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Playing Heads Up! with Neil deGrasse Tyson | StarTalk


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·Nov 11, 2024

All right, so Neil, we're going to play a little bit of a game called heads up. Are you familiar?

I've seen people do it. If I mess up badly, I don't want to disappoint you.

I don't think there's any disappointment in just like playing a game with you.

Okay, let's try it. We're going to go ahead and start with an animals category. I like animals. Here we go, get ready.

Ah, a spider, and you die from it if it bites you.

Tant! And there's a… yes!

Uh, in Africa, this jumps high and swiftly, but it's not an Impala.

Uh, Antelope! Keep going, one more and you got it.

Uh, Orx?

No, it leaps…

Antelope! I'm going to… I'm going to go ahead.

Okay, all right.

Oh, uh, people used to cut off its leg for good luck.

Oh, a rabbit! Yes!

Oh, uh, this has the highest density of fur of any mammal, and it loves swimming in the water.

Otter!

Otter! Nice!

There's a great reef of this off of Australia.

Coral! Good!

Uh, time's up! Ah, you want to play another round?

Another round? Maybe let's try Blockbusters and movies.

Place on forehead!

Yep!

All right, so this is a movie with Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray, and they're in Japan.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, I… I know it!

Oh, there! I know!

Oh, I know! I know that you know it!

No, I know it, but… got to pass.

You can pass.

Yeah, this is, um, a place in Hawaii that got bombed during a war.

Pearl Harbor! Yep!

Mhm, oops, wrong direction.

Well, that's all right.

Um, this is a movie with Macaulay Culkin, and it was during Christmas time.

Nailed it!

This animal, I guess he climbed the Empire State Building.

He's very…

Yeah, that's it!

Um, this is a superhero movie with a ton of different characters.

Oh, uh, uh… Avengers?

Um, no!

Keep going!

There's their amazing…

Oh, so what was that last one?

It was Fantastic Four!

I was trying to then go into four of them!

I know you said a ton of, but so it was more than just one, so I didn't want to just be like…

Again?

Let's do again.

Try animals. You want to go animals one more time?

I'm… yeah, yeah, 'cause you're good at animals.

All right, and I like thinking about them and describing them.

All right, here we go. Mhm.

Oh, I… it's a pet that is really weird that some people have.

And…

Ferret! Yes!

Uh, not the brosaurus, but…

T-Rex!

Yes!

Ooh, sticky! Don't touch it! It waddles quickly.

Oh, um, porcupine!

Yes!

Ooh, uh, it's just… it's not a lobster.

Crab?

Uh, uh, and it's in Louisiana, and you boil it.

A crawfish!

Yes!

Uh… it'll suck your blood.

Leech!

And give you malaria.

Uh, mosquito!

Yes!

Uh, not a rat, but a…

A mouse!

Uh, it swims in the ocean.

Shark! Dolphin! Whale!

Uh, octopus!

Fish!

Fish! This is…

Uh, there's a land mass off of Australia, and there's an animal named after that land mass.

Uh, Reef tip shark?

Uh, no!

Okay, I was really too specific, I think, but I was trying…

Yeah, Tasmanian Devil!

Oh, okay!

I want more! More!

Try which one?

Do you want to do movies again?

Movies again! Just hit play!

Okay, let's do it!

All right! This is a movie where a guy had a phone in his shoe, and it was a used to be a sitcom.

Get Smart!

Yep!

Um, Whitney Houston was in this movie, Kevin Costner.

Oh, uh, uh, bodyguard!

Yep!

Um, it's two household pets, two really popular ones.

Cats and dogs!

Yep!

There are a lot of these types of dogs, and they're spotted.

Lots of spotted… know where to go with that.

Oh, this is not… um, it's the place you go after middle and elementary and then…

High School Musical!

Yes!

Um, um, this is the movie that came after Bruce was God.

Oh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, Evan Almighty!

Yes!

That… oh, he was a Mexican wrestler.

Oh, uh, not your…

Libre!

Yes!

Um, this was like the famous dance and had black short black hair!

That was good! I think that was pretty good!

Did pretty good!

I think for a scientist, I was hitting some good pop culture!

I think you were!

Just… do I get… do I get agreement with others in the room?

Yeah! Periscope says great job Dr. T!

Thank you out there in Periscope land.

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