Ashes On The Moon

Joe brought us a story about how there is a mission to move peoples ashes to the moon... WHY?! This caused a slight gasket blow on the show... 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Saw this headline over the weekend, hung on to it.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
There's lots to unpack here, As they say, Navajo Nation's
objection to landing human remains on the Moon prompts last
minute White House meeting. All right, wait a minute, who's
landing human remains on the moon?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Are they? Like?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Why are we trucking dead Navajos to No? Turns out
we're not. Well yeah, yeah, who is going to? Because
we just heard that we haven't been to the moon
for fifty years. This company yesterday just failed. Right, So
if successful, the commercial mission that was launched, and it
clearly wasn't dubbed Peregrine Mission one, would be the first

(00:41):
time an American Maide spacecraft is landing on the lunar
surface since nineteen seventy two. But Navajo Nation President Bou
Nigren said that allowing the remains to touch down there
would be an affront to many indigenous cultures which revere
the moon. The moon holds a sacred place in Navajo cosmology,
he said in a Thursday statement, The suggestion of transforming

(01:04):
it into a resting place for human remains is deeply
disturbing and unacceptable to our people. In many other tribal nations. Okay,
so first of all, it's not Navajo remains. It's geeks
who paid this private company to put their ashes on
the moon. So let's start there. What do you want
your ashes on the moon for? So you can brag

(01:27):
about it? You're not gonna be bragging about anything.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
You're dead.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
So your relatives can excellent point on the timeline. What
are they going to say, Hey, you remember my uncle Jim.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, big guy.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
He was a good guy. Yeah, sorry to hear he passed. Well,
his ashes are on the moon. Really what that cost?
Blah blah blah? Okay, right, did that really change your life?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
People? Knowing that your uncle Jim's there, or your dad,
or who.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Wants their ashes on the moon, people spread them on
pebble beach or the ocean or well that's because they've
been there and it's special to them and it gladdened.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Those were times that made their life worth living.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Now, if buzz Aldrin wants his ashes scattered on the moon,
that's legit, says I.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
But some guy who just has an extra fifty k in.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
His will or whatever it costs, give it to the
freaking charities or to save puppies or I don't know,
the poor, just at literally anything but sending your ashes
to the moon, which brings us to the Navajos who say, yeah,
we like to worship the moon, so you can't have
dead people's ashes up there.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
You'll get over it. It's a giant moon. It's you know,
you're entitled to whatever in touch with Mother Earth and
Mother Moon saying you've got going and I respect it
as much as you respect my thing, and that's fine,
live and let live. But six ounces, but it's probably
like six grams of somebody's ashes on the moon aren't

(03:00):
going to disturb the.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Mother Earth or evil spirits or whatever you get.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Down with with all due respect, don't worry about it.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
It'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
And the super sensitive White House actually had a meeting
about it, read my mind exactly. And so you got
a handful of Avoho guy saying, hey, the moon is sacred,
don't put six grams of ashes up there. And they
might ass oh no, oh, they're a downtrodden group. I
learned in my DEEI classes that intersectionality speaking, they're at
the bottom of the totopole, thereby at the top of

(03:32):
the Pope Pole, plus the evil.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
White Man took their lands, so we gotta have a
meeting with them and talk about the six crams of
ashes on the moon to do the right thing. Come on,
we're a superpower.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
If Liechtenstein behaved in this way, I think, hey, you're
really wasting valuable time. Lichtenstinians have important needs that you
ought to be looking to with the border. For instance,
you know holy Cats, Armstrong and Getty