#37 NASA, Warren G. Harding, Daylight Saving, & Political Parties (Listener Q&A)
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In the last few weeks, our listeners have submitted some great questions about the history of NASA, Presidential corruption, daylight saving time, & more. We've been working hard to get you the answers to these questions, so to kick off 2017, we offer you a Q & A extravaganza with an all-star team of historians featuring Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College, Bruce Carlson of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics, & Brian Odom of NASA!
Thanks to everyone who sent us the questions for today's episode. Please keep sending your questions to roadtonowcast@gmail.com and we'll continue to answer them as they come in!
For more on this and every episode on The Road to Now, visit our website: www.theroadtonow.com.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:03.0 | And I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now. |
| 0:06.3 | Well, you were all so kind in submitting your questions to us and we finally have your questions episode. |
| 0:15.2 | That's right. And we have some great ones. In fact, some that got our mind spinning so much. We're going to later on dedicate an episode to at least one of these questions, like a whole episode. And so it's great. And you guys have been so gracious. And if we didn't get to your question on this one, we apologize. But we did get most of them. That's right. And we got some great experts to answer these questions. Yeah, and all the questions were great. |
| 0:39.6 | And each question could be its own episode. |
| 0:42.9 | Agreed. |
| 0:43.8 | And we got, I mean, this is, I love it. |
| 0:45.4 | We got Heather Cox Richardson to answer a question who's wrote the history of the Republican Party that Bob and I both love. |
| 0:51.8 | It's called To Make Men Free. |
| 0:52.9 | We got Brian Odom at NASA to answer a question |
| 0:55.5 | about NASA. We got Bruce Carlson and even a few questions that we even answered for you. Bob, |
| 1:02.1 | Bob, you're stuffed up, man. How you feeling? I've been sick for weeks, but you know what? |
| 1:07.8 | This is the season. And everybody I meet has been dealing with some kind of a infection, sinus infection or stomach virus. |
| 1:17.3 | And so my home is no different than your home. |
| 1:21.4 | And these things are very communicable. |
| 1:26.0 | That's right. |
| 1:26.5 | If you have small children in school, you are no stranger to these illnesses. |
| 1:32.9 | You send them off to daycare or to school, and they come home with infections. |
| 1:36.8 | It's like that monkey from outbreak. |
| 1:38.9 | Like they come back and everyone's like, why do we let this thing in here? |
| 1:41.9 | Yep, but like all things, infections pass, as do years. |
| 1:46.7 | And so this is airing for you guys. |
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