Speaker 1: Hey, guys, it's us Brothers. Your favorite podcast related to us? Kevin,
Speaker 1: there was a season you were kind of like campaigning.
Speaker 1: You were a flat earther. I like to get a
Speaker 1: rise from people, So you think that you were just
Speaker 1: doing it. Oh, it was a bit. It was a
Speaker 1: complete bit. There's no chance that Earth was flat, but
Speaker 1: it was pretty fun to just get people riled up
Speaker 1: if you like pushed them hard enough that you've actually
Speaker 1: believed that. See, here's the thing you say that.
Speaker 2: You say that prove it, but you always say that
Speaker 2: after prove it, which makes me think that you're leaving
Speaker 2: the possibility that you can do a told you so
Speaker 2: later on in life. Should we all be, you know,
Speaker 2: surprised by what is absolutely not?
Speaker 1: Now we have receipts, we have a podcast. Yes, well
Speaker 1: I do you guys want to hear what I have?
Speaker 1: I'd love to. Okay, clapping always think that's when Kevin
Speaker 1: usually speaks, and you know classic also of course, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that one. Hell, we'll go back to the one.
Speaker 1: You do it.
Speaker 2: You're probably wondering how I got here. That's good right
Speaker 2: some time. Yeah, So that's my life.
Speaker 1: That's very very Disney. Keep going I do. I do
Speaker 1: give you a Disney Channel one. It's like.
Speaker 2: She said no to going to the dance, like one
Speaker 2: of those Okay, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: I like that. It's important that we have that for you.
Speaker 1: It's good, it's good for me. Keeps you focused, it's
Speaker 1: good for you. It's going to get annoying for you. Guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't believe the Earth is flat. Okay, I guess
Speaker 1: what do I know? I hit the wrong one. I was.
Speaker 1: Joe does not agree with me. Everyone.
Speaker 2: We have an incredible guests and raised us. Yes, he
Speaker 2: actually it's our dead no TV Bill Night Bill Night.
Speaker 1: The Science Guy are one of the best, like musical
Speaker 1: intros of a TV show.
Speaker 2: By the way, Brutal the Science Guy. I had that
Speaker 2: in that too. I'm so excited to talk to him.
Speaker 2: I know, Kevin, You're you're chomping at the time, Jones
Speaker 2: and yeah, I haven't seen you this excited for a
Speaker 2: guest yet. Don't tell the others, well, they're not listening.
Speaker 2: Who would be your dream podcast guest?
Speaker 1: Tony Stark?
Speaker 2: So Tony Stark so RDJA in character or just in character?
Speaker 2: Because you know, Tony Stark's not a real person.
Speaker 1: I know, but in character as Tony Stark, you can
Speaker 1: truly know that it would be just an epic interview,
Speaker 1: super fun. Yeah, you're gonna have to pay him about
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars to do that. Yeah. Hey, you asked,
Speaker 1: what's my dream? That's my dream? What about yours?
Speaker 3: Joe, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't even thought about this. I have to think
Speaker 1: about it's not a good answer. Well, let me think
Speaker 1: about it for a second.
Speaker 2: You go first, Uh, Messy Messi's cool, be sweet, I'd
Speaker 2: like to talk to MESSI.
Speaker 1: I would like to talk to Brunson after we win
Speaker 1: the finals. Go nixt I'm sorry, I was, I was.
Speaker 1: It was a good answer. You should take the time
Speaker 1: minute as correctly. I feel like we'll get back to that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I left a message for someone
Speaker 2: the other day, first time I've done that in probably
Speaker 2: two or three years.
Speaker 1: Like voice, my dad doesn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved a voicemail and I felt like such
Speaker 2: an adult. I even said my number, thank you for
Speaker 2: teaching number. That's my this is my this is Nicole,
Speaker 2: My number is blah blah blah blah. Give me call
Speaker 2: back at your convenience. And they called me back right
Speaker 2: away because obviously because I left my number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, because they did it as hop up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, here's Bill Nye, lads and gentlemen, the incredible
Speaker 1: mister Bill Nye, the nice guy. Is the science guy
Speaker 1: part of your legal name now? Or no, I have copyrights?
Speaker 1: That's so?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Then yes, I think it is with and without the
Speaker 1: word the or the Thank you so much for being
Speaker 1: on our podcast. I got the pleasure of meeting you
Speaker 1: with a forum, yes, or a special We're trying to
Speaker 1: remember what it was, but it's very special. Environmental hipster
Speaker 1: or a groovy thing, that's what it called. It was
Speaker 1: actually called the environmental hipster groovy. So why were you there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was EI there. I was the I don't care
Speaker 1: about it, the groovy thing. He was the environment you're
Speaker 1: the groovy thing.
Speaker 2: May I ask you, sir, what was your impressions of
Speaker 2: Joe when you met him?
Speaker 1: He raved about you?
Speaker 3: No no comment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. It was so many NDAs it has
Speaker 1: a celebrity chat. You know, we grew up watching you
Speaker 1: every morning. Yeah, and sometimes if the teacher was bored
Speaker 1: enough or maybe hungover. Now that we're adults, MA understand,
Speaker 1: they'd put you on the screen. They'd wheeled the TV
Speaker 1: in and you know, ship was going to go off
Speaker 1: if bill Ny was on the TV. So you changed
Speaker 1: my life? You liked honestly? Did you?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 1: You made me fall in love with school and understanding
Speaker 1: what like wondering? I love you man.
Speaker 3: That is so nice. Thank you. That's the goal. That
Speaker 3: was the goal of the show, to get people excited
Speaker 3: about science.
Speaker 1: Give us the background, like how did you go from
Speaker 1: working as a stand up comedian to first Boeing engineer?
Speaker 1: That's right, so you're an engineer by trade. Give us
Speaker 1: a background.
Speaker 3: I still have a license. Everybody engineering license. So I
Speaker 3: went to engineering school because I like bicycles and airplanes.
Speaker 3: Who doesn't kind of thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And then I was graduated in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1: WHOA, that's great, back in your twentieth century. And then
Speaker 1: oh it's on our headphones. I have a sound sounds great,
Speaker 1: it's good cheering and clapping. It's a little aggressive thing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's all good.
Speaker 3: I claim that Steve Martin's first two albums, Let's Get
Speaker 3: a Small, Wild and Crazy Guy, they were so popular.
Speaker 3: They were so popular that that weekend after the second
Speaker 3: one came out, every big city in North America had
Speaker 3: one or two comedy clubs, and along with that, Warner
Speaker 3: Brothers Record sponsored the Steve Martin Lookalike Contest. The guy
Speaker 3: who had been my freshman roommate, Dave Lax, was still
Speaker 3: a friend mine, and he comes hurrying over to you
Speaker 3: got to see this guy. You got to see this
Speaker 3: He's just like you. The way he moves, just like you.
Speaker 3: He talks like when I saw the video of Steve
Speaker 3: Martin at the boarding house.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I entered the.
Speaker 3: Steve Martin look at Like Contest a year later in
Speaker 3: a completely different city, pressured to enter by a completely
Speaker 3: different set of friends, and I won in Seattle. N
Speaker 3: I did not advance beyond Seattle, but after that people
Speaker 3: wanted me to do Steve Martin routines at a party
Speaker 3: or an event or a thing.
Speaker 1: Sure, did you get hired? Like, did you make some
Speaker 1: cash on the side for college man beer money? That's
Speaker 1: why twenty five bucks. Yeah, exactly, And so I eventually
Speaker 1: doing stand up this and that.
Speaker 3: I started writing jokes for a comedy show, almost live
Speaker 3: and so on that show. One time a guest didn't
Speaker 3: show up Ros Schaeffer. Have you ever met Ros Schaeffer?
Speaker 3: He was still a dear friend of my host to
Speaker 3: show you know, we Bill, why don't you that science?
Speaker 3: You're always talking about science, Why don't you? So I
Speaker 3: did the household uses of liquid nitrogen. It was funny,
Speaker 3: and so in a writer's meeting, Ross said you'd be
Speaker 3: Bill Nye, the science guy or something, and then he
Speaker 3: kind of got up and left. And so one thing
Speaker 3: that I do another you guys, And it took another
Speaker 3: few years to get my own show.
Speaker 1: Wow, and nineteen Emmy Awards later.
Speaker 3: Nineteen yeah, nineteen Emmy Awards, and now it just five
Speaker 3: No wow, young people. Wait, there's more. I just got
Speaker 3: a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, which means you guys, it just
Speaker 3: means the world to me.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, Thank you.
Speaker 3: And I now too have a star on the Walk
Speaker 3: of Fame.
Speaker 1: And you're wearing a very incredible pin if you don't mind,
Speaker 1: I'm yes, I'm wearing tell us about this pin.
Speaker 3: Wealsser, this pin of visit, which one the Presidential Medal
Speaker 3: of Freedom. It just means the world to me, you guys.
Speaker 3: Both of my parents were veterans, everybody, let's digress about this.
Speaker 3: So my dad was a civilian working on Wake Island,
Speaker 3: Middle Pacific Ocean. Nowhere. They were bombed on December eighth,
Speaker 3: which is the same as December seventh, nineteen forty one,
Speaker 3: because the International date line is part of the Japanese
Speaker 3: military strategy to take over Pacific. He spent four years
Speaker 3: as a prisoner of war. My mom, everybody, my mother
Speaker 3: happened to be by the dumb walk of the universe,
Speaker 3: graduated from this liberal arts women's college in Baltimore, Goucher College,
Speaker 3: in the spring of nineteen forty two, right after Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 3: She and several of her classmates were recruited to be
Speaker 3: crypt analysts to break codes. My mother was one of
Speaker 3: the code.
Speaker 1: Girls like the movie Enigma, but different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, except in the US. Yeah, and so this is
Speaker 3: I thank you, well done. So I didn't cue him,
Speaker 3: all right. So, so the British had a few hundred
Speaker 3: women code breakers, the US had ten thousand, just understand
Speaker 3: the US was able to throw a lot at the problem.
Speaker 3: And everybody, I just remind you the Japanese military did
Speaker 3: not include women at all. The Nazis did not include women, and.
Speaker 1: They lost and we won the war.
Speaker 3: Diversity wins wars. Don't come running to me. That is
Speaker 3: objectively true. People, And so my mother, I will just say,
Speaker 3: speaking of objectively, she was good at puzzles, like crossword puzzles,
Speaker 3: and so because she was just really good at that stuff,
Speaker 3: she used to write limericks.
Speaker 1: And that's amazing. Well as as three girl dads here,
Speaker 1: we appreciate that.
Speaker 2: S Yes, that message, it's true, absolutely, and it sort
Speaker 2: of is a segue to a non sequitor.
Speaker 3: A segue to a non sequitor.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, man, we are going to get fully
Speaker 1: educated on it. It's a sequiteck me.
Speaker 2: The question is, you know, we've wondered, is there any
Speaker 2: science behind that? And you may you know behind what
Speaker 2: the fact that we all have girls, no boys in
Speaker 2: the family, five granddaughters for our parents after four boys
Speaker 2: unknown captain.
Speaker 1: But I read an article actually about it. Slightly. You
Speaker 1: slightly read an article. I don't know if this doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily apply directly to us, but it could in some capacity.
Speaker 1: So if you talk to Navy seals, they have majority
Speaker 1: of percentage more more females than as daughter. Like there's
Speaker 1: a stressful environment set. They're of the workplace, Yes, so
Speaker 1: there tsosterone is shifted, so they are it produces more
Speaker 1: female energy in their offspring. So you think that we've
Speaker 1: been under the men's amount of stress like Navy seals. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not comparing the two, but in the environment where
Speaker 1: we're around men a lot, where we're in the same
Speaker 1: like living environments, Like it's that thing. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I did to be a clear, I did say this
Speaker 1: does not necessarily apply to us.
Speaker 3: But well, you guys, books have been written about this,
Speaker 3: and reproductive outcomes are a source of fascinations since time immemorial.
Speaker 3: And so sure, I don't know, you guys, there's other
Speaker 3: spec I don't want to I don't know who listens
Speaker 3: to watches this podcast. But there's other speculation about what's
Speaker 3: the other speculation about how one interacts when one is
Speaker 3: producing a k.
Speaker 1: It Oh, so the act of the production speculation has
Speaker 1: been speculated. Well that's actually you know, it's funny enough,
Speaker 1: we do have.
Speaker 3: See it always becomes about sex everything.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll keep it kind of on topic. Then music
Speaker 1: keep it where we will keep it on topic on topic.
Speaker 1: I do have a question about this specifically though, the female.
Speaker 1: They's just get annoying when people ask you question science. No, no,
Speaker 1: what because you're an engineer by trade?
Speaker 3: Yes, well, but also i'd like to consider myself now
Speaker 3: an educator.
Speaker 1: Yes, and yes, absolutely all of us already.
Speaker 3: You want to avoid man's planning. But there's two really
Speaker 3: common ones. But the big one now is are there aliens?
Speaker 1: Are there?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, there have to be respectfully completely.
Speaker 3: There's two hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone, and
Speaker 3: there may be ten times that many galaxies.
Speaker 1: People, what are the chances?
Speaker 3: How could they're not?
Speaker 1: Pretty selfish? The physics, so it's just it breaks all
Speaker 1: of our laws to be able to travel beyond the
Speaker 1: speed of light, right and so far so far? So
Speaker 1: it has to be the ability to wormhole it essentially
Speaker 1: right to get them here or they are to.
Speaker 3: Get aliens here. That's a whole another.
Speaker 1: Well, by our understanding of these so called well, that's
Speaker 1: it breaks the physics that well.
Speaker 3: No, but hold on to say that there are living
Speaker 3: things or self reproducing organisms elsewhere is one claim. To
Speaker 3: say they've come here in spacecraft and crashed is a
Speaker 3: whole another. And I can tell you, guys, I had
Speaker 3: very low level security clearance for why I worked on
Speaker 3: the spider plane.
Speaker 1: There is so much stuff flying around.
Speaker 3: I cannot even express to you the flying aroundness of
Speaker 3: flying around on the order of a million things flying around,
Speaker 3: certainly several hundred thousand things flying around. Here's one of
Speaker 3: my favorites.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Why don't they paint spy planes light blue so you
Speaker 3: couldn't see them against the blue sky?
Speaker 1: Why don't they do that? They do do that, and
Speaker 1: you can't see them.
Speaker 3: They're so small against the sky. It's just this rudimentary
Speaker 3: trick that just.
Speaker 1: Wow, there's just that much stuff up there that we
Speaker 1: don't have so much stuff. Well, you said, there's a
Speaker 1: few things that you get asked quite often. So one
Speaker 1: is are there aliens? Where are some other questions that
Speaker 1: Bill and I fans are constantly asking.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of stuff about.
Speaker 1: The earth, health health things.
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, I don't want to disparage any car brand.
Speaker 3: There is a dealership in Van Eys. There's a guy there,
Speaker 3: an associate this guy believes the Earth is flat. This
Speaker 3: actually just well and so this is somebody who went
Speaker 3: to high school in the US. Earth is not flat,
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 1: Prove it. It is a Yeah.
Speaker 3: It is a hard thing. And I came of age
Speaker 3: you guys when whack a Mole was a new game.
Speaker 3: But this is this is whack a mole. If you
Speaker 3: after you show him this, then that because the for
Speaker 3: this guy, the moon is round, Mars is round, Saturn's round.
Speaker 3: But somehow the Earth is flat, Like dude, it's it's
Speaker 3: a tough one, and uh, you know it is an
Speaker 3: extraordinary claim. When you're on the beach looking the ocean,
Speaker 3: the Earth looks pretty flat.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but then you zoom out and see a
Speaker 1: ship coming over the horizon. There you go.
Speaker 3: You know, Christopher Columbus is supposed to have done that
Speaker 3: where the ship disappears yet doesn't fall off the Earth.
Speaker 3: It's really an amazing thing, you guys, that ocean and
Speaker 3: the air are held on the Earth by gravity.
Speaker 1: Do do do do do do do?
Speaker 3: And still really no one knows exactly where gravity comes from.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because like what would happen if it just stopped
Speaker 1: one day, like drift into space. No, but I mean
Speaker 1: there's something to that. Yeah, it is what happened.
Speaker 3: So there's another question that everybody has asked. And I
Speaker 3: tell you, if you meet somebody who hasn't asked this question,
Speaker 3: they're lying to your face. There's no such thing as
Speaker 3: time because now is already in the past, and so
Speaker 3: like now, if I say now, well, then that's what
Speaker 3: that's was.
Speaker 1: It sounds like this dealership smokes a lot of weed.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a question that everybody is asked.
Speaker 1: Do you believe in like the the universal sync thing where,
Speaker 1: like you know, now, is the past passes the future,
Speaker 1: everything's all in one line linear time? Or is time?
Speaker 3: Actually well, so far, you guys, time seems to only
Speaker 3: be going one way. Uh, for us, you can't go
Speaker 3: back as far as anybody can tell. Yeah, there is
Speaker 3: a theory, and by that I mean a physics theory
Speaker 3: that you could build a time machine that would enable
Speaker 3: you to go back, but you couldn't go back any
Speaker 3: farther than when the time machine was built. Do you
Speaker 3: follow me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but still even that hasn't been shown to be true.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't be able to go back further? Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know that much more of the creation the time machine.
Speaker 2: If you could go back to a moment in your
Speaker 2: career that would predate this supposed time machine, what would
Speaker 2: it be.
Speaker 3: Wow, Well, they'd probably involve certain women and so on.
Speaker 3: That makes sense, but wish certain woman. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 3: tough one and I know you guys have dealt with
Speaker 3: that your whole careers and so so a moment in
Speaker 3: my career, Yeah, maybe, seriously, I would have maybe left
Speaker 3: Seattle sooner. Seattle saved my life. I love Seattle. I'd
Speaker 3: love to go back Seattle, visit my friends and stuff.
Speaker 3: But there's a period there where I was really trying
Speaker 3: to get on with the next thing. And maybe that's
Speaker 3: you can't go back people, it's not an option.
Speaker 1: That's the learn and who we probably would be sitting
Speaker 1: with Steve Guy, the science guy. Yeah, well Steve Guy,
Speaker 1: Steve Steve Martin, and Steve.
Speaker 3: Steve Martin embraces science, you know, he did that whole Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just I love that his documentary is really fantastic.
Speaker 3: I love that documentary.
Speaker 1: That So I have some questions from some people that
Speaker 1: would love to ask them, and I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: them for them. So this is mark AI is becoming
Speaker 1: such a huge part of everyday life, ironic. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that excites you about it? Or should we all
Speaker 1: just be genuinely be worried.
Speaker 3: Two things genuinely excite me about artificial intelligence. So the
Speaker 3: first thing, artificial diligence RUSH circles greet me. It's going
Speaker 3: to write my term paper and they're going to realize
Speaker 3: I didn't write it. By Okay, that's all good, that
Speaker 3: all sounds great. Yeah, but tell me shirt, I don't
Speaker 3: mean to trivialize it. That's really important where people can't
Speaker 3: think for themselves and so on. But two specific things
Speaker 3: I'm very excited about. The first one is agriculture. When
Speaker 3: I went to the World's Fair in nineteen sixty five
Speaker 3: in New York, New York, the town's so nice they
Speaker 3: named it twice. There were three billion people in the world.
Speaker 3: They had a United Nations had a total board, Total
Speaker 3: Board scoreboard. Now there are almost nine there's eight and
Speaker 3: a half billion people, and we're feeding them somehow. But
Speaker 3: I believe we could make more efficient farm crops and
Speaker 3: more efficient grains, more efficient. Everybody loves corn, but more
Speaker 3: efficient crops, and we would make them drought tolerant, flood tolerant,
Speaker 3: even weather tolerant.
Speaker 1: Where they don't blow over windstorms.
Speaker 3: Right, And we would do that by using artificial intelligence
Speaker 3: to make a genome of a crop of sway that
Speaker 3: would be more robust than what we have now and
Speaker 3: feed more people.
Speaker 1: Would we grow it on Earth? Yeah, because we're run
Speaker 1: out of space, so like, how do we how do
Speaker 1: we have growing stuff in space?
Speaker 3: Is a hassle. Earth is great, And I remind people
Speaker 3: farming is not natural. If you stop farming, it goes
Speaker 3: back to some other thing. So just accept that we
Speaker 3: are running the show here on Earth. Is not a gig.
Speaker 3: We audition for we are in charge of the Earth.
Speaker 3: Humans are running it. We have to make good decisions
Speaker 3: about the Earth. Everybody vote, don't make me come over there.
Speaker 3: And if you're too young to vote, make sure the
Speaker 3: grown ups in your life vote and have insist that
Speaker 3: they vote with the climate of mind. That's the first thing.
Speaker 3: Second thing, everybody, what are we doing. We're on an
Speaker 3: electric podcast. We all have electric phones. I came here
Speaker 3: an electric car. Electricity is the key to our future
Speaker 3: is having energy for everyone. If we had unlimited electricity,
Speaker 3: we could change the world and so you're in your
Speaker 3: lifetime of your kids. We are almost certainly going to
Speaker 3: harness fusion. There are so many organizations working.
Speaker 1: On fusion fusion reactors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so not splitting big atoms like have uranium or thorium,
Speaker 3: having them fall apart, release the weak a heat of
Speaker 3: the weak atomic force, instead smashing protons for example, together
Speaker 3: overcoming the so called strong atomic force, releasing heat and light,
Speaker 3: capturing the heat. Running a turbine, a steam turbine making electricity?
Speaker 1: Is that the collider a collider? Yes?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 1: What that is? That would be yes? And so there's
Speaker 1: so many different.
Speaker 3: Schemes going on. So here's been the problem in the collider, okay,
Speaker 3: is containing these particles that are going near the speed
Speaker 3: of light, going very so called high temperature, containing them
Speaker 3: with a magnetic field. So this is a plasma. Are
Speaker 3: we down with a plasma? A plasma is like a gas,
Speaker 3: but all the electrons are like off on their own,
Speaker 3: like doing their own thing, and so it's very hard
Speaker 3: to manage. But I think with an artificial intelligence, computer
Speaker 3: driven system, you'll not only be able to contain the
Speaker 3: plasma where it is, but anticipate where it's going to fly.
Speaker 3: The old saying that I didn't make up. It's like
Speaker 3: trying to handle jello with chopsticks, challenging.
Speaker 1: That's a great stake. I didn't make it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's very reasonable to me that artificial intelligence
Speaker 3: computer gizmo could manage a magnetic field well enough to
Speaker 3: smash these things together on Earth in a big building,
Speaker 3: make a lot of heat, make steam, run a windmill
Speaker 3: going backwards, and move magnets and make a make electricity.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 3: If we had unlimited electricity, Oh my goodness. What is
Speaker 3: the ultimate goal? Everybody, fathers of women girls? Is to
Speaker 3: raise the standard of living of women and girls. When
Speaker 3: you raise the standard of living of women and girls,
Speaker 3: everybody is better off. The old thank you think, But
Speaker 3: I didn't make this up, you guys, it's not my idea.
Speaker 3: But you know the old saying happy women and girls,
Speaker 3: happy life. Somebody goes something like that. Yeah, I paraphrase.
Speaker 3: And so for that, Uncle Bill says, we want clean water,
Speaker 3: access to the internet because that gives everybody the chance
Speaker 3: to get education. The Internet's not perfect, but it gives
Speaker 3: everybody in the world chance to get education. And for
Speaker 3: that we need renewable reliable electricity back to you.
Speaker 1: Wow, fantastic, A great answers. I definitely agree that AI
Speaker 1: is more of is a tool, and yeah, exactly, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna run out of energy trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Kevin has been using AI recently to create apps. And
Speaker 1: who writes all your songs? No? No, no, no, definitely
Speaker 1: not just hits, just the hits strictly the hits, the
Speaker 1: ones we sell. Actually, speaking of that, is there a
Speaker 1: science to music that like, obviously frequencies are important. We've
Speaker 1: got you go all the way back. When did you
Speaker 1: guys start playing guitars and stuff? Thirteen was when I
Speaker 1: picked up really yeah? Did you play the piano before that?
Speaker 1: I did not.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. You guys are like freaking prodigy.
Speaker 1: He started younger. Yeah, it was about eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, eight, that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a mandate from our parents have said
Speaker 2: eight years old, you gotta play now.
Speaker 3: But you just picked that up and thought it was cool.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was doing musical theater before that, New York is
Speaker 2: a theater kid.
Speaker 1: And then I started, you know, playing instruments soon after that.
Speaker 3: Because I never picked it up and I'm around, Look everybody,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you. I've tried to play the guitar.
Speaker 1: Get get the banjo and your Steve Martin routine.
Speaker 3: No, it's all fake. Okay, No one can hold the
Speaker 3: string down against the frat without touching the other string.
Speaker 3: You're not kidding me, and I know you, not exactly.
Speaker 3: I'm fine with it. I've come to terms with it. No,
Speaker 3: it is impressive. So apparently dogs respond to octaves when
Speaker 3: you double the frequency, dogs know it?
Speaker 1: And what's the pentameter thing? When there's five notes and
Speaker 1: people can figure pop music? The theory of music is
Speaker 1: lost on us.
Speaker 3: Heck it is he it is. No, you guys are amazing,
Speaker 3: so sorry, respectfully, and I have rocked out to sucker
Speaker 3: quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Me is the one.
Speaker 3: I mean in cake by the Ocean, which makes perfect
Speaker 3: sense anybody.
Speaker 1: From kids up to your grandmother making you a homemade meal. Okay, Kevin,
Speaker 1: what's your question about science related to music? I was
Speaker 1: just saying, is there is there science you want to know?
Speaker 1: Is there science related music? For baby making music? It
Speaker 1: always comes back to second, it does. I was trying
Speaker 1: to ask this a while Agoes and Kevin was like
Speaker 1: fangirling and started asking much a question about it. I
Speaker 1: just want to know. That was Mark's question, that wasn't
Speaker 1: even mine. Okay, you know if there's if there's a
Speaker 1: relation there, like you know because you said, well, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of books about this, but music related? Is there?
Speaker 1: Is it particular music being played? Help with I don't know,
Speaker 1: help with what exactly science behind it, the reproductive part
Speaker 1: or the experience like open ended question there.
Speaker 3: So take it, take it understanding. And this was a
Speaker 3: joke I heard very recently. The young rooster is walk
Speaker 3: through the barnhard barn.
Speaker 1: He's walking through the barnhard.
Speaker 3: Perhaps he is, and well done.
Speaker 1: There's the expression Freudian slip.
Speaker 3: Perhaps there it was.
Speaker 1: But he's doing jazz.
Speaker 3: Scat singing right nice. There's no hens around him. He's
Speaker 3: not a Jonas rooster. But then the older rooster comes
Speaker 3: in the barn. Now he's got all these hens. He's
Speaker 3: got it going on hen wise because and the young
Speaker 3: rooster says to him, well, what's your secret?
Speaker 1: Says you got to sing the standards. That's what the
Speaker 1: rooster says, hit like satn doll world on a string.
Speaker 3: I get a kick out of you. That's how that's
Speaker 3: how you get your hens. So that's I'm of a
Speaker 3: certain age. That sort of Frank Sinatra style stuff can
Speaker 3: be very effective. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You make me feel so young, that's it.
Speaker 3: You make me feel A song to be sung, A
Speaker 3: wonderful fling to be flung. That is a freaking lyric.
Speaker 1: It's a fantastic song that every morning when you.
Speaker 3: Have what music do you guys listen to to get
Speaker 3: reed besides your own?
Speaker 1: I play that song? Oh? Is that why? It popped
Speaker 1: into your head? And I was just yeah, kind of
Speaker 1: is there? You mean to be reed in the bedroom?
Speaker 1: Or no playlist? I can't hear you. I've got a playlist.
Speaker 1: What's your playlist? A sex time playlist? Yeah, for sex
Speaker 1: time play Yeah, what's on that? It's all her favorite music?
Speaker 1: How many kids do you have? Your two?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Five more? Yeah, all of her favorite music. You said
Speaker 1: that her favorite band is D n C. So you're
Speaker 1: on there. I'm on your sex playlist. No, that was
Speaker 1: not going to happen. It's like Michael Bubl It's like
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Yeah, that kind of stuff. See,
Speaker 1: he gets it. It's the standards, the standards. The older
Speaker 1: rooster of the roosters, we have more fan questions. This
Speaker 1: one's from Laura.
Speaker 2: She says, Bill, I have to imagine your brain must
Speaker 2: be constantly working.
Speaker 3: Yes, such a fact, ever.
Speaker 2: Actually quiet or you always analyze in questioning and trying
Speaker 2: to solve something in the background.
Speaker 3: Answer is absolutely without question sort of, Yeah, I'm always
Speaker 3: thinking about something. I'll tell you what I'm not thinking
Speaker 3: about much is riding a bike. When I'm riding, I
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time on blesses. Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 3: not thinking about laughing well. And also for me as
Speaker 3: a kid, you could just travel so far on a
Speaker 3: bike compared to walking or running. It's amazing. And these god,
Speaker 3: these modern racers are going thirty five forty miles an
Speaker 3: hour all day anyway. So most of the time my
Speaker 3: mind is going. I am not hipped anybody who says
Speaker 3: the mind isn't going. And speaking of code breaking and
Speaker 3: my mother, yes, one of the people in charge was
Speaker 3: Bill Friedman, and he encouraged all the code breakers crypt
Speaker 3: analysts to stop once in a while because you're the
Speaker 3: back of your mind is still working the problem. And
Speaker 3: I'll bet you guys as songwriters, right, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna name drop actually because we're working on some music
Speaker 3: here and we were I was walking outside working on
Speaker 3: something in the back of my mind, as you said,
Speaker 3: taking a break, and ran into John Mayer outside. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: I was just like working the problem, like thinking about
Speaker 3: the music, and he's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do that. There's a bathroom that if you
Speaker 1: go to that bathroom you always figure out the second
Speaker 1: verse in the building, and that's where it is in
Speaker 1: this building. In this building.
Speaker 3: Wow, you have to go.
Speaker 1: Now or no, I'm good right now. You already did that.
Speaker 1: One last question for you from Jordan Science Guy was
Speaker 1: on TV today. What's something you've learned to just or
Speaker 1: discovered since the show has ended that you'd love to
Speaker 1: do an episode.
Speaker 3: On genetically modified organisms? Since you asked crops, I would
Speaker 3: do more on that.
Speaker 1: We'll see another season of Bill Night. Well, I saw
Speaker 1: Telly you.
Speaker 3: We always have a project. We always have a big
Speaker 3: so we use in my family we use a verb
Speaker 3: to Bill Friedman the way, so the show would be
Speaker 3: called Bill's House and I would be in my house
Speaker 3: and then kids would come over, Oh hi Bill, Hi kids.
Speaker 3: Well today everything on the kitchen counter is about thermidynamics.
Speaker 1: What are the chances?
Speaker 3: And then look we go over here to the garage.
Speaker 3: This is about thermidamics. Wow, who knew the garden thermidadamics
Speaker 3: for example. So this is a project that we my
Speaker 3: writing buddies and I are working on. And then I asked,
Speaker 3: how I'm doing another book. We're always doing a book.
Speaker 3: So have you guys ever visited Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Speaker 3: It's a website, a todd we call it. So it's
Speaker 3: a NASA are these two astronomers that publish what they
Speaker 3: feel is a cool astronomy picture every day? And every
Speaker 3: few years NASA publishes a book of the pictures cool Wow.
Speaker 3: And Corey Pallaguy I've written with for a minute years.
Speaker 3: He and I are doing the next one, and it's
Speaker 3: all we're almost done. It's almost done. So that'll come
Speaker 3: out next spring on Earth Day, and so it'll be
Speaker 3: probably one hundred and eight astronomy pictures of the day
Speaker 3: that we think are especially compelling, with our own brilliant,
Speaker 3: insightful comments about each picture.
Speaker 1: Love that, so it's cool.
Speaker 3: Everybody loves astronomy. I was talking to my people, my
Speaker 3: family some of the first time I saw the moon
Speaker 3: through a telescope. Do you remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I saw the moon the telescope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And do you remember the first time you saw
Speaker 3: Saturn through a telescope?
Speaker 1: I didn't get that far. You will, everybody.
Speaker 3: When you see Saturn through a telescope, it just doesn't
Speaker 3: look real. It's just you're joking me.
Speaker 1: It's not. It just looks like there's like it doesn't
Speaker 1: what you say, He goes, it's well, it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not real. It's not round.
Speaker 3: And so people say, you know, you'll you guys, you'll
Speaker 3: be there. You'll be at some star party.
Speaker 1: Please invite us to your next star party. I want
Speaker 1: to go to a star party. One more plug.
Speaker 3: For the Planetary Society. Check us out at planetary dot org,
Speaker 3: world's largest independent space interest organization advancing the scientific exploration
Speaker 3: of space so that people everywhere will know the Cosmos
Speaker 3: in our place within at elevator, doors closed, it's time
Speaker 3: to wrap this podcast right. Check us out at planetary
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Speaker 1: We have star parties.
Speaker 2: I love a star party. Bill and you are the best.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being on the pod.
Speaker 1: Thank you for our childhood and many others that listen
Speaker 1: and watch our podcast. We're going to leave you with
Speaker 1: this watching this video and viewers at home. This is
Speaker 1: the video of that blew my mind when I was
Speaker 1: a huge fan of the show. Obviously still am, but
Speaker 1: this video I wanted to recreate but I could never
Speaker 1: find it. But now be it based on the internet.
Speaker 1: That's Matthew and this is my favorite at home experiments
Speaker 1: on the show Fifty Employees. It's a good one. Vinegar
Speaker 1: and add a little bit of baking server.
Speaker 3: That fizzing is carbon dioxide gas coming off.
Speaker 1: Even though it's invisible, you can still pour it, just
Speaker 1: like you pour water or milk. This bloom in my mind.
Speaker 1: It gets me every time. You guys, he's not pouring
Speaker 1: the liquid, he's pouring the gas. Look at that woo.
Speaker 1: Gas is heavier than the air, and the bake on
Speaker 1: this end goes down.
Speaker 3: FA.
Speaker 1: Thank you the passion, beauty.
Speaker 3: Enjoy you guys, the PB and J. You don't have
Speaker 3: to take Matthew's word for it or my word for it.
Speaker 3: You can do it yourself. Pour carbon oxide gas. And
Speaker 3: I like to remind people that in the US Constitution,
Speaker 3: now available in paperback, Article one, Section eight, Clause eight,
Speaker 3: Congress shall promote the progress of science and useful arts.
Speaker 3: Science is how the United States got to where it is.
Speaker 3: Everybody in the world use This is the world word. Okay,
Speaker 3: everybody respects NASA, everybody respects the scientific achievements of the
Speaker 3: United States. A lot of other people have done wonderful things,
Speaker 3: but this idea is remarkable. We are living at a
Speaker 3: remarkable time. Everybody. Please vote, vote, vote.
Speaker 1: Thanks you guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, you guys, this is so cool.