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The Sporkful

Bill Nye, The FOOD Science Guy!

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bill Nye is a goofball nerd to the core, and he’s built a career on making science fun and accessible for everyone. So can Bill give Dan some satisfying answers to big, and small, food science questions? Like what’s the deal with the five second rule?

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0:00.0

Your mom was a code breaker in World War II.

0:05.4

So it is said.

0:06.5

And like what?

0:07.4

So she was, this was some top secret level stuff.

0:09.4

Yeah, absolutely.

0:10.3

So she was recruited apparently

0:12.9

because she was good at puzzles and math and science.

0:17.0

She was very, something my parents would do to socialize

0:20.2

was to write limericks.

0:22.0

Sit around lighting limericks the way you do.

0:24.8

This is the sportful.

0:28.0

It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.

0:29.7

I'm Dan Pashman.

0:31.0

Each week on our show, we obsess about food

0:33.3

to learn more about people.

0:35.0

Today on the show, I sit down with the one

0:37.0

and only Bill Nye.

0:39.2

Bill's a goofball nerd to the core,

0:41.5

just like his limerick loving parents before him.

0:44.5

And like them, he has an intense passion for science.

0:47.6

When he came out of college,

0:48.6

he wanted to be an astronaut, NASA rejected him four times.

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