Bill Nye Is on ‘F*cking Fire!’

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bill Nye (The Science Guy!) checks in this week to talk about his podcast (Science Rules!) and help preview next week’s Climate Crisis Town Hall event on CNN, which will feature the top 10 Democratic presidential primary candidates. Bill also looks back on his shout-fest “interview” with Fox News host Tucker Carlson and the catharsis of screaming obscenities about the warming planet on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh.
0:03.7	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast and I'm here today with the man who people of my generation will always know as the science guy, Bill Nye.
0:11.8	Greetings, Matt. Greetings. Welcome, Bill. How's it going?
0:15.8	Fabulously.
0:16.6	Good. You're a podcast pro now.
0:19.1	Oh, yeah. Are you kidding?
0:20.5	Yeah. How's it going, yeah. Are you kidding? Yeah.
0:21.5	How's it going?
0:22.0	The podcast.
0:23.9	No, science rules.
0:24.9	Science rules.
0:28.0	Science rules is a podcast about science.
0:31.0	And science rules is something I've said for many years.
0:34.3	It is the best idea humans have ever had.
0:35.1	That's my claim. But the idea is to get experts on to engage us on topics of
0:41.5	great interest. Yeah. Are you enjoying it? Oh yeah. Radio is the most visual medium. No, I really,
0:47.7	I really enjoy it. I mean, you know, people talk about this. You can show up in your fuzzy slippers.
0:53.5	Yeah, absolutely.
0:54.4	But there's so much you get from somebody's voice, so much emotion.
0:59.1	Yeah.
1:00.0	It's interesting.
1:00.8	The podcast is a little different from others because you have callers, which is unusual for a podcast.
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