Well, hey, everyone. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast. My guest today is

Colonel Jeff Williams. He served 27 years in the United States Army and is continuing to work

with our nation's space program. Jeff's been an astronaut since 1996 and flew a record setting

534 days on four space flights to the International Space Station. Jeff and I have

been chatting this morning about the meaning of science. You guys are familiar with the term,

trust the science. We've certainly had that thrown in our faces for the last several years,

and I think people have become inherently distrustful of science. We often wonder what science

even is anymore. And Jeff is obviously an expert in this area. I am honored to have him in my

studio today. He happens to live in one of my favorite places on the face of the earth,

Battleground Washington. And we got such great feedback from Jeff being here the last time I've invited him back again.

This is going to be a great conversation. If you've got your homeschooled kids around you,

bring them in because they're going to love this conversation. You guys, I'm glad you're here.

Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

Well, thank you guys for listening today.

Today's podcast is being sponsored in part by my friends at the Functional Medical Institute.

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All right.

I have so much I want to talk to my guest today about.

By the way, I should have mentioned that Jeff's been married to his wife, Anna Maria, for a long time. How long have you and Anne Marie been married? It'll be 45 years in December. 45 years. Congratulations. Congratulations. Welcome back. Thank you. Good to be back with you. I'm glad you here. All right. I just have, you know, we've been talking for several minutes about, you know, kind of the direction we want to take the podcast today. And there's so many things that we can talk about. But toward the end of our conversation, you touched on something. And I was like, oh, that is a great jumping off place. And that is, you know, what is science? Because I think before we talk about science, we probably should define it.

We have now for the last several years. you know, what is science? Because I think before we talk about science, we probably should define it.

We have now, for the last several years, people become very distrustful. And I think rightly so,

you know, there's posters out in front of a bunch of yards where I live that say, in this house, you know, we trust the science, you know, and we all got, you know, taken for a ride by

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