Hey, welcome back to the show. This is Phil Visher. This is Phil Visher Podcast. I am here with Guy Donnie. Hello, Phil. Nice guy. And not Trish, and we've got Caitlin Bay again. Hey. Hi. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. Good. Welcome back. Thanks. From Mollage, Indonesia. Indonesia. My mom made the same mistake. Yeah. Not Mollage. They're nearby. They're close by. Which one is Kathleen?

Indonesia. Indonesia. Which one is the largest, the most populous Muslim country? Indonesia. Indonesia. Yeah. Okay. Is Malaysia Catholic? Philippines is Catholic. There are a lot of Catholics in the Philippines. Philippines is Catholic. Malaysia is Muslim. Maybe we're thinking of Rome. Malaysia has a very diverse population of all kinds of things. Really? Yeah. It's a very diverse society. Do they have Native American Indians?

They're Kuala. They do? Kuala Lumpur. Oh. Yeah. Say it's a podcast. You know, hey, it's a podcast. Can we got video? Hey, it's a podcast. It's a linden ear. Phil Visher Podcast starts right here. Oh, we'll talk to Sky. Oh, la. Oh, la. And not Christian too, because she's not here, but Caitlin's here for you. Say hi. Hello. Hey, it's a podcast. It's linden ear. Phil.

You're podcast starts right here. The film is your podcast starts right here. Does someone making you do this seriously? You know what an honor it is? You know what it is? You know what it is? Is someone? I just want to know. I just want to be called Caitlin. I don't want to be called not Christian. Oh, Caitlin, not Christian. Well, you see the theme song says we'll talk to Sky. So what if I say, okay, if I say in Caitlin too, I could say that.

But then I have to say we don't have a guest. Yeah, okay. Okay, I could do that. Cool. Put it in your writer. Okay, we're doing some contract negotiations here on the show. Sky would also like more cookies. What do you want from listeners? We finished the cookies. Thank you for the cookies. They were delicious. Thank you for the cookies that you sent in to the podcast. No, I was going to say send in more cookies, but we can end up getting deluged in cookies. Yeah, I don't trust all the cookies that would come in. You don't.

Trust all is it the cookies that you don't trust? The source of those cookies, the bakers. These were very good. Yes, they were. They're a very good cookies. Okay, so Caitlin's here because we're taking our monthly look at what are the big stories in Christianity today magazine this month. So we can discuss them and get to the bottom of all of them. All of them in 40 minutes. But first, first, I have to follow up on a story from a year ago, a year, a year ago.

We talked about the researchers in Hawaii that were going into a bubble to simulate living on Mars or Wheaton. Oh, yeah. Very funny.

They built a bubble. Is this like biosphere? Yeah, yeah. They did that a long time ago. No, no, no, this is different. Okay. So what so the deal was that team of scientists would go into a bubble on a high mountain in Hawaii, like the big mountain. And they had live in there for a year and they could only come out in spacesuits. Otherwise, they could never come out of the bubble. And they wanted to see mostly psychologically how it would affect them. Okay.

And they came out alive. They came out a couple days ago of the bubble. And we talked about what a silly way to spend a year in Hawaii. That is. Yeah. But they came out of the bubble two days ago. And because their scientists had nothing particularly interesting to say. It's the kind of thing where you would expect all of we got stories. Well, but didn't they didn't have stories. They still have like an idea.

They had internet access and all that. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we talked about that. Yes, but like a true Mars simulation. Yeah, they simulated it like it would be from Mars, which is an 18 minute delay to any or like you have calm cast button push.

That's a ding for all the other. So there were six scientists in a year long isolation in the dome. One of them said, I can give you my personal impression, which is the mission to Mars in the close future is realistic.

It sounds very lonely. Was this paid for by my tax dollars NASA. Yeah, NASA funded it. Another one said.

The research going on up here is just super vital. What? Just super vital.

Another one said that they they developed. They they know how to extract water from a dry environment so they could get water.

Oh, Mars. Matt Damon taught us that. That's a whole year of big brother of survivor. They should have really made it like big brother. See, here's the deal. Okay. And this is interesting. You know about the guys in in scan. I forget which can't even country that are trying to send people to Mars. No, we've talked about it. Sky. Are you paying attention? Not really. Okay. There's a company in Scandinavia that's trying to send colonists to Mars.

IKEA. Are they going to pack them flat and ship them really easy? Then the Mars. They come with a tiny little wrench. It's just an Alan wrench with Alan wrenches. No.

And they're they're trying to do it. So they asked for people to apply. And the the disclaimer is it's a one way ticket. There's no way to bring them back. So they wanted people who are willing to be sent to Mars with no possibility of returning.

And they got more than 100,000 applications. But you got to wonder what kind of person is the 2016 election. But the way that's true. This is like two years ago. But we knew we all knew. Yeah, we knew it was coming. The writing was on the wall. But the way they want to fund the whole thing is by doing a reality show.

Remember this based on the whole process, the development, selecting the astronauts, training the astronauts, and that reality show would be a global hit. It would make so much money that they could actually fund.

Okay, first of all, that's a stupid idea. So they basically they want to pick astronauts the way we pick presidents. Yeah. So when when NASA launched this experiment in Hawaii, they said very clearly it's important that you pick low drama people.

People who are opposite of who you would want on a reality show, which is apparently they succeeded. They have proven they were successful because everyone released had nothing interesting to say.

So you take how many people were there? So you take six yes mixed mix sex boys and girls, but boring bubble together for a year without supervision. You know what? I bet if you did that in a first grade class.

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