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5 min readHosts Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes kick off from a Georgia cabin and city setup, blending casual banter with dives into reader dilemmas, forensic pathology, historical grief, and quirky obituaries. They unpack family tensions around death and care, spotlight a celebrity coroner, trace a university's origins to profound loss, and share morbid humor from listener tales and news clips.
Reader Dilemmas on Care and Mourning
The hosts judge two Reddit "Am I the jerk?" posts. In the first, a power-of-attorney grandchild sells their dementia-afflicted grandma's house to fund 24/7 memory care after relatives contribute nothing despite photo-op visits. The family decries losing a "legacy," but hosts side firmly with the poster: proper care trumps inheritance, especially since alternatives like chipping in $2,000 monthly or buying the house at market value were rejected. They emphasize people over money, drawing from personal dementia experiences.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Intro and Cabin Banter** - Hosts greet listeners, discuss remote recording setup and Madison's Georgia cabin getaway
- 2 (01:34) **TV Show Tangents** - Chat about Netflix's His & Hers, True Detective cult murder plot, and tent revivals
- 3 (06:29) **Blue Ridge Bigfoot Museum** - Madison visits kitschy Bigfoot exhibit with newspaper clippings on giant skeletons
- 4 (09:04) **AITA: Selling Grandma's House for Dementia Care** - Reddit post on family backlash over selling house for 24/7 facility
- 5 (13:20) **AITA: Wedding After Uncle's Death** - Cultural clash on canceling destination wedding during year-long mourning
- 6 (18:01) **Listener Email: Post-Death Karma** - Grandma's friend’s husband’s ashes used as cat litter box
- 7 (20:27) **Side Bitch: Pre-Obituary** - 1916 article on dying railroad labor leader P.H. Morrissey with brain tumor
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Show Notes
Oh my gawwwwd Geoffs! This week Spencer is telling us about a mansion used for mourning and the history of Stanford University…which actually started with a death! But first, Madison is telling us all about famed coroner Michael Baden. We’ve got an obituary that was a little premature, one for a bird…I mean Byrd! And of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllls!
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Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150329051921/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3481300025.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baden
https://web.archive.org/web/20080404163413/http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/baden/bio.html
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-2a.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr