 And welcome back to tomorrow. Again, like Dada said last week, you asked for more of me, now you're getting more of me. Anyway, I want to give a huge shout out to my premier members, actually, I believe. Yeah, these are the people who give $10 or more to each episode, which is really, really fantastic. And we love every single one of you. I still can't believe this is actually a real thing. I also need to give a shout out to my producers, of course, who give $5 or more to each and every single show, which again is just crazy pants. I love you guys, this is so amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you for supporting us and letting us do the things that we love to do. So, as we get started in our second segment here, I am joined now, of course, by Tim Dodd. You may know him as Everyday Astronaut. Maybe people don't even realize that you have a real name. I do have a real name, not just that moron with a flight suit running around, yeah. Hardly a moron, hardly a moron. I'm really sad, I was talking about this earlier, I was really sad that we had actually put your pictures on the show at some point as one of my own personal news stories that Ben always thinks are fluffy and silly. And I'm sorry that I didn't grab the clip so you could like see back in the day, like I probably butchered your name, knowing name. I probably called you Todd or something along those lines. Or maybe you didn't even know what your name was, but your name is Tim Dodd, you know? You typically do photography before you got into this crazy pants, Everyday Astronaut thing. Right? And so why did you get into the crazy pants Everyday Astronaut thing? I would say the crazy Everyday Astronaut pants came into me, that sounds really bad, let's try to explain that. I would say, so what happened? I've been a photographer for nine years professionally. And I do a lot of event work, a lot of weddings and things like that. And as a joke, I happened to stumble upon a flight seat that had no bids on this website. Interesting. It was at our auction.com. Sure. And they had like a ton of this, they had like 800 space relics at the time, you know? Nice. And so I couldn't afford like a, you know, a lunar command module, like a joystick that was like $200,000 or whatever it was, you know, all these things. And I'm near the end of the auction, I'm like, I should just look for what hasn't been bid on. And here's this nice little orange, they called it a Russian space suit, but it's not a space suit, it's a flight suit, probably from like a MIG or something. And I was like, that would be funny, I'm going to bid on that. So $330 later. That would be funny. And a box at my doorstep. And I'm like, what did I do? Crap, what is this? That is amazing. Yeah, yeah. So that's kind of how it started, you know? It's just a joke. It started as a joke to get a suit in order to do what? You've created this amazing project. For those of you who don't know, maybe you haven't seen some of these pictures, I'm sure we probably have some of them lying around here somewhere. This has got to be one of your first pictures, right? That was literally the first picture, yeah. Okay, so why? Why do this? This is like the most elaborate joke I've ever seen. This is a joke. You know what I'm saying? It started off like, I got that question a lot, is why'd you buy a space suit? And the answer is why not? You know, what are you going to do with that space suit? Yeah, and then I'd be like, what can't you do with a space suit? And I think that attitude just started playing out. And I had to, yeah. I love it. I started doing these things. I can kind of start talking about some of these. So this was like, so I got offered to shoot my first launch for Space Flight Now. And so I shoot with them and I was down in Kennedy Space Center for like the first time. I was kind of on like a, you know, this was my ramp up into, you know, really nerding out on this stuff. Sure. And so I'm like, I'm going to take the suit with me to Kennedy Space Center and get a picture with the meatball and all this stuff. Well, what happened was all of a sudden I had a line of people thinking I was part of the attraction. Well, yeah, half I showed up, I would probably think the same thing. And it's 95 degrees and I'm wearing a suit that has, at the time, had a really thick rubber lining and that thick neck thing and all this stuff and it's streaming hot. So I take my picture and soon there's a line and I can't say no. I'm like, yeah, come on, yep. I'm just hanging out and there's all these kids and moms and I'm sure there's pictures out there somewhere. Sure. And it's, and I do this for my- Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean you're sure there's pictures out there? Do you not have any of these pictures? Oh no, I was done, you know, like I was done with my thing. Wait, so who took this picture? Oh, I took this with a tripod. Oh, okay. And a self timer, but then a line started forming. Right. It was just people with their cell phones, you know. So there's people out there that have- Yes. If any of you have a picture like that, please say it is. I have tried really hard to get the, like people on Reddit and stuff to like find some of these pictures. Cause there's a solid 10 people, 10 cute up, like families and eventually like, after about 10 minutes, 10, 15 minutes, I was starting to get like dark and dizzy. And I'm like, all right, the stuff guys, I have to stop. I took the neck ring off. I took, there was water up to like my ankles or not water starts to wet. Sure. Yeah, up to it, up to my ankles in the suit cause they're like sealed booties. I took it off and just splash, just a big puddle. So that was kind of the start of it. That is amazing. And then I decided to do a whole series, a proper series after that, that I titled a day in the life of everyday astronaut. So yeah, so this one's called Good Morning World. I started hiding a lot of Easter eggs such as the clock says 607 and that's the last wake up timer of STS-135. So kind of the last like Americans launch from American vehicle, but there's also an echocardiogram there on the table. And that's Alan Shepard's echocardiogram. So the first American in space and kind of the last space flight event of, yeah, kind of all encapsulated in there. So you're not just like throwing stuff at it. I also see Space Team. I have that game on my phone. So you're not just like throwing this. Are these things that you all also own? Are you borrowing these things? Yeah, I've spent so much money on this stuff and it's not even funny. For fun. For fun, yeah. I mean, yeah, for the part of it kind of, you know. I was gonna say, but to put the A into STEM. Yeah, exactly. I really enjoy, you know, trying to come up with fun, creative ways. And so the first whole series was kind of this like, this juxtaposition of an astronaut. You know, what would he do in everyday life? So the next one is Decisions, Decisions. Notice there's seven flight suits, the same number of flight crew that can be on a space shuttle. Nice. And like a man in space, you know, you're garing on the newspaper. Yeah. The next one is called brushing up on orbital dynamics, or yeah, brushing up on orbital mechanics. And so I have like orbital mechanics written up there. I love it. People have pointed out that I forgot like gravity, like G or something in one of the equations. I was like, maybe that's why I'm not getting into space then, maybe I'm, there's a reason I'm stuck on Earth. Yeah. And so I hit a bunch of things. And this one's called like Darnit Chris Hadfield, because he's time astronaut of the year. I love it. The next one is, this one's called boldly going where no man's gone before and notice Don Pettit on the wall, who was, so they don't actually do laundry in space, you know, they discard their stuff. They wear it for about two weeks and they, because it's cheaper and easier, whatever. And so they don't do laundry. And but Don Pettit was the first astronaut to kind of like reuse his undergarments as a bedding for plants. This is called, it's just not the same. I did that story too. It's called, it's just not the same. Yeah, just kind of, I think, so for me, and maybe other people can relate to this, watching, I watched STS-135 live. And I had kind of not cared for the previous 10 years. I watched it and as it's going off, I'm going, but not what, I was sad. That's exactly how our show started. Yeah, and I was just kind of like, well, what are we doing now? And so this void kind of left this curiosity led me into actually falling through and seeing what we're doing, space flight-wise. And so this was kind of the picture for that, you know? 100%. Yeah, yeah, this is not the same. This one's called, I order my ice cream a la space. And there's a little, like I hid Apollo 10 back there, the mission patch in the window. Oh yeah. Because Apollo 10 is the only mission to ever actually have freeze-dried ice cream. They found out really quickly, it's so dusty. Right. And then not good for, you know. So totally not a thing. Totally not a thing. You heard it here first. Astronaut ice cream, totally not a thing. So how much, how much, like, you just, I mean, you're just spewing this off because you obviously had to do research. Yeah. Oh, I shouldn't say obviously. But you clearly have done some research for all of these different things. A lot of it was retrospective. Okay. I would think of a concept, you know, like ice cream or whatever, and then look up, what's the history on this? You know, and then so it's a lot easier for me to do it that way than, like, you know, know a bunch of stuff and then find a way to shoot it almost. It's like, I think of something stupid and then find out the history on it. And so it's kind of a fun. Something like this, how long does it take you to set up? Some, some are quick. This one is a fairly quick, you know, 20, 30 minutes. Some of them are extremely elaborate and take a day. I've had a shoot that took, I built a wall and it took eight days. Oh, that's insane. Or not eight days, sorry, eight hours. It took me all day. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, not eight days. I'm a really bad wall builder if it took me eight days to build a wall. I'm like, that's a really big wall. That's a really big wall. Donald Trump will never hire me. There you go. So this is like this, like, did you buy all of this tang? I bought about a dozen and then Photoshopped him. Okay. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Yeah. And you're married now, congratulations. Thank you, yeah. I just got married about six weeks ago. And your lovely wife that I got to meet was amazing. Yeah. She puts up with this. She does, somehow. Bye. And the funny thing is she's seen, we've been together for six years. Okay. So she's seen the vision. The entire crazy progression. Exactly. So for her to be able to hold in, you know, hang in there. And encourage it. She's not like a big, I wouldn't say she's not, she's not a fan, you know, not like that, but like she's just kind of like, yeah, do it, you know, have fun. And that's great because if she was super like, yay, like cheerleader-y about it, I don't think it'd be the right kind of support for this, you know? Right. So she totally just gets it and she knows it's important to me and that's my outlet and it's been a lot of fun for me. So yeah, she encourages me in it and it's really cool. I love it. This is one of my favorites. This is one of my favorites. It's called Walking My Dog Leica. I hid like 1957. So Leica is the first dog in space that Russia launched. And 1957 was the year, so I put a little plaque, barely visible up there. So I just like to hide little things. And for those of you wondering, this did not happen. This is all Photoshop. Yeah. Three separate shots of me walking, the dog walking in the drone. So don't worry, I don't put dogs life at risk. You did however do like an entire series of no Photoshop. Yes. I have done series with no Photoshop and I continue to kind of do occasionally no Photoshop images. But this first one was like all Photoshop, like the license plate, Gold from TLI. And I hid like Sea of Tranquility, The Moon, July, 1969 and you know, all the stuff with Apollo 11. This one's called Testing My Solid Rocket Boosters. Yeah, strapping them onto the old mufflers. I love it. That's so funny. Let's see how many more we can get through because there's a lot of this one. This one I lost my mind. I can imagine. This is the one where I kind of questioned my sanity. Sure. So here's the thing. Star crunch, write it, whatever, stars, huh? Right. Okay, not that cool. But notice that, so this is called Houston, we have a problem of course. You have to use that once. And the calendar up there, April, 1970 which is when Apollo 13 happened. And April also happens to be a transition between Pisces and Aquarius so Aquarius is a man pouring water, a fish. Yes. So I'm pouring water on a fish. I love it. But the part where I'm like, okay, maybe I took this too far. All the star crunches there are actually in the exact alignment of the constellations of Pisces and Aquarius. Are you serious? Yeah. I don't know what happened. I think, I lost my mind, yeah. That's, yeah. Amazing. Hinn little Easter eggs, yeah. So if you would overlay the constellations there, it'd be the same. They're all in the, yeah. I'm so speechless. Okay, all right. So I'm gonna take some questions from the chat room because you guys are going crazy pants with this which, and I'm speechless right now so we'll go with that. NeuroPilot's asking, do you have other flight suits? No, I Photoshopped them. So this was my family. This was my mother's day picture. I just had everyone wear it in Photoshop. I only have the one, so. But my nephew down there, that is his actual, he has a little onesie at the gift store. Right. His little NASA one, so. So cute. Yeah. All right, well, okay, so for instance, so like this particular picture, A, does this wall even exist? It does, actually. And I took just a portion of it and expanded it. Sure. Made it bigger. But yes, this was at Audrey's grandparents' house. Love it. And how did you choose these pictures? These other family? I kind of wanted to get noteworthy people. Armstrong and other, you know, I just kind of, I like to put, you know, Hadfields in there. Right. I like to put people in there, like Terry Virts and things like that, that I might actually be able to get to. Yeah. So they can see themselves in here and go, oh, that's fun, you know? And so this image, despite that, this image ended up being shared by Instagram. So that was pretty good for me then, that helped me gain a decent amount of followers. It's funny because in real life, I don't feel like you look anything like Chris Hadfield, but I think with the suit on, it like obscures the beard. So the mustache, like, you remind me a lot. I'm not very Canadian though, unfortunately. You're very sweet though, you're in Iowa. It's like Canada's life. Yeah. Yeah, so now I just kind of keep up with whatever inspires me. So there's this smoke stack near my house. It's the closest thing to a rocket we'll ever get in Cedar Falls, Iowa. And so I photoshopped the idea of like turning it into a Falcon 9. You know, I mean, yeah, it just is like, and oddly enough, it's almost the same dimensions too when I drive by. I'd actually found out the height of it and everything and then looked it up. I'm like, it's pretty darn close. So I, yeah, I flew a drone up there and took this picture and then photoshopped myself. I had a lot of people fearing for my safety. Where is your harness? Yeah, as soon as you said that I have a, there's a smoke stack by me and then there's a picture of you on it. I'm like, that's dangerous, but cool. You don't need a harness on the ground. And luckily that's where I was actually standing in real life for the image. So, yeah. Yeah, so it's just kind of been a fun. Wow. So, and like I got in this whole wave at the space station thing and no one really cared, honestly. So I kind of stopped doing it. Maybe if you guys care, you let me know. Yeah. But I'm turning this all, a lot of the images into a children's book. Awesome. The next step is a children's book series with the images, with actual photographs because that's not very normal. A lot of children's books are, you know, are illustrated and I wanted to do like, I want to keep it like this because they're silly whimsical, you know, images that are playful enough that kids take interest. And I have a lot of parents hitting me up on Instagram and stuff saying, I show my kids your pictures all the time. And so I know, and like I've got nephews in the knees and like, they love this stuff. So that's been important to me. And so that's something, stay tuned for that. Hopefully I'll be doing that really soon. That's been my project that I've been working on for a long time. So I'm just kind of working on the publishing route. So if you know any publishers, let me know. Nice. All right. This is adorable. Is this photoshopped? This was actually photoshopped. Yeah. I mean, the whole thing, it's literally just two pictures. Okay. That was at an air show, it was 105 degrees. There's no way you were going to get me in that suit that day. Yeah, I know. So I took that picture, went back the next day and when it was much nicer, 95 degrees. Yes. And laid in the same place and took that picture then. Kind of the same time and days the lighting was correct. Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's been. We need that bouncy house. And then for some reason I decided I'm going to travel the world with this thing. So I took it to nine countries in three different continents. For some reason. And I had fun with it, it's a pain in the butt because that thing weighs a lot plus all the camera gear and stuff. Oh, sure. And you know, most of these pictures are self-timer pictures and stuff like that. So it sounds fun and it wasn't quite worth the effort. And it wasn't what I was going for. I really want my things to have a secondary meaning to it. This was just more like I had a really busy year of traveling. I was going to take it with me everywhere. And it was fun, but it didn't really get that good of a reaction. I kind of thought that might be a way to bridge the gap for some other people. Right. But yeah. And then this was an engagement picture I took with Audrey. And the title is She Deserves the Moon. That's so sweet. And that's actually my family farm in the background too. Oh yeah? So I'm from Iowa, so of course there has to be a farm somewhere in the family. Well, yeah. Yeah, Ben's family has a farm. Yeah. Or at least had a farm. Was it corn? Corn. Corn and Iowa? Corn and lots of corn. Yeah. So this one, if someone has a recording of me somewhere, like a web camera, like a security camera of me taking this picture, it was hilarious. This is a levee that's really like 15 feet tall. And I had the camera at the bottom. This is back my can, and I had to actually hit the self timer every time. And so I was running up this hill and jumping so that I didn't have grass in my feet so I could make a clean Photoshop, kind of like chrome a key it almost. I obviously wasn't jumping that high, but I was jumping enough that the grass was off my feet. Jumping and trying to like get in kind of the right position. Running back down the hill, checking it all while wearing the stupid suit. Doing this back and forth until like, I probably like six or seven times into this. There's definitely some security guy going, okay, okay. I was not doing so well. I love it. Yeah, so I learned, I eventually cut the liner out on the inside so it's a lot lighter now and I don't die as often. As often. As often. As often. It's a good quality. That's good. The number one rule here on the show is no dying. No dying, yeah. Right. So I abide by that now. Well, as well you should. As well you should. Oh my goodness, that's hilarious. Yeah. All right, so more questions in the chat room if that's okay. Yeah, sure, of course. Some people are having some issues with, too wicked in particular, no surprise there. Saying you're wearing a Mars shirt but photos are in large part with the moon so I have to ask Mars next or moon next. Oh, well, I debate it all the time, honestly. Oh, absolutely both. The moon makes a great depot, especially if we start to learn how to, you know, pull water from the surface of it and use it as fuel. It makes a ton of sense. I would love to see a, you know, fueling station out and L5 or something or whatever it is, you know. But yeah, we got to get to Mars. We got to go. I'm ready. I don't want to go. Right? But I want mankind to go. I mean, you already have the suit, man. Like, come on. That would hold up for exactly zero seconds on Mars. Yeah, probably, now that you've got like all destroyed it. And there's just not meant for that. And it'd be hard to find. Imagine if I like died, no dying, so I'd try not to. Thank you. But imagine I got lost and they're like looking for me and I'm just blending in camouflage on Mars. That's not fun. Mini Stoge in our chat room and live in our audience today. Hi, Stoge. How important are visual symbols in getting messages across language barriers? And do you have fans in other countries besides her, obviously? Yeah, no, absolutely. It's been great. I see a lot of comments I can't even read on my Instagram. Really? Because there are other languages, which is great. And they tag their friends, you know, something like this. It doesn't matter what language you speak, what culture you grow up in. It's very universal. And that's been a lot of fun, you know. We have, yeah, it's just, I don't know. There's something about not even having a caption. Well, most of these have a caption that can kind of help add to it. But just on its own. Typically they're able to stand on their own, you know. And it's just fun then because anyone can take something from that. You definitely have tapped into something. Like, yeah. Twicket is also asking what is one terrain shoot that you'd like to do, but probably we'll never get the chance. One, what shoot? Terrain. Terrain. I haven't, hmm. Like physically geographic. You're at the Great Wall of China. Yeah, I don't think there's anything, you can go wherever you want, you know. It just takes enough effort. And I mean, to be honest, I want to spend more time doing like a Mars type of, you know, the Utah debt, like Moab area is so great. I'd love to spend any time out there. So I could spend more time out there any time. And I will, I'll go back out. So I don't know. I do want to see the, there's a great big salt flat in Bolivia. That I would love to see. That's bigger than the Bonneville Salt Flats. Right, because you've been in Bonneville Salt Flats. Yeah. Some of those, do we have some of those pictures? I don't know what you chose. I think there is, I don't remember. And there was the, one of my favorites, cause I was totally fascinated was the flooding, right? So it's just like this water, it looks like you're walking on a lake, which was totally crazy and mind blowing to me. Yeah, I frolicked right across that stuff. So through this project, because it started as a joke. Yeah, pretty much, yeah. Which is still hilarious. This show didn't start as a joke, but still. What kind of doors have been open for you to continue along this project? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This year has been a big year. It's finally starting to kind of gain mainstream appreciation. And not necessarily the mainstream, the first series had great. Like in 2014, I mean, it was on BuzzFeed and The Guardian UK. I mean, kind of, it made its rounds, right? And then it kind of, you know what I mean? So I kept pushing with it and kind of didn't really get anywhere. But I stayed persistent. If you look through my Instagram, you get a pretty good sense of how it's gone. Cause you can see the likes go up and up I mean, pretty much steadily as the following base grows. So this year though, finally, I'm now working with the NASA Orion team to produce images for their social media stuff. And they kind of gave me a little golden key of like, let us know where and when you want in. So I'm going to JPL on Monday. I went out to Glenn like a few months ago and Plumbook, I got a vacuum in the world's biggest vacuum chamber, which is hilarious. And I was like, I've played guitar in that giant, the sonic room. Yes. So it's been a lot of fun. So that type of stuff is starting to happen, which is a dream come true then, you know, just to be able to see these things firsthand and help people appreciate them, you know? Bring, my tagline is to bring space down to earth for everyday people. And sometimes it's just a sense of showing scale. So my most, one of my most recent images is standing underneath the landed Falcon 9 booster. You know, I have friends that have, I talk about this stuff all the time. They're like, yeah. And then you show them a picture of how little and miniscule human is underneath that thing. And they go, wait, what? I thought this thing was two stories taller or something. You're like, no, this thing is 13 stories taller, whatever, you know? And it's just, it helps to bridge that gap and get people excited about the scale and the immensity of these things. And the challenge, the engineering, there's a whole world out there, you know? And I really like trying to get people to at least think of it in a new way or get those gears turning maybe even for the first time. Right. Yeah. I love it. Eeyore3061 says, have you ever been tempted to recreate Michael Whalen's ultimate sandbox painting? I'm not familiar with it. I'm not familiar with that either. Well then, that's the next thing. We have to look into that. Yep, I'll do that. I'll do that tomorrow. On tomorrow. Ah! We're here for a couple more questions, yes? Perfect. Two more. Oh my goodness, I have to choose. Oh, a citizen big number saying, do you wear the flight suit when you fly? No, I do not. That and you have to, it's pretty much the point where you pretty much are gonna have to pay me to wear that stupid thing is the worst. It is so bad, it smells terrible. The closest thing to getting clean is me sitting in a bathtub with it. Really? It's just awful. I have it with me, but you guys can smell it all you want. And it's just not pleasant. No, I don't wear it for any other reason other than this. I love it. Oh, that's so funny. Where haven't you gone that you'd like to go? I mean, besides the terrain part, like when you start just asking, are you planning on anything in Australia? I mean... You are now. Yeah, well especially, IAC is gonna be down in Australia next year and I had a lot of fun this year at IAC, so I'll probably try to do that. But honestly, I'm kind of overtaking it around the world with me. Unless there's a reason. If there's like, I'll still take it down to Kennedy Space Center or Houston when I go there for shoots and stuff. But if I'm just traveling on my own, I've broken my back too many times. I'm sure. Yeah, so it's kind of, yeah. So I think as far as like where now, I'm just excited about continuing to see like, places with cool things that kind of the behind the scenes. I think I get to see Curiosity's brother on Monday. So that should be a lot, that kind of stuff, that gets me really stoked. So yeah, I'll take it there, obviously. And children's book, so we're looking for a publisher. Anything else? What am I missing? Check me out on Instagram. Everyday Astronaut. I'm also on Twitter. Twitter, of course, Everyday Astronaut doesn't fit. So it's Erday Astronaut. Erday, Erday. Don't get me started on that. And then I also have a Facebook page, Everyday Astronaut as well. I love it. And if you want to read the backstory and see, I have a lot of full resolution images on my website, everydayastronaut.com. You can go through the series and find all the Easter eggs for yourself and stuff like that too, so. I love it. Yeah, check it out. It's fun. I have a lot of fun with it. Oh, amazing. Yeah. Well, thank you for coming on the show. Oh, it's my pleasure. And this has been amazing. And I have to give a huge shout out to Audrey who was lovely to meet in person. And she said it was really funny. She's like, you know, I sometimes I hear you, you know, Tim watches the show and it's, and now I'm hearing the voice come right out of your mouth. And I was like, yeah, nope. That's where it comes from. So. No, it was. My voice comes from nowhere else. She's amazing. Yeah, she's great. I love it. She's great. Perfect. Thank you so much.