Listen Now: Wiser Than Me with Sylvia Earle

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Lemonada Media

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4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this special Earth Day episode, Julia Louis-Dreyfus chats with 89-year-old marine biologist and oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, who joins from a boat in the Gulf of Mexico. Sylvia shares what it's like to walk untethered on the ocean floor, how her first dive changed her life, and the ocean's vital role in our survival. Plus, Julia tells a comical story about the one-and-only time she went scuba diving. She and her 91-year-old mom, Judy, also reminisce about snorkeling adventures and a unique 90th birthday gift from Judy’s grandsons.
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0:00.0	Hi, is this an okay time?
0:03.2	It's your girl Dylan Mulvaney, and I am inviting you to my weekly cocktail party and my brand new podcast, The Dylan Hour, brought to you by Lemonada Media.
0:12.3	Life is stressful and there is so much darkness in the world, I think we could all use a little bit of trans joy.
0:18.0	So join me every week as I interview some of my favorite A-list celebrity friends
0:22.4	and gurus and of course the dolls while we sip and spill the scalding hot tea. So put your
0:28.4	worries aside and join me at the Dillon Hour. You can listen on Apple, YouTube, or wherever you get
0:33.2	your podcasts. Love you. Suffering is inevitable and it sucks, but we're still expected to thrive. Everything
0:42.6	Happens is a podcast for people who are tired of coffee monk platitudes and want something
0:47.4	with a little more teeth and a lot more heart. Each week, Duke Professor Kate Bowler
0:52.2	talks with guests like Glennon Doyle, Sharon
0:54.7	McMahon, and Coach Kay about grief, absurdity, and the beautiful, terrible days we actually live through.
1:01.9	No hustle culture, no silver linings, just real talk and good company.
1:06.5	Listen to everything happens wherever you get your podcasts.
1:12.9	Lemonada.
1:23.8	In the Wiser Than Me episode you're about to hear, I mentioned my house, a beautiful, perfect old Spanish revival home that was built in the 1920s, where we raised our two boys and lived
1:30.5	happily ever after for 31 years. A few weeks later, that very house and everything in it, all burned
1:40.1	down in the Palisades fire in Los Angeles. We lost everything. All of our family
1:46.7	photos and treasures, every memento from my career. I mean, just everything. It's an unspeakable
1:54.2	personal tragedy, but truthfully, in the end, we do count ourselves lucky. Our family is safe, thank God. We have a place to stay. We have some insurance. We have the resources to weather this storm, and God knows not everybody does have that. This wildfire happened about two weeks before inauguration day, and since that day, it has been a metaphorical wildfire.
2:21.4	We have been overwhelmed with a chaotic frontal attack on everything, from science to the economy, to immigrants, to democracy itself.
2:30.7	It is just completely nuts.
2:33.5	It's so nuts that we're barely even talking about maybe
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