You got a toymaking elf who lives on the north pole and visits millions of individual children all around the world in a single 24 hour span delivering gifts and sampling cookies through chimney openings using an open canopy sleigh driven through the air by flying reindeer as his delivery vehicle, with the lead reindeer posessing an aircraft beacon as a facial growth... and Neil Tyson’s contribution is “hurr durr, thems are girl deers, that’s just science”
Did he ever take a moment to consider that maybe in this magical world where a light-emitting airborne caribou is a thing that maybe there’s an explanation about antlered bulls in late December?
Look.....he believes in dark matter(never been found)...and the suspension of all known physical laws pre big bang....so he might entertain your conjecture. Of course it would be a simulation.