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Apr 2023
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98: OBITCH death is a blind date!

Morbid Network | Wondery
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Happy Thursday Geoffs! This week Spencer talks about mortality salience, one’s awareness of their inevitable death and Madison is giving us the lowdown on the mummies of Guanajuato! We’ve got an obituary for a sweet gal and dare we say the best obituary of all time! Don’t worry, we didn’t forget, we’ve also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllls!!!




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Sources:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/karen-sydow-obituary?pid=200157890 

https://news.yahoo.com/signs-life-mummy-exhibit-mexico-205334475.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

https://www.thenotsoinnocentsabroad.com/blog/the-haunting-and-horrific-mummy-museum-of-guanajuato

https://www.vamonostomexico.com/travel-guide/mummies-of-guanajuato/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museo-de-las-momias-de-guanajuato

https://news.txst.edu/about/news-archive/press-releases/2007/08/mummies083007.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies_of_Guanajuato#cite_note-friou2007-1

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-mexican-mummies-draw-crowds-and-controversy

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/chicken-wing-assault?page=1

https://kissfm969.com/polk-street-wanker-amarillo/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_salience

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5450985/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5450985/


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