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Comedy and Cars with Jay Leno

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Scientist, Nasa, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Climate Science, Earth Science, Nature, Astronomy, Science, Multiverse, Spacetime, Astrophysicist, Space, Education, Cosmos, Astronomer, Startalk, Quantum Physics, Physics, Universe, Astrophysics, Star Talk

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

StarTalk host Neil Tyson welcomes legendary “Tonight Show” host and car collector extraordinaire Jay Leno to discuss comedy, culture, and the past, present, and future of automobiles. Matt Kirshen co-hosts, with guests Bill Nye and Mona Chalabi. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Star Talk.

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Your place in the universe

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where science and pop culture collide.

0:09.0

Star Talk begins right now.

0:13.0

So, all of the universe of the American Museum of Natural History

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this is Star Talk.

0:27.0

And on your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal at-school physicist.

0:31.0

Tonight, we're featuring my interview with legendary

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comedian nighttime pop show host,

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a car-frenadic J. Lennon.

0:41.0

And our conversation started from the roots of comedy all the way up to the past, present, and future of cars.

0:50.0

So, let's do this.

0:52.0

Alright.

0:54.0

I never tackled these topics alone.

0:58.0

So, I've got my comedic co-host, Matt Kurshin.

1:01.0

Yeah.

1:02.0

Hey.

1:04.0

You host a podcast called Probably Science?

1:07.0

I do.

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And I told you never to come back until it became definitely science.

1:10.0

We've bumped it up to likely.

1:12.0

Lately, okay.

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