{"id":450,"date":"2024-04-26T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/?post_type=podcast&p=450"},"modified":"2024-04-25T03:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T03:25:21","slug":"minute-012-yakety-yak","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/podcast\/minute-012-yakety-yak\/","title":{"rendered":"Minute 012: Yakety-Yak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GUEST: NASA Chief Historian Bill Barry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to NASA History Office<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ignition. Lift off. Lift off,” says the television announcer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Yakety Yak” starts playing on the soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vanguard TV-3 rocket lifts up briefly, then settles back on the launch pad and explodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homer, saddened, continues to compose his letter to Dr. von Braun: “I’m writing to offer my condolences to you and your team on your recent attempt to launch the Vanguard rocket. I also had a disastrous occurrence during the launch of my small rocket.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homer looks at comic books and magazines in the company store, looking for rocketry information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Since here in Coalwood everyone’s much more interested in what’s down below the earth than what’s above it, there isn’t a whole lot of material to be found on the subject of rocketry,” writes Homer in the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homer looks at the only rocketry book in the library: Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So I’ve been kind of stumbling around in the dark,” Homer looks through a card catalog, then spots Quentin, sitting at a study table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the cafeteria, Roy Lee and O’Dell advise Homer about talking to Quentin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You can’t be seen with him, Homer,” Roy Lee says.”He’s a weirdo. You go ahead – – but you can kiss your social life good-bye.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUEST: NASA Chief Historian Bill Barry","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/os012.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/osLogo.jpeg","cover_image_id":"2259","duration":"44:10","filesize":"40.88M","filesize_raw":"42861762","date_recorded":"2024-04-26","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"12","itunes_title":"Minute 012: Yakety-Yak","itunes_season_number":"1","itunes_episode_type":"full"},"tags":[],"series":[17],"class_list":["post-450","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-the-october-sky-minute-podcast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/os012-scaled.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/osLogo.jpeg","download_link":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/podcast-download\/450\/minute-012-yakety-yak.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/podcast-player\/450\/minute-012-yakety-yak.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/podcast-player\/450\/minute-012-yakety-yak.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"amazon":{"key":"amazon","url":"","label":"Amazon","class":"amazon","icon":"amazon.png"},"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_play":{"key":"google_play","url":"","label":"Google Play","class":"google_play","icon":"google-play.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"tunein":{"key":"tunein","url":"","label":"TuneIn","class":"tunein","icon":"tunein.png"},"iheartradio":{"key":"iheartradio","url":"","label":"iHeartRadio","class":"iheartradio","icon":"iheartradio.png"},"itunes":{"key":"itunes","url":"","label":"iTunes","class":"itunes","icon":"itunes.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/octoberskyminute.com\/cm\/feed\/podcast\/the-october-sky-minute-podcast","embedCode":"

Minute 012: Yakety-Yak<\/a><\/blockquote>