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The Funeralcast42. Colorado Has a License! with Faith Haug
Colorado doesn’t have a funeral directors license... but it will soon! In this episode, Ben meets with Arapahoe Community College Program Chair Faith Haug to discuss the her role in the creation of the legislation and answer our questions about its implementation.
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2024-06-1141 min
Six Feet Under: ExhumedSeason 2 Episode 2 "Out, Out Brief Candle"Joshua Langmead, a college football player dies of heat stroke. Ruth attends a session of a self-help group called "The Plan" with her coworker Robbie. Nate battles with keeping his arteriovenous malformation (AVM) secret but eventually tells David. Brenda stresses about having dinner with an ex-boyfriend and his new family, but they turn out to be far from perfect. The Fishers invest $20,000 on a casket wall to raise profits, much to the chagrin of Rico who had asked for a loan to buy a new home. Vanessa goes against Rico's wishes and accepts money from her sister. David and Keith...
2024-04-2934 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedSeason 2 Episode 1 "In The Game"Rebecca Milford, a young cocaine-addicted actress, overdoses and dies at the premiere party for her new horror movie. Her boyfriend knows Federico's sister-in-law. Nate and Brenda, who is still traumatized from the car accident, face some difficulties in their sex life. Claire has difficulties with Gabriel. David finds out he has gonorrhea; later he returns to Keith's church to find Keith happy with his current boyfriend. Ruth researches gay culture and holds a dinner to introduce her children and their partners to Nikolai. Nate accidentally gets high from the ecstasy in the aspirin bottle (from season 1, episode 9, "Life's Too Short"...
2024-04-2945 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedSeason 1 Questions Answered!Kari and Faith answer viewer questions from Season 1!
2024-03-2630 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedKnock, Knock - Episode 13Featuring special guest, Ben Schmidt!
Tracy Blair arranges a funeral for her aunt Lillian Montrose, who was accidentally killed by a golf ball. She keeps changing her mind and refusing to sign an official contract leading to a revelatory conversation with Nate. Nate and Brenda work past their problems and recommit to each other. Nikolai fires Ruth from the flower shop out of jealousy, but later they make up, passionately. David is thrust into a conflict with the other church deacons when Father Jack officiates at a lesbian wedding. Later he is verbally comforted by Keith. Claire...
2024-03-2059 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedA Private Life - Episode 12The homophobic killing of Marcus Foster compels David to reassert his sexuality and re-examine his family relationships. Brenda is trying her best to break from her brother, Billy. Nate goes to pick up a body when in reality, Billy had lured him there, where he displays pictures of himself kissing Nate's sister, Claire, and of Nate and Brenda having sex. He threatens Nate with a knife, but Nate is able to escape. Brenda then breaks up with Nate, telling him she needs space. Later, Billy breaks into Brenda's home, showing her that he has removed his tattoo on his lo...
2024-03-2040 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedThe Trip - Episode 11The day before Rico is expecting his own new baby, he must deal with handling a 3-week old dead baby. Nate, David, and Brenda go to Las Vegas for a funeral director's convention. David continues to "date" rather random men, and trying desperately to hide it from his mother and family. Ruth gets bold and actually attempts to ask David about whether or not he is g.... but David rudely interrupts her and says they can talk about it later. Claire is struggling with feelings for Gabe, whether they are guilt or adoration is a bit fuzzy. Ruth signs...
2024-02-2742 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedLife's Too Short - Episode 9When Gabriel's seven-year-old brother Anthony, accidentally shoots himself to death, Claire finds herself softening toward her ex-boyfriend. David hits the dance clubs with his new lover and discovers the joys of ecstasy—as does his mother, Ruth, when she takes the pills that David left in the aspirin bottle. David ends his relationship with his lover when he tries to coax him into a threesome. He later runs into Keith and his new boyfriend at a club. While under the influence of ecstasy, Ruth dreams of reuniting with her husband, Nathaniel. Brenda comes up with a scheme to improve Nat...
2024-02-121h 00Six Feet Under: ExhumedThe New Person - Episode 10Jonathan Hanley is killed by his wife after she hits him on the head with a frying pan while he complains about work. The Fishers need to replace Rico and they hire outstanding but outspoken embalmer, Angela (Illeana Douglas). Brenda and Nate's relationship faces a mounting crisis when her brother, Billy, includes in his art exhibit a portrait of an unsuspecting Nate urinating against a wall. Finding Billy off his "meds" one time too many, Brenda's parents think he should be sent away for treatment. David orchestrates a meeting with his ex-boyfriend, Keith, which ends with David coming on t...
2024-02-1246 min
The Funeralcast33. The Colorado Funeral Director's License with Faith Haug
Colorado doesn’t have a funeral directors license... yet. In this episode, Ben meets with Arapahoe Community College Program Chair to discuss the history and future of the Colorado Funeral Director’s License
Read the sunrise legislation proposal
Register for the Embalm Better Conference and find upcoming continuing education
Follow Faith @thatmortuaryprofessor
Read the Frigid Blog
Follow Ben @thefuneralcast
Follow Frigid Fluid @frigidfluid
Email me with your comments! Bschmidt@frigidfluid.com
Shop our selection of embalming fluids and prep room equipment
2024-02-0651 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedCrossroads - Episode 8Chloe Yorkin puts her head out of a moving limousine's sunroof and is killed by an aerial work platform. Business is slow in the funeral business for the Fisher family, and Rico takes the opportunity to test his skills and his income by freelancing with Kroehner. Nate and David rent out their slumber room to a seniors' dance class, and David finds a short-term, drug-laced romance in the class's young male dance instructor (from Wikipedia).
2024-01-291h 02Six Feet Under: ExhumedBrotherhood - Episode 7A young veteran, Victor Kovitch, dies from Gulf War syndrome and his brother Paul, who refuses a military service because he and Victor were fighting the Army for compensation, arranges the funeral. Nate soon discovers that Victor loved the Army and wanted a military burial but had never wanted to cause trouble with his brother. Nate and Brenda plan a trip away for the weekend, but their plans are interrupted by Billy, who is having an emotional crisis. David interviews a progressive priest for a position at the church, which forces him to consider his own place within the co...
2024-01-2242 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedThe Room - Episode 6Nate continues to learn disturbing things about his father. This time he finds out that sometimes his father would barter for funerals. In one case, he traded a room. While David is pursuing a closer relationship with his church, a divorcee tries to pursue a closer relation with him (from Wikipedia).
2024-01-1534 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedAn Open Book - Episode 5An adult film star electrocutes to death in her bathtub, which leads to a memorial service that is anything but ordinary (from IMDB).
2024-01-1145 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedFamilia - Episode 4A gang member, Manuel "Paco" Bolin is shot to death in the street by a rival gang. Fisher & Sons arrange his funeral, but Nate and David have to turn to Federico ), their restorative artist, to help with the interference of gang leader Powerful.
2023-12-1841 min2023-12-1340 min2023-12-1339 min2023-12-1336 minSix Feet Under: ExhumedThe IntroKari and Faith introduce the podcast and talk about the show's opening sequence!
2023-12-1320 min