Imagine stepping onto a plane, believing you’re on your way to a top-secret Russian space training camp. You undergo intense astronaut training, compete for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to go to space, and then… you launch into orbit. Or at least, that’s what you think is happening. In 2005, the UK reality TV show Space Cadets pulled off one of the … Read More
Would You Believe You Went to Space? These People Did | Space Cadets Ep 260
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00:00 like hey, how gold were you? Would you be able to be convinced that you've been in space for five days when I'm really you've been on a TV set and a wooden box the whole time? That's exactly what this reality show did in two thousand and five in the UK. They put nine contestants in a fake Russian space simulator sent three of them to space, but all on they were just in a studio in a box faking it. Are you smarter than a space cadet 00:26 This is things I learned last night each week. We learned about an interesting topic, an interesting story and we're laugh a lot along the way. So if you're here for this topic and you're like I don't want anybody, I don't want no jokes, no laughter. I hate joy. You're going to love this. We're so serious. This is the best, so when does this come out? 00:44 February, eleven, February, eleventh. Hey, at the end of this month, I'm in Chicago for three days, February, twenty eight, March, first and March, second. I am in the Chicago area, different different little spots, Cagalan, Chicago land, so I would love to see it one of those shows. All my tour dates are on my website, jenny Myers, dot com slash shows. Please come to those. Please come to those. I need you to come to them because if you don't, it's a bummer. 01:14 We'll see you there. All right. 01:19 Oh hey man, what's going on? Oh you know we're just here at a space Tim's corporate conference. You know I thought this when we did this. You don't have to make it like a weird thing. You're gonna be like oh we're here in this. I just freaking is no one care. I care and I think they I think they to two. I think people look at the two to just what's the episode about to two. Okay, whatever I have you heard of the space cadets, the space cadets, space cadets. Are we talking about like actual space force? 01:49 No, well kind sort of space cadets are those little green guys in Toy Story, right? No, no, those are just aliens. They're not called they're not. I was I listen. Here's the here. We were talking about which sides of the internet we're on and you're like on the side of the internet. That's like I don't know, tunnel girl and what's the other thing you brought up. I don't know something weird. That's I watched a whole. I don't know probably six minute video 02:14 on how they chose the alien voice in fairly odd parents what okay, so there's an alien character in fairly odd parents who and they had the audition for it and everyone came in and did that and one guy when it came in it was like ah puny humans. What's up guys and they were like yeah we freaking like that because he just did something different did something that wasn't alien so 02:44 interesting, speaking of things that are different. We are in a different studio. I don't know if you guys know the room looks a little different because we had to mix up with the schedule and stuff, so we're in this now anyway, a business cast yeah yeah yeah yeah we're going to tell you how to get rich, so we're actually talking about stocks and investing today, not the space cadets cadets is our new coin and the logo from the the logo from it looks like looks like a coin 03:14 okay, okay, so I'm just going to I'm not going to bury the lead on this because I don't know if there's a way I could tell you this story without without the reveal sure. So here's the thing and speaking of reveals what what what we mean what what are you trying to do? What are you trying to we have some hard to share? Yeah, I think now's an appropriate time to do it. That's a good call that we're now that we've spent a lot of time covered a bunch of other stuff. 03:41 Yeah, I mean I finally finished Hello Neighbor, the video game and I'm really proud of my and also Tim's got yeah switch to is coming out so you can maybe they'll make in a Hello Neighbor to Hello Other Neighbor, tell your little fun. I'm going to be a dad. Yeah, we're having a little kid sure it's hers. Not actually there's no really solid proof so far there hasn't been anything to be obvious. Yeah, so episode come out 04:11 I don't know before your kid yeah for sure, for sure, definitely before that okay. No yeah in May, we'll have a little type of our own. That's awesome yeah. So now I have a dad sweatshirt. I mean I still don't know the gender of this child yeah, and I'm going to keep it that way. You're never going to find that I feel like I know just intuitively yeah, but I say it at the same time. We say the same time. I'd say it at the same time ready one 04:41 two three boy. You didn't do it. I wasn't going to say it because I don't want you to ever know I'm never going to ever know. I'll know in May. Let's see. Let's see what you will see. We'll see, but here's. This is why we brought it up. Okay, first of all, big news for Tim great cry. I told him I wanted to be Uncle Jaron and he took real problem with that. I didn't take a problem with that. I just said he does that's weird. His uncle, your is 05:09 we got it baby wait. Is it a boy? Are you having a boy for real? Are you having a boy for real? 05:22 I was genuinely planning on telling you fray. I would for real. Yes, we are God. I hate that you just that's awesome in yeah yeah that's great yeah. We're calling them Tim now pre. I threw that out and Bray was like absolutely not yeah. Why would you breathe straight up was like I hate that yeah yeah no yeah even name picked out all right. You don't have to say your name are here, but we have options. We haven't like yeah yeah 05:50 we kind of feel like start dogs name where we kind of feel like because we're worried. We kind of feel like we're going to let him choose. What do you want to be? No, we just got to feel like if we pick something, what if we look at him for the first time we're like? Oh, that name doesn't fit yeah, so we're not like committing to anything. Well, it also it's so much harder because your wife's a teacher. 06:15 Yeah that she knows there's a lot of association. You ruin so many names just because you go. I mean I love the name, you know all of her and then you go freaking kids. So you know I love the name Levi, I really leave. You know like my favorite name. You are ever have to do something off the wall and crazy just so that there's no annoying kid attached to it. Yeah, I always love Ted Kazinski as like a first thing, but then I found out about Ted Kazinski 06:49 yeah okay. First name is Ted Kaczynski, yeah, I go by Ted for short. It was so and I like and that's why I've waited to have kids yeah. You know yeah yeah, so I mean it's tough to name a name a boy. That's so exciting yeah wow yeah. I thought you I thought you would know because I think I've told you 07:15 the nursery is going to be Star Wars. Did I tell you that yeah? I kind of figured it out during that call. I think when you because we were facetiming when you were repainted and you painted it like green and I was like I when you painted a green that kind of threw me a little bit. I was like that could still we could go either way yeah yeah either way, but then the Star Wars wrapping paper care or the wallpaper came out and I was like oh man that's pretty wild. It is wild so now now 07:39 I've got to have a daughter in the next couple of years and then we just force them to be together so that you and I will never grow apart. Yeah, well, here's the deal. I think I don't know or honestly, who are we? You know if I got a son, who are we to judge? Yeah, you know, right. Either way, we got to force our kids to be together forever. Yeah, I mean here's the thing there. Here's a thing 08:05 by your logic, their brothers already by your logic. I have no no relationship with this kid at all where you're just like hey, I can't we can't wait to be an uncle and you're like why you're not related and I was like what are you talking about now? You made me feel like Tim acted like this is some uncommon weird thing that only people in the Midwest do and then I reminded him of a little show called how I met your mother where every character in that show is referenced as Uncle Marshall, Uncle Barney, Aunt Robin, 08:35 Do you think his kids are like oh dad? Why wait you love aunt Robin? That's your sister and then he's like guys she's not actually my sister and they're like what 08:46 My whole concept of the English language has broken down! 08:53 Yeah, I get that I get that after you called and we talked. You told Brie that I had to I had to go to your wife and we like Brie was like to be at all this right and I was like I was like really what I hated most is trying to push it off on her dude. I did not try to push it off her in that conversation. You were like you were like. I don't think Brie's going to go for it. I did not do that oh 09:22 You can't gas like me dude. I did not that's. I don't think she I didn't think she was going to go for that. What are you? See what happened in those two seconds right? Let's replay that right. I didn't do that. I didn't do to be fair. I didn't think she would go for it. That's why I said it. I didn't say it, but I didn't think she would do it. 09:45 because you said to me she's not going to go for that and then I go. You just said Brie wouldn't go for that and you're like I didn't say that I didn't say that to be fair. I did think that I did say it, but I didn't say that that's a stupid you sound right now. 10:00 you want to talk about the space could be a really good dad. I'm really proud of you and I'm so excited for you. I know this is right now after everything you just I do like and I wait. Even if you don't let me call myself uncle Jaron, I really cannot wait to invest in this kid's life and watch this kid grow and hopefully be a better influence in their life than you are. I hate a nice you because I do know the importance of having male role models and I also know that statistically your kid is more likely to listen to 10:30 an adult male friend than they are their own dad, and that's what I'm most excited for an uncle about you having a boy in an uncle is that I'll have more influence than you 10:43 all right. Let's talk about this. I don't think your wife's going to like that very much okay, so the space cadets yeah the space cadets December space. I'm just holding space for you and your new baby. 11:06 hate this December two thousand and five. Okay, the UK Edmonton UK Channel for producers, Zepetra came up with this show called Space Cadets. This was a group of producers. I gosh we don't have a TV in here today, but I really wanted to show you this picture. A matter of fact, I might just pull this up and turn this around so you can see this. Okay, they 11:36 they had a like incredible line of shows that they produced. Okay, they were on Big Brother, they or they produce Big Brother, they produced wife swap love what now those are two shows. I'd love to be on and 11:56 you let me say that. Why are you not really? Those are two shows I'd love to be on. I'd love to be on because well, and that was the whole thing. That's the whole reason I got married was I was like it's not called girlfriend swap the the that's the whole reason you got married. They say stuff bro. Come on, I'm trying to set up this reveal okay, so they had another show which you're familiar with undercover boss, right of 12:24 that's another show that I've tried. That's why we started our own company. Yeah, everything that every decision I make is based on what reality show will this kid I do yeah yeah yeah, so if you're not familiar with her cover, trying to get on cops next is a show where the boss goes undercover and goes to work. You really got it. You really show that's the show you got to guess. Yeah, so I want you to guess what the show okay hold on 12:52 undercover boss though real quick before we get to whatever your bid is undercover boss subway went on undercover boss right yeah and the founder of subway was and you know not to speak ill of it. So be he was he was he was always very full of himself. He was very you know. I'm the reason this company is successful joke about him. He's not around any sure he's not going to listen to this. They played in prison, not hell 13:24 so anyway that's going on one of the out of context. No, so he thought I, because I worked at subway when the undercover boss thing happened yeah, and he thought that oh also my employees know what I look like. So I can't be the undercover boss, so they sent like a little lower level thing. Oh yeah, 13:46 none of us knew what you look like. No, no, it's not like you know. I got I work at subway. I don't go home and Google. What is the owner of this company look like? I don't have your poster on my wall, dude, yeah, yeah, I do now. I can't think of a single job I had where I knew what my boss looked like. You can't go a single job, a single job, a single job. I had where I'm like. I know what my boss looked like 14:12 like okay, yeah, could it tell you okay, so the show. I want you to just take a guess what the show undercover dads was 14:30 okay. My mind immediately went to like twenty one jump street type thing. Okay is this dad's infiltrating their like kids friend group somehow undercover dads. So you're on the right track except for this is oh they were like let's miss his doubt fire some families. Is that what this is a hundred percent their dad way dad's dressed up like the nanny 14:54 and then I don't know what the cut what they did, but they dressed up like the nanny and try to see how they did. I've got on the show. So far is this image oh like they straight up mrs. Doubtfire, this down fired their kids and I love it so so you're gonna mrs. Doubtfire, a hundred percent undercover, their life yeah and then when they find the graduate high school, if they graduate, let's be real. It's time you meet your dad 15:22 They're gonna think that I stepped out when they were an infant. And turns out I was the nanny all along! 15:36 breeze got to go on breeze got to like she's got to let them catch her crying. Sometimes you know where she's just alone in the room and like and they're like mom was wrong. Mom your kids British these kids in the mid it doesn't that suck. You're going to have a midwest kid. You think about that sometimes that sucks a lot about that living in California. I don't want to raise a California kid yeah yeah. 16:03 I don't know where to go yeah. I can't figure out all people so all of them are a bad stereo anyway yeah, but your kids are mom. What's wrong and then he's got to be like he left you know and then and then I come in and go don't cry Briana. He was a pig and he was useless and what he had that stupid podcast. 16:32 that's so dumb like your mrs. Doub firing your kid and then when they turn a when they finally go to school, reveal take his face off. You go, I don't know how long she was no, no, no, this she was he's six years old now we're committed. You can't quit now back now yeah yeah. What's the point though? What finally do rise with you and bring here? 16:56 all because of this bit anyway, that accounts like I'm still dressed like the nanny has their own count. I like method acting because like I miss is down firing your counselor. 17:12 in the early days of this show, we did like affiliate ads where we were like a sign up for grammarly and use code till and and we got like fifteen cents and now we just do patreon. It's a much better way. It's better for us as creators. It's better for you as listeners and it's a much more fun way for us to interact. We do monthly hangouts like on zoom. We just hang out and play games online and and get to know each other. It's a really fun time. So 17:39 but still use our code till in at grammerly dot com because I think it's still I might get like a couple cents from that, but join us on patreon because we're having a great time. If you don't, we're going to have to start doing mobile game ads. 17:56 You're Mrs. Doubtfiring your wife's counselor to get information on what your wife is telling you. 18:06 going you could you could dress as a stuff. I go to your wife's counselor, tell that wife's counselor all the problems that you think your wife is bringing up to see what solutions your counselor offer yeah and then you and then you hang with your counselor is like honestly. I would say just sit him down at dinner and say the following sentence and then they say the thing that Bria just said to you the night before you're like. I knew that wasn't her. I knew that was new and I knew it so your voice just got really deep. 18:35 didn't get deep. It's been deep okay, so space cadets. I watched there was a there was an ad that came up the other day on my on my feed yeah. That was clear like this person was walking through Walmart showing the price of something at Walmart versus what it's available on the shop or whatever yeah, and I'm not joking when you like this. 18:58 I can't believe that this you know clearly somebody who's like I'm gonna make my voice deeper for this. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. Wow! I can't believe govi lighting is this expensive at Walmart. It's this much at the and people in the comments were like. What are you doing? Your voice, what do you what do you do? What do you do? I'm out. What do you talk? This is my voice is what I sound like. Oh my gosh crazy. Are you doing that with your jaw? You think it looks hot 19:27 so December seven two thousand and five. This production company puts out in a show and releases on the seventh called undercover dad, no called space cadets undercover dad was one of their shows. I just wanted to bring that up, so they had a list of reality shows that were successful big reality shows and then undercover dads, which I wish gosh. I wish it came to the U. Honestly, would probably do well now. Oh, I think it would crush anyways. This show was a 19:55 the bold show is a ten episode show that started on December seventh ended on December sixteenth, so it was literally night night yeah, which is crazy. I don't know if you could do that nowadays like tried it with the reindeer games, big brother reindeer yeah having a nightly. I just don't think anyone has time for that. Well, they did in December. Hopefully people on crit, they because they're going for the college market to be honest. I guess that makes sense yeah, which I mean with I remember Christmas break in college. I would just stay home and watch 20:24 I mean episode after episode of after episode of Park, which is what I did during the semester to but that's why I filled out, but I'm saying like the December was really that's really yeah. I used to watch like four episodes a day on a December. I'd get like six or seven episodes and interesting interest. So they went on a basically this. The concept of this show yeah was they did a casting call and they cast in three actors. There are going to be three actors in the mix with all the contestants for the show. 20:53 and then there was going to be. Let me see what is this nine actual like participants in the show, so twelve people yeah, three of them are three of them more actors are in on it yeah, are in on it and what they told them is they let they were like okay. It's an adventure show and when they showed up on set for the adventure, they were told what the concept of the show was and it was that they were going to go through space, train space training and three of them are going to get to go to space and that was the concept. So obviously the actors win 21:22 well, the plan, no, the plan is there was never a good. No one was going to space. There was a simulator. They were going to put him in a simu, but if you do that with the actors at the end, no, they're on the real people. They wanted to see if they could trick him into believing they took him to space and there was going to be a five day trip in space and so is five days, a five day training and then they were going to pick the three top of the class. 21:48 and then the three top of the class. They were going to send a space with two pilots and the two pilots were also actors and it was a simulator. They built. They spent five million dollars building the simulator okay to try to make it really convincing like they were going to space, and so here's how they pulled this off. So they did the casting call. They put out this big casting call and they said hey, 22:08 you want to be on TV and so they bought these people in that's that is what happened. I live in Los Angeles and I'll be pumping gas. I'll be the gas station and someone's just over here. They open their jacket and they're like you have me on TV. I'm like what you know those people who have watches and stuff and like this one's just got like different pamphlet. They're like you're a top of the gas station on the way to Branson. They got all those pamphlets and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I would be on TV. Yeah, I put your clothes on like here's real. 22:38 hey you want to be our tv. You're about to be on the news. Yeah, you're going to be. I love watching tourists come to Los Angeles and fall for that by the way. It's my favorite thing. It's like you're talking to a homeless person right now. I hope my parents came out to L. A. We went to the Santa Monica Pier. You know what happened at the peer what street performer looked at another street performer and went that guy's a cop again. It happens to me believe a lot. Why does street performers exclusively though? 23:07 no, not just not just three performers. I mean it's most often street perform. Oh yeah, but well there because they're looking they're like they're like they're on edge. Yeah, you know, but like I mean that girl that lady I gave an uber ride to one time. She was like you think I don't know an undercover cop when I see one you do look like an undercover cop that's what I'm saying. What like first of all, if I look like it make me one, how do I become one? I would love that yeah. I thought that there's you know you know are you missed out firing me? Are you have you been an undercover cop this whole time 23:36 that's what my face is so saggy. It's a missus downfire. No, I did think that we went to Disney on this past week and while La was on fire, just fires were more contained. Yeah, we evacuated. We went back home and then we were like let's get let's go to Disney. Forget about all this. That's not what we did. We had I feel really bad that we went to Disney on Sunday. 24:05 the fires had died down whatever. Okay, our friends passes expiring into her last operation. We went yeah, you know yeah, but the whole time we're walking around. This is my brain the whole time we're walking around. I was like you sacks of crap. I can't believe you guys are just enjoying a Disney day while L. A is burning 24:31 ice cream. I was judging people the whole time. I was like we're here because our passes expiring yeah. That's why we're here. Good reason to be here. That's why our rest of you, her pass was expiring. We would have been volunteering today. 24:54 Yikes, this is some Tom Segura level disconnection right now. Yeah 25:02 I want your eyes look like that. I thought it was, but we could save it for the out of the fiddle. That's great. So anyway, what I was saying was the whole time I was at Disney, yeah, I was kind of like. I know there's plain clothes security here and I want to be one of them so bad. Yeah, I don't know how to get that job, but I want it. I there's two jobs. I want a Disney. Here's two jobs. I want a Disney. I want to be a plain clothes security officer. Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah, right. Yeah, second job 25:31 I want to voice crush the turtle. That does seem like a real job crush. The turtle's really funny world. They have the monsters ink thing yeah yep yep. Both of them great at it crushes fun job crushes funnier consistently consistently. I don't know how they do it. They get consistently really good improv actors to do that voice. Well, I mean I know how they do it there. They cast them 25:56 in Los Angeles yeah, but I mean it's it's yeah. What's impressive to me is there's that many people who can do that that well. It's impressive to me. I you just anyways anyway, so the audition process yeah they had this. They had a pretty rigorous audition process. They made them try to be truss the turtle and then they're like your voice isn't good enough for that. You're not very good. You'd be great for the space show. We got like give us an alien. Can you give us an alien 26:22 that's pretty to stay at the puny. I already is that the alien from fairly. I parents sounds like crush the it was just I got to work on my impression. I wouldn't yeah anyway. I'm not confident of the do it on here, but I would love to yeah keep practicing so they started out. That's not the right by just finding out. Do they ever serve in the arm services? 26:51 or how do they have it? Have you been to space before? Yeah, you ever been the space? They have harder trick somebody who's been yeah. You've been there. It's it's yeah. Yeah, they also asked if they had interest in space travel or science fiction or nasa or anything like that, and if they had any of those sorts of interests, they kicked them out and so it's like you know too much and we're not going to be able to trick you. You're going to be able to tell sure and then they gave them psychological test to see 27:19 if they were like susceptible to group think yeah and like can we get you into the group and get you to be like well, everyone else thinks this is the same kind of thing as that that special we watched the Darren Brown guy the place yes yes yeah yeah same concept, so they did that type of stuff. They also do a whole other episode on that yeah. We should actually we should just do an episode on agent Darren Brown special because all of them were very good for that one. I like that one yeah. We can't do it though it's fair 27:48 they also tested to see if they were claustrophobic, because they were going to be in like the capsules and stuff, which is fair. That's a try. I see who were like yeah. We need to find that most costal re make a break bro. Then they also asked them. They also did some stuff like they publicly humiliated them, so I publicly humiliated them to see how they would react, so they like blindfolded them and made them dance without any music with the whole group of 28:14 people auditioning watching over like these with a spray bottle and they sprayed the front of our pants. They're like you yourself with warm water to with warm water, so you're not actually sure you're like I, I don't I think I did honestly I didn't feel it, but now that I'm, but now that you mentioned it it does seem like it smells like is this is this hack who they got from the hard work you spray me with 28:44 he did this is you're a little too offended by this yeah. You got to go. I think you're dismiss way. I went to Rondish and I like I met a guy on the street who wait you want to be on TV and I said yeah and then I followed he's like let me hear your alien voice and I was like cowabunga and he was like perfect. That's really good sprain you with raccoon and that's right to the line and he was like it's weird how offended you are about this and I was like 29:13 really weird. You think everyone else has been super chill about it. Everyone else is like they love this. This is everyone else is a favorite part is their favorite part. 29:27 basis. What was your fair part of the whole process? Probably the part where I got spritzed he came up and just give it a yeah. It's like wrinkle release, but it's called raccoon release. 29:46 I got chased by raccoons for days. 29:52 Yeah, you leave the audition 29:58 you're walking you're like the raccoon all right. It's following your little ducks. They really hit a row. That's what they look like. These are little hands and they're like back 30:15 that man's being followed by twenty six raccoon yeah yeah yeah yeah. How do you pull numbers on him for some reason they're all wearing numbers and then you notice another is a separate camera crew that's following you, filming the reality show raccoon race, which one's going to win. Is it the human or the hey you get to keep 30:40 congratulations, that's yours. Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop everything right now we're i Alex. Who cares what time it is? Okay, who cares keep rolling listen that Christmas party we did. Did we talk about the other option? I don't know if we can what 30:58 Did we talk about the backup option? If I wasn't available to do this Christmas party, no we haven't talked about okay, so I did a Christmas party for some rich people okay, and he's a good friend. The house is crazy. It's whatever right. We with the literal show was in the guest house. We didn't get to see the main house yeah, where he keeps the the guest house was great. The treasures, I guess I don't yeah, so the shows in the living room of this guest house. It's like a forty person show. He tells me I don't know five minutes before I go on stage. 31:25 stage before I stand up in the living room. He goes a he is what we booked something else just in case we couldn't get you for this. That's like a back up plan yeah, and I was like oh, what was your back up plan and he said it was mouse racing and I said what he said mouse racing. It's literally have you heard of this all right? It's the most backwards Missouri thing I've ever heard. It's a little giant board think of like a plinko board. 31:51 from yeah. Just think like yeah, a plexiglass and then there's like ten rows solid rows and there's openings on this side where they put in ten mice live mice live real mice and they put cheese on the other end and then you're just they just release the mice and then you're betting on which rose one with my number mouse number seven is going to make it to this end first and I was like hey buddy, you should have just done that instead of me. There's no way I can compete with that. What are you talking about? 32:20 So Jeren and I we climbed into some place to class to my shows when mouse racing exists. Are you joking? Yeah, that's insane. We could do that. We could we could do a telling name the mice yeah. They do let you name them. I was going to name one grave digger free show not the backup plan showed up that is true. That was why we found out about it is that he forgot to cancel the backup plan. 32:43 and the backup plan showed up and he was like oh sorry, I canceled this weird and I was like hey, hey, hey, if they're still here, I'm in let a man run those mice anyway. That's crazy. So basically space cadets is mice racing, but humans yeah and then and then they asked them just straight up. They said who's the person you trust most in the world that could vouch for you to do this this show 33:11 and then and they would yeah, they gave them the person them in front of them and they were like they're like. Do you still want to do the show? So you're standing there covered in raccoon. You just watched the person you trust the most like man. I should have listened that they could do that so to live in it and you're like how bad do I want to be on TV? 33:46 this is crazy. No, so that they called them. They called the person you trust most yeah, and they said hey, Jaren gave us your number. He said you're the person he loves the most. Yeah, we're going to trick him into thinking he's going into space. Do you think he'd fall for it? Like honestly, do you think he'd fall for that and if they said yes, they like okay sweet, we're going to do it. Don't tell him and then and I love that. I love that they were like. Who do you trust most? Okay, we're going to get him in on the bit 34:17 that's crazy yeah, and so they picked out their their victims right. It would be by the way she called me. She's like I'm going to tell my 34:31 whole thing. She made you get rid of your office and make it a whole thing just so that way I could get out of that room. I would be honest with you and you need to hear this now. She's mrs. Doubfine, so they got a group of mostly students. Well, I guess not mostly student. There's a I'm not going to go through all the people. I was going to show you pictures of all of them, but it's just a bunch of like 34:56 nineteen and twenty something people yeah reality tv cast yeah and they're obviously like they're susceptible, but the audience watching the show knows that we're not actually going to space. Yes, we're fully aware we're aware of the bit the whole time yeah we're fully aware you meet the cast and the cast is very susceptible people and they're like I'm here and I'm single and if a show man's forms or show man's form and so 35:25 they take them out on the runway. They're in Edmonton, I believe yeah, they take them out on the runway. There's the plane. It's all dramatic and they're like you're here for an adventure and the host is there and he's like and the adventure is three of you five days from now are going to space and everyone's like what no way oh my gosh and like freaking out yeah they board the flight and they take what normally would be a seven minute flight. 35:52 and they make it last six hours. They just fly around the North Sea, flying around the UK and they're just flying in these circles. They tell them they took them to a decommissioned Russian space base where they space base where they were going to be trained by some retired cosmonauts on how to go to space and so these are obviously actors yeah and these actors they the what they did on this set. It was the set was actually retired to US 36:22 in Air Force Base and they the producers they flew to Russia and they spent a few weeks in Russia and they just took note of everything and then they went back to this US base and right in it yeah, and so they changed the outlets to be Russian outlets. They everyone in the cast and crew that smoked. They swapped out their cigarettes for Russian cigarettes, so that way if someone found the butts, they'd be like all these are Russian. Here's the thing. Here's the thing that gets me as rush. Those are Russian but 36:51 I know a Russian, but what I see I know a Russian, but when I see one 36:58 no, I don't war heads. They went really, really hard on setting up this. This don't write that down. I saw you type in those can stay all right. Just let us have a little bit of freedom over here. This is America, don't Vladimir Putin, my jokes censoring me so they he's typing 37:27 Hey, thanks for checking out this episode. In that mailing list, we give updates on past episodes. and every week things are changing. in the happenings of Tillon topics. Also, we give updates on things that's happening 37:54 I like 38:19 okay, so it's interesting to me because they got highly susceptible people. Yeah, but they spent a lot of time making sure that none of these people would yeah figure it out like we're going to make this look really fair. It's kind of like the the jury duty show yeah that there's a lot at stake and if you get to day five and blow it, then you've just wasted that is true lot that is no and so they get in there 38:46 And the whole first half of this show, the concept was you're in space training, so there's like classes they're doing, there's physical challenges they're doing to see if they could fare in space. What is interesting is the way they set this up, and I don't know if I love the way that they set this up, because the way they set this up was like 80% of what they were learning was true, and 80% of the challenges they did were like accurate challenges you would do if you were going to space, like training. 39:13 but then they threw twenty percent of the stuff in there to see like he stuff yeah. They're like let's see if we can just make him seem built dumb. I guess we're believing this and so they would just teach him stuff that was like clearly wrong yeah, but they were like we're just going to mix them in there and see what happens yeah and then they base you could only shotgun diet coke like and you can't do regular coke. You can't it'll blow up your intestines. Speaking of blowing up your test is actually the 39:43 this week sponsor speaking of blowing up your intestines. This episode is brought to you by chipotle and if you use code tilling, they're going to charge you twice for that guac the there was some issues with the actors, so one of the actor cadets charlie skelton was his name. He had to drop out on day three because he got gastroenteritis and then another 40:12 another one of the actors he you're going to hate this. He during one of the physical challenges kicked something and kicked his toenail off and then he had to he had to leave because he like it like got infected or something. I know that I'm listening to this episode in the future and I just reacted the same way then to you know so yeah. So they had to drop out of the whole event, so it got to the point where there's one more actor in like the group of yeah of cadets and so 40:41 they're doing these physical challenges and then they're also doing these things that are like. Why did you have them do this and so, for example, one of the things that they were taught was that Russia brought a dog to space and that dog went up to space and then came back and they named with town in Russia after him and it was like a hero in Russia and it recently died. This dog recently died and so like we need to hold a funeral for the dog and so they made the whole cast. I'll tell you why they did that. We tell you why they did a dog, because that's 41:08 really funny and that's the only reason they did that is so they made them in this for all they know like an actual Russian cosmonaut facility do this funeral and they're carrying the ashes of this dog and one of them he trips a drips and he spills the ashes all over in this funeral and they're like sweeping it back in devastating. They're doing goofy, goofy stuff like this the whole time. Why do they do? 41:36 I mean, I have to take exactly why they did that and was it the act of the fell or was that or that just happened that just happened? Now you know the production truck they were they threw their headphones off like they're watching they're like friggin champagne. So that's a whole layer, so they do the whole thing. They do the training, they do all this all this different stuff. There's 42:05 there's all the like challenges and everything like that and then on day five morning of day five, they're training captain or whatever they the name they gave him came in and was like okay, it is we have made our decision on who's going to go and so they selected three of the contestants and they said you guys are going to go to space and so they started getting them all suited up. They took the other ones out into a different room and they revealed it to the other ones and so they showed them this montage of all the training and every time they lied to them, they like 42:35 put a little like there. There was like lie lie and it's like this like hokey like yeah, being your so everyone's in this room just like realizing it was all right yeah yeah and they're like and now they're going to go to space and so they let them watch outside the simulator and watch them load what they think is a real plane or real spaceship, and so they load them into this. What they think is a real spaceship and this is the thing that they spent the majority of their money on is building a fake spaceship and so 43:02 they had this massive sound stage with all this state of the art sound equipment to make explosion noises. They got a real jet engine in there that they attached to it to be like obviously just extremely loud and convincing. They had air bags mounted underneath. It was just a wooden simulator that air bags that were just going to go off twenty four seven to like give turbulence almost while they were in space, all this different stuff to really just sell the illusion that you're on a space shuttle and then they loaded them up and they started 43:32 going out to do this this trip. They all get get suited and they have two actors. They're the pilots and they start doing it and the sound systems malfunctioning and so they're supposed to be launching right now. It's like well, it's completely silent. They're just sitting there and like there's like some movement, but like there's no noise and so the actors luckily thought quick on their feet and they're like they're taxing us out and so like that's what we're doing right now and so then they like 44:00 pivoted while gave the audio engineers enough time to fix it and then they fix it and then I okay now it's time to launch and then they did the countdown again, so they thought that they counted down for the taxi and then counted down for the whole on 44:20 Yeah, so we just got we just got to go out to run. We ever been at the airport and they do that like back out. They okay. How many people think that airplanes are backing up? I saw you see this online. We were like oh if airplanes can back up, then I could probably figure out how to parallel park airplanes on backing up. Yeah. What do you think that little that little they don't stop? Don't you just said say it again? What do you think they're not doing that? Use your brain for twelve seconds. All right, 44:49 Oh, they do the blow. They blow the other way. 44:53 No, it's a tow truck. Yeah, it's a taxi. It's not a tow truck. It's a it's a it's a it's like a airport tug boat and they're freaking just that's why every time I fly, there's a bunch of tug boats on the right. That's what I call. That's what I call tow trucks. I go. Oh, that's a tug. That's a land truck. That's a land tugger. 45:13 that's a really tugs, so they get in this they get in this shuttle, so they space they they can down this bed yeah. They have all the vibrations. They have all the sound the engines blow in and then they get into space low worth orbit. What they told him is the whole time they're like we're going to low earth orbit. Originally, the plan was the moon, but they're like that's going to be a little hard to sell sure, so like let's just go to lower over it. So they take the lower earth orbit. How are they doing the anti gravity? Well, that was the thing during training. They told them they're like hey 45:42 anti gravity or you're not going to feel that they're like you're not going to feel the low gravity effect because we've actually anything you can understand you can solve and so they told them they had an anti gravity machine that they built and they bought it and they're like yeah. We figured out I like gravity and so you're going to be it's going to feel like earth gravity when you're in there and everyone's like okay yeah. Oh, that makes sense yeah. Oh, I'm dumb. Oh yeah, you're right. I don't know a thing yeah. 46:09 but I mean to be fair, that's why they picked the people they picked yeah, yeah, and they were like they're like. Do you know that anti gravity doesn't exist and they're like no like perfect and then a week later they were like we created it to gravity and they're like sure, so then they get up to nearer orbit and then they had the big reveal. They had one of those giant like I max screens outside the the shuttle and then they turned it on and that was the view of the curvature of the earth 46:38 and they let them all come and look out the and the one I was like 46:49 I'm not buying it. Earth is flat, though, actually flat. I may not know a lot, but I know that I know that's flat. These are dumb people. Yeah, you're right. No, they this was a moment. People have been watching this for a flat or a third. Have you thought about all the stuff that would make you not love your kid? No, not yet. Actually, you should start making a list because there's a lot of stuff that, like if my kid came to me, it was like a dad, the earth flat. I'd be like hey, 47:19 hey, you don't pack your ever tell anybody forget that you think that no this is like is pretty conditional. There's like the sixth day of the show and this moment everyone ahead. The public was like oh shoot. What have we done because all three of them? They look out the window and they have this visceral reaction of like seeing the earth from space and they're all like in tears. They're like 47:47 like oh my like I can't believe what I'm seeing right now and like they it's like a very emotional. I was really like the producers are like yes, this is exactly what we want and then there's one producer over there like I can't believe we killed their best friend in front of them and then made them look at space like this and so they had their talking heads and they I should go back to the show that has moral standards where I used to work. 48:15 who is biggest loser. So they they had they did these talking heads and they all like we're talking about how this moment changed their life and changed their view on everything. They're like I can't believe like they were they were all talking like ash. I was like talk they're like again. You see it from up there and you just realize how small and insignificant you really are and like you see the whole thing and everything you know is in that little view. It's amazing and is there's an IMAX screen 48:45 and so they have them up there and they had them do these random tasks throughout the next couple of days while they're in space. Then they have their re entry, so they do the re entry. They told them where they were targeting for the re entry and they're like yeah, we're going to open you up. You're going to be in like a field somewhere in Russia and so the pod comes back at crash lands in Russia and then they have all this like steam in there and everything and they open up the pod and they're in the studio with the live studio audience 49:14 and these people climb out and they're like what and then they show them the same video and then the reaction of these three people to be like wait a second and they're like yeah you never left like you've been in this exact spot this whole time like you have not. This has been a studio the entire time you've never even lifted up off the ground and they like explain to the whole thing and just watching them like they're like they're literal their heads were in their hands. They were like what is going on like losing their minds? 49:44 but the host of the show said something in this interview that was really interesting. He was like and I want to talk about this in the after the fiddle a little more sure, but he's like he's like he's like you have an experience of the fiddles what me and Tim call our phone calls. It's this is everything we do outside of the show is the after the ever released anywhere. We just talk and so the host tells them yeah hey you 50:12 he's like whether it was real or not, the experience you had is an experience that so few humans have ever had to see earth from space and to feel that feeling of insignificance. She's like so few people have ever felt that feeling in their life and they were just kind of staring at of like. They're like. Thank you Julie Chin, 50:34 so then that's like a kind of consolation. That's like if you find out that you've been married to a spy for like two decades and they leave and someone goes in a very few people have had the feeling of being in love and you're like yeah. I don't think I have count. I just found out that my spouse was lying the whole time. It was all a trick and that our house was a studio yeah, but you were in love. You know now you say like that and some good times 51:04 Yeah, yeah. Do you smell raccoon P? No. 51:13 No, that's real. 51:18 so they so that wasn't right. Coopi. No, that was actually that was real. Everything else was made up. Was real looking back. I don't know why we did that. That was unnecessary. A little rude, bullying on a kind of me. Now that I look back, we bullied you a little. Yeah, the whole show really is just a multi million dollar bullying is what this was well. We 51:48 we spend. You guys are going to love this. We spent months combing through a hundreds of people to find out who's dumb enough to fall, right, and we decided to use you three three people were so so so dumb. Everybody everybody's been watching, but hey hey hey listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. Yeah, you're dumb okay, and that's why it's great for you because you're hot 52:16 you're hot and down made for reality. Here's what's incredible. The perfect makes of stupid and sexy and that's what we need on tv and guess what we called your mom. She said oh yeah, he is totally stupid enough for this. He doesn't know that I'm really his dad doubt firing him his whole life. He called the nanny and the nanny answer hello. We were like is this are you the nanny you're now I'm that they trust the most. Oh 52:46 yeah, I've been gaslighting them for twenty two years. He's dumb enough he's dumb, so as a consolation, they gave each of the they gave each of the three twenty five thousand dollars. They gave everyone else five thousand they gave and then they gave all of them a trip to Russia and they left them there. 53:12 then see if you can get back again. A trip to Russia and they had amazing race was born. They did do a one of those zero gravity experiences where they fly the plane and flip it and drop it or whatever and you get to experience that for sure. What do they do? Do they flip it or do they just drop it? Yeah, it's just dropping out to but it's also like I think they get high enough that I think they yeah anyways, so they did get to experience zero G and then they also did get to experience having a twenty five thousand dollar check 53:40 and they got to believe they went to space, so the real winners here, and so it was a one season show, because obviously once you do that, yeah, like kind of hard to pull it off. You can't do it again. Yeah, I really really want them to do it here. It's been long enough and I have never heard of it. I think in the US we never heard of it, so I would love for them to try it here yeah, but anyways that space cadets. Do you think you would fall for it? 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