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Artemis II crew inspires the world from lunar orbit · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You are listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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  I gotta tell you, uh I don't know if you've been watching the Artemis 2, the trip around the moon, but boy, oh boy, oh boy, is it spectacular?
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  Just absolutely inspiring in every sense of the word, and there's just so much to unpack.
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  And I know I already did a show uh just recently on this, and I'm doing another one, and I did one before uh a couple months ago, but this is just too cool not to talk about, and and just so unifying for the entire world, and these astronauts, man, do they get it?
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  Boy, do they understand?
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  They know what unity looks like, and they have such a deep appreciation for humanity, for earth, for each other, and it's just really really cool.
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  They understand unity, and I've been thinking about this often.
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  I've been thinking that context really matters, right?
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  Context determines uh what mood we're in.
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  It can be the difference between a yawn and something that absolutely inspires us.
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  You can have the same speech given in two very different places and have two very different responses.
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  I mean the identical speech.
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  Somebody can give that speech in two very different places.
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  I've experienced this in my life, and I'm sure other people have too.
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  You know, there's there's a certain context that puts things into perspective, and the astronauts being the farthest that mankind has ever been in outer space, that puts things into context.
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  Having circled the moon for the first time in 53 years, that puts things into context.
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  And there are people here on Earth, and I know it's uh it's just so ridiculous, but every post that's on social media, people are mocking it, making fun the conspiracy theorists are coming out, and and and I don't know.
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  I don't know if people are doing that just to just to try to get a rise out of that, or if people actually believe all the conspiracies, but there are people saying, you know, of course, all the flat earthers are coming out and talking about how this is just a it's a manufactured trip to the moon and it didn't really happen, and they never left Earth, and yeah, just all these deep conspiracies, and I feel like a lot of times people who are so spoiled that we just don't get it, we really don't understand.
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  We can kind of empathize with people who are living in really difficult circumstances, but we don't truly understand, and so that lends itself to selfishness and people making fun of other people, people bullying other people.
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  I I just saw a video uh, you know, just to give an example of this.
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  I saw a video of a school board member.
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  There was a school board meeting, and a school board member puts his arm around this teenage girl and he says, My goodness, are you hot?
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  Uh and and he didn't stop there, and he kept making derogatory statements to this teenage girl, while the rest of the school board, including the superintendent, they were laughing, and then they just continued the the meeting as if nothing ever happened.
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  And I thought, how how have we become so desensitized where people don't intervene?
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  That that becomes normal for people.
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  And so context really matters, and my guess is that at that school there is some kind of a cultural uh thing that's going on where the sexualization of children is probably normalized.
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  I'm going out on line on a little bit of a limb here, but it's just my experience with child sexual abuse prevention.
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  That's typically what happens in those circumstances, context really matters.
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  There are other places where I gotta tell you, uh, that stuff would not fly in my kids' uh school district.
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  That nobody would sit there and laugh and think that was funny.
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  There would be intervention, there probably would be some fist going.
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  I mean, it's people would defend a teenage child who's being perped on by a nasty old man.
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  And so anyway, context, it really matters, and a lot of times we get stuck in our own little world, and we get exasperated, and we get caught in this endless cycle of endless media nonsense.
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  And I talk about that so often because I think it's really important.
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  It's so important to realize that we are being programmed by the media to be divisive.
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  We're being programmed by the media to feel like we're not unified, that we have nothing in common, especially people of different political parties.
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  It didn't used to be like that.
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  It really didn't used to matter what political party people belong to.
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  Now there was always political division, don't get me wrong.
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  But that didn't define a person.
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  That didn't determine their identity.
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  It didn't matter.
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  If you were Republican or Democrat or Independent, it didn't matter.
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  Now, because we've been programmed, endlessly programmed by the media to believe that the other the other party is the enemy.
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  We've been led to believe that that's what defines us what political party you belong to, and that's absolutely absurd.
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  It does not matter.
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  You know, the political party is not what unites us as humans or as Americans.
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  And uh so a lot of really interesting things have been happening on on uh Orion and uh, you know, I and they nicknamed it integrity, and uh a lot of really really powerful moments have been taking place, and these four people, and this is this is what I talk about all the time.
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  You let your hidden lightness shine, you will inspire everybody.
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  There are four people, four.
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  Count them, one, two, three, four, not very many people.
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  Four people have made a huge impact on millions upon millions of people for the good.
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  And I want you to listen to some of these exchanges.
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  I want to play a couple audio clips throughout the show, because I really want to highlight this.
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  I want to highlight the importance of unity and what it looks like, given the context.
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  Now, this is an exchange um where they're talking to Houston, they're talking to the command center, and they're naming a certain part of the moon.
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  There's a certain part of the moon that that at certain times of the year is visible from planet Earth.
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  It's right on the dividing line between uh what's visible from Earth and what's not.
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  And so certain times of the year, you can see it, and uh the the spot that's visible is uh pretty obviously visible when it is visible.
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  I mean you know listen to this full exchange for context.
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  Now it might be a little bit hard to hear because it's it's over two-way radio, but uh it is a powerful, powerful, powerful exchange.
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  Listen to this.
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  And there's uh there's a feature in a really neat place on the moon, and it is on the near side, far side boundary.
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  In fact, it's just on the near side of that boundary, and so at certain times of the uh moon's transit around Earth, you can we will be able to see this from Earth.
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  And so we lost a loved one.
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  Her name was Carol.
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  And if you want to find this one, you look at Glistone, and it's just in the northwest of that at the same latitude as home, and it's a it's a bright spot on the moon.
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  And we would like to call it Carol.
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  And you spell that R.
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  Oh, oh well.
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  Integrity and Carol Creator.
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  Loud and clear.
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  Thank you.
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  How amazing is that.
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  So Reed's wife, one of the astronauts, uh, his wife died of cancer a couple years ago.
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  And they decided we're the other astronauts.
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  And I think they surprised him.
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  I don't think he knew this because I was watching the video.
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  And he looked absolutely shocked.
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  And you can see him just break down in tears.
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  And you could hear you can hear the tears.
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  That was Jeremy Hansen who was making that announcement.
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  And you could hear Jeremy tearing up.
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  And he got obviously very emotional about that.
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  And my mom and I talk about this all the time.
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  My mom actually is the one who pointed this out to me many, many, many years ago.
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  And it was such a powerful reminder, and something that I had not thought about before.
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  But she said there's one thing that unites every single human being on planet Earth.
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  Since the beginning of time, there's one thing that unites every single one of us.
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  Something that we all can relate to.
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  If you think about wealth, it's not wealth.
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  Not everybody's going to be wealthy.
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  If it's poverty, it's not that because not everybody is born into poverty.
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  Um good health.
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  It's not that because half of people experience bad health.
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  Uh, you know, on and on and on.
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  The one thing that unites every single human, if we allow it to be grief and suffering.
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  It's the one thing that every single living, breathing human will experience, and that is loss.
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  We will, if you haven't already, many of us have, you will lose somebody who is the love of your life.
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  Parents will lose children.
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  Child loss is one of the most tragic, sad things, I think.
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  Uh, child loss and child abuse are two of the most tragic things that happen here on planet earth.
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  Uh husbands lose lose wives, wives lose husbands.
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  We lose parents, and eventually our life will be lost.
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  The mortality rate on earth is 100%.
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  And so that really puts things into perspective.
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  And so if if every single living breathing human on earth knows what it feels like to lose somebody they love, and it hurts, it's painful.
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  If we all know what that feels like, that's the context to say, I'm gonna do something special and meaningful for the person who lost somebody.
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  And that's exactly what the other three crew members did.
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  Victor Glover, the pilot, Christina Cook, the mission specialist, and Jeremy Hansen, the mission specialist.
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  They decided they were going to do something incredibly special, and they were going to read it back to Houston live from space.
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  They picked a bright spot on the moon, something that it's going to be obvious here from Earth.
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  And they named it Carol.
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  They named that bright spot Carol, and they spelled it exactly like Reed's wife that her name was spelled.
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  C-A-R-R-O-L-L.
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  And it was just such a powerful moment and a moment that unifies.
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  And I listened to that like 10 times, and every single time I listen to it, I I cry.
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  I mean, I get very emotional listening to that.
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  And I'm like, man, these guys, they get it.
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  You know, a lot of times when people lose people who they love, people are silent, or they're like, I don't know what to say.
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  Or we come up with these really awkward um uh cliches to try to fill time, and we're like, oh, God needed another rose for his garden.
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  That's absolutely the worst thing you can possibly say when somebody loses somebody.
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  It's better to say nothing than to say things that are hurtful.
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  You know, and and people try so hard to fill that dead space, that silence, that awkward silence, they try to fill it with cliches and platitudes that aren't helpful.
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  And what these other three crew members did is they took a tragedy and they turned it into something incredibly meaningful.
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  They they validated Reed's hurt and his pain.
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  They validated it and they honored it.
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  And they honored Carol.
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  They honored her life, the life that she lived.
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  You know, and now she is um permanently for the rest of the history of mankind.
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  There's a piece of the moon that is named Carol that'll never change.
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  You know, and I know people are thinking unless there's another Donald Trump who comes and changes names because that's what he does, but theoretically, that piece of the moon should never change names, and that's really special.
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  That's really cool.
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  And this was one of those moments, and there were many of these moments up in space, many of these moments that were just completely special.
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  And contextually, it makes you realize that these these astronauts really get it.
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  They understand what it means to be unified as humans, and they're setting an example, an example for how we do that, and that it is achievable, that it is possible, and that's really really cool.
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  So I'll share more clips after the break here.
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  Um, there's there's just so much to unpack here, and so many positive moments.
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  The Artemis 2 mission is so inspiring on so many different levels.
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  History was made, history is being made, and uh there are just so many sound bites, so many good sound bites.
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  And as I celebrated Easter at my church, uh, I was at my congregation.
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  We had a beautiful, beautiful Easter Sunday service, and of course, Easter, uh, we're celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  And uh Jesus was raised from the dead, and the Bible talks a lot about how uh when we're baptized, we're baptized into Jesus' death, but we're also baptized into his resurrection.
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  And our old self is buried, we're raised up a new person.
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  Um, and that resurrection gives us hope that when we die, we're raised and
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  And we live with Christ forever.
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  And we celebrate that.
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  It's a it's a huge celebration around the world.
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  And as we're celebrating that, I couldn't help but think on Sunday, Orion was inching its way kind of slowly at that point.
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  Now, by slow, I mean a thousand miles an hour.
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  They had slowed down to just under a thousand miles an hour, but they're kind of creeping their way towards the moon as the moon is uh creeping its way towards them.
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  And they timed it where they get on the back side of the moon, and then the moon slides into place, and then they circle back around the moon and they start their journey back towards Earth.
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  And it's really an incredible moment.
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  So just hours before that, we were celebrating resurrection Sunday.
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  And I was like, man, Victor Glover is uh a very outspoken Christian.
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  Like he's very uh very honest about his faith, and he's not ashamed to talk about it.
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  He's not ashamed to talk about Christ.
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  I'm like, man, he has a microphone where literally the entire world can listen to these four astronauts.
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  And uh, so I was listening live.
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  A lot of this I I got to hear live.
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  Um, and these were not playbacks.
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  They're playbacks now, but uh I was listening live at the time, and I was like, man, uh what does what did the astronauts have to say about celebrating the resurrection?
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  By the way, something a little bit funny.
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  Um, they did an Easter, they called it an Easter egg hunt on the uh on the Orion.
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  They had freeze-dried uh scrambled eggs.
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  That was the only eggs that that they had access to.
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  So they took these chunks of freeze-dried eggs and they hid them around around the uh the the Orion capsule.
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  And I thought, I was like, man, these guys are having so much fun up there, and uh it's just so lighthearted and so fun and so cool.
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  Uh these guys are just incredible, but uh here's what Victor had to say about celebrating Easter from the perspective of being up in space, uh, as they were nearing the moon, very, very close to the moon.
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  Here's what he said.
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  You know, I don't have anything prepared.
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  I I um I'm glad you brought that up, though.
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  I think these observances are important, and as we are so far from Earth and looking back at, you know, the beauty of creation.
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  I think the for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is I can really see Earth as one thing.
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  And you know, when I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us who were created, it's you know you you have this amazing place, this spaceship.
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  You guys are talking to us because we're in a spaceship really far from Earth, but you're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe and the cosmos.
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  Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we're doing is special, but we're the same distance from you, and I'm trying to tell you, just trust me, you are special in all of this emptiness.
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  This is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe.
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  You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.
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  I think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about you know, all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, um, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and that we got to get through this together.
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  Wow.
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  Absolutely incredible, and he's so right, he's so spot on.
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  And what a beautiful perspective.
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  I mean, I it really made me stop in my tracks and think because a lot of times we think that the whole universe centers around Earth, and it doesn't.
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  He's like, you guys are on your own spaceship, and we're really not that far apart.
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  You know, people look at that as this this miraculous thing that we're out here on this spaceship floating around, you know, in space, far away from Earth, but he's like, we're really not that far.
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  We're really close, and you guys are on your own spaceship.
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  I mean, essentially, Earth is this oasis that's just floating out there in infinity of nothingness.
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  The universe goes on forever, and we're just a tiny, tiny little speck floating around around out here in the universe, and God chose us, he gave us this oasis.
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  You know, the this place where we have wild freedom and beauty.
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  I'm going on vacation here with my family in just a couple days, and it's it's so gorgeous.
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  I'm so excited to see some of the things that we're going to see.
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  And I'm I'm not going to reveal that now where I'm going.
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  Um, but we're we're adding seven new states.
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  We're visiting 10 total states.
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  We're adding seven new states for our kids because they want to see the lower 48 before they graduate high school.
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  And uh we're we're trying very hard to make that happen for them.
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  I don't know if we'll get all 48, but uh we're darn well gonna try.
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  But some of the things that we have planned in some of the places are just absolutely miraculously gorgeous, beautiful, and God gave us that.
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  God bless us with a beautiful planet, and I was talking to my kids about this the other day.
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  I said, it doesn't matter that you could stay in the United States, never leave the United States of America, and you could travel every single day of your life until you die and still not see all of the beautiful places that there are to see.
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  There's so many places to discover and uh to and and that are just these off-the-beaten path places that are breathtakingly gorgeous, and it's so incredible, and that's just here in the United States, and in fact, you could probably narrow that down.
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  You could stay west of the Mississippi and spend the rest of your life and not see all the beautiful places that there are to see, or you could do the same on the east coast, east of the Mississippi.
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  There are so many beautiful places, and that's just right here in the U.S.
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  And then uh, oh my goodness, you go up to Canada, go out west in Canada.
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  You don't even have to go out west in Canada, Ontario.
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  I went to uh Lake Muskoka before several times, and it's oh, it's so beautiful.
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  The water in that lake is so clean that the the we're staying on a private island.
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  A friend of ours owned the entire island, and uh he said, man, the there is no well, so if if you're on city water, you probably don't want to drink the water, but if if you drink well water, uh you're probably used to all the stuff that's in the water, and and you'll be fine.
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  But he said, the water comes directly, it's unfiltered, and it comes directly from the lake.
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  I was like, you gotta be kidding me.
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  The water is that clean that you can literally drink the lake water, and and we did the whole time we were there.
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  We drank the lake water and nobody got sick.
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  It was beautiful, clean, pristine water.
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  And the whole place up there is just so gorgeous.
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  And you think of Ontario, and it's it's flat and you know, not that impressive.
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  Kind of reminds me of Kansas a little bit.
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  Uh, but there's so many beautiful places up there too.
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  Tons of them.
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  And that's all across Canada.
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  Then you get out west, and oh my goodness, just the scenery is unreal.
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  The mountains are gorgeous, the rolling hills, just everything about it.
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  But Victor's right.
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  We live on this beautiful oasis, don't and it's as if he's saying, don't you people get it?
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  Don't you understand that you're special?
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  You're a special person.
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  All of us are special.
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  And he's not saying that, like, well, everybody deserves a trophy.
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  He he's legitimately saying that we're special and we ought to treat each other that way.
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  And I gotta play you another sound bite.
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  This was right before they tucked behind the moon and lost communication with with uh with Houston.
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  So there was impossible communication with Earth for 43 minutes.
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  There was no communication, zero.
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  It was impossible for a signal to reach planet Earth because the moon was blocking the signal.
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  All right, so for 43 minutes, they went completely silent, and it's kind of an eerie, you know, a little bit of a um an unnerving thing.
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  And uh Victor, right before they went behind the moon and lost communication, he had something really cool.
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  Cool to stay.
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  And I was watching this live with my kids, and we were just blown away.
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  I mean, it was such a powerful family moment and such a teachable moment.
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  It was so so cool.
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  But here's what Victor had to say.
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  Love it.
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  As we continue to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos.
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  I would like to remind you of one of the most important mysteries there on earth.
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  And that's love.
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  In response to what was the greatest command that it was to love God with all that you are.
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  And he also being a great teacher said that I can be equal to it.
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  And that is to love your neighbor as yourself.
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  And so as we prepare to go out of radio communication.
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  We're still able to feel from Earth.
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  And to all of you down there on Earth.
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  And around Earth.
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  We love you from the moon.
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  That's really cool.
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  So this was seconds before they lost communication with Earth.
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  And you could hear it cutting out.
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  So the stigma was already starting to get lost.
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  And Victor said it's one of the greatest mysteries.
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  He said I'm up here pondering, and you know, they're they're looking at the moon, and they had a view at that point.
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  They had a view of both the moon and the earth at the same time.
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  And the moon obviously is in the forefront.
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  The earth is in the background.
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  And he said, uh, you know, there are a lot of great mysteries up here.
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  And the greatest mystery.
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  It's love.
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  You know, this ability that the for us to love God with everything that we are.
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  It's the greatest commandment in all of the scriptures.
• 32:02
  And the second greatest commandment is guided by the first commandment to love God, and that is to love your neighbor, to love your neighbor as yourself.
• 32:12
  And so he said, as you know, as we tuck behind the moon here, and we lose communication.
• 32:19
  Uh, I want you to know we feel your love, and we're sending our love to everybody on Earth and around Earth.
• 32:28
  And he that obviously was a shout out, a reference to the other astronauts who are at the International Space Station.
• 32:37
  And uh, it's just a really powerful moment, but there were so many of these.
• 32:44
  And I I had to be selective with how many uh how many of these audio bites that I give because there are just so many.
• 32:54
  And it's it's a powerful reminder that context is really important.
• 33:01
  And I just wonder, yeah, uh like my mind kept going to how many people don't even know, still don't even know that we have astronauts in space, and that we just broke so many records, and that we have this unifying event that's happening right now.
• 33:22
  And there are just so many things that man has overcome to be able to get to this point, and so many people who've had to work together and tirelessly work together to bring this all together and to make it work to make it happen.
• 33:39
  That this can't happen without cooperation and unity.
• 33:44
  And I wonder how many Americans don't even know or don't care that we have history in the making right now, that we have this unifying event that they're not listening to the words of the astronauts.
• 33:59
  How many people don't know or don't care?
• 34:03
  And I blame the not knowing part on the media because I gotta tell you, now all of a sudden the media is kind of interested because they realize, and and and this is kind of an interesting twist on this, right?
• 34:18
  Humans crave positivity, and the media, they think that clickability is because of dramatic events covering dramatic events or or negative events or covering the war.
• 34:33
  They they there's just endless coverage of the war.
• 34:37
  And the media is constantly like every time somebody breathed breathes sideways, the media's on it.
• 34:46
  They're like, oh, President Trump called uh called Gavanusome newsgum again, and that's like front page news for for a week.
• 34:58
  And uh, like they ought to learn that people actually like positive stories, they like positivity, they're inspired by other people, and we see this behavior all the time on the show.
• 35:11
  I highlight it constantly that people are inspired and motivated by other people doing good deeds toward mankind, especially to people in need, people are motivated by that because that brings everything into perspective, it gives context, and it makes us I don't know about you, but uh definitely for me, it makes me appreciate all the blessings in my life when I see stories of other people reaching out to people who are less fortunate and they bless them.
• 35:47
  It makes me want to do the same thing.
• 35:49
  It it motivates me, and so now the media is starting to cover the uh the space journey.
• 35:58
  But as far as the launch, like it was crickets, the launch was crickets, uh the first few days in space, crickets, you didn't really hear anything, and then the astronauts started giving really powerful sound bites, and they were going viral, and then all of a sudden the media was like, hey, we gotta capitalize on this.
• 36:22
  Like, this is kind of the cool thing to do now.
• 36:25
  And so they started to cover it.
• 36:27
  So kind of interesting just watching their their behavior, but uh yeah, uh it's it's powerful, and people like to be motivated, people like to be inspired, people like positive things, and the astronauts, they really really understand this, and they're not doing it for show, they're not doing it for likability or clicks or anything like that.
• 36:49
  The astronauts are doing it because they're just legitimately good people, they're down to earth, no pun intended, and uh they're just really really cool people.
• 36:59
  So we'll share a couple more sound bites, uh, inspiring sound bites after the break here.
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  The Artemis 2 mission is absolutely incredible.
• 39:16
  And there's so many powerful moments.
• 39:19
  Um I'm like kind of wiping my eyes right now.
• 39:22
  My eyes are sweating, just uh thinking about how inspiring this is and how much the astronauts get it.
• 39:31
  How much they understand compassion and kindness and humanity and how fragile humanity is.
• 39:40
  And uh it's just such a God moment.
• 39:44
  And uh I love I love hearing their person their perspective, and as they're up in space, you know, my kids and I are trying to imagine what that's like to be able to go up in space and just view Earth from from a different person.
• 40:00
  Perspective.
• 40:00
  We get to see the pictures, but it's definitely not the same thing.
• 40:05
  It is not the same thing.
• 40:08
  And they get to view Earth as you know, as they're kind of pulling away.
• 40:14
  And as they circle back, and now as they're drawing back near to Earth, they get a very, very different perspective.
• 40:24
  And I just can't imagine.
• 40:27
  Because I know like it's so different to look at a picture of the stars.
• 40:34
  It's so different to look at a picture of stars versus getting to lay down in a field.
• 40:41
  You bring your own blanket and you you set the stage and you pick the spot.
• 40:46
  You get to pick the spot, and you pick the spot with the lowest light pollution.
• 40:52
  And you set up your chairs or you lay on your blanket and you're looking up.
• 40:56
  And my kids and I um we have our favorite spot, and uh it's actually in Shanksville, where I grew up, where Flight 93 went down, uh, just a little little piece from there.
• 41:09
  Um it's on my mom's property, and when we go out to the field, that's where we stargaze because there is zero light pollution, and you can very, very clearly see the Milky Way, and uh, I mean, it's just it's your eyes instantly adjust, and that's where we view meteor showers.
• 41:32
  That's where we've seen uh rockets go into space.
• 41:37
  Uh, we've we've viewed so many cool things from that field, and there's just there's nothing like it.
• 41:44
  You can't substitute that with pictures.
• 41:47
  So the astronauts, they get an experience, and it's a it's really a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and uh I think they know that they get it.
• 41:58
  And uh so as they're up there, they're kind of putting things into perspective for us.
• 42:06
  This is what Christina Cook had to say, and uh, she's talking back to Houston Command, and as she's reflecting on, you know, they're they're this was on their way to the moon, and they're looking back at Earth, and she gets on with uh Houston Command, and this were this was uh her speech, her thoughts, and it's just beautiful.
• 42:34
  Houston, we have you the same, and it is so great to hear from Earth again to Asia, Africa, and Oceana.
• 42:42
  We are looking back at you.
• 42:43
  We hear you can look up and see the moon right now.
• 42:46
  We see you too.
• 42:49
  When we burned this burn towards the moon, I said that we do not leave Earth, but we do.
• 42:56
  And that is true.
• 42:58
  We will explore, we will build, we will build ships, they'll visit again.
• 43:04
  We will construct science output, we will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy, we will found companies, we will boaster industry, we will inspire.
• 43:15
  But ultimately, we will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other.
• 43:24
  Integrity from Earth, our single system, fragile and interconnected, we copy.
• 43:29
  Those of us that can are looking back.
• 43:38
  We are happy to say we copy.
• 43:41
  What a cool exchange.
• 43:44
  What a cool exchange.
• 43:46
  We we will always choose Earth.
• 43:50
  Yeah, these are these are astronauts who man, they're just they're they're innovators, and again, this is what makes America great.
• 44:03
  I I mean, name other countries.
• 44:08
  Uh right, America is always first.
• 44:13
  That's always first.
• 44:15
  And that's what is as much as people don't like President Trump.
• 44:20
  He's not the most likable guy.
• 44:23
  But as much as people don't like him, he's right about one thing.
• 44:30
  Make America first.
• 44:33
  Because America's always been first.
• 44:37
  We were the first to the moon.
• 44:40
  Uh there was the race to the moon.
• 44:43
  We were the first.
• 44:46
  We were the first to go back to the moon after 53 years.
• 44:52
  Now it's it's in partnership, in all fairness, and we have a Canadian uh who's on Orion, and that's incredible.
• 45:01
  That's really cool.
• 45:02
  That's really special.
• 45:03
  And President Trump even acknowledged that when he spoke to the four astronauts, he said, you know, we have one of our one of our neighbors, and he said, we love our neighbors.
• 45:15
  He's talking about Canada.
• 45:18
  And he's like, you know, you all just make us so proud back here on Earth.
• 45:24
  And that was really cool.
• 45:26
  It was really cool to hear that.
• 45:28
  So uh, you know, it's just this fascinating thing where we're able to innovate and we're able to build rocket ships and look at what Elon Musk is doing.
• 45:38
  One of the most hated people by the left, and I wish that wasn't so.
• 45:43
  I wish that people could just realize, yeah, he's he's a quirky, strange dude.
• 45:50
  Um I get it.
• 45:53
  But look at the innovation, and that's because of America.
• 45:58
  He came to America, the land of the free, and was able to catapult into the world's wealthiest person, and he, Elon Musk, SpaceX, they're building the starship that can land on the moon.
• 46:19
  Do you know that Orion, the the NASA's capsule that the astronauts are in, it can't land on the moon.
• 46:29
  It's impossible.
• 46:31
  It's not designed for it.
• 46:34
  And it's private companies that are gonna put us back on the moon, not NASA.
• 46:41
  And I think that's really incredible.
• 46:43
  So it's just all this opportunity and innovation and a lot of things that we can and should boast about because it's it's really special that mankind is able to work together and figure these things out.
• 46:58
  It's it's a camaraderie and it's a it's a whole culture of working together and putting some of the best brightest minds together and advancing for mankind.
• 47:12
  And so as Christina Cook is is looking back at Earth, she's reflecting on all this, and she's like, you know, we're gonna do all these incredible things in space.
• 47:23
  We're gonna build, we're gonna, we're gonna uh have all these ships, these new ships, and you know, all this stuff.
• 47:30
  We're gonna be able to brag about our industry, all this stuff.
• 47:35
  But we choose Earth every single time.
• 47:39
  And we choose each other.
• 47:42
  That's so powerful.
• 47:45
  And it's so cool, and it's so spot on.
• 47:48
  There was another moment that I want to highlight too, and Victor, Victor Glover is the first black person to go to the moon, who went to the moon.
• 48:04
  And of course, the media is like if you look on social media, like people are posting that.
• 48:12
  They're just obsessively posting about that.
• 48:17
  And they they want to make this about race.
• 48:20
  And it's it's wow, look, look at uh look at what we were able to do.
• 48:26
  Look at what we, you know, look at what we accomplished.
• 48:30
  And so Victor Glover was asked about that right before they left for space.
• 48:35
  They were like, Well, what do you think about this idea that you're the first black person to go to the moon?
• 48:42
  Like, isn't that just uh incredible?
• 48:44
  That's just amazing.
• 48:45
  And uh, you know, the media was was just uh almost fantasizing about that.
• 48:52
  And I love his response, and I don't think it's what they expected, but listen to his response here.
• 48:59
  It is a big question, and I um I want to highlight, I guess maybe one facet of this is the tension I call it.
• 49:05
  I live in this, you know, this dichotomy between happiness that uh a young woman can look at Christina and just physicalize her her passion or her interests, or even if it's not something she wants to do, she can just be like girl power, and that's awesome, and that young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, hey, he looks like me and he's doing what?
• 49:24
  And that's great.
• 49:24
  I love that, but I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don't have to talk about these first, that one day this is just and I listen to this.
• 49:34
  That this is the human history, it's about human history, it's the story of humanity, not black history, not women's history, but that it becomes human history.
• 49:43
  Wow.
• 49:44
  Again, spot on.
• 49:47
  Like, yeah, hey, it's great, you know, whatever.
• 49:51
  There's there's this constant tension.
• 49:53
  There's this tension that I feel where, yeah, it's great that little boys and and and girls that look like.
• 50:00
  Me.
• 50:00
  They're like, hey, I'm I'm I'm brown and I look like him, and he can go to the moon, so I can go to the moon.
• 50:07
  Yeah, that's great.
• 50:08
  And little girls can look up to Christina and be like, girl power.
• 50:14
  Yeah, that's cool.
• 50:16
  But what about humanity?
• 50:19
  Like I long for the time where we don't talk about these things first.
• 50:25
  We don't talk about black history and you know, uh, make these big events that that surround the color of our skin.
• 50:38
  You know, this is a this is a uh a huge step for humanity.
• 50:44
  We're all humans on this earth together.
• 50:48
  And I love that.
• 50:50
  I think it's absolutely right.
• 50:51
  And I don't think the media was expecting that.
• 50:53
  I think they they were like, man, like this, this is just gonna prove that you know there's there's this division, and he feels this sense of overcoming because he's black.
• 51:06
  And that's not Victor's experience.
• 51:11
  There's just so much that's inspiring here, and it's it's really hard to unpack it all.
• 51:16
  Um my mind is spinning, and uh what I've really have enjoyed probably the most out of all of this, the whole journey is getting to have conversations with my kids.
• 51:29
  And uh, you know, as a family, uh we have these conversations over dinner, and we talk about what it means to be unified.
• 51:36
  We talk about what it means to walk as a Christian.
• 51:41
  We talk about what it means to be kind and compassionate and thoughtful towards other people, and I I will never ever forget that moment, getting to watch live as Orion is just about to lose communication with Earth, and I got to watch that live with my family.
• 52:06
  As Victor said, one of the greatest mysteries, in fact, the greatest mystery is love.
• 52:14
  This ability for us to be able to love God with everything that we have, everything that we are, and then to understand this this gift, this ability to be able to love our neighbors, and it really really puts things in perspective.
• 52:33
  We get to love people.
• 52:37
  You can look at it one way, it's a commandment, and it is, but we don't have to love people.
• 52:48
  Uh now to get to heaven, you do, but God gives us the freedom.
• 52:55
  And uh, so we get to love each other.
• 53:02
  We choose to love each other, and there's all this rhetoric out there, and uh just political rhetoric that is complete utter gibberish, and people defining what love is, and you know, remember back at COVID.
• 53:16
  If you didn't wear a mask, you don't really love your neighbors, and like they started coming up with all these really bizarre rules and regulations for what defines love towards your neighbor, and we started splitting hairs over just about everything.
• 53:32
  If you don't get the vaccination, you don't really love your neighbor, if you whatever it is, you know, on and on and on.
• 53:38
  And they kept coming up with more and more rules, and then they applied it to whatever your view is on abortion, whether you're pro-life or pro-choice or whatever, or anything in between.
• 53:50
  It's and they started defining what love is for us.
• 53:54
  And Victor Glover is like, no, no, no, you guys don't get it.
• 53:59
  Like, we get to choose love and compassion and unity.
• 54:07
  We get to do that.
• 54:08
  God has given us this beautiful planet, this beautiful spaceship, as he called it.
• 54:15
  We get our own spaceship, we get our own oasis that's just floating out here in the middle of nothingness, just vast, endless nothingness, and we get this beautiful oasis, and we get to love each other, and Christina Cook, right?
• 54:34
  We choose Earth every time.
• 54:38
  We choose Earth.
• 54:40
  It's just beautiful.
• 54:41
  And I thought it was a beautiful moment for humanity, and it brought us back to our creator.
• 54:51
  The astronauts, all of them, they keep bringing us back to God, and they're bringing everything into focus.
• 55:00
  And what really matters at the end of the day, what really matters is our love for each other, our love for God, our love for each other, knowing that we're all on this planet, this spaceship together.
• 55:22
  And while we're all on the same planet together, we ought to treat everybody with love and compassion and kindness.
• 55:37
  So it's really a powerful moment for humanity, and uh, I just my hat's off to all four of the the crew member on Orion, and they're just they're so inspiring, and I just want them to know uh that they have really inspired my family, and they've uh they've motivated us to be better people, to really stop and reflect and put things in perspective and to just keep that context that life is really precious, life is short, life is precious, and uh we live on this beautiful oasis, and uh we vow to take care of it and to take care of each other and to take care of and love our neighbors always.
• 56:22
  We choose Earth.
• 56:25
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• 56:33
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