OBITCHUARY

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Each week hosts Spencer Henry (Cult Liter Podcast) and Madison Reyes sit back and read outlandish, hilarious, and sometimes scathing obituaries. Every Thursday they come to the table with bizarre history, strange funeral traditions, and so much more! Each episode ends with a 'dumb criminals' segment in which they each talk about hilarious run-ins with the law.

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57: OBITCH who nose!

OBITCHUARY

07/14/22 • 94 min

Get in Geoffs we’re going to the future this week as Spencer takes us through the Digital Afterlife, but first Madison is giving us a lesson on the wild origins of plastic surgery! We’ve got an obituary that’s a little backwards....and one for a true badass! Oh, and of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllls!

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Spencer Henry & Madison Reyes

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Sources:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/cops-find-vagina-knife-431095

https://qz.com/1698337/replika-this-app-is-trying-to-replicate-you/

https://www.joincake.com/blog/digital-afterlife/

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/09/how-close-are-we-black-mirror-style-digital-afterlife

https://replika.ai/about/story

https://futurism.com/companies-digital-afterlife-ethical-guidelines

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/05/01/upload-amazon-series-imagines-digital-afterlife-future/3036716001/

https://interestingengineering.com/perfectly-preserved-baby-woolly-mammoth-found

https://www.unrv.com/culture/cosmetic-surgery.php

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5512402/

https://www.worldhistory.org/sushruta/

https://www.capegazette.com/node/69868

https://ancient-rome.info/ancient-roman-surgery-tools-and-techniques/

http://www.cirp.org/library/restoration/rubin/

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/plastic-cosmetic-surgery-history-scn/index.htm

https://greekreporter.com/2021/11/09/justinian-ii-byzantine-emperor-nose-cut-off/

https://www.racked.com/2015/4/6/8349545/sunglasses-history

https://hekint.org/2020/01/28/the-barber-surgeons-their-history-over-the-centuries/

https://www.tatler.com/article/happy-100th-birthday-to-the-facelift

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49: OBITCH mummy dearest...

OBITCHUARY

05/19/22 • 73 min

OBITCH! This week we’ve got everything from mummy unwrapping parties to the world fastest hearst, we’ve got an obituary for a gal putting the fun back in funeral, and
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Sources:
https://connectingdirectors.com/55390-world-records https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/man-who-found-pluto-had-his-ashes-flown-to-planet-43-billion-km-away-by-nasa-after-he-died-504213.html https://www.grunge.com/337744/this-was-the-first-guinness-world-record/ https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-05-10-florida-woman-throws-bucket-of-urine-at-neighbor-over-pooping-chicken/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5490607/Great-grandmother-gets-Mothers-Day-card-calling-dirty-s-t.html https://ancientegyptianfacts.com/ancient-egyptian-process-of-embalming.html https://historyofyesterday.com/the-macabre-history-of-victorian-mummy-unwrapping-parties https://allthatsinteresting.com/mummy-unwrapping-parties https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-party-people-unrolled-mummies-for-fun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptomania
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58: OBITCH the promise of forever...

OBITCHUARY

07/21/22 • 93 min

Beep Beep! Get in line Geoffs because this week we’re learning the fascinating history of funeral processions! Madison then comes in to teach us the roots of cemetery burials! We’ve got an obituary with some sage advice, a scathing one that’s been making the rounds for a real bad dad, and of course we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllls!

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Spencer Henry & Madison Reyes

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Sources:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/04/can-houses-die-iron-age-to-viking-longhouses-were-burned-and-buried/114636

https://www.joincake.com/blog/why-do-we-bury-the-dead/

https://www.thoughtco.com/death-and-burial-customs-1421757

https://greekreporter.com/2022/05/07/ancient-cemetery-for-infants-discovered-on-greek-island/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Père_Lachaise_Cemetery

https://www.pps.org/article/how-six-cemeteries-are-reclaiming-their-role-as-public-spaces

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Cemetery_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Strauch

https://arnosvale.org.uk/all-events/

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/our-first-public-parks-the-forgotten-history-of-cemeteries/71818/

https://www.foxla.com/news/chickens-die-every-day-people-florida-man-arrested-for-killing-neighbors-rooster-claims-self-defense?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR24rnzEs9quErdbH9NtjP3UXFiTQwYIX8bDAdhBlVZ7l4AFi7_g-Q1IF1k

https://www.iflscience.com/gay-polyamorous-goose-and-new-zealand-legend-dies-at-40-46054?fbclid=IwAR1IwcfvjKLQdmyzsfiI2Q0lRMqJKqtL4oZgCYw8aD0Y6JeQnQwf1_N1CVc

https://patch.com/connecticut/easthaven/exhumation-cold-case-murder-now-she-remains-buried-unknown

https://keohane.com/...

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55: OBITCH get the plunger!

OBITCHUARY

06/30/22 • 70 min

Oh Geoffs, this week we’re getting nasty! From exploding toilets to some pretty unsexy deaths, this episode has everything. We’ve got an obituary with a twist, and another that goes round n’ round, and of course we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllllls!

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Sources:

https://www.kcci.com/article/polk-county-iowa-hidden-message-on-headstone-raises-concerns/40291945#

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/london-great-stink-river-thames-sewer

https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/contagion/feature/cholera-epidemics-in-the-19th-century

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-25259505

https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2019/08/17-people-who-died-on-the-toilet/

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/history/what-a-stink-that-time-london-smelled-so-bad-that-government-was-aband

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Ironside#Death

https://banonblogs.blogspot.com/2009/05/cessna-crashes-onto-portable-toilets.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8030898.stm

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237066/Why-Why-Why--The-eulogy-cheating-pastor-read-mistress-husband-shot-dead.html

https://toiletology.com/important-people-in-toilet-history/

https://www.audacy.com/kluv/blogs/miles-in-the-morning/woman-keeps-telling-police-her-name-is-my-butt-just-farted

https://www.sciencealert.com/lots-of-people-die-every-year-during-or-after-having-sex-a-pathologist-explains-why

https://www.medindia.net/news/sex-toys-can-actually-be-fatal-140043-1.htm

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/woman-dies-of-heart-attack-while-using-1063863

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/natlman-who-owned-killer-bear-chokes-to-death-on-sex-toy/1888662/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfLPpXkr-Mk&feature=youtu.be

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50: OBITCH meet us in the hotel lobby...

OBITCHUARY

05/26/22 • 77 min

Oh hello Geoffs! This week we’ve got quite the show, from the truth behind those darn Vikings we’re always talking about, to what happens when somebody kicks the bucket in a hotel room! We’ve got an obituary for a wise guy, and one that we adore, and of course we’ve got some dumbass criminalsssss!
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Sources:
https://www.kctv5.com/2022/05/17/looking-poopetrator-wichita-police-say-woman-destroyed-8-wigs-store-defecation/ https://www.georgiaclean.com/3-things-that-will-surprise-you-about-hotel-room-deaths/ https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-someone-dies-in-a-hotel https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-is-the-protocol-when_b_6970736 https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/10-facts-about-the-vikings/ https://historycollection.com/16-facts-about-the-brutality-of-viking-life/5/ https://www.factinate.com/people/30-facts-about-vikings/ https://www.vikingsbrand.co/blogs/norse-news/the-death-and-the-afterlife-in-norse-mythology https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/vikings/viking-longship/
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14: OBITCH it's an oBOTuary

OBITCHUARY

09/23/21 • 50 min

Oh bitch....we're back in person this week which guarantees you're in for a wild ride. We've got a tombstone in the middle of the road, rent-a-grave, the infamous bot obituary, and of course, some dumb.ass.criminals.
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65: OBITCH class is in session...

OBITCHUARY

09/08/22 • 65 min

That’s right Geoffs put on those learning caps because summer is over and it’s time to go back to school. Your favorite professors are taking you through the concept of promession and the backstory behind the wild discovery of some bejeweled remains! We’ve got an obituary for our obituary hall of fame, and one who’s name made us hungry, and of course we’ve got some dumba.ass.criminallllls!

New episodes come out every Thursday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.

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Spencer Henry & Madison Reyes

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promession

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-burial-machine-that-will-freeze-your-corpse-vibrate-it-to-dust-and-turn-it-into-soil

https://nypost.com/2018/04/16/freeze-drying-dead-bodies-could-be-the-future-of-cremation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgWUhH8Buk4

https://www.fosters.com/obituaries/pprt0274779

https://manitousprings.org/emma-crawford-coffin-races/

https://www.learnreligions.com/martin-luther-biography-700828

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/protestant-reformation

https://www.biography.com/religious-figure/martin-luther#:~:text=Martin%20Luther%20was%20a%20German%20monk%20who%20began,and%20controversial%20figures%20in%20the%20history%20of%20Christianity

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-fantastically-bejeweled-skeletons-of-catholicisms-forgotten-martyrs-284882/

https://www.bizarrepedia.com/catacomb-saints-skeletons/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/skeletons-waldsassen-basillica

https://www.themarysue.com/trial-by-combat

https://reliquarian.com/2016/08/07/the-catacomb-saints-bedazzled-skeletons-of-the-counter-reformation/comment-page-1/#:~:text=Relics%20of%20Catacomb%20Saints%2C%20North%20Wall%2C%20Pfarrkirche%20Sankt,including%20the%20preservation%20and%20veneration%20of%20holy%20relics

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15: OBITCH cat got your tongue?!

OBITCHUARY

09/30/21 • 50 min

Happy Thursday! This week your favorite grim reapers are chatting felines feasting on flesh, some HEARSTory, we’ve got obituaries, we’ve got a U-Haul with a body in it, we’ve even got a serial dine-n-dasher, you won’t want to miss it!
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Sources:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9306664/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/01/15/heres-compelling-evidence-that-your-cat-might-eat-your-corpse/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/cats-eat-your-face-after-you-die
https://www.legacy.com/advice/what-is-the-difference-between-a-coffin-and-a-casket
https://www.ranker.com/list/history-of-coffins/lyra-radford
https://www.joincake.com/blog/bier-coffin/
https://www.talkdeath.com/driving-the-dead-a-history-of-the-hearse/
https://funeralfunds.com/the-history-of-hearses-in-the-united-states-copyscaped/
https://www.nmfh.org/exhibits/permanent-exhibits/historical-hearses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_car_(ambulance)
https://hearsefest.com
https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/grandrapids/name/rosemary-fonger-obituary?pid=199656685
https://kfor.com/news/thieves-steal-u-haul-trailer-containing-body-of-man/
https://www.abqjournal.com/1063133/apd-thieves-charged-in-u-haul-body-theft.html
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43: OBITCH send in the clowns...

OBITCHUARY

04/07/22 • 70 min

Obitch this episode is jam-packed! We’ve got a blast from the past with funeral clowns + some new info on clown funerals! And then we’re getting into everything you need to know about an at-home burial. We’ve got a wild range of obituaries and of course, some dumb.ass.criminallllls!
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGLvRt8nMEA https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/funerals/can-you-bury-someone-your-backyard.htm https://www.familytree.com/blog/things-to-know-if-your-home-has-a-cemetery-on-the-property/ https://twitter.com/theeagle/status/955885350806749186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E955885350806749186%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fpets%2Ffamous-pet-chicken-big-mama-obituary%2F https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/18009425/church-graveyard-home-spooky-secret/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/unique-home-magnificent-history-up-26556329 https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/coshoctontribune/name/dick-meek-obituary?id=7743182 https://nypost.com/2022/03/15/dangerous-driver-of-wild-car-chase-whips-out-legoland-license/ https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/police-florida-man-hid-legles...

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56: OBITCH you're so arf arf n' arf...

OBITCHUARY

07/07/22 • 82 min

This week we’re covering a range of topics, from an elephants revenge to the death of an icon...literally. Spencer takes us through the wild origins of some deadly expressions and Madison is bringing us all things cryonic!

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Sources:

https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/plastic-surgery-bank-robber-puts-money-where-mouth-is/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gruesome-origins-everyday-phrases-saved-2154388

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/560053/macabre-origins-death-related-idioms

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2067,00.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_expressions_related_to_death