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Kevin, there was a season you were kind of like campaigning you were a flat-earther.
I like to get a rise from people.
So you think that you were just doing it?
Oh, it was a bit. It was a complete bit. There's no chance the earth was flat. But it was pretty fun to just get people riled up if you like pushed them hard enough that you've actually believed that.
See, here's the thing, you say that, you say that.
Prove it.
But you always say that after, prove it, which makes me think that you're leaving the possibility that you can do a told you so later on in life, should we all be, you know, surprised by what is absolutely not true.
And now we have receipts. We have a podcast.
Yes.
Well, I, um.
You guys want to hear what I have?
I'd love to.
Okay, clapping, obviously.
Pause.
That's when Kevin usually speaks. Um, and.
You know, classic also.
Of course.
Oh, yeah, I like that one. Oh, yeah, wait, hold on. We'll go back to that one. You do it. You're probably wondering how I got here.
Oh, it's good.
Right? One more time, one more time. Yeah, so that's my life.
Wow, that's very, very Disney.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
One more.
I do, I do give you a Disney Channel one. It's like.
She said no to going to the dance.
Oh.
Like one of those.
Bummer. Okay.
Yeah, that's great. I like the.
I like that. It's important that we have that for you.
It's good. It's good for me.
Keeps you focused.
It's good for you.
It's gonna get annoying for you guys.
Yeah, I don't believe the earth is flat, but I guess, what do I know?
I hit the wrong one. I was.
Joe does not agree with me, everyone.
We have an incredible guest.
OMG.
And.
This guest.
Raised us.
He actually kinda did.
Television. It's our dad. No.
TVs were.
Bill Nye.
Bill Nye, the Science Guy, our father.
One of the best, like, musical intros of a TV show, by the way.
Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
Add that in there, too.
I'm so excited to talk to him. I know Kevin, you're chomping at the bit.
I'm jonesing.
Yeah. I haven't seen you this excited for a guest yet.
Don't tell the others.
Well, they're not listening.
Who would be your dream podcast guest?
Tony Stark.
So Tony Stark. So RDJ in character or just?
In character.
Cause you know, Tony Stark's not a real person.
No, I know, but in character as Tony Stark.
I'm sure you know that.
It would be just an epic interview. Super fun.
Yeah. You're gonna have to pay him about $50 million to do that.
Hey, you asked, what's my dream? That's my dream.
What about yours, Joe?
I don't know. I haven't even thought about this. I have to think about it.
It's not a good answer.
Well, let me think about it for a second. You go first.
Uh, Messi.
Messi.
Oh, that'd be cool.
That would be sweet.
I'd like to talk to Messi.
I would like to talk to Brunson after we win the finals.
Go Knicks. I'm sorry. That was, I was rude. It was a good answer. You need, you should take the time.
Answer this correctly. I feel like, we'll get back to that. I'll come.
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Those numbers on the dial do have letters.
Oh, by the way, I left a message for someone the other day. First time I've done that in probably two or three years.
Like a voicemail?
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Yeah. All right. Here's Bill Nye. Ladies and gentlemen, the incredible Mr. Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
Is the Science Guy part of your legal name now or no?
Uh, I have copyrights.
That's so good. So yeah, in theory, then yes, I think it is.
With and without the word the or the.
Thank you so much for being on our podcast. I got the pleasure of meeting you at the forum.
For a special, we're trying to remember what it was, but it's very special.
Well, it was an environmental hipster or groovy thing.
That's what it's called. It was actually called the environmental hipster groovy thing.
So why were, why were you there?
Yeah. Why?
I was either, I was the.
You don't care about the environment.
Groovy thing.
He was the environment. You were the groovy thing.
May I ask you, um, sir, what was your impressions of Joe when you met him? Cause he raved about you.
No, no comment.
No, that's the right.
No, it was great. It was lovely.
So many NDAs.
We had a celebrity chat, you know?
Yeah, right.
We grew up watching you every morning.
And sometimes if the teacher was bored enough, or maybe hungover, now that we're adults, we understand, they'd put you on the screen. They'd wheel the TV in and, you know, shit was gonna go off if Bill Nye was on the TV, so.
You changed my life. You like, honestly did. You, you made me fall in love with school and understanding what like, wonder was.
I love you, man. That is so nice. Thank you. That's the goal. That was the goal of the show, to get people excited about science.
Give us the background. Like, how did you go from working as a stand-up comedian to?
First Boeing engineer, am I correct?
That's right.
Okay, so you're an engineer by trade?
So give us the background.
Uh, I, I still have a license, everybody, uh, engineering license, so.
Sick.
I went to engineering school because I like bicycles and airplanes. Who doesn't, kind of thing?
And then I was graduated in 1977.
Whoa!
Back in the 20th century, and.
Hold on.
Oh, it's only in our headphones. I have a soundbar.
Oh, it's a sound, what is the sound?
It sounds great. It's cheering and clapping. It's, it's a little aggressive, though.
Anyway, it's all good. I claim that Steve Martin's first two albums, Let's Get Small, Wild and Crazy Guy, they were so popular.
You missed your cue.
How popular were they? They were so popular that that weekend after the second one came out, every big city in North America had one or two comedy clubs. And along with that, Warner Brothers Records sponsored the Steve Martin Lookalike Contest. The guy who had been my freshman roommate, Dave Lax, was still a friend of mine. And he comes hurrying over to, you gotta see this guy. You gotta see this. He's just like you. The way he moves is just like you. He talks like. I went and I saw the, the video of Steve Martin at the boarding house. Anyway, I entered the Steve Martin Lookalike Contest a year later in a completely different city, pressured to enter by a completely different set of friends.
And I won in Seattle.
Nice.
I did not advance beyond Seattle. But after that, people wanted me to do Steve Martin routines at a party or an event or a thing.
Sure. Did you get hired? Like, um, did you make some cash on the side for college?
Oh, man.
So beer money.
That's like 25 bucks.
Yeah, exactly. This is great.
I eventually, doing stand-up this and that, I started writing jokes for a comedy show, Almost Live. And so on that show, one time, a guest didn't show up. Ross Schaefer. Do you have ever met Ross Schaefer? He was still a dear friend of mine. So I hosted the show. You know, we, uh, Bill, why don't you do that science? You're always talking about science. Why don't you? So I did the household uses of liquid nitrogen. It was funny. And so in a writers' meeting, Ross said, you'd be Bill Nye the Science Guy or something. And then he kind of got up and left. And so one thing led to another, you guys. And it took another few years to get my own show.
Wow. And 19 Emmy Awards later.
19, yeah. 19 Emmy Awards and now.
How many seasons was it?
Just five.
No way.
For kids, young people. Wait, there's more. I just got a lifetime achievement Emmy, which means, you guys, it just means the world to me.
Congratulations.
Thank you. And I now too have a star on the Walk of Fame.
And you're wearing a very incredible pin, if you don't mind.
I'm wearing, yes, I'm wearing.
Tell us about this pin, please.
Well, sir, this pin of this.
Which one?
The Presidential Medal of Freedom. It just means the world to me, you guys. Both of my parents were veterans. Everybody, let's digress about this. So my dad was a civilian working on Wake Island, Middle Pacific Ocean, nowhere. They were bombed on December 8th, which is the same as December 7th, 1941, because the international dateline is part of the Japanese military strategy to take over the Pacific. He spent four years as a prisoner of war. My mom, everybody, my mother happened to be, by the dumb luck of the universe, graduated from this liberal arts women's college in Baltimore, Goucher
College, in the spring of 1942, right after Pearl Harbor. She and several of her classmates were recruited to be crypt analysts, to break codes. My mother was one of the code girls.
The Enigma, but different.
Yeah, except in the US.
And so this is, thank you. Well done. So I didn't cue him. All right. So, so the British had a few hundred woman code breakers. The US had 10,000. Just understand, the US was able to throw a lot at the problem. And everybody, I just remind you, the Japanese military did not include women at all. The Nazis did not include women. And they lost.
And we won the war.
Diversity wins wars. Don't come running to me. That is objectively true, people. And so my mother, I will just say, speaking of objectively, she was good at puzzles, like crossword puzzles.
Sure.
She was so good, because she was just really good at that stuff. She used to write limericks and...
That's amazing. Well, as, as three girl dads here, we appreciate that sentiment, that message. It's true.
Absolutely.
Um, and it sort of is a segue to a, a non sequitur.
A segue to a non sequitur. Wait a minute.
Man, we are gonna get fully educated on this show today.
It's a sequitur.
Sequitur.
Sec me.
The question is, you know, we've wondered, is there any science behind that? And you may, you know...
Behind what?
The fact that we all have girls. No boys in the family. Five granddaughters for our parents, after four boys.
Uh, unknown, Captain. But...
I read an article actually about it. I was slightly.
You slightly read an article?
I don't know. This doesn't necessarily apply directly to us, but it could in some capacity. So if you talk to Navy SEALs, they have majority, percentage more, more females than as daughter, like...
Because of stressful environments that they're of the workplace.
Yes. So their testosterone is shifted, so they are, it, it produces more female energy in their offspring.
So you think that we've been under immense amount of stress, like Navy SEALs?
No, I'm not comparing the two. But in the environment where we're around men a lot, where we're in the same, like, living environments, like, it's that thing. Like I said, I did, I did preface this, I did say, this does not necessarily apply to us, but...
Well, you guys, books have been written about this, and reproductive... Outcomes are a source of fascination since time immemorial. And so I don't know, you guys, there's other spec. I don't want, I don't know who listens to, watches this podcast, but there's other speculation about.
What's the other speculation?
About how one interacts when one is producing a kid.
Oh, so the, the act of the, the production.
Speculation has been speculated.
Well, that's, that's, you know, it's funny enough. We do have.
See, it always becomes about sex, everything.
It has to. It has to. It's the beginning. We'll keep it kind of on topic then. Music.
Say it again. Keep it where?
We will keep it on topic.
On topic.
I do have a question about this specifically though.
So is this male or female?
Hold on. Does this get annoying when people ask you?
No, no, no, no. What?
Cause you're an engineer by trade.
Yes, well, but I also.
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Oh, yeah.
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All right. Who started drinking almond breeze almond milk first?
Actually, I think that was you, Nick.
I think it was.
Yeah, you're like, you know, guys, I tried this almond breeze in my coffee today.
Changed the game for me. All right. Who's the most likely to finish the last carton of almond breeze and not replace it?
That's Kevin.
Kevin, of course.
Yeah. That's someone else's job. Take it, Kev.
What's the most random place you drank almond breeze?
The last time I visited the Empire State Building.
Ah, that's a random place for sure. I've noticed you guys really like almond breeze almond milk. Who has the most specific way of drinking it?
Oh, Kevin's, you know what's I've found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.
Yeah, straight up the dome.
He needs it on stage.
Okay, last question. Why do you guys like almond breeze so much?
It just tastes great. It's a great alternative.
It is great. It's simply because it's really good.
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I'd like to consider myself now an educator.
Yes, and you are.
Absolutely. You educated all of us already.
You want to avoid mansplaining, but there's two really common ones. But the big one now is, are there aliens?
So, are there?
Well, first of all, there have to be respectfully.
I completely agree with you.
There's 200 billion stars in our galaxy.
Alone.
And there may be 10 times that many galaxies. People, what are the chances? How could there not be?
Pretty selfish to think.
It's just like the physics, so it just be, it breaks all of our laws to be able to travel beyond the speed of light, right?
Yeah, so far.
So far. So it has to be the ability to wormhole it essentially, right? To get them here? Or are they already here?
To get aliens here, that's a whole nother.
Well, by our understanding of these so-called laws.
But that's what I'm saying. It breaks the physics that we know.
But hold it. To say that there are living things or self reproducing organisms elsewhere is one claim. To say they've come here in spacecraft and crashed is a whole nother. And I can tell you guys, I had very low level security clearance for a while. I worked on the spider plane. There is so much stuff flying around. I cannot even express to you the flying aroundness of flying around things.
On the order of a million things flying around, certainly several hundred thousand things flying around. Here's one of my favorites.
I love it.
Why don't they paint spy planes light blue so you couldn't see them against the blue sky? Why don't they do that?
They do do that and you can't see them. They're so small against the sky. It's just this rudimentary trick that just. Wow.
Just for example.
There's just that much stuff up there that we don't see.
So much stuff.
Well, you said there's a few things that you get asked quite often. So one is, are there aliens? What are some other questions that Bill Nye fans are constantly asking you?
There's a lot of stuff about.
The earth?
Health.
Things, yes.
I don't want to disparage any car brand. There is a dealership on, in Vinny's. There's a guy there, an associate. This guy believes the earth is flat.
Mm hmm. This, this actually just came up.
Firmament or just flat? Well, and so this is somebody who went to high school in the U.S. Earth is not flat, you guys.
It is a, yeah, it is a hard thing. And I came of age, you guys, when Whack-a-Mole was a new game, but this is, this is Whack-a-Mole. If you, after you show them this, then that. Cause the, for this guy, the moon is round. Mars is round. Saturn's round, but somehow the earth is flat. Like dude, it's, it's a tough one. And, uh, you know, it is an extraordinary claim. When you're on the beach, looking in the ocean, the earth looks pretty flat. Yeah.
Yeah, but then you zoom out and see a ship coming over the horizon.
There you go.
You know?
Christopher Columbus is supposed to have done that, where the ship disappears, yet doesn't fall off the earth. It's really an amazing thing, you guys, that ocean and the air are held on the earth by gravity.
And still, really, no one knows exactly where gravity comes from.
Yeah, cuz like, what would happen if it just stopped one day?
Oh, man, like, we'd all, like, drift into space. No, but I mean, there's something to that.
Yeah, what would happen?
So there's another question that everybody has asked. And I tell you, if you meet somebody who hasn't asked this question, they're lying to your face. There's no such thing as time, because now is already in the past. And so like, now, if I say now, well, then that's, that was, that's was.
It sounds like this dealership smokes a lot of weed.
Well, it's a question that everybody has asked.
Do you believe in like, the, the universal sync, sync thing where like, you know, now is the past, past is the future, everything's all in one line, linear time? Or is time actually?
Well, so far, you guys, time seems to only be going one way, uh, for us. You can't go back, as far as anybody can tell.
There is a theory, uh, and by that, I mean, a physics theory, that you could build a time machine that would enable you to go back, but you couldn't go back any farther than when the time machine was built. Do you follow me?
Yeah, but still, even that hasn't been shown to be true.
Why wouldn't you be able to go back further?
Well, I, I don't know that much more about it.
The creation of the time machine? If you could go back to a moment in your career that would predate this supposed time machine, what would it be?
Wow. Well, they'd probably involve certain woman and so on.
Makes sense.
But, uh, but wish certain woman, yeah, it's a tough one. And I know you guys have dealt with that your whole careers. And so, uh, so a moment in my career, yeah, maybe, seriously, I would have maybe left Seattle sooner. Seattle saved my life. I love Seattle. I'd love to go back to Seattle, visit my friends and stuff. But, uh,
There's a period there where I was really trying to get on with the next thing. And maybe that's, that's, you can't go back, people. It's not an option.
Well, that's the thing. Just learn and move forward. We probably would be sitting with Steve Guy, the science guy.
Yeah, well.
Steve Guy? Well, he would be Steve Martin and Steve, you know what I'm saying?
Steve Martin.
Gotcha.
Steve Martin embraces science. You know, he did that whole.
Thing. It's just, I love that guy.
His documentary is really fantastic.
I love that documentary. Loved it.
So we have some questions from some people that would love to ask them and I'm going to ask them for them. So this is Mark. AI is becoming such a huge part of everyday life, ironic. Is there anything that excites you about it or should we all just be genuinely be worried?
Uh, two things genuinely excite me about artificial intelligence. So the first thing, ah, artificial intelligence, Ross Chakal screaming, ah, it's going to write my term paper and they're going to realize I didn't write. But okay, that's all good.
That all sounds great.
Just kidding.
But those are, I don't mean to trivialize it. That's really important. Um, where people can think for themselves and so on. But two specific things I'm very excited about. The first one is agriculture. When I went to the world's fair in 1965 in New York, New York, the town's so nice, they named it twice. There were three billion people in the world. They had a, United Nations had a total board, tote board, scoreboard. Now there are almost nine. There's eight and a half billion people and we're feeding them somehow. But I believe we could make more efficient farm crops and more efficient grains, more efficient.
Everybody loves corn, but more efficient crops. And we would make them drought tolerant, flood tolerant, even weather tolerant, where they don't blow over in windstorms.
Right.
And we would do that by using artificial intelligence to make a genome.
Of a crop of soy that would be more robust than what we have now and feed more people.
Would we grow it on Earth?
Yeah, yeah.
Because we're running out of space. So like, how do we, how do we have?
Growing stuff in space is, is a hassle. Earth is great. And I remind people, farming is not natural. If you stop farming, it goes back to some other thing.
And so just accept that we are running the show here on Earth. It's not a gig we auditioned for. We are in charge of the Earth. Humans are running it. We have to make good decisions about the Earth. Everybody vote. Don't make me come over there. And if you're too young to vote, make sure the grownups in your life vote. And have, insist that they vote with the climate in mind. That's the first thing. Second thing. Everybody, what are we doing? We're on an electric podcast. We all have electric phones.
Mm hmm.
I came here in electric car. Electricity is, is the key to our future. Is having energy for everyone. If we had unlimited electricity, we could change the world. And so we, in your, lifetime of your kids, we are almost certainly going to harness fusion. There are so many organizations working on fusion.
Fusion reactors?
Yeah. So not splitting big atoms, like you have uranium or thorium, having them fall apart, release the weak, a heat of the weak atomic force. Instead, smashing protons, for example, together, overcoming the so-called strong atomic force, releasing heat and light, capturing the heat, running a turbine, a steam turbine, making electricity.
Is that the collider?
The collider, yes.
Is that what that is?
That would be, yes.
God, I love this conversation so much.
So many different schemes going on. So here's been the problem in the collider.
Okay.
Is containing these particles that are going near the speed of light, going very so-called high temperature, containing them with a magnetic field. So this is a plasma. Are we down with a plasma? A plasma is like a gas, but all the electrons are like off on their own, like doing their own thing. And so it's very hard to manage. But I think with an artificial intelligence, computer-driven system, you'll not only be able to contain The plasma where it is, but anticipate where it's going to fall. The old saying that I didn't make up. It's like trying to handle Jell-O with chopsticks. Challenging.
That's a great statement.
I didn't make it up. Yeah. So it's very reasonable to me that artificial intelligence computer gizmo could manage a magnetic field well enough to smash these things together on earth in a big building, make a lot of heat, make steam, run a windmill going backwards and move magnets and make electricity.
That's incredible.
If we had unlimited electricity, oh my goodness. What is the ultimate goal, everybody? Fathers of women, girls, is to raise the standard of living of women and girls. When you raise the standard of living of women and girls, everybody is better off. Thank you, thank you. But I didn't make this up, you guys. It's not my idea, but you know, the old saying, happy women and girls, happy life. Something goes something like that. Yeah, I paraphrase. And so for that, Uncle Bill says we want clean water, access to the internet, because that gives everybody the chance to get education. The internet's not perfect, but it gives everybody in the world a chance to get education.
And for that, we need renewable, reliable electricity. Back to you.
Wow.
Fantastic.
I love that.
Those are great answers.
I definitely agree that AI is more of is a tool and to be.
Well, it ain't going away, people.
Yeah, exactly. And we're going to run out of energy trying to figure it out.
Kevin's been using AI recently to create apps and.
Is that who writes all your songs?
No.
No, no, oh, no.
Definitely not. Just the hits.
Just the hits.
Strictly the hits, the ones we sell.
Actually, speaking of that, is there a science to music that like, obviously frequencies are important? We've go, you go all the way back to-
When did you guys start playing guitars and stuff?
Uh, thirteen was when I picked up guitar.
That late, really?
Did you play the piano before that?
I did not.
That's amazing. You guys are like freaking prodigies.
He started younger.
Yeah, I was about eight.
Yeah, eight, that's, yeah, yeah.
It was a mandate from our parents that said, eight years old, you gotta play. No.
But you just picked it up and thought it was cool?
Well, I was, I was doing musical theater before that in New York. I was a theater kid. And then I, I started, you know, playing instruments soon after that.
Hmm, cuz I never picked it up and I, I'm-
I bet you used to do it.
It was a round. It's a math equation.
Look, everybody, I'll tell you, I've tried to play the guitar.
You gotta get the banjo and your Steve Martin routine.
No, it's all fake. Okay? No one can hold the string down against the fret without touching the other string. You're not kidding me and I know you-
It's not real.
All, yeah, exactly. I'm fine with it. I've come to terms with it. No, it is impressive. Uh, so apparently dogs respond to octaves. When you double the frequency, dogs know it somehow. And what's the pentameter thing when there's five notes? Eh, eh, eh, uh, uh, and people can figure that out.
We make pop music. Um, the theory of music is lost on us.
Heck, it is. The heck it is. No, you guys are amazing. So, sorry, respectfully. And I have rocked out to sucker quite a bit, man.
Oh, love it.
No, that's, to me is the one, I mean, and cake by the ocean, which makes perfect sense.
To anybody.
Absolutely. From kid's bop to your grandmother making you a homemade meal. Okay, Kevin, what's your question about science related to music?
I was just saying, is there a, is there science to music?
There's gotta be.
I wanna know, is there science related to music for baby making music?
It's gotta be.
Always comes back to sex.
It does.
I was trying to ask this a while ago and Kevin was like fangirling and started asking a bunch of questions about AI. I just wanna know-
That was Mark's question. That wasn't even mine.
Okay, you know, if there's, uh, if there's a relation there, like, you know, cuz you said, well, there's a lot of books about this. But music related, is there, is particular music being played? Help with, I don't know.
Help with what exactly?
The science behind it.
The reproductive part?
Or the experience.
Like your.
Open ended question there.
So.
Take it, take it.
My understanding, and this was a joke I heard very recently. The young rooster is walking through the barn hard, barnyard.
Barn, he is walking through the barn hard.
Perhaps, perhaps he is. And for the, well done, that is the expression Freudian slip. Perhaps there it was. But he's doing jazz scat singing.
Right, nice.
There's no hens around him. He's not a Jonas.
Uh, rooster. But then the older rooster comes in the barnyard. He's got all these hens. He's got it going on hen wise. Cause, and the young rooster says to him, well, what's your secret? Says, you gotta sing the standards. That's what the rooster says.
Play the hits, man.
Like satin doll, world on a string. I get a kick out of you. That's how, that's how you get your hens. So that's, I'm of a certain age. That sort of Frank Sinatra style stuff.
Coroner.
Can be very effective.
I don't know.
You make me feel so young.
Yeah, that's it. You make me feel a song to be sung. A wonderful fling to be flung. That is a freaking lyric, people.
It's a fantastic song.
Fling to be flung.
Don't you play that every morning when you wake up?
How, what music do you guys listen to to get revved besides your own?
I play that song, oh.
Is that why it popped into your head?
And I was just, yeah, it's kind of, it was there. You mean to be revved in the bedroom?
Oh, no, no.
I've got a playlist.
Can't hear you.
What's your playlist?
You have a playlist, a sex time playlist?
Yeah, for sure.
A sexy time playlist?
What's on that?
It's all her favorite music.
How many kids do you have?
Uh, two.
Yeah, two, five of them are new, yeah.
Yeah. I, all of her favorite music. You said that her favorite band is DNC, so.
You're on there.
I'm on your sex playlist?
No, that was not gonna happen. It's like Michael Buble. It's like that kind of stuff.
Yeah, that kind of stuff.
See, he gets it.
It's the standards. It's the old rooster.
It's the standards, technically.
The older rooster.
The older of the roosters.
You can always tell because they, they say what it is out loud. It's like, oh, wow.
Sucks. Thank you. Yeah, definitely. It's definitely happened to me. You think you nailed it, and then you see their face and immediately realize, "Yeah, maybe I should have gone with something they'd actually be excited to open."
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All right. Who started drinking Almond Breeze almond milk first?
Yeah, you're like, "You know, guys, I tried this Almond Breeze in my coffee today."
Changed the game for me. All right, who's the most likely to finish the last carton of Almond Breeze and not replace it?
That was Kevin.
That's someone else's job.
Take it, Kev.
What's the most random place you drank Almond Breeze?
Ah, that's a random place for sure. I've noticed you guys really like Almond Breeze almond milk. Who has the most specific way of drinking it?
Ooh. Kevin's, you know what I found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.
Yeah, straight out the dome.
Okay, last question. Why do you guys like Almond Breeze so much?
Well, it just tastes great. It's a great alternative.
Well, we have more fan questions. This one's from Laura. She says, "Bill, I have to imagine your brain must be constantly working."
Yes, a true fact.
"Is your mind ever actually quiet, or are you always analyzing, questioning, and trying to solve something in the background?"
Answer is absolutely without question, sort of.
Yeah, I'm always thinking about something. I tell you what I'm not thinking about much is riding a bike. When I'm riding, I spend a lot of time on bicycles. Yeah.
It is so relaxing.
Well, and also for me, as a kid, you could just travel so far on a bike compared to walking or running. It's amazing. And these, God, these modern racers are going 35, 40 miles an hour all day. Anyway, so most of the time my mind is going. I am not hip to anybody who says their mind isn't going. And speaking of code breaking and my mother.
And one of the people in charge was Bill Friedman. And he encouraged all the code breakers, crypt analysts, to stop once in a while because your, the back of your mind is still working the problem. And I'll bet you guys as songwriters, right?
I'm gonna, I'm gonna name drop, actually, because we're, we're working on some music here. And we were, I was walking outside, working on something in my back of my mind, as you said, taking a break, and ran into John Mayer outside.
Oh, wow.
And he, I was just like, working the problem, like, thinking about the music. And he's like, yeah, I do that. He's, there's a bathroom, that if you go to that bathroom, you always figure out the second verse in the building. And that's
Where is it? Oh, it's in this building?
It's in this building.
Wow. You have to go now, or?
No, I'm good right now.
You already did that?
One last question for you, from Jordan. If Bill Nye Science Guy was on TV today, what's something you've learned or discovered since the show has ended that you'd love to do an episode on?
Uh, genetically modified organisms, since you asked. Crops. I would do more on that.
Will we see another season of Bill Nye?
Well, so I'll tell you, we always have a project. We always have a Bill. So we use, in my family, we use the verb to Bill Friedman. So the show would be called Bill's House. And I would be in my house, and then kids would come over. Oh, hi, Bill. Hi, kids. Well, today, everything on the kitchen counter is about thermodynamics. What are the chances? And then, look, we go over here to the garage. This is about thermodynamics. Wow. Who knew? The garden, thermodynamics, for example. So this is a project that we
My writing buddies and I are working on. And then I also am doing another book. We're always doing a book. So have you guys ever visited astronomy picture of the day? It's a website, APOD, we call it.
So it's a NASA, there are these two astronomers that publish what they feel is a cool astronomy picture every day. And every few years NASA publishes a book of the pictures.
Cool. Wow.
And Corey Powell, I've written with for many years, he and I are doing the next one. And it's all, we're almost done. It's almost done. So that'll come out next spring on Earth Day. And so it'll be probably 108 astronomy pictures of the day that we think are especially compelling with our own brilliant insightful comments about each picture.
Love that.
So it's cool. Everybody loves astronomy. I was talking to my people, my family, it's the first time I saw the moon through a telescope. Do you remember that?
I remember the first time I saw the moon through the telescope, yeah.
And do you remember the first time you saw Saturn through a telescope?
I didn't get that far.
You will. Everybody, when you see Saturn through a telescope, it just doesn't look real. It's just, you're joking me.
Well, it's not.
It just looks like there's, like it doesn't, what'd you say?
He goes, it's, well, it's not.
Yeah, it's not real. It's not round. And so people say, you know, you, you guys, you'll be there. You'll be at some star party.
Please invite us to your next star party. I want to go to a star party.
I've never been invited to a star party.
Just one more, one more plug for the Planetary Society. Check us out at planetary.org, world's largest independent space interest organization advancing the scientific exploration of space so that people everywhere will know the cosmos and our place within it. Elevator doors closed. It's time to wrap this podcast.
Check us out at planetary.org. We have star parties.
I love a star party. Bill Nye, you are the best. Thank you so much for being on the pod. Thank you for our childhood and many others that listen and watch our podcasts. We're going to leave you with this, watching this video, and you, viewers at home, this is the video of that blew my mind when I was. A huge fan of the show, obviously still am, but this video I wanted to recreate, but I could never find it, but now I'll be able to find it on the internet.
Oh, that's Matthew.
That's Matthew, and this is my favorite at-home experiment.
He's got like 50 employees now.
This is an old trick, but it's a good one. Pour some vinegar into a pitcher and add a little bit of baking soda. That fizzing is carbon dioxide gas coming off. Even though it's invisible, you can still pour it, just like you pour water or milk.
This blue, my mind.
It gets me every time, you guys.
He's not pouring the liquid.
He's pouring the gas.
Look at that.
Woo! The gas is heavier than the air and the bag on this end goes down.
Fake. Thank you.
So here's the passion, beauty and joy, you guys, the PB and J. You don't have to take Matthew's word for it, or my word for it. You can do it yourself, pour carbon dioxide gas. And I like to remind people that in the US Constitution, now available in paperback, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, "Congress shall promote the progress of science and useful arts."
Science is how the United States got to where it is. Everybody in the world uses the word "okay." Everybody respects NASA. Everybody respects the scientific achievements of the United States. A lot of other people have done wonderful things, but this idea is remarkable. We are living at a remarkable time. Everybody, please, vote.
Vote.
Thank you, guys. Thanks for having me on.
Thank you, sir. Thank you for changing my life.
Thank you so much, you guys. This is so cool.
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