You are alive against stupendous odds, and I take the posture that because of this, life should be cherished.

Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

StarTalk begins right now.

This is StarTalk's special edition. Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.

And of course, we got Gary O'Reilly, Gary, former soccer pro, sports commentator.

Yep. Hi, Neil.

And longtime co-host of StarTalk, Chuck Nice.

What's going on, guys?

Today's topic is one of my favorite, just as an educator, simply because it's where people

miss think things most often.

And I feel extra responsible to try to get in there and make it work for them.

We're going to talk about probabilities.

So, Gary, it was your idea to do this topic.

I love the topic.

I devoted a whole chapter to it in a recent book I published.

So I'm pretty fresh in commentary regarding it. But more specifically, where did you want to

take me on this? So probabilities, Neil, calculating risk gambling, call it what you will. We all do

it. Stand on a wobbly chair. Eat that food in the fridge that's been there two weeks.

It's a gamble.

Probabilities has its own branch of mathematics.

Yeah.

And it's intertwined into so much of our everyday lives.

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