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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hear more of the boys on the full podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Just scroll out, heytes Will and what Hope having a
wonderful Friday Woods. Possibly the most fascinating phone call we've
ever had on this show is from a man who's
called the Coffin Confessor. He's a guy who people bring
into the inner sanctum as they're on their deathbed. Yep,
they reveal to him something that they don't have the guts,
(00:24):
the courage. Maybe they don't want to be there when
this thing gets revealed, so they say to them, Hey,
look after I die, can you stand up at the
funeral when I'm in a coffin and tell everybody this
thing about me. It's a wild concept, but the more
we've spoken about it, and we've had Bill on the
show before, the Coffin Confessor, it almost seems a bit
(00:45):
logical and you can see why people would do it.
He's him on the show previously, though, talking to us
about some of the most hectic confessions he's had to reveal.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The most tepic I suppose it would be telling it
bloke that their children what it? Oh Jesus, that was
probably the most teach.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
How did you go about that? Was it? Like, you know,
a game of Duck duck goose, heads down, thumbs up
for what did you just point about?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Fortunately she told the kids before she passed, so everything
was about four decks. Everyone has a skeleton in the closets.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
The coffin confessor joins us on the phone right now, Hello, Bill.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know guys.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Hello, gooday, Bill, we're really really good.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think I should inform people that Will actually has
hired you to reveal some skeletons that are in his
close no doubt funeral, long long way down the track.
But we obviously won't get into that now. Bill, But
you made.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
At any time. That is all I'm saying. I actually
could die at any time, and I think we all
need to accept that. So you'd be you'd be the
smart money, would be getting Bill in now totally, just
in case you want to tell somebody just on.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
That Bill, how many how many well I guess deaths
are you waiting on currently? How many people have hired
you that are still alive?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Roughly, I've got about fourteen and a half thousand across
the globe.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Fourteen and a half thousand people I currently hired you,
and I haven't dined.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yet what Yeah, that's about right. I mean, look, I
mean once it hit the UK US, it just went nuts.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Phil, Well you're joking. Sorry, that is at least ten
thousand times bigger than what I thought it was going
to be.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh. Look, I think what happened is that, you know,
COVID the pandemic scared a lot of people and they
started thinking about death. And when they were searching, I
came up everywhere, and they started emailing me and asking me, wow,
we are certain things, and then they'd start hiring me.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And it just became as that happened in the time
since we last spoke to you, mate, because I feel
like the last time we spoke to you, this wasn't
well I don't know how many clients he had then
we didn't ask you, but fourteen thousand sounds like a
lot of bit are you running a whole office? Like,
what's the.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's not like they're all, like you say, they're not
ready to die. They're not. You know, they just hopped
me with the intent that they've got something to get
off their chests. Yeah, they put pen to paper obviously, well,
you know, emails and a lot of them send the
video along as well.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Die quickly though, mate, Like you're gonna have to do
what Xander does in one night with the presents.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And yeah, fortunately, and it's unfortunate. All fortunately. You know,
when someone dies, you've got a week or two to
prepare the you know, the f Yeah, and not only that, Yeah,
I've got to travel a lot. But at the same time,
my agreements aren't always for the funeral crash. It could
be the will reading the wake, it could be a
face to face.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Sure is that different? Different price points at aag like
is funeral the most expensive.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Or yeah, definitely funerals the most expensive, But then you've
got the face to face, the most face to face
I've done. Oh yeah, it was a little bit expensive.
But at the end of the day. It was also
a lady who was a mother who confessed to her
son that she was actually his grandmother and his grandfather
(04:08):
was the father.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh wow, wow, hang on, hang on, hang on, let
me wind that back. The mom his mom was actually
his grandma.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
His his mom slept with her own dad.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No, think about this for a second. Mother, Yeah, his mother,
his mother was his grandmother.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
His mother was his grandmotherther.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Was his father.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, and his grand.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Grandfather slept with his sister with his daughter. Sorry who.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Sorry you and you had to walk up to this
guy and tell him that face to face?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Howd that go down?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Bill? Well, we realized why he was up?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Wow, of course you do? You puy like you just
do you follow him around for a bit obviously, no
what he looks like and you walk up to him
and you buy him a beer? Or do you you know?
I mean, like, how do you look?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I've been given a specific instruction and who were years
and everything about him? And I am the private investigator,
so yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
When you get payment? Do you get payment when they
hire you when they're alive?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I get payment up front as soon as the contract
signed and the video has done between me and my client.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So then technically you wouldn't have to do it like
because you know they've died, then they want to know
about the contract. You've already received the money.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Technically, technically I could probably just do a runner. But
at the end of the day, I get paid very well.
And you know there is I mean, really I don't
want to rob the dead because I'm going to be
there one day.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It's true, That's very true.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
A registered marriage, Celebrant and Justice as the piece it's with.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I didn't say, I was just saying, technically you could
now Bill you said before the song as well. You
had a recent confession where you had to tell a
guy that his mum was actually his grandma, because if
you break this down, it means that his mom slept
with his grandpa passlet with his daughter. Yeah, totally. Have
(06:19):
you had any other recent coffin confessions that have really
blown your socks off?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think the most recent wasn't so much a confession.
The gentleman had a lot of vultures in his family
and he didn't want to leave them anything. He'd done
a lot for charity in the past, but he wanted
to take certain items with him and he wanted them buried.
And I couldn't find a place to bury him until
one night I came up with the idea, and I
paid the grave digger to lower me into his grave,
(06:48):
and I dug a bit of a hole and placed
what he wanted in the hole, and the coffin went
on top.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What shut up, Phil, What was it?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
What was the thing that you were burying?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Look, it was not only photos, but money, a couple
of middle trinkets, gold trinklets, to think that he really
thought of value to himself, the family really wanted. How
much in the family?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
How much? How much is? How much is there buried?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I couldn't tell you. I couldn't even tell you who
it is. I mean, I've got a lie.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You can't tell me who it is. But like how much?
How much do you reckon? Like like tens of thousands.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Easy clost to one hundred thousands?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, sh b And I know we talked about honor before, Bill,
I know we talked about honor, but surely is slipping
a trinkets or is a little bit of that cash
into your pocket?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Then I get look, I get paid up to ten
thousand dollars, so you know I don't need to do that.
Then at the end of the day, like I've always said,
they don't need the money where they're going, and I
never get to complain.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So it's the most amazing set up, Bill, Bill. Are
you the only coffin confessor on the planet?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Bill? On the planet? Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Wow, Well I think you've just inspired. What do you
look at him? He is thinking about all the he
can rub the dead. Do you need a protg a
perfect crime. Do you need a protege? I'm in I'm keen.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I tell you, I've been inundated with resume and requests
to franchise and do all these things for people. But
at the end of the day, I'm just I'm just
rolling with and I'm just enjoying what I'm doing. I'm
meeting some beautiful people. Unfortunately, I've got more friends and
associates that are now dead. Yeah, yeah, you know. It's
just one of those things I do enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The other side of the job. Isn't it that, like
every one of your clients effectively in your lifetime will die, So.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I look absolutely we're all going to go.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That is the other side of it, isn't it. That's extraordinary?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Bill?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Who will you hire to confess your.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I'm actually doing it myself. I'm in the process of hologram.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What serious, Bill? Every one of your answers, I am
not expected.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
John, Hang on, Bill, So your funeral, a hologram of
yourself is going to pop up and confess a whole
bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You got it? That's it?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
One real bleel out there?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
How old is Bill?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You don't me asking how old are you.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I'm fifty five turning thirty, and I could do it
for you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Bill, We could do it for you if you like, mate, Yeah,
you let us know.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
A lot of people say they can, but at the
end of the day, you know, when you've got to
stand up and crush a funeral and tell people to
sit down and shut up or buger off, it's not
as easy used to think.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Has anyone ever got violent, Bill, or like gone to
like effectively attack you.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
They've gone to but the family and the friends tell
them to sit down and shut up because they want
to hear what their loved ones got make done. Things
they really need to know. And it's like anything. People.
People love gossip, and when it's in the family and
it's really close people, they already know the secret, but
the hitching for it to get out. So when I
(10:04):
let it out, they sort of sit back with the
smug look on their face and they look at the
person that it's directed at and they're like, tea, about
time you were.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Exposed, wowing him. Wow. Bill is doing a Ted talk tonight.
He's going to be at the Howden Pavilion in Sydney.
If you want to go and see him. Tickets from
twenty twenty three dot ted X Sydney dot com or
just google ted X Sydney imagine you'll be able to
find all the details there. The show is called Tipping Point.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It's always great to talk to you, mate. You are
truly one of the most fascinating people on the planet.
We love what you do. Thanks so much again for
coming on the show and good luck crashing the next coffin.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Oh thanks for having me guys, and take care and
stay safe otherwise you know who the core funny.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Hell Absolutely Bill, absolutely mate.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Never sleeps Bill Good mate him.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
More of the boys on the full Show podcast, all
on the iHeartRadio app. Oh worry me get your podcast.
Hear more of the boys on the full podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Just scroll out, heytes Will and what Hope having a
wonderful Friday Woods. Possibly the most fascinating phone call we've
ever had on this show is from a man who's
called the Coffin Confessor. He's a guy who people bring
into the inner sanctum as they're on their deathbed. Yep,
they reveal to him something that they don't have the guts,
(00:24):
the courage. Maybe they don't want to be there when
this thing gets revealed, so they say to them, Hey,
look after I die, can you stand up at the
funeral when I'm in a coffin and tell everybody this
thing about me. It's a wild concept, but the more
we've spoken about it, and we've had Bill on the
show before, the Coffin Confessor, it almost seems a bit
(00:45):
logical and you can see why people would do it.
He's him on the show previously, though, talking to us
about some of the most hectic confessions he's had to reveal.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
The most tepic I suppose it would be telling it
bloke that their children what it? Oh Jesus, that was
probably the most teach.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
How did you go about that? Was it? Like, you know,
a game of Duck duck goose, heads down, thumbs up
for what did you just point about?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Fortunately she told the kids before she passed, so everything
was about four decks. Everyone has a skeleton in the closets.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
The coffin confessor joins us on the phone right now, Hello, Bill.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know guys.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Hello, gooday, Bill, we're really really good.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I think I should inform people that Will actually has
hired you to reveal some skeletons that are in his
close no doubt funeral, long long way down the track.
But we obviously won't get into that now. Bill, But
you made.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
At any time. That is all I'm saying. I actually
could die at any time, and I think we all
need to accept that. So you'd be you'd be the
smart money, would be getting Bill in now totally, just
in case you want to tell somebody just on.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
That Bill, how many how many well I guess deaths
are you waiting on currently? How many people have hired
you that are still alive?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Roughly, I've got about fourteen and a half thousand across
the globe.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Fourteen and a half thousand people I currently hired you,
and I haven't dined.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yet what Yeah, that's about right. I mean, look, I
mean once it hit the UK US, it just went nuts.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Phil, Well you're joking. Sorry, that is at least ten
thousand times bigger than what I thought it was going
to be.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh. Look, I think what happened is that, you know,
COVID the pandemic scared a lot of people and they
started thinking about death. And when they were searching, I
came up everywhere, and they started emailing me and asking me, wow,
we are certain things, and then they'd start hiring me.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And it just became as that happened in the time
since we last spoke to you, mate, because I feel
like the last time we spoke to you, this wasn't
well I don't know how many clients he had then
we didn't ask you, but fourteen thousand sounds like a
lot of bit are you running a whole office? Like,
what's the.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's not like they're all, like you say, they're not
ready to die. They're not. You know, they just hopped
me with the intent that they've got something to get
off their chests. Yeah, they put pen to paper obviously, well,
you know, emails and a lot of them send the
video along as well.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Die quickly though, mate, Like you're gonna have to do
what Xander does in one night with the presents.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And yeah, fortunately, and it's unfortunate. All fortunately. You know,
when someone dies, you've got a week or two to
prepare the you know, the f Yeah, and not only that, Yeah,
I've got to travel a lot. But at the same time,
my agreements aren't always for the funeral crash. It could
be the will reading the wake, it could be a
face to face.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Sure is that different? Different price points at aag like
is funeral the most expensive.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Or yeah, definitely funerals the most expensive, But then you've
got the face to face, the most face to face
I've done. Oh yeah, it was a little bit expensive.
But at the end of the day. It was also
a lady who was a mother who confessed to her
son that she was actually his grandmother and his grandfather
(04:08):
was the father.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh wow, wow, hang on, hang on, hang on, let
me wind that back. The mom his mom was actually
his grandma.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
His his mom slept with her own dad.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
No, think about this for a second. Mother, Yeah, his mother,
his mother was his grandmother.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
His mother was his grandmotherther.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Was his father.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, and his grand.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Grandfather slept with his sister with his daughter. Sorry who.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Sorry you and you had to walk up to this
guy and tell him that face to face?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Howd that go down?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Bill? Well, we realized why he was up?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Wow, of course you do? You puy like you just
do you follow him around for a bit obviously, no
what he looks like and you walk up to him
and you buy him a beer? Or do you you know?
I mean, like, how do you look?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I've been given a specific instruction and who were years
and everything about him? And I am the private investigator,
so yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
When you get payment? Do you get payment when they
hire you when they're alive?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I get payment up front as soon as the contract
signed and the video has done between me and my client.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So then technically you wouldn't have to do it like
because you know they've died, then they want to know
about the contract. You've already received the money.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Technically, technically I could probably just do a runner. But
at the end of the day, I get paid very well.
And you know there is I mean, really I don't
want to rob the dead because I'm going to be
there one day.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It's true, That's very true.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
A registered marriage, Celebrant and Justice as the piece it's with.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I didn't say, I was just saying, technically you could
now Bill you said before the song as well. You
had a recent confession where you had to tell a
guy that his mum was actually his grandma, because if
you break this down, it means that his mom slept
with his grandpa passlet with his daughter. Yeah, totally. Have
(06:19):
you had any other recent coffin confessions that have really
blown your socks off?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think the most recent wasn't so much a confession.
The gentleman had a lot of vultures in his family
and he didn't want to leave them anything. He'd done
a lot for charity in the past, but he wanted
to take certain items with him and he wanted them buried.
And I couldn't find a place to bury him until
one night I came up with the idea, and I
paid the grave digger to lower me into his grave,
(06:48):
and I dug a bit of a hole and placed
what he wanted in the hole, and the coffin went
on top.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
What shut up, Phil, What was it?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
What was the thing that you were burying?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Look, it was not only photos, but money, a couple
of middle trinkets, gold trinklets, to think that he really
thought of value to himself, the family really wanted. How
much in the family?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
How much? How much is? How much is there buried?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I couldn't tell you. I couldn't even tell you who
it is. I mean, I've got a lie.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You can't tell me who it is. But like how much?
How much do you reckon? Like like tens of thousands.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Easy clost to one hundred thousands?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, sh b And I know we talked about honor before, Bill,
I know we talked about honor, but surely is slipping
a trinkets or is a little bit of that cash
into your pocket?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Then I get look, I get paid up to ten
thousand dollars, so you know I don't need to do that.
Then at the end of the day, like I've always said,
they don't need the money where they're going, and I
never get to complain.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
So it's the most amazing set up, Bill, Bill. Are
you the only coffin confessor on the planet?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Bill? On the planet? Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Wow, Well I think you've just inspired. What do you
look at him? He is thinking about all the he
can rub the dead. Do you need a protg a
perfect crime. Do you need a protege? I'm in I'm keen.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I tell you, I've been inundated with resume and requests
to franchise and do all these things for people. But
at the end of the day, I'm just I'm just
rolling with and I'm just enjoying what I'm doing. I'm
meeting some beautiful people. Unfortunately, I've got more friends and
associates that are now dead. Yeah, yeah, you know. It's
just one of those things I do enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The other side of the job. Isn't it that, like
every one of your clients effectively in your lifetime will die, So.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I look absolutely we're all going to go.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That is the other side of it, isn't it. That's extraordinary?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Bill?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Who will you hire to confess your.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I'm actually doing it myself. I'm in the process of hologram.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What serious, Bill? Every one of your answers, I am
not expected.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
John, Hang on, Bill, So your funeral, a hologram of
yourself is going to pop up and confess a whole
bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You got it? That's it?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
One real bleel out there?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
How old is Bill?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You don't me asking how old are you.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I'm fifty five turning thirty, and I could do it
for you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Bill, We could do it for you if you like, mate, Yeah,
you let us know.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
A lot of people say they can, but at the
end of the day, you know, when you've got to
stand up and crush a funeral and tell people to
sit down and shut up or buger off, it's not
as easy used to think.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Has anyone ever got violent, Bill, or like gone to
like effectively attack you.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
They've gone to but the family and the friends tell
them to sit down and shut up because they want
to hear what their loved ones got make done. Things
they really need to know. And it's like anything. People.
People love gossip, and when it's in the family and
it's really close people, they already know the secret, but
the hitching for it to get out. So when I
(10:04):
let it out, they sort of sit back with the
smug look on their face and they look at the
person that it's directed at and they're like, tea, about
time you were.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Exposed, wowing him. Wow. Bill is doing a Ted talk tonight.
He's going to be at the Howden Pavilion in Sydney.
If you want to go and see him. Tickets from
twenty twenty three dot ted X Sydney dot com or
just google ted X Sydney imagine you'll be able to
find all the details there. The show is called Tipping Point.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It's always great to talk to you, mate. You are
truly one of the most fascinating people on the planet.
We love what you do. Thanks so much again for
coming on the show and good luck crashing the next coffin.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Oh thanks for having me guys, and take care and
stay safe otherwise you know who the core funny.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Hell Absolutely Bill, absolutely mate.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Never sleeps Bill Good mate him.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
More of the boys on the full Show podcast, all
on the iHeartRadio app. Oh worry me get your podcast.
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