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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

427: Carlos Whittaker—How Fast is Godspeed?

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Carlos spent seven weeks without any screens—no phone, no computer, no TV. His newest book, Reconnected, documents that journey filled with monks, Amish, a bobcat, and lots of self-discovery.

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0:00.0

Quick question, Chuck.

0:04.6

Yep.

0:05.0

How fast is Godspeed?

0:07.2

I have a...

0:08.3

I mean, do you want the real answer?

0:09.7

No, it was rhetorical.

0:11.0

I know you know the answer because we just learned it from our fantastic guest,

0:15.2

Carlos Whitaker, who just left the studio.

0:18.0

Man, you guys are going to like this guy.

0:22.2

Congratulations on finding another winner and thank you. Woo-hoo, man. That's what I live for, Mike. How'd you find him?

0:27.5

I just got an email, you know, from a publicist saying, hey, this guy wrote this book.

0:31.6

Never mind. Yeah. You didn't do anything at all. Basically, you opened your email. I did, I did open my email, but then I investigated it. And once

0:39.1

I found out what his book was about, I was like, oh, I think Mike is going to like this.

0:42.8

You investigated it. Is it that today, like saying, oh, let me do some research on that and

0:48.5

Googling the thing? Yeah. An investigation used to imply a certain level of diligence. Yeah.

0:54.8

You know, deliberateness.

0:56.6

Oh, it was pretty deliberate.

0:57.7

I mean, I had to type in letters and then I had to hit enter.

1:01.8

And, you know, so.

1:03.1

This actually is somewhat relevant to the conversation you're about to hear because Carlos Whitaker, what this guy did, first of all, as best I can understand it,

1:13.1

he kind of runs a company that requires him to give lots of speeches and write many

1:19.2

different books and help people influence other people. But he's a he's kind of a fixer

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