Live in Denver: Cryonics, Hearse Club, Ice Core, & Wolf Reintroduction

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Flightless Bird is Live From Denver! Rob and David explore the sights and sounds of Denver, CO, presenting their findings to a very fun crowd at the beautiful Cervantes Ballroom. They are joined by four guests that each bring a fascinating aspect of Denver and Colorado to life: The CEO of a cryonics company who has 250 human bodies and heads on ice, the head a hearse club, an expert from the largest Ice Core story facility on the planet, and a professor deeply involved with reintroducing gray wolves to Colorado. Musician Matthew Logan Vasquez provides live music including his rendition of the Flightless Bird themesong, and Happy Cones, founded by New Zealander Hap Cameron, delivers some hokey pokey ice cream to Rob! Thanks to our audience for their wonderful questions. Email us with your thoughts and ideas: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.comMerch & Show Info: www.flightlessbirdpod.com ABOUT OUR LIVE GUESTS + LINKS- James Arrowood is the CEO and President of ALCOR, a non-profit organization dedicated to cryonics here in America: They have over 1500 members, 250 who are currently frozen, waiting for science to catch up: https://www.alcor.org/ - Zachary Helm is leader of the Denver Hearse Club, and has the best haircut in the whole of Denver: https://hearseclub.com/about/about.htm - Richard Nunn is Assistant Curator at the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado. There he oversees ice cores from places like Antarctica and Greenland, that are stored in a large freezer kept at -36 degrees. His primary job is to distribute samples of this precious ice to scientists all around the world - as they look at perfectly preserved gas bubbles trapped in the ice to find out what the heck is going on with global warming: https://icecores.org/ - Joanna Lambert is an environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado. She has been deeply involved with the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, and for some reason she agreed to come talk at a show that featured a Cryonics Expert, the leader of a hearse club and a mad scientist obsessed with ice: https://www.joannalambert.com/ - Matthew Logan Vasquez: @matthewloganvasquez- Happy Cones Ice cream: https://happyconesco.com/ - Photography: Andrew Rowley @guacarowley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wow, it's David, it's my old friend David.
0:15.3	Hi, Rosabel. It's always nice to hear your voice. We're about to do our live show in Denver, Colorado, and I'm
0:22.9	just wondering if you know anything about Denver. Oh, I hate these questions. Denver. No, I don't
0:32.8	know anything about Denver. There's a dinosaur called Denver. Really? Denver the dinosaur. Is he from
0:39.6	Denver? I don't know. What was the dinosaur from, like a cartoon? I have no idea. I just like
0:46.1	have it as a phrase in my mind from the 90s. Is that enough? I am similar to you.
0:55.2	All I really know about Denver at this point is that it has that big blue giant horse at the airport that's an sculpture and installation.
1:03.4	And it famously fell over and killed the artist who made it.
1:08.1	No, really?
1:09.8	And you see it when you're flying in, like at night it has...
1:12.6	Oh, they kept it?
1:13.6	Glowing red eyes.
1:14.6	Yeah, it's still there, you can see it.
1:16.6	So they, like, they picked it up off the dead body and just like...
1:19.6	Yeah, I think it was in his workshop and it killed him, but they got it finished and they put it up.
1:25.6	And now when you fly in at night you can see it's got
1:28.7	they've almost played into it it's got glowing red eyes so it actually looks quite evil oh so it's
1:33.8	like haunted exactly okay it's funny because a lot of people have emailed in for suggestions of
1:40.3	topics for denver and a lot of them have talked about this big blue horse and we did an
1:46.5	episode about it ages ago but obviously no one listened to it including you because I've
1:51.2	explained all this before at length and a whole hour rambling on about it.
1:56.2	I said this was actually just a trick question to see if I listened to your podcast.
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