EVERY SPOKEN WORD
150 min read · 30,023 words- SPSpeaker
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat rock music] I like that.
- MTMichelle Thaller
Absolutely.
- SPSpeaker
It's also, there's some things that are so awesome, it's like, "That's fucking awesome." [laughs]
- MTMichelle Thaller
How, how, I, I was, I was trying to talk about black holes to some high school students just, seriously, earlier this week, and I was, I kept saying, you know, "What the f-," you know?
- SPSpeaker
[laughs]
- MTMichelle Thaller
So I, I got nothing to pitch, but I, I, uh, um, I, the Shorewood Men's Club, I was giving a talk there. The Shorewood Wisconsin is where I live. The Men's Club invited me to give a talk about astronomy last week, and when I mentioned I was coming to the show, they just freaked out. And so the only thing I have is my Shorewood Men's Club, uh, uh, uh, water bottle.
- SPSpeaker
Well, shout out to the Shorewood Men's Club.
- MTMichelle Thaller
[laughs]
- SPSpeaker
That's awesome. That's so cool that you give those speeches. I love your YouTube talks. They're fantastic.
- MTMichelle Thaller
Well, thank you. Wow.
- SPSpeaker
I have watched probably every one you've ever done. I've, I've watched at least... I mean, how many have you done? I've done-
- MTMichelle Thaller
A lot
- SPSpeaker
... I've watched at least, like, 10 of them.
- MTMichelle Thaller
Yeah. I mean, so, I mean, pretty much what I did, at, at NASA I did a lot of sort of the science spokesperson stuff. And so, so most of that was, you know, I, I, the, I, I'm more on the NASA videos. I hosted, like, launch events. I haven't done much privately on, on YouTube. I'm, I'm, I'm thinking about starting some stuff on YouTube.
- SPSpeaker
Oh, you should.
- MTMichelle Thaller
I'll, I'll... Yeah. I, I, I'll work on that.
- SPSpeaker
Please.
- MTMichelle Thaller
Okay.
- SPSpeaker
100%.
- MTMichelle Thaller
[laughs] Thank you.
- SPSpeaker
100%. You've said so many things that made me just go, "What?"
- MTMichelle Thaller
Ah.
- SPSpeaker
Like, here's a big one that you said. You were talking about if the size of Earth, if the Earth was the dot of an I in a book, in regular print-
- MTMichelle Thaller
Yes
- SPSpeaker
... that the Milky Way galaxy would be as large as the Earth itself.
- MTMichelle Thaller
Actually a little bigger.
- SPSpeaker
[mimics explosion]
- MTMichelle Thaller
Yeah. So I mean, the, the thing is, this is an interesting thing-
- SPSpeaker
Wow
- MTMichelle Thaller
... about science communication. You say that i- if the, if the Sun were the size of a dot of an I, and you gotta remember, you can fit a million Earths inside the Sun, right? This is a huge thing. So if that's the size of a dot of an I in, on text, then the galaxy would be the size of the Earth. That's when people's eyes get big and people respond to it.
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