S21 E2: The Smartest Man I Ever Met | "The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman"
The Expert Witness from Uncover
CBC
4.5 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Shermans’ funeral is weird, the list of eulogists long, and it’s attended by Canadian boldface names. But ask anyone who knew Barry Sherman and they all say the same thing:he was the smartest person they'd ever met. Always finishing at the top of his class, Barry was smart enough to claw his way to the top of the infamously cutthroat generic drug industry and make billions of dollars. But he was also arrogant and unreasonable, driven and deceptive. Just the sort of man who dies under suspicious circumstances.
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| 0:57.0 | God is my shepherd. I shall not want. He lied to me down in green pastures and leads me |
| 1:02.0 | beside the still waters. He guides me on the path of righteousness and revives my |
| 1:07.0 | own soul. Well, I walk in the valley of the shadow and death. |
| 1:11.0 | This is how the funeral for Honey and Barry Sherman begins. |
| 1:15.0 | I feel no harm for you are with me. Your staff and your rod comfort me. |
| 1:20.0 | You protect me from my enemies. |
| 1:23.0 | Starting things off is Ellie Rubenstein. He stands on a stage behind |
| 1:27.0 | a lectern in front of three flags, Canada, Ontario and Israel. |
| 1:32.0 | And beside him the canter, someone who leads the congregation in song. |
| 1:46.0 | Rubenstein is speaking out towards rows upon rows upon rows of mourners. |
| 1:52.0 | All 7,500 seats seem to be full. In front of him, two plain caskets. |
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