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5 min read"There's no place like home" — OBITCHUARY returns with wedding disasters, grave mistakes, and a fight for dignity
The hosts of OBITCHUARY are back in the same room for the first time since one of them moved away and then moved back. Spencer Henry bought a house in their shared city, and Madison Ray now lives ten minutes away instead of in a different state. "I've felt such a relief in coming back," Spencer says. The episode opens with the two of them giddy about recording in person again, wearing pajama bottoms or fake eyelashes depending on the day, and reveling in the small pleasures of neighborhood dog walks and unexpected visits from family. But the warmth of reunion quickly gives way to the show's usual terrain: death, scandal, and the strange things people do to each other.
Physician aid-in-dying: one family's fight
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What you'll learn
- 1 OBITCHUARY – OBITCH there's no place like home!
- 2 (02:15) **Welcome Back & Housewarming** - Spencer and Madison celebrate being in the same room again after Spencer's move back to Los Angeles
- 3 (11:02) **Listener Email: Physician Aid in Dying (The Baxter Case)** - A listener named Roberta shares her family's story about the legal case that brought medical aid in dying to Montana
- 4 (17:02) **Am I the Asshole: Wedding Dress Theft** - A listener's sister stole their late mother's wedding dress from its preservation box and had it altered without permission
- 5 (21:40) **Am I the Asshole: Life Insurance Funeral Payment** - A listener who paid for a $10,000 life insurance policy on their dad is being shamed by their sister for not paying funeral costs out of pocket
- 6 (25:00) **Obituary: L. Frank Baum (Author of Wizard of Oz)** - Spencer reads the 1919 Duluth News Tribune obituary for the man behind Dorothy and Oz
- 7 (28:26) **Spinning in My Coffin: Wedding Day Disasters** - Spencer shares a collection of macabre wedding-related death stories from the archives
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Show Notes
Geoffs, there truly is no place like home and your favorite girlies are now back together, peace has been restored! Well, actually chaos has been restored but you’re gonna love it. Madison is telling us all about some graaaave mistakes, literally, and Spencer has a few wedding day disasters lined up! We’ve got an obituary for an icon, one for a sweet lady and of course we’re topping it all off with some dumb.ass.criminallllllls!
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Sources:
https://www.vogue.com/article/bob-mackie-obituary
https://woodsidegranite.com/headstone-engraving-mistakes-to-avoid/
https://www.justhighstone.com/happens-headstone-engraved-wrong.html
https://www.nprillinois.org/2013-06-19/oops-wrong-birth-year-fixed-on-nyc-mayor-kochs-tombstone
https://reviewstudio.com/blog/should-have-proofed-that-7-of-historys-greatest-typos/