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00:15Okay, let's give this a go. Yeah, welcome. G'day. My name is Toby Buchanan, and welcome to...
00:24Yeah, uh, g'day. My name is, uh, welcome, welcome. Should I say welcome? Or should I, uh, welcome, g'day, and
00:44welcome. Right.
00:51Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, brace yourself, use your knees, he's a big boy.
00:54Kia ora. My name is Toby Buchanan, and this is my true crime podcast, Small Town Scandal, where I try
01:02and solve the mystery of...
01:04Actually, we'll get to that later.
01:07It all began two days ago, I guess. There I was, in between jobs, and crashing at my mum's place.
01:18Arch, who are these dresses for anyway?
01:21They're for frocks in the fields. Oh, I don't know why I agreed to do it again this year. I
01:26must be a sucker for punishment.
01:28We've gone for a native bird theme, which is actually very creatively stimulating.
01:34Surely I'm too big to model them.
01:36Well, not for some of the women around here. I, uh, I want you to try on this fascinator.
01:42This is the tree.
01:44It's beautiful, Mum.
01:46Mm-hmm. Anyway, uh, how's your CV going? Have you managed to send it to the Tehoyo Times yet?
01:53Mum, the Tehoyo Times is full of fluff pieces and bridal reviews. I'm an investigative journalist, remember?
01:59I'll have you know, there was a very, very interesting article about how to make toys out of cat fur
02:05yesterday.
02:11Why would Uncle Wish be calling me?
02:13Oh, um, maybe there's some good news. Go on, answer it.
02:19That was very rude.
02:22Mum, what is going on?
02:24Well, I've had a... I had a little word with him about your situation.
02:29What situation?
02:31The fact that you've been lying around your mother's house for three months after things went tits up in Australia.
02:37Mum, I'm not going to work at a motor mowing store.
02:40It's a hyper-mega store. It's prestigious.
02:43And what else are you going to do?
02:45I can't keep on paying for your cheesy snacks forever.
02:49Mum, I am an investigative... I am an investigative journalist, remember?
02:55He won't make you work in the store. You can write things for the ads.
03:00Mum, I don't want to go. I don't want to go.
03:02I decided to do the mature thing and take Mum's car and go and talk to my Uncle Mitch.
03:08Uncle Mitch lives on the other side of the small New Zealand town of Tohoiho,
03:13a town completely obsessed with horses.
03:17This is where I grew up, but recently spent a year working in Australia for a prestigious newspaper,
03:22until I wrongly exposed a pet food company for using cat and dog meat in their food for cats and
03:27dolls.
03:29The newspaper promptly went tits up,
03:32and I was left looking for any opportunity to resurrect my career.
03:37Anyway, that all led me here to the beginning of an emotional and an invested-titude.
03:45An investor-gut-ive rollercoaster.
04:13Well, well, well, if it isn't tubby-tobes!
04:16It's Matt McKenzie.
04:18So, back in the day I went to Tohoiho College, and that was where I met Matt McKenzie.
04:25He'd moved here from Broome, Australia, and we became fast friends.
04:29Yeah. I didn't know you were back in town.
04:32Uh, yeah, I'm just back for a couple of days, just visiting.
04:34Hey, last I heard you were Mr Big Shot Journalist over in Sydney.
04:37How's all that going?
04:38It's great. It's great.
04:40Yeah? What newspaper you write for?
04:42Mission, what's going on? Like, who's that on the lawn?
04:45Is that an Australian accent I can detect there, mate?
04:47No? Such a big fan you want to talk like me, do you?
04:49Oh, I picked it up in Austin, haven't been able to shake it.
04:52So, who's that body on the lawn?
04:54Oh!
04:57Yes, mate, yeah, that's, um, that's your Uncle Mitch.
05:01Dead as a doorknob.
05:02What?
05:02What?
05:27Oh, shit.
05:29Oh, God.
05:30Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, brace yourself. Use your knees. He's a big boy.
05:32Oh, oh, what's, uh, what happened to him?
05:36He had a heart attack.
05:38Heart attack? But all that blood.
05:41Use your brain, you clown.
05:43He had a heart attack, fell onto the lawn,
05:46and those bloody robots ran all over him, cutting him up.
05:54Pull yourself to get a top seat.
06:01My Uncle Mitch is the richest man in Tohoiho.
06:05He made us mega millions designing an automated lawnmower
06:08that doesn't require anyone to operate it.
06:11Get out!
06:12He even went so far as to call this automated mower the Buchananizer.
06:17After our family name, Buchanan.
06:21And now he's dead.
06:24Apparently he had a heart attack,
06:26and then he got run over by his automated lawnmowers.
06:28Oh, gosh.
06:29What a shame.
06:30But I guess it was only a matter of time
06:32with all that pork he put away.
06:34Mum.
06:34No, I'm only being matter of fact.
06:36That's my curse.
06:37I'm honest to a fault.
06:41Oh, I guess there goes your job at the hyper-mega store.
06:45So this is back to the drawing board
06:47vis-a-vis your future employment.
06:52Mitchie!
06:54Oh, Mum, Auntie Janine's showing up.
06:56I'd better go.
06:56And I'll start ringing everyone in town
06:58and letting them know.
07:00Bye, Petrie.
07:01Bye.
07:04Get out!
07:05I'm not Janine!
07:06I'm just going...
07:07Hey, easy.
07:08No, no, come on.
07:08It's all right.
07:09Just get out of it.
07:10Easy.
07:10Easy.
07:10Easy now.
07:12I know.
07:13I know.
07:14Put it down.
07:15Put it down, you big bloody gorilla.
07:17Just right there.
07:17Just right there.
07:19Just get out of it, would you?
07:20I know.
07:21I know.
07:24Petrie.
07:27I can't believe you're still alive, old girl.
07:34You must have seen everything.
07:37Oh, shit.
07:38Oh, shit.
07:39It's clean.
07:40It's clean.
07:41It's pitchy.
07:45Oh, don't.
07:46She shouldn't be.
07:47It's pitchy.
07:48Oh, it's pitchy.
07:51Oh, it's pitchy.
07:53Oh, it was a heart attack.
07:59Hardly surprising, really,
08:02given the stressful life he led.
08:04Oh, his majesty is back.
08:08I'll pay that invoice soon, Lynn.
08:11Bye for now.
08:13Did you know that Petal was still alive?
08:15What are you talking about?
08:17Petal, the horse that Uncle Mitch got me, she's still alive.
08:20Oh, for God's sake, Toby, who cares about Petal?
08:23How was your Auntie Janine?
08:25She was sobbing so much.
08:26That doesn't surprise me.
08:28She does like to be dramatic.
08:30She's a big part in the Royal Amateur Dramatic Society.
08:35Mind you, I will grant.
08:36She did a great job as Evita.
08:39I did her costumes, of course.
08:42So, go on.
08:43What did she do next after the sobbing?
08:46Uh, I can't remember.
08:48Mm.
08:50No doubt she sorted the will before all this went down.
08:54Mum, it's too early to be thinking about the will.
08:56Oh, Janine will be thinking about the will.
08:58They will all be thinking about the will.
09:00Ha, ha, ha.
09:01Most certainly.
09:02Janine, his twins, Andrea.
09:05Oh, you can bet your bottom dollar.
09:08Make sure you put some vegetables in that pasta, please.
09:12The fiber will stave off your cravings.
09:14I wonder if your father's been left anything.
09:17Well, if so, in a doubt it'll go straight on the booze.
09:20Mum.
09:21You know I'm right.
09:25Actually, have you called her?
09:26No, no, I'll do that now.
09:28That night, I couldn't get the images of Uncle Mitch's face out of my head.
09:35That, and the cheesy tomatoey pasta causing acid reflux, meant that sleep was an impossibility.
09:40So I did what I always do in insomnia hits.
09:43I listened to my favorite serial killer podcast.
09:47So how would Mrs. Moth communicate with you?
09:50She would call me.
09:52But then suddenly, there it was, staring at me from my phone screen.
09:58I wanted to hear his voice one last time.
10:01Not be spun off into a murder investigation.
10:04Yeah, Toby, I was hoping to get hold of you.
10:07Come round to the mansion tomorrow afternoon, would you?
10:10Something I want to talk to you about.
10:11Yeah, see you two.
10:14Hang on.
10:15What are you doing here?
10:16To hear the message again.
10:29Hang on.
10:31Hang on.
10:31What are you doing here?
10:34Hang on.
10:36What are you doing here?
10:37So?
10:38Okay, he left a message for me, then said to someone else, hang on, what are you doing here?
10:43And then an hour later, he was found dead.
10:47I am probably talking to a fantail that flew into the room.
10:51Oh, talking of fantails.
10:53You don't say to a fantail, hang on, what are you doing here?
10:56Well, I would.
10:58Anyway, could we do that conversation again, Mum?
11:00I'm going to record it.
11:02What?
11:02Why?
11:04I'm going to turn this into a podcast.
11:06No, I don't want to be on the internet.
11:08And you don't either.
11:09You fail speech and drama.
11:11Yeah, but Mum, something's going on here.
11:13And in the best true crime podcasts, the mystery unfolds in real time.
11:19And who knows?
11:20If I play my cards right, maybe this will lead to some legitimate investigative...
11:29Legitimate investigative journalist work.
11:33If I play my cards right, this might lead to some legitimate investigative journalist work.
11:39And, as an effective investigative journalist, I decided to go right back to the beginning.
11:45The crime scene.
11:47The stain from where Uncle Mitchard lay in his dark cred from all the bleeding he did.
11:53Don't get me wrong, I'm not an idiot that doesn't realise all the bleeding happened after he was torn up
11:57by the Buchananisers, aka the automated lawnmowers.
12:01But maybe the bleeding happened after he was killed.
12:06Toby!
12:07Toby!
12:10Oh!
12:10Oh!
12:11Oh!
12:11Janine, I'm so sorry.
12:12I didn't really ask anyone was home.
12:14Oh!
12:15I understand, Derek.
12:17No.
12:18I've been talking to Mitchie as well.
12:21I just...
12:23I can't believe he's... gone.
12:42Pig in a blanket.
12:44Excuse me.
12:46Oh.
12:49I just wish I'd been there when it had happened and I guess it was just a matter of time
12:55before
12:55his heart gave out you know with all those saturated fats he was putting away and now
13:02we're not going to go on the cheese tour through the south of France he was just so excited about
13:08experiencing all those breeze yeah where were you I beg your pardon we said you wish you a
13:20head of help when he passed away I was just wondering where you were sadly at the nail
13:47so what exactly are you trying to say Toby that Janine killed your uncle Mitch I'm just saying
13:53that I can imagine a scenario in which that was a possibility and you're the one that said that
13:58she probably got his will sorted before he died where's the cocoa pops they're empty calories have
14:05some cornflakes how are you suggesting she killed him can't make someone have a heart attack can you
14:13or can you I mean we always thought that she was solely after him for his money oh my god
14:21what
14:22are you making me say you're only saying it because it makes sense mum and I'm not saying
14:27that he did have a heart attack I'm just saying that maybe he was murdered she covered it up by
14:32putting a lawnmower on his face oh don't be stupid she'd be covered in blood well maybe she was covered
14:37in blood but she went away wiped herself down and then came back with all the theatrics oh maybe she
14:43got someone else to do it hmm a hired killer if you were or a friend or an acquaintance oh
14:53oh this is
14:54stupid look what you're making me say I feel I'm in murder she wrote that show always did baffle
14:59me I mean if there's that many murders in your town surely you just leave with Auntie Janine is my
15:09number one suspect I was going undercover detective mode to check her alibi Brenda's Beauty Boutique in
15:17is kind of goth it's kind of purple meets black um small town beauty boutique can I help you love
15:25yes how do you do my name is Gerald and I couldn't help but notice one of your clients toenails
15:33the
15:33other day and I thought I must get my hands on that color for my life partner her name is
15:40Janine
15:40Crozier Buchanan that was your client my life partner's called Bren Bren called she's called
15:46Brenda that's my name I didn't know there was another Brenda in town oh there it is and she's
15:54fantastic anyway so Auntie Janine's toenail um polished Janine is wearing time of the month red at the
16:04moment and is that the color that she got last time she came in on Wednesday she didn't come in
16:10on Wednesday but yes time of the month red so she didn't come in on Wednesday she isn't coming in
16:17a
16:17month ironically that'll be $14 please oh yes um ice oh I just realized I've left my wallet in my
16:29car
16:30I'm just gonna go if you just hold that there I'll just go and grab for my car I'm just
16:34around the
16:35corner bingo I had a strong suspect and now it was time to make this official
16:44the tohoyo police station has a blast from the 90 past it's got a pastel pink trim
16:52and a foam lavender floral display receptionist is a stern looking woman who's at one with the chair
17:00are you talking to oh I'm doing a podcast is that an Australian accent yeah I've just got this big
17:09job over in Sydney and I picked up the accent there and I've been unable to kick it that's weird
17:17yeah uh anyway um I'm Toby Buchanan I'm an investigative journalist and my uncle Midge died the other day I
17:26know
17:27matter of time with the amount of booze he put away yeah I was wondering if there was a policeman
17:33that I
17:34could or woman or person police person that I could talk to about it
17:42Sergeant Brown there's a joker here wants to talk to you
17:47righto
17:50he says come on through great thank you so much
17:55but Midge had a heart attack but how are you sure about the heart attack that's what the coroner's
18:01report said okay and then he tragically fell in line with his automated lawnmowers
18:09could I see this report why I just told you what the findings were he had a heart attack so
18:17you
18:17don't need to see the report is there any chance we could open up an investigation into foul play
18:23just because I I think that maybe uncle Mitch was murdered just hear me I've got certain pieces of
18:31evidence that lead me to believe that maybe he was killed by his wife
18:51Janine Crozier Buchanan did not kill her husband
19:01okay it's just that she said she was at the beauticians when he died you're being absolutely stupid
19:07what a stupid thing to assert and I'm too busy to deal with this
19:17I'd check into grief counselling if I were you I think your loss has made you a bit wonko
19:28anywho I'd better get back to actual work
19:55I just saw you in there I got something I need to tell you
20:14the reason sergeant brown doesn't think it was Janine is because you know
20:27do you catch my drift what drift sergeant brown and Janine Crozier Buchanan are having it off
20:43be quiet but yes they meet at O'Reilly's hotel I have seen their perspective cars parked outside on several
20:52lunch bricks
20:54do you think they were there two days ago
20:56couldn't be certain
20:58but they probably were
21:00their clandestine meetings have been becoming obsessively regular
21:07but you let anyone know I told you and your knucks are mine mate
21:10okay so there you go
21:12auntie Janine was having it off with another man
21:15could auntie Janine and sergeant brown have conspired to have uncle mitch taken out
21:19to get his money
21:20or was sergeant brown a jealous lover not wanting to share
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21:28I need you to model again for having McPherson's dress
21:32I'm coming
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