Professional mortician Victor M. Sweeney (who you may have seen on various viral videos) comes on the show to tell Tom & Rich everything that happens when you die, for real. Contains certain content listeners may find disturbing, fairly obviously relating to corpses (he is a mortician!).
You can skip to 38:38 if you just want to hear the boys talking nonsense. Show notes:
0:00 - Introduction to this week's episode
3:10 - Victor’s background as a mortician
- Being a first-generation funeral director
- How he got started in the funeral industry
- The first time he saw a dead body
- His first experience working with a body
9:48 - What’s the training process like for a funeral director? - The training process for becoming a full-blown mortician
- How to become a funeral director in Minnesota
- Funeral patter, and a light-hearted funeral
15:18 - What’s an autopsy like? - The process of an autopsy
- How the body comes back to him
- Treating different parts of the body
- Funeral directors sometimes dream about dead bodies
- Working at night
25:23 - If someone dies, you can’t just leave them at home. - Losing someone else's dad.
- Having an 'adult job'.
- The glamour of a UK funeral service.
- Funeral weather in the UK.
31:38 - Pallbearer vs. funeral director. - The undertaker's assistant and Pallbearer's assistant.
- Upselling caskets.
- Funeral directors get a nasty reputation.
- The 'Argos catalogue of death'.
- Summarising our chat - the first guest with a corpse in the room.
- Three ways to leave a review on Apple Podcasts.
- Two beautiful reviews from beautiful people
45:00 - Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts! - If you've read these show notes, then I'm basically begging you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Five stars and some nice words *really* helps this podcast grow!
- Thank you!!
Music by Plumtree.
