Morton Downey Jr. Show - Cryonics

from February 1989, here is the complete "Cryonics" episode of the Morton Downey Jr. Show, as it aired, with commercials. with a brief appearance by Eddie Gunz, his very first TV appearance ever.

[@SonnyGTA]

I’ve been hooked on Mort all over again!!!! I miss him!

[@Malc2112]

I was at the taping of this show. I can see myself in the audience. Lol.

[@elgeneralxx]

This show is so ghetto

[@Malc2112]

@@elgeneralxx Yeah it was. I attended three tapings in total. It was always a good time.

[@elgeneralxx]

@@Malc2112 have you ever heard of the 90s tv show Top cops ? It has really creepy vhs tape wow

[@Malc2112]

@@elgeneralxx Yes I do. They made about 90 of those episodes. I don't think they show that anymore but there are similar shows that still are made today.

[@MoviePalaceOfBlood]

I was frozen the day after this episode aired, and unfrozen just yesterday. I just wanna say, hooked on cryonics worked for me!

[@veronicafox399]

Lol

[@TheMercilessEye]

Thanks. I always liked watching Mort. He made no bones about being an ADVOCATE.

[@graphicdesigner5188]

In my opinion I rather see shows like this instead of pathetic Springer and Povich. Even though this was the first talk show to be controversial. That which led to those talk shows in the first place and other future ones. But at least they talk different topics everytime.

[@SonnyGTA]

GraphicDesigner518 well. Not first. Don’t forget about Joe Pyne!!

[@robbyrob8349]

GraphicDesigner518 I would rather watch this than even the Steve Wilkos show lol

[@DerGunzWald]

A great deal has changed since this show aired back in the late 80's, but the one thing that hasn't is that the tech required to achieve this successfully still doesn't exist... A personal note - I really wish folks who post here wouldn't snipe at each other the way some of you have. Its entirely possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

[@matthewakian2]

+DerGunzWald That's the internet my freind; the arena of hate.

[@fairisfair2986]

Agreed

[@Adamevalove]

WOW!!! Here we are 30 years later and we are NOT hearing jack about this! Sounds like its being kept from us now.

[@joey22306]

It's an elitist club and we ain't in it.

[@RyanSellman1]

Probably because it's a scam and nobody believes it anymore

[@imtweetydiva29]

Never saw this episode. Thanks for upload. I miss this show. RIP Morton.

[@iceandsteele]

love the vintage commercials hehe

[@johnhewitt6965]

I saw this episode in 1989 and signed up with Alcor as quick as I could. Classic. Kind of fell apart several years later but hopefully they canget their act back together. RIP Morton Downey friggin next year, tragic irony of life on full view.

[@jessyleppert2]

At the start of the video is the same coat he wore at Wrestlemania V

[@ronfroehlich4697]

Our culture was so much stronger 30 years ago. Modern America would shriek at this. "second hand smoke, Whaaa!" "Diversity of opinion, whaaa!"

[@veronicafox399]

Lol

[@ranwilso]

This show was awesome...I used to laugh my a$$ off watching it.

[@nickmad887]

thanks

[@HMurphy]

we need more of these shows

[@DerGunzWald]

You're welcome. I had the whole thing, and there was no reason I couldn't upload it all, instead of just sound bytes.

[@Boricua3lions1985]

A full episode. FINALLY!

[@elgeneralxx]

Oye que te mambo en la casa

[@caption1138]

TY for sharing this. I am incredibly interested in cryonics, and the show is def. a blast from the past. No matter what you think about the idea, it does make you think.

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

Listen! There are about 7.057 billion people on the planet right now! We don't need any old mummy's coming back to life! Can't people just enjoy their short time on earth and stop this madness!

[@SonnyGTA]

I love that he tells the audience to Zip It but then he smiles....he loves the crowd!

[@johnnason5787]

Even in 2089, cryonics will be just as much bunk as it was when this show aired. 😂

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

27:50 Morton Downey Jr. died from Lung Cancer. The Life Extension Mix they're talking about it in fact a very good vitamin supplement. I started using it in 1989 and still do. I'm now 52 years old. And Cryonics will in fact become a reality .

[@cult_of_odin]

That opening is the most 80s thing I've ever seen and its great.

[@DerGunzWald]

Actually being there was awesome. Phillip (The Little Guy) brought me along, so I got to hang out in The Green Room at WOR in secaucus, met Tom Dunn, who used to do the Ten O'Clock news back then, and got to be on the show itself with my comment at 21:50 (yeh, the guy in the hat.) Good Times, Good Times...

[@stevengallant6363]

21:50

[@SonnyGTA]

Gerald Althus (the guy with the necklace) sounds exactly like Ray Romano!!!!!

[@TheMercilessEye]

By the way, thanks again for the short list. I just got a PM from miche564, about how 'she was supposed to be me, according to some people' and how much she likes my channel and my take on ecology. I got a new subscriber, and I subscribed to her channel, which looks quite a bit more interesting than your own. She seemed quite amused to be identified as one of my 'alts'...lol...thanks again, mate. Good job!

[@DerGunzWald]

In my book, the problem of keeping the brain of a deceased person intact prior to and during the "chilling process" Dr. Ben-Abraham talks about on the show is a major stumbling block in getting this to work. I will definitely go do some homework on this, as a lot has changed since this show aired.

[@elgeneralxx]

44:52 guess this is what the 80s was about lol

[@freddyfurrah3789]

I think it will WORK.

[@paulthomasbranda7591]

Mort, Richard Bey, Jerry Springer and Howard Stern. I used to watch them on WOR TV Channel 9 New York City. I think their studios were in Secacus, New Jersey😊

[@stephenlangsl67]

I know what calms Me down when I'm THIS upset(EXTREMELY upset!!!). Smoking a joint and listening to The Grateful Dead's music. I'm gonna get off the Computer, light up a joint, and listen to a few of My Grateful Dead C.D.'s. And yes, I am being serious. I never joke about smoking a joint and listening to The Grateful Dead's music. By.

[@justwatchinguboob]

Imagine a store with just wall furniture?

[@MrSilence360]

This funny

[@Brand-ju4jm]

they did this to solo they can do it to us

[@DerGunzWald]

Guess there's something in that freeze dried cabbage concentrate! Glad to hear a favorable report on the stuff after so many years!

[@heatherbritton-herrera4714]

Edward, i am so sickened at the way i treated u as a friend. u were always there for me, good and bad. u were always supportive. i am sick to my stomach over all of this and i miss your friendship so much. please accept my deepest appology. i said some horrible things to you, and i hate myself for that. this is the only way i could reach you, but i needed to reach you. please accept my deepest apologies, when u are ready. i hope and wish you well.

[@SonnyGTA]

heather britton-herrera did Edward ever answer?

[@rwlwrestlingleague2975]

Sorry I'm late, and apology accepted. Yeah, this here's my new KZbin

[@ashleydurden7179]

What the hell is he eating in the pre theme part?

[@WintersWar]

Wait a minnit Shorty!

[@BloodyBamPot]

😂😂 the audience signing the Addams family because that guy before the commercials looked like lurch and his funny little friend

[@CoasterMan13Official]

I, for one, support cryogenics. It helps cure people who died of an uncurable disease (for example, AIDS.)

[@WealthyIndustrialist]

Assuming it’s actually possible? Sure.

[@DerGunzWald]

I did have that pleasure. A real gentleman despite his public image.

[@culturageekyartesmarciales1169]

Mmmm nop

[@justwatchinguboob]

That mercury cougar xr7 mmmmm....

[@DerGunzWald]

7:40 Bergen County's M.E. REALLY doesn't like being called a "Coroner"!

[@stevengallant6363]

7:11

[@ruthweeks4796]

That guy lol was the first r/whoosh. Are people dying to get in ? And joke went over his head 😂

[@elgeneralxx]

Im not a coroner im a medical examiner!!!!!!!

[@cashified6248]

All those audience members who attended Morton's shows probably look at these episodes and say to themselves "Damn, we were dumb".

[@LB9997]

CASHified Are you kidding? Just listen to Donald Trump and his supporters! It's Morton Downey Jr. 2015!

[@cashified6248]

Damn! I think you're right.

[@TheMercilessEye]

Is that all you've got? Multiple question marks?

[@darrendill6974]

Here for the commercials

[@crypter27]

I remember that Ed Mcmann commercial as a boy!

[@alienagendalies3810]

Lets see how you like it for a while?????

[@FieldMarshalRommel23]

If it’s ever possible to do this, it’d need 5 to 10 thousand years at least to work and even then it won’t be them that is revived as some horrifying creature because the freezing destroys the brain.

[@Boricua3lions1985]

1:37 "ZIP IIT!"

[@joey22306]

Clearly the cryogenics was something new and very Frankensteinish to the audience as well as to Morton. They just didnt understand the concept and that it was not intended to play God.

[@TamKingstonsWorld]

I remember these commercials!

[@TheMercilessEye]

Actually, you're not even in the ballpark, but you won't believe anything I have to say, anyway. I got one PM from LWQQ, concerning lang (whom LWQQ referred to as a 'muppet'...interesting but completely unfair, I think, to muppets) and that was it. LWQQ assured me, as has someone else, that I can't beat someone as mentally messed-up as lang, but I think I've caused lang distress sufficient to equal what he caused me, so I'm done with him. Nice list - never heard of any of the others, tho...

[@TheMercilessEye]

Hey Steeeeevie... LightWaveQQ says "Hi!"...

[@TamKingstonsWorld]

Is it bad that I still drive an 89 Hyundai?

[@SonnyGTA]

TamKingstonsWorld VERY

[@elgeneralxx]

Your a weirdo weirdo poopy vutt

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

remember han solo frozen you freeze someone FAST they sleep you freez someone slow they die

[@stewartadkins9931]

I probably smoke more than he did

[@MarkHarrison733]

He said he smoked 4-5 packs a day.

[@bvd1022]

Brings back so many memories for me watching WOR growing up. Wishes they could make a deal for Downey's show to be included in the Nosey streaming app which is all talk shows.

[@thestumpavarieteeshow]

I seen nosey on your, their is an exclusive app for it

[@stephenlangsl67]

That's really awful how the Cryonics Guests were treated by the Audience members,well,some of them on that show!! How do I make a video reply to this video?

[@SonnyGTA]

stephen lang you just did.

[@victorvictor8587]

Prolonged Agony for decades is what their selling .

[@SonnyGTA]

Victor Victor *they’re

[@jonsprong1842]

Medical examiner, coroner, tomato, tomahto

[@Boricua3lions1985]

Even better from the NYC area wherethe show came from.

[@SonnyGTA]

Boricua3lions1985 nope. NJ. Secaucus. You don’t know anything. You can’t even figure out how to make a profile pic!

[@arthurwatt4144]

This show was a joke. This guy was rotten..he was a chain smoker who I think died because of it.

[@nickstrapko7549]

Big man beter be carefull Someones body was creamated recently and the head is still frozen ,.oops/.....

[@likelight2flies]

i wanna do some coke

[@pbabuik]

24 a month for gym membership that insane

[@qoaa]

paul babuik I pay $19.99/mo but I live in deep south and it's a "ma and pop" gym, but its really nice, gold gym offered a buyout but they refused

[@yougod7253]

Walt disney was Cremated.

[@rubberneck5858]

Hahahahaha!!

[@randomtology2173]

cryonics died out in like 10 yrs. its funny how everyong thought it was the future

[@wbbils7052]

This and Jerry Springer have reflected the true bottom of television. Looking at this shit reminds me that I made a good decision in shutting off my TV whenever it came on.

[@MrSilence360]

Your a coroner

[@SonnyGTA]

MrSilence360 *you’re

[@babitan1212]

Omg this crap was on television? How embarrassing.

[@MrSilence360]

This show was epic!look at todays shows there ALL SHIT LIKE SOCIETY IS SHIT.

[@SonnyGTA]

babitan1212 whats embarrassing is that you can’t even figure out how to make a profile pic!!

[@SonnyGTA]

MrSilence360 EPIC!!!!!!

[@culturageekyartesmarciales1169]

Youre right

[@culturageekyartesmarciales1169]

@@MrSilence360 all todays shows are garbage because of that, thats why it was called pioneer lf garbage.

[@stainsbflowin]

I only watched the ads

[@SonnyGTA]

Aussie Flying Ace so, you’re saying you’re an idiot? Duly noted.

[@WealthyIndustrialist]

I don’t understand the hostility towards these guys. Why would you want to beat them for offering someone to be frozen? Only thing I guess would be over religion?

[@MarkHarrison733]

His show was garbage.