The Backstory: Frozen … Then Waking Up a Century Later
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On first blush, most of us say we’d like to live forever. But how far are you willing to go? How about freezing your body cryogenically so it can be resuscitated decades from now? The first guy did that almost 60 years ago. Folks like PayPal founder Peter Thiel have signed on, as have Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. But the big question is... what happens when you wake up? You’re a time traveler with no way back...
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| 0:00.0 | Well, and all the lot of us, human beings are a little bit obsessed with death. Some of us are |
| 0:05.9 | fascinated by the possibilities of the afterlife, some are terrified, and some think this one life |
| 0:12.7 | is all there is. But there's another subset. Folks who believe that if a body is properly frozen |
| 0:19.0 | cryogenically, you could return to life once science has found a way |
| 0:23.7 | to resuscitate you and fix whatever took you out. Oh, unless you think folks that choose the |
| 0:29.1 | frozen path are just whack jobs, consider the big names who signed on, like late baseball great |
| 0:35.0 | Ted Williams, and still living folks like PayPal billionaire Peter |
| 0:39.0 | Teal, Brittany Spears, and Paris Hilton. I'm Patty Steele, freezing your head off, literally. |
| 0:46.0 | That's next on the backstory. |
| 0:49.9 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:54.4 | Hey, this is Robert from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. |
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