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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So we were just talking about this a little bit
ago and Alex Stone ABC News is joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Now, ding Dong? What's something like that? I'm just saying, Hi,
did you say ding Dong? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Oh, I thought that's what you're calling me. I was like, uh.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I, and then I go, man, he's attacking me because
I double booked yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You've got a radio colleague and I heart here in
la Tim Conway Junior, the son of Tim Conway comedian, Yes, yeah, yes,
And we talked to him all the time and his
hello to everybody is ding Dong.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
So I don't know, I just came out. Oh, I
didn't even he's one of us, Man, ding Dong at you?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I had no idea I had.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Man, Tim Conway is one of my favorite all time. Like,
the guy could just look at the camera and I
just start dying laughing.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
He got his son is hilarious as well, is he?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
One of you?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He's one of you. Ihearders.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's so cool to hear that the DNA was pasted
the past along, right, I mean, because that could go
so many different ways. That's well, I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Star is he in l A. Is he on the
air in l A.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's on KFI, your your sister station here in LA.
I'm gonna talk to him in like two hours. I'll
tell him you said hello. Please do tell him, you.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Said, Ding Dong.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Tell him, I said hello to MISSISSI awaygns.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Tell him, I said, Dong Ding, that's what you should
say to him.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Go hey, one of your ihearts play com padres in
in Columbus, said Dong Ding.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Dong ding dog or so backwards. That's why I'm working.
It's great man. How old is he? He's got to
be in fifties.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Probably sixteen, I would say probably sixties.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I think you'd like him.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay, I think I would too. Now I got to
look him up and and research him. I didn't even
know to take.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Supporter of police and the military. They love him. He
sees everything for them.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh yeah, So, dare I say? Is he conservative?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean he doesn't really do a political bent show.
I would assume so. I think so, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I don't really know.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, which is more kind of has fun?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
He's yeah, I mean he's on KFI.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's also in he's conservative, he's in enemy territory there. Yeah,
absolutely all right. So I was asking Chuck and then
even Zach. We were on the air earlier talking about
when we started the hour, I said, would you want
to go to space? If money was no object? You
could be weightless? And I said, like those and this
(02:27):
is my words, not yours, but I was like those
bimbos who just went recently, who everybody's making fun of.
Would you do that if it was no it was
you know, no money was no object? No, I said,
I probably would. Zach said yes. And Zach is almost
weightless as it is. He's like, he weighs like one
hundred and fifty per Yeah, hardly, he said, He's almost
(02:48):
there now.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Chuck's like, absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I'm with you, Chuck. So you're like, you know, skydiving.
I have no interest at all in doing it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now, that's different. You're not inside anything and you're just falling.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
But if something goes boom, you're you got a big problem.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well that's true too. I guess I'm not afraid to go.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
I mean, if there was a reason to go, but
just to take the chance of going up and making
it back down safely, unless there's some reason, some major benefit. No,
I'm good right here.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, So anyway, that's I was kind of setting up.
I said, you know, later in the hour we're going
to get into there's a seventy year old astern It's
astronaut saying, you know, two hundred days in space made
him feel like a kid again, and chuck, Now, wait
a minute, if that's going to reverse some of the
physical problems that you know, like the knee or not, only.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Will you go you'll spend two hundred days up there? Sure?
Why not?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah, so tell us about this. This is pretty cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So his name is Don Pettitt. He's NASA's oldest active
duty astronaut, seventy years old. Came home after around two
hundred and twenty days in space. It came back to
Earth on April nineteenth aboard a Russian capsule. They got
him back and he took some time to get his
Earth legs again and then kind of get back together.
But he is talking now for the first time about
(04:04):
his time in space, and he says, yes, weightlessness does
make you feel decades younger.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And here's what he's saying.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
It makes me feel like I'm thirty years old again.
And you know, you sleep in your bed, you wake
up in the morning and your shoulder it's like, you know,
on this neck is stiffer and all that kind of
stuff heels up because you're sleepy. You're just floating at
your body, all these little eggs at pads, at everything
to heel up.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
So he actually touched down on his seventieth birthday. And
he now has in total, five hundred and ninety days
in space over four different NASA missions. So he's third
on NASA's all time list of the most time in space.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
And he says he just.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Loves being up there, but it is eventually time to
come home.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He didn't want to come home, but you got to
come home.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
As much as I love exploring space, going into the
front tier and making observations and doing the mission, you
do reach a time where it's time to come home.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And here I am.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, And he said, guys, don't ask if he has
been watching I don't know, White Lotus or you know,
some TV show. He goes, No, I just kind of
stare out the window up there.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I'll worry about catching up with TV programs and things
like that after I come back.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And he says, in addition to research, that he keeps
busy up there by tinkering with things. He spent three
hours fixing a twelve dollars razor, but supplies are limited
up there.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
He says he took six hundred and.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Seventy thousand photos during his time up there, that he
just loves looking out the window and seeing a volcano
or a hurricane or meteor going by. But he was
asked about because people who follow space noticed he did
not look good when he came back and they landed
in Kazakhstan.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That he said that he didn't feel great.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And people were asking him, you know you okay, you
look like you were really sick.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
The motion sickness.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It got to him just like any you know, non
astronaut might get. You think astronauts don't get that. He said,
it really was not good.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
You know, I didn't look too good because I didn't
feel too good. I was right in the middle of
emptying the contents of my stomach, growing up the steps
that causes stand. And that's my new way of explaining
what I was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
But he's seventy.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
He says he's not interested in retiring, that he's going
to keep doing NASA's work. It's unclear if he's going
to go up again, but plenty to do to help
out other astronauts who are about to go on the
ground and doing research and everything. But seventy years old,
just to finish two hundred and twenty days in space
and says he's doing well.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now, very very cool. That is a that's an interesting one.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I have to wonder if he's married, because honestly, it's
seventy years old. I'm thinking she's talking just sit your
bat in your rocking chairs enough and.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Nobody asked him if the just going up and coming
right back down like in Blue Origin, is that really
going to space?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I don't know by definition it is.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I mean technically when I go up in the stop
propulsion and then begin to fall back.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But you know you're not an astronaut, no at that point. No, No, Alex.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, his his view on that. That'd be interested to find.
That would be twenty days in space or eleven seconds?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I don't know, Alex. ABC News, Alex, thanks so much
and we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
To you later.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You got it back and see you man.
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So we were just talking about this a little bit
ago and Alex Stone ABC News is joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Now, ding Dong? What's something like that? I'm just saying, Hi,
did you say ding Dong? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Oh, I thought that's what you're calling me. I was like, uh.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I, and then I go, man, he's attacking me because
I double booked yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You've got a radio colleague and I heart here in
la Tim Conway Junior, the son of Tim Conway comedian, Yes, yeah, yes,
And we talked to him all the time and his
hello to everybody is ding Dong.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
So I don't know, I just came out. Oh, I
didn't even he's one of us, Man, ding Dong at you?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I had no idea I had.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Man, Tim Conway is one of my favorite all time. Like,
the guy could just look at the camera and I
just start dying laughing.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
He got his son is hilarious as well, is he?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
One of you?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He's one of you. Ihearders.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's so cool to hear that the DNA was pasted
the past along, right, I mean, because that could go
so many different ways. That's well, I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Star is he in l A. Is he on the
air in l A.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
He's on KFI, your your sister station here in LA.
I'm gonna talk to him in like two hours. I'll
tell him you said hello. Please do tell him, you.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Said, Ding Dong.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Tell him, I said hello to MISSISSI awaygns.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Tell him, I said, Dong Ding, that's what you should
say to him.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Go hey, one of your ihearts play com padres in
in Columbus, said Dong Ding.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Dong ding dog or so backwards. That's why I'm working.
It's great man. How old is he? He's got to
be in fifties.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Probably sixteen, I would say probably sixties.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I think you'd like him.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay, I think I would too. Now I got to
look him up and and research him. I didn't even
know to take.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Supporter of police and the military. They love him. He
sees everything for them.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh yeah, So, dare I say? Is he conservative?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean he doesn't really do a political bent show.
I would assume so. I think so, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I don't really know.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, which is more kind of has fun?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
He's yeah, I mean he's on KFI.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's also in he's conservative, he's in enemy territory there. Yeah,
absolutely all right. So I was asking Chuck and then
even Zach. We were on the air earlier talking about
when we started the hour, I said, would you want
to go to space? If money was no object? You
could be weightless? And I said, like those and this
(02:27):
is my words, not yours, but I was like those
bimbos who just went recently, who everybody's making fun of.
Would you do that if it was no it was
you know, no money was no object? No, I said,
I probably would. Zach said yes. And Zach is almost
weightless as it is. He's like, he weighs like one
hundred and fifty per Yeah, hardly, he said, He's almost
(02:48):
there now.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Chuck's like, absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I'm with you, Chuck. So you're like, you know, skydiving.
I have no interest at all in doing it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now, that's different. You're not inside anything and you're just falling.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
But if something goes boom, you're you got a big problem.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well that's true too. I guess I'm not afraid to go.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
I mean, if there was a reason to go, but
just to take the chance of going up and making
it back down safely, unless there's some reason, some major benefit. No,
I'm good right here.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, So anyway, that's I was kind of setting up.
I said, you know, later in the hour we're going
to get into there's a seventy year old astern It's
astronaut saying, you know, two hundred days in space made
him feel like a kid again, and chuck, Now, wait
a minute, if that's going to reverse some of the
physical problems that you know, like the knee or not, only.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Will you go you'll spend two hundred days up there? Sure?
Why not?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah, so tell us about this. This is pretty cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So his name is Don Pettitt. He's NASA's oldest active
duty astronaut, seventy years old. Came home after around two
hundred and twenty days in space. It came back to
Earth on April nineteenth aboard a Russian capsule. They got
him back and he took some time to get his
Earth legs again and then kind of get back together.
But he is talking now for the first time about
(04:04):
his time in space, and he says, yes, weightlessness does
make you feel decades younger.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And here's what he's saying.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
It makes me feel like I'm thirty years old again.
And you know, you sleep in your bed, you wake
up in the morning and your shoulder it's like, you know,
on this neck is stiffer and all that kind of
stuff heels up because you're sleepy. You're just floating at
your body, all these little eggs at pads, at everything
to heel up.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
So he actually touched down on his seventieth birthday. And
he now has in total, five hundred and ninety days
in space over four different NASA missions. So he's third
on NASA's all time list of the most time in space.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
And he says he just.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Loves being up there, but it is eventually time to
come home.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He didn't want to come home, but you got to
come home.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
As much as I love exploring space, going into the
front tier and making observations and doing the mission, you
do reach a time where it's time to come home.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And here I am.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, And he said, guys, don't ask if he has
been watching I don't know, White Lotus or you know,
some TV show. He goes, No, I just kind of
stare out the window up there.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I'll worry about catching up with TV programs and things
like that after I come back.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And he says, in addition to research, that he keeps
busy up there by tinkering with things. He spent three
hours fixing a twelve dollars razor, but supplies are limited
up there.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
He says he took six hundred and.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Seventy thousand photos during his time up there, that he
just loves looking out the window and seeing a volcano
or a hurricane or meteor going by. But he was
asked about because people who follow space noticed he did
not look good when he came back and they landed
in Kazakhstan.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That he said that he didn't feel great.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And people were asking him, you know you okay, you
look like you were really sick.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
The motion sickness.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It got to him just like any you know, non
astronaut might get. You think astronauts don't get that. He said,
it really was not good.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
You know, I didn't look too good because I didn't
feel too good. I was right in the middle of
emptying the contents of my stomach, growing up the steps
that causes stand. And that's my new way of explaining
what I was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
But he's seventy.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
He says he's not interested in retiring, that he's going
to keep doing NASA's work. It's unclear if he's going
to go up again, but plenty to do to help
out other astronauts who are about to go on the
ground and doing research and everything. But seventy years old,
just to finish two hundred and twenty days in space
and says he's doing well.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now, very very cool. That is a that's an interesting one.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I have to wonder if he's married, because honestly, it's
seventy years old. I'm thinking she's talking just sit your
bat in your rocking chairs enough and.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Nobody asked him if the just going up and coming
right back down like in Blue Origin, is that really
going to space?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I don't know by definition it is.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I mean technically when I go up in the stop
propulsion and then begin to fall back.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But you know you're not an astronaut, no at that point. No, No, Alex.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, his his view on that. That'd be interested to find.
That would be twenty days in space or eleven seconds?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I don't know, Alex. ABC News, Alex, thanks so much
and we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
To you later.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You got it back and see you man.
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