A Key & A Kite: StarTalk Live! With Benjamin Franklin

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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How does lightning work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck break down the legendary science and inventions of Benjamin Franklin, live with chief editor of The Benjamin Franklin Papers, Ellen Cohn and Benjamin Franklin himself!

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome to StarTalk Live at the Kesswick Theatre!
0:18.0	All right!
0:21.0	I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist,
0:26.0	and I always do this with a co-host.
0:28.0	My co-host tonight is going to be and it is Chuck Nice.
0:32.0	Chuck, where are you, man?
0:33.0	What's up, buddy?
0:35.0	What's up, Philly?
0:37.0	Some of you know Chuck is a Philly native?
0:42.0	That's right.
0:43.0	Born and bred Philadelphia.
0:45.0	That's why I know we're not actually in Philadelphia.
0:48.0	But you know, it doesn't really work when you walk out like,
0:52.0	What's so clear about that?
0:55.0	That wouldn't work.
0:59.0	So Chuck, yeah, man.
1:02.0	So I think we're in Philadelphia.
1:04.0	Very cool.
1:05.0	You know, StarTalk is about science, right?
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