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So, Indrae, back in August, I saw a really inspiring talk. You know how there's a lot of bad talks?

This was the opposite. It was amazing. I was up in Maine at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory,

and the person who gave the great talk was Sylvia Earle. She's not just a scientist, but she's an

explorer of the world's oceans. And she also has these amazing sound bites in her talks.

One of them was, you know, I think that no left behind policy has merit, but I think it should be

no child left dry. They should all be made the swim. So she got people laughing, but then she,

by the end, she had him close to crying, you know, she's sort of this freight train once she gets

going and she kind of bowls you over with the power of her message about why we have to save the planet.

So when we were going to launch this show, I knew I had to have her. We finally made this happen

several weeks back. And so I had what I think is a pretty fascinating and inspiring conversation

with her. And here's a little bit of a preview of the conversation.

People such as I who've been around more than a few decades are witnesses to change.

I didn't read much of what I feel that I now know in books.

I've experienced the change personally.

I've seen the sky who's once darkened with birds now empty because

the birds are gone. I've been to Carl Rees where there was Carl, Carl, gone. The fish once

abundant, now diminished markedly, and it's happened in my lifetime where I am witness.

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