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Hey guys, this is Mel. 
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Thank you guys for joining. 
This is such a fun episode 

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because we are going to the 
moon. 

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We. 
Literally out of this world, we 

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are going to walk on the moon's 
surface and wow, get to know the

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famous man who the first person 
to ever do that, Neil Armstrong.

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He's honestly, I didn't know 
anything about him. 

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It's so funny. 
I told my friend Tess, hi, Tess,

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that we're doing this episode 
and she's like the biker, like 

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Lance Armstrong. 
That's Lance. 

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But yeah, I didn't know anything
about Neil Armstrong as a 

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person. 
There was a movie that came out 

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four years ago, five years ago 
called First Man with Ryan 

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Gosling and Claire Foy. 
And I watched it actually to 

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prepare for this, because this 
is a very private couple, so I'm

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going to be piercing together 
things that I can. 

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But it was. 
I love those episodes. 

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Yeah, it was. 
It was fun to cover because I 

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also think there's something so 
romantic about space and you 

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know, there's so many phrases 
like I love you to the moon and 

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back or written in the stars and
just the vastness of it. 

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The idea of your spouse being. 
So far away. 

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The furthest away you possibly 
can be as a human. 

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Oh my gosh, yes. 
Like, you know, there's this 

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song, Rocket Man, you know, that
that whole idea of being so far 

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away. 
Yeah, it's a it's a romantic 

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idea. 
Oh my gosh. 

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I'm excited because I feel like 
he's one of the most famous 

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Americans, probably. 
But I don't really know anything

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about him, so I'm intrigued. 
Yeah, he was a man of mystery. 

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Yeah. 
And no, it really is crazy. 

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Like the fact that your spouse 
can be not on this earth yet 

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still alive in a way. 
Like that's that. 

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Is crazy crazy and I. 
Can't even wrap my head around 

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that. 
And I was looking at quotes 

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about space to get me inspired. 
There's one by this astronomer 

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named Carl Sagan, which I really
liked, that's exploring the 

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cosmos is an exploration of 
ourselves, a journey to unravel 

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the cosmic mysteries that have 
shaped our very being, which I 

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really like because it reminded 
me of this podcast in a way, is 

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like, we're exploring people's 
relationships because we're 

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trying to understand ourselves. 
And I just think there's like, 

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there's such beauty and space 
exploration because at the end 

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of the day, it really is just 
trying to understand what does 

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it all mean? 
Like, why are we here? 

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Is there anybody else out there?
And, you know, that relates to 

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love in so many ways, I think 
so. 

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It's pretty cool. 
That's so deep, Mel, and so true

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because that is. 
Kind of falling in love too, is 

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that question of like, is 
anybody else out here? 

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I mean, yes, there's millions of
people in the world, but 

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billions of people in the world.
But it sometimes feels like 

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you're all alone. 
So to be able to connect with 

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somebody that's so true. 
Yeah, Like, it's literally like,

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in a way. 
Like the search for aliens. 

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It's similar to the search for 
your soul mate, because it's 

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like doesn't exist, you know? 
Yeah. 

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Does it exist? 
Yes. 

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But how did you decide to do 
this besides all the, you know, 

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comparisons to space? 
You know, I was listening to the

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song Rocket Man actually, and I 
was like, I just, I love that 

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song. 
It's one of my favorite songs. 

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And then it got me thinking of 
doing a space themed episode. 

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So yeah, Neil was just the first
one I thought of since he was 

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the first man that walked on the
moon. 

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But I guess I could have done 
Buzz Aldrin or another 

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astronaut, too. 
So maybe someday. 

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Maybe. 
Someday. 

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Yeah. 
That's a cool wow. 

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And this is our second Neil. 
We did another Neil recently, so

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yeah, I just realized that too. 
Neil I also just love doing that

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time period to the 1960s like 
Janet. 

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So Neil, this is about Neil's 
first marriage to his wife, 

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Janet. 
And like, she had this short 

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Pixie cut. 
She smoked cigarettes like she 

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wore 1960s clothes. 
Obviously, 'cause that was the 

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time period. 
But I just. 

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I like going back in time and 
putting ourselves contextually 

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in history. 
Yeah, I looked up pictures of 

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them and I did watch the 
trailer, but that's all I know, 

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so. 
I'm ready. 

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It was a pretty good film. 
It's no Apollo 13, but I I 

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really liked it. 
But yeah, so. 

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Well, Mel, what 3 words would 
you describe this couple? 

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Oh my gosh. 
I would say I I'm doing this on 

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the spot as always. 
I'd say distanced, complicated 

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and committed in a way. 
Got it. 

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Oh. 
Nice, I would say. 

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All right, So Neil, who are? 
They who are they? 

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So Neil. 
He was born August 5th, 1930 and

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Wapakono Wapakonoda, Ohio. 
His mom, Viola, was a stay at 

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home mom and his dad, Steven, 
was an auditor for the Ohio 

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State government and for some 
reason that caused them to move 

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around a lot, as they do. 
Oh my God, move around the 

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state. 
So just different towns. 

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He lived in 16 different towns. 
All right, I will have to stop 

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