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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

Extended Interview: William Shatner & Neil deGrasse Tyson

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Cbs

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

"Star Trek" legend William Shatner and Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson talk with Luke Burbank about teaming up for a stage show, "The Universe Is Absurd!" in which they discuss the wonders of science. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.9

This is Jane Pauli. Burbank, with Star Trek's William Shatner and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

0:46.2

A truly stellar Sunday morning interview.

0:50.0

We are here at the sort of genesis moment of this thing.

0:53.3

What is this thing?

0:56.0

It's a bromance. I think what Bill Chattner and I have together should be the textbook definition of the bromance.

1:03.0

I know the word predates us, but it was we knew each other for several years back because we had traded guesthood on each other's shows.

1:14.8

He has an unexplained show or for one of these shows where we try to ask questions

1:20.3

that are hard to answer.

1:22.0

And he came to visit me in New York at the Hayden Planetarium where I serve as director. And we hit it off real well, but he has that kind of personality.

1:31.3

So there's a category of sociable people where if you hit it off well with them,

1:37.3

that doesn't mean they necessarily like you.

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