Episode Transcript: #310 - Neil Degrasse Tyson
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with that that it would not be official neil tyson thank you very much for coming on here man this is
an honor this is a blast i think the universe is going to explode you are for sure the most
requested podcast guest ever in the history of this podcast so brian and i have been doing this
for three years and we have come full cycle with your appearance here today i have i felt the
magnetic force of your fan base pulling me in are you sure that wasn't what the mayans were talking
about i'm sure that wasn't the universe aligning i was so happy when i saw you uh do this uh i forget
what the interview was but someone was talking about the alignment of the stars and the galaxies
the first time in 20 you're like no it happens all the time yeah it happens every year yeah i told my
friend eddie bravo who's a beautiful human being but he loves himself a conspiracy theory he loves
that when i told him i go dude neil tyson says it's bullshit he goes like this oh okay well yeah
probably bullshit i don't want the authority of my academic pedigree to be what makes it bullshit
right i mean it's it's i want you i want to give people i want to arm people intellectually so that
they can then deduce that there's nothing to it so when someone says planets are going to align and earth
is going to die i i want to encourage them to ask how often do planets align right and then you get
the answer every year so you don't even have to do the calculation well it's that shallow um sort of
uh interest in a subject where it only allows you to regurgitate the really juicy shit you heard
about the planetary alignment is which is so dangerous because when people when people are
bullshitting which is most of the conversation we get into we don't get into serious academic
discussions with people who have actually done the homework you just bullshit with a dude at work
and he's like yeah i heard the fucking planets are gonna align and it's like i don't even know what's