From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City,

and beaming out across all of space and time,

this is Star Wars,

where science and popular culture collapse.

This is Star Talk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

And today's episode is all about Einstein,

and we're featuring my interview with Ron Howard.

What does Ron Howard have to do with Einstein?

He actually directed the first season of National Geographic's Genius Series.

And if you're going to start a series about the world's geniuses,

who better to do it with than Einstein?

And I bumped into Ron Howard at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas,

and I nabbed some quality time in conversation with him about that project.

So talk about Einstein. I know the man, I didn't know his work,

but I don't know him as well as my friend and colleague, Janelaevan,

Janela, welcome back to Star Talk.

Thank you, it's good to be here.

Yeah, so Janela, you are a professor of astrophysics at Barnard College in Columbia University,

and you're a theorist, and you care about complicated cosmic stuff,

like what the space time continuum is doing.

I would say everything I think about has something to do with space time.

Excellent. So do all of us though, actually.

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