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Welcome to the American Museum of Natural History.

I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

And tonight on Star Talk, we're going to talk about the zombie apocalypse.

And we're going to feature my interview with Robert Kirkman, who is the creator of the

hugely popular TV series, The Walking Dead.

We're going to find out what makes zombies so creepy and what we should all do to prepare for the zombie apocalypse.

Let's do this.

I got with me here, Mae Higgins, Mae.

Hi.

My co-host and comedian, and we have with us a professor of anthropology, Jeffrey Mans.

Jeffrey, thank you for coming up.

You came up from Washington, your professor at George Mason University.

Now, we did some homework on you.

You actually taught a course on zombies.

And so, can you tell me what anthropology has to do with zombies?

I mean, professionally speaking.

Quite a bit.

So, it's just the course.

It's just basically a gimmick for teaching different ways of thinking about how societies deal with fear, how they deal with things that are sort of foreign to it or that are out of the ordinary.

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