We humans have buried are dead for at least 50,000 years, as evidenced by the recent exhumation

of a Neanderthal burial site found in southwestern France in 2013.

Many of our ancestors and many people today believe sacred burial or mummification rituals help prepare our mortal bodies for an

ascendance into an afterlife.

This faith in a heaven is the sole reason you don't go digging up dead bodies.

Well, that and they do smell like shit.

In tonight's true story, however, we discuss how the demand for scientific advancement

led to a grave robbing epidemic causing mass public outrage and trepidation for the nearly departed.

Two entrepreneurs William Burke and his cohort William Hare found the ultimate solution to these cryptic woes.

Instead of digging up a rotting Berry cadaver to sell to science,

they could just as easily find a fresher one still walking the street.

Did you notice that this beer says family owned operated and argued over?

Yes. I just noticed that for the first time.

We're drinking hazy little thing IPA. Is this your favorite?

It's up there. It's definitely my top three. I think that Sam's New England IPA is still my favorite but this is close it's a Sierra

Nevada hazy little thing it's very good

surprise shots surprise shots Surprise shots.

Surprise shots.

We don't know what they are because they're a surprise.

On the table again.

Yeah, I don't know where my bongo's are.

Why don't you you look for him?

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