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Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

GETTING CURIOUS | How Can We Get To Cloud Nine? with Professor Kristen Rasmussen

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week on Getting Curious, we’re getting the down low on what’s up in the sky with Professor Kristen Rasmussen, an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University and an expert on clouds. She and Jonathan break down cloud types, extreme weather, and the lasting impact that the 1996 movie Twister had on both of their lives—and one of their careers. You can keep up with Professor Rasmussen on Twitter @KRasmusWx, and follow her research group at Colorado State University. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Check out all new Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Venice, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation

0:05.3

with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

0:09.5

On today's episode, I'm joined by the assistant professor of atmospheric science at

0:13.6

Colorado State University Kristen Rasmussen where I ask her how can we get to Cloud 9?

0:19.2

Welcome to getting curious this is Jonathan Van Ness. I'm so excited to welcome this

0:26.7

week's guest. She is an assistant professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State

0:31.8

University Professor Kristen Rasmussen. at Colorado State University,

0:32.8

Professor Kristen Rasmussen.

0:35.0

How are you, Kristen?

0:36.8

Hi Jonathan, I'm doing great.

0:38.6

Can it wait, I should say Professor Rasmussen,

0:41.4

because you have worked hard for this title. What do you prefer?

0:47.0

Kristen is great.

0:49.0

Okay.

0:50.0

So, okay, I guess I do have like a lot more like hard-hitting like cloud and

0:55.5

journalistic questions later not literally hard-hitting I say it like

0:58.3

jokingly but I have to start with a literal joke first question because this is why I'm obsessed with clouds.

1:06.0

After you saw Twister, have you ever been the same sentence?

1:10.8

I think that I am actually an atmospheric scientist because of Twister. I was in the sixth grade when I saw it and that's a very impressionable time in someone's growth and I saw Twister and I actually saw a tornado in sixth grade.

1:24.0

I grew up in Boulder, Colorado, it was very rare and I looked out the window and I saw a tornado

1:29.0

when I was hooked.

1:29.8

So for me Twister was a life-changing movie.

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