These are some of the most common stolen goods, wedding rings, chewing gum, bicycle's, TVs, boyfriends, anything from Forever 21.

So many people steal Advil or prescription drugs, right. Prescription drugs. How personal and weird is it to steal someone's medicine? It's personal and weird to steal someone's anything. If you ever had something stolen from you. You know, it feels pretty personal, but maybe you should count yourself lucky because today's thefts were beyond personal. They were people as in body parts. Yay!

Today we're covering the top 10 stolen body parts. These bizarre crimes are some of the least common thefts. But they'll have you thinking, your lucky stars, that someone stole your boyfriend and not your brain right out of your skull.

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This episode, we're counting down the top ten stolen body parts.

Now, I think we've said it a lot on morbid that stealing for some reason just makes me so angry. It irks me stealing things that are someone else's. You ought to just get your own stuff. I remember one specific thing. I had a ring that my gave me stolen out of my gym locker in high school.

Did you? Yeah, and I was real mad. It was like violating. That is violating.

When I was in middle school, my new cool phone, it was like my first cool phone that like slid up like the keyboard was like that popped up and I had it for like two days and somebody stole it out of my gym locker. Why are people so brazen while working out? I don't know anymore. At least nobody stole our body parts. I guess that's very true. We still have, although I have all of them. But I mean, I guess it's not weird to hang on to some body parts of someone else, but like, I'm going to keep like the girls, like baby teeth.

Oh, OK. Well, or like hair. Yeah. Who locks of hair. You know, when they get their first haircut. Yeah. You know, and then somebody's kidney, you know, stuff like that. Just a couple of things. Yes. I mean it got cute until the kidney did. Do you know what I thought of earlier when I was like preparing for this. What have you ever got a body with a missing part in the morgue like have you ever had anything happen like that?

I have never had a body part go missing or have a body part, you know, a body come in missing, something that they should have when they arrive.

Everything has been accounted for up until now, but there were definitely a few entries today in this list where the autopsies did not go smoothly. And I got to wonder what happened there. Yeah, that's right.

Today we are counting down the top ten stolen body parts.

And if you're new here, let me fill you in. Elaina, we'll have five topics, and I will, too. But neither of us knows which lack of body parts the other is going to talk about. Let's start the countdown.

Ten. At number 10, on our list of stolen body parts, William Shakespeare, Skull, Lou, we're starting off with a crime from 1790 for William Shakespeare had been dead for almost 200 years when grave robbers snuck into the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford on Avon and stole his head.

No big deal. Just stole his head a night on the town, poof. So this was first reported and the British Argosy magazine in 1879, almost 100 years after the skull was allegedly taken.

I love like a hundred years later, they were like, oh, snap. They're like he's missing. We missed a key piece of information in the tabloids, like she was run with that story now. I guess.

So are you wondering, like, what the most likely motive was for someone to steal his head? Sharam to study the Bard's skull, of course. And they used then popular philosophy, phrenology pseudo.

Yeah, all of that.

That's like way more your side of the brain. Like the what. The what. Well, in twenty sixteen, archaeologists studied Shakespeare's grave and found a strange brick structure at the head of the grave, basically like a 16 O3 equivalent of a do not disturb sign it read good friend for Jesus sake, forbear to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones and cursed be he that moves my bones. So Shakespearean.

I like oh I love you want me to snap while I say that next time.

And you know what? I'm not going to lie. I wouldn't move it.

I definitely would not. I don't want to be cursed. I don't want to deal with that. Honestly, Shakespeare's name actually isn't on the original cast grave, but they've recently added a sign for tourists. So it's nice. They know where they're going. Don't move. Do not touch this. Archaeologists continue to respect the sanctity of the grave, and it's Marker's request. We'll never know for sure if the skull was stolen or not. I got to know.

I want to know. I want to know if it was stolen. I want to know where it is. Raise your hand if you're willing to go, move it. No, no.

Nine and number nine this week is Oliver Cromwell said after digging up his grave and beheading his corpse, British royalists put Oliver Cromwell's head on a spike, who they mounted it on a London rooftop where threatened would be rebels for 30 years until it was stolen during a thunderstorm.

I feel like I'm surprised as had lasted that long. I love that it's just like threatening people for years. Well, that's like in the Royals, one that we did. Vlad the Impaler. Yeah. Yeah. Pedaler. I don't know much about the Apollo. Yeah. You just throw people set on spikes.

It's terrible. Yeah. I wouldn't go near it, but it's a very messy scarecrow. Basically. Cromwell died while still in power in sixteen fifty eight. The next year the monarchy was reinstated. In sixteen sixty one, royalists came for a dead man's head, dead man's head.

So he was already dead and they were like, let's just dig them up and really desecrate this cause, you know, let's do it.

After his posthumous hanging and beheading, Cromwell's head was missing teeth. His nose was broken and squished flat against his face. Yeah, they didn't do it.

Like, what did they do?

They were mad, I guess. The Pike Ted graced Westminster Hall in London for thirty plus years before a crazy rainstorm snapped the oak spike and knocked it right off the roof.

This just was not doing OK. I know it was like way back when. I feel like they were like a storm is ruined. So I didn't prepare for weathering in your heads.

When that happens, I bring in all the important heads you have laying out on the ground, like we always bring in our, like, garbage barrels, what we know.

So I'm just going to bring in the heads when you know it's coming. All of the above, an opportunistic guard, grab the head ones that have fallen.

And he kept it hidden until his dying day when he told his daughter and she eventually sold it.

I wonder for how much I got it now, like on eBay. And I look like I got to know that daughter because it's like that's what you decided to do. I'd have emotions. Yeah. I'd be like, Dad, I really feel like there's a lot I didn't know about you.

Why'd you hang onto this head for, though? I need to read your diary. Where's that? Well, that wasn't the end of it.

It passed through a series of owners and museums. So this was just like the head that kept on going. Like Oliver was just taking a Chihuahua.

Oh, in nineteen sixty. It was finally buried in a secret location at Cambridge University. I wonder why they kept it a secret. It was just going to go with it.

I mean that was a Jew wasn't going to go look for that head. I mean I feel like you might have. I'm gonna.

Eight. Number eight on our countdown of top ten stolen body parts, Galileo's fingers when he died and 16 44, Galilea was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1737, his admirers decided to give him a more honorable burial. But during the move, fans pilfered three of Galileo's fingers and one tooth. That's fandom. That's Phantom. And also, why would you run a dead man's tooth?

I guess you get what you get and you don't get like that.

And that point to be so stinky, the thumb, middle finger and tooth were put in a fancy glass container by the Maki's who stole them and later became family heirlooms.

I love a thumb, a middle finger and a tooth. Imagine if that's what you got. I feel like that's my kind of like flex, though. It's like what's in your dalla-riva? Like, I get it Galileo's fingers. But I would love to be able to say that.

I mean, it's a weird flex, but OK, so eventually the family lost track of this fancy container significance and they put it up for auction in 2009. What's this container all about? Because here's how it is a finger in here. That's no big deal. Auctioneer's had no idea whose fingers they were.

Auctioneers are like, we have a finger.

Got the fingers of that guy. Thirty nine dollars going twice to the lady over the finger of a dead guy. Finger that guy. Well, this one's die. Well, they likely thought that they were fingers of a saint because it actually was popular in the seventeen hundreds to keep a saint's body parts around.

And it was like a religious good luck charm. The seventeen hundreds were chaotic was a time Hayase. So an anonymous person bought the parts because they didn't want to be known as that guy who bought the dead body parts.

Show yourself. Show yourself.

But they then donated them to the Museum of History of Science, and Florence loved that. So the stolen index finger had exhibited at the same museum since nineteen twenty seven. And I've got a fun fact for you to give it to me. The stolen fingers were those Gallileo would have used to hold a pen.

I'm sold. I want those fingers. Give me that. So cool.

You could make it like Galileo wrote a note. Yeah. Everything I wrote I'd be like Galileo wrote that.

Seven. At number seven this week is President John F. Kennedy's brain after his assassination, the president's brain was stored in a stainless steel container as criminal evidence. It changed hands several times before the Warren Commission requested the brain be turned over to the Justice Department. But when they opened the container, the brain was missing.

So they just they were like, oh, sorry, we lost the president's brain. They were just like wasps oopsy. And they just get the container and they're like, oh, can we to look in here?

And they're like, you forgot to pack the brain. It's just a piece of paper that says, like, I owe you one president's brain. So the brain was first stored in the White House basement, which is crazy to me.

Yeah, I feel like it deserves a little bit more than like JFK. His brain was just in the basement. You know, no big deal along with all the other things, the Christmas decorations. So I just had to move like a singing Santa there in nineteen sixty five. It moved to the National Archives and a month later, RFQ insisted the Kennedy family get hold of it.

They're like, take your brain back. They were like, maybe our family should have this. I don't know. A conspiracy theory says that RFQ k maybe stole it to cover up his brother's drug use and health problems and maybe he had it buried with JFK s body. What a good brother. If you did that, I dig that conspiracy, I would do that for you. I feel bad about like the drug use and health problems that they're trying to cover it up like.

Yeah, but like reunited with his bod. Yeah, that would be nice. Well, there's another conspiracy theory. Oh, this one's like one that a lot of people might be like, hmm, I think that might lean into lean right in.

This one says that the government stole it to cover up the second shooter. Oh.

Or the idea that a Secret Service agent killed JFK by accident. By accident.

Yeah. You've never heard that theory? No. Yeah, I'm not big on until I see theories. Yeah.

That a secret agent accidentally shot him and that they were like, woops, we need to make that go away.

You would think so.

I mean, that's just one to chew on, just saying so. Former Navy photographer John T. Stringer claims he took photos of the brain that also went missing from the archive. So not only is the brain missing, these pics are missing to government cover up, government cover up looking.

New evidence is found that poor assassination records review board existing brain photographs show less damage than Kennedy sustained. They don't match the doctors reports. Well, that's creepy.

And they should make everybody be like, huh? I mean, I am into government conspiracies now.

I'm just saying there's a lot of weird stuff with this. I got plans after this. What they think is doctors may have performed two brain examinations during the autopsy process and possibly on two different brains. Who was the other guy's brain? I don't know. Raise your hand if you're him.

Well, you probably can't now. Six. Also on our list at number six, St. Francis Xavier, toe a toe, a dead bed, St.. One St. Francis corpse was on display in 15 50 for a woman bit off his toe.

Somehow, no one noticed the toe biting, but she was caught after the toe gushed an inhuman amount of blood and left a trail on her wall. That's not real. I'm trying not to vom right now.

I was glad this is a toe on the list just so that we could go at that moment. So but like, that's real world. If you've never seen hocus pocus, go watch that right now.

Get on it like, you know, I hate feet so much. It gushed a ton of blood and no one saw her bite it a lot. So to unpack it is small. Let's do it. St. Francis Xavier had been dead for two years before this toe biting incident, the body's first public viewing, and Goa, India. So this was the first time he was ever even put on display and suddenly we had to go ruin it by eating his toe.

It's a bad opening night. His body was incorruptible, a miracle in the Catholic Church where a body just doesn't decompose. A miracle of science as well.

Yeah, the miracle helped him be canonized as a saint. Similar to Galileo. The body part was stolen as a relic. What a body part to steal and what a way to steal it, though. Honestly, like Galileo's fingers.

Like I get it. I get that. Like, that's what he wrote with. We get that.

But the toe to toe, this is a shoe. The whole damn doctor's helped him stay balanced. I mean, you've got to give credit where credit to.

Oh, you know, the specific timing question was publicly exhibited in Lisbon in 2009. The rest of his body is split up across various religious sites and arm in Rome, diamond studded fingernail in Goa, watch shoulder and Macao, and his arms still travels the world on tour sans body.

I feel like that diamond studded fingernail is like your Fleck's. Oh hell yeah. Not a weird Fleck's. OK, anyway, after I read that I was like, I want a diamond in my finger. Of course you do know.

I mean, I'm loving St. Francis Xavier Stowe and his diamond studded finger, I'm loving it and I'm also, you know, Galileo.

I love that. I didn't even know that. Yeah, I didn't know that either. I didn't know about JFK's brain either.

See, I knew that. But that's just because I got obsessed with JFK assassination for a little while.

OK, so I looked real hard into that, but it's still a crazy one. I can see why you would want to look more into this. Pretty fascinating because you can never stop reading about it. Well, what's going to be next? What are the top five guys?

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Next on the Countdown, horror film director F.W. Murnau skull a hole skull.

You may not have heard of Murnau, but I'm sure you've heard of his iconic vampire film Nosferatu. Yes, it's a retelling of Dracula and it's all about bodies leaving their graves, just like Myrna's did in 2015. It's like a weird premonition he had. He was like, this is going to happen.

German film director F.W. Murnau died in nineteen thirty one in a car accident just nine years after Nosferatu buried near stands for Southwestern Cemetery near Berlin. His grave was previously disturbed in the 1970s and then again in February 2015. They feel like it might be a targeted crime because Myrna's brothers graves were not disturbed and investigators found a candle at the scene. Well, I'm sure it is targeted. He's like a movie director and it seems very like spooky, like let's light a candle and steel skulls.

He's a horror movie director, of course. Of course. Why didn't they disturb the brothers? It's like I don't know. Did they direct Nosferatu Dejour like.

Right. I don't know. God, I don't know your life. I don't know who you are. So there is a popular theory in the motivation was a cult.

Of course, the king was, of course, the black flame candle.

Flame candle is there were just bringing Hocus-Pocus and everything. Nosferatu was the sole production of Pranav film, and that's a production company that was co-founded by Ding, Ding, Ding and Occultist.

Well, there you have it. They were like, you know what? It's a vampire film and it was produced by an ecologist. Obviously, this has to do with the occult. I mean, put two and two together. And what does that give you?

Or it's just a film buff. I don't know. It might not have anything to do with the occult and probably a film buff. They're wild.

There is another possible but unlikely motive, and that one has to do with revenge.

So although it's unlikely, it's still fun to talk about film hottie. So it's revenge from the Stoker clan.

Nosferatu is basically a rip off of Dracula, right? We all can agree with that. It just simplifies the plot and changes the names. So Pranav film neglected to get the rights to adapt. Dracula Stoker's widow sued and Pranav burned all known copies and declared bankruptcy. That was shady. So although this is unlikely, I'm like, well, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I don't know why they would want a skull for revenge.

But don't mess with Bram Stoker. Well, maybe they wanted a skull so that they could sell it and then get the money that they were owed because they didn't get it when they sued. Makes sense. Boom.

You just solved it. You're welcome. And we go down over stokers never saw any money from the massive success of Nosferatu and Dracula. Oh, Bram Stoker died penniless in 1912.

That's just sad, but maybe not now that they sold that skull. Well, a copy of Nosferatu resurfaced in the United States and its iconography still resonates in the horror genre. I think we all know the image of Nosferatu with the teeth and the eyes and the bald head.

It's so scary, scary. It's the complete opposite image of like Dracula, like the like romantic vampires.

It sounds like kind of handsome, charming, the pants off.

And also rattus like what you just covered like bubble. I was terrified. Well who knows. Myrna's skull may one day rise again too on eBay.

For landing at number four this week is Geronimo's Skull and Bones, better known as the titular skull and bones of Yale's infamous Skull and Bones Society.

Allegedly in nineteen eighteen members of Yale Secret Society raided the Apache Warriors grave in Oklahoma and stole his skull. Two bones, a bridle and stirrups. Obviously, Skull and Bones members are sworn to secrecy. Obviously, it's a secret society. It's the secret us. But that doesn't stop people from talking. Sure does. And so letters discovered in 2005 confirmed the theft. That's just always makes me think of the skulls, that movie. I don't know if I've seen that.

You probably didn't, because I think it was like early 90s. So you probably weren't even born when it came out. But it was like Paul Walker as Caleb Mandrake in The Skulls. I'd like to see our society, Joshua Jackson's and it as well. Oh, get on it, everybody. And also raise your hand if you are with me right now and screaming at your car speaker and being like Caleb Mandrake. Yes, I'm OK. High fives.

Well, I was thinking of the Gilmore Girls, that secret society there, and yell to the Life and Death Brigade. Yes, exactly. I love you. The bones, anyways, are hidden in the society's clubhouse, nicknamed the Tomb Spooky. But Geronimo wanted to be buried on Apache land. And of course he did, which is now like southwestern New Mexico. One of the alleged grave robbers was Prescott Bush.

If you don't know who that is, that's father of George H.W. and grandfather to Dubea. All attended Yale and are supposedly members. Their members are members. I know secret, but they're members because it's a secret society. But we'd be known if I went to Yale, I'd be part of that secret society. And you never know about it. I wouldn't know about it, though. You would. An estimated eight hundred other living Skull and Bones members may have Intel, not me.

So who was Geronimo, you ask? Was he? Well, Geronimo is a Spanish name.

His Apache name Goya means one who Yon's, which is also synonymous with Ashqelon eion.

Whenever I'm going to get a migraine, I keep yawning eye on when I'm nervous. Yawning is a weird like aura of things to come out.

You can tell if your dog loves you or not, if they repeat your yard after you. Yanmei. Got that? Oh yeah. Well, anyways, Geronimo Geronimo spent his life fighting for his land and his people and died as a prisoner of war, held captive at Fort Sill after surrendering to the U.S. military. That's so sad. And then to think like his bones are just being, I know, held in a clubhouse, a Yale club. How cool are you?

His descendants sued Skull and Bones. Yale and government officials, including Obama, to return remains. Wow, this is far reaching. I know, right? Yale stance. They don't own or control the Skull and Bones clubhouse, and they definitely don't have Geronimo's remains. Of course, they're going to be like, what? No, we don't have they're like, I don't even know what that club is. Maybe take care of your secret societies.

Yeah, be. Number three on our list needs no introduction, Napoleon's penis, that doesn't need an introduction, but I gave it one anyway.

There it is.

During Napoleon's autopsy in eighteen twenty one, a doctor sliced off Napoleon's member and gave it to a priest.

Allegedly, the organ went on a wild journey around the world, finally landing in New Jersey. Where in the world is Napoleon's penis? Napoleon's penis is excellent adventure. After losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon abdicated and died in exile in St. Helena. Thus begins the startling voyage of Bonaparte's MANPAD.

But by some accounts, the doctor also removed Napoleon's heart and stomach. It's really unknown if organ removals were accidental or intentional.

I mean, I feel like that's a pretty intentional source of business. It should be pretty intentional.

I know that autopsies used. Now you can remove certain things, but you have to have like real consent and stuff. But on missionising was as like on the Tip-Top as it is now. Yeah, probably not.

But, you know, who knows? The doctor had no qualms about organ theft. So I was like, just take it. That kind of shows you he was Napoleon's valet documented that he saw the doctor steal parts of Napoleon's ribs. It's random. Yeah. And hard to do.

Maybe he was like preparing for a rhinoplasty in the future.

Maybe, but like, no spare, no ribs are very strange.

One to steal one because why are they really hard to cut? They're very hard to cut. Like you have to use a giant like hedge clipper type tool and it takes like all your strength. So maybe he really wanted to feel like he earned it. You have to earn it to steal a rib.

He was like, I'm going to go through this work. So at the end of it all, I should have that and I'll have it for my rhinoplasty again. Weird flex, but OK.

Well, the penis journeyed from the priest's family to a London bookseller, and it was item catalogued as mummified tendon.

Yeah, that's classy. It's like I feel like I'm being so mature throughout this.

I'm like, you cannot be Hollywoods penis. Let's be real. It was also displayed at New York's Museum of French Arts in the nineteen twenties. I feel like that's where I belong during the Roaring Twenties.

It was like it a penis check out in nineteen seventy seven. A New Jersey urologist purchased it for three thousand dollars, which seems cheap.

Yeah, that's like a bargain. Lilian's means. Come on. He confirmed it was indeed a male sex organs and he willed it to his daughter when he died. Again, that's just nice. Why do you think that's nice?

Because he's like, you know what? I got this mummified penis. I don't want to just to get thrown out of the trash. I trust you, daughter with it. You thought it was weird when the guy before this gave his daughter, like a skull or something. I mean, it's awesome. Yeah, but weird. Weird. But like, what else is going to happen to it? I don't know. Nothing good.

I can tell you that flurried journalistic description says it resembles a piece of leather. Oh, a shriveled eel. Oh, beef jerky.

Not once that's that's it. It animal treated strip of buckskin shoelace maltreated like what. Napoleon's penis did not get a good rep in the afterlife. Napoleon that's that's a bum rap.

Imagine how mad he is from beyond the grave. He's stopping his tiny feet right now. In 2014, a British government funded documentary called it, quote, very small.

Oh, well, he was a small man. And you know what? Napoleon would want you to know the organ wasn't professionally preserved. I mean, there there you have it. Let's not totally humiliate him for Napoleon's penis syndrome, I'm saying.

Well, Napoleon's penis has won the count down so far, how is it not number one? I don't know. I got to know I liked that Nosferatu one, though. That one's fun. That was a fun one. We love a horror movie moment. It was fun to yell Geronimo. It was.

That is a fun. But that one's sad because it's like, what did you do with that man's bones? This he does not deserve to be holed up in a clubhouse from some secret society.

Chaos. No, and that's not where he wanted to be. It's nonsense. Well, let's see what's going to happen, because it's already crazy in here. What lies on the road ahead?

To. The runner up spot on our countdown of stolen body parts goes to at least one of Adina's victims. Runner up, runner up, I know, right? Serial killer Edwin didn't just murder women who resembled his mother. He robbed the graves of local women he hadn't killed, who also resembled his mother. He loved his mom, Mommy Normanby.

Yikes. So police exhumed three coffins to corroborate Geens story.

One was empty, one held a crowbar and the third held undisclosed body parts. While none of those are fun to watch.

What a day on the job. What a day. According to the police, the grave with the parts intact also had the woman's rings, which is like kind of weird and.

Well, I guess you just didn't care about that. She wasn't in it for Richard wanted the Flash. She was in it for burial for mama. She was in it for mama, who, you know, I don't know. Gross for an educated guess is queen didn't take the poor woman's fingers.

Jean insisted he didn't commit necrophilia because he didn't like the smell of dead bodies.

Oh, honey. But you lived all around dead body parts. You're wearing a skin. He's literally standing in front of somebody like hanging from a meat hook.

And he's like, I don't like the smell of dead body, but like here you are, like you had a lamb. You need to eat human flesh. He had a lot. We're going to get into the house. I was going to talk about that later. So thanks for the spoiler nipple, though.

After his mother died, he felt the need to recreate her.

You know, he started as anybody would by trying to shrink his mother's Exuma head. That's where everybody starts. Step one. Yeah. Where else do you start then? Over four years, getting rated up to 40 different cemeteries, taking the pieces he wanted or full bodies.

OK, just depends what he needed that day. He's a tinkerer. I was just going to say that.

Oh, my God. The Wavelength police found Geens Lampshade made of human skin, goblets made of skulls, a skin suit made of breasts complete with a belt of nipples. It's a lot. Yup. But, you know, the goblet made out of human skulls is kind of metal. Wow. It's metal. I mean, I'm not saying I won't. I'm just saying that's really what it is. I don't know.

Metal. He was I think he was just disturbed. He was pretty metal. He also used skin to really holster chairs. So you don't like the smell of dead bodies, but you're Vietnamese? Yeah. Yeah, I use velvet instead. Despite this, he was a hoarder. The house was a mess.

You don't say worse. According to Judge Robert Gomaa, the evidence containing human remains was destroyed once the investigation ended. That's crazy. I know.

One. And that brings us to number one on our countdown of the top ten stolen body parts, Albert Einstein's brain woop.

There it is. There it is.

Despite Albert Einstein's express wishes to be cremated. Autopsy pathologist Thomas Harvey decided to cut Einstein's brains out of his head during the autopsy and keep it. You know, that's a lot of artistic license to take. I can tell you, as someone with a little autopsy experience under your belt, don't do that.

It's frowned upon. That would be frowned upon. Yeah, you don't want to do that.

You don't want to take brains out of people's heads when they say, I would like my brain not to be taken out of my head. I mean, it's very simple. Yeah. Yeah. Einstein died of a birthday, Aude. So there was really no explicit reason to even examine his brain. And isn't it hard to cut the head open? It's a process like it takes a lot of elbow grease. It's like, why would you want to do that?

Because it's Einstein's brain.

I mean, yes. And you can add as much as I'm like what I'm like, I like I might have done it myself.

I mean, I feel like I'm not going to totally say that it's crazy. Harvey wanted the brain for science. Sure. Cause unlike others on today's list, he was actually qualified to do something with the sort of body parts. At least there's that. There's that. Well, Harvey was bad at his job. Oh, I don't know if you could tell from that really ethical thing he did, but he was a great worker.

He wasn't great at his job and he was soon fired for reasons completely unrelated to brain theft. And he eventually lost his license. You know, that makes sense. Yeah, it does, because if you're just stealing brains out heads, you're really not doing other things.

What else are you do? And if that's what you're up to, it's not good.

Well, besides losing his license, his job and stealing someone's brain that didn't want their brains stolen, his marriage fell apart.

Oh, man. Perhaps because his wife wanted to throw away the brain. She wanted to throw away Einstein's brain.

You it I wonder if she knew whose it was. Well, the brain moved all over the Midwest, didn't have great storage. And at one point somebody kept the brain under a beer cooler, Einstein's brain on a beer cooler. What do we do? It. That must have been a frat boy. That's not OK. That is Einstein's brain on top of some white cloths.

I'm upset that I'm upset.

Well, eventually they sliced Einstein's brain into two hundred and forty pieces and they shared samples and slides with other scientists and researchers. That's cool because, I mean, we might as well take a look at it if we have it now. Like with Shakespeare, people believe the brain would reveal the secrets of the human genius, which I'm not going to lie.

I would kind of want to know that, too.

I like. Why are you so smart? Right.

I got to know what you do, but there's nothing special about it biologically. So he's smart.

He's just smart, which shows you maybe you're not born with it, but you can make it happen.

Maybe it's Maybelline and maybe it is. We don't know.

After 40 years, Harvey put the remaining brain in Tupperware and brought it to Einstein's granddaughter. She didn't want it. She didn't want it. Like Wolf.

Maybe she didn't believe him. He was like, hey, let me open this plastic container. Here's the parts of your grandfather's brain. I want to know how he found her. I got to know. And why didn't she want it? I don't think I would want a break. I would want it if my grandfather was Einstein, I'd be like, yeah, I'll take that.

This countdown is constantly showing who we are truly. I mean, I think No one Einstein's brain. Yeah, I agree, but then again, Hadeen had been in Napoleon's penis.

I feel like Napoleon's penis was where it was supposed to go. Well, it was. I don't think so. I see guys all around the world. I'm an accountant. And what I'm like a rock tour even ended up on this countdown. Did it still go?

Well, I got to, you know, of any other body parts that should have made the list. Honestly, I'm ashamed to say I don't. I'm ashamed to also say the same. Yeah. So I think they really nailed this one.

The job market does. Thanks for entertaining us for the past hour. And everybody hold on to your butts because those might be next.

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