StarTalk Live! A Night at the Neptune Theatre (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In the second half of our live show at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle, StarTalk geeks out on heroes, villains, and technology that’s changed the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:21.0	Welcome back to StarTalk Live from the Neptune Theater!
0:31.0	Today's subject, the Geek Mecca, here in Seattle.
0:37.0	The home of Microsoft and the patron saint of Geeks.
0:41.0	Bill Gates, we're celebrating the Geekiverse here.
0:45.0	And our special guest will welcome back to StarTalk.
0:48.0	Thank you.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Christen Shaw!
0:56.0	Paul, F. Tomkins!
1:00.0	Oh, and did you say Eugene Merman?
1:05.0	Eugene Merman, Comedy Festival.
1:08.0	Hello.
1:10.0	I want to talk about Geeks as heroes.
1:13.0	Because I'm old enough to remember that Geeks were those who were slammed into the locker by the football quarterback in high school.
1:21.0	I have to say.
1:22.0	When someone just had a flashback over there, apparently in the audience, the Geeks would get the wedgie.
1:27.0	And the greatest of the Geeks would get the atomic wedgie.
1:30.0	Did that happen to you, Neil?
1:32.0	Well, I went to a Geek high school, the Bronx High School of Science.
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