330: Scott Tingle—I'd Go in a Heartbeat
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's the way I heard at episode number 3.30. |
| 0:07.0 | This one's called I'd Go in a Heartbeat with Scott Tingle. |
| 0:11.0 | For the record, that's a direct quote from Scott Tingle, in answer to the question, would you go to Mars? |
| 0:18.0 | Scott Tingle's an astronaut, you see. |
| 0:20.0 | And a pretty good one, Chuck. And I have to say, |
| 0:22.8 | without patting ourselves too hard on the back, we've done it again. That was a good one. |
| 0:27.8 | I believe you are right, Mike. Captain Scott Tingle couldn't be a nicer guy. I mean, really, |
| 0:33.8 | just a really down-to-earth guy, pun intended. And, you know, his military career is |
| 0:39.7 | stellar and his career with NASA. You know, he flew FAA 18s. He flew Hornets, 54 combat missions, |
| 0:48.0 | 168 days in space. Am I leaving anything out? Yeah, the most important thing. |
| 0:54.7 | Five years ago, when NASA gave him an opportunity to call anybody on the planet from the space station. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.9 | You got one call a month to anybody in the world. |
| 1:08.5 | Scott Dingell said, I want to talk to the dirty jobs guy. |
| 1:13.2 | And I was like, really? |
| 1:15.5 | An astronaut wants to talk to me from space. |
| 1:18.4 | So NASA sends me this encrypted iPad, right, with a special app on it. |
| 1:26.6 | And you guys at the office send it to me. I was down in New Orleans |
| 1:30.7 | filming something or giving a speech or something. And I'm like, what in the hell is this? I go to my |
| 1:37.0 | room and I open up this container and I take out this super secret special high tech iPad and I start clicking things in and the next |
| 1:46.4 | thing you know, I got an astronaut on the line up there in space. |
| 1:51.2 | Yep. |
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