Episode 267 w/ John Sweetman
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Episode 267 of the Talking Bollocks Podcast brought to you by Go Loud. It's me, Terry Flewett. Me, C.O.B. And this week we're joined by... John Sweetman from Lines of Inquiry.
The tagline and all.
I had to get the tagline in. That was very official, John, yeah? Come on, I'll just ask you a question now, and I said I'll just wait till we turn the mics off. Or on, I should say. You're doing a podcast now over here, Lines of Inquiry. Yeah. And it's booming. Yeah, it's just, it took off like I don't know what, like I can't believe it. What made you even want to do a podcast?
Well, to be honest, nothing really. It came out of the blue. Darren, the producer, contacted me out of the blue there towards the end of last year. I know a few people have the same story. But I thought it was just in relation to maybe a bit of background or a bit of advice or maybe even an interview. But no, they're looking for a host, so... I came in did a read went through the first script and just kept going like you know so it's annoying I can't like I still can't believe it like you know I was only saying I walked into the house the other night and the missus had on she loves it and I was like is that the lines of inquiry she was like yeah I think she was on like three episodes that day Yeah, it seems to have hit a chord with a lot of people.
My own young fella came home from work there the other day and he said there's a lady in work. Now, when he says lady, she's obviously my age or older, but she's mad, mad for this podcast. And she was asking me today, is your father still with your mother, by the way? Like, you know, they're just mad for it. Mad for the podcast.
But yeah,
Yeah, we're doing something right. It's a good team. Yeah, of course. No, it's booming at the minute. John, give us a bit of a background on yourself.
Yeah, well, I retired from the Guards there nearly three years ago. I retired in 2023. Spent most of my time, I spent 25 years in the Technical Bureau. So that's, you know, your kind of forensic end of stuff between I was working as a fingerprint expert and then later on as documents and handwriting expert. So I wasn't out on the beat that much. I did a couple of years at the very start and I didn't like it, didn't like it at all. I just wasn't suited to it, you know. But I was lucky enough that I got into the fingerprint section when I did. Never looked back, like, you know, it was good to specialise in something like that because You know, when I was going to school and stuff, I was always mad into art and detail and all that kind of crack.
So the type of work that I ended up doing in the Technical Bureau played to my strengths in that regard, you know. And then podcast comes along. yeah you know which is great because i'm able to go back into stuff that maybe i was involved with or was familiar with but then i'm getting exposed to so much more and i'm getting to meet people you know meet other investigators and people like that and yeah it's been it's just been fantastic opportunity where are you from i'm from north county dublin from skerry's born and bred my dad was a farmer so
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–6:15
2
What inspired John Sweetman to start the podcast Lines of Inquiry?
6:15–13:32
3
What was John Sweetman's background before joining the Garda?
13:32–13:56
4
How does John describe his experience working in the Technical Bureau?
13:56–47:13
5
What was John's first significant case as a fingerprint expert?
47:13–56:21