Are You Dying To Know?
Tracy's a mortician, Trish is not. Together we discuss what goes on behind the mortuary doors and go behind the scenes of the funeral industry to shed some light on the final frontier - death. Answering your questions, talking about taboos, sometimes things get graphic, but it's always done with love, care and respect. Are you dying to know?
Episodes
13 episodes
There's something Eerie in Ballarat
After a bit of a sabbatical, we are happy to bring you a super interesting chat we had with Nate, owner of the award-winning Eerie tours that has been scaring the beejeebus out of paying customers since 2008 with its perfectly terrifying blend ...
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Season 2024
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31:46
July podcast - The Royal Haunted Hotel of Seymour
In this podcast we chat to Leigh and Paul, owners of the Royal Hotel of Seymour - one of Victoria's most haunted sites. We met with Leigh and Paul on a visit to Victoria earlier in the year, and spent a day chatting to them about the history of...
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June podcast - Andy, Oracle healer
In this episode we hit the road and travel to Melbourne, Victoria for a chat with psychic, medium and healer Andy, about his love of Tarot, the spirit world, and how he finds a way to give back to the community.If you've ever had an interes...
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35:41
May podcast - spirits and spooks of southern Victoria
In this month's podcast we give you a taste of all the interesting, spooky, challenging and fun discussions to come out of our recent trip to Melbourne where we spoke to historians, paranormal investigators, the owners of a haunted pub and we d...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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35:16
April podcast - not your average hairdresser chat!
Multitasking is what it's all about in this month's podcast - love it or hate it, we decided to record a chat while Tracy was colouring Trish's hair - the result is insightful, yet unfortunately there's a bit of rattly noise from the foils and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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37:13
January 2024
Welcome to our January podcast!We have a chat about some fairly heavy concepts in this episode so please we warned - graphic content ahead. But we'll ease you into it with some talk about different cultures and religions and the way the...
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40:11
Natural death care - education and choice are key
Hi folks, It's been a while since we have produced a pod, but we are back this week with a fascinating interview with Zenith Virago, who has advocated, informed and educated people on the possibilities for wholistic death care for ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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Body dealers & general chit
We had a mishap with the audio files from the podcast that was supposed to be released last week so we've pulled together a quicky for your listening pleasure, answering a question to the YouTube channel about body dealers in Australia.We h...
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23:17
Becoming a mortician
We have had the question so many times - I'm really keen to get into the industry as a mortician, how do I do it?Here in Australia, the process is very different from other parts of the world. In this podcast we discuss what it takes to...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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33:40
The stages of decomposition - what happens naturally, after death
In this episode mortician Tracy talks us through the stages of decomposition that begins the minute we die. It's confronting, sometimes gory and to some, may sound a little bit gruesome, but it's a natural process and one most of us don't...
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40:39
Death, decomposition & the holiday lull
In this episode we talk about Tracy's work to quell the smell of decomposition so that a family can have its final goodbye regardless of the state of the body. And even though the funeral business is a 24/7 operation, who would have thought the...
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Episode 3
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44:07
Easing the end of life
In this episode we speak with Jancine, an end of life doula who works with families and those reaching their end of life, offering helpful and supportive services, plenty of information and enabling space for sometimes difficult conversations t...
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49:27
Inside cremation - do bodies sit up?
Welcome to our very first podcast. where we chat to Tim, who runs a crematorium to ask all the nitty gritty questions you may have about this unspoken of part of the funeral industry, like: How hot do cremators need to be? Does it take longer t...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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