Is that Ero, that's me, Hello, Ero, It's Scott roz here
Man. Dude, you and this this journey you're on, you bring excitement
to more than just young adult readers as an adult. Wow in Space is
it? Thank you? Where do you think? Where do you come up
with the ideas? Because I mean each time that, even on your podcast,
you draw us in and you really give us that information. Are you
Are you into content like we are? Yeah? I mean we have a
podcast Wow in the World that is for kids and families, and we've done
almost two hundred episodes so far. And one of the things that we learned
about our listeners is that they are really really into space. On our shows,
which is sort of a cartoon for the ear. Guy and I have
gone to outer space, allowing kids to imagine what it's like to be up
there. We've also written books on the human body. The How and Wow
of the Human Body are wow in The book is all about animals, and
we decided the next logical thing to do would be to take our readers to
outer space, and that is where Wow and Space comes in. Well,
you know that as we continue to grow closer and closer because they're saying that
we're going back up on the moon next year. Young adults and children are
going to see your books and call you a pioneer because you were the first
ones to kind of plant that seed in them, and now they're interested in
space because of this book. Gino Ero, it's amazing. We did a
lot of live shows. We've done a lot of live shows for our podcast
Wow in the World, and we get kids who come up to us or
parents who come up to us all the time and say, and now there
are kids who have grown up, who are in college who started listening to
Wow in the World, you know, seven years ago, who say to
us, you really inspired my interest in science. I mean space is a
great example of this because it is so inspiring. It's limitless, right,
I mean, there is so much we have yet to discover about space.
We've learned a lot, but it's in it. I mean, every day
we learn more and more about space with images and data coming from the James
Webb Telescope and other scientific discoveries and measurements. I mean, we didn't even
twenty five thirty years ago, we didn't really know for sure if there were
a lot of exo planets out there. In our galaxy. We now know
there are four or five hundred billion other planets in our galaxy, the Milky
Way galaxy, just in our galaxy. I mean each one of those planets,
you know, could potentially not each one, but some of those planets
could potentially support life. We know that, and the possibilities of that are
just mind blowing. And that's really what we wanted to try and capture with
this book. You know, we none of us would have ever dreamed of
seeing a drone fly around on Mars, and now as human beings, we
all want to get a drone and do it ourselves. And who knows what
the future holds. But yeah, we talk a lot of even about the
tools that scientists used to explore space and the things that were not around when
we first started, how a rocket ship works, how a space shuttle works,
and then imagining what life is like when you are in space. We've
got astronauts living aboard the International Space Station all the time. What's their life
like up there? So we wrote it in the perspective of a diary from
an astronaut living on the International Station. What is a day and a life
up like up there? What does it take to become an astra astronaut.
We made a fake job application and you can see how far you got to
go before you can make that a reality. Got big breed ex tell you
how to get there. You talk about, you know, becoming that astronaut
right away. I'm reminded of my conversation with Lance Bass from in Sync where
he went through that training but at the last minute he didn't get to go
up. Yeah, yeah, I mean totally. I mean, what a
cool story is well, right, I mean, this is the thing,
right, because there is something about space that is so inspiring to all of
us, and we talk about era. We talk about the science in this
book. This book is you know, it's a perfect entry point for like
a kid as young as five. They won't get all of the science,
but but get a lot of the jokes. But it's got science, real
world science for a kid as old as twelve thirteen. Because we talk about
black holes and supernovas and dark matter. We talk about the elements that make
up our universe, the chemicals and the gases, but we also talk about
things like what it's like to pass gas in space. And I can tell
you we discovered in our research that it is not very pleasant for the people
around you because it doesn't go anywhere, it just sits there. And so
that's really the spirit of the book. It's designed to really make kids laugh
and to bring joy and delight, because we know that when kids are delighted
about what they're learning, they remember it and they retain it and they continue
to learn more about it. Don't kids also dream of one day being up
there in space with their animals, because I mean, it's like I would
love to go into space with my dog. Yeah, well, there has
been a dog in space. There's been lots of animals in space that have
gone to space before us. There was an interesting study that was done with
these flatworms, these plenarian flatworms, where they were brought to space, and
what they found was that they would spontaneously split into two and that each half
would then grow two more heads, so one on the top and one on
the bottom. Living up to the title of your book, Wow, I
mean, there's so many things that go on out there in space. But
now, let's because we all bump into the naysayers, we're spending all this
money going up into space. What about our own oceans? Is it one
in the same no beginning, middle, no end. You know, it's
a really interesting parallel because there's lots about our own ocean that we don't even
know, and lots of ocean exploration. But what's been really exciting about space
is that we have started to figure out, through companies like SpaceX and other
companies out there, how to make space travel cheaper, and it will become
much much cheaper. And we know, for example, that just the Moon
alone might contain really important minerals that we need here on Earth, and so
we may need to go to the Moon to gather those minerals to power our
own planet in the next one hundred years. And that's really exciting to me.
Yeah, how about the space mission that went up there to that asteroid,
tapped into its surface and then brought it back to Earth. Gosh,
oh is that a wow? Unbelievable right? And to learn from it,
I mean they're talking about this is way before the Earth was probably even created.
I mean it's like, how do you learn from when there was nothing
here? It's incredible and you know, just all in our book we talk
about a lot, how do the technologies that came out have come out from
space? Travel and space exploration. I mean things we know about like Velcrow,
but also you know certain kinds of drills, and you know Lasik laser
eye surgery. I mean, all of these things that we just kind of
take for granted are deeply connected to all this research and exploration we've done around
space. Yeah, now, where are you guys taking this book next?
In other words, are is it up on the website to work? Because
we're going to read this book, We're going to study it, We're going
to go back and read it again. But you know, we like to
be interactive with it going forward. Yeah, I mean to that, I
would say, once you've read the book and you've piqued your interest, I
would say, go to the back of the book where we have QR codes
for all sorts of great Space episodes of our podcast while in the world,
as we like to call it, to keep the Wow rolling. I would
love to be a fly on the wall when you guys are putting these things
together, because you always do stories and put out the books as well as
the podcast that are of public interest. Yeah, well it is. I
will tell you one of the most fun moments of my week when Mindy and
I get together and work on our podcast. When we work on projects together,
it is so delightful because basically, if we can understand the science,
if we can explain it to ourselves, then we know how to explain it
to kids. And kids are naturally attracted to science. It just has to
be presented to them in a way that makes them laugh, makes them,
you know, think about something connected to it, and so really it's all
about a really joyful creative process whatever we're working on. Wow, this is
such a perfect book to give to a child for Christmas. It really is.
Wow in space. Please come back to this show anytime in the future.
The door is always going to be open for you. Thank you so
much. Eryl. Well, you guys be brilliant today. Okay, thank
you, Errol. I really appreciate it.