MINI: What Are The Odds

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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While the show is away we're taking a look back at some of our favourite bits of the show so far.. every Wednesday we do What Are The Odds! Have an amazing story? email us christian@christianoconnell.com.au

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts. You can hear more. Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app.
0:09.2	Got anything good?
0:11.1	Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:19.2	We love doing this every Wednesday.
0:21.2	It's called What Are the Ods?
0:22.8	Your stories of coincidence and chance.
0:25.4	Believe it or not, oh, what are the odds?
0:29.4	You gotta be Josh and me.
0:33.2	Like were you a Cheryl who married a Hahn,
0:37.1	who worked with a Cheryl who married a hon? Who worked with a Cheryl?
0:41.3	Who married a hunt as well?
0:44.3	My dad was born in 1968, and he was adopted when he was a baby.
0:49.2	In his 40s, he found his birth mother and learned that she'd had kids not long after him and they had all gone to the same high school together and had been in the same sporting settings and group parties and all that kind of stuff had a new guy start at work and he goes hey did you ever go out to this bar about half an hour away i go yeah yeah i, yeah, I did. What are the odds of this? I had invited him back around to my house in the group of our party. Wouldn't know this guy from a bar of soap. Look back at my Snapchat and I find a video of this guy. It's incredible that one, isn't it? Has anyone ever heard that phrase, by the way? Wouldn't know him from a bar of soap? Yes.
1:28.1	You have?
1:31.7	I've heard wouldn't know him from Adam or Eve, but never from a bar of soap.
1:42.3	I've never heard that. I've never heard wouldn't know it from Adam or Eve. No? No. Right. Bar of soap. Yeah. Oh, yeah. My mum said it all the time. Give me a context then. Because what are you asking to identify barbed soap from a load of episodes?
1:45.1	It doesn't make Adam, I wouldn't know Adam or Eve.
1:46.8	That means you don't know who's who.
1:45.1	I don't know who's Adam. I don't know who's Eve. I know him so little that if you put a bar of soap next to him or him, I couldn't even tell why would someone do that? I don't know. Welcome to Australia. Who even uses soap anymore? What? Well, we use like gel in the shower now. We don't use cakes soap.
2:04.4	Me too.
2:02.0	I mean. Who even uses soap anymore? What? Well, we use like gel in the shower now.
2:03.3	We don't use cakes to soap.
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