Jake Otteson
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Podcast Appearances
Could you help us with something?
She's standing with a man that I don't recognize.
And she says, we would like to bury Donna's ashes.
And I knew right away who she was talking about.
Donna was an actor that I'd worked with many years before at the festival.
And sadly, I had heard that in the past year she had been battling a terrible cancer and she passed away.
And now the man there had been married to Donna and brought her ashes thinking
We could like scatter a few around in this place that she loved.
But then they saw me in the graveyard and they thought, well, we could do one better and have a real ceremony in the middle of the day.
And she said, who do we have to ask for permission to do this?
And immediately I was like, no one.
So then we had a plan.
They went to get people who had known Donna, who might want to be a part of this ceremony, and I, because I'm the gravedigger, prepared the graveyard.
Now, I don't know if you've ever tried to dig a hole with a prop shovel.
But it's like smashing the ground with a rock.
And it was taking a long, long time.