Cosmic Crib, with Rainn Wilson

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

He’s Dwight from The Office, he’s a climate activist, and he’s definitely a nerd. Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Rainn Wilson to explore acting, climate change, his new show Utopia, and the mysteries of the universe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:18.0	This is Star Talk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:23.0	And we're going to go slightly off format today.
0:27.0	This is just going to feature my conversation with Rain Wilson.
0:32.0	His fans know all about him and his portfolio.
0:36.0	And of course, in fact, he's in a recent Amazon Prime.
0:42.0	Do I call it a miniseries? We'll find out.
0:45.0	And it's on a subject.
0:47.0	Depends on if it has a season two.
0:49.0	If it has only season one, it's a miniseries.
0:52.0	Rain Wilson, welcome to Star Talk.
0:55.0	Thank you.
0:57.0	So this one, I'm calling this my cosmic crib because we're just, you and I are just chilling.
1:02.0	Normally I have like a co-host and experts and all that.
1:05.0	It's just you and I having a conversation, reaching for our geek.
1:09.0	No, I love it. That's awesome. Let's do this.
1:12.0	So you're best known and you hate it when people say he's best known for it.
1:18.0	Do you hate that when people do that?
1:20.0	Oh, no. Come on.
1:21.0	I mean, it's just true. I'm best known for playing Dwight Shrewd.
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