Billy & Dom Talk to a Rocket Scientist!

The Friendship Onion

Kast Media | Dominic Monaghan & Billy Boyd

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🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Billy and Dom talk to Rocket Scientist Olympia LePoint who talks about how she got started at NASA, being one of the few females in a male-dominant environment, her job in calculating catastrophic failure for shuttle missions, and her book Mathaphobia which explores how to overcome the fear of mathematics!

Olympia Ann LePoint is an American author, professional speaker and rocket scientist. LePoint helped design rockets for 28 of NASA Space Shuttle missions between 1998 and 2007. In 2007, LePoint discovered and in 2010 trademarked the condition and term Mathaphobia, a learning disability and math fear linked to the amygdala. She published the book, Mathaphobia: How You Can Overcome Your Math Fears and Become a Rocket Scientist in 2013.

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0:00.0	The Geeked podcast is your weekly energy boost of the world's fandoms and stories you love.
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1:06.4	We have returned, William, but we're still in your house.
1:14.2	It's nice being in here, Tom. Isn't it just lovely? You've always had great taste in furniture and houses and you make your houses very comfortable.
1:23.1	It's lovely to be here in your house, recording the podcast and being around this incredible house plan.
1:29.5	I'm sure it for the second time in a number of weeks, but it's because we're racing around.
1:35.1	We've been racing around like just racing cars.
1:40.5	Racing cars like little miniature racing cars, we were just in Calgary.
1:44.8	I'm going to be in Australia this time tomorrow.
1:47.6	You're going to the east coast of Canada.
1:50.6	Then we're meeting up in Orlando to do another convention with the boys, the hobbits and possibly moving around to different parts of the country doing the same thing.
2:02.5	So it's all go.
2:03.8	And when we do know this, Tom was still doing the friendship onion for all of our friends and our friends are lovely, lovely people.
2:12.0	That's true. I should also just say, so it would be a great opportunity here now just very quickly.
2:16.4	Just say thank you to everyone that was reaching out to ask how I was because I recently did have COVID.
2:24.6	And it was about two and a half days of like rubbishy head cold and that was about it.
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