June 17, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller opens the show live from Jerusalem to discuss Netanyahu telling ABC he’s not ruling out taking out Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Amy speaks with author Richard Simon about his latest book ‘Unplug: How to Break Up with Your Phone and Reclaim Your Life.’ Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe updates us on the latest in business and Wall Street NASA Astronaut and Space Force Guardian Col. Nick Hague joins Amy in studio to talk about his 6 month mission at the International Space Station.
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I hope you got a good night's sleep because we're
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Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Otani of course pitched his first game in a couple
of years. Just one inning, wasn't great, but he's back
on the mound and then went right back out and
hit like immediately came off the mound, put on his
batting gear and went to went to home plate. Also,
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Sonny and Gizmo both back in the nest this morning.
Haven't talked about the Eagles for I don't know twenty
four hours, but I turned on the camera because I
still turn it on every day and a lot of times.
The nest is empty now, but they're both back there,
and if you want to get a glimpse of glimpse
of them, friends of Big Bear Valley have the link
on their website. And they don't stick around. They don't
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stick around long. They take off early and leave the
nest for the day. And today we are being visited
by an astronaut, Colonel Nick hag Is on his way
into the KFI studios. We're going to be talking with
him during wake up call. Find out you know what
he's been up to since he returned to Earth after
spending six months floating in waitlessness on the International Space Station.
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Can't wait for that. Lots going on around the world,
So here's what's ahead on wake up call, saying the
curfew has been successful. La Mayor Bass has eased curfew hours.
The curfew last night went into effect at ten pm,
that's two hours later than the previous day. The Civic Center, Chinatown,
Little Tokyo and nearby areas remain under curfew until six
(02:40):
a m. Mayor Baths says the curfew has protected stores, restaurants,
businesses and communities from bad actors. A doctor in Santa
Monica has agreed to plead guilty to supplying ketamine to
friends star Matthew Perry. Prosecutors say doctor Salvador Placentia gave
the drug to the actor and taught his assistant who injected.
Of course, Perry suffered a fatal overdose of the drug
(03:05):
at his home in Pacific Palisades last October, shops have closed.
Cars are lined up to get gas in Iran's capital
city following a warning by President Trump that all Iranians
should leave Tehran. ABC's Jordana Miller joins us in just
a couple of minutes to give us the latest as
things continue to heat up in the Middle East. How
often do you have your phone out? How often do
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you check it? Are you a slave to your phone?
We're going to be talking with Richard Simon. He wrote
a book called Unplugged. He joins us next to tell
us how it might be time to break up with
your smartphone and how that can make your life a
whole lot better. And I can tell you, since I
started reading this book, I notice how much not only
I am in my smartphone, but how much everybody around
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me is too. And at the bottom of the hour,
of course, we're throwing a bit of a welcome home party.
We're going to be joined by our friend, NASA Astronaut
Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who's back on Earth
after more than six months on the Inner National Space Station.
He's coming here. He'll be in studio, live with us,
a couple of little fun things, decorations. It's a party.
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Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A federal appeals
court is set to hold a hearing today on whether
President Trump can continue to control California National Guard troops.
Trump federalized the Guard and sent them to LA to
protect federal buildings and agents doing ice raids. Governor Newsom sued,
challenging the president's authority to do so. Newsom says Trump
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only sent the troops to instill fear in the community.
President Trump says he has the right to federalize the
troops and they were needed to protect law enforcement. LA
Mayor Bass has adjusted the curfew for downtown LA, pushing
it back from eight to ten pm.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
The downtown La Residents Association says the ongoing curfew has
hurt the neighborhood. Group co founder Cassie Horton says, it's
time for the curfew to come to an end.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Our businesses cannot afford this. They're already kind of hanging
on by a shoestring after the fires.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
COVID did the writers.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Strike all of that.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
A survey put out by the group on Sunday showed
that a combined eighty percent of hundreds of members either
want the curfew gone immediately or phased out over the
coming days. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
SpaceX has completed another launch of a Falcon nine rocket
from the coast of Santa Barbara County.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
The launch from Vendenburg Space Force Base happened just after
eight thirty Monday night. The rocket took twenty six Starlink
Internet satellites into low Earth orbit. It was the third
flight for the first stage rocket booster supporting the mission.
Daniel Martindale, KFI News, Let's.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. So, Jordana,
Israel's not letting up continuing to attack Tehran, and of
course the goal is to take out its nuclear capability.
What are the latest developments.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That's right, Israeli air Force, with air superiority, it must
be said, has a flight path now in over western
Ran into to the capital Tehran, where they're carrying out
a series of strikes. Really, the air force has been
active and carrying out bombings since Israel's opening attack back
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on Friday morning or Thursday night in the United States.
One target that the Israeli Army says they succeeded in
hitting was the new Joint chiefs of Staff, the new
head of Iran's army. This was a close confidante of
the Supreme Leader, Ayatola Jomene. He was just put in
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the position maybe three days ago, and overnight they targeted
a place in Tehran where he was with an air
strike and he was killed. There's also a lot of
i would say, growing threats against the Supreme Leader coming
from coming from Israeli leaders, the latest being the Defense
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Minister ystral Katz, who said today that Homiani could turn
out have the same fate as Sodom Hussein. You know,
this is a war that is not explicitly to bring
down the regime. That's what the Israelis have said, but
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you know, on the ground, everything that they're doing seems
to be pushing the regime to the brink, right, assassinating
military leaders, scientists, going after their headquarters, political and military headquarters,
and now yesterday as well hitting one of the national broadcasters,
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the TV that is aligned with the regime. We am
sure many people saw the clip that was circulating online
of an Iranian female anchor in the middle of her
in the middle of her newscast, you know, with an
explosion in the back and star and leaving the cameras right.
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So we're still seeing a lot of activity on this side.
I can tell you. The Iranians overnight launched four different
waves of ballistic missile strikes in total about thirty missiles,
so a lower number than we saw the previous days,
but they spread them out, keeping Israelis up all night
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and in their shelters, especially those living in Tel Aviv
and in central Israel. For me, I'm in Jerusalem. I
was up twice, but most of the country was up
four times.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And when you luckily, when you get to when you
get awakened, you have to go into the shelters. Is
that correct that you hear those sirens and then off
you go into the shelters for how long?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Right, So, Israel thankfully has developed a very sophisticated early
warning system. So because these ballistic missiles are so deadly,
and we've seen that over the last several days, right,
twenty four Israelis have been killed and they've brought down
a part sides of entire apartment buildings. The Israelis now
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give their citizens usually about fifteen minutes of lead time,
sometimes twenty minutes, and they first send out a warning saying,
we have detected a launch of Iranian missiles coming towards us.
We you know, everyone now needs to get close to
their bomb shelter, right, and then you get another warning
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that is a loud beeping sound on your phone in
case you didn't see the other one. The first message
that says you now need to go into the bomb shelter.
And then usually once you're already inside, then you hear
the sirens there, yeah, which is still frightening. Well yeah, anyway, yeah, yeah,
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and you hear the interceptions. I mean a lot of
the you know, there's every time Iran fires on Israel,
you know, there's always a number of missiles that are
shot down over Jerusalem because Jerusalem situated in the center
of the country, a little center east, So anything trying
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to hit the Tel Aviv comes over Jerusalem. When they're
trying to hit military bases a little bit further south,
sometimes they go over Jerusalem, right, So the sound of
the explosions and the booms are often, you know, there's
often many of them that we can hear from the shelter.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, that's I just can't even imagine. But thank you
for sharing kind of the what it's like to get
those warnings. I wanted to go back real quick before
we let you go and ask you just a couple
of questions. One you mentioned Israel says it has air superiority.
What does that mean. Does that mean that Iran is
it's little, Not it's little, but its defenses are so
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badly degraded that Israel can just go wherever they want
and they're not worried about getting shot down exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
It means that when it comes to a corridor from
western Iran into Tehran, Israel has managed to wipe out
Iran's ability to shoot down their aircraft by taking out
air defense systems radar systems, and also by taking out
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missile launchers and weapons depots and the ballistic missiles themselves
that would be shot at aircraft. So they are operating
freely in the skies of Tehran, right, They're even carrying
out air strikes in daylight, which I mean generals behind
the scenes will tell us, you know that it all
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happened faster than they thought, right.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And then one last question for you. You mentioned that
there was a string of missiles that came in. There
were like thirty of them, and they came in sort
of at regular intervals to kind of keep everybody on
their you know, yeah, keep every everybody shared and anxious
and awake. Is there a reason that there's a lower
number that we know of. They're not running out of
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missiles or or are they.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Well, that's a great question. First of all, the Israelis
say they have taken out one third of Iran's total
missile launcher pads. No matter how many missiles you have,
even if you have five thousand, if you don't have
a means to deploy them, they're useless. So Israel has
focused in the first days of this attack on taking
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out the launch pads and the Israeli Army does claim
that it has crippled and reduced Iran's ability to fire
missiles on Israel. I mean, thirty is not an impressive number,
quote unquote in a state of war. So you know so,
but we'll have to wait and see that. No one
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denies that Iran still has they still have capabilities, and
even the damage that's been done to the nuclear facilities,
it is significant, but not it is not consequential in
terms of you know, ending the nuclear threat. As you know,
again as a general who does background briefings with the
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press here, you know we've been told there's there's still
a lot of targets in the bank, and there's still
a lot of work to do. And remember Israel has
not yet attacked the four Dow nuclear facility, which is
buried in a mountain near Tehran. That is the most
difficult nuclear target. But it has to be touched one
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way or the other, or in a sense, this entire
attack on Iran will be a failure because that facility
is crude, crucial.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
All right, and that's where we're going to have to
leave it for today. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, stay safe,
Thanks so much for the information. We'll talk soon texting.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty Forever newsroom. Federal prosecutors
say the man in custody for allegedly shooting and killing
a state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota stalked his targets,
like prey ABC's Faith Abu Bay says Vance Bolter also
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allegedly wounded a Democratic state senator and his wife in
Saturday's attacks.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Investigators believe this was a complex and chilling plant to
kill public officials. Forty five lawmakers on that alleged target list,
mostly or all Democrats.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Billy say they have found assault style rifles, several rounds
of ammunition, and a medical kit in Bolter's car. News
brought to you by Simper Solaris. The Trump family has
announced its latest business venture.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Eric Trump, one of President Trump's sons, who will run
the mobile phone company, says it will build its own
phones and maintain a call center in the US. The
new business follows several real estate deals for towers and
resorts in the Middle East, including a golf development in
Guitar and a one and a half billion dollar partnership
to build golf courses, hotels, and real estate projects in Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Deborah Mark kff I News and Tropical Storm Eric is
formed near southern Mexico. The US National Hurricane Center in
Miami says it is expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow.
Hurricane watches have been issued for parts of Mexico. Heavy
rainfall is in the forecast for parts of the states
of Oajaca and Guerrero. Well show, Hey did it. He
was back on the mound, pitched one inning. Wasn't the
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greatest performance, but he was throwing like one hundred mile
in our fastballs. The Dodgers won the game last night,
six to three. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Padres
at Dodgers Stadium. The first pitch goes out at seven o'clock.
You can listen to all the Dodger games on AM
five to seventy LA Sports live from the Gallpin Motors
Broadcast booth and stream all the Dodgers games in HD,
just like I did last night listening to show Hay's
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first outing on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy
LA Sports. Anti ice protests have cost the city of
La nearly twenty million dollars so far. City administrative officer
stay Bo says most of that is tied to the
cost of police, about seventeen million dollars of it. Murder
and stocking charges have been filed against the man in
Minnesota accused of shooting and killing a Minnesota state senator
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and her husband, and attempting to kill a senator and
his wife. Official save Vnce Bolter will be charged with
first degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.
Police are looking for the person who shot a mail
carrier in South la The LAPD says a shooting happened
late yesterday morning near Century Boulevard in Central Avenue. The
mail carrier was hit in the arm. The person who
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shot him was last seen running east on Century Boulevard.
Let's say good morning now to Richard Simon, the author
of Unplug, How to Break Up with your Phone and
Reclaim your Life. Good morning, Richard, Good morning Amy. Great
to be here, Great to have you. Thanks for getting
up early with this. So you wrote this book, and
I saw the press release on it and I go,
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oh my gosh, I have to read this book. And
I will tell you that since reading it, I've noticed
even more how perve our phones are. Like I'll find
myself sitting on the couch just playing Solitaire and other
word games four hours at a time, and it's just
this time suck and then like I'll put the phone
down and then I'll get this feeling like I need
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to pick it up and play another game. And I
was like, oh my gosh, why is that?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, the core piece of dopamine. Dopamine is the most powerful,
one of the most powerful molecules in the brain. And
each time you tap your phone, whether it's with Solitaire
or whether it's Internet browser or WhatsApp, whatever it might be,
it releases dopamine. So it just becomes more and more pleasurable.
And the smartphone is literally a shortcut machine. And that's
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what's going on behind the scenes in your mind.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Okay, So the premise of the book seems pretty straightforward.
You know that it may be time to break up
with your phone. But I want to ask you kind
of what is the goal of the book, Like what
gave you the idea to write it?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Sure, with me, I was thick of my smartphone taking
up hours of my day. The average American adult spends
more than five hours a day on their smartphones. We
don't get that time back. And I was a father
to young kids in twenty nineteen, I realized this.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I had enough.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So in twenty twenty, I turned my smartphone off for
an entire year and was one of the most transformative
moments of my life. And what I realized is that
you look at all the various self help articles and
books everyone is espousing hacks noble as they might be,
but deleting social media, putting a rubber band around your phone,
digital status. All these things are great, but presenting as
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addictive as a phone as you were just talking about
it doesn't go far enough. So I ended up interviewing
dozens of people over the course of the last couple
of years and found that the first step to establishing
a more effective relationship with your smartphone is to turn
it off.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Okay, so turn off completely, So no GPS, no texting,
no social media, just done.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So therefore to diferent styles that outline the book in
terms of turning it off. The most popular one I
think that will resonate for your listeners is to switch
to a basic phone. And I say basic phone, I
mean basic like calling and texting. There are some like
Kosher phones or Wise phones that have more features. For
the sake of recalibrating the reward pathways in your brain,
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I highly recommend switching over to a basic phone. You
can have your same phone number, you can switch over
the simcard at your local AT and T Verizon your
T Mobile story. And by doing that, by switching over
to a basic phone, you're going to regain the most
precious resource source in life, which is time. You're going
to get hours back because you're not going to want
to text on this terrible device because it takes forever
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to text and it'll completely reset you. So one of
the four breakup styles of recommend is switching to a
basic phone.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, So then Richard, also tell me, like you said
that one of the things you noticed when I was
reading your book, you said you you and your wife
would come sit down on your couch at night and
you wouldn't talk to each other because you just stick
your noses in your phones and you're doing your own thing.
How did that immediately change when you turned your phone off.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, my wife and she's a doctor, she's a physician.
She's very very busy in terms of her hours and
what would end up happening is during the day. I'm
sure many other married couples who are listening go through this.
You text each other throughout the day, spouses, and there's
dozens of texts that are happening. You know, this is happening,
This is happening.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What do you think of this?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
How about this for dinner? This? And before you know it,
you get back home and you're already caught up. When
everything had happened during the day, it's nothing to catch
up on. And all of a sudden, you know, we
stopped this texting throughout the day and we actually like
sit down and have dinner as a family, and like,
I'm genuinely curious about what happened during the day, and
same for her in terms of what happened for my day.
It completely reset our relationship and it grew tremendously since
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I went through this process, and with the dozens of
people I interviewed in the book in my profile, it
was the same. Relationships with family just improved so much.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, well, we hear a lot about how like kids
who have grown up, they've had smartphones since, you know,
since they were very young. That they don't communicate as well.
They don't have those same communication skills because, like you said,
they text and do short little blurbs as opposed to
having full on conversations like we used to when we
were growing up. So I could I can see that correlation.
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If somebody wants to dip their toe in, is there
a way to dip their toe in?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I mean for starters, go for a walk. Go for
a walk around the neighborhood for forty five minutes an hour,
and don't bring your phone. You're going to be going
crazy inside the first time you do it, because this
is how addictive a smartphone is. But go for a
walk for forty five minutes to an hour and do
it by yourself for the first time. Don't bring someone
else and just have to embrace your own thoughts. That's
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way to say a smartphone has done is that we
are no longer able to embrace solitude, We're no longer able.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
To truly think.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So that's the first step I would do, And after
you do it a few times, you're going to realize
this is really really nice. Start tonight when you go
out to dinner with friends, leave your phone at home.
The first time you're in the car, you might be
completely freaking out. That's the withdrawal, It's completely natural. Then
you're going to realize how special that is. So before
you go through any sort of detox, in terms of
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turning your phone off, I have a whole section in
my book about preparation. I think those were some of
the initial things you can do to start to realize that, okay,
I can do this.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Okay. And another example that you gave Richard that I
absolutely loved was you said after you turned your phone
off or you left it behind. I'm not sure if
it was before you or after you actually turned the
smartphone off. As you said, you went to the grocery
store and you were standing in line and you just
had to stand there because you didn't have a phone
to check. And how weird that feeling is because we're
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so used to be being connected all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, the first day of my of my detox, Yeah,
I was at the grocery store and yeah, even just
for three four minutes, I could only scan the tabloids
for so long around me and I'm literally freaking out inside.
And I'm literally standing in line at a grocery store.
You figure, Okay, you can deal with it for three
or four minutes. But I was not comfortable enough being
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in my own skin. Now, looking back, when it's five
years later, I mean, I don't go to the grocery
store with a smartphone ever. So now I'm totally comfortable
with it. So this whole process to talk about in
the book, it really will recalibrate the low word pathways
in your brain.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, Richard Simon, the book is Unplugged, How to Break
Up with your Phone and Reclaim your Life. I wish
we had more time to talk because this is so
interesting and it really opened my eyes to how much
we spend time on our phones and don't spend our
time living our lives. Where can we get the book, Richard.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Unplugged if you found at all major booksellers, Amazon, Targets,
Barnes and Noble, Walmart, your local independent bookstore wherever books
are sold.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
All right, Thank you so much, Richard Simon. Again, the
book is Unplugged, How to Break Up with your Phone
and Reclaim your Life. It's quick read and it's really
a good read. Richard. Appreciate and have a great day.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Amy you too, Okay, it really it's really worth it,
and I swear. Then we went to a Dodger game
and we were sitting we went to the speakeasy, which
we get to do every once in a while, and
we were looking at the table next to us and
there were four people sitting there. None of them were
talking to each other. All of them had their phones
out and their faces in their phones. And I'm like,
you're in a cool speak easy at a Dodger game.
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Come on, I mean, it's just crazy anyway. All right,
we have in studio NASA astronaut and Space Force Guardian
Colonel Nick Haig, now back on Earth, touring the US
to talk about life in space, and he's here with
us in studio. Welcome Colonel Haig.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Thank you, Amy, it's a pleasure to be here, and
thank you for the warm welcome.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh well, we had a little welcome home party and
we have some treats and all of that stuff. And
you know what, when did you get back? It was
in March.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, so the end of March is when we landed.
So it's been about three months. Time fly a couple
of those months. It flies because I'm just heads down
trying to rehabilitate and figure out how to live in
gravity again. You spend a while floating around on orbit
and you forget just how strong gravity is.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, we had talked one other time, and you were
talking about how you go from completely not knowing which
direction is up or down and weightlessness, and we talked
about how you said you got the best sleep of
your life in space.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Indeed, indeed, and now I have to suffer an earthing
Earthlingk's fate and sleep in a bed.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Is it difficult?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's different? You know, you wake up and maybe I
have a little toss and turn a little bit, or
my back doesn't feel quite right, or I'm on an
arm and it just you know, kind of falls asleep
and I'm like, dang, I wish I was back on
orbit because that was the best sleep ever.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, so up in orbit you were up there for it?
Was it one hundred and seventy days? Right around there?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
One hundred Yeah, a little over one hundred and seventy days.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Okay. What has to be like one thing that you
absolutely miss about it?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Or is there just one?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
There isn't just one. The obvious stuff is being able
to float around and flip and just play in microgravity
where everything floats, or to float over to the window
and then be able to see the Earth and the
universe in front of you in a way that just
you can't do on the ground. But you know, probably
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the other thing that you might not think about missing
as my crewmates, I spend six months with six other
people inside this really confined space, and you get to
know each other so well, and then when we hit
the ground, we kind of go all our separate ways
and we're doing all these different things, and so you
don't see them as much as you did while you
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were up there, and so you miss those friendships.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, do you still communicate with them a lot?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, as you know, as much as we can, and
unfortunately most of it on a on a phone because
we're not in close proximity together. Uh necessarily, but yeah,
you know, we'll run into each other and it's a
it's a big hug, and hey, how you've been, how's
the how's how's rehab going? Yeah, you know, we're all
all suffering all the aches and pains and and and
everything that comes with trying to figure out how to
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walk in gravity again. And uh and you know, we
finally get to the point where those aches become age
appropriate and uh, and you're back to normal.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And you said that you do get it back pretty
quickly though, that that when you're when you come back
to Earth, all of a sudden, you got all of
this weight on you that you didn't have, and your
muscles are all screwed up because they don't know how
to work again. But it snaps back, I think, is
what you said.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It does. The mind. There's a couple of different layers.
The mind snaps back and starts to appreciate that you're
in an environment where everything doesn't float, and and it
understands what's happening. Your balance comes back fairly quick within
a couple of days. Uh. But the and you're strong
because you're while you're on the space station two and
a half hours a day every day, we're lifting weights
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and working.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Saw some videos if you work it out.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And so you come back strong, but you haven't had
to balance and you know, stabilize your body, and so
all the little muscles, all the joints take time to
kind of reacclimate. And that's kind of the long pole.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So does it feel a little bit like you're drunk
or something like. You just can't lose your balance.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
So the wobbly goes away. It feels like you went
and ran a marathon and it's the day after, and
the joints ache, the muscles.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Ache, yellow legs a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You're a little slow trying to, you know, get up
from sitting. Feels like you're twenty years older than you
actually are. But slowly the body responds, and after a
while it's like somebody flipped a switch and hey, I'm
back to.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Normal, and you are you back to one hundred percent?
You think, yeah, for it'll fall over when you're walking anywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I have fallen over recently. Now back to as normal
as I can be. The kind of the thing that
I'm still waiting is you do lose some bone mass
while you're up there, some bone density, and so your
body will slowly accumulate that, and that's about a day
per day. So at about the six month point, I'll
truly be back to about one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, So you mentioned cell phones and how you guys
text each other because you don't get to see each
other as much. But we were just talking with the
author of a book called unplug who We were talking
about how cell phones just rule your lives and is
it possible just to turn it off and disconnect for
a while. You had to do that, you had no choice.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, no cell phone coverage on the space station.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So even with all those Starlink satellites.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Even with all the satellites, you know, we still have email.
We still have the ability to make phone calls, which
is crazy, talk to somebody on the phone. And that's
actually one of the things that I enjoyed doing, you know,
representing the Space Wars, being a guardian in space. I
would take the opportunity every week steal some minutes at
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the end of a day and call down to one
of the ops floors and surprise, one of the Space
Force guardians is sitting there doing the mission that's helping
protect me and say, hey, you know, just it's Nick
on orbit. Just want to say thing I want to
say and see how things are going down there. And
so it's the power of talking with somebody and hearing
(30:23):
their voice and the emotion and the inflections and their voice.
It's something that you really appreciate. But yeah, you're unplugged
up there.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I love that. I love that Okay, we have one
hundred other things to ask you, and I thought you
were going to talk about talking to students and STEM
because I believe you did that while you were up
there as well. Absolutely, i'd love to ask you that
when we come back. Plus, we want to find out
more about life in space and then life back on
Earth and what's next for Colonel Haig. So if you'll
hang tight, absolutely all right, this is NASA Astronaut Space
(30:53):
Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig live with us in studio
this morning. Real quick, we're going to get in your
business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney. I know
that we are abbreviated today, but we have just a
couple of things to check in on, and one is
how are the markets looking today.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Well, it's looking a little rough out there. Good morning.
We just got a report on the health of the consumer.
Retail sales felled by the most since the start of
the year since May, suggesting that the new tariffs are
holding back consumers from spending. So this is continuing to
weigh on stocks, which were already under pressure from the
conflict between Israel and Iran. Dow futures right now down
(31:30):
one hundred and ninety five points. It was a different
story yesterday because stocks saw solid gains on a report
that Iron wanted to rest our talks over its nuclear program.
That Dow rose three hundred and seventeen points to wrap
up the session.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It's amazing how much what's going on in the world
affects these markets like this, and then wanted to take
a quick look at Red Lobster. It's cooking up a comeback.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Yes, they're looking to attract a new generation of fans
with some old favorites. The chain has brought back fried
hush puppies and the crispy crunchy popcorn shrimp.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That was always my favorite.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
But Red Lobster also has refreshed its menu with some
new items to try to track people, including lobster pauper
deli pasta, and bacon wrapped scalps. All right, Yeah, there's
also they fought for bankruptcy, you have to remember last
year for a number of reasons, including their unprofitable unlimited
shrimp deal. So they're trying to do some things to
(32:26):
try to correct all of that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
But delicious unlimited shrimp deal. Yes, getting in your business
with Bloomberg's Courtney, donaho, let's do it again tomorrow, shall
we definitely see you later? All right, thanks Courtney. We
are talking to a true rocket man. It's NASA astronaut
and Spaceforce Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, fresh off a trip
to the International Space Station. And Colonel Haig, this was
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your second time up there. Oops, I got to turn
your mica on.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
There we go. Yeah, second time to the space station.
I first, My first time up there was for seven
months in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Okay, and we got to go back just a little
bit because it was it was his second attempt when
he got to the space station for the first time.
What happened for the first attempt?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
You know, if at first you don't succeed, try again.
In fall of twenty eighteen, I was launching to the
space station for a six month mission with a Lexey
of chennin on a soy Use rocket and we had
a failure in the middle of the launch that caused
us to you know, a board to safely eject and
the capsule came back down. So what was supposed to
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be a six month mission was a twenty minute flight. Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So you launched, everything looked good, and then how far in.
Did you know something was.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
We were two minutes in. Everything was going fine. The
first stage was separating and there was a problem where
it didn't separate cleanly and it impacted the rocket that
was continuing to burn, and it rapidly disassembled.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
And so I love how you guys did it rapidly disassembled.
I think that when SpaceX did their what's the name
of the big rocket starship? Yeah, the starship, they said
it went for like thirty minutes and then it rapidly disassembled.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Like yeah. So, so it all happened so fast. We
were thirty miles up, going four thousand miles an hour
in you know, the snap of a finger, The alarm
goes off, the injection system fires some rockets and pulls
us away and and there's some side to side shaking,
and then we're just kind of coasting. We were going
(34:34):
so fast. We continued to coast uphill until we got
right to the edge of space.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Wow. Okay, So then when you eject, you don't eject
like a fighter pilot ejectory, and you're still in the capsule.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
So the rockets pulled the capsule away and then we
landed in the capsule with parachutes just like we normally
would actually really close to where we were going to
land six months later, just a little bit earlier than
we were expecting.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Okay, And this time when you came back after your
six months, you brought Sonny and Butch back with you.
You had to make some changes. And if you've been
listening to Wake Up Call, we talked. We got to
talk about some of those changes as it progressed, where
it went from a four person crew to a two
person crew. That made you the commander of the crew
(35:18):
nine mission. And then you went up with two you
came back with four. Yeah, And I have to ask
you when you came back, it was the coolest thing
that we saw. Because several people that I've talked to,
and of course I was watching when you splash down
back on Earth and all of a sudden, a pod
of dolphins shows up in the water like twenty feet
(35:42):
from the capsule. Did you guys get to see that?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah? Inside the capsule, we couldn't see it. The windows
at that point had been charred over from re entry.
And then they pull us all the way to the
boat and then take us out. And it wasn't until
I got back to Houston, and somebody showed me, you know,
pulled put a phone in front of me and said,
did you see this video? And I was like, dolphins.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
It was the most amazing, surreal thing.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Lead it to nature. It's amazing all the technological feats
of sending people to space and then and then having
them splash down, the challenges of integrating crew members that
hadn't trained on a vehicle to be part of a
crew and lands, you know, safely, and then and then
nature steals the show absolutely.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Okay, so you're back and right now we know that
you're touring around and meeting with different groups and talking.
And I know one of the things that you did
while you're in space is you talked to STEM kids. Yes,
And why is that so important for you and for
Space Force?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
And Vanessa, Well, you know, STEM is that found STEM science,
technology education math or engineering math education is such a
foundational necessity in our society and and it really is
the fuel behind the things that that NASA does or
the things that the Space Force does. And so it's
important and to reach out to students and let them
(37:01):
understand the importance of their education and and just and
just what the opportunities that that education is going to
open up for them. So every chance I get, you know,
try to get out and uh and and you know,
inspire the next generation. I look at the you know,
I go to go to K twelve's schools and and
look at them, and I'm like, wanted to you do
(37:23):
you want to be an Do you want to walk
on Mars? Why not? Okay? And and try to inspire
them a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I love that. What what was your first uh like
aha moment? Hey, I want to be an astronaut.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I can distinctly remember when I was in elementary school
and there was an astronaut that visited our our high school,
and we brought the entire school together. It's Kansas, so
a small school system. We brought everybody together and and
you listen to them talk and and you realize, you know,
that's just a person. They came from somewhere. You know,
I come from somewhere. So why couldn't I do that?
(37:57):
If that's something that interests me.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
That So, if you had the opportunity, or maybe you
already know about it, would you go back up?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Absolutely? The spaceflight? Is this on a personal level a challenge?
Challenges everything you know about the Earth and yourself and
the universe that we live in. And then just from
being able to serve and do what we're doing for
the country as well as for the world. You know,
(38:27):
the space station. We're up there doing scientific research and
we're learning about ourselves and the universe around us, and
that knowledge is for the benefit of humanity, and so
how could you not want to be part of that?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, And you said, we're learning about ourselves. And I
think that when we talked when you first got back,
you were saying, you're kind of a science experiment for
NASA right now.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You know, you raise your hand and you can be
a guinea pig. And quite a few different experiments, and
so there was about a dozen this last time around
where I was the test subject and they were looking
and prodding and then sometimes shocking, and yes they were shocking. Yeah,
we were doing some muscle stimulation, trying to see if
(39:08):
that might be an effective way to avoid having to
bring all of that heavy equipment that we have to
use in order to do weight training. As we go
to the Moon and on to Mars, mass and volume
become really precious, and so we're trying to figure out alternatives.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Oh that's so fun. Okay, So in the short term,
you've got something that I am so jealous of, and
any Dodger fan, any baseball fan, has got to be
so jealous of. Tell us what you're doing this evening.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Well, I get to go to I get to go
to the Dodgers game tonight. Yes, and and get out
on the mound and throw out a first pitch.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Can you believe that? Are you excited?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I am excited. Have you been practicing? I've if you
may have caught me throwing a ball with my son.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Your son is looking at you right now because he's
here in studio with Is he practiced enough? No?
Speaker 3 (39:56):
That was a resounding no.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Okay, So we'll be watching you. And as I mentioned,
you can channel your inner show hey, because he pitched
for the first time last All right, all right, Colonel
hag NASA Astronaut, Space Force Guardian. It has been such
a pleasure to have you. I wish we had you
all day because I have like pages and pages of
things that I questions that I would love to ask you.
But hopefully we'll get to talk again soon, because I
(40:20):
think that your journey is not over yet. Thank you Amy,
all right, Colonel Haig, thank you, thank you so much.
That's been Colonel Nick Haig in studio with us here
exclusively at KFI. What a treat, that's been so much fun. Okay,
this is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
(40:43):
This has been your wake up Call. And if you
missed any of wake Up Call, you can listen anytime
on the iHeartRadio app. Go back and find out how
you can break up with your phone. And if you
missed any of our interview with NASA astronaut and Space
Force Guardian Colonel Nick Hag, you can listen to that
anytime on the iHeartRadio app. Also, I believe we're going
to put this up on our website where you can
(41:04):
go back and listen to all of the interviews that
we've had with Colonel Haig over the past what year,
year and a half, including video of when we got
to talk to Colonel Haig when he was up on
the International Space Station. That was just one of the
coolest things ever. If you haven't seen it yet, you've
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I hope you got a good night's sleep because we're
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Speaker 2 (01:16):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Otani of course pitched his first game in a couple
of years. Just one inning, wasn't great, but he's back
on the mound and then went right back out and
hit like immediately came off the mound, put on his
batting gear and went to went to home plate. Also,
(01:36):
Sonny and Gizmo both back in the nest this morning.
Haven't talked about the Eagles for I don't know twenty
four hours, but I turned on the camera because I
still turn it on every day and a lot of times.
The nest is empty now, but they're both back there,
and if you want to get a glimpse of glimpse
of them, friends of Big Bear Valley have the link
on their website. And they don't stick around. They don't
(02:00):
stick around long. They take off early and leave the
nest for the day. And today we are being visited
by an astronaut, Colonel Nick hag Is on his way
into the KFI studios. We're going to be talking with
him during wake up call. Find out you know what
he's been up to since he returned to Earth after
spending six months floating in waitlessness on the International Space Station.
(02:20):
Can't wait for that. Lots going on around the world,
So here's what's ahead on wake up call, saying the
curfew has been successful. La Mayor Bass has eased curfew hours.
The curfew last night went into effect at ten pm,
that's two hours later than the previous day. The Civic Center, Chinatown,
Little Tokyo and nearby areas remain under curfew until six
(02:40):
a m. Mayor Baths says the curfew has protected stores, restaurants,
businesses and communities from bad actors. A doctor in Santa
Monica has agreed to plead guilty to supplying ketamine to
friends star Matthew Perry. Prosecutors say doctor Salvador Placentia gave
the drug to the actor and taught his assistant who injected.
Of course, Perry suffered a fatal overdose of the drug
(03:05):
at his home in Pacific Palisades last October, shops have closed.
Cars are lined up to get gas in Iran's capital
city following a warning by President Trump that all Iranians
should leave Tehran. ABC's Jordana Miller joins us in just
a couple of minutes to give us the latest as
things continue to heat up in the Middle East. How
often do you have your phone out? How often do
(03:27):
you check it? Are you a slave to your phone?
We're going to be talking with Richard Simon. He wrote
a book called Unplugged. He joins us next to tell
us how it might be time to break up with
your smartphone and how that can make your life a
whole lot better. And I can tell you, since I
started reading this book, I notice how much not only
I am in my smartphone, but how much everybody around
(03:48):
me is too. And at the bottom of the hour,
of course, we're throwing a bit of a welcome home party.
We're going to be joined by our friend, NASA Astronaut
Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who's back on Earth
after more than six months on the Inner National Space Station.
He's coming here. He'll be in studio, live with us,
a couple of little fun things, decorations. It's a party.
(04:09):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A federal appeals
court is set to hold a hearing today on whether
President Trump can continue to control California National Guard troops.
Trump federalized the Guard and sent them to LA to
protect federal buildings and agents doing ice raids. Governor Newsom sued,
challenging the president's authority to do so. Newsom says Trump
(04:32):
only sent the troops to instill fear in the community.
President Trump says he has the right to federalize the
troops and they were needed to protect law enforcement. LA
Mayor Bass has adjusted the curfew for downtown LA, pushing
it back from eight to ten pm.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
The downtown La Residents Association says the ongoing curfew has
hurt the neighborhood. Group co founder Cassie Horton says, it's
time for the curfew to come to an end.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Our businesses cannot afford this. They're already kind of hanging
on by a shoestring after the fires.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
COVID did the writers.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Strike all of that.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
A survey put out by the group on Sunday showed
that a combined eighty percent of hundreds of members either
want the curfew gone immediately or phased out over the
coming days. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
SpaceX has completed another launch of a Falcon nine rocket
from the coast of Santa Barbara County.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
The launch from Vendenburg Space Force Base happened just after
eight thirty Monday night. The rocket took twenty six Starlink
Internet satellites into low Earth orbit. It was the third
flight for the first stage rocket booster supporting the mission.
Daniel Martindale, KFI News, Let's.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. So, Jordana,
Israel's not letting up continuing to attack Tehran, and of
course the goal is to take out its nuclear capability.
What are the latest developments.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That's right, Israeli air Force, with air superiority, it must
be said, has a flight path now in over western
Ran into to the capital Tehran, where they're carrying out
a series of strikes. Really, the air force has been
active and carrying out bombings since Israel's opening attack back
(06:14):
on Friday morning or Thursday night in the United States.
One target that the Israeli Army says they succeeded in
hitting was the new Joint chiefs of Staff, the new
head of Iran's army. This was a close confidante of
the Supreme Leader, Ayatola Jomene. He was just put in
(06:36):
the position maybe three days ago, and overnight they targeted
a place in Tehran where he was with an air
strike and he was killed. There's also a lot of
i would say, growing threats against the Supreme Leader coming
from coming from Israeli leaders, the latest being the Defense
(06:57):
Minister ystral Katz, who said today that Homiani could turn
out have the same fate as Sodom Hussein. You know,
this is a war that is not explicitly to bring
down the regime. That's what the Israelis have said, but
(07:19):
you know, on the ground, everything that they're doing seems
to be pushing the regime to the brink, right, assassinating
military leaders, scientists, going after their headquarters, political and military headquarters,
and now yesterday as well hitting one of the national broadcasters,
(07:40):
the TV that is aligned with the regime. We am
sure many people saw the clip that was circulating online
of an Iranian female anchor in the middle of her
in the middle of her newscast, you know, with an
explosion in the back and star and leaving the cameras right.
(08:02):
So we're still seeing a lot of activity on this side.
I can tell you. The Iranians overnight launched four different
waves of ballistic missile strikes in total about thirty missiles,
so a lower number than we saw the previous days,
but they spread them out, keeping Israelis up all night
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and in their shelters, especially those living in Tel Aviv
and in central Israel. For me, I'm in Jerusalem. I
was up twice, but most of the country was up
four times.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And when you luckily, when you get to when you
get awakened, you have to go into the shelters. Is
that correct that you hear those sirens and then off
you go into the shelters for how long?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Right, So, Israel thankfully has developed a very sophisticated early
warning system. So because these ballistic missiles are so deadly,
and we've seen that over the last several days, right,
twenty four Israelis have been killed and they've brought down
a part sides of entire apartment buildings. The Israelis now
(09:08):
give their citizens usually about fifteen minutes of lead time,
sometimes twenty minutes, and they first send out a warning saying,
we have detected a launch of Iranian missiles coming towards us.
We you know, everyone now needs to get close to
their bomb shelter, right, and then you get another warning
(09:33):
that is a loud beeping sound on your phone in
case you didn't see the other one. The first message
that says you now need to go into the bomb shelter.
And then usually once you're already inside, then you hear
the sirens there, yeah, which is still frightening. Well yeah, anyway, yeah, yeah,
(09:53):
and you hear the interceptions. I mean a lot of
the you know, there's every time Iran fires on Israel,
you know, there's always a number of missiles that are
shot down over Jerusalem because Jerusalem situated in the center
of the country, a little center east, So anything trying
(10:15):
to hit the Tel Aviv comes over Jerusalem. When they're
trying to hit military bases a little bit further south,
sometimes they go over Jerusalem, right, So the sound of
the explosions and the booms are often, you know, there's
often many of them that we can hear from the shelter.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, that's I just can't even imagine. But thank you
for sharing kind of the what it's like to get
those warnings. I wanted to go back real quick before
we let you go and ask you just a couple
of questions. One you mentioned Israel says it has air superiority.
What does that mean. Does that mean that Iran is
it's little, Not it's little, but its defenses are so
(10:53):
badly degraded that Israel can just go wherever they want
and they're not worried about getting shot down exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
It means that when it comes to a corridor from
western Iran into Tehran, Israel has managed to wipe out
Iran's ability to shoot down their aircraft by taking out
air defense systems radar systems, and also by taking out
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missile launchers and weapons depots and the ballistic missiles themselves
that would be shot at aircraft. So they are operating
freely in the skies of Tehran, right, They're even carrying
out air strikes in daylight, which I mean generals behind
the scenes will tell us, you know that it all
(11:44):
happened faster than they thought, right.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And then one last question for you. You mentioned that
there was a string of missiles that came in. There
were like thirty of them, and they came in sort
of at regular intervals to kind of keep everybody on
their you know, yeah, keep every everybody shared and anxious
and awake. Is there a reason that there's a lower
number that we know of. They're not running out of
(12:07):
missiles or or are they.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Well, that's a great question. First of all, the Israelis
say they have taken out one third of Iran's total
missile launcher pads. No matter how many missiles you have,
even if you have five thousand, if you don't have
a means to deploy them, they're useless. So Israel has
focused in the first days of this attack on taking
(12:35):
out the launch pads and the Israeli Army does claim
that it has crippled and reduced Iran's ability to fire
missiles on Israel. I mean, thirty is not an impressive number,
quote unquote in a state of war. So you know so,
but we'll have to wait and see that. No one
(12:56):
denies that Iran still has they still have capabilities, and
even the damage that's been done to the nuclear facilities,
it is significant, but not it is not consequential in
terms of you know, ending the nuclear threat. As you know,
again as a general who does background briefings with the
(13:17):
press here, you know we've been told there's there's still
a lot of targets in the bank, and there's still
a lot of work to do. And remember Israel has
not yet attacked the four Dow nuclear facility, which is
buried in a mountain near Tehran. That is the most
difficult nuclear target. But it has to be touched one
(13:40):
way or the other, or in a sense, this entire
attack on Iran will be a failure because that facility
is crude, crucial.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
All right, and that's where we're going to have to
leave it for today. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, stay safe,
Thanks so much for the information. We'll talk soon texting.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty Forever newsroom. Federal prosecutors
say the man in custody for allegedly shooting and killing
a state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota stalked his targets,
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Let's say good morning now to Richard Simon, the author
of Unplug, How to Break Up with your Phone and
Reclaim your Life. Good morning, Richard, Good morning Amy. Great
to be here, Great to have you. Thanks for getting
up early with this. So you wrote this book, and
I saw the press release on it and I go,
(16:51):
oh my gosh, I have to read this book. And
I will tell you that since reading it, I've noticed
even more how perve our phones are. Like I'll find
myself sitting on the couch just playing Solitaire and other
word games four hours at a time, and it's just
this time suck and then like I'll put the phone
down and then I'll get this feeling like I need
(17:13):
to pick it up and play another game. And I
was like, oh my gosh, why is that?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, the core piece of dopamine. Dopamine is the most powerful,
one of the most powerful molecules in the brain. And
each time you tap your phone, whether it's with Solitaire
or whether it's Internet browser or WhatsApp, whatever it might be,
it releases dopamine. So it just becomes more and more pleasurable.
And the smartphone is literally a shortcut machine. And that's
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what's going on behind the scenes in your mind.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Okay, So the premise of the book seems pretty straightforward.
You know that it may be time to break up
with your phone. But I want to ask you kind
of what is the goal of the book, Like what
gave you the idea to write it?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Sure, with me, I was thick of my smartphone taking
up hours of my day. The average American adult spends
more than five hours a day on their smartphones. We
don't get that time back. And I was a father
to young kids in twenty nineteen, I realized this.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I had enough.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So in twenty twenty, I turned my smartphone off for
an entire year and was one of the most transformative
moments of my life. And what I realized is that
you look at all the various self help articles and
books everyone is espousing hacks noble as they might be,
but deleting social media, putting a rubber band around your phone,
digital status. All these things are great, but presenting as
(18:35):
addictive as a phone as you were just talking about
it doesn't go far enough. So I ended up interviewing
dozens of people over the course of the last couple
of years and found that the first step to establishing
a more effective relationship with your smartphone is to turn
it off.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Okay, so turn off completely, So no GPS, no texting,
no social media, just done.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
So therefore to diferent styles that outline the book in
terms of turning it off. The most popular one I
think that will resonate for your listeners is to switch
to a basic phone. And I say basic phone, I
mean basic like calling and texting. There are some like
Kosher phones or Wise phones that have more features. For
the sake of recalibrating the reward pathways in your brain,
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I highly recommend switching over to a basic phone. You
can have your same phone number, you can switch over
the simcard at your local AT and T Verizon your
T Mobile story. And by doing that, by switching over
to a basic phone, you're going to regain the most
precious resource source in life, which is time. You're going
to get hours back because you're not going to want
to text on this terrible device because it takes forever
(19:42):
to text and it'll completely reset you. So one of
the four breakup styles of recommend is switching to a
basic phone.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, So then Richard, also tell me, like you said
that one of the things you noticed when I was
reading your book, you said you you and your wife
would come sit down on your couch at night and
you wouldn't talk to each other because you just stick
your noses in your phones and you're doing your own thing.
How did that immediately change when you turned your phone off.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, my wife and she's a doctor, she's a physician.
She's very very busy in terms of her hours and
what would end up happening is during the day. I'm
sure many other married couples who are listening go through this.
You text each other throughout the day, spouses, and there's
dozens of texts that are happening. You know, this is happening,
This is happening.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What do you think of this?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
How about this for dinner? This? And before you know it,
you get back home and you're already caught up. When
everything had happened during the day, it's nothing to catch
up on. And all of a sudden, you know, we
stopped this texting throughout the day and we actually like
sit down and have dinner as a family, and like,
I'm genuinely curious about what happened during the day, and
same for her in terms of what happened for my day.
It completely reset our relationship and it grew tremendously since
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I went through this process, and with the dozens of
people I interviewed in the book in my profile, it
was the same. Relationships with family just improved so much.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, well, we hear a lot about how like kids
who have grown up, they've had smartphones since, you know,
since they were very young. That they don't communicate as well.
They don't have those same communication skills because, like you said,
they text and do short little blurbs as opposed to
having full on conversations like we used to when we
were growing up. So I could I can see that correlation.
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If somebody wants to dip their toe in, is there
a way to dip their toe in?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I mean for starters, go for a walk. Go for
a walk around the neighborhood for forty five minutes an hour,
and don't bring your phone. You're going to be going
crazy inside the first time you do it, because this
is how addictive a smartphone is. But go for a
walk for forty five minutes to an hour and do
it by yourself for the first time. Don't bring someone
else and just have to embrace your own thoughts. That's
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way to say a smartphone has done is that we
are no longer able to embrace solitude, We're no longer able.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
To truly think.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So that's the first step I would do, And after
you do it a few times, you're going to realize
this is really really nice. Start tonight when you go
out to dinner with friends, leave your phone at home.
The first time you're in the car, you might be
completely freaking out. That's the withdrawal, It's completely natural. Then
you're going to realize how special that is. So before
you go through any sort of detox, in terms of
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turning your phone off, I have a whole section in
my book about preparation. I think those were some of
the initial things you can do to start to realize that, okay,
I can do this.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Okay. And another example that you gave Richard that I
absolutely loved was you said after you turned your phone
off or you left it behind. I'm not sure if
it was before you or after you actually turned the
smartphone off. As you said, you went to the grocery
store and you were standing in line and you just
had to stand there because you didn't have a phone
to check. And how weird that feeling is because we're
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so used to be being connected all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, the first day of my of my detox, Yeah,
I was at the grocery store and yeah, even just
for three four minutes, I could only scan the tabloids
for so long around me and I'm literally freaking out inside.
And I'm literally standing in line at a grocery store.
You figure, Okay, you can deal with it for three
or four minutes. But I was not comfortable enough being
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in my own skin. Now, looking back, when it's five
years later, I mean, I don't go to the grocery
store with a smartphone ever. So now I'm totally comfortable
with it. So this whole process to talk about in
the book, it really will recalibrate the low word pathways
in your brain.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, Richard Simon, the book is Unplugged, How to Break
Up with your Phone and Reclaim your Life. I wish
we had more time to talk because this is so
interesting and it really opened my eyes to how much
we spend time on our phones and don't spend our
time living our lives. Where can we get the book, Richard.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Unplugged if you found at all major booksellers, Amazon, Targets,
Barnes and Noble, Walmart, your local independent bookstore wherever books
are sold.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
All right, Thank you so much, Richard Simon. Again, the
book is Unplugged, How to Break Up with your Phone
and Reclaim your Life. It's quick read and it's really
a good read. Richard. Appreciate and have a great day.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Amy you too, Okay, it really it's really worth it,
and I swear. Then we went to a Dodger game
and we were sitting we went to the speakeasy, which
we get to do every once in a while, and
we were looking at the table next to us and
there were four people sitting there. None of them were
talking to each other. All of them had their phones
out and their faces in their phones. And I'm like,
you're in a cool speak easy at a Dodger game.
(24:26):
Come on, I mean, it's just crazy anyway. All right,
we have in studio NASA astronaut and Space Force Guardian
Colonel Nick Haig, now back on Earth, touring the US
to talk about life in space, and he's here with
us in studio. Welcome Colonel Haig.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Thank you, Amy, it's a pleasure to be here, and
thank you for the warm welcome.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh well, we had a little welcome home party and
we have some treats and all of that stuff. And
you know what, when did you get back? It was
in March.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, so the end of March is when we landed.
So it's been about three months. Time fly a couple
of those months. It flies because I'm just heads down
trying to rehabilitate and figure out how to live in
gravity again. You spend a while floating around on orbit
and you forget just how strong gravity is.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Well, we had talked one other time, and you were
talking about how you go from completely not knowing which
direction is up or down and weightlessness, and we talked
about how you said you got the best sleep of
your life in space.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Indeed, indeed, and now I have to suffer an earthing
Earthlingk's fate and sleep in a bed.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Is it difficult?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's different? You know, you wake up and maybe I
have a little toss and turn a little bit, or
my back doesn't feel quite right, or I'm on an
arm and it just you know, kind of falls asleep
and I'm like, dang, I wish I was back on
orbit because that was the best sleep ever.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, so up in orbit you were up there for it?
Was it one hundred and seventy days? Right around there?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
One hundred Yeah, a little over one hundred and seventy days.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Okay. What has to be like one thing that you
absolutely miss about it?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Or is there just one?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
There isn't just one. The obvious stuff is being able
to float around and flip and just play in microgravity
where everything floats, or to float over to the window
and then be able to see the Earth and the
universe in front of you in a way that just
you can't do on the ground. But you know, probably
(26:31):
the other thing that you might not think about missing
as my crewmates, I spend six months with six other
people inside this really confined space, and you get to
know each other so well, and then when we hit
the ground, we kind of go all our separate ways
and we're doing all these different things, and so you
don't see them as much as you did while you
(26:52):
were up there, and so you miss those friendships.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, do you still communicate with them a lot?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Yeah, as you know, as much as we can, and
unfortunately most of it on a on a phone because
we're not in close proximity together. Uh necessarily, but yeah,
you know, we'll run into each other and it's a
it's a big hug, and hey, how you've been, how's
the how's how's rehab going? Yeah, you know, we're all
all suffering all the aches and pains and and and
everything that comes with trying to figure out how to
(27:19):
walk in gravity again. And uh and you know, we
finally get to the point where those aches become age
appropriate and uh, and you're back to normal.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And you said that you do get it back pretty
quickly though, that that when you're when you come back
to Earth, all of a sudden, you got all of
this weight on you that you didn't have, and your
muscles are all screwed up because they don't know how
to work again. But it snaps back, I think, is
what you said.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
It does. The mind. There's a couple of different layers.
The mind snaps back and starts to appreciate that you're
in an environment where everything doesn't float, and and it
understands what's happening. Your balance comes back fairly quick within
a couple of days. Uh. But the and you're strong
because you're while you're on the space station two and
a half hours a day every day, we're lifting weights
(28:07):
and working.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Saw some videos if you work it out.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And so you come back strong, but you haven't had
to balance and you know, stabilize your body, and so
all the little muscles, all the joints take time to
kind of reacclimate. And that's kind of the long pole.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So does it feel a little bit like you're drunk
or something like. You just can't lose your balance.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
So the wobbly goes away. It feels like you went
and ran a marathon and it's the day after, and
the joints ache, the muscles.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Ache, yellow legs a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You're a little slow trying to, you know, get up
from sitting. Feels like you're twenty years older than you
actually are. But slowly the body responds, and after a
while it's like somebody flipped a switch and hey, I'm
back to.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Normal, and you are you back to one hundred percent?
You think, yeah, for it'll fall over when you're walking anywhere.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I have fallen over recently. Now back to as normal
as I can be. The kind of the thing that
I'm still waiting is you do lose some bone mass
while you're up there, some bone density, and so your
body will slowly accumulate that, and that's about a day
per day. So at about the six month point, I'll
truly be back to about one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, So you mentioned cell phones and how you guys
text each other because you don't get to see each
other as much. But we were just talking with the
author of a book called unplug who We were talking
about how cell phones just rule your lives and is
it possible just to turn it off and disconnect for
a while. You had to do that, you had no choice.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, no cell phone coverage on the space station.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So even with all those Starlink satellites.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Even with all the satellites, you know, we still have email.
We still have the ability to make phone calls, which
is crazy, talk to somebody on the phone. And that's
actually one of the things that I enjoyed doing, you know,
representing the Space Wars, being a guardian in space. I
would take the opportunity every week steal some minutes at
(30:01):
the end of a day and call down to one
of the ops floors and surprise, one of the Space
Force guardians is sitting there doing the mission that's helping
protect me and say, hey, you know, just it's Nick
on orbit. Just want to say thing I want to
say and see how things are going down there. And
so it's the power of talking with somebody and hearing
(30:23):
their voice and the emotion and the inflections and their voice.
It's something that you really appreciate. But yeah, you're unplugged
up there.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I love that. I love that Okay, we have one
hundred other things to ask you, and I thought you
were going to talk about talking to students and STEM
because I believe you did that while you were up
there as well. Absolutely, i'd love to ask you that
when we come back. Plus, we want to find out
more about life in space and then life back on
Earth and what's next for Colonel Haig. So if you'll
hang tight, absolutely all right, this is NASA Astronaut Space
(30:53):
Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig live with us in studio
this morning. Real quick, we're going to get in your
business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney. I know
that we are abbreviated today, but we have just a
couple of things to check in on, and one is
how are the markets looking today.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Well, it's looking a little rough out there. Good morning.
We just got a report on the health of the consumer.
Retail sales felled by the most since the start of
the year since May, suggesting that the new tariffs are
holding back consumers from spending. So this is continuing to
weigh on stocks, which were already under pressure from the
conflict between Israel and Iran. Dow futures right now down
(31:30):
one hundred and ninety five points. It was a different
story yesterday because stocks saw solid gains on a report
that Iron wanted to rest our talks over its nuclear program.
That Dow rose three hundred and seventeen points to wrap
up the session.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It's amazing how much what's going on in the world
affects these markets like this, and then wanted to take
a quick look at Red Lobster. It's cooking up a comeback.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Yes, they're looking to attract a new generation of fans
with some old favorites. The chain has brought back fried
hush puppies and the crispy crunchy popcorn shrimp.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That was always my favorite.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
But Red Lobster also has refreshed its menu with some
new items to try to track people, including lobster pauper
deli pasta, and bacon wrapped scalps. All right, Yeah, there's
also they fought for bankruptcy, you have to remember last
year for a number of reasons, including their unprofitable unlimited
shrimp deal. So they're trying to do some things to
(32:26):
try to correct all of that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
But delicious unlimited shrimp deal. Yes, getting in your business
with Bloomberg's Courtney, donaho, let's do it again tomorrow, shall
we definitely see you later? All right, thanks Courtney. We
are talking to a true rocket man. It's NASA astronaut
and Spaceforce Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, fresh off a trip
to the International Space Station. And Colonel Haig, this was
(32:49):
your second time up there. Oops, I got to turn
your mica on.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
There we go. Yeah, second time to the space station.
I first, My first time up there was for seven
months in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Okay, and we got to go back just a little
bit because it was it was his second attempt when
he got to the space station for the first time.
What happened for the first attempt?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
You know, if at first you don't succeed, try again.
In fall of twenty eighteen, I was launching to the
space station for a six month mission with a Lexey
of chennin on a soy Use rocket and we had
a failure in the middle of the launch that caused
us to you know, a board to safely eject and
the capsule came back down. So what was supposed to
(33:32):
be a six month mission was a twenty minute flight. Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So you launched, everything looked good, and then how far in.
Did you know something was.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
We were two minutes in. Everything was going fine. The
first stage was separating and there was a problem where
it didn't separate cleanly and it impacted the rocket that
was continuing to burn, and it rapidly disassembled.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
And so I love how you guys did it rapidly disassembled.
I think that when SpaceX did their what's the name
of the big rocket starship? Yeah, the starship, they said
it went for like thirty minutes and then it rapidly disassembled.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Like yeah. So, so it all happened so fast. We
were thirty miles up, going four thousand miles an hour
in you know, the snap of a finger, The alarm
goes off, the injection system fires some rockets and pulls
us away and and there's some side to side shaking,
and then we're just kind of coasting. We were going
(34:34):
so fast. We continued to coast uphill until we got
right to the edge of space.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Wow. Okay, So then when you eject, you don't eject
like a fighter pilot ejectory, and you're still in the capsule.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
So the rockets pulled the capsule away and then we
landed in the capsule with parachutes just like we normally
would actually really close to where we were going to
land six months later, just a little bit earlier than
we were expecting.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Okay, And this time when you came back after your
six months, you brought Sonny and Butch back with you.
You had to make some changes. And if you've been
listening to Wake Up Call, we talked. We got to
talk about some of those changes as it progressed, where
it went from a four person crew to a two
person crew. That made you the commander of the crew
(35:18):
nine mission. And then you went up with two you
came back with four. Yeah, And I have to ask
you when you came back, it was the coolest thing
that we saw. Because several people that I've talked to,
and of course I was watching when you splash down
back on Earth and all of a sudden, a pod
of dolphins shows up in the water like twenty feet
(35:42):
from the capsule. Did you guys get to see that?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah? Inside the capsule, we couldn't see it. The windows
at that point had been charred over from re entry.
And then they pull us all the way to the
boat and then take us out. And it wasn't until
I got back to Houston, and somebody showed me, you know,
pulled put a phone in front of me and said,
did you see this video? And I was like, dolphins.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
It was the most amazing, surreal thing.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Lead it to nature. It's amazing all the technological feats
of sending people to space and then and then having
them splash down, the challenges of integrating crew members that
hadn't trained on a vehicle to be part of a
crew and lands, you know, safely, and then and then
nature steals the show absolutely.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Okay, so you're back and right now we know that
you're touring around and meeting with different groups and talking.
And I know one of the things that you did
while you're in space is you talked to STEM kids. Yes,
And why is that so important for you and for
Space Force?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
And Vanessa, Well, you know, STEM is that found STEM science,
technology education math or engineering math education is such a
foundational necessity in our society and and it really is
the fuel behind the things that that NASA does or
the things that the Space Force does. And so it's
important and to reach out to students and let them
(37:01):
understand the importance of their education and and just and
just what the opportunities that that education is going to
open up for them. So every chance I get, you know,
try to get out and uh and and you know,
inspire the next generation. I look at the you know,
I go to go to K twelve's schools and and
look at them, and I'm like, wanted to you do
(37:23):
you want to be an Do you want to walk
on Mars? Why not? Okay? And and try to inspire
them a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
I love that. What what was your first uh like
aha moment? Hey, I want to be an astronaut.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I can distinctly remember when I was in elementary school
and there was an astronaut that visited our our high school,
and we brought the entire school together. It's Kansas, so
a small school system. We brought everybody together and and
you listen to them talk and and you realize, you know,
that's just a person. They came from somewhere. You know,
I come from somewhere. So why couldn't I do that?
(37:57):
If that's something that interests me.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
That So, if you had the opportunity, or maybe you
already know about it, would you go back up?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Absolutely? The spaceflight? Is this on a personal level a challenge?
Challenges everything you know about the Earth and yourself and
the universe that we live in. And then just from
being able to serve and do what we're doing for
the country as well as for the world. You know,
(38:27):
the space station. We're up there doing scientific research and
we're learning about ourselves and the universe around us, and
that knowledge is for the benefit of humanity, and so
how could you not want to be part of that?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, And you said, we're learning about ourselves. And I
think that when we talked when you first got back,
you were saying, you're kind of a science experiment for
NASA right now.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You know, you raise your hand and you can be
a guinea pig. And quite a few different experiments, and
so there was about a dozen this last time around
where I was the test subject and they were looking
and prodding and then sometimes shocking, and yes they were shocking. Yeah,
we were doing some muscle stimulation, trying to see if
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that might be an effective way to avoid having to
bring all of that heavy equipment that we have to
use in order to do weight training. As we go
to the Moon and on to Mars, mass and volume
become really precious, and so we're trying to figure out alternatives.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Oh that's so fun. Okay, So in the short term,
you've got something that I am so jealous of, and
any Dodger fan, any baseball fan, has got to be
so jealous of. Tell us what you're doing this evening.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Well, I get to go to I get to go
to the Dodgers game tonight. Yes, and and get out
on the mound and throw out a first pitch.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Can you believe that? Are you excited?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I am excited. Have you been practicing? I've if you
may have caught me throwing a ball with my son.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Your son is looking at you right now because he's
here in studio with Is he practiced enough? No?
Speaker 3 (39:56):
That was a resounding no.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Okay, So we'll be watching you. And as I mentioned,
you can channel your inner show hey, because he pitched
for the first time last All right, all right, Colonel
hag NASA Astronaut, Space Force Guardian. It has been such
a pleasure to have you. I wish we had you
all day because I have like pages and pages of
things that I questions that I would love to ask you.
But hopefully we'll get to talk again soon, because I
(40:20):
think that your journey is not over yet. Thank you Amy,
all right, Colonel Haig, thank you, thank you so much.
That's been Colonel Nick Haig in studio with us here
exclusively at KFI. What a treat, that's been so much fun. Okay,
this is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
(40:43):
This has been your wake up Call. And if you
missed any of wake Up Call, you can listen anytime
on the iHeartRadio app. Go back and find out how
you can break up with your phone. And if you
missed any of our interview with NASA astronaut and Space
Force Guardian Colonel Nick Hag, you can listen to that
anytime on the iHeartRadio app. Also, I believe we're going
to put this up on our website where you can
(41:04):
go back and listen to all of the interviews that
we've had with Colonel Haig over the past what year,
year and a half, including video of when we got
to talk to Colonel Haig when he was up on
the International Space Station. That was just one of the
coolest things ever. If you haven't seen it yet, you've
been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King.
You can always hear wake Up Call five to six
(41:25):
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