From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.

This is Star Trek, where science and pop culture collapse.

Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.

On your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

And tonight, we explore the science and history behind the epic fantasy series Game of Thrones.

Featuring my interview with the author himself, George R.R. Martin.

So let's do this.

So my co-host tonight, comedian Matt Kershian. Matt!

Hi, how are you?

One of the comedy writers on the Jim Jeffery show, and you're also the host of the podcast, Probably Science.

You go for the definitely, we keep the probably in there.

Yeah, I want, I said, I'll come back on the show when you become definitely science, rather than probably science.

I'll take it.

Also joining us, we need somebody with an expertise in this, is medieval expert,

Rasha Kirikosian.

Rasha, welcome.

You're professor of German and the study of religion at Harvard University.

Thanks for coming down from Cambridge.

Pleasure.

To New York.

And you teach a class called the Real Game of Thrones, Culture, Society, and Religion in the Middle Ages.

You're setting the record straight.

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