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Dr. Maya Shankar
Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans. A show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans.
Unknown Guest (A Slight Change of Plans)
I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change.
We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes.
You can have opinions, you can have like a strong stance, and then there's your body having its own program.
Dr. Maya Shankar
Listen to A Slight Change of plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Theo Henderson
For years, the Unhoused has been presented as a monolith in mainstream media. We Unhoused, a podcast that's changing the narrative. I'm Theo Henderson and I created the show while it was unhoused on the streets of Los Angeles. We've grown into a two time Webby award winning podcast, the only podcast that shares unhoused stories and news from the unhoused perspective. Listen to we the unhoused on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Teddi Mellencamp
Hey, everyone, this is Teddi Mellencamp and
Tamara Judge
Tamara Judge from Two T's in a Pod.
Teddi Mellencamp
There's been one scandal that's consumed our lives these last couple of months.
Tamara Judge
We're recapping the three part summer house reunion, and as always, we're being brutally honest.
Teddi Mellencamp
We're dissecting timelines, receipts, blind items and previous episodes.
Tamara Judge
Amanda and Wes, watch out. We're not going to be easy on you. Listen to two T's in a pod on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
This is Saigon, the story of my family and of the country that shaped us.
From iHeart podcasts, Saigon.
You don't think I'm serious about a free Vietnam?
One city, a divided country and the war that tore America apart?
This is for Vietnam.
Bill Nye
They're po.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
Petrol all over him.
Bill Nye
Freedom for Vietnam.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
There's a fire coming to this country and it's going to burn out everything.
Listen to Saigon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Unknown Guest (A Slight Change of Plans)
Jonas.
Kevin Jonas
Hey, guys, it's us, the Jonas brothers. Your favorite podcast. Related to us. Kevin, There was a season you were kind of like campaigning. You were a flat earther.
Joe Jonas
I like to get a rise from people.
Kevin Jonas
So you think that you were just doing it?
Joe Jonas
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 actually believe that.
Nick Jonas
See, here's the thing. You say that. You say that.
Joe Jonas
Prove it.
Nick Jonas
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?
Kevin Jonas
And now we have receipts. We have a podcast. Yes.
Joe Jonas
Well, I.
Kevin Jonas
You guys want to hear what I have?
Nick Jonas
I'd love to.
Kevin Jonas
Okay. Clapping, obviously.
Nick Jonas
Pause.
Kevin Jonas
That's when Kevin usually speaks. And, you know, classic also, of course.
Nick Jonas
Oh, yeah, I like that one.
Kevin Jonas
Oh, yeah.
Nick Jonas
Wait, hold on. We'll go back to that one. You do it. You're probably wondering how I got here.
Kevin Jonas
Oh, it's good, right?
Nick Jonas
One more time. One more time.
Kevin Jonas
Yeah.
Nick Jonas
So that's my life.
Joe Jonas
Wow.
Kevin Jonas
That's very, very difficult.
Joe Jonas
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
Bill Nye
One more.
Kevin Jonas
I do, I do give you a Disney Channel one. It's like
Nick Jonas
she said, no, they're going to the dance. Oh, like one of those boys.
Kevin Jonas
Bulmer. Okay.
Nick Jonas
Yeah, that's great.
Kevin Jonas
I like that.
Joe Jonas
I like that. It's important that we have that for you.
Kevin Jonas
It's good. It's good for me.
Joe Jonas
Keeps you focused.
Nick Jonas
It's good for you.
Kevin Jonas
It's going to get annoying for you guys.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
I don't believe the earth is flat. Okay. But I guess, what do I know? I don't. It hit the wrong one.
Kevin Jonas
I was.
Joe Jonas
Joe does not agree with me.
Nick Jonas
Everyone, we have an incredible guest.
Kevin Jonas
Guest raised us.
Joe Jonas
Yes, he actually. Television.
Nick Jonas
It's our dad. No, TV's Bill Nye.
Kevin Jonas
Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Joe Jonas
One of the best, like, musical intros of a TV show, by the way.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Kevin Jonas
Add that in there too.
Joe Jonas
I like it.
Nick Jonas
I'm so excited to talk to him. I know, Kevin, you're.
Joe Jonas
You're chomping at the Jones and.
Bill Nye
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
I haven't seen you this excited for a guest yet.
Joe Jonas
Don't tell the others.
Kevin Jonas
Well, they're not listening.
Nick Jonas
Who would be your dream podcast guest?
Joe Jonas
Tony Stark.
Nick Jonas
So, Tony Stark. So rdj in character or just in character? Because, you know, Tony Stark's not a real person.
Joe Jonas
No, I know, but in character as Tony Stark.
Nick Jonas
Making sure you know that it would
Joe Jonas
be just an epic interview. Super fun.
Nick Jonas
Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
You're gonna have to pay him about $50 million to do that.
Bill Nye
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
Hey, you asked what's my dream? That's my dream.
Nick Jonas
What about yours, Joe?
Bill Nye
I don't know.
Kevin Jonas
I haven't even thought about this. I Have to think about it.
Nick Jonas
It's not a good answer.
Kevin Jonas
Well, let me think about it for a second. You go first.
Nick Jonas
Messi.
Kevin Jonas
Messi.
Joe Jonas
That'd be cool.
Kevin Jonas
That would be sweet.
Nick Jonas
I'd like to talk to Messi.
Joe Jonas
I would like to talk to Brunson after we win the. The finals.
Nick Jonas
Go, Nicks. I'm sorry.
Bill Nye
I was.
Nick Jonas
I was rude. It was a good answer.
Joe Jonas
You need.
Bill Nye
You.
Nick Jonas
You should take the time you need
Kevin Jonas
to think about it to answer this correctly. I feel like we'll get back to that. I'll come later.
Joe Jonas
Before our next guest, make sure to reach out to us on our hotline at 1-84-HEY-DONAS. 1-844-395-6627.
Nick Jonas
Leave us a message.
Joe Jonas
Those numbers on the dial do have letters.
Nick Jonas
Oh, by the way, I left a message for someone the other day. First time I've done that in probably
Joe Jonas
two or three years. Like a voicemail.
Kevin Jonas
Dad does it.
Nick Jonas
Yeah, I left a voicemail. And I felt like such an adult. I even said my number.
Joe Jonas
Did you repeat your number? That's my. That's my move.
Nick Jonas
This is Nicole. My number is. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Give me a call back at your convenience. And they called me back right away because. Obviously, because I left my number.
Kevin Jonas
Yeah, of course. Because they did that. It doesn't pop up.
Nick Jonas
Yeah. All right, here's Bill Nye, ladies and
Kevin Jonas
gentlemen, the incredible Mr. Bill Nye the Science Guy. Is the Science Guy part of your legal name now or.
Bill Nye
No, I have copyrights.
Kevin Jonas
That's.
Joe Jonas
Yes, I think it is.
Bill Nye
With and without the word the. Or the.
Kevin Jonas
Thank you so much for being on our podcast. I got the pleasure of meeting you at the Forum.
Bill Nye
Yes.
Kevin Jonas
Or a special. We're trying to remember what it was, but it's very special.
Bill Nye
Well, it was an environmental hipster or groovy thing.
Kevin Jonas
That's what it's called. It's actually called the environmental hipster groovy thing.
Bill Nye
So why. Why were you there?
Joe Jonas
Yeah, why was I there?
Kevin Jonas
I was the. You don't care about the groovy thing.
Joe Jonas
He was the environment. You were the groovy thing.
Nick Jonas
May I ask you, sir, what was your impressions of Joe when you met him? Cause he raved about you.
Bill Nye
No comment.
Kevin Jonas
No comment.
Nick Jonas
That's the right side.
Joe Jonas
No, it was great.
Bill Nye
It was lovely.
Kevin Jonas
So many NDAs. We had a celebrity chat, you know.
Bill Nye
Yeah, right.
Kevin Jonas
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.
Joe Jonas
You changed my life. You like, honestly, did you? You made me fall in love with school and understanding what, like wonder.
Bill Nye
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.
Joe Jonas
Give us the background. Like, how did you go from working as a stand up comedian to first Boeing engineer?
Bill Nye
That's right.
Joe Jonas
Okay, so you're an engineer by trade.
Bill Nye
Yes.
Joe Jonas
So give us a background.
Bill Nye
I still have a license, everybody. Engineering license. So sick. I went to engineering school because I like bicycles and airplanes. Who doesn't? Kind of thing. Yeah. And then I was graduated in 1977.
Kevin Jonas
Whoa.
Bill Nye
Back in the 20th century. And.
Kevin Jonas
Hold on. Oh, it's only in our headphones. I have a sound.
Bill Nye
Oh, it's a sound. What is the sound?
Joe Jonas
It sounds great. It's cheering and clapping. It's a little aggressive though.
Bill Nye
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.
Joe Jonas
You missed your cue.
Bill Nye
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 Lacks, was still a friend of mine. And he comes hurrying over to. You got to see this guy. You got to see this. He's just like you. The way he moves. Just like you. He talks. Like when I saw 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.
Joe Jonas
Nice.
Bill Nye
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.
Kevin Jonas
Sure. Did you get hired?
Joe Jonas
Like, did you make some cash on the side for college?
Nick Jonas
Oh, man.
Bill Nye
So beer money, that's like 25 bucks.
Joe Jonas
Yeah, exactly. This is great.
Bill Nye
So 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 you ever met Ross Schaefer? He was still a dear friend of mine. He's the host of the show. You know, we. 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 writer's 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.
Nick Jonas
And 19 Emmy Awards later.
Bill Nye
19? Yeah. 19 Emmy Awards.
Nick Jonas
And how many seasons was it?
Bill Nye
Just five.
Kevin Jonas
No.
Bill Nye
Wow. Young people. Wait, there's more. I just got a lifetime achievement Emmy, which means, you guys. It just means the world to me.
Kevin Jonas
Congratulations.
Joe Jonas
Thank you.
Bill Nye
And I now, too, have a star on the Walk of Fame.
Kevin Jonas
And you're wearing a very incredible pin, if you don't mind.
Bill Nye
Yes, I'm wearing.
Nick Jonas
Tell us about this pin, please.
Bill Nye
Well, sir, this pin. This.
Kevin Jonas
Which one?
Bill Nye
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 8, which is the same as December 7, 1941, because the International Date Line 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 cryptanalysts to break codes. My mother was one of the code
Joe Jonas
girls, like the movie Enigma, but different.
Bill Nye
Yeah, except in the U.S. yeah. 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.
Joe Jonas
And they lost, and we won the war.
Bill Nye
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, and she was Sudoku. She was just really good at that stuff. She used to write limericks.
Kevin Jonas
And that's amazing. Well, as.
Nick Jonas
As three girl dads here, we appreciate that sense, that message. It's true.
Joe Jonas
Absolutely.
Nick Jonas
And it sort of is a segue to a. A non sequitur.
Bill Nye
A segue to a non sequitur. Wait a minute.
Joe Jonas
We are going to get fully Educated on this show today.
Bill Nye
It's a sequitur sec me.
Nick Jonas
The question is, you know, we've wondered, is there any science behind that? And you may, you know.
Bill Nye
Behind what?
Nick Jonas
The fact that we all have girls, no boys in the family. Five granddaughters for our parents after four boys.
Joe Jonas
Unknown Captain, but I read an article actually about it. Oh, slightly.
Kevin Jonas
You slightly read an article?
Joe Jonas
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.
Kevin Jonas
Like, because of stressful environments of the workplace. Yes.
Joe Jonas
So their testosterone is shifted. So are it. It produces more female energy in their offspring.
Nick Jonas
So you think that we've been under immense amount of stress like Navy seals?
Joe Jonas
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 I did. To preface this, I did say this does not necessarily apply to us, but.
Bill Nye
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 to. 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.
Joe Jonas
Oh, so the. The act of the.
Bill Nye
The production speculation has been speculated.
Kevin Jonas
Well, that's actually, you know, it's funny enough we do have.
Bill Nye
See, it always becomes about sex. Everything.
Kevin Jonas
It has to.
Joe Jonas
It's the beginning.
Kevin Jonas
We'll keep it kind of on topic, then.
Nick Jonas
Music.
Bill Nye
Say it again. Keep it where we will.
Kevin Jonas
Keep it on topic. On topic.
Nick Jonas
I do have a question about this
Kevin Jonas
specifically, though, so female.
Nick Jonas
Hold on.
Bill Nye
Sorry.
Nick Jonas
Does this get annoying when people ask you.
Bill Nye
No. No science, no.
Nick Jonas
What, because you're an engineer by trade?
Bill Nye
Yes.
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Kevin Jonas
Do you realize how legendary you are?
Joe Jonas
I appreciate that I'd be seeing it, but I'm like, man, I still got,
Bill Nye
like, so much more to do. Like Prince, he dropped like, 30 albums. We dropped like five right now. That's the rate we got to be going. Yeah, that's a good attitude.
Drink Champs Host
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Fab Five Freddy
I directed one of Nas's early videos.
Bill Nye
Which one?
Kevin Jonas
One love.
Nick Jonas
Wow.
Bill Nye
Yes.
Fab Five Freddy
I literally filmed in his apartment in Queensbridge. His moms was still up in that apartment. Nas was just beginning to take off. His pops used to live near me in Harlem. His dad introduced him to a whole lot of, you know, conscious stuff, and he made a young prodigy.
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Unknown Guest (A Slight Change of Plans)
You can have opinions, you can have like a strong stance, and then there's your body having its own program.
Dr. Maya Shankar
I'm Dr. Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation.
Tamara Judge
There is one finding that is consistent and that is that our resilience rests on our relationships.
Unknown Guest (A Slight Change of Plans)
I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change.
We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes.
Dr. Maya Shankar
Listen to A Slight Change of plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Theo Henderson
Mainstream media is full of crude depictions of the unhoused stories that shame and blame and paint the unhoused as a monolith. We the Unhoused is the podcast that's changing that. I'm Theo Henderson, creator and host and for years I've created a space where the unhoused and their advocates can tell their own stories. In the last few months alone, I've interviewed unhoused parents, immigrants, mutual aid organizers, veterans, the LGBQTIA community, and the policymakers who make the laws that impact the unhoused existence. We in House is a two time Webby and Signal award winning show with many exciting guests on the horizon. Tune in this week for my interview with Dr. Jill Wichorek, a street doctor turned influencer whose work with the unhoused community has made a huge impact online and in her community. Listen to we the unhoused on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
Cheryl Strayed
Hi everyone, I'm Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things. I'm excited to share that I have a new podcast called Mind Over Mountain. In each episode I interview athletes, adventurers and adrenaline seekers to discuss the inner landscapes and life experiences that informed and inspired their extraordinary feats. I also bring a bit of advice into the mix so we too can better understand how to face our own seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Unknown Guest (Mind Over Mountain)
Do you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to pull out what you already have inside. We're coming into this world fighting for our lives. All I'm gonna do is pull out what you already got inside.
Dr. Maya Shankar
We're there to support and celebrate each other. And that is not like a your story versus my story.
Cheryl Strayed
You're gonna walk up and over that dang mountain. You're not just gonna put your mind over it.
Unknown Guest (Mind Over Mountain)
Yep, yep, exactly. And if I can't walk up and over it, I'm gonna go through it.
Cheryl Strayed
Listen to Mind Over Mountain every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Bill Nye
I'd like to consider myself now an educator.
Joe Jonas
Yes.
Kevin Jonas
And you are?
Bill Nye
Yes, absolutely.
Nick Jonas
You educated all of us already.
Bill Nye
You want to avoid mansplaining. But there's two really common ones. But the big one now is are there aliens? That's a big.
Joe Jonas
So are there?
Bill Nye
Well, first of all, there have to be. Respectfully, I. I completely agree. 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 they not?
Kevin Jonas
Pretty selfish to think it's just like the physics though.
Joe Jonas
It's just it breaks all of our laws to be able to travel beyond the speed of light, right?
Bill Nye
Yeah.
Joe Jonas
So far, so far. So it has to be the ability to wormhole it essentially. Right. To get them here or are they
Bill Nye
already to get aliens here? That's a whole nother.
Nick Jonas
Well, by our understanding of these so called.
Joe Jonas
But that's what I'm saying. It breaks the physics that we but
Bill Nye
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.
Joe Jonas
I love it.
Bill Nye
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. They're so small against the sky. It's just this rudimentary trick that just wow.
Joe Jonas
Just for example, there's just that much stuff up there that we don't see.
Bill Nye
So much stuff.
Kevin Jonas
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?
Bill Nye
There's a lot of stuff about the earth. Health. Health things. Yes. I don't want to disparage any car brand. There is a dealership in Vin Nuys. There's a guy there, an associate. This guy believes the earth is flat.
Nick Jonas
Mm.
Kevin Jonas
This actually just came up.
Joe Jonas
Firmament or just flat.
Bill Nye
Well, and so this is somebody who went to high school in the U. S. Earth is not flat, you guys.
Joe Jonas
Prove it.
Bill Nye
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. Because the. For this guy, the moon is round, Mars is round, Saturn's round. But somehow the Earth. Earth is flat. Like, dude, it's a tough one. And, you know, it is an extraordinary claim. When you're on the beach, look in the ocean. The Earth looks pretty flat. Yeah, yeah.
Joe Jonas
But then you zoom out and see a ship coming over the horizon.
Bill Nye
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. The ocean and the air are held on the Earth by gravity.
Kevin Jonas
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
Bill Nye
And still, really, no one knows exactly where gravity comes from.
Joe Jonas
Yeah, because, like, what would happen if it just stopped one?
Bill Nye
Like, we'd all, like, drift into space. No, but I mean, there's something to that.
Kevin Jonas
Yeah, it is. What happened?
Bill Nye
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.
Nick Jonas
That will.
Bill Nye
That's was it.
Kevin Jonas
Sounds like this dealership smokes a lot of weed.
Bill Nye
Well, it's a question that everybody is asked.
Joe Jonas
Do you believe in, like, the. The universal sink to sync thing where, like, you know, now is the past, past is the future. Everything's all in one linear time. Or is time actually.
Bill Nye
Well, so far, you guys, time seems to only be going one way for us. You can't go back as far as anybody can tell. Yeah, there is a theory, 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?
Joe Jonas
Yeah.
Bill Nye
Yeah. But still, even that hasn't been shown to be true.
Nick Jonas
Why wouldn't you be able to go back further?
Bill Nye
Well, I don't know that much more
Kevin Jonas
of the creation of the time machine.
Nick Jonas
If you could go back to a moment in your career that would predate this supposed time machine, what would it be?
Bill Nye
Wow. Well, they'd probably involve certain woman and so on.
Joe Jonas
Makes sense.
Bill Nye
But which certain woman? Yeah, it's a tough one. And I know you guys have dealt with that your whole careers and so. A moment in my career. Yeah, maybe. Seriously, I would have maybe left Seattle sooner. Seattle saved my life. I love Seattle. I love to go back Seattle, visit my friends and stuff. But there's a period there where I was really trying to get on with the next thing. And maybe that's. You can't go back, people. It's not an option.
Kevin Jonas
Well, that's the thing.
Joe Jonas
Just learn.
Kevin Jonas
And we probably would be sitting with Steve Guy. The science guy.
Bill Nye
Yeah, well, Steve Guy.
Kevin Jonas
Well, he would be Steve Martin.
Nick Jonas
And Steve.
Kevin Jonas
You know what I'm saying?
Bill Nye
Steve Martin.
Joe Jonas
I got you.
Nick Jonas
Gotcha.
Bill Nye
Steve Martin embraces science. You know, he did that whole.
Kevin Jonas
Yeah.
Bill Nye
Thing. It's just. I love that guy.
Nick Jonas
His documentary is really fantastic.
Bill Nye
I love that documentary. Loved it.
Joe Jonas
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?
Bill Nye
Two things genuinely excite me about artificial intelligence. So the first thing. Artificial intelligence. Creamy. It's going to write my term paper and they're going to realize I didn't write my. Okay, that's all good.
Kevin Jonas
That all sounds great.
Joe Jonas
Yeah.
Bill Nye
But I don't mean to trivialize it. That's really important where people can't 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 so nice they named it twice. There were 3 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.
Joe Jonas
Right.
Bill Nye
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.
Kevin Jonas
Would we grow it on Earth?
Bill Nye
Yeah, yeah.
Kevin Jonas
Because we're running out of space.
Bill Nye
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.
Kevin Jonas
Right.
Bill Nye
So just accept that we are running the show here on Earth. It's not a gig we audition 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 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. I came here an 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. You're in your lifetime of your kids. We are almost certainly going to harness fusion. There are so many organizations working on fusion.
Joe Jonas
Fusion reactors.
Bill Nye
Yeah. So not splitting big atoms like heavy uranium or thorium, having them fall apart, release the weak 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.
Joe Jonas
Is that the collider?
Bill Nye
A collider, yes.
Joe Jonas
Is that what that is?
Bill Nye
That would be okay. Yes. And 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 the old saying, I didn't make up. It's like trying to handle Jell O with chopsticks. Challenging.
Joe Jonas
That's a great statement.
Bill Nye
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 a. Make electricity.
Joe Jonas
That's incredible.
Bill Nye
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 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? It goes something like that.
Kevin Jonas
Something like that, yeah.
Bill Nye
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.
Nick Jonas
Fantastic.
Joe Jonas
I love that. Those are great answers. I definitely agree that AI is more of. Is a tool and could be going away people. Yeah, exactly. And we're going to run out of energy trying to figure it out.
Nick Jonas
Kevin's been using AI recently to. To create apps and other stuff.
Bill Nye
Is that who writes all your songs?
Joe Jonas
No, no, no.
Bill Nye
Oh, no.
Kevin Jonas
Definitely not just the hits.
Joe Jonas
Just the hits.
Kevin Jonas
Strictly the hits. The ones we sell.
Joe Jonas
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.
Bill Nye
When did you guys start playing guitars and stuff?
Joe Jonas
13 was when I picked up a guitar.
Bill Nye
Really?
Joe Jonas
Yeah.
Bill Nye
Did you play the piano before that?
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
I did not.
Bill Nye
That's amazing. You guys are like freaking prodigy.
Joe Jonas
He started younger.
Nick Jonas
Yeah, I was about eight.
Bill Nye
Yeah, that's. Yeah, yeah.
Nick Jonas
It was a mandate for my parents. I said, eight years old, you gotta play.
Bill Nye
No, but you just picked it up and thought it was cool. I was.
Nick Jonas
I was doing musical theater before that in New York as a theater kid. And then I started, you know, playing instruments soon after that.
Bill Nye
Because I never picked it up and
Kevin Jonas
I. I'm just around.
Joe Jonas
It's a math equation.
Bill Nye
Look, everybody, I'll tell you, I've tried to play the guitar.
Kevin Jonas
You got to get the banjo and your Steve Martin routine.
Bill Nye
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.
Joe Jonas
It's not real.
Bill Nye
Yeah, exactly. I'm fine with it. I've come to terms with it. No, it is impressive. 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 and people can
Joe Jonas
figure out we make pop music, the theory of music is lost on us.
Bill Nye
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.
Nick Jonas
Oh, I love it.
Bill Nye
No, that to me is the one. I mean in Cake by the Ocean. Which makes per perfect sense, of course. To anybody. Absolutely.
Kevin Jonas
From kids Bop to your grandmother making you a homemade meal. Okay, Kevin, what's your question about science related to music?
Joe Jonas
I was just saying, is there a. Is there science?
Kevin Jonas
I want to know, is there science related to music? For baby making music.
Bill Nye
It's.
Nick Jonas
God always comes back to sex.
Joe Jonas
It does.
Kevin Jonas
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 want to know.
Joe Jonas
That was Mark's question. That wasn't even mine.
Kevin Jonas
Okay. You know, if there's. If there's a relation there like you know. Because you said. Well, there's a lot of books about this but music related. Is there is particular music being played?
Nick Jonas
Help with. I don't know. Help with what exactly?
Kevin Jonas
The science behind it?
Nick Jonas
The reproductive part or the experience?
Kevin Jonas
Like your paradox open ended question there.
Bill Nye
So take my understanding. And this was a joke I heard very recently. The young rooster is walking through the barn hard. Barnyard.
Joe Jonas
He is walking through the barn hard.
Bill Nye
Perhaps he is. And well done. There's the expression Freudian slip. Perhaps there it was. But he's doing jazz scat singing.
Kevin Jonas
Right.
Joe Jonas
Nice.
Bill Nye
There's no hens around him. He's not a Jonas rooster. But then the older rooster comes in the barnyard. He's got all these hens. He's got it going on hen wise. And the young rooster says to him, well, what's your secret? He says, you gotta sing the standards. That's what the rooster says. Play the hits like Satin Doll, World on a String. I get a kick out of you. That's how you get your hens. So that's. I'm of a certain age. That sort of Frank Sinatra style stuff. This can be very effective.
Nick Jonas
Yeah.
Bill Nye
I don't know.
Kevin Jonas
You make me feel so young.
Bill Nye
Yeah, that's it. You make me feel that. A song to be sung. A wonderful Fling to be flung. That is a freaking lyric.
Nick Jonas
It's a fantastic song.
Bill Nye
Fling to be.
Nick Jonas
Let's play that every morning when you wake up.
Bill Nye
What music do you guys listen to to get revved, besides your own?
Kevin Jonas
I play that song.
Bill Nye
Oh, is that why it popped into
Nick Jonas
your head and I was just.
Kevin Jonas
Yeah, it's kind of. It was there. You mean to be revved in the bedroom?
Bill Nye
Oh, no, no.
Joe Jonas
I've got a playlist.
Bill Nye
Can't hear you.
Joe Jonas
I've got a playlist.
Bill Nye
What's your playlist?
Kevin Jonas
You have a playlist? A sex time playlist?
Bill Nye
Yeah, for sure.
Kevin Jonas
A sexy time playlist?
Joe Jonas
Yeah.
Nick Jonas
What's on that?
Joe Jonas
It's all her favorite music.
Bill Nye
How many kids do you have? You have five?
Joe Jonas
Two.
Bill Nye
Yeah, two. Five among you? Yeah.
Kevin Jonas
All of her favorite music. You said that her favorite band is
Joe Jonas
dnc, so you're on there.
Kevin Jonas
I'm on your sex playlist.
Joe Jonas
No, it's not gonna happen. It's like Michael Buble. It's like that kind of stuff.
Bill Nye
Yeah, that kind of stuff.
Joe Jonas
See, he gets it.
Bill Nye
It's the standards.
Kevin Jonas
It's the old rooster. It is the standards.
Nick Jonas
The old rooster.
Bill Nye
The older rooster.
Joe Jonas
The newer of the roosters.
Unknown Guest (A Slight Change of Plans)
You can have opinions, you can have, like, a strong stance, and then there's your body having its own program.
Dr. Maya Shankar
I'm Dr. Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. We share stories and scientific insights to help us all better navigate these periods of turbulence and transformation.
Tamara Judge
There is one finding that is consistent, and that is that our resilience rests on our relationships.
Unknown Guest (A Slight Change of Plans)
I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change.
We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes.
Dr. Maya Shankar
Listen to A Slight Change of plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Theo Henderson
Mainstream media is full of cruel depictions of the unhoused, stories that shame and blame and paint the unhoused as a monolith. We the Unhoused is the podcast that's changing that. I'm Theo Henderson, creator and host, and for years I've created a space whereas the unhoused and their advocates can tell their own stories. In the last few months alone, I've interviewed unhoused parents, immigrants, mutual aid organizers, veterans, the LGBQTIA community, and the policymakers who make the laws that impact the unhoused existence. We in House is a two time Webby and signal Award winning show with many exciting guests on the horizon. Tune in this week for my interview with with Dr. Jill Wicheric, a street doctor turned influencer whose work with the Unhoused community has made a huge impact online and in her community. Listen to we the Unhoused on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
Cheryl Strayed
Hi everyone, I'm Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things. I'm excited to share that I have a new podcast called Mind Over Mountain. In each episode, I interview athletes, adventurers and adrenaline seekers to discuss the inner landscapes and life experiences that informed and inspired their extraordinary feats. I also bring a bit of advice into the mix so we too can better understand how to face our own seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Unknown Guest (Mind Over Mountain)
Do you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna pull out what you already have inside. We come into this world fighting for our love. All I'm gonna do is pull out what you already got inside.
Dr. Maya Shankar
We're there to support and celebrate each other. And that is not like a your story versus my story.
Cheryl Strayed
You're gonna walk up and over that dang mountain. You're not just gonna put your mind over it.
Bill Nye
Yep, yep, exactly.
Unknown Guest (Mind Over Mountain)
And if I can't walk up and over it, I'm gonna go through it.
Cheryl Strayed
Listen to Mind Over Mountain every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
This is Saigon. The story of my family and of the country that shaped will not stand
Bill Nye
by and allow any power, however great, take over another country.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
From iheart Podcasts, Saigon.
Bill Nye
Please allow me to introduce Joseph Sherman.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
You don't think I'm serious about a free Vietnam?
Kevin Jonas
I should stop talking so much.
Joe Jonas
I like hearing you talk.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
One city, a divided country and the war that tore America apart.
This is for Vietnam.
Kevin Jonas
I've taken a hit from Japanese ground fire during the.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
They're pouring petrol all over him.
Bill Nye
He's holding matches. I'm on a landmine for free. Die.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
Let's get out.
Bill Nye
Freedom for Vietnam.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
Run Saigon. Starring Kelly Marie Tran and Rob Benedict.
Bill Nye
Staying here's madness. The world should hear about this.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
There's a fire coming to this country and it's going to burn out everything.
Listen to Saigon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Kevin Jonas
We have more fan questions.
Bill Nye
This one's from Laura.
Nick Jonas
She says, bill, I have to imagine your brain must be constantly working.
Bill Nye
Yes.
Nick Jonas
Your mind ever actually quiet? Are you always analyzing, questioning and trying to solve something in the background.
Bill Nye
Answer is absolutely without question. Sort of. Yeah. I'm always thinking about something. I tell you, when I'm not thinking about much is riding a bike. When I'm riding, I spend a lot of time on bicycles. Yeah. But I'm not thinking about it.
Kevin Jonas
Well.
Bill Nye
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 guys, 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 to. And speaking of code breaking and my mother, one of the people in charge was Bill Friedman, and he encouraged all the code breakers, cryptanalysts, to stop once in a while because the back of your mind is still working the problem. And I'll bet you guys, as songwriters,
Joe Jonas
right, I'm going to name drop, actually, because we're working on some music here, and I was walking outside working on something in the back of my mind, as you said, taking a break, and ran into John Mayer outside.
Bill Nye
Oh, wow.
Joe Jonas
I was just, like, working the problem, thinking about the music, and he's like, yeah, I do that. There's a bathroom that if you go to that bathroom, you always figure out the second verse in the building. And that's.
Bill Nye
Where is it? So it's in this building.
Joe Jonas
It's in this building.
Bill Nye
Wow. You have to go now or.
Joe Jonas
No, I'm good right now.
Bill Nye
You already did that.
Kevin Jonas
One last question for you from Jordan. If Bill Science Guy was on TV today, what's something you've learned or discovered since the show has ended that you'd
Bill Nye
love to do an episode on genetically modified organisms? Since you asked. Crops. I would do more on that.
Kevin Jonas
Will we see another season of Bill Nye?
Bill Nye
Well, so I'll tell you, we always have a project. We always have a Bill. So we use my family. We use a 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 asked, oh, I'm 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. No, 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.
Joe Jonas
Cool. Wow.
Bill Nye
And Corey Powell, a guy I've written with for many years, he and I are doing the next one. And 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.
Joe Jonas
Love that.
Bill Nye
So it's cool. Everybody loves astronomy. I was talking to my people, my family, talking about the first time I saw the moon through a telescope. Do you remember that?
Joe Jonas
I remember the first time I saw the moon through the telescope, yeah.
Bill Nye
And do you remember the first time you saw Saturn through a telescope?
Joe Jonas
I didn't get that far.
Bill Nye
You will. Everybody, when you see Saturn through a telescope, it just doesn't look real. It's just. You're joking me.
Nick Jonas
Well, it's not.
Bill Nye
It just looks like there's. Like. It doesn't. What'd you say?
Theo Henderson
He goes, it's.
Kevin Jonas
Well, it's not.
Bill Nye
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.
Kevin Jonas
Please invite us to your next star party.
Joe Jonas
I want to go to a star party.
Bill Nye
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 close. It's time to wrap this podcast.
Joe Jonas
That's right.
Bill Nye
Check us out@ Planetary.org we have star parties.
Joe Jonas
I love a star party.
Kevin Jonas
Bill Nye, you're the best.
Nick Jonas
Thank you so much for being on the pod.
Kevin Jonas
Thank you for our childhood and many others that listen and watch our podcast.
Joe Jonas
We're gonna 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, being based on the Internet,
Bill Nye
you can find anything.
Joe Jonas
That's Matthew. Yeah. And this is my favorite at home experiment based on the show.
Bill Nye
50 employees, but it's a good one.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
Pour some vinegar into a Tzer 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.
Joe Jonas
This blew my mind.
Bill Nye
It gets me every time.
Joe Jonas
You guys, he's not pouring the liquid,
Bill Nye
he's pouring the gas.
Nick Jonas
Look at that.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
The gas is heavier than the air and the bag on this end goes down.
Nick Jonas
Fake.
Joe Jonas
Thank you.
Bill Nye
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 U.S. constitution, now available in paperback, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, Congress shall promote the progress of science and useful arts.
Joe Jonas
I love that.
Bill Nye
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.
Nick Jonas
Vote.
Bill Nye
Thanks you guys. Thanks for having me.
Joe Jonas
Thank you, sir.
Kevin Jonas
Thank you for changing my life.
Bill Nye
Thank you so much, you guys. This is so cool.
Dr. Maya Shankar
Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans. A show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans.
Unknown Guest (A Slight Change of Plans)
I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change.
We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty that none of us likes.
You can have opinions, you can have like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program.
Dr. Maya Shankar
Listen to A Slight Change of plans on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Theo Henderson
For years, the Unhoused have been presented as a monolith in mainstream media. We in House is a podcast that's changing the narrative. I'm Theo Henderson and I created the show while it was unhoused on the streets of Los Angeles. We've grown into to a two time Webby award winning podcast. The only podcast that shares unhoused stories and news from the unhoused perspective. Listen to we the unhoused on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
Teddi Mellencamp
Hey everyone, this is Teddi Mellencamp and
Tamara Judge
Tamara Judge from Two T's and a Pod.
Teddi Mellencamp
There's been one scandal that's consumed our lives these last couple of months.
Tamara Judge
We're recapping the three part Summer House reunion and as always, we're being brutally honest.
Teddi Mellencamp
We're dissecting timelines, receipts, lined items, and previous episodes.
Tamara Judge
Amanda and Wes, watch out. We're not going to be easy on you. Listen to two T's in a pod on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
This is Saigon, the story of my family and of the country that shaped us.
From iHeart podcasts, Saigon.
You don't think I'm serious about a free Vietnam?
One city, a divided country, and the war that tore America apart?
This is for Vietnam.
Bill Nye
They're pouring petrol all over here. Freedom for Vietnam.
Narrator (Saigon Podcast)
There's a fire coming to this country, and it's going to burn out everything.
Listen to Saigon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Host(s): Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas
Guest: Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”)
Date: June 4, 2026
Podcast: Hey Jonas! (iHeartPodcasts)
In this lively and nostalgic episode, the Jonas Brothers welcome Bill Nye, a cultural icon known as "The Science Guy," for an energetic, candid, and insightful conversation. The brothers dig into Bill’s fascinating journey from engineer to television legend, discuss the impact of science on modern life, and have a playful back-and-forth about everything from flat Earth theories to the science behind music (and, inevitably, baby-making playlists). Bill Nye also shares personal stories from his family’s history, his thoughts on future technologies, and why science education is more important than ever.
Transition from Engineering to Comedy and TV:
Achievements:
Are There Aliens?
Is the Earth Flat?
What is Time?
AI Applications:
Education and Empowerment:
Music and Science:
Playlists for Romance:
How Bill Rests His Mind:
“If Bill Nye the Science Guy Were on TV Today…”
Iconic At-Home Science Demo:
Bill Nye’s Parting Message:
The episode is playful, geeky, respectful, and filled with both humor and education. The Jonas Brothers’ curiosity and warmth shine as they connect with Bill both as childhood fans and thoughtful adults, while Bill matches their energy with wit, insightful stories, and occasional tongue-in-cheek responses. A deep sense of admiration, nostalgia, and hope for the future comes through from all speakers.
A joyful, beloved figure brings science, history, and humor into the Jonas Brothers’ studio—reminding us all to stay curious, value scientific progress, and vote. From aliens and AI futures to the timeless magic of music—and love—the conversation inspires both “wonder” and action, proving the Science Guy is as relevant and engaging as ever.