The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 181 - Podcasters Mat Kaplan and Nick Roman
Why should you start a podcast? What kind of feedback can you expect? How hard is it to keep a podcast going? Here's a fun talk with podcasters Mat Kaplan and Nick Roman about all that stuff
There are TWO ways to listen to a Mat Kaplan podcast!!! Listen to any episode from the 20-some years he hosted Planetary Radio by clicking here
(you can listen to new episodes with current host Sarah Al-Ahmed too!)
OR.....listen to his newest podcast for the National Center for Science Education by clicking here
Nick's podcast is easy to remember -- it has his name in it!
Find it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
You might be interested in previous talks we've had with Mat and Nick. For example, we talked with Mr. Kaplan about the first images we received from the James Webb Space Telescope back in Episode 70
The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 70 - Mat Kaplan JWST
And we've talked a lot of baseball with Nick Roman, who's been a die-hard Dodgers fan all his life. Here's a chat we had with Nick about the passing of Fernando Valenzuela - and what Fernando meant not just to the team, but to the fans....
The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 166 - Nick Roman talks about Fernando Valenzuela
Mat Kaplan
Mat Kaplan loved hosting and producing Planetary Radio for 20 years. He was just 17 when he got his first job in broadcasting, yet it wasn't until the 2002 premiere of the Society's popular, weekly podcast and public radio series that he combined his twin loves of space and radio. A Planetary Society staff member for 24 years, Mat moderates many of the Society's events and webinars. He recently served as the MC for the Society’s two-day Eclipse-O-Rama celebration in Texas.
Mat's extensive background in journalism has ranged from public radio reporter covering the political conventions to movie reviewer for an international magazine. Some may remember him as a correspondent for a pioneering national TV series about personal computers. Mat also enjoyed a 30-year career in higher education that included major television awards and recognition for service to the community. He and his wife live in the San Diego region near his two adult daughters who were raised to be citizens of the solar system.
Nick Roman
Nick Roman has been a fixture in Southern California radio news for more than 44 years. From 1984-2004, he was the voice of news at KLON/KKJZ in Long Beach, serving as a producer, anchor, and news director. Along the way he helped create CALNET, a daily statewide news program, where he was a producer, news editor and host. From 2004-2024, he was host of All Things Considered on 89.3 KPCC.
Nick also worked for 25 years teaching broadcast journalism to students at Cal State Long Beach and Cal State Fullerton.
His love of sports has led him to file numerous stories for NPR's "Only A Game."
