Neil Degrasse Tyson Reacts To Bill Nye Planet On Fire Rant & Working With Logic

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00:00Yes, great to meet you. I'm Ali. Hi, I'm Neil. Nice to meet you, Neil.

00:05This is my camera, yes. Well, we love, I mean, not only all the work that you do,

00:12but how in tune you are with pop culture. You have worked with Logic.

00:15Oh my gosh. Tell me about working with Logic. Yeah, yeah. So Logic is a fun guy,

00:20creative guy. So I, we work together on that narrative, but it's mostly him. I just,

00:26I made a couple of edits here and there just to touch up the science, but the fundamental idea

00:31and concept was all his, and I was delighted to be a servant of his artistic needs. And if any time an

00:41artist calls a scientist, I'm there. I'm there for you. Because if science becomes the artist's muse,

00:48then science has become part of pop culture. Yeah. And without that, I think science will pass

00:56us all by. And it's as being a fundamental dimension of all of tomorrow's politics and tomorrow's health,

01:02wealth, security, environment. So if you can't walk out of here without some science literacy,

01:07just move back to the cave, because that's where you're going anyway. Yeah, yeah. Well,

01:12and you know, last thing, I don't know if you saw on John Oliver, Bill Nye was on there and had his

01:18whole rant. Were we all watching Game of Thrones? We were, honestly. We were, but today, today in the

01:26aftermath of it all, Bill Nye went on like a rant about climate change and kind of was like,

01:34I taught you all photosynthesis when you were 12, but take off the F in safety goggles. Right. How do you

01:40feel about that? I mean, like getting serious. Yeah. I mean, so my only concern, it's not a

01:46concern, but just a thought that if you rant too hard, it can turn some people off. And so I don't

01:52know what that ratio is. Is it one out of 10 to get turned off? Is it five out of 10? Bill probably

01:57knows. And I'll ask him. He's a good friend of mine. So I'll ask him. So it's tactically different,

02:03because I'm not a ranting guy. I can rant, but not in any way that anyone really cares. Well,

02:09no, maybe you do care. I can rant about Pluto. I can tell you that Pluto had it coming. Pluto's

02:15demotion. I can rant about it. There's some things I can rant about, but basically I want people to

02:18arrive at their own conclusions. But he'll be up in your face. We need some of that. Yeah. Yeah.

02:23For sure. Yeah. Thank you so much, Neil. Okay, good. Thank you.