Chris Hadfield Inc.

When you have... spectacular performers come in and they bring in their energy and they're they're ready to go and they're chewing up the scenery and you're like yeah we're we're actors we act let's go uh it's exciting and i think it's that's like one of the key things that keeps the show running is we have these fantastic guests come coming through each bringing their own uh strengths to the show

well um In the past, William Shatner, of course, as Mark Twain, Chris Hadfield, Margaret Atwood,

Geddy Lee.

from property brothers uh you had a prime minister on uh you know it's uh on and on so i know i think the time right now it's right about the eve of world war one isn't it 1914 is that the yeah i think we're about 1912-ish just before the titanic

So we were talking about the far side of the moon.

So last week we interviewed Chris Hadfield and we interviewed the crew of the Artemis II.

And they were really interesting interviews.

They were both, they were interesting because the Artemis crew were, you know, they were really, really pumped up there.

As you said last week, they were really pumped to be there, but very thoughtful as well.

And the, Reid, the actual, the commander of this particular mission who wasn't on the interview, you know, he spoke at an event and he was just, he spoke so well, you know.

And then Chris Hadfield was, was interesting.

He didn't, He seemed like he was annoyed with me.

Astronaut Joshua Kutrick became the fifth Canadian in history to perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

Kutrick follows in the legendary footsteps of our very own Chris Hadfield, who made Canada's very first spacewalk.

back in 2001.

And the Oil Museum of Canada will host its annual Cackling Cauldrons event on Saturday.

I don't know.

We'll get commander Hadfield to design the next ones.

You want, you want, you want some

plain, nothing fancy going on.

Wait, is that, that's your take on, on commander Hadfield? That

he would have a no-bones, like, nothing fancy, bare-bones Leafs jersey if they let him design one? Absolutely.

I think he would do exactly what I would.

Yeah, obviously.

You

probably know Chris Hadfield, a former commander of the International Space Station.

He's a former fighter pilot.

He's had numerous spacewalks and he has a special place in his heart for Ireland.

And I am so excited for that.

I'm sure you are too.

Chris Hadfield, thank you so much.

Lovely to talk with you.

And speaking

of Alexei Leonov, it's Chris Hadfield.

Hello, Chris.

Hello.

I have had one hell of a week, I have to be honest with you.

I flew to Tenerife to take part in the Starmus conference, where I met some absolutely massive names, including Chris Hadfield, former commander of the International Space Station, and the crew of Artemis II.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be playing you lots of these interviews with Nobel Prize winners and telling you about Starmus, this... mad conference run by Brian May and his friend Garrick Israelian.

That's right, Brian May, former Queen guitarist.

It sounded like a really cool thing to be at, like, Like astronauts as well.

I think somebody along the way in my news talk career had told me astronauts are kind of boring.

But the two, like the three on the show there, like the two on this podcast and Chris Hadfield coming next week, really engaged, like really engaging, interesting speakers.

Yeah, they really are.

Yeah, for sure.

So we tell a story in our book about Chris Hadfield, who's the Canadian who led the International Space Station for a number of years in the 2010s or something.

And he claimed, in the conversation I had with him, he claimed that he never got bored.

And then as we kept talking, it became obvious to me that, yes, of course you get bored.