Speaker 1: Did you want to be an astronaut as a child?
Speaker 1: It was the moon landing reel. Yes show, Time to
Speaker 1: do another episode of Toss Show.
Speaker 2: If only there were a way to speed this up.
Speaker 1: Eddie, you play me some of that Benny Hill music
Speaker 1: I love so much?
Speaker 2: Oh God, say what you want, Eddie.
Speaker 1: The comedy of Benny Hill holds up timeless. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy just got it. How's your week, Eddie?
Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: How about you good? Where you went to? A Omaha, Nebraska?
Speaker 3: Omaha, Nebraska?
Speaker 2: Oh, Maha, somewhere in Middle America?
Speaker 3: Right? Counting Crows get ready to go?
Speaker 2: Oh man? The Counting Crows. Oh I love them.
Speaker 1: I love the Counting Crows. Actually I didn't. I actually
Speaker 1: didn't like them. Did you like the Counting Crows?
Speaker 3: Okay, what about the Black Crows?
Speaker 2: Black Crows?
Speaker 1: I pretended like I liked because they were cool, but
Speaker 1: I didn't really like them.
Speaker 2: I didn't really like that music.
Speaker 3: Those are the crows. Cheryl, Cheryl Crow probably the best crow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Cheryl I liked except for when she dated
Speaker 1: that alt right fuckhead you know whom I not.
Speaker 3: I do not but kid Rock? Oh did they they
Speaker 3: forgot about that?
Speaker 1: You forgot about Sheryl Crow and Kid Rocks romance, Mike,
Speaker 1: she's got to hate that. She's got to yeah that,
Speaker 1: she'sed that. She used to let that monster anyway.
Speaker 3: I imagine their conversations.
Speaker 1: Were tons of conspiracy theories. He's he's a big anti
Speaker 1: vax Are all that nonsense?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I'm a big conspiracy nut. I think
Speaker 1: global warming. In my day, we just called it seasons.
Speaker 1: You know how you fight uh, climate change, Eddie, here's
Speaker 1: how you fight it. Okay, everyone in the country, open
Speaker 1: up their doors, turn your ac on full blast. Boom
Speaker 1: guarantee we uh we dropped the temperature a degree or
Speaker 1: two or back on track.
Speaker 2: What other conspiracy theories do you believe.
Speaker 3: In, ed, I don't believe in any of them.
Speaker 1: You don't know, Oh man, your you're brainwashed, your sheep.
Speaker 3: I'm a sheep, part of the sheep. The Aliens built
Speaker 3: the pyramids.
Speaker 1: Nope, No, they didn't do that. That was slaves, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm positive, right whose slaves that built the pyramid?
Speaker 2: They wasn't aliens.
Speaker 3: Nine to eleven was an inside jo Nope, Saudis that's
Speaker 3: what I think. Yeah, that's what you think. I think
Speaker 3: so chemtrails are a secret government weapon.
Speaker 2: Chemtrails.
Speaker 1: Uh uh, now that one I actually know for fact.
Speaker 1: That's just old mufflers, jet mufflers. They're not as good.
Speaker 3: Some people think sports are scripted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and those are people whose teams suck. Sports aren't fixed.
Speaker 1: You're just a Browns fan. I mean, come on, next,
Speaker 1: you're going to tell me that the moon landing wasn't real. Well,
Speaker 1: I have it on good authority from today's guest that
Speaker 1: you're an idiot.
Speaker 2: Enjoy Pasha.
Speaker 1: My guest today is spent more than six months in
Speaker 1: space and has over eleven million NASA Frequent Flyer miles.
Speaker 2: Please welcome, asked, not Steve Swanson.
Speaker 1: Now am I supposed to say thank you for your
Speaker 1: service or salute you or.
Speaker 2: Anything nothing like that?
Speaker 5: Now, no opposite way around for me, because I filled
Speaker 5: the US taxpayer paid for my trips, and so I
Speaker 5: owe people for that.
Speaker 2: Honestly, you get overtime up there.
Speaker 5: I get two dollars extra because we do our perdem
Speaker 5: We fill out a travel form for low Earth orbit
Speaker 5: right and so, but everything's covered except for miscellaneous, which
Speaker 5: is two dollars a day.
Speaker 2: So you get two dollars a day. What do you
Speaker 2: spending all of that in a pay per view? Do
Speaker 2: people say thank you for what they do? They do?
Speaker 5: But I just like I didn't.
Speaker 1: Suffer, So I mean, I don't know, six months in
Speaker 1: space sounds like it. That's pretty taxing.
Speaker 2: It was. It was taxing.
Speaker 5: It's taxing on the body and also psychologically it's taxing.
Speaker 5: At the same time, I had a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: So it's one of those given take kind of things.
Speaker 2: Do you think you could handle prison? Now?
Speaker 5: Not far off r I was stuck with a bunch
Speaker 5: of guys and a small can for yeah, exactly, but
Speaker 5: now we had we had a good time together.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna get into all of it. Steve
Speaker 1: started the first one. Do you believe in ghosts?
Speaker 5: I heard that was a question coming, so I would
Speaker 5: like you to find.
Speaker 2: Ghosts for me. First.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm a scientist, so I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 5: exactly where we're coming on this actual question.
Speaker 2: You know, souls human humans after death?
Speaker 5: Right, Well that's a good question. So as for personally,
Speaker 5: I have not experienced that. However, we had an interested
Speaker 5: at the house, which is a couple of cases where
Speaker 5: it was interesting now put it that way. My daughter,
Speaker 5: who was probably this time meeting around like four was
Speaker 5: the first time, comes down one morning and says, Uncle
Speaker 5: Jeff talked to me last night. He had this whole conversation,
Speaker 5: tells us in great detail about what happened. We get
Speaker 5: the phone call.
Speaker 2: On a couple hours later. He died that.
Speaker 5: Night, right exactly, like whoa, Okay, two years later it
Speaker 5: happens again.
Speaker 2: Old she about four or five ish. Two years later
Speaker 2: you got to get.
Speaker 5: Rid of that kids like thirty five now, no, I'm
Speaker 5: just four.
Speaker 2: You had your chance, right, it happens.
Speaker 5: Again, uh huh with her with her great grandmother say
Speaker 5: the same thing.
Speaker 1: And then the great grandmother was passing and passed away. Also,
Speaker 1: how far after the conversation like that night?
Speaker 2: She?
Speaker 5: I mean that night again.
Speaker 2: Your daughter is a murderer with your mind, yes exactly.
Speaker 2: Let's hope she never has a dream where she's talking
Speaker 2: to you. You're like, oh no, the clock.
Speaker 1: Is ticking exactly all right. So that that's your experience
Speaker 1: with it. So you believe there's there's something out.
Speaker 5: There, something, but I can community you know, I can't
Speaker 5: define what that is or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Did you want to be an astronant as a child. No,
Speaker 1: when was the first time you got that itch?
Speaker 5: When I was just graduating with my master's at twenty five.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you were born in Syracuse, New York and
Speaker 1: became an astronist. That's a pretty great journey, because what
Speaker 1: I know of Syracuse, I lived there six months.
Speaker 2: Six months, and then you moved out to Deny.
Speaker 5: It was I moved around a lot growing up.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 5: So I think I went to twelve different schools I graduated.
Speaker 5: My dad just had different jobs and we moved a lot.
Speaker 5: Fame here and it was good because I got to
Speaker 5: learn how to socialize pretty well as an engineer. It
Speaker 5: wasn't my strength.
Speaker 2: And you never got to say in when you were moving.
Speaker 5: Oh no.
Speaker 1: When you hear these kids nowadays where like their parents
Speaker 1: are like, well, I don't want to pull them from
Speaker 1: his school, so we're just gonna figure a way. It's
Speaker 1: like my parents never give two thoughts to move in
Speaker 1: next week exactly we went.
Speaker 5: I went to it leave Venezuela and France.
Speaker 2: Oh you did a good move.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, then I went to Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Some parts of Pennsylvania are wonderful.
Speaker 5: It was Jerry Eerie Mistaked by the Lake. It was
Speaker 5: the name for Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but there was pros and cons to everything.
Speaker 2: Now, you went to school at FAU. That was my
Speaker 2: master's right. I undergraduate was University of Colorado. What do
Speaker 2: you think of Dione Sanders. That's a really good question.
Speaker 5: I do like what he's done with the football program
Speaker 5: in the sense he can recruit better than probably anybody else.
Speaker 2: That sure was fun the first four games, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: I enjoyed it tremendously, But then reality set in and
Speaker 5: then then Texas A and M, which, by the way,
Speaker 5: that's I mean that city.
Speaker 2: I enjoy it. One of my best shows was ever?
Speaker 2: Was that Texas a good? Yeah? That's a fun little town.
Speaker 2: Did you enjoy that or not? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So my wife and I spent a year up there.
Speaker 5: I got a fellowship at a NASA to go live
Speaker 5: and do all my studies for my PhD there, right,
Speaker 5: And so we did that and it was really great
Speaker 5: actually for us because it was a nice small town
Speaker 5: and it worked out well for us because we had
Speaker 5: small kids at the time and we could get a
Speaker 5: babysitter really cheap, and all the bars were used to
Speaker 5: having college students, so they would have really the early times,
Speaker 5: like from six to nine, they would be fifty.
Speaker 2: Cent drinks or something like that.
Speaker 5: So we'd go out, then get a dinner, get some drinks,
Speaker 5: and go to a movie after that and we come home.
Speaker 5: We spend like thirty bucks on the whole night, and
Speaker 5: that was wonderful for us.
Speaker 2: Did you ever live in Titusville, Florida?
Speaker 5: Never lived there? Visited many times?
Speaker 2: Did you ever eat a Dixie Cross from? Yes? I did? Yes.
Speaker 2: How many rock shrimp did you go with? I like
Speaker 2: to eighteen? I think it was.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I think it's I think you go
Speaker 1: two dozen, four dozen or all you can eat. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you some about rock from it's the shrimp
Speaker 1: that thinks it's a lobster. I'm gonna tell you why
Speaker 1: I got upset with astronauts as a child, because when
Speaker 1: launches would get scrubbed. When you lived in Titusville, I
Speaker 1: was a surfer and we would go out to play alan.
Speaker 2: The beach right and close it right.
Speaker 1: They closed the beach when a shuttle was on the
Speaker 1: launch pad. But then if they scrubbed a launch for
Speaker 1: weather or a million other reasons. It would just stay closed,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they would sit out there for a long time,
Speaker 1: and oh, I would fume at you guys.
Speaker 2: I'm just get in there and go get out it.
Speaker 1: Yes, you were just an engineer at NASA. You you
Speaker 1: didn't plan to be an astronaut or did you plan?
Speaker 5: I started trying when I was twenty five.
Speaker 2: Okay, what does trying mean? I applied, uh huh.
Speaker 5: And then I work on Okay, I look to see
Speaker 5: what other people who become mestion nights have done, and
Speaker 5: then try to work your resume to kind of match
Speaker 5: up that as much you can.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: My sister worked at NASA. She was an engineer. My
Speaker 1: sister was there in the late eighties early nineties. She
Speaker 1: was like the only female, and then she started having
Speaker 1: children and decided to stay at home and homeschool all
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: That's listened. She loves.
Speaker 1: My dad also worked at NASA for a while, but
Speaker 1: human resources nothing cool. By the way, on behalf of
Speaker 1: every father out there that has a job that their
Speaker 1: kid isn't impressed with, I'd like to say fuck you.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, they could probably never like, oh, we
Speaker 1: know your dad's an astroisk.
Speaker 2: Did your kids use that all the time.
Speaker 5: No, because in the school where they went there was
Speaker 5: other kids whose dads were Asonauts or moms were Asonauts.
Speaker 2: So it was like it was.
Speaker 5: The run of the mill thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you applied when you're
Speaker 1: twenty five years old? How long of a process from
Speaker 1: applying twelve years twelve years? Were you immediately accepted though?
Speaker 1: At twenty five?
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, it's didn't you accepted it all right away.
Speaker 5: I got the rejection letter, which is normal, right, okay,
Speaker 5: And I got another job working software. I was at a
Speaker 5: master's computer science, so I started working software. But then
Speaker 5: NASA calls up about it nine months later and said, hey,
Speaker 5: you know, we don't have a national job for you,
Speaker 5: but we have another job for you, and so I
Speaker 5: took that one, which actually been a really good job
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 2: It was software.
Speaker 5: Started off with working on an aircraft called the Shuttle
Speaker 5: Trained aircraft, an airborne simulator of the Shuttle, and it
Speaker 5: was a really cool vehicle. I mean it was a
Speaker 5: gulf Stream G two, so it's like a small business
Speaker 5: jet kind of thing, but we've highly modify to fly
Speaker 5: like the Shuttle and in all computer control kind of aspect.
Speaker 2: Have you been a pilot for your whole now yet
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 5: First to jump into operational world, and I realized I
Speaker 5: really liked the operational world.
Speaker 1: What the hell's going on with Boeing by the way, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You got to thanks for them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been keeping updated a little bit on that
Speaker 5: talking to some people. But it's just it's not good.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a shit show, honestly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Your first mission in the space was what year, two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, the first time you're taking off, were
Speaker 1: you at any point like, oh no, yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a.
Speaker 2: Good, good question. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So every time we got in that vehicle, as you pointed,
Speaker 5: with the aborts, right, so I assumed I was not
Speaker 5: taking off.
Speaker 2: That day, okay, And so you get in and so
Speaker 2: I like, all right.
Speaker 5: And you're going through that like standard stuff, like it
Speaker 5: was a training day, I know, big deal. But then
Speaker 5: at the like with two minutes to go, everything now
Speaker 5: is working fine, and they tell you to close and
Speaker 5: lock your visor and turn on your O two and
Speaker 5: that means like.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, we could be going today, huh.
Speaker 5: You know, And that's when I got nervous, because then
Speaker 5: you really think, you know, did I make the best
Speaker 5: decisions in life?
Speaker 2: Here? Did you ever do a night launch? Yeah? Night launches?
Speaker 2: I as a kid.
Speaker 1: That was when I was like, okay, I'm wildly impressed
Speaker 1: because when a night launch, even if you were thirty
Speaker 1: miles away, I mean, even if you were Cocoa Beach
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, it was daylight. It was daylight
Speaker 1: for you know, the first fifteen seconds of that.
Speaker 2: Launch, you know, we don't get to see that good
Speaker 2: view though, are you just are you looking out? And
Speaker 2: so yeah.
Speaker 5: So I the first time, I was really trying to
Speaker 5: pay attention and really do my job. Second time, I
Speaker 5: didn't there so much. But so there's a window right
Speaker 5: above me, like here, and I've a so I had
Speaker 5: a mirror on my hand so I could watch. And
Speaker 5: you know how that that big you know, vapor cloud
Speaker 5: comes at the beginning before because they're trying to put
Speaker 5: the water suppression on the system so you don't damage
Speaker 5: the launch bad.
Speaker 2: And so I could watch that.
Speaker 5: I was watching that whole thing and watching the then
Speaker 5: I watched engines light and then watch the whole thing
Speaker 5: happen at the beginning, you know, for the first like
Speaker 5: five seconds. And then as we're going up, and then
Speaker 5: I got back and paid attention to I was supposed
Speaker 5: to doing.
Speaker 2: It's melting everything below it isn't it?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean it doesn't. It's done it in a
Speaker 5: way so it doesn't really damage it badly, but there
Speaker 5: is some day there's always some damage to go to repair.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of force.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it is. That's a that's a big boy
Speaker 1: getting going straight up. Well, it's all that training necessary.
Speaker 1: By the way, we train.
Speaker 5: For a lot of malfunctions. Right, if you don't get malfunctions,
Speaker 5: then can you consider that good training or not?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: But I also think that I found it interesting on uh,
Speaker 5: you know, after going through all this training, we spend
Speaker 5: nice where months in that seam latorre going over all
Speaker 5: these different malfunctions and working together as a team to
Speaker 5: try to get better you know, execution on all that stuff.
Speaker 5: But when you get in the real vehicle and it launches,
Speaker 5: you are thrown back in your seat. I mean it's
Speaker 5: a lot of g's on your body, right, and it's
Speaker 5: shaken one of those solodock of boosters. And the idea
Speaker 5: that you could reach up and hit these switches, I
Speaker 5: mean your arms would be going like this right, we're
Speaker 5: just like laughing at ourselves. Like half the things we
Speaker 5: trained to do we wouldn't be able to do because
Speaker 5: of that. And so it's like, I think it was
Speaker 5: one of those things that make you feel good that
Speaker 5: you could possibly survive.
Speaker 1: Did you do that one training thing where they just
Speaker 1: give you mock fifteen or whatever and make you just
Speaker 1: spin you around the thing?
Speaker 2: Was that really a I don't think that now. That
Speaker 2: doesn't exist.
Speaker 5: That doesn't exist. No, the centre fearage is that what
Speaker 5: you're talking about?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I ever remember from movies. It's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: you want to be an astronaut. Here, see if you
Speaker 1: can survive being dizzy?
Speaker 5: Oh, that's spinning things back and forth.
Speaker 2: We don't have that now. What movies get it right?
Speaker 2: Any of them? A Paul thirteen was the best.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, they tried to get it right. They just
Speaker 1: try to get it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Will you boldly go on record as saying that you
Speaker 1: hate Star Treks and Star.
Speaker 5: Wars Star Trek. I am a huge Star Trek fan.
Speaker 2: You love it? Yes, That's part of.
Speaker 5: The reason I think I became a national is because of.
Speaker 2: The worst reason to become as what about the news stuff? Now?
Speaker 5: I like Strange New Worlds quite a bit. Uh huh
Speaker 5: have you seen that one yet? You probably not have
Speaker 5: a Star Trek fans, but you're telling me.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I don't watch any of it. You
Speaker 2: know what?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: The one space movie that I watched that what was
Speaker 1: the one that I'm going to talk about that that
Speaker 1: infuriated me? Where he ends up tiny and he's in
Speaker 1: the book what is it Interstellar?
Speaker 2: Interstellar? Yeah, here's what Interstellar is.
Speaker 1: That's like where they're like, we're gonna make a movie,
Speaker 1: We'll get people interested, and then we're just gonna a
Speaker 1: huge f u to everybody that watched this.
Speaker 2: We're gonna end it like this. Yeah, did you see it?
Speaker 2: I saw it. I watched it once. Well, yeah, who's
Speaker 2: gonna watch that twice? Exactly.
Speaker 5: I don't remember much about it.
Speaker 2: I just remember the at the end.
Speaker 5: It was like in the bookshelf or something like pushing
Speaker 5: books or something like.
Speaker 2: That, his daughter to look at them.
Speaker 1: The dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. Your
Speaker 1: first mission? How long were you in space?
Speaker 4: For?
Speaker 2: Just two weeks?
Speaker 1: Two weeks was your body when you came back we're like,
Speaker 1: oh whoa, this was Yeah.
Speaker 5: So what it was is you come back and you
Speaker 5: feel heavy. You first come back and you're a little wobbly,
Speaker 5: you're just a little bit off balanced.
Speaker 2: What was your fighting weight back then? About it?
Speaker 5: If what it is now one hundred and eighty five
Speaker 5: or something like that, and you came back and you
Speaker 5: weighed the same or life, Yeah, pretty much the same.
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: What about the uh?
Speaker 1: What about the paradox of living in such confined spaces
Speaker 1: in space when it's just infinite space around you?
Speaker 2: Is that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I would say because we don't really
Speaker 5: look out into space. I said, we don't have windows.
Speaker 5: They all look down on Earth, and so you're not
Speaker 5: really unless you're on a space block, you're not looking
Speaker 5: out into space and it's just black anyway.
Speaker 1: You've never seen anything fly by any junk, Well, meteors
Speaker 1: and stuff. You can see fly by once in a while,
Speaker 1: but that's pretty rare.
Speaker 2: Nothing nothing ever comes close.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I'd be exciting to see some whiz by it.
Speaker 5: No, we had to move the station a few times
Speaker 5: just to you know, space debris.
Speaker 2: Does the station have an engine? How fast is that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty slow, actually, because we just move small
Speaker 5: amounts of speed will change our orbit.
Speaker 2: That's all it is.
Speaker 5: So you're not really it doesn't doesn't take off.
Speaker 2: But it hasn't an actual engine. Yeah, we really use that.
Speaker 5: The cargo vehicles will put them on them on the
Speaker 5: back and use that to actually reboost it and change
Speaker 5: our orbits.
Speaker 2: It does have them. A tug boat up there is
Speaker 2: basically it's not much. You know, does all the wyts
Speaker 2: have to come back?
Speaker 5: No? No, So most of our trash burns up. We
Speaker 5: have a cargo vehicle that comes up bring us to supplies,
Speaker 5: but it doesn't it's not made for re entry, so
Speaker 5: we just let it go and it burns up boat
Speaker 5: in re entry, so all our trash burns up and
Speaker 5: becomes just elemental particles.
Speaker 2: You ever been sick in space? No? Does anybody ever
Speaker 2: get sick up there? Hardly at all.
Speaker 5: We go into quarantine prior to going up, and that
Speaker 5: really limits the amount of you know.
Speaker 2: Bugs we with us. What's the temp up there?
Speaker 5: Seventy three degrees every day?
Speaker 2: Why is that so funny to hear? Just the monotonous Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: You don't need to look at your phone with the
Speaker 5: weather's going to be.
Speaker 1: What about sleeping did you get used to it quickly
Speaker 1: or no, It took a little while, a week or.
Speaker 5: Two, because you just got to learn to go to
Speaker 5: sleep standing up sort of like right, yeah, but you're
Speaker 5: in a sleeping bag, but it's attached to the wall,
Speaker 5: ceiling wherever, right, and there's no pillow though, there's no blanket,
Speaker 5: there's nothing, and so you're just kind of floating there
Speaker 5: and you got to figure out like how to get
Speaker 5: yourself in that comfortable kind of go to sleep position.
Speaker 1: What was the first time that you got to walk,
Speaker 1: like actually walk in space?
Speaker 5: First mission?
Speaker 1: The first did you say anything cool before you left?
Speaker 2: You didn't have a.
Speaker 5: Line, didn't have a line I got, I hope I
Speaker 5: don't screw this up. That's pretty much what you're thinking.
Speaker 2: To infinity and beyond none of that.
Speaker 5: But my first base walk that was the most interesting one,
Speaker 5: I think for me because it was it was different.
Speaker 5: I mean, we trained in this big, large pool on
Speaker 5: how we're going to do spacewalk and you do them
Speaker 5: like in a shuttle. We did it seven times at
Speaker 5: least before we don't did the real one in the space.
Speaker 5: And so I go out and I have lights on
Speaker 5: my helmet so I can see like ten feet in
Speaker 5: front of me, and I feel like, oh, this is
Speaker 5: just great. It's like the pool. I'm feeling comfortable. And
Speaker 5: I work my way out to this worksite, which happened
Speaker 5: to be the very end of station at this time,
Speaker 5: the last handrail. I have a spot, and then we
Speaker 5: put down this tether to hold me right in that spot,
Speaker 5: right and I'm working away, and then the sun comes
Speaker 5: out and I get this view of you know, Earth
Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty miles below me, you know.
Speaker 2: The blackness of space, the station over here.
Speaker 5: You know. I like that, and my brain goes, what
Speaker 5: the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 2: I froze.
Speaker 5: I literally just like could not move, you know, and
Speaker 5: I was holding on that handrail. I swear I put
Speaker 5: a debt in that handrail because I was just like like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, you know. And then and I talked
Speaker 5: myself though, like, you know, okay, oh no, you're okay.
Speaker 5: You know, you were just you know a minute ago,
Speaker 5: all was good, you know, and you had to just
Speaker 5: go with this whole talk yourself down kind of routine,
Speaker 5: you know, because I thought like, oh, everything's great, man.
Speaker 5: It hit me like a ton of bricks.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you ever had a talk another astronaut down
Speaker 1: just mentally getting into a space where they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this isn't good?
Speaker 5: And I would say, not like that. I mean, sometimes,
Speaker 5: you know, you help them like through like, hey, this
Speaker 5: is what we're gonna have to do here, and you
Speaker 5: kind of give them more instruction that way, but not
Speaker 5: like you know, like you know, it's all it's going
Speaker 5: to be okay kind of thing like that.
Speaker 1: Because I'm always seeing that movie where they're screaming like
Speaker 1: just look at me, trust me.
Speaker 5: No, we haven't been there, so no. But I didn't
Speaker 5: tell anybody, but you know, of course I was quiet
Speaker 5: this whole time, right, you know they didn't know.
Speaker 2: Nobody knew. Didn't You didn't share this?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: My god, Oh you're not allowed to. No I could.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: I mean I can share it, I mean with you people,
Speaker 5: But I mean during that moment.
Speaker 2: I did not share. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: we got to be.
Speaker 5: Professional, you got to like, you know, no, I'm ready
Speaker 5: for my next task, you know. But it took me
Speaker 5: a little while to actually get going again, what's the
Speaker 5: point of the spacewalk And sort of Shuttle missions.
Speaker 2: It was to build a space station.
Speaker 5: So we'd bring a piece of space station in the
Speaker 5: cargo bay of the shuttle, use robotic arms, get it
Speaker 5: out close to where we're attaching it, and then they
Speaker 5: go out the space walk and do all the attachment
Speaker 5: and stuff to get it built.
Speaker 1: Now, no, no disrespect, but as as nerds, are you
Speaker 1: guys the best builders?
Speaker 2: Well, we tried to train, like I like working on
Speaker 2: my car and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, so I felt like, you know, I was decent
Speaker 5: at it.
Speaker 2: That's mean.
Speaker 5: I talked about that idea between operational and scientific kind
Speaker 5: of thing. You're going to be somewhere in the middle,
Speaker 5: because if you're far over scientific, you can't you know,
Speaker 5: you don't even know maybe how to use a screwdriver
Speaker 5: right right, And so you want to be somewhere in
Speaker 5: between so you can you understand it, but you also
Speaker 5: cann't do all the operations at the same time.
Speaker 1: Because I've worked with some of these guys. Here we're
Speaker 1: doing some simple dry wall on a new studio, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like staring at these guys. Eddie's falling off ladders.
Speaker 1: It's just I'm just like, we're just a circus. Yet
Speaker 1: you get somebody that does dry wall and a float
Speaker 1: to wall and fill.
Speaker 5: Now it's a talent and it's artist.
Speaker 1: It's completely impressive. While on a spacewalk. Can you feel
Speaker 1: the absence of sound?
Speaker 5: Your space shut has a fan going, so you hear
Speaker 5: this fan are going. Except there was one time on mine,
Speaker 5: my h we have an old computer inside this base
Speaker 5: shoot that kind of runs the system right, and mind
Speaker 5: froze and so I had to power off for thirty
Speaker 5: seconds standard power round reset right, So for thirty seconds
Speaker 5: I had complete silence.
Speaker 1: And and and the oxygen during that thirty seconds because
Speaker 1: the regular still works, so I still get oxygen, right,
Speaker 1: you hold your brother seconds.
Speaker 2: But that was kind of cool.
Speaker 5: Because it was really that was really quiet out there.
Speaker 5: I just got to look out, you know, and now
Speaker 5: it was mly. Job was after it turn off, don't move,
Speaker 5: just sit there and watch things for a while. And
Speaker 5: that was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: It was the moon landing real. Yes, how do you
Speaker 1: reason with flat earthers?
Speaker 5: Oh well, I don't think one. You can reason with
Speaker 5: them too, because they're not coming from a.
Speaker 1: Spot of logic. Have you ever met any Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh they talked to you. Yeah, yeah, and what if
Speaker 1: what's their argument?
Speaker 5: Well, it's hard because if nothing is logical, right, they
Speaker 5: just they have these ideas, but you can try to
Speaker 5: explain in physics how that would not work out, but
Speaker 5: they just don't understand the physics to understand that. What
Speaker 5: you're to get the point of, Yeah, it's just very difficult.
Speaker 5: And I do like the think that they will say,
Speaker 5: like they look at other planets and say they're all round, like, yeah,
Speaker 5: Mars is round and Jupiter's round, but not Earth. Oh
Speaker 5: how do you even make that logic?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know they
Speaker 2: had that one. Listen, I want to believe.
Speaker 1: I want to believe there's an edge that seems kind
Speaker 1: of neat, it's beautiful up there.
Speaker 2: I mean, what's that like?
Speaker 1: Knowing that you're just of a handful of humans that
Speaker 1: have ever seen that perspective?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: I think that's a real lucky thing to be get
Speaker 5: that perspective, honestly, And really it was on the longer
Speaker 5: six months one because the short of ones, you're working
Speaker 5: like twelve sixteen hour days, right, and you don't really
Speaker 5: get that much time to really look out and really
Speaker 5: take it all in, I think. But when you're up
Speaker 5: there for six months, we hang out in this area
Speaker 5: called the Cupola, which is a glass bottom boat basically
Speaker 5: looking back at Earth, and you can then hang out
Speaker 5: there and just get to know the planet really well.
Speaker 5: And it's kind of I thought that was really nice,
Speaker 5: you know, and you don't know it by countries because
Speaker 5: there's no lines of course right on that aspect, and
Speaker 5: and but it's like this one big ecosyste and you
Speaker 5: can and when being up there six months, you got
Speaker 5: to see the seasons change and all that kind of
Speaker 5: stuff and watch that all happen and that which to
Speaker 5: me was just a really cool thing to be able
Speaker 5: to like analyze our environment in that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that really separates you from almost all of us.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's seared into your brain. Ye ever, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I wish more people could see it. I think
Speaker 1: we would then cheat our planet a little differently if
Speaker 1: we could do that, especially world leaders.
Speaker 2: Maybe. Ah good luck right, Oh oh boy.
Speaker 1: We're on the divert out there because of that debate.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, we're all in trouble. I've always heard that
Speaker 1: you're doing a space experiments on the space station. But
Speaker 1: what are they actually like, what are these experiments that
Speaker 1: you're doing all day long?
Speaker 5: Quite a few on the human body? Okay, right, we're
Speaker 5: doing so like for us, we were determining, now what
Speaker 5: has happening to our body. We're trying to do that
Speaker 5: figure out, and there are lots of bad things going
Speaker 5: actually going on. It's like aging really quickly. We've got
Speaker 5: cardiovascular disease, got changes in the vision, you got immune
Speaker 5: systems gets doesn't.
Speaker 2: Get as good as goes bad.
Speaker 5: All these different things are happening to your body. A
Speaker 5: muscle loss, bone loss, all these things are going on.
Speaker 5: So we're measuring all these kind of aspects of that
Speaker 5: and then try to find ways to mitigate it too.
Speaker 5: So sometimes you're taking some medicine or something that they're
Speaker 5: doing something to try to mitigate these things. And so
Speaker 5: they're trying to get that kind of data. There's tons
Speaker 5: like pouteen crystal growth, which is trying to look at
Speaker 5: it because you can grow crystals in space better than
Speaker 5: you can on Earth because without gravity they form like
Speaker 5: perfectly in space, right, So we can use that to
Speaker 5: determine I actually had to make better medicines and stuff
Speaker 5: like that well, a lot of plant stuff too. I
Speaker 5: actually grew the first edible food, romaine lettuce, and we
Speaker 5: had a system for that.
Speaker 2: Thank goodness you said romain.
Speaker 1: If you would have said iceberg, I'd have been like
Speaker 1: waste of.
Speaker 2: A time, right.
Speaker 5: The funny thing about that one for me was since
Speaker 5: it was the first time we grew this food, they
Speaker 5: didn't want us to eat it because they didn't want
Speaker 5: to test it before. They've worried about microbes or something
Speaker 5: like that. Right, it may be okay, But we looked
Speaker 5: at them like, hmm, looks fine, fleots find us.
Speaker 2: We tested it. It was fine, you know.
Speaker 5: But it was the joker that was like when playing
Speaker 5: romaine let us tasted really good and it's just compared
Speaker 5: to you what the other food was really like, and
Speaker 5: you hate the food in space.
Speaker 2: The Shattwle flights.
Speaker 5: Weren't so bad. The laun duration when a six months one.
Speaker 1: It was pretty bad food. Here's what I want to say,
Speaker 1: Why does the food have to be bad?
Speaker 5: It doesn't they just hit nassive does it in house?
Speaker 5: And some reason I don't really understand. I feel though
Speaker 5: the people who create the food munst are grown up
Speaker 5: in like Iowa, and ate it a Denny's every day,
Speaker 5: and that's what they have to eat, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't why can't you bring up real food and
Speaker 1: have it wrapped properly.
Speaker 2: It's not like you can't heat things up up there. Well,
Speaker 2: they have to have a shelf lif like three years.
Speaker 2: Why are you why?
Speaker 5: Well, because, like you say, the ones on the launderation,
Speaker 5: they'll send it off on a cargo vehicle and they'll
Speaker 5: have to pack that cargo vehicle months before it launches
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, so and then they have to
Speaker 5: ship it there. So and it's just like this whole process.
Speaker 2: I still feel like you could.
Speaker 5: They could, that they could, I mean just buying like
Speaker 5: the off the shelf kind of like you know, camping
Speaker 5: free stry food is much better than what we had. Now.
Speaker 1: See, I couldn't go to space for my stomach. I
Speaker 1: have a pretty sensitive stomach, little ibs. I just don't
Speaker 1: know how that would work up there.
Speaker 5: I'm not really sure either. But the body is amazing
Speaker 5: at adapting to that environment because you know, technically you
Speaker 5: can like turn upside down and eat food if you
Speaker 5: wanted to here on Earth, right, so even against gravity,
Speaker 5: you can swallow, you can swallow water everything like that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Really, I thought, well, how's water boarding work? I thought
Speaker 1: the fact that you were and you can't breathe? Is
Speaker 1: that the problem breathing during waterboarding?
Speaker 2: What blood? Blood's never rushing? You're never getting headaches.
Speaker 5: Only time I got headaches when I got hungry. And
Speaker 5: that's how I knew I was hungry. So I did
Speaker 5: you didn't? I never got stomach paint kind of hungry things.
Speaker 1: Huh, I would just get headaches. Did you know the
Speaker 1: astronaut that drove nine hundred miles wearing an adult?
Speaker 2: Yes? I did you knew? Lisa? Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh? Sharon Oviser for that about a year she was
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 1: Confront another woman about dating an astronaut that she had
Speaker 1: been involved in regardless, what is the sex light?
Speaker 2: Did she have sex and space? Is that?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, okay? Has anyone had sex and space?
Speaker 5: Not that I know of. I'll put it that way,
Speaker 5: But I also have to qualify that any question, do
Speaker 5: you mean with somebody else?
Speaker 2: There you go?
Speaker 1: Because by yourself is happening six months? Are all bets off?
Speaker 1: When you're up there? Do you get hall passed?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Well, because I've always heard of guys, we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm out of town. There's different rules off
Speaker 1: the planet. I feel like you should be able to
Speaker 1: do whatever that Like, I agree with you r logic there.
Speaker 2: However, what's the most people that were up there at
Speaker 2: one time? Oh?
Speaker 5: Man, like, there's nine right now, but I think there's
Speaker 5: time when you had to shuttle and six it could
Speaker 5: have been up to thirteen people.
Speaker 1: Russians are how did they go six months without? Just
Speaker 1: are they drinking constantly up there?
Speaker 5: Constantly?
Speaker 2: No? Occasionally? So you get the rule is you have to.
Speaker 5: You know, alcohol is not allowed on the space station.
Speaker 2: That's what you always say.
Speaker 5: So then, but now on.
Speaker 2: It's all hypothetical, okay, really and really the.
Speaker 5: Reason you do that is because you're protecting the people
Speaker 5: who actually might.
Speaker 2: Hypothetically help get stuff to station.
Speaker 5: Because they can get in trouble. Okay, So you have
Speaker 5: to always qualify everything like, well, if that would have happened,
Speaker 5: this is how it would have gone down.
Speaker 1: What's your perspective of Russian since you've spent so much
Speaker 1: time as the.
Speaker 5: People they were nice for you know, they were always
Speaker 5: just like normally they have the same kind of goals
Speaker 5: in life. They want to be happy, to have a
Speaker 5: good family, safe, secure, all that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 5: there's really no difference on that people.
Speaker 2: There's no Russian just stuck on the space station currently.
Speaker 5: No, but actually you know there is a Russian still
Speaker 5: flies on the space X and we fly a US
Speaker 5: person on the soil. You still right now we do
Speaker 5: a swap every time, okay, and so they still we
Speaker 5: still are, you know, partners in the space program.
Speaker 1: You were part of a mission that launched from Kassastan,
Speaker 1: which is weird since that the only reason I really
Speaker 1: know the country is because of Borat. I just want
Speaker 1: to know, is it very nice?
Speaker 5: Well, where I was was a little Russian enclave right
Speaker 5: called Baikan or okay, it's where Yuri Gagarin the first
Speaker 5: minute space actually launched from. So it was their first
Speaker 5: space launch facility for Stiviet Union back then. And so
Speaker 5: it was like this little like I would say, like
Speaker 5: five square miles or whatever of just Russia.
Speaker 2: Do they let you bring a weed gummies up there?
Speaker 5: No, we were looking at trying to figure out ways
Speaker 5: to like homemade stuff, but they check everything.
Speaker 1: Out well, because I just think when you're in that
Speaker 1: glass bottom.
Speaker 5: Boat, that would be a wonderful experience.
Speaker 1: It seems like something that they would want to test.
Speaker 1: We always joked like overcolor.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You spend one hundred and ninety five days, twenty hours,
Speaker 1: and forty seven minutes in space. How much of that
Speaker 1: time was dedicated to balling yourself up and letting other
Speaker 1: astronauts space you real fast? A couple hours of that
Speaker 1: we actually had.
Speaker 5: So we had a system that you would be did
Speaker 5: some Bundy cord you could make tight and you would
Speaker 5: then blaw yourself around that. Okay, right, so that would
Speaker 5: be around you're like you gut and your holding inthing
Speaker 5: like that, and then they could spin you and you
Speaker 5: would not then float off that way. So you could
Speaker 5: spin that way and you could really go fast. I
Speaker 5: mean you went really really fast doing that. It was
Speaker 5: a child our children, come on, I love it. We
Speaker 5: came up with so many new games up there.
Speaker 2: What about fights? You ever get in a physical fight
Speaker 2: up there?
Speaker 5: No physical fights that we I brought nerve dart guns
Speaker 5: to solve our disputes.
Speaker 2: Oh yes we would have. We'd have dual direct shot
Speaker 2: into a Russians temple point blank. When you come when
Speaker 2: you came home, after what was the muscles like?
Speaker 5: So that was interesting because we work out two hours
Speaker 5: every day up there to try to maintain some muscles
Speaker 5: and some loane density, right, but it's not perfect, so
Speaker 5: we don't get all the muscles. So you have some
Speaker 5: muscles that are decently strong and other ones are really
Speaker 5: really weak. Like a core was just extremely weak, like
Speaker 5: you couldn't like doing a sit up with almost impossible
Speaker 5: kind of thing, and so that took like six months
Speaker 5: of rehab to kind of get that all back going together.
Speaker 2: What kind of workout are you doing up there? Just
Speaker 2: like maxing out on bench?
Speaker 5: We actually can't do bench.
Speaker 2: We can do squad.
Speaker 5: So we have a system for like lifting weights and
Speaker 5: then we have a treadmill which has a bungee cord
Speaker 5: system to hold you down, and then exercise bike to
Speaker 5: say two cardios and you switch off onto the cardios
Speaker 5: and then you do your lifting every day. That's just
Speaker 5: a minimize your lass.
Speaker 2: Are you happy with what Elon is doing not Elon SpaceX?
Speaker 2: Are you happy with it? Yeah? Yeah? Good, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: like that distinction.
Speaker 1: So I know I always give everybody a gift that's
Speaker 1: on my show, And I didn't know what to give you.
Speaker 1: But then I found this this. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they gave this to me, but when I graduated high
Speaker 1: school from Titusville. From Titusville, I went to Astrona High School,
Speaker 1: they gave me my diploma.
Speaker 2: Laminated.
Speaker 5: This is my actual Oh wow.
Speaker 1: But I guess they thought that when you graduated high
Speaker 1: school back then, that you wouldn't as.
Speaker 5: Far as you're getting right a.
Speaker 1: And that you would need to carry it around and
Speaker 1: show it to people to prove that you graduated high school.
Speaker 2: Also, you are from Florida, right, yeah, well I'm not
Speaker 2: from Florida. I was born in Germany.
Speaker 1: But let's not get into it. I was born in
Speaker 1: Germany and grew up in Florida. It's a bad mix,
Speaker 1: I'm aware. But anyway, so I want you to I
Speaker 1: want you to have my diploma from Astronaut High School.
Speaker 1: People always ask me that like the school, what was
Speaker 1: its affiliation?
Speaker 2: Was it like Space school?
Speaker 1: They always assumed that, right, right, You know, there was
Speaker 1: just already a Titusville High school and we were the
Speaker 1: second high school. But we were always considered the richer
Speaker 1: high school. But now that I look back on it,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if that's true, that's just something
Speaker 1: that was made up. There was no there was no
Speaker 1: rich part of Titans. There no, there wasn't you keep
Speaker 1: my diploma? Get it off my table on the floor.
Speaker 1: It was also it was the astronaut War Eagles, which
Speaker 1: that made no sense.
Speaker 2: There was it does not make any sense.
Speaker 1: Now. So there's a big eagle going through an a
Speaker 1: which is we just stole the logo from Anheuser Busch.
Speaker 2: I never thought about that. Yeah, yeah, right now, explain
Speaker 2: to me what what you brought present? Yeah, yeah, what let.
Speaker 5: Me get let me do this.
Speaker 2: Is it your high school diploma?
Speaker 5: No, no, this is a there was something about like
Speaker 5: something about you and issues with you. No, is this
Speaker 5: actually used you know, I know, but apollo a fecal
Speaker 5: bag here.
Speaker 2: Amazing? Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: And then actually this is the helper so if you
Speaker 5: need to wait wait wait.
Speaker 1: Oh, because you're so constantated well and helping. So we
Speaker 1: thought that was from the penis.
Speaker 5: So we have we called it the safe anxiety.
Speaker 2: Why is this? They're old? They're just old. What's this
Speaker 2: in here?
Speaker 5: Probably could hold I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: So one of those things that says do not eat on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I definitely don't need it.
Speaker 2: Hold on, so you do you peel this off it
Speaker 2: sticks to you afterwards, No, you just close it up.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so just hold it to you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so that would be So the station was a.
Speaker 5: Much more uh, I would joke in here better because
Speaker 5: it was just another plastic tube you would go into.
Speaker 5: We put gloves on because you everything floats and you
Speaker 5: have to then tend everything into the spot where you
Speaker 5: want it to go.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: They spend no time on these things that which I
Speaker 1: could come up with a better system than that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was cheap and easy, that's what it for sure.
Speaker 2: Why not like a light vacuum setting.
Speaker 5: That would be nice, but that was not happening.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, this but this is disturbing.
Speaker 5: Is you know that was Apollo guys. I'm not really
Speaker 5: sure what they were doing, all right, some kiky stuffing.
Speaker 2: Monsters up there. I don't even want to know. I
Speaker 2: don't even want to know what Buzz was doing.
Speaker 5: Really, but this is the the uh, it's the station
Speaker 5: bathroom that actually, this is beautiful. That's not a nice can.
Speaker 1: That's no, that's exactly what you want to see. I mean,
Speaker 1: that looks like a real bathroom and we were just
Speaker 1: stand to pee.
Speaker 5: No you have there's a hose. But there was a
Speaker 5: hose coming out of here. You can just see this
Speaker 5: part of it right now here, right, and it has
Speaker 5: a funnel on the end of it, and you just
Speaker 5: float and you just be use the funnel.
Speaker 2: It's a wet fact really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that makes more sense now now they're now
Speaker 1: they're getting.
Speaker 5: It if we do recycle though all the year and
Speaker 5: and condessate on board and you got wet wipes, Oh god,
Speaker 5: yes you need what watch?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you weren't having to wipe dry. That's nice. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I have to admit the one my uhbly, my biggest
Speaker 5: mistake I made in space happened right there.
Speaker 2: There. What is what your biggest mistake space was?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So so I talk about that wet back right,
Speaker 5: and you basically on the end of the hose, there's
Speaker 5: just a valve you turned on any degrees, turns on.
Speaker 2: The wet back. It does a little pretreat.
Speaker 5: Into the system so that it can help process the
Speaker 5: urine later and stuff like that, and you know, you
Speaker 5: wait a few seconds and then you can use it
Speaker 5: like no big deal. Right, Well, I went into one
Speaker 5: time distracted, and I forgot to turn on and uh,
Speaker 5: I still grab it and I'm still using it. And
Speaker 5: that's and I realized, like, you know, wait a minute,
Speaker 5: I don't hear you. Oh, and now is urine just
Speaker 5: floating around the way?
Speaker 2: Well, I look down.
Speaker 5: This is this is where I got the stupid part
Speaker 5: of it going in there as I looked down, because
Speaker 5: I thought, like a check real quick, right, I look down,
Speaker 5: and sure enough, there's a large sphere of urine, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of between me and this hose right down here.
Speaker 5: And and but what I do is I stupidly, I
Speaker 5: like jolted, I jumped and went like like that, which
Speaker 5: all I did was create little ones floating out. Yes,
Speaker 5: So then I turn on the hose and then I'm
Speaker 5: trying to chase them down.
Speaker 2: That's I'm going.
Speaker 5: But I don't get all of them, and they get
Speaker 5: on the walls, and so I spend the next half
Speaker 5: hour cleaning up the walls of the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as big mistakes go, that's not bad.
Speaker 1: I would I probably would have pained that whole shuttle
Speaker 1: at some point. Do the guys who trained for years
Speaker 1: but never get to go to space still refer to
Speaker 1: themselves as astronauts.
Speaker 5: That's a good question. I don't I don't know what
Speaker 5: they really do. I don't know if they really for
Speaker 5: them do that or not.
Speaker 2: Do they ever feel bad?
Speaker 1: Do they give these people like like a rooty moment
Speaker 1: where they're like, oh, we just this guy's been doing
Speaker 1: this for so long, We've got to give them.
Speaker 5: It depends on the situations. So and one, it's really
Speaker 5: rare for somebody to go into the program and make
Speaker 5: it through.
Speaker 2: Actually the first couple of years.
Speaker 5: You're actually not a full ashnaut yet you're called ashnout candidate,
Speaker 5: and you got to make it through all these tests
Speaker 5: to become an astronaut. And that's still like ninety eight
Speaker 5: were sending people make it through that or something like that,
Speaker 5: right and then after that, so most people after that
Speaker 5: are going to get in there. Some people have screwed
Speaker 5: up though, and not uh flown, but usually they do
Speaker 5: something that causes that aspect.
Speaker 2: Are you always going to be like in the loop
Speaker 2: of what's going on?
Speaker 5: You know, that's a good question, Like you still know
Speaker 5: people who are there working all the stuff like that,
Speaker 5: and you stay in contact with everybody, and so I
Speaker 5: don't know, I always in the loop, you know. I mean,
Speaker 5: you like you're you're still fascinated by I love the mission.
Speaker 5: I love the mission. And that was like the best
Speaker 5: thing I think I was working at NASA was the people,
Speaker 5: because everybody was there not for money for the mission, right,
Speaker 5: and it was just great to just to be with
Speaker 5: a group of people who cared so much about what
Speaker 5: they did. It was a wonderful place to work. I mean,
Speaker 5: everybody was happy to go to work, you know. And
Speaker 5: we also then, you know, it was like a gigs
Speaker 5: you like the party in a way, because everybody would
Speaker 5: you know, after missions, we'd all go out and have
Speaker 5: you know, you know, party, have drinks, all that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff like that. So it was normal situation that
Speaker 5: you got to know these people really really well. You
Speaker 5: want to go back up again? I would go for
Speaker 5: a short duration. I don't know if I want to
Speaker 5: spend six months again.
Speaker 2: What about one of those planes it just drops for
Speaker 2: five seconds?
Speaker 5: That would be fun too, that really you would want
Speaker 5: to do that? Oh, sure, it would be fun.
Speaker 1: Well, I can respect everything that you've done, and I
Speaker 1: think it's amazing, and yet I'm like totally, I'm just
Speaker 1: wired like, Nope, that's not my thing. I'm glad, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad somebody is doing it. It's not I will
Speaker 1: not want to do that.
Speaker 2: You have? What are these balloons that we're supposed to
Speaker 2: do or that I can do?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Silfur hex of fluorine.
Speaker 2: So what it is?
Speaker 5: It's an inert gas.
Speaker 2: However, it is the opposite.
Speaker 5: Of helium, so as you breathe it in, instead of
Speaker 5: making you talk in a high voice, it makes you
Speaker 5: talking a.
Speaker 2: Really low voice. And what's the point is this humor?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: But really it's used for the things.
Speaker 5: It's actually an insulator and you can use it for
Speaker 5: electrical insulation and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: As it has nothing to do with space whatsoever.
Speaker 5: No, not at all. It's used for chemistry experiments.
Speaker 2: Well this is that disappointing to me? Well no, not
Speaker 2: at all. I actually like it better.
Speaker 5: But it's just strictly for Giggles's too funny.
Speaker 2: Bring me one of those balloons. I'm gonna see what
Speaker 2: this does. Okay, So what I'm what am I supposed
Speaker 2: to do with this experiment here?
Speaker 5: So you're going to breathe out all the air out again,
Speaker 5: just like you would normally, like that and then just
Speaker 5: start breathing it in and then I say your quote
Speaker 5: you want to say.
Speaker 2: Let me hear Eddie's voice. He's coming here, citizens of Gotham.
Speaker 2: I'm here to take that man down. This is amazing.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 5: Do I take the whole thing much as you can, Steve.
Speaker 2: I appreciate what you've done for us. Okay, how long
Speaker 2: do when do I need to start hyperventilating. It's gonna
Speaker 2: end here in a second. Okay, there you go. I
Speaker 2: just breathe it out. Yeah, good, deep, deep breath out.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you. That was a little more
Speaker 2: exciting that I thought of it was gonna be.
Speaker 1: Steve, thank you very much for being on the show.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it and I look forward to a going
Speaker 1: to space with you one day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be fun.
Speaker 1: Pasha, Hey, Carl, can you believe it? I got to
Speaker 1: talk to a real astronaut. I want to thank Steve
Speaker 1: for being on the show. He gave me one of
Speaker 1: his mission patches that was technically rejected because he had
Speaker 1: designed it and he'd actually put the Star Trek logo
Speaker 1: incorporated it into his mission patch because he's a huge
Speaker 1: Star Trek fan.
Speaker 2: Micha, Well, why didn't you give it to me on there?
Speaker 1: He's like, well, you were making fun of star Treks,
Speaker 1: so I didn't want to give it to you. Anyway,
Speaker 1: It's nice of him. All right, what else is going on?
Speaker 1: I gotta sneeze. You want to hear it?
Speaker 2: Carl? Nothing?
Speaker 1: We got the Goat? All episodes are available on Prime.
Speaker 1: Got new stand up? Where are we going to? Sandy Inez, Vegas,
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Hawaii? Get your tickets? Tickets tickets here, I'll
Speaker 1: get your tickets. I'll bark day of show, stand in
Speaker 1: a street corner, start barking, Sell some tickets. I can
Speaker 1: usually move twenty thirty tickets. By the way, everyone should
Speaker 1: know that day of show. Every time I perform, if
Speaker 1: a show is sold out the day of twenty amazing
Speaker 1: seats will become available because that's how many tickets they
Speaker 1: hold for me to give away to friends and family.
Speaker 1: And to this day, I have never had a friend
Speaker 1: or family.
Speaker 2: Come to a show.
Speaker 1: So they're always like, hey, do you still need these
Speaker 1: twenty comps? And I'm like, no, sell them. Say it's sad.
Speaker 1: It's like a Ricky Bobby situation. Anyway, boyswearpink dot com.
Speaker 1: Another one of my sons terrific imaginative bedtime stories from
Speaker 1: when he was when he was three years old. Check
Speaker 1: it out on YouTube so you can see Eddie's brilliant
Speaker 1: animation and the subtitles so you don't go crazy trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what he's saying, like my wife does
Speaker 1: every week when I forward her one of these stories.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, Eddie needs you to transcribe this, and
Speaker 1: she's like, God, damn it, what's he saying here? Then
Speaker 1: we ask him and he's like, oh, see you next week.
Speaker 4: One took plenty of time, and the don't don't job,
Speaker 4: don't cry with a loop and death and then went
Speaker 4: on the wool people people watch it on the and
Speaker 4: outkay okay. One I took them at it. One of
Speaker 4: the Mummy one love it that way, the Woo one,
Speaker 4: what the one let one let us see when, and
Speaker 4: one was the bold a red bolt, and then once
Speaker 4: one and the one one was a momaid.
Speaker 2: The story has gone off the rails. The n