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Speaker 1: school shootings, we discovered the truth behind fruit, and inflation
Speaker 1: now has an evil twin. So let's do these people.
Speaker 1: Let's come straight in to today's headlines. Thank you, thank
Speaker 1: your all right, let's go. Let's uh, let's kick things
Speaker 1: off with inflation. Surprise. It's the reason parents are also
Speaker 1: throwing tantrums and grocery stores right now. For the past
Speaker 1: here or so, the price of everything we buy has
Speaker 1: been skyrocketing, right because as companies face higher costs to
Speaker 1: make their products, they have to pass those costs onto
Speaker 1: the consumers. And I know what you're thinking right now,
Speaker 1: you're like Trevor, can't they keep their prices the same
Speaker 1: and make a slightly smaller profit? Come, You're adorable less profit?
Speaker 1: But it turns out some companies are not raising their prices,
Speaker 1: and it's not because the angels, is because they found
Speaker 1: a much sneakier way to make the same profit as before,
Speaker 1: from the rising cost of inflation to the growing trend
Speaker 1: of shrink flation. The next time you're shopping, checked closely.
Speaker 1: This life cereal box recently got taller, but it lost
Speaker 1: two and a half ounces. That's almost a bowl and
Speaker 1: a half of cereal. Experts call it shrink flation. It's
Speaker 1: a very sneaky way to pass on a price increase.
Speaker 1: They know consumers will notice a direct price increase, but
Speaker 1: they won't notice if the product gets a little bit smaller.
Speaker 1: We found some products. You see this charm in here.
Speaker 1: If you look really, really closely, you'll see the size
Speaker 1: of the rolls went from three sheets the three hundred
Speaker 1: sixty six sheets. You wouldn't know it. It's as super
Speaker 1: mega on top. And here's my favorite gatorade. It kind
Speaker 1: of grew a waistline here. It used to be thirty
Speaker 1: two ounces now it's twenty eight ounces, but it is
Speaker 1: the same height. You can see it there. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: right that gatorway but is looking good. You're like, damn,
Speaker 1: what you've been doing, Gatorade? Stop drinking gatorade. But yes,
Speaker 1: from soda to cereal and even toilet paper, companies are
Speaker 1: secretly shrinking the size of their products, but you pay
Speaker 1: the same. And you've probably noticed this. Right back in
Speaker 1: the day, you bought a big bag of chips everyone eight.
Speaker 1: These days you open the bag and there's just one
Speaker 1: chip holding the sides to make it look big. And
Speaker 1: the worst part about shrink place is that if you
Speaker 1: complain about it, you sound crazy, right, if you're like, guys,
Speaker 1: I think these double stuff are oreos are actually one
Speaker 1: point seven time stuff. People are gonna be like, all right, buddy,
Speaker 1: why don't you put on this jacket and getting this
Speaker 1: white van. We got to We're gonna find the rest
Speaker 1: of the oreos. The toilet paper one is probably the worst, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure, like like me many of you, you
Speaker 1: know how many sheets are in the roll. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: do it automatically. When I'm sitting there, I will be
Speaker 1: like and then it's just like ah in fact, you
Speaker 1: know what, they should be a law. If companies are
Speaker 1: gonna shrink their products, they should at least have to
Speaker 1: tell us they're doing it, because right now, right now,
Speaker 1: they're being slicked, acting like drug dealers, cutting their products
Speaker 1: to stretch their supply. Now we're gonna try to catch
Speaker 1: them out. Wait a minute, this yogurt is mostly burp poop.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get killed. Training job, he's trying to
Speaker 1: get killed. But let's move on from America's current problem
Speaker 1: to America's eternal problem gun violence. This week, Texas released
Speaker 1: its report on how the uval the Police Department handled
Speaker 1: the school shooting that happened there, and the report concluded
Speaker 1: that the cops, and I'm quoting here, sucked ass. But
Speaker 1: the report added that even if the police response had
Speaker 1: been flawless, it wouldn't have saved most of the kids
Speaker 1: because someone on with an air fifteen style rifle can
Speaker 1: just do too much damage too fast. So the solution
Speaker 1: to try and stop the next shooting is obvious. And no,
Speaker 1: don't say it's banning the air fifteen. That's racist. The
Speaker 1: Constitution is very clear about who has rights in this country.
Speaker 1: It goes corporations. Guns, children, then guns again that the
Speaker 1: national anthem. Then women, but only women who are holding
Speaker 1: a gun. That's pretty much it. But apparently, apparently, if
Speaker 1: you're open minded, there are lots of ways to stop
Speaker 1: school shootings without getting rid of guns. In fact, check
Speaker 1: out what this one school district in Texas is getting
Speaker 1: up to here in North Texas, the Dallas I s
Speaker 1: D is trying something new to keep students safe. It
Speaker 1: is requiring clear or mesh backpacks for students in sixth
Speaker 1: through twelve grades. Students will be able to carry a
Speaker 1: small pouch inside the bag that isn't clear to hold
Speaker 1: cell phones, money, and hygiene products. Clear backpacks Are they
Speaker 1: effective in keeping weapons out of schools? Experts say crime
Speaker 1: does not necessarily go down because of them, well intended,
Speaker 1: relatively ineffective. You can still hide a weapon inside of
Speaker 1: a clear backpack, inside of a book, cut out in
Speaker 1: a book, inside of clothing. This video shows how easy
Speaker 1: it is to hide weapons, regardless of having a clear
Speaker 1: backpack or not. God damn, how many guns did that
Speaker 1: guy having? These parents? Did you see that? Because like
Speaker 1: it starts it out scary and then at some point
Speaker 1: it was just like a magic trick. It was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's just behind you here and everything, but for real,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? People? I'm constantly amazed at
Speaker 1: how America is willing to get rid of everything except guns.
Speaker 1: Everything will be considered all right, let's get rid of
Speaker 1: normal backpacks. Everything is see through now. Also, you know what,
Speaker 1: no more clothes for these kids. Yeah, yeah, that could
Speaker 1: be hiding the guns anywhere. In fact, now that I
Speaker 1: think about it, just get rid of all the kids
Speaker 1: in school. That way the guns can finally go there
Speaker 1: and pace. I think we solved this. And you know
Speaker 1: who's really gonna be negatively affective by these clear backpacks.
Speaker 1: It's all those jocks who are secretly smarts. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: now they're gonna be exposed. It's gonna be like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, Chad, Like, are you carrying out Shakespeare in
Speaker 1: your backpack? No, dude, dude, it's just to cover my boters. Man,
Speaker 1: I swear, dost thou not believe it me. I'm clearly
Speaker 1: those things are not gonna stop shootings. There's only one
Speaker 1: thing that's gonna stop shootings, and we all know what
Speaker 1: it is. Just cut to the chase and arrest for
Speaker 1: all the weird kids. Yeah, it's not fair and it's
Speaker 1: definitely not legal. It's not a good idea, but it
Speaker 1: is a good idea. All right. Finally, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the United States Secret Service, the people who wore one
Speaker 1: tiny aarphone before AirPods were cool. Recently, the Secret Service
Speaker 1: has been all over the news because the January six
Speaker 1: Committee wants to know what information they have about President
Speaker 1: Trump's actions on the day his fans went tailgating in
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's office. So the Committee told the Secret Service,
Speaker 1: give us all the text messages that you guys were
Speaker 1: sending that day. But the Secret Service said this. The
Speaker 1: Secret Service says it cannot recover the deleted text messages
Speaker 1: from January five and sixth of last year. The Washington
Speaker 1: Post is reporting the agency has no new text to
Speaker 1: provide the Congress, and that any other messages exchanged between
Speaker 1: agents around the time of the attack were purged. The
Speaker 1: Secret Service claimed these messages were read as part of
Speaker 1: the device replacement program, adding any insinuation that the Secret
Speaker 1: Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false.
Speaker 1: Those Secret Service texts are gone, gone, gone, gone, like
Speaker 1: really not ever to be recovered. Wow. This is so
Speaker 1: sad The Secret Service lost all the texts from January
Speaker 1: six because they were doing a device replacement program. What
Speaker 1: a perfect, I mean, terrible thing. Why Why do I
Speaker 1: feel like this is the same kind of device replacement
Speaker 1: program you do when your partner asked you to explain
Speaker 1: where you were the other night. Yeah, I was. I
Speaker 1: was due for upgrade because of what what me and
Speaker 1: Keisha were up to, so I had to Apple called
Speaker 1: me and yeah. And you know what's interesting how they're saying,
Speaker 1: once you delete a text, there's no way to retrieve yeat.
Speaker 1: Once they deleteed texas gone. Because best believe, if any
Speaker 1: of us lost a texta Secret Service would find end it.
Speaker 1: They would find the ship out of it. He'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, I didn't needed it. They'd be like, give
Speaker 1: me that phone. They'd be like, ha, so this is
Speaker 1: what you were doing with kesha ship. And look, I
Speaker 1: know many people are angry saying like, I can't believe
Speaker 1: the Secret Service isn't handing over these texts, But I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe because I'm South African, I just assumed
Speaker 1: this would happen. Yeah, that's the Secret Service, that's their job,
Speaker 1: right to keep secrets. In factuld say give me the text.
Speaker 1: You should fire them, snitch. The real question we should
Speaker 1: be asking is why are they even texting? Imagine this
Speaker 1: the Capital was being overrun by a mob of Facebook
Speaker 1: comments come to life. People are trying to hang the
Speaker 1: vice president and the Secret Services texting guys, what is
Speaker 1: this thing for her? Heaven? Bad? Hell bad? Hey back,
Speaker 1: he said to me, all that ship was happening, and
Speaker 1: someone's using texture just like, hey, guys, just wanted to
Speaker 1: warn you the vice president is in Asia. Uh sorry autocorrect,
Speaker 1: I meant danger. The Vice President is in danger? Send back?
Speaker 1: Never mind. The problem solved itself. And I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people think that this was a huge conspiracy.
Speaker 1: I do. You know? People say that this is proof
Speaker 1: that the Secret Service was in on the Capital plot,
Speaker 1: But it could also be a much simpler answer. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe they just don't want people to see the texts
Speaker 1: that they were sending about their boss. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want that. Can you imagine being at the
Speaker 1: congressional hearing and Liz Cheney's like, so, Agent Johnson, what
Speaker 1: did you mean when you texted President poop emoji is
Speaker 1: baby crying emoji in car? Emoji, but I'd rather go
Speaker 1: to jail man. All right, that's it for the headlines.
Speaker 1: But before we go, let's check it on traffic without
Speaker 1: very own Roy would Jr. Everybody going on your doing?
Speaker 1: What I mean, what's what's happening in the traffic? Well
Speaker 1: you want to know I don't know why about this, Roy,
Speaker 1: I want to know what the traffic is. Okay, you
Speaker 1: want on traffic? Okay, all right, all right, all right?
Speaker 1: That is a car. When there's a group of them,
Speaker 1: it is called a traffic. So that is a group
Speaker 1: of traffics all moving around. I mean, honestly, like like
Speaker 1: what we really need to be talking about. It'side, the
Speaker 1: price of gas went down, and that's why traffic went
Speaker 1: up because everybody outside driving again it's terrible. This is terrible.
Speaker 1: No gas going down? This terrible. No, you can't say terrible.
Speaker 1: You were the one standing here saying you want the
Speaker 1: price of gas to go down. That's what you said.
Speaker 1: What do I said that? You know you said that
Speaker 1: on the show on this show? I said it on
Speaker 1: this show. What's on the show? You said on the
Speaker 1: show that we ain't got no tapes. Look what we
Speaker 1: need to be talking about what we need to be
Speaker 1: talking Abo's this shrink flation, because that's a serious issue
Speaker 1: that shrinkflation. Experience shrink flation all the time being the
Speaker 1: drive through being a drive through and you see that
Speaker 1: big big burger the picture they show your big perfect
Speaker 1: burger and you go around to pick up your burger
Speaker 1: and burger to shrink shrination, it's all types of shrink
Speaker 1: flations and the form that's different for their like, because
Speaker 1: it's not just the products that y'all that she was
Speaker 1: talking about just now, there's a lot of differences. Let
Speaker 1: me let me ask you a serious question. Have you
Speaker 1: noticed that you've been getting less condom but on the
Speaker 1: three pack about a three pain? Have you noticed that
Speaker 1: condom you're saying that? Are you saying? Have I noticed
Speaker 1: that there are fewer condoms in the pack? Don't? Don't?
Speaker 1: It's a people. It don't make me explain it. That's
Speaker 1: like how you know, like when you got like a
Speaker 1: fitted head at first and come down to here and
Speaker 1: then they're just be sitting up there like out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: You don't have as much fitting hat and fit in
Speaker 1: every like where's the resident? Do you even use contraception?
Speaker 1: Do you even understand that's on the road. Let's let's
Speaker 1: can we talk about the traffic, But it is another
Speaker 1: thing about shrink flation. We don't need to just focus
Speaker 1: on what's happening now. We gotta go back to the
Speaker 1: source of shrink flation, the first group of people that
Speaker 1: started shrink flation, and we gotta shut them down. And
Speaker 1: then that's how you stop all the shrink flation. Shrink
Speaker 1: Flation ain't new, that's been going to at first the
Speaker 1: Girl Scouts, the Girl Scouts did it first. Don't you
Speaker 1: trust them, little brats, the Girls Scott. When you used
Speaker 1: to buy Girl Scott cooking, cooking, your Girl Scott cooking
Speaker 1: about your to be this long back. Now every year
Speaker 1: shorter and shorter and shorter. The cookies are thinner and
Speaker 1: thinner and thinner. And that's not right, man, that's not right.
Speaker 1: Then to add insult to injury. And at least at
Speaker 1: least with these corporations, now, oh, you made the box
Speaker 1: of cereals smaller, but at least they leave the regular
Speaker 1: logo and the regularly like picture of the cereal on
Speaker 1: the box. And the girls, you know, these little little
Speaker 1: evil braids. Not only do the Girl Scout shrink flate
Speaker 1: the box, you know that they charge you more money
Speaker 1: for less product. Then they put a picture on the
Speaker 1: box of them having a good time with your money.
Speaker 1: How this is specular? Way you want? You want to
Speaker 1: talking about the traffic? No, no, I feel like we
Speaker 1: ran out of time once again, right, No, we can
Speaker 1: talk about at that time. No, no, no, we're good.
Speaker 1: We gotta we can talk about. This always happens, and
Speaker 1: then we you know, it's fine, that's my bad. It's
Speaker 1: my next next time, next time. I got you on
Speaker 1: traffic for real. I'll believe you when I see it done.
Speaker 1: I feel like you promised me this must traffic and
Speaker 1: then it shrinks down. What do you just say, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for it? With Junior, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: you quick break, but before we go, don't eat that
Speaker 1: apple and tell you why after we come back. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to your day show. If you spent any time
Speaker 1: online at all, you know that there are conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: about everything. The war in Ukraine has scripted, the FBI
Speaker 1: did January six. The Illuminati is real, but Beyonce isn't
Speaker 1: in it. But those are just the obvious ones, which
Speaker 1: is why we have a special segment that reveals the conspiracies.
Speaker 1: You never even knew about conspiracies. They're everywhere or are
Speaker 1: they nowhere? Or is that exactly what they want you
Speaker 1: to think? So that's where my wallet is. Well for
Speaker 1: every day there's a meet. I'm Kevin Matthew Kelp. Follow
Speaker 1: me as I pull back the curtain to find the
Speaker 1: truth behind the curtain. This is project conspiracy. A lot
Speaker 1: of the most well known conspiracies are about what goes
Speaker 1: into our bodies. Fluoride, micro chips, spiders, the Chinese scent
Speaker 1: to crawl into our mouths while we sleep. But there
Speaker 1: might be one government spy where that we've all been overlooking.
Speaker 1: That's right, fruit, let's go look. Every single piece of
Speaker 1: fruit has a stick around it. Apples, pears, whatever these are,
Speaker 1: even the pineapples. Oh god, these fruit. Oh these fruit
Speaker 1: stickers were everywhere. But they weren't the fun kind that
Speaker 1: say things like grape job or I love you very much. Instead,
Speaker 1: they were filled with mysterious numerical codes. Granny Smith, How
Speaker 1: do they know my grandmother's last name? I tried everything
Speaker 1: I could to crack this conspiracy. I listed every number
Speaker 1: I could think of, even seven, but it was no use.
Speaker 1: The codes were unbreakable. If I was ever going to
Speaker 1: blow this conspiracy wide open, I'd have to go undercover.
Speaker 1: I love fruit, just love buying fruit. Just an ordinary
Speaker 1: guy buying lots of fruit. You know, you're probably wondering
Speaker 1: why I'm buying so much fruits because I'm having a
Speaker 1: fruit party later. Unfortunately you can't come. So yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: I did notice that on all the fruit they have
Speaker 1: these stickers. You don't know what that's about, you, I
Speaker 1: guess so they can track the fruit or something. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, she admitted it. Are you talking to Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: thanks to my espionage skills, we've established that the codes
Speaker 1: are used for tracking. But now it's time to find
Speaker 1: out who's doing the track? Does anybody know where? After
Speaker 1: my usual investigative techniques turned up nothing? Does anybody know
Speaker 1: when these little stickers come from? I was able to
Speaker 1: find some answers by hacking the Deep State. Meet the
Speaker 1: i f p S a k A the International Federation
Speaker 1: for Produced Standards a k A a secret global ball
Speaker 1: because I've never heard of it before. And guess what
Speaker 1: They're in cahoots with the f D A a k A.
Speaker 1: The government, the FDA, regulates the adhesives on these stickers,
Speaker 1: and they just so happened to be the same shadow
Speaker 1: organization that recommends you eat three to four servings of
Speaker 1: fruit every day, an amount of fruit so ridiculous that
Speaker 1: anyone who's tried to do it, it's probably consumed two
Speaker 1: to three stickers without even realizing it. Are these stickers
Speaker 1: tracking the fruit or maybe they're tracking you? So? Is
Speaker 1: the government really trying to trick us into eating stickers
Speaker 1: something every teacher from kindergarten through college told me not
Speaker 1: to do. There's only one way to find out. Let's
Speaker 1: see if my stomach can handle the truth shown with
Speaker 1: the apple, it was immediately clear that eating the sticker
Speaker 1: turned me into a walking GPS for the government. Everywhere
Speaker 1: I went, I was being followed by big Brother. The
Speaker 1: police watched my every move. Secret agents pretended to read newspapers. Hey,
Speaker 1: not so sneaky with your special spy Gagine, now are you?
Speaker 1: The evidence couldn't be clear. The d A is tracking
Speaker 1: us through fruit stickers, more like the Food and Deceit administration.
Speaker 1: That's actually pretty good. I should write that down. God
Speaker 1: already come up with the stuff Kevin. Yet, now that
Speaker 1: I've uncovered the truth, I can't be a part of
Speaker 1: this corrupt sticker system anymore. And luckily I don't need
Speaker 1: the f d A and their spy fruit because some
Speaker 1: of the best fruit actually is regulated by mother nature. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm mm hmm. Taste like freedom. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: little funky. Okay, burns below West and peace, Kevin. Alf
Speaker 1: Stay tuned because when we come back, the director of
Speaker 1: the world's biggest telescope will tell me what's found in
Speaker 1: out of space. So don't go away. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the game show My Death to Life. There's a long
Speaker 1: time NASA employee who oversaw the program that launched the
Speaker 1: largest and most powerful satellite into space for the first
Speaker 1: time ever. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we're
Speaker 1: seeing deeper into the universe than ever before. So please
Speaker 1: welcome Gregory Robinson. Mr Robinson's, welcome to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be here, excited to have you here
Speaker 1: because this is one of the biggest stories. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone sold on social media. There's a picture of like
Speaker 1: what it seemed like the universe everything, and then it
Speaker 1: was like here's the old one. Here's the new one,
Speaker 1: and then we all had to act like we knew
Speaker 1: why that was important. But you're actually the person behind
Speaker 1: why it happened and how it how it got together.
Speaker 1: So let's start with this for everybody. Everybody to be
Speaker 1: on the same page. Mostly me, um, why is this
Speaker 1: jump in telescope technology so impressive and why is it
Speaker 1: so importance? So we compared. We compared into Hubble, which
Speaker 1: was state of the art thirty years ago, and Web
Speaker 1: gives us a much bigger mirror at six and a
Speaker 1: half ms versus two point four for Hubble. And the
Speaker 1: infra rear technology. If you think about looking like night vision,
Speaker 1: you can see heat through something, so it gives us
Speaker 1: infrarey capability, so we can look through the dust and
Speaker 1: clouds and gulk of space and look much further back.
Speaker 1: Of course, our science and instruments are a lot more
Speaker 1: complex too, so the clarity is a lot better and
Speaker 1: the depth is a lot better. What I know is
Speaker 1: really con using sometimes we're talking about anything in space,
Speaker 1: is that sometimes they say things in terms of time,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they say things in terms of distance, and
Speaker 1: it gets it. You know, they'll be like, we're seeing
Speaker 1: something from thirteen billion years ago. I'm like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: what what? What? What does that even mean? Well? Sometimes
Speaker 1: I say what as well? So we're looking at at
Speaker 1: light traveling eight six thousand miles per second. I could
Speaker 1: imagine that. So we're looking at light something that happened
Speaker 1: billions of years ago and it's just reaching us now.
Speaker 1: So it's it's the time distance travel of light, and
Speaker 1: that's actually what we're looking at. And so we can
Speaker 1: see what happened a really long time ago somewhere else
Speaker 1: out there. What do we use this information for? Like,
Speaker 1: will it tell us that aliens like left a long
Speaker 1: time now they're already here? Does it does it tell
Speaker 1: us where we're gonna go after we destroy Earth? What
Speaker 1: does it telling us? Well, you know, and astrophysics and astronomy,
Speaker 1: we're always looking to answer questions. We're do we come from?
Speaker 1: How do we fit into this universe? Are we alone?
Speaker 1: Which is another one we're looking for. So it helps
Speaker 1: inform us on how we fit into the universe. And
Speaker 1: as far as light travel, I remember growing up in
Speaker 1: the country and shot the flashlight up in the sky
Speaker 1: and said, I wonder how how long has taken it
Speaker 1: to get to certain points, which is the same kind
Speaker 1: of thing as light travel. That's what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: It's interesting you say that growing up in the country,
Speaker 1: because I've read your story and you have one of
Speaker 1: the most fascinating journeys I've ever come across. Because you
Speaker 1: grew up your parents were sharecroppers in rural Virginia. All right,
Speaker 1: You went to a segregated school, you didn't have the
Speaker 1: education that you wanted to and then here you are,
Speaker 1: the man who was brought in to basically get this
Speaker 1: ten billion dollar telescope up and run. It was failing
Speaker 1: before you stepped in. They called you and they're like,
Speaker 1: we need you to do this, and you did it.
Speaker 1: What does that meaning? Conform? And how did you get
Speaker 1: into this world? So U a couple of things. One
Speaker 1: is um that education and the segregated school was excellent.
Speaker 1: We had some of the best teachers in the world.
Speaker 1: Many of them were far more educated than the teachers
Speaker 1: and other schools because they couldn't get jobs in industry
Speaker 1: like they can today. So we had great teachers who
Speaker 1: really nurtured us and cared about us. Uh. So my
Speaker 1: beginnings were very strong, and so of course I lived
Speaker 1: through the Apollo time. I was a little kid then,
Speaker 1: which excited me, but that still didn't get my interests
Speaker 1: in space. So I was in college and and friends
Speaker 1: of mine actually did internships at at NASA and they
Speaker 1: made it sound sound so interesting. And a few years
Speaker 1: later I started my Korean industry, but a few years
Speaker 1: later actually joined NASA. And uh, four and a half
Speaker 1: years ago there were some issues. Um my boss asked
Speaker 1: me to try to get her over goal one. Now
Speaker 1: I will say a lot of the work was already done,
Speaker 1: already completed, So thanks to the team for that. And
Speaker 1: this team is an incredibly, incredibly smart team of people
Speaker 1: if you could imagine at NASA, so smarts is never
Speaker 1: short and NASA and really not for this team. And
Speaker 1: then this team is not just NASA's our whole industrial base,
Speaker 1: UH plus the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency
Speaker 1: to about our big partners. Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1: I believe that you're retiring suit correct, Yes, I'm retiring soon.
Speaker 1: Life comes at me fast because I mean, you've been
Speaker 1: around for so long, you've been doing such a great job,
Speaker 1: so that's what's gonna miss you. But but because you're retiring,
Speaker 1: I feel like you could you could probably tell me
Speaker 1: a few things you wouldn't be allowed. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: when when you're leaving, like so have you have you
Speaker 1: taken any pictures and then seen something that you like
Speaker 1: they don't tell us about, like you know what I like.
Speaker 1: Let me put it this way. In New York, if
Speaker 1: you have like a super powered telescope and you shine
Speaker 1: at another person's apartment, you might see some things. And
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you've seen some things out there, but
Speaker 1: then you don't tell us all these all the pictures
Speaker 1: you can just wink. If I'm close you can well.
Speaker 1: I think your telescope in New York example, you probably
Speaker 1: see something you've already seen before. I think in our case,
Speaker 1: we have a certainty of things we haven't seen before,
Speaker 1: but a lot clearer and we will we will learn
Speaker 1: things that we can never even imagine. So as we
Speaker 1: answer questions, we also will create new questions for the future.
Speaker 1: What are we using the answers to these questions to do?
Speaker 1: You know, I understand there is some importance to it,
Speaker 1: but how does it help what happens on earth? Or
Speaker 1: what are people hoping? We will learn from these telescopes
Speaker 1: and what they're revealing. Where one, we learn a lot
Speaker 1: about physics. And if you think about it, if you
Speaker 1: go back many, many years, uh and you think of
Speaker 1: the physics textbooks. Um, we have information today that wasn't
Speaker 1: there then. And if you think about just a hundred
Speaker 1: years ago, we thought that was just one galaxy in
Speaker 1: the whole universe ours and Uhlble uh Helble telescope plaimed
Speaker 1: after him, discovered more galaxies. So we know a lot
Speaker 1: more about who we are, where we are, where we
Speaker 1: come from. And so that's on the n astrophysics stamp side.
Speaker 1: But other science missions tell us a lot about their Earth,
Speaker 1: our interaction with the Sun impact. So the Earth has
Speaker 1: a system within our own solar system. I see. So
Speaker 1: now that you have the James Webb Telescope, I mean
Speaker 1: Hubble was until a few months ago, you know, was
Speaker 1: everybody's bay in space, you know. And then I just
Speaker 1: felt a little you know, I felt a little sad
Speaker 1: on Hubble's behalf. Everyone's just like I look at ship
Speaker 1: Hubble's pictures. What happens to Hubble now? So Hubble has
Speaker 1: been operating more than thirty years um, and again it
Speaker 1: was the state of the art it's going to continue operating. Okay,
Speaker 1: there are still things, uh we benefit from Hubble, So
Speaker 1: we're still looking forward to a long time operation. Is
Speaker 1: there something Hubble can do that that the web telescope
Speaker 1: count Uh, not at the level we're talking about, not
Speaker 1: at all. And just three months were two or three
Speaker 1: months ago, m Hubble discovered a star that was nine
Speaker 1: hundred million years after the Big Bang. So wrap that
Speaker 1: around your head. Nine hundred million years um after the
Speaker 1: Big Bang now and and space. That's still a long
Speaker 1: time when you're talking Bigion's. That's looking back quite a bit.
Speaker 1: That is really fascinating. I mean, I mean, I just
Speaker 1: love the idea that you know, you're part of this mission.
Speaker 1: You get this telescope, you know, you have to shoot
Speaker 1: it up into space and then you start taking the pictures.
Speaker 1: Who whose job is it to stitch the pictures together
Speaker 1: and to get to unblur the pictures because when you
Speaker 1: when you take the picture, it's I've heard it basically
Speaker 1: looks like nothing. That's what I've been told. It's just
Speaker 1: it just looks like somebody has shown you a picture
Speaker 1: of night and then somebody sits there and they go like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I see something like who's doing that? And
Speaker 1: how do you do it? And how do you think
Speaker 1: that you're actually solving It's like, so the scientists actually
Speaker 1: they know what they're looking at, um, and so they
Speaker 1: do some what we call processing to make the pictures
Speaker 1: look more presentable to human eye. You can say you can, well,
Speaker 1: I'm one of those humans too. So so the scientist
Speaker 1: process that they use the science instruments and then they
Speaker 1: have some post processing beyond the instruments to make it
Speaker 1: look like what we've seen recently. But they actually know
Speaker 1: what they're looking at. When they receive they get it.
Speaker 1: They just they make it simpler for us. Absolutely. So
Speaker 1: I would love to know where your journey goes from here.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been part of NASA for such a
Speaker 1: long time. You've been part of the biggest you know,
Speaker 1: discovery or invention that humans have ever created. We're too
Speaker 1: from here you retire and then and then what do
Speaker 1: you do? So so certainly web is done from a
Speaker 1: development standpoint, so now it's the scientist job for the
Speaker 1: next twenty plus years. And know they would do well. Um,
Speaker 1: So it's um, it's just that time for me, I'm
Speaker 1: not running from a to annything. It's just time when
Speaker 1: after as often say, don't let the good looks food you.
Speaker 1: I'm still a young man, but but but I'm getting
Speaker 1: up there, so so I still plan to do some
Speaker 1: some other things. Still exploring what I'm gonna do when
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