Letters for Gary EP9 Megalomaniacs, Morticians & Murder
55m | Nov 12, 2026Why do we go to a funeral and need to see the body? Edna and Reggie start with your 20s, when nature hasn't caught up with how long you now live, then rank the strangest jobs: urologists, the dentist sitting on the stairs, paparazzi, medical sex workers and morticians. From there: open caskets, families who search for decades for a body they know is dead, Neanderthal burials, why innocent people never say "alibi", and the husband everyone wanted to be guilty, including his own mother.
Content note: strong language, discussion of death, suicide and murder, and crude sexual jokes about disability, sex work and necrophilia.
Letters for Gary is part of the Inbreds podcast. Listen on all podcast platforms.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:12 Why 20-Somethings Are Megalomaniacs (and Used to Get Sent to War)
04:00 Biology vs. Modern Life: Nature Expected 7 Kids by 23
10:34 The Chef's Burden: Quality, Quantity & Never Feeling Adequate
12:00 Why No Society Can Exist Without Music
12:30 Which Jobs Would Break You Mentally? Nurses, Urologists & Dentists
18:00 Is There a "Demonic Pact" Behind Fame?
19:22 A Tangent on Caregiving Jobs
23:45 Very Bad Sponsor: Cockorset
24:32 The Mortician: Working With the Dead
26:17 Seeing a Dead Body for the First Time
33:49 Serial Killers & Withholding Where the Body Is
36:47 Why Do Some People Gravitate Toward Morbid Jobs?
39:18 Death Rituals: Are They for the Dead or the Living?
41:33 Neanderthals, Religion & How We Manage Death
44:25 Interrogation Red Flag: People Who Tell Too Many Details
47:17 True Crime: The Missing Wife and the Suspect Husband
51:38 Why Stay in a Dead Marriage?
53:54 Closing: The Worst Crimes Have Simple Solutions
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