Apollo 13 Episode #868
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss Apollo 13 (1995) for Space Month, Ron Howard’s docudrama starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris, based on the true story of NASA’s near-disastrous 1970 lunar mission. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and grossed over $355 million worldwide, cementing its place as one of the great survival stories ever put on screen. They discuss the complicated legacies of the astronauts, the emotional devastation of the wives left behind, and why the most famous line in the film isn’t what anyone actually said.
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| 0:00.0 | All the 13 flight controllers, give me a go-no-go for lunch. |
| 0:07.0 | You know that Easter vacation trip we had planned for O'Napolco? |
| 0:11.0 | Uh-uh. |
| 0:12.0 | Procedures? |
| 0:13.0 | Go-Phill. |
| 0:14.0 | Control. |
| 0:15.0 | There might be a slight change in destination. |
| 0:17.0 | Really? |
| 0:18.0 | Maybe say... |
| 0:20.0 | The moon. Oh! Maybe say the moon |
| 0:21.4 | Houston we have a |
| 0:23.6 | Houston we have a problem |
| 0:28.6 | Houston we are venting something out in the space |
| 0:32.6 | it's definitely a gas of some sort |
| 0:35.6 | Are you so many people here Something broke on your's spaceship. I have a request from the news people. Take it up with my husband. He'll be home on Friday. This rate, we're going to skip right out of the atmosphere, and we're never going to get back. We're looking at less than 15 minutes of life support in the Odyssey. We never lost an American in space. We're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch. |
| 0:56.0 | Odyssey, do you read me? |
| 0:57.0 | All right. What do you think of that one line, sweetie? You can take it up with my husband. He'll be home on Friday. It's very 1970-ish. Yeah, but I think her point is he's not going to die up there. I know. I know. So I agree. I actually, that's part of my, |
| 1:10.6 | my rolling in the deep in this episode is the emotional labor of the, the moms holding down the fort. |
| 1:19.4 | Yes, they do. Literally. So we're doing Apollo 13. This is the second of four podcasts. Next week is Interstellar. We've got to find a time in our schedule to do that because I think |
| 1:28.3 | that's a longer movie. It is. And then we're finishing it up with spaceballs. Do you know that there is another spaceballs coming? They just said that. What, what podcasts were we listening to? I think it was three watchables, but I knew about it before. And who is playing John Candy? Who's playing Lone Star. I don't know. Oh, it'll be interesting. I have no idea. I'm surprised. I love that |
| 1:46.6 | movie, but it's because Lone Star? I don't know. Oh, it'll be interesting. |
| 1:44.4 | I have no idea. |
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