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Extended Classic: Zombie Apocalypse (Part 1)

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4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

There’s no escaping the Zombie Apocalypse when Neil Tyson interviews World War Z author Max Brooks and epidemiologist Dr. Ian Lipkin. Now extended with 13 minutes of Neil, Bill Nye and Steven Soter discussing Carl Sagan and “Cosmos” in the Cosmic Crib. 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.

0:05.0

Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:10.6

Star Talk begins right now.

0:15.5

Welcome to Star Talk Radio.

0:23.4

I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.

0:25.2

I'm an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York

0:29.3

City, where I also serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium.

0:33.4

This week my co-host is the one, the only Eugene Merman, Eugene.

0:37.6

Welcome back.

0:38.6

Great to be back.

0:39.6

You like my co-host so often now.

0:42.0

I know.

0:43.0

Is that a good thing or not?

0:44.0

I don't know.

0:45.0

I think it's a great thing for both of us and for the world, mostly the world and then

0:49.6

us.

0:50.6

You know, this show topic is long overdue.

0:53.4

You know, this is going to be about the zombie apocalypse.

0:56.6

The living coming back to life, or never quite dying enough.

1:00.7

To be not dead enough.

1:04.3

And you know, zombies, I have to admit, I am a little surprised how popular this genre

1:12.7

has become.

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