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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant,

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Speaker 1: and that makes this stuff you should know that free podcast.

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Speaker 1: It comes out twice a week, faithfully, and um, you

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Speaker 1: I don't. I certainly do not. No one does talk.

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Speaker 1: It's right, um, but we're still glad that you listened

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Speaker 1: to it, even though it is free. Hi Frozen Body. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was your idea, wasn't. It seemed like a no

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Speaker 1: brainer for our Simpsons fans to call this cryonics episode

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Speaker 1: high Frozen Body. Dr Nick That Um, that episode has

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite Simpsons lines of all time. Uh,

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Speaker 1: where the old guy Jasper a sidekick, he the frozen body.

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Speaker 1: He comes out and he thaws out, and he goes

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Speaker 1: What a time to be alive. I love that. He's great. Yes. So, um,

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Speaker 1: if you haven't seen that episode of the Simpsons, we

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Speaker 1: guess what the withsin the can that lost its label

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Speaker 1: a long time ago. So, Um, the concept that you

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Speaker 1: know Simpsons lore No, it's not just cartoon TV. Lore No.

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Speaker 1: Actually there's a guy who um kind of came up

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Speaker 1: The man died, um, which is really weird that he did,

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Speaker 1: spur the idea for the podcast. Yeah, you picked this one.

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Speaker 1: And then it turns out the guy who created the

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Speaker 1: then I thought, well, that's kind of sad. Yeah, actually

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Speaker 1: that was very nice of you to share his oh

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Speaker 1: But he came up with this whole prospect, this whole

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Speaker 1: cryogenic freezing. Then we should be at the point where

422
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: we can clone you a body to go along with

423
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 1: that head. Why not a hot body too? Oh yeah, sure,

424
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: I would wear Daisy dukes all the time in my body.

425
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: You don't even wear shorts now, Well, I don't have

426
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: a hot cloned body. I've seen you in shorts once, actually,

427
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 1: when when you came over to my house to bar

428
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: the lot more. You hound shorts really and I saw

429
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: your bare leg I've seen you in boxer shorts too.

430
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: When I think in one of our trips, like you

431
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: changed clothes in front of me or something, I think

432
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 1: should get a little more specific for the audience. Well,

433
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: I mean we didn't have like a dress up party,

434
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 1: but it was like, hey, I gotta you know, we're

435
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: late for something and you were changing your clothes or something.

436
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I didn't market on my

437
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: Guatemala I'll bet in Guatemala Lake that one crazy day.

438
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: So anyway, that was just happened there. That was possibly

439
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: the wildest tangent we've ever been on. You've seen me

440
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: in my boxers and in shorts senior bare legs, and

441
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: they're fine. I don't see why you don't like shorts.

442
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: I'm just no, no, not for you. Um, but it

443
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: could be for a cloned body, right right, Yeah, let's

444
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 1: just get back to it, buddy. Um. And uh again

445
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 1: back to the reanimation research there. I think we've talked

446
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: about before, Max Planck Institute, back in two thousand. There's

447
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: just one thing on the web and I can't find

448
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: any follow up stuff or any lead up stuff, but

449
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: basically they're talking about what. Um, the arapeutic hypothermia research

450
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: has shown that if you it's not death that injures

451
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: cells and tissue and makes them unreanimateable. It's trying to

452
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 1: reanimate them and doing it too quickly. And um, they

453
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: were working on reanimating dead bodies. Um. And apparently since

454
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: then we have figured out how to reanimate some cryo

455
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: preserved tissue like a rabbit kidney. Yeah, it worked. In

456
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: two thousand five, apparently they vitrified a rabbit kidney. Um.

457
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 1: They took it out of a rabbit, they said you

458
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: wait here, vitrified the kidney, brought it back, put it

459
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: back in the rabbit and said go urinate, and the

460
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: rabbit did, and the kidney exploded. The and uh. They

461
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: have also reanimated a nematode worm. Um, big deal. But hey,

462
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: it worked, but no other mammals. Yeah, they said, dogs

463
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: and monkeys they've had their blood placed. Well remember that

464
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: that supposed to Russian research film from head God, that's awful.

465
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: But dogs and monkeys, they've had their blood replaced with

466
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: the anti freeze essentially cooled it to below zero degrees

467
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: and rewarmed it and revived them successfully. But that's zero

468
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: degrees is a long long way from negative three. Yes,

469
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: but but they're pointing this to this and saying, hey, look,

470
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: this is this could be possible. And it wasn't even vitrified.

471
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: Was that it was just brought to a low temperature. No, no, no,

472
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: it said their blood was replaced. Okay, Um, I don't

473
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: know if all the cells were, but the blood was

474
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: at least so Um. There are things to look for

475
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: in the future when you are successfully reanimated, possibly given

476
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: a cloned body that wears Daisy Dukes a lot um.

477
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: And there's gonna be some legal issues that people are

478
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: already starting to think of about reanimating. Yes, for example,

479
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: when you are taken off to the cryonic facility. As

480
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: far as society and the court system and Social Security

481
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: administration is you're illegally dead. You didn't think about that.

482
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: What happens when you come back to life. You have

483
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: to apply to be a new person again, I guess.

484
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: So they figured that probably if somebody who's presumed dead

485
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: and wasn't right, but they were declared legally dead and

486
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: they come back after that, there there nobody says well sorry,

487
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: and nobody's gonna say that somebody who's reanimated. But one

488
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: of the other propositions that they they're considering is a

489
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: possibility is issuing you a new birth certificate? Really yeah,

490
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: and they're cool that is, so you would be literally

491
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: reborn as far as the law is concerns. Um. And

492
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: then also what happens, chuck. Has happened in the nineties

493
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: seventies when there were I think six big cryogenic suspension

494
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: companies and operation and that number dropped dramatically in the

495
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: late seventies early eighty And what happened to those bodies?

496
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: You know, I do know they were left to rot?

497
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: Really yes they have. The company went bankrupt and said,

498
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: we don't have any money to keep these things going.

499
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: And um, since it was a corporation, they could say

500
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: that the person walked away, but the bodies were just

501
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: left to thaw and rot, and that's what happened. Um

502
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: our Core supposedly has a fund set aside to where

503
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: if anything happens to the company, it will provide a

504
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: bridge to continue care until they figure out what to

505
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: do with these That's where a lot of goes supposedly.

506
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 1: I think about half of that goes into that trust.

507
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: And I was researching them. Apparently they have a self

508
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: perpetuating board, which they're frequently criticized for because it's just

509
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: there's no new blood in there as it were. But

510
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: the board is generally or has been very transparent about

511
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: how much money is paid, like um in supposedly they

512
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: announced that they were gonna slash their staffs pay across

513
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: the board. By the average staff worker, they're made like

514
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: twenty grand. Board members don't get paid at all, right, right, UM,

515
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: So it's supposedly these people are just into it, like

516
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: two UM further cryonic research and and keep these bodies suspended. Right.

517
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: That's what you'll see on their website at least, right.

518
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: But I was reading some outside links. There's this blog

519
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: called Depressed Metabolism, which is just about all that UM

520
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: and they were going over a two thousand nine al

521
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: Core report UM. But they seem very conservative but not

522
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: good at generating their own income. They rely a lot

523
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: on donations. All the technology they use as licensed elsewhere,

524
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: so there's like bleeding money, but they manage to stay

525
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: aflow because of donations from like wealthy members, which is

526
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: kind of unfair. So, but they're very conservative to UM,

527
00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: whereas like the Cryonics Institute was always kind of UM

528
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: criticized for being like a little reckless, a little cutting edge,

529
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: but they were looking at cryonics is not necessarily a

530
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: way to keep UM people in suspended animation, But how

531
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: do we apply this medically and get these people reanimated again, right,

532
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,959
Speaker 1: not just indefinitely, you know, increasing animation well, and how

533
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: do you get medical mainstream medical science behind this period

534
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: is one of their big battles. Uh I. Now that

535
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: al cores in Arizona and then two thousand four there

536
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: was a bill passed by the House there in Arizona

537
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: that basically was going to put them under the regulation

538
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: of the State Funeral Board, which would have effectively probably

539
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: shut them down, and it was pulled from the floor,

540
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: but they said it was a really nasty debate on

541
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: the floor. And uh, because there's a lot of religious

542
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: ethical ramifications here that that I guess we could talk about,

543
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: but they said that we don't know. This could come

544
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: back and they could shut us down. You never know,

545
00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: and in Arizona at least, but the ethical concerns is

546
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: alcor On their website again has addressed some of these

547
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: because a lot of religious folks might say, this is not,

548
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: you know, something you should be doing. You shouldn't be

549
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: playing God, quote unquote, and they say that patients are

550
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: theologically equivalent to unconscious patients in a hospital with an

551
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: uncertain prognosis theologically speaking. And they've had people right into

552
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: like people in the Catholic Church and Protestant churches and

553
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: even the Jesus Christ Church of Jesus Christ of the

554
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: Latter day Saints. They've written essays supporting it. Some people

555
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: have Yeah, it's like if you're on life support, you're

556
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: playing God or somebody's playing God with you. But other

557
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: people in religious circles have blasted it. So it's it

558
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: depends on how you want to listen to. Yes, it does.

559
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: And they said it's not just for the rich. That's

560
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: one of the myths. They say it's not an indulgence

561
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: of the rich. They say most of the membership is

562
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: middle class. Yeah, and paid for with insurance, Yeah, life

563
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: insurance on don't Is that true? I have I didn't

564
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: get a chance to research that one. Looking not for myself,

565
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: but Paul Rud's making a movie about this. Did you

566
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: see that? It's been done? No what Iceman? No? No, no,

567
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: no no. Um ice Man to the Return of Iceman

568
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: ice Man three, The Iceman Jr. What else? Well, this

569
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 1: one is bona fide uh Errol Morris, the awesome documentarian.

570
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: He's making his first, uh, non documentary film since the

571
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: early nineties. Fiction, I'm sure, but it's not fiction because

572
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: it's a true story. So the first first feature film.

573
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: Um wow, man, that's awesome. Yeah, it's because it came

574
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: out with a new documentary recently, too, didn't he Yeah,

575
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's about that. It's about the tabloid scandal

576
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: when that woman kidnapped the those Mormon I don't know.

577
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: I think it's a woman kidnapped some Mormon guy and

578
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: like took her, took him away to some aven and

579
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: forced sex upon him for like months and then came

580
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: back and was a celebrity because of it in the seventies. Yeah,

581
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: it looks really good. So his feature film, Sorry, that's

582
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: all right, it's uh. It's based on the memoir by

583
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: Robert F. Nelson called Uh and taken from this American

584
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 1: Life segment and Ira Glasses producing This isn't everything taken

585
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: from any this American Life segment And the name of

586
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: This American Lives was Your as Cold at You're Cold

587
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: as Ice was the name of their show. Personally, I

588
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: think high frozen body a little better, way better, Chuck,

589
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: way to So Paul read one of my favorites. He's

590
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: playing this dude. Yeah, good for him. Good. Oh we

591
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: need to talk about Ted Williams real quick. Oh yeah,

592
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: good lord. That was close. Well, as you said, Walt

593
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: Disney was not uh suspended and liquid nitrogen, but Ted

594
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: Williams the famous hit her last hit her to hit

595
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: four hundred in baseball is yeah. He's an Alcore member.

596
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: Two thousand two, they put him on Vitrify and um,

597
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: they said it to Vitrify and he was like, whoa

598
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: his there's There was a legal battle over it. Um.

599
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: Apparently his daughter was accusing his son of having him

600
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: uh vitrified put in cryonics animation or suspended animation um

601
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: because he wanted to later sell his dad's d n A,

602
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 1: which apparently his son was like, yeah, maybe, but dad

603
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: still wanted to. We had a sign packed me and

604
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: our other sister, but not you and so um. He

605
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: didn't even know him till he was thirty, though he

606
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: was a half brother or half so okay. Well, Ted

607
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: was running around telling people all sorts of different stuff.

608
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: Apparently he told his daughter that he wanted to be

609
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: um scattered his He wanted to be cremated and have

610
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: his cremated remains scattered over the Florida Keys. The daughter

611
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: the son said no, we had a packed a signed packed,

612
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: which apparently he was a will to produce. So Judge said, okay,

613
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,720
Speaker 1: Ted's again his stay frozen. You can't sell his DNA

614
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 1: bing bang boom by Jovi yeah and then banging a gable.

615
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: The sun got a he he was painted in an

616
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 1: unfair light because of the Sports Illustrated article by Tom

617
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: Verducci that basically slammed him as Hey, this kid didn't

618
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: even know until he's thirty, He's gonna sell his DNA

619
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: and it was apparently he got one version of the

620
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: story and that's it and stopped his fact checking there.

621
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: So I've seen follow up reports where this guy was

622
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 1: like that ain't what happened, and I did not want

623
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: to sell his DNA and like we really got to

624
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: be close after I met him later in life, and

625
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. Well you got anything else?

626
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: Just if you want to know how popular this is

627
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: um As of June of this year, Alcor has nine

628
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: d and fifty members and a hundred and six quote

629
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: unquote patients. Yeah, that's what. And Michigan at the Cryonics

630
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: Institute I believe has over a hundred. So there's a

631
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: cup one hundred and change people current currently in the

632
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: United States upside down like that of liquid nitrogen with

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