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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

5/1/20261 hr 9 min

Could you grow your own food on the moon? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down with Kevin Espiritu, the gardening YouTuber behind Epic Gardening, to dig into backyard farming, the future of sustainable food, and what it would actually take to feed yourself on Earth or anywhere else.

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Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:00

    You mean I can grow my own food and not have to go to the store?

  2. Gary O’Reilly· Co-host0:02

    Yeah, make the best of your backyard.

  3. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:04

    Can I do it in the moon?

  4. Chuck Nice· Co-host0:05

    I don't believe Fresh Direct goes there.

  5. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:08

    [laughs] [laughs] Coming up, all the things you can do to grow food in your backyard, on Star Talk Special Edition.

  6. Speaker 30:15

    Star Talk.

  7. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:16

    Welcome to Star Talk.

  8. Speaker 30:19

    Star Talk.

  9. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:20

    Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. Star Talk begins right now. [upbeat music] This is Star Talk Special Edition, which of course means I got Gary O'Reilly.

  10. Gary O’Reilly· Co-host0:35

    Hi, Neil.

  11. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:36

    Chuck E., baby.

  12. Chuck Nice· Co-host0:37

    Hey, man.

  13. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:37

    How you doing?

  14. Chuck Nice· Co-host0:38

    I'm doing great.

  15. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:38

    Lord Chuck Nice.

  16. Chuck Nice· Co-host0:39

    Lord Chuck Nice.

  17. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:40

    All right.

  18. Chuck Nice· Co-host0:41

    That's right.

  19. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:41

    We got a special edition here.

  20. Chuck Nice· Co-host0:43

    What do we got?

  21. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:43

    This is on the future of growing food.

  22. Chuck Nice· Co-host0:47

    I like it.

  23. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:48

    Ooh.

  24. Chuck Nice· Co-host0:48

    'Cause I like food. [laughs] Keeps me alive.

  25. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host0:52

    So I, see, I would say it's the future of growing vegetables, because you're not growing a cow. I mean, titled like this- Well, not right now. [laughs] Oh, but- We're not growing, right now we're not growing a cow. There may be a cow plant maybe we're working on.

  26. Chuck Nice· Co-host1:03

    But maybe we will be planting cows one day.

  27. Gary O’Reilly· Co-host1:05

    Yes. [laughs] Genetically modified.

  28. Chuck Nice· Co-host1:07

    Yeah.

  29. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host1:07

    [laughs] Okay. Genetic, so that you can grow them in a pot.

  30. Chuck Nice· Co-host1:09

    That's right. I would love it.

  31. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host1:11

    Yeah.

  32. Chuck Nice· Co-host1:11

    [laughs] Go water the cow.

  33. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host1:12

    [laughs] So Gary, take us into this. What do you have?

  34. Gary O’Reilly· Co-host1:15

    All right. Let me just stop laughing. Um, right. At-home farming or homesteading, uh, has seen an uptick in popularity in the past few years, which begs the question, where can we grow plants?

  35. Neil deGrasse Tyson· Host1:28

    Mm.

  36. Gary O’Reilly· Co-host1:28

    Is there a

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