Space exploration, the Wild West, war reporting, and more (with Joe Pappalardo)
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Kevin Ryan is joined by Joe Pappalardo, an author and journalist who has spent much of his career covering space exploration. His recent piece in Popular Mechanics, 'How We'll Die on Mars', explores how humanity will live and die in the next frontier.
In this interview, Ryan and Joe dive deep into covering rocket launches, the ins-and-outs of private versus public-funded space exploration, and his new book, 'Red Sky Morning,' which details the adventures of Texas Ranger Company F in the last years of the Wild West.
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| 0:00.0 | This is made possible by Oh them Bones, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, and Craig. Egg. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | Hm-hmm. |
| 0:25.0 | Hm-hmm. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:28.0 | Ah, yeah. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah. Joe Popolarto ranks as one of the best science journalists of our time in what will likely be known as the golden age of popular science journalism. |
| 0:45.1 | He's the guy you go to when you want to know anything about aviation, Mars, rockets, space, |
| 0:51.2 | Elon Musk, drones, tech, defense, you name it. |
| 0:55.0 | He goes to rocket launches like most people go to the grocery store. |
| 0:59.0 | The mad lad even wrote a book about the history of sunflowers and it's amazing. He's the perfect blend of old school |
| 1:06.0 | journalist. He cut his teeth in a smoky newsroom in Mexico City before covering 9-11 for Time Magazine and futuristic Data Wizard. |
| 1:16.2 | He worked as a Pentagon correspondent after a stint as a P.I. |
| 1:20.9 | He's a longtime writer for Popular mechanics and covers SpaceX for National Geographic. |
| 1:26.0 | And all through his career he has maintained a calm neutrality with politics. |
| 1:31.0 | Able to appear on CNN and Fox News for the same story, and when he pulls out |
| 1:36.5 | the earpiece, everyone is happy. |
| 1:39.7 | His latest book, Red Morning Sky, is an account of the Wild West that makes Deadwood look like a soap opera. |
| 1:47.0 | Please welcome Joe Popolardo. |
| 1:50.0 | Joe, it's good to see you my man. How you been? |
| 1:57.0 | I have been well. I cannot complain. Things have been treating me very well here on the coast in South Texas. |
| 2:03.0 | So... |
| 2:04.0 | Which is close to something that's very near and dear to you, right? |
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