346: No Such Thing As An Unsexy Astronaut

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Dan, Anna, Andrew and Major Tim Peake discuss an out of this world diet, the last species on Earth, and what Tom Collins has been saying behind all of your backs.

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0:00.0	Hi guys, Andy here. Just before we start this week's show, we wanted to say that we have a special guest on.
0:06.0	It is none other than Major Tim Peake, soldier, pilot, astronaut, absolutely everything.
0:13.0	He is the first British astronaut to go into space with the European Space Agency.
0:18.0	He has done so many amazing things in his life.
0:21.5	And part of the reason he's on is that he's going to new book out. It's his autobiography. It's called Limitless.
0:27.0	I've just finished it. It is so amazing the stuff he's done.
0:30.0	He spent years flying helicopters being a helicopter test pilot.
0:35.0	He was in the army. He talks about getting a sandhurst. He's done all these incredible things.
0:40.0	The number of adventures in the book, basically every single page has a new exciting weird thing he's done on it.
0:46.0	He lived underwater for a while. That didn't even make it into the podcast.
0:50.0	We didn't even mention the fact that he lived underwater. That's how many interesting things he has to say about his life so far.
0:56.0	So we hope you like the episode. And if you do, you should give his book a look. It is called Limitless.
1:02.0	And it is out now from all bookshops. Even if the bookshops aren't actually open, it can be ordered.
1:07.0	Okay, on with the podcast.
1:09.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
1:33.0	My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray and it's Shinsky and special guest.
1:39.0	It's Britain's first ever and currently only ever spacewalking astronaut major Tim Peek.
1:45.0	And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.
1:50.0	And in no particular order here, we go starting with you major Tim.
1:56.0	Well, my fact of the week is that when you do a spacewalk, you have to wear 16 layers of clothing and a nappy.
2:05.0	Was that definitely not a prank from the other astronauts?
2:09.0	I thought it might be, you know, when you get told the fancy dress party and you turn up and everyone's doing normal clothes.
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