Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is providedvie by. Bill nye, welcomto firing line. Thanks for having me. Ita pleasure to have you here. Thousands of young people saw you for many, many years n on bi the science guy, a program that you hosted on pbn thatrom 1993 to 1998. You yourself won seven emmys personally and your show rmn 18 emmys. And it really in a generation of youth of that was the goal, yes. That was the goal. So, youre trained as an engineer, and you discovered performance and comedy very early in your life, and then you found, really, a calling as an educat. Yes. But also, i was very concerned. I mean, understand, uy born in the u. S. , an engineer, i was very concerned about the future of the United States. I just thought the u. Is going to heck,the key to our future is the technology derived from science. And so, i was a young gu and i just realized that young people are the future. I want to play you a clip of you, your cameo appearance on jon olers