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Welcome back to StarTalk Radio, I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.

This is a special best of StarTalk Radio.

We'd like to call it our time capsule show.

Today, we're going to highlight some of our celebrity interviews from the first two seasons

and let's start with my friend Stephen Colbert.

Right now, I'm with Stephen Colbert in his office, and I think he's out of character at the moment.

We'll find out.

Let's see how I feel about science.

If I give it any credence at all, you know I'm not in character.

So Stephen, as of today, I've been on your show six times.

Now, I might otherwise get a big head about that, but I've seen other scientists on your show.

Often, so I'm led to think that you actually have a soft spot for science, am I delusional

there or what?

I love science.

My dad was an immunologist, and I'm thrilled by science.

When I was a kid, it was, education was valued in my house, and because I was the son

of an academic and someone who was a medical researcher, science was number one.

We're also very devout family, too.

My mother is sort of mystical Catholic.

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