1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Quest. 2 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells show podcast. I 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 2: was reading an arscula over the weekend about a guy 4 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 2: with a really unusual and interesting job. He's a NASA's 5 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 2: chief sniffer. Nothing will go on a space rocket before 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 2: George has smelt it. His unofficial job title that he 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 2: came up with. He's a nasal not. He literally smells everything. 8 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 2: So that is any kind of unusual or obnoxious odor, 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 2: it won't go in the space rocket because if they 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: get irritated up there, they can't open a window to 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: let that go. It will stay in there. 12 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 3: Truly, any smell created up there will never dissipate. 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, so this morning we're desperate to speak to people. 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 2: If you have an unusual job on nine four one 15 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 2: four three, haven't listened to what he does. 16 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 4: Then I use my sense of smell for thirty eight 17 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 4: years to smell stuff. 18 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: Before it goes into space. 19 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 4: What really makes me important to NASA is that I 20 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 4: actually use my sense of smell to help protect the 21 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 4: astronauts from obnoxious orders in space. 22 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 2: They can't have obnoxious odors in space. 23 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 4: The astronauts are actually allowed to have a small bag 24 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 4: of personal belongings, do you That usually includes things like 25 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 4: a Bible, family photos. 26 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: We have an astronaut that wanted. 27 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 4: To build a ship and a bottle, and so we 28 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 4: were looking for different types of glues. 29 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: Everybody knows how that is. You know, it just reeks 30 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: of older. 31 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 2: What would you take up there? 32 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 3: Your guitar would actually Yeah, have you seen the astronaut 33 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 3: that takes the car up and does David Bowie song 34 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 3: from in space? 35 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 2: I think I'd want a bit more than just a 36 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 2: little lin TEMs they have there. 37 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 4: They try to keep my sense of smell in tune, 38 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,559 Speaker 4: and so I play games with orders where other people 39 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 4: might smell something and just move on. 40 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: My friends and family think I'm a little crazy. 41 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: I love this guy, George the Nace or not. I 42 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: was telling Jack how a couple of months ago I 43 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 2: met a guy once and his job was an underwater welder, 44 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: and he would go down all over the world because 45 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: they're all these pipes laid down like fiber optics inside 46 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: them and stuff like that, and he were good, and 47 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: they'd have to live down there for like a week 48 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: or two. And he was an underwater worlder. I didn't 49 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 2: even know it was a thing, how is it even possible. 50 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 3: I don't understand. 51 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't even don't know how you doing that? 52 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,119 Speaker 2: How do you live? What do you mean you live 53 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: under water? But that was a job mermaid, yes, with 54 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: a tank on her back and that that flipped down 55 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 2: a mass. So do you have an unusual job like 56 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 2: George the nasal nortword innessa. 57 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 5: The Christian O'Connell show podcast. 58 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 2: We didn't get time. We were going to talk about 59 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: MTV Unplugged. Whilst I was going through a deep YouTube 60 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 2: wormhole listening back to some amazing ones I had on there, 61 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 2: I found that this guy, Ricky Martin had an MTV Unplugged. 62 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 2: I was like, is that near the end when they'd 63 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: done all the great ones like Nirvana and pelle Cham 64 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,399 Speaker 2: and Clapton and Sting, And they were like, Ricky Martin. 65 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 3: Harn't you imagine just living to be a loco a 66 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,279 Speaker 3: couple of life on just the because. 67 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 2: Again not just that they had a Rod Stewart one, right, 68 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: And so this was like in the early two thousand, 69 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 2: so twenty years ago. And obviously Rod is still around 70 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 2: and still amazing and still touring. I think I think 71 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 2: he's coming out here at the end of the year 72 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: or next year. But anyway, it was spent in mine 73 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 2: this twenty years ago it was called rodstew unplugged and 74 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 2: sat down, Like even twenty years ago, he's gonna make 75 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 2: it is Rodster, but he's sitting down, So we're actually 76 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 2: gonna called it unplugged and sat down, which. 77 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 3: Is a bit unfair of Rod because they all sit 78 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 3: down during the downright. 79 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: Well, don't give him a tough time about sat down. 80 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 2: Didn't say lazy old Kirk Cobain. All right, So this 81 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 2: morng we want to speak to you if you have 82 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: an interesting or unusual job and you order, because people do. 83 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 2: I'm at once a guy waiting, toking small talk with 84 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 2: the guy picking up a takeaway order, and he was 85 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: an underwater welder. Jack. I've been telling about, like you guys, 86 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 2: this guy that works for NAFA NASA, how some of 87 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: thirty seven years he's their chief sniffer. He literally sniffs everything. 88 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 2: It has got a weird obnox on unusual odor, it 89 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 2: won't go in spaceship. 90 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 4: The astronauts are actually allowed to have a small bag 91 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 4: of personal belongings that usually includes things like a bible 92 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 4: or family photos. 93 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: We have an astronaut that wanted to build. 94 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 4: A ship and a bottle, and so we were looking 95 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 4: for different types of glues. Everybody knows how that is that, 96 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 4: you know, it's just reeks some orders. 97 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 2: You didn't see in that Tom Hanks space movie of 98 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 2: Kevin Baconer with an irritating, you know, tub of glue 99 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 2: and it stinks when you get that out. 100 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 3: And someone sniffing his backpack as he gets on the fly. 101 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 2: Although suddenly there's a guy sniffing family photos and stuff 102 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: about the teenage daughters. George. 103 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 3: Then we started talking about imagine a fart of No, 104 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 3: now I must usually. 105 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my witness. You went, what if you've got 106 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 2: to far? Yeah, because you can't have George up there 107 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 2: going listen. Can you just get a quick pom of 108 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 2: This is the right to go full force or suck 109 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 2: it back up? 110 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 3: Well, I've looked it up. This is an article called 111 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,119 Speaker 3: farting in space. Sounds like a fun idea, but it isn't. 112 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 3: Your gas will become a long term roommate with a 113 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 3: very little airflow in a small compact space shuttle. The 114 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 3: funky smell of lingers much longer than it would on Earth. 115 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 3: So the astronaut explains that if you predict a fart coming, 116 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 3: you have to head to the toilet and fight on 117 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 3: the toilet. But sometimes sometimes they're unpredictable. 118 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: Unpredictable sneaky one or one that you can just you 119 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 2: think is a sneaky but it's not. It transmorphs into 120 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 2: a rumbler. 121 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 3: So when you get an unpredictable one here on Earth, 122 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 3: say I did it in here, for the next fifteen minutes, 123 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 3: it would be annoying, but in space it could be 124 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 3: the next fifteen days. We're still going you really should 125 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 3: have done that. 126 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 2: It must have happened, especially like those people that live 127 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 2: on the space Stace ship, like that will happen. How 128 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 2: long will it linger? 129 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 3: And somebody owning up to it or are they denying 130 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 3: it for weeks on end? 131 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 2: I always think you know who that is? And also 132 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 2: that kind of processed food they're eating up there. You 133 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: know that's sort of that dried stuff, isn't it. You 134 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 2: know it's gonna that must happen. All Right, we've got 135 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 2: Robin the line, who's seen someone doing an unusual job? 136 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 2: Come morning, Rob, Good morning team. How are we Yeah? Yeah, 137 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: we're good, Rob? So, who did you see doing an 138 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 2: unusual job. 139 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 5: I visited my daughter up in Sydney a couple of 140 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 5: weeks back, and we went to the Opera Bar of 141 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 5: the lunch lovely beautiful day, sitting there and join the scenery, 142 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 5: and there was this girl walking up and down with 143 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 5: a Border Collie on a lead, and I thought, strange 144 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 5: up and down, so I spoke to her. She's employed 145 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 5: by the Opera Opera Bar as the Seagull Patrol. 146 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 2: Well things they do in Sydney. Hey, fancy out here 147 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 2: for Christian O'Connell Show podcast