Tell Me About Tomorrow

TELL ME ABOUT TOMORROW

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The year was 1977. The top selling cars were the Ford LTD and the Chevy Impala. The top movies were Star Wars and Saturday Night Fever. Gas was 65 cents a gallon. Stephen King published The Shining, and Farrah Fawcett published the poster. Meanwhile, over at NASA, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were carried aloft for a five-year mission. Yet here we are, 47 years later, and they’re still going strong. Voyager I is 15.2 billion miles from Earth; Voyager II is 12.7 billion miles away, and both are traveling at about 35,000 miles-per-hour. And as amazing as all that is, that’s not what I want to talk with you about in this program. I want to talk with you about the payload they both carry—specifically, the golden record.

Episode 259 - Voyager's Golden Record

De Madrid a ParÍs

De Madrid a París

Here’s a childhood question for you. And I should qualify that—for the most part I’m talking to people who were kids during the 60s, and who shared the books they read with their own children.  Here’s the question: What do Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon, Kenneth Robeson, Laura Lee Hope, and Victor Appleton have in common? Hopefully, you remember some of those names. The answer is that they’re all well-known authors to anyone who read The Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Doc Savage, the Campfire Girls, The Happy Hollisters, and a few others. The other thing they have in common? None of them exist, and they never did. They’re all pseudonyms. Here's why.

Episode 274-Who Authors Really Are

Keep High - Edge the Ground

lost in my mind

I recently had a conversation about technology’s impact on research today. It’s an argument I could make myself—that technology has resulted in access to more data and information. For example, before the invention of moveable type and the printing press, the only books that were available were chained to reading tables in Europe’s great cathedrals—they were that rare and that valuable. 

BUT: Does technology give me access to BETTER data and information? I believe the answer to that is no, for a very specific reason: It leaves out the all-important human element in the knowledge molecule, the element that makes sense of the data and then converts it to information. Have a listen.

Episode 290-The Research Myth

Who Do You Think You Are

Lyrics

[Verse]
I pulled the cord, but the lines are jumbled,
The reserve fails as I begin to tumble.
I can't even see the backpack, I feel blind
and panic grows and quickly fills my mind

My emotions are in freefall
I feel fear like I have never known
And all that I can think is 
I'm going to die alone.

[Pre-Chorus]
The ground is closer every breath I take,
Every second’s just a choice I can’t unmake.

[Chorus]
Fourteen thousand feet to go,
My life unravels, slow by slow.
Every heartbeat feels like thunder,
Falling fast, I can’t help wonder—
What will I see before the end,
The sky, the earth, or just a friend?
Twelve thousand feet to go…

[Verse]
I see the rivers cut through stone,
The patchwork fields I’ve always known.
Regrets are louder than the wind,
All the starts I never did begin.

[Pre-Chorus]
There’s beauty burning underneath the fear,
The world’s so wide, but the end is near.

[Chorus]
Nine thousand feet to go,
My life unravels, slow by slow.
Every heartbeat feels like thunder,
Falling fast, I can’t help wonder—
If I had more time, what would I say?
To those I love before I fade away.
Seven thousand feet to go…

[Bridge]
Maybe there’s peace in letting go,
No strings to pull, no weight to hold.
The sky has claimed me as its own,
But I am not afraid to go alone.

[Chorus]
Five thousand feet to go,
My life unravels, slow by slow.
Every heartbeat feels like thunder,
Falling fast, I can’t help wonder—
Will I crash, or will I fly,
One last breath beneath the sky?
Three thousand feet to go…

[Outro]
The clouds above begin to fade,
Houses roads and cars from here .
One thousand feet below…
I see people pointing up in fear
I try to tell them not to worry,
I am ...

@ Roger Shepard 2025

14,000 Feet to Go

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