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Is that Ero, that's me,
Hello, Ero, It's Scott roz here

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Man. Dude, you and this
this journey you're on, you bring excitement

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to more than just young adult readers
as an adult. Wow in Space is

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it? Thank you? Where do
you think? Where do you come up

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with the ideas? Because I mean
each time that, even on your podcast,

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you draw us in and you really
give us that information. Are you

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Are you into content like we are? Yeah? I mean we have a

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podcast Wow in the World that is
for kids and families, and we've done

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almost two hundred episodes so far.
And one of the things that we learned

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about our listeners is that they are
really really into space. On our shows,

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which is sort of a cartoon for
the ear. Guy and I have

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gone to outer space, allowing kids
to imagine what it's like to be up

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there. We've also written books on
the human body. The How and Wow

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of the Human Body are wow in
The book is all about animals, and

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we decided the next logical thing to
do would be to take our readers to

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outer space, and that is where
Wow and Space comes in. Well,

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you know that as we continue to
grow closer and closer because they're saying that

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we're going back up on the moon
next year. Young adults and children are

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going to see your books and call
you a pioneer because you were the first

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ones to kind of plant that seed
in them, and now they're interested in

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space because of this book. Gino
Ero, it's amazing. We did a

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lot of live shows. We've done
a lot of live shows for our podcast

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Wow in the World, and we
get kids who come up to us or

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parents who come up to us all
the time and say, and now there

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are kids who have grown up,
who are in college who started listening to

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Wow in the World, you know, seven years ago, who say to

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us, you really inspired my interest
in science. I mean space is a

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great example of this because it is
so inspiring. It's limitless, right,

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I mean, there is so much
we have yet to discover about space.

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We've learned a lot, but it's
in it. I mean, every day

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we learn more and more about space
with images and data coming from the James

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Webb Telescope and other scientific discoveries and
measurements. I mean, we didn't even

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twenty five thirty years ago, we
didn't really know for sure if there were

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a lot of exo planets out there. In our galaxy. We now know

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there are four or five hundred billion
other planets in our galaxy, the Milky

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Way galaxy, just in our galaxy. I mean each one of those planets,

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you know, could potentially not each
one, but some of those planets

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could potentially support life. We know
that, and the possibilities of that are

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just mind blowing. And that's really
what we wanted to try and capture with

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this book. You know, we
none of us would have ever dreamed of

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seeing a drone fly around on Mars, and now as human beings, we

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all want to get a drone and
do it ourselves. And who knows what

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the future holds. But yeah,
we talk a lot of even about the

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tools that scientists used to explore space
and the things that were not around when

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we first started, how a rocket
ship works, how a space shuttle works,

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and then imagining what life is like
when you are in space. We've

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got astronauts living aboard the International Space
Station all the time. What's their life

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like up there? So we wrote
it in the perspective of a diary from

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an astronaut living on the International Station. What is a day and a life

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up like up there? What does
it take to become an astra astronaut.

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We made a fake job application and
you can see how far you got to

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go before you can make that a
reality. Got big breed ex tell you

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how to get there. You talk
about, you know, becoming that astronaut

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right away. I'm reminded of my
conversation with Lance Bass from in Sync where

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he went through that training but at
the last minute he didn't get to go

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up. Yeah, yeah, I
mean totally. I mean, what a

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cool story is well, right,
I mean, this is the thing,

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right, because there is something about
space that is so inspiring to all of

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us, and we talk about era. We talk about the science in this

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book. This book is you know, it's a perfect entry point for like

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a kid as young as five.
They won't get all of the science,

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but but get a lot of the
jokes. But it's got science, real

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world science for a kid as old
as twelve thirteen. Because we talk about

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black holes and supernovas and dark matter. We talk about the elements that make

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up our universe, the chemicals and
the gases, but we also talk about

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things like what it's like to pass
gas in space. And I can tell

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you we discovered in our research that
it is not very pleasant for the people

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around you because it doesn't go anywhere, it just sits there. And so

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that's really the spirit of the book. It's designed to really make kids laugh

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and to bring joy and delight,
because we know that when kids are delighted

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about what they're learning, they remember
it and they retain it and they continue

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to learn more about it. Don't
kids also dream of one day being up

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there in space with their animals,
because I mean, it's like I would

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love to go into space with my
dog. Yeah, well, there has

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been a dog in space. There's
been lots of animals in space that have

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gone to space before us. There
was an interesting study that was done with

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these flatworms, these plenarian flatworms,
where they were brought to space, and

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what they found was that they would
spontaneously split into two and that each half

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would then grow two more heads,
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the bottom. Living up to the
title of your book, Wow, I

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mean, there's so many things that
go on out there in space. But

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now, let's because we all bump
into the naysayers, we're spending all this

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money going up into space. What
about our own oceans? Is it one

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in the same no beginning, middle, no end. You know, it's

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a really interesting parallel because there's lots
about our own ocean that we don't even

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know, and lots of ocean exploration. But what's been really exciting about space

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is that we have started to figure
out, through companies like SpaceX and other

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companies out there, how to make
space travel cheaper, and it will become

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much much cheaper. And we know, for example, that just the Moon

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alone might contain really important minerals that
we need here on Earth, and so

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we may need to go to the
Moon to gather those minerals to power our

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own planet in the next one hundred
years. And that's really exciting to me.

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Yeah, how about the space mission
that went up there to that asteroid,

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tapped into its surface and then brought
it back to Earth. Gosh,

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oh is that a wow? Unbelievable
right? And to learn from it,

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I mean they're talking about this is
way before the Earth was probably even created.

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I mean it's like, how do
you learn from when there was nothing

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here? It's incredible and you know, just all in our book we talk

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about a lot, how do the
technologies that came out have come out from

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space? Travel and space exploration.
I mean things we know about like Velcrow,

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but also you know certain kinds of
drills, and you know Lasik laser

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eye surgery. I mean, all
of these things that we just kind of

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take for granted are deeply connected to
all this research and exploration we've done around

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space. Yeah, now, where
are you guys taking this book next?

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In other words, are is it
up on the website to work? Because

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we're going to read this book,
We're going to study it, We're going

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to go back and read it again. But you know, we like to

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be interactive with it going forward.
Yeah, I mean to that, I

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would say, once you've read the
book and you've piqued your interest, I

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would say, go to the back
of the book where we have QR codes

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for all sorts of great Space episodes
of our podcast while in the world,

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as we like to call it,
to keep the Wow rolling. I would

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love to be a fly on the
wall when you guys are putting these things

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together, because you always do stories
and put out the books as well as

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the podcast that are of public interest. Yeah, well it is. I

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will tell you one of the most
fun moments of my week when Mindy and

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I get together and work on our
podcast. When we work on projects together,

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it is so delightful because basically,
if we can understand the science,

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if we can explain it to ourselves, then we know how to explain it

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to kids. And kids are naturally
attracted to science. It just has to

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be presented to them in a way
that makes them laugh, makes them,

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you know, think about something connected
to it, and so really it's all

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about a really joyful creative process whatever
we're working on. Wow, this is

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such a perfect book to give to
a child for Christmas. It really is.

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Wow in space. Please come back
to this show anytime in the future.

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The door is always going to be
open for you. Thank you so

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much. Eryl. Well, you
guys be brilliant today. Okay, thank

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you, Errol. I really appreciate
it.