What's one sport you'll never try?

I definitely enjoy the episodes with Charles on. Its an extra level of fun that gets added and the head calculations are always impressive.

Please Neil could you do an explainer on momentum vs Impuls vs inertia 🙏

@32:48 "I thought this was a family show" LOL I WAS DEAD

OMG I’ve never been so sad to hear Neil say “we gotta land this plane”. Great episode guys thank you so much🙂

Charles is so cool and informative, love the episodes he's in

The 4 kings of star talk for sure !!!!! This was one of the best yet

Talk about weird & wacky "sports"! That face slapping routine would definitely cause a severe concussive effect to the brain, which would obviously be very traumatic indeed! Great video Neil, Chuck, Charles & Gary! Looking forward to the next version! 👍👍

I love that Charles, an Asian- American, can pronounce tuchus with incredibly accurate pronunciation. Guess it's something that happens if you live in NYC long enough.

Bye far the coolest episodes are when Charles Liu the geek in chief is on with the rest of the crew Just love these episodes so funny and informative please MORE OF THAT Just saying 🇧🇻

This will be one of the most popular "Sports Editions" ever. Using this same five star panel of four, do a second instalment and research some of the Inuit Games; Ear pull, Knuckle hop etc.

An episode on the science of cheese with Gary! That would be so much fun... Imagine being one of the worlds leading dairy producing countries and only having 2 cheese varieties... Cheddar and American, it's debatable if that second one is even cheese.

I can easily listen to a 3 hour show about weird sports! Please sir, can we have some more?

I am Norwegian and I am familiar with the "dødsing" (which is best performed in snow during wintertime) but my only true belly flop was caused by a failed attempt at triple somersault from five meters (I lost count mid air) and that HURT. It was hard to breathe and hard to get back to shore and my entire body was aching for the rest of the day. I would totally not do that for sport.

Always great to have professor Liu on!

I just can't get enough of Star Talk. Cheers guys 🍻

Charles ..Heres to 50 more episodes!!❤✋👉

Neal could you and Chuck do a documentary together? That'd be so awesome

This is a great edition. Love the sports you featured Gary. Hope to see you again very soon.

I grew up and live in the Cotswolds, only a few miles from Coopers Hill. I always wanted to participate in cheese rolling until I hiked a local trail, stood at the top of the hill and looked down! NOPE! It's more like a cliff than a hill. You really can't tell how steep it is from vids. who needs cable and streaming when we have that! I think most of us here have a twisted view of "entertainment".

Chuck’s joke around 27:00 killed me 😂

Tripple chuck! my fave episodes with the bonus of Gary too!

Great show with Uncle Charles and his magnificent brain. I also wish Gary would get Neil to do a show on the Isle of Man race.

32:46 is why we love chuck nice so much ....lol ....i was crying !!!!!

I thought I'd hate this episode but I didn't want it to end! You guys can make any topic interesting and entertaining.

I would be cool to have a segment on surfing!

Lol just when I start getting too lost in the perplexing science talk Chuck always reels me back in with his little humerus jabs or puns to the subject at hand, just so fun to listen to these wonderful minds at work!

⚠..i simply love when the four of your'll are in the same room!! "The Startalk Musketeers" ..love to you all❤🙏👊 Ps: u guys forget about rolling down a hill on a sofa on wheels with no steering or brakes👍

Always an amzing show when Charles is about. The double chucks

Anything attached to Dr. Liu will be a success #fact Brooklyn loves StarTalk, Dr. Charles Liu , Dr. NDT. , Gary O and Lord Nice

This was fun.. no one knows what the topic is except Gary and it was hilarious on every reveal.

Neil, you said you could use physics to "win" the cheese race, but you forgot about cheesey chaos theory. You can't predict a winning outcome due to the imperfections in the hill surface, how the cheese reacts to each bump, and how each runner's foot responds to each step.

Loved this episode.💝

I would love it if you would explain gravity, geometry and physics in rock climbing

I shouted for joy when Gary brought up shin kicking! Showing some love from oop north.

Chuck be like : I thought it's a family show. 😙🤣😂

Charles talks about the velocity of the slap being more important. That would only be the case for the energy in the impact, but doesn't momentum of larger mass end up having a much larger impact?

Slapfight is brutal and the aftermath of what these people look like after a fight is eye opening.

What Charles talks about with the speed is exactly what Bruce Lee was preaching and why his body was lean and not bulky and why you hear about him being fast while shooting movies. James Coburn said he watched Bruce side kick a 700lb bag and make it swing. I don't know much about James Coburn but he seemed confident in the interview. Bruce believed that speed was the key and that a light weight man who knows how to use his whole body and motion of economy can knock out a large opponent before the opponents strike gets close. you can see a video on KZfaq where Bruce Lee has Joe Lewis, the current karate champion at the time, do a rear right to a man and then Bruce Lee does his with a shorter distance and knocks the man further. At the same event with Joe Lewis sitting at the side with a red and white gi? on Bruce also shows his 1-in punch which a lot of people misunderstand. The idea isn't the closer you are the stronger the punch it's the further you are the more speed you can generate and the more powerful your hit will become. 1 inch punch is to show that motion economy and the understanding of how to use your body and what muscles do you use in a punch/kick will result in a powerful punch. Bruce says that your punch should be like a ball and chain. I think of it as like using a towel to snap somebody. When the towel is extending it's very loose looking and not stiff but at the very end all of that energy is let loose with a snap just like a whip. You make your arm like that ball and chain. It's completely loose, including your hand, as it shoots out and right before it hits your opponent you squeeze your fist and the forearm letting all of that energy out. This is combined with a sudden twist of a waist, at the same time or right before your arm shoots out, which is what gives you most of the power. As soon as you have connected with your opponent's face immediately loosen your fist and bring it right back into the position it started. This will also removed the "push" so that your opponent does not absorb your power and takes all the damage. The arm is only the bearer of the energy/power/strength/whatever that your body produces behind it to send toward the opponent. Hit the opponent before they know they've even been hit. I'm done or I'll be here all day. It's all in his books!! If you don't agree or don't believe in Bruce that's all cool! His whole idea was to make your own style that works for you. That is Jeet Kune Do. A style with no style. Your style.

a population of 8😭💀💀💀 I literally busted out laughing lol

Fantastic vest, Dr. Tyson!

Yes, Mr. Tyson !!! That Gallagher line is the first thing I think of when I hear his name...I was about 13 when I heard that and it stuck with me to this day 😄

Star Talk sports edition needs to be syndicated in this fans opinion #Dr.Tyson.Tyson #LordNice #GaryO Brooklyn NY loves GARY O. COME GET SOME

This is my favourite combo of experts and funny people 😊☀️

This is awesome Gary

love ya work sirs !

Love Charles !!

36:40 Chuck, that's not how armour works! You need padding under the armour plate, not above! :D

If you were to drop a wheel of cheese off a diving platform immediately before launching yourself into a classic belly flop on the same spot where the cheese hits you could set a new record by disrupting the water's surface effect when you hit.

I haven't seen a cheese wheel race before, so I looked.. HOOOLYYY 🙊 😂

I mean I can teach physics to kids thanks to this edition 😂🔥

Really informative and crazy 🤣

Norway is also ranked 1/189 for the HDI (Human Development Index) whereas the USA is 17/189

This channel is really cool.

More weird sports please! The subject matter was promising to begin with but turned out even funnier than it had any right to be.

Really fun!

Hey Startalk team! Would love to see a conversation on information theory

27:19 I just imagine a hand the size of a ham and getting slapped with a ham...😂🤣😂

11:32 I love Neil's laugh :D "HAH!" :D

I would imagine that chess boxing would be studied by militaries since being able to think strategically after an encounter with the enemy would be beneficial in battle. Interesting the things that humans come up with to entertain themselves and others. Thank you gentlemen for another fun Friday afternoon.

Does Chuck look like Lionel Richie with a normal-sized head?

I've done boot throwing. It's a sport where you throw a gumboot as far as you can. There is a specific type of boot to throw and the WR is some 68 meters. There is a town in New Zealand, Taihape, that is know as the Gumboot Capital of the world and they hold boot throwing competitions every year!

Chuck love you man, give us some more Neil time :)

If it... Looks like a duck Sounds like a duck Moves like a duck... It must be a penguin.

I would pay money to watch a show hosted by these 4 dudes all the time.

Love your vest, Neil!

In the shin kicking one, IIRC, I’ve learned that martial artists practice kicking a padded pole and over time that causes the bones to harden up

More Charles and Brian.

If it was chess wrestling, i believe Mr. Tyson would love to try some

More Neil DeGrasse Tyson! (Edit: and Chuck Nice!)

Ha, ha, ha I had to look up videos of a cheese wheel race and belly flopping to really picture them, ha, ha, ha.

Pls,do another show on the topic.

Lord chuck nice, when’re you performing in LA?

does anyone else notice that every time charles liu references his internal memory for long term recall, he looks to the upper left(upper right?) weird little things you notice lol

Is it bad that I knew about *ALL* of these already?? 😆😆🤦🏼‍♂️

This is the weirdest episode of Star Talk I have watched. It is definitely worth a part II, or maybe a recurring thing. Sorry, Neil, but I first heard that joke from Nipsey Russell, long before I ever heard of Gallagher. I like Gallagher, but I'm pretty sure Russell was first, and he probably wasn't even the real first. It's a great bit of word play.

My goodness these videos go by so fast.

"Like most of the Nordic skiing disciplines, the first ski jumping competitions were held in Norway in the 19th century, although there is evidence of ski jumping in the late 18th century. The recorded origins of the first ski jump trace back to 1808, when Olaf Rye reached 9.5 m (31 ft). Sondre Norheim, who is regarded as the "father" of the modern ski jumping, won the first-ever ski jumping competition with prizes, which was held in Høydalsmo in 1866." - Wikipedia

In shin kicking, if you want to stop and let the opponent win, you say "sufficient" Surprised that gary didn't mention "shrovetide football" There's also bog snorkelling, woolsack racing (similar to wife carryinf but with a woolsack), dwile flonking, , keg toos, and many others.

my favourite hosts! chuck, chuck 2 and gary are the best!!!! greetings🇨🇿so i looked up chin kicking, geeez

I love Charles

the wutang song is not about that kind of chess boxing its named after a old kung fu movie by the samr name or the mystery of chess boxing and its more about using strategies in both and it involves Asian chess which is a bit different than western chess though basically the same game just differences

Get a wheel of cheese and hit it with a sledge o matic, while under water.😆

Hello Dr.Nail deGrasse Tyson and all! Finally got time to ask a question(it is not about this video) -How the object will look like, sound like if move in 1-2m circle with faster than sound speed? (a metal 20-30sm sphere) Will air have time to colapse? or it will be a white sphere with buzz sound?

Ahahaha, yesterday I commented asking where is our second resident Chuck at?

Interesting enough but... SHOW AN EXAMPLE VIDEO OF EACH SPORT!

I actrually do consider charles an equal "stake" in the show, whether or not he appears as much as neil, chuck, or gary

The moment gary said "cheese", I thought "coopers hill".

50th? I barely saw 10, gonna watch all

I've been to the Cheese Rolling and used to live on the estate that looks on to the hill. It isn't foam, it's cheese that is rolled down the hill. Unless that has stopped in the last couple of years. Watched it in person a few times. The secret appears to be down copious amounts of Beer before the races. Same man seems to win every year unless he is retired.

Gloucester (Blue veined cousin of the one mentioned) is one of the greatest things on earth. Neil, you're a foodie living in NYC. You definitely never ate where I was cooking or you'd know this already :(

21:05 as I´v notised from the newspaper I read , yes. Semi big companies jump on it to support some guys/girls and red bull does to as I know . I saw pics on internet.

The whole conversation around the Slap Championship was funny, but think some nuance was lost. Think an episode about The Science Behind Getting Knocked Out & Concussions would be cool. The slapping sport generally ends in Knock Out, and someone with stronger neck/back muscles will be better. It is not about cheek sensitivity, these people are well past pain. You don't want your neck to be malleable, its about being stiff and strong(I actually just assume this, tell me if I am wrong). You get knocked out because your brain is moving to fast in its soup bowl. Not sure if it hits walls, or just the movement around does it, but that's my understanding on why a person gets knocked. So my money is still on the 300+ pound guy with the huge traps. Love the content as always.

@ChuckNice A real life situation that would require intense physicality combined with moments of calm decision making would be being the leader of a military team in combat. Engaging in fire fights and periodically stopping to make decisions that have life and death consequences; also needing to be made quickly, intelligently, and unemotionally.

The Finns have a couple of unusual sports. Beside wife carrying there is swamp football and Nokia throwing. The thing about the last one was that before Nokia made cellphones they made rubber boots and the sport was to stand backwards and swing and throw a boot between your legs as far as you can. And as they are Finns they also have sauna championships. The extreme ironing that was mentioned is just ironing a shirt at an extreme place like a mountain top or under the sea. There are so many unusual sports around the world like the one where four (if I remember correctly) people at a time race downhill on an ice track on skates. There is the biathlon where instead of skiing and shooting with a rifle you paddle a canoe and shoot a bow and arrow. The last one I remember on the top of my head is combat juggling.

I've seen videos of face slapping, both men and women are really hitting very hard !!!!

Chuck-Uh-BABY!!

Air Guitar should be included

I going to leave you with this picture in mind, Wife carrying competition at a Nudist Colony...

kinetic energy (KE) is equal to half of an object's mass (1/2*m) multiplied by the velocity squared.