Hey Bill Nye, The Science Guy!

Summary

Podcast Summary: Hey Jonas! – "Hey Bill Nye, The Science Guy!"

Host(s): Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas
Guest: Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”)
Date: June 4, 2026
Podcast: Hey Jonas! (iHeartPodcasts)

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Overview

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.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bill Nye’s Background and Early Career (07:12–09:56)

• Transition from Engineering to Comedy and TV:

  • Bill originally studied engineering due to his love for bicycles and airplanes and graduated in 1977.
  • He found early success in comedy, including entering (and winning!) a Steve Martin lookalike contest in Seattle.
  • His big TV break came when a guest didn’t show for the comedy show "Almost Live": “Bill, why don’t you do that science? You’re always talking about science.” – Bill Nye (09:15)
  • The “Science Guy” persona was born and developed over several years.

• Achievements:

  • Bill won 19 Emmy Awards for his show ("Just five seasons!"), plus a Lifetime Achievement Emmy and a star on the Walk of Fame.
  • He wore a Presidential Medal of Freedom pin during the recording, honoring both his parents’ WWII service.

2. Personal Stories: Family & Diversity (10:23–12:19)

• Family Legacy:
  • Bill’s father was a civilian POW on Wake Island, and his mother was a cryptanalyst—one of the “code girls” in WWII.
  • On women in wartime: “The US was able to throw a lot at the problem… The Nazis [and Japanese] did not include women... And they lost, and we won the war.” – Bill Nye (11:59)
  • Message: Diversity and including women leads to collective success.

3. Science and Parenthood: Why Are There So Many Jonas Granddaughters? (12:41–14:28)

• Speculation & Science:
  • Joe brings up a theory he read about—stress in men (like Navy SEALs) possibly increasing likelihood of daughters.
  • Bill: “Books have been written about this… reproductive outcomes are a source of fascination since time immemorial.” (13:43)
  • The brothers joke about the topic returning to “the act of the production.”

4. Bill Nye’s Most Frequently Asked Science Questions (18:43–22:12)

• Are There Aliens?

  • "There have to be… What are the chances? How could they not [exist]?" – Bill Nye (19:00)
  • On alien visitation: "To say they've come here in spacecraft and crashed is a whole nother… There’s so much stuff flying around…” (19:42)

• Is the Earth Flat?

  • Bill shares the persistence of flat Earth beliefs and how hard it is to combat them (“It is an extraordinary claim… the ocean and the air are held on the Earth by gravity.” (21:08–22:07))
  • Playful references to whack-a-mole with misinformation and the oddities of conspiracy theorists.

• What is Time?

  • Philosophical musings: “There’s no such thing as time because now is already in the past.” (22:22)
  • Theoretical talk about time travel: “You could build a time machine to go back, but not farther than when the machine was built.” (22:59)

5. AI, Future Technology, and the Role of Science (24:43–29:40)

• AI Applications:

  • Excited about agriculture (“We could make more efficient farm crops… with AI to make a genome of a crop… more robust… feed more people.” (25:14–26:08))
  • Excited about fusion energy: “With AI, we’ll be able to contain plasmas and maybe hit fusion on Earth to generate unlimited electricity.” (27:34–29:12)
  • Societal message: “We are in charge of the Earth… make good decisions… vote with the climate in mind.” (26:38–27:33)

• Education and Empowerment:

  • “Ultimate goal is to raise the standard of living of women and girls… for that, we need renewable, reliable electricity.” (29:12–29:39)

6. The Science of Music – Frequencies, Math, and Baby-Making Playlists (30:29–34:11)

• Music and Science:

  • Nick and Joe started playing music young; Bill is impressed by their prodigy status.
  • Bill humorously admits he can’t really play guitar (“It’s all fake, no one can hold the string down without touching the others—you’re not kidding me!” (31:19))
  • Discusses how dogs can recognize octaves; how there’s “math” in the music.

• Playlists for Romance:

  • The conversation inevitably veers to “sexy time” playlists.
  • Bill shares a rooster joke about singing “the standards.” (“You gotta sing the standards… that Frank Sinatra style stuff can be very effective.” (33:23–33:59))
  • Kevin and Joe riff on the idea, revealing their own playlists (Michael Bublé makes the cut, but not the Jonas Brothers themselves on Joe’s playlist!).

7. Life, Creativity, and Bill Nye’s Current Projects (39:00–43:32)

• How Bill Rests His Mind:

  • “When I’m not thinking about much is riding a bike… my mind is going.” (39:11)
  • On problem-solving: His mom’s code-breaking cohort paused to let the subconscious work—“back of your mind is still working the problem.” (39:26)
  • Joe cites songwriting moments and “the bathroom that helps with writing the second verse”—a tip from John Mayer. (40:15)

• “If Bill Nye the Science Guy Were on TV Today…”

  • Bill would love to cover genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in crops.
  • He teases a new TV show idea: “Bill’s House,” focused on science demonstrations at home (41:02).
  • Upcoming book: A collaboration with Corey Powell for NASA, annotating 108 “Astronomy Picture of the Day” images, releasing next Earth Day (42:02–42:28).
  • Reminisces about seeing the moon through a telescope for the first time; encourages the brothers to attend “star parties” with the Planetary Society (43:08–43:32).

8. Closing: Science is for Everyone (43:35–45:22)

• Iconic At-Home Science Demo:

  • Pouring carbon dioxide gas—“Even though it’s invisible, you can still pour it… the gas is heavier than the air…” (44:07–44:28)

• Bill Nye’s Parting Message:

  • “You don’t have to take my word for it, you can do it yourself.”
  • Science, progress, and voting: “Science is how the United States got to where it is… we are living at a remarkable time. Everybody, please vote.” (44:59–45:21)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Bill Nye on Diversity and Wartime:
  • “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.” (11:59)
• On Aliens:
  • “There have to be [aliens]… What are the chances? How could they not [exist]?” (19:00)
• On Science and Education:
  • “The goal of the show: To get people excited about science.” (07:12)
  • “If we had unlimited electricity, we could change the world.” (29:14)
  • “Ultimate goal is to raise the standard of living of women and girls. When you raise the standard… everybody is better off.” (29:12)
• On Music and Romance:
  • “You gotta sing the standards. That Frank Sinatra-style stuff. This can be very effective.” (33:23)
• On Voting and the Future:
  • “We are running the show here on Earth… we have to make good decisions… Everybody vote. Don’t make me come over there.” (26:38–27:33)
  • “Science is how the United States got to where it is. Everybody in the world uses the word, okay? Everybody respects NASA…” (44:59)
• On Playfulness:
  • (“Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo…” – Kevin, 22:04, mimics nostalgic science show moments)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Bill Nye’s Career Path: 07:12–09:56
• Family Stories & Diversity: 10:23–12:19
• Jonas Granddaughters & Biological Speculation: 12:41–14:28
• Are There Aliens? Debunking Flat Earth & Time Travel: 18:43–23:29
• AI, Fusion, and the Future: 24:43–29:40
• The Science of Music & Playlists: 30:29–34:11
• How Bill Rests His Mind: 39:00–39:26
• If Bill Nye Were on TV Today, New Projects: 41:00–42:28
• Homemade Science Demo & Bill’s Conclusion: 44:07–45:22

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Tone and Vibe

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.

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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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]

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[Teddi Mellencamp]

Hey, everyone, this is Teddi Mellencamp and

[Tamara Judge]

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[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)]

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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]

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[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.

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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.

[Drink Champs Host]

No matter the era, Drink Champs brings you the biggest names and the most unfiltered conversations. Listen to Drink Champs from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[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.