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 Hearse Turns pulled up a chair, and what followed was the kind of conversation only people who've stood on both sides of the arrangement table can have: the real weight of this profession, the stories that stay with you, and why talking about death openly might be the most life-affirming thing we do. If you found me through their show — welcome to The Mortals. If you're one of mine, go give them a follow. You'll be glad you did.

🎙 Guests: Katharine & Chris of As The Hearse Turns
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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. They buried him in a grave with no name. Thirty-two years later, NASA bolted his wordless, three-minute song of grief to the side of the Voyager spacecraft and launched it past the planets. Tonight, Blind Willie Johnson's voice is the farthest-traveling human sound in existence, and it will outlast the Earth itself.This is The Mortals Live. One honest hour, every Tuesday. A funeral director and songwriter talking about death, grief, presence, and the quiet lives the world walks past. Tonight: the man the world decided was worth nothing, and how wrong the world turned out to be. No script. No pitch. Just the truth, and a room where you can just be here.🖤 The Mortals community: https://stan.store/thenathanmorris🎙️ The Mortals podcast (every live becomes an episode): https://open.spotify.com/show/3OEFJ4GX7ylWSMk4p0dz82Subscribe and turn on notifications. We go live Tuesdays around 7pm ET.#themortals #blindwilliejohnson #grief #funeraldirector #voyager #legacy #music

"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 others. Tonight I'm done apologizing for being all of them.This is The Mortals Live. Every Tuesday, 7PM ET. We open with a story of someone the world mostly forgot — tonight it's Gordon Parks, who refused to be just one thing his whole life — and then we get honest about the boxes other people build for us, and the ones we quietly build for ourselves out of exhaustion. If you've ever softened the truest thing about yourself with a "kind of," this one's for you.💬 Tell me in the comments: what's the one true thing about yourself you've been shrinking? I'm answering the best ones by name at the end of the show.🕯️ Send a Super/gift with the name of someone you've lost, and I'll say their name out loud on the live tonight.🧢 Grab a MORT hat tonight (memento mori — remember you'll live) and get 3 months of The Mortals free. Winner featured live at the end. - https://tr.ee/mG1jxm🖤 The Mortals community → https://stan.store/thenathanmorris🎵 My music → https://tr.ee/buBv0G🔔 Subscribe + turn on notifications so we don't lose each other. New live every Tuesday, 7PM ET.#TheMortals #NathanMorris #FuneralDirector #Grief #MementoMori #Identity #Singersongwriter