Racing Extinction with Leilani Münter

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🗓️ 22 April 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We’re waving two very different green flags this week when Neil Tyson interviews NASCAR driver and environmental activist Leilani Münter. Eugene Mirman co-hosts, with guests Dr. Marcia DeLonge and Don Anair of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk and I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.1	And I'm also the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum
0:24.0	of Natural History.
0:25.3	Co-host today, Eugene Merman.
0:27.3	Hello.
0:28.3	Eugene.
0:29.3	Great to be here.
0:30.3	Yeah.
0:31.3	How's your brain so quick when you get a joke so quick?
0:34.1	I never understood that.
0:35.8	You have a joke ready made and I just invented something to tell you and it fits it perfectly
0:40.0	in a nanosecond.
0:41.0	It's the science of comedy.
0:43.0	Alright.
0:44.0	I'll do a whole show on that one day.
0:45.9	Today we're featuring my interview with Lailani Muinter.
0:50.1	She's a professional race car driver and environmental activist.
0:54.5	I will be juxtaposing those two seemingly incongruous concepts to find out if and when
1:01.9	driving a race car might actually help to make the world go more green.
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