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The BrainFood Show

Macabre Part 1: The Gruesome Tale of Burke and Hare

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by discussing a random quick fact involving the curious old practice of mailing children. We then move on to discussing the show’s first sponsor, RXBar. For 25% off your first order, visit https://rxbar.com/brainfood and enter the promo code: brainfood Next we move into the main content for today’s episode which is the gruesome tale of William Burke and William Hare and their year long murder spree. Moving on from that, we look at a man who decided to raise his son as a native speaker of Klingon and how that all worked out… Then briefly we touch on whether it’s actually true that kids learn languages faster than adults. *Note: the clip of Alec singing the Klingon Anthem is no longer available online anymore, but you can hear it sung here if you’re curious. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post Macabre Part 1: The Gruesome Tale of Burke and Hare appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to another episode of the brain food show. In this one, oh, we've left space

0:07.3

behind, haven't we? Unfortunately.

0:10.0

I don't know if it was unfortunate. I think it's about did I get an email did someone leave us a review and they were like four stars I got a bit sick after space after episode 17 yeah

0:19.1

or whatever we got here in it so I think it's it was kind of funny because the original plan for today when I was first doing it was going to be something on Star Wars.

0:27.0

And then I was like, oh no, I can't, I can't, let's move on to something like history or something something a little.

0:34.0

I think it's I think it's wise. What are we talking about today?

0:38.0

Now the title of the episode's got something to do on this is always the working title so I have no idea if this will be the final

0:43.4

title but when I saw it today that you know the working document that we both have in front of us it's

0:48.0

called Burke and Hare and I'm like that really sounds like you know like a

0:51.7

Savile Row which is like the big street of suits in London it sounds

0:56.4

like a like an outfit or a tailor like come to Birken hair for the finest in

1:01.6

gentlemen's wear was for the finest in gentlemen's wear.

1:02.5

Well, it was for the finest in fresh bodies actually, so, you know, it works for a time.

1:08.0

The finest in fresh bodies, as we'll find out alcohol soaked bodies.

1:11.5

It was where the, you know, the physician got the soaked body. It was where the you know the physician got the best

1:14.7

bodies from you know broken here you just order him up we'll get into that but yeah

1:19.1

he probably didn't go to like a fancy several road store It was more of a back as we will shortly see.

1:24.6

A backstreet type situation.

1:26.8

We're taking a little bit of a, well let me just,

1:29.6

we're having a slight change in structure today,

1:31.8

as you know, this is an evolved- I say this is like a new

1:34.8

and evolving podcast we are about six months into this thing but I think you know it still

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