It Was a Good Idea... | 2/20/26
Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
Blaze Podcast Network
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Blaze Radio Network. |
| 0:02.7 | And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. |
| 0:06.8 | Yesterday, we found that NASA and contractor engineers pumped more than 750,000 gallons of super cold propellants into the agency's huge space launch system rocket without any signs of hydrogen leaks, |
| 0:22.9 | finally, and a major step toward launching four astronauts on a flight around the moon. |
| 0:28.8 | Now they claim they're a go for a launch in March. |
| 0:34.5 | They have a window March 6th, I think through the 11th. |
| 0:39.5 | There's windows on those days. |
| 0:41.6 | And then if those don't open up, we have to wait until April. |
| 0:45.3 | So let's hope for a non-cloudy day on March 6th. |
| 0:49.9 | Maybe we can get those four astronauts that we have all ready to go, |
| 0:54.0 | launching into their ride around the moon and back home again. |
| 0:59.6 | Fingers crossed. |
| 1:00.9 | Welcome. |
| 1:02.2 | Welcome to Towing the Fat. |
| 1:03.9 | Fat 5 Plus. So I was, you know, I was happy that we finally got Artemis II ready for the launch. |
| 1:33.7 | But then I see the naysayers, like delete your handler on X, who says this isn't a rocket. |
| 1:42.4 | It's a monument to distraction. A towering prop built to remind the crowd |
| 1:47.6 | that the simulation still knows how to gesture upward when everything below is collapsing. |
| 1:54.2 | Oh, okay. They always roll out the same spectacle. A gleaming cylinder, a countdown bathed in blue light, a promise that humanity |
| 2:03.1 | is on the verge of some great celestial pilgrimage, as if pointing at the sky can erase what's |
| 2:09.4 | happening on the ground. |
| 2:11.0 | But if the fuel isn't for travel, it's for myth maintenance, a ritual refilling of the narrative tank to keep the dream of upward motion alive, |
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