Fred's Fun Fact: The First Human Heart Transplant

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, my friend's fun.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Fact that fun so much.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Guys? Did you know this is kind of crazy if
you think about it, but the first heart transplant ever,
the first successful human heart transplant, took place in nineteen
sixty seven. WHOA wow? Think about that. I mean, I
know it sounds like a long time ago, but relatively speaking,
that was not that long ago. And can you imagine

(00:32):
being the person where the doctor's coming there, Like, look
in nineteen sixty seven, they're like, you're gonna want to
sit down for this. We've been working on this thing. Okay,
this is what we're gonna do. Okay, we're gonna take
a heart out of a dead guy or girl and
we're gonna take your heart out and we're gonna put
that one in and we're just gonna see what happens.

(00:53):
What do you think? Can you imagine? Am I gonna
be awake for this whole thing? Or am I ever
gonna wake up again? Exactly? I'm waiting hold, but can
you imagine? Like now, it's like very commonplace and they've
got it, you know, I think they're very good at it,
and you can live a long time after you have
an organ transplant. But can you imagine like you're sitting
there and they're like, we're gonna try this. Say, it's
not been done before, but like we think we got it,

(01:16):
Like we think we got it. Another thing is the
dead guys like four states away, we're gonna transport his
heart were going on some ice. Yeah, it was nineteen
sixty seven, so it was probably like a like a
Ford Mustang. We're gonna put it in a cooler and
drive it across four states. Yeah, no, it's gonna be great.
It's gonna be great. Now honestly, like this is this
is totally gonna work. It I actually it didn't work

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the first time. Well, the guy got other problems he
had like pneumonia and some other stuff and he died
eighteen days later. But it doesn't matter. They at least
they tried it. They got back to it. He's a hero.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
The next guy, not the first guy, but the second guy. Okay,
so hear me out the first guy he did, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
No, like it didn't work, it didn't work great, but
like that wasn't our fault. The two got the money.
I'm the on I mean to do and that's nothing
not my fault. That's fine. Yeah, I did the right thing.
I'm sorry about him, but like no, we're gonna try
it again. Yeah on you. Yeah, we're gonna take that
heart and put it in you. Now. I know we

(02:15):
still got to heart, so we're all more.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
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