Name: Joe Rogan Experience #919 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #919 - Neil deGrasse Tyson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-02-22. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #919 - Neil deGrasse Tyson

four three two and boom that's a nice hat I've told you already but live I got
to 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 right away you're dancing on the edge look I have a
really fat head and so there's this website called like bigheads.com there's
a website it's a total website for my friend Burt Kreischer a hat then I put
his hat on I couldn't believe how big his head was it's like there was like an
inch gap all around my head I thought I had a big 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 divided by pi then that's your hat size whoa yeah just seems
complicated divided by two just like your waist at 32 you know your waist is
what
your waist is I know it just is what it is right just why it can't just be the
circumference right so what it turns out to be so what that means is if you're
dividing by pi you're getting this the diameter of the circle that has the same
dimension as 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 okay that's what that's doing for
whatever for what out whether that helps the hat the hat maker so immediately I
started thinking about Dan Aykroyd on Saturday Night Live as a conehead oh
right remember well then you need a tall hat for that too
yeah there's an issue there yeah so dude I mean you're still doing stand-up
that's great
constantly I'm loving it yeah and I caught you a few months ago you were emceeing
some MMA was it
what was well I'm always doing that yeah oh you're always doing that I only
catch some of it then
I think you stayed in shape because I'm a fat slob right now you were ripped
back in the day man I saw a picture of you when you were wrestling and I was
like damn Neil you look good
I had some street cred back then do you exercise at all now no I try it's not
that I don't have the energy to it's it's trying to find the time
there's you back in the day look at you shred it how much you weigh back then
oh I was oh go on 176
no no no I'm 6'2 so I'm 190 pounds in that oh exactly I have big thighs and
stuff other wrestlers would have skinnier thighs and things so I was also
taller than anyone I wrestled so since we're the same height it meant they had
bigger muscles actually so because we're the same weight right
but I'm sorry did I say that right I'm taller right but we're the same weight
so that means they have bigger muscles
right because none of us have fat right so I had to do things that my lankiness
would enable me to do and to accomplish that they couldn't so I have long reach
you know this sort of I scoop an ankle that kind of thing
there's great advantages to having long limbs in martial arts particularly in
wrestling grappling because of leverage yeah also if you're quick and with long
limbs and I was both but if they got me in their grip it was hard for me to get
out
so what kind of exercise do you do these days
no that's not nothing nothing no I'm trying like you know I guess yeah I'm
trying I'm trying when I'm in I'm good but I've just got so much going on yeah
I have to like make the time
that's that's a problem right when you become a little bit too successful for
your own good I saw some food there's a lot of food documentaries you know
trying to get you to eat differently
so I thought I'd watch them all I binged on them one weekend while I was doing
other stuff
and I got hungry no one of the one of the one of the guys he was trying to lose
a hundred pounds or something
so every 15 pounds he lost he put a bowling ball up on the counter
and said that is what I'm not carrying around with me
whoa
because a bowling ball is about 15 pounds
and I said wow he's measuring the weight in bowling balls
that's something because we say I'm three pounds less and two pounds that that
doesn't hit you emotionally the way a bowling ball does
yeah
after you've lost 15 pounds because no one wants to be carrying that around so
psychologically I thought that was quite potent
that is potent but I think we do need so I usually use like plates I think of
weight plates or dumbbells
okay yeah that works too
I started doing intermittent fasting pretty recently where I only allow myself
to eat 10 hours in a day
oh wow 10 hours out of the 24 hour day
yes so 14
so I had Terry Crews on my radio show on StarTalk
that boy my boy is ripped
yeah he looks great
he's still and he's like 47 or something
I mean he's he's so he doesn't eat until 12 noon
and then he doesn't eat until after 10 o'clock that's right
yeah 10 hours
and then he doesn't eat after 10 right
it's a 10 hour thing
and so he has to he's watching everyone else have brunch and breakfast
and so he's got to overcome that
but so it's a little bit of fasting
yeah
each day
intermittent fasting
just to keep the discipline I think it's at the end of the day it's really just
discipline
well it's not just that it also forces your body to burn fat instead of
carbohydrates
and when it forces your body to burn fat that state of ketosis is actually
easier to maintain
because you don't you don't get hungry
yeah then you know there's no roller coaster
yeah yeah
the crash the carbohydrate crash that you get
right right
is that outside of the realm of possibility for you
no I can totally
I'm a ketosis guy
anything involved in science
come on
I mean it's in there baby
it's in there
I once got raked over the coals
not by everyone
but I tweeted once
I said
if there was a diet book written by a physicist
it would contain one sentence
consume calories
at a lesser rate
than
at a greater rate
no
consume calories at a lesser rate than you burn them
that is sort of true
that's the one sentence
diet book
no it's more complicated than that
and everybody just try to get all
no it's this
it's that
and that
and one of the great things of physics
when you do physics
is all the details are just cut off
it's window dressing
and you get down to the window itself
and that's what the analysis works on
I have rarely seen you attacked
but I did see you attacked
when you were celebrating
Sir Isaac Newton's birthday
oh
I was like that
people were so mad
people lost their minds
they lost their mind
when you were
by the way
incorrect
in the date of Jesus' birthday
that is not the date of Jesus' birthday
Jesus did not
was not born on the 25th
no
I mean it's just
plus I didn't even mention
so what I said was
by the way
that to this day
is my highest retweeted tweet
I tweeted it
I retweeted it
so you remember
this is actually a couple years ago
now
yeah
so it was
so on December 25th comes
there it is
oh you got
child was born
who by the age of 30
would transform the world
happy birthday
Sir Isaac Newton
so on this day long ago
a child was born
who by age 30
would transform the world
happy birthday
Isaac Newton
born December 25th
1642
79,000 retweets
86,000 likes
people just lost their mind
they were so mad
they were angry
and I thought
well interesting
because I'm just speaking
the truth here
yes
he transformed civilization
by
actually he did it
by the time he was 26
so yes it's provocative
because you're expecting
that Jesus is going to end that
but I thought I'd share
some actual truth with people
and so
some people celebrated it
deeply religious people
one had a headline saying
Neil deGrasse Tyson is trolling Christians
on Christmas Day
and I said
I said Newton
at least has the benefit
of actually having been born that day
and then later on
it's actually more subtle
than that with Newton
because he was on the Julian calendar
which was
which is 10 days shifted
from the Gregorian calendar
so if you ask
what would his birthday be today
it would be January 4th
not December 25th
so
yeah but when he was born
his mother was celebrating Christmas
so that's really what matters
for that tweet
well it's such a bizarre thing anyway
because
if you're a real Christian
you would understand
that the birthday was shifted
in order to comply
with pagan religions
exactly
it landed
I don't know how many people
know that actually
I mean you're a well read guy
but so
if you give me a minute
to just explain that
so December 21st
we know
is the first day of winter
shortest day of the year
and what makes it short
shortest daylight
of the year
and what makes it short
the arc of the sun
across the sky
is very low
the sun doesn't get very high
and it doesn't stay up
for very long
and it's been coming
a lower and lower arc
every day
en route to December 21st
the ancient peoples
were worried about this
because everyone worshipped the sun
because it made your crops come
and it gave you warmth
and you say
whoa
if this keeps going
lower and lower
in the sky
we're going to lose
the sun entirely
December 21st
the sun slows down
and it stops
this load
this drop
in its movement
across the sky
from day to day
so that stopping
of the sun
is solstice
that's Latin
the stationary sun
like armistice
stationary arms
right from the end
of the first world war
November 11th
that was
armistice solstice
so the movement
of the sun
lower in the sky
stops
but that doesn't mean
it's going to come back
it takes a few days
for it to slow down
stop
and then reverse
you say
oh
it is coming back
let's celebrate that
and that's a few days
after December 21st
it's about December 25th
a pagan holiday
celebrating the return
of the sun
Christianity
is trying to take
foothold
where pagans once roamed
and you put celebrations
that match theirs
just so that the shift
is not as hard for you
and the unknown birthday
of Jesus
was then assigned
this pagan day
of celebration
to make that transition
easier for the pagans
to become Christians
and sure enough
it remained Christmas day
ever since then
the birth of Jesus
the speculated birthday
of Jesus
is like the spring
the spring
there's some
passages
of course in the New Testament
that reference
what the sheep were doing
plus there's a census
being taken by the Romans
you know
which is what
and Mary goes to the manger
the animals are not
in the manger
not at the
so there's secondary evidence
for that it's probably
happened in the spring
that's right
now with the advent
of commercial space travel
which seems
inevitable
seems inevitable
right
love your segues
do you think
that it's possible
that maybe
you could even offer up
a flat earth believer tour
where you take them
like at the very least
take them up to Alaska
where it's light
for 23 hours a day
do you have flat earthers
calling into you
is this
tweeting me constantly
tweeting me constantly
yeah calling me a sellout
I'm a sellout
I'm a round earth sellout
like as if there's
some round earth
money
wow
yeah like
you're on the payroll
I'm getting some checks
I'm getting some
round earth checks
to keep the nonsense going
round earth payola
for your show
I'm sure you've seen
the basketball player
who graduated from
Duke
from Duke
that was hitting the news
the last couple of days
I saw that
and he believes that
dinosaurs are fake
and that the world is flat
okay so here's the thing Joe
okay
I've thought about this
I bet you have
as an educator
I've thought about this
okay
so
here's
here's what matters
we live in a free country
people
should be able to think
whatever they want
whenever they want
provided it doesn't
subtract away from
someone else's rights
okay
so thinking the earth
is flat
doesn't harm anyone
unless
you want to run
for office
or you want some
position of power
over other people
that's when it's dangerous
I'm thinking of
elevator banks
where they have numbers
you know
I have a photo
essay of
what e