Mooning with Mike Massimino

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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👨🏻‍🚀👨🏻‍🚀👨🏻‍🚀 Paul and Stephen are obsessed with UFOs and life beyond earth–so who better to add to the conversation than a guy who’s been to space twice? This week, our intrepid Chinwaggers are joined by former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, a man who decided that a fear of heights would be best overcome by a trip to space. In this week’s classified file: space toilets, robot arms, and why there should never be more than one comedian per space shuttle. Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut and a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University. Mike is also the author of a new book, Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible. 👨🏻‍🚀👨🏻‍🚀👨🏻‍🚀 ========= 🎥 REMINDER: Our first ticketed event is coming October 14th to North Adams, MA @ the MASS MoCA Museum 🎥 🎟️ Buy your tickets here before they sell out: https://massmoca.org/event/chinwag/ 🎟️ ========= New episodes of CHINWAG drop Wednesdays for free... n(🧊) Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 YT: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to. Well, hello and welcome back to the Chinwag podcast. Yes, I am I am one of your hosts Paul
0:29.4	Giemotti and I am Stephen Asma. Yes, the other host.
0:34.0	Yes, the other host.
0:36.0	There's two of us.
0:37.0	Isn't that nice?
0:38.0	There's two of us. Twiddle D and Tweedle D.
0:40.0	Twetle D.
0:42.0	In my case, Tweedle super dumb.
0:45.0	We're very excited.
0:46.0	We have a really, really wonderful guest today.
0:47.8	We're going to be talking to an astronaut.
0:51.5	Space Man. Yes, a space man, the space man. Mike Masamino, who is one of the few people to have actually walked in space.
1:00.0	Yeah, I think he was like a record holder in terms of walking in space.
1:03.9	Yeah, I believe it was.
1:04.9	Yeah, that crew was like the highest number of hours actually walking around outside in space.
1:10.9	That's right.
1:11.9	So he did the, he did the extra vehicular activity as it's called, the EVA.
1:16.4	And he's one of he's the first person to tweet from space, which is a, which I think is a dubious distinction?
1:23.0	But he ordered a pizza.
1:25.0	You ordered a pizza from space.
1:27.0	That's right. He's a man who ordered a pizza from space.
1:29.0	He's a really interesting wonderful guy.
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