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Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

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Welcome to StarTalk Radio.

I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.

In my day job, I'm an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History where

I direct the Hayden Planetarium right here in New York City.

In the current show, we're featuring my interview with Joe Rogan.

He's an actor and a comedian, a mixed martial arts specialist, but perhaps he's best known

as the powerhouse podcaster behind the Joe Rogan experience.

We start off by talking about why he often features science in his stand-up comedy.

So Joe, you always talk about science and infuses almost everything you do.

All of it, the physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, there's got to be some force operating.

What is it?

With me?

Yeah, it's just curiosity.

I just think we live in an extraordinary time, and the ability to access information is

so unprecedented, and because of social media, especially because of Twitter, and I have

a message board that's very popular as well, the message board is even more comprehensive

because they're not limited to links they can actually post full articles with pictures,

but there's so much interesting stuff out there.

You're constantly being bombarded with news stories and new technological achievements

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