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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to part two of our special two-part interview with Alan Alda.

His new science series, The Human Spark, airs on PBS stations over the next few weeks, with episodes two and three, debuting January 13th and January 20th. In this segment, we talk about Alda's experiences as a fictional surgeon, a real patient, and an amateur scientist. Some of the other Siam staffers sat in on the discussion.

The two other voices you'll hear are our art director, Ed Bell, and news editor, Phil

Yam.

Can you tell the story of how you got so sick in Chile and what happened there?

Yeah, yeah.

It's interesting.

I think about this very often.

Almost, well, every day would be too much to say, but I think about it almost every day.

Six years ago, I was in Chile doing scientific American frontiers on top of a mountain.

We were interviewing astronomers at an observatory on Sere Tololo, just a few miles outside the town of Lacedena, which is not one of the biggest cities in the world.

And I got this incredible cramp in my stomach, and I didn't know what it was.

I thought maybe it was something I had eaten the day before, but it got worse and worse and worse.

I was waiting to go on for the last interview of the 10th year of the show.

So we were going to be done with the whole thing in a few minutes.

By the time I went in there, I was doubled over with pain, and we just barely got through it.

If you look at that interview, I'm all green.

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