The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stuff You Should Know
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4.5 • 82.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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There are a number of theories for how the universe evolved but none are more widely accepted than the Big Bang theory. Learn about the mind-boggling details of the early universe and hear Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson talk about what it will take for us to know its origins.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Yes, indeed, you read that right. If you made it all |
| 0:08.3 | the way to the end of the very lengthy title of this science playlist episode, we got Neil deGrasse |
| 0:13.8 | Tyson to sit in for an interview with us, and it was pretty boss. And a couple years later, he was |
| 0:19.2 | nice enough to have me come on StarTalk to talk |
| 0:22.0 | about my end of the world series. He had this rapid fire question segment that he does every time, |
| 0:27.7 | and he wondered aloud at some point why it was going so slow, and the secret answer was that |
| 0:32.7 | my tangents were derailing the rapid fire part. At any rate, even without NDT, this episode is pretty great, |
| 0:40.2 | as everyone knows any talk about the origin of time and space is cosmologerific. |
| 0:45.6 | So I hope you feel that way about this episode too. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How StuffWorks.com. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah. Stuff You Should Know from How StuffWorks.com. Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Chipper Josh Clark. |
| 1:02.9 | There's Chipper Charles Pryant. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, that's your new nickname. |
| 1:06.2 | Chipper Charles? |
| 1:06.9 | Yep. |
| 1:07.5 | Eish. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | And then there's Jerry. |
| 1:10.2 | She's not chipper. She is actually there's Jerry. She's not chipper. |
| 1:11.3 | She is actually chipper today. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm not chipper. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm grumpy because this topic. I know. Man, oh man, my head is already melted. You guys should see the vein in Chuck's forehead. It is protruding. We'll do our best. Of course. We're not astrophysicists, but we do have an astrophysicist coming on as a guest at the end of the episode, don't we? |
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