Mario Lopez takes us through the early arrival of his third child, Santino Rafael Lopez! Plus, we dig into the archives to relive Mario's wide ranging chat with Bill Nye The Science Guy, the majority of which has never been heard! Mario and Bill discuss everything from future wars over water, healthy fast food, the Yellowstone super volcano, how Bill takes his coffee, and more in a hilarious, and sometimes awkward, chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Mario Lopez here getting into another episode on my podcast.
Listen to Mario going to dig into the archives and
relive an interview I did with one of our favorite guests,
Bill ni the science guy. Pretty nice guy, tribute dude
for a science guy. He's been on my radio show
quite a few times, but nine of his interviews had
never been heard because Bill is super long winded and
(00:21):
the radio show moves way too quick for that. So
getting to that in a sect. But I want to
bring in my producers, Frazier Nicholas, because something major went
down this week, the arrival of baby Lopez. Number three.
Santino Rafael Lopez was born at eleven fifty nine PM
on Sunday night, which made him a seven seven baby.
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And my other son is a nine nine baby, and
I am a ten ten baby. You need somebody to
be an eight eight baby, right maybe number four, we'll see.
But I just thought that was kind of kind of
kind of cool, And it went down on a night
where I couldn't have been more tired. I was so
exhausted from the weekend and had just taken Luckily you
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didn't have to give birth. I did it, but you know,
I had to be there and and be alert and
aware and everything. And when she told me, my wife
that she started having pains and they could be labor pains,
secretly inside, I was like, oh my god, not tonight, please,
And sure enough it was. It was that night, and
it was it was by C section, by the way,
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And when that happens, anyone knows that's gone through a
C section. It goes down quick. It's like a fifteen
minute procedure until you walk into the room, boom, and
then they just interesting, it's really really quick. But then
afterwards it takes a minute just because they have to.
Here's a little teaser and not to grociate out, but
they literally take I made the mistake of peeking over
the thing. They literally take your insides out and put
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it right next to you. And I was whoa, and
I had they do. It's very It's not what I thought.
That's like I was a C section baby, but I
don't remember that. I think I closed my eyes. Yeah,
it's really at graphic. So what your dad's over there? Peak,
don't peek. That made the mistake of peeking, and and
then I'm morbid. I got peaked on the last one too.
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I'm like, maybe they do a different notes with you.
It is weird. It is weird. It's it's very very
graphic anyway, so they got to do that. They put
you back and they so upsotes a whole thing, and
they're cutting through muscles, so it takes longer to recover,
to recover and sort of sow things up pun intended. Uh,
And then I ended up getting out of there, and
then you're just kind of in baby mode and you're
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making sure everything's okay. And the baby barely cried, which
kind of tripped me out because usually a sign of
a healthy baby is when they're crying, and I wanted
to make sure everything was okay, and fortunately everything was,
and didn't get out of there until about three three
thirty in the morning. Um, so yeah, I had a rough,
long epic, you know, beautiful night. But you can see
photos on our Instagram page, and I didn't hesitate posting
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a photo. I literally took a photo and the baby
was five minutes old, New Lopez baby record, total baby record.
You can see photos on our Instagram at al Mario Lopez.
And as you do that, let's get to my chat
with Bill Night, the Science Guy, Bill ni the Science Guy,
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one of our favorite guests. Welcome back, sir, it's so
good to be back. So you're saving the world on Netflix.
How are you saving us this time? We're saving us
in six ways. One of them is about the wars
are gonna happen over clean water if we don't take steps.
Then there's one about the nature of consciousness. Whoa, whoa.
(03:32):
That's deep when you look at it is deep. So
when you talk with a dog, Okay, some of my
best friend, yes, some of my best friends are dogs.
Maybe my my only friends dogs. They're thinking about something.
The dogs are thinking about something, but I don't think
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they have pondered their place in the cosmos. Well, that's
the luxury and being a dog though you have no
no sort of worry in the world. You're doubt exactly.
They're like a baby. So anyway, so where's the where
do you draw the line? There's a gradient of dog
to benobo, chimpanzee, guerilla human, then somewhere below there's old boss. So, uh,
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this is the there's a show about where you explore
this question. And we did another show on addiction, which
is very important. Wow. So some fun stuff but also
some very serious adiction. Is no, I interrupted you. Yes, um,
how do you determine the topics you want to cover?
We sit around and argue about it, argue, we discuss
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the writers and I and then look at the you know,
world news today. And if you do watch this show,
you notice one of the hallmarks have been celebrity guests.
Back in the day, we had Mario Lopez. That's right,
and I would love to be invited back. You're just saying,
you're just and you're just throwing that, just throwing that
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out there for for the Bill Night team. As a
matter of fact, I think they actually did. But the
one time the schedules didn't. Um uh. I think they
get celebrities that are willing to show up to go
all the way to Culver City. Culver City is part
of l A. Yeah. Now it's near Los Angeles International Airport,
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not especially close to Birdbank Airport. No, it's not not
especially close to where we are right now. Universal City
City Walk, correct, correct, but reversal Studio city Walk, little
geographical inconvenience. Never heard anyone, especially not around here. Were
just getting the car and listen to whatever it is
our podcasts and we drink and eat the food that
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we bought before we got in the car, and we
answer faxes and and all of the stuff. Like a
mobile office here, right, it is a car. Another episode
is about the foods of the future future. Will we
have ever have a fast food that's that's healthy, you're
actually good for you? Well, I mean there's that's all
these people do. Or its city Wall Universal City, like
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every other place of business is a healthy fast food here,
but their claim is that this juice product is better
for you than eggs or that. I don't know. There's
only one sushi joint that when you're eating the sushimi.
That's about if you're going to go the healthy road.
Other than that, a lot of delicious places. I don't
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know if i'd labeled them as healthy though. Well, but
they're the premises, you know, try and then they have
a heart healthy menu, and there will be a little
picture of a heart, and then it's a big fat
it's every it's all the rage to be grut and free.
It's not rice or potatoes, it's gluten free. So I
guess yes, there's someday will be healthy fast foods. But
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the fun fact is back in the eighteenth century, nineteenth century,
apparently it was. There was a law in New England
you couldn't serve lobster to prisoners more than twice a
week because it was considered the junk fish, right, the
cockroach of the sea. I've read that before. Now we
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pay premium top dowering for our lobstering, yes, right, so
things change change with the future holds well, we were
just discussing ribs the other day, how they were sort
of disregarded. It mean beef ribs, beef ribs or pork ribs.
I don't know if it was specifically. Yeah, animal, dead
animal rib thing, right, a dead animal rib thing, but
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they were what they give them to the slaves was
a scrap meat. Now there's whole restaurants that kids now,
Oh my god, we just discuss a rib joint that's
only open three days a week. They're so successful. Used
to and so kale kale was a weed, you know.
Now it's a whole thing. It seems like very l
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a though, the whole US and Canada's kids. It's a
fat It's like people are into it right now, but
it's still terrible. I don't remember growing up and never
hearing the expression gluten free or gluten anything for that matter. Right, yes,
is it? Is it just a certain way to market
and a hustle, and how people with Celiac disease, it's
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a seria. You can't have too much wheat what they do.
Back in the seventies eighties, I went to elementary school
with a girl that would eat shellfish, shrimp or lopster,
and then she'd get a piece of ice because her
throat was swelling up and she was going to suffocate.
Oh my gosh, but she took it. They just took
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it for granted without acknowledging for a while that she
had a food allergy. Oh man, yeah, food, Well she
figured it out. You learned at the heart without dying. Right.
Why do you think that there seems to be more
food allergies now than there was? Oh, there's much speculation
about this, my friend, But I'm not an expert on this.
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But apparently one reasonable hypothesis is that we have made
our environment a little too clean that when you're a
little kid, you're not exposed to enough different things. But
this is a hypothesis that it's also reasonable that we
have introduced some insecticide that has made you your immune
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system not able to handle peanuts, for example. That's that's
also possible. But um, there is apparently no, none, absolutely
no connection between vaccinations and food allergies. Okay, that was
a hypothesis that's been um set aside. Got it. Um.
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I know you've been doing a lot of speeches lately.
What's the most important message you're passing along to people? Uh?
Science rules. This is to say, Uh, the word I'm
loving right now is enlightenment. For those of you whoever
took any history, the guys freet words, it's a great word.
If they got a whole movement, they capitalized the E
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in enlightenment. It was Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin. Some British
philosophers were thinking deep thoughts about thinking deep thoughts, and
they realized that the scientific method or the process of science,
or this idea that you have a hypothesis designed to test,
test at see what happened and compared to what you
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thought would happen, was really a very good idea, and
you could learn about nature in a way that our
ants are their ancestors were not, for some reason able
to do. And then and then they extracts. You know,
they extrapolated that, and let's make a government. Let's design
a government using the same ideas of rational thought, of reasoning.
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And so that's what I'm all about these days. I'm
all about reasoning, the enlightenment. Let's be enlightened. In the
US freaking Constitute, ouan Article one, section eight refers to
the progress of science and useful arts. I don't know
how you can argue with science and the limited sense
that's about copyright and patent laws. But in the bigger
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sense they bother to include it in the freaking Constitution.
What do you want from us? People? And then everybody's
running around right now talking about being an original list
that's a thing to be like, like, um, a Green
Bay Packer fan, I'm an originalist and a Green Bay
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I'm not really, I'm a Seattle Seahawks fan and and
not an originalist. So what's built into the U s Constitution?
What is part of the method of science and rational
thought is change? That's what we do. We examine the situation, go, well,
we should have ten more amendments the Bill of Rights.
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So if you're an originalist, what about the eleventh Amendment?
That one doesn't count because it was six months after
the other one. Like, what's wrong with you? People? Come on,
what's built in has changed? In fact, this is the
huge idea that's going wrong in other parts of the world.
The Russia is getting a guy that's gonna be president
for life, essentially Vlad Putin and uh Jao ping A
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my saying it correctly, the president of China is like
sort of going to be president until he's dead, right,
and that doesn't have change and you're just gonna go
backwards and it's gonna suck. Yes, So essentially saying it's
so important to evolve in your thinking. Things change, people change,
the world changes. Used to be fewer than one and
a half billion people, now they're seven and a half billion. People.
Got to make some changes. Gotta eat lobster, I concur.
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I want to get back to dogs for a second,
because they're all dog lovers. I remember we talked about
this not too long ago on a segment science. Did
you have a dog on the panel? We all have dogs?
And was there a dog here on the microphone that
particular moment? No, however, are there you had? Representatives? Was
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living vicariously through me as he often does. But Science
was saying you shouldn't allow your dog to sleep with
you in bed. It's bad for them and you. I
just that's up to you, guys. Okay, I'm not going
to get into the dog. I'm right, and I said,
but the dogs that I know that it seems very
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happy to sleep. That's what I think now I do. Okay,
the dogs on top of the covers and I'm under
the covers now, is that what you guys are not?
Not only is it on top of the covers, a blanket,
a dog blanket on top of the blankets on top
of them. Okay, I can't get I mean, these are
from my experience, has led to no catastrophe except look
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at me now, right right exactly. I bring it up
because that's one of the only times I can think
that I because the article specifically was like science says, yeah,
the nail on the head, somebody has this hypothesis and
just making this claim, right, So that claim can be evaluated,
and we can compare that person's hypothesis to your expectations,
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and further tests can be run and we can reach
a rational conclusion. We can reason. So that's as you
this is a perfect example of a claim to be
evaluated and a new uh method of operation to be
introduced instead of saying, well, he's an authority, so I
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give up, which that's going nowhere, which I think most
people do. By the way, well, no, but you have
to rely on authorities. Now, if there is somebody who
has studied military tactics in the Middle East, it's very
reasonable that that person, specially if he's a military officer,
knows more about it than you do, as a former
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casino operator who maybe had interactions with an adult film actress. Surprising,
and so the military person might be worthy of consulting
when it comes to military tactics in the Middle East.
By way of example, off the top of my head, sure,
random thought. Yeah. So anyway, this is the wonderful thing
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about sciences. It's always changing. Before I let you go, sir,
I want to put you on the spot. We just started.
I know, well, I hear, you're a busy man. We
can keep talking. Yard problems you need to ask about
you know, my yard is fine. The insurance. Last time
it was the hydra right, he was right. The tree.
(15:33):
That was my hypothesis is that the tree because of
the wind took it down long story short to bring
it up to speed. I settled the insurance company to
the ground was saturated in the wall blew out. It's
exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened, but we thought
it was a tree. I ended up settling. There's a
fully reimbursed and that's that's what happened. So you have
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insurance for these purpose, for this purpose, but they're in
the business of not playing full claims. I come to
find out when they're big. Okay, So everybody in your experience,
if I give you what's a substance a bucket of
would you say we weed a bucket of a perfect example,
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you have a bucket of marijuana leaves, or you have
a bucket of water, which is heavier. They're both the
hole the hole the same. It's not a not a
pound of nails. It's a bucket, it's a volume. The water. Water.
Water is massive. So if you fill a yard full
of soil behind a wall full of water in a
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very strong Southern California rainstorm, which we have twice a year,
the freaking wall blew out, and your insurance company pointed
that out to you, that your wall didn't have a
lot of drainage sympathy on, you wouldn't have Well, I
got with my theory, not with the wind and the
trees a combination, and your insurance company settled with. But
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don't you agree that the wall you would see signs
of stress, that you would see it sort of begin
to it just doesn't explode. Onto the street was signed,
there would be there would be like a come on,
imitating as a a brick or a block up for
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a hundred years, all of a sudden, one rainstorm, it's
gonna So if you like to generalize from a single example,
which is very common with humans, correlation leading to causation.
The other words, you see something and you presume that's
what everything, that it's the cause of everything. Well, based
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on mystery, climate change caused an extraordinarily strong rainstorm. Insurance
companies are gonna start covering are going to start stop
covering climate change. And the example right now here in
the United States is Miami. Now, Miami is two places.
There's Miami and there's Miami Beach. Those are two separate cities,
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two separate municipalities. The people who work for a living
live in Miami and they don't make that much money,
and they do not have city building, pumping stations and
weirs and all these flood control gives mos to the
extent that they have them in Miami Beach. And so
when the king tides come, when there's a the moon
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lines up and there's a windstorm and the tide is
very strong, or the water comes over the beach very strongly,
everybody's car wheels are rusting. The steel car wheels get
a few inches or a few centimeters of salt water
around them a couple of times a month, and they rust,
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and the car company is not going to pay for that.
That's the start of thing that. What about when everybody
starts moving out of Miami because they can't make a living.
Is somebody going to go back and salvage all the
copper wiring and pipes? And I don't know, man, where
are they gonna go? What are they gonna do? Who's
gonna pay their insurance? Same with a plaided Louisiana. People
that live in the same time in exotic places like
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and build again. When you know, what's a stage thing?
For me? Is not a native of New Orleans, but
people love it there and they want to live there,
and they rebuild their house in the same flood zone.
Speaking of the Enlightenment and our founding fathers and so on,
it's fashionable right now to say I'm a libertarian. I'm
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a libertarian. Everybody's able to do what they want as
long as they don't harm. Anybody do able to do
what they want, all right. Then you have a tradition
of medicine where do no harm. And then we all
share so many genes as humans. When you see somebody drowning,
you sort of have a tendency to help him out.
I mean, yes, there's depends on the individual. They're superhero
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movies with arch villains and stuff, and you let the
guy drown and all got that. But in general, when
the house is flooded, we reach out. Of course, we
offer our thoughts and prayers is very popular. I don't
know if that's the same as not building in a
flood zone, but uh, in the communal sense, we might
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not permit people to rebuild in the flood zone without
taking extraordinary steps like putting your house on stilts or something, right,
which the ladder doing well, but not everybody talking about
New Orleans now, and so yeah, and so UH is
it in everybody's best interest to allow people to be
flooded again and have hardship and have to go to
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shelters that we all pay for and have uh FEMA,
the Federal Emergency Management UH administration have to show up
and destroy a bunch of refrigerators full of food which
are now full of toxic bacteria producing toxins. And do
we have to go through that again? Or could we
pass rules and regulations not allowing you to do that
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in everybody's best interest? Because when there's a flood and
people are displaced in Houston and have to go to shelters,
it costs me money because I'm and the same for
me when your wall blows out. However, I acknowledge that
my wall might blow out, my tree might blow over.
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I may have made a fundamental mistake about where I live,
and climate change may affect me in a way that
my ancestors doesn't anticipate. So we're all in this together, people,
we are all in it together. But it is fascinating.
I've always often wondered that why do they keep building
when they know that there's just a lot of loyal
This is a completely different subject but the Yellowstone super volcano.
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That should we be afraid of that thing? Yes, you
should be terrifying because every time Bill, there's a new No,
there's a new article every day that's like more rumblings,
it's gonna it's gonna blow earthquakes. And you know this
super volcano under Yellowstone National Parks super volcano, that's what
they say, because it's real big, it's apparently huge, and
so it does sound cool. So in Hawaii right now
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we have a volcano that's oozing and Gello just called
that a shield volcano because if you half close your mind,
it looks like a warrior shield lying on the ground.
Really okay, And then and then Mount St. Helens was
a free attic uh volcano. Free attic is a fabulous
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word phr E A T I C having to do
with steam. So if you want to blow something up,
put steam in it, man. And so um a Yellowstone
is a post apparently some of each. You got hot
magma and you've got water, you know, superper it's got
great potential. So if you've got nothing but the human blows,
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if you've got nothing to do, go to Ash Falls
State Park near Orchard, Nebraska, now. It is astonishing. It's astonishing.
There are rhinoceros is three toed horses buried by ash
from what was effectively the super volcano about a million
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years ago. Not where it here, it's Universal City, Universal
Studios in Universal in Studio City, California, Jarette and has
all the are many of the parking structures have a
Jurassic Park theme. Okay, Jurassic Park. And those ancient dinosaurs
that's sixty five million years ago ashe Fall Nebraska is
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a just a million, just just a million years ago
where there's mammals running around in North America. The ancient
dinosaurs had been displaced. They didn't make it, apparently through
the asteroid impact. So you should go there. It's just amazing.
It's a freaking amazing cool. It's amazing these animals are.
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It's very it's kind of sad animals were killed in
a matter of moments or hours, but they're buried with
such fidelity. They're in such good shape fossil wise, that
they can look at the seeds and their tummies and
figure out what they used to eat. It's really amazing.
It's like Pompeii. Like Pompeii for three toad, horses, and
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and it's just like POMPEII. And I mentioned it because
it's the same supervolcano. So it went off in what
is now Idaho and buried animals and what is now Nebraska.
You know, that's a fur piece. If you're driving a car,
flying a plane, or hiking, that's a fur old piece
out there. We always love when you come visit. So
it's just really cool. And I I will say, if
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you guys have never been in Nebraska, it has its
place it is. It's where all the food is grown,
all the soy beans, sorgum, corn, corn, corn, and these
people take it very seriously and they're good at it.
And I mentioned it because there used to be one
and a half billion people in the world. Now there're
seven and a half. They're gonna be nine billion people
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and we feed them because of places like Nebraska. We're
able to feed all these people using DNA genetically modified crops.
Alright now, there's no better popcorn than you get in
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the US. You just can't do any better than Nebraska. Well,
I think I'm not want to call conflict. I don't
want to cause conflict, but I think most of the
popcorn that comes out really well. Is from Iowa. I
will say, without revealing too much information, I know, can
we say enchanting, can we say smoking? Hot? Women from
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both states? Okay, I've had some remarkable experiences with women
from those areas. My hypothesis West comes in strong enlightening,
light lightning. Right now, I want to put you on
the spot with quick questions, quick answer, quick question, quick answer.
Seven last movie you saw in theaters? Uh? You know,
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I was. I was on the campus. I saw in
the movie theater on campus. Black Panther I saw in
a real movie theater. But there was one I saw
since then that clearly made a huge impression on you.
But then I saw Black Panther in a real theater,
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big theater, big bucket of popcorn, really cool, you know what.
And it was in St. Louis and the theater that's
in a hotel you can buy a beer. Oh yeah,
So that maybe that may have contributed to what Russia
went down with those That that that gets me sleepy
(26:56):
if he purpose of enjoying the Oh no, just moderation,
you guys. Moderation. Favorite sport to watch baseball spared in mind.
Baseball isn't just a sport. It's a game. Yes, you know,
you're moving the equivalent of game pieces. You know it
was The movie was Player one movie. Yeah, it was
(27:18):
okay by the premise, by the bit beautifully produced. But
there was no moment in the movie where I was
concerned that the protagonist was going to really be in
serious trouble. I knew he was going to make lacking
character development right, well, there was no real threat of
death because they weren't really doing anything. They were in video. Okay,
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the book is cool, but it's hard to make into
a movie. I enjoyed the movie, and I was impressed
baseball is a game as well as a sport. I
grew up in the city of Washington, d C. I
grew up in the city limits of Washington, d C.
So are you a Seattle Seahawks fan? I am, well,
because I got a job at Boeing speaking of stay
with me. So what happened was I was. I grew
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up in the city of Washington. We used to go
to something called d C Stadium, which is now RFK.
After some more gun violence led to change politics, but
then the team moved to Maryland. Now civilized people who
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grew up in Washington, d C kind of sort of
hate the Baltimore Orioles, and they sort of hate the
what used to be the Baltimore Car. The Ravens is
a cool name. I am down with the Ravens, and
I've kind of relaxed on my hatred of the whole. Yeah,
that kind of. But in that interim where that they
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leave my city to go to freaking Maryland. When be
in Baltimore, Okay, why not being Annapolis? Why not be
the Annapolis football team whatever? Annapolis is a city in Maryland.
H I've got a job at Boeing and I lived
in Seattle, and I was there the I I moved
there in nineteen seventy seven. The Seahawks were created in
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nineteen seventy seven. I became loyal days. I was loyal
enough to Jim's Orn and those guys. But U two
things furthermore, two things happened. Now the Seahawks are like
this cool team with this cool stadium. And there was
a Seattle Seahawk receiver who was a Pro bowler named
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Steve Rabol. Steve Largent is fine, yeah yeah, but but
Steve Rable and he is an outstanding radio announcer and
his radio commentary made me very loyal to the Seahawks
now here in Los Angeles. I don't want to cause trouble,
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but we don't have Vince Gulley anymore. We don't. But
he was a hell of a run. Yeah, and Rick
Monday kept a guy from burning a flag. Okay, all right.
I think if I said to you, he was an
outfielder when he played, and he did play, and he
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he will often compare modern players to his time of playing.
So uh. In Seattle, we had a radio announcer for
the Seattle Mariners who was really something. Uh. If I
said to you a grand salami, you know what I
was talking about, I would assume a grand slam. Dave
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Nei House said it will fly, I fly away. He
has jerked one for a grand salami. Okay, that was cool.
I mean it, get out the mustard and rye bread, Grandma,
he jerked one for a grand SLAMI that's freaking poetry.
It is. The radio announcers now are are great, they're fine,
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but there's no ladies, kids, kids. Dave Nehouse died essentially
of smoking. Don't smoke. Okay, good. We ended on a
good note, getting back to the quick questions. It's quick
questions and some answers. Nickname growing up bean Pole. He've
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always been leaning mean, okay, built for speed, not comfort.
What superpower would you want? Fly? Wouldn't be able to fly?
There's two superpowers. I'd really like be able to fly.
I think that's not controversial. But I don't like to
have a spider sense. Would that be cool? Have your
spider sense tingling when you know there's danger. You know
what else it's called like the ability to heal? People
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walk around with Jesus. So bear in mind that this
um laying on of hands has been completely debunked in
the skepter community. Just keep that in mind. I'm talking
to death. Yeah, if you're bleeding to death and the
guy comes over and let me, let me lay on,
you're not going to stop bleeding to death. And I
think we all kind of know that intuitively, but it's
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been shown scientifically to not work good. How do you
take your coffee? It depends, So let's talk about today.
I've never heard someone that fluctuates with I go either
I go either ice coffee or warm coffee, depending what's
warm or cold. But that's it. I still go with
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a splash of nonfat one splendor. You have different Why
did you give me that furrowed brown? Because here's what happened.
Was moments ago it was quick question, law and answer.
So you asked me a question and then you answer.
Because I found your precursor fascinating. I've never heard something
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it depends, I've never heard, so let's talk about right now.
Let's talk about it. Got up this morning I started
doing some radio interviews, not nearly as interesting, as fun,
as exciting as this one. Don't be ridiculous, but I
had cream and sugar in my coffee. I had half
an ultra pasteurized half and half is which is pasteurized
(33:24):
with pressure, very cool, something that that Louis Pasture didn't
know would work and didn't have the technology. And then,
uh now today, and this happens from time to time,
I had a hankering for a Snickers bar. With that
Snickers bar, I want black coffee because that's got enough
sugar happening over here that I don't want any sugar
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and cream in the coffee. Perfect with something else, A
perfect day. We have a day on which we have
both examples. Is there ever a point where you get
iced coffee, always high iced coffee. Then I often want
sugar something in the ice coffee. It will take the
bitterness off. The snicker is always the go to candy bar.
I'm a huge fan of the snick, but don't make
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me pick, you know. So they did a study. This
was Bicycling magazine several years ago. Cycling. Yeah, so moments ago.
What did we say? What was your nickname? Being pulled?
Because and then you said you're okay. So I've spent
a lot of time on a bike. I used to
be very good on a bike. I'm okay on a
bike now I'm assuming not a motorcycle bike. I had
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a motorcycle. To god, they're fun and so freaking dangerous.
I don't yeah, I never had a problem, but man,
you could. It's just the physics is bad, all right.
So so, uh, they did a study and Bicycling magazine
of what would what do you world class cyclists? Not Bill,
The interviewees were world class cyclists. What do you want?
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Do you want a cliff bar? Do you want a
power bar? Do you want to power cliff Luna? Uh?
Computerized bar? No, they all wanted snickers. That these professional
cyclists wanted to snickers. You know why you can't because
they're just good. You can't taste. That's exactly, they're just good.
I agree, when they're just loaded with you know, sugary goodness. Right,
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I'm not saying they're good for you, They're just good.
Sometimes it's, you know, moderation. I can see you right here.
I'm barely eating the third of a snick right, not
like you're gonna go home and have about two or
three snicker mars. I can't thank you so much all
things in moderation except what moderation itself. Thank you so much, Mario.
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To see you next lap I gotta fly, so don't
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(35:56):
much for listening
Hey, Mario Lopez here getting into another episode on my podcast.
Listen to Mario going to dig into the archives and
relive an interview I did with one of our favorite guests,
Bill ni the science guy. Pretty nice guy, tribute dude
for a science guy. He's been on my radio show
quite a few times, but nine of his interviews had
never been heard because Bill is super long winded and
(00:21):
the radio show moves way too quick for that. So
getting to that in a sect. But I want to
bring in my producers, Frazier Nicholas, because something major went
down this week, the arrival of baby Lopez. Number three.
Santino Rafael Lopez was born at eleven fifty nine PM
on Sunday night, which made him a seven seven baby.
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And my other son is a nine nine baby, and
I am a ten ten baby. You need somebody to
be an eight eight baby, right maybe number four, we'll see.
But I just thought that was kind of kind of
kind of cool, And it went down on a night
where I couldn't have been more tired. I was so
exhausted from the weekend and had just taken Luckily you
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didn't have to give birth. I did it, but you know,
I had to be there and and be alert and
aware and everything. And when she told me, my wife
that she started having pains and they could be labor pains,
secretly inside, I was like, oh my god, not tonight, please,
And sure enough it was. It was that night, and
it was it was by C section, by the way,
(01:24):
And when that happens, anyone knows that's gone through a
C section. It goes down quick. It's like a fifteen
minute procedure until you walk into the room, boom, and
then they just interesting, it's really really quick. But then
afterwards it takes a minute just because they have to.
Here's a little teaser and not to grociate out, but
they literally take I made the mistake of peeking over
the thing. They literally take your insides out and put
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it right next to you. And I was whoa, and
I had they do. It's very It's not what I thought.
That's like I was a C section baby, but I
don't remember that. I think I closed my eyes. Yeah,
it's really at graphic. So what your dad's over there? Peak,
don't peek. That made the mistake of peeking, and and
then I'm morbid. I got peaked on the last one too.
(02:09):
I'm like, maybe they do a different notes with you.
It is weird. It is weird. It's it's very very
graphic anyway, so they got to do that. They put
you back and they so upsotes a whole thing, and
they're cutting through muscles, so it takes longer to recover,
to recover and sort of sow things up pun intended. Uh,
And then I ended up getting out of there, and
then you're just kind of in baby mode and you're
(02:29):
making sure everything's okay. And the baby barely cried, which
kind of tripped me out because usually a sign of
a healthy baby is when they're crying, and I wanted
to make sure everything was okay, and fortunately everything was,
and didn't get out of there until about three three
thirty in the morning. Um, so yeah, I had a rough,
long epic, you know, beautiful night. But you can see
photos on our Instagram page, and I didn't hesitate posting
(02:50):
a photo. I literally took a photo and the baby
was five minutes old, New Lopez baby record, total baby record.
You can see photos on our Instagram at al Mario Lopez.
And as you do that, let's get to my chat
with Bill Night, the Science Guy, Bill ni the Science Guy,
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one of our favorite guests. Welcome back, sir, it's so
good to be back. So you're saving the world on Netflix.
How are you saving us this time? We're saving us
in six ways. One of them is about the wars
are gonna happen over clean water if we don't take steps.
Then there's one about the nature of consciousness. Whoa, whoa.
(03:32):
That's deep when you look at it is deep. So
when you talk with a dog, Okay, some of my
best friend, yes, some of my best friends are dogs.
Maybe my my only friends dogs. They're thinking about something.
The dogs are thinking about something, but I don't think
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they have pondered their place in the cosmos. Well, that's
the luxury and being a dog though you have no
no sort of worry in the world. You're doubt exactly.
They're like a baby. So anyway, so where's the where
do you draw the line? There's a gradient of dog
to benobo, chimpanzee, guerilla human, then somewhere below there's old boss. So, uh,
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this is the there's a show about where you explore
this question. And we did another show on addiction, which
is very important. Wow. So some fun stuff but also
some very serious adiction. Is no, I interrupted you. Yes, um,
how do you determine the topics you want to cover?
We sit around and argue about it, argue, we discuss
(04:40):
the writers and I and then look at the you know,
world news today. And if you do watch this show,
you notice one of the hallmarks have been celebrity guests.
Back in the day, we had Mario Lopez. That's right,
and I would love to be invited back. You're just saying,
you're just and you're just throwing that, just throwing that
(05:02):
out there for for the Bill Night team. As a
matter of fact, I think they actually did. But the
one time the schedules didn't. Um uh. I think they
get celebrities that are willing to show up to go
all the way to Culver City. Culver City is part
of l A. Yeah. Now it's near Los Angeles International Airport,
(05:26):
not especially close to Birdbank Airport. No, it's not not
especially close to where we are right now. Universal City
City Walk, correct, correct, but reversal Studio city Walk, little
geographical inconvenience. Never heard anyone, especially not around here. Were
just getting the car and listen to whatever it is
our podcasts and we drink and eat the food that
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we bought before we got in the car, and we
answer faxes and and all of the stuff. Like a
mobile office here, right, it is a car. Another episode
is about the foods of the future future. Will we
have ever have a fast food that's that's healthy, you're
actually good for you? Well, I mean there's that's all
these people do. Or its city Wall Universal City, like
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every other place of business is a healthy fast food here,
but their claim is that this juice product is better
for you than eggs or that. I don't know. There's
only one sushi joint that when you're eating the sushimi.
That's about if you're going to go the healthy road.
Other than that, a lot of delicious places. I don't
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know if i'd labeled them as healthy though. Well, but
they're the premises, you know, try and then they have
a heart healthy menu, and there will be a little
picture of a heart, and then it's a big fat
it's every it's all the rage to be grut and free.
It's not rice or potatoes, it's gluten free. So I
guess yes, there's someday will be healthy fast foods. But
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the fun fact is back in the eighteenth century, nineteenth century,
apparently it was. There was a law in New England
you couldn't serve lobster to prisoners more than twice a
week because it was considered the junk fish, right, the
cockroach of the sea. I've read that before. Now we
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pay premium top dowering for our lobstering, yes, right, so
things change change with the future holds well, we were
just discussing ribs the other day, how they were sort
of disregarded. It mean beef ribs, beef ribs or pork ribs.
I don't know if it was specifically. Yeah, animal, dead
animal rib thing, right, a dead animal rib thing, but
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they were what they give them to the slaves was
a scrap meat. Now there's whole restaurants that kids now,
Oh my god, we just discuss a rib joint that's
only open three days a week. They're so successful. Used
to and so kale kale was a weed, you know.
Now it's a whole thing. It seems like very l
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a though, the whole US and Canada's kids. It's a
fat It's like people are into it right now, but
it's still terrible. I don't remember growing up and never
hearing the expression gluten free or gluten anything for that matter. Right, yes,
is it? Is it just a certain way to market
and a hustle, and how people with Celiac disease, it's
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a seria. You can't have too much wheat what they do.
Back in the seventies eighties, I went to elementary school
with a girl that would eat shellfish, shrimp or lopster,
and then she'd get a piece of ice because her
throat was swelling up and she was going to suffocate.
Oh my gosh, but she took it. They just took
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it for granted without acknowledging for a while that she
had a food allergy. Oh man, yeah, food, Well she
figured it out. You learned at the heart without dying. Right.
Why do you think that there seems to be more
food allergies now than there was? Oh, there's much speculation
about this, my friend, But I'm not an expert on this.
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But apparently one reasonable hypothesis is that we have made
our environment a little too clean that when you're a
little kid, you're not exposed to enough different things. But
this is a hypothesis that it's also reasonable that we
have introduced some insecticide that has made you your immune
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system not able to handle peanuts, for example. That's that's
also possible. But um, there is apparently no, none, absolutely
no connection between vaccinations and food allergies. Okay, that was
a hypothesis that's been um set aside. Got it. Um.
(09:44):
I know you've been doing a lot of speeches lately.
What's the most important message you're passing along to people? Uh?
Science rules. This is to say, Uh, the word I'm
loving right now is enlightenment. For those of you whoever
took any history, the guys freet words, it's a great word.
If they got a whole movement, they capitalized the E
(10:05):
in enlightenment. It was Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin. Some British
philosophers were thinking deep thoughts about thinking deep thoughts, and
they realized that the scientific method or the process of science,
or this idea that you have a hypothesis designed to test,
test at see what happened and compared to what you
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thought would happen, was really a very good idea, and
you could learn about nature in a way that our
ants are their ancestors were not, for some reason able
to do. And then and then they extracts. You know,
they extrapolated that, and let's make a government. Let's design
a government using the same ideas of rational thought, of reasoning.
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And so that's what I'm all about these days. I'm
all about reasoning, the enlightenment. Let's be enlightened. In the
US freaking Constitute, ouan Article one, section eight refers to
the progress of science and useful arts. I don't know
how you can argue with science and the limited sense
that's about copyright and patent laws. But in the bigger
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sense they bother to include it in the freaking Constitution.
What do you want from us? People? And then everybody's
running around right now talking about being an original list
that's a thing to be like, like, um, a Green
Bay Packer fan, I'm an originalist and a Green Bay
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I'm not really, I'm a Seattle Seahawks fan and and
not an originalist. So what's built into the U s Constitution?
What is part of the method of science and rational
thought is change? That's what we do. We examine the situation, go, well,
we should have ten more amendments the Bill of Rights.
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So if you're an originalist, what about the eleventh Amendment?
That one doesn't count because it was six months after
the other one. Like, what's wrong with you? People? Come on,
what's built in has changed? In fact, this is the
huge idea that's going wrong in other parts of the world.
The Russia is getting a guy that's gonna be president
for life, essentially Vlad Putin and uh Jao ping A
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my saying it correctly, the president of China is like
sort of going to be president until he's dead, right,
and that doesn't have change and you're just gonna go
backwards and it's gonna suck. Yes, So essentially saying it's
so important to evolve in your thinking. Things change, people change,
the world changes. Used to be fewer than one and
a half billion people, now they're seven and a half billion. People.
Got to make some changes. Gotta eat lobster, I concur.
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I want to get back to dogs for a second,
because they're all dog lovers. I remember we talked about
this not too long ago on a segment science. Did
you have a dog on the panel? We all have dogs?
And was there a dog here on the microphone that
particular moment? No, however, are there you had? Representatives? Was
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living vicariously through me as he often does. But Science
was saying you shouldn't allow your dog to sleep with
you in bed. It's bad for them and you. I
just that's up to you, guys. Okay, I'm not going
to get into the dog. I'm right, and I said,
but the dogs that I know that it seems very
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happy to sleep. That's what I think now I do. Okay,
the dogs on top of the covers and I'm under
the covers now, is that what you guys are not?
Not only is it on top of the covers, a blanket,
a dog blanket on top of the blankets on top
of them. Okay, I can't get I mean, these are
from my experience, has led to no catastrophe except look
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at me now, right right exactly. I bring it up
because that's one of the only times I can think
that I because the article specifically was like science says, yeah,
the nail on the head, somebody has this hypothesis and
just making this claim, right, So that claim can be evaluated,
and we can compare that person's hypothesis to your expectations,
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and further tests can be run and we can reach
a rational conclusion. We can reason. So that's as you
this is a perfect example of a claim to be
evaluated and a new uh method of operation to be
introduced instead of saying, well, he's an authority, so I
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give up, which that's going nowhere, which I think most
people do. By the way, well, no, but you have
to rely on authorities. Now, if there is somebody who
has studied military tactics in the Middle East, it's very
reasonable that that person, specially if he's a military officer,
knows more about it than you do, as a former
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casino operator who maybe had interactions with an adult film actress. Surprising,
and so the military person might be worthy of consulting
when it comes to military tactics in the Middle East.
By way of example, off the top of my head, sure,
random thought. Yeah. So anyway, this is the wonderful thing
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about sciences. It's always changing. Before I let you go, sir,
I want to put you on the spot. We just started.
I know, well, I hear, you're a busy man. We
can keep talking. Yard problems you need to ask about
you know, my yard is fine. The insurance. Last time
it was the hydra right, he was right. The tree.
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That was my hypothesis is that the tree because of
the wind took it down long story short to bring
it up to speed. I settled the insurance company to
the ground was saturated in the wall blew out. It's
exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened, but we thought
it was a tree. I ended up settling. There's a
fully reimbursed and that's that's what happened. So you have
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insurance for these purpose, for this purpose, but they're in
the business of not playing full claims. I come to
find out when they're big. Okay, So everybody in your experience,
if I give you what's a substance a bucket of
would you say we weed a bucket of a perfect example,
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you have a bucket of marijuana leaves, or you have
a bucket of water, which is heavier. They're both the
hole the hole the same. It's not a not a
pound of nails. It's a bucket, it's a volume. The water. Water.
Water is massive. So if you fill a yard full
of soil behind a wall full of water in a
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very strong Southern California rainstorm, which we have twice a year,
the freaking wall blew out, and your insurance company pointed
that out to you, that your wall didn't have a
lot of drainage sympathy on, you wouldn't have Well, I
got with my theory, not with the wind and the
trees a combination, and your insurance company settled with. But
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don't you agree that the wall you would see signs
of stress, that you would see it sort of begin
to it just doesn't explode. Onto the street was signed,
there would be there would be like a come on,
imitating as a a brick or a block up for
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a hundred years, all of a sudden, one rainstorm, it's
gonna So if you like to generalize from a single example,
which is very common with humans, correlation leading to causation.
The other words, you see something and you presume that's
what everything, that it's the cause of everything. Well, based
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on mystery, climate change caused an extraordinarily strong rainstorm. Insurance
companies are gonna start covering are going to start stop
covering climate change. And the example right now here in
the United States is Miami. Now, Miami is two places.
There's Miami and there's Miami Beach. Those are two separate cities,
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two separate municipalities. The people who work for a living
live in Miami and they don't make that much money,
and they do not have city building, pumping stations and
weirs and all these flood control gives mos to the
extent that they have them in Miami Beach. And so
when the king tides come, when there's a the moon
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lines up and there's a windstorm and the tide is
very strong, or the water comes over the beach very strongly,
everybody's car wheels are rusting. The steel car wheels get
a few inches or a few centimeters of salt water
around them a couple of times a month, and they rust,
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and the car company is not going to pay for that.
That's the start of thing that. What about when everybody
starts moving out of Miami because they can't make a living.
Is somebody going to go back and salvage all the
copper wiring and pipes? And I don't know, man, where
are they gonna go? What are they gonna do? Who's
gonna pay their insurance? Same with a plaided Louisiana. People
that live in the same time in exotic places like
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and build again. When you know, what's a stage thing?
For me? Is not a native of New Orleans, but
people love it there and they want to live there,
and they rebuild their house in the same flood zone.
Speaking of the Enlightenment and our founding fathers and so on,
it's fashionable right now to say I'm a libertarian. I'm
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a libertarian. Everybody's able to do what they want as
long as they don't harm. Anybody do able to do
what they want, all right. Then you have a tradition
of medicine where do no harm. And then we all
share so many genes as humans. When you see somebody drowning,
you sort of have a tendency to help him out.
I mean, yes, there's depends on the individual. They're superhero
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movies with arch villains and stuff, and you let the
guy drown and all got that. But in general, when
the house is flooded, we reach out. Of course, we
offer our thoughts and prayers is very popular. I don't
know if that's the same as not building in a
flood zone, but uh, in the communal sense, we might
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not permit people to rebuild in the flood zone without
taking extraordinary steps like putting your house on stilts or something, right,
which the ladder doing well, but not everybody talking about
New Orleans now, and so yeah, and so UH is
it in everybody's best interest to allow people to be
flooded again and have hardship and have to go to
(20:35):
shelters that we all pay for and have uh FEMA,
the Federal Emergency Management UH administration have to show up
and destroy a bunch of refrigerators full of food which
are now full of toxic bacteria producing toxins. And do
we have to go through that again? Or could we
pass rules and regulations not allowing you to do that
(20:57):
in everybody's best interest? Because when there's a flood and
people are displaced in Houston and have to go to shelters,
it costs me money because I'm and the same for
me when your wall blows out. However, I acknowledge that
my wall might blow out, my tree might blow over.
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I may have made a fundamental mistake about where I live,
and climate change may affect me in a way that
my ancestors doesn't anticipate. So we're all in this together, people,
we are all in it together. But it is fascinating.
I've always often wondered that why do they keep building
when they know that there's just a lot of loyal
This is a completely different subject but the Yellowstone super volcano.
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That should we be afraid of that thing? Yes, you
should be terrifying because every time Bill, there's a new No,
there's a new article every day that's like more rumblings,
it's gonna it's gonna blow earthquakes. And you know this
super volcano under Yellowstone National Parks super volcano, that's what
they say, because it's real big, it's apparently huge, and
so it does sound cool. So in Hawaii right now
(22:04):
we have a volcano that's oozing and Gello just called
that a shield volcano because if you half close your mind,
it looks like a warrior shield lying on the ground.
Really okay, And then and then Mount St. Helens was
a free attic uh volcano. Free attic is a fabulous
(22:28):
word phr E A T I C having to do
with steam. So if you want to blow something up,
put steam in it, man. And so um a Yellowstone
is a post apparently some of each. You got hot
magma and you've got water, you know, superper it's got
great potential. So if you've got nothing but the human blows,
(22:53):
if you've got nothing to do, go to Ash Falls
State Park near Orchard, Nebraska, now. It is astonishing. It's astonishing.
There are rhinoceros is three toed horses buried by ash
from what was effectively the super volcano about a million
(23:18):
years ago. Not where it here, it's Universal City, Universal
Studios in Universal in Studio City, California, Jarette and has
all the are many of the parking structures have a
Jurassic Park theme. Okay, Jurassic Park. And those ancient dinosaurs
that's sixty five million years ago ashe Fall Nebraska is
(23:39):
a just a million, just just a million years ago
where there's mammals running around in North America. The ancient
dinosaurs had been displaced. They didn't make it, apparently through
the asteroid impact. So you should go there. It's just amazing.
It's a freaking amazing cool. It's amazing these animals are.
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It's very it's kind of sad animals were killed in
a matter of moments or hours, but they're buried with
such fidelity. They're in such good shape fossil wise, that
they can look at the seeds and their tummies and
figure out what they used to eat. It's really amazing.
It's like Pompeii. Like Pompeii for three toad, horses, and
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and it's just like POMPEII. And I mentioned it because
it's the same supervolcano. So it went off in what
is now Idaho and buried animals and what is now Nebraska.
You know, that's a fur piece. If you're driving a car,
flying a plane, or hiking, that's a fur old piece
out there. We always love when you come visit. So
it's just really cool. And I I will say, if
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you guys have never been in Nebraska, it has its
place it is. It's where all the food is grown,
all the soy beans, sorgum, corn, corn, corn, and these
people take it very seriously and they're good at it.
And I mentioned it because there used to be one
and a half billion people in the world. Now there're
seven and a half. They're gonna be nine billion people
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and we feed them because of places like Nebraska. We're
able to feed all these people using DNA genetically modified crops.
Alright now, there's no better popcorn than you get in
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the US. You just can't do any better than Nebraska. Well,
I think I'm not want to call conflict. I don't
want to cause conflict, but I think most of the
popcorn that comes out really well. Is from Iowa. I
will say, without revealing too much information, I know, can
we say enchanting, can we say smoking? Hot? Women from
(25:51):
both states? Okay, I've had some remarkable experiences with women
from those areas. My hypothesis West comes in strong enlightening,
light lightning. Right now, I want to put you on
the spot with quick questions, quick answer, quick question, quick answer.
Seven last movie you saw in theaters? Uh? You know,
(26:15):
I was. I was on the campus. I saw in
the movie theater on campus. Black Panther I saw in
a real movie theater. But there was one I saw
since then that clearly made a huge impression on you.
But then I saw Black Panther in a real theater,
(26:35):
big theater, big bucket of popcorn, really cool, you know what.
And it was in St. Louis and the theater that's
in a hotel you can buy a beer. Oh yeah,
So that maybe that may have contributed to what Russia
went down with those That that that gets me sleepy
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if he purpose of enjoying the Oh no, just moderation,
you guys. Moderation. Favorite sport to watch baseball spared in mind.
Baseball isn't just a sport. It's a game. Yes, you know,
you're moving the equivalent of game pieces. You know it
was The movie was Player one movie. Yeah, it was
(27:18):
okay by the premise, by the bit beautifully produced. But
there was no moment in the movie where I was
concerned that the protagonist was going to really be in
serious trouble. I knew he was going to make lacking
character development right, well, there was no real threat of
death because they weren't really doing anything. They were in video. Okay,
(27:43):
the book is cool, but it's hard to make into
a movie. I enjoyed the movie, and I was impressed
baseball is a game as well as a sport. I
grew up in the city of Washington, d C. I
grew up in the city limits of Washington, d C.
So are you a Seattle Seahawks fan? I am, well,
because I got a job at Boeing speaking of stay
with me. So what happened was I was. I grew
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up in the city of Washington. We used to go
to something called d C Stadium, which is now RFK.
After some more gun violence led to change politics, but
then the team moved to Maryland. Now civilized people who
(28:33):
grew up in Washington, d C kind of sort of
hate the Baltimore Orioles, and they sort of hate the
what used to be the Baltimore Car. The Ravens is
a cool name. I am down with the Ravens, and
I've kind of relaxed on my hatred of the whole. Yeah,
that kind of. But in that interim where that they
(28:56):
leave my city to go to freaking Maryland. When be
in Baltimore, Okay, why not being Annapolis? Why not be
the Annapolis football team whatever? Annapolis is a city in Maryland.
H I've got a job at Boeing and I lived
in Seattle, and I was there the I I moved
there in nineteen seventy seven. The Seahawks were created in
(29:18):
nineteen seventy seven. I became loyal days. I was loyal
enough to Jim's Orn and those guys. But U two
things furthermore, two things happened. Now the Seahawks are like
this cool team with this cool stadium. And there was
a Seattle Seahawk receiver who was a Pro bowler named
(29:41):
Steve Rabol. Steve Largent is fine, yeah yeah, but but
Steve Rable and he is an outstanding radio announcer and
his radio commentary made me very loyal to the Seahawks
now here in Los Angeles. I don't want to cause trouble,
(30:05):
but we don't have Vince Gulley anymore. We don't. But
he was a hell of a run. Yeah, and Rick
Monday kept a guy from burning a flag. Okay, all right.
I think if I said to you, he was an
outfielder when he played, and he did play, and he
(30:29):
he will often compare modern players to his time of playing.
So uh. In Seattle, we had a radio announcer for
the Seattle Mariners who was really something. Uh. If I
said to you a grand salami, you know what I
was talking about, I would assume a grand slam. Dave
(30:57):
Nei House said it will fly, I fly away. He
has jerked one for a grand salami. Okay, that was cool.
I mean it, get out the mustard and rye bread, Grandma,
he jerked one for a grand SLAMI that's freaking poetry.
It is. The radio announcers now are are great, they're fine,
(31:18):
but there's no ladies, kids, kids. Dave Nehouse died essentially
of smoking. Don't smoke. Okay, good. We ended on a
good note, getting back to the quick questions. It's quick
questions and some answers. Nickname growing up bean Pole. He've
(31:40):
always been leaning mean, okay, built for speed, not comfort.
What superpower would you want? Fly? Wouldn't be able to fly?
There's two superpowers. I'd really like be able to fly.
I think that's not controversial. But I don't like to
have a spider sense. Would that be cool? Have your
spider sense tingling when you know there's danger. You know
what else it's called like the ability to heal? People
(32:02):
walk around with Jesus. So bear in mind that this
um laying on of hands has been completely debunked in
the skepter community. Just keep that in mind. I'm talking
to death. Yeah, if you're bleeding to death and the
guy comes over and let me, let me lay on,
you're not going to stop bleeding to death. And I
think we all kind of know that intuitively, but it's
(32:23):
been shown scientifically to not work good. How do you
take your coffee? It depends, So let's talk about today.
I've never heard someone that fluctuates with I go either
I go either ice coffee or warm coffee, depending what's
warm or cold. But that's it. I still go with
(32:43):
a splash of nonfat one splendor. You have different Why
did you give me that furrowed brown? Because here's what happened.
Was moments ago it was quick question, law and answer.
So you asked me a question and then you answer.
Because I found your precursor fascinating. I've never heard something
(33:03):
it depends, I've never heard, so let's talk about right now.
Let's talk about it. Got up this morning I started
doing some radio interviews, not nearly as interesting, as fun,
as exciting as this one. Don't be ridiculous, but I
had cream and sugar in my coffee. I had half
an ultra pasteurized half and half is which is pasteurized
(33:24):
with pressure, very cool, something that that Louis Pasture didn't
know would work and didn't have the technology. And then,
uh now today, and this happens from time to time,
I had a hankering for a Snickers bar. With that
Snickers bar, I want black coffee because that's got enough
sugar happening over here that I don't want any sugar
(33:46):
and cream in the coffee. Perfect with something else, A
perfect day. We have a day on which we have
both examples. Is there ever a point where you get
iced coffee, always high iced coffee. Then I often want
sugar something in the ice coffee. It will take the
bitterness off. The snicker is always the go to candy bar.
I'm a huge fan of the snick, but don't make
(34:08):
me pick, you know. So they did a study. This
was Bicycling magazine several years ago. Cycling. Yeah, so moments ago.
What did we say? What was your nickname? Being pulled?
Because and then you said you're okay. So I've spent
a lot of time on a bike. I used to
be very good on a bike. I'm okay on a
bike now I'm assuming not a motorcycle bike. I had
(34:31):
a motorcycle. To god, they're fun and so freaking dangerous.
I don't yeah, I never had a problem, but man,
you could. It's just the physics is bad, all right.
So so, uh, they did a study and Bicycling magazine
of what would what do you world class cyclists? Not Bill,
The interviewees were world class cyclists. What do you want?
(34:51):
Do you want a cliff bar? Do you want a
power bar? Do you want to power cliff Luna? Uh?
Computerized bar? No, they all wanted snickers. That these professional
cyclists wanted to snickers. You know why you can't because
they're just good. You can't taste. That's exactly, they're just good.
I agree, when they're just loaded with you know, sugary goodness. Right,
(35:14):
I'm not saying they're good for you, They're just good.
Sometimes it's, you know, moderation. I can see you right here.
I'm barely eating the third of a snick right, not
like you're gonna go home and have about two or
three snicker mars. I can't thank you so much all
things in moderation except what moderation itself. Thank you so much, Mario.
(35:36):
To see you next lap I gotta fly, so don't
forget new episodes and listen to Mario Dropping every Friday
all on Mario dot com to catch up on the podcast,
and please make sure you follow. Listen to Mario on
I Heart Radio and subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever
you get podcasts. More fun next week. Thank you so
(35:56):
much for listening
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