History Podcast / LessIsMorgue

'''Riley:''' In Tokyo, you can pay the Family Romance Corporation to imitate your friends, co-workers, and loved ones. Me? I do it for free. Welcome to the show. I'm Riley, your best Ghoulfriend. ''[Shudders]'' God, it never gets any easier to say.\\

''Less Is Morgue'' is Riley and Evelyn's beautiful and disastrous attempt to record and produce that podcast, often interrupted by everything from [[UsefulNotes/Blackbeard Blackbeard's ghost]] to an [[AGodAmI irritating tech bro with a God complex]]. When they're not being tripped up by insane guests, gate-crashers, or Riley's disapproving parents, the weird and wacky personalities of our hosts do just as much to keep them from reaching their goals.

''Less Is Morgue'' is Riley and Evelyn's beautiful and disastrous attempt to record and produce that podcast, often interrupted by everything from [[PirateCaptain Blackbeard's ghost]] to an [[AGodAmI irritating tech bro with a God complex]]. When they're not being tripped up by insane guests, gate-crashers, or Riley's disapproving parents, the weird and wacky personalities of our hosts do just as much to keep them from reaching their goals.

''Less Is Morgue'' is Riley and Evelyn's beautiful and disastrous attempt to record and produce that podcast, often interrupted by everything from Blackbeard's ghost to an irritating tech bro with a God complex. When they're not being tripped up by insane guests, gate-crashers, or Riley's disapproving parents, the weird and wacky personalities of our hosts do just as much to keep them from reaching their goals.

* MonsterRoomate: Riley is this for Evelyn, and a good portion of the show's comedy comes from the differences between the species of the two hosts.

You're now in the shoes of [[SillySpook Evelyn Hooper]], a woman in her early twenties who got crushed by a falling stage light in 2004 while standing ten feet from Chad Kroeger.

* TheFunInFuneral: According to Evelyn, Chad Kroeger of Nickelback performed at her funeral.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Ghouls, as a species, will eat anything. Riley has referenced eating car tires, Shaz flavors their booze with bubble soap, and Teddy cooks up 'mice krispie treats' in episode 6.

->'''Florida Man: '''I’m wherever there is true Floridian spirit to be found. Every time someone tosses an alligator through the drive thru window at [=McDonalds=] as a prank, I’ll be there. Every time a drunk spring breaker falls off a hotel balcony, I’ll be there. Every time someone’s baby shoots them by accident, I’ll be there. Because Florida isn’t a place… it’s a state of being.

->'''Barbecue Dad:''' What’s our secret recipe? What are you, a cop? Don’t ask me that. Shut up.

* YouAreWhoYouEat: Ghouls can shapeshift into any person or animal they've eaten recently. Riley first uses this power in episode 9 to help Tarrare [[CallingTheOldManOut work through his daddy issues.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The show where a Ghost and a Ghoul talk about stuff. (Top to bottom: Riley, Evelyn)]]

'''Riley:''' In Tokyo, you can pay the Family Romance Corporation to imitate your friends, co-workers, and loved ones. Me? I do it for free. Welcome to the show. I'm Riley, your best Ghoulfriend. [Shudders] God, it never gets any easier to say.\\

* AdamWesting: Scott Thomas plays a heightened version of himself as the man who reads the outro.
* AffectionateParody: Episode 3, which is about watching TV, parodies everything from 80's cartoons to Netflix Original Movies to Shounen Anime.

* ArtificialAfterlife: Todd's Heaven, which is still in Beta testing.

* BlackComedyCannibalism: Whether it's ghouls eating humans (Riley eating Jon in episode 1), humans eating humans (the Sawyer-esque Barbecue restaurant ad from episode 9) or ghouls eating ghouls (Riley repeatedly threatening to eat their parents), this is a staple of the series.

* BullyingTheDragon: Bloody Mary attempts to play a prank on Riley's mom. It goes very badly.
* BuryYourGays: Zig-zagged- the first two openly, explicitly gay characters to be introduced, Evelyn and Brains Vincent, died years before the podcast started.

* CouchGag: Every epiosde has the intro music awkwardly edited in in a way that cuts a character off mid-sentence.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Ghouls, as a species, will eat anything. Riley has referenced eating car tires, Shaz flavours their booze with bubble soap, and Teddy cooks up 'mice krispie treats' in episode 6.

* HurricaneOfPuns: The Zeus and Satan ads in episodes one and two.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Invisible to everyone except for fellow undead, and mortals who are either on hallucinogens, being haunted, or are mentally unstable. They can be seen on camera sometimes, and can be recorded on digital audio, though that recorded audio then cannot be edited. Evelyn lays out most of the specifics in the [[https://lessismorgue.com/listen/facts-about-ghosts 'Facts about Ghosts' trailer.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Brains Vincent was zombified by a bite from a [[DeadAlive Sumatran rat monkey]], and although he does have rotting purple skin and eat human flesh, he has fully retained his mental faculties in death, and is almost indistinguishable from a normal human due to skilled application of makeup.

->'''Florida Man:'''I’m wherever there is true Floridian spirit to be found. Every time someone tosses an alligator through the drive thru window at [=McDonalds=] as a prank, I’ll be there. Every time a drunk spring breaker falls off a hotel balcony, I’ll be there. Every time someone’s baby shoots them by accident, I’ll be there. Because Florida isn’t a place… it’s a state of being.

** The Last Chance Texas-Style BBQ references the name of the truck stop in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. (The promo code in the ad is even 'We Slaughter'!)

* YouAreWhoYouEat: Ghouls can shapeshift into any person or animal they've eaten recently. Riley first uses this power in episode 9.

This episodic HorrorComedy audio sitcom began releasing on Valentine's Day of 2020, and has been releasing episodes every other Friday since. Episodes are free to listen to and can be found [[https://lessismorgue.com/ here]], or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Imagine you live in a world where monsters and ghosts are just an accepted part of life, and also imagine you're a huge fan of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Nickelback.]]

You're now in the shoes of Evelyn Hooper, a woman in her early twenties who got crushed by a falling stage light in 2004 while standing ten feet from Chad Kroeger.

During her sixteen year wait period for getting into the afterlife - most of which, by the way, was spent filling in the most tedious paperwork imaginable - an asocial, eccentric homebody ghoul called Riley Almanzor happened to dig up and chow down on Evelyn’s body.

As a result of this, they're now stuck together. So, naturally, they're gonna host a podcast about it.

Less Is Morgue is Riley and Evelyn's beautiful and disastrous attempt to record and produce that podcast, often interrupted by everything from Blackbeard's ghost to an irritating tech bro with a God complex. When they're not being tripped up by insane guests, gate-crashers, or Riley's disapproving parents, the weird and wacky personalities of our hosts do just as much to keep them from reaching their goals.

Less is Morgue is a fictional podcast where the titular characters, Riley (an antisocial nonbinary ghoul) and Evelyn (a Nickleback loving lesbian ghost) run a podcast biweekly covering various topics, often including other supernatural creatures and cryptids.

Episodes are free to listen to and can be found [[https://lessismorgue.com/ here]].