4.6 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Sure, caskets and coffins are essentially just containers for the dead -- but we stash far more than our corpses inside them. We also pour in a generous helping of human anxiety, hope and magical thinking. In this three-part exploration of Invention, Robert and Joe consider the nature of caskets and look at some of the stranger designs from human history.
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0:29.7 | From IHeart podcast, before social media, before cable news, there was Alan Berg. |
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0:50.2 | And he pointed to the Denver phone book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects. |
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1:00.6 | A body, a suspect, and a hundred years of silence. |
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1:37.3 | Welcome to Invention, a production of IHeart Radio. |
1:43.7 | Hey, welcome to Invention. My name is Robert Lamb. And I'm Joe McCormick, and what's up? It's October. If you are a listener of our other podcast, stuff to blow your mind, you already know that we have a tradition on that show of devoting the entire month of October to subjects of a spooky, ghostly, or monstrous variety. |
2:01.6 | That's kind of our bag. |
2:02.8 | And so we thought we'd give it a try on this podcast, too, because why the heck not? |
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