A Conversation with Jordan Klepper

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🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jordan Klepper explore comedy, politics, the future of American space exploration, the similarities between HI-SEAS and an improv troupe, space camp, and Jordan’s new documentary show “Klepper.” NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/a-conversation-with-jordan-klepper/ Photo Credit: StarTalk©.

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.
0:09.0	This is Star Talk, we're science and pop culture class.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk and I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:34.0	And we are coming to you from my office at the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York City.
0:42.0	And today I have a special guest and he's going to be my only guest for this hour.
0:48.0	We don't do that often. It's only if everything clicks and all cylinders are in place.
0:54.0	I've got with me the one and only Jordan Klepper. Jordan!
0:57.0	Yes!
0:58.0	Dude, welcome to Star Talk, you're first time.
1:00.0	This is my first time, thanks for having me. A lot of pressure.
1:02.0	Excellent! The only one here?
1:03.0	I'm not saying there's no pressure.
1:05.0	Yeah, you're making a very clear... And by not saying that, you're making it very clear.
1:08.0	Okay, we can do this.
1:10.0	Welcome! You've got a show on Comedy Central. You've been spawned from the Daily Show.
1:17.0	I'd like to think that I spawned off.
1:19.0	Yes, spawned birth into the world.
1:21.0	Yes, through the magic of John Stuart and Trevor Noah.
1:25.0	Yeah, because you've been working for both of them.
1:27.0	I worked for both, yes. And they pushed me now through their lovely comedy cavity into the world.
1:31.0	Through their birth canal, yes.
1:33.0	Yes, their birth canal.
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