Every family I ever sat with thought their song was different. It usually wasn't.

This weekend I asked you one thing. Pick the song they'd sing in the car. Over 2,000 of you answered. Tonight we're reading them.

No guest. Just me and you. The car songs. The ratchet songs you're haunting your family over. The bottle of water in the fridge nobody touches. Why most eulogies are boring and the one rule that fixes yours. And ask a funeral director anything.

Homework before you leave: back up their text thread, save their voicemail somewhere besides your phone, and write your song down.

If tonight is heavy, call or text 988. Someone's there.

Who sang in the car at your house? Name and song. Put it in the comments.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome to The Mortals Live
1:03 Every family thinks their funeral song is different
3:32 Why I said pick the car song
5:31 The ratchet song: put it in writing
6:53 The freezer, the water bottle, the shoes by the door
9:02 Skip the resume: one story for the eulogy
10:37 Tonight's homework: text thread, voicemail, your song
11:55 Day 24 of starting over
15:21 Doom scrolling vs long form
19:18 Your funeral questions: suits, socks and glasses
24:42 The deathbed exercise: find your guiding light
32:36 Why funeral music defaults to the template
40:21 Coming home from LA and the family that changed me
53:29 Do the thing you love
1:02:51 This season of The Mortals
1:05:51 Burying the dead and why I keep showing up

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She couldn't sell 50 tickets on the other side of the world. Then the promoters canceled the whole tour. Her parents already had flights.She sat in a hotel room crying and asked herself one question. "What am I even doing?"One year later, 20,000 people in Australia sang her song back to her.Tonight is the first night of the new Mortals. Every week I sit down with a singer, a band or a comedian on the day their tour rolls through Louisville. We talk about the part nobody posts. Then you and I talk about it together.My first guest is Julia Cole. I caught her at Headliners Music Hall on night one of her first headline tour. We talked about almost quitting, a pair of crutches at the Opry, and why 10,000 views is 10,000 people in a room.Then I'm going to do something that scares me a little.Drop it in the chat: what's the closest you ever came to quitting?Live every Tuesday at 7pm ET.👔 OOTD and the link. Tonight, I'm wearing: https://bit.ly/4yQJ2ZgDressed for a living tribute. Nobody's getting buried tonight.🎙 Guest: Julia Cole (@juliacolemusic)"Love You To Death (Deluxe)" and her new single "Pushing Daisies" are out now everywhere.🪑 Coming to the chair:Officer Eudy, Nov 4Britton Emert, Nov 10Tim Timmons, Nov 13Touring through Louisville and want to sit down? booking@nathanmorrismusic.com- • •🖤 STAY CONNECTED🎵 Stream "Names I'll Never Lose": https://vyd.co/namesillneverlose⭐ Members-only content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rrl2tcQlqgkkQgMR9f_0w/join🌐 Website: https://nathanmorrismusic.com✉️ Feel Anything newsletter: https://nathanmorrismusic.beehiiv.com📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nathanmorrismusicTikTok: @nathanmorrismusicInstagram: @nathanmorrisX: @nathanmorris

Last week's show was rough. I fumbled. A lot.

This week I figured out why. I overthought it. Weeks of treating my content like a math problem made it stiff and careful. My content got buns. Polished falls flat.

I learned the fix in the funeral home years ago. When a family plans a service, they bring two kinds of pictures. The church directory photo. And the shoebox. People always stand in front of the shoebox.

We also talked about The Comeback Room. I'm going to ask artists about the night they almost quit. First up is Julia Cole, night one of her Love You To Death Tour at Headliners in Louisville.

Your homework: send the ugly text. The one you've rewritten nine times.

Who's in your shoebox photo?

If today feels heavy, call or text 988. Someone's there.

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