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Other People’s Lives

I Remove Dead Bodies For A Living

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Check out https://www.squarespace.com/opl to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code OPL. This week Joe Santagato and Greg Dybec learn all about the work of a body removal technician. She goes into the details of the job, what it takes to be good at it, and why it's not for everyone. If you'd like to be on our show, we'd love to have you! Send an email to [email protected] or visit www.oplshow.com we'll be in touch if your story is a fit for the show. • Join Our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/oplshow • OPL Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/oplpodcast Follow Joe & Greg: Joe Santagato (@joesantagato) Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/joesantagato/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/joesantagato Greg Dybec (@gregdybec) Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gregdybec Twitter - https://twitter.com/gregdybec Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So we knew that he was going to explode, but he was already stuck to the mattress stopper.

0:08.2

So...

0:09.2

Wait, do dead bodies explode?

0:12.0

Yeah.

0:23.4

Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanigato.

0:24.3

I'm Greg Dybeck.

0:27.7

For anyone out there, we'd like to be a guest on our show. Don't hesitate to reach out to us.

0:30.9

Our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com.

0:43.3

Today, we're speaking to a woman who reached out, and her job is a body removal tech. This is the person who is tasked with taking a no longer living body out of wherever they get found. So we love job episodes. We're going to learn all about

0:50.3

this and we've got the guest on now. So thank you so much for being on.

1:01.8

Hi. Nice talk to you guys. Yeah. No, we don't know anything about this job. Didn't even,

1:07.4

I guess it's like a job you assume someone has to do it, but you didn't really know the term for it. I was in the same understanding too before I got the job. Fair enough.

1:11.6

So can you just tell us, I guess in your words, what does a body removal tech do exactly?

1:18.6

So we get called, a lot of us call ourselves last responders.

1:23.6

So we'll get called to either crime scenes, suicides, anything that's not just a, this is how they died and they had plans for dying.

1:36.1

So if they have a funeral home, then the funeral home picks them up.

1:40.3

Gotcha.

1:41.0

Oh, okay.

1:41.8

Oh, okay.

1:42.6

So people who like didn't, yeah, there was no prior arrangements made.

1:47.8

Yeah. Unexpected or unknown how it happened or they passed alone. That kind of thing.

1:54.5

What's, how does the, how do you end up in this field?

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