The 92 Minutes That Saved a Stranger's Life | The Mortals
He was 22, a new dad, drowning in debt, and standing on the wrong side of the rail on the Golden Gate Bridge. The only reason he's alive tod...
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20 of 172 episodesThe Tribute Machines Can't Write | The Mortals
A funeral director's answer to the machines. AI tribute generators are everywhere now. Upload a photo, answer three questions, and out comes...
Why a Stranger's Death Can Break You | The Mortals
You never met them. You never shook their hand. So why does it feel like you lost a friend when the news says they're gone?nnThis week on Th...
What a Visitation is Really For - And the Night I Almost Became One
This week on The Mortals Live, we walk through what a visitation at a funeral home is really for. Not the version you see in movies. The rea...
I Chose To Stay | The Mortals
Before my new single "Names I'll Never Lose" drops Friday, I wanted to give you the other half of it. Fifteen years as a funeral director ta...
The Night the Floor Opened Up | The Mortals
There was a stretch of time where I did not want to be here anymore. Not in a dramatic way. In a quiet, tired, hopeless way.I want to tell y...
Three Directors. Zero Filters. - The Mortals
Last night The Mortals Live did something it's never done before — we went live on two platforms at once. Katharine and Chris of As The Hear...
He Died Forgotten. His Voice Left the Solar System. — The Mortals
He was blinded as a child, preached and sang on Texas street corners for coins, and died penniless in the ashes of his own burned house. The...
I'm Done Apologizing for Being Too Many Things | The Mortals with Nathan Morris
"Pick a lane." I've heard it my whole life — funeral director, musician, divorced dad, creator — like one of them has to cancel out the othe...
The Songs That Empty a Room | The Mortals
Tonight on The Mortals: the funeral songs that undo an entire room — and the one thing almost nobody thinks about. It's not which song you p...
He Composed Music on a NYC Sidewalk for 30 Years | The Mortals Live
He was blind. He was self-taught. And for nearly thirty years he stood on a sidewalk on 6th Avenue in Manhattan dressed like a Viking — cloa...
The Week After You Released It — Sixto Rodriguez & the Work No One Claps For
A funeral director on what happens after you put something into the world and the room stays quiet. The story of Sixto Rodriguez — who relea...
The Doctor Who Wrote His Own Death — Paul Kalanithi, NDEs, And What I've Actually Seen
There's a man who never had a near-death experience. He had something more honest. He had a slow death he could watch coming. And he wrote i...
The Work Nobody Will Clap For — Vivian Maier and the Room with the Door Closed | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #230
0:00 Cold open — sit down, grab the tea 2:00 Opening statement: October 1956, Chicago — Vivian Maier walks down a sidewalk 6:00 The 150,000...
The Room After The Room | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #229
0:00 Welcome back — and the boo-boo from last week 2:45 The garage sale that worked because the sign said "good stuff, not junk" 7:00 Carame...
The Ones Who Showed Up | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #228
0:00 Welcome — three weeks in a row 2:40 Opening statement: the person who shows up on a random Tuesday 8:15 Why presence costs something —...
The Last Supper Table | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #227
0:00 You came back — Holy Week opens 3:15 Opening statement: the table the world holds its breath for 8:00 Your "chair" stories from last we...
The Chair | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #226
0:00 Cold open — why I'm doing this 3:30 First inaugural live: who this room is for 8:45 The smell of a funeral home, and what it means 14:2...
Declared Dead, Then Woke Up: A Chilling True Mystery
What if you were declared dead—only to wake up alive? In this haunting episode of The Mortals , I’m Nathan Morris, your guide through life’s...
Not Dead Yet: Two Lives Returned from the Silence
💀 What happens when death isn’t the end? In this chilling episode of The Mortals , we dive into two true, unexplainable near-death stories...