Short Stuff: Frozen Dead Guy | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

[Music]. hey and welcome to the short stuff I'm. Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here. sitting in for Dave pretending like. she's Dave she does that a lot uh and. this is short stuff that's right about. their frozen body that's right exactly. there is no way we could do this without. that so thank you for clearing it up. right out of the gate I feel like we've. talked about this festival at some point. on maybe it was one of our videos or. something we did an episode on strange f.

I'm sure we mention this but I don't. remember the story behind it so I made. the same frozen body joke let's get into. it you can't not I think that's the town. motto absolutely so we're talking about. a frozen body of a man uh who in life. was called bredo Moro m o r s t o e l. and he was from. Norway and uh when 1989 rolled around he. was a ripe 89 years old he'd been living. in Norway outside of Oslo for basically. his whole life and his life had been.

kind of unremarkable apparently he. designed city parks which is a pretty. cool job but like he hadn't set the. world on fire and I don't really think. he cared about that from what I. understand although I don't personally. know because I don't know him but. suffice to say that when he died in. Norway in 1989 it did not make. international news how about that okay. uh he had a grandson and I have no idea. how to pronounce this trick I'm not big. on my Norwegian it's really.

triy okay uh and he was a really into. CICS and preserving bodies and this was. in 1989 when that wasn't and it's still. not the most common thing but it's. certainly gained a lot more popularity. sure in recent years but in ' 89 he was. he was kind of you know a groundbreaking. guy to try to do something like this on. his own and that is try to do this on. his own and say hey Granddad I I think. we want to preserve you and so so I am.

going to build a cryic facility myself. uh eventually I'd like it to be a. business but at least want to get you. going because the clock is ticking right. and his grandfather didn't respond. because he was dead but trig V went. ahead with the plans anyway um he had um. bredo shipped from Oslo to Oakland that. you know typical route that a dead body. follows after you uh expire and the. reason he ended up in Oakland California. is because there was an establish cryic.

facility there called trans time and for. 3 years that's where bro's first final. resting place was he was immersed in. liquid nitrogen and kept in an. extraordinarily cold temperature to. preserve him because that's the point I. mean we did a whole cryonic episode if. I'm not mistaken but this is a brief. refresher the point of cryic is to. preserve the the living tissue um to the. degree that if we ever figure out how to. re animate dead people you will you will.

be intact when they revive you these. doctors of the future that's the key and. that's what that's what trivy wanted to. do with his grandfather brdo Yeah and if. you look up one of these facilities. today they'll say great uh you want just. the head or the whole body yeah which is. very interesting so which is uh speaking. of met graining that's also sort of a. Futurama reference totally like Nixon. that's right and as a reminder I saw. head in a bucket once people are talking.

about that still that is so crazy uh so. over the course of a few years uh he got. the help of his mom uh odd and said all. right uh I'm building this thing out uh. in Colorado as it turns out a place. called neerland M and it was a legal. thing to do at first but then he applied. for a permit and they said nah you can't. do that and he said well I'm just going. to keep doing it anyway. illegally and in 1993 so this is 4ish. years uh after his granddad had died.

they said all right I think I think. we're okay we can move him from Oakland. into our own sort of Home setup in. Netherland Colorado it was a decided. step down for um for bredo though he. went from The High Life immersed in um. liquid nitrogen to a makeshift wooden. freezer surrounded by foam rubber and. dry ice blocks but apparently it worked. it was good enough for triv and odd uh. his mom.

um and so that's where brdo set up. starting in. '93 um they also decided that they they. were going to build a structure that. could not only um keep a a cryic body. indefinitely the structure itself would. survive indefinitely so they built a. concrete structure they build it out. with studs and then they stopped there. and one of the reasons they stopped was. because suddenly all of this stuff came. to the attention of the outside. authorities and I say we take a break on. that and come back and tell the rest of.

this crazy crazy. [Music]. story so in 1993 tig's in a his new. house in um a wooden structure Outback.

um apparently he was in a blue REI. sleeping bag zipped up surrounded by. foam foam rubber all that and then. outside of all that were the bricks of. dry ice and I guess trivy um for future. handiness labeled which end of the um. sleeping bag was the head but was later. found to have gotten it wrong which is. kind of funny um and they kept it at I. think a 110° c which is pretty pretty. cold but from what I read still.

inadequate for cryonics but they kept in. that way anyway and every two weeks they. would have to put new dry ice blocks. around them and they kept doing that and. were planning on doing that indefinitely. and about that time um immigration. officials sipped into this whole fry. yeah I mean that's kind of the irony of. this whole thing is they were I guess. from the naked eye what they thought. were preserving him but they weren't. preserving him good enough to ever bring. him back to life if that were to ever be. a thing that's my understanding of it. yeah yeah so uh immigration said I'm.

sorry your Visa has run out you have to. leave the country so uh trivy left in. 1994 and said Mom you got to take care. of your dad there I'm leaving you got to. switch this dry dry ice out every two. weeks and keep that temperature down and. mom was like all right I got it and the. News got out a little bit this you know. needand wasn't the the biggest place it. probably still isn't the biggest town. and get the feeling that trivy was sort. of an eccentric there yeah he started.

the local Polar Bear Plunge tradition. awesome that's fun uh so when he got. deported there were uh you know there. were interviews being done by the local. alternative weekly and they got in touch. with Mom during this interview she uh I. get the feeling sort of accidentally. said out loud like I I wonder what's. going to happen with Dad's remains now. and then the word was out that there was. a frozen dead guy in the town and. eventually that would become a.

festival called Frozen Dead Guy days. yeah because very quickly this story got. out of Colorado and went around the. world and Netherland decided hey we. could capitalize on this like yes this. is a really weird story and people think. we're weirdos for having a guy who had. his dead grandfather frozen out back but. let's do something with that and the. Chamber of Commerce came up with frozen. Dead Guy days starting in. 2002 um which is you you know definitely.

making lemonade out of lemons I guess. you could say but in the meantime there. was still the matter of what to do with. brdo um right after it was found out. that brdo was Outback um and not only. brdo by the way triv had had gotten his. first paying customer so bredo and a man. named Al Campbell shared that makeshift. freezer for a little while but um the. Netherland Town Council said we we. actually like we've got something on the. books right like this is. illegal what they hadn't factored in was.

that trivy was a died in the wool. libertarian the kind of guy who would. rais holy heck for arbitrary you know um. movements or or Decisions by the. government and he forced that no it was. not very clear what this town's position. on keeping a frozen dead body of a. relative out back in your house was and. so brdo got grandfathered in even after. the town passed a new ordinance saying. like you can't do that anymore no pun. intended.

oh grandfather didn't yeah it really. wasn't is the sad thing I know so he's. there still he's allowed to stay and so. all of a sudden uh he needs a little. help taking care of Grandpa he puts out. an ad and says I need someone to help me. take care uh you have to like change out. the St ice check on them that kind of. thing and a guy named Bo Schaffer said. I'll do it and so for and not only will. I do it he did it for 30 years he looked. over this guy that wasn't even his. grandpa mhm bringing in that fresh dry.

ice packing them every two weeks uh. making sure he was okay and checking in. on them and uh I think it's pretty. remarkable uh eventually that shed. needed some work because of a blizzard. and the local rock radio station got. involved and of course you know like. local rock radio does they find some. kind of weird thing to to get behind for. some press and they ended up getting. tough sheds the company uh which is. great by the way big fan of tough sheds. oh yeah oh yeah I've got one they're. they're awesome ni uh and they're.

awesome cuz they donated this shed uh. free of charge also good press for them. and of course the the radio station. painted their you know their logo and. stuff on the side of it so now this guy. is wa wait wait not just what their logo. was they you have to say the words that. they also painted on the structure well. I think that's that was their thing they. were classic rock they painted Classic. Rock on the shed that held bro's Frozen. corpse oh yeah they they had to take. anage of it so from that point on it was.

you know not much of a story I mean they. had their Frozen dead guys Festival brdo. was still there and in 2020 uh I imagine. because of covid um the town Chamber of. Commerce went bankrupt the town kind of. fell on harder times and they sold the. rights to that Festival uh to a private. entity and everyone was like this thing. stinks now it's just not the same as it. used to be yeah it got moved to este's. Park which is a little a little ways. away um it just lost the the the.

edginess of it it wasn't Rough Around. the Edges anymore and it lost its Spirit. according to the people who like the. original version um that was one thing. that changed another thing that changed. around that time is that trig be started. looking for a third final resting place. for his grandfather brdo and in August. of. 2023 um the town of Netherland found out. that um their their famous Frozen Dead. Guy bredo uh had been moved uh to SD's.

Park like frozen Dead Guy days had been. to the Stanley. Hotel that Stanley Hotel uh the same one. that inspired The Shining when Stephen. King and his family vacation there so if. you ever hear anyone say you know what. the Stanley Hotel is known for right. just kind of throw them off base and say. yeah they have a cryonic museum and a. frozen dead Grandpa yeah that's where. brdo is he's in a exhibit sponsored by. Alor one of the leading cryonics. companies and and who knows where his.

next final resting place will be but. that's where you can find him now I hope. this is it but I have a feeling it won't. be no way not in an exhibit at the. Stanley Hotel he's going to end up. somewhere else and I I for one can't. wait to see where it is I wonder if we. should raise some money and see if we. can take custody yeah like krfx 103.5. The Fox that's how that's how we'll do. it we're going to paint classic rock and. sysk on on whatever we built for him too. I love it uh well Chuck said I love it.

and can't really end on a better note. than that so short stuff is. out stuff you should know is a. production of iHeart radio for more. podcasts ihart radio visit the iHeart. Radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you. listen to your favorite. [Music]. shows.