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This is Star Talk. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson. You're a personal astrophysicist.

And this is going to be a Cosmic Queries edition.

Fan favorites. And they've been that way ever since we began these many years ago.

My co-host, my comedic co-host for this episode, is Nagine Farsad.

Nagine, welcome to Star Talk.

Oh my god, hello.

And we're in the coronavirus, so we're all separated. Where are you right now?

I'm actually in a studio in Manhattan, a recording studio, because I'm in the middle of doing an audio book with a sultry voice of mine.

Oh, I'm working.

I'm working. I'm in the middle of a gig.

It's new and different to be outside of my apartment.

Wow, because I knew comedians had gigs. I didn't know they had actual jobs.

This is a gig though.

This is a gig. No, no, no. Comedians aren't good enough to have jobs. Come on.

That's what I thought. You're just, you know, you get what comes your way day by day.

So you have a podcast with the greatest name ever. Fake The Nation.

You love your host of that podcast and you wrote a book, how to make white people laugh.

You got to just, you got to buy that book just to know what I think you should just, yeah, because they don't tell you how to do it.

And then you just hold information.

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