INTERVIEW: The Hosts of Planetary Radio Get Excited About Space and Star Trek
Mat Kaplan and Sarah Al-Ahmed join T. Rick Jones this week.
DECEMBER 12, 2022 - Mat Kaplan has been hosting the Planetary Society’s podcast, Planetary Radio, since its inception 20 years ago. He recently announced that he was retiring from the program, with Sarah Al-Ahmed taking his place. I wanted to talk to him before he left the show and also wanted to meet his successor. The video below is the result. It turns out they’re both huge Star Trek fans as well as space nerds, so there was lots for us to geek out about! Plus, it’s the return of T’s Trek Trivia (sort of.)
T is the Managing Editor for Daily Star Trek News and a contributing writer for Sherlock Holmes Magazine. He may have been the last professional Stage Manager to work with Leonard Nimoy, has worked Off-Broadway and regionally, and is currently the union Stage Manager for Legacy Theatre, where he is currently working with Julie Andrews.
