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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Make Us Say Wow

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

us to Christian O'Connell's show on gold.

0:02.5

We love hearing your stories every single day.

0:04.4

We share our stories to get your stories. And right now, if you've got a story, whatever it is, it doesn't need to be a big bombastic thing. But you think when we hear it or when you tell people about it, it makes them say, wow. That's what this is all about. Can you tell us a story that makes the three of us say wow? We had one last year from Tia.

0:02.9

My brother, Jason, passed away many years. all about. Can you tell us a story that makes the three of us say wow. We had one last year from

0:21.9

Tia. My brother Jason passed away many years ago on March the 11th. This year on March the 11th,

0:29.3

I was on the train and I decided to play his favourite album, which is No Life To Leather by Metallica.

0:36.9

Put the album on, I closed my eyes and after a couple of minutes, I opened my eyes, and there's a guy sitting in front of me with a No Life Toll leather t-shirt on. And I said, look, hon, what's your name? My name's Tia. He said, my name is Jason. His name was the same name as my brother.

1:12.0

It freaked me out. It was so cool. It's such an incredible story. Whenever I hear it again, it's like I'm hearing it fresh. So what's your story then? We'll make me Jack and Pat say, well. You've got quite an incredible story to share today. Bianca and I had one this week. We met up with her friend Nina, and Nina's parents are from Iran. And I asked, did your parents get together in Australia or did they get together when they were still in Iran? And she said,

1:15.9

well, actually, they got married over the phone. And what happened was they were kid, childhood

1:23.1

friends as kids. In the 70s, her dad moves here to Melbourne, and they don't see each other again.

1:28.4

They're both later on traveling to world. They bump into each other through a mutual friend

1:33.7

at a house party in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Reconnect, fall in love,

1:41.1

plan for her to move to Australia, and them to get married. But first, he comes back to

1:45.5

Melbourne, she goes back to Iran. And while they're waiting for her visa to come in, the wedding

1:50.5

date is coming up. The visa is taking much longer than expected. They decide to keep the wedding date

1:56.6

and they get married over the phone. So we watch this amazing footage you've got of this very 80s wedding.

2:04.0

Her mum is in a full white wedding dress.

2:06.9

All the party guests are in wedding attire, cake, music, dancing.

2:10.9

And then traveling around the party is an old cream landlide phone on a big long cord and her dad is in Melbourne on the other end

2:20.4

in his suit with his best man in his suit and they have the whole wedding like that wow

2:25.9

I've never heard of such a story that is unbelievable and then within two years she gets the visa

2:31.9

and now they live happily in Melbourne together. What an awesome story.

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