(bright music) - [Will] This week on "Wild Travels", we'll feel right at home in a room full of dummies at the Vent Haven Museum in Kentucky, and then visit the International Ventriloquist Convention to see performances by the masters, find all things feline at the Lucky Cat Museum marvel at the Randyland Phantasmagoria on a hillside in Los Angeles, and then see where the bodies are not buried, but frozen in liquid nitrogen at Alcor Cryogenics in Scottsdale.

Open to the public.

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(light upbeat music) (cannon bursting) (light upbeat music continues) One weekend a year, hundreds of ventriloquists descend on Erlanger, Kentucky, for the Vent Haven Ventriloquist Convention, the place to go to see voices being thrown and lips not moving.

It's no coincidence that the convention is in northern Kentucky, because that's where the Vent Haven Ventriloquism Museum is located.

Hi, what's your name?

- Hi, I'm Annie Roberts.

- Tell us where we are.

- We are at Vent Haven Museum, the world's only museum dedicated to ventriloquism.

- Now, it all started with a guy that lived here collecting dummies, and I use dummies in the best way.

- [Annie] Yes, his name was WS Berger, William Shakespeare Berger.

He was a collector of all things ventriloquial, and- - Is that a real word?

- Yes.

- [Will] He's got quite a complex here.

Did he run outta space in the main building?

- For a while he kept the collection in the house, but when he got a lot of figures and his wife said, "That's enough," he sold his car and moved them all out to his garage.

And then eventually he filled up the garage and built a second building in honor of his wife and filled up that building.

And at the time of his death in 1972, he had collected about 500 figures.

- Wow.

- Welcome to Vent Haven Museum.

- [Will] Does anybody ever get creeped out when they first come in here?

- [Annie] Some people do, yes.

This is Tommy Baloney.

He was the first figure in the collection.

WS Berger purchased him in 1910.

- Then you got the monkey.

- Yes, Jocko the monkey.

If we ask the the ventriloquists, "If you could have one figure in the collection, who would you take?"

- Jocko.

- Many of them are like, "I'll take Jocko."

- It's because you don't have to voice too many words.

You just have to go (mimics monkey chattering), it's easy.

- [Annie] This building is chronological, so these dummies are dating back to the early 20th century.

- [Will] Here's a dummy with a dummy, - [Annie] Jerry G Jerry, and then Jose Garcia was his sidekick.

- [Will] All ethnicities are represented.

- It's an international collection.

We have about 28 countries represented.

Senor Wences, Senor Wences was one of the most famous ventriloquists during the Ed Sullivan period.

He was excellent, but the reason that he was on Ed Sullivan so often, was 'cause he lived down the street from the theater.

So if an act canceled, Sullivan would call him up and say, "Wences put on your tux."

- If a ventriloquist shows up at the museum and says, "Oh, can I just try that one out," do you let them take them off the shelf?

- [Annie] Not at all, not even close.

No these are, they're museum pieces.

- [Will] And you still get donations, don't you?

- [Annie] Yes, 20 or 30 a year.

- [Will] Here's a well-known doll, it's Lester, who paired with Willie Tyler, right?

- [Annie] Yes, yes.

- [Will] How long have you been a ventriloquist?

A long time.

- I've been a ventriloquist, I started when I was 10 years old back in Detroit.

- Day-twah.

- Day-twah, that's French.

- [Will] I guess the fact that I mic Lester means you're the winner.

How real is Lester to you?

- He's like my alter ego.

♪ Do you love me, yeah - [Will] Lester sings but you don't, is that the deal?

- No, we both sing, yeah.

- Can you do this?

No, if I only had- - No, if he only had one friend left, it would be me.

- [Will] I think he's putting words in your mouth.

- Hey, hey you're psychic, he's psychic.

- [Will] I would've loved to seen this act, a guitarist, who also did a ventriloquist act while he played?

- [Annie] Yes Strum, he was used by Jim Barber, who's out of Branson.

- How would he do it?

He'd need a third hand to work the puppet's mouth.

- [Annie] Well he's got, you can see the lever is there on the- - Oh.

Ventriloquism can be learned.

- [Annie] Anybody can do ventriloquism.

- You mean even me?

- Yes, it's very difficult to do well.

(dummy laughing) - Building number two.

- Yes.

- [Will] What's in here?

- [Annie] It's a mishmash of the collection.

- Some of them are just heads.

They lost their bodies.

- [Annie] This is the most valuable part of the figure.

The body is basically just a box that you put clothes on, but this is where the artistry and the mechanics are.

- [Will] How many dolls do you have total?

- [Annie] We have 1,017 figures.

I don't know if you've noticed, but there's not very many female dummies in the collection.

Out of a thousand figures, we have about 68 women dummies.

- You're clearly resentful.

- No just, it's an observation.

- Darci Lynne.

- Yes, Darci Lynne was the third ventriloquist to win "America's Got Talent."

- I won "America's Got Talent" season 12 in 2017.

- [Will] And your claim to fame kind of is singing, right?

You sing a duet with your puppet.

- Yes, so I'm a singing ventriloquist.

- [Will] But I guess you can't sing harmony.

- No.

- That would be impossible.

- That has not yet been done.

Maybe I'll do it, you never know.

- [Will] Building three, and here's a special corner over here.

- [Annie] These figures are what we call the McElroy figures, because they were made by two brothers, George and Glenn McElroy, and what is unique about these figures is they have so many different facial expressions.

- [Will] But their eyes are all the same.

- Yes, you know what their eyeballs are actually made out of?

Ping pong balls.

- [Will] You've got a full collection of presidents, right?

- [Annie] Yes, these were used by ventriloquist Jim Teeter.

The tallest dummy in the collection is Ruben Hick Hickory, he stands seven feet tall.

He was used by Jay Johnson.

- [Will] Jay Johnson, the guy from "Soap."

- [Annie] Yes.

- Your first big break was "Soap", wasn't it?

- Well yeah- - Kind of?

- I thought my first big break was working at Six Flags over Texas, but that, not everyone knew that, so "Soap" was the first national thing- - Thought you'd peaked early?

- Yeah, well.

- Do you see the puppet and say, "Okay, here's the voice for this guy," or do you come up with a voice and say, "Make me a puppet for that voice?"

- Well, if you're gonna do one or the other, it's do the voice and then find the puppet.

Because you get enamored by a beautiful face, then you realize there's no heart and soul.

So you start from the heart and soul.

- [Will] But they tell me that a ventriloquist starts from the stomach.

- The word ventriloquist actually means to speak through your stomach, so- - [Will] That's the first I've heard that.

- Really?

Yeah.

Why would they come up with such a weird word if it weren't true, so.

- That's a good point.

- It says right there, your name is Spalding.

- Oh hi, hi.

Yeah, and your name is Jay.

- Right.

- J Crew.

- No, no Jay Johnson.

(audience laughing) Back in the day, if you were a ventriloquist and admitted that you were doing these spiritual voices, heresy, you could- - Heathen.

- Absolutely.

- The hell you say.

- To be honest, there was a time when a lotta people thought ventriloquism, dying art.

Not anymore, right?

- Well never, it was never that way.

Vaudeville was huge.

Radio made it huge because of Bergen.

Television hits, and you had Jerry Mahoney and Paul Winchell, and Shari Lewis and- - Lambchop.

- Yes, used by Shari Lewis.

Would you like to see Cecil Wigglenose, a McElroy in action?

- [Will] I would, thank you very much.

- [Annie] This is the system of controls.

So you've got the upper lip and the mouth of course, which are typical.

So that's the nose, (dummy sniffing) and the tongue.

(dummy gagging) The shell winker, the ears, cross-eyed, and the fright wig.

(bright whimsical music) - [Will] From the Vent Haven Museum, we hightailed it over to the convention to mix and mingle with a bunch of dummies.

It's raining ventriloquists here at the Holiday Inn.

- Yeah, we're down a little bit, we're only about 425.

We usually go between five and 600.

We try to keep the art alive through live performances and classroom things.

Plus we have about 30 dealers that sell puppets, scripts, all kinds of things related to ventriloquism.

(bright upbeat music) - For the characters I perform with in my show, I always start with the voice first.

I create what I call a character profile, which allows me to learn about the character and write for it easily, and then I create the puppet in my workshop garage.

- Harry - And Dick Dickerson.

- Mm, we're twins.

- Yes.

- [Will] Do you get a little too close to your puppet sometimes, and maybe they take on a real- - Like you're a little too close to me right now, sir.

- I started actually performing for money when I was eight, and I performed at Disneyland when I was 12.

- And peaked at 15.

- Yeah.

It's called Puberty dude, puberty.

- [Will] How did you get started as a ventriloquist?

- I was part of a comedy team, and my partner moved back to Pittsburgh.

- So you needed a partner.

- So I needed a partner.

- How many puppets- - I want a drink of water.

- [Will] How many puppets do you have?

Is this your main guy?

- No, I have lots of them.

- You have lots of them?

- Yeah, I have ones that look like me, and that way in case I can't be there.

- Would you consider this guy your alter ego, maybe?

- What do you think?

- I hope not.

- All puppets have some part of you in there.

- [Will] This is you on a 10-day bender, maybe.

- I like beer.

- Yeah I know, you like beer.

(dummy clearing throat) ♪ Wise men say - It's uncanny.

♪ Only fools rush in - It's too good to be true.

♪ But I can't help - And his hair is perfect.

♪ Falling in love with you - When I first started out teaching myself, all I had was a sock.

That's all I could afford as a, you know- - Start simple.

- And that's where I started.

I didn't see ventriloquists who looked like me until Willie Tyler, and when I saw Willie and Lester doing that, I said, "I can do that too."

- [Will] The last night of the convention featured performances by some of the best ventriloquists around, starting with Taylor Mason, and a pig named Ramone.

- We're in Kentucky.

- I'm gonna die.

- No, no, you're not, you're not.

(audience laughing) They're very nice.

- They're hungry.

- No, it's okay, they've already eaten.

- Is this a convention?

- Yep.

- They're hungry.

- Okay.

There's a lot more to Kentucky than just food.

- I don't like football.

- Kentucky Fried Chicken only.

- You are a great ventriloquist.

- Thank you.

(audience laughing) (Taylor and pigs scatting) ♪ Rock me mama, like a wagon wheel ♪ - No, we're not singing that song.

- I don't like to be at the convention.

- Bob, don't we have a lot of fun?

- We don't, we don't.

I'm so scared that this will be my last trip.

- What do you mean?

- Go to the, go to the, the museum, and I, I end up staying there, and I'm, I'm sitting next to Jocko going, "What the hell happened?

How did we get here?"

When are you gonna work?

- When am I- - Am are you gonna keep repeating the same thing I say?

- No, no, I just don't understand.

When am I gonna do work?

- Yeah.

- I just did.

Yeah, when you do that, that's when they work that.

- What?

- That's it.

- What?

- Did it again.

- What?

- That's it.

That right there.

- You doing it now?

- Not now.

- Good.

- Right there.

- But- - Not now.

- See- - Well, by the time you do it, I'm done.

- Oh- - Right there- - That- - And I'm done.

(audience cheering) Ladies and gentlemen, a person really needs no introduction.

- Not at all.

- Our good friend- - Willie Tyler.

- Here we are.

(audience cheering) - That's a nice shirt.

- Yeah.

- How much did it cost?

- I got 10 for a dollar.

- 10 for a dollar?

- Yeah.

- Why so cheap?

- 'Cause all the shirts have a hole in the back.

(audience applauding) ♪ How you gonna know if the roof leaks ♪ ♪ If it never, ever rains ♪ How you gonna know if you got some smarts ♪ ♪ If you don't use your brain ♪ If you don't use your brain (audience cheering) - [Willie] Thank you.

(traffic whooshing) - [Will] You've seen them in the windows of numerous Japanese and Chinese establishments, but you've probably never been waved at by as many felines as you'll find at Cincinnati's Lucky Cat Museum.

(bright upbeat music) Hey Mischa.

- Hello.

- [Will] How many lucky cats reside here?

- We say safely over 2000, but it's probably more.

- [Will] They come in all shapes and sizes, don't they?

- They do, that's what I- - Pudgy, thin.

- Like about them.

- Skeletal.

- [Mischa] We thought it would be cool to see a skeleton Lucky Cat.

- Doesn't look all that lucky.

A lot of them move, some don't move.

They don't all move.

- When China started producing them, they really latched on to the movement aspect.

- [Will] Did the Lucky Cat phenomenon start in Japan?

- [Annie] It did, the earliest they've been able to officially identify them is 1852.

- And there's a legend behind the Lucky Cat, right?

- There are multiple legends, but the one that we like the best is about a temple called Gotoku-ji.

One day a horrible storm started, and a nobleman was traveling the countryside and decides to take shelter under a tree to wait out the storm.

The temple cat starts beckoning to him.

And in Japan, if you want someone to come to you, instead of this, it's palm down.

So the cat's doing this, he leaves the shelter of the tree to approach the cat.

As soon as he arrived, lightning struck the tree.

- So we've all seen these figures in Chinese and Japanese restaurants and stores, what do they symbolize?

- The right paw up is- - Right paw.

- Yeah, right paw, their right, is calling for money and prosperity.

The left paw being up is calling for customers.

- Now sometimes you see the cats doing both paws.

- Yep, that's just like general good fortune, happiness.

- Why don't they all all do that?

- I want it all.

- I know.

(Lucky Cat meowing) - Here's a lucky cat slot machine.

- [Mischa] He is huge, and he's fiberglass.

- [Will] Lucky Cat?

No, scary cat.

- He's everybody's favorite.

He's called a negora.

- This cat is lucky because he's found some very good drugs.

- (laughing) This one tells your fortune.

(Lucky Cat speaking Japanese) - [Mischa] It's, "A little lucky, maybe something nice."

- Have you ever been to Japan?

- I have not, it's on the list.

I wanna go.

I've spent enough in shipping to have gone multiple times.

- [Will] Here's a three-eyed cat, which is sort of alarming.

- Those are called misfortune cats.

Those are by an artist named Ferg.

I think the idea might be that, you know, if you're going to be beckoning, don't do it with sharp pointy things in your hand.

- (chuckling) What would happen if a real cat walked in here?

I have a cat, Mr. Buxco, I think it would freak him out.

- We had a kitty named Mr. Jeff, and he was very chill.

He loved just walking around and laying on stuff.

- Do you have a favorite?

- One of my favorites is Marl.

- [Will] And why do you like this one so much?

- He's just- - He has no nose.

He's dancing.

- He is dancing.

(bright upbeat music) - Mischa, if somebody wants to pay a visit to the Lucky Cat Museum, where do they go?

- They go to the Essex Studios, located inside Walnut Hills in Cincinnati.

- Luck be with you.

- And also with you.

(ladder clanking) - Welcome to Randyland, the home of the Phantasmagoria, which is an array of a thousand living skies, and a thousand shrunken suns.

What we see here today is only the 18th iteration.

I built 18 different sculptures, vast glass arrays of lenses, in the same 50-foot span over the last 20 years.

It's actually apparitions of the female spirit.

The the most celebrated one is the Virgin of Guadalupe.

She is emblematic of kindness, and perseverance in the face of suffering.

We have a whole different view of the female spirit, a sprinting, strong young athlete.

The structure is made out of a series of 20-feet-long arcs of rebar that are interlocked, so that they form a giant steel spring-loaded praying mantis, and then suspended from them is a whole series of teardrop-shaped bottles that are full of water.

It becomes kind of a psychedelic, fractal, phantasmagoric experience on a daily basis.

- [Will] Coming soon on "Wild Travels", an entire episode at the outrageous Kinetic Sculpture Race, watching human-powered mobile works of art slog through 15 miles of Baltimore's streets and inner harbor, vying for the title of Grand Mediocre Champion.

♪ Ah, oh - Death is final?

Not according to the folks at Alcor Cryogenics, who make a strong argument for freezing yourself for future reference.

(light upbeat music) Hello, Max.

- Hey, welcome to Alcor.

- Good to be here.

Now you're the former CEO- - That's right.

10 years or so.

- And current client.

- Yeah member, we call them members.

- [Will] How long has this place been in business?

- Alcor was founded in 1972, so we're actually in our 50th year right now.

- [Will] Started in California, why did you move?

- Two main reasons.

One is, it's not a great idea to be on a major earthquake fault if you're gonna preserve patients over a long period of time.

- Very bad idea.

- [Max] And there's really no, kind of natural disasters in Arizona.

- Except the heat.

- California is not a great place to be, for any kind of business really.

We've had a lot of trouble with the authorities.

- This is totally legal.

I mean there's no, are there laws that regulate this?

- There's no specific cryonics regulations in this country.

- Now I see some pictures on the wall.

These are people that are members, right?

- Yes, actually our patients.

Once people have been cryopreserved, they become patients.

This one being our very youngest patient ever, not quite three years old, a little girl from Thailand who had brain cancer.

We went to China for this one, a Chinese science fiction writer who we cryopreserved.

- [Will] Who is your oldest client?

- Our oldest patient would be Fred Chamberlain Sr., the father of our co-founder, cryopreserved in 1976.

- So he's how old now?

- About 124 or so.

- It's been controversial over the years.

I mean, I'm sure there are skeptics that say, "Why give people false hope?

You know, you're not gonna come back to life."

What do you say to those people?

- Well I say they don't really know what they're talking about, because really we're just extrapolating technological advance to say at some point, just as today we can bring up embryos that are being cryopreserved, or skin or corneas, one day we'll be able to do that for a whole human being.

- [Will] Now we haven't yet, nobody's been reanimated yet.

- No, no, it would be impossible to do today.

It won't be possible for, you know, decades at least.

- Some people have their whole bodies frozen.

Others are called neuros, correct?

Just the head.

- Yeah, about half our members choose the whole body, half choose just to preserve the brain, which we leave in the skull, 'cause it's just easier and it's a protective box.

- You've chosen neuro.

- Yes.

The important stuff is all up here, that's where I live, so that's the part I'm interested in.

- Kinda weird though, to have an older head put onto a younger body.

- No, no, 'cause the whole thing will be regenerated.

So all the cells in my brain and my skin obviously will be regenerated, so that'll be young, and my body will be grown from my DNA, so it'll be genetically my body, and it'll be just like I'm a young guy again.

- [Will] A little Frankensteinian, would you admit?

- No, because Frankenstein's monster was put together from lots of different incompatible body parts.

This will be all your DNA, so it'll be your body, just in perfect shape.

- You know, speaking of DNA, let's not forget about your main competition, which would probably be cloning, and they've actually cloned some sheep.

- That's not really competition, because cloning doesn't reproduce the person, it just reproduces the body.

But they wouldn't have my memories, or my personality, or my past.

This is a setup to illustrate what we do in the very first stage.

Once they've been declared legally dead, which we have to wait, for given the law right now, we move them from their bed in the hospital or hospice to this ice bath, we cover them with ice, add water.

- I bet you get, occasionally when you walk into a hospital, be like, "Hey wait a minute, what are you doing here?

You can't take that body.

You can't take that head outta here."

- That used to be the way it was.

That actually isn't very common these days.

Mostly they've seen a documentary on this and they say, "Oh, I've heard of you guys.

Can we watch, is there anything we can do to help?"

What we're gonna do is essentially restart circulation and respiration.

And the reason for that is we have to get medications to all the cells in the body to protect them, 'cause once you stop functioning properly, things are gonna start going bad.

'Cause it's like donating organs.

In fact, you're donating all your organs, in a sense.

- [Will] For possible future use.

- [Max] Yeah, if it's a whole body patient.

- [Will] Do you ever have couples wanting to be frozen together?

- Actually, it's increasingly common to get couples, and even whole families signed up.

So my wife and I are both signed up.

We have already a dog who's cryopreserved.

So once the patient's arrived at Alcor, we've brought them down to a little bit above the freezing point.

We're gonna put them on the specially-designed operating table.

We'll have a contract surgeon come in.

We don't have enough cases for full-time surgeons.

And what they'll do basically is, in a whole body case, they can access the major blood vessels of the heart.

We remove as much blood and intracellular fluid as we can, circulating it through our pump and chiller system.

So the chill fluid that replaces the blood, is kinda like a medical grade antifreeze.

- I'd be nervous if somebody told me they were gonna pump me full antifreeze though, you know?

- Well, you won't feel anything.

You're not gonna be conscious at all.

And you'll be glad we did, because you'll be in a lot better shape than if we didn't do that, at least.

- [Will] How many people do you have frozen right now?

- Right now 185 or six, something like that.

- [Will] That's a lot, and how many waiting to be treated?

- Around 1,600 members right now, signed up.

- That's a lotta people, and- - It's not very many at all.

I think it should be millions, frankly.

It's crazy right now that we throw people in the ground or in big ovens to be incinerated, when they could be given a chance at least.

- [Will] 'Cause if you're buried or cremated, game over.

Here you've got a fighting chance.

- Even if it's a 1% chance, and I think it's a lot better than that personally, but you know, it's a lot better than the alternative.

- [Will] Do you get a lot of Christians saying, "You're precluding the afterlife.

I wanna go to heaven.

How can I do that when I'm in a tank?"

- You wouldn't go to someone who's having heart surgery and say, "Oh, you shouldn't have heart surgery, you should just die so you can go to heaven," right?

You wouldn't do that.

You do everything you could to survive.

- Okay I'm convinced, freeze me.

You seem to know a lot about this.

Are you a doctor yourself?

- [Will] I'm not, I'm a PhD, but I'm not an MD doctor.

But I've been involved with this for decades, and have, you know, studied it for a very long time.

- It's reassuring.

Where to now, Max?

- We're gonna go to the patient care bay, where all of our patients are stored.

This is a high-secure area.

We've got banker's glass here, so we can have classes come and take a look, but they can't get inside.

These are called cryogenic dewars.

They're essentially very large, very expensive thermos flasks.

So you can touch the outside, but behind the vacuum layer, it's incredibly cold.

It's minus 320 Fahrenheit.

- Liquid nitrogen.

- Liquid nitrogen actually boils off, weird as it sounds, at minus 320.

At that temperature, t's so cold, that you can literally stay there for a century or more, and you'll be just as fresh as after a day.

- How many bodies can you put in one of these tanks?

- You can get four whole body patients.

We'll actually put the patient in one of these aluminum pods to protect them from any kinda mechanical damage.

You can also get up to five neuro patients in the center column.

- Did I understand correctly that the bodies are actually suspended upside down?

- That's right, that's something- - What is that?

- In the older days, we didn't have the aluminum pods.

So if the liquidation was to boil off, if there was a failure for some reason, then the first thing exposed will be at the top, and you don't want the head to be the first thing exposed.

- Kind of undignified though.

I'd prefer to be standing upright.

- Nobody ever complains, I've asked any complaints, and nobody's ever complained.

- Okay.

- I really think at some point this will be the normal thing to do.

Every hospital will have a cryonics unit, and this will be standard.

- But let's say you're cryogenically frozen, you come back 50, a hundred years from now, it's kind of a cold cruel world.

None of your friends are still alive.

Maybe a different language spoken, different currency.

Climate change may have poisoned the planet.

I'm changing my mind here.

I'm talking myself out of it.

- [Max] It's not for everybody.

I think it does require a little sense of adventure.

If you don't have that spirit of adventure, this is not gonna be a very appealing idea.

- Well, it's a show called "Wild Travels."

I'd better be adventurous.

- Exactly, I think it probably suits your audience very well.

- Max, if somebody wants to find out more about Alcor Life Extension, where do they go?

- They can find us in Scottsdale, Arizona.

- Thank you, sir.

- You're welcome.

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So if you've got an idea for our show, let us know, and thanks for watching.

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