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The Hi, how are you? Are you well? Are you good? I am. Okay, welcome to episode 30. So I said episode 30 was going to be a special and it is. This is a different kind of episode for me.

This is a real departure in terms of storytelling.

This is something that I really wanted to do

and I've spent a long, long time working on it

and I really hope that you like what you're going to hear.

This story isn't true crime, but it's still extraordinary.

It's still a story that I know when you hear it, you're going to love it as much as I do.

This is the story of Ed Hawkins.

Okay, let's go.

Music All right, so just to talk about before we start, how did this come about?

So I have the Facebook group.

There's the Facebook page

and you know

as people joined one by one

I pay attention to who joins

I pay attention to who's posting in the group

who's saying what

and I started to notice

a man called Ed Hawkins

popping up on the group and And I thought, who's this guy?

What's he about? What's his sort of story? So, you know, I was seeing the sort of things he was posting.

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