#104 Science, Capitalism & God (with Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.8 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest on Under The Skin is the infamous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson! He’s pretty amazing. He was promoting his book ‘Letters From An Astrophysicist’ but he was more than that…being a focused and dedicated educator. I enjoyed talking to him. The main thrust of it was me going, “yeah, come on, there must be God!”. It was actually my ongoing argument that it’s hard to apply the tools of science to realms that may be beyond sensory experience and how can science claim to be objective as it exist within a capitalist consumer culture that has certain agendas and objectives? We also discussed the way in which science has propelled human understanding and how we interface with the unknowable, what role ancient spiritual texts have played and whether science is controlled by the rich and powerful? I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

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0:00.0	Hello there you, welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary Media with me Russell Brand.
0:04.1	Guess who I spoke to, it was Nood Agress Tyson.
0:07.4	He's pretty amazing.
0:09.6	He was promoting his book Letters from Anastrophysicist but he was more than that being a focused
0:16.8	and dedicated educator.
0:19.9	And after I've done his podcast, Star Time, Star Chat, Star Talk and that was good as
0:26.8	well.
0:27.8	My enjoy talking to him, the main thrust of it as you might imagine was me continually
0:31.2	going, yeah but come on, he must be good, yeah come on with his spirits and goats, yeah
0:34.9	come on, there's miracles.
0:37.2	It was actually my ongoing argument that it's hard to apply this tools of science to realms
0:47.4	that may be beyond sensual or sensory rather experience.
0:53.8	It's pretty good.
0:55.1	And how can science claim to be objective as it exists within a capitalist consumer
1:00.7	culture that has certain agendas and objectives?
1:03.2	Anyway, I made it better in the conversation with him than I did in that intro just then.
1:07.8	So you'll hear it because I'm not enjoying this intro, fuck that guy.
1:13.2	Hello everyone, Luminary.
1:14.6	I hope you're all enjoying this and you're all happy.
1:18.1	We're very happy to be on your platform.
1:20.2	Now here's some personal promo from me.
1:23.7	Have a look at my YouTube channel, there's really good things on there.
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