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episodePreviously titled “Astronaut Butch Wilmore Needs Brain Scans of Uncle Si After This” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 4, 2026
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What incredible experiences did Butch Wilmore have in space?
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He's excited. Oh, yeah. I am excited. Should we start? Yeah, we'll start. Five, four, three, two, one. Welcome to this podcast. We've got a guest. Okay. He's a F-18, sir. F-18. Okay. Pilot. And he was so good at that.
How do astronauts deal with the challenges of zero gravity?
What did he do next? Yeah.
He was so good at that. They said, hey, look, we want to put you in a rocket ship and send you to outer space.
There we go. Truth be told, that's not exactly how it goes, but okay, we'll go with that.
We have got astronaut Butch Wilmore in studio with us today. That's right. And we're fired up about it.
This is so weird. They just did everything I normally do, Butch. We're too excited. I'm not real sure why I'm here.
I was at Si's house last night.
Oh, hey, you're here to make me look good.
What conspiracy theories about the moon landing are addressed?
That's what it is. I make everybody sit right there look real good.
Nobody needs to make you look good, sir. No, I didn't mean it that way.
No, I'm just saying. You're bringing up the bar.
I've already thanked this veteran for his service, okay? Because what, you fought in Iraq?
Yes, sir. Okay.
I was in Germany at the time, you know, and I shipped. Okay. Me and the guy, we shipped seventh core with everything they had in Germany. Yeah. Okay.
How does space travel affect an astronaut's mental state?
And guess what? The one thing we run out of it could get enough of. It was wood. Wood. No kidding. Not a lot of wood in the desert. All right. Look, plywood, all this stuff that you got to put on to lock everything down on a train to ship it somewhere. We have an astronaut, and you're talking about lumber.
Well, no, no. We got an astronaut. We talking about Iraq. I know what that place look like.
Hey, we got Top Gun in the house, baby.
Okay?
What unique experiences do astronauts have during launch?
This ain't a movie. This is real life. I know what a wreck looks like. I've seen Fox News.
Let's talk about space, man. The United States of space. Now, my question is, how fast does that rocket go?
Oh, it goes faster than about anything goes. When you're coming back to Earth, I mean, you're traveling, like I said, 25,000 miles an hour, roughly. Yeah, you're moving. Five miles a second.
I don't like to go to Texas because the speed limit's 80 some places, and it makes me uncomfortable.
Time out, time out, time out. When Top Gun will say, hey, I have the need for speed.
Yeah, five miles a second.
How do astronauts manage daily tasks like eating and using the bathroom in space?
They wasn't kidding when they said, I have the need for speed. That's true. You orbit the planet every 90 minutes. You know, the circumference of the Earth is 25,000 miles at 17,500 miles an hour, which is what your orbiting speed is. Yeah, five miles a second. So you've been up there. Is this Earth round?
You know what? We got a few conspiracy theories we need to bump.
Do the math. 464 days in space, 16 sunrises and sunsets a day. So 16 orbits a day. At 7,424 times around the planet. And every single time I went around the planet, it was round. Wait, hold on.
What are the logistics of docking a spacecraft?
Wasn't flat a single time. Not one. Not one.
You did that math way too fast. You've been around the planet 724. 7,424 times. 7,400. Either. My mind is blown.
That's a pretty good loop. That's a lot of time off the planet.
I have to ask, when you got up there and was looking around,
What were you feeling? Let me tell you that story because I think it's interesting. So I'm in the right seat of the space shuttle, my first launch, and you lay on your back for three hours roughly before you actually light the candle and start heading up.
What insights does Butch Wilmore share about faith and purpose?
That's cute. You call it a candle.
Yeah, well. I love that analogy.
Hey, not damn careful. Yeah, exactly right. You're really trying to romanticize a big explosion under your rear end.
Of course.
That's cool.
We're lighting the candle.
We're lighting the candle, and all of a sudden, you're laying on your back 1G, and all of a sudden, you're at almost 2Gs immediately, and you start accelerating. And, you know, I'm in the right front seat of the space shuttle, light blue sky, and it just gets dark. Actually, first, we go through a cloud, straight up through a cloud. It comes closer, closer, closer. As it gets close, the light from the solid rocky boosters, the big orange, you know, that's putting out a lot of flame. The whole cloud goes orange for like a second and then we poof right through it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What incredible experiences did Butch Wilmore have in space?
0:00–0:28
2
How do astronauts deal with the challenges of zero gravity?
0:28–0:58
3
What conspiracy theories about the moon landing are addressed?
0:58–1:28
4
How does space travel affect an astronaut's mental state?
1:28–1:59
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What unique experiences do astronauts have during launch?
1:59–2:38
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How do astronauts manage daily tasks like eating and using the bathroom in space?
2:38–3:13
7
What are the logistics of docking a spacecraft?
3:13–3:50
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What insights does Butch Wilmore share about faith and purpose?
3:50–55:22
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