From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out the

crusts all of space and time. This is Starfall, we're science and cultural

color. Welcome to the Holiday Universe. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson. You're a

personal astrophysicist and tonight we get weird. We're featuring my

interview with parody songwriter and card carry and geek weird al yakovik. So

let's do this. So tonight my comedic co-host is Mésu Zahee. Mésu welcome.

And I think you're best known for your TED talk. I got nine and on problems and

Paul Z is one of them. Because basically like in the oppression on

Olympics I would win a gold medal because I'm Palestinian. I'm most of my

woman of color. I'm disabled. I live in Jersey. You don't get more minority than that.

I'll fight you. And I'm floppy. So you rock it. You're TED talk. Well I rock

but it's in voluntary. It's the Paul Z. The Paul Z. Well all right. Well we got

we got you tonight. So thanks for coming on to StarTalk. And also joining us is

StarTalk's resident geek in chief Charles Lou.

StarTalk fans know him as a good friend of mine and colleague. He's a professor

of astrophysics at the City University of New York on Staten Island and we'll

be tapping your full range of geeks pertice this evening. My geek mug over

flows with possibilities. Yes indeed it does. So we're featuring my interview with a

basically a geek hero. And if you didn't know how geeky he was you will know by

the end of this episode. Parrotie singer, songwriter, weird owl, Yankeby.

What he does is he takes songs you familiar with and just make hilarious

scripted comedy out of it. Singing the song. He's a four-time Grammy winner with

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