WEBVTT - MINI: Bill Edgar... The Coffin Confessor ⚰️ 

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a bit of a sicko Mitch and Laura.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not a surprise to anyone, But I cannot tell

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<v Speaker 2>you how excited I am for this chat that we're

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<v Speaker 2>about to have. We're about to speak to Bill Edgar,

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<v Speaker 2>who I think has one of the most interesting, creepy, intriguing,

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<v Speaker 2>disturbing jobs in Australia. So he's a businessman, he's a counselor,

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<v Speaker 2>he's an author, he's a private detective sure, but the

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<v Speaker 2>best part is he's a coffin confessor.

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<v Speaker 1>This is what he calls himself. Bill's job is to

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<v Speaker 1>go to people's deathbeds.

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<v Speaker 2>So people as they know they don't have much time left,

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<v Speaker 2>or maybe they do whatever it is they He goes

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<v Speaker 2>to their deathbed and he gets their dying wish and

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<v Speaker 2>their dying confession. So maybe it's something that this dying

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<v Speaker 2>person wants to happen at their own funeral. Maybe it's

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<v Speaker 2>just something they want to confess. And Bill has to

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<v Speaker 2>go and stand up at the funeral or the grave

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<v Speaker 2>site and like and say the confession, Hey, I know

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<v Speaker 2>Johnny's passed away, he's employed me to blah blah blah blah.

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<v Speaker 2>And then they get all his secrets out. It's actually insane.

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<v Speaker 2>I find it so fascinating. He charges ten thousand dollars

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<v Speaker 2>to do this, and I have so many questions around,

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<v Speaker 2>like the how, the why, the what the deepest secrets?

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<v Speaker 2>So I have got Bill on the phone to have

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<v Speaker 2>a chat toy, Right, Bill, Welcome to the pickup.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey guys, thanks for having me, Hi Bill, Bill?

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<v Speaker 1>How does one end up.

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<v Speaker 2>Confessing people's dying last wish?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh? You know what, It started as a joke. I

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<v Speaker 3>just told a dying man that I crash his funeral

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<v Speaker 3>for him, and he took me up on the offer.

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<v Speaker 4>When you said you're going to crash his funeral, like,

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<v Speaker 4>why were you crashing his funeral?

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<v Speaker 1>What was the like?

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<v Speaker 4>What was the sentiment behind it that he needed his

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<v Speaker 4>funeral crashed?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh? I got to meet this gentleman probably eight ten

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<v Speaker 3>weeks before his death, and we were talking about death,

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<v Speaker 3>the afterlife and everything in between, and I suggested he

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<v Speaker 3>do a eulogy and he said that he'd been through

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<v Speaker 3>enough funerals where the eulogy isn't played out of disrespect

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<v Speaker 3>or whatever it is. And I just said, yeah, it

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<v Speaker 3>just as a joke, you know what. Graham I can

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<v Speaker 3>always crash your funeral for you, Mane. And a couple

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<v Speaker 3>of weeks later, I get a text and he says, Bill,

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<v Speaker 3>You're going to crash my funeral for me. I'm going

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<v Speaker 3>to pay your ten grand to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, what a what a fee he put on that

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<v Speaker 1>for you?

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<v Speaker 5>And what was what was.

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<v Speaker 6>It that you crashed? Would you mind telling us, like,

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<v Speaker 6>what happened? What did you have to say?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, his best mate, while performing the eulogy with his

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<v Speaker 3>crocodile tears to two to three minutes into that eulogy.

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<v Speaker 3>I was to stand up, excuse myself and say to

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<v Speaker 3>the crowd, excuse me. My name's phil Epia. S down,

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<v Speaker 3>shove up or bug off. The man in the coffin's

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<v Speaker 3>got something, they say, and this is what it is.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, best made of mine. You've been trying to

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<v Speaker 3>screw my wife while I'm on my deathbed. And if

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<v Speaker 3>my brother, his wife and their daughter at my funeral,

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<v Speaker 3>they can bugger off too. I haven't seen him in

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<v Speaker 3>thirty years. Their vultures get lost.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, what happened when you said this?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, yeah, you could hear a pin drop at the

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<v Speaker 3>same time. Those that truly loved the man. They knew

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<v Speaker 3>and understood, and the best mate ob looks he just

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<v Speaker 3>ran out. He left really quickly. The other three that

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<v Speaker 3>were in attendance, they stood up and they left as well,

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<v Speaker 3>and a few other people left. I think they thought

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<v Speaker 3>they were going to get targeted. But it was his

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<v Speaker 3>skill and it is his funeral, so why not he

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<v Speaker 3>got to have you stay.

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<v Speaker 4>I wantn't know what happened with the wife. I mean,

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<v Speaker 4>was the wife was she still there? Was she did

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<v Speaker 4>she get up and leave? Or was she was the

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<v Speaker 4>one who was telling him that this was happening.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, she was very grateful for what happened. This this

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<v Speaker 3>so called best mate is no longer in her life

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<v Speaker 3>or you know, anywhere around them. She was very upset

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<v Speaker 3>about the best mate trying to do what he was

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<v Speaker 3>trying to do. Oh wow. And obviously she didn't want

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<v Speaker 3>to put too much on her dying husband. But at

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<v Speaker 3>the same time he could see everything from his bedroom on,

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<v Speaker 3>you know. And it was one of those cases that

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<v Speaker 3>when you're lying on your deathbed and you, yeah, you

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<v Speaker 3>got no energy, you sleep most of the time, you've

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<v Speaker 3>got no confident, you've got nothing, and then you're needed.

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<v Speaker 6>Help Edgar, Is there a line for you? Do you

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<v Speaker 6>think to yourself, I want this to be ethical? Is

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<v Speaker 6>there any ethical element to it?

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<v Speaker 4>Or no?

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<v Speaker 5>Will you do absolutely anything once that, once you've been.

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<v Speaker 3>Paid, I know no, it's definitely ethics and morals and

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<v Speaker 3>my integrity. I mean, look, at the end of the day,

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<v Speaker 3>I am an investigator. I'd like to investigate everybody's claims.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm very careful. I sit with my clients and we

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<v Speaker 3>go through everything. I will not act for a third party.

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<v Speaker 3>In other words, if you wanted me to crash your

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<v Speaker 3>mother's or father's heeral, I can't do that. I can

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<v Speaker 3>only crash on behalf of them.

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<v Speaker 5>Okay, well, hold on, this is very, very exciting.

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<v Speaker 6>Why don't we go to a break you let's get

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<v Speaker 6>some story, some deathbed confession stories.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I need more.

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<v Speaker 6>You're happy to stick around and tell us some after this, Bill,

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<v Speaker 6>absolutely all right, stay there. We're back after this with

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<v Speaker 6>the Coffin Confessor on the pickup Britt, Laura and Mitch

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<v Speaker 6>joined by Bill Edgar. He's the Coffin Confessor. He's a counsel,

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<v Speaker 6>as an author, he's a businessman. It's also a private

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<v Speaker 6>detective and he's channeling his work now into going to

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<v Speaker 6>the deathbed of people that are terminally ill, getting a

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<v Speaker 6>secret that they want off their chest, and then revealing

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<v Speaker 6>it to their friends and family in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, Bill, is there ever any request that someone has

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<v Speaker 2>asked you to do that you've had to put your

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<v Speaker 2>foot down and say I can't do that, that's too far.

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<v Speaker 3>It was, but I ended up doing it anyway because

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<v Speaker 3>I am the coffee professor and it was a message.

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<v Speaker 3>It was for me to actually be a lady suicide

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<v Speaker 3>note and that was confronting. But at the same time,

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<v Speaker 3>there's nothing that was going to stop this lady doing

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<v Speaker 3>what she did.

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<v Speaker 5>Wow, God, there can be a real tense job.

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<v Speaker 6>I can only imagine tell us one of the craziest

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<v Speaker 6>confessions that you've ever had to do. If you're at

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<v Speaker 6>a pub having a couple of beers and your mates

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<v Speaker 6>going to tell us us the best story?

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<v Speaker 5>What is it?

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<v Speaker 3>I think I got to say the best story, or

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<v Speaker 3>the most confronting story for me, was going to the

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<v Speaker 3>viewing of the body and pin pricking the body because

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<v Speaker 3>the person was petrified of being cremated alive.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh wow, No, they wanted you to go and check

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<v Speaker 4>and make sure they were dead.

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<v Speaker 1>That's awful.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, that's right. We all have a phobia, we all

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<v Speaker 3>have a fear, and we've all got a skeleton in

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<v Speaker 3>the closet. So it's just one of those jobs that

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<v Speaker 3>had to be done. So now I'm placing items in coffins,

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<v Speaker 3>mobile phone, Soto's jewelry, whatever it is. Plus, I'm delivering

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<v Speaker 3>gifts from the afterlife, which is a beautiful thing to do.

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<v Speaker 3>I rock up at somebody's house. It could be six seven,

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<v Speaker 3>eight months after somebody's died, on an anniversary of birthday

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<v Speaker 3>and I'm delivering a gift special.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you find that these people because you're spending time

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<v Speaker 4>with people in the most vulnerable last moments? Do many

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<v Speaker 4>people who you've spoken to have regrets or are there

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<v Speaker 4>things that they wish they'd done differently about their life?

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<v Speaker 4>And that's the type of thing that you're enacting or

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<v Speaker 4>taking out, you know, I.

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<v Speaker 3>Believe we all have that moment, you know, especially I

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<v Speaker 3>noticed it more on the people's set beds that they

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<v Speaker 3>wish they had more time and time to one thing.

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<v Speaker 3>We can't buy, we can't there's nothing we can do.

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<v Speaker 3>Time to seek It just comes in the name.

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<v Speaker 5>Really on.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's really one of those things that people wish

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<v Speaker 3>they had time. But I got to say, everybody that

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<v Speaker 3>I've met who's now no longer alive, they've all said

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<v Speaker 3>the same thing as in, they're not the fear of

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<v Speaker 3>death is nothing. They don't see your death. What they

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<v Speaker 3>see you is leaving their loved ones behind. That's the

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<v Speaker 3>biggest fear.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Well, if you had to say the juiciest secret

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<v Speaker 2>that you've had to pass on, what is it?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, the juiciest would have to be the lady who

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<v Speaker 3>passed away and left me a message to tell her

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<v Speaker 3>son that his sister was his mother grandmother.

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<v Speaker 6>Oh my my, oh wow, and ten thousand dollars you

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<v Speaker 6>could have that experience to me.

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<v Speaker 1>That to me sounds horrible.

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<v Speaker 4>Imagine that being how you find out, Like, you don't

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<v Speaker 4>need to know that after the fact, if they're going

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<v Speaker 4>to die and take that wish with them, I just

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<v Speaker 4>I wouldn't want to know. I think that's so how

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<v Speaker 4>did you respond to it?

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<v Speaker 1>She's like mom, grandma's sister.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's one of those things that you know,

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<v Speaker 3>people can't seem to live or let go of things,

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<v Speaker 3>and so they hire me to do that for them.

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<v Speaker 3>At the same time, I've asked many a person that

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<v Speaker 3>why meet you know, why not do it yourself, or

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<v Speaker 3>why not get a friend, and they just have no

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<v Speaker 3>trust to or or they just can't do it when

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<v Speaker 3>it's issues of infidelity, and I find that either revenge

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<v Speaker 3>people doing it as a revenge thing, or they're coming

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<v Speaker 3>clean and going you know what. So recently I crashed

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<v Speaker 3>a fearal where the lady said that she knew her

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<v Speaker 3>husband had been sleeping around and that she decided to

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<v Speaker 3>do the same, and he had no idea. But when

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<v Speaker 3>he did find out, he broke down terribly. And I said, well,

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<v Speaker 3>you know what, man, she found out you were doing it,

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<v Speaker 3>and she let it go, but you kept doing it,

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<v Speaker 3>so now she's done it.

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<v Speaker 6>You're more so the confrontation expert, right than it is

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<v Speaker 6>the Coffin Confessor. I mean people hate confrontation. I guess

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<v Speaker 6>that is why people are so drawn to you.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, for sure. At the end of the day,

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<v Speaker 3>keep telling people I'm just a messenger. It's not me,

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<v Speaker 3>it's your luve.

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<v Speaker 6>Look, if you want more from Bill Edgar, you can

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<v Speaker 6>get his book The Coffin Confessor. More stories like that

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<v Speaker 6>inside Hey, thanks for coming on the show. Bill, very

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<v Speaker 6>exciting stuff. Interesting.

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<v Speaker 3>Thanks Bill so much, all your listeners.

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<v Speaker 5>Good man, and if you wanted services DM Bill.

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<v Speaker 4>I just think it's I mean going like I think,

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<v Speaker 4>when you're going to die, having such vengeance or wanting

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<v Speaker 4>to like, you know, enact revenge on someone, it just

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<v Speaker 4>seems really sad.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's their dying wish if it makes them happy.

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<v Speaker 5>I think, all right, we're done, let's get out of here.

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<v Speaker 5>We need to end the shore