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 — and why nobody eulogizes it

13:00 The first transfer I ever did — the hoarder's house

22:30 My brother sat for ten minutes and didn't say a word

28:00 Patterns, mundane fundamentals, and why showing up matters

34:00 The funeral home as the most alive place I worked

40:15 The mortuary school call to a stranger in Washington — "check your pulse"

44:30 The April 2023 prayer I've never told anyone

47:00 Things don't happen TO us. They happen.

——

There's a specific kind of person nobody ever talks about.

Not the one who came to the funeral. Not the one who sent flowers. Not the one who texted six months later.

I mean the person who showed up on a random Tuesday. Knocked on your door. Didn't say anything. Just sat with you.

In Episode 3 of The Mortals Live, I talk about what that kind of presence actually costs another person — and why the people who do it never get eulogized.

I spent seven years walking into homes after someone died. First calls. And in every single room, there was always one person who wasn't crying. Who was just holding the hand of the person who was. Quiet. Present. Steady.

That person is the reason anyone else got through the night.

This episode is for them.

We go deep on the story of the first time someone showed up for me — a parking lot, a phone call I didn't ask for, and a man who didn't know he was saving me. We open the super chats. Come sit in the room.

JOIN THE MORTALS — Producer credits on every live show. Vote on my next cover single. Link below.

https://nathanmorrismusic.com/supporters

"Feel Anything" — Out now on all platforms.

Every Tuesday, 7pm Eastern.

Nathan Morris is a singer-songwriter and former funeral director. The Mortals Live is a weekly show about grief, music, and the people who hold the room together while everyone else falls apart.