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How NASA made space tacos

Timothy Dooner
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Key Takeaways:

  • Episode 400 of the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? podcast features a discussion with NASA about space logistics and food production.
  • Triumph Bancorp and TriumphPay executives share insights on building trucking industry payment networks.
  • Experts discuss predictive analytics in transportation and the current state of autonomous technology in logistics.
  • The podcast also covers industry news and anecdotes, including close calls, a snowmobile trip to a convoy, and the use of Calendly links.
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On the 400th episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner and The Dude are talking to NASA about space tacos, growing peppers that are out of this world, deep space logistics and the interstellar food supply chain. They’re joined by Oscar Monje, Research Scientist – Air Revitalization Lab – APH Science Team – Space Crop Production Team at the Kennedy Space Center.

Aaron Graft, CEO at Triumph Bancorp, Inc. and Mike Mangino, CTO, at TriumphPay share what it’s like building the payments network for the trucking industry. 

Mark Schedler, Senior Transport Management Editor with J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. talks about the power of predictive analytics. 

Jason Gillespie, Senior Director of Continuous Improvement and Innovation at DHL Supply Chain discusses the state of autonomous tech in ‘22 and where DHL is headed with it.

Plus, good news bad news involving close calls, taking a snowmobile to Freedom Convoy 2022, and are Calendly links controversial? 

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Timothy Dooner

Dooner is an award-winning podcaster who hosts and produces FreightWaves' WHAT THE TRUCK?!? In under a year he helped build FreightCasts, the world’s largest logistics and supply chain podcast network in media. WTT is ranked in Apple Podcasts top-20 Business News podcasts. He also writes a newsletter of the same title with over 15k subscribers in the supply chain and trucking niche. Dooner has been in freight since 2005 and has held directors positions in operations, sales, consulting, and marketing. He has worked with FedEx, Reebok, Adidas, L.L. Bean, Hasbro, Louis Vuitton, and many more high level clients across the full spectrum of the supply chain. He was a featured speaker at TEDx Chattanooga.