Mentally, we’re still in 1978, but the mortuary bill is getting closer.

In this special "Halloween in July" vault episode of The Gen-x-istentialists, Scott and Bunny trade the Mega Wheel for the Pumpkin Wheel of Majesty. They kick things off with a heavy, non-PC conversation about mortality—discussing why Bunny thinks about death once an hour and how his ten years working in a mortuary college stained his brain with the sights and sounds of the "slow march" to the end.

Inside this spooky deep-dive:

• The Mortuary Reality Check: Why caskets are buried in concrete vaults (spoiler: it’s not for the bodies) and the grisly details of the embalming process you won’t hear on a Hallmark special.
• The White Whale of the Subdivision: A  ...