Speaker 1: I worked on trying to be funny, and I've had
Speaker 1: a lot of people come up to me over the
Speaker 1: last thirty years and say, hey, I want to do
Speaker 1: what you did. I want to do science that's fun
Speaker 1: and makes you lou Every day, every day I learned
Speaker 1: something that just fills me with joy what I call
Speaker 1: the JOD in English the joy of discovery, and it's
Speaker 1: the PB and J which is peanut, butter and jelly,
Speaker 1: but it's also the passion, beauty and joy of science.
Speaker 1: I love it. Hi, I'm Bill Nye and this is
Speaker 1: the Lingo Kids Growing Up podcast. Stick around. We're going
Speaker 1: to have fun with science.
Speaker 2: That's none other than Bill Nye. You may know him
Speaker 2: from his work on TV. He made it his goal
Speaker 2: to share his love of science and learning to kids
Speaker 2: and grown ups alike.
Speaker 3: Basically, he's well, he's the.
Speaker 2: Science guy and on top of it all, a man
Speaker 2: with excellent.
Speaker 3: Taste in bow tyes.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Growing Up, a Lingo Kids podcast that helps
Speaker 2: kids discover how to be whatever they want to be.
Speaker 2: Join us on an adventure to unravel the secrets behind
Speaker 2: the coolest skills and hobbies and the people who followed
Speaker 2: their dreams Today Luisa and I will explore the wonders
Speaker 2: of science and how we can teach others about the
Speaker 2: fascinating ways our world works.
Speaker 3: And it starts in a beehive.
Speaker 4: On a day like any other. At go forward, lambs,
Speaker 4: Emily and Louis buzz into a wild adventure. They are
Speaker 4: no longer our good old hosts, but bees, yues, bees
Speaker 4: with wings stripes and a super important mission and super
Speaker 4: slow mo cameras to capture every tiny detail along the way.
Speaker 5: Well, Emily, I see the daisy we were looking for.
Speaker 5: Can you buzz in with our landing orders?
Speaker 2: Well, Louise, since the bee yourself machine works so well,
Speaker 2: you bet I can buzz in.
Speaker 3: I'm a bee just like you.
Speaker 5: After all, Good one, Emily, we have some pretty cool wings. Now.
Speaker 5: Oh hi, Queen bee huh? I always wanted to say,
Speaker 5: Heart of the Queen. She really is a busy bee today,
Speaker 5: Yes she is? Okay, Emily, mission recap. We're here because
Speaker 5: we were watching Bill Love the Science Guy on TV
Speaker 5: earlier today and he said something that made me go.
Speaker 1: What believe it or not? They had this item that said,
Speaker 1: according to aerynamic theory, bees cannot fly not fly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not really true, is it.
Speaker 5: Of course it's not true. I mean, look at us.
Speaker 5: I can fly just fine.
Speaker 3: Ooh, I have an idea.
Speaker 2: I can record you on our super slow mo cam
Speaker 2: and we can find out. Try it, Emily recording and
Speaker 2: three two one fly around, Luis.
Speaker 5: Way, Why you got that, Emily?
Speaker 3: Yep, got it just right, Emily.
Speaker 5: I was just wondering, what's a rodynamics aerodynamics?
Speaker 3: Well, it's basically rules.
Speaker 2: That explain how both airplanes and birds fly, how the
Speaker 2: air moves around their bodies and their wings so that
Speaker 2: they can lift up and up and up and up
Speaker 2: into the air.
Speaker 5: But then, why do people say that bees can't fly
Speaker 5: if we can actually see bees fly?
Speaker 2: Oh right, that's a question that we can answer through observation, Luis.
Speaker 2: I think we can use our video to find out
Speaker 2: why some people say bees don't really fly.
Speaker 4: Attention be simulation ending interview incoming. Sorry to be such
Speaker 4: a buzzkill.
Speaker 5: Well what's going on, Emily? What happened?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I forgot.
Speaker 2: I set the Bee Yourself machine to take us out
Speaker 2: in time for our interview with Bill Nye.
Speaker 3: I got the video just in time.
Speaker 5: We're talking to Bill Nye. The science guy. No way,
Speaker 5: I should put on my bow tie just like him.
Speaker 5: But I hope I can get an answer to this.
Speaker 5: Bees cannot fly sing? You should try.
Speaker 2: Bill is the right person to ask about all things science.
Speaker 2: He is such an amazing guy. Did I tell you
Speaker 2: that I worked with him on TV?
Speaker 5: Oh? You did? Does he really always wear a bow tie?
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever seen him without one? But yes,
Speaker 2: I was a correspondent for his show, Bill Nye Saves
Speaker 2: the world. And you know what makes him truly special,
Speaker 2: luis what Not only does he know about science, he's
Speaker 2: also a science communicator, someone who knows how to speak
Speaker 2: about science well to everyone.
Speaker 5: Wow. Does that mean he's like a teacher more or less?
Speaker 2: Yes, But outside of school, he's a teacher on TV
Speaker 2: and on radio and on the internet.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to talk to him. Let's go then.
Speaker 2: Welcome to our growing up talking game show, and today
Speaker 2: we are delighted to be joined by everyone's favorite science communicator,
Speaker 2: Bill Nye.
Speaker 5: Hi, Bill, I'm so glad to meet you. Emily and
Speaker 5: Lewis Phil I'm going right in. I have a super
Speaker 5: important question. What do you know about bees?
Speaker 1: I remember very well. I got stung by.
Speaker 5: A bee ooh ouch.
Speaker 1: And then following on in the Washington Post newspaper they
Speaker 1: had a Sunday feature called Ripley's Believe It or Not,
Speaker 1: and then Ripley's Believe It or Not they had this
Speaker 1: or this item that said, according to aerodynamic theory, bees
Speaker 1: cannot fly.
Speaker 5: Yes, I heard you say that on your TV show today.
Speaker 1: As a kid, I remember thinking that can't be right.
Speaker 1: The bees are flying. The problem has got to be
Speaker 1: with the theory.
Speaker 2: Oh, just like us, let's write that down, Luis. Maybe
Speaker 2: we need to look at the problem differently.
Speaker 5: The problem's got to be with the theory.
Speaker 1: The bee staying led to me just watching bees. I
Speaker 1: watched bees and I realized that not everything grown ups
Speaker 1: tell you is true. That was I talk about this
Speaker 1: from time behind, because that really was inspirational for me, Like,
Speaker 1: you can do your own investigation. You don't have to
Speaker 1: take grown up's word for it.
Speaker 5: I knew it. We got to do our own investigation
Speaker 5: with the bees. Emily agreed.
Speaker 2: Science is about being curious, asking questions and looking for answers,
Speaker 2: and that's my favorite part of it too. This and
Speaker 2: making experiments.
Speaker 3: By the way, did you know that there are different
Speaker 3: types of scientists.
Speaker 5: Yes, like scientists to study.
Speaker 2: Stars, yes, astronomers, other study animals, zoologists.
Speaker 5: Yes, and many other cool stuff. Bill, What kind of
Speaker 5: science person did you want to be growing up?
Speaker 1: I became a mechanical engineer because I like airplanes and bicycles.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's really the thing, that's really what got
Speaker 1: me into it is science. Engineering is using science to
Speaker 1: make stuff and solve problem.
Speaker 2: Yes, as a fellow engineer, and that's what I love
Speaker 2: the most about it. But Bill, something I love about
Speaker 2: your work on TV is how you make science entertaining
Speaker 2: and funny.
Speaker 3: How did you learn to do all that?
Speaker 1: I mean, as the youngest kid in my family, I
Speaker 1: have an older brother, older sister, you become extroverted. You
Speaker 1: try to get attention. You're the last to come along,
Speaker 1: and you try to you make funny faces. You concentrate
Speaker 1: on things that make grown ups laugh. It was reinforced.
Speaker 1: If you said something funny, that was good. And so
Speaker 1: later in life, I was a professional joke writer.
Speaker 5: You were a professional joke writer too. Wow.
Speaker 1: I worked on it. I worked on trying to be funny.
Speaker 1: And I've had a lot of people come up to
Speaker 1: me over the last thirty years and say hey, I
Speaker 1: want to do what you did. I want I want
Speaker 1: to do science that's fun and makes you laugh.
Speaker 2: Bill, You've done so much cool stuff over the years.
Speaker 2: You worked on TV and helped design the airplanes we
Speaker 2: fly today. I just want to show everyone You've marked
Speaker 2: generations of people all over the world and all out
Speaker 2: of love for science.
Speaker 5: Wow. I want to help people love science too, Emily.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a beautiful thing to do.
Speaker 5: I just want to know, now, Bill, what makes you
Speaker 5: love science so much.
Speaker 1: Science is the way that we learn about nature. It's
Speaker 1: where we observe things in the universe, wonder about why
Speaker 1: they're happening.
Speaker 5: And how do you do science? Bill?
Speaker 1: Come up with an idea? What the word is hypothesis,
Speaker 1: which means idea underneath, the underneath, idea for why something happens.
Speaker 2: Wait, hypo what hypothesis?
Speaker 3: The word hypothesis.
Speaker 2: Actually comes from ancient Greece, where a scientists did some
Speaker 2: of the first recorded experiments.
Speaker 5: Oh, I see, so, Bill, what do you do after
Speaker 5: you have a hypothesis?
Speaker 1: Then we create a test or an experiment, and then
Speaker 1: run the experiment, run the test, and compare what we
Speaker 1: thought would happen, what actually did at and then start.
Speaker 5: Over hypothesis, test, experiment, then test, and then experiments and compare. Huh.
Speaker 5: Sounds like a lot of work, but also like trying to.
Speaker 2: Be the game, and that's what drives the world's best scientists,
Speaker 2: such as yourself. Bill, You've had an amazing career, of course,
Speaker 2: but were you ever worried that, well, you wouldn't make.
Speaker 1: It constantly, continually all the time.
Speaker 5: Really, but you look so confident on TV.
Speaker 1: I took the risk and I don't regret it. And
Speaker 1: you may have heard this expression. People don't regret what
Speaker 1: they do. They regret what they don't do. So go for.
Speaker 2: It, Bill, Motivational skills are just as awesome as your
Speaker 2: cool bow ties.
Speaker 5: So Bill, what should I do if I want to
Speaker 5: go for it and be a science communicator?
Speaker 1: Take stuff apart, try things, and if you make a
Speaker 1: mess trying things, be sure to clean it up. Otherwise
Speaker 1: the grown ups in your life will not let you try.
Speaker 5: Take things apart and make a mess. I'm loving these
Speaker 5: tips so far.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the best discoveries happen when you take things apart
Speaker 2: and look at them piece by piece to see how.
Speaker 1: They work, and then in the kitchen is where you
Speaker 1: can learn a lot about how materials work cooking. When
Speaker 1: you cook things, you see how temperature effects chemicals.
Speaker 5: Huh, now that you mention it. The kitchen is like
Speaker 5: a science lab tasty experiments.
Speaker 2: You should see my kitchen when I'm in my experiment mood. Yes,
Speaker 2: times you do have to make a mess and play
Speaker 2: around with stuff to find your next discovery.
Speaker 5: And speaking of playing, Emily is a game show time?
Speaker 3: You got it?
Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to our game show with the
Speaker 2: fabulous Bill Nye Luise.
Speaker 3: What are we playing today today?
Speaker 5: It's trivia time. Bill. I have a few fun sciencey
Speaker 5: questions for you. Ready to try to answer them?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see. Le's go, let's go, Let's go.
Speaker 5: It's great, awesome, okay. Question one, almost the first food
Speaker 5: eaten by an American astronaut in space was it a
Speaker 5: mac and cheese, B, apple sauce or C vanilla ice cream?
Speaker 1: It was apple sauce. I say that because it would
Speaker 1: fit in a tube like toothpaste.
Speaker 5: That's correct. Astronaut John glenn Ate a tube of apple
Speaker 5: sauce in his space mission in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 3: And do you know why it was in a tube.
Speaker 5: Louise, m oh, because things float around in space. I
Speaker 5: guess it would get pretty messy if it were in
Speaker 5: a bowl or something.
Speaker 3: Yes, you got it all right.
Speaker 5: Next question question two, Bill, which are the following things
Speaker 5: that grow on trees can be used to predict weather?
Speaker 5: A pine cones, B oranges or C. Figs?
Speaker 1: I think a pine cone. When they open up, that's
Speaker 1: when it's getting warm.
Speaker 5: You're right. Pine cones open up when the day is dry,
Speaker 5: and they close when it's about to rain. That's why
Speaker 5: they can help predict rainfall.
Speaker 3: You're going to roll today, Bill.
Speaker 1: You guys, I didn't know the answer is. This is
Speaker 1: based on my lifelong experience. Back to you.
Speaker 2: I knew you'd do great bell Okay, Next question, Louise.
Speaker 5: Question three, Which of these animals has the largest brain? A? Elephants, B,
Speaker 5: silver backed gorillas or C. Sperm whales.
Speaker 1: The sperm whale. They have huge brain. They're houch.
Speaker 5: Correct again, sperm whales have the largest brain in the
Speaker 5: animal world. I wonder if sperm whales can get a
Speaker 5: brain freeze.
Speaker 3: We have to feed them ice cream to find out.
Speaker 5: Maybe that can be our next experiment.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I'm sure Wales wouldn't mind trying some Rocky Road
Speaker 2: ice cream. Bill, We had so much fun. Any final
Speaker 2: thoughts you'd like to share before we let you go.
Speaker 1: Well, I love science because it's how we learn about
Speaker 1: the world. It's how we learn about what I like
Speaker 1: to call our place in space, our place on this planet,
Speaker 1: going around this star, in this galaxy, part of this
Speaker 1: universe and cosmos. And every day, every day, I learned
Speaker 1: something that just fills me with joy, what I call
Speaker 1: the JOD in English, the joy of discovery, and it's
Speaker 1: the p B and JA which is peanut, butter and jelly,
Speaker 1: but it's also the passion, beauty and joy of science.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's beautiful, Bill.
Speaker 2: We're all part of the universe, and the stars that
Speaker 2: are in space are also inside us too. Those are
Speaker 2: the same reasons I love science. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for being with.
Speaker 3: Us here today. So, Louis, what did you learn from Bill?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: I want that to do science, you have to make
Speaker 5: a mess and clean it up. And I also learned
Speaker 5: that we're made of stars and that grown ups we're
Speaker 5: wrong about bees.
Speaker 2: Excellent, And speaking of bees, let's go back to our mission,
Speaker 2: shall we. So Louis, are you ready to.
Speaker 3: Solve the question that's been buzzing in our minds? I
Speaker 3: am excellent. Let's recap. What question did we want to answer?
Speaker 5: It's how come bees can fly if science says they're
Speaker 5: not supposed to exactly?
Speaker 2: For many years, science weren't sure how they could fly
Speaker 2: if they had such small wings compared to the rest
Speaker 2: of their body.
Speaker 5: I don't know, Emily. When I change into a bee,
Speaker 5: the wings on my back felt pretty large, like like
Speaker 5: the size of my arms.
Speaker 2: You're right, but let's think of birds. Bird wings are
Speaker 2: usually much larger compared to the rest of their body.
Speaker 5: Oh, so the reason science people thought bees couldn't fly
Speaker 5: was because they thought only birds could fly bingo.
Speaker 2: Yes, but let's figure it out for ourselves. Let's check
Speaker 2: out the video I took with our super slow motion cam.
Speaker 5: Yes, let's do it. I want to see what a
Speaker 5: bee looks like in slow.
Speaker 3: Mo activating slow motion view.
Speaker 5: Oh, Emily, the wings don't move up and down like birds.
Speaker 5: They're moving back and forth.
Speaker 3: You got it. That's what helps bees be in the air.
Speaker 2: Both birds and bees can fly, they just fly in
Speaker 2: their own ways.
Speaker 5: So that's why science is so important. We need to
Speaker 5: ask questions like do bees fly or not? Then make
Speaker 5: a wait, Emily, what was that Greek word again?
Speaker 3: Hypothesis?
Speaker 5: Yes, a hypothesis.
Speaker 2: Our hypothesis was bees fly. But there must be something
Speaker 2: there that we're not seeing.
Speaker 5: And then we want experiments and try to test it.
Speaker 3: So we filmed bees flying.
Speaker 5: And that's how we learn new things that bees fly
Speaker 5: but not like birds fly.
Speaker 2: And since science can sometimes be super specific and with
Speaker 2: big words, that's where science communicators like Bill and I
Speaker 2: come in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, science communicators make it easy for people to fall
Speaker 5: in love with science and have fun with it.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: By the way, all this talk about science makes me
Speaker 2: want to go get something to drink.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking bobait are you in?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, please, and I want my Boba Ti with honey.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on this episode of Growing Up.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed learning about how fun science can
Speaker 2: be and why it's so important to be curious and
Speaker 2: observe the world around us. Remember a little listener, dream big,
Speaker 2: and always stay curious.
Speaker 5: Luis, are you.
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Speaker 5: There's more?
Speaker 3: Yep, there is loads.
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