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Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

How Can We Twerk On Climate Change? with Bill Nye The Science Guy

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan is joined by climate advocate, TV personality, and Science Guy Bill Nye. The two discuss an array of topics, including green algae, renewable energy, and how to make climate change a major talking point in the 2020 election. Follow Bill Nye on Instagram and Twitter @billnye and check out his podcast Science Rules! Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a 40-minute

0:07.0

conversation with a Barriallian expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

0:12.5

On today's episode, I'm joined by television personality, climate change advocate, and

0:16.6

most famous, gold-rich, sensual, science guy, Elvyddcy, Bill Nye, where we discussed

0:22.0

an array of topics from green algae to renewable energy, and really, how do we get people to

0:27.7

give a fuck about climate change?

0:33.3

Welcome to the studio. Bill Nye, the literal science guy. I added the literal part, but it's

0:37.8

literally you in front of my face. I can't believe it.

0:39.8

Oh, I got to be some arm here with you.

0:41.8

Because you, you know, scientifically, can't really be two places at once.

0:46.0

No, not as far as we know.

0:48.1

Yeah. And this whole idea, well, let's clone you. That doesn't work. You have to have a whole

0:52.6

life experience. You can't just show up at the same genes. Heavens.

0:56.0

Well, Barbara's try to say it apparently cloned her dogs, and I have to say after the

1:01.1

year I've endured with losing cats, I would totally be down to like clone pets.

1:06.5

Well, you can clone your cat, but the cat isn't going to have the same life experience.

1:11.4

But he wouldn't have the same personality, right?

1:13.8

It is to be presumed. You know, everybody wonders nature versus nurture.

1:18.3

Because maybe like when...

1:19.8

If you've changed cat food, who knows what stress you could induce?

1:23.6

Or if I was just like more like available, like the second time, okay, I can't even get

1:27.6

into it. Oh my God. Okay. So global warming. I feel like growing up.

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