Episode Transcript: #919 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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four three two and boom that's a nice hat I've told you already but live I gotta
tell you that was a nice it's it's very kind of Indiana Jones but it's not quite
that and not quite cowboy yeah it's kind of yeah you're like in the middle of that
yeah yeah yeah dancing on the edge well I have a really fat head and so there's
his website called like big heads.com there's a website a total website for
my friend Bert Kreischer a hat then I put his hat on I couldn't believe how
big his head was like there was like an inch gap all around my head yeah so if
you know your head your head size do you know your head size no I do not so so it
turns out if you know your head size that that number comes from somewhere can I
tell you what it is sure so if you measure the circumference of your head
just get a tape measure like you're measuring your waistline but do it around
your head and take that number divide it by pie then that's your hat size whoa
yeah seems complicated by two just like your waist 32 you know your waist is
what your way I know just is what it is right just why can't just be the
circumference right so what it turns out to be so what that means is if you're
dividing by pie you're getting the diameter of the circle that has the same
dimension as the circumference of your head so if you have an oblong head then
what it's doing is finding out what the circle is the diameter of the circle that
has that same circumference as your head oh that's what that's doing for what
out for what out whether that helps the hat the hat maker so immediately I