How to Outrun Dinosaurs and Escape the Titanic | Cody Cassidy

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Have you ever imagined yourself as Scott Bakula's character in Quantum Leap, traveling back in time into a disastrous scenario? For many of us, it would spell doom. Luckily, today's guest Cody Cassidy - author of "How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes" - is here to keep us alive.

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0:00.0	I didn't know that you could outrun a Tyrannosaurus Rex until Cody Cassidy just told me, like,
0:13.5	Jay, did you know that?
0:14.5	No, I have no idea we can outrun a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
0:18.0	So Cody Cassidy just taught us how to survive in the dinosaur age, how to survive an asteroid,
0:24.1	how to survive if you were on the Titanic, and a whole other thing.
0:27.3	If you were on a book, how to survive history, it's out right now.
0:31.1	Here's Cody Cassidy breaking it down, how to survive all these different types of historical
0:34.8	disasters, fascinating stuff.
0:40.5	This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host.
0:45.3	This is the James Altiger show.
0:56.4	Cody Cassidy, thank you for joining the podcast.
0:59.3	First off, that's a real cool name, Cody Cassidy.
1:00.8	Sound like you belong in the TV show Yellowstone.
1:03.5	Where are you from?
1:04.5	I'm just from Palo Alto, so about as far from the ranch as you can get.
1:09.7	So you wrote this book, How to Survive History, How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape
1:14.1	Punpei, Get off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophies.
1:19.9	Such a fun book.
1:21.0	You did so much research for this.
1:23.1	I think, of course, from dinosaurs to the plague, How to Survive the Titanic, and How
1:27.7	to Survive Ice Ages, what made you do this book?
1:31.5	You know, it started when I initially read a study that suggested that I could outrun
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