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Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

Released Monday, 23rd January 2023
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Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

Monday, 23rd January 2023
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0:00

If you had the chance to be brought back to

0:02

life hundreds of years in the future, would

0:04

you take it? Wondery newest

0:06

podcast, Frozen Head, hosted by

0:08

Ashen Delaina of the hit show morbid

0:10

till the true story of Lawrence Pilgrim,

0:13

a lifelong scientist who planned for

0:15

death his entire life. Because for

0:17

him, death wasn't the end. It

0:19

was just the beginning. Lawrence's

0:22

dream to be frozen and brought back to

0:24

life in the future pulls us into a

0:26

crayonic soap opera filled with dead

0:28

pets, grenades, family feuds,

0:30

hall of fame baseball legends, and frozen

0:32

heads. Lots of frozen heads. It's

0:35

a story about the desire to avoid death.

0:37

The lengths people will go to to make that a reality

0:39

and what it means to be alive to begin with.

0:42

I'm about to play a clip from Frozen Head.

0:45

While you're listening, follow Frozen Head wherever

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you get your podcasts. Hey, Prime

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members, you can binge all six episodes

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1:03

It's a fresh spring day in Montana,

1:06

but inside a modest white ranch house,

1:08

The living room is filled with death.

1:12

There's a dead fox, a couple of dead

1:14

coyotes, and deer heads mounted

1:16

on the wall. This is

1:18

the Pilgrim's home. Pilgrim,

1:20

as in Lawrence Pilgrim.

1:23

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

1:25

the very same. But this

1:27

is his son, Kurt's house. On

1:30

this day, Kurt's son, Lawrence's

1:33

grandson,

1:33

Benjamin, is at home

1:35

when he hears something outside.

1:38

I remember the dogs barking. When he

1:40

pulled up, the dogs always park when anybody

1:42

pulls into the place. Now, normally,

1:45

the mailman delivers to the mailbox

1:47

by the road, but today, he's

1:49

come all the way up to the front

1:51

door, and he's holding a package.

1:54

Hey, damn. Leave it at the door, like what they usually

1:56

do. So I was like, yeah, well, sure So something

1:58

needs to be signed for it. So Benjamin

2:00

opens the door. I'm at him and

2:02

I signed for the box. As I'm signed

2:04

for him, looking at the box, It was

2:06

just a regular old cardboard box. It's

2:10

a rectangular shaped box, about

2:12

a foot long and half as wide.

2:14

A little bit bigger than a shoe box. Benjamin

2:17

is used to seeing boxes arrive at the

2:19

house. His dad, Kurt,

2:21

sells tools. But something

2:23

about this one is different. I'm

2:25

thinking this is a pretty small box. It doesn't

2:27

sound like a small tools. Benjamin

2:32

says thank you. And as

2:34

the mailman walks back to his truck,

2:36

Benjamin takes a closer look at

2:38

what in his hands. I

2:40

believe the markings were extremely

2:43

fragile ashes or

2:46

body remains or something

2:48

of that regard was on the side of

2:50

it. this is definitely not

2:52

a box of tools. No. It's

2:55

not. His dad is out on a delivery,

2:57

but Benjamin decides to give him a call.

3:01

I was like, let me at least get

3:03

him a heads up because this sounds

3:05

like something that he may have to deal with.

3:08

Yeah. Like a box of human remains

3:10

is probably something he'll have to deal

3:12

with. I was like, your

3:14

dad was going to be frozen upon

3:16

his death. Is that correct? Fair question.

3:19

My dad said, yes, he was going

3:22

to be Crows, why do you ask?

3:24

I was like, I am holding a box

3:26

that I just signed for that is containing

3:29

someone's ashes.

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