Episode Transcript: #1159 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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So why aren't there flying cars? You just jumping right in you don't say hi
you don't say how's the wife and kid how's the wife and kids? How's everybody man? How's life? How's your book that's been on the
Times bestseller list for how many weeks? Oh the astrophysics for people in a
hurry that's been on the on the New York Times bestseller was for 67 weeks. That's
pretty intense. It's great that's that's a lot for any book much less for a
science book and so that tells me while all these Trump books are wafting in and
out this is bobbing like a cork like a cork on the ocean waves as the book of
the moment that either praises Trump or criticize or criticizes him come in and
off of that list so this tells me that there is this unserved hunger that
people have there's a curiosity that this is serving and it's to astrophysics
for people in a hurry that's kind of that's very purposefully juxtaposed it's
like neurosurgery in four easy steps you know if you saw a book with that title
you'd have to pick it up because you wonder what's going on well not to
kiss your ass again but I always say this about you and I think it's
important you make learning stuff about astrophysics fun and that's what's
missing you know it's not that people don't like to be educated that they
don't like to learn they just don't want to be bored that's a perceptive point
because you know think of the image we have of let's say you're in a school
where most people don't go to college you're in high school and then last day
of school comes what do people do they toss their papers in the air as they