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Season 2 Time Capsule

StarTalk Radio

StarTalk Radio

Scientist, Nasa, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Climate Science, Earth Science, Nature, Astronomy, Science, Multiverse, Spacetime, Astrophysicist, Space, Education, Cosmos, Astronomer, Startalk, Quantum Physics, Physics, Universe, Astrophysics, Star Talk

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Revisit some highlights of our Season 2 shows. This show includes interview excerpts with Whoopi Goldberg, John Hodgman, Nichelle Nichols, Phil Plait, and Morgan Freeman.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:10.4

Star Talk begins right now.

0:15.4

Welcome to Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director

0:21.1

of New York City's Hayden Planetarium.

0:23.7

Today we bring you our third annual time capsule show, which is a look back at some of

0:29.1

the greatest hits of the past year on Star Talk Radio.

0:32.9

For example, I'll share with you some highlights from my interview with John Hodgman and some

0:37.7

key moments with a friend of the show Phil Plate, otherwise known as the bad astronomer,

0:43.2

and some celebrity moments with Moby, Woopy Goldberg, and even Morgan Freeman.

0:49.3

Let's start with a man most of you know from the Apple versus PC commercials, John Hodgman.

0:54.8

Of course, he's PC, let's check it out.

0:58.9

John, I have to confess, being a Mac user since 1985 when I see you, it's like PC, PC, PC.

1:07.7

What the radio audience cannot see at the moment is that Neil is actually stabbing me at

1:11.3

this night.

1:12.3

He's not just making the psycho noise, he is stabbing me with a knife, stabbing me with

1:17.2

a book.

1:18.2

He is send help.

1:19.2

So I have you beat, I've been a Mac user since 1984.

1:23.3

Is that right?

1:24.3

You can't be a Mac user earlier than that.

1:26.0

I had a 128K Mac that I convinced my father to buy for me.

1:31.2

Well, you made an awesome PC dude on the TV commercial.

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