Getting a little spacey with a women astronaut themed episode because the 100th woman has gone to space! :)
Getting a little spacey with a women astronaut themed episode because the 100th woman has gone to space! :)
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Speaker 1 0:00
So I was reading, well, I was listening to an audio book, and a character was talking about how somebody was useless, or something of that nature, and they said, you're about like a pair of tits on a rock.
Speaker 2 0:42
I mean, a pair of tits on a rock would be awesome. That'd be pretty cool. I mean, that makes a rock useful to me. I guess I don't know, I'd look at it and be like, cool. That's a useful rock now I can look at its titties
true, not to objectify the rock.
Speaker 1 1:04
I mean, yeah. And I almost thought maybe I shouldn't do this opener, since we're doing a very positive lady themed
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but, you know,
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boobs. Yeah, boobs. Women have them,
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and they're pretty normal. They are.
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They sustain
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life without them, we maybe wouldn't exist. Yeah, boobs are amazing. Hell yeah.
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And speaking of amazing women,
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you're right. Welcome to
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Nervous Laughter Podcast, oh yes, yes.
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Welcome to Nervous Laughter Podcast. I'm Jamie, I'm
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Alyssa,
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and I promise that.
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Just don't take things we
Speaker 2 1:52
say too seriously. This is just a comedy podcast where we're just joking around and having fun. That's true, but also we like to respect awesome women that do cool things. And so Friday, November, 22 2024 the 100th woman went into space. Yay. Space space space space space. Her name is Emily caled Calendly and I've been following her on Instagram for a while. I was just kind of getting some of her content and, yeah, that this inspired me to just put together a little astronaut related episode. Oh, yeah. So just kind of a quick spill on her. Obviously, she's, like, super academically accomplished, um, she's written several children's books. She's had like, a science show on Netflix, which has now continued on YouTube, uh, done a lot of like advocate, advocacy for science literacy and stem and, you know, getting younger girls into into the science field. And she's also pushed for legislation to improve around handling of breast milk and breastfeeding supplies at TSA checkpoints. So yay, boobs.
Unknown Speaker 3:09
That's cool.
Speaker 1 3:11
TSA agents are usually fucking idiots. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 3:15
I'm sorry, but I hate this. No, it's
Speaker 2 3:17
fine. I mean, I mean, that's why she pushed back with this stuff, because someone was like, mishandling all of her like, breast pump shit and what she had prepared. And so I don't really know about a lot about all that stuff, but yeah, you got to keep it sanitary. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1 3:35
heard they like fuck up people's wheelchairs and stuff too. Really, mine is more common with, like, airline workers not moving it properly, but TSA, like, fuck shit up too. Yeah. I
Speaker 2 3:47
mean, they're just trying to move everyone as quickly as possible, so they're gonna fuck stuff up a lot. I feel like with some of the things they encounter, they should be trained a little more. But absolutely, I feel like everything I learn about the level of training of like, your expectation, you just got to lower it, like 150%
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and that's what's in the world, yeah.
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Oh, you
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showed up your TSA,
Speaker 2 4:16
we couldn't get no one to come. They got to keep them some COVID, yeah, and she also has a good sense of humor. Oh, I guess before I say, like, move on to everything. So her space mission is already done. You know, she's back down. It was just a quick thing, but there was a video of her like seeing, you know, looking through her window, seeing Earth and stuff for the first time. And of course, she had, she's already taken it down off all of her social media platforms, because a lot of dudes like sexualized her response to seeing the fucking Earth from. Face. So of course, that happens with like that, which is very, you know, annoying.
Speaker 1 5:07
What could people even say? She just was like, Oh, look at the Earth. And they were like, oh, fuck you, because
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she had, like, an ex,
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like, a lot of excitement with it. So she was just like, Oh my God. Like
Speaker 2 5:22
space, like, that's the Earth. Oh, my God. And so, like, people, I was, like, really, people took that and made it like a sexual thing. And, like, I
Speaker 1 5:35
hate men, except for my husband and the guys. Listen to this podcast. Yeah, it's otherwise. I hate all of you.
Speaker 2 5:43
Yeah, it's really annoying. Let's, uh, I mean, obviously I don't want to do this to any men, but, I mean, we're not doing that to guys, I guess. But she also has a good sense of humor, and before she went into space, she did a little reel that was like, like, 100 tampons, kind of like an homage to that song and stuff. And then, um, the post she wrote out ended with, forget the 10 things I'm bringing to space. I'll need all the room for my tampon Winky emote. And speaking of 100 tampons, I found the transcript from the interview where that was mentioned, and it's actually pretty fun. Oh, cool. So it's from an october 22 2002 interview for the an oral history project with Dr Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, Alyssa, do you want to read the interviewers question, and then I'll respond as, oh, sure, dr, dr, ride.
Speaker 1 6:50
I had a question. I read an article recently that was published by Florida today, and you had talked about what they had to add to your flight kit on STS seven, for instance, things like tampons. And there was a discussion about whether or not you should bring makeup on board the flight. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about what else was included on the flight kit, if you had any suggestions, or if they had any suggestions that you were opposed to, and why.
Speaker 2 7:21
It's actually kind of funny, because there was a reasonable amount of discussion about it. The engineers at NASA, in their infinite wisdom, decided that women astronauts would want makeup, so they designed a makeup kit, a makeup kit brought to you by NASA engineers, and it says, laughter. So what you can just imagine the discussions amongst the predominantly male engineers about what should go in a makeup kit. So they came to me, figuring that I could give them advice. It was about the last thing in the world that I wanted to be spending my time in training on, so I didn't spend much time on it at all, but there were a couple of other female astronauts who were given the job of determining what should go in the makeup kit and how many tampons should fly as part of of a flight kit. I remember the engineers trying to decide how many tampons should fly on a one week flight. They asked, is 100 the right number? No, that would not be the right number.
Unknown Speaker 8:24
They said, Well,
Speaker 2 8:27
we wanted to be safe. I said, Well, you can cut that in half with no problem at all, followed by laughter. And there were probably some other similar sorts of issues, just because they had never thought about what, just about what just kind of personal equipment a female astronaut would take. They knew that a man might want a shaving kit, but they didn't know what a woman might carry. Most of these were male engineers, so this was totally new and different for them,
Unknown Speaker 9:02
and that's the end of the transcript that I'm gonna read. Yeah. I
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mean, of course, makeup duh, duh, duh,
Speaker 1 9:09
what I think about as soon as I wake up every day. Yeah,
Speaker 2 9:12
that's that's crazy. And especially with, like, I don't know how short, I don't know how long her mission was, but like, with this one chick that just went into space. Like, you don't need a fucking makeup kit. Like, like, oh shit, the GeForce smudged my my makeup. I need to fix it right after I get up there. Like, what are what? And
Speaker 1 9:31
it's like, I'm sure they say, you know, okay, in your pack, whatever you want to bring, you can bring, like, five pounds of stuff or whatever. Like, you wanted to bring makeup, why wouldn't you just include that in your pack? Like, why did NASA need to come up with a makeup kit? That's fucking weird. Because
Speaker 2 9:50
Alyssa, you have to try to fit everything into something smaller. Oh, actually, let me, let me Google, see if I can find a kit, real quick. Like, that would be fucking cool. Okay, so yeah, as I'm kind of like poking around, just like Googling, so it looks like there was a makeup kit made, but never, like, you know, released, or, ultimately, like flown or anything. But it had a eyeliner, mascara, eyeshadow, eye makeup remover, blush and lip gloss. But it says that, yeah, some astronauts prefer makeup, so, but they'll bring their own makeup, which I feel like, if you're that into makeup, you're gonna bring your own makeup, some
Speaker 1 10:29
generic ass shit that a dude picked out, yeah. Like, I
Speaker 2 10:34
feel like, if you go into a hotel and you'd get like, you know, it's like, the hotel soap and stuff, and you get like, that quality of like, yeah, eyeliner and stuff like, it just wouldn't be good. Because, yeah, I know, like, some women like to do their makeup before they give birth and stuff. So if you're into makeup, power to you. I don't think NASA needs to be like, hey, a woman that's training to be an astronaut that's not wearing makeup. Hey, can you tell me like We interrupt your busy day training to go to space to tell me about makeup.
Speaker 1 11:10
We don't want you to look like shit when you're floating the solar system. There's gonna
Speaker 2 11:16
be cameras up there, and we don't want a pretty little lady like you getting caught off bar now, would we? And it was funny too, because there was a, I'm not gonna, like, read through the Reddit post or anything right now, but there was someone had post about it in on Reddit, just, you know, hunting or camp ons, like, holy shit. And then a bunch of people were like, at least they asked about it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, these are probably guys saying that stuff. Like, yes, at least they asked about it. But, uh, the huge gap they showed in knowing anything about, yeah, like, remotely gone,
Speaker 1 12:06
yeah, talk to your fucking wife or sister or something and be like, Hey, how
Unknown Speaker 12:12
many tampons Do you think you go through? You know, they just, like,
Speaker 1 12:15
didn't put any thought. They're like, I'm doing something nice for you, but you're gonna have to do all the work to help, man,
Speaker 2 12:23
at least we asked. We just threw a number out there. Um, are you gonna, like, read a box of tampons? Like, I felt like, if I was tasked with having to, like, make a bag for someone, I would, and I didn't know about, like, shaving cream and stuff, I would read, like, how much does a person typically go through or whatever? That's a good
Speaker 1 12:42
point, because it says on the box, like, change it at least every eight hours or whatever.
Speaker 2 12:47
And you could do math to figure out how many you would need, and then add like, 10 extra. Yeah, wow. Yeah, amazing. But then two, they'd have to solve for, like, you know, every woman's flow is different.
Unknown Speaker 13:02
And then how does
Speaker 2 13:05
being in gravity affect your period and stuff? I don't know. There's, like, a lot of like women think of, yeah, there's gonna be, like, an all women's flight next year. It's gonna be the first all women's flight by, I think it's by Blue Origin, but yeah, I think they're gonna be doing some, like, Women's Health Studies.
Unknown Speaker 13:24
Oh, that's fucking cool. They're
Speaker 2 13:26
out there, yeah, oh, yeah. So yeah, that's gonna be cool.
Unknown Speaker 13:31
So yeah, that was the 100 tampons thing.
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So, I mean, yeah, that that definitely happened.
Speaker 2 13:38
I never heard about the makeup thing, though. So I thought that was really interesting. This funny, and of course, this wouldn't be nervous after podcast without answering a bathroom question, yeah, how did I use the bathroom? So I got most my information from a video on NASA's YouTube titled shuttles. Toilet requires special
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training.
Speaker 1 14:01
Oh, so the pee doesn't, like, hit you in the face or something.
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Yeah, it's, like, a
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whole thing you got to do. Oh, wow,
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I'm excited. Yeah,
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it's a whole process. It's interesting.
Speaker 2 14:14
So there's a practice toilet, you know, that they have down here, which is not meant to be used. It's only for position training. The hole is only four inches, so the alignment is really important. So with that said, there's a light in a camera in this toilet. Obviously, you're not taking your pants down for this one, because this is not meant to be peed or pooped in. It's just to see where your ass goes. Oh, I see, okay, and that, and literally, see, because that camera feed in the toilet goes to a screen in front of them so they can see if they have any gaps. I know it sounds, Oh, that makes sense, crazy and just like a weird, creepy setup, but this, I don't really,
Unknown Speaker 14:56
I think this is a good solution for the issue they're trying to solve. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 14:58
I. Um,
Unknown Speaker 15:01
so there's a hose for pee pees.
Speaker 2 15:04
It has a section with a funnel to be placed on top. Um, obviously they need suction, so it doesn't just sit there. Uh, there's a normal looking funnel for men that doesn't have airflow through the funnel because they don't want the men, quote, docking to the funnel.
Unknown Speaker 15:25
That was what they said in the video.
Speaker 2 15:28
And there are three different options of quote, anatomy based funnel choices.
Unknown Speaker 15:33
I need the big one,
Speaker 2 15:39
and these ones have air flow. These ones are for women, because, you know, it has to stick more snug to area. It's not like we're gonna get our wieners stuck in a in a tube. So there is a fold out thing that you put if you strap your feet into so it's just kind of like you stand there and pee with your feet strapped in
Unknown Speaker 16:04
when it's time for poopies,
Speaker 2 16:08
there's five restraints, and then this is where your you know position training comes in handy. It wasn't totally clear, but it sounds like there are options for whatever works best for you, regarding like, keeping yourself in place. There's handles, like on the sides that you could use. So one of the men that was there, that was an astronaut, he mentioned, like, wedging himself with his hands, wedging using the roof to just kind of push himself down. So it's a process up there. There's a separate tube that is connected to the toilet. So this, this is not the peak tube. It's a separate tube you connect it has, like, a canister type of thing. You put on top of it, and the tube has some suction. They put a little liner in that canister. I hope I'm explaining this, like they put a little lining in the canister. It's like a little trash can, but it has suction, so to keep stuff from, you know, floating away. So yeah, that's for toilet paper, hand wipes, stuff, and so, yeah, after they throw out what they need, any solids that didn't come from their body, go in there, tie up the little bag and throw it away. And I thought this was interesting. Whirlpool had actually developed a fecal bag.
Unknown Speaker 17:38
This was never torn in space.
Speaker 2 17:42
Quote, the system is self contained, giving the astronaut flexibility to control the weightless environment, and allows for a simple and hygienic disposal the paper on the round end. So it's kind of like a throat bag with, like a round
Speaker 1 17:57
like, oh yeah, to like a It's, I mean, it
Unknown Speaker 18:02
doesn't look like an ostomy bag. But
Speaker 2 18:04
if you, if you've ever messed with an ostomy bag and it has, like the that little tape circle around it, that's kind of what the top reminded me of. Um, the paper on the round end was removed and exposed an adhesive portion that astronauts could have fixed to themselves and used to seal the bag after use, a germicidal tablet was then activated inside the bag to kill the bacteria, and the bag was placed in a contaminant bag for storage, disposals. Interesting. Here's just a little picture of that, like it's like it's said, it basically just kind of looks like a thorough bag, okay, that you get on an airplane, but it would just fix to your butt.
Unknown Speaker 18:52
And also,
Speaker 2 18:54
the last kind of bathroom thing is astronauts do wear adult diapers when they're in flight, since it's a lot on their bladder, so you know, it's going, Oh, into space, and when you're all strapped in and G forces be hitting like crazy, you know,
Speaker 1 19:14
I never thought about that, but yeah, that makes total sense. Like the pressure just will make you piss
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yourself, yeah, oh, piss muscle.
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Talk about embarrassing.
Speaker 1 19:25
You know, that kind of makes a little bit more sense now with the that one astronaut lady that like wore a diaper and like drove and speaking of that episode,
Speaker 2 19:40
I love it. Her name's Lisa Nowak, and yeah, like you said, she wore an adult diaper. So she had training, I guess from the things she was like, I'm not scared to wear a fucking diaper. I've done this before. So yeah, she wore an adult. Diaper when she drove from Houston, Texas to the Orlando International Airport in Florida. So that's got a nine, maybe, like 1518, hours, maybe driving, yeah, you're wearing a diaper. Though it's like 12, dude. How
Unknown Speaker 20:20
did it not get full though? I
Speaker 2 20:21
don't know. I mean, she might not have like, a few different ones with her, and then maybe put, like, autopilot on, and then just switched switched out a diaper. So she, yeah, she drove there on February 4, 2007 to confront Colleen Shipman, the woman who started a relationship with the man Lisa cheated on her then husband with. Oh shit. Okay, so yeah, she was cheating on her husband. The guy she was cheating with, had a
Unknown Speaker 20:55
girlfriend her, a fair guy cheated on her.
Speaker 2 20:59
So she's going to confront that woman's Colleen Lisa reportedly wore the diaper to reduce the number of stops. So she's just, I guess, used to wearing a diaper when in travel. Some of the things she packed were latex glove, a black wig, a BB pistol, an ammunition pepper spray, a hooded tan trench coat, a drilling hammer, black gloves and an eight inch Gerber folding knife. She waited about 30 minutes for colleen's plane to land. Lisa followed her to the parking lot, and Colleen was able to lock herself in her car in time. Before she got there, she
Unknown Speaker 21:43
smelled her coming, and she was like, I
Unknown Speaker 21:45
gotta lock this door.
Unknown Speaker 21:49
Oh, there's a bunch of shit coming my way.
Speaker 2 21:55
So, yeah. So Lisa, you know, followed her and was like, you know, pounding on the car door, trying to open it like,
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be trying to get in her car,
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asking her for a ride.
Speaker 2 22:09
Yeah, I guess she was probably being like, like, Oh, help. I need a ride. Or, you know, something like, oh, not because I don't know if they knew each other at this point or anything, maybe they did so so she started Lisa, she started crying, and then Colleen rolled the window down a little bit, to which Lisa took that opportunity to prep her spray into the car, and Colleen took off To the parking booth and called police who responded within minutes, because, you know, it's like the airport police are there and yeah. So Lisa was arrested and ultimately charged with attempted kidnapping, battery, attempted vehicle burglary, with battery and destruction of evidence, and at a later point,
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she was also
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slapped with attempted first degree murder
Speaker 2 23:07
with a deadly weapon. After further investigation, damn she was able to bail out with about $25,000 as well as wear a GPS tracking device and never contact calling again after the arraignment, NASA placed Lisa on leave for 30 days after she returned to Houston, she was giving a medical and psychiatric evaluation at Johnson Space Center,
Unknown Speaker 23:34
to which I mean, you know, she
Speaker 2 23:35
was then let go After the assessment, so she no longer was on her assignment with NASA, and they would make some updates to their training programs around behavioral health. And they also created astronaut Code of Professional Responsibility.
Unknown Speaker 23:57
I didn't super dig into that one. I
Speaker 2 23:58
don't know if that was created basically because of her, or they amended a bunch of things to an existing one because of her. But either way, it's just like we make rules around this, this type of person. Now,
Speaker 1 24:10
you know what? It kind of makes me feel a little bit better about life in general, though, because it's like we all have a little bit of land in us, even if you're a fucking astronaut, you know,
Unknown Speaker 24:21
like, weird
Speaker 2 24:23
skating chick, too. Oh yeah, partying, right? Yeah, yeah. Just gotta let the one out and do a little, a little Len, let's see. Let's slap that diaper on and drive across the country. Dude, that was so perfect that you brought her up
Speaker 1 24:42
as soon as you said diaper and astronaut, I was like, yes,
Speaker 2 24:45
and that was what I was using for my transition. Because I was like, Oh, perfect diaper, perfect transition.
Speaker 1 24:54
Damn. Do you happen to know if she is still in jail or, like. Happened? No, she
Unknown Speaker 25:00
was bailed out. Oh, like, she's
Unknown Speaker 25:03
never went, Oh, gotcha. And she just
Speaker 2 25:05
has, I don't know if she still has, like, GPS tracking on her or whatever, but, but yeah, she's like, you know, she didn't do any prison time and stuff, and hadn't read too much into it. But I briefly saw that, you know, some people were arguing, like, her benefits to humanity should, like, out sign this, like shitty stuff you do, and it's like making a scientific contribution and then getting away with murder does not make sense to me. Yeah? So different things like,
Unknown Speaker 25:37
no, yeah,
Speaker 1 25:39
that's a huge fucking stretch. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 25:44
So those people need to shut up. The people that were talking about Hunter tampons saying, like, at least they asked her. Mean, it's like, no, you clearly don't realize how ridiculous this that's like, as ridiculous with me being like, I got 300,000 miles on my new vehicle, sir. So like, shut up.
Unknown Speaker 26:09
Oh yeah. Have
Unknown Speaker 26:11
you ever seen those videos where a woman
Speaker 1 26:15
will go and just ask random guys on the street different questions about female health. Like, Oh, I saw a few, yeah. Like, why are there different sizes of tampons? And all the guys are like, Oh, different size vaginas,
Unknown Speaker 26:32
and they say the dumbest fucking shit. Like,
Speaker 1 26:35
I kid that there are probably things that men don't know because they've never experienced it fair, but some really basic shit, like, No, you're just lazy and you're
Speaker 2 26:48
not putting the effort into thinking about the question, I don't know it's yeah,
Speaker 1 26:55
I wouldn't expect a guy to know, say, like that, It's stressful to sneeze when you're on your period, yeah, yeah. Like, the tampon thing. I'm like, You should know that, yeah. I
Speaker 2 27:07
mean, like, God, I don't know. Oh,
Speaker 1 27:11
like, you know what, sir, you're promoted. You get to make the laws.
Speaker 2 27:16
Well, they've Yeah, making, they're making the tampons, and they're making the laws.
Unknown Speaker 27:23
Um, yeah, I totally wore super plus vagina.
Speaker 2 27:26
I mean, super plus a super plus tampon as a small person in middle school because my my vagina was gigantic
Speaker 2 27:41
thing. It's like, it's not my fault I have a wide set vagina. Was that superstar?
Unknown Speaker 27:46
That was heavy girls? Yeah. Well,
Speaker 2 27:57
if you don't know how tampons used or what the different sizes are for just Google it and learn in like less than a minute. Yeah, and you should also follow us on social media. You should and party on
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party on