It's Lucky Dip with Malan Marti. Yeah. Hi, Mons's got a question for you. Have you ever had any weird coincidences happen in your life? Not that I can really think, not big enough that I'm like, whoa, but I feel like I have said, oh my god, what a coincidence? Yeah, neither neither. Although my daughter's initials are the same as the number plate of my first car. Okay, so yeah, I think is interesting. Once I was on the same flight as the kids school principal. That's a coincidence that
we're on the same flight to Bali. Yeah, I got nothing. Yeah, no, Well, anyway, these are gobsmacking lies. I'm going to start from like least impressive. It takes me a bit like Caitline Brook used to do these on air, and I used to be a joke because I was so unimpressed. O, no, no, these will okay, Okay, well the first one may not.
But there was this American novelist called Anne Parish, and back in the twenties, she's in Paris with her husband and she's looking through this book stall on the Street and she sees this book that was her favorite book as a kid, called Jack Frost and other stories. And she sees it and she's like, oh my god, and she picks it up and she's like, this was my favorite book as a kid. I loved this book. Anyway,
they were American. So then he opens the book and starts looking through it, and on the inside cover it had her name and her childhood address, right coincidence, it was her good strong start. Oh well, if you're impressed with that, fuck this is okay, tits off? Okay. Do you know what the Hoover Dam is? So it's like this massive damn but it's a big sort of man made thing that supplies power and water storage and stuff
between like Arizona and Las Vegas. Anyway, it was one of these things where there were lots of fatalities back in the day because the planning started in the early twenties and was finished in like nineteen thirty five or something. There were one hundred and twelve deaths of workers there during the construction. But back in the planning days, the first person to die was this guy called John Tierney, and he fell and drowned there on the twentieth of
December nineteen twenty two. So then there are like all these other people died during the construction. The last person to die at the Hoover Dam was a young guy who fell from one of the huge towers on the twentieth of December nineteen thirty five, which was thirteen years to the day that John Tierney died. And that was Patrick Teerenney. John Teerney's son whoa so John was the first guy to die there and his son Patrick thirteen years later to the day, wow as the last person.
How's this? On a winter's day in two thousand and two, at around nine thirty am, a seventy year old man was riding his bike across this Maine road near Helsinki in Finland, gets hit by truck and dies tragic. At two seventeen pm on the same day, same road, about a kilometer up, another seventy year old man is riding his bike and gets hit by a truck. It was the first man's identical twin brother. And they hadn't even
informed the family yet that he died. That you would think, oh, my god, like maybe he wanted to go out the same way as his brother or whatever. Isn't that amazing? Right? And that's two thousand and two fairly recent. Really okay, this is really good too. This is so good. Okay. King Mberto in Italy, right, this is back in nineteen hundred.
One night he goes out to dinner in Monza and he gets there with his people and they sit down and he spots this guy that looks exactly like him, Like it's uncanny, so he calls him over and the guy says, ah, my name is also Umberto. They get to chatting. Listen to this. They find out they were born on the same day in the same town. Both had married women named Margarita. Both had had sons named Vittorio and Umberto. The restauranteur opened his restaurant on the
same day as King Umberto his coronation. Wow, hold on, save you well. They had made an arrangement to meet up the next day, but that never eventuated because on that next day, July twenty ninth, King Umberto was assassinated. Wow, and Umberto the restauranteur was involved in some sort of shooting and he died. So they died on the same day in the same way. My nipples are hard. I can't believe it. Isn't that unbelievable. That's wild, Like so
full on that it's almost unbelievable. I know, okay, And this is the last one, very tragic. So in Bermuda in nineteen seventy five, a seventeen year old boy was riding his moped when he was accidentally hit and killed by taxi. The following year, another seventeen year old boy was killed while riding his moped on the same road. It turns out that that boy that died the year later was the brother of the first boy that had died the year before, so there was a year between them.
So the first boy died when he was seventeen, the second boy was also seventeen. He was the brother, right right, This is the amazing bit. He was riding the same moped that his brother who'd been killed was riding. Hang on, it was the same fucking taxi driver carrying the same passenger.
I can you can you believe? Firstly, like, just forget even the trauma of the parents, right like you're using these two kids a year apart in such horrible ways taxi driver and the passenger, And I feel like it must have been a time where maybe like this passenger I don't know, got the same taxi to work all the time. We just had a guy because that's odd. Any Yeah, because there would have to be something, because that's odd that the like to get the same taxi
driver is a massive coincidence in itself. Well, this is why it's a massive coincidence, Lucky dip. Wow, great job there. You know what I love when I've got you, because sometimes I can see I haven't got you that I have you with those all right, we're out of here.
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