Wrestling the Pandemic, with WWE’s Xavier Woods

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice step into the ring with WWE superstar Xavier Woods to explore professional wrestling, Esports, and how to keep sports thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.1	This is Star Talk Sports Edition, and I'm your host, Neil de Grastis, and your personal
0:21.0	astrophysicist, and I'm joined as usual by my two co-host, Gary O'Reilly.
0:28.0	Hi!
0:28.0	Gary in the house, former professional soccer player, I think they call it football over in the
0:29.0	UK.
0:35.4	We do, but we know it's not really football.
0:36.4	And Chuck Knight, Chuck.
0:41.5	Hey, hey, hey, what's happening, Neil?
0:43.0	Chuck, tweeting at Chuck Knight's comic.
0:45.0	And who would have known how big a sports fan you actually are?
0:48.0	You've been holding that as secret all those years we were just doing pure Star Talks
0:51.8	with you.
0:54.8	Yeah, you know, Neil, I'm a very complex, multifaceted person.
0:55.8	You say, don't put him in a box.
1:00.9	And who else do we have?
1:05.7	And we've got Austin Watson.
1:07.7	Excuse me, Xavier Woods.
1:10.5	I have like ten names.
1:13.2	I got to stay out of trouble.
1:14.3	You know, I got warrants on some.
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