We just got this tip in from Jennie:
Tune in to The Flame Trench to watch an comedian Stephen Colbert interview an astronaut.
Station flight engineer Garrett Reisman, a New Jersey native who threw out a ceremonial first pitch from the outpost prior to a New York Yankees game against the rival Boston Red Sox last month, will do a space-to-ground interview with Colbert at 10:50 a.m. EDT today. The interview, which will be webcast live here in The Flame Trench, will be aired on “The Colbert Report” at 11:30 p.m. EDT that night.
I’m at work and can’t watch it, so if anyone out there can catch it, please post spoilers in the comments.
And if you want to avoid spoilers, um, don’t go to the comments. :)
EDITED TO ADD: If you go here, you can watch the interview at the “Media Channel” portion of the page (thanks for the hint, LaColberta!). – Ms I
In spaaaaaaaaace.
I’m at work too, but nothing’s working right now. HOORAY!
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I hope other people are able to watch/listen to this. :) Laser cannon!
(reCAPTCHA: Mr. Suspicious)
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“You grow a little bit in space.” I did not know that.
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LOL Reisman is awesome, btw.
(I’m totally spamming this post, aren’t I? ;) )
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HA! Dippin Dots!
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“Do you eat Dippin’ Dot? I understand that’s the ice cream of the future.”
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Bottom of the sea for two weeks too? Dang.
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“Did you have hair when you took off for the space station, and it just got ripped off in the G-forces?”
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Flipping the Wrist Strong bracelet up to God > Genius!
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lol Cannibalism mention.
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I know — loved it!!
I don’t remember it exactly, but I think it went something like this:
“Do you ever catch another astronaut looking at you as if he’s picturing a giant turkey leg?”
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Hee. He should’ve followed up with, “‘Cause I am.” Oh, poor Bobby.
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Obvious comment…but I love Stephen’s laugh.
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“Laughing in space looks fun” – FLIP!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
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Bwah! “Depending on what my superiors think of this interview …”
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LOL He got the bracelet from space!
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“It’s good to hear something can make you grow an inch, because I’ve got e-mails promising that all the time.”
Stephen KILLS me!
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I was waiting for that joke to come. Stephen never fails to make me laugh.
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I was waiting for him to suggest sending Jon up there.
Of course, you recompress when you come back down anyhow. :( Aw.
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Haha! That was my thought, too!
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Yay, that was fun. :)
I loved when Stephen asked Reisman to scream.
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that was seriously the coolest thing ever. i loved the spinning wrist strong bracelet…tcr is universe-wide now! how thrilling.
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I missed the beginning (only caught from the comment on Reisman’s lack of hair onward), but I’m looking forward to seeing more of this tonight. Good stuff!
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Great interview. It’ll be interesting to see which parts make it through the edit.
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Please tell me someone can do a recap for we
streaming video-challenged! Dang work!
I think I saw a screen cap.
Did he have on a green shirt?
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My two favorite parts:
“I can’t believe I’m talking to space! I should say something really profound. EAT IT, Jon Stewart — I’m talking to space!!”
“Hail, Xenu!” (followed by discussion of Gorlock — apparently Reisman recently fired him)
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I hope they keep the Jon part in. :D “EAT IT!!!” Profound indeed.
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They have to — it was perfect.
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Oh, and I liked this exchange:
SC: You are a member of the Colbert Nation, are you not, sir?
GR: Well, I guess I should say I’m a member of the Colbert Universe.
SC: We’ve gone galactic!
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Our plans of domination are coming to fruition! Mwa hahahahahaha!
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*fly hands*
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GRUMBLEGRUMBLE
Silly work. I miss everything lately! At least it’ll be on the show.
Anyone who saw it, how long was the interview? Because if it’s longer than like five minutes they’ll have to cut some of it out. :(
Still, my inner nerd is freaking out that he actually got to do that interview! Plus, we know how much Stephen’s into science fiction and stuff, so he had to be soooo excited about it.
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He sounded absolutely giddy — you could tell he was thrilled. So adorable!
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I’d say it was between 15 and 20 minutes. They’ll probably cut out a lot of the delays, but yeah, some of the questions will have to go.
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Aww, if only I checked this site an hour ago, I could have caught this. Sad. How long was it?
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Darn, I missed it… but right now its on NASA tv (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html). They usually rebroadcast stuff. probaly 3 times a day…. and they have life streaming video.
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live not life… looks like this will replay between 3-5 EDT again
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Thanks for the hint, LaColberta. I’d definitely like to go back and catch the part I missed.
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You may want to keep an eye on the “live” feed. I just caught the end of the interview, so they may be repeating it through out the day.
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Much thanks to Jennie and DB for alerting us to this!!!
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Ditto! :) Thanks, guys.
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I just saw it at 3pm Central. It’s 19 minutes long (unedited). NASA TV will replay at the top of the hour several more times today:
NASA TV VIDEOFILE RUNDOWN for Thursday, May 8, 2008 – 12 p.m.
Video-File Schedule:
Media Channel (#103) — In the morning at 4, 5, 6 and 8 a.m., and afternoon/evening 12, 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 11 p.m. (all times Eastern)
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Wow!!! That was so great. Loved the spinning WS bracelet, the flip, tossing the bracelet to God (ultimate product placement – hee). Both of them seemed tickled to be talking to each other. Hooray for Intergalactic Stephen!
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Awesome! And Stephen was SO happy, how delightful! Thanks.
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Oh wow, that was so good! I loved the exchanging of the wriststrong bracelet. Stephen’s like, “I got it from space!”
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Yes!!! After keeping an eye on the NASA website all day, I finally saw the full interview. Garrett Reisman rocks. What an it-getter! I’m so happy for Stephen.
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