The Surfing Life, with Kelly Slater

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🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson catches the perfect wave with world champion surfer Kelly Slater, comic co-host Chuck Nice, Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Finnegan, oceanographer Travis Schramek, lead engineer at the Kelly Slater Surf Ranch Adam Fincham, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/the-surfing-life-with-kelly-slater/ Photo Credit: Rtwkeaton [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:24.0	I'm Neil deGrasseis, your personal astrophysicist.
0:27.0	And tonight we're exploring the science of surfing, featuring my interview with all-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater.
0:39.0	Let's do this!
0:44.0	My comedic co-host tonight is Chuck Nice.
0:48.0	It's a...
0:50.0	...weeding at Chuck Nice comic.
0:53.0	Yes sir.
0:54.0	And you're also a co-host of the spin-off of Star Talk.
0:57.0	Called Playin' With Science.
0:58.0	Yes sir, yes it is.
0:59.0	It's where my sports.
1:00.0	It's where jocks and geeks collide and the geeks don't walk away with concussion.
1:05.0	It's good.
1:06.0	Well, so I don't have much particular expertise in surfing, so we brought someone who does.
1:12.0	And we've got prize-winning author William Finnegan, staff writer at the New Yorker.
1:17.0	Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir Barbarian Days.
1:24.0	What a great name.
1:25.0	A surfing life.
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