I Hosted Oliver Tree's Memorial - H3 Show #289

**Ethan Klein** (0:03)
What's up, everybody? We're back. It's Monday, July 27th, 2026 Thank you, everybody, for being here.
Hope you had a good weekend.
Today's episode is sponsored by GamerSupps and Moo. Thank you so much for our wonderful sponsors. Starting a little bit late here, you know, I had a long weekend. Yes, I know, Big Nick. Everything is very surprising when you have the eyes of an imbecile.

**Nick** (0:35)
Really?

**Ethan Klein** (0:35)
Everything is magical through the eyes of an imbecile. That's so...

**Nick** (0:39)
I didn't know that.

**Ethan Klein** (0:40)
Now you do. I had a long weekend. I was in Santa Cruz, and many of you probably saw that I ended up hosting Oliver Tree's memorial service, which was a great honor for me, that the family asked me and entrusted that to me. And I was kind of keeping that a secret just because I didn't want...
Whatever. I just didn't want to say anything. I just told you guys I'd be there, and I was there. Right? You were.
But it was a long, it was a stressful... We also went to his somber weekend. We flew in on... What did we go on Thursday? So his funeral was on Friday. And that was a really beautiful ceremony. Actually, I have pictures of his... On Instagram, I posted pictures or maybe we have them.

**Dan** (1:41)
I think it's all in the doc.

**Ethan Klein** (1:43)
Yeah. Of his gravestone, which was really beautiful. Let's see here.
Yeah. So we laid him to rest on...
Friday. And then Saturday was the celebration of life. Here's his grave site. And this is, you know, this is open directly to the public at this really historic and beautiful cemetery in Santa Cruz, which I recommend anyone to go visit. It's called Evergreen Cemetery. And it's a really small... It looks like a graveyard from the turn of the century. It's got like founders of the city and other like city historical figures. And it was very, very difficult for the family to get a plot there for Oliver. But they managed to pull some strings because they've been in the city for so long, you know. They got clout, they got pull in the city. And apparently...

**Dan** (2:45)
They actually exhumed a mayor from 1905's body and moved him... Well, I think they just dumped it into the ocean or something.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:54)
I don't really know what happened after that.

**Dan** (2:56)
No, a mayor, a former mayor of the city of Santa Cruz.

**Ethan Klein** (2:58)
Wow. Nobody cares. Mayor Santa Cruz or whatever.
He founded the city.

**Dan** (3:03)
John Santa Cruz.

**Ethan Klein** (3:04)
Yeah.

**Nick** (3:05)
I didn't know that.

**Zach** (3:06)
Yeah, now you know.

**Nick** (3:08)
Wow.

**Ethan Klein** (3:09)
You don't have to say, I didn't know that every time you learn something, Nick. Just sit and listen.

**Nick** (3:12)
I didn't know that.

**Ethan Klein** (3:13)
You didn't know that you didn't have to say, I know that every time you learn something, just sit and listen. That's better. That is better.

**Nick** (3:21)
Really?

**Ethan Klein** (3:22)
We'll get to the big Nick's little demon hunt. Just relax. His little Jew hunt. Let me hit my gamer sub. Hit it!
Hit it, Ethan! So, and then the grave site was designed by his girlfriend, who I had never met before, and she was lovely. I met so many people there. I met his parents, I met his brother, his girlfriend. I formally, I've met a lot of his bandmates because I had gone out to one of his shows before where I walked out on stage, but I haven't formally got to meet them, and it was just lovely getting to meet all those people.
And, let's see here. Oh, I thought this was so nice. So, from the helicopter crash, they recovered his suitcase. It was undamaged. Oh, yeah. And, they took one of the shirts and made little bracelets from the shirt material.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:35)
Wow. Wow.

**Ethan Klein** (4:36)
And so, I thought that was really nice.
I'm actually, we have some stuff we got from the wake after the funeral and the bracelet that we're gonna like frame and make a nice little display out of. Everybody thought this was so funny. I don't know.

**Nick** (4:52)
Wow.

**Ethan Klein** (4:52)
I don't get what's so funny about it.

**Nick** (4:54)
Wow.

**Tamara** (4:56)
That's crazy.

**Ethan Klein** (4:58)
I'm doing some serious work here. I'm locked in before the event.

**Tamara** (5:03)
Look at your arm.

**Ethan Klein** (5:06)
What do you mean?

**SPEAKER_9** (5:07)
It's just, there's, it's just, it's so weird.

**Nick** (5:10)
Where are the fingers? It looks like a stub.