BUZZ ALDRIN: My message today is also a call for action, a
call to all Americans, especially young Americans.
-I see what American youth can do, if we challenge them.
BUZZ ALDRIN: Reach out for the stars, reach for greater
knowledge, have faith in the future, and help re-inspire a
renewed national commitment to human space exploration.
LUKE SILAS: Carry me to the bathroom.
JAMES DEVITO: All right.
You can just go right here.
PETER BERKMAN: We're Anamanaguchi, and we're a band
in New York.
And we're making a music video where we're sending a pizza
into space.
JOHN RADER: Given recent events,
LEIA JOSPE: It's pretty weird.
LUKE SILAS: Somewhere in my mind, I feel like someone--
-Can you clamp this?
PETER BERKMAN: Hello.
LUKE SILAS: One, two, three.
[BEEP]
ARY WAMAAR: Hello.
I'm Ary.
LUKE SILAS: I'm Luke.
JAMES DEVITO: I'm James.
PETER BERKMAN: I'm Peter.
-You can talk to me too, though.
PETER BERKMAN: Can we try a couple more times?
[MUSIC - "ENDLESS FANTASY" BY ANAMANAGUCHI]
ARY WAMAAR: We're filming a music video for the title
track off our new album called "Endless Fantasy."
PETER BERKMAN: Actually, we're getting specifically the last
shot that we need to get for this video, which is a shot of
a slice of pizza ascending through the atmosphere into
outer space.
ARY WAMAAR: We definitely got outside help.
PETER BERKMAN: Yeah.
ARY WAMAAR: It was quite necessary.
PETER BERKMAN: Yeah.
Everything that we're talking about right now is something
we had no idea about.
James reached out to someone that he knew that had done
this before, and that's how we got hooked up with Dylan.
DYLAN WOLF: Hey, you guys.
Come on in.
Here's the helium, 291 cubic feet of condensed gas.
My name is Dylan Wolf.
I'm a mechanical engineering student at the Grove School of
Engineering.
I'm building a tethered balloon to send a piece of
pizza some distance up in the clouds and utilizing all my
skills and knowledge to make that happen.
So these are attention equations and some Newton's
laws to make sure that the forces involved are going to
make sure this thing's going to be safe.
-Ready?
DYLAN WOLF: We're on the roof of a building, and we have a
balloon with a camera.
And what's going to happen is the winch is going to unwind,
and the actress is going to let the balloon go.
And the balloon is going to float up until it reaches
altitude around 500 feet.
ARY WAMAAR: We had planned on doing a full
launch in the city.
JAMES DEVITO: You physically can't do it.
ARY WAMAAR: We knew that it was illegal.
We knew it wasn't something that we could legally do, but
we were willing to put that aside for how fun and
cool it would be.
PETER BERKMAN: Yeah, we're like, this would be awesome.
ARY WAMAAR: And then once we set it up, we realized that it
was actually dangerous, and there was kind of a reason
those laws existed.
It could have dropped on someone's head, we would have
felt a little bit bad.
LUKE SILAS: Or on a train track or something.
PETER BERKMAN: Or a train track.
ARY WAMAAR: Yeah.
LUKE SILAS: Well, the worst case scenario is it hits a
plane or it hits one person on the street.
PETER BERKMAN: Plane, train, or a person.
LUKE SILAS: Or automobile.
PETER BERKMAN: That would also be bad.
[MUSIC - "ENDLESS FANTASY" BY ANAMANAGUCHI]
JAMES DEVITO: I built a piece of electronics that logs.
It can track the altitude, track the temperature, track
the location, track the speed, all stuff like that.
And then it saves it all to a nice little SD card that you
got to find at the end of the journey.
PETER BERKMAN: My main concern is that when it lands we have
no idea where it's going to land.
ARY WAMAAR: Retrieving this, it might be quite simple.
We might luck out.
It might be the craziest adventure in the world.
LUKE SILAS: I should spring clean.
LEIA JOSPE: Oh, you're wearing them.
-Yo.
JAMES DEVITO: I think we should take it as far off the
main road as possible.
Oh, there's another main road back there?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yep.
JAMES DEVITO: He said the cops came pretty quick.
-Really?
JAMES DEVITO: Yeah.
They didn't stop them, but--
[MUSIC - "ENDLESS FANTASY" BY ANAMANAGUCHI]
-James, mount the camera and tape it down and everything.
JAMES DEVITO: All right.
-Oh my gosh.
PETER BERKMAN: Should we give a little toast?
-Yeah.
-All right.
PETER BERKMAN: Brave pizza, you have a long
journey ahead of you.
You will see things that we have never seen before, and
you will report back on the ground.
JAMES DEVITO: We will return for you.
PETER BERKMAN: We will see you again, pizza.
LUKE SILAS: Bye, guy.
PETER BERKMAN: See you, dude.
LUKE SILAS: See you soon.
ARY WAMAAR: See you around town.
PETER BERKMAN: We love you.
JAMES DEVITO: Are we good?
ALL: Five, four, three, two, one.
PETER BERKMAN: Bye, Illusion 1.
Bye, pizza.
Holy shit.
Oh, shit.
[MUSIC - "ENDLESS FANTASY" BY ANAMANAGUCHI]
ARY WAMAAR: Look, a cool pizza in the sky.
Oh, wow.
PETER BERKMAN: So right now, it's in the air.
We're kind of waiting patiently to get another ping
from our GPS tracker.
It updates every 15 minutes, and we haven't gotten
updates for a bit.
That means it's in space, where there is no GPS.
JAMES DEVITO: It might land directly in front of us.
It might land directly behind us in the Hudson.
LUKE SILAS: They need to have one of those places where you
say, I want a tequila.
Whoo.
JAMES DEVITO: So my phone died, and about a half hour
ago I got an email, subject "package" from
Lieutenant John Rader.
"The town of Warwick Police Department is currently
investigating a suspicious package with this email
address on it, Lieutenant John Rader, town of Warwick Police
Department."
LEIA JOSPE: John Rader is my sister's best friend's dad.
JAMES DEVITO: Shut the fuck up.
LUKE SILAS: Seriously?
ARY WAMAAR: No way.
LUKE SILAS: What?
JAMES DEVITO: Call--
LEIA JOSPE: I'm calling sister right now.
LUKE SILAS: Dude, everything is coming up Milhouse.
It goes beyond luck.
This is an absolute fucking like--
-Universe, man.
The universe.
LUKE SILAS: This level of improbability is psychotic.
-The universe.
LEIA JOSPE: Hi, Mr. Rader?
LEIA JOSPE: This is Leia Jospe, Stellie's sister.
LEIA JOSPE: Good.
How are you?
I'm calling--
LEIA JOSPE: Yeah, I'm your prime suspect.
What should I be prepared for, just wondering?
LEIA JOSPE: OK, cool.
All right.
JOHN RADER: OK?
LEIA JOSPE: Yeah, I can be prepared for that.
Thank you so much.
JAMES DEVITO: Oh, who needs a GPS?
LEIA JOSPE: I can't wait to find out the story.
DYLAN WOLF: Cheers.
Cheers.
ARY WAMAAR: Oh my god.
LEIA JOSPE: Oh my god.
LUKE SILAS: I can't believe it.
-This is incredible.
Cheers.
ARY WAMAAR: Too fucking insane.
-Cheers.
LEIA JOSPE: Yeah.
LUKE SILAS: --good students.
It's reflecting our--
LEIA JOSPE: Yeah.
LUKE SILAS: It's a part of it.
JOHN RADER: OK.
LEIA JOSPE: It's pretty weird.
LEIA JOSPE: Yeah, it's pretty weird.
LEIA JOSPE: Oh my god.
LEIA JOSPE: Package?
JOHN RADER: Your package.
LEIA JOSPE: Our baby.
It was just Luke?
-Yeah.
LEIA JOSPE: Ohh.
Our baby.
LEIA JOSPE: Yes.
JOHN RADER: OK.
LEIA JOSPE: We are so sorry for the inconvenience and the
awfulness and all that.
ARY WAMAAR: Let's open this little banger up, shall we?
-Let's see.
LEIA JOSPE: Oh my god.
It looks so good.
ARY WAMAAR: No way.
DYLAN WOLF: Fucking baller.
PETER BERKMAN: It's in focus.
It looks awesome.
LEIA JOSPE: Oh my god.
-Sorry.
-Let me see.
Let me see.
-Sorry.
LUKE SILAS: Oh my god, dude.
DYLAN WOLF: Oh my god, yes!
Yes!
Holy shit, man.
BUZZ ALDRIN: My chief message is this, America must dream,
have the faith to achieve the dream, and develop the fullest
possible knowledge of the possibilities that await us.
Even the best trained and the brightest engineers,
scientists, business people and political leaders, if they
have no vision, are mere place holders in time.
I would beckon you to let yourselves dream again.
And what is the dream of which I'm talking?
It's John F Kennedy's dream, to reach the moon and beyond.
It's the vision, the faith, and brilliant opportunities
that await us.
In closing, let me say that space is our final frontier.
As I like to say with my feet firmly on the ground on Earth
today, as surely as they were on the moon nearly 30 years
ago, let's join together and shoot for the stars.
Ad astra.