Modern-Day Bill Nye
Not to say that Bill Nye isn't modern, but Kurtis is basically the new age Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill had a different, more educational approach to science that made it easy for school kids to digest, but Kurtis' main audience is adults...
Climate Change
One of the main issues on Kurtis' mind was climate change. There's a huge potential audience for him to teach about this issue, especially the people who don't believe that it's real in the first place. As someone with a master's degree, you would think that people would take his warnings seriously, but that's not the case. So, he had to find another way, another way that would really shock people...