In a segment for Tyson’s podcast StarTalk, Nye stopped by New York’s Museum of Sex to talk about the evolutionary imperative that drives all creatures to procreate.
When it comes to humans, though, Nye says “procreation, schmocreation” — instead of mating for a single season, our evolutionary track led a more pleasured response to sex, meaning humans can go for it at, “any time, any place.”
At the end of the video and your childhood perception of the Science Guy, Nye admits that he himself is subject to the same human drives. Walking off camera he says, “All this talk about sex is making me hungry! Wait, that’s not what I meant…”
