Speaker 2
That's what you're describing there. And I'd prefer you don't bring it up on
Speaker 1
the podcast. Okay. So that's an unspoken tension. Or if I'm
Speaker 2
preferred, you don't refer to me as a scratchy kind of. Let me, it's true.
Speaker 1
If you know what I mean.
Speaker 2
All in all, it did cost a pretty penny. State and local government spent nearly $10 million on clean up and recovery. Because, you know, there were bodies everywhere. Everywhere. Three over 300 bodies. And even more was paid out in restitution to the loved ones whose bodies had been ill treated, again, from the Times Free Press, more than $100 million was paid out in federal class action lawsuits against Marsh and the funeral homes that had sent bodies to the crematory. Oh, so the funeral homes are having to cop it as well. Yeah. But it's not their fault at all. And there's like no other fucking crematory they can send it to. And they're like, I imagine they're like, well, if I'd known, why would we keep setting
Speaker 1
bodies in the waiting room?
Speaker 2
Yeah, that sucks. And no one knows the exact number of families affected, but attorneys in lawsuits estimated the count of nearly 2,000
Speaker 1
people were directly affected. Yeah. I assume they think that there was like part of their responsibility to know that it was the job was being done properly, but it feels like the kind of thing you wouldn't be. You might go out there maybe. Would she? I don't know. And the
Speaker 2
whole point of his dad starting this business was a gap in the market. There wasn't, there was nobody else around. And so why would a funeral home travel interstate just to check up on a crematorium? Hey, just checking your burnt their body. And then he hands you the urn and you go, okay.
Speaker 1
Yeah. It's hell of a moment to know. It's just the strangest thing because the way he could have got away with it would have been by burning the evidence, which would have also been him doing his job. Yeah.
