Richard Baker: Investigative journalist behind Phoebe's Fall, The Last Voyage of the Pong Su & Australia's most gripping podcasts

Rightio, guys, welcome back to Dylan Friends.

I have got an, I've got something in my hands for you.

If you're watching this, you can see it.

If not, on the podcast, you can hear.

I've got something in my hands.

It's a bloody great podcast.

I cannot wait for you to listen to this one with Richard Baker, investigive...

Fuck.

[laughs] Investigive, investigive journalist, guys.

He's an investigative journalist.

Is that right, Mitch?

That's, that's four or five times now you've not been able to get that out.

[laughs] Mate, it was that hard to say on the pod.

Um, for those who are new here, welcome.

Um, Mitch is our, uh, new producer.

He's our EP.

Mitch, shake out your hands for everyone and-

Yeah, just gave a little salute.

Okay, cool.

Um, mate, what'd you think today?

Unbelievable.

It's, it's long, but it is well worth the ride.

You can tell that you're just so in your element with this guy, Richard Baker.

I almost felt like I didn't wanna freak him out at the beginning, which I feel like I almost did, because it was like I was trying to nearly just prove to him that I knew what he was doing and what he was, like, all about.

But this guy's amazing.

Like, seriously, five-time Walkley Award winner journalist.

Um, worked with The Age.

Uh, himself and Nick McKenzie, who's been in the media a lot lately for a lot of his work, um, with the, uh, Ben Roberts-Smith case-

Absolutely, yeah

... yeah, which has been huge.

They dated back as well to the ester and drug supplement saga, which you guys touched upon.

Yeah, they, they, they did.

We talked about that today.

Um, but then basically spoke a lot about a lot of the, the work that he's done over the last sort of 10 years, I suppose, with the podcast, being, you know, Phoebe's Fall, um, which is an amazing podcast.

You've gotta listen to that.

Uh, the Last Voyage of the Pong Su, basically about 150 kilos of heroin rocking up, uh, down at Lorne.

Um, Wrong Skin, which was a, uh, an amazing podcast up in the Kimberleys, um, around a couple of, uh, an indigenous couple that unfortunately, um, lost their lives.

And then we spoke about some new, um, work that he's doing too with the conspiracy theories, which is-

Which could have been an entire podcast in its own self between the two of you two.

I wanna get him back.

Yeah.

He, um, yeah, extremely cool guy.

Loved his vibe.

Loved everything about him.

But yeah, guys, make sure you check this one out.

It is really, really interesting, and I really wanna get him back in, so would love your feedback, daf@clubbysports.com if you wanna email us, or on socials @DylanFriends.

Uh, that'd be huge too.

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So, thanks so much, and, uh, enjoy.

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