Hey Parkhead listeners, the show you're about to hear was first released in the fall of 2013.

For those of you who listened to every episode, we hope you will agree it's worth hearing

again, and for those of you who haven't heard it, please stay tuned for the troubled

cremation of Stevie the Cat.

A few months back, we got an email from a fellow named John Remkas in Willowbrook, Illinois,

just outside of Chicago.

He wrote, quote, hello, this is kind of a long shot in a bit out of left field, but I was

curious to see if there would be any interest in trying to prove that the cremated remains

from certain pet crematories are unlikely to be those of a particular pet, end quote.

Is there any interest?

Hey John, does a kitty cat say meow?

All right, well I can give you the tour of the ground.

It turns out that John Remkas himself is in the pet cremation business, and he also

runs the Hinsdale Animal Cemetery.

He took us on a tour.

What you're looking at is the oldest part of the cemetery directly in front of us.

We don't have any famous dogs in particular, but a lot of love out there.

The cemetery is a family business.

Along with John, there's his brother, and his mom, and his name is Nancy Remkas.

So I'll take you around a couple of my favorite epitaphs.

There's a Yoda here.

The cemetery has been in the family since 1950, when John Remkas' grandparents born.

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