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Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

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Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because Laurence and others like him have signed up to be frozen and brought back to life in the future. And that belief will pull multiple generations of the Pilgeram family into a cryonics soap opera filled with dead pets, gold coins, grenades, fist fights, mysterious packages, family feuds, Hall of Fame baseball legends, and frozen heads — lots of frozen heads. From Wondery, comes a story about life, death, and what comes next. Follow Frozen Head on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge early and ad-free by subscribing to Wondery+ in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App. Listen to Frozen Head: Wondery.fm/FH_BPS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:05.0

If you had the chance to be brought back to life hundreds of years in the future, would you take it?

0:10.0

Wondery's new podcast, Frozen Head, hosted by Ash and Elena of the hit show, morbid,

0:16.0

tells the true story of Lawrence Pilgrim,

0:19.0

a lifelong scientist who planned for death his entire life because for him death wasn't the end

0:25.1

it was just the beginning. Lawrence's dream to be frozen and brought back to life

0:30.4

into future pulls us into a cryonic soap opera filled with dead pets, grenades, family

0:36.2

feuds, Hall of Fame, baseball legends, and frozen heads. Lots of frozen heads.

0:42.3

It's a story about the desire to avoid death. The

0:44.8

lengths people will go to make that a reality and what it means to be alive to

0:48.6

begin with. I'm about to play a clip from frozen head. While you're listening, follow frozen

0:53.7

head wherever you get your podcasts.

0:57.0

It's a fresh spring day in Montana, but inside a modest white ranch house, the living room is filled with death.

1:11.0

There's a dead fox, a couple of dead coyotes, and deer heads

1:16.0

mounted on the wall. This is the pilgrim's home. Pilgrim, as in Lawrence

1:22.2

Pilgrim, the in Lawrence Pilgrim.

1:23.2

The man who tried to have his wife frozen in Alcor.

1:25.7

The very same.

1:27.1

But this is his son, Kurt's house.

1:30.7

On this day, Kurt's son, Lawrence's grandson, Benjamin, is at home when he hears something

1:37.0

outside.

1:38.0

I remember the dogs barking when he pulled up, the dogs always bark when anybody pulls into the place.

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