#ICYMI - Extended Classic: Planet Soccer, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

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🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Re-visit Planet Soccer as we gear up for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with Chuck Nice, Gary O’Reilly, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and former NY Cosmos assistant coach and MLS All-Star Alecko Eskandarian. Now extended with physicist John Eric Goff telling us all about the new Telstar 18. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/extended-classic-planet-soccer-with-neil-degrasse-tyson Photo Credit: XiXinXing/iStock

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:02.0	And I'm Chuck Knies.
0:03.5	This is playing with science.
0:11.0	What we're playing with science, I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:13.0	Today's show is Planet Soccer.
0:15.0	Chuck Knies, of course, will be with us
0:17.0	as will be your own very own personal
0:20.0	astrophysicist, Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
0:23.0	And Major League Soccer's Aleco Eskendarian,
0:26.0	former US man's international player.
0:29.0	And a player and you're going to love this doctor,
0:32.0	who played for the LA Galaxy and the New York Cosmos.
0:35.0	So, what better way to start the show?
0:38.0	But just as a teaser, just to let you know,
0:41.0	at the end, we will be talking to our very good friend
0:44.0	professor Eric Goff from Lynchburg College in Virginia,
0:47.0	who has become a bit of a world export.
0:49.0	Export? Yes, expert even.
0:51.0	On the Adidas Telstar 18 ball,
0:54.0	which will be used in the World Cup in Russia this year.
0:58.0	So, stick around for that. I know he has tested it thoroughly,
1:01.0	put it in a win-tile, written a paper.
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