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Speaker 1: The Coffin Confessor is back with another book, The Afterlife

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Speaker 1: Confessional is out now and Bill Edgar is joining us

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: I Bill, good morning, and thank you for having me,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for.

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Speaker 3: Joining us, Thank you for the follow up book.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed The Coffin Confessor the first one so much,

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Speaker 1: and this is full of lots more amazing stories just

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Speaker 1: for the uninitiated, and I don't think there's too many left,

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Speaker 1: but for those that are uninitiated, just briefly tell us

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Speaker 1: what your role as the Coffin Confessor is.

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Speaker 2: So I'm engaged by the deceased before they die to

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Speaker 2: attend their funeral, crash it and tell those that were

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Speaker 2: loved how much. So I love to knowse my clients

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Speaker 2: loves to hate the bugger rock and it would be good,

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Speaker 2: funny or sad.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: Getting various reactions, Bill, Yes, you just rock up quietly.

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Speaker 1: You don't take any sort of interruption for an answer,

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Speaker 1: because you're there for the guy in the box or

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Speaker 1: the woman in the box, and you just get on

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Speaker 1: with it and then you leave more great stories as

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Speaker 1: you say about what you know. People request that you do,

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Speaker 1: usually at their funeral, but there are some other stories

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Speaker 1: in this book as well, and one that really I

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Speaker 1: found very touching was the request from one woman to

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Speaker 1: hand deliver a bottle of wine to her husband on

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Speaker 1: the anniversary of her death.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So it is some of the stories that they're not

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Speaker 1: always you know, telling it how it was at the funeral.

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Speaker 2: No, And that's the thing, Like I said, good bead, funny, sad.

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Speaker 2: I mean, some loving stories too. And the afterlife delivery

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Speaker 2: service has just gone nuts for me.

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Speaker 3: Crazy, how bizarre. It just sounds like the weirdest kind

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Speaker 3: of overreats.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's incredible, it really is. But it's a

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Speaker 2: beautiful thing too. I mean, one lady I had to

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Speaker 2: decorate her whole room in pink carnations because she had

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Speaker 2: Alzheimer's and it had passed away and for a minute

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Speaker 2: and thirty seven seconds she realized she had a husband.

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Speaker 2: It was incredible.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, Yeah, that is sweet. What is there an

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Speaker 4: afterlife app that will prepaid? Obviously? That's amazing of course. Yeah, Bill,

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Speaker 4: you have to have an open mind in your kind

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Speaker 4: of work. But when was the last time you're shocked

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Speaker 4: by something someone asked you to do?

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Speaker 2: Shocked, I'd say, I'm shocked every time somebody to do.

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Speaker 2: Some people, I've got to say, going to the viewing

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Speaker 2: and placing items in coffins is a bit confronting, right

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Speaker 2: Usually the mobile phone or pinpricking the body is a

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Speaker 2: really big one. For people who were petrified at being

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Speaker 2: buried or cremated a lot.

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Speaker 3: That's me.

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Speaker 1: Oh I want to be I want to be cremated,

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Speaker 1: but oh God, make sure i'm dead.

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Speaker 3: Engagement, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's actually you know you mentioned about the placing things

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Speaker 1: in the coffin.

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Speaker 3: I didn't even hadn't even really given much.

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Speaker 1: Thoughts to all the different options as you have to

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Speaker 1: consider before doing that until I read one of the

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Speaker 1: stories in the new book where you had to do that.

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Speaker 3: It was quite.

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Speaker 1: Quite the project to make sure that you would be

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Speaker 1: able to slip in, open the coffin and get out

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Speaker 1: without it being you know, to turning into some kind

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Speaker 1: of weird muddy python situation.

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh exactly. I mean, you know, like you don't realize,

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Speaker 2: but all coffins and caskets are different, and they don't

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Speaker 2: have different latches, locks and secret openings, you know, so

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Speaker 2: they're not meant to open at funerals because you know,

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Speaker 2: unless it's an open viewing. Yeah, of course they're actually

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Speaker 2: locked so that they don't if they do, for they

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Speaker 3: You don't have to turn up with a drill.

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Speaker 2: For this particular one, I had to know what coffin

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Speaker 2: it was to open, so I had to investigate and

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Speaker 2: actually open it a few times before my client was

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And once I did that, Yes, I had to go

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Speaker 2: it was him because his grandmother a few years earlier,

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Speaker 2: they delivered the wrong body and buried the wrong ladies.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

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Speaker 2: What happened.

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Speaker 3: Another It was one.

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Speaker 2: Of those things that it's a request, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, no, I don't think you've said no to anything. Another.

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Speaker 1: Another good story in the new book is one that

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Speaker 1: gave you inspiration to incorporate into.

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Speaker 3: Your own life with your own dad.

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Speaker 1: I do love the idea of the concept of the

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Speaker 1: traveling ashes.

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Speaker 3: Traveler, yes, traveler.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So I had my dad's ashes for years,

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Speaker 2: and I've put him in various places and I forgot

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Speaker 2: about him for a while, and then you see him

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Speaker 2: and then you go on geez, what am I going

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Speaker 2: to do with these? So I decided, after getting a

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Speaker 2: bit of an idea from another, to put them in

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Speaker 2: flasks and send them all over the world. So four

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Speaker 2: different flasks all over the world. And I've done that right,

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Speaker 2: so people will find him and you know, on the

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Speaker 2: inscription it does say if you find me, you know,

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Speaker 2: put me on a plane, train or anywhere you can

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Speaker 2: and leave me for the next to do the same.

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Speaker 4: Love it keep sending them around the planet.

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Speaker 3: Love that that that is fantastic.

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Speaker 4: You might put him in space.

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Speaker 3: Or down to them.

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Speaker 1: You have since the first book, there has, understanding understandably,

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Speaker 1: been a lot of curiosity in what you do, and

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Speaker 1: you've been very busy with with podcasts and interviews and

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Speaker 1: the new book. But when we last spoke to you,

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Speaker 1: there was talk about your life, unsurprisingly being turned into

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Speaker 1: a show. I think Netflix, we're calling or sorts of people.

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Speaker 3: Are there any updates on that?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's all still continuing. However, what I what I

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Speaker 2: didn't realize is that when you sign this holyoo, you

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Speaker 2: sign your soul true, you lose everything. Yeah, so I

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Speaker 2: had to get out clause, which was I was very

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Speaker 2: fortunate to have and I won't sell everything I own. Oh,

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Speaker 2: license it, but I won't sell it. The new company

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Speaker 2: that's taken over in the last twelve to fourteen months,

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Speaker 2: they're very happy to run with the television drama series

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Speaker 2: and the movie and the reality show. But I own it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, that's smart.

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Speaker 4: That's like a songwriter owning the chunes and the copyright.

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Speaker 3: That it doesn't move quickly nothing. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, your life is on new I follow you on Instagram.

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Speaker 4: Made it has been busy. Do you get we have

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Speaker 4: asked you this with the first book, But I was

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Speaker 4: wondering if there was other kinds of people sort of

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Speaker 4: give you a hard time or pushback, or you get

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Speaker 4: a few heavy's given you a bit of hard time, mate,

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Speaker 4: or you just sold your on to your gig because

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Speaker 4: some people wouldn't like when you do it.

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Speaker 2: I just yeah, I just sold her on.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's basically getting the crowd on my side, letting know

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Speaker 2: that I'm just you know, I'm just the message.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, yeah, your loved one.

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Speaker 2: It's your loved one in the coffin or carsket. You know,

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Speaker 2: let's hear what they have to say this funeral, not

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Speaker 2: yours in the voltches in the family can bugger off?

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Speaker 2: Are you?

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Speaker 1: You're finding now that sometimes because people are recognizing you

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Speaker 1: now you're showing up and a bit of a murmur.

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Speaker 3: Goes around, look go through.

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Speaker 4: Not just a stranger.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The best part is is half of those that I've

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Speaker 2: got asked to leave leave.

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Speaker 3: Yah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yes, there's a few murmurs and things, but

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Speaker 2: I'm doing a lot of face to face now. I'm

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Speaker 2: actually knocking on the door of somebody and saying, hey, listen,

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Speaker 2: this person died recently. You didn't attend the funeral, but

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Speaker 2: they had these things to say. Your leave for you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes good, sometimes not so.

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Speaker 3: I guess, Wow, that's right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, but there are some loving messages to me.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's not like I say, good dad, funny, sad, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the whole spectrum.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think that after reading the second book, it

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Speaker 1: is still the most fascinating occupation I think I have ever.

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Speaker 3: Discovered anyone to have a bill.

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Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure to talk to you, and we

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Speaker 1: hope things get moving with the show. I do want

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Speaker 1: to see this as a series, and I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see who plays you.

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Speaker 2: You can't even speculate it it should be good. I

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Speaker 2: love what they're doing at the moment. The writer's is

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Speaker 2: eagerly writing, so I'm very happy and anticipating like everybody else.

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Speaker 4: All Right, all right, well we'll call Richard roxbro mate,

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Speaker 4: we'll get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I love Richard. That would be all right. Keep

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Speaker 3: doing what you're doing, Bill, someone's got to do it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, guys, thanky.

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Speaker 1: So The Afterlife Confessional is out now. If you haven't

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Speaker 1: read The Coffin Confessor, read The Coffin Confessor first and

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Speaker 1: then read the follow up.

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Speaker 3: It's He's a fascinating guy. What extraordinary. Quite the story