Speaker 1: Lolo Mountain Glabo. Here. I'm here to tell you about
Speaker 1: a very special episode of Smart Talks with IBM, coming
Speaker 1: soon to your podcast feeds on February fourteenth. This season,
Speaker 1: we've been talking with new creators, people who are creatively
Speaker 1: applying technology in business to drive change. On our season finale,
Speaker 1: I speak with NASA astronaut Mark Vanda High, a man
Speaker 1: who spent three hundred and fifty five days in orbit
Speaker 1: on the International Space Station. Mark broke the record for
Speaker 1: the single longest space flight undertaken by an American. In
Speaker 1: our conversation, we talked about the thrill of re entering
Speaker 1: the atmosphere. You're in a ball of flame and the
Speaker 1: heat shields melting away again, see things that are melting
Speaker 1: away going past the window. But then when there's nothing
Speaker 1: to pay attention to. I didn't realize how afraid I
Speaker 1: was that it wasn't going to work until the parachute
Speaker 1: actually opened, and how giddily overjoyed I felt when when
Speaker 1: it actually opened, because I was just like, we're gonna live.
Speaker 1: So we also discussed the science and spiciness of chili
Speaker 1: peppers grown in space. We grew hatched chili peppers. They
Speaker 1: warned us that the stress response to the space environment
Speaker 1: that these peppers have, they're more potent. And I think
Speaker 1: they were more potent. They were shockingly spicy. Yessa could
Speaker 1: sell those chili peppers to some fancy restaurant and it
Speaker 1: could be, you know, celestial pepper soup or something. You know,
Speaker 1: what a great name for a dish. Listen to the
Speaker 1: season finale of Smart Talks with IBM on Tuesday, February fourteenth,
Speaker 1: Available wherever you get your podcasts.