ICYMI - Encore: Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?
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🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re revisiting one of our early favorite episodes from August 2021 about selling bones on TikTok.
In the episode, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher try to figure out if it’s legal to buy and sell human remains. They’re joined by Tanya Marsh, a professor at Wake Forest who specializes in funeral and cemetery law, to find out what the legal system says about the human bone market, the ethical questions surrounding such a market, and why we still have rights even after we die. If you’d like to know more about the history of the human bone trade, check out this video, “Can You Legally Buy a Real Human Skeleton?”
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| 0:00.0 | There was once a family on a road trip, to keep everyone entertained that created a fun, personalized audio story using AI, starring themselves about their trip. |
| 0:08.0 | So by the time they arrived, they'd already had quite an adventure. |
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| 0:16.0 | 18 plus only, stories made using AI, terms of use and privacy policy apply. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi, I see why I'm my listeners. I hope y'all are having an incredible week, but if you're not, I've got a few little treats and store for y'all. |
| 0:29.0 | The first is that I can finally say we are so, so so close to finally making a co-host higher. |
| 0:39.0 | I truly cannot express how grateful I am for y'all sticking around for this transition period that went longer than I think any of us really anticipated. |
| 0:50.0 | But the new ICY, my era is imminent and I cannot wait to share it with y'all. |
| 0:57.0 | The second little treat is today's episode, which is a favorite from our early days. |
| 1:02.0 | I know it seems like years ago that we all discovered that a man was selling human bones on TikTok. |
| 1:09.0 | And that's because it was years ago and he's still doing it. |
| 1:14.0 | So in honor of that, we are re-running our August 2021 episode, |
| 1:20.0 | someone is selling human bones on TikTok, which featured not only our daily departed Madison Malone culture, but also features an expert in funeral and cemetery law, |
| 1:33.0 | who explains all the legalities of the human bone market. |
| 1:37.0 | It's a great listen. It's a fascinating listen. |
| 1:41.0 | And it's kind of perfectly captures how absurd everything felt in 2021 and somehow still feels now. |
| 1:51.0 | You'll learn a lot and I hope you really enjoy it. |
| 1:56.0 | Boom! |
| 1:59.0 | What happens in my bedroom detective is none of your business. |
| 2:02.0 | Boom! |
| 2:04.0 | Don't ever speak to me like that again. |
| 2:09.0 | Hi, my name is Madison Malone Kurcher and I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to I Feel I Am I. |
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