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The Future of Death & Funerals · Presented by Speaking Human

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Fuzz, where we envision the ideas we'll
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  Speaker 1: all be buzzing about in the future.
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  Speaker 2: The Fuzz, the future, black in the future, in the future,
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  Speaker 2: in the future, in the future.
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  Speaker 3: While the things we talk about on this podcast might
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  Speaker 3: seem impossible or even slightly insane, so did virtual cemeteries,
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  Speaker 3: tattoo ink, incorporating human ashes, and freezing brains for future revival.
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  Speaker 3: But all these things exist as a means of preserving
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  Speaker 3: or remembering our loved one today.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. On today's episode, we're talking about death and
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  Speaker 1: funerals next to Burton Ernie, everyone's favorite pairing, Death and funerals.
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  Speaker 1: It's a dark side double header as we take you
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  Speaker 1: into the future to see how our approach to endings
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  Speaker 1: might change. So let's go find out how our future
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  Speaker 1: friends will say goodbye.
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  Speaker 3: I need you all to remember not to trip though,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as we make our way up into the
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  Speaker 3: timeless year. The year is.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty two twenty five. You die, but your brand lives on.
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  Speaker 4: In the future. Death is no longer the end. It's
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  Speaker 4: a transitionary period. Funerals have evolved from somber ceremonies into
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  Speaker 4: multi platform revenue generating brand activations called legacy launches. Forget
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  Speaker 4: tombstones when you can upload your consciousness into forrever cloud tm,
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  Speaker 4: a subscription based creation of your soul where you can chat, advise,
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  Speaker 4: and post content long after you've left this earth. Loved
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  Speaker 4: ones can subscribe to your feed, Strangers follow you for wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: You can keep growing your audience from the grave. Once
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  Speaker 4: called funeral homes, life cycle Studios offer afterlife packages sponsored
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  Speaker 4: by Pepsi Eternity TM. Don't want to experience downtime after
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  Speaker 4: you've died, planned for the worst with one of Amazon
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  Speaker 4: Primes one hour uploads services. That's right, your whole soul
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  Speaker 4: uploaded in one hour. Still want more, Upgrade your passing
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  Speaker 4: with Mourning Merch because nothing means more to your loved
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  Speaker 4: ones like a hoodie, hands sewn and digitally infused with
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  Speaker 4: your fondest memories. Morning Merch is even partnering with morn
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  Speaker 4: og tm. The number one app for sharing is sad
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  Speaker 4: but sponsored moments. If you thought loving memories were great,
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  Speaker 4: imagine them now, brought to you by Dorrito's the tastiest
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  Speaker 4: celebration of eternal life. And when the big day finally comes,
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  Speaker 4: your funeral and remains can be scattered in sponsored weathered events.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine your loved ones watching your particles drift over the
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  Speaker 4: Grand Canyon, carried by the wind and sponsored by Goodyear
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  Speaker 4: Legacy launches. Because death isn't the end, so make it matter.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, how many trademarks do you think we got there?
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  Speaker 3: If you don't count the new trademarks. You've got Legacy Launches,
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  Speaker 3: you've got life Cycle Studios, you've got Forever Cloud, You've
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  Speaker 3: got more nog warning merch as well, which I think is.
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  Speaker 1: Great, got great play on words.
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  Speaker 3: But then you've got the brands that we know and
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  Speaker 3: love today. Two hundred years from now, they're still going strong.
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  Speaker 3: It seems.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice to see Dorito's still doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I like that they're the tastiest celebration of eternal life.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine Dorito's two hundred years from now, What are they
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  Speaker 3: gonna taste like? Are they gonna be the same? People
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  Speaker 3: just love them just as much. There's some good stuff
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  Speaker 3: in there. And I think, really, honestly, if we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about death and funerals, this feels like a natural evolution.
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  Speaker 3: Your consciousness lives on in some form the fact that
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  Speaker 3: it can post content. It's not quite as crazy as
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about in some of the other episodes. Your
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  Speaker 3: consciousness is almost like a machine, just sort of a
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  Speaker 3: gear churning out stuff. People are just consuming it that
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  Speaker 3: they're not interacting with it, it seems.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And can you imagine you'd have nothing else to do
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  Speaker 1: because you're dead or separated from the physical world. So
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  Speaker 1: all you have to do with all your time, your
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  Speaker 1: brain power, your energy just essentially post on social share
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts with the world. I mean, that's all day,
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  Speaker 1: every day. Dream or nightmare, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it could be a nightmare, you know. Suddenly you
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  Speaker 3: find yourself becoming the feed in the comments section, right,
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  Speaker 3: like you're just commenting. You're trolling people all the time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's the content you're producing. At the very least, they're
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  Speaker 3: contributing to, you know, the universal information database, right, whether
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  Speaker 3: that's spreading out into the galaxy or what have you.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what our online traffic, our online bloat
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  Speaker 1: is going to look like though, if we have all
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  Speaker 1: the living posting along with all the dead posting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good lord, I mean, it would be crazy. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, that grieving process would be totally different for
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  Speaker 3: those you've left behind after you've passed away, right, because
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  Speaker 3: they would still be able to feel like they're connected
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  Speaker 3: to you in some way. And you know what, there's
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  Speaker 3: always going to be the detractors of that who are like,
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  Speaker 3: it's immoral and it's not natural and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But beyond that, I can imagine people being happy that
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  Speaker 3: they can still at least connect somehow with the loved ones.
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  Speaker 1: So do you have a you know, obviously there's all
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  Speaker 1: these different sponsored events, experiences, whatever you want to call them.
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  Speaker 3: Do you go in?
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  Speaker 1: Can you choose what you're getting? Do you have some options?
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  Speaker 1: You're getting all of this? How does this work?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely very ala carte like a buffet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some of it costs money, some of it
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  Speaker 3: won't cost as much because you have the sponsor that
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing. So there's some trade offs, but beyond that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you're just kind of choosing. And what I think is
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  Speaker 3: interesting about that approach is it's a way to sort
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  Speaker 3: of like monetize it, but also in a way that
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  Speaker 3: allows people to sort of carry on, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: that can't be cheap. You can't have a server there
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  Speaker 3: indefinitely unless there was some way to pay for that,
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  Speaker 3: so you've got those sponsorships that help with that, so
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  Speaker 3: your consciousness can reside their imperpetuity for all eternity.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this makes sense to me. It makes
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  Speaker 1: sense to me as the next steps brands would take.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't grabbed the death market yet, so it makes
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  Speaker 1: sense that they would go there. And it also makes
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  Speaker 1: sense that they would find a way, like, hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: giving you something. You're getting something out of this that
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  Speaker 1: you want, a way to live on, a way for
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  Speaker 1: your memories to live on, your consciousness to live on,
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  Speaker 1: your conversation, to live on with your loved ones, so
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  Speaker 1: you feel like it's not manipulative. You know, they're getting
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  Speaker 1: in this for all the right reasons, which is how
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  Speaker 1: these things go sometimes. So definitely makes sense for a
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  Speaker 1: future that may be in store for us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, Pepsi eternity tm.
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  Speaker 1: TM good to see the trademark. Lawyers will be getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work in the future.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Let me show you another potential vision of you know,
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  Speaker 1: death and funerals in the future. I asked that you
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  Speaker 1: put down any food or beverage. Is as we step
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  Speaker 1: into the time.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, you've arrived just in time.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Director Halden, fifth tier mortuary liaison for District nine
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  Speaker 5: to L, certified in emotional streamlining and licensed by the
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  Speaker 5: corporation since cycle eight one seven. First off, let me
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  Speaker 5: extend our deepest gratitude for choosing our facility for your
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  Speaker 5: loved one's final iteration. Here at eturnecare TM, we take
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  Speaker 5: the sacred act of repurposing seriously. It's not just a process,
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  Speaker 5: it's a celebration of continued usefulness. Every end is simply
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  Speaker 5: a redirection of purpose, a more efficient kind of afterlife,
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  Speaker 5: if you will. The repurposing chamber is just past the
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  Speaker 5: reflectiontion alcove where mourners gather to view the elaborates beautiful
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  Speaker 5: and highly entertaining ceremonial melting process. You'll notice the chamber
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  Speaker 5: itself is sleek, soundless respectful. Of course, there's a curated
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  Speaker 5: fragrance myths to ease the senses, white myrtle and carbon
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  Speaker 5: neutral vanilla. This week, once the final scan verifies the
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  Speaker 5: body authenticity and emotional clearance is secured from the next
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  Speaker 5: of kinstream, the conversion pod descends. It's all very smooth.
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  Speaker 5: Some clients say it's like watching as sunrise, but if
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  Speaker 5: the sun were made of liquefied organic matter being rendered
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  Speaker 5: into high performance lifestyle products. Now, I know some first
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  Speaker 5: timers get a little emotional when the detachment arm begins
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  Speaker 5: separating the neutral lattice. That's natural. It's a significant moment
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  Speaker 5: where memory, essence, and matter all begin to diverge. But
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  Speaker 5: I always tell families listen closely. You may catch something
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  Speaker 5: an echo, a trace as the final thoughts pass through
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  Speaker 5: the transfer stream. It's not sound exactly, more like a
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  Speaker 5: shift in the atmosphere. And if you're lucky, that fragment
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  Speaker 5: becomes part of what's to come, a turn of phrase
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  Speaker 5: or a flash of memory embedded into the Revenix TM,
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  Speaker 5: the versatile material used to create all the products you
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  Speaker 5: know in love, from advanced pants to lawn drones. By
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  Speaker 5: this evening, your loved one will be ready for distribution
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  Speaker 5: in any number of approved forms a headphone spear perhaps,
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  Speaker 5: or maybe a mind connected writing utensil, or even a
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  Speaker 5: magnetic propulsion bike. And as always, every verified funeral attendee
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  Speaker 5: receives a complimentary product of their choosing courtesy of the corporation.
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  Speaker 5: It's not just closure, it's continuity because here at a
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  Speaker 5: turn acare T, we don't say goodbye, we say reissue complete.
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  Speaker 3: A tournecare TM. I'm seeing a similarity there. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of trademarks brands that are happening in the future
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  Speaker 3: mix TM Is that what I heard?
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  Speaker 1: Revenex?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Revenex Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Another TM, So yeah, definitely some overlap here. We have
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  Speaker 1: you go to the funeral home and essentially what they're
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  Speaker 1: doing melting down your loved one's body to make Revenex,
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  Speaker 1: which is this material that is then used to make
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of consumer products in the future. And this
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  Speaker 1: process which I got to witness that you watch through
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  Speaker 1: the screen kind of imagine like an elaborate Rube Goldberg
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  Speaker 1: machine where the body is just transferred into this material
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  Speaker 1: basically used to produce everything. Parts are separated, yet somehow
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  Speaker 1: they've made it so it's not gross or gory like
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  Speaker 1: you might think, but more it's kind of like mesmerizing,
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  Speaker 1: kind of part light show, pretty interesting thing, not like
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  Speaker 1: a meat packing plant like you might think, but more
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  Speaker 1: like technology at work, just doing something where you have
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  Speaker 1: almost like a butterfly transformation, you know, where you've got
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  Speaker 1: something completely different at the end and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can walk into this shop they have and pick
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  Speaker 1: your product, not necessarily made exactly from your loved one,
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  Speaker 1: though their body will be used to produce all these
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  Speaker 1: products by the corporation.
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  Speaker 3: You know, down the line.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what it's necessarily going to. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they could turn it around that fast. But this
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  Speaker 1: is kind of the idea.
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  Speaker 3: Right, kind of like recycling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, repurposing as they call it.
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  Speaker 3: Repurposing, is that in response to something that's happening in
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  Speaker 3: the future where they need the materials or this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I went into the funeral
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  Speaker 1: home I saw this. I know, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it was you know, we don't we ran out of
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  Speaker 1: resources or they just figured out, hey, we can make this,
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  Speaker 1: which then you can make almost anything from this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but we need this one key ingredient found within the
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  Speaker 1: human body. I don't know what's the case. You know,
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  Speaker 1: how this discovery came about. Was it necessity or just
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  Speaker 1: you know, a slightly mad mind. I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: they got there, but this is where they.
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  Speaker 3: Are and this was in a funeral home that you
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  Speaker 3: saw the video, what we would.
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  Speaker 1: Call a funeral home today. There seems to be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these around, you know, dealing with the dead.
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  Speaker 3: Do they call them all eterne cares?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's one chain. I think there might be
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  Speaker 1: some others, but I think they might all be connected
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  Speaker 1: to the corporation. Interesting note, though, you know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the products mentioned that they made from this, things
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  Speaker 1: that we've discussed on previous Fuzz episodes. Advanced pants, you know,
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  Speaker 1: different kinds of pants, laundrones, headphones, spears, writing, utensils, bicycles.
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  Speaker 1: So these are all things we've kind of looked at
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  Speaker 1: going into the time machine at different future points made
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  Speaker 1: from this, you know, product by the corporation.
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  Speaker 3: The corporation kind of ties up all the loose ends.
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  Speaker 1: Almost seems like it does, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Huh. One might say we've come full circle on the Fuzz.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, endings they come for us, all, don't they
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  Speaker 1: They do?
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  Speaker 3: And you go right back to the beginning again. The
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  Speaker 3: one thing I will pull away from the futures of
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  Speaker 3: this episode is that we started the Fuzz with this
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  Speaker 3: idea of the future Buzz and the world of tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: and how you know, we have a very marketing focus
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  Speaker 3: to our podcasts and how that plays a big central
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  Speaker 3: part to everything that we do. But you know, you
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  Speaker 3: see these brands in this episode, and they've been trickled throughout.
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  Speaker 3: I think all of the episodes we've done, right, and
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  Speaker 3: all the futures we've seen, we've seen brands here and
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  Speaker 3: there and products and things like that, But this one
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more so maybe than recent ones anyway,
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  Speaker 3: and I really like to see that and again kind
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  Speaker 3: of seeing yours come full circle. Who knows that future
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  Speaker 3: that you just saw might have been the precursor to
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  Speaker 3: the first episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we both had companies, corporations, brands kind of owning
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  Speaker 1: death in the future, which is an interesting vision. No
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  Speaker 1: matter where we go in the future, is that going
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 3: The way brands capitalizing on the end the demise and
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  Speaker 3: yet somewhat of a beginning for some of the people.
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  Speaker 1: Way, I mean, that's the thing, there's always a possibility
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  Speaker 1: for a new beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we hope you enjoyed this episode of The Fuzz.
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  Speaker 3: Tune in next time for more of tomorrow's Buzz Today
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  Speaker 3: to to day