Amy Imhoff

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[00:00:39] Stay tuned to this channel for the next audio transmission We often interview actors directors authors behind the scenes artists and designers even an astronaut But this week we are interviewing a different type of professional We're pleased to have with us for this episode

[00:00:58] Amy Imhoff who is a creative and successful marketing professional with over 17 years of progressive experience in digital media Partnerships and event management. She's highly proficient in business strategy and brand identity and skilled in bringing change makers

[00:01:14] Together she's incredibly passionate about effective communication and uplifting diverse voices and steam She's a feature writer speaker and host for science fiction media feminist pop culture and steam spaces She also creates global aerospace industry connections through the legacy of Star Trek's vision of an inclusive future

[00:01:34] Working closely with Starfleet officers industry creators and change makers. She also is organizing for the Space Force What that's amazing. It's my privilege to welcome to this show the one and only

[00:01:48] Amy Imhoff. How you doing Amy? I'm great. Thank you guys for having me on. I so appreciate it It is I want everyone to know just to say I want everyone to know that Amy was smiling broadly during that whole presentation

[00:02:04] Someone reading back my description of myself that you've written in the third person My best radio voice too, so Thank you. We're also here with my amazing co-host Adina Minyona. How you doing Adina?

[00:02:20] Hi, everybody. I'm doing fine, but I'm not in Maryland like normal. I am in Seattle Washington today Wow on a little vacation. You're closer to Steve than you've ever been while recording our podcast This is this is very true

[00:02:36] This is very true and I'm just gonna say this morning My activity was we went to the Museum of pop culture and they had a whole science fiction section And they included only a little bit of Star Trek. I mean lots of different science fiction prop and memorabilia

[00:02:49] from Star Trek they had a Uniform of Captain Picard one of one of Patrick Stewart's uniforms and some of his board facial Stop, that's awesome. Oh Yeah, and then a whole bunch of other like stuff from the Terminator from Blade Runner from Adelstar Galactica and Oh

[00:03:10] This is the 20th anniversary of Battlestar Galactica. I think it was actually in December technically but 20 years celebrating. Yeah Yes, I can't believe it The funny thing is my son was like my son is here with me my older one

[00:03:28] He's like he's like what's that? I'm like, oh we have the DVDs at home. I think it's time To watch this now, so there a BSG rewatch might be in my future. Wow that would be amazing and

[00:03:42] Yeah, sure and also we have retired nice guy, but he's no red shirt Steve Martin with us from Los Angeles Today I'm wearing a blue shirt. So it's okay It's the science color right so this is with our friend Amy here

[00:03:59] So I'm Brian Donahue. I'll be your discussion leader for this episode And let's let let's get to know Amy better. Okay learn more about her work. Shall we?

[00:04:09] Amy, why don't you start by just giving us a general picture of your life kind of where you came from what led to your getting into? Steam and all the work that you're involved in now

[00:04:20] We'll just kind of go from there and we might ask some questions and but we want to hear Yeah, so I'm originally from Pennsylvania. I grew up in the Lehigh Valley and I went to Fairfield University here in Connecticut, which is where I am beaming

[00:04:36] beaming at you from I Met my husband and I stayed up here and my brother also moved up here. So that's great that I'm near him I got my master's in English literature a couple years after I graduated

[00:04:48] I graduated Fairfield and I was working in tech writing for the the first part of my career for about Almost 11 years. I was I was doing that and

[00:05:01] It was not always super exciting and I would watch the NASA live stream from my cubicle where I was very bored and Think about all the things that I wanted to do in my career because just editing other people's

[00:05:17] Financial and technical jargon was not doing it for me So especially being having my master's in literature. I was like should I teach college? You know, which I did do for a little while

[00:05:30] And very much enjoyed although adjuncts are not are not compensated and or treated that great right? so yeah, I just I got let go from one of my my the tech great-winning company that I worked for in

[00:05:44] 2017 and it actually turned out to be the best thing for me It was a catalyst that allowed me to start my own business. So I do I call it Amy impoff digital management. I do digital content and event management and general marketing so

[00:06:02] I've been I've been doing that since since 2018 and My first big client was Kate Mulgrew who I think you might know Yeah We have not had the pleasure of meeting her personally not yet, but we know offer

[00:06:18] She's gonna be up in Boston this weekend. I'm gonna head up there and see her and Bring some books and I helped her with her book. She brought me on board to help with her second book release and And unbeknownst to the general population

[00:06:32] That she was going to be coming back for prodigy As a hologram Janeway which has been a very weird and awesome and interesting ride I brought it for the prodigy team. So I think they have created a wonderful show. I think it's excellent Star Trek

[00:06:47] Obviously having the star power of Kate behind it was was amazing but I've definitely done a little bit of work with intersecting with politics and social justice and Relate philanthropy Kate has been an Alzheimer's advocate for a while and I am now working with a number of different

[00:07:06] nonprofits when it comes to space and steam and Research so there's everything is kind of tied up in the the global space economy Which I've been learning a lot about these last three and a half what almost four years now So wow, I love working with space and

[00:07:22] I hope they continue to do it for a long time. Yeah, so so can I ask you? I'm gonna go back a little ways because I'm interested in this you said you taught Literature right for a brief while

[00:07:34] What's your specialty like what do you love about that? What did you teach or? So I was just having my master's and not my PhD. I was teaching intro to writing classes for and

[00:07:48] I was at the College of New Rochelle, which no longer exists. They had a they had an embezzlement scandal Oh my goodness, so they are no longer a school that exists, but one of my good friends from college was the

[00:08:02] the head of the chair of the English and Writing Department and He said we really need adjuncts this semester. I know that you've been looking for again And I said I would love to teach. I think that's something I've always wanted to explore and have that opportunity

[00:08:15] So I taught college writing. I had a couple sections of freshman I had a lot of what so the College of New Rochelle has a good nursing program They so I had a lot of students that were in nursing so it wasn't like writing was not their first

[00:08:30] Was not their passion but you know, you need it to get through college And I had some of the basketball team on one class and some of the baseball team in the other class So those boys were so chatty way more so than the girls. It was hilarious

[00:08:44] You know, these are all like 17 18 right right? And it was their first time kind of away from home and you know learning about their responsibilities of having to you know, no one's gonna be there to tell you to do your Yeah, yeah

[00:08:57] My personal specialty in literature is British romantic poetry. Oh, oh Yes, I my thesis is on feminist agency in British romantic poetry and the Victorian backlash So many literary periods are often result in response to the one immediately prior

[00:09:17] It's like anything in history is a reaction, you know Romanticism was a reaction to the industrial revolution and All of the like industry and pollution and all the things that kind of arose in England at that time

[00:09:29] And then the poets that were advocating that we go back to nature and love and flowers and all that stuff so There's a John Keats is like one of the primary poem poets that I

[00:09:42] Get spiron Keats and Shelley are kind of the big three of that era, but there are a lot more like Christina Rosetti Who I would definitely wrote about in my thesis is one of the few women that were kind of in that club at the time

[00:09:55] So yeah, I love I love all that. I also really love um The almost the almost is very old. There's overlap in the the years of the corresponding era in the United States, which is like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson

[00:10:10] They were a little bit later, but essentially the same like same same Kind of vibe, you know transcendentalist being Emerson in the woods in Massachusetts saying I'm a transparent eyeball

[00:10:23] You know stuff like that where he's just they're like soaking in the like beauty of New England and living in New England I've been to their houses. I've gotten to see like, you know where where Emerson lived and walk around Walden pond and visit

[00:10:36] Visit Emily Dickinson's home in Amherst And I this this area has a lot of rich literary history because this is where people settled first in the United States Well, I'd just like to say real quick and I know guys of course feel free to ask questions

[00:10:50] I feel like I'm hogging Amy for a minute here, but um No, no, no go ahead. I had two professors my freshman year one was an intro to writing and Then another was like a process of research

[00:11:03] And she I could not figure out what to write about and she said well, what do you love? And I said well, I love Star Trek. She said oh my gosh Star Trek has done so much in our culture in our society on all sorts of different issues

[00:11:17] Pick an issue and write about how Star Trek has teach teach us how Star Trek is So I chose racism because that was the first thing as a as an 18 year old boy, you know I could black on one side and white on the other right yeah

[00:11:31] Star Trek 6 the undiscovered country You know, I mean there's all sorts The great d-space nine episode where sister goes back. Yeah, you know had just come out recently I think actually and Anyway, so those two gals

[00:11:50] Influenced me so much and gave me so much encouragement as a young man in my writing because it was very raw But they saw they saw a spark there and they encouraged me in ways

[00:12:03] No one else has so I have very warm places in my heart for those two women Who taught me as a freshman who knew absolutely nothing about the world Some positive I had I have had some wonderful teachers my high school English teacher is kind of a legend

[00:12:20] I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Ms. McBrin was my English teacher for three of the four years and I was very small my graduating class was only 65 girls

[00:12:34] So we got a lot of individual attention and she was the one who introduced me to British romantic poetry and All sorts of literary concepts. I mean she would make us memorize soliloquies. I still remember the McBeth soliloquy and

[00:12:50] There was a we did like we had roles in the play about Medea and you know, we would play these like ancient Roman She had so many like Greek and Roman mythology and and also she was just

[00:13:04] Inspiration and continues to be her passion and her drive and the way she was able to get up I mean honestly being an adult now and seeing like She got up there every day and had that kind of enthusiasm and like fire in her to teach literature

[00:13:15] And then I Hope that I was able to have bring a little bit of that to the students that I taught because I do have a great deal of passion for Literature and learning and you know making sure

[00:13:28] That as a society we are educated and we have seen what has happened in our past So we don't repeat that in the future, but we're not so good at that

[00:13:36] No, no, but one of the first panels I did at Sartre class Vegas was a Star Trek and literature panel really Yeah, that was awesome. That there was too broad of a topic actually for an hour And then the next year or the year after

[00:13:51] Myself and my friend Brooke did Shakespeare and Star Trek and we were on the main stage and we had We approached Bob Picardo and Robbie McNeil and asked him to come up and do a little

[00:14:03] Little back and forth there from from Hamlet. I think and it was really awesome So they of course were super excited to read Shakespeare at a Star Trek convention So and so many so many of this track actors are you know grounded in

[00:14:20] Theater watching any of them do it is is amazing on the recent Star Trek cruise one of the Entertainment evenings was kind of like a mishmash Of different things and Armin shimmerman and David Ajalla did a little scene from Hamlet together

[00:14:35] And that was my I again, and I'm not really I don't think to be a great Shakespeare You know like person like I know enough, but I'm not like but that was just amazing to see they're there

[00:14:47] Just they're so wonderful when they get brilliant. He's so well versed and you know He teaches Shakespeare at the college level. I actually before I even went to a convention. I had already seen Kate Mowl grew and Avery Brooks do Shakespeare

[00:15:02] So when I was in college the Yale Repertory the Yale Rep Theater They I live very close to New Haven and we went up there and we saw Avery and King Lear We got the special to student prices and I was not in the honors program

[00:15:21] But I heard that they were going because one of my friends at Amy There's some Star Trek guy and this play that they're advertising for honors kids and I was like which one

[00:15:33] So I messaged the professor that was in charge of the honors program and who was going on the trip And I said I know I'm not I had opted out of honors in in college because I did that all through high school

[00:15:43] And I was like very tired from my very high academic Achieving in high school. I wanted to kind of more have I wanted to give myself more of a break in college

[00:15:54] And I said to her hey, I'm a huge Trekkie. I have to go see captain Cisco in Shakespeare and she was like come on Let's go. I'm a huge Trekkie too

[00:16:03] Okay, great. So and I remember the woman is who was sitting in front of us had a bejorn earring on and I was like I love your earring So so what was your introduction to trek you anybody that's been around conventions May know you recognize you

[00:16:24] And so but what is what was your introduction to star trek in in particular? I love talking about this. So I was seven I was seven years old And I came in probably on one of the best episodes of next generation ever which is yesterday's enterprise Yes, indeed

[00:16:45] And I was just on a different podcast and I talked about how that episode is actually very female driven And seeing a female captain and um, tasha yarr and whoopee goldberg

[00:16:59] That was I had I already knew whoopee goldberg as a kid from like sister act and you know A bunch of the other like kid oriented movies that she had done during the 90s And so if I was seven it would have been 1990 ish Yeah

[00:17:15] And uh a little earlier And I remember saying to my like my dad was like my parents were like, oh if whoopee goldberg's in it she can watch it And my dad was like, oh it's star trek. It's fine and uh afterward

[00:17:29] I I remember being like confused because you're seven You know, I didn't understand where tasha had disappeared to right. I was like is the blonde lady dead And my dad was like I think she probably is dead I was like, oh

[00:17:47] I became super super into it. I would watch the reruns. I would tape them. I had a ton of dhs tape Oh I uh, I I did catch up and realize that tasha was already dead In uh in early on unfortunately

[00:18:03] So did you I'm glad they brought her back. Oh, yeah, did you take out the commercials too? Did you sit there during the episodes and pause and stop it? They all had the commercials. No, they all had the commercials in it. Yeah, I I remember thinking

[00:18:16] I remember seeing like you could save space on the tape if you did that But I that's I'm glad that all of you all of you remember and understand the suffering of taping things off the tv

[00:18:28] Because if you missed it, you were screwed until like you're back in a room You couldn't help just download it You wanted one of your friends, you know, did a friend tape it and would they lend you the tape and all this

[00:18:40] But you know one of the funny things about the commercials That's actually very important to my fandom because I watched star trek Mostly in a silo by myself until I was in college

[00:18:52] None of my friends none of my friends. I had one my my I say cousin. We're not technically related but My cousin steve Um, he watched but we we did not live that close to each other. So we had you know when we got together

[00:19:04] We'd talk about captain bachard so I was I did not really discover fandom until the x files and message boards in high school interesting. Okay Yeah, so message boards in the x files and yes, there was definitely some

[00:19:20] Star Trek message boards that I looked for but they were not really like There were chat rooms and I just I wasn't as into it. I just wanted to talk about how cool captain jane. I was right

[00:19:30] And I'm sure my my my parents obviously didn't want me going into chat rooms and yeah, yeah Well, my which is funny now It's yeah, so so it's an everyday thing now. I mean just but uh my mother

[00:19:44] Knew that I was truly in love with my future wife at the time When I was not home on saturday night recording star trek d space nine the final season She knew

[00:19:57] That I was in love and said you must love that woman because you're not here on saturday night recording these things so That's great. I love that. That's a barometer There were other things too, of course, but that was my my intro and then I watched

[00:20:12] I did not watch these face nine much of it while it aired. Um I watched that in college and like right after And I but I watched voyager religiously like everything so So i'm gonna ask Amy besides track. I know we're talking track track track track track

[00:20:28] Oh, I'm sorry But you know I do I do see it But I'm excited that this is the big sci-fi podcast and I can talk about all sorts of other things

[00:20:37] And that's why I want to ask you um, you do mention, you know, you have an interest in star wars, of course Which is great the other the other four letter word not as much. Okay, but I saw about princess lea

[00:20:48] There was that image of her on your site. Oh, I wrote for a blog. Um called legion of Right, that's right. So that was very cool And then you also mentioned the x-files that you enjoy watching that yes, I had yes

[00:21:04] I had two daughters that were religiously watching the x-files and we watched it all the way through Season seven is the best. I think of all the seasons of x-files. I like five and six But I like seven seven has a lot of humor in it

[00:21:20] It is and my my personally my favorite episode, which is the unnatural I love the unnatural We can have a conversation here My favorite line is when they ask the alien why he likes baseball and he says my race doesn't smile

[00:21:37] Baseball makes me smile. I thought that was great. That was um, Jesse. Oh the actor who did it Yeah, yeah, I can't remember who was it. But yes, it was really good I think but um, but uh and and besides so besides the x-files and star trek

[00:21:51] Is there other interests you have in science fiction? Oh, yes. I love pretty much all Science fiction television. I would say my top my top five shows of all time are star trek the x-files battle star galactica

[00:22:06] Um, the reimagined the one no, no not the one with loren green. Okay. It's okay No, I I I absolutely love ron more. Um, he is like the god of sci-fi

[00:22:19] Lost lost up there and then the fifth one favorite does not fit the rubric because it's gilmore girl No That was the other thing I was going to ask you

[00:22:31] I we are currently rewatching all of gilmore girls on netflix. Um, I love it. Yeah, it is it is Absolutely. Yes, it's like before we go to bed It's like we need to have something to make us smile

[00:22:45] So we watch gilmore girls and that was really that's so that's my comfort watch if i'm in a bad mood I'm watching gilmore girls or recently. Um ted lasso, which is I don't think i'm on my fourth rewatch of that show

[00:22:58] But I I also super duper love for all mankind, which I am Basically evangelizing to every single nerve that I thought about these days I I just recently got apple tv and so I'm now into I finished season one now. I starting season two

[00:23:14] Um, wonderful. It is it is remarkable the special effects on that the story The you know the rewriting of our history in nasa And giving it a different twist to what if it's it's really creative where they've gone with this

[00:23:31] And uh, there's four seasons a total of 40 episodes. So I'm just at the Beginning of it all and all right. You have such a journey I mean the did you start season two yet? I just Just got into season two with the uh, uh, the uh, Sun flare

[00:23:50] Yeah, what's gonna happen with them on the moon and that's just oh no, I know It's just to think of it is that where they have progressed the way the stories progressed and how far they've invested on the moon

[00:24:03] In our compared to our reality of what we did by the 1980s and where how far we had moved along With space exploration what we didn't do. I love that's right I love the concept of the space race never ended and I also think that it is secretly

[00:24:19] I mean, that's that that's the pitch is the space race never ended. It's very Quick and easy to say but it's also What if women were involved in nasa from the beginning and that that's really

[00:24:29] Very good storyline in it and I think that's great and they put them into positions of power Yeah, or authority Or you know Doing getting things done the only thing about season one that I was left wondering about was He literally almost killed a russian And that

[00:24:52] Is like I go like You know like oh, okay. Thank you. All right. I'm just wondering where that goes Where that went with because that to me. I was like, oh my goodness. He just he just killed a russian in his airlock

[00:25:05] Uh, but of course he doesn't but still It's like International incident time kids. Yeah, honey. Just wait everybody. All right. Thank you Everyone should be watching this show. It is worth getting apple tv for

[00:25:18] But then once you get apple tv and you find this show you also need to watch foundation foundation That's what I'm gonna say foundation. So and silo I'm a huge fan of silo. I don't know if I think silo might be uh

[00:25:32] A little stressful. I don't know. I just didn't want to watch anything about a pandemic. I don't think It is it's a little bit more It's a little bit more dystopian. Well a little bit of it's a lot dystopian

[00:25:43] But the books it's based on um wool by q howie and the books are great The book and I had read the books years ago and i've just followed q howie just as a you know

[00:25:54] He started off also as an indie author and just to see his journey and then to get this on the screen is just Visualizing it is amazing. Yeah I'm also a big fan of the expanse Oh, okay

[00:26:09] But that is that on oh you're just talking about that's not apple tv We're just talking about that was so that was on sci-fi and then

[00:26:16] Seeing as jeff bezos has all the money on the world and he loves sci-fi. He picked it up for amazon prime and they were able to finish um Finish that show and i'm trying to think other uh orphan black. I'm a big fan of orphan black

[00:26:30] That's a I think a show that not a lot of people have seen at this point um it's about it's about uh women who are clones And there are like four primary clones when it starts, but then it expands and

[00:26:43] There's more and it's um taziana meslani won an emmy uh for her math I have never seen an actor so gifted in my whole life as taziana meslani You can tell when one clone is pretending to be another clone

[00:26:57] And I have no idea how she does that like how do you do that as an actress? It's crazy and It's extremely feminist and and very You know driven by um ethics and questions around you know human reproduction and and the experiments that they do

[00:27:18] Um each of the clones has a very different upbringing and a very different perspective in life and um some of them are are actually helping behind the scenes and you're like, oh my god

[00:27:27] You meet another one so they figure out how many so and there's a lot of ties to mythology. They call it project lita like lita and the swan um, it's it's a very cool episode max fruer plays one of the uh

[00:27:41] The main scientist and I think he's he's done a great job. He's been in all sorts of sci-fi um I also love fringe Oh before you get off before you get off or like that concept of one actor playing like multiple copies of this That

[00:27:58] Impressed me about Brent Spiner and how he was able to oh, yes self and lore and dr. Soon like that episode brothers where he's all three in one scene and he's credibly three other individuals so

[00:28:11] Just based on the description and now I'm people have recommended orphan black in the past But i've never gotten around to it but just based on that now now you got you got me

[00:28:20] You lost it's on the near I mean, I think your listeners should all watch orphan black as well It's like a I think it's like kind of a sleeper a sleeper gem Like they it was kind of made it was made for um, but bbc in canada

[00:28:35] That's right. Yeah, that's what I thought so yeah, you will recognize if you watch strange new worlds You will recognize some of the same sets Hannibal was also filmed

[00:28:42] Um, literally in some of the same sets the the house at the end of the finale of Hannibal that that house features prominently in um In orphan black that they just they go there a few times

[00:28:54] It's like an all glass kind of a very fancy house on a cliff in toronto I'm sure the person who owns it has been compensated well for their for the use of their fancy house

[00:29:03] We're sorry. Chris is not here. Here's our recent toronto. Yes. Yes, and I have not been to toronto yet I was recently um just across the water in buffalo for the eclipse Um where I saw nothing

[00:29:18] And if you can hear a motorcycle, I'm sorry. There's a large loudness outside my house So it was overcast on the eclipse. Yes. Oh, I drove forever It felt like um seven hours up to oh my god To be in the path of totality and it was just

[00:29:37] Complete cloud cover during the eclipsed and then like two hours later Blue sky right look So angry It did get completely dark that was it was very cool to be in totality and to hear the way the animals were reacting

[00:29:53] Because my friends that I stayed with have like chickens and a dog and they lived out kind of in the middle of nowhere so That was cool, but I was honestly just I know I know people in various places

[00:30:04] Did not have success either. Yeah with the eclipse and the and the clouds But like I think Indianapolis had a good a good view and then people in the very tippy top of new hampshire They had a good view, but we did not in Baltimore in buffalo

[00:30:17] Adina came to northeast Ohio and we were in the path of totality And we had just a brilliantly clear view of it. Um, yeah Hey next time if we're all if we're all around and what is it 99 years or whatever will

[00:30:34] We'll uh, well, I do like the idea of chasing an eclipse and traveling to see one. Yeah, um, that's very cool but yeah, I think all that like All that obsession with that kind of phenomenon comes from shows that we were talking about and like

[00:30:50] The the that I mentioned fringe fringe science Which is what you know the show is kind of based on but also like Um, joshua jackson was in it and I really enjoy him I watch for the plot and also joshua jackson with no shirt

[00:31:08] But I love uh, I love, um The gentleman who plays walter, uh help me denethor Oh He's a voice. Yeah, he's a he's the voice of the um The bad guy on prodigy

[00:31:27] Yes, I can't remember. I see. Yes. Oh my gosh. I'm looking it up right now because I can't remember either. Yeah, it's john noble john noble Yes, and of course, you know, I of course knew him from lord of the rings first

[00:31:40] Yeah, and then when I saw him at a kid the diviner divin yeah the diviner that's his name on prodigy Um, when I saw him in fringe, uh, he plays such a different character than obviously than denethor And he's very like lovable and funny

[00:31:57] But also like a very serious, you know scientists and and very um very much obsessed with his work And I saw him at a convention with uh, he was sitting near um marina serdes and erin douglas from

[00:32:11] Battlestar galactica and I was beyond excited to meet erin douglas because it was a battle star was still airing at the time and I saw him and he didn't have much of a line and I think it was because fringe was not yet A popular nerd show

[00:32:26] And I remember kicking myself a year later when I finally started watching fringe and I was like he was right there I could have seen him So I I finally got to meet him uh in 2022 at sartre gloss vagus and instead of having him sign a prodigy thing

[00:32:42] I had him sign my fringe poster, which I've had Very good Assigned it. I think the only person I really need is olivia. Um, the woman who played her anatore

[00:32:52] So so I've got a funny lord of the ring story lord of the rings is my second fandom behind star trek I just loved the films. I watched the films before I ever got ahold of the books

[00:33:04] And then the books were so much better for me. I was like, oh my gosh I'm getting more than I ever knew possible from this Just loved it. But you know, I proved my love for my wife

[00:33:15] Because I skipped the last season of zspace nine recording it that is of course. I went back and fix that later, but Um, but she proved her love for me when on our honeymoon. She let me take her to see the two towers on our honeymoon

[00:33:32] Oh, I would totally want to go I So I I didn't wasn't sure if we were going to talk about fantasy But um, and I we mentioned that amazon picked up the expanse. Um, I'm a big fan of the the new rings of power series

[00:33:43] Me too. Um, oh, I'm so glad you like it because a lot of people don't and they have all these problems with elves being black And women having, you know, glad you're having a sword and I think that stuff is red Amazing. It's amazing

[00:33:56] Yeah, so I am I am friendly with bear McCreary who does the music and I have been very closely listening and Watching and enjoying and I love absolutely love the scene in the first season The song is called sharezo for violin and swords

[00:34:14] And it's a very cool. Um, glad real is kind of in the training yard with some of these soldiers and she's Uh schooling all of them which is great. And it's um the the violinist Oh, what's her name? Bear's gonna hurt me

[00:34:30] She does a wonderful job doing these like arpeggios and like You know, the music is just absolutely stunning and Um, he also did a I didn't even know there was such a thing as non western chords, but he employs them um to make the stranger who is

[00:34:50] You know Gandalf essentially it's not really a secret Who is Gandalf who lands in Middle Earth on this meteor who is literally an alien in this world? And he's he he has scribed these like chord progressions and the music seems, you know

[00:35:06] Very different and a bit foreign and it's because it's not written in a traditional orchestra kind of a way and I love hearing about like Sauron's theme and another character's theme that we Won't say anything about

[00:35:21] And how those two themes are like mirrors of each other where he talks about how it's the same but inverted and backward Oh my goodness. It sounds like bright like I'm learning out on here. This is this is brian's wheelhouse Soundtracks

[00:35:36] I've never once thought about going. I love the music of the movies Which I think is spectacular And jerry goldsmith is like My favorite star trek howard howard shorted. Yeah, howard short. Yeah, howard short. Yeah, i'm just saying jerry

[00:35:50] Just bring it back to star trek star trek music and I but the I never once considered finding the music to the rings of power I'm going to immediately after Well, do you know what else bear did the music to battle star galactica was his first job? Really?

[00:36:06] Yeah, I'll be done So he started out as a literal 20 like 30 24 year old doing these like crazy like not really before done Drums and like employing these different instruments and and not you know, he kind of Veered away a little bit for the sound of battle star galactica

[00:36:26] He veered away from like the orchestral like the big bombastic star wars and star track and yeah My I worked with explore mars, uh, which is a nasa funded nonprofit and The ceo of explore mars chris carberry did a book

[00:36:42] On a space music the music of space like, you know, what is space sound like who are these people who have? Scored space and of course jerry gold or of course, um John williams is like the foundation

[00:36:56] But he interviews bear and bear says he was in the book. He says he was worried about setting He's like am I ruining science fiction film music by doing these different things and these big drums and these big

[00:37:09] You know kind of more tribal sounds and and the way that you know He kind of distinguished the sylons and the music is such a part of the plot towards the end, you know And all along the watch tower and

[00:37:21] I love that stuff. I'm like a production designer and I and I am now a film music nerd Due to a a friend in college who was super into it my friend, justin Was extremely into it and got me into it

[00:37:33] So I'd love to see I've never been able to see bear perform live and I would love to see him do an orchestra uh orchestral Like selection from his career because he's also done Outlander and and walking dead and like all these he's like the king

[00:37:49] He does foundation that adina and I were just mentioning so Okay, like that reigning king of sci-fi sound Yeah So i'm excited. Well there the cleveland the cleveland pops orchestra Does movie concerts at blossom?

[00:38:07] Music venue it's an outdoor venue and they have done lord of the rings. They've done star wars And they do lord of the rings every few years now and I just I keep I got to get there to see that to see the

[00:38:18] Orchestra I hear it. Oh, yeah, and then see the film behind it. Uh, just Right. Yeah That's I like and I think that's awesome that um orchestras have really leaned into that and and Has I mean, I think the o's performance is really

[00:38:34] Support and prop up and financially contribute to them doing their like traditional right classical music It gets it gets people to go into and listen to classical music because really I mean

[00:38:47] You know the the hollywood bowl here in los angeles. They'll have you know retrospects and things like that Yes, definitely and down san diego They'll run the an entire they'll run new hope And they'll have live music for the entire soundtrack

[00:39:04] And so it's really my son-in-law is a tremendous star wars fan so for and he loves music He's he's a very accomplished musician and You know, he just loves going to see live music

[00:39:18] For the soundtrack. Yeah, I remember gates mcfadden had tweeted that her son was performing at tango wood Which is up here in massachusetts. Um, he's a violinist and I go to tango wood

[00:39:29] Uh, I did for a long time until the pandemic um every summer to see john williams do film night at tango wood with the boss in pops Oh my You sit on the lawn. It's like You know, it's like a picnic and you hang out

[00:39:43] And when the sun goes down the the music starts and they do indiana jones and harry potter and star wars and A drastic park just everything like et he always he always onpours with et

[00:39:55] for the for the l.a for how if the hollywood bowl there was a composer there uh, uh in dr john mel cherry and uh He was doing a night of science fiction music and after the halfway point he came out in his full

[00:40:09] Star star trek uniform from uh Graph of con had the audience just cheering and it was like, okay, this is this is fun. You know, this is No, it's great. And it's a great way to like share it with

[00:40:22] um people of all ages and with your kids and you know, indiana jones music playing and I just that kind of thing is is very uh very much a part of my like nerd identity and i

[00:40:34] I bought you know, I bought the vinyl for rings of power because I saw that it was out I'm like how to get bear to sign it now. That's like my goal is to get him to sign that and my I have a photo um about sargalactica

[00:40:46] It's the last supper photo if you're familiar with it I think i've seen that one. Yes, it has been signed by almost all of the cast Um, I am only missing three people in bear

[00:40:59] I ron more has signed it um several several people who are not pictured have signed it like michelle forbes and um, Candice mcclure and The woman who played callie like people who are in the show just not in that picture

[00:41:12] So the only people I have to meet are jamey vanber tomo panikit and Michael chuko and they are all going to be in chicago in october so nice So does that mean you have met katie snaff off? Yes. I have met her a couple times

[00:41:27] Ah, I would love to meet her she was great and this was before any star wars anything She was just at new york comic I remember this encounter very distinctly because it kind of speaks to like the misogyny that's in the convention space

[00:41:42] Um, I was holding my I was holding my last supper photo My husband was off doing something else probably you know magic or d&d related And i'm standing in this line. I got there pretty early so I could be at the front of her line

[00:41:53] So I could make my other photo ops with trisha helfer who was there And this guy standing next to me sees my picture with all the signatures on it and he goes

[00:42:04] Oh, so you're like a real fan, huh? And I was like no, honey. I'm standing in this line for my health And he was like well, are you here with your husband or your boyfriend or you know, I don't know if I was married at this time

[00:42:16] And he was like I was like no, he's here with me There you go. Good for you. Good for you It's still a thing man. It's still a thing

[00:42:25] So I remember you know again, I remember when yes, she when that came out. I can't believe this 20 years ago But you know it's hard to character I remember there was backlash against the fact that they had changed the character from a male to a female

[00:42:40] But I'll tell you her character is my favorite character in the show They loved her so much and she was when we got introduced to katie sack off I didn't know her, you know who she was before that but I absolutely love starbucks

[00:42:52] But over the year she has become my second favorite character to president laura roslin. Oh, right. Oh my god I love mary mcdonnell I was so excited to see how great she was in the fall of the house of us here last year

[00:43:07] I've just I've met her several times She has I have a piece of the galactica that is on my wall that they when they auctioned it off Oh, wow, I want the only people I wanted to sign it were edward james almost mary mcdonnell and

[00:43:21] Michael hogan and they have all signed it and unfortunately Had a stroke And he is not doing appearances any longer So and rickard how chas passed away and rickard huff did sign my picture. So wow. Wow

[00:43:32] Nice nice, but yeah, oh, gosh now. Okay. Now. I'm really excited to do a rewatch of the sg and Doing it It's a very emotional like suffering, but It's excellent. We we sometimes amy do and we haven't done it in a while

[00:43:52] I maybe it's just I only do it I don't remember if you guys ever implement, but i'm gonna have a confession time here once I have not watched battle second of battle star galactica And it has been on my list for years

[00:44:07] I have access to it. I just I just need to raise up on the list I need to I need to do the treadmill thing, abinah where I just get on the treadmill watch an episode at a time and

[00:44:20] I don't know if that's a treadmill show that you're gonna be like Solving while you're on it's all right. I'm a crier anyways The whole idea of the treadmill show is it's a show that you're not allowed to watch unless you're on the treadmill

[00:44:34] And the idea is it it's meant to be a show that is just ripping so you want to be on the treadmill in order to watch the show Okay, so speaking of space force

[00:44:47] What I want to know more about space force amy and what you're doing with that if that's okay Sure. Um, so I I my contract with them was was finished after the event But I do hope to work with some of them in the future. I

[00:45:01] Was on the planning committee for their first, um, their inaugural conference which was called space power Um, that was in december in orlando. Uh, so I worked on that for you know from september Onward last year and I was the speaker wrangler. So I had about 80

[00:45:20] Like 80 85 speakers that we had over the course of three days Um, so I got to basically tell the tell the four star generals like all right We're walking backstage. You gotta get your mic on you gotta do this you gotta do that I was the stage manager

[00:45:34] Ranked them there you go And it was great because I wore a different star trek badge every day. So shout out to fansets for supplying my wardrobe Star Trek badges and uh, they every single person I think I had counter commented on and

[00:45:54] I have Joe on their phone here me dress like captain bachard. I'm so proud of You And um, and I also got to meet some cool Private aerospace folks. Um jarrod isekman from polaris dawn was one of our speakers

[00:46:10] Um astronaut scott potete who's going to be on their mission next month, which is hopefully launching next month They're gonna do the first commercial spacewalk Um, and it's funny because jarrod and I are from the same tiny little place near allentown pennsylvania

[00:46:26] We had a little a little lehigh valley native conversation and he's still based there his um, he's married and has uh two kids and they are They're still based there. Um, but he flies in and out

[00:46:37] He flies his own plane. He usually flies to his own appearances. Um, so he's been training with the air force and space force um, and you know really really walking the walk in terms of becoming uh becoming an astronaut and

[00:46:50] Working with the space force and hearing all of their presentations on what we're doing all of the different kinds of satellite technology That's an orbit. Um There's so many things that are happening in aerospace that I think people are just completely unaware of and

[00:47:04] Most people don't even know that we're going back to the moon with the Artemis missions And we're gonna finally put a woman on the moon and maybe a person of color That would be great because

[00:47:14] That's so incredible. And we haven't been back to the moon in 50 years. This is like 50 years this year No, it's more than 50 years. It's like 52 years. Is it? Yep. It's 72 52 so I guess that statistic was correct when I was doing it

[00:47:36] Well, the reason why I get I kind of know that is I I remember that moment when I was somewhere between six and eight years old I guess I don't remember exactly when it was but when I learned that we hadn't been in the moon in my lifetime

[00:47:49] Because when I was somewhere like six seven, I thought I was gonna You know grow up and have my own company and we were going to build robots and we'd be located on the moon Because I thought people went to the moon every day in the space shuttle

[00:48:01] Which had just started in you know, like in the 81 timeframe and then again some adult Pued me in to the reality of the situation And well, yeah, well now here, you know, we are and hopefully again Hopefully my career will encompass some

[00:48:18] Yeah, there's some really really funny. I have a um a card sitting here on my desk from lunar outpost. Um They're doing robotics to land uh to land different vehicles on the moon and

[00:48:30] One of the biggest problems with the moon and I if you watch for all mankind They don't really address it that often they maybe they mention it in passing Which is the the moon dust the regolith on the surface. It's very bad for electronics

[00:48:44] And and it gets on everything it gets in everything and we're trying to find ways to like mitigate that and keep the Keep the robots operational. Um, they've done that with greater success on mars. I think because the the

[00:48:58] The material that the ground is not the same as the Right, right. It's much more like little rocks versus like dust. Yeah, little yeah, the moon is more like glass

[00:49:07] Like yeah, it's like it's subject to like a lot of like um static, you know, it's like how stuff attracts So yeah, so this is yes, so I've been involved in some some work that to research this at my own company too

[00:49:20] So yeah, awesome. Yeah, that's the kind of thing that I think You know one of my favorite things to say about star track and the space program and nasa is it star track Is smart people coming together to solve big problems and I love

[00:49:36] The fact that we have these scientific problems that are facing us, but they seem like in my opinion They seem solvable. They just we have to find the way It's like in what is it in apollo 13 when they dump everything on the desk and they're like, all right

[00:49:48] This is what they have let's figure it out and they do there's moments like that and for all mankind when they're like What was margo madison my girl? She says let's work the problem like you have to the problem and Yep

[00:50:00] That's what inspires me because you know as a little kid. I was always building Legos and like You know making my bat cave out of like cardboard boxes and buttons and you know that kind of stuff was very

[00:50:13] Inspiring to me and I see these people now who are working to solve these big problems like adena Um and other people in aerospace and I think you know, this is where we need to be putting our time and attention

[00:50:23] And that's why I want my career to be in this field Nice, that's great. That's great. You guys had a fantastic panel at trek long island too. Just the two of you Um, it was real. I was really glad I chose to sit in on that

[00:50:37] Well, thank you. I'm so glad you came Yeah here here you guys talk about uh all that stuff was really inspiring and as a as a dad

[00:50:47] Who has a daughter who is very interested in science? I'm starting to learn she's she is saying things like I think science is my favorite Great and so I just I want her How will she uh, she is 10 years old just turn 10

[00:51:04] And so uh, she's she's just so curious and interested And I want her to go for it. So to To Amy hear your story and hear you talk about everything you're involved in and of course adena

[00:51:17] She got to meet you in person at our you know for the eclipse thing but Um, okay, you guys are just really important For me from a dad's perspective for my daughter to see that she can do it too that if she works hard

[00:51:32] And and is willing to put up with some crap and push through that There is some crap unfortunately. She's got a mom who works in the forest service. Who's which is a good old boy thing Yes, it is. She's endured

[00:51:45] It's incredible what she has had to push through um to get where she's at and so Uh women like you are helping Kids like my daughter Be inspired to go I hope so some I really appreciate you saying that because some days it feels daunting and

[00:52:04] I also think like because I don't have a science degree because I have my my master's in lit god forbid I don't know a degree in you know, um Med even just medicine any any real stem field

[00:52:19] People think that you can't work in aerospace and I have to say it's a challenge. I'm looking for my next job right now There are I am I am able to do things kind of piecemeal for people But they have not really

[00:52:32] And I said this on the panel is that they don't really have a ton of marketing communications in space but part of What they are going to need to be competitive in the market is someone telling their story. Yeah

[00:52:45] Yeah, oh absolutely one of the things that I I'm when I out there speaking Especially when I speak to high school students is I let them know that whatever they're interested in There is an overlay between that and the space industry

[00:52:57] You know it could be of course science engineering any kind of science engineering field whether it's More civil engineering more mechanical engineering more computer science Those are obvious But then all the other things because right we need there are artists

[00:53:11] Look at all the art that nasa and isa produces and again Writing that they produce there, you know, I had a kid at one of the events that we did Who was interested in fashion?

[00:53:22] And so I was like well, you know textiles and materials and how that's put together for form fit and function as we spending more time in space and on the other you know surface of the moon hopefully the surface of mars

[00:53:35] That's an important aspect too, you know and his like mine just was like whoosh Like, you know people don't think about these things but no matter what you're interested in food You're interested in food. It's gonna be very important what people eat It's so necessary

[00:53:49] If you talk to an astronaut they complain about two things the bathroom We have to figure out a way to like create like protein rich food that's like tasty And that's able to survive in these environments without like, you know, hopefully eventually we'll have refrigeration, but

[00:54:08] It's it's very difficult and I I also say, um, you know We're going to need I actually um, I think it was the so I work for a company called above space

[00:54:20] I do their social media. They just launched a payload to the iss to test their materials. Um, there's this Uh, basically it's like think about like fabric swatches but in like a big metal a holding and each swatch is exposed

[00:54:35] To the elements of space. So they're testing materials to see how the materials react to the cold the radiation the vacuum um, so they're testing for materials to make their You know, Prometheus platform and other things

[00:54:50] Um, make the materials to see how they'll react when they can finally launch them and see, you know How will how fast will they degrade when they're in orbit? You know, how will they react? um to being so cold all the time and

[00:55:01] Um, they ronda the ceo. She's one of the few women who's a ceo in aerospace ronda stevensson and she had recently met someone who Um, I think she sews the spacesuits together. Oh, wow And that was like her first job and then she wrote a children's book too

[00:55:21] Um, which I will I will look I can look it into it and send it and text message it to you afterwards You can post it in the comments. Yeah Yeah, I mean we need all kinds of like you said the the thing with the textiles

[00:55:33] And you know if you've ever gone to a nasa booth at a con if they have a I know they have a presence at the dc um the awesome con and they let you like

[00:55:41] Put your hands in the gloves and then try to use the gloves to like A very simple task Like like unscrewing a lid or like buttoning something like you have to do or using a wrench And it's very difficult because your fingers are you're not nimble

[00:55:55] They're encased in you know protection from the elements of space and we're gonna figure it all out. We're gonna figure it out It takes the smart people time and money Time and money. Yeah, mostly money mostly

[00:56:10] Money money and time time is very important to you. Space has to be That's why space is currently like a billionaires game, which is what I mean. I don't love that nobody loves that

[00:56:21] But if these people are interested in putting money towards space, then we should take advantage of that And they're employing they're employing a lot of people a thing

[00:56:30] It's a nice thing the good thing about the billionaires being interested in space is the amount of people they're employing and The amount of work that's getting done, which is a lot Yeah, which is funny because you know Certain CEOs

[00:56:42] Want to put 200 people on mars and then want to have a mars generation Well, where are you getting all those wombs from to have babies? Yeah, you're gonna need some women. You're gonna need to have

[00:56:54] The women in your in your space program and create you're gonna need to create positive Environments for these women to work in and they are not there yet. Yeah, you know And even as a society we're not there yet because there's we're so far from even knowing how

[00:57:10] Safe it could possibly be To do pregnancy and things in you know on a different planet and in a space So you're the great book of the case for mars By the wienersmiths out there I love that so much because it is as much as i am pro

[00:57:26] Everything let's get out there into space. Let's get onto the moon. Let's go on to mars You know, I like their take on dialing back to a little realism and just kind of reminding us of all the Challenges that are still we still have to overcome

[00:57:40] So no matter how much people want to do things there's still a lot of steps that have to happen There's still a lot of technology needs to be developed. There's there's still a lot to do Well, one of the funniest and this I

[00:57:50] Because of working with above space they talk about this is that we don't have A space travel problem. We have a gravity problem Um, we need artificial human the human body needs gravity like putting people in space for a long duration

[00:58:03] And the effects of zero g on the human body are untenable It's like your eyes get weird and smushed and your blood sounds circularly properly and Your your spine can compress like all of these things that can happen to the human body because we are designed to

[00:58:21] Be living in earth's gravity And the funniest part of all sci-fi is when I when a person steps from a spaceship onto another spaceship And or when they say we turn the gravity on and off like that's not Yes Scott kelly's book endeavor this year in a

[00:58:43] That was just a great book and just reading about What the he had to go through not only, you know physically but mentally To accomplish that it's really quite a me and then when he finally returned back to earth and

[00:58:58] Just how he was in total agony for so many days afterwards as his body Acclimated back to gravity at it. Yes. Yes One of the amazing things is there's so much still we don't know because we know about living and working in one One g here on earth

[00:59:15] We know a lot about zero g not everything but we know a lot But then we really don't know anything about the you know The levels of gravity that we experience on mars or on the moon

[00:59:26] You know, so the few days that people were on the moon not not even close to enough data at We basically know that we basically might as well have not have been there at all

[00:59:36] The amount of knowledge that we have on how that you know that level of gravity affects us No, we don't know there's so much room to explore something that you just said steve um about

[00:59:47] Scott kelly talking about his mental state something that I have talked about before is the importance of seeing counselor Troy on the bridge on the next generation

[00:59:55] Because mental health is extremely important and I know that you know as a generation where like, you know as an elder millennial I am uh, you know kind of the first in my in my family Like my nuclear family to really invest in therapy and see

[01:00:13] You know what generational trauma is and see kind of you know the the negative things that I was raised with by being raised catholic um You know just the the kind of effects that that has had on you know my perception of

[01:00:26] You know society and where am I messaging about gender roles came from and um seeing counselor Troy sitting next to captain bachard I've seen like funny jokes about it where it's like The other the you know the species on the other side of the view screen

[01:00:40] It has to know that this man has no chill because the one the kitchens counselor has to be right next to him I For card is on being very level level headed and diplomatic and I think you know that's I feel like there's a connection there between

[01:00:54] The fact that you know he has a mental health professional sitting right, you know literally at next to him on the bridge and And he listened to her too And he listened to her gave her space to talk and to express herself

[01:01:08] And even if he didn't like what she said all the time he listened and considered her opinion Yeah, and I saw Patrick Stewart and uh it's so funny. I feel like I'm saying this again because I said it with Edina I saw Patrick Stewart. Um

[01:01:22] It's important. It's important. It's very important. So I saw whoopie golberg interviewing sir Patrick Um when his book was released in like octoberish On new york, and he said he said that and I tweeted about this and got a lot of angry male nerds He said

[01:01:38] That right after the next generation finished some some he said a kind He didn't say who he said a kind person in my life told me that I needed to go to therapy

[01:01:48] And he said I went to therapy for the next 25 years and it was the best thing I've done for myself and I was like I was like see that toxic nerd man. Captain book cards is go to therapy But it's just funny because

[01:02:02] Men are still very resistant to it. Yeah And but not just men everybody seems a little resistant in different periods of their lives But I feel like you know the boomer generation very resistant to it um

[01:02:15] And being able to kind of have that positive example, you know looking for these female role models in my life You know teachers and captain jane way and scully and you know all of these cool women that i'm seeing it's like

[01:02:27] You you need to have a certain level of like mental fortitude and like to get to that level of leadership and to get to You know, we didn't really see jane way talking out her problems as much as maybe I would have liked

[01:02:39] Well, I think the franchise did a disservice programs and like stuff But I think you know having how sir troy there was amazing And I think the franchise did a disservice to Not continue bringing that forward and like continuing to have that kind of a

[01:02:57] role at the forefowl going forward. I think that was a A missed opportunity. We have um colbert now who is Doing the thing is he's doing do we like that? I feel like that's not fair and then wasn't um, it's not fair

[01:03:12] Uh as redacts corn well admiro corn well was also like in there wasn't she also a therapist? Yeah That's true. That's true and right as redacts So there was a little bit of bringing that back, but I think they really could have they had an opportunity

[01:03:27] It's a missed opportunity. Yeah, I would also like to see A man in that role um as as a ships counselor and I think that you know always casting the woman as the person who is taking care of the cruise Mental health is not the greatest trend

[01:03:42] Right and people talk when people talk about the you know feminist agency in the next generation and dr. Crusher being the The federation flagship chief medical officer and how important that is it also being a mom one of the few moms we see um in star trek and

[01:03:59] Uh, those are caregiving roles like they are like those two women on the ship are caregiving for the rest of the male crew Which I I totally see that point of view and it's very very valid. But I also think that

[01:04:12] Um, you know seeing them as professional women at the top of their fields to the point where they are They are stationed on the federation flagship is important Is it definitely and I remember I mean I remember when then deep six nine came out

[01:04:23] It was my first year of college when deep six nine came out and I remember Recognizing and noticing that oh my god. They have two amazing female characters that are not in the caregiver roles. I remember back then

[01:04:35] Making that connection that that was amazing because as much as I like Crusher and Troy Yes, it's like okay, where are the women scientists? Where are the women engineers?

[01:04:45] They weren't there yet and then I said okay now we here we have we have Jedzia who is this amazing scientist and I remember Oh, yeah The other thing I did always appreciate about Crusher Is that she was a working mom? Yes

[01:05:04] Love that. Yeah, and I know that's a big part of your journey and Nina and I And I enjoyed getting to know you and hearing about your opinions on that because I too hope to be a working mom someday Very good. Yeah, and my wife of course

[01:05:20] Tuz full-time works from home for the Forest Service, but anyways amazing stuff Amy I want to I want to give you an opportunity to kind of plug what you're doing currently Maybe if you got something coming up

[01:05:34] And where where can people find you? Of course, we'll put stuff in our podcast notes too so people have easy access to just click away and And find you but is there anything in particular you'd like to plug?

[01:05:46] Let's see. Well, I think by the time this episode airs that Baycon will probably have happened already I am going to be in the bay area The first week of july to run the women in stem track there

[01:05:56] And I'm sure it's not just women we wanted to be diverse voices in stem So, you know non-binary folks and all identities welcome um That was the original pitch was a woman in stem track because they want to uplift those voices

[01:06:09] So I have a couple a couple really cool panels that are coming up there. Um, hopefully we'll tape them and they can be Accessible if I upload them to youtube or upload the audio I will be attending the ascend space conference

[01:06:23] Which is actually the same week in the same place as star trick los vegas. So two for one star trick los vegas Ascent is at caesar's palace on the monday tuesday and wednesday the week of the convention So that's the 29 30th and 31st

[01:06:40] And then you could just go right over hey back to the rio and hang out and go to star trick los vegas because i'll be there too so, um, hopefully going to be working with a couple organizations there and just uh

[01:06:52] I hosted a party last year a stem. I called it the stem stars party It was you know, kind of a focus on women in stem

[01:06:59] So we could all kind of get together and network and have a drink and so maybe we'll try to do something like that If I get the right the right sponsors and folks lined up for that we'll see

[01:07:09] Um, but mostly you can find me on line at amy mhoff 1701 on pretty much every platform twitter instagram Tiktok although i don't post my own videos on tiktok very often i mostly just use tiktok to watch other videos Like taylor swift which we did not talk about

[01:07:28] My lord and savior taylor swift But uh, yeah another beacon of emotion of feeling your emotions and and championing Women's interior lives. So that's my that's my hooray for taylor moment Um, and what else am I up to this year? I'm

[01:07:45] I don't know if i'll be going to that battle circle actually convention at the end of october and chicago But i'm kind of aiming for it now. So we'll see all right. Okay very good Cool Well, amy. Thank you so much

[01:07:56] For being on our show and sharing your story and experiences with us and our listeners We'll have some links like I said for you to learn more about amy and all the wonderful things she's a part of Guys we need more people in the STEM space

[01:08:09] We maybe today's discussion has inspired you to go for it make your mark Just like amy's doing and adena too, of course Thanks for listening your daughter and yes and soon my daughter So thanks for listening and don't forget to like share subscribe

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[01:08:39] We sure appreciate you guys and being a part of that wonderful collective of awesome podcasts And until next time treat everyone you meet with respect all the time Hey guys, this is brian from the big sci-fi podcast and i'm at trek long island

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