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30 Morbid Minutes

"What's the Strangest Request?" - Q&A with a Funeral Home Director

30 Morbid Minutes

30 Morbid Minutes

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8731 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Curious about the inner thoughts and routines of a career mortician? We pull the best questions from a Reddit AMA with a real life funeral home director. Leave us a review -- it helps the show! :) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠30 Morbid Minutes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is made by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and Jessica Vasami Music by ⁠⁠Casey Edwards ⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast covers mature, intense, morbid, and sometimes just scary stuff.

0:04.2

Listener discretion is advised.

0:06.2

Today on the show, we're answering your questions from a funeral director and mortician

0:11.1

in 30 morbid minutes.

0:28.0

This is the podcast where we cover topics of a morbid, macab, dark, and grisly nature.

0:29.0

I'm Elise Willems.

0:30.8

And I'm Jessica Vasami.

0:34.2

It's time for another one of our patented AMAs. And this time, from the username on Reddit, Evan the Kid 16, which of course, when I first

0:41.2

read that, I'm like, oh, is this person 16 years old, a funeral director and mortician? I don't

0:47.1

know. It says, Evan the Kid Mortician. So I'm like, this is a kid mortician. Yeah, or is someone

0:51.7

that I guess made their Reddit account 20 years ago and kept the username and is now a professional mortician. Yeah, or is someone that I guess made their Reddit account 20 years ago. Yes. And kept the

0:55.6

username and is now a professional mortician funeral director. I like to think of it as a kid mortician.

1:01.6

Now, that's more fun. I also like to think of it as a kid mortician. We found this AMA on Reddit and

1:07.8

Evan the kid, this user asks all these questions that they're answered. And so

1:12.2

we thought the answers were really interesting and wanted to share them with you and talk about

1:15.8

some of them. It's also for us because we like to know the answers to these questions as well.

1:22.0

Yeah, some of these people we don't get to meet in our everyday lives. Thankfully. You usually

1:27.0

right?

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Yeah, yeah.

1:28.3

I guess a funeral director is one of those people that you should be glad you don't get to meet one. Yes. And if you are meeting them, I don't know if you're just sitting there being like, I have a ton of questions for you. How do you, you know, versus like this person has died so we have to talk about those things. Oh, yeah. If I was at a party and someone just casually mentioned, oh, Todd over there, he's a funeral director.

1:47.8

My eye. we have to talk about those things. Oh, yeah. If I was at a party and someone just casually mentioned, oh, Todd over there, he's a funeral director. My eyes would go wide and then I would be like, I have to figure out how to speak to Todd. You'd beeline it right over there. Yeah, beeline it for sure. Yeah. Same. Be right there with you. He'd get cornered and he'd be like, geez, he'd probably get nervous

2:01.2

because we would just be pushing him slowly more into the corner with question after question after question. Yeah, we'd do the night at the Roxbury thing. Yes. Hey, Todd. Hey, Todd, Todd, Todd. What, Todd? What, Todd? What, Todd? You think about Corpard? What, Todd. You got bodies? Yeah, Todd. God. Perfect? You want to kick us off with the first one, Jess? Yes. Okay. This is from Creeper 321-448. Question. Why did you choose this profession? Evan the Kid 16 says, honestly, I kind of just fell into it and it stuck. I was originally going between pathology and psychology

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