Conversations With Joe

With the first launch of the SpaceX Starship just days away, I thought it would be good to catch up with my old friend Tim Dodd, The Everyday Astronaut to catch up on what he's been doing, his plans for the first launch of Starship, and of course we talk about the upcoming Dear Moon mission he's been selected for.

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If you're familiar with the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, there's a chance you've been "orangepilled." This is what fans of the channel have called the radical shift in worldview that they experienced once they found the channel. The host, Jason Slaughter, is on a mission to educate the world not just about the benefits of walkable cities, but about the absurdities that come along with the western suburban sprawl that mi...

Scott Carney is an investigative journalist whose recent book, The Vortex, tells the almost unbelievable story of the deadliest storm in human history, which was followed by an even deadlier genocide and war that almost led to nuclear annihilation. Here we talk about this almost unknown disaster (to many in the West anyway), what we can learn about it, and his many other unique experiences as a journalist around the world ...

Derek Abbott is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Adelaide in Australia who, along with genetic researcher Colleen Fitzpatrick, finally solved the mystery of the Somerton Man, an unidentified man found dead on a beach in Australia in 1948. He joins me to talk about his decades-long quest to find this man's identity, how the discovery was finally made, and the stunning advancement in DNA technology ...

Today I get a chance to sit down with Chris Anthony, Co-CEO of Aptera Motors, whose design philosophy is 100% centered around creating the world's most efficient car. Their most recent model reveal, Gamma, was well received at Fully Charged Live in September and has attracted industry players like Sandy Munro to their board. 

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Damian Skinner is the founder of Camp Wonderment, a unique approach towards children's mental health. By walking kids through a fantasy narrative, they learn how to identify and minimize the impact of traumatic events in their lives. Here we talk about the power of narrative, the importance of the feeling of wonder, and the inspirations that led him to this idea.

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Felix Schlang is the host of the YouTube channel What About It, where he covers space news, especially the testing and construction of the SpaceX Starship. Over the last few years, he has built his following to a quarter of a million fans and recently moved from his home in Germany to Florida to be closer to the space action.

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Hank Green is one of the first and most popular science communicators on YouTube, having started out with his brother, author John Green, on their channel Vlogbrothers, and growing an empire of science channels through his company, Complexly. Along the way, the two of them founded VidCon, now the largest online video conference in the world, and he's written two books, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Fooli...

Robert Llewellyn is the host of the YouTube channel Fully Charged thought he might be better known by some as the actor who plays Kryten in the British sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf. He joined me today for a causal chat about all things electric vehicles and sustainability along with a bunch of other random stuff. Enjoy!

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Christian Ready is an astronomer and professor at Towson University in Maryland, he worked previously at the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, and he shares his expertise and excitement for all things space on his YouTube channel, Launch Pad Astronomy. Today, he joins me to take a deeper look at the first images to come out of the James We...

Moriba Jah is a world-renowned astrodynamicist who specializes in tracking the thousands of pieces of space debris currently orbiting our planet and possibly threatening to disrupt our satellite networks if nothing is done to fix it. He is a professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas in Austin and recently co-founded Privateer Space with Steve Wozniak...

Pat Flynn is an author and host of the long-running personal business podcast Smart Passive Income, where he teaches people how to be successful in business without killing yourself in the process. And he's one of the people I listened to for years before I was able to break away from office life to do YouTube full time. So I was thrilled to get to meet him and talk about his ideas and share a little about his passions (we...

Laura Krantz is the host of the Wild Thing Podcast which is just about to launch season 3, this one focusing on nuclear energy. The pros, the cons, and everything in between. So we talk about about what she learned along the way, the mixed bag that is nuclear energy in general, and learn a little bit about the background that gave her the tools to be a podcaster today.

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Today's guest is one of the people who inspired me to get into science communication, Trace Dominguez. Trace has been doing science on YouTube for over a decade, you might have seen him on Seeker or D News back in the day, he's worked with The Discovery Channel and of course there's his own channel, Uno Dos of Trace. Trace joined me for a very laid back conversation about anything and everything. This is literally just a c...

Amy Shira Teitel is a historian and journalist who made a name for herself as a blogger and YouTube creator focusing on mid 20th-century history, specifically the space race with her YouTube channel, Vintage Space. But her interests go well beyond rockets and moon landings (she can read ancient Greek, which is insane). Today we talk about the frustrations of being an online creator, the dangers of being pigeonholed, and th...

Dr. Brian Cox is a science presenter for the BBC in Britain and one of the most in-demand science communicators in the world. Today, he sat down with me to talk about a wide range of topics, from extraterrestrial life, to how he got interested in science growing up, to the absurd scale of the universe and our small but very important place in it. 

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Dr. James Mault is a surgeon and inventor who has founded multiple medical device companies and serves on the board of several corporate boards as the chief medical officer. His latest venture is BioIntelliSense, a company making tiny wearable health monitoring devices that, combined with AI, allow doctors to monitor patients' progress at home in real-time. This both cuts down on time spent in the hospital but also increas...

Marc Scott Zicree is a science fiction writer who has worked on some of the most classic science fiction series going back decades, including Star Trek, The Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, Sliders, the list goes on and on. He's also one of the definitive experts on the Twilight Zone and worked recently with Gulliermo Del Toro. He also runs a YouTube channel called Mr. Sci Fi where you can watch his n...