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The Truth

Brain Chemistry

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The Truth

Fiction

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A cryogenically-frozen man is revived in the future, to a world that is not quite what he expected. Written by Eric Molinsky, and produced by Jonathan Mitchell. Performed by Scott Adsit, Amy Warren, and Ed Herbstman, with Anna Neu, Billy Griffin, Alexis Lambright, Louis Kornfeld, Elana Fishbein, Joanna Hausmann, and Kerry Kastin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's something about cryonics that is inherently fascinating because the idea of being

0:09.0

frozen at death and then revived at some time in the future is both an immortality wish

0:16.3

fulfillment fantasy and a form of time travel.

0:21.0

There are nearly 300 chronically frozen people in the United States and the idea that, you

0:25.8

know at some point in the future, we'll figure out how to cure or what killed them, take

0:30.8

their brain and let them live life again.

0:35.3

You know what would that actually be like?

0:38.3

I'm Jonathan Mitchell and today on the Truth, we have a story about a man who wakes up from

0:42.2

his cryogenic slumber to a world that is not quite what he expected.

0:52.6

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0:54.3

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1:19.6

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