
any stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Monday, Devil six to nine. Let me know the shots.
Oh my god, thank you so much guy, my friend Clearview.
We'll always have clear View, my friend Jess good, holy mate.
Thank you very much to call him. The Christian O'Connell
Show Podcast
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