Orbiting Earth ft. Jared Isaacman
The Jon Taffer Podcast
Jon Taffer
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
When an astronaut says they were star-struck, he has your undivided attention! Astronaut, entrepreneur, and long-time friend Commander Jared Isaacman joins The Jon Taffer Podcast. Jared has been a friend of mine for well over a decade as the CEO of Shift4 Payments – parent company to Bar Rescue regulars Harbor Touch, POSiTouch, etc. This time when we got together, we had a topic to discuss that was out of this world. Commander Isaacman recently returned to Earth as part of the Inspiration4 mission, the first all-civilian mission to space. Shut it down with another amazing podcast... RIGHT NOW!
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| 0:00.0 | What I didn't expect because we were so high is how much of space you could see around Earth. |
| 0:04.4 | And then I saw a moon rise. I saw the moon come from around Earth. And it just caused me to look |
| 0:10.2 | outwards. So that was unexpected. Seeing the moon like that relative to Earth. And it just made me |
| 0:14.3 | want to say, like, we got to get the heck out there. I mean, we are so small. I don't know if people |
| 0:20.3 | can really understand in the grand scheme of the universe, you know, how minute we are out there. I mean, we are so small. I don't know if people can really understand in the grand |
| 0:22.1 | scheme of the universe, you know, how minute we are out there, and that there is so much |
| 0:26.9 | interesting that we have to learn, and we have no idea how it will alter humankind's history |
| 0:31.8 | from here forward. Again, it's like explaining someone from the 1800s how an iPhone will make |
| 0:35.4 | your life better. They can't comprehend it. Impossible. |
| 0:38.4 | We're in the exact same space, exact same situation we try and understand what the universe |
| 0:42.5 | can teach us. |
| 0:43.6 | And you just feel really energized to get out there and go find whatever it is that exists |
| 0:47.6 | out there. |
| 0:48.2 | And maybe that is other intelligent life. |
| 0:50.1 | I don't want to share someone else's thoughts. |
| 0:53.2 | I want to create my own original thoughts. I want to create my own original thoughts. |
| 0:55.7 | I want to create my own original solutions. |
| 0:58.6 | I want to look at situations and come up with my own phrasing, my own words, and do it my way. |
| 1:03.7 | This is the John Taffer podcast. |
| 1:07.4 | Shut it down. |
| 1:08.4 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:09.4 | I am John Taffer. |
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