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Stuff You Should Know

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Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Death Suite continues! In this installment, Josh and Chuck go over what it takes to preserve a human body using chemicals and whether that’s such a good thing to do as far as the environment is concerned.

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.5

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:41.3

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:43.2

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's here too and this is Stuff You Should Know.

0:50.5

Part of the famed and legendary deaths suite which just rambles on.

0:59.2

Yeah we talked a little bit about this in a couple of them but I'm surprised of two things

1:05.2

that we haven't covered this in full yet and that you managed to find an article on our

1:11.7

old pals website and house to forks.com that we hadn't used or written.

1:18.4

Dude I scour the site frequently and everyone's in wild.

1:23.0

I do too.

1:24.0

Yeah sometimes you can find me like how did this lit by.

1:27.3

That's why it just keeps you going.

1:28.7

You know what I'm saying?

1:29.7

Yeah it's hard to believe.

1:31.1

We still get a lot of our shorties ideas from there which is great but it has been a

1:36.3

while I think since we were able to find something it's just hiding in there.

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