With Margaret Hoover is made possible by. Additional funding is proved by. Derporate funding is pro by. Bill nye, welcomto firing line. Thanks for having me. Its a pleasure to have you here. Thousands of young people saw you for many, many years uyon bill nye the science a program that you hosted on pbs that ran from 1993 to you yourself won seven emmys personally and your show won 18 emmys and it really informed a generation of youth to learn to love science. That was the goal, yes. G that was tl. So, youre trained as an engineer, and you discovered performanceco and dy very early in your life, and then you found, really,d th a calling as an educator. Yes. But also, i was very concerned. I mean, understand, as a guy born in the u. S. , an engineer, i was very concerned about the future of thUnited States. I justught the u. S. Is going to heck, and the key to our future is the technology derived from science. And so, i was a ung guy, and i just realized that young people are the future