020 Mario Romero

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

What would have happened if Neil deGrasse Tyson went into special operations? Well, you’d get what we have on this episode where I sit down with Mario Romero- former Navy SEAL turned Columbia grad and now NASA employee. We talk about his career in the teams and what the transition to math geek/pathway to becoming an astronaut looks like.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mic Drop.
0:13.6	The podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings.
0:22.5	Ladies and gentlemen, as always it's both an honor and a pleasure to bring to you my
0:26.2	next guest for the podcast.
0:28.9	He spent just under nine years as a US Navy SEAL.
0:33.1	He did three combat deployments, two to Iraq and one to Afghanistan.
0:38.0	He is a SEAL qualified sniper as well as a JTAC which for those of you that don't know
0:42.7	that's calling an air supporter, being able to bond the shit out of your enemies while
0:46.8	you're on the ground with Staren Atom.
0:49.2	He has a BA in pure math and yes that's pure math from Columbia University.
0:55.7	He is currently just starting into the NASA program and is a recent hire.
1:00.2	He enjoys long walks talking about astrophysics and he is the star of the new Nintendo game
1:07.2	Super Mario NASA Edition.
1:09.6	Please welcome to the podcast ladies and gentlemen, a gentleman in a scholar Mario Romero.
1:14.6	Brother, what an introduction.
1:16.7	I appreciate it.
1:18.5	You have some powerhouse guests here and it's really an honor to have been asked to be a guest.
1:24.7	Well, I tell you, it's my pleasure.
1:28.0	I like to bring good quality guests on and you're certainly no exception to that.
1:34.1	So I appreciate the humble approach.
1:38.3	But to me, some of the things that you've done are pretty fucking amazing and certainly
1:43.4	things that I'm confident that I couldn't accomplish.
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