Episode Transcript: #1388 - Louie Psihoyos

What was the the history behind that?

I'm gonna give you the long version. Sure.

There's a good friend of mine Jim Clark the guy that started

Netscape Silicon Graphics WebMD. I wanted to film. I was doing a story for geographic back in

1995 I think it came out. I

was on the Information Revolution and Jim Clark was sort of the

you know the Steve Jobs of my generation, right and

He he don't want to be photographed. He's just too busy

and then I started working for Fortune magazine and he had built a boat and the world's tallest mast I think at that point and

I was went over to Amsterdam to film him and

We hit it off and you know, he said would you teach me how to be a good photographer?

And you know, he made three companies from scratch worth over a billion dollars and I said well if you teach me how to be a billionaire

I'll teach you how to be a great photographer and

Then we would travel all over the world taking pictures for about the next ten years and

We did mostly underwater photography. He built the best underwater camera ever made by an order of magnitude

It was just a piece of work as Jim doesn't do anything half-ass and

Every time we would go to a dive site and come back to it. You see this shifting baseline where

There's less fish. There's less coral. In fact, he took me to a place in Papua New Guinea

So Louis I'm taking the best place I've ever seen it's in Papua New Guinea