Ep. 643: Robert Kurson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Robert Kurson, the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including his 2004 debut, Shadow Divers, the true story of two Americans who discovered a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. Kurson began his career as an attorney, graduating from Harvard Law School and practicing real estate law. Kurson’s professional writing career began at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he started as a data entry clerk. In 2000, Esquire published “My Favorite Teacher,” his first magazine story, which became a finalist for a National Magazine Award. He moved from the Sun-Times to Chicago Magazine, then to Esquire, where he won a National Magazine Award and was a contributing editor for years. His other New York Times bestsellers include Crashing Through (2007), Pirate Hunters (2015), and his latest, Rocket Men (2018), which tells the astonishing story of Apollo 8, mankind’s first journey to the Moon.

The topic is his book Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Sputnik
The race to space
WWII
Nuclear arms race
The Apollo space missions
The Saturn V

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	I want to jump right in with my guest today.
0:36.5	What a fun subject. I knew nothing of this.
0:43.0	The American Rocket, the first to leave Earth's orbit? Apollo 8, December 1968.
0:52.7	Robert Cerson, an American author, has put together this fabulous book called
0:57.9	Rocket Men, a great narrative with all of the details spelling out the space race, the why.
1:06.6	What was this race to the moon? How did we get there so fast?
1:11.3	Literally, in four months.
1:13.5	I mean, there was a lot of rockets before Apollo 8 over the course of the 1960s,
1:17.5	but literally it was a four-month project, and boom, the biggest machine man has ever built.
1:25.1	To this day, the Saturn 5 rocket pushed these three astronauts towards the
1:30.8	moon. Robert is a fantastic storyteller. You're really going to enjoy his perspective, and I think
1:37.1	you'd really enjoy this book, a great piece of history. Let's jump right in with my conversation
1:43.1	about Rocket Men.
1:52.0	I look at this date, December 21st, 1968.
1:57.0	I happen to have been born September 1st, 1968, so what do you?
2:00.3	That's about four months in advance of this really significant date.
2:05.0	And 1968, what a year, too.
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