WEBVTT - Beyond The Grave ⚰️ 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.360 Do you have a familiar stranger in your life, someone 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.840 you see regularly on the train or at the gym 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.880 or the supermarket. You don't know anything about them. Their 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.080 life is but a mystery to you. They might look 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.520 like a normal person, but they may have a dungeon 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.800 in their house, or have a connection to Hollywood, or 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.320 they may have even been famous in a past life. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.360 That's where I come in. Hi, I'm at Simone and 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.319 I'm finding the most interesting people who may present as 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.360 very regular people. I'm ready to squeeze out another confession. Head. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.840 Hi, my name's Bill. I'm from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.760 I live on a hobby phone with my wife. We 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.080 have two children six grandchildren under the age of five. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.280 I love the ocean, the sun, the sand, and I 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.280 enjoy animals more than people. However, I am conceding feeling 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.440 something from you, Art Simone, but I'm ready to confess. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.400 Hello. Bill, how are you going very well? 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:10.600 And thank you for having me? 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.399 Oh, thanks for coming on the podcast here today. Now. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.240 You're nice and clean cut, you're well lit, you look 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.839 like you know what you're doing. You're on the Gold Coast. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.280 How long have you been there for your whole life or. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.080 Our whole life. Yeah, I came up when I was 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.400 probably two or three years of age. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.800 Okay, sidetrack though, what's your favorite Gold Coast theme park? 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:32.360 Go? Oh, it has to be wet mild. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.320 Oh, that's a very uncommon answer. Maybe that's a clue. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.800 I'm going to write that down. Wet things. Okay, wet 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.600 things could be important. I personally am a movie world person, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.160 but I think that's just because, you know, I feel 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.320 like I have star quality and star power, and I 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.040 feel like I just belong in movie world. Do you 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.000 like the sun? Are you okay with that? 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.440 I love the surf, sull and sand. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.520 Oh okay, I don't only like surf, sun as I 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.320 actually only like none of those things. But maybe we'll 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.760 have lots in common. Who knows. Who knows. So what 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.240 I'm gonna do is ask you three questions, and from 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.679 the answers to those three questions, I have to work 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:17.120 out what it is that you're concealing from me here today. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:18.320 Are you ready? Bill? 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:19.120 I'm ready? 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.680 All right, Bill? Okay. First question, what is a motto 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:24.679 you live by? 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.080 Sit down, shut up, or fuck off? 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:36.240 Sit down, shut up or fuck off. Okay, now, is 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.360 that something you've had to say a lot in your life? 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:40.519 Quite a lot? 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.560 And where did you first come across this? Rather to 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.760 the point motto always placed. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.519 In a position of having to say it, and it's 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.880 just been an ongoing thing since. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.960 Okay, all right, Look, I wish I could use that. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:59.720 I work in a lot of nightclubs with a lot 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.160 of easy people, and I tell you what, it'd be 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.959 lovely to bark that at some Okay. Question number two 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.440 in alternate universe, who would you be and what would 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:10.520 your profession be? 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.679 Oh, you know what, I'd still be me, but I'd 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.519 be a cleaner because I'm always cleaning up other people's shit. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:25.440 Cleaner. Okay, cleaner. Well, you're coming across very authoritative. Authoritative, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.600 authoritative now I'm having on those days. I may look 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.360 like I have a big brain because my hair is 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.320 so big, but it's actually filled with plastic bags and 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:35.960 if you're in the room with me, you'd be able 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.480 to hear them anyway. Question number three, our final question 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.920 is what is your take on the meaning of life? 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:46.640 To avoid death? 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:48.680 What the fuck. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.440 The meaning of life is? Not to die at all? Okay? 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.160 Avoid death? Wow? Okay, They've really set me up with 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.840 a lot of information. Should really pull apart here today, Bill. Okay, 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.160 so I'm getting that you have to tell a lot 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.520 of people what to do, and you're cleaning up things, 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.880 so you'd be a good cleaner cleaning up. That sounds 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.800 like messy situations, but could be any type of messy situation, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:24.200 not actual mess okay, messy lives, messy people, messy wives, okay, 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:31.080 and avoiding death. How else could you avoid death? Not 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:32.320 to live in the first place. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:33.240 What's a bit? 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:40.720 But you're here in front of me, so that's interesting. Okay, Okay, right, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.560 are you like an ambo? Like that's all that's coming 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.719 to mind? Bill, I'm just going to go for that. Bill, 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:47.920 Are you an ambo? 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:49.320 No, I'm not. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.520 Duh. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.039 Excuse me. My name's Bill Edgar and I am the 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:01.440 coffin confessor. Sit down, shut up or fuck I'm hired 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.919 by the decease before they die to tell those that 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.880 were loved how much they were loved, and those that 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.279 my clients love to hate to fuck off. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:19.279 What what the fuck is that? Bill? You're a coffin confessor. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.640 I'm saying that like I know what it is, but 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.640 I'm very confused. Is he into coffins? Does he sell them? 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:35.520 Does he feel them? Who is he confessing to? All right, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.839 we're here with Bil who is not an ambo. He 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.680 is but a coffin confessor. And if you're like me, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.800 you probably have no idea what the hell he's talking about. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.240 So please, Bill, can you give me a top line 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.880 of what a coffin confessor is? What that entails? 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.440 Well, basically, I'm engaged by the decease to turn up 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.320 at the funeral and to let the secrets out of 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.960 the closet. Every person on the planet has a skeleton 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.080 in the closet, and I reveal them at the funeral 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.440 and be it good, bad, funny or said it doesn't 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.400 matter then whether you like me or loath me, you 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:09.200 won't forget me. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.760 So you gate crashed funerals to deliver news on behalf 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:15.760 of the deceased. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:17.400 That's correct. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.920 Wow, Okay, before we go into that, is this something 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.120 that has that you've seen happen in other places and 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.080 you're like, I could do that? Or did you make 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:29.880 this up yourself? 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.400 Yeah? So I'm the only coffin confessor on the planet. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.440 There's no one else like me, and it created in 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.840 twenty and eighteen. As it started as a joke, I 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.200 told a dying man that I crash his funeral for him, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.600 and he took me up on the offer, and from 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.400 there it went from one funeral to another to another 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.080 and then another doors open where I'd be going to 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.920 viewings and pinpricking the body to make sure he's dead, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.880 or placing items in coffins, or gain your people's homes 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.320 and sweeping them of items they don't want their family 0:06:58.400 --> 0:06:59.960 and friends to find after they've done. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:05.240 Do you know what, though, it's quite a useful service 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.240 because now that you've mentioned sweeping a house of items, 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.960 a lot of people in their lives, maybe not me, 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.800 may have certain objects in their house that they might 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.120 not want I don't know their mother seeing, or maybe 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.240 any other relatives seeing. So I am exactly that makes 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.920 complete sense of our bill. Top draw on my bedside? 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.400 Can you just burn that? 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:29.600 Please? Can you? 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:30.840 I don't want to see that? Please? 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:31.440 Wow. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.680 Now have you always been a good secret keeper? 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.600 I believe so. I've been a private investigator for about 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.720 fourteen years now, so I do keep secrets and I 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.280 hold them dearly because you know, it's my job. It's 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.280 a trust that people rely on me. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.720 I said earlier that we've got nothing in common, and 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.480 we've just really cemented that even more because the world 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.360 that I come from, there is no secrets kept whatsoever. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.880 You try to get a room of drag queens together 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.239 and everyone has got I know absolutely everything about everyone 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.080 else by the end of the night. So I think 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.360 I would personally be a terrible Actually, i'd be good 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.920 at the confessing maybe if I got maybe if they 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.760 got given the gossip the morning of the funeral, and 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.320 then I could rock up and be like, so, I 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.040 bet you bet you didn't know this. Oh that's right 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.600 to say. What's it like delivering secrets? You know? Do 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:21.840 you have a sassy side? 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.600 No, I don't have a sassy side. I have a look, 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.680 my integrity is everything. I go in and I sit 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.120 amongst mourners, family and friends, and I stand up at 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.440 a specific time that my client and I have basically 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.400 worked out, and I'll interrupt the service by standing up 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.480 and saying, excuse me, my name's Billaid guy, I'm the 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.680 coffin professor city and shut up. Well fuck off, this 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.680 is your loved one laying in the coffin and they've 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.320 left something unset. If you want to hear it, stay 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.320 and listen. If you don't chuck off. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.760 Do people look at you when you arrive at the 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.120 funeral and like they're start out and being like, who 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.200 the fuck is this guy sitting in here? Like as 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.679 there have been a scenario where you've us to leave 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.280 before you can even deliver the news that you have to. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.120 Oh yeah, some people get a bit upset, But as 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.840 soon as I get the crowd on my side, the 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.440 crowd usually hushould send down and ask them to leave 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.360 because they want to hear. They want to hear what 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.520 they loved. One left une said, I'm just a messenger. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.360 You must be a good guy because they're dead. So 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.200 if you don't shut up to the funeral and do it, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.160 who's going to know because you're the only one that 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.040 knows the secret. So wow, you you must be a 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.559 really top notch bloke. If you're you're like, no, I'm 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.120 still gonna go do my job because I'll tell you what. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:32.640 Some of us wake up in the morning and if 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.000 we don't have if our boss is dead, what's the point. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.160 Yeah, I get it, but we all die, and I 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.600 know more people dead than alive. Now, so I'm going 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.400 where they're going, and there's no way I'm going to 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:44.160 rip the dead off. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.839 Now that you mentioned that that could be a good 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:52.320 horror movie. Anyway, so you said it started, you know 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.200 as AA. How did people then start to catch on 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.760 about this service and find out about you? 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.760 Well, I I basically read aloud exactly what my client 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.319 once said. Because it's their letter, they sign it. I 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.440 have a contractual agreement and a video of me and 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.880 my client. But once I finished reading, I placed the 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:12.920 letter back in the envelope, place it on the coffin, 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:14.800 and I leave. So I don't know if the funeral 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.080 continues or not. I just walk out. Now, this first 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.360 particular crash, I left, and the young girl came out 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.800 and she said, excuse me, Bill, and my dad would 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.480 be proud, thank you so much for doing that. The 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.160 second lady that came out asked me and insisted that 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.320 I see her auntie, who was in palliative care. And 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.960 I decided to go and see her, and she asked 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.280 me to crash her funeral. And from that funeral, there 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.120 was a reporter there and the reporter made a headline story, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.680 just a little one, and then I was on Good 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.920 Morning Britain. And after thirty minutes of been on Good 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.720 Morning Britain, I had fourteen and a half thousand requests 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:52.439 from the UK. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.480 Does that mean you get to travel a lot to 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.120 get to some funerals or do you Sometimes it's not 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.760 about showing up in Perine, might be just delivering some news, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.360 whether that is by the mail or by you know. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.640 Exactly a lot of times the overseas stuff is either 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.320 via zoom or a face to face you know, teleconference 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.920 or something like that. But to mean I do have 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.360 to travel overseas, I've got a lot going on in 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.160 the entertainment industry. So there there's quite a lot going on. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:26.479 Could you guess, now, guess how many different people's information 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.480 you've got like on the backburner, ready to deliver it 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:30.600 when the time is right. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.920 Oh, one hundred and nearly a thousand and nothing. Yeah. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.800 And the other thing too is as a private investigator, 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.000 and I know the internet world very well. I'm an 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.120 old school I write everything down as well, so I 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.720 don't trust the Internet. I don't trust you know, the 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.280 back doors of internet. So you know, I make sure 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.400 it's all written down and it's hidden safely and securely. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.720 And that's the trust that my clients have in me. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.240 Have the police. Then, if someone's confessed to a crime, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.240 for example, police giving me a rough time to try 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.040 and get some more information out. And how does the 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:04.440 situation like that work? 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.120 Okay, So if someone confesses a crime to me, I 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.760 have to report it. You're obliged to report it. However, 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.560 if they write it down, put it in a post 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.600 envelope and post it to me, or I post it 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.520 in myself and I don't open it, I don't know 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.400 the crime, so I don't have to report it until 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.000 the day of the feral. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.360 Right, Okay, Well there's a way around it all, isn't there? 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.320 There always is? Yes, how do you know if some 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.440 of them have carcked it? Like do you have to 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.760 like fully? Like because a bitteres aren't even a thing anymore? 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.880 Like how do you how do you keep track to 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.439 be like, oh shit, I've missed the fear and I 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.320 don't even know what's happening. Like how do you I 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.360 understand the ones that are knocking on death's door you 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.520 can keep an eye out for how do you watch 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.200 out those the other ones? 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:51.520 Every person that's engaged my services has a confident Okay, great, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.840 that knows that I'm engaged. They don't know what I do. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.560 Or think something to do with the will or something 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:58.640 I don't know well exactly. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.560 Yeah, they know I'm going to do so, they know 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.200 I'm the coffin confessor. They just don't know what it is. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.080 And it could, like I say, it be good, bad, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:05.840 funny or sad. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.960 So and when you sit down have a meeting with 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.720 your client and they tell you what they want you 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.120 to do, there wouldn't be much in the world that 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.720 shocks you. But is there still some things you're like, Oh, okay, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.440 did you get caught by surprise? Sometimes even now. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.720 No, I don't think so. I think I've seen everything 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.120 and I've heard everything. I mean, obviously there might be 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.520 an item at a house that I wouldn't have suspected. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.880 Like you know, there was a lady recently who was 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:37.280 quite an elderly lady, and she named her toy Clive 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.920 after a husband had passed away some years ago. And 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:49.520 Clive was no small fella. That'll be surprised. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.560 All right, when I'm going you get rid of Clive, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.160 please send him out to pasture, all right, bloody? How well, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.880 good honor though, good honor that, But that is quite 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.760 true because I feel, you know, I feel like some 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.559 of we have packs with our best years to go. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.840 If anything happens, just go and fix this please. So 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.880 it's nice that it's just a service, But how do 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.720 you prove to someone that you are trustworthy? Because I 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.480 have trust issues? And how do I know that if 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.559 I call you up and I give you a little 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.280 bit of gossip or a little secret, a little bit 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.280 of news to deliver, that I can trust you. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.720 Look, it comes down to morals, integrity, and ethics, and 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.560 that's what I have. I mean, it's proof now since 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.960 twenty and eighteen, I have not let a secret out. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.040 I won't do it until the funeral. Sometimes I don't 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.800 even know what the secret is until I met the 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.880 funeral and I have in the envelope myself. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.240 That's going to be fun. You must look forward to 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.680 those days you're like, oh, I get to open envelope, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.440 you know whatever one, two, three, four today or what's 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:46.920 it going to be exactly? 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:51.000 And especially like sometimes someone will confess to a crime, so. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.280 Oh god, this is heaven. This is like maybe drag queens, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.120 are you franchised maybe drag Quay wouldn't really good at this. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.440 I have a lot of trust issues. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.600 I don't know I felt real Has there any been 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:13.440 moments where you felt in danger or threatened by other 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.000 people because of what you do? 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.080 Only one particular funeral where I revealed that the guy 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.640 was gay and he was a bikey, and the other 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.080 boys said that I was going to end up in 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.360 the grave with him. Mission they didn't like what they heard. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.360 But again, if those people really knew and loved that man, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.360 they already knew they really did. So again, it's not 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.080 like I'm saying anything new to some people at the 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.960 funeral service. You know some of them already know. It's 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:40.080 just a big reveal. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.960 Really yeah, I guess what you kind of delivered to is, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.240 you know, infamously and like you've heard of messages being 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.960 delivered when the will is being announced or red out 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.320 or anything. So it's not an entirely new concept, but 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.520 you seem to be modernizing it a little bit more 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.280 and making a bit more personal and more in your 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.800 face performative and fun. So, of course there's a lot 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.480 of darkness around death, but what are some of the 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.640 fun things you've been able to do, or the funny 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:17.240 requests or the ones that you've really enjoyed doing, you. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.840 Know what, you know, even the bad ones I enjoyed doing. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.920 The more I'll get it, through it out of it. Nowadays, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.720 it's pretty cool just to be the only person that's 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.520 invited to a funeral by the actual decease. I'm probably 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.200 the only person on the planet that's inbted by anybody 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.880 that's died. So but I've got to say the one 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.520 that sticks in my memory is it is probably the funniest. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.680 And I don't know the circumstances around why it was 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:46.560 so funny, but the gentleman, he'd been petrified that he 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.480 wasn't going to be in the casket, it was going 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.720 to be somebody else, because many years ago at his 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.000 grandmother's funeral, they brought the wrong casket and wrong body. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.520 They actually buried the wrong body and everything, and he 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.000 was shocked that, Yeah, I worried that was going to happen, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.600 and so he asked me to walk up to the 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.200 coffin and check that it was him in the casket 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:10.320 midway through the service. Midway midway, so I had to 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.719 work out what coffin he was in, and how to 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.880 open it, because not all coffins are the same. They're 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.280 very difficult to open some of them that have locks 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.280 and latches and secret little compartments. So I had to 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.159 work all that out. However, he also asked that I 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.800 play on my phone, Pop goes the Weasel. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:28.760 Oh my god, I know. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.240 He didn't tell me why, but he said, when you 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.679 do it, and when you check it's me, look at 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.719 my wife, give her the thumbs up, and that's all 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.840 you have to do. Well, when I did it, and 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.240 I looked at his wife, she was in hysterics, and 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.520 it was a thing between them too. It was just 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.000 something very secretive and very beautiful between the both of 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.760 them because she went from morning to hysterical and it 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.920 was just a beautiful thought process for her to think 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.040 of him. You know, it's good. I enjoyed it. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.919 Have secondhand anxiety from you explaining that story. How do 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:10.040 you push through that? Because what I how do you do? 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:10.840 I wouldn't. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.560 I don't know. I've seen enough dead bodies to not 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.919 worry about seeing your dead body. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.600 Yeah, but it's even just in front of a room 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.040 of people going oh yeah, better put Pop goes the 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:23.560 police salon. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.840 Oh, fuck them. I don't have any concern for those 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.199 left beyond. It's not about them. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.480 It's you and I guess too. At the end of 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.359 the day, you don't know any of those people. You'rerobably 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:33.560 never going to see them ever again the rest of 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.160 your life. It'd be different if it was a rumor 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:40.840 of people that you didn't know. Jeez, do you ever 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.760 have to sometimes kind of question your own morals? Like, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.560 I know you're working on behalf of your client, but 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.000 do you have to bring your own reason into some 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:57.199 situations to go perhaps my client isn't thinking properly, or 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:58.520 this isn't right, you know. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:03.960 Yeah, And this is where my background comes in. I 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:08.639 investigate every claim that i'm told. So if Joe Blogg 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.600 said to me, I'm looking, I've been screwing the neighbor 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:15.119 next door and she's not letting me see the kid, well, 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.479 you know what, I'll investigate that claim. I'll do it 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.240 as discreetly and as professionally as I can, and then 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.879 even if I find it's true, I'll say, listen, how 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:25.920 about we just say you were screwing a neighbor because 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:27.480 you live in a complex and it could be man 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.320 or woman, that's not out her when you're gone, because 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.880 she's got three kids, you know, she has her husband, 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.880 and I know how vengeful and revenge you on her. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:40.480 But let's just let her know secretly that you're desires 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.399 in your thoughts, but let the crowd know that it 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.760 could have been anybody. So I'll work around a few 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.199 areas that I'm not going to destroy a family over it. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.760 Yeah, And that's a really good point, because some older 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.560 people do get very vengeful and always really want to 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:58.560 have the last say. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.160 Although there are a lot of vaults in the families too, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:03.720 you know, And these vultures circle as soon as I 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.320 know you're on your deathbed, they're circling trying to get 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.600 all your shit, you know. And you don't know the 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.440 vultures are there until they're there. And sometimes they could 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.959 be standing right beside you throughout life, just waiting, you know, 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.760 So I couldn't give a fuck about them. I love 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.840 standing up at funerals and telling them to fuck off. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.680 Now, I will ask you, is there a kind of 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.880