{"podcast":{"title":"Blue Dot","slug":"blue-dot-396518","podcast_index_feed_id":396518,"rss_url":"https://www.mynspr.org/podcast/blue-dot/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.mynspr.org/podcast/blue-dot","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1f6f7d6/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkcho%2Ffiles%2F201712%2Fblue-dot-blue-bk2000x2000_0.png","author":"Dave Schlom, Matt Fidler (nsprnews@gmail.com)","episode_count":20,"summary":"Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan's famous speech about our place in the universe, features interviews with guests from all over the regional, national and worldwide scientific communities. Host Dave Schlom leads discussions about the issues science is helping us address with experts who shed light on climate change, space exploration, astronomy, technology and much more. Dave asks us to remember: from deep space, we all live on a pale, blue dot.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/blue-dot-396518"},"episode":{"title":"Best of Blue Dot: SETI Institute: it's role in the Disney/Pixar animated film Elio and The Fermi Paradox","slug":"best-of-blue-dot-seti-institute-it-s-role-in-the-disney-pixar-animated-film-elio-and-the-fermi-paradox","published_at":"2025-12-27T18:27:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/blue-dot-396518/best-of-blue-dot-seti-institute-it-s-role-in-the-disney-pixar-animated-film-elio-and-the-fermi-paradox","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/blue-dot-396518","url":"https://www.mynspr.org/show/blue-dot/2025-12-27/best-of-blue-dot-seti-institute-its-role-in-the-disney-pixar-animated-film-elio-and-the-fermi-paradox","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s42/audio/2025/12/blue-dot-12-26-2025-web.mp3","summary":"Host Dave Schlom is joined by two guests from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, for a fun and thought-provoking program. Simon Steel, Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research, joins us for an inside look at the Institute's role as a science advisor for the Disney/Pixar film Elio.","meta_description":"Host Dave Schlom is joined by two guests from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, for a fun and thought-provoking program. Simon Steel, Deput…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3097,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/blue-dot-396518/episodes/best-of-blue-dot-seti-institute-it-s-role-in-the-disney-pixar-animated-film-elio-and-the-fermi-paradox/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/blue-dot-396518/best-of-blue-dot-seti-institute-it-s-role-in-the-disney-pixar-animated-film-elio-and-the-fermi-paradox.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}