They Put a Dead Pope on Trial: The Cadaver Synod & History’s Most Unhinged Court Cases

Brews With Boos · Jul 1, 2026 · 1h 12m

Krissy cracks open a beer and this week discusses what happens when the legal system completely loses the plot.

First, the Fuckery Report heads to court with a prisoner who sued himself for five million dollars, Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers suing God for floods, tornadoes, famine, and generally doing entirely too much, and medieval Europe putting animals on trial like pigs, rats, roosters, and weevils had access to legal counsel.

Then, for the Long Pour, we travel back to 897 AD for the Cadaver Synod, when the Catholic Church dug up Pope Formosus after he had been dead for nine months…