A Very Technical—and Emotional—Journey to Mars
GE: How do you point a gun at your own back?
LG: Well, as I mentioned Gilad, if you were listening…
GE: Sorry, what?
LG: I don’t use it on my back, use it on my IT band. So I basically use it on my legs.
GE: OK. I was listening, and I didn’t know what an IT band was.
AR: I thought that was the people who you ask for help if your email’s not working. I get really … And they play music on the–
GE: And they answer in song.
AR: [Laughing] Thank you, Gilad.
LG: Right. Most journalism outfits have actually gotten rid of the IT departments, leaving us all to our own devices, quite literally, to figure shit out. So no, it is not that IT. It is the IT band that runs up and down your leg and like, yes, it’s painful to massage it, but it can get very tight. And then, it’s also once it’s very tight, it’s painful to exercise with a tight IT band. And so the massage gun really helps that quite a bit.
AR: It’s true though, that using it on your back or parts that you can’t reach would be hard because of course, guns don’t massage people, people massage people.
LG: Right, right. You can do it on your lats, but then you’re never fully relaxing. But yeah.
AR: I keep thinking that those would be good to shoot a massage at someone else from a distance. Like you could get a sniper massage gun.
LG: Yeah. Adam have you heard of this thing? It’s called Covid-19, not sure if you’re familiar with it, but probably not a good idea in certain situations to let someone get that close to you at this point in time, or we may be getting close to that.
AR: But that’s what I’m saying! Like a remote, like one on a really long tripod mount with a long arm 10 feet away getting massage at 300 yards.
GE: Yeah, I can picture this, I’m with you.
LG: All right. Let’s put NASA on this. This has to be their next mission. Instead of a giant mass with a laser blaster, we need a frickin’ massage gun on a robot arm. OK, this has gone off the rails and I’m happy about that. Thank you so much to Adam and to Gilad for joining us for this episode. And Adam tell people where they can buy your new book.
AR: Well, the book is Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern. It comes out May 18th. That’ll be on all of the electronic places that sell books from the Amazon. So the bookshops to the independent bookstores, who you want to keep in business for when we can all leave our homes and go browse once more. And I promised to put more links up in places like Twitter, where I’m @jetjocko.
MC: And if you email Adam, he will mail you one.
AR: [laughing] Damn it Gilad!
LG: Yeah, email Adam directly, he loves that. And Gilad, where can people acquire a selection of your fine curated cheeses?
GE: I am glad you asked. I just decided while you were asking that question, I’m going to start my own cheese subscription service. So it’s called, Mongo.r, like M-O-N-G-dot-R. And you sign up, you give them your credit card information. And then I just sometimes mail you a cheese.