And the smartest man alive, Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is...

Morning, September 10th, 2020.

My name is Bernie Burns, T-minus 30.

It's Ashley over there.

Hey, Ashley, how you doing?

Hey, not bad.

We're starting a podcast right as Polaris Dawn is taking off into the sky.

You know, Bernie, some people go and launch themselves into space to the radiation

belts of space. Some of us podcasts. All right. We're watching it take off right now. Literally. We decided to start the podcast a little bit late so we can see this. How come I can't pick up the Bluetooth through here? No idea. Oh, just can't. Do you have it turned up? Let's see. You'd be able to hear it. Oh, well, that was came in loud. Okay. T-plus 35 seconds into the Polaris

Dawn mission, flying crew on board Dragon and Falcon 9 to new heights. All right, so they have

successfully taken off, cleared the tower. There are 20 seconds into their flight. Polaris

Dawn takes off today. Launched by SpaceX, they are going to be conducting some long range,

at least for the astronauts that we have,

currently long range flight experiment, including passing through the Van Allen belts.

And this is, if I recall correctly, going to be the first time they do a spacewalk in the SpaceX

suits.

So it'll be the first commercial spacewalk ever done.

I thought, what point?

I guess we just have to keep calling out

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