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Calling Hours

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Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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When other funeral parlors say “no”, Graham Putnam & Mahoney in Worcester, Massachusetts says “yes.”

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One day, I was at a gas station near where I live.

0:15.0

And I looked across the street and it's a funeral home there.

0:21.0

And I asked the question I've always asked myself,

0:25.0

what do you do in there? It caught me that day.

0:33.0

What do you do? And how do you do it?

0:39.0

I said, you know, I've always been interested in the Egyptians,

0:43.0

which by the way, the Egyptian embombers usually made one incision down the side.

0:49.0

And if you were an embama and I'm your son, I'm an embama.

0:54.0

My son becomes an embama and it gets passed down.

0:58.0

But during the days of the Egyptians, if the embama made a mistake,

1:03.0

do you know what the penalty was?

1:06.0

Death. If you made that incision wrong, you died.

1:13.0

So, I always had a fascination with that.

1:23.0

I was in the embombing room the following week.

1:26.0

And I learned real quick what we do.

1:30.0

You're listening to Love and Radio. I'm Nicholas Vanderkohl.

1:42.0

Today's episode, Calling Hours, featuring Graham Putnam and Mahoney funeral parlors.

1:51.0

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1:59.9

Sebastien, request

2:10.0

Rally. Grab the sky's brakes for me.

2:15.0

Let's talk with them, ma'am, he's strength.

2:18.2

All right, good.

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