Burial clothes, morticians, and the 'happy police'
- Would you work in a mortuary?
- Do you have to be licensed to be a mortician?
- Have you ever tried to put jeans on a dead person?
The hosts debate what to be buried in — not a suit if you never wore one — and how the dead get dressed: a host whose brother-in-law is a mortician explains they cut the backs off the clothes and blanket them over. They recall the biblical death-squad that wrapped the dead in linens (the Acts 5 land-exchange story), Golden Girls and the Golden Palace, and answer chat's questions about dressing corpses. A host (speaker-1) says he and Mike are brothers and that at funerals they act as the 'happy police,' ignoring the death and telling funny stories, and admits he is bad with mourning people.
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