03 | The Coconut Wireless
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ABC Australia
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🗓️ 2 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Lezlie Manukian's stories about her time in Hawaii usually ended with murderous local mobsters running her off the island. So, to track down his brother Greg's ex-wife, Ollie Wards needs to understand her past. What really happened according to "the coconut wireless"?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains occasional course language. |
| 0:08.0 | The first thing about Leslie Manukian that caught my brother's attention was her American accent. |
| 0:16.0 | The second thing my American-affile brother was attracted to was Leslie's wild story about why she left Hawaii. |
| 0:24.0 | Some bad people in Hawaii were trying to attack her, |
| 0:26.8 | you know, because that frauded her and |
| 0:29.7 | we're trying to do bad stuff to her. |
| 0:31.5 | And her mom and dad sent her to Europe to escape them. |
| 0:36.5 | According to Leslie she had been run off the island by murderous locals. |
| 0:41.0 | A lot of people heard different versions of this story. |
| 0:43.2 | I remember her saying something about, she had to curl up in a dark bathroom. |
| 0:48.0 | There was something about some cash. |
| 0:49.0 | She was like hiding under a table and these guys like... |
| 0:52.0 | Somewhere and she was trying to call her dad you go on the |
| 0:54.0 | wrong side of the local mafia she witnessed she might have got beaten up murder or she got |
| 0:58.6 | home invaded at a house or something like that they're gonna kill me tonight dad |
| 1:02.0 | and basically being taken by these criminals. |
| 1:04.3 | Got on this chartered airplane. |
| 1:05.6 | Parents had to pay for an private jet to come get her before the mafia killed her. |
| 1:08.9 | So this story about Hawaii, after everything that happened to my brother Greg, he started to think about how it might be a fat yarn. |
| 1:20.0 | He wanted to know what really happened. |
| 1:22.0 | So he figured he had right to the Hawaiian police and ask if they knew anything. |
| 1:26.0 | Greg might have been watching a bit too much Hawaii 50 or Magnum P.I. when he wrote this letter because he's dialed up the drama. |
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