October 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I was surprised to hear you on coast-to-coast at 2:30 in the “Open line Friday” morning. I had turned it off when George nori started interviewing his call screener. It was refreshing to hear a familiar voice, probably saving the show from being a waste of time.
I wish he can have you on more often, science and logic is far more entertaining and useful.
A face on Mars might be titillating, but the pictures of mars in high resolution are fascinating! And if you look closely you can make out hundreds of familiar objects and faces from the rock formations in every picture. There was even one I could swear the craters formed a sculpture/ replica of Mickey Mouse.
Pattern recognition is extremely useful but don’t let your imagination get carried away… Unless you’re doing an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie in a Alien pyramid on Mars :-)
Max: If you want me on C2C more often, you need to let them know. I think they have contact info on their website for this purpose.
Art Bell was weirdly and mildly entertaining, although near the end he seemed off the rails just a bit, but not a big fan of Noory. I DO, however, very much enjoy the Batchelor show.
Star Trek –
All Our Yesterdays –
S3 E23
“time is running out…”
https://youtu.be/_Fc0irneMHU
3:28
Alex, I agree that Art Bell was unusual and going off the rails towards the end of his career. (I would turn the radio to Larry king every time he started talking about the “quickening” which drove me nuts and became a nightly experience)
He was one radio host that I loved to hate. I mostly agree with his politics, love to hear the stories of his experience with Air America, the smuggling of G.I. children from Vietnam and living in Japan for 10 years… I love the sci-fi nature of many of his off-the-wall guests… But I very much dislike his rising of emotion over reality especially when it comes to the religion of global warming which he was part of. I would often call him to argue with him. (Most people didn’t know this, but when his studio was in his home, you could call the online number during the day and he would answer it and talk to you off the air)(I could also listen to his amateur conversations on short wave radio)
I started shift work of 10 years of graveyard during the early 90s when Art Bell was driving from Pahrump (in the kingdom of Nye) past area 51 to “K-dawn” radio in a casino in Las Vegas to do his show 4 hours a night and weekends. His show consisted of a variety of news followed by interviewing the callers and letting them debate each other about current events, politics (or whatever) on the wild card lines. He never had a call screener. He even took “fast blast” short comments on the site “grassy Knoll” during AOL DialUp days…
When he said UV rays were making sheep blind in Australia because of the ozone hole, I pointed out that the hole is parallel to the sun and UV rays can’t pass down through it without a mirror in space… and then it would have to follow the curve of the earth the hit Australia during the night. (unless you can make the UV rays do a U-turn and go backwards during the day and hit Australia from two different angles)
I would try to use logic on every heart felt faith based lie that he believed that we were destroying the planet. Even the book he cowrote and turned into a movie was pure fiction.
I think his back pain (which later led to his accidental death) and the stress of his son, living with his first wife in California, being kidnapped was too much. His wife Ramona suddenly died and he moved to the Philippines soon after starting a new life giving George nori his radio show. I do miss him… And I still want a piece of “Charlie liberal Southern California”, conservative nightmare, liberal Sue, Madman Markham, Mel of Mel’s hole, Bugs the Bigfoot killer, Pavo, Bob from Idaho (who is still around) and even newcomer JC Who would yell and scream at Art Bell calling him the “Devils toe jam”
Yes, you could probably say I was a fan. Until Art Bell’s death, I thought of George nori as a temporary fill-in…
Max,
Thanks for the drive through memory lane via the Kingdom of Nye. Mel’s Hole outside of Ellensburg WA., that was a joke just like the underground submarine tunnels from Idaho National Engineering Labs to the ocean. How many times have I heard guys from nuke school say that one.
I was able to keep awake for the late night/early morning drives to the airport with Coast2Coast AM.
Yes, Art was a Ham and used to hang out on 3.840 MHz. Now that frequency is infested with radio jammers that sound like the Howard Stern show with people yelling at each other and playing music.