Loose Units: The Podcast

By Pillow Talk Productions

The true crime book Loose Units, out now through Penguin Publishing (and in bookstores everywhere), had one thing it couldn't do: it couldn't fit everything. So each week, Paul and John will sit down ... more

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Loose Units: The Podcast episodes:

December 16, 2019 Loose Units: NSFW - Part Two
This week on Loose Units: NSFW, Dad nearly finds out the secret ingredient in Coca-Cola during a gruesome investigation, Paul finds out a new layer of weirdness to dad's police origin story, and we leap into the tough, complex world of unions in the 1980's.
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December 10, 2019 Loose Units: NSFW - Part One
Why did John leave the police force and spend several years investigating disturbing industrial accidents? How did he apply his police skills to this surprisingly fraught job? This week we kick off a special three-parter, Loose Units: NSFW! Paul finds out about an untold era of John's career after the force, and hears about a horrifying accident involving molten rubber and a tragic explosion.
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32min
December 02, 2019 On the Road
Ever wondered what it would be like to road trip with the Loose Units crew, heading from live show to live show on their sold out tour? Well, join us for this rare fly-on-the-wall (well, fly-in-the-car) episode, with Paul, John and Tegan trekking from Melbourne, to Bendigo, the Mount Gambier, to Horsham, and finally to Adelaide.
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46min
November 25, 2019 Loose Units: Mum’s the word - Part Two
In part two of Loose Units: Mum’s the Word, my ex-cop mum Christine talks about being a trailblazer, a woman in the police force who had male cops refuse to work with her because of her gender. She also talks about being a bloody brilliant driver during a chase, working in internal affairs, and the REAL story of how she and Dad got together whilst on the force.
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36min
November 18, 2019 Loose Units: Mum's the word - Part One
Jumping fences in an A-line skirt, attending an armed holdup, facing down a man armed with a shotgun, and literally talking someone down from a ledge. Find out exactly what it was like being one of the first female officers in the NSW police force… from my ex-cop mum.

Part two of Loose Units: Mum's the Word will be out next week!
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31min
November 11, 2019 The Body on the Cliff
A lone body, mummified, fifteen metres down a cliff. Detectives from the city with an agenda. And John... with a length of rope and a job to do. In this episode, ex-cop John tells son Paul about a truly strange case, and the disturbing (and revealing) autopsy that followed. He also explores the forbidden depths of the ancient prison cells beneath Sydney's streets.

Head to facebook.com/looseunits to pick up tickets for Loose Units LIVE in Bendigo and Adelaide before they run out!
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33min
November 04, 2019 By Their Own Hand
A staggering, disturbing look at death by suicide from the perspective of an ex-cop. John takes his son, Paul, through a terrifying ocean suicide, a tragic aviation death, a surreal hanging, and the time he himself almost died at sea. WARNING: this episode deals almost entirely with suicide.

DO NOT MISS our Bendigo live show on the 27th of November: https://bit.ly/2WGDGi4
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36min
October 28, 2019 Safe
John reveals a complex trade secret: how does safe-cracking work? Turns out it's super, super complicated. The boys also discuss a how to use iron filings to take fingerprints, and turning a stack of palm prints into break in a major, major case in Australian crime history.
Remember, tickets to our live Adelaide show are on sale NOW! https://bit.ly/31VArUB

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32min
October 21, 2019 Rampant Speculation
On this bizarre episode of Loose Units, John and Paul literally walk through a live crime scene and speculate on what happened. John talks about how to pick locks, being asked by Spooks to help break into secret places, and speculates on whether the guy from The Staircase actually did it.
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29min
October 14, 2019 Sunday Roast
In this horrifying new episode, John tells Paul about one of his most grisly cases involving a complex, tragic death. He also tells Paul how he once gave a ride to a pair or unlikely passengers, and he and Paul talk about revolutionary fingerprinting techniques!
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30min

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