Okay, you ready to start this show?

Your host to the evening is a really funny dude.

I forgot his last name, but I've seen him before and he's really funny.

Give it up for Mike. Oh, nice!

Coming to you live on tape

from the lucky 13th floor of a commercial high rise

in beautiful Beverly Hills adjacent California from the

studios of Sirius XM West boasting an obstructed view of the world famous Hollywood sign. This is the Tully show. I am your host Mike Tully

joining me today from New York, the host of the new series Origin, journey of humankind airing Mondays on National

Geographic Jason Silva thank you for coming in

thank you for having me on your show how are you my friend I'm great thanks

the show covers the full

timeline and scope of human existence and we only have so much time to talk about it so I

want to get right into it, but first I do want to do a little bit on you I've noticed you

described yourself as a wonder junkie it's a Carl Sagan term Carl Sagan coined

that term in his book Contact when he was describing the Ellie Arrowway or Jody Foster character

from that book and then movie.

A Wonder Junkie, I just fell in love with the term, it's just somebody who lives their

life with insatiable curiosity and a hunger for

meaning and for wonder.

And I just thought, okay, that kind of, that describes me.

So I took it.

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