Topics and timing:
0.00 - Greeting & Intro
1.05 - Status of adopted children
 5.20 - Supporting first and last responders
6.40 - Uber code to save money on NYE
7.53 - 2023 Recap
Happy New Year! Stay safe.

Topic and Timing:

0.00 - Christmas greetings from your MFDEA Staff

1.30 - MO Supreme Court struck down senate bill 1606 and why

11.47 - Coroners, the bill being struck down may affect you

18.48 - Happy Holidays and Stay Safe!

Topic and Timing:
0.00 - Greeting and Intro
1.10 - State Board thoughts on bill for 2024
2.36 - Don's hand painted MO Capitol ties
3.45 - State Board Disciplinary hearing notes
5.47 - Who is the legal mother during a surrogacy birth?
7.53 - Funeral Home visits on Friday and why?
10.04 - Funeral establishment license renewal due by 12/31/2023
             MFDEA Annual Dues are also duey by 12/31/2023
12.00 - Don's schedule remainder of the week.

Timing for Topics:

0.00 - Greeting

0.15 - Remembering Pearl Harbor Day

0.34 - Don answers why certain rules exist.

0.49 - Rules for burials at sea & exceptions

4.50 - Why embalm 25 bodies to become licensed embalmer?

6.35 - Why conduct 10 funerals to become licensed funeral director?

7.35 - Why 40 degrees to store a body?

11.32 - Time required to put preneed money where it's supposed to go?

17.15 - Why is it so hard to get legislation passed?

22.27 - Mark Your Calendar for Legislative Day

23.21 - Stay Safe!

Timing for Topics:

0.00 - December greeting

0.45 - 1st 2024 legislative report

3.00 - First bill - Education: reorganize & create alternative path to license

15.55 - Second bill - Increase dollar limit for preneed license CE requirement

18.42 - Annual dues email reminder - thank you if you already paid

20.43 - Bills may be confusing - call for clarification

21.41 - Stay safe closing

Timing for Topics:

0.00 - Greeting

0.40 - MFT electronic contracts available now

3.10 - Movie Review for Funeral Industry

6.40 - Movie Lesson for Preneed Industry

14.39 - Happy Thanksgiving 

Timing for Topics:

0.00 - Greeting

1.46 - NPS receivorship update

3.43 - Interstate preneed contracts & complications

14.34 - NPS letters regarding money from receivorship

18.00 - Stay safe over upcoming Thanksgiving weekend

Timing for Topics:

0.00 - Greeting (please overlook mixup on dates)

0.34 - Obit search click bait

4.15 - Embalming room floors, walls & ceilings requirements

7.53 - History of Veterans Day 

10.06 - History of poem that inspired the poppy to become a symbol

12.26 - History of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

15.24 - Reading of poem In Flander Field by John McCrae

Timing for Topics:

0.00 - Halloween Greeting

1.49 - Insurance issue when ex-spouse assigns funeral home as beneficiary

9.10 - What to do with fetal death

16.50 - Last day to submit preneed provider & seller license renewals

17.32 - Halloween Safety

Timing for Topics:

0.00 - Halloween Greeting

0.19 - Halloween-Last day to submit preneed provider & seller license renewals

1.10 - Preneed agent registration due by November 30th

1.18 - Insurance issue when ex-spouse assigns funeral home as beneficiary

5.38 - Questions on fetus disposition