Pro Athlete Cosmic Queries

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Neil deGrasse Tyson, alongside co-hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice, answer Cosmic Queries from professional athletes including Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, rugby player Nicole Heavirland, skateboarder Joey Brezinski, and boxer Cam F. Awesome.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk, sports edition,
0:20.0	and a cosmic queries version of sports edition that we're calling exercise your mind.
0:28.0	And in this, what we do is we got questions solicited from professional star athletes.
0:35.0	And they're cosmic questions.
0:37.0	I mean, they got questions too, just like the rest of us.
0:40.0	So this episode is devoted to them.
0:43.0	And of course, I got my co-host, Chuck Nice.
0:46.0	Hey, what's happening, Neil?
0:48.0	All right, Chuck, and Gary. Gary O'Reilly.
0:50.0	I'm Neil.
0:51.0	Okay, the only one of the three of us that has professional street cred for sports?
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	Chuck is in good shape, but I don't think he ever did anything athletic.
1:01.0	I saw him try to swing the bat at a softball.
1:04.0	It's like he had never been on a field before.
1:07.0	Well, you know, that's because I had never been on a field before.
1:11.0	That's why I like it.
1:12.0	And that is a testament to my natural athletic ability.
1:16.0	And I was able to pick that game up in five minutes and actually pull.
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