Morbid - Morbid Network presents: A chat with Spencer Henry & Madison Reyes from OBITCHUARY(Special Episode Sneak Peek!)

Episode Date: October 22, 2021

Hey weirdos! We want to allow you to get to know our little family here on Morbid Network, so we decided to start a special interview series where we chat with the hosts of these handpicked shows and let you get to know why we love their guts! With these special episodes, you also get a sneak preview of their latest episode to really wet your whistle to dive into a new pod. Yes, that was a disgusting sentence but that's who we are. Today, we chat with two people who everyone deserves to know and love, Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes. We feel so lucky to have these two beautiful Luna moths on our network and their show OBITCHUARY is unlike anything you have ever allowed into your ear holes. Not only will you get scathing, hilarious and sometimes really dark obituaries, but you will also get some bizarre history and true crime tidbits along the way. They are truly delightful and you will want them to be your best friends too. We chatted about how expensive it is to tell someone you hate them in death, the cosmic way they became besties and so much more. Come on in, friends. The water is truly hilarious. LINK TO FULL EPISODE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/obitchuary/id1573981050#episodeGuid=tag%3Aaudioboom.com%2C2021-09-23%3A%2Fposts%2F7947063 Follow Spencer & Madison & OBITCHUARY! Instagram: @obitchuarypod Spencer Instagram: @spencerhenry Spencer Twitter: @spencerhenry Madison Instagram: @madisonmreyes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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of your home. Download the free Angie mobile app today or visit Angie.com. That's ANGI.com. Hey weirdos, I'm Ash. I'm Elena. I'm Spencer. And I'm Madison. And this is a morbid obituary crossover. Obituary. Oh, bitch. Oh, bitch. We need that big, deep voice that's like, oh, yeah. Oh, bitch. Oh, bitch.

There it is. I can't wait. There it is. Ask and you shall receive. I feel like everybody needs to know that this started off with 10 minutes of us just fucking around on Zoom, putting ourselves in space, giving ourselves beards, we are currently on the big screen in the Northern Lights and Madison and Spencer are in space. On the big screen. Be me at babe. We come in chaos. Yeah,

it's actually the chaos. This is the crossover of a lifetime. You're welcome. We're listening. We're also old. We're like, look at these filters. This is the magnet. We're like, how do we zoom? Yeah, what is zoom?

We couldn't even get that going. We were like, we can't hear anybody. We were like, I, what? What? Help. I think I mute it. Help us, you just help us. Oh, man. But we, we're here. We made it. Help us use this. Help us. Oh, man.

But we're here. We made it. We figured it out. Oh, so Elena just keeps fading into the background. Hi, welcome to our HiFX show. Look at all the people watching. Yeah, look at this audience. Take a look at this beautiful crowd sitting in front

of these face frames. Wow. They're so attentive. I appreciate it. They haven't moved a muscle. They haven't. They're captivated by us. I'm gonna say that exact sentence. Look at that.

Look at that. Great minds. You just keep leaving. Bye. I think the premises. All right guys, well the reason we have gathered all you listeners here today is to talk about obituary. So I think our first question that we have gathered all you listeners here today is to talk about obituary.

So I think our first question that we have for you guys is how do you guys even like know each other? Oh, tell us your story. Well, it's a complicated story. No, okay, so I moved to LA for a guy many years ago. I conic. And he got a girl. Many years ago.

And I got a girl. I ended up with Madison. That is the greatest story. I did. No. The greatest love story ever told. And he got a girl many and I got a girl I ended up with Madison That is the greatest story no The greatest love story ever told and we just hit it off our first day We saw the evil dead in theaters. That was the first time we ever met That's meant to be meant to be that's when you know I fell asleep in the movie theater I believe to evil dead. I love it Same vibe. I would have done that too. The new one wasn't as good as the original, but yeah, we just kind of fell in love.

We've been together for years. Yeah. And now we live down the street from each other and host a show together. It's the perfect relationship. When are you guys going to move in with each other? We've talked about it. Trust me. We got a convinced her husband to get him out of the picture. He would actually probably love it because he would have peace and quiet, but right now it's it's good being down the street were like two minutes away from each other and spend every second together. I know we're together. I love that you guys are just our counterparts because I literally just moved around the corner from Alina. Like literally around the corner. It's so nice. It's so nice. It's the best. I'm just here every day. I come in the morning. I'm like, I'm ready for breakfast. We're just like, hey, we wanted to make like a path through like all our neighbors yards and just like golf cart.

You're just gonna do it. Oh my God. Cool. You should. Right. I want to talk to them about it. We'll see how they feel. Yeah, we'll just ask our neighbors. Like a little underground tunnel would be cool. Oh, like a catacombs.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I feel like we wouldn't have to talk to that many people about that. Right? I just do it. I like where you have to. Yeah, you leveled up there. I think that's an elite idea.

So we know each other. Yeah. So you know each there. I think that's an elite idea. So we know each other? Yes. So you know each other. So you guys are our counterparts, which I love. Sure. And then our next question, West Coast East Coast. We can be like biggie and two-pock and just like start hating each other when this is finished.

Strival. But hopefully not. Yeah, the same ending. Definitely not the same ending. I'm good with that. Let's work to change the ending. Yeah, let's unite the East and West coast. Yeah.

We could have a song together, an album. Yes. That's what this is. Yes, I was literally going to say that. That's our version. This is us announcing our album. These are our album covers. Our duo covers our album. You might get one with Elena Are you doing your own style? You might get one

with Elena on it. You might not. I don't know. Will she be on it? Who knows? Will I be half on it? Our next question, our next burning question for you, was how did you land on naming the show Obituary? I mean, Obituary came from like, a stranger's like, I knew Madison and I both actually, so her grandmother lived to be like a hundred million years old and they wrote an article about it. Congratulations. They wrote an article about it in the paper. And she sent it to me.

And we started sending each other like back and forth obituaries and stuff that we would find. And then I knew I wanted to make a show out of obituaries at some point or another and so we actually kind of did a soft launch because we did it initially for Cole leader's Patreon and that was Madison's first time kind of like dipping her toe in the podcasting world. Yeah, I was a good way to do it. It really was, it felt like a private thing because I was like I don't. It really was I felt like a

Private thing because I was like I don't like to be in front of a camera It was just never like my thing. I did make up my whole life So I was always like behind the scenes. So it was like a really cool Kind of like soft opening almost and I felt super comfortable and gained confidence and it was cool It was really cool. Yeah, and now we're here. Now we're here. Now we put it out as a full on show. I know, I feel like we did it kind of backwards. And you guys are killing it.

Thank you. Thank you. Because honestly, we always say that to anybody who's like, what do you have any advice for like a podcast or me starting a podcast? It's how you guys did it, which is like, get a few under your belt before you release it to the rest of the world,

because you really do, like, you totally change in your confidence level. And you can tell, because it seems like you've been doing this forever. When it came out, it was like, I was like, oh, perfect. And I think your relationship with each other totally helps too, because you guys already have a banter.

And that's how we are in Madison and I, honestly, like, we're the type of people when we're with like a big group of friends or something We're always the ones kind of put in on a show for everyone just going back and forth like what once we started doing the show together I feel like that just kind of it's like I feel like that comes off. Yeah, it definitely does I Love that for you guys and you can always stick because it's rare too It's rare when you see like a podcast that you know the people just know each other in and out because the reactions don't come off Is like fake or scripted. It's like real reactions and you can like bounce off of each other. Yeah, we talk shit to each other all day long

Yeah, we yeah, that's what makes it work man If you heard the unedited We would be in trouble. Exactly. But if like you can talk shit to me, like you will be my friend. Because I don't want anybody to take me seriously. Yeah, that's too hard. I feel that so hard.

Yeah, we're just constantly roasting each other. Always. A lot of that gets edited out. Everyone around us is in each other. Just always. That's all you want from your friendships. It has to be a roast. Yeah.

How do you guys pick each one? Like, how do you pick the obituaries that you want to read for the week? Sometimes we'll do a theme. We'll be like, like, we've done before, where we did like a celebrity obituaries, something, but honestly at this point, we're lucky because people have started sending them in, which makes it a lot easier for us. Yeah, oh yeah. It kind of depends too, because we call it a coffin spinner,

which doesn't really make sense, but it's just kind of stuck, a coffin spinner. So we each have a funny topic or a super creepy topic or anything kind of to do in that realm. And so, like, if I do executions, it's going to get really dark. And then I'm going to do a sweet obituary to kind of balance it out. So it kind of, yeah, we've like broken the show down into three segments. So we have what we call our coffin spinners, just a macabre topic

or something like one week I'll be talking about funeral clowns or funeral strippers. And then Madison will talk about execution methods or different embalming factoids. And then we go into our obituaries and then we always end with our dumbass criminal segment, which has become a hit. Yes, there are some dumb.

I could see why that became a... I was gonna say, I live for that. It's perfect. It's like a version of four. Totally, and. I could see why that became. I was gonna say, I live for that. It's perfect. It's like a version of Floor. Totally, and it makes us, it makes us. Honestly, yeah. Which is like the best part, because by the end of the episode,

we've lost all control of the show. Mm-hmm. Oh yeah, you just get like, slap happy, that's the best. Yeah. The speakers are blown out. And nothing is better than like, driving in your car, listening to a podcast, and you're literally crying,

laughing out loud at somebody. I love what that happens. And it's so rare by yourself in your car. Yeah, people that say, oh, I have to pull over. I had to pull over. Or like, oh, I can't listen to you guys when I do this. And I'm like, good. Yeah, one lady peed in the grocery store.

Yeah. You were likeed in the grocery store. Yeah. No. You were like, thank you so much. I was the weirdest compliment ever. You don't know how much that means to us. I'm serious. This one goes out to Diane and Isle 10 as this. Thank you.

Clean up an Isle 10. Oh, god, I love it. What are some of the favorite ones that you've done so far? Do you guys have favorites? I like the, we've done a few pet obitaries which have made us cry. What, we have a bit. Oh, there's a way to say it.

Do you wanna pull them out? Yeah. Ooh, yes. We have some of our favorite. Do you need a live read? Yeah, we'll read you. Oh my God, yes. We each had one picked out.

Hold on, give us one second. Oh my God. Oh my God, had one picked out hold on give us one Second. Oh my god. Perfect. This is so per iconic. I can eat I can eat Do you want to go first? Sure. Okay, so I have a woman named Kathleen They even in her obituary in the newspaper. They even put her picture so you knew what she looked like I loved that Well wait for it. She's crazy. I'm so excited. Kathy was born on March 19, 1938 to Joseph and Gertrude of Wobasso. She married Dennis at St. Anne's in Wobasso in 1957 and had two children, Gina and Jay. In 1962, she became pregnant by her husband's brother, Lyle, and moved to California. She abandoned her children who were then raised by her parents and

Clemens. Mr. Andro- Whoa! I know! She- Oh my god. Rest in peace sister. This is in the newspaper. She passed away on May 31st, 2018 in Springfield and will now face judgment. She will... Oh my god! That's the pettiest shit I've ever heard. That's the shit I'm gonna write with my mind, guys. Oh no! She will not be missed.

By G-M.J. And they understand that this world is a better place without her. Hell yeah, G.M.J. I feel so. I feel so. Yeah, G.M.J. I know. For the win.

I think it's a cathartic to like, you know, write something like that for someone. Yeah, it's just one last fuck you. That must have felt great. I know, right? Like, I was not expecting it to go there. It's just one last fuck you. That must have felt great. I know right? I was not expecting it to go there Sometimes you feel bad for these people, but then you're also like you had to be an extra a special kind of fucked up for somebody to write Yeah, a scathing. Oh, yeah, for you. You abandoned your two children. That's terrible

And she fucked over her husband. Yeah, damn she she was wilded throughout her life. She was wilded and damn. Wow, that one was iconic. How are you going to top that, Spencer? I don't know, this guy kind of sucked. His name was Leslie. He was born in Galveston, Texas on November 20th of 1942 and passed away on January 30th of 2017, which was 29 years longer than expected and much longer than he deserved.

Leslie battled with cancer in his latter years and lost his battle ultimately due to being the horses ass he was known for. He leaves behind two relieved children, a son, daughter, grandchildren, sometimes we leave out the names of some of the family members. At a young age, Leslie quickly became a model example of bad parenting combined with mental illness and a complete commitment to drinking drugs, womanizing, and being generally offensive. He enlisted to serve in the Navy, but not so much in a brave and patriotic way, but more as part of a plea deal to escape sentencing on criminal charges. Oh my god! More of that. With Leslie's passing, he will be missed only for what he never did. Being a loving husband, father, and good friend, no services will be held, there will

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and kept in the barn until Ray, the family's donkeys would shavings run out. Leslie's passing proves that evil does in fact die and hopefully marks the time of healing and safety for all. Oh my god! What did Leslie do though? I know! Leslie went in and out and all over with a thing. I mean an expensive obituary also obituary's are expensive we've learned. Yeah did you guys know? Why didn't even realize that? Oh yeah they're really expensive. Wow that he must have really fucked up.

Yeah well we've had other ones that are very short like there's one that just said like Don died That was like his obituary and that's what he wanted and I'm like I fucking love it the simplicity Oh, yeah, don we've had simple stupid. We've had ones that were Like the family wrote no bituary and then under it the girlfriend wrote no bit Oh like the mistress. Yeah, we have one where it's where the The family found out the husband had a whole last second family because of the Obituary the mistress put out oh shit you imagine Wow, you guys are doing like the devil works hard, but you guys were Well, it's why we have to do these dumbass criminals at the end, because sometimes

shick it's real, and we're like, oh, fuck. Yeah, that's heavy. Oh yeah. We're gonna take this down. Wow. So, you will go through a range of emotions on this show. Uh-huh. You truly will.

We'll bring you up, we'll bring you down, we'll bring you back up. Yup. You'll love it. You'll love it, though. This was fun. So look for those of the listeners who don't know where can we find you? What days do you release? Every Thursday at 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, which I'm like, I don't know how we have maintained a set schedule. Every Thursday at 12 p.m. and then I'm impressed. We're found on Spotify iTunes Anywhere anywhere you can follow along online and see the crazy pictures or obituaries at obituary What is it? Obituary pod. Yeah, out of it. You're a pod. We're everywhere. You can find us anywhere Um, um,

bye. Oh, bye. Lots of internet out. It's 2021. Google it. You've got it.

Google us. Type it into the Google machine. Oh my God. All right, guys, well, we're also going to give you like a sneak peek of one of the obituary episodes. So consider yourself lucky and enjoy this little snippet. Thank you for coming. Thank you.

On this show, we cover some sensitive topics. Though the obituary's may be outlandish, the people are real. Names have been changed or omitted in order to respect both the deceased and the survived by. While death is no laughing matter, some petty last words can provide some pretty entertaining comic relief. Welcome to Obituary, I'm Spencer Henry. And I'm Madison Reyes. And we are in the same room. In the same room.

We're sitting across from each other with our TV trays, like we're in a classroom right now. We need to post a picture in this finally. Oh my God, hello. Hi, nice to see you in person. Excuse me while I take off my pimple pack. I know. It's distracting.

On the temple. God, that pimple pimples really I know Fucker is it throbbing yeah, and I have to go get Botox next week and I'm scared They're gonna be like can we put it on our Instagram stories? Well, no, you know, I've actually I've been holding off on Botox for a while I haven't had it in a long thank you not in a No, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. No, you're I haven't had it in a long, thank you. Not in a mean way. No, thank you, thank you, thank you. No, I haven't had it in like a year or so.

Oh, or two. Well, anyways, so I haven't had it in a long time and I finally made an appointment to go on Monday, but I do feel like that apostrophe stuff is really, helping my skin. It's good, right? It's good, and fuck yeah, apostrophe. If you guys haven't signed up yet,

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It makes me nervous if I put sunscreen on, and then like the leftover I put on my hands, and I love it. So good. Sorry we have it together you guys. but sunscreen on and then like the leftover I put on my hands and oh yeah so good sorry we have it together you guys I'm sorry we're skincare gurus but I don't know it's just it just happened you just get to an age where you just have to

honestly and you're at that age and I'm not far behind you so I'm doing it more preemptively okay you're six months behind me dumbass. Six months and uh, some change. Okay, beverage time, beverage corner. Now I feel like we always just say it. I'm having a diet coke and I'm having some room temperature water for my vocals. Now I'm having some diet coke.

Yeah, baby. You have any hot topics for the week? Um, what have you seen nor nor McDonald died? I did. I know. So set. He was young. 61, right? Yes. 61. And I follow this, this account on Instagram called history cool kids. They always have really cool posts. And they did one for him.

They said that a year before his cancer diagnosis, McDonald made a joke about cancer in his 2011 special, uh-huh, called me doing stand-up. He said, the reason I don't like it is that in the old days they'd go, hey, that old man died. Now they say he lost his battle. That's no way to end your life. What a loser that guy was. The last thing he did was lose. He was waging a brave battle, but then at the end I guess he got kind of cowardly? The bowel cancer. It got brave. You've got to give it to the bowel cancer. In the same special he had this to say about death. My dad died, my grandfather died, my great-grandfather died, and the guy before him. I don't know, probably died. I think he died. I come from a long line of death.

That's my point. I'm pretty sure I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure if you die, the cancer dies at the same time. That's not a loss. That's a draw. Aw, I like that. I know. And also very true. Yeah, so names the wording. I never even thought about it, like he lost his battle, like, no. Yeah. He didn't lose his battle, he fought fucking hard, and cancer is terrible.

Awful. I also have something that I saw to change gears a little bit. Kobe Bryant. What a tragic. Seriously. Tragedy. Tragedy. Yes.

What a tragedy. I saw an interview with him from a few years ago and he was saying What are you just looking up old Kobe Bryant in the video? I saw it on on Complex I think okay on their Instagram. They posted an old interview of his and he said that he would play Like before every game to pump him up the theme song that he would play was the Halloween movie music. Oh, like the dun-un-un-un-un-un-un-un-un-un-un-un-un-un-un. Yeah, hell yeah. That's cool.

Well, and he said that it would pump him up, and he, I think he said he would like think about the Halloween mask because it was so void of any of motion. Mm. and it would just like pump him up, get him into the game and he was a champion. Wow. Who would have thought that's cool? I know, you'd think like, oh yeah, what is he listening to? Like, pump, both the jail, open it up. But like, no, it's like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,

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Oh, kind of old school. Uh-huh. Really scary. I just remember all the nails and stuff. And chatters. Oh. Oh. Oh They're yeah, it's it's actually a release game. I did fall asleep, but oh

I've been falling asleep on the couch medicine. I talked about it in the little leader last week. You're getting old I know that's like the tell tale sign and falling asleep on the couch. I'm so bad at napping I mean, I know you're a pro napper, but when I wake up I'm like I feel like I got fuckin' left on an island and then picked up three weeks later and I don't know what happened. Yeah. I get nappin'. And the worst when you wake up

and you think it's like the next morning. Oh, I get emotional. I like want to cry and I don't know what it, why I have that reaction, but I like will be like so upset. Oh, sorry, I succumb to a nap every single day. Your life is enough. We're catching you on a break in between a rare moment where you're awake.

I just I can sleep anywhere. I love fucking nap. I've fallen asleep on your couch before. Well by the way I just got to say Madison I know a couple episodes ago we were like you were like oh I'm on this routine where I'm waking up. So then, no, I have to bring it up. I call her today because I'm trying to, you know, yeah, I was putting up the episode

and she does the Instagram post and I'm like, hey, the episode's up and I hear, and she's like, oh yeah, okay, I'm gonna post it right now and I hear you're alarm going off in the background and I'm like, new, and I'm like, okay. Yeah. You're like a teenage boy. I really am. I have no problem sleeping.

I don't have insomnia. Nothing like that, but like I just love to stay up all night. It's my time. Every, my husband's asleep, my dog's asleep. Everybody is asleep. I can just like sit, watch my shows. I clean like every. I think I used to be like I feel like maybe cuz I'm by myself so much. Yeah, it's like well the day's close

The door today is over just me and hot dog time to go to bed God, I know it's hard, but hey, it's fine. Whatever works. I'm like as long as you're here on Thursday nights with me who fucking cares, baby Got each other stay up all night It's actually nice because nights that I can't sleep or nights. That's something funny happens I I can immediate I know I can always call you. Oh, yeah if you ever need me in the middle of the night I'll be weird We're in and ready to go. It's a bonus. I'm like, hey, could you pick me up? Yeah.

Something happens in the morning though. I'm gonna be snoozing. She will be snoozing. All right, well, now that we cleared that up, who's first this week? I think you are. Alrighty. So what do you have spinning on your...

Excuse me? Come on your excuse me? Pardon have you ever heard somebody like Have you ever heard people I feel like it's older people What who will like give you the finger and be like sit and spin? will like give you the finger and be like sit and spin. Oh. I would be very upset if somebody said that to you, but I'd probably do it depending on the person. You're like really?

Hey, not into that. So my coffin spinner, that's where you're going with this, you're beaten around my bush. I don't talk about my butt. Hey, that's private. So my coffin's been in this week. Now, throughout doing research, I don't know if you've ever come across this picture, but I've come across a photograph several times. And every time I see the picture, I'm like, oh wow, that's really interesting. But I decided to formally look into it this week for this episode.

And this picture is of a grave, and it's in the middle of the road. Looks like, yeah, it looks like an intersection. Hold on, let me pull it up. Okay, so there it is in that picture. We'll post the picture for you guys. What? Uh-huh. It looks like a big door.

Yeah. Someone's buried under there. Someone's under there. I mean, it's kind of hard to tell because we're across from each other right now, but I'll show you the actual picture. But it looks like it's at an intersection just in the middle of this road. So without further ado, this is the story behind it.

The story of Nancy Curlin Barnett's final resting place. And listeners, go look at the post on our Instagram out of BittweryPod. And you can see you have the visual. All right, let's meet first the woman who lies beneath Nancy, or at least what I could find out about her. I read that she was married to William Barnett in 1808 when she was around like 14 years old. And he was apparently the great, great, great grandson

of Pocahontas in John Rolf. Wow. Yeah, but apparently she married into the Pocahontas in John Rolf. Wow. Yeah, but apparently she married into the Pocahontas family, which is crazy. Wow. Together they lived in what's now known as Amity, which according to findacrave.com, according to,

ha ha ha. Cardinal to someone is a small community south of Franklin, Indiana. In 1831, Nancy's life was cut short at the age of 39. I wrote that. I feel like it's a little dramatic, because I feel like in the 1800s, nobody was really living past 39. Yeah, that was like cold. But prior to her passing, she requested to be buried on a small hill

overlooking the nearby sugar creek. And as time went on, as is sadly, sometimes the case, developers ripped through parts of Indiana later on to create more roadways, but as they built out a plan to tear through the hill where Nancy was buried, her grandson said absolutely not. So they were gonna tear down this hill, build a road through it or over it or whatever and

Her grandson his name was Daniel Dodie Went to her grave and sat there with a shotgun Telling everyone of a my dead body. Oh Yeah, he said of a my dead body will you dig through my grandmother's grave? Oh, I love it. So instead of going through the hill, which they had initially planned, they instead built a road around it and put a concrete slab over the area where she is buried, which later turned it to this intersection. Oh my gosh. Isn't that interesting? It's breezy. So there's just like this random grave in the road. And I've seen it in pictures before, but this was the first time that I actually learned the story behind it. Now, unfortunately, a grave in the middle of the road

is way more prone to accidents. And throughout the decades, a fair share of car accidents, erosion, weather damage has tarnished the grave. Also, I'm like, this is certainly not resting in peace. In the middle of the intersection. In 2016, they began construction on the median. They were doing some updates or whatever. And the plan was to lower her into the ground,

like go deeper, because I guess she was a shallow grave. It was pretty close to the surface. I don't wonder what she's thinking, like, oh my fucking god. Oh god, what the hell, leave me alone. Just move me already. Oh, it's fucking loud. Hey, me.

It's like, ha, ha. Well, yeah, because it was like probably before, like, was there even cars in the 1800s? It was probably just like the clickity clack of a horse. Yeah. And that was probably like kind of like relaxing or something. Like during the daytime while you're dead in the ground.

Totally. But then like as soon as cars started having, oh, it's sirens, I'd be like, oh my God. Oh my God. Are you kidding me? Wrestling in peace? Oh my God, plays.

So they start doing construction. They go in, right? They're gonna bury her deeper, that's the plan. She's not in there. No, but as they start digging, they make a shocking discovery. Oh my god. Nancy was not alone. Who's there? In total seven other bodies were discovered alongside Nancy. One is presumed to be her husband who actually passed away a few years

after she died in some tragic drowning incident as well as other, they presume it's other family members. So Nancy, yeah, she was not chillin' by herself. She was not alone. It was party a seven baby. Each body ended up throughout this process being removed and they placed them in a brand new casket before lowering them deeper back into the ground. Oh, that's nice.

Yeah, a little lower this time, just to make sure. Seven people, you gotta go low. Go low, low, low, low. I want that to play that at my funeral show. They go low, low, low, as they're like lowering me, or shooting me out of the cannon. I don't know. You can go there, you can see her grave

in the middle of the road. Well, the plaque, the placard at least, but you know. They're grave, not just her. Yeah, well, I think it's honestly, I think it's, they, because they don't know who the other people were for sure. Oh. I think it actually just still says her name. But yeah, hopefully our girls resting in peace.

Oh, and I guess it's haunted, according to an article from the South Side Times, some claim the site is haunted, which I could totally see I like teenagers in high school being like if you drive past this part of the world Teenagers us We are the teenagers. We'd be like let's go. I've ever had things for teenagers because we're so young and hot Imagine Imagine being young and or hot Because baby that ain't us right now. We look like a fucking

Oh, okay, so going back to this being haunted others it says some claim the site is haunted others pay at no mind as they Cruise passed with only a sideways glance Sideways glance. Pedal to the metal baby. The tales of this out of the place final resting site of Nancy Curlin Barnett, however, has eased quite comfortably into the annuals of quote Weird Indiana. Oh, everyone knows about Weird Indiana. Oh. So that was born. Last week you were born in Wabago or something.

I don't know. I'm getting confused. Last week you were born in Wabegos or something. I don't know. I'm gonna get used. I only joke, babe. Show me the birth certificate. Myth has become fact in the minds of many. Anything from this being the grave of an princess to that of her having been a hwitch.

A hwitch. A hwitch, not a hwitch. Some say the grave glows on certain nights. Oh, that's just the traffic lights. Yeah, there's a fucking headlight there, buddy. What do you think? How do you think it's knocking below? Oh my god, it's glowing.

It's like, no, turn your brides off, asshole. Yeah. Some claim phantoms appear in front of their cars at the grave and some swear to hear disembodied voices. We're springing the night. And Halloween most always brings late night visits from curious teens looking for that brush of the afterlife. Oh.

Kind of sexy wording. I think we're always looking for the brush of the afterlife. Yeah. That should be our, uh, like if we have, if we have a website, which we don't, we have a website. I don't even have a hairbrush. You have a braw.

Oh, God, yeah, so that's my conference for today this week. So we all know a little piece of history and I know some of you have to live nearby or in India and you know about this story. Go snap a selfie there, tag us, put it on your stories if we want to see it. Please, please, please, we would love that. And I am so happy that you told that story because my coffin spinner kind of goes with that.

Oh, are we getting into some grave conversations? Oh! One shot of you! Couldn't get past it I'll never forget Spin me babe remember when cars had spin wheels on them everyone on pit my ride they would always get this like spinner wheels Yeah, that was cool. Put those on my coffin. I want hydraulics. I want move and I want I'm sure someone has done that hydraulics, Jolux on a coffin. Yes. Oh, I'm sure they have, and guess what?

We're going to tell you about it at some point. Yeah, totally. All right. Tell me what you got. Well, I've got two things that I want to talk about together. They kind of go together. They go together like Shaman and Wendem. They win up up, Femme.

Hi. Cemetery bankruptcies. Uh-huh. And graves for rent. Oh! What? It's all gonna kinda tie in with yours though, because you'll see.

I mean, it does it have to, but if it does, great. Kinda, kinda. So as we know, not only funerals, but literally everything to do with a loved one's death can be super expensive. Oh, even in obituary. I was just about to say, even in obituary, it can cost a pretty penny. Ugh. I looked up very basic costs for burial here in the United States, and it seems like the baseline can be a few thousand dollars in up,

not including a coffin or a casket. Oh yeah That's like cardboard box. Yeah Also, it would depend on whether you were in ground above ground Etc. Whether your casket explodes, whether it. Oh yeah Whether you want it you want a show Give them the all to our asshole down. Sure. Cremation is typically less expensive.

And as we know from this show is probably more eco-friendly, but still not super cheap. Well, especially with water cremations, those are the most eco-friendly, remember? Yeah, but probably not cheap. No, that's for the elite. Mm-hmm. cremations those are the most eco-friendly remember yeah but probably not cheap no that that's for the elite mm-hmm oh yeah we said put this in the jacuzzi that was in the hot tub babe but everybody's got to do it everybody's got to die I'm sorry just is what it is death and taxes death and and taxes. Gotta do it. And land is expensive. And also location, location, location.

Oh yeah, I don't wanna be in the middle of the road. Well that might be cheaper than a cemetery in the city that's, you know, like a pool. Yeah, oh, I've, well I've shopped. They're expensive. Yeah. As of now, American Cemetery will promise you a grave forever, but this is not the case for some countries. Mmm. Yeah. Stuff I've never thought about. And I've always thought that I wanted to be buried. Uh-huh.

I don't know though now. Also, remember that America is pretty young as opposed to other countries. Yeah, she's the new girl. Yeah. That, but also, what happens if a cemetery goes bankrupt? I've never thought of that. They do a lot. Not a lot, but they do. Should we buy one?

I wonder how much it is. I wonder if it's like a couple hundred grand or something. I don't know. Maybe depending where it is, I don't know if I'd want to do that because I'll go into it. So what happens when a cemetery goes bankrupt? I watched a video on NPR. They... Okay, educated. Okay, step in my game up. They wrote an article online called how American Cemetery's promised to keep your grave forever written by Bronson our Curie and Benjamin

Nadaf Bronson is a hot name. Oh, what? Bronson, I think of like old Hollywood just fucking muscle hot Okay, I don't you can I say not the fan I'm the clamps So the article in the video, I'll link, because it's super short, it's like three minutes, and it's like very easy to understand. It's in the entertaining video, but they basically talk about how most

cemeteries are non-profit, which is great because they can avoid really expensive taxes, and then NPR broke down working cemeteries in cemeteries in retirement. So this is where buying a cemeterie gets a little dicey. All right. They said that when a cemeterie is filling up, this is its quote working life. And when a cemeterie is full, it is basically, Oh my God, I never thought of that. I truly, I never, I've never, like, oh yeah, once it fills up, you're done.

You can't keep charging, I mean, there's probably, is there maintenance? Or is it just including the price? Oh, God. So they're retired and they have to live off of their retirement. The same video explains that states regulate that savings and used New Jersey as a prime example, quote, The state requires that all cemeteries put away 15% of the cost of a new grave into their retirement fund.

Okay. This is known as a perpetual care fund. This fund should be enough to keep the cemetery up and running and cover any maintenance costs. And keep it looking beautiful. If a cemetery runs out of this fund and files for bankruptcy, sometimes the cemetery is left abandoned and in some cases the community can kind of take over to maintain the ground. But yeah, in other cases graves must be moved. We have an abandoned cemetery kind of near us. Which one?

That one's abandoned? I think that it's full. No. Oh, I think it's full. But I think they're like, I don't know. Because they've been doing some maintenance on that one. They have? Isn't that the big one?

We've been in there. Yeah, it's like old. Yeah. Like, 17,800. Mm-hmm. Maybe I just assumed because it's so old and it's full. Yeah. Maybe they're...

Well, I'm old and I'm trying to be full, so hurry it up. Maybe their perpetual care fund is still alive and kick-in. Yeah. It's crazy to think that hundreds of thousands of graves are not being maintained here in the US. Even at nice semitures, the one I was in Palm Springs last week, it was, I mean, I would say it's okay, maintained, but some of them grass was completely grown over them. Like, it's sad.

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