A Conversation with Dan Aykroyd (Part 2)

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🗓️ 26 October 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s interview with Dan Aykroyd concludes with a scientific discussion about ghosts, aliens, and cars on “a mission from God” with a little help from astrophysicist Chuck Liu.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.0	This is Star Talk.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson. I'm an astrophysicist.
0:27.0	In my day job, I direct the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
0:32.0	And for today's show, we're featuring an interview with Dan Acroyd, the one the only.
0:37.0	He came by the museum one day and visited me in my office.
0:40.0	I pulled out the microphone and got him nabbed him for Star Talk.
0:45.0	And to get to help me hear these clips, I've got Chuck Lu, Charles Lu.
0:50.0	Star Talk fans know him as my friend and colleague and he's professor of astrophysics at College of Staten Island.
0:56.0	City University of New York.
0:59.0	Yeah, thanks. So Dan Acroyd was in trading places, driving Miss Daisy, blues brothers,
1:03.0	one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live.
1:06.0	He also might be best known for Ghostbusters.
1:09.0	And you know, he wrote the script for Ghostbusters.
1:12.0	Wow. What a wonderful role.
1:13.0	And it's not just an accident. He goes deep with ghosts.
1:16.0	Did you know this?
1:17.0	I did not.
1:18.0	You didn't know this. Let's find out with my first clip with Dan Acroyd.
1:23.0	At the turn of the century in the late 1800s.
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