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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Bob Nelson is hoping cryonics will become the business boon he's been expecting. Operating on a shoestring budget and employing the most primitive methods of freezing and storing bodies, Nelson struggles to stay in business. He continues to believe he’s one step from the big time. But a series of miscalculations and unforeseen complications leave him on the brink of disaster.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music, download
0:06.0	the app today.
0:15.9	Los Angeles, California, 1967.
0:19.6	It's Saturday morning, and Bob Nelson should be home with his kids.
0:23.8	Instead, he's driving his vintage 1952 Porsche Speedster to a mortuary in the Orange County
0:30.3	suburb of Boenipark.
0:32.1	It's a 50 mile drive from his home, but with traffic, the round trip can take him three
0:37.1	hours.
0:38.1	Outside, the temperature is in the 90s, but inside Nelson's car, bags of dry ice have
0:44.0	frozen to his leather seats.
0:46.3	The ice is for Nelson's second client, Marie Sweet.
0:50.8	Four weeks ago, she became the first woman to be frozen, but Nelson doesn't have a permanent
0:55.7	place to keep her body, or a proper capsule in which to store her.
1:00.8	So every week, he has to haul dry ice across the city to replenish Marie's temporary
1:06.7	container.
1:08.3	Every single one.
1:12.2	The insanity of what he's doing hits him.
1:14.5	And Nelson abruptly pulls his car off the road and onto the freeway shoulder.
1:19.2	He pounds the steering wheel, shouting to the world.
1:22.6	Am I crazy?
1:24.2	What the hell am I doing?
1:26.5	Nelson's breathing grows shallow and fast.
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