David Kipping

It helps if you have an English accent.

In comedy?

No.

Talking about the Cosmos.

It doesn't come with an American accent.

Yeah, so I think there's a lot ... Public speaking is something that a lot of scientists ... It's the same, because there's so many brilliant scientists, and they just can't handle this kind of situation.

Yeah, it's unfortunate.

I've slept through a few lectures in my time.

Do you think you could teach someone to be Sagan-esque?

Yeah, I learned that through YouTube.

You know, I do a lot of YouTube communication.

And when I first started the channel, I remember I was copying.

I was looking at other stuff that I see was doing well.

And I was trying to like transplant that style of video onto my own.

And

it wasn't me it was it was it was kind of like um too animated too you know i'm more of a chill person and this was like hey let's talk about space yeah that's just like not it just it doesn't jive with me that much but i put it on and then i was doing this for a while and we we just kind of flatlined in subscribers after a while and i was like

I think I'm going to pat this in.

But before I do, I'll just make one or two videos the way I really want to do it.

And then I'll stop.

And so I made these like super deep dive and I kind of opened up a little bit personally.