A Conversation with John Hodgman

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Expert-in-everything John Hodgman addresses a range of topics, from the possibility of alien or robot invasion, to what lobsters have in common with Star Trek's Spock.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:16.0	Welcome back to Star Talk Radio on Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:19.0	I'm an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, where I also serve as director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium.
0:27.0	Joining me on the show today is Charles Liu, a friend and astrophysicist with the City University of New York.
0:33.0	Welcome back to Star Talk Radio.
0:36.0	Oh, it's great to be back. Thanks so much for having me.
0:38.0	Charles, you got that smoothest butter voice.
0:41.0	You did radio in your day.
0:43.0	Yes, I did. Classical, jazz, news, even a little bit of punk one night.
0:49.0	So the punk dude was punk that.
0:52.0	The opera show ended and the punk guy didn't show.
0:55.0	So I played 45 minutes of angry Samoans on his behalf.
0:59.0	Cool.
1:00.0	So many of you, if you don't know John Hodgman by name, you certainly know him by face.
1:05.0	And we'll get to that in just a moment, but he's got a couple of books.
1:08.0	One of them is areas of my expertise, but my favorite of his is more information than you require,
1:13.0	which is a satirical almanac that fake newspaper reports and historical stories
1:20.0	with like really complex charts and figures.
1:23.0	He also writes for Wired Magazine and New York Times Magazine and a Paris Review among other publications.
1:29.0	He's a prolific guy.
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