ICYMI - Someone’s Selling Human Bones on TikTok?
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison 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?”
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | Bone! What happens in my bedroom, detective, is none of your business. |
| 0:07.6 | Bohn! Don't ever speak to me like that again. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, my name is Madison Malone Kircher. And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I Sue I am I. |
| 0:18.8 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.4 | We have some unfortunate news. |
| 0:23.9 | Yik yak, the anonymous college gossip app. |
| 0:26.8 | It's back. |
| 0:27.9 | It's yick back. |
| 0:29.2 | Oh, God. |
| 0:30.2 | You just had to say it, didn't you? |
| 0:34.1 | I did. |
| 0:35.1 | After a week of teasing on Twitter that it might be coming back, it might not be, the geolocated anonymous gossip app popular on college campuses launched back in, let's say, 2014, 2013. It's back in town. And it was, to my recollection, a nightmare if you were a certain age, say, college |
| 0:55.2 | slash high school the last time it came around. It was a nightmare, but it was also a dream in |
| 1:04.6 | that I love gossip. And Yikak was the best for gossip. Objectively bad, but I ate. |
| 1:12.9 | As two people who feasted through yikyak round one, we'll be keeping an eye on it and we'll keep you posted. |
| 1:19.7 | Speaking of eyes, actually, you know what? |
| 1:22.3 | I'm not, yeah, I was like, you know what? |
| 1:24.0 | I'm not actually, I'm not going to make that joke. |
| 1:26.1 | Today's episode is about bone talk, specifically a TikToker who goes by the name at John's Bones, that's J-O-N-S, and has an online store of the same name that sells, you guessed it, bones. |
| 1:43.1 | And no, that's not a joke. |
| 1:45.5 | You can really go to JohnsBones.com right now and buy a femur with a light patina for $260. |
| 1:55.7 | Except you probably shouldn't do that for a myriad of reasons that we're going to get into. |
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